The Scholars and The Scholars Baroque Ensemble record exclusively for Naxos, but they don’t place too much importance on their choice of recording label since from the outset they considered themselves as “a live music quartet who prefer concerts to recordings”. This principal guided their attitude with respect to their recording label, which “records projects that have previously been presented in concert. In The Baroque Ensemble’s 15-year existence, we have only been invited to give a concert once as a result of a recording”. In order to explain this paradox, Van Asch resorts to the findings of a study by the Arts Council of Great Britain made many years ago stating that record collectors and concert goers are not one and the same audience; “at least in our case, this seems to have been proven correct”. However, finally, he unashamedly admits “Naxos was something very positive for us”.