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We are just launching an addition to our site, the facility to buy music online. Some teething problems remain - please let us know if you spot anything amiss - and some of the bigger pages are rather slow to load (you have to wait while the final page trundles your chosen piece to the top) but click here and see how you get on!
EURO: Because of the current strength of the Euro against sterling, we are being warned by our Continental suppliers that their UK prices are increasing. Music we already have in stock will be sold at the old price, but price increases will feed through as we restock.
Alan Davis's new piece for recorder orchestra, "Elf", received its premiere performance at the recent Northern Recorder Course with enthusiasm from both the players and the audience! It's now available from Peacock Press - see below*.
Catalogues: we are preparing new printed versions of our general and trade catalogues, and in the meantime are attempting to make them accessible in pdf form via the catalogue page of our website. Please let us know if you have any trouble downloading them. They are not being updated as frequently as our webpages however.
Recorder Magazine archive on CD: back issues of Recorder Magazine from the earliest issue of May 1963 up to the end of 1974 are now available on CD in searchable pdf format (Acrobat reader 7.08 included), £10, produced by Vince Kelly of Cheap, Choice, Brave and New in Edmonton, Canada or from Recorder MusicMail. Code CCBN RM01.
Recorder music and CDs for review should be sent to Laura Justice at Recorder MusicMail, Scout Bottom Farm, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, West Yorks, HX7 5JS.
ABRSM 2008 and Trinity-Guildhall Exams and alternative pieces: click here for the full recorder list.
Recorder MusicMail is now the official distributor in the UK for Flautando Editions and Ursus Verlag of Germany (see below for their recent music)
Davey Music is now available from Recorder MusicMail - a new catalogue is available on request.
Avondale Press of Canada is now being distributed in the UK by Recorder MusicMail. AvP has just increased its prices and these price increases will feed through as we restock. Music already in stock will be sold at the old price.
Polyphonic Publications are now being printed in the UK by Peacock Press
Jolly Robin's recorder titles are being reissued in new attractive editions. The prices have been adjusted to reflect our pricing policy as they are now being printed in the UK. (See below)
SRP Festival,19th and 20th April 2008, Tonbridge
The Weald of Kent Grammar School for Girls, Tudeley Lane, Tonbridge TN9 2JP.
Contact: Ulli Burchette, email: festival2008@srp.org.uk
Conductors and workshop leaders include: Karen Barton, Kathryn Bennetts, Peter Bowman, Ruth Burbidge, Andrew Challinger, Carol Dawson, Adam Dopadlik, Sandra Foxall, Helen Hooker, Anne Martin, Andrew Melville, Evelyn Nallen, Debbie Porro, Tony Purnell, Sheila Richards, Marion Scott, Eileen Silcocks, Moira Usher and Ross Winters.
West Dean College courses - near Chichester
Recorder Workshop - playing swing, light music and jazz - June 13-15 • Helen Hooker and Moira Usher - code WE 245
Come for a weekend of playing swing, light music and jazz! This course is intended for intermediate players who are comfortable with this genre and can 'hold a part' within a group. Advanced players are also welcome to play one-to-a-part and join in with ensemble sessions.
All at West Dean College, West Dean, Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0QZ - (0)1243 811301 - e-mail: short.courses@westdean.org.uk
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Click here for the full list of recorder music reviewed in current issue.
RECORDER BOOKS NOW IN STOCK:
Peacock Press is proud to announce a new edition of
Kenneth Wollitz's Recorder Book - "the best book yet written on the recorder".
From selecting a recorder to making it sing, from practising effectively to playing ensemble and enriching your repertoire, here is everything you need. £22 post paid within the UK.
Recorders Based on Historical Models: writings and memories - Fred Morgan
Memories of the "unique, probably the most significant and skilled recorder maker ever". £35 plus postage (it's a big book!)
The hard-to-get McGinnis & Marx classics, Marcel Moyse's Tone Development through Interpretation and Betty Bang Mather's Interpretation of French Music from 1675 to 1775 are now back in stock, £18 each.
NEW from Peacock Press:
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P 195 Marg Hall: Razzjazz for Three - three jazzy trios for SAT recorders, £3.50 P 196 Marg Hall: Razzjazz for Four - three jazzy
quartets for SATB recorders, £5.50 P 198 Marg Hall: Razzjazz for Two Descants: five jazzy duets for descant recorders, £3.50 |
P 234 Andrew Collis - Dvorak's Slavonic Dance No 8 arranged for recorder orchestra, SoSSAATTBGbCb, £10.50
Those familiar with this well-known piece as a piano duet will be delighted with this lively version for recorder orchestra.
P 235 J S Bach - Sarabande and Two Gavottes from Suite No. 6 for solo cello,. transcribed by Colin Hand for recorder quartet, A/TTBGb - £6.60
P 236 Marg Hall - Razzjazz for Two Trebles: five jazzy duets for treble recorders, £3.50
P 237 Marg Hall - Bobby Goes to Town for SATBGb, £5.75
A jazzy arrangement of the folk tune "Bobby Shaftoe"
P 239 Alan Davis - Cantus Avium et Volatus (Song and Flight of Birds) for descant or treble recorder, £7.50
Originally written in 1998 as a set of progressive technical studies for the Trinity College London grade examination. Each study depicts the character of the bird named in the title.
P 240 Marg Hall - 3 Irish Carols for SAT, £5.50
Wexford Carol, "Ye sons of men," "Christmas Day is come!"
P 241 Marg Hall - 3 Czech Carols for SAT, £5.50
The Birds Carol, The Cuckoo Carol, Zither Carol
P 242 Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite - a new arrangement by Alan Davis for recorder ensemble, Orch 10-11 So/SSSAATTBBGb(optCb), £12.50
*P 243 Elf by Alan Davis for recorder orchestra, So/SSSAATTBBGbCb, £12.50
P 246 Ian Farquhar - Overture, "The Late Arrivals" for recorder orchestra, SoSSAATTBGbCb, £10.50
An antidote to Haydn's Farewell Symphony, designed as a light-hearted concert opening for the SRP's High Wycombe branch, as the players arrive one by one. Needs organisation!
P 247 Beethoven - Symphony No 7, Movement 2, arr. Moira Usher for recorder orchestra, SoSSATTBGbCb, £11.50
P 248 Ian Farquhar - Rhenish Fantasy for recorder orchestra, SoSSAATTBBGbCb, £12.50
Inspired by the fast-flowing waters of the Rhine and its sights, legends and events.
P 250 Geoffrey Gordon - Stanza della Segnatura for two recorders (alto doubling soprano, and tenor), viola da gamba & harpsichord, £12.50
Based on the Raffaello frescoes in the Vatican, c.1508-12. 1. The Adoration; 2. Parnassus; 3, The Cardinal Virtues; 4. The School of Athens. A work for chamber forces consistent with the instruments of the era which nevertheless employs contemporary language, rhythm and sonority. Each movement features one of the instrumentalists as soloist.
William Walton's Façade, arr. Jane Minns for recorders, voice and percussion
William Walton and Edith Sitwell composed this experimental collection in the 1920s - the performers are hidden from the audience, with voice and music having equal prominence. The words imitate the rhythm of the waltz, polka and foxtrot:
P 251 "Popular Song" arr. for A/SoTTBGb percussion (tambourine, cymbal, side drum, triangle, wood block) & male voice, £10.50P 252 "Country Dance" arr. for AT/SBGb and female voice, £9.50
P 253 "Jodelling Song" arr. for So/ASATBGb, male and female voices, cymbal & triangle, £9.00
P 254 "Polka", arr. for SoSATBGb, male voice and side drum, £9.00
P 255 Schubert - "Rosamunde" Ballet Music, arr. Ian Farquhar for recorder orchestra, SoSSAATTBBGbCb, £7.50
P 256 Elgar, arr. Bloodworth - Minuet Op. 21 for 5 SAATB, £4.75
P 257 Elgar, arr. Bloodworth - Enigma Variations 3: (R.B.T.) for Orch: SoSSAATTBBGbCb, £6.50
P 258 Elgar, arr. Bloodworth - Enigma Variations 8: (W.N.) for Orch: SoSSAATTBBGbCb, £6.75
P 259 Elgar, arr. Bloodworth - Enigma Variations: Intermezzo (Dorabella) for Orch: SoSSAATTBBGbCb, £11.50
P 262 Pandora's Box by Colin Hand for treble recorder and piano, £7.50
13 well-loved classical pieces arranged by the well-known composer. Moderate difficulty.
P 263 Marg Hall - Wild Flower Suite for SATB, £7.50
1. Ox-Eye Daisy; 2. Sweet Alison; 3. Field Poppy; 4. Jack-by-the-Hedge; 5. Billy's Button
a versatile course for teaching music and melodic instruments, for schools, individual tuition and the home
P 260 TB Teacher's Book Part 1, £6.50
P 260 PB Pupil's Book Part 1, £3.80
P 260 PACK Photocopiable Pack Part 1, £12.00
P 261 Farquhar, Ian - A Shushwap Celebration for Orch: GarkSoSATBGbCb, £8.50
Inspired by an Aboriginal Day at Kamloops, British Columbia in 2005
P 265 Sumer is icumen in - Anon. c. 1250. arr. Alan Davis for 12 recorders, SSSSAATTTTBB, £7.50
One of the earliest and most famous surviving pieces of medieval polyphony, arranged to be played by twelve soloists or with several players to a part
P 266 Radetsky March by Johann Strauss, arr. Shirley Watson for SoSATB, £5.75
PAR 101 Traditional Irish Music for the Recorder, ed. Andrew Robinson for 1 A, £4.75
PAR 102 Les Agrements - French baroque ornamentation - Michel Pignolet Monteclair, ed. Andrew Robinson, trans. Gilles Aufray, £12.00
Monteclair's descriptions of the ornaments taken from his Principes de Musique 1839, with several appendixes concerning notes inegal, tonguing, Hotteterre's table of ornaments and the tempos of the different time-signatures.
Click here for full Peacock series
Works from Andrew Melville:
AM 001 Andrew Melville/Dowland: Lachrimae Tango, Rec. Orch SATTB + TBBGbCb £8.50
AM 002 Andrew Melville: Quartet No 1, ATTB, £8.50
Instruction books from Anthony Rowland-Jones:
ARJ 01 Recorder Technique: intermediate to advanced, 3rd ed, rev. £14.00
ARJ 02 A Practice Book for the Treble Recorder, 2nd ed, updated £8.00
£20 for both books
ARJ 03 Introduction to the Recorder, 2nd edition with updating commentary: a comprehensive guide to playing the recorder for adult beginners, £9.95
Ross Winters' Recorder Anthology Series: old favourites from Ross Winters newly published by Peacock Press, £4.75 each unless indicated; extra parts available at 40p per A4 sheet, 80p per A3 sheet
PRW 01 In an English Country Garden for SSATT
PRW 02 Shaker Melody for SSAT
PRW 03 The Skye Boat song & Scarborough Fair for SSAT & opt piano
PRW 04 Au Clair de la Lune for SSS, £3.50
PRW 05 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen for SATB, £3.50
PRW 06 Tallis's Canon for SSAT, £3.50
PRW 07 Ten Christmas Carols for SATB/T, £5.00
PRW 08 Nimrod - Elgar, arr. Winters, SATTB (opt pno), £3.50
PRW 09 Four Madrigals by Campion & Jones, arr. Winters, SS/AA/T & SS/AAT, £3.75
PRW 10 The Entertainer by Scott Joplin, arr. Ross Winters for SATB, £5.50
PRW 12 Twenty Studies for a Great Start for descant recorder, £4.50
A first book of studies for descant recorder written by one of the leading recorder teachers in the country. These studies will develop technique while enjoying the tunes.
PRW 13 Lucky Thirteen for descant recorder, £4.50
A second book of studies for descant recorder building on the technique absorbed in Book 1.
PRW 14 Sixteen for Success for treble recorder, £4.50
This study book is a much-needed addition to the treble repertoire and starts pre-Grade 1. Good technical practice wrapped up in good tunes - a treasure indeed!
More new pieces in John Turner's fast-growing Contemporary Recorder Music series
PJT 102 Sergio Roberto de Oliveira - Expresso for solo treble recorder
Composed in 2006 in less than a month for Tom Moore. "Expresso" in Portuguese means a train that doesn't stop - but it also means a strong coffee, and the theme uses the notes C A F E (coffee in Portuguese).
PJT 103 Robert Crawford - Variations on a Ground for treble recorder & pno
Written in 1993 for John Turner and Peter Lawson who performed it at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, and recorded it on the CD "Aspects of Nature". The first six bars present the complete ground, a succession of six two-part chords on the piano, which contain all the notes of the chromatic scale in a specific order.
PJT 104 Spirit of the Dance by
Christopher Wright for treble recorder/flute, violin, cello &
harpsichord/pno, £10.50
The composer employs the 18th-century dance suite model of simple
binary and ternary forms. The first three movements are in the style
of Bach, Handel and Pergolesi respectively, and the frenetic last
movement, Tarantella, refers to the legendary meaning of the dance to
cure a spider's bite.
PJT 105 In the Main Sequence by David
Forshaw for treble recorder and guitar, £7.50 (two
copies)
Many of David Forshaw's compositions are inspired by astronomy,
and this piece can refer to both astronomical and musical
terminology.
PJT 106 Concerto by Peter Hope for solo recorder (So, S, A, T, B), string orchestra, harp and percussion (pno reduction), £11.25
Written as a present for John Turner in 2003 and recorded by him with the Manchester Camerata Ensemble, which recording has been broadcast worldwide. This is the piano reduction version.
PJT 107 Pastorale by Owen Swindale for treble recorder (flute) and piano, £5.50
PJT 108 Pieces of Eight by Anthony Hedges
for treble recorder and piano, £5.75
Eight easy duos of Grade 3/5 standard.
PJT 109 Fantasia Concertante: concerto by Peter Aviss for tenor/descant recorder and strings, £7.00
Originally conceived for the descant recorder, but John Turner suggested some of the darker sections would suit the tenor. "The descant was chosen as it is such a maligned instrument, ... and therefore the true beauty of the instrument is often lost to concert-goers' ears!"
PJT 110 A Lonsdale Dance (Danse Champetre) by Philip Wood for solo descant recorder, £4.00
PJT 111 Five Odes anent Li Po by John Rose for soprano voice, recorder (descant, treble & tenor) and piano, £10.50
Li Po was possibly the greatest of the Tang Dynasty poets, with a reputation for improvising verses at any time on any subject, especially if fuelled by rice wine. John Rose wrote the music of the first ode to celebrate John Joubert's 80th birthday.
PJT 112 Six by Four by John Gardner for countertenor, treble recorder, cello and harpsichord, £13.50
Six lyrics from the plays of William Shakespeare: 1. "Lawn as white as driven snow" - The Winter's Tale; 2. "When icicles hang by the wall" - Love's Labours Lost; 3. "Over hill, over dale" - A Midsummer Night's Dream; 4. "Come away, come away, death" - Twelfth Night; 5. "When daisies pied and violets blue" - Love's Labours Lost; 6. "When that I was and a little tiny boy" - Twelfth Night
Click here for full series
New series from John Turner: A Recorder Miscellany
PRM 001 Nightingale Rondo by John Parry
(Bard Allaw) for descant recorder (originally octave flageolet)
& pno, £7.50
An entertaining account of the provenance of this nineteenth-century
concert piece appeared in the Spring 2005 edition of Recorder
Magazine
PRM 002 Elgar Tunes arranged for treble recorder & piano by Ian Parrott, £5.50
PRM 003 The Merry Flageolet by John Barnett for soprano, descant recorder (octave flageolet) and piano, £4.50
PRM 004 Duet by Imogen Holst for 2 treble recorders, £4.50
PRM 005 Charles Proctor - Winter Gavotte & Carol, and March Hares (Giddy Spring Waltz) for treble recorder and keyboard, £5.50
Charles Proctor (1906-1996) was a prolific composer and influential teacher, lecturer, writer, examiner and adjudicator, working for Trinity College of Music.
PRM 006 John Turner: Rain Song for
descant recorder and piano, £5.00
From the editor and mastermind of this series and the Contemporary
Recorder Series and dedicated to Ruth Burbidge, an expressive and
beautiful recorder melody above a piano part evocative of falling
rain.
PRM 007 Owen Swindale: Johnson's Ground
for descant and treble recorders and keyboard, £4.50
Owen Swindale studied composition with Hans Gal at Edinburgh
University, taught theory for 15 years at the Royal Scottish Academy
of Music and Drama and published the standard textbook on Palestrina
counterpoint, "Polyphonic Composition" (OUP) in 1962. He later became
a gold- and silversmith in Malvern, and now lives on Årran with
his family. This piece was written as a birthday present for his
friends Sir Ronald and Elizabeth Johnson.
NEW in Carl Dolmetsch 20th Century Recorder Archive Series, Peacock Press:
Alan Ridout - Chamber Concerto for treble recorder & piano, £9.00 (PD 12)
The latest addition to the Carl Dolmetsch 20th-Century Archive Series edited by Jeanne Dolmetsch and Andrew Mayes, who are making available the hitherto unpublished works performed at the Wigmore Hall by Carl Dolmetsch and Joseph Saxby whose musical partnership lasted some 60 years. The original scoring for string quartet is here replaced by a keyboard reduction.
Alan Ridout - Chamber Concerto for treble recorder & string quartet (PD 13)
Click here for the full series.
A new Peacock Press series edited by Andrew Robinson:
PAR 012 Concerto in F Telemann, G P 1 A & kb reduction 7.75 PAR 014 Concerto di Camera (Concerto in G minor) Telemann, G P 1 A & kb reduction 7.75 PAR 401 Partitas in Four Parts 1 Telemann, G P 4 SATB 8.75 PAR 402 Partitas in Four Parts 2 Telemann, G P 4 SATB 8.75 PAR 016 Concerto in A minor Vivaldi 1 A & kb reduction 7.75 PAR 101 Traditional Irish Music for Treble Recorder Trad, ed, Robinson 1 A 4.75 Par 102 Les Agréments - French baroque ornamentation Monteclair, Michel Pignolet, ed. Robinson, translation
Gilles Aufray Method 12.00 PAR 103 Airs de Danse Monteclair, Michel Pignolet 1 S or T 7.75 PAR 248 Menuets et Contre-Dances Monteclair, Michel Pignolet 1 A & kb 7.75 PAR 201 Sonata in G major Handel, G F 1 S/T & bc 6.00 PAR 202 Sonata in G major Sammartini, Giuseppe 1 A & bc 6.00 PAR 203 Sonata in Bb major Sammartini, Giuseppe 1 A & bc 6.00 PAR 410 Chaconne, L'Amour Medicin 1665 Lully 5 S S/A T/A T B in F or C; A/S T/A B in F/T B in F B in
C/Cb 8.50 PAR 411 Chacone from the Ballet de Jeunesse Delalande, Michel-Richard 5 SAT/ATB in F/C 8.75 PAR 420 An Italian Ground fr The Division Flute Anon 4 SATB 5.75 PAR 247 An Anthology of French Baroque Music Various composers 1 A & kb inst 10.50
From Ian Farquhar
Ukrainian Steppes for 7 SoSATBGbCb (small orchestra) - PIF 1, £10.00
New in the Dolmetsch Library, ed. Brian Blood
Fantasies by John Jenkins for six recorders, SSATBGb, and one for five, SATBGb , £7.50 each
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Fantasy No 8 |
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PDL 61 |
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Fantasy No 7 |
6 SSATBGb |
PDL 62 |
7.50 |
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Jenkins, John |
Fantasy No 3 |
6 SSATBGb |
PDL 63 |
7.50 |
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Fantasy No 4 |
6 SSATBGb |
PDL 64 |
7.50 |
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Fantasy No 5 |
6 SSATBGb |
PDL 65 |
7.50 |
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Fantasy No 6 |
5 SATBGb |
PDL 66 |
7.50 |
New from PRB Productions
PRB CI020 Over and Under by Tim Risher for solo treble, violin, gtr and bass viol, £10.50
Composed in 1996 for the Palladian Ensemble, and designed "to make the players sweat" - to be played with verve!
PRB CC053 The Fipple Dance by Glen Shannon for recorder orchestra (SATTBBGbCb; needs at least 14 players, no more than 2 descants), £12.90
Jury Prize winner of the first Recorder Orchestra Composition Competition sponsored by San Francisco's Early Music Society Recorder Workshop in 2006. A sublayer of simple mouth noises float round the orchestra like an invisible percussion section.
PRB CO49 Two Sonatas a 4 by Lambert
Pietkin ed. Virginia Brookes for three trebles, bass viol and
continuo, with keyboard realisation, £10.50
Organist at Liege Cathedral in 1632. The second sonata is also
called the Monke Sonata, after successful Royalist army and naval
officer General George Monke, and can be thought of as "battle
music".
Jolly Robin
Jolly Robin's recorder titles are being reissued in new attractive editions. The following are so far available. The prices have been adjusted to reflect our pricing policy as they are now being printed in the UK. Click here for the full list.
From Moeck:
EM 1611 Chiel Meijering: Game of Love for solo treble & piano, £9.15 inc CD
EM 1612 Chiel Meijering: Straw in the Wind for solo tenor & piano, £8.80 inc CD
EM 1613 Chiel Meijering: Please Tell Me More for one player (SAT) & piano, £11.70 inc CD
EM 1614 Stephen Watkins: Quartet for Recorders for SATB, £12.60
EM 3303 Paul Leenhouts: Juego de Galilei for recorder orchestra, SoSoSoSoAAAABBBBGbGbCb, £22.00
EM 3307 Paul Leenhouts: Jixi-Mixi-Dixi for SAAATTB, £14.50
EM 3309 Hans Joachim Teschner: Seaport Jump for recorder orchestra, SAAATTTBGbSb, £16.00
From Orpheus Music, Australia:
OMP 167 - Jana Skarecky - Consort Royal, 4 various inc So & GB, plus tambourine, £6.00
6 movements 1. Sarabande (Catherine of Aragon) 2. Crown of Fire (Anne Boleyn) 3. Song for Mother and Child (Jane Seymour) 4. Allemande (Anne of Cleves) 5. Rose without Thorns (Catherine Howard) 6. Healing Light (Catherine Parr) Fascinating series of character pieces evoking the six wives of Henry VIII
OMP 168 - Adrian Vincent - Degraves Street, 1 A, £8.80
3 movements 1. Morning 2. Noon 3. Evening Some use of avant-garde techniques. Attractive solo piece that evokes a Melbourne streetscape at three different times of day.
OMP 169 - Greg Bartholomew - Beneath the Apple Tree, treble recorder & bass viol, £8.80
Appealing and varied little duo for recorder and viol.
OMP 170 - Tim Knight - Progress Suite for descant recorder and piano, £8.80
Fun and appealing piece that starts simply and gets more and more interesting as it elaborates the opening theme. Uses some very high notes
OMP 171 - Lance Eccles - Roadkill Sonata for AABB, £11.00
3 movements 1. Wallaby 2. Echidna 3. Alsatian (Auto Chaser) Fun and lively set of character pieces with some chromaticism.
OMP 172 - Lance Eccles - Hymns & Hearses for SATB, £9.90
5 movements 1. Praise to the Living God 2. Monksgate 3. Lourdes 4. Dies Irae 5. Cwm Rhondda Set of arrangements and elaborations of four hymns
OMP 173 - Lance Eccles - Happy Birthdays for SATB, £11.00
3 movements 1. Happy Birthday Tango 2. Happy Birthday Funeral March 3. Happy Birthday Mazurka Wonderfully anarchic set of variations on Happy Birthday to You
OMP 174 - Lance Eccles - Public Hospital for AATTB, £9.90
3 movements 1. Maternity (Andante) 2. Doctors and Nurses (Fast Waltz) 3. Emergency (Urgent) Interesting set of character pieces with a little bit of chromaticism.
OMP 175 - Racheal Cogan - Nanourisma for solo treble & tuned percussion, £7.70
Single movement. Ethereal filigree work based on a Greek lullaby. Some beautiful sound combinations including use of voice.
OMP 176 - Nathan Shirley - In the Distance for 3 SST, and Roman Molino Dunn - Recorder Sinfonia 18 for three descants or tenors, £8.80
Contemporary pieces.
OMP 177 - Lance Eccles - Four Russian Folksongs for SATB, £9.90
1. Farewell Happiness 2. The Boundless Sea 3. The Little Bell 4. Do not Reproach me
OMP 178 - Lance Eccles - Goldilocks for AABB, £11.00
3 movements 1. Through the Forest to the Bears' House 2. A Short Sleep, with Bad Dreams 3. Discovery, Struggle, Escape
For complete Orpheus listing, click here
From Flautando, Germany:
FE A-111 Canto a Hanna by Gabriela Ortiz for solo tenor recorder, £8.00
Gabriela Ortiz is considered one of the best young Mexican composers, with a personal musical language that combines tradition and the avant-garde - in her music she achieves a balance of highly organised structure and improvisatory spontaneity. The piece was commissioned by Mexican recorder player Anna Margules.
FE A-112 Huitzitl by Gabriela Ortiz for Ganassi/descant recorder, £8.00.
A haunting piece composed for well-known Mexican recorder player Horacio Franco,
FE A-113 4 Nachtstucke by Hannes Raffaseder for tenor recorder & CD accompaniment, £14.40
From the versatile young Austrian composer, a challenging tenor solo against an accompaniment which includes percussion and running water!
FE A-114 Preludio Op. 115/B by Fulvio Caldini for ST, £3.20
Yet more from this busy Italian minimalist composer.
FE A-115 Umberto Bombardelli - Quinte, Grosse Studie No 1 for SSAT, £4.90
FE A-116 Fulvio Caldini - Beata Viscera Op. 74/E for 1 A, 2 vl, va, vc, kb, 2007,, £8.00
FE A-118 Fulvio Caldini, Sonatina Op. 120, 1 S & pno
FE A-119 Umberto Bombardelli - Slow Moments: Gross Studie No. 3, 4 SSAA, £4.50
FE A-122 Fulvio Caldini - Christe Op. 59/d for AATB,, £5.00
FE A-123 Fulvio Caldini - Steinbock Fantasien Op. 116/G for ST or TB, £5.80
From Ursus:
URS 110637 Alan Rosenheck - Klezmer-Fantasie, 4 SATB & percuss £5.20
URS 110638 Alan Rosenheck - Klezmer-Fantasie, 2 SA £5.20
URS 30739-2 Allan Rosenheck - Lotti's Day: 5 pieces for recorder quartet (SATB), £6.00
May Hill Edition: a new collection of compositions and arrangements by Steve Marshall
Three Bagatelles (SnoDDTrTrTTBBGtBCtB) MHE 30906 £12.00
These little pieces were written for Helen Hooker to use at the 2007 Northern Recorder Course. They are colourful musical representations of three holiday videos.
Spam In Atrium (GSno(2)D(8)Tr(8)T(8)B(8)Gtb(4)CtB(2)) MHE 11006 £35.00
Written for the 2007 Northern Recorder Course, to use in a session involving all course participants. A big event seemed to call for a big piece, and this one is in 41 independent parts: four choirs of DDTrTrTTBB, a high group (garklein and two sopraninos), and a low group (four great basses and two contras). The piece is dedicated to Justine Spence, who encouraged me to write something "Honey Nut Loopy" - I hope I managed it! Spam In Atrium is very loosely based both on Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition, and also Tallis' 40-part motet Spem In Alium, but my 'pictures' are in a variety of approachable modern styles, including rock, jazz and minimalism. The high instruments (even the garklein) must play nicely in tune. The notes in this 22 minute piece are not difficult, but everyone needs to count very carefully indeed.
New from May Hill
MHE 10108 Steve Marshall: Scarborough
Fair for recorder orchestra, SoSSAATTBBGbCb, £4.50
To bring the pleasures of recorder orchestra to players who are
technically not very strong
MHE 11007a Steve Marshall: Barthram's
Dirge for recorder orchestra, SSAATTBBGbCb, £6.00
A setting for recorders of the ancient poem which tells the dramatic
tale of Barthram who was shot to death by nine brothers, whose sister
he had seduced. At her request he was burred near the burn where they
had met, rather than in holy ground.
MHE 20108 Steve Marshall: Variations on
"A Chantar" for recorder orchestra, SoSSAATTBBGbCb,
£7.00
Another piece to bring the pleasures of recorder orchestra to players
who are technically not very strong. This is an easy arrangement of a
14th-century French tune, using some elements of the period to
dramatic effect.
MHE 20307 Steve Marshall: Symphony No 3
for recorder orchestra, SoSSAATTBBGbCb, £23.00
"... comes closer to jazz, blues and rock music than any other piece
for recorders I have written to date."
MHE 40108 Steve Marshall: My Lady Carey's Dompe recorder orchestra, SoSSAATTBBGbCb, £4.50
Click here for full series of May Hill Editions.
From Cheap Trills
Ayton, Will Settings of Songs of the British Isles 3 SAT TR 43 4.00 Ayton, Will Gifts and Celebrations 4 SATB TR 48 5.80 Byrd, William Graduals and Motets for Four Voices I 4 SATB TR 46 5.80 Byrd, William Graduals and Motets for Four Voices II 4 SATB TR 47 6.00 Byrd, William Marian Hymns for Three Voices 3 ATB or STB TR 55 5.80 Cabezon, Antonio de Himnos 4 ATTB TR 42 4.40 Campian, Thomas Ayres to Ye Lute 4 SATB TR 49 3.60 Campian, Thomas Ayres to Ye Lute II 4 SATB TR 50 3.60 Dornel, Louis-Antoine Sonata Op 3 #4 (1713) 3 ATB TR 41 5.00
From Edition Tre Fontane
Zungenbrecher (Tongue-twister) by Agnes Dorwath for four recorder headjoints (deeper recorders make a better sound) and voice - ETF 2032, £5.00
From Rondo Publishing
The Notehouse People: Book 1 - Note Reading: Treble Clef, RP 033, £6.95
Aimed at young children, with games and visual reminders of the notes in the stave
Consorts for 5 (Chamber Music for
Children Series) ed. Jacqui Robertson-Wade, RPCMC046,
£7.00
A useful progressive collection of Renaissance consort repertoire for
recorders; music of a similar standard; an excellent resource and
introduction into consort playing.
From STIMU
Instrumental Music of the Trecento: a critical edition of the instrumental repertoire of the manuscript, British Library, London, Add 29987, ed. Martin van Schaik and Christiane Schima, STIMU BM 29987, £10.80
Musicque de Joye, ed. David Lasocki: proceedings of the International Symposium on the Renaissance Flute and Recorder Consort, Utrecht 2003, £32.00
From Davey Music - click here for full Davey series
Bach, J S - Motet No 6 - 4 SATB - DMP 406, £4.50
Sammartini - Concerto in F - 5 S + SATB - DMP 613, £6.50
Vivaldi - Concerto in C - 5 SoAATB/Cb - DMP 614, £6.50
From Hofmeister:
Impressions from South-East Asia by Hasso Gottfried Petri, for three treble recorders, FH 3269, £12.50
Mozart, the Child Prodigy: early piano works arranged for SAT recorders by Lutz, FH 3268, £11.00
Christmas of the Nations 2: Europe 1, arr. Lutz, SATB, FH 2915, £11.90
From Habsburger Verlag of Frankfurt
Fantasia super "Io son ferito ai lasso" (Palestrina) by Samuel Scheidt, arr. for SATB recorders by Eric F Fiedler, FMA 2, £12.00
Canzon Nona: La Monteverde by Tarquinio Merula, arr. for SATB recorders by Eric F Fiedler, FMA 14, £12.00
From Provincetown (click here for full PBE catalogue)
Charlton Sampler for Three (various), PBE 47, £7.95
Brazilian Folksongs ed. David Goldstein, PBE 48, £7.95
Brazilian Folksongs for Four, ed. David Goldstein, ed. David Goldstein, SATB, PBE 49A, £4.95
From Arcadian (click here for full Arcadian catalogue)
AP 170 Thomas Fats Waller: Handful of Keys, 4 AATB, £5.95
AP 173 Sholom Secunda: Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, 4ATTB, £5.95
AP 174 Thomas Fats Waller: The Joint is Jumpin', 4 ATTB, £5.95
AP 175 George Gershwin: Embraceable You, 4 ATTB, £5.95
AP 176 Sheldon Brooks: Some of these Days, 4 AATB, £5.95
AP 177 Harry Woods: Paddlin' Madelin' Home, 4 ATTB, £5.95
From Cheap, Choice, Brave & New of Canada:
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Lully, Jean-Baptiste - Overture "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" 5/6 SS/AATB, Opt Gb in C CCBN 17001 RO |
5.50 |
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Lupo, Thomas - Fantasia 3 SSS or AAA or TTT or BBB CCBN 17002 V |
5.50 |
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Mattheson, Johann - Sonata IV (Der Brauchbare Virtuoso 1720) 1 A (or voice flute & bc) CCBN VF-004 |
7.50 |
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Morley, Thomas - A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke, 1597 Book - facsimile edition CCBN Morley 1 |
22.50 |
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Bruckner, Anton - Os Justi |
7.50 |
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Elgar, Edward - Weary Wind of the West |
7.50 |
From ABRSM:
Enjoyable and accessible repertoire pieces for the developing ensemble
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Music Medals Recorder - Copper |
Exams - S |
ABRSM 6020 |
3.50 |
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Music Medals Recorder - Bronze |
Exam - S & A |
ABRSM 6039 |
3.95 |
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Music Medals Recorder - Silver |
Exam - S & A |
ABRSM 6047 |
4.50 |
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Music Medals Recorder - Gold |
Exam - S & A |
ABRSM 6055 |
4.95 |
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Music Medals Recorder - Platinum |
Exam - S & A |
ABRSM 6063 |
5.95 |
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Music Medals Recorder - Options Practice Book |
Exam - S & A |
ABRSM 5172 |
5.95 |
TIME PIECES FOR DESCANT - Kathryn Bennetts and Peter Bowman
A graded selection of well-crafted and idiomatic arrangements for recorder and piano, with choices for all grades on the new ABRSM syllabuses. Pieces range from 14th-century Renaissance to contemporary.
D 2929 Time Pieces for Descant Vol. 1 - £5.50
D 2936 Time Pieces for Descant Vol. 2 - £5.50
D 2943 Time Pieces for Treble Vol. 1 - £5.50
D 2950 Time Pieces for Treble Vol. 2 - £5.50
New from Acanthus
From Daniel Hellbach, a well-known Swiss composer of popular teaching literature. In the following pieces difficulties are overcome almost imperceptibly in an enjoyable musical package, bridging the gap between pop and classical music.
ACM 250 Mini Pictures (1 S & pno with CD) £7.95 ACM 252 Mini Pictures (1 A & pno with CD) £7.95 ACM 257 Pop Suite (1 S & pno with CD) £7.95 ACM 258 Pop Suite (1 A & pno with CD) £7.95 ACM 222 Pictures Vol. 1 (1 S & pno with CD) £7.95 ACM 245 Pictures Vol. 1 (1 A & pno with CD) £7.95 ACM 232 Pictures Vol. 2 (1 S & pno with CD) £7.95 ACM 235 Pictures Vol. 2 (1 A & pno with CD) £7.95 ACM 247 Rock It! Vol. 1 (3 S/A/T/B various & pno with CD) £6.25
From Broekmans van Poppel:
Joannes Collette and Kees Otten - Technique for Alto Recorder -
Vol. 1: Preparation, BRP 657, £5.50Vol. 2: Department A, BRP 658, £5.50
Vol. 2: Department B, BRP 659, £5.50
New from Kevin Mayhew:
Tunes You Know 1 - ed. Chris Tambling, KM 3612155, S & pno, £6.99
Tunes You Know 2 - ed. Chris Tambling, KM 3612156, S & pno, £6.99
Easy arrangements of well-known tunes, classical and traditional, for Grade 1-2 recorder
Fresh Air - Sarah Watts, KM 3612156, £6.99
Pieces and studies for Grades 1-3
Double Act: popular melodies arr for descant & treble recorder by Marian Heller, KM 3611829, £6.99
Genius of Mozart - a selection of pieces for solo tenor or descant and piano, KM 3612029, £7.99
Sounds Professional: great backing tracks for 12 favourite classical pieces: music for descant recorder, with CD backing, KM 3612043 , £7.99
Four Favourites for descant recorder and piano, arr, Keith Stent (Pachelbel's Canon, Bach/Gounod Ave Maria, Beethoven's Für Elise, Vivaldi's Autumn, KM 3611431, £6.99 (new edition)
Music for the treble recorder, Book 1, arranged by Colin Hand for treble recorder and piano, KM 3612047, £9.99
Music for the treble recorder, Book 2, arranged by Colin Hand for treble recorder and piano, KM 3612048, £9.99
Collections of classical pieces, previously published as "The Recorder Player's Collection Books 1, 2 and 8
It's Easy to Improvise Jazz & Blues for C instruments, by Kevin Duncan, inc CD, KM 3612186, £7.95
Don't You Just Love These Tunes for Descant Recorder, arr. by Alan Haughton, inc CD, KM 3612201, £6.95
Don't You Just Love These Tunes for Treble Recorder, arr. by Alan Haughton, inc CD, KM 3612202, £6.95
From De Haske:
DH 1064041 - Bart Spanhove - Easy Tunes for Recorder - 1 S - £10.95 inc CD
The first tune features just two notes, A & D, and more notes are added quickly, learning the recorder in a playful way. There are accompaniments on the CD.
DH CMP 107606400 Play the Great Masters! arr. James Curnow for descant recorder, £10.95 inc CD
DH CMP 106906401 piano accompaniment to above, £7.95
From Dowani:
DOW 1508 G P Cima and T Cecchino: 3 Early Italian Sonatas for descant recorder & bc, 13.95
From Alex Ayre
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Composer |
Instrument |
Code |
Price |
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Pavan a 4 in D minor, transposed version |
Purcell, Henry |
4 SAAB |
ALEX 1298 |
3.50 complete |
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In Ieiunio et Fletu a 5 |
Tallis, Thomas |
5 A/ or T, 2 B in F, B i n F/C, Bass in C |
ALEX 1299 |
4.00 complete |
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Sonata a 2, Op. 2 no 6 |
Telemann, G P |
2 AA |
ALEX 1311 |
2.50 complete |
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Larghetto & Variation a 3 fr Concerto Grosso Op 6/12 |
Handel, G F |
3 SA/TB |
ALEX 1312 |
2.00 complete |
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Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 11 in Bb |
Handel, G F |
6 AATTB in F, B in C |
ALEX 1313 |
12.00 complete |
From Loux Music Company:
Mageau - Remembering Albany: a cycle of four songs with lyrics [Contralto voc., alto & tenor rec. & pno) £16.00, LMP 198
Scarlatti ed. Kurtz - Sonata K 380, £4.40, LMP 199
Bach, J S, ed. Kurtz, Sei nun wieder zufrieden/Was helfen uns die schweren Sorgen, £4.60, LMP 200
Henry Purcell - How Pleasant is this Flow'ry Plain for sop and tenor vocs, AA & bc, ed. Charles Larkowski, £11.80, BCMS 12 (Dovehouse Editions)
From Montem Music:
Challinger - Third Suite [SSAT & pno], MONTEM 22, £7.50 score & pts, £5.00 set pts
1. Playground Song 2. Fairground Tune 3. Sad Time 4. Bouncy Castle
From Editio Musica Budapest:
Treble Recorder ABC - Laszlo Czidra: an attractive, thorough and progressive tutor for the beginning treble recorder player; it assumes the player has several years' experience of playing descant and has a basic knowledge of music and instrumental technique. Z 14188, £8.75
17th-century Italian Chamber Music for two melody instruments & continuo, arr. Janos Bali, Z 14213, £10.50
Baroque Dances for two treble recorders, arr. Laszlo Czidra, Z 14276, £10.75
French Baroque Dances for two treble recorders, arr. Janos Bali, Z 14376, £8.75
A Baroque Ornamentation Tutorfor recorder by Janos Bali, Z 14409, £8.75
Thirty-four English Airs for treble & bc, arr. Janos Bali, Z 14187, £12.50
From Piper's Publications:
Living History Tune Book 1: Medieval - Dance Tunes and Songs from 12-14th Centuries, ed. Jane Foster, for all melody instruments, PIPERS 01, £9.50
Living History Tune Book 2: Renaissance- Dance Tunes and Songs from 16th Century, ed. Jane Foster, for all melody instruments, PIPERS 02, £9.50
THEORY BOOKS:
Carl Dolmetsch and the Recorder Repertoire of the 20th Century by Andrew Mayes, available from Ashgate Publishing.
Playing Recorder Sonatas - Anthony Rowland-Jones, a comprehensive introduction for students, teachers and the self-taught, presenting sonatas from the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries and describing them in relation to their musical background. OUP, 221pp, £21.95
On Playing the Flute - Johann Joachim Quantz, ed. Edward R. Reilly, "the classic of Baroque Music Instruction", Faber, 412pp, £16.99
Principles of the Flute, Recorder and Oboe - Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, trans. & intro. Paul Marshall Douglas, £7.95
The Finishing Touch of Ensemble Playing - Bart Spanhove, with a historical chapter by David Lasocki. A Flanders Recorder Quartet guide for recorder players and teachers. Now £16.50
18th Century Continuo Playing: a historical guide to the basics - Jesper Boje Christensen, trans. J. Bradford Robinson. A detailed guide to the basics of figured bass playing on keyboard instruments. £21.50
Treble Recorder Technique - Alan Davis. Part 1 is concerned with the basic technique of the modern recorder and consists of graded exercises. Part II relates some of the stylistic problems of the recorder's varied repertoire to the more specialised techniques of the renaissance and baroque recorder and includes an introduction to avant-garde technique. Spiral-bound A4, Novello, 123 pp, £22.95
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Ruth Burbidge
Last updated 28/4/2008