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 26 pp. Parts 7 pp. Contemporary Piece. Fascinating and rhythmically complex sextet, with lots of swapping of instruments inspired by Cipriano de Rore's madrigal Anchor che col partire but very much a modern deconstruction. D 1. Partita OMP142 Luigi Antonio Irlandini, Partita. Works for large recorder ensembles seems to be very fashionable these days. Irlandini's Partita, a difficu
Score 26 pp. Parts 7 pp.
Contemporary Piece. Fascinating and rhythmically complex sextet, with lots of swapping of instruments inspired by Cipriano de Rore's madrigal Anchor che col partire but very much a modern deconstruction. D
1. Partita
OMP142 Luigi Antonio Irlandini, Partita.
Works for large recorder ensembles seems to be very fashionable these days. Irlandini's Partita, a difficult and densely dissonant composition, was written for two professional groups (a quartet and a duo) from Amsterdam. The composer lists Cipriano de Rore's madrigal "Anchor che col partita" as fundamental source material, though even the most informed listener would surely have a hard time making that connection. An elaborate explanation of the borrowed material and how it was used is given in the preface to the edition.
More obvious and memorable is the wide range of sound Irlandini obtains from the six players by having them double on various sizes of recorders from soprano to contra bass.
Irlandini uses staggered and highly irregular entrances, each marked with an accent. When put in the context of a continually more c omplex web of sound, dissonant harmony, and extremely complex rhythmic configurations, these are very hard to pull off.
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