Biddulph Recordings

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Biddulph Recordings is a British record label that specializes in recordings of string players.

Biddulph was founded in London in 1989 by Peter Biddulph. He works in collaboration with Eric Wen, a musicologist and historian of string performance practice,

Biddulph established its first label to specialize in the restoration and commercial reissue of historical string recordings.

Historic reissues[]

The early Biddulph titles included the first digital reissues of recordings by Fritz Kreisler, Joseph Szigeti, Jacques Thibaud and Yehudi Menuhin. By the mid-1990s, Biddulph Recordings had also released complete editions of Bronislaw Huberman, Mischa Elman, Jan Kubelik, Henri Temianka, Ossy Renardy, Toscha Seidel, Nathan Milstein, Ruggiero Ricci, Alfred Dubois, Lionel Tertis, William Primrose, Pablo Casals and Emanuel Feuermann.

The Biddulph label soon include historical piano recordings, with the first digital reissues of recordings by Alfred Cortot, Harold Bauer and Percy Grainger. These were followed by Myra Hess, Moritz Rosenthal, Raoul Koczalski, Wilhelm Backhaus and Shura Cherkassky.

Biddulph subsequently branched into historical orchestral and chamber music, reissuing the work of Willem Mengelberg, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, Thomas Beecham, Max Fiedler and Hermann Abendrot, as well as chamber ensembles as the Budapest, Busch, Capet and Primrose String Quartets.

Original recordings[]

Biddulph Recordings has also produced a number of important original recordings. The first of these was the recital recording debut of violinist Maxim Vengerov, then an unknown 14-year-old prodigy. 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).

Other new recordings on the Biddulph label include the Bach interpretations of pianist Edward Aldwell, and the violin performances of Oscar Shumsky, Aaron Rosand and Arnold Steinhardt.

Biddulph Recordings’ honors include the Gramophone 1999 ICRC award for “Historical Recording of the Year”.

See also[]

• List of record labels

External links[]

• Official site

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