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Roy Eldridge
Little Jazz Giant [ Avid / 3 CD - released 20/Oct/2003 ] 76 sides recorded between 1935 & 1952. Featuring Teddy Wilson, Coleman Hawkins, Artie Shaw, Barney Kessel, Zoot Sims, Dick Hyman, Buddy Tate, Oscar Peterson...and many more. |
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Roy Hanover Band/Goodman
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 42-44 [ Helios / CD - released 7/Oct/2002 ] |
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Roy Hargrove Big Band
Emergence [ Universal Music / CD - released 24/Aug/2009 ] For Roy, the recording of 'Emergence' - a big band album, with a huge supporting cast - was not some crazy impulse decision but rather the realization of a dream. |
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Roy Hargrove Quintet
Earfood [ CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] |
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Roy Orbison
King of Hearts [ Virgin America / CD - released 20/Oct/1992 ] Although Roy Orbison's album Mystery Girl was issued eight weeks after his death on December 6, 1988, it was apparently in finished form and thus only technically a posthumous release. Orbison's widow Barbara says she has been asked frequently since... |
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BERWALD
Symphonies and Overtures Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Roy Goodman (conductor) [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 7/Jun/2004 ] 'Two sensational CDs ... He's the first great Scandinavian symphonist, though we had to wait until this century to appreciate the fact ... a sort of cross between Mendelssohn and Sibelius. A winner' - Time Out, New York |
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VIVALDI / DONIZETTI / ROSSINI / HANDEL / HASSE
Arias [3 CD set] Vivica Genaux (mezzo soprano) / Europa Galante, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Les Violons du Roy [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2015 ] "Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux is superb. Her voice is perfectly suited to this type of repertoire, with the ability to tackle the stratospheric scales, arpeggios and trills, while remaining comfortable in the lower registers." (MusicWeb Feb 2010) |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Serse (complete opera recorded in 1979) Carolyn Watkinson, Barbara Hendricks, Paul Esswood / la Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire [ Sony Classical Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2017 ] Jean-Claude Malgoire conducts his Parisian ensemble, La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, in a complete 1979 recording of Handel's delightful comic opera Serse, best known for its universally familiar opening aria "Ombra mai fu". |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos 22 + 24 Charles Richard-Hamelin Les Violons du Roy, Jonathan Cohen [ Analekta / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] In their very first recording together, pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin and the Violons du Roy present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's piano concertos No. 22 and No. 24 that are replete with passionate outbursts, startling contrasts, rich orchestration and... |
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HANDEL
Orlando (complete opera) Christophe Dumaux, Elena de la Merced, Jean-Michel Fumas / La grande Ecurie et la Chamvre du Roy / Jean-Claude Malgoire [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 1/May/2010 ] In his setting of Orlando (drawn from Tasso's Orlando furioso) Handel offers us a score of remarkable dramatic power, diversity and originality. |
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Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge
Complete Live At The Bayou Club 1959 [ Lonehill / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] |
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RAMEAU
Pigmalion, Platee and Dardanus Ballet Suites European Union Baroque Orchestra / Roy Goodman (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Nov/2005 ] "This disc is a wonderful addition to Naxos catalogue. Congratulations to the label, the orchestra, and to Roy Goodman. This is an essential disc for ballet lovers, Baroque enthusiasts, and Francophiles." (MusicWeb Jan 2006) |
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HANDEL
Rinaldo (Complete Opera recorded in 1977) Ileana Cotrubas, Carolyn Watkinson & Paul Esswood / La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2010 ] "The vigour of Malgoire's direction of an opera which plainly for him is very much alive, makes this a very attractive set. The finest singing comes from Ilena Cotrubas, but the whole team is convincing. The bright but spacious recording adds to the... |
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I-Roy
Can't Conquer Rasta [ Radiation Roots / CD - released 26/May/2017 ] Born Roy Samuel Reid in Saint Thomas in 1944, I Roy was one of Jamaica's all-time greatest deejays. A natural-born toaster, his rhyming raps always sounded effortless, whether describing the harsh realities of the inner city, or making light of... |
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I-Roy
Can't Conquer Rasta (LP) [ Radiation Roots / LP - released 26/May/2017 ] Born Roy Samuel Reid in Saint Thomas in 1944, I Roy was one of Jamaica's all-time greatest deejays. A natural-born toaster, his rhyming raps always sounded effortless, whether describing the harsh realities of the inner city, or making light of... |
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I-Roy
The Observer Book Of I-Roy [ 17 North Parade / LP - released 20/Feb/2012 ] Limited edition vinyl issue. |
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Jackie Cain & Roy Kral
Bits & Pieces / The Glory Of Love [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Mar/2008 ] Jackie Cain & Roy Kral joined forces in 1946 and they gained recognition through working with Charlie Ventura. They got married in 1949 and went on to perform together right up until 2002! |
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TRADITIONALLY BRITISH
Traditionally British John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band / Geoffrey Brand / Roy Newsome [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/1990 ] Traditionally British is the British band - from 'Jerusalem' to 'Loch Lomond'. from 'The Minstrel Boy' to 'All Through the Night' |
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Black Dyke Mills Band / Roy Newsome (conductor) / Don Lusher (trombone)
The Spectrum of Brass (featuring the music and arrangements of Gordon Langford) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/1994 ] In 1816 Peter Wharton founded a brass and reed band in the Yorkshire village of Queenshead - later to become Queensbury. John Foster, apart from being the founder of Black Dyke Mills, played French Horn in this band. |
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / STRAVINSKY / HONEGGER / Prokofiev / DEBUSSY / etc
Joseph Szigeti - The Mercury Masters Joseph Szigeti (violin) with Roy Bogas, Artur Balsam, Mieczysław Horszowski (piano), various concductors & soloists [ Mercury Living Presense Australian Eloquence / 6 CD Box Set - released 17/Feb/2023 ] Issued internationally and complete, for the first time on CD in this Limited Edition original-jackets collection, these Mercury recordings were made in New York and London during the autumn of Szigeti's career, between 1959 and 1961. |