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The remarkable musical partnership of Carl Dolmetsch and
Joseph Saxby (lasting some 60 years) was the catalyst for a
significant series of works, seminal in the recorder's
twentieth-century repertoire, to which many eminent
composers contributed. About ninety works in all resulted,
many of them receiving their premieres at the now legendary
series of Wigmore Hall recitals given between 1939 and 1989.
A number of these works have become well known in their
published editions and frequently played. However, others
remain in manuscript in the Dolmetsch archives at "Jesses"
in Haslemere and hence virtually unknown.
"The Carl Dolmetsch 20th Century Archive" is the title of
this new series of publications intended to make some of
these previously unpublished works available to the recorder
world. They have been carefully prepared from manuscripts in
the Dolmetsch archives, often with the additional knowledge
provided by attendance at rehearsals and performances
involving Carl Dolmetsch himself.
The establishment of a contemporary repertoire was as
important in the twentieth-century renaissance of the
recorder as was its firm place in the early music revival.
It is a repertoire that continues to provide musical
enjoyment and challenges to recorder players who it is hoped
will welcome these earlier contributions to it.
Thanks to Jeanne Dolmetsch and Andrew Mayes for making
this series available.
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PD 01 Carl Dolmetsch: Theme and Variations for descant recorder
and harpsichord £7.75
Performed on 1st February 1939 by Carl Dolmetsch at his first solo
recorder recital - probably the first full-length recorder recital in
history! Inspired by Daniel Purcell's Divisions in A minor and
Paganini's Caprices.
PD 02 Anthony Bernard: Prelude and Scherzo for treble recorder
and harpsichord £8.75
First performed during Warship Week and first broadcast from BBC
Bristol during an air raid, this piece is composed around the
initials of three generations of Dolmetsches (A D, C D and F E C
D).
PD 03 Christopher Edmunds: Pastorale and Bouree for descant
recorder and piano £7.95
Composed as a New Year gift for Carl Dolmetsch in January
1968.
PD 04 Donald Swann (1923-1994): Rhapsody from Within for
treble recorder or flute and piano £9.75
First performed 2nd April 1982 and recently recorded by Piers
Adams, who remarks that it carries "the flag of English
eccentricity", with its wide musical references and sense of
playfulness; a recurring motif plays homage to Poulenc's Flute
Sonata. Donald Swann was famous as one half of the comic duo
Flanders & Swann, but he wrote extensively for voice and
piano.
PD 05 Gordon Jacob: Suite for treble recorder and strings
£9.75
PD 06 Herbert Murrill: Sonata for treble recorder or flute and
harpsichord or piano £7.50
PD 07 Alan Ridout (1934-1996):
Sequence for treble recorder and lute or harpsichord
£9.75
Seven thematically movements in the
following modes: Locrian, Myxolydian, Phrygian, Ionian, Aeolian,
Lydian and Dorian. Based on a manuscript autograph score held in the
Dolmetsch archives and premiered in 1975 at the Wigmore Hall by Carl
Dolmetsch and Robert Spencer.
PD 08 Alan Ridout: Variants on a
Tune of H(erbert) H(owells) for descant recorder and harpsichord,
£6.25
PD 09 Stephen Dodgson: Warbeck
Dances for treble & sopranino recorder and harpsichord.
£10.50
Derived from incidental music composed for
the 1969 BBC production of Perkin Warbeck by John Ford. 1.
Processional (The Uneasy Crown); 2. The Earl of Huntly; 3. Edinburgh
Revels
PD 10 Christopher N. Wood: Sonata di
Camera for treble recorder and piano, £9.75
Written for Carl Dolmetsch and Joseph Saxby
and now in print for the first time.
PD 11 Arthur Milner: Suite for treble
recorder & piano, £9.00
Possibly inspired by the 1958 Newcastle
performance of Jacob's Suite following its premiere by Carl Dolmetsch
and the Martin String Quartet in London - Milner sent the Suite to
Dolmetsch with a dedication four months later. Novello published the
final movement, the "Jig", in 1960 but this is the first time the
work has been published inits entirety.
PD 12 Alan Ridout - Chamber Concerto for
treble recorder & piano, £9.00
Based on a photocopy of the autograph
manuscript score for recorder and string quartet. Ridout originally
hoped to convert the piece for String Orchestra and/or Recorder &
Harpsichord; this did not happen but here a keyboard reduction is
supplied by the editors.
PD 13 Alan Ridout - Chamber Concerto for
treble recorder & string quartet, £14.00
PD 14 Ivor Walsworth - Sonata for treble
recorder & harpsichord, £8.75
Composed in 1950 and first performed
publicly in April 1961 by Carl Dolmetsch and Joseph Saxby. The
programme note said, "This short work ... is mainly lyrical in
character, with moments of repose. It is designed to afford the
opportunity of displaying that limpid beauty of tone so
characteristic of the recorder, and also the almost bird-like agility
of which the instrument is capable."