MPR was started in 2014 by Mike Purton, a musician with a lifetime’s experience in many facets of the music world - performer, teacher, conductor, producer and editor. The label’s mission is to bring unfairly forgotten and overlooked music to life with the finest musicians and highest production values.

MPR also offer the highest quality recording services for external projects - please contact us and we will be happy to discuss further details.

Mike Purton

Mike with the RAF College Band horns, December 2019 recording Saint-Saëns for NAXOS

Mike with the RAF College Band horns, December 2019 recording Saint-Saëns for NAXOS

Mike has been a professional recording producer and editor for almost 30 years, with hundreds of releases to his name, using his own SADiE system in his studio at home for editing and mastering. Having held the position of principal horn in the Halle Orchestra, and teaching positions at several British Conservatoires, Mike brings to the studio his many years of experience as a top-flight professional instrumentalist and teacher, with all the associated musical expertise and sensitivity to pursue excellence in all his projects. Outside of his work at MPR, Mike has years of experience recording  solo, brass, wind, chamber and orchestral music for such labels as ASV, BMG, Dutton, EMI, Linn, NAXOS, SRC, Universal, Virgin and Warner.

During the past two decades Mike has, for example, produced many CDs of British chamber music for Dutton Epoch; he is currently recording the complete Piano music of Schumann for Hänssler Classics with the phenomenal German pianist Florian Uhlig; and since the late 90s he has been the main recording producer for the excellent Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, producing and editing more than 40 recordings, for labels such as ASV, BMG and Warner Classics. He has also recorded British Orchestras such as the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, the LPO, the RPO, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the City of London Sinfonia, the Scottish Ensemble and the Ulster Orchestra and with chamber groups such as the Archaeus, Dante and Sorrel Quartets, the London Piano Quartet, the Endymion Ensemble and the Pleyel Ensemble.

Mike is currently working with NAXOS on their series of the complete wind band music of Sousa, recently recording Volumes 22 and 23 with the Band of HM Royal Marines (Plymouth) - a fitting conclusion to the series.

Some years ago Mike also had the pleasure of producing three CDs of Gabrieli’s Brass Music with Eric Crees and the London Symphony Brass for NAXOS. Mike has made a number of recordings with the Wallace Collection for Linn and with the Michael Thompson Wind Ensemble for NAXOS.

Three years ago Mike was invited to become Recording Module Co-ordinator for the highly successful MPerf course at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.  Mike has also worked on a number of recording projects sponsored by research funding from both the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music.

SOME OF THE ARTISTS AND ENSEMBLES MIKE HAS RECORDED:

ORCHESTRAS

  • Bournemouth Sinfonietta

  • City of London Sinfonia

  • East of England Orchestra

  • London Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Orquésta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria

  • Orquésta Gaos (Galicia)

  • The Ulster Orchestra

  • The Scottish Ensemble

MILITARY BANDS AND WIND BANDS

  • The Band of the Grenadier Guards

  • The Band of the Coldstream Guards

  • The Band of the Scots Guards

  • The Band of the Irish Guards

  • The Band of the Welsh Guards

  • The Band of The Blues and Royals

  • The Band of The Life Guards

  • The Band of the Royal Artillery

  • The Band and Bugles of The Rifles

  • The Band of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

  • The Band of the Royal Engineers

  • The Band of the Royal Signals

  • The Band of the King’s Division

  • The Light Cavalry Band

  • The Band of the Royal Logistic Corps

  • The Band of the Honourable Artillery Company

  • The RAF Central Band

  • The RAF College Band

  • The Band of HM Royal Marines (Plymouth)

  • The Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines

  • The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps Band

  • The Royal Norwegian Army Band (Bergen)

  • The Royal Norwegian Navy Band

  • The Royal Swedish Navy Band

  • The Guildhall School of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra

  • The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Orchestra

  • The Royal College of Music Wind Orchestra

  • The Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra

  • The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Wind Orchestra

  • The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra

  • Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Wind Orchestra

BRASS ENSEMBLES

  • Guildhall School of Music & Drama Symphonic Brass

  • London Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble

  • Royal Norwegian Navy Band Brass Ensemble

  • Symphonic Brass of London

  • The Wallace Collection

WIND ENSEMBLES

  • British Clarinet Ensemble

  • The Flautadors

  • LPO Wind Ensemble

  • Michael Thompson Wind Ensemble

  • Michael Thompson Wind Quintet

  • Thurston Clarinet Quartet

  • Wind Ensemble of the OAE

CHAMBER MUSIC ENSEMBLES

  • Archaeus Quartet

  • Dante Quartet

  • Endymion Ensemble

  • London Piano Quartet

  • Pleyel Ensemble

  • Sorrel Quartet

INSTRUMENTALISTS AND SINGERS

  • Ian Bousfield (Trombone)

  • Harriet Burns (Soprano)

  • Michael Dussek (Piano)

  • James Dutton (Flute)

  • Pip Eastop

  • Adam Fischer (Piano)

  • Philip Fowke (Piano)

  • Cristina Gallardo Domâs (Soprano)

  • Benedict Holland (Violin)

  • John Holloway (Violin)

  • Chris Houlding (Trombone)

  • Helen Keen (Flute)

  • David Kenedy (Cello)

  • Melinda Maxwell (Oboe)

  • Krysia Osostowicz (Violin)

  • David Owen Norris (Piano)

  • Philip Eastop (Horn)

  • Alfredo Perl (Piano)

  • Patricia Rozario (Soprano)

  • Jane Salmon (Cello)

  • William Searle (Tenor)

  • Stephen Stirling (Horn)

  • Michael Thompson (Horn)

  • Florian Űhlig (Piano)

  • Marc Verter (Piano)

  • Mark van de Wiel (Clarinet)

  • John Wallace (Trumpet)

  • Sebastian Wybrew (Piano)

CHOIRS

  • The Guards Chapel Choir

  • The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea

  • Kantos Chamber Choir

  • National Youth Choir of Great Britain

EDUCATIONAL

  • Bromley Youth Chamber Orchestra

  • Bromley Youth Concert Band

  • Kent Youth Wind Orchestra

  • RNCM MPerf Course Recording Module Co-ordinator

  • Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

  • New Music Recording Sessions

  • Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Wind Orchestra