Editing Henry Wood (section)

==Recordings==
Wood's recording career began in 1908, when he accompanied his wife Olga in "Farewell, forests" by Tchaikovsky, for the Gramophone and Typewriter Company, later known as [[His Master's Voice (British record label)|His Master's Voice]]. They made eight other records together for His Master's Voice over the next two years.<ref>Jacobs, p. 425</ref> After Olga's death, Wood signed a contract with His Master's Voice's rival, [[Columbia Graphophone Company|Columbia]], for whom he made a series of discs between 1915 and 1917 with the singer [[Clara Butt]], including excerpts from Elgar's ''[[The Dream of Gerontius]]''.<ref>Jacobs, p. 426</ref> 

Between 1915 and 1925, he conducted 65 recordings for Columbia using the early acoustic recording process, including many discs of Wagner excerpts and a truncated version of Elgar's [[Violin Concerto (Elgar)|Violin Concerto]] with [[Albert Sammons]] as soloist.<ref>Jacobs, pp. 426–28</ref> When the microphone and electrical recording were introduced in 1925, Wood re-recorded the Elgar concerto, with Sammons, and made 36 other discs for Columbia over the next nine years.<ref>Jacobs, pp. 428–29</ref> The 1929 recording of the Elgar concerto has been reissued on compact disc and is well regarded by some critics.{{refn|The recording by Sammons and Wood was chosen in preference to all others by the reviewer Ian Burnside on [[BBC Radio 3]]'s "Building a Library" feature in July 1999.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/building/data2/rev_844_2003.shtml "First Choice"], ''Building a Library'', BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 21 November 2010</ref>|group= n}}

Wood was wooed from Columbia by the young [[Decca records|Decca]] company in 1935. For Decca he conducted 23 recordings over the next two years, including Beethoven's [[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|Fifth Symphony]], Elgar's ''Enigma Variations'' and Vaughan Williams's ''[[A London Symphony]]''.<ref>Jacobs, pp. 429–30</ref> In 1938 he returned to Columbia, for whom his five new recordings included the ''Serenade to Music'' with the 16 original singers, a few days after the premiere, and his own ''Fantasia on British Sea Songs''.<ref>Jacobs, p. 430</ref>

Wood's recordings did not remain in the catalogues long after his death. ''[[The Record Guide]]'', 1956, lists none of his records.<ref>Sackville-West, index, p. 957</ref> A few of his recordings have subsequently been reissued on compact disc, including the Decca and Columbia Vaughan Williams recordings from 1936 and 1938.<ref>[[Dutton Vocalion]] CD (2001), catalogue number CDBP 9707</ref>