the producer and recording engineer Fred Gaisberg set up the first recording studio for the Gramophone Company (soon to become the Gramophone and Typewriter Ltd (G&T), the forerunner of HMV) at Maiden Lane in London; he started recording 7-inch Berliner discs there during August of that year. Squire was the first instrumentalist of national repute to record on this new medium – recording Simple Aveu, Op. 25 by Thomé on 2 November 1898. He continued recording cello miniatures throughout the 1900s for G&T, for example Mélodie by Anton Rubinstein in January 1906. He played cello obligato on many vocal recordings, for example in "A Summer Night" (by Goring Thomas) sung by the contralto Louise Kirkby Lunn for HMV in 1911. He also recorded his arrangements of other composers' works and one of his own pieces: Serenade (in 1911) for HMV. In 1926 Squire recorded the Saint-Saëns cello concerto No.1 in A minor Op. 33 for Columbia with the Hallé orchestra conducted by Hamilton Harty. He recorded the Elgar cello concerto in c.1930 also for Columbia with the Hallé and Harty – this recording being made at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. He also recorded chamber music, for example the Brahms Trio op. 114, in its first recording, with clarinettist Haydn Draper and Hamilton Harty at the piano, and the Beethoven Piano Trio No. 6 in B-flat major Op. 97 "Archduke" with William Murdoch (piano) and Albert Sammons (violin) in 1926. Death He died in London, England, UK on 17 March 1963 aged 91. References External links Website for the Internet Cello Society Website for the International Suzuki Association 1871 births 1963 deaths English classical cellists British music educators English composers People from Ross-on-Wye Associates of the Royal College of Music Academics of the Royal College of Music Academics of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Academics of the Royal Academy of Music