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Recordings by Timothy Roberts

SOLO ORGAN
  • Joan Cabanilles: Keyboard Music Vol. 1: Eleven organ pieces  Toccata Classics, 2016
  • Joan Cabanilles: Keyboard Music Vol. 2: Twenty-four works for organ and for harpsichord  Toccata Classics, 2017
  • John Worgan: The Complete Organ Works  Toccata Classics, 2016
  • John Blow and His Pupils: the organ of St Botolph without Aldgate, London
with Julia Gooding, Clara Sanabras and Richard Savage (solo voices) and congregational singing
Blow, Purcell, Daniel Purcell and others 
"an excellent CD, of interest beyond the world of organ buffs" (Early Music Review)
  • The Baroque Organ (1709) of The Convent of Santa Clara, Santiago de Compostela
with Clara Sanabras (soprano/guitar)
Cabezón, Bruna, Urros, Scarlatti, Sanchez, Eslava, Roberts, and Galician composers
"a revelation and hugely enjoyable" (Early Music Today)

SOLO HARPSICHORD
  • Dr Arne his Spinett (2015)
Arne sonatas, overtures and variations played on a Haxby spinet of 1760: LP-length CD (47 minutes of music)
  • Susanne un Jour: 300 years of Venetian harpsichord music: harpsichords by Malcolm Rose after Transuntino (1531)
The Gabrielis, Merulo, Banchieri, Marcello, Galuppi and others
"Top-notch playing" (San Diego Harpsichord Society)
  • Farnaby's Dreame: 20 works by Giles Farnaby
5 Stars awarded by BBC Music Magazine
  • A Bach Notebook: LP, Hyperion 1985
Concerto in F after Vivaldi, Suite in A minor, fantasias, preludes and fugues
"Timothy Roberts makes a very favourable impression with his solo debut" (Lionel Slater in The Gramophone)

VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC (discs researched and directed by TR)
  • O Tuneful Voice (1991)
with Emma Kirkby, Rufus Müller and Frances Kelly: songs by Haydn, Storace, Linley, Salomon and others
"...an engaging ensemble of forces...re-create a generous and winsome programme" (The Gramophone)
  • Enchanting Harmonist: a soirée with the Linleys of Bath
Invocation (Julia Gooding, Ana-Maria Rincón, Charles Daniels, Rufus Müller, Christopher Purves and Frances Kelly)
"Stylish, elegant performances…confirm this enchanting issue as essential" (BBC Music Magazine)
  • The Romantic Muse: English music in the time of Beethoven
Invocation (Julia Gooding, Ana-Maria Rincón, Charles Daniels, Rufus Müller, Christopher Purves and Frances Kelly)
music by S. Welsey, W. Linley, Attwood, Pinto, Haydn and others
"This CD is a revelation. Do explore this well recorded, well presented disc" (British Music Society Journal)
  • Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies
Invocation (Julia Gooding, Ana-Maria Rincón, Rufus Müller, Christopher Purves and Frances Kelly)
"Utterly beguiling" (BBC Music Magazine)
  • Cephalus and Aurora: song and keyboard music by Georg Benda
with Emma Kirkby and Rufus Müller
"...the real discovery here is fortepianist Timothy Roberts..." (Roger Nicholls, BBC Radio 3 Record Review)

HIS MAJESTYS SAGBUTTS AND CORNETTS projects largely planned/directed by TR (all Hyperion)
  • Giovanni Gabrieli: complete instrumental music from Sacrae Sinfoniae (1597) with miscellaneous organ toccatas
"A very free walk on very solid ground" (Derek Adlam, remark on hearing the organ solos)
"...superb…the very essence of La Serenissima. Masterly performances, alive with authentic detail" (BBC Music Magazine)
"...magnificent...superlative..." (Fanfare, USA)
  • The Floating City: music by Dario Castello and Giovanni Picchi
"A magnificent, exhilirating disc" (Fanfare)
  • A Bach Album (all arrangements by TR)
"A beguiling and brilliantly conceived programme, brilliantly performed" (Gramophone)
  • Andrea Gabrieli: Missa Pater peccavi & other works
  • For His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
  • HMSC Grand Tour
GABRIELI CONSORT & PLAYERS selected CDs
  • Palestrina: Christmas Mass, etc.
  • Morales: Mass Mille Regretz (with organ solos by Cabezón)
  • A Venetian Coronation 1595
  • Music for the Duke of Lerma
  • G. Gabrieli, Music for San Rocco
  • Praetorius, Mass for Christmas Morning
  • Venetian Vespers 1643
  • Purcell: St Cecilia Ode 1692, My Beloved Spake, O Sing Unto the Lord
  • Purcell: Harmonia Sacra
  • Biber: Requiem
  • Bach: St Matthew Passion – Easter Oratorio, Magnificat - Epiphany Mass
  • Handel: Messiah - Solomon - Theodora - Saul
  • Mozart: Mass in C minor, etc.
  • Haydn: The Creation
"Tim Roberts's elaborations in the organ preludes add a final layer of lustre" (Stephen Pettitt on the Praetorius CD, The Times)
"...the organ concerto movements, played with much character by Timothy Roberts" (Stanley Sadie on Saul, The Gramophone)
(to be continued...)