Winter 2024, Volume 44, Issue 4
News
Including Dolmetsch Centenary Celebration, SRP & EMS Festival, Banbury and Taiwan Festivals, Ensemble Hesperi, International Van Wassenaer Competition, and Michala Petri's new book.Continuo Award Winners
We look at six of the winning ensembles which include recorders.
The Frans Brüggen Project
Lucie Horsch talks to Barbara Law about her CD featuring Brüggen's original recorders.
The Orpheus of Amsterdam: Celebrating Sweelinck
Hester Groenleer tell us how she arranged Sweelinck's works for the Royal Wind Music for a CD to mark the 400th anniversary of his death in 2021.Signs of the Seasons: A Personal Journey
Andrew Collis has been filming and recording the late Markus Zahnhausen's solo collection "Signs of the Seasons", and explains the process.Ensemble Hesperi explores Telemann’s Garden
Mary-Jannet Leith discusses Handel's horticultural friendship with Telemann, and the group's new CD celebrating 18th-C horticultural gift-giving.Centrespread Composer David Moses
Interviewed by Michael GrahamCentrespread: Moonlight and Shadow by David Moses
Herbert Murrill, composer and Bletchley Park codebreaker
Emily Baines traces Murrill's early musical career through to his recruitment as a codebreaker by the intelligence services in 1939. A CD of his "Rediscovered Songs" is due February 2025.What makes a world-class recorder orchestra?
Simon Borutzki, leader of the Berliner Blockflöten Orchester, talks to Jean Campbell.
ERTA News
Chris Orton reports on ERTA events, the ABRSM Diploma Syllabus, and Julie Dean, arranger of "Rounds of Recorders", tells us about her musical life.
SRP News
Reports from Jim Grant and Philip Thorby, Walter Bergmann recalled by Evelyn Nallen, Michael Graham advises on new repertoire, Jean Campbell rounds up news from the branches with reports on workshops, recorder orchestras and concerts, Martin Evans is remembered, and Piers Adams is congratulated on his honorary doctorate.Music Reviews
From Chris Blanch, Andrew Collis, Michael Graham, Helen Hooker, Janice Ormerod, Debbie Porro and Joan Reeve. Click here for the music titles.
CD Reviews
Fiona Hook reports on some new releases
Click here for recorder music reviewed in this issue.
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