The spring issue of Recorder Magazine offers some informative pieces on 17-18C recorder music, balanced by Digital Revival’s futuristic Electronic Wind Instrument. Some well-known recorderists comment on their latest instrument, Olivia Petryszak shares her busy life, and Tom Sears talks to Michael Graham. We hear from ERTA about LIFEM and from the SRP about the branches’ many activities from workshops to concert performances.
Click here for the contents and here for a list of music reviewed in this issue.
P 850 Duets for C recorder, arranged by Nicholas Wynne from L C Nielson's Duets for Flutes, 2 SS, £7.50
P 850a Duets for C recorder, arranged by Nicholas Wynne from L C Nielson's Duets for Flutes, 2 TT, £7.50
P 917 James Hook - Duettinos Opus 42, Vol 1, Nos 1 - 6, arranged for Alto and Tenor Recorders by Nicholas Wynne, £10.00
P 918 James Hook - Duettinos Opus 42, Vol 2, Nos 7 - 12, arranged for Alto and Tenor Recorders by Nicholas Wynne £10.00
P 919 James Hook - Duettinos Opus 42, Vol 1, Nos 1 - 6, arranged for Bass and Great Bass Recorders by Nicholas Wynne £10.00
P 920 James Hook - Duettinos Opus 42, Vol 2, Nos 7 - 12, arranged for Bass and Great Bass Recorders by Nicholas Wynne £10.00
EM 3365 On My Way by Sylvia Corinna Rosin for SSATTBBGbCb and drum, £25
*****************
JACKS, PIPES & HAMMERS
for all your Early Music needs! - click here: https://www.jackspipesandhammers.co.uk
Click here for information on other editions we produce by agreement
Click here for info on ABRSM and Trinity Recorder syllabuses
For Recorder MusicMail's online shopping site, click here
P 707 Soprano Recorder Solo Book -
Misc. ed. Eric Haas, 1 S (or 1 T), £24.00
130 pages of music from from 13th to 21st Centuries. Plenty to keep people entertained in the lockdown. Spiral-bound to lie flat on the music stand, strong plastic cover for durability and very clear well-set-out print. Tenor recorder could also be appropriate for many of the pieces. Click here and here for contents.
P 714 Alto Recorder Solo Book - Misc. arr. Eric Haas for solo treble, £24.00
Music from from 13th to 21st Centuries. Spiral-bound to lie flat on the music stand, strong plastic cover for durability and very clear well-set-out print.
P 722 Bass Recorder Solo Book -
ed. Eric Haas, £24.00
130 pages of music from from 13th to 21st Centuries. Spiral-bound to lie flat on the music stand, strong plastic cover for durability and very clear well-set-out print. Click here and here for contents.
P 749 Tenor Recorder Solo Book - selected, edited and arranged by Eric Haas, £24.00
Music from from 13th to 21st Centuries. Spiral-bound to lie flat on the music stand, strong plastic cover for durability and very clear well-set-out print. Click here and here for contents. This completes this very comprehensive series for the solo recorder.
Alto Duets
P 688 Alto Recorder Duet Book 1 - Selected. arranged and edited by Eric Haas, £24.00
P 784 Alto Recorder Duet Book 2 - Selected. arranged and edited by Eric Haas, £24.00
Music from the 13th to 21st centuries. 100 pieces in each volume including contemporary works written especially for these books.
P 792 Alto Recorder Duets Book 3 - Selected & edited by Eric Haas, £24.00
Even more duets to keep you happy. Same framework as the other volumes but no overlap of content.
Tenor Duets
P 858 Tenor Duet Book by Eric Haas for TT, £24.00
PEMS 111 Women’s Work: Music composed by women from the 12th-20th centuries, edited and arranged by Eric Haas for 1-5 recorders, £26.00
Researched by Janet and Eric Haas, stretching from Hildegard of Bingen to the 20th century. Ring-bound.
------------
New music from Peacock Press
P 884 Trad arr Marg Hall - Four Balkan Songs and Dances for 4 SATB £7.50
P 885 The New Grammar of Ornament: ornamentation & embellishment in the late Baroque by Eric Haas, £28.00
Revised and expanded from its 1998 edition. Contains an explanatory introduction and chapters on Baroque ornamentation, musical rhetoric, the “Essential Graces”, free ornamentation, 18th-century examples of written out ornamentation, French Baroque ornamentation, an appendix of examples - especially from Telemann’s Sonate Metodiche - and a select bibliography.
P 886 Willie was a Wanton Wag and other old Scottish Airs - Various arr. Marg Hall for 4 SATB £8.50
Five lively pieces arranged by Marg Hall for recorder quartet.
P 887 James Stringer - The Shipping Forecast for 6 AATTBB (or Cb) £15.50
P 888 Palestrina, transcribed Joanna Brown - Adjuro vos filiae Jerusalem for 5 SATTB £8.50
P 890 Marg Hall - Rag, Blues and Tango for 4 BBBB £7.50
P 891 Nicholas Wynne - Follow my Leader - Nine Little Duets for Two Alto Recorders for 2 AA £6.50
P 892 Nicholas Wynne - Follow my Leader - Nine Little Duets for Two Bass Recorders for 2 BB £6.50
P 893 Nicholas Wynne - Follow my Leader - Nine Little Duets for Two C Recorders for 2 SS £6.50
P 893a Nicholas Wynne - Follow my Leader - Nine Little Duets for Two C Recorders for 2 TT £6.50
P 894 Nicholas Wynne - Follow my Leader - Nine Little Duets for Two Great Bass Recorders for 2 GbGb £6.50
P 895 William Boyce, arr Nicholas Wynne - 12 Trio Sonatas Vol I for 3 ATB £12.50
P 896 William Boyce, arr Nicholas Wynne - 12 Trio Sonatas Vol II for 3 ATB £12.50
P 897 William Boyce, arr Nicholas Wynne - 12 Trio Sonatas Vol III for 3 ATB £12.50
P 898 Ruth Pitts - Wistman's Wood for solo tenor £5.00|
P 899 A Cluster of Cats by Sue Handscombe for 4 SATB, £7.50
Playful Kittens, Sleepy Purry Cats, Fighting Cats and Siamese cats.
P 900 Five Irish Bird Tunes by Marg Hall, arranged for SATB recorders £10.00
P 901 Autumn Ramblings, Recorder Quartet No. 14 by John Hawkes, for 4 SATB £8.50
P 902 A Tour of Ireland in 5 Tunes - Trad. arr. Marg Hall for 4 SATB £10.00
P 903 6 Trio Sonatas, Opus.83 - Vol 1 Nos 1, 2 & 3 by James Hook, arr. Nicholas Wynne for 3 ATB £11.00
P 904 6 Trio Sonatas, Opus.83 - Vol 2 Nos 4, 5 & 6 by James Hook, arr. Nicholas Wynne for 3 ATB £11.00
P 906 Recorder Concerto by David Bedford for 1 B & pno £16.50
P 907 Omnes de Saba venient (And they shall out of Sheba come bringing gold and incense) & Resonet in laudibus (Let the voice of praise resound, by Jacob Handl transcribed by Anne Martin for 5 SATTB & 4 SATB £7.50
P 908 Siciliano & Fuga by Thomas Arne, arr. by Anne Martin for 4 SATB £8.50
P 909 Variations on Happy Birthday arr. by Anne Martin for 3 SAT £6.50
P 910 Fantasia 6/F by William Byrd, arr. by Anne Martin for 6 S(A)S(A)T(A)T(A)BB or S(A)T(A)T(A)TB £10
P 911 Browning Fantasy by William Byrd, arr. by Anne Martin for 5 SA/TTBB £11.00
Byrd’s Browning Fantasia is one of his most exciting consort pieces,
requiring high technical skill from viol players and here also arranged for recorder.
P 912 I Love my Love (Cornish folksong collected by J. B. Gardiner) by Gustav Holst, arr. by Anne Martin for 5 SSATB £7.50
P 913 Ecce vicit Leo : Motet for 2 choirs by Peter Philips. transcribed by Anne Martin for 8 SATBSATB £9.00
P 914 Down in Devon (Widdecombe Fair / Sweet Nightingale/ Strawberry Fair) by Anne Martin, for 4 SATB £9.00
P 915 Tempest Suite by Anne Martin for 4 SATB £9.00
P 916 Waves by Margaret Phillips for SATB £8.00
P 921 The Coral Grove by Anne Martin for SATB £9.00
P 922 Našim Hrdinům Op.289 by Julius Fucik, arr. Joanna Brown for SoSAATTBBGbCb £14.00
Although a less well-known march than Entry of the Gladiators and
Florentiner March, it has some memorable melodies and counter-melodies that make it very worthy of this arrangement for recorder.
Click here for full Peacock
series
John Turner's Contemporary Recorder Music series
PJT210 Murmuration by Jacob Fitzgerald for Recorder Quartet SoSoSA, £13.00
PJT211 Christina by Daryl Runswick for Treble Recorder and String Quartet £8.00
PJT212 A Cheerful Little Piece by Christopher Ball for Descant Recorder and Piano £7.00
PJT213 Homage to Dvorak by Christopher Ball for for treble recorder (or tenor or descant) and piano £7.00
PJT214 After Orpheus by Max Paddison for Descant Recorder and Piano £6.50
PJT215 Wedding Notes by John Turner for Solo Descant Recorder £6.00
PJT 216 Prayer for Peace by Sasha Johnson Manning for 1 S/T & pno or string quartet, £6.50
This beautiful and touching Prayer for Peace was written following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022.
Hear it here
Click here for full series.
NEW in the York Waits Christmas Collection series:
English Christmas, PTYW 105, £6.25
For 2-5 voices and instruments. Medieval and Renaissance Christmas music restored and arranged for instruments and voices.
Andrew Robinson Editions
The Solo Recorder, ed. Andrew Robinson
A beautifully produced two-volume
set of solo recorder music to enhance the repertoire of
any serious recorder player. It is clearly typeset and
well laid out on larger than A4 paper, with strong
laminated covers, Canadian bound: a spiral to open flat
and a spine to stack neatly. The two volumes, each of 112
pages, represent some of the finest Baroque solo works
ever written.
Book 1: Telemann Fantasias for flute, Quantz
Pieces sans bass; Solo sonatas by J S and C P E
Bach, PAR 108, £20
This core repertoire represents the
major baroque works for solo flute, transposed for
recorder with choices of transposition. Music you come
back to again and again.
Book 2: Telemann Fantasias for violin; Marais
Couplets de Folies (Les Folies d'Espagne); Six movements
from Bach's solo violin partitas; Twenty-nine movements
from Bach's cello suites, PAR 109, £20
Telemann's fantasias for violin are much less well
known than his flute fantasiass but have music of the
same quality and imagination. Marais' Couplets de Folies
are full of ideas, adventure and beauty. Bach's cello
suites must be the best music of the gentre, often
difficult but supremely satisfying. A lifetime's study -
in so few pages.
Danserye (transposed) - a selection of 32 dances from "Het Derd e Musyck Boexken" 1551 transposed for SATB and SAAT etc, PAR 621 £22.00
Click here for full series.
Early Music Series
from Peacock Press
PEMS 092 Semper Dowland - Twelve Ayres to Four Voyces by John Dowland, arr. Susan Iadone for 4 SATB combinations £12.00
A beautiful collecton of Dowland songs arranged for recorders by Susan Iodone
PEMS 111 Women’s Work: Music composed by women from the 12th-20th centuries, edited and arranged by Eric Haas for 1-5 recorders, £26.00
This well researched and comprehensive collection of women's music originated in a class on music by female composers given in 2018 by Eric Haas's late wife, Janet Haas, an Early Music expert, bassist and gambist.
Eric Haas collaborated in researching these pieces, and now presents this new collection of music by women composers stretching from Hildegard of Bingen through the centuries to the 1950s. Most of the music was originally for voices, organ or harmonium, and is arranged for 1-5 recorders (SATB various). Ring-bound.
PEMS 113 Jeffrey Grier - Renaissance Suite for 5 SAATB £12.75
Consort Music from the Court of Maximilian I for recorders, viols and other instruments
PEMS 081 Vol. 1, 1-20 for 3, 4 and 5 parts - £20.00
PEMS 082 Vol. 2, 21-40 for 4 and 5 parts - £22.50
PEMS 083 Vol. 3, 41-60 for 3 and 4 parts £22.50
PEMS 084 Vol. 4, 61-86 for 4, 5 and 6 parts £25.00
Edited by viol and recorder player David Hatcher.All four volumes may be purchased for £75.00
Each volume is supplied with a set of parts and extra parts may be purchased separately
This scholarly and beautifully presented music makes a wonderful library of varied secular instrumental music typical of the court of Maximilian and his successor Charles V. Although the manuscript has been available until recently in the Alamire facsimile, errors and anomalies in the part-books mean that a number of the pieces are difficult to perform directly from the original notation. The editor believes that this new edition, published in four volumes, will provide viol and recorder players with a varied collection of secular instrumental music typical of the court of Maximilian and his successor Charles V.
For complete PEMS list, click here
From Jolly Robin
JRMM 001 The Charlton Method: A Manual for the Advenced Recorder Player by Andrew Charlton
This amazing book has been reprinted. 180 pages of information and music. The Contents listing takes up two whole pages! Andrew covers every aspect of technique and provides a wealth of music to put those techniques into practice. There are studies and duos from J S Bach, Characteristic Etudes - 22 extended pieces for various recorders and 15 duos by composers from over three centuries.
This volume is very good value for money at £26.00
Tom Sears Music
These pieces, printed under licence, are sure to be welcomed by small groups and SRP meetings in particular.
TSM 116 5 Christmas Carols for SATB Recorders, £10.75
TSM 111 arranged for recorder quartet. Carols include Il est ne, le divin Enfant, The Old Year Now Away is Fled, Fum, Fum, Fum, Sussex Carol, and I Saw Three Ships. Level: upper intermediate; Duration: 6’45”
TSM 122 2 for 3 Recorders: 1. Heather and the Rose 2. Molly's Madrigal for 3 ATB £6.50
TSM 123 3 for 4 Recorders: 1. Moonlight at Midnight AATB, 2. Gentle Tendrils to the Sun SATB, 3. Sunrise at Dawn for 4 ATTB, £10.75
TSM 218 Lord Aboyne's Welcome & The Lass o' Peatie's Mill by Francesco Barsanti, arr. by Tom Sears for Recorder, 2 Violins, Cello and Harpsichord, £10.50
TSM 219 To Danton Me & Lochaber by Francesco Barsanti, arr. by Tom Sears for Recorder, 2 Violins, Cello and Harpsichord, £10.50
TSM 301 All Hail to the Days - To the tune "Drive the Cold Winter Away" arr. by Tom Sears for Voice, 2 Violins, Viola/Tenor Viol, Cello/Bass Viol £10.00|
TSM 303 Wexford Carol arr. by Tom Sears for Solo Voice, 2 Violins, Viola/Tenor Viol, Cello/Bass Viol £8.00
TSM 311 Gower Wassail arr. by Tom Sears for Solo Voice, 2 Violins, Viola/Tenor Viol, Cello/Bass Viol £8.00
TSM 313 Two Christmas Carols - A Babe is Born all of a Maid, Ave Maria for Soprano & 3 ATB viols £10.75
TSM 315 Suo Gan arr. by Tom Sears for Solo Voice, Flute, Violin, Viola/Tenor Viol, Cello/Bass Viol £8.00
Alex Ayre Editions / CRCS
The Alex Ayre manuscript editions have all been reset as CRCS - click here for a complete list.
New from May Hill Editions
MHE 21025 Canzonic Groove by Steve Marshall for 4 SATB £5.50
MHE 41025 Bluesleeves by Steve Marshall for SATBGbCb £6.00
MHE 11025 A Day at Barry Island by Steve Marshall for SAATTBBGbCb £17.00
MHE 61025 Excuse my Blues by Steve Marshall for SAATTBBGbCb £8.50
MHE 71025 Concertino for Helen by Steve Marshall for 1 S & SATBGbCb £15.50
MHE 10705 Three Nocturnes by Ann Marshall for SATB recorders £13.00
MHE 31025 Four Fancies by Ann Marshall, for SAATBGbCb £16.00
MHE 51025 Recorder Septet by Ann Marshall, for SAATBGbCb £15.50
MHE 10226 Three Catalan Madrigals arr Steve Marshall for 4 SATB £12.50
Composed in Andorra in the the 16th Century, the pieces are interesting, both in the rhythms, and because the sound often seems to hover between French and Spanish styles.
Two of the pieces are by Joan Brudieu and other is by Matheo Flecha el Joven
MHE 50226 Three Movements for Sopranino & Orchestra by Steve Marshall for 1 Sop & ATBBGbGbCb £15.00
The sopranino part is challenging, but not extremely so. There are passages which work well when gentle and also some high notes. The orchestra parts are not difficult and the three movements run for about eight minutes.
For complete May Hill Editions list, click here
Forsyth
FOR FPT 07 Dancery - suite for recorder & pno by Thomas Pitfield for recorder (A/B/T/So) & pno/hpschd, £9.95
FPD23 Conversation Piece by Dorothy Pilling for 1 S/oboe & pno £6.95
FPD24 Three Songs by Dorothy Pilling for Sop voc, 1 S & pno, £9.95
FWJ02 Reflections by John Wilson for 1 A/oboe & pno, £8.50
From Dolce Edition, edited and arranged by Bernard Thomas
DOL 151 The Renaissance Duet Book for mixed combinations of two recorders, SA, AT, ST, AA, £20.00
Over 20 Renaissance composers.
DOL 153 The Renaissance Trio Book for mixed combinations of three recorders, 3 S/A/T/B various, £20.00
Soeren Sieg
Do re mi fa so, 20 five note melodies for beginners, Vol. 1 for 1 S & pno £22.90 (SIEGDORE1)
Do re mi fa so, 20 five note melodies for beginners, Vol. 2 for 1 S & pno £22.90 (SIEGDORE2)
Do re mi fa so, 20 five note melodies for beginners, Vols. 1&2 for 1 S & pno £32.90 (SIEGDORE)
Basilisk
BAS-RM35 Solis Canticum by Raphael Benjamin Meyer for 4 SAAT or TBBGb, £21.50
Raphael B. Meyer's direct answer to his very successful Lunae Canticum (for low instrumentation). Stylistically, Meyer's compositions are kept in a romantic tonality, enriched by influences from Viennese Classicism, the 16th century and contemporary music.
From Moeck
EM 3364 J S Bach ed. Bart Spanhove - "Ruht wohl - Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein" from St Matthew Passion, BWV 245 for orch, AATTBBGbGbCb, £26|
EM 2152 Je te veux - Erik Satie arr. Rosin for 1 A & pno, £10.50
EM 2153 Trad. arr Sylvia Corinna Rosin - Tarantella Napoletana for 1 S & kb £11.00
EM 2154 Albrecht Maurer - Springfield Chill mal for 1 S & kb 11.00
From Loux.
LMP 75 Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major (Hob. VIIe.1) by Franz Joseph Haydn, arr. Loux for 5 SSATB £15.00
Recorder Music Direct
RMD 032 Scales and Arpeggios for Bass and Contra Bass Recorders, £12.00
RMD 033 Scales and Arpeggios for Great Bass Recorders for Bass Clef, £12.00
RMD 034 Scales and Arpeggios for Great Bass Recorders for treble clef, £12.00
For the complete RMD series click here.
From Flautando
FEM232 G F Handel arr Adrian Wehlte - Grave und Sinfonia for 4 SATB £14.90
FEM143 Marin Marais, arr Adrian Wehlte - Les Folies d'Espagne, duet for 2 AA £15.50
FEM110 Klaus Miehling - Hinunter ist der Sonnen Schein for 1 A, vdg/B & bc £11.50
FEM104 Klaus Miehling - Orphée op. 25 for Baritone, A & bc £16.80
FEM101 Klaus Miehling - Von des Parnassos grüner Weide op. 13 for Sop voc, A, vdg & bc £21.80
From Instant Harmony
IH 33 Edward Blancks ed. Lasocki/Tettamanti - Phancy for 5 AATTB £13.50
New from Edition Walhall.
EW 1279 Daniel Bollius arr. Klaus Hofmann - Tertia Symphonia for 3 SAA & bc £14.90
EW 1291 Daniel Bollius arr. Peter Thalheimer - Sonata a tre Fiauti for 3 SAA & bc £13.80
EW 1294 J S Bach - Goldberg Variationen, BWV 988 for 3-4 Recorders SATBGb various £24.80
EW 1283 93 Kanons by Beethoven, Brahms, di Lasso, Mozart, etc for 2-6 treble recorders (or bass in treble clef) £16.80
|
Newsletter: if you would like to receive our quarterly e-newsletter with information on new publications and the latest Recorder Magazine, please let us know at recordermail@yahoo.co.uk. |
[Recorder Magazine homepage][Recorder MusicMail
All recorder pieces can be purchased at https://www.recordermail.co.uk
Last update 3/4/2026
