Biddulph Recordings
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox record label Biddulph Recordings is a record label based in Devon, England<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> specialising in the restoration of historical performances, particularly by string musicians.<ref name=channel>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was founded in 1989 by violin dealer Peter Biddulph and Eric Wen, a musicologist and historian of string performances.<ref name=note>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=channel/> In 2003, Sarah Woodward joined and has since overseen the historical vocal label Romophone.<ref name=stokowski>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Biddulph Recordings’ honours include the Gramophone 1999 ICRC award for "Historical Recording of the Year".Template:Citation needed
Historic reissuesEdit
The early Biddulph titles included the first digital reissues of recordings by Fritz Kreisler, Joseph Szigeti, Jacques Thibaud, and Yehudi Menuhin.<ref name=channel/><ref name=recordings/><ref name=biddulph>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> By the mid-1990s, Biddulph Recordings had also 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=recordings>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=maestro>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Biddulph label soon include historical piano recordings, with the first digital reissues of recordings by Alfred Cortot, Harold Bauer, and Percy Grainger,<ref name=biddulph/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> followed by Myra Hess, Moriz Rosenthal, Raoul Koczalski, Wilhelm Backhaus, and Shura Cherkassky.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=biddulph/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Biddulph later branched into historical orchestral and chamber music, reissuing the work of Willem Mengelberg, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, Thomas Beecham, Max Fiedler, and Hermann Abendroth,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=stokowski/><ref name=biddulph/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as the Budapest String Quartet, the Busch Quartet, the Capet Quartet, and the Primrose Quartet.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Original recordingsEdit
Biddulph Recordings has also produced a number of important original recordings.<ref name=maestro/> The first of these was the recital recording debut of violinist Maxim Vengerov, then an unknown 14-year-old prodigy.<ref name=maestro/><ref name=biddulph/> This was followed by Ruggiero Ricci’s accounts of the Beethoven and Brahms Concertos featuring 16 and 14 different cadenzas respectively (both concerto albums were tracked to enable the listener to choose which cadenza to program into each performance). <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Other new recordings on the Biddulph label include the Bach interpretations of pianist Edward Aldwell,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the violin performances of Oscar Shumsky, Aaron Rosand, and Arnold Steinhardt.<ref name=note/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>