Analogue Productions bought the Classic Recordings label catalog, originally available on LP in the 1990's and early-mid 2000's. That catalog includes a huge number of the legendary "golden age" RCA recordings, pressed on superior vinyl by AP at their state-of-the-art facility in Salina, Kansas. Available through AP's Acoustic Sounds mail order branch for around $35 per LP.
German company Speakers Corner is pressing new LP's made from original master tapes of many excellent Columbia Records' 1950's-60's recordings, featuring world class conductors, orchestras, and individual musicians. I have a handful, including the astounding recording of Janos Starker performing J.S. Bach's Suites For Unaccompanied Cello. It is a 4-LP boxset, retailing for just under $100. Analogue Productions offers the same recording, but pressed on 8-LP's (the AP discs play at 45RPM, the SP at 33-1/3), and priced at just under $200. Though 45RPM is reputed to sound a hair better than 33-1/3, I don't like the music chopped up into such small bites ;-) . SP's single LP's retail the same as do AP's, around $35.
If you can find them, the LP's offered by Harmonia Mundi (both U.S.A. and French branches) are fantastic. I bought them at the time of their original 1990's-2000's releases, and can't tell you where to look for them now. HM's catalog veered toward Early and Baroque periods (though not exclusively), and their artist roster included the cream of "period" performance practitioners. My favorite modern Classical label.
German company Speakers Corner is pressing new LP's made from original master tapes of many excellent Columbia Records' 1950's-60's recordings, featuring world class conductors, orchestras, and individual musicians. I have a handful, including the astounding recording of Janos Starker performing J.S. Bach's Suites For Unaccompanied Cello. It is a 4-LP boxset, retailing for just under $100. Analogue Productions offers the same recording, but pressed on 8-LP's (the AP discs play at 45RPM, the SP at 33-1/3), and priced at just under $200. Though 45RPM is reputed to sound a hair better than 33-1/3, I don't like the music chopped up into such small bites ;-) . SP's single LP's retail the same as do AP's, around $35.
If you can find them, the LP's offered by Harmonia Mundi (both U.S.A. and French branches) are fantastic. I bought them at the time of their original 1990's-2000's releases, and can't tell you where to look for them now. HM's catalog veered toward Early and Baroque periods (though not exclusively), and their artist roster included the cream of "period" performance practitioners. My favorite modern Classical label.