
Introduction
On the Catalogue page you'll find all kinds of arrangements I've made from the end of 2021 to the present for the recorder ensembles I've played with. There are now more than 170 works for groups ranging from trio through to septet, featuring pieces from the renaissance to the 20th century. Many of the pieces aren't available commercially.
Inevitably some of the pieces are harder to play than others and in the notes for each composer I've tried to indicate the difficulties to expect. The pieces originally composed for wind ensemble do contain some challenging passages, so are not easy sight-reads and definitely benefit from a bit of practice before a session. The Mark Hedien quartets are fiendish in parts!
The downloads are zip files containing a score and parts for each work, or playing score only for very short works. I'm in the process of adding 30-second, computer-generated extracts to at least some of the listings, beginning with composers and pieces that are perhaps less familiar.
All of the original pieces that the arrangements are based on are in the public domain and most are freely available from IMSLP or CPDL. I've also used the resources at IDRS to proof-read the Danzi and Reicha quintets. The only copyright restriction on the arrangements (and the pieces composed by Mark Hedien) is that attribution of the composer/arranger is preserved.
Recent Additions
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Coming soon...
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John Taverner's mass "The Western Wynde"
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More madrigals by Morley, Ward and Wilbye
About Me
I live in north-west England. I'm very much an amateur musician, initially a violinist but I've been playing recorder since 1990, and I was a member of Wirral Recorder Orchestra for more than 20 years.
I'm currently playing in a group that varies between 4 and 7 players as well as a quintet that I set up to play some of the more challenging pieces I've arranged.
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