SKU: A0.545540

These five songs are beautifully arranged for piano and recorder. You can use Soprano, Alto or Tenor recorder. You receive the recorder parts, the piano parts and the scores.

This set includes Deck the Halls, Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, In Dulci Jubilo, Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring and Sussex Carol.

SKU: A0.1156940

This arrangement adapted for bass recorder and piano was designed to make its listeners weep with emotion, because the adaptation preserves the original essence of the work, keeping its integrity faithful to what Beethoven wanted to transmit, with only a slight change in tone and addition of harmonic resources in the structure of the arrangement. Even though it is a funeral march, it is well suited for any musical performance occasion, being intended for beginner students who want to immerse themselves in the universe of romantic music, and nothing better than starting with the transitional composer of this period, which also does not prevent professional teachers from using it for recitals, academic presentations or didactic material in their classes as an ensemble practice. Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor sharp, Op. 27, No. 2, is one of his most popular compositions and was an audience favorite even in his day. Written when Beethoven was 31, the Moonlight Sonata (Mondscheinsonate in German) was composed after he finished some commissioned works, but there is no evidence that he was hired to write this work. It did not receive its nickname until 1832, five years after Beethoven's death. It was the critic Ludwig Rellstab who compared the music to a moonlighting on Lake Lucerne. This comparison was adopted as a nickname for the work. Called Quasi una fantasia by the author - like its companion Op. 27, No. 1 - the piece was completed in 1801 and dedicated the following year to one of the composer's pupils. Beethoven chose to open the sonata with a slow, hypnotic arpeggio movement, the best known of the entire work. The dotted rhythm of its minimal melody evokes the tradition of 'Trauermusik' (funeral music).

SKU: A0.842530

12 Solo Quadrilles for Great Bass Recorder

Originally written for small orchestras or piano, our arrangements for solo Great Bass recorder work so well that it is hard to believe that  the pieces weren’t written for the recorder in the first place.

This edition of stunning, not too difficult, but fun solos is the ideal companion or addition to the 25 Progressive Studies for Great Bass Recorder and a great album of show-stoppers for professionals and students alike.

Quadrilles were fashionable dances of the late 18th to19th Centuries, performed by four couples in a rectangular formation. They consist of four to six movements (or contredanses, courtly versions of English country dances that had been taken up at the court of Louis XIV and spread across Europe.) and became a craze during the 19th century.

Though hundreds of quadrille sets were composed in the 19th , the names of the five parts (or figures) remained the same, as did the steps and the figures themselves:

Le Pantalon , L’été , La Poule , (Trénis ), La Pastourelle , Finale

This collection includes:

·        The Rats

·        Learning to Dance

·        Wide Awake

·        Melbourne

·        Polly

·        Osborne

·        Lancers’ Quadrille

·        Chevalresque

·        Fireman

·        Les Girards

·        Palermo

·        Caledonian