Concert Pieces - Teacher's Book-A superb collection of classical favourites show tunes and Latin-American dances as well as ragtime and enticing new pieces by John Pitts arranged and graded for Recorder players of any age.Designed to be used alongsidethe best-selling Treble Recorder From The Beginning tutor series. Pieces begin using the first eight notes taught in the tutor book before steadily increasing. The pieces themselves are absorbing and exciting offeringinspiration and incentive to develop new skills and rhythmic awareness. You will also find eight duets - a superb chance to experience the wonders of small-ensemble performance either with a teacher or a fellow pupil!

The best way to learn any instrument is to have lessons from a good experienced teacher. Although happily the number of such teachers is constantly growing the recorder is still frequently taught by enthusiastic but inexperienced teachers and many players start by teaching themselves.This series of books sets out to help learners of all ages in all three situations. Experienced teachers who may choose to disregard much of the text as personal demonstration is always clearer than the written word will find exercises and fine tunes a-plenty to support their own mathod at each stage. The less experienced willbenefit from many valuable teaching hints culled fromlong experience and may rely on the books to lead to a sound playing technique and a mastery of simple notation.Those learning by themseves - and I started in this way - are urged to work carefully and systematically through the books taking plenty of time to assimilate each point before moving on. For them without the personal model provided by a live teacher it is vitally important to listen as often as possible to fine players in person or on record so that they have in their mind's ear a clear notion of the kind of sound they would like to produce.But however they start I can only wish that all who use these books will derive as much pleasure and musical satisfaction and gain as many lasting and valued friendships as I have through this most subtle delightful and sociable of instruments. (Brian Bonsor)“...this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken“ (Oliver James Contact Magazine)These two tutors with accompanying teacher's books are for newcomers to the instrument who are beginning on the treble and so assume no previous knowledge either of the instrument or of musical notation.

Giovanni Bononcini's Sonata in F for Treble Recorder and Continuo edited by Carl Dolmetsch.

Two Sonatas for Treble Recorder and Continuo by Alessandro Santini. Sonata No.1 in F and Sonata No.5 in D minor edited by Angelo Zaniol.

?...this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken? (Oliver James Contact Magazine)The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 1 2 3)