Favourite record label past or present

[Alison]

We did this one several years ago. Let's go again.

We have been known to repeat topics after all

[Nick Armstrong]

Chandos orchestral recordings always sound better than any others on my system!

Some great performances and works too...

[Beef Oven!]

Lyrita.

[Bryn]

Difficult to choose between Mode, Atopos and Matchless. Overall, Mode, I think.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

KAIROS.

And Harmonia Mundi.

And many thanks to CfP for all the marvellous recordings of works that I wouldn't otherwise have been able to afford in the '70s.

[EdgeleyRob]

Lyrita.

Without a doubt beefmeister general

Also -
British Music Society
Chandos
Albion
Naxos
Albany

[Petrushka]

In the past, Decca and Philips. I still look for their distinctive spines in charity shops!

At present, my favourite has to be the LPO label with new issues giving the same familiar tingle of excitement as those old Decca/Philips discs once did.

[ostuni]

Hyperion.

[Roehre]

Naxos, Hyperion, CPO, Kairos, Neos, Harmonia Mundi (French and German), Deutscher Musikrat, Wergo, chandos, Etcetera, Composer's Voice (defunct), BIS, Dabringhaus & Grimm

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Decca, before they were swallowed up by Polygram, and even during the Polygram era. But then along came Universal and things began to go downhill.

[Barbirollians]

HMV Concert Classics

[Bryn]

Re. the past, Pye Golden Guinea served me well where GJ was concerned.

[kea]

col legno, aeon, Mode, MDG, Montaigne & Astrée, NEOS, HM

I feel like HM might have the best engineering crew of anyone today but it's hard to tell with the competition.

Winter & Winter seems pretty interesting, but I only have a couple of their CDs. Kairos for repertoire.

[richardfinegold]

Do mergers count? CBS/Sony/RCA ? Warner/Erato/EMI/Virgin? Phillips/DG/Decca?

[reinerfan]

Supraphon, Hyperion & Naxos.