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La Romanesca presents a portrait of the musical diversity of Spanish song in the period immediately preceding both the great expulsion and Columbus' great voyages. Music of christian, moorish, jewish Spain before 1492. Recorders: Ruth Wilkinson, Ros Bandt

Australian recorder virtuoso Alicia Crossley and the acclaimed Acacia Quartet present the premiere recording of Australian compositions for recorder and string quartet inspired by poetry, mythology, historic tunes and storybook characters.

CD Recording: Music from 12th and 13th century Spain. Features songs by Martin Codax, Marcabru and other unknown composers. Recorders: Ruth Wilkinson, Ros Bandt

Traditional folk songs arranged for percussion, piano, recorder, guitar, harp, violin, mandolin and voices. An Orff influenced music education resource, to stimulate listening, dancing, moving and creating.

Louisa Hunter-Bradley is a leading performer of Australian contemporary music for recorder and voice alike.

ECM recording artist and Carmo Records founder Egberto Gismonti was astonished, but also very pleased, to receive in 1998 an album by the unorthodox Melbourne-based duo of Rodney Waterman and Doug de Vries: ?I?m still surprised by the instrumentation,? Gismonti confessed. ?I didn?t expect to hear this much music from recorder and guitar!? Recorder: Rodney Waterman.

This recording of recorder sonatas by Handel and an 18th c. transcription of the Royal Fireworks Suite is the work of three Melbournians who have made important contributions to early music performance in Australia for over thirty years. Recorder: Ruth Wilkinson

Salut! Baroque is one of Australia's most dynamic early music ensembles, bringing together Australia's finest baroque musicians in a chamber orchestra of up to twelve members. This CD features baroque by a range of baroque composers for a variety of different instruments. Recorder: Hans-Dieter Michatz

Alicia Crossley is one of Australia?s leading recorder players. She performs a wide variety of repertoire from renaissance dance tunes to contemporary electro-acoustic works with a particular interest in bass recorder repertoire. Alicia is a passionate supporter of contemporary Australian recorder repertoire and has collaborated with a number of Australian composers.

Rodney Waterman is a performer, teacher and composer who specialises in the recorder. 12 Fantasias for Solo Recorder is a series of improvisations, released in 2020.

Amsterdam-based Ensemble Odyssee presents the Concertos op. 3 for sixth flute (a soprano recorder in D) of William Babell, mostly known (in his day and now) for his demanding arrangements for harpsichord of arias of his contemporary, George Frideric Handel.

Recorder: Anna Stegmann and Maria Martinez Ayerza

Vocal and instrumental music from 17th- and 18th-century Naples.

Early and contemporary music by Merula, Ysaÿe, Bartók, Berio & Jiménez.

Anna Stegmann - recorders

Jorge Jiménez - violin, vielle, electronics

Eleven tracks from the Medusa Ensemble, combining harp, tarhu, flute, air whistle, guitarviol, percussion, all live processed. Ros Bandt and the Medusa Ensemble: Erdem Helvacioglu, Natalia Mann, Izzet Kizil.

Capella Corelli has long been one of Australia's foremost baroque chamber ensembles. In this recording they present a collection of duos featuring the baroque violin and recorder combination. Some works also feature the bass viola da gamba.

Artists: Ruth Wilkinson (Recorder, Viola da gamba), Cynthia O'Brien (Baroque Violin)

Alicia Crossley, one of Australia's leading recorder players, presents an exciting program of new Australian works for Bass recorder. With diverse compositions written by some of Australia?s leading female composers, Bass Instincts explores the instinctual musicality, versatility and virtuosity of this unique instrument.

Flanders Recorder Quartet is made up of Bart Spanhove, Paul Van Loey, Tom Beets and Joris Van Goethem.

Final Favourites is the ultimate plea for the recorder of the Flanders Recorder Quartet - a Best-of Album, though its content is often unexpected! From Bach and Landeghem to the more obscure, Final Favourites pays tribute to the sense of Gratitude.

Both Anna Stegmann on Recorders and Jorge Jimenez on Violin, Viola, Vielle and Electronics combine their expertise in early music performance and cross borders towards the repertoire of later centuries, including unconventional arrangements, and improvisation in multiple styles.

Anna Stegmann on Recorders and Jorge Jimenez on Violin, Viola, Vielle and Electronics follow up their successful debut album 'Lunaris'. These experts in historically informed performance practice have created with 'Zenith' a new sound world all their own. Zenith blends medieval melodies with electronic sounds and haunting traditional tunes with innocent song.

Composer: Sieg - Soren

Performers: Soren Sieg and Chris Orton

Instrumentation: Recorder and Piano

NB: CD & Booklet only

CD Recording Only

CD Recording: Together, two of Australia's finest young musicians present a unique programme of traditional Irish folk melodies, baroque virtuosity, contemporary Australian works and medieval dance music. Recorder: Genevieve Lacey