Orpheus Music publishes contemporary recorder music featuring such composers as Diana Blom, Nigel Butterley, Zana Clarke, Justo Diaz, Lance Eccles, Ross Edwards, Malcolm Tattersall and Benjamin Thorn.
We represent over 70 composers, including many young composers, with more than 260 works that provide a wide range of styles and genres for one to ten recorder players. We also have a useful Recorder Composing Guide and Glossary of Unusual Recorder Techniques for those interested in writing for the recorder.
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Score 15 pp.
Contemporary Pieces. Tuneful, rhythmic duets with a good range of moods from whimsical to boppy. Makes good use of cross rhythms.
OMP023 Ross Edwards Ten Little Duets
Ten Little Duets by Ross Edwards are graded as moderate, for two C recorders (two tenors or sopranos) though for some sopranino is coupled with alto, both reading as C instruments; for others tenor and bass are suggested (reading from treble clef) and for one even sopranino and bass. The lower voice dwells in the first octave, the upper one occasionally reaching to upper A. Within the mostly simple time signatures employed there are some nice jazzy rhythms and three of the duets explore the 3/4-6/8 dichotomy, while the last number, "Celebration", has some quite searching rhythms in its basic 5/8-time. I particularly liked the energetic "Mbira" and "Echoes" and the wistful "Ocarinas" that exploits supertriplets. There is plenty here to interest and encourage intermediate players, especially on the rhythmical front. It is a re-publication of 1977, and well worth the revival.
Paul Clark, The Recorder Magazine, Summer 1999
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