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Ward Botsford (22 June 1927 – 1 April 2004) was a producer of classical and spoken recordings, intersted in unusual repertory and forgotten historical recordings. At the Vox and [l56491] labels in the 1950's, 60's and 70's, he recorded little-known Dvorak pieces and spoken recordings by Sir John Gielgud, T. S. Eliot and others. He also made field recordings of the sounds of early NASA spaceships and supersonic jets. In 1979 he founded the Arabesque label to reissue music from EMI and other companies. In the 90's Mr. Botsford managed a classical music website for Microsoft and founded his own site, classicalmusicguide.com.