Kenneth Wilkinson

Kenneth Ernest Wilkinson (28 July 1912 – 13 January 2004) was an audio engineer for Decca Records, known for engineering classical recordings with superb sound quality.
After working for small recording companies, Wilkinson was taken onto the staff of Decca, where he engineered many recordings, working with producers such as John Culshaw and conductors including Sir Georg Solti, Hans Knappertsbusch and Benjamin Britten. He trained a whole generation of celebrated Decca engineers.
Wilkinson so closely identified with the Decca sound that he retired when the company was absorbed into the PolyGram group in 1980.
Life and career
Early life
Wilkinson was born in London. He attended the Trinity Grammar School, Wood Green in north London on a scholarship. He left school at the age of sixteen in 1928, and worked for the publishing house, Cassell's. When one of the firm's accountants left to join the World Echo Record Company, Wilkinson...