What record labels series do you miss ?

[Barbirollians]

For me it is HMV Concert Classics . I was lucky enough to find this a very reliable label as a teenager and pretty cheap too - Menuhin/Kempe's Brahms Concerto, Oistrakh/Cluytens in the Beethoven Beecham in Scheherazade,Pelleas et Melisande, Symphonie Fantastique , Pollini's Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 , Richter playing the Chopin Scherzi ...

Any other missed imprints ?

[makropulos]

For me it is HMV Concert Classics . I was lucky enough to find this a very reliable label as a teenager and pretty cheap too - Menuhin/Kempe's Brahms Concerto, Oistrakh/Cluytens in the Beethoven Beecham in Scheherazade,Pelleas et Melisande, Symphonie Fantastique , Pollini's Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 , Richter playing the Chopin Scherzi ...

Any other missed imprints ?

What a nice nostalgia trip. I'd nominate Ace of Clubs and its successor Eclipse, the two Decca bargain labels - so many things including some that have still not made it on to CD (the live premiere of the Britten Missa Brevis on an Eclipse LP, for instance).

[Bryn]

The Heliodor Wergo bargain LPs (just under £1 when i used to buy them). Lots of wonderful 'new' music. Many of the recordings are still around on the Wergo label, but at much higher prices, even in relative terms.

[Lion-of-Vienna]

Golden Guinea! The Little Orchestra of London's LPs under Leslie Jones were my first exposure to the early Haydn symphonies. I still have my mono LP of nos 31, 19 and 45 with a large picture of a french horn on the cover.

[Alison]

There was something about the Collins Classics label I used to like; maybe I associate the label
with when I first bought discs for myself.

All those PMD recordings for example.

And orchestral ones with Hilary Davan-Whetton, Alexander Gibson and Jacek Kaspszyk.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Ace of Clubs, and Ace of Diamonds. I seemed to collect so many of these. I quite liked Turnabout too - some interesting repertoire.

Oh, and Philips Fontana.

[PJPJ]

I was hooked by Ace of Clubs and Heliodor, later Fontana - got my love for Van Beinum and Fricsay from those bargain LPs.

[Chris Newman]

Turnabout were good for early music. I miss very much the Unicorn and Unicorn Kanchana label which had excellent Jascha Horenstein Mahler and Nielsen recordings. Saga had some poor pressings but had many good recordings with Alexander Gibson and the Scottish National and Yevgeny Mravinsky and the Leningrad Phil. In the HMV/EMI stable there were some exciting bargain LPs on the HQM and HQS labels.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I suppose one always aspired to premium labels such as EMI Angel (SAN) and Decca SET...

[Bryn]

Turnabout gave me my first Cage recording on LP: Fontana Mix, (I got the LP for Berio's Visage). The programme notes on the back of the sleeve also introduced me to the name Cornelius Cardew. So I guess the Turnabout label must take the blame.