If you know of a recording that is not listed here, please let me know! Aside from being an avid handbell recording listener and collector, I want this web page to be the definitive site for cyberpeople to scope the latest and greatest handbell CDs, as well as our history as chronicled through recordings.
CDs are listed first and contain links to their complete playlists at the bottom of this page. Records (33s, 45s, and 78s) are listed next, with just their title and performer included. Time hasn't permitted me to flesh this out yet.
To search for material on this page, use the "Find" feature of your browser. For most browsers, the "Find" function is located in the "Edit" menu. You can search for group names, particular pieces... anything you want.
Therefore, as always, this page is UNDER CONSTRUCTION and was last edited on 5/14/08.
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What follows are my handbell records (33s, 45s, and
78s). I currently only list album title and performer, but eventually
I'll provide complete listings to match the CDs.
Directorless
Recorded in 1999
Total Length: 10 pieces, 44:27 minutes
All pieces arr. by Chamber Ringing Soloists
Directorless
Recorded in 2000
Total Length: 12 pieces, 43:18 minutes
All pieces by J.S. Bach, arr. by Chamber Ringing Soloists
Directed by Katsumi Kodama
Recorded in 1988
Total Length: 14 pieces, 49:49 minutes
Directed by Katsumi Kodama
Recorded in 1988
Total Length: 13 pieces, 48:30 minutes
Directed by Katsumi Kodama
Recorded in 19??
Total Length: 15 pieces, 46:10 minutes
(All arrangements are by Katsumi Kodama - I think)
Directed by Katsumi Kodama
Recorded at Carneghie Hall, NY, on 7/29/88
Total Length: 10 pieces, ??:?? minutes
Directed by Katsumi Kodama
Recorded 1987 (3, 4, 7-12) & 1988 (1, 2, 5, 6, 13-20)
Total Length: 20 pieces, 73:52
(Released in 2002 - Consists of previously released material.)
Recorded in 1997
Total Length: 8 pieces, 59:05 minutes
Handbell Symphony, Peeter Vahi
Based on Tibetan Buddhist Kagyu rituals. Texts by His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche.
Conducted by Kristjan Jarvi. Arsis directed by Aivar Mae
Music by Peeter Vahi
Recorded in 1998
Total Length: 1 piece, 48:29 minutes
Recorded in 2000
Total Length: 12 pieces, 60:47 minutes
Toomas Vavilov, clarinet
Aivar Mae, Artistic Director
Recorded in 2003
Total Length: 16 pieces, 56:35 minutes
All pieces are Estonian folksongs, arr. Tonu Korvits. '()'
indicate region of song's origin.
Aivar Mae, Artistic Director
Recorded in 2007
Total Length: 15 pieces, ??:?? minutes
STUB
Aivar Mae, Artistic Director
Recorded in 2007
Total Length: 16 pieces, ??:?? minutes
STUB
Recorded in 1996
Total Length: 26 pieces, 54:54 minutes
Daniel Masclet, voice
Deux Airs (Two Airs), G.F. Handel, arr. G. Rebours
From "The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac", Karlheinz Stockhausen
Computer sampling and programming: Gerard Rebours
Directed by Graham Lloyd
Recorded in 2001
Total Length: 1 piece, 27:21 minutes
Directed by Toshikazu Yoshida
Recorded in 1992
Total Length: 12 pieces, 40:49 minutes
Directed by ???
Recorded in 1994
Total Length: 12 pieces, 40:08 minutes
Conducted by Hirotaka Arai, Dir. Mariko Itabashi
Recorded in 1993
Total Length: 12 pieces, 41:12 minutes
Conducted by Toshikazu Yoshida
Recorded in June, 2000
Total Length: 11 pieces, 48:00 minutes
Directed by: Unknown
Recorded in 1998
Total Length: 16 pieces, 50:16 minutes
Cloverbellfriends directed by Yasuhiro Otsuka; Andante directed by
Junichi Ozawa
Recorded in 1997
Total Length: 14 pieces, 52:45 minutes
(Pieces performed by Andante are in italics; otherwise piece is played by Cloverbellfriends.)
Directed by Sinikka Honkanen
Recorded in 1997
Total Length: 14 pieces, 54:30
Directed by Nozomu Abe
Recorded in 1997
Total Length: 16 pieces, 43:55
Directed by Nozomu Abe
Recorded in 1993
Total Length: 15 pieces, 44:43
Directed by Nozomu Abe
Recorded from 1998 to 2000
Total Length: 16 pieces, 61:46
Directed by Nozomu Abe
Recorded on August 3, 1999
Total Length: 12 pieces, 34:41
Directed by Miyuki Kawamura
Recorded in 1997
Total Length: 15 pieces, 60:47
Directed by Nobuko Banno (Kelly) & Akira Honda (Grace)
Recorded in March, 2001
Total Length: 17 pieces, 61:11
Kelly Bell Choir
Grace Handbell Choir
Conducted by ??
Recorded in 1995
Total Length: 16 pieces, 57:48 minutes
Conducted by Kazuo Shimoda
Recorded in 1998
Total Length: 20 pieces, 60:02 minutes
Conducted by Nozomu Abe
Recorded in 1993
Total Length: 14 pieces, 45:56 minutes
Conducted by Megumi Abe, Nozomu Abe, Yasuhiro Otsuka, Judith Reynolds, Keith Rowland, Sandra Winter and Alison Wood
Recorded 8/10/98 in the Main Hall of the International Conference Center in Kobe, Japan
Total Length: 13 pieces, 57:31 minutes
All ensembles are director-less
Recorded in 1991
Total Length: 22 pieces, 58:41 minutes
Recorded in 1986 (released on CD in 1996)
Total Length: 19 tracks, 49:14 minutes
Directed by Br. Raymond S. Reinsant
Recorded in 2002
Total Length: 13 pieces, 46:00 minutes
Directed by Paul Mellor
Recorded in 2002
Total Length: 16 pieces, ??:?? minutes
STUB
Directed by John Baird (bells) & Andrew Skirrow (voices)
Recorded in 1999
Total Length: 25 tracks, 50:54 minutes
(Handbell tracks are in italics.)
Fabulous Unattributed Player, tambourine
Recorded in 1996
Total Length:8 tracks, 34:49 minutes
Elke Eichhorn, Kantorin
Recorded in June, 1995
Total Length: 20 tracks, 67:50 minutes
From the Overture-Suite in D Major, Georg Philipp Telemann, arr. Elke Eichhorn
Stephan Katte, alphorn
Annette Notzoldt, flute
Stephan Katte, waldhorn
Annette Notzoldt, flute; Emmanuel Beer, percussion
Elke Eichhorn, Kantorin
Recorded in March/April, 2000
Total Length: 19 tracks, 68:34 minutes
Cornelia Schmiedel, flute; Egon Luther, speaker
Four Christmas Song Arrangements
Four American Spiritual Arrangements
Cornelia Schmiedel, flute
Henning Luther, percussion; Matthias Eichhorn, bass
Lothar Mohn, Musical Director
Recorded in April, 2001
Total Length: 18 tracks, 43:28 minutes
Gabriele Reibe, flute
Lothar Mohn, organ solo
Gabriele Reibe, flute
Lothar Mohn, organ solo
Gabriele Reibe, flute
Lothar Mohn, organ solo
Gabriele Reibe, flute
Sigrid Schulz, Musical Director
Recorded in 1995
Total Length: 15 tracks, 36:25 minutes
John Morgan, Conductor
Recorded in ????
Total Length: 20 tracks, 58:11 minutes
Hazel Bradey, Conductor
Recorded in 2001
Total Length: 14 tracks, 62:21 minutes
Alan Collings, Leader
Recorded in 1999
Total Length: 19 tracks, 70:36 minutes
Ecclesfield Handbell Ringers
Conductors not attributed
St. Wulfrum's Handbell Ringers
Clifton Handbell Ringers
Harmony 400 Association of handbell Ringers
Kinder Ringers
The Kempsey Handbell Ringers
Gower Campanulae
Tintinabula
Recorded in 1993
Total Length: 20 tracks, 58:29 minutes
Deck the Hall
Joy to the World
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
The Twelve Days of Christmas
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
O Tannenbaum
The First Noel
Silent Night
Tintinabula
The First Noel
Come Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl
Little Brown Jug
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Joyful Christmas Bells
The Mistletoe Bough
Drinking Song
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Ecclesfield Handbell Ringers
Conductors not attributed
St. Wulfrum's Handbell Ringers
Clifton Handbell Ringers
Harmony 400 Association of handbell Ringers
Kinder Ringers
The Kempsey Handbell Ringers
Gower Campanulae
Tintinabula
Recorded in 1993
Total Length: 20 tracks, 51:54 minutes
Harmony 400 Association of handbell Ringers
St. Wulfrum's Handbell Ringers
Deck the Hall
Joy to the World
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
The Twelve Days of Christmas
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
O Tannenbaum
The First Noel
Silent Night
Ecclesfield Handbell Ringers
Clifton Handbell Ringers
Harmony 400 Association of handbell Ringers
Kinder Ringers
The Kempsey Handbell Ringers
Gower Campanulae
Tintinabula
Frome Valley
Conductors not attributed
Harmony 400 Association of Handbell Ringers
Heavitree Handbell Ringers
Kennet & Avon
Lady St. Mary Handbell Ringers
Minehead Handbell Ringers
Moretonhampstead Handbell Ringers
Rob Worrall
Wincantata
Recorded in 2007
Total Length: 25 tracks, ??:?? minutes
Frome Valley
Harmony 400 Association of Handbell Ringers
Heavitree Handbell Ringers
Kennet & Avon
Lady St. Mary Handbell Ringers
Minehead Handbell Ringers
Moretonhampstead Handbell Ringers
Rob Worrall
Wincantata
FIXME! This track list is wrong!
Harmony 400 Association of handbell Ringers
St. Wulfrum's Handbell Ringers
Deck the Hall
Joy to the World
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
The Twelve Days of Christmas
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
O Tannenbaum
The First Noel
Silent Night
Ecclesfield Handbell Ringers
Clifton Handbell Ringers
Harmony 400 Association of handbell Ringers
Kinder Ringers
The Kempsey Handbell Ringers
Gower Campanulae
Tintinabula
Recorded in 199?
Total Length: 11 tracks, 40:23 minutes
Directed by James Meredith
Recorded in 1994
Total Length: 17 pieces, 62:50 minutes
Directed by James Meredith
Recorded in 1995
Total Length: 20 pieces, 59:14 minutes
Directed by James Meredith
Recorded in August, 1996
Total Length: 7 pieces, 54:54 minutes
Choirchimes on cantus firmus
Choirchimes on cantus firmus
Oboe on cantus firmus
Concerto in A minor for 2 Violins, Op. 3, No. 8 (F.I No. 177, RV522,
from "L'Estro Armonico"), Trans. Meredith
with oboe, flute, viola, cello
with Janissary instruments: triangle, cymbals, bass drum
Directed by James Meredith
Recorded in 2001
Total Length: 18 pieces, 55:13 minutes
The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky
Selections from Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart
Selections from Messiah, Handel
Directed by James Meredith
Recorded in 2003
Total Length: 14 pieces, 50:51 minutes
Rick Hoffmeister, bass drum
Lois Kail, Jukka Pekka-Vainio, percussion
Jukka Pekka-Vainio, cello
Diane Maltester, clarinet; Diane Tiller,
flute; Erin Downey, harp
Directed by David Harris
Recorded in 1995
Total Length: 17 pieces, 74:42 minutes
Directed by David Harris
Recorded in 1997
Total Length: 26 pieces, 76:00 minutes
Directed by David Harris
Recorded in 2000
Total Length: Disc 1: 10 pieces, 46:58 minutes; Disc 2: 11 pieces, 46:58 minutes
DISC 1
DISC 2
Directed by David Harris
Recorded in 2005
Total Length: 20 pieces, 77:42 minutes
Directorless
Recorded in ?
Total Length: 18 pieces, 53:45 minutes
Directorless
Recorded in 1995-1996
Total Length: 12 pieces, 48:33 minutes
Directorless
Recorded in 1998
Total Length: 15 pieces, 57:59 minutes
Directorless
Recorded in 2000
Total Length: 13 pieces, 54:10 minutes
Directorless
Recorded in 2000
Total Length: 3 pieces, ??:?? minutes
Directed by David R. Davidson
Recorded in 1996
Total Length: 15 pieces, 65:05 minutes
Directed by David R. Davidson
Recorded in 2000
Total Length: 15 pieces, 54:14 minutes
Dallas Handbell Ensemble directed by David R. Davidson
Recorded in 2000
Total Length: 14 pieces (5 including DHE, in bold), 65:05 minutes
Coached by Bill Alexander
Recorded in 1992
Total Length: 23 pieces, 68:23 minutes
Coached by Bill Alexander
Recorded in 1994
Total Length: 18 pieces, 49:02 minutes
Bill Alexander, Musical Director
Recorded in 1999
Total Length: 15 pieces, 48:58 minutes
Directed by Jason Wells
Recorded in 1999
Total Length: 16 pieces, 53:12
Directed by Jason Wells
Recorded in 2000
Total Length: 11 pieces, 39:18
Directed by Jason Wells
Recorded in 2003
Total Length: 14 pieces, 45:33
Joel Brown, tambourine; Jeff Terreros,
drum; Julie Gabrys, shaker; Jason Wells, sticks
Kaitlyn Fitch, flute
Bethani King, oboe; Jason Wells, snare
Armand Rabanal, guitar; Jason Wells, castanets
Patrick McDonough, Musical Director
Recorded in 1998
Total Length: 14 pieces, 47:27 minutes
Monica McGowan, clarinet
Monica McGowan, Artistic Director
Recorded in 2000
Total Length: 16 pieces, 43:42 minutes