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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Favourite Baroque Classics (Incls Air on a G String & Arrival of the Queen of Sheba) The Brandenburg Consort / Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 23/Jan/2008 ] 'Fine performances from the Brandenburg Consort, excellent documentation. A good CD to start a Baroque collection' (Classic CD) |
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HANDEL
Six Concerti Grossi Op 3 The Brandenburg Consort / Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 6/Jun/2001 ] These delightful concerti from the mid 1730s |
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ARCANGELO CORELLI
Corelli: Twelve Concerti Grossi op 6 Brandenberg Consort / Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Dyard / 2 CD - released 12/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) - 'Elegant playing - energetic allegros, spacious solo/tutti contrasts, finely poised in the endlessly-spun slow harmonies. Archlute continuo colours delightfully' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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HANDEL
Opera Arias and Overtures Vol 1 Emma Kirkby (soprano) / The Brandenburg Consort / Roy Goodman [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] 'It is difficult to pick out a particular highlight, there are so many of them' (Classic CD) |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies 101, 102 / 'Windsor Castle' Overture The Hannover Band / Roy Goodman conductor [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] 'The playing is stylish and imaginative, the "clock" movement is beautifully paced and the balance of instruments is excellent' (Classic CD) |
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HAYDN
The 'Paris' Symphonies Vol 1: Symphonies 82 'The Bear', 83 'The Hen', 84 The Hanover Band / Roy Goodman (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 28/Apr/2003 ] GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies 42 43 44 The Hanover Band / Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 28/Nov/2002 ] 'Superbly skilled playing... a sense of sheer enjoyment which communicates itself magnificently to the listener' (CDReview) |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies 6, 7, 8 The Hanover Band / Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1761-1800) - 'Immensely inventive works that, had there not been another hundred to follow, every music-lover would know and which would be widely performed and recorded' (Early Music Review) |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies 70, 71, 72 The Hanover Band, Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 28/Nov/2002 ] Great performances now reissued |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies Nos.17 - 21 The Hanover Band, Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 6/May/2002 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Jacqueline du Pre Recital Jacqueline du Pre (cello) with Gerald Moore (piano), Oslan Ellis (harp), Roy Jesson (organ) & John Williams (guitar) [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] The tragedy of du Pré's brief career is still fresh in the public memory and can be summarised here. She was born in Oxford on 26 January 1945 into a middle-class family in which music was important: her mother was a fine pianist and a gifted teacher. |
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Jon and Roy
Another Noon [ CD ] |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11 Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) / Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] Marc-André Hamelin has proved himself-in three lauded volumes of Haydn's piano sonatas-to be a formidable Haydn pianist, combining style, exuberance and dazzling technique with a palpable sense of joy in the music. |
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PURCELL
The Complete Ayres for the Theatre The Parley of Instruments / Roy Goodman, director [ Hyperion / 3 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "..the players set out in almost holographic detail between, beyond, between and in front of the loudspeakers. You could almost be there' (Gramophone 'Soundings') |
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MUFFAT
Armonico Tributo The Parley of Instruments / Roy Goodman / Peter Holman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Jun/2005 ] 'The best English baroque chamber music record I have ever heard' - Hi Fi News |
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JOHN STANLEY
Six Concertos in seven parts Op 2 The Parley of Instruments / Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "The players are technically superb, but also play with a grace and lightness which are wholly uplifting" BBC Music Magazine |
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HANDEL
Organ Concertos [2 CDs] Paul Nicholson (organ) / Frances Kelly (harp) / Choir of Clare College, Cambridge with Timothy Brown, director / The Brandenburg Consort / Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2005 ] 'The great coup of this new recording ... is to have secured the instrument on which the composer played. Nicholson's playing is unfailingly stylish' - The Times |
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QUANTZ
Quantz-Flute Concertos Rachel Brown, copy of a Quantz flute with two keys / The Brandenburg Consort / Roy Goodman, director [ Hyperion / CD - released 17/May/2005 ] 'Brown's playing makes a highly plausible argument for enjoying the richness and diversity of these pieces' - BBC Record Review |
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Roy Buchanan
The Definitive Collection [ Universal Music / CD - released 4/Jul/2006 ] Available on import from Europe, this digitally re-mastered collection features the late master guitarist performing signature pieces like "Sweet Dreams", "I'm a Ram", "Hey Joe" and Neil Young's "Down By the River." |