Richard Harvey

Richard Harvey·United KingdomUnited Kingdom· London

Wind instrumentalist, born 25-Sept-1953, London. Since graduating from the Royal College of Music in 1972, Richard Harvey has been a ubiquitous presence on the London music scene. His early forays into the professional world involved playing recorder and early woodwinds with his own group 'Gryphon' and ancient music pioneers 'Musica Reservata'. His later work with composer Maurice Jarre led him into film composing in the late 1970s and it has been his principal activity ever since. Richard's passion for instruments from all around the world, old and new, has led him to work on a fascinatingly diverse range of projects - from feature films to documentaries, television dramas to live performances, whether it be conducting, playing, producing or writing. He has recorded for and collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney, Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, John Williams, Stanley Myers and numerous others. Scoring countless television dramas - from Jane Eyre and Game, Set and Match to Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H - has been a highlight of his career. A more recent television success was the feature length Granada Television film "Colditz", for which Richard's score received an Ivor Novello nomination. Today, Richard is a prolific composer, an occasional guest conductor and a virtuoso performer on a vast collection of instruments - blown, plucked, keyed, bowed, beaten and programmed.

Discography

search
swap_vertexpand_more

Divisions On A Ground (An Introduction To The Recorder And Its Music)

1975

Studio Album

Pictures In The Mind

1978

Studio Album

The Spirit Of Christmas

1978

Studio Album

A New Way Of Seeing

1979

Studio Album

Pipes, Flutes And Whistles

1979

Studio Album

Nifty Digits

1980

Studio Album

Planet Earth / All In The Mind

1980

Studio Album

Two People & Country Sketches And Antiquities

1981

Studio Album

Winners

1981

Studio Album

Italian Recorder Concertos

1982

Studio Album

Unnatural Causes

1982

Studio Album

Hymns - Carols - Mechanical Instruments

1982

Studio Album

Folk Songs

1982

Studio Album

Traditions

1983

Studio Album

Four Concertos For Violins And Recorders

1984

Studio Album

Fantasia

1984

Studio Album

The Genteel Companion: A Recorder Recital

1986

Studio Album

Life Cycles - Part 1

1987

Studio Album

Life Cycles - Part 2

1987

Studio Album

Unnatural Causes 2

1989

Studio Album

A Traveller's Companion

1994

Studio Album

A Pastoral Heritage

1996

Studio Album

Fanfare For The Common Man

1997

Studio Album

Plague And The Moonflower

1999

Studio Album

Animal Farm

1999

Studio Album

Virtuoso Recorder Concertos

1999

Studio Album

Silk and Bamboo

2001

Studio Album

Scenes & Atmospheres Volume One

2001

Studio Album

Terrahawks

2002

Studio Album

The Spirit Of Suriyothai = จิตวิญญาณแห่งสุริโยไท

2002

Studio Album

Ancestral (World/History)

2003

Studio Album

Aspiration

2004

Studio Album

Colditz

2005

Studio Album

Action Adventure

2005

Studio Album

Epic Journeys

2008

Studio Album

Strings Of Sorrow

2009

Studio Album

Shroud For A Nightingale [The Collection] (The Television Drama Music Of Richard Harvey)

2009

Studio Album

Reflections

2009

Studio Album

The Book Of Secrets

2015

Studio Album

Scénarios

2018

Studio Album

Evensong

2019

Studio Album

Arco 2 (Drama Strings For Editors)

Studio Album

Arco 1 (Drama Strings For Editors)

Studio Album