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.





























