Music for the Royal Fireworks
Under the management of Louis Benjamin, the company entered the budget-priced album market in 1957, reissuing older Pye material on Pye Golden Guinea Records, priced at a guinea (one pound and one shilling). A series of classical recordings was released on Golden Guinea Collector, for example an influential version of Handel´s "Music for the Royal Fireworks" in 1959. This featured the conductor Charles Mackerras who made other recordings on the label including a Janacek compilation. It was closed in the seventies and was replaced by Marble Arch Records, selling at an even lower price.