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Complete Edition with full commentary by Marijke Oostenkamp and Bernard Thomas 4 livrets Jacob van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-Hof is the earliest surviving collection of music for recorder. It is essential repertoire for all recorder players, and provides in effect an excellent handbook on the art of improvising variations. To understand this music, it is necessary to know the melodies used by Van Eyck and the harmonies that were associated with them in his day. To this end, the new Dolce edition of the collection includes a commentary volume that gives original versions from contemporary sources, with harmony (or at least a bass part); The list of other surviving settings of the tunes is also invaluable in devising programmes or lectures.

If you are a keen recorder player, and find yourself marooned on a desert island, this should be your one choice of music. / Flûte A Bec Soprano Et Piano

or alto recorder and continuo. These two pieces are not from the set printed by Walsh, but from manuscript collections in Parma and Detroit in which they have been arranged for recorder. Important new repertoire for the serious player.

THE JACOBEAN COLLECTION, Volume I: 18 Pieces for alto recorder and keyboard, ed. Larry Bernstein. This anthology fills an important gap in two ways: there is relatively little easy music for alto and continuo, and practically nothing from the 17th century. Dances by Horne, Adson and Dowland, some very lively masque tunes, and a magnificent set of variations, Dr. Bull's Ground. Score and part

THE DUO COLLECTION, 35 Pieces for 2 alto recorders, arr. Larry Bernstein. This substantial anthology ranging from the 13th to the 19th centuries has got to be the finest of its kind, with canons, sonatas, motets, fantasies, popular song arrangements by Praetorius, Giamberti, Corelli, Morley, Josquin, T

Airs tirés notamment de Indian Queen, King Arthur, Fairy Queen Instrumentation : Flb sopr, piano

9 Pieces for 2 Soprano Recorders and Continuo Edited by Bernard Thomas Banchieri - Sonata sopra l'aria musicale del gran duca Marini - Sonata per doi flautini Marini - Corrente La Martia Marini - Brando Il Barizone Rossi - Sonata undecima detta la scaltola Riccio - Canzona La Rubina Buonamente - Gagliarda undecima Merula - Sinfonia (QuintoTuono) Brunelli - Ballo