SWRmusic is the label of the Southwest German Broadcasting Company (SWR). Its purpose is the documentation of the artistic output of the internationally renowned SWR orchestras and ensembles, including outstanding archive recordings of famous musicians. The label releases have been realised in cooperation with Naxos Germany since 2015. In 2025 the label celebrates its 25th anniversary and has meanwhile become a well-established competitor in the market; the numerous awards and prizes it has received attest to its success.

The SWR ensembles are the SWR Symphonieorchester (a result of the fusion of the SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Freiburg und Baden-Baden in 2016), the SWR Vokalensemble – considered to be one of the best a cappella choirs for modern music in the world  –, the SWR Big Band and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie.

A main focus of SWRmusic are remastered series with historic recordings of famous musicians and conductors. In the recent years, several highly acclaimed editions have been released and are a valuable asset of the back catalogue: The Michael Gielen edition (88 CDs in ten volumes), the Hans Rosbaud edition (53 CDs in nine volumes) as well as the smaller editions dedicated to Fritz Wunderlich and Friedrich Gulda. Previous individual releases have been re-issued as carefully curated complete editions, among them most notably the Koechlin and the Carl Schuricht editions. All these series are accompanied by detailed liner notes, written by leading musicologists.

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Album Title Catalogue No.
ACHRON, J.: Children's Suite / PROKOFIEV, S.: Overture on Hebrew Themes / CHAJES, J.: Palestinian Suite / STILLMAN, M.: Fantasy on a Chassidic Theme CD93.209
AKIYOSHI, T.: Let Freedom Swing CD93.203
AURIC, G.: Pastorale / Les facheux (Les Ballets Russes, Vol. 7) (Poppen) CD93.265
BACEWICZ: Piano Works CD93.034
BACEWICZ: Sonatas for Violin and Piano CD93.117
BACH, C.P.E.: Fantasia in F-Sharp Minor / CHOPIN, F.: Etudes, Op. 25 / RACHMANINOV, S.: Paganini Rhapsody (R. Neumann, SWR Symphony, K. Hasan) SWR19101CD
BACH, C.P.E.: Violin and Piano Music (Breuninger, P. Kuijken) CD93.312
BACH, J.S.: Overture (Suite) No. 1 / HANDEL: Armida Abbandonata CD93.038
BACH, J.S.: Viola da Gamba Sonatas, BWV 1027 and 1029 / Cello Suite No. 5, BWV 1011 (Starker, Růžičková) (Schwetzinger Festspiele Edition, 1971) CD93.726
BACH, J.S.: Vocal Music (Fischer-Dieskau) (1953-1959) CD94.201
Ballades - SCHUMANN, R. / LISZT, F. / ULLMANN, V. (Fischer-Dieskau, Holl) CD93.906
Ballet Music - STRAVINSKY, I. / RAVEL, M. / TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I. / FALLA, M. de (Les Ballets Russes) (Cambreling, Gielen, Viotti) (10-CD Box Set) SWR19431CD
BARBER, S.: Hermit Songs, Op. 29 (Valentin-Fieguth, Grishutina) SWR10705
BARTOK, B.: Bluebeard's Castle [Opera] (Eotvos) CD93.070
BARTÓK, B.: Divertimento / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (German Radio Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern Philharmonic, P. Inkinen) SWR19110CD
BARTOK, B.: Miraculous Mandarin Suite (The) / STRAUSS, R.: Also sprach Zarathustra (Kempe) (1961) CD94.220
BARTÓK, B.: Piano Concerto No. 2 / TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Anda, Müller-Kray, Leitner) (1950, 1973) CD94.225
BARTÓK, B.: Violin and Piano Works (Becker-Bender, Nagy) SWR19003CD
BARTÓK, B.: Wooden Prince Suite (The) / Concerto for Orchestra / STRAVINSKY, I.: Pulcinella (Michael Gielen Edition, Vol. 5 (1967-2014)) SWR19023CD
BARTOK: Miraculous Mandarin (The) / Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion CD93.194
BARTOK: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Violin Concerto No. 1 CD93.127
BARTOK: Wooden Prince Suite (The) / Concerto for Orchestra CD93.184
BEETHOVEN, L. van / BRAHMS, J.: Violin Concertos (Neveu, Orchestre National de l'ORTF, SWR Symphony, Baden-Baden and Freiburg, Désormière) SWR19018CD
BEETHOVEN, L. van: Cello and Piano Works (Complete) (Geringas, Fountain) CD93.272
BEETHOVEN, L. van: Overture to Collin's Coriolan, "Coriolan Overture" / Symphony No. 2 / BARTOK, B.: Concerto for Orchestra (Maazel) (1958) CD94.224