CONCERTO for Treble Recorder

My Concerto for Recorder, Strings and Percussion was commissioned for Evelyn Nallen and the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra and composed in 1979. I was much absorbed by composing concertante works at the time and in fact wrote six concertos that year, each involving a wind instrument. Somewhat amusingly there were two performances of the work within a month or so, each labelled a 'world premiere'. The first was for a TV feature about the writing of the piece and was with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes. However, this was not shown until the first live performance conducted by Vernon Handley had taken place.
Writing a concerto for recorder is not very easy. With a working range of about an octave-and-a-half it is difficult to give a feeling of virtuosity and with such a small sound the player can easily be swamped by the band. Yet it is a work of which I am very fond. As with a lot of my music it is a portrait of the dedicatee and the three movemen

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