Recorder and Piano - Intermediate-Advanced SKU: FP.FCG08 Composed by Gord...(+)
Recorder and Piano -
Intermediate-Advanced
SKU: FP.FCG08
Composed by Gordon
Crosse. Sheet Music and
Books. A loving tribute
to birdlife by avid
'twitcher' and leading
British composer Gordon
Crosse, for the
intermediate to advanced
recorder player.
Classical. Collection.
Forsyths Publications
#FCG08. Published by
Forsyths Publications
(FP.FCG08).
ISBN
9790570504084.
Born
in Bury in 1937, Gordon
Crosse is one of the most
distinguished composers
of his generation. He
studied at Oxford
University under Egon
Wellesz and, during a
long academic career, was
Composer-in-Residence at
King's College Cambridge
from 1973-75. His best
known works include the
oboe concertante Ariadne,
the Three Choirs Festival
Oratorio Changes, the
opera Purgatory, the
children's entertainment
Meet my Folks, to words
by Ted Hughes, the
orchestral Dreamsongs (a
homage to the music of
Benjamin Britten) and
Memories of Morning:
Night (a monodrama for
mezzo-soprano and
orchestra).
Three
Twitchings was first
performed by John Turner
(recorder) and Nathan
Williamson (piano) in the
Library at The Red House,
Aldeburgh, on October 4th
2018. Two scores are
provided, rather than a
separate recorder part,
so that the recorder
player can see and
respond to the pianist's
part as they play.
Divertimento Flûte à Bec, Piano - Intermédiaire Forsyth Publications
Recorder and Piano - Intermediate SKU: FP.FBM04 Composed by Martin Bussey...(+)
Recorder and Piano -
Intermediate
SKU:
FP.FBM04
Composed by
Martin Bussey. Sheet
Music and Books. This
fresh and appealing work
lives up to its name.
Particularly diverting is
the finale, a hornpipe
subtitled The Knotted
Sailor, in which the
nifty performers have to
negotiate frequent and
teasing changes of rhythm
at speed. Classical.
Collection. Forsyths
Publications #FBM04.
Published by Forsyths
Publications (FP.FBM04).
ISBN
9790570504077.
The
opening movement is a
free fantasia,
contrasting with the
middle movement, a
scherzetto, in homage to,
and based on the letters
of the name of, the
composer Douglas Steele,
an assistant to Sir
Thomas Beecham and a
founding father of
Chethams School, and
which quotes from
Steele’s beautiful
carol The Snow
Falls. Divertimento
was first performed by
John Turner and Janet
Simpson at a concert in
aid of the Peter
Cunningham Memorial Fund
at Mellor Church on 17th
January 2005. It uses
both treble and descant
instruments. The second
movement was originally
composed for a concert in
Manchester Cathedral in
memory of Douglas Steele,
one of the founding
fathers of Chetham's
School, and quotes (by
kind permission of
Forsyth Brothers Ltd.),
from his well-known carol
The Snow Falls. It has
been separately recorded
by John Turner and
Stephen Hough on Autumn
Sequence – the
music of Douglas Steele
and his Circle (Campion
Cameo 2040/41). Martin
Bussey was born in London
in 1958. He was a Choral
Scholar at King’s
College, Cambridge,
during which time he
studied composition with
Robin Holloway. Following
postgraduate singing
study at the RNCM he
settled in Manchester and
held a number of posts,
including Head of
Academic Music and
Director of Choirs at
Chetham’s School
of Music until 2013. He
continues as Musical
Director of the Chester
Bach Singers, a Vocal
Tutor at Manchester
University, Chairman of
the Finzi Friends and a
Director of the Ludlow
Song Weekend.
Compositions include the
highly successful
monodrama about Mary I,
Mary’s Hand,
premiered in 2018; a
significant collection of
solo songs which includes
settings of Housman,
Hardy, and Walt Whitman,
many recorded on the disc
Through a glass; and much
choral music, recorded by
Sonoro under Neil Ferris
in 2019.