Recorder Sonata Flûte à Bec, Piano - Avancé Forsyth Publications
Recorder and Piano - Advanced SKU: FP.FHP05 Composed by Peter Hope. Sheet...(+)
Recorder and Piano -
Advanced
SKU:
FP.FHP05
Composed by
Peter Hope. Sheet Music
and Books. A perfect
recital piece for
intermediate to advanced
recorder players, opening
with an introspective and
romantic Fantasia, which
gives way to a melodious
Threnody, and finally a
technically challenging
Moto Perpetuo influenced
by jazz and folk rhythms.
Classical. Score and
part. Forsyths
Publications #FHP05.
Published by Forsyths
Publications (FP.FHP05).
ISBN
9790570504039.
Pete
r Hope's Recorder Sonata
is the most substantial
piece in his growing body
of work for the recorder,
published by Forsyth.
Hope has written and
arranged for many
internationally known
names, including Jose
Carreras and Kiri te
Kanawa, and other
composers including John
Williams and James
Horner. His original
compositions include the
Suite: Ring of Kerry
(which won an Ivor
Novello Award in 1968/9),
a Trumpet Concerto,
performed by Elgar
Howarth, a Concertino for
bassoon and orchestra,
recorded by Graham
Salvage with the Royal
Ballet Sinfonia, and a
Recorder Concerto,
recorded by John Turner
with the Manchester
Camerata Ensemble. His
Bramall Hall Dances, for
recorder and guitar/piano
are published by Forsyth
has become a standard
repertoire work for the
recorder.
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.
Recorder and Piano - Advanced SKU: FP.FDD02 Composed by David Dubery. She...(+)
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.