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 Bass – play 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
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)