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Commercial CD recordings
SYMPHONY No. 1 Op.15 Hallé Orchestra - Sir John Barbirolli
Dutton Vocalion CDLX 7212 re-mastered from original recording of performance
at BBC Proms, 29th August 1958
SYMPHONY No 1 Op.15 - Munich Symphony Orchestra - Douglas Bostock
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SYMPHONY No 4 Op 72 Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Arthur Butterworth
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SYMPHONY No.5 Op. 115 Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Arthur Butterworth
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VIOLA CONCERTO Op. 82 Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Arthur Butterworth
Sarah Jane Bradley - Viola Dutton Vocalion CDLX 7212
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Royal Scotiish National Orchestra - Arthur Butterworth Dutton Vocalion CDLX 7253
THE QUIET TARN Op.21 Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Arthur Butterworth
THE GREEN WIND Op 22 Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Arthur Buttrworth
Dutton Vocalion CDLX 7253
CORUSCATIONS Op. 127 Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Arthur Butterworth
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GIGUES Op. 42 Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Arthur Butterworth
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SUMMER MUSIC Op.77 - Royal Ballet Sinfonia - Arthur Butterworth
Bassoon Concerto - Graham Salvage, bassoon ASV Records CD WHL 2132
(also bassoon concertos by Eric Fogg, John Addison & Peter Hope)
THE PATH ACROSS THE MOORS Op. 17
Royal Ballet Sinfonia - Arthur Butterworth ASV Records CD WHL 2126
(with Arnold, Wm.Blezzard, Adrian Cruft, Eric Fenby, Raymond Warren,
Anthony Hedges, Paul Lewis & Philip Lane)
ROMANZA Op.12 Horn & Strings, CBC Vancouver Orchestra - Mario Bernardi
Martin Hackleman, horn CBC Records, Canada - SMCD 5186
(also Stride, Tomasi, Weissmann & Atterberg)
PIANO TRIO No 1 , Op.73
PIANO TRIO No 2. Op 121
Terroni Piano Trio John Trussler - violin, Fiona Murphy - cello, Raphael Terroni -piano
VIOLA SONATA Op. 78 Morgan Goff, viola; Raphael Terroni, piano
Dutton Digital Records - CDLX 7164
AUBADE Op.53 Susan Milan, flute; Andrew Bell, piano
(also: Rodney Bennett,Robert Saxton,Cecillia MacDowell, David heath, Brian Lock)
Métier Records MSV 28510

ANCIENT SORCERIES Op. 49 (1974)
Nicholas Clapton (counter tenor) John Turner (recorder)
Ian Thompson (harpsichord)
Guild Records 2008 - GMCD 7348

A TRITON SUITE Op.46 (1974)
Brass Partout (Germany) - directed by Hermann Bäumer
BIS Records - 2008 BIS-CD 1354

THREE IMPRESSIONS FOR BRASS Op. 36 (1968)
PASSACAGLIA ON A THEME OF BRAHMS Op.87 (1990)
SINFONIA CONCERTANTE Op, 111 (1999)
Variations on a theme of Handel (Brahms Op. 24, transcribed for brass) (2001)
Black Dyke Band - conductor Nicholas Childs
Doyen Records - 2002 DOYCD 130

MAORIANA Op. 85 (1991)
BNFL Band - conductor Richard Evans
Polyphone Records - 1993 QPRL 062D

PARTITA Op. 89 (1979)
Stephen Mead - euphonium - Joyce Woodhead - piano
Polyphone Records - 1994 -QPRZ 014D

ODIN, Op. 76 (1986)
Norwegian Brass Band Festival - 2008 conductor Nicholas Childs
Doyen Records - 2008 DOYCD 243


 


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