During lockdown I wrote some pieces with backing tracks for you to play along to. They’re free to download or you can play them from this site. Each piece has a written recorder part showing the playback time in case you need to start playback part way through the piece to practice a section or phrase.  The backings are recorded at both ‘performance’ and ‘rehearsal’ (slower) speeds. 

In the 2024 Winter edition of the Recorder Magazine my duet Moonlight and Shadows composed for tenor and bass recorders is featured as the centrefold.

Here is a recording in which Julie Dean plays both the tenor and bass parts.

I think the duet would also work well as a duet for great bass and contra bass (here is a pdf of the great bass part Moonlight & Shadow Gt Bassplay the bass part on contra) or what about a quartet with each part played in octaves?

Below is a list of the pieces I’ve done so far. Clicking on the title should take you to a new page with the downloadable files, more information about the pieces and a version of me struggling through the recorder part.

Cooped Up Blues – treble recorder (piano) – Moses

Fanny Power – descant recorder (guitar & Celtic harp) – O Carolan

Give Me Your Hand – descant recorder (guitar & Celtic harp) – O Cathain

London in November – treble recorder (piano & bass) – Moses

Pavane op.50 – treble recorder (piano & bass) – Faure

Salsa Alto – treble recorder (salsa band) – Moses

Bhangra Bounce – treble recorder (bhangra ensemble) – Moses

Return to Africa – treble recorder (African drums / marimba) – Moses

Playford Set 2 – descant recorder (lute) – arr. Moses

Sonata in F Op.1   G.F.Handel –  treble recorder (piano / bass) – arr. Moses

Three Traditional Irish Jigs? – treble recorder (Bouzouki, Celtic Harp, Guitar, Bodhran, Whistle) – arr. Moses

Sicilienne   G.Faure – treble recorder (piano, bass & drums) – arr. Moses

Shetland Springtime   Moses – treble recorder (keyboards, guitar, bass guitar & Shetland percussion)

Backroads Breakdown   Moses – treble recorder (electric guitar, bass guitar & drums)

Isolation Tango.  Moses – trable recorder (bandoneon, piano & bass)

Wind on Sand   Moses – treble recorder (Rabab, hand drum, zill-finger cymbals)

Rainy Afternoon in August   Moses – treble recorder (celeste, synthesiser, electric piano and bass)

 

Last updated 14 November 2024