Musical Heritage Society

Further information to complement the discography

These releases were only given a fleeting mention in the discography because they were US releases licensed from Saydisc/Amon Ra by Musical Heritage Society, a mail-order label specialising in classical and traditional music. This was a bit too far outside the remit of a book specifically on a British record company (and before anyone points out that I fully documented the Austrian label, Roots, that was because Saydisc both manufactured and distributed most of the RL-300 series records in the UK).
Meanwhile, this will take a while - there are a lot of unknowns here; below are only those that have been confirmed by sightings, plus a summary from Saydisc of titles back on catalogue as per 2018. There was a bit of a hiatus when Saydisc shut up shop in 2001 and the association was renewed at some point around 2009/2010.
These are currently ordered in terms of information/images coming in rather than chronologically. Ongoing work-in-progress.

A Golden Treasury of Renaissance Music (originally CD-SAR 65)

CD: 515543T, issued in 1999

A Victorian Sunday (originally SDL 331, 'The Road to Heaven')

CD: 5163326, issued in 2001 with picture on sleeve reversed

Christmas Chant (originally CD-SDL 369)

CD: 513997Z, issued in 1995

Bonnie Shaljean: Farewell to Lough Neaghe (originally CD-SDL 372)

Cassette: 312886M
CD: 312886H - correct first digit? Should this be a '5'?

Ray Fisher: Traditional Songs of Scotland (originally CD-SDL 391)

Cassette: 313121F
CD: 513121Y, issued in 1991

Alan Hacker & The Salomon String Quartet: Mozart Clarinet Quintet (originally SAR 17)

CD: 513012K, issued 1992

Caliche: Music of the Andes (originally CD-SDL 388)

CD: 513268F, issued in 1993

Arabesque: Traditional Arabic Music (originally CD-SDL 387)

CD: 513393Y, issued in 1993

LP issue

Alain Presencer: The Singing Bowls Of Tibet (originally SDL 326)

LP: MHS 7284H, issued 1985
CD: 515257W, issued 1988

Eileen Monger: The Lilting Banshee (originally SDL 348)

LP: MHS 7448Y
Cassette: MHC 9448Z

Ringing Clear: The Art of Handbell Ringing (originally SDL 333)

Cassette: MHC 312413L, issued 1989

Enchanted Carols: A Feast of Christmas Music (originally SDL 327)

LP: MHS 7009H, issued in 1984
Cassette: MHC 9009K, issued in 1984

Jim Couza: The Enchanted Valley (originally SDL 335)

LP: MHS 7202X, issued 1985
Cassette: MHS 9202Y

The York Waits & Renaissance Town Band: Music from the Time of Richard III (originally CD-SDL 364)

CD: MHS 11237H, issued 1988

Mechanical Opera: Opera Favourites On Musical Boxes (originally SDL 354)

LP: MHS 912030A, issued in 1987
Cassette: MHS 312030Y, issued 1987

CD issue

Danielle Pauly: Fleur Du Jura (originally SDL 353)

LP: MHS 912191Y, issued in 1988
CD: MHS 512191L, issued 1988

Stephen Preston, Jennifer Ward Clarke & Richard Burnett: Carl Maria von Weber: Flute Trios and Sonatas (originally SAR 21)

LP: MHS 912119T, issued 1988

Richard Burnett: Muzio Clementi: Twelve Monferrinas; Sonata In G Minor (originally SAR 8, 'Clemanti Late Piano Works')

Cassette: MHC 312362T, issued 1989

Cylinder Jazz: Early Jazz and Ragtime from Phonograph Cylinders (originally SDL 334)

LP: MHS 7138H, issued 1985 (stated in one online auction to be a 10" LP - unverified)

CD issue

Jing Ying Soloists: Like Waves Against the Sand (originally SDL 325)

LP: 7323W, issued 1986
Cassette: MHC 9323X
CD: MHS 11110L (see left)

LP issue

CD issue

The Mellstock Band: Under the Greenwood Tree (originally SDL 360)

LP: MHS 912044A, issued in 1987
CD: MHS 11127Y

LP issue

Maddy Prior With The Carnival Band: A Tapestry Of Carols (originally SDL 366)

LP: MHS 912057H, issued 1987 (see left)
CD: unknown cat. no.

CD issue

Richard Burnett: Gottschalk: Piano Music (originally CD-SAR 32)

LP: unknown cat. no.
CD: unknown cat. no. (see left)

Kitten On The Keys (originally SDL 355)

CD: MHS 11124L, issued 1986

Spirit Of African Sanctus (originally CD-SDL 389)

CD: 513137M, issued 1992

Roger Winfield: Windsongs (originally CD-SDL 394)

CD: 513420Z, issued 1993

Church Bells of England (originally CD-SDL 378)

CD: 514219Y, issued 1996

A Celtic Christmas (originally CD-SDL 417)

CD: Unknown cat. no.

Rié Yanagisawa & Clive Bell: Kurokami - Traditional Music of Japan (originally CD-SDL 367)

CD: 512766F

Music of the Streets: Mechanical Street Entertainment (originally SDL 340)

LP: MHS 7075A, issued 1985
CD: MHS 11236L

Kathryn Tickell: On Kielder Side (originally SDL 343)

LP: MHS 7163K, issued 1985

Georges Schmitt: Joy to the World (originally SDL 357)

LP: MHS 7469F, issued 1986
CD: unknown cat. no.

Dave Townsend: Portrait Of A Concertina (originally SDL 351)

LP: MHS 7535K, issued in 1987
Cassette: MHC 9535L

Nigel North: Lute Music (originally SAR 23, 'Bach Lute Music')

LP: MHS 7471K, issued 1986
Cassette: MHC 9471L, issued 1985

Traditional Songs of Ireland (originally CD-SDL 411)

CD: 5162943

Richard Butler: The Perfect Triangle (originally CD-SDL 345)

CD: 514034Z, issued 1995

The following is a list of Saydisc/Amon Ra titles that were available via the Musical Heritage Society as per around 2018. Numbers presumably represent the catalogue number given following MHS restarting to license Saydisc/Amon Ra titles in around 2009/2010. I do not yet know if this listing from Saydisc represents titles still available for sale, which would have been on CD to start but are now presumably via download (now that MHS's owners specialise in downloadable music only):

9001341 Music of the British Isles
9100396 Traditional Songs of England
9100403 Traditional Songs of Ireland
9100412 English National Songs
9100421 Sea Songs & Shanties
9100430 Traditional Dance Music of Ireland
9100449 Harp Music of Wales
9100485 The Celtic Harp
9100494 Traditional Songs of Scotland
9100501 Sing Lustily and With Good Courage
9100690 Bach: Lute Music
9100707 In Nomine - 16th Century English Music For Viols
9100716 John Dowland's Lachrimae or Seaven Teares
9100725 C.P.E Bach: Trio Sonatas
9100734 Rare Baroque Flute Concertos
9100743 Philippe De Vitry And The Ars Nova
9100752 Guitar Collection: Historic Guitars
9100761 The Brightest Heaven Of Invention
9100770 A Golden Treasury Of Elizabethan Music
9100789 A Golden Treasury Of Mediæval Music
9100798 A Golden Treasury Of Historic Pianos
9100805 A Golden Treasury of Renaissance Music
9100814 A Golden Treasury Of Georgian Music
9100823 A Golden Treasury of Ancient Instruments
9100832 A Golden Treasury Of Flute Music (On Original Instruments)
9101984 Beethoven: Octet; Sextet
9101993 Brahms: Clarinet Trio & Sonatas
9102009 Field: Piano Music
9102018 Haydn: Piano Sonatas
9102027 Mozart: Clarinet Quintets
9102036 Mozart: Divertimenti
9102045 Mozart: Music for Oboe
9102054 Mozart: Piano Quartets
9102063 Scarlatti: Sonatas
9102072 Schumann: Chamber Works
9102081 Weber: Flute Trio & Sonatas
9102090 Trumpet Collection
9102107 Oboe Collection
9102116 Harp Collection
9102125 Music for Mandolins
9102134 Luzzaschi: The Secret Music of Luzzasco Luzzaschi
9102143 Pierre de la Rue: Requiem; Josquin des Prez: Mass: Hercules dux Ferrariae
9102152 Strozzi: La Virtuosissima Cantatrice
9102161 Music from the Time of Richard III
9102170 The Field of Cloth of Gold
9102189 Music from the Time of the Spanish Armada
9102198 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare
9102205 Worcester Fragments - English sacred music of the late Middle Ages
9102214 English Country Dances
9102223 John Playford's Popular Tunes
9102232 Under the Greenwood Tree
9102241 Old English Nursery Rhymes
9102250 Traditional Songs of Wales
9102447 Keyboard Collection
9103491 The Celtic Harp – Traditional Airs & Dances from Ireland, Scotland & Wales
9103526 Hummel: Violin Sonatas Op. 5 No. 3 & Op. 50; Nocturne Op. 99
9103455 Schubert: Winterreise
9103482 Masters of the Baroque Guitar
9103517 Gottschalk: Piano Music
9103535 Seixas: Harpsichord Sonatas
9103553 Romantic Fortepiano
9103562 The Romantic Piano