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Many music lovers miss the sound from vinyl pressings. Many others have yet to discover how pleasant the sound can be. Most of our albums are mastered from vinyl LP pressings and earlier recordings (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.

Our albums are available from many download sites. We highly recommend downloading from to Qobuz where you can download or stream in high quality, for the same price as iTunes medium quality. Here are some best selling Beulah albums at Qobuz.

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What the Critics Say

 Hailed by Alec Robertson in 1954 as ‘one of the best choral recordings’. Tempora mutantur et nos ...

"I’m not given to hyperbole but I’m happy to assert that the two greatest Berlioz interpreters were Sir Thomas Beecham and Sir Colin Davis. I’m pleased that much of Sir Colin’s recorded Berlioz remains available on various labels but the Beecham Berlioz legacy is a little thin these days, apart from the unbeatable Symphonie Fantastique (Warner/EMI 0151822). That CD also includes the Trojan March from Les Troyens but that’s the only item duplicated by a new Beulah release: Beecham conducts Berlioz, on which the main item is the Te Deum, recorded in 1953 with Alexander Young (tenor). London Philharmonic Choir, Dulwich Boys’ Choir and Denis Vaughn (organ) with his own Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [45:46]. There are not too many available versions – the Philips/Davis is download only or entombed in a large box set – so the Beecham reissue is very welcome. Don’t expect too much for December 1953 sound in a work which makes great demands on the engineers, but the transfer sounds much better than I remember on LP or the ‘electronic stereo’ Sony reissue and the performance is classic."

Read Brian Wilson's full review at Music Web International

"There are several available recordings of Sir Thomas Beecham’s Tchaikovsky, but not, it seems of Symphony No.2 in c minor (‘Little Russian’), Op.17, recorded in 1953 with his Royal Philharmonic Orchestra."

"It’s a sensitive, even restrained, performance and well worth hearing although there are far more recordings now (around 90) than when the recording was made and hailed as something a rarity. "

"The symphony is preceded by the Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a, recorded in 1954, and the programme is rounded off with Capriccio Italien recorded in 1949. In all the music Beecham works his usual magic and the recordings have transferred well, all sounding good for their age – the symphony much better than I remember it from the Philips GBL reissue and the Nutcracker very good indeed considering its age. Even if you have this ethereal version of the Nutcracker music as the coupling for Beecham’s recording of Symphony No.4, the new release is well worth having."

Brian Wilson at MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL where you can read the full review

"If you want to hear how Holst thought his music should sound, a Beulah release of his own 78 recordings should prove enlightening..

" I’m not always convinced that composers’ 78 recordings of their own music accurately represent their intentions: sometimes tempi seem to be determined by the length of 78 sides, but Holst’s fast Mars seems not to have been a case in point: at 6:08 it’s within the compass of two 4-minute sides."

Brian Wilson at MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL where you can read the full review