[2] It was founded in 1989 by violin dealer Peter Biddulph and Eric Wen, a musicologist and historian of string performances.
[citation needed] The early Biddulph titles included the first digital reissues of recordings by Fritz Kreisler, Joseph Szigeti, Jacques Thibaud, and Yehudi Menuhin.
[2][5][6] By the mid-1990s, Biddulph Recordings had also released complete editions of Bronisław Huberman, Mischa Elman, Jan Kubelík, Henri Temianka, Toscha Seidel, Ossy Renardy, Lionel Tertis, William Primrose, Pablo Casals, and Ruggiero Ricci.
[7][8][5][9][10][11][12] The Biddulph label soon include historical piano recordings, with the first digital reissues of recordings by Alfred Cortot, Harold Bauer, and Percy Grainger,[6][13][14][15] followed by Myra Hess, Moriz Rosenthal, Raoul Koczalski, Wilhelm Backhaus, and Shura Cherkassky.
[29] Other new recordings on the Biddulph label include the Bach interpretations of pianist Edward Aldwell,[30] and the violin performances of Oscar Shumsky, Aaron Rosand, and Arnold Steinhardt.