Founded in order to release the recordings made during the Bach Cantata pilgrimage and launched in 2005, Soli Deo Gloria has rapidly established itself as one of the leading independent labels, praised for the exceptional quality of its recordings as well as for the elegance of its packaging.

In October 2005 its very first release won Record of the Year at the Gramophone Awards, and all subsequent releases have won international acclaim for the performances by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.

In the same year, at the behest of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, SDG released the first recording of a newly discovered piece by JS Bach, ‘Alles mit Gott’, and in 2006 the label made headlines with a CD of two Mozart symphonies, recorded live during a concert at London’s Cadogan Hall and released at the end of the evening.

SDG is a not-for-profit organisation and any revenue from its recordings is reinvested into making new recordings of Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi forces' innovative projects. Special recording projects such as the Pilgrimage to Santiago followed an acclaimed concert tour along the route to Compestela and received as much praise as the concerts themselves.

Autumn 2007 saw the first recordings with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in London and the Salle Pleyel in Paris during the Brahms and his Antecedents concert cycle. The first release in this new series will be in September 2008 and will include Brahms’ Symphony Number 1 along with music by Mendelssohn.