Peter Holman
Peter Kenneth Holman MBE (born 19 October 1946, in London) is an English conductor and musicologist best known for reviving the music of Purcell and his English contemporaries. Holman, with the ensemble The Parley of Instruments made many of the extensive series of recordings of lesser-known English baroque music on Hyperion Records in that label's English Orpheus series from 1980 to 2010. The ensemble was co-founded in 1979 by Holman and the violinist Roy Goodman. Holman and the ensemble now record on the Chandos Classics label. Holman was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to early music.
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Top Tracks
- Mandolin Concerto in C Major, RV 425: I. Allegro
- Chamber (Lute) Concerto in D Major, RV 93: I. Allegro
- Mandolin Concerto in C Major, RV 425: I. Allegro
- Suite from Florindo, HWV 336 and Daphne, HWV 352-4: VI. Bourrée – Allemande
- Mandolin Concerto in C Major, RV 425: I. Allegro
- Suite from Florindo, HWV 336 and Daphne, HWV 352-4: X. Allemande
- Suite from Florindo, HWV 336 and Daphne, HWV 352-4: VIII. Allemande
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major: I. Allegro moderato
- O Ye Little Flock
- Cranbrook
- Alfred: Rule, Britannia
- The Oddities: Tom Bowling
- Love in a Village: The Miller of Dee
- English Songs, HWV 228: No. 19, The Melancholy Nymph
- Farewell to Locaber
- The Broom of Cowdenknowes
- Sally in Our Alley
- Overture in G Major, Op. 4 No. 9
- The British Grenadiers
- The Plough Boy / The Milkmaid
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