HRS Recordings
OUR CDs
HRS currently has three recordings for sale: 'Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia', 'A Very English Sound' and 'Parodies and Paraphrases'. A selection of music from these CDs can be listened to on the recorder orchestra pages.
Normal CD Purchase Price:
£10 each including package and posting.Current CD Web Offer Price:
• 1 CD including package and posting £10• 2 CDs including package and posting £16
• 3 CDs including package and posting £20
Having selected the number of CDs you wish to purchase, send:
• A pound sterling cheque or bankers draft made out to ‘Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia’ (and not HRS) for the appropriate amount
• Your CD order
• Your mailing address
To: HRS CDs, 2 Hearne Gardens, Shirrell Heath, Southampton SO32 2NR, UK.
With support from the Arts Council and local sponsors, HRS made its first CD Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia in 1997. Unfortunately we no longer have any of these CDs in stock. SOLD OUT. Reviews.
| Gopak | Modest Mussorgsky |
| Midsummer Meadow Suite | Lyndon Hilling |
| Sussex by the Sea | W. Ward-Higgs |
| Variations on Scarborough Fair | Paul Clark |
| Staffordshire Festival | Colin Touchin |
| A Suite of Early Keyboard Music arr | Denis Bloodworth |
| Nocturnal on the Name BACH | Michael Sammons |
| Solo violin | Anna Barnett |
| The Lord Zouche’s Maske | Giles Farnaby |
| Lay a Garland on her Hearse | Robert Pearsall |
| Great God of Love | Robert Pearsall |
| Midsummer Morris | Alyson Lewin |
| The Liberty Bell | Philip Sousa |
| White Christmas | Irving Berlin |
A Very English Sound
HRS’s second CD A Very English Sound was made in 2001, with help from Awards for All and local sponsors. Part of this CD was played on Radio 3. Reviews.
| The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba | George Handel |
| Variations on the Psalm Tune ‘Southwell’ | Darryl Runswick |
| English Folk Song Suite | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Moths and Butterflies | Edward Elgar |
| Sadko | Anne Sparkes |
| 5 Pieces from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book | Giles Farnaby |
| Fanfare for a Festival Op.64 | Colin Hand |
| Fantasia à 6 No2 | William Byrd |
| Three Pieces | Warrick Kear |
| The Seventeenth’s Farewell to Alva | Brian Bonsor |
| Buskin | Andrew Challinger |
| A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square | Manning Sherwin |
| Colonel Bogey | Kenneth J Alford |
Parodies and Paraphrases
HRS’s most recent CD Parodies and Paraphrases was sponsored by the ELGAR SOCIETY and made in 2006. Unlike the first two CDs, it features music that was specifically written or arranged for HRS. Reviews.
| Concerto in F Major | Giusseppe Sammartini |
| Solo descant recorder | Helen Hooker |
| The Queen’s Farewell | James Paisible |
| The Queen’s Farewell Stomp 2000 | David Gordon |
| Parodies and Paraphrases on l’Homme Armé | Ian Schofield |
| Nimrod | Edward Elgar |
| Improvisation on a Souling Song | Colin Hand |
| Une Idylle Op.4 No.1 | Edward Elgar |
| Red Hills and Chinese Blue Op.66 | Dennis Bamforth |
| Moonlight Serenade | Glenn Miller |
| The Gradam Variations | Paul Clark |
| Contrasts: The Gavotte AD 1700 and 1900 | Edward Elgar |
RECORDINGS OF SOME OF OUR CONCERTS
Some examples of HRS playing in concert. Click to hear the music. [recordings created by Steve Raines]