Composition
SKU:
FP.FTJ06
Composed by
John Turner. Sheet Music
and Books. Recorder
virtuosi and composer
John Turner's
indispensible new guide
for composers writing for
the solo recorder. This
hugely useful book
features chapters on the
history of recorder
composition, as well as
the instrument's range,
player technique, dynami.
Classical, Instructional.
Reference Book. Forsyths
Publications #FTJ06.
Published by Forsyths
Publications (FP.FTJ06).
ISBN
9780951479537.
Comp
osing for the recorder
can be intimidating for
those with limited or no
experience playing the
instrument. John Turner's
new book is the ideal
primer, taking the would
be recorder composer on a
journey through the
history of recorder
composition, and onwards
to explore player
techniques and the
musicality offered by
this versatile
instrument. Each section
is extensively referenced
to exisiting
compositions, providing a
fantastic platform for
further research by the
reader.
About the
Author:
JOHN
TURNER is one of the
leading recorder players
of today. Born in
Stockport, he was Senior
Scholar in Law at
Fitzwilliam College
Cambridge before pursuing
a legal career, acting
for many distinguished
musicians and musical
organisations alongside
his many musical
activities. These
included numerous
appearances and
recordings with David
Munrow's Early Music
Consort of London, the
Academy of Ancient Music,
the English Chamber
Orchestra, the Academy of
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
and the English Baroque
Soloists. He now devotes
his time to playing,
writing, reviewing,
publishing, composing and
generally
energising.
He has
played as recorder
soloist with the Halle
Orchestra, the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Manchester
Camerata, the English
Baroque Soloists, the
English Chamber
Orchestra, and many other
leading orchestras and
ensembles. Concertos and
works with orchestra have
been written for him by
Gordon Crosse, Anthony
Gilbert, Peter Hope,
Kenneth Leighton, Elis
Pehkonen, Alan Bullard,
John Casken, and many
other distinguished
composers. His recordings
include no less than five
sets of the Brandenburg
Concertos, as well as the
F Major version of
Brandenburg Concerto No.
4 with Menuhin and George
Malcolm, but lately he
has madenumerous
acclaimed recordings of
the recorder’s
contemporary concerto and
chamber music repertoire,
including several
concerto discs, all of
which have received
critical acclaim. In all,
he has given the first
performances of over 600
works for the recorder,
with works by many
non-British composers,
including Leonard
Bernstein, Ned Rorem,
Peter Sculthorpe, Douglas
Lilburn and Petr
Eben.
Many of the
works he has premiered
have now entered the
instrument’s
standard repertoire, and
these and his own
recorder compositions are
regularly set for
festivals and
examinations. He edits
series of recorder
publications for both
Forsyths and Peacock
Press, and founded the
periodical Manchester
Sounds, in response to
the perceived threat to
music libraries in Great
Britain. In addition he
was responsible for the
rediscovery of several
works for his instrument,
including the Rawsthorne
Recorder Suite, Antony
Hopkins' Pastiche Suite,
Herbert Murrill’s
Sarabande, the Handel F
Major Trio Sonata and
John Parry's Nightingale
Rondo (the only
substantial known British
nineteenth century work
for a fipple flute). He
was awarded an Honorary
Fellowship by the Royal
Northern College of Music
in 2002 for his services
to British music, and is
a Visiting Distinguished
Scholar of Manchester
University.
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