Collection: Recordings

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 is a double CD of Ros Bandt's evocative music and intoxicating sound creations. It is inspired by and celebrates the Japanese Sea Whistle, the Isobue, an endangered sound of the Ama free divers who live in harmony with the ocean in their sustainable fishing.

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.

17th century Italian composer Girolamo Frescobaldi was conservative in style and yet an innovator in many ways. La Romanesca presents some of his improvisatory toccatas, imitative polyphonic instrumental music, and songs from his 'arie musicale' of 1630. Recorders: Ruth Wilkinson, Ros Bandt

Duo Blockstix is a unique and vibrant Australian ensemble featuring recorder player Alicia Crossley and percussionist Joshua Hill.

Robert Woodcock Concertos for Recorder and Oboe.

Anna Stegmann (recorder), Georg Fritz (oboe), Ensemble Odyssee

On this new release, Ensemble Odyssee presents the complete recorder and oboe concertos by Woodcock together with some lesser-known orchestra works by Charles Dieupart and Sammartini's celebrated recorder concerto in a new and fresh performance.

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

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

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.

Keyboard music from the French Baroque

Duo Nardoo (Zana Clarke and Peter Biffin) perform a collection of pieces on recorder and stringed instruments.