Gramophone’s coveted Label of the Year Award for 2104 went to Edinburgh-based independent label Delphian Records whose revelatory new recording of Handel’s The Triumph of Time and Truth is Recording of the Month in our October issue (out today). Founded 14 years ago by Paul Baxter and Kevin Findlan, Delphian have built an impressive catalogue of recordings with special emphasis on choral music, Scottish artists and ensembles and exciting re-discoveries. In an exclusive interview, Paul Baxter spoke to Limelight:

Congratulations on winning Gramophone Label of the Year. As students in 2000, what made you decide to start your own record label?

A late night conversation at a student dinner party encouraged me to tentatively approach some potential sponsors; Glasgow had Linn – why shouldn’t Scotland’s capital city have its own art label? I was flattered by the responses – the following week three cheques landed on my doorstop that allowed me to buy the equipment required to make my first commercial recordings.

Our very first recording was a disc featuring twelve instruments from Edinburgh University’s famous Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments, played by the doyen of keyboards, John Kitchen. It proved hugely attractive to visitors of the collection, and still...