Recorder Festival 2025

The Early Music Shop presents, in partnership with the Society of Recorder Players, Recorder Festival 2025. Join us from 30th May to 1st June!

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Recorder31 | 2021

Day 13 | Recorder31
Today we start alto (or treble) recorder week of our month long event Recorder31. Upcoming this week is our alto playing competition which starts tomorrow, an in conversation and recording with Chris Orton, a video premiere by Anna Stegmann and La Risonanza and more! ...
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Day 12 | Recorder31
Today we're delighted to share three performances by Eliza Haskins. The first two are live performances from ORDA 2019 where Eliza won 1st prize in her category. The final video is one that Eliza made during lockdown last year with percussionist Toril Azzalini-Machecler and is a fusion of folk and jazz.
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Day 11 | Recorder31
Today we’re taking a look at baroque pitch, what it is as well as a bit of history. Today baroque pitch is known as a=415Hz, which is a semi-tone below modern pitch.
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Day 10 | Recorder31
For today's Recorder31 post we take a look at some soprano and sopranino recorder repertoire. We finish with our top 5 picks for each recorder!
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Day 9 | Recorder31
We caught up with Annabel Knight last week to talk about everything recorder including Annabel's playing, her teaching, Birmingham Conservatoire, tips for people wanting to audition and the outlook for the recorder!
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Day 8 | Recorder31
In the eighteenth century it was usual for woodwind players to play multiple instruments, just as it is today. The most common instruments for doubling with the recorder were the baroque flute and the baroque oboe.
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Day 7 | Recorder31
This week we've chosen one of the versions of Pavaen Lachrymae by Jacob Van Eyck from his Der Fluyten Lust-hof. This week the competition is sponsored by Mollenhauer and the prize up for grabs is a Mollenhauer Denner soprano recorder in grenadilla worth £395!
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Day 6 | Recorder31

This week it's soprano week and we're including all the small recorders, so that's sopranos (descants), sopranos and garkleins. Mary-Jannet Leith introduces the soprano recorder for us and takes us through its history and the developments in its design.

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Day 5 | Recorder31
Watch our "in conversation with" video where we caught up with international recorder player and teacher Anna Stegmann to talk about everything recorder!
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