The conductor Vernon Handley, who died on 10 September 2008, was a prolific recording artist. There are unlikely to be many, if any, conductors whose work has been more extensively reviewed on the site. Below are links to all the reviews and articles found by a Google search of the site on the day after he died. It is possible that this is not absolutely complete so please let us know if you come across anything else or spot any errors. This is not a discography (any volunteers to compile one?) but it probably does represent his recorded output quite well. So it's farewell to "Tod" but what a legacy!

Discs: 
 

Composer	Work(s)	Review date
Arnold	Complete symphonies	November 2006
Arnold	Symphony No 6 etc.	December 2006
Arnold	Symphonies Nos 7 & 8	November 1998
Arnold	Complete concertos	November 2006
Arnold	Orchestral Music	December 2006
Arnold	Collection	February 2002
Bainton/Boughton	Symphonies Nos 3 & 1	March 2007
Bainton/Clifford	Symphonies	November 1999 March 2000
Bantock	Orchestral Music	May 2008
Bantock	Sappho etc.	undated
Bantock	Thalaba the Destroyer	December 2001
Bantock	Omar Khayyám	September 2007 January 2008
Bantock	Song of songs	November 2003
Bax	Symphonies Nos 1-7 etc.	November 2003 November 2003 November 2003 December 2003
Bax/Moeran	Symphony No 4/ Serenade	September 2003
Bax	Overtures	August 2007 December 2007
Bax	Symphonic Variations	September 2003 August 2004
Bax	Concertante for Piano	March 1999 April 1999
Bax	Tone Poems	undated May 2007
Bax	Tone Poems 2	May 2008
Bax	Orchestral Music	November 2003
Bliss	Adam Zero etc.	January 2007
Bliss	Checkmate etc.	July 1999
Bowen	Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3 etc.	August 2007
Bowen	Concertos	June 2006 July 2006
Britten	Four Sea Interludes	July 1999
Bruch/Brahms	Violin Concertos	December 2001
Bruch/Lalo	Scottish Fantasy/Symphonie espagnole	December 2002
Busch	Concertos	December 2007 February 2008
Bush	Symphonies Nos 1 & 2	September 2006
Canteloube/Faure	Songs/Pavane etc.	July 2002
Delius	Orchestral Music	June 2002
Delius	Florida Suite etc.	October 2000
Dvořák	Symphony No 8 etc.	November 1999
Dyson	Agincourt/Melita	September 2003
Elgar	Collector’s Edition	November 2007
Elgar	Symphony No 1/ Marches	July 2002
Elgar	Symphony No 2/Sea Pictures	July 2002
Elgar	Falstaff etc.	July 2002
Elgar	Pomp and Circumstance Marches etc.	July 2000
Elgar	Violin Concerto etc.	July 2002 November 2006
Elgar	Cello Concerto	November 2007 February 2008
Elgar/Walton	Dream of Gerontius/Belshazzar’s Feast	January 2003 February 2003
Elgar/Butterworth	Songs	February 2003
Finzi	Love’s Labour’s Lost etc	June 2007 August 2007
Finzi	Eclogue/Grand Fantasia	March 2007 June 2007 October 2007
Finzi	Cello/Clarinet Concertos	June 2007 July 2007 November 2007
Fogg	Merok	March 2008
Goossens	Symphony No 1 etc.	July 1999 June 2005 September 2005 February 2006
Goossens	Symphony No 2 etc.	July 1999
Goossens	The Eternal Rhythm	July 1999
Gunning	Spring Morning	May 2006
Gunning	Summer Afternoon	August 2006
Hadley/Finzi	The Trees so High/Intimations	February 2007 March 2007
Harty	Irish Symphony: The Fair Day	December 2007 January 2008 April 2008
Holbrooke/Rootham	Birds of Rhiannon/Symphony No 1	June 2007 August 2007 October 2007 August 2008
Holst	Planets Suite etc.	November 2007
Joubert	Symphony No 1	August 2007 September 2007
Liszt/Chopin	Piano Concerto No 2/Fantasia	July 2002
Mackenzie	Violin Concerto	February 2000
Maconchy	Symphony for Double String Orchestra	June 2007 July 2007 November 2007 December 2007
McCabe	Symphony No 4/Flute Concerto	September 1999 December 1999
Moeran	Violin Concerto etc.	May 2004 July 2007
Morgan	Contrasts	December 2007 January 2008 February 2008
Morgan	Violin Concerto	March 2008 May 2008
Rubbra	Symphonies Nos 2 & 7	May 2004
Rubbra	Symphonies Nos 4, 10 & 11	March 2000
Rubbra	Violin and Viola Concertos	March 2000
Schubert	Symphony No 8	November 1999
Simpson	Complete Symphonies	September 2006
Stanford	Irish Rhapsodies	January 2004
Vaughan Williams	A Sea Symphony	July 2002
Vaughan Williams	Symphonies Nos 2 & 8	September 2002
Vaughan Williams	Symphonies Nos 3 & 4	August 2002
Vaughan Williams	Symphony No 5 etc.	September 2002
Vaughan Williams	Symphonies Nos 6 & 9	July 2002
Vaughan Williams	Sinfonia Antarctica etc.	July 2002
Vaughan Williams	Job etc.	July 2002
Vaughan Williams	Collection	July 1999 September 2004
Vaughan Williams	Wasps Overture	September 2006
RVW/Delius	A Lark and a Cuckoo	September 2002
RVW/Elgar	Lark Ascending/Serenade etc.	February 2002
RVW/Foulds	Piano Concerto/Dynamic Triptych	February 2004
Walton	Symphony No 1	June 2006
Walton	Sinfonia concertante	June 2002
Grace Williams	Symphony No 2 etc.	March 2004 September 2006
Various	Julian Lloyd Webber Celebration	April 2002
Various	Song of the Birds	November 2004
Various	Russian Spectacular	February 2001

Concert Reviews:
Tons of Tod’s terrific tunes February 2000
Stocken – Symphony for the Millennium February 2000
70^th Birthday concerts in Liverpool February 2001
An Arnold concert September 2004
Britten, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams April 2007
Holst, Delius, Vaughan Williams February 2008
 
Articles:
Recording Hyperion’s Bantock Volume 6 May 2003
Vernon Handley records Bax April 2005
Richard Adams interviews Vernon Handley 2004
Obituary by Garry Humphreys September 2008

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