A selection of well known traditional Christmas carols woven into a two minute fantasia for recorder quintet. (Descant, Treble, Tenor 1, Tenor 2 and Bass). Suitable as anovelty item for a Christmas concert to see how many tunes your audience can spot or a fun piece for a seasonal recorder players meeting. Intermediate standard.

Satie wrote a set of three Gnossiennes for the piano right at the end of the 19th Century. Always one to challenge convention, he invented the word 'Gnossienne' especially for theses pieces - it has no other meaning. He also decided to notate the pieces without key signatures, time signatures or even bar lines and I have decided to do the same here in this arrangement.


The piece gradually unfolds in a kind of trance-like hypnotic ambiance; this arrangement features the melody in all parts, starting unusually in the bass.

This is a popular arrangement of the traditional Christmas melody, arranged for recorder quintet. It even contains a bass solo!