The Hanover Band

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The Hanover Band is a British period instrumental orchestra founded by its artistic director, Caroline Brown. The group's website explains the name thus: 'Hanover' signifies the Hanoverian period 1714-1830 and 'Band' is the 18th century term for orchestra. Its principal and guest conductors and directors have included Monica Huggett, Sir Charles Mackerras, Roy Goodman, Anthony Halstead, Nicholas McGegan, Graham Lea-Cox, Richard Egarr, Nicholas Kraemer, Paul Brough, Andrew Arthur and Benjamin Bayl. The Hanover Band has appeared at the Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Bridgewater Hall (Manchester), South Bank Centre, Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall, among many other venues. They have toured the UK many times, made ten tours of the United States and performed in Canada, Mexico, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Greece & Turkey. The orchestra will make its debut in China, in the Beijing Festival in May 2017. The Hanover Band has made 176 recordings on Nimbus Records, Hyperion Records, Sony, EMI Eminence, RCA and other labels, including a complete cycle of the orchestral works of Johann Christian Bach for CPO. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Requiem Mass In D Minor. K.626

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Mozart: Horn Concertos and E major Fragment

Mendelssohn: Symphonies 3&4, Violin & Piano Concertos

Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Beethoven: Overtures - On Original Instruments

Masterworks of Worship Volume 2 - Vivaldi: Glorias

JS Bach: Harpsichord Concertos, BWV 1052, 1054, 1055 1058

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J. Christian Bach: Symphonies Concertantes, Vol. 2

Schubert: The Symphonies - on original instruments

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Norton Recorded Anthology Of Western Music - Vol. 2

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Händel: Serse

Weber: Horn Concertino, Overtures, Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

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