Beulah quoted

"These are careful transfers which make the most of the material, whereas I suspect that some others just stick an LP or 78s on the turntable and give us what comes out the other end. Beulah’s results are comparable with the fine transfers which Naxos Historical offer. " Brian Wilson at Music Web International

"The Beulah record label has always been one of the most idiosyncratic, and therefore perhaps most interesting, of reissue marques. While the basic character of Beulah remains the same as in its Compact Disc days, the range of its present catalogue, driven now by the ease of downloading, has been extended in remarkable fashion. Browsing the Beulah catalogue is now rather like being in a 78rpm record shop: there are plenty of recordings of short pieces available to whet your appetite for either repertoire or artist, while at the same time there are numerous full length works available if you wish to consolidate your collection with, for instance, major symphonies. All of Beulah's transfers, as might be expected of a distinguished reissue label, are of very high quality." David Patmore writing in Classical Recordings Quarterly

"Beulah releases are available from other suppliers but ; offer  them  in  lossless  sound  for  the  same  price  that others charge for mp3 – in some cases that’s less than full bit-rate mp3." Brian Wilson at Music Web International 

New for February

Many music lovers miss the sound from vinyl pressings. Many others have yet to discover how great the sound can be. Most of our albums are mastered from vinyl LP pressings and earlier recordings (generally before 1953) from 78 rpm discs. It is our ability to recreate, in the digital age, the sound from the disc era that many of our customers find most enjoyable.

Unlike modern digital recordings tracks in our albums do contain some distortion, and the occasional surface noises, but for many listeners these "defects" are soon forgotten.

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We highly recommend downloading from where you can download or stream in high quality, for the same price as iTunes medium quality.

"The next time I read a critic – possibly myself – writing about the notorious difficulty of recording in the Royal Festival Hall, I am going to direct them toward this recording. I am equally sure that the technical team responsible would have regaled us with stories about the acoustic horrors they had to overcome but the result is luminous and never more so than in this new issue on Beulah.

"In anticipation of reviewing this Beulah release, I had a listen to the 2012 reissue of this material by EMI in the Icon box devoted to Cantelli. I thought the sound on that version was excellent and unlikely to be topped by Beulah. I was wrong. Comparing the two, the EMI sound is more recessed particularly in the numerous passages for woodwind in these colourful scores. The brass on Beulah have been considerably brightened and, particularly in La Mer, the lower brass have gained in amplitude (and in that Debussy score, in menace). The EMI sound is admirably clear but Beulah’s has a richness that adds considerably to the enjoyment of a piece like L’Après-Midi. These were always splendid recordings from a technical point of view and the level of detail Beulah have found in them is a listening delight. The harps in the second movement of La Mer stand out in a way they do in few modern recordings but without any sense of artificial spotlighting. In the big climaxes – the end of La Mer is tremendously exciting sonically – the sound opens up beautifully without a hint of overloading. Only in the opening Dawn sequence of Daphnis do we really become aware that we are listening to such an old recording but here again Beulah trump EMI – it is like a fine veil has been lifted off the sound picture.

" Obviously these are classic performances that,I think, show Cantelli at his best. "

David McDade at Music Web International