The Contemporary Recorder

Series editor John Turner

PJT 001 Miniature Quartet by Terence Greaves for SAAT recorders, £8.75

PJT 002 Warbeck Trio by Stephen Dodgson for recorder, bassoon and harpsichord, £10.50

PJT 003 Dialogue and Dance by Ian Parrot for treble recorder and organ, £7.25

PJT 004 High Barbaree: Capriccio in pursuit of an old Sea-Song by Stephen Dodgson: for tenor/descant recorder, guitar and harpsichord, £7.25

PJT 005 Duo by Ian Parrott for treble recorder and cello, £5.00

PJT 006 Trio by Nicholas Marshall for SAT recorders, £9.50

PJT 007 "To Music, to Becalm His Fever" by Sasha Johnson Manning for soprano voice,recorder, cello & piano, £7.25

PJT 008 Four Nursery Rhyme to texts by Thomas Pitfield by Robin Walker, for reciter, sopranino recorder and piano, £5.50

PJT 009 Sonatina by David Dubery for soprano & tenor recorder and piano, £7.50

PJT 010 A Rune for St Mary's by Robin Walker for solo descant, £4.00

PJT 011 Scherzo by Roy Heaton Smith for descant, treble 1, treble 2, £6.25

PJT 012 Sasha Johnson Manning - Sonatina for treble recorder and piano, £7.50

PJT 013 Mrs Harris in Paris by David Dubery for treble recorder and piano, £6.75

PJT 014 Sonatina by Roy Heaton Smith for descant recorder solo, £6.50

PJT 015 Brief Evocations by Anthony Hedges for sop voc, SAT recs and pno, £6.25

PJT 016 Partita by Philip Wood for descant recorder and cello, £7.25

PJT 017 Sonata for Three by Alan Bullard for descant rec/flute, bassoon/cello and harpsichord/pno, £9.50

PJT 018 Triptych by John Veale for treble recorder & string quartet, £8.50

PJT 019 Minuet for Stephen for treble recorder & piano, £4.50

PJT 020 Cantilena and Dance by Roy Heaton Smith for tenor/descant (oboe/trumpet) & pno, £6.50

PJT 021 Fred's Blue Ginger Staircase Music by David Ellis for rec & gtr/pno, £7.75

PJT 022 Trio for flute by Peter Crossley-Holland for flute/A, oboe & viola, £10.50

PJT 023 Risoluto by Jeffrey Lewis for recorder, oboe, bassoon & pno, £10.50

PJT 024 Quintet (The Gambian) by Richard Arnell for treble & string quartet, £12.50

PJT 025 Sonatina by Michael Hurd for treble and piano (originally written for flute) £7.75

PJT 026 Music for Hallowe'en by David Johnson for treble recorder solo, £3.75

PJT 027 John's Jig by Alan Bullard for treble or sopranino, £3.50

PJT 028 Flying Kites by Sasha Johnson Manning for treble & piano, £4.75

PJT 029 Two Celebrations: Bell Birds from Nelson (treble) & Tom's Twinkle (treble & piano) by John Manduell, £4.50

PJT 030 Four Scenes by Flora Natalie Willson for treble, £3.50

PJT 031 Sonata by David Beck, for treble, £5.50

PJT 032 Fipple-Baguette - three encores for solo recorder by David Ellis, for treble and descant, £5.00

PJT 033 Two Short Recorder Pieces - Encore V (Hexadvention) for treble & opt. pno and Karumi for sopranino by Richard Leigh Harris, £5.00

PJT 034 Three Gawthorpe Dances by William Blezard, arr Stephen Dodgson for treble & harpsichord, £7.75

PJT 035 The Rose is Shaken by the Wind Op. 37 by John Joubert for sop voc & treble, bass & sopranino recorder (1 player), £7.75

PJT 036 Garden of Eden by Nicholas Marshall for treble and descant & pno/hpscd, or string quartet, or guitar and hpschord, £7.75

PJT 037 Two Cuckoos by David Matthews for treble, £4.00

PJT 038 Fantasy and Fugue by Richard Busch, for two trebles and tenor, £7.50

PJT 039 Serenade from "Othello" by Kenneth Leighton, for two descants and tenor, £5.00

PJT 040 Impromptu by John Veale for solo treble recorder, £4.50

PJT 041 Into the Ark by John Manduell for voice, recorder and guitar, £8.50

PJT 042 Feste's Song by Howard Skempton, for voice, treble recorder & guitar, £6.75

PJT 043 Lizard by Alan Hoddinott, for treble, £4.50

PJT 044 Interludes from "Hamlet" by Alan Rawthorne,, arr. David Ellis for treble & descant & pno, £7.75

PJT 045 Romance by Edward Gregson for treble recorder & piano, £4.50

PJT 046 Romance by Edward Gregson for treble recorder & string quartet, £7.50

PJT 047 Overture to "The Rivals" by Peter Hope, for treble/descant/sopranino or oboe, bassoon/cello & Hpschd/pno/kb, £7.50

PJT 048 Lullaby & Dances by Peter Flinn for solo recorder (treble/tenor), £5.50

PJT 049 Three Songs to poems by Robert Graves - David Dubery for medium voice, recorder (S/A) and piano, £9.50

PJT 050 Wild Thyme: Five Short Pieces Op. 122 by Arthur Butterworth for four recorders, £9.50

PJT 051 Fantasia by Robin Walker for three Recorders S.A.T. £7.50

PJT 052 Sonata by Nicholas Marshall for recorder and piano (A&S), £7.75

PJT 053 Blind Cupid by Graham Waterhouse for Soprano, treble & harpsichord, £7.50

PJT 054 Three Concert Miniatures by Anthony Hedges for S/T/So (one player) & pno, £6.75

PJT 055 Strawberry Man by Robin Walker for Counter tenor voc, B & cello, £7.75

PJT 056 Sequela by John Paynter for solo B/A/So or recorder & optional instrument, £4.50

PJT 057 A Small Suite by Timothy Morgan, for solo bass, tenor & treble recorder and piano £5.50

PJT 058 Lament and Fugue by Dennis Bamforth for descant recorder and piano, £5.50

PJT 059 River Dances by Martin Ellerby for treble/sopranino/tenor recorder and piano, £7.75

PJT 061 Back to Ground by Martin Butler for treble recorder, cello & harpsichord, £12.50

PJT 062 Duettino by John Joubert for recorder (flute/piccolo) & guitar, £6.50 (see PJT 095)

PJT 063 Recorder Concerto by Nicholas Marshall, for treble or descant recorder & pno, £8.25

PJT 064 Scherzo: Carlow Fair by Arthur Butterworth for descant recorder, bassoon & pno, £7.40

PJT 065 Three Flower Songs by Arnold Cooke for sop voc and recorder, £5.50

PJT 066 Reflection by Robin Walker for sop voc, treble recorder and guitar, £5.50

PJT 067 Sicilienne and Dance by Ben Haigh Marshall for solo treble or descant recorder or flute, cello and piano, £6.50

PJT 068 Hymn to the Sun by Ellis Pehkonen, for solo treble recorder, £4.50

PJT 069 Dunham Pastorale by David Beck for treble recorder and piano, £5.50

PJT 070 Four Songs, Op. 235, to poems by Thomas Hardy, by John Gardner, for mixed voices, treble recorder and cello, £6.50

PJT 071 Udana by Duncan Druce for treble recorder and hpschd, £5.50

PJT 072 Ebenezer Steps - Gary Carpenter, solo treble and hpschd, £5.75

A funky and rhythmically teasing little number for virtuoso players - taking its title from a pathway that descends from Bridgnorth, Shropshire to the River Severn

PJT 073 Music for a Pied Piper - John Joubert, 1 So, counter-tenor, chamber organ, hps & cello, £11.50

A rumbustuous setting of well-known words by Robert Browning. The music is based on the Bergamask tune memorably used to introduce David Munrow's lecture recitals and radio programmes

PJT 074 Sonatina by William Eden, for recorder/flute/oboe, bassoon/bass clarinet/cello & hpschd/pno, £7.50

PJT 075 Herrick Garland by Peter Hope, 1 A, counter-tenor, hps/pno & cello, £9.75

This song cycle comprises "I Sing of Brooks", "The Night-piece to Julia", "Upon Julia's Voice", "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time" and "Delight in Disorder".

PJT 076 Rural Rondo by Christopher Cotton for descant or treble recorder and piano, £5.50

PJT 078 The Maze (four episodes in search of an exit) by Stephen Dodgson for solo treble recorder, £5.50

PJT 079 Reflections by Douglas Young for solo treble and piano, £4.50

PJT 080 Pas de Deux by Michael Berkeley, for solo treble and guitar, £7.50

PJT 081 Anima by Alan Brown, for 1 A & string quartet, £7.50

A gentle haunting and melodious meditation on Dufay's famous motet "Anima mea liquefacta est", the well-known and beautiful words words (from the Song of Songs) being printed in the music as a guide to expression for the performers.

PJT 082 Sonatina alla Fantasia by Roy Heaton Smith, 1 S & pno, £7.50

PJT 083 Spring Songs by George Nicholson, for solo treble, £5.50

A sequence of six virtuoso movements, alternating between the aggressively athletic and the gently reflective. The title refers not only to the season of the year, but also to the characteristic deftness of the instrument.

PJT 084 Nightingale (Fantasia on a Welsh Folk Song) by Nicholas Marshall, for 1 S & string quartet (pno reduction), £ 5.50

A skilfully woven fantasy, for descant recorder and piano, on a beautiful Welsh folksong, composed to celebrate the 90th birthday of composer Ian Parrott

PJT 085 Three Inventions by Christopher Brown for two treble recorders, £4.75

PJT 086 Caprice by Philip Cowlin for treble recorder & guitar, £5.75

Sadly, Philip Cowlin died while composing this piece and it was completed by Peter Hope

PJT 087 Fantasy, Fugue and Finale by Ian Parrott for treble recorder and marimba, £8.50

Given its first performance in 2006 to celebrate the composer's ninetieth birthday.

PJT 088 Domestic Life: vignettes for recorder & pno by John McCabe, 1 S & pno, £ 5.75

An arrangement of tunes from an entertainment based in Liverpool in 1969; the style of the music is very light and almost Merseybeat.

PJT 089 Contemplation by Anthony Hedges for tenor recorder and piano, £4.50

From the highly regarded and versatile composer and pianist. First performed last year. "His music has that indefinable quality that we call significance." (The Musical Times)

PJT 090 Petite Suite, Op. 245 by John Gardner for recorder and string orchestra (2 vns, vla, cello, double bass), £7.50 sc., pts £3 each. String parts also av. for hire.

1. Prélude; 2. Idée Fixe; 3. Marche Joyeuse; 4. Marche Funèbre; 5. Contredanse

PJT 091 Three Kipling Songs by Melvyn Burch for sop voc, 1 rec (So, S, T) & pno, £8.50

Smuggler's Song, Seal Lullaby, A Counting-Out Song

PJT 092 Robin Walker - Handel to his Soul, for sop voc, recorder & harpsichord.

This cantata is a tribute to the late Percy Young and imagines an anxious Handel appealing to his soul - the better half that he has lost - to comfort him. The Soul instead invokes destructive Proserpina who warns the composer to pull himself together and that he should live "for this glorious day".

PJT 093 Flûte-à-Beck by David Beck, for S/A/T (one player) & pno, £10.50

Employing four sizes of recorder, this piece was originally written for recorder, strings and harp.

PJT 094 Carolling by Ian Kemp for soprano voice, recorder and harpsichord, £7.50

PJT 095 Duettino by John Joubert for recorder (flute/piccolo) & pno, £6.50 (see PJT 062)

 PJT 096 A Poacher's Bag by Colin Hand for recorder (T, A, S, one player) & guitar, £7.50

The Lost Lady Found, A Fair Maid Walking in her Garden, Brigg Fair, Oats & Beans & Barley Grows

PJT 097 David Dubery: Away in a Manger - a Carol for voice, recorder/flute & pno, £5.50

PJT 098 Sasha Johnson Manning: Summer in Winter - a Carol for soprano, recorder/flute & pno, £5.50

 PJT 100 Sasha Johnson Manning - The Christmas Life for chorus, descant recorder, drum & triangle, £5.75

A catchy and entrancing setting of a poem by Wendy Cope, with a flashy (but not difficult) obbligato for the descant recorder, and parts for a high drum and triangle. This carol is guaranteed to bring the house down!

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

PJT 114 A Prayer and a Dance of Two Spirits by Robin Walker : concerto for solo violin, solo recorder and string orchestra

Commissioned by Carlisle International Summer Festival and first performed in Carlisle Cathedral, July 2007 by John Turner, Emma Hancock and Manchester Camerata, conducted by Richard Howarth.

PJT 115 Elegiac Variations by David Ellis for bass recorder, viola and cello, £5.75

Composed for the CD "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and subsequently broadcast on Radio 3 and at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

PJT 116 - Sergio Roberto de Oliveira - Frevo for treble recorder and guitar, £7.95

A deft carnival dance from Pernamuco in Brazil, which will keep both performers on their toes as it is rhythmically quite tricky!

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 (previously PJT 060)

PRM 003 The Merry Flageolet by John Barnet 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
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.

Drawing by Dorothy Bradford of John Turner playing Alun Hoddinott's "Lizard" at the Bridgewater Hall.