Recorder and Piano - Advanced

SKU: FP.FDD02

Composed by David Dubery. Sheet Music and Books. An evocative piece for treble recorder or oboe and piano inspired by two historic Stockport landmarks. Classical. Collection. Forsyths Publications #FDD02. Published by Forsyths Publications (FP.FDD02).

ISBN 9790570503834.

Vern on Park, Stockport’s oldest park, was created on land donated by Lord Vernon (George John Warren). It was built by poor mill workers who called it pinch-belly park and opened on 20th September 1858. Comprising twenty-one acres, it houses a museum, a bandstand, ornamental fountains, a fernery, rockery, borders and sunken rose garden as well terraced walkways that overlook the river and weir. The piece depicts a solitary walker engrossed in his own thoughts on a winter’s day, the landscape, and the park’s Victorian past.

At the very end of the piece a reminder of the park’s Victorian origins can be detected in a quote from Elgar’s Salut d’amour of 1899, which may well have been played by a band in the bandstand. Stockport market celebrated its 750th anniversary in 2010. It dated back to September 1260 when a Royal Charter allowed Robert de Stokeport, the Mayor, to hold a weekly market within the defensive walls of the Norman Castle on the present site of Castle Yard.

The Glass Umbrella was a popular name given to the 1861 covered market built of timber, glass and iron - nine bays with open sides and a glass canopy. In 1912, one bay was removed to enable electric trams and trolley buses to turn a sharp corner.

The piece depicts a lively market day, the multiculturalism of the present day and the old cries of pick and pay without delay. The bells of St Mary’s Church are depicted by a cascading peel tuned to the ten bells of the church tower, and a fleeting reference to John Wainwright’s famous Christmas hymn Christians Awake, and the Westminster chimes striking the hour from St Mary’s, bring to piece to a conclusion. Separate parts are provided for recorder and oboe.

Recorder and piano

SKU: BR.EB-6923

3 Pieces. Composed by Jurg Baur. Solo instruments; Softcover. Edition Breitkopf.

World premiere: Munster, November 15, 1960

Music post-1945. Score. Composed 1960. 16 pages. Duration 7'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 6923. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-6923).

ISBN 9790004170984. 9 x 12 inches.

CD: Christiane Lorenz (Flute), Thomas Leander (Piano) CD Cybele 360701 Bibliography : Schneider , Michael: Verschmitzt Jurg Baur und die Blockflote, in: Tibia 38 (2013), S. 418-431.

World premiere: Munster, November 15, 1960.

Recorder and Piano - Intermediate-Advanced

SKU: FP.FZZ26

Composed by Various. Edited by John Turner. Sheet Music and Books. This fourth volume in the Forsyth series of Recital Pieces for recorder and piano provides 8 superb concert pieces for the intermediate to advanced recorder player. Edited by recorder virtuosi John Turner, it includes works by Jim Parker and Peter Hope. N. Classical. Collection. Forsyths Publications #FZZ26. Published by Forsyths Publications (FP.FZZ26).

ISBN 9790570504046.

This new collection is bookended by beguiling and moderately easy works by two of Britain’s most distinguished composers of light music, Peter Hope and Jim Parker, whose music has been heard by millions of listeners and viewers. Sandwiched between these are several no less attractive concert pieces, including an evocation of the night sky in East Anglia, a gentle meditative view from a college window, and some finger-testing sparklers to entertain and test the virtuoso player’s technique.

Descant/Soprano Recorder and Piano. By Christopher Norton. (Recorder). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. Size 9x12 inches. Published by Boosey and Hawkes.