Biddulph Recordings
Biddulph Recordings is a UK-based record label founded in 1989 and based in Devon, England. It specializes in restoring historical performances, especially by string players. The label was started by violin dealer Peter Biddulph and musicologist Eric Wen. In 2003, Sarah Woodward joined and now oversees Romophone, the label’s historic vocal line. Biddulph Recordings has received awards, including the Gramophone 1999 ICRC award for Historical Recording of the Year.
Early on, the label issued the first digital reissues of recordings by Fritz Kreisler, Joseph Szigeti, Jacques Thibaud, and Yehudi Menuhin. By the mid-1990s, it released complete editions of Bronisław Huberman, Mischa Elman, Jan Kubelík, Henri Temianka, Toscha Seidel, Ossy Renardy, Lionel Tertis, William Primrose, Pablo Casals, and Ruggiero Ricci. It expanded into historical piano recordings with the first digital reissues of Alfred Cortot, Harold Bauer, and Percy Grainger, followed by Myra Hess, Moriz Rosenthal, Raoul Koczalski, Wilhelm Backhaus, and Shura Cherkassky.
Biddulph later branched into historical orchestral and chamber music, reissuing work by Willem Mengelberg, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, Thomas Beecham, Max Fiedler, and Hermann Abendroth, as well as the Budapest String Quartet, the Busch Quartet, the Capet Quartet, and the Primrose Quartet. The label has also produced important original recordings, starting with the recital debut of violinist Maxim Vengerov at age 14. This was followed by Ruggiero Ricci’s Beethoven and Brahms concertos, each with multiple cadenzas to choose from. Other new recordings include Bach interpretations by pianist Edward Aldwell and violin performances by Oscar Shumsky, Aaron Rosand, and Arnold Steinhardt.
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