Vernon Handley

About the artist

Vernon George "Tod" Handley CBE (11 November 1930 – 10 September 2008) was a British conductor, known in particular for his support of British composers. He was born of a Welsh father and an Irish mother into a musical family in Enfield, London.

Top songs

  1. The Ride Of The Valkyries
  2. Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85: I. Adagio - moderato
  3. On Hearing The First Cockoo In Spring
  4. Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85: III. Adagio
  5. In Moonlight (arr. Julian Milone)
  6. Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85: II. Lento - Allegro molto
  7. Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85: I. Adagio - moderato
  8. Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85: IV. Allegro - Moderato - Allegro, ma non troppo - Poco più lento - Adagio
  9. Romance Op. 62
  10. Salut d'amour, Op.12 (arr. Julian Milone)
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  1. La Capricieuse Op. 17 (arr. Julian Milone)
  2. Chanson de matin, Op.15 No. 2
  3. Sospiri Op. 70 (arr. Julian Milone)
  4. Delius: 2 Pieces for Small Orchestra: No. 1, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
  5. Chanson de matin Op. 15 No. 2 (arr. Julian Milone)
  6. The Wasps - Aristophanic Suite: I. Overture
  7. The Lark Ascending
  8. Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85: II. Lento - Allegro molto
  9. Ride Of The Valkyries
  10. Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85: III. Adagio
  11. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
  12. Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85: IV. Allegro - Moderato - Allegro, ma non troppo - Poco più lento - Adagio
  13. The Planets, Op. 32 / H. 125 - Mars the Bringer of War
  14. Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
  15. The Planets, Op. 32 / H. 125 - Jupiter the Bringer of Jollity
  16. Salut d'amour Op. 12 (arr. Julian Milone)
  17. Carnival of the Animals (Introduction and March of the Lion)
  18. The Planets, Op. 32 / H. 125 - Venus the Bringer of Peace
  19. 2 Pieces for Small Orchestra: No. 1, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
  20. English Folk Songs - Suite (orch. Gordon Jacob): I. March (Seventeen Come Sunday)
  21. The Planets, Op. 32 / H. 125 - Mercury the Winged Messenger
  22. Lieutenant Kijé - Symphonic Suite Op. 60: IV. Troika
  23. London Suite - Knightsbridge March
  24. Lieutenant Kijé - Symphonic Suite Op. 60: IV. Troika
  25. Westminster Waltz
  26. Peter Grimes: 4 Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: No. 2. Sunday Morning
  27. Sailing By
  28. The Planets, Op. 32 / H. 125 - Saturn the Bringer of Old Age
  29. 633 Squadron
  30. No. 2. Sunday Morning
  31. Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: II. Sunday Morning
  32. Peter Grimes: 4 Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: No. 1. Dawn
  33. The Planets, Op. 32 / H. 125 - Neptune the Mystic
  34. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: The Ride of the Valkyries
  35. Coronation Scot
  36. I. Allegro
  37. Puffin' Billy
  38. Barwick Green
  39. St. Paul's Suite, Op. 29 No. 2 - Jig
  40. The Planets, Op. 32 / H. 125 - Uranus the Magician
  41. Lieutenant Kijé - Symphonic Suite Op. 60: II. Romance
  42. St. Paul's Suite, Op. 29 No. 2 - Ostinato
  43. Elizabethan Serenade
  44. Nights of Gladness
  45. Overture: Rienzi
  46. St. Paul's Suite, Op. 29 No. 2 - Finale (The Dargason)
  47. Concert Jig
  48. Jumping Bean
  49. Lieutenant Kijé - Symphonic Suite Op. 60: II. Romance
  50. London Suite - Covent Garden
  51. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
  52. A Pastoral Symphony [No. 3]: I. Molto moderato
  53. English Folk Songs - Suite (orch. Gordon Jacob): II. Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy)
  54. Jamaican Rumba
  55. St. Paul's Suite, Op. 29 No. 2 - Intermezzo
  56. The Horseguards, Whitehall
  57. Mexican Hat Dance
  58. Peter Grimes: 4 Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: No. 4. Storm
  59. Peter Grimes: 4 Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: No. 3. Moonlight
  60. Grasshoppers' Dance
  61. Intriduction To Act Iii: Lohengrin
  62. Vanity Fair
  63. Serenade to Music (choral version)
  64. The Sea: I. Seascape
  65. Pomp And Circumstance March No 1 In D Major Op 39
  66. Carnival of the Animals: XIII. The Swan
  67. English Folk Songs - Suite (orch. Gordon Jacob): III. March (Folk Songs from Somerset)
  68. Little Suite - March
  69. Peter Grimes: Passacaglia, Op. 33b: Passacaglia, Op. 33b
  70. Spring Fire, GP 153: IV. Woodland Love. Romance
  71. Siegfried Idyll
  72. Lieutenant Kijé - Symphonic Suite Op. 60: III. The Wedding of Kijé
  73. A Pastoral Symphony [No. 3]: II. Lento moderato
  74. Summer Night on the River
  75. Dam Busters March
  76. The Sea: II. Sea-foam
  77. In the Steppes of Central Asia
  78. Lieutenant Kijé - Symphonic Suite Op. 60: III. The Wedding of Kijé
  79. Violin Concerto in D Op. 77: II. Adagio
  80. In A Summer Garden
  81. Lieutenant Kijé - Symphonic Suite Op. 60: I. The Birth of Kijé (Paul Ringham, cornet)
  82. November Woods
  83. Overture: The Flying Dutchman
  84. The Sea: III. Moonlight
  85. The Sea: IV. Storm
  86. Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen, opera, WWV 49: Overture
  87. Symphony in G Minor: I. Allegro
  88. By the Sleepy Lagoon
  89. Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75: Act 3, Introduction
  90. Lieutenant Kijé - Symphonic Suite Op. 60: V. The Burial of Kijé (Paul Ringham, cornet)

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