Dutton Vocalion Records

22/05/2024

Our Fox Musicals 2-SACD set is this month’s Screen Choice in BBC Music Magazine, where it’s described as a “trove of Golden Age treasures, all gloriously recorded.”

17/04/2024

The latest edition of Stereophile magazine includes a feature on quad-SACD reissues. Our very own Mike Dutton was interviewed for it, and it spotlights several Dutton Epoch/Vocalion titles.

15/03/2024

Dutton Epoch’s new release is headlined by State Fair, a tribute to the Great American Songbook. Martin Yates’s realisations of Vaughan Williams’s The Future and The Steersman are another landmark in our RVW series, while there are further volumes of Jean-Michel Damase’s and Paul Lacombe’s delightful orchestral music. The chamber works of British women composers are featured on two discs, and Lewis Foreman has written a fascinating book, Recording British Music, which chronicles the stories of many British composers and record labels – including, of course, Dutton Epoch.

Note: these Hybrid SACDs can be played on any standard CD player.

24/12/2023

In its round-up of recordings of Stravinsky’s The Firebird, Gramophone has rated our SACD reissue of Boulez’s interpretation as one of the very best. Nice way to end 2023!

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support throughout the year. Here’s to a music-filled 2024.

Available here: https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=CDLX7377

Remastered from the original analogue tapes by Michael J. Dutton

Multi-ch Stereo: All tracks available in stereo and multi-channel

SA-CD: This hybrid CD can be played on any standard CD players

20/11/2023

Hi-Fi News has selected our Kris Kristofferson multi-channel SACD as one of its best titles of 2023.

Available here: https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=2CDLK4635

06/11/2023

"Dutton Vocalion's latest quadraphonic SACD release is an unexpected delight for Philly Soul and immersive music fans alike."

Full review:
https://immersiveaudioalbum.com/the-ojays-ship-ahoy-message-in-the-music-live-in-london-quadraphonic/?fbclid=IwAR3yd2ldUDFnD_626-Zgyb2yYBtVRM7z1m-50KI7mwaG2Jls1mx1T8Dk4Es

06/11/2023

Two excellent reviews from the London Light Music Meetings Group website:

http://www.turnipnet.com/llmmg/reviews/best_of_mancini_1and2.htm

http://www.turnipnet.com/llmmg/reviews/enoch_light.htm

15/10/2023

The archives of RCA, Philips, CBS, Philadelphia International and Project 3 provide the source material for Vocalion’s latest batch of SACD reissues. The finest in easy listening comes courtesy of genre legends Henry Mancini, Enoch Light, Tony Mottola and Paul Mauriat, while The O’Jays and The Isley Brothers offer up gutsy, visceral soul across five superb albums, which are presented in the original stereo and quadraphonic mixes.

12/09/2023

Michael Boldhaus has reviewed (in German) our Albert Ketèlbey and 49th Parallel SACDs over at the Cinemusic.de website:

Albert Ketèlby: https://cinemusic.de/rezension/albert-ketelby-dutton-epoch/
49th Parallel: https://cinemusic.de/rezension/49th-parallel-rvw-dutton-epoch/

20/07/2023

Two excellent reviews in the latest BBC Music Magazine, of our Tippett Quartet Elgar/Sammons and BBC Concert Orchestra/Albert Ketèlbey SACDs.

12/06/2023

There are nice reviews of our recent “49th Parallel” and Ketèlbey SACDs in the July edition of Gramophone. Guy Rickards designates “49th Parallel” a “major release.” We’d certainly agree with that sentiment.

12/06/2023

Our Mac Davis 2-SACD set has been glowingly reviewed in the July edition of Hi-Fi- News.

08/06/2023

Our very own Mike Dutton has given a rare interview. To hear (and see) him in conversation with Mike Vieira, of Life in Surround, follow this link:

A talk with Michael Dutton, sound engineer, record label proprietor, composer, and more. We discuss many topics and many musical acts and...

17/05/2023

Another good review in Hi-Fi News, this time for our R.E.O. Speedwagon multi-channel SACD, where it’s described as an “ace buy.” Certainly!

Multi-Channel/Stereo
All tracks available in stereo and multi-channel
SACD

This Hybrid CD can be played on any standard CD player

17/05/2023

On the Klassik Magazin website there’s a very favourable review (in German) of our Façade multi-channel SACD. “Façade under Arthur Fiedler … almost overwhelms the listener in … SACD sound,” says critic Jürgen Schaarwächter. “We hear the chamber ensemble … like never before … the elaboration down to the smallest detail is simply overwhelming.”

Remastered from the original analogue tapes by Michael J Dutton

Multi-Channel/Stereo
All tracks available in stereo and multi-channel

SACD
This Hybrid CD can be played on any standard CD player

20/04/2023

The April release is headed by Vaughan Williams’s rousing music for the film “49th Parallel.” This is the first time that the complete score has been made available, thanks to conductor Martin Yates’s performing edition, transcribed from the original manuscripts. That mainstay of English light music, Albert Ketèlbey, is featured with various suites and individual pieces, most of them in their first digital recordings. Finally, the Tippett Quartet and pianist Lynn Arnold give typically immaculate performances of Elgar’s String Quartet and Piano Quintet, and Albert Sammons’s Phantasy Quartet in its world premiere recording.

19/04/2023

An excellent review of our recording of Havergal Brian’s Faust appears in this month’s Opera magazine.

Available here: https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=2CDLX7385

Multi-Channel/Stereo: All tracks available in stereo and multi-channel
2-SACD set: This Hybrid 2-SACD set can be played on any standard CD player

27/03/2023

Another glowing review … this time of our Friends of Distinction SACD, with Hi-Fi News whimsically describing the music as a “gorgeous-sounding sub-genre of loungecore.” Interesting!

Available here: https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=2CDSML8577

Note: These Hybrid CDs can be played on any standard CD player.

01/03/2023

And the reviews keep on coming … Richard Allen in Shindig! magazine has given a thumbs up to our Kris Kristofferson SACD.

Available here: https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=2CDLK4635

Note: These Hybrid CDs can be played on any standard CD player.

28/02/2023

Ken Kessler has given our Azteca SACD an excellent write-up in the March 2023 edition of Hi-Fi News. He’s been kind enough to say that “Vocalion really does perform a service.” We’d like to think so …

Available here: https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=2CDSML8579

Note: These Hybrid CDs can be played on any standard CD player.

13/01/2023

Our 2-SACD set comprising four Kris Kristofferson albums – all in sparkling multi-channel sound – has been awarded Album Choice by Hi-Fi News.

Available here: https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=2CDLK4635

Remastered from the original analogue tapes by Michael J Dutton

Multi-Channel/Stereo
All tracks available in stereo and multi-channel

SACD
These Hybrid CDs can be played on any standard CD player

13/12/2022

Dutton Vocalion’s December 2022 release features several albums which are making their quadraphonic debut in the SACD format – and some of them are making their first ever quadraphonic debut. In the latter category comes Charles Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic Orchestra’s superb rendering of John William’s music for sci-fi blockbusters “Star Wars” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Originally recorded in opulent stereo sound by Kenneth Wilkinson at Kingsway Hall, London, for this reissue Michael J Dutton has gone back to the original multitrack tapes and created a brand-new quad mix, so that these lush orchestrations can be experienced in a fresh and exciting way. The same treatment has been given to two albums showcasing flute virtuoso James Galway. The first, “In the Pink,” recorded in London during 1984 with Henry Mancini, includes several of the movie music legend’s best-known themes. The second, 1980’s “Sometimes When We Touch,” sees Galway paired with jazz chanteuse Cleo Laine in material from the worlds of pop, the classics, film, and theatre. Both albums take on new life in these sumptuous quad mixes – and, once again, they have been created using the original multitrack tapes.

Over on the Dutton Epoch label, Arthur Fiedler and Tony Randall’s 1975 recording of William Walton’s “Façade” has also been remixed in quadraphonic from the original multitrack tapes, something which is especially apposite since 2022 marks the work’s centenary. Making its quadraphonic debut on the same disc is Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic’s 1969 recording of Vaughan Williams’s “Fantasia on Greensleeves,” though in this instance it is the debut of the original, unissued quad mix. Completing this batch is the original cast recording of the Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht masterpiece “Threepenny Opera,” or, to be more precise, the New York Shakespeare Festival’s 1976 revival of it, with Raul Julia as the nefarious Mac the Knife. The quadraphonic mix, which until now has only been available on the original LP, is presented here, lovingly remastered from the original tapes.

Note: these Hybrid SACDs can be played on any standard CD player.

15/11/2022

Shindig! magazine has reviewed our recent Friends of Distinction SACD 4 on 2 – and they like it, especially the ”gloriously lush” multi-channel sound.

Available at https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=2CDSML8577

Remastered from the original analogue tapes by Michael J Dutton
Multi-Channel/Stereo
All tracks available in stereo and multi-channel
SACD
These Hybrid CDs can be played on any standard CD player

02/11/2022

Vocalion’s newest SACD multi-channel release focuses on classic seventies American rock. First up is REO Speedwagon with “Lost in a Dream” and “This Time We Mean It,” the former album including funk legend Sly Stone guesting on one track, while Ted Nugent’s brand of uncompromising hard rock is showcased across 1976’s “Free-for-All” (with contributions from a pre-fame Meat Loaf) and 1977’s “Cat Scratch Fever.” Five albums by country-pop crossover star Mac Davis complete the line-up, each of them drawn from his CBS output of the seventies.

Reo Speedwagon: https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=CDSML8575

Ted Nugent: https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=CDSML8585

Mac Davis: https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=2CDLK4637

Note: These Hybrid CDs can be played on any standard CD player

14/10/2022

Dave Hurwitz, of the Classics Today website, has done two YouTube videos extolling the virtues of a clutch of Dutton Epoch titles. Thanks Dave!

Watch them here:

Repertoire: 10 Stunning Albums of Non-Standard Repertoire (9) on DUTTON EPOCH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO34iaqrldc

Dave's Faves No. 297 (Vaughan Williams Rarities):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9dxYS1NNZA