Descant Recorder and
Piano -
Intermediate-Advanced
SKU: FP.FTJ04
Composed by John Turner.
Sheet Music and Books.
These new works by
composer and recorder
virtuosi John Turner are
sure to join his previous
works such as Four
Diversions and Six
Bagatelles as core pieces
in the contemporary
recorder repertoire.
Classical. Score and
part. Forsyths
Publications #FTJ04.
Published by Forsyths
Publications (FP.FTJ04).
ISBN
9790570503902.
Thre
e Salutes was written for
the seventieth birthday
of the composer Nicholas
Marshall. The first
performance in Great
Britain was given on 29th
September 2012, by the
composer and the
dedicatee, at the Temple
Church, Budleigh
Salterton, Devon, and the
first overseas
performance was given on
27th October 2012 at
Kuwana City Hall, Mie
Prefecture, Japan, by
Hidehiro Nakamura and
Yuka Sasaki.
A
Whirl received its first
performance at Wakefield
Cathedral on 15th
February 1992 by the
composer and Jonathan
Bielby, in celebration of
the marriage of Jonathan
Bielby and Jayne
Hall.
John Turner
was born in Stockport in
1943, and is one of the
leading recorder players
of today. He was Senior
Scholar in Law at
Fitzwilliam College,
Cambridge, and as a
practising solicitor
acted for many leading
musicians and musical
organisations. He has
premièred over 500
works for his instrument,
including concertos
written for him by
Kenneth Leighton, Anthony
Gilbert, Gordon Crosse,
John Casken, Stephen
Dodgson, Elis Pehkonen,
John Gardner, Peter Hope
and many others. His
discoveries include
recorder works by Handel,
John Parry (The
Nightingale Rondo, being
the only known British
nineteenth
century
concert work
for a fipple flute), Alan
Rawsthorne and Antony
Hopkins. His own recorder
compositions, notably
Four Diversions and Six
Bagatelles (both in the
Forsyth catalogue), are
standard repertoire and
examination pieces for
the instrument worldwide.
He was made a Fellow of
the Royal Northern
College of usic in 2002
for his services to
British music and is a
Distinguished Visiting
Scholar of Manchester
University.
Jay Lichtmann
