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HANS ABRAHAMSEN / GERARD PESSON / OSCAR STRASNOY
Contemporary Concertos by Pesson, Abrahamsen & Strasnoy Alexandre Tharaud (piano) / Rotterdam Philharmonic, Frankfurt radio Symphony, Les Violons du roy [ Warner Classics / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] "The three works are very different from each other, but all showcase the fleet brilliance, tonal variety and clarity of Tharaud's playing." Guardian |
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Roy Eldridge
Three Classic Albums Plus (Roy And Diz / Little Jazz / Swing Goes Dixie) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] |
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Roy Irwin
3, 2, 1, 2000 [ MUZAI Records / CD - released 26/Jul/2010 ] Roy's varied musical CV has culminated in the music that he makes now; kind of anti-folk, kind of poppy, inspired by the likes of Lemonheads, Smudge and Dinosaur Jr. |
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Roy Orbison with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Unchained Melodies [ Sony Music / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] The follow-up to A Love So Beautiful features Roy Orbison vocal performances with brand-new orchestral arrangements by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded at Abbey Road Studios. Additional accompaniment from Roy's three sons and backing vocals... |
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Roy Phillips' Peddlers
Dancing With Shadows [ Ode Records / CD - released 11/Sep/2007 ] Recorded at Muscle Music in the far North of New Zealand, this is a collection of newly recorded hits by Roy Phillips, who was the great voice and amazing keyboard player with the The Peddlers. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Piano Concertos BWV 1052, 1054, 1056, 1058 & 1065 Alexandre Tharaud (piano) / Les Violins du Roy, Bernard Labadie [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "..played with stylish, spontaneous-sounding elaboration of lines and sparing use of the sustaining pedal...Yet it all works remarkably well...this is a thoroughly enjoyable 'piano' version of these glorious Concertos." (BBC Music) |
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FELIX ARNDT / MIKE BERNARD / ROY BARGY / FRANK BANTA / RUBE BLOOM
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Keyboard Wizards Of The Gershwin Era - Volume V Felix Arndt / Mike Bernard / Roy Bargy / Frank Banta / Rube Bloom [ Pearl / CD - released 15/Aug/1998 ] The iconography of jazz usually features smoky images of coolly wasted-looking individuals in natty hats blowing saxophones. But if saxes and trumpets have seemed like the quintessential jazz instruments, it's the piano that has been absolutely... |
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Roy Buchanan
When A Guitar Plays The Blues [ Alligator Records / LP - released 21/Jul/2023 ] The classic Alligator debut by the late genius of pyrotechnic blues/rock guitar. Roy called it "the best album I ever made." Grammy nominee. "Awesome...explosively soulful guitar" - GUITAR PLAYER |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano) / Les Violons du Roy; Jonathan Cohen [ Analekta / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] "He shapes and phrases the music with a keen eye (or ear) on its dialogic potential, driving forwards energetically without bullying or indulging in display for its own sake." Gramophone Editor's Choice Dec 2023 |
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VARIOUS
All The World's Most Beautiful Melodies (the complete five CD set) The Golden Cornet Of Phillip Mccann / Sellers Engineering Band / Boys Of Leeds Parish Church Choir / Simon Lindley (Organ) / Roy Newsome (Conductor) [ Chandos / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/1995 ] From 'Panis Angelicus' to 'Believe Me If All Those Enduring Young Charms' here are all your favourites performed by the world's number one cornet player. |
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VARIOUS POETS
Classic Poems For Girls Roy McMillan, Laura Paton, Anne-Marie Piazza [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] Classic Poems for Girls is a collection of over 25 funny, whimsical and moving poems for 5-10-year olds, designed to fuel the imagination. From the adventures of the Jumblies, who sail away in a sieve, to the sticky end of a girl named Matilda, to... |
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LESLIE BRICUSSE
Bricusse: Sherlock Holmes - The Musical Robert Powell & Roy Barraclough / Original Cast Recording [ Thats Entertainment / CD - released 19/Sep/1993 ] Sherlock Holmes - The Musical is a musical based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with music, lyrics and book by Leslie Bricusse. |
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Roy Davis Jr
Soul Electrica [ Peacefrog Records / 12in - released 11/Oct/2004 ] |
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CHRIS ANDREWS
Andrews: Tom Brown's Schooldays Roy Dotrice & Judith Bruce / Original Cast Recording [ Must Close Saturday Records / CD - released 17/May/1991 ] A musical in 2 acts by Jack and Joan Maitland; based on the novel by Thomas Hughes: Music by Chris Andrews. Originally produced as an amateur musical at the Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon 6 November, 1971 as Young Tom. |
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Roy Orbison
In Dreams (LP) [ Sony Music / LP - released 2/Mar/2018 ] |
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Roy Orbison
One Of The Lonely Ones [ Roy's Boys / CD - released 21/Dec/2015 ] One of the Lonely Ones was recorded by the late Roy Orbison in 1969, but was never released by his label MGM Records. In recognition of his joining MGM 50 years ago, Universal teamed up with LLC, the Nashville-based company founded by Orbison's sons,... |
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Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers - Along The Navajo Trail (original recordings 1945 - 47) [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD ] Essential Nostalgia! One of the best selling titles |
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Roy Wood
Super Active Wizzo [ Wounded Bird / CD - released 16/Jul/2007 ] The very title of Super Active Wizzo suggests a fizzy, over-charged, amped-up version of Roy Wood's first band as a leader, Wizzard -- and, in a way, that's exactly what Wood's Wizzo Band was, with its lone 1977 LP recalling nothing so much as... |
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Roy Woods
Exis (LP) [ Ovo Sound / Warner / LP - released 1/Oct/2021 ] Originally released in 2015, this 6-track EP features the smash singles "Drama" (featuring Drake) and "Get You Good". |
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Roy Wood & Wizzard
Main Street - Remastered And Expanded Edition [ Esoteric / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] After earning success as a performer and songwriter with The Move, ELO and Wizzard, the supremely talented Roy Wood recorded the material for what should have been his third solo album in the Spring of 1976. The album was originally intended to... |
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Roy Orbison
The Essential Roy Orbison [ Legacy Records / 2 CD - released 30/Jan/2007 ] This 40-track double disc set features all the hits from "The Big O" - including "Oh, Pretty Woman", "In Dreams", "I Drove All Night" and many more! |
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Roy Ayers
Virgin Ubiquity II (Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981) (LP) [ BBE / 3 LP - released 17/Jan/2020 ] BBE Music is excited to present the first repress since 2006 of Roy Ayers classic Virgin Ubiquity albums, with brand new sleeve notes by Sean P. When two volumes of previously unreleased Roy Ayers tapes entitled 'Virgin Ubiquity' hit the racks... |
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Roy Brooks
Beat (12") [ Verve US / 12in - released 25/Nov/2022 ] Recorded for Berry Gordy's short-lived Workshop Jazz imprint and recorded at the Hitsville USA studio, Roy Brooks (joined by fellow Detroit natives George Bohannon and Hugh Lawson, along with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, and Eugene Taylor) injects a... |
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Roy Haynes
Out Of The Afternoon (Verve Acoustic Sound Series LP) [ Verve Us / LP - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Drummer Roy Haynes swings as the leader of this 1962 Impulse! session, featuring A-list jazzmen Roland Kirk (multiple instruments including stritch and nose flute!), Tommy Flanagan (piano) and Henry Grimes (bass). Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series... |
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Roy Montgomery
Island Of Lost Souls [ Grapefruit / CD - released 19/Feb/2021 ] Island Of Lost Souls is the first of four new albums by Roy Montgomery coming out in 2021 to commemorate Montgomery's forty years in music. His debut release was also Flying Nun's first, the Pin Group 7-inch from 1981. Roy Montgomery, a pioneer of... |
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Roy Montgomery
Rhymes Of Chance [ Grapefruit / CD - released 22/Oct/2021 ] Roy Montgomery, a pioneer of the NZ underground, believes there is always new sonic terrain to investigate. His latest series of albums for Grapefruit marks forty years of rigorous exploration in which he's managed to navigate disparate genres,... |
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Roy Montgomery
That Best Forgotten Work [ Grapefruit / CD - released 6/Aug/2021 ] Roy Montgomery, a pioneer of the NZ underground, believes there is always new sonic terrain to investigate. His latest series of albums for Grapefruit marks forty years of rigorous exploration in which he's managed to navigate disparate genres,... |
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Roy Montgomery
That Best Forgotten Work (LP) [ Grapefruit / LP - released 6/Aug/2021 ] Roy Montgomery, a pioneer of the NZ underground, believes there is always new sonic terrain to investigate. His latest series of albums for Grapefruit marks forty years of rigorous exploration in which he's managed to navigate disparate genres,... |
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Roy Orbison And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
A Love So Beautiful [ Sony / CD - released 10/Nov/2017 ] Following the popular and chart topping Elvis with the Phil, this brand new album infuses Orbison's best original vocal performances, consisting of hits and fan favourites such as 'Oh, Pretty Woman,' 'Crying' and 'Only the Lonely,' with the emotion... |
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Roy & The Devil's Motorcycle
Tell It To The People [ Voodoo Rhythm Records / CD - released 22/Jun/2012 ] |
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Roy Woods
Waking At Dawn (Expanded Edition LP) [ Ovo Sound / Warner / LP - released 1/Oct/2021 ] Waking at Dawn was released in 2016 as a follow-up to Roy's debut EP, Exis. The project features the hit single, "Gwan Big Up Urself", inspired by his Caribbean roots & brought to life by Jamaican producer KRS. Another critically acclaimed single... |
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MOZART / HAYDN
Jeunehomme Alexandre Tharaud (piano) / Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie, with Joyce DiDonato [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] "Alexandre Tharaud is an atmospheric, characterful pianist whose individuality seems to communicate best on CD … Vivid imagination meets deliciously poised pianism." Nicholas Kenyon, The Observer, Sunday 24 November 2013 Tharaud returns with a an... |
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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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Emmylou Harris, with Roy Orbison, John Denver, Gram Parsons, George Jones & others
Duets [ Reprise Records / CD - released 27/Aug/1990 ] Emmylou's compilation 'Duets' collects previously released performances recorded in conjunction with Neil Young, Willie Nelson and others. |
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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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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies Nos.17 - 21 The Hanover Band, Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 6/May/2002 ] |
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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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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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SIGISMUND NEUKOMM
Neukomm: Requiem à la mémoire de Louis XVI La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire [ Alpha / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] In spite of the immense success he enjoyed in his lifetime, Sigismund Neukomm (born in Salzburg in 1778, died in Paris in 1858 at the age of eighty) is practically forgotten nowadays. Yet he left a catalogue of nearly two thousand works, including... |
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VARIOUS POETS
Classic Poems For Boys Anton Lesser, Roy McMillan, Benjamin Soames [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] Classic Poems for Boys comprises a delightfully varied set of poems for 5-10-year olds. From rousing favourites like Felicia Dorothea Hemans's Casabianca and John Keats's A Song About Myself, to dreamy, thoughtful poems by Rudyard Kipling and Henry... |