The SRP National Festival is about bringing recorder players together to make music, and the most important parts of the festival are the group and massed playing sessions. The smaller group sessions are graded according to ability, whilst the massed playing sessions offer an opportunity for everyone at the festival to perform together. We’re delighted that Marg Hall, Graham Hamlett and John Hawkes will be bringing their new compositions to the group playing sessions.
Joris van Goethem of the Flanders Recorder Quartet will conduct the Saturday massed playing session in a new piece by Rosemary Robinson commissioned for the festival, and the festival closes on a local note with massed playing of a concerto by the Newcastle baroque composer Charles Avison, conducted by Mary Tyers, Festival Director and Musical Director of the Durham SRP Branch.
Massed Playing Sessions
Sunday: Festival Commission “Dunholm Suite” by Rosemary Robinson, conducted by Joris van Goethem.
Group Playing Sessions: Conductors and Repertoire
EASY | LOWER INTERMEDIATE | INTERMEDIATE| UPPER INTERMEDIATE | DIFFICULT
Download full timetable & map (PDF)Please note that all playing session details are subject to change without notice. The festival will finish at approx. 3.30p.m. on the Sunday afternoon.
| Conductor | Music | Instruments |
|---|---|---|
| EASY | To menu | |
| Easy: Saturday | ||
| Marg Hall |
Six Irish Airs: Arr. Marg Hall |
SAT |
| Moira Usher | Four Chorales: J.S.Bach | SATB |
| Josee Beeson | Five Icelandic Folksongs: Eileen Silcocks | SAAT |
| Ruth Burbidge | Songs vol. 2: Ludwig Senfl | SATB |
| Matthew Taylor | More Spirituals You Might Know: Steve Marshall | SATB |
| Easy: Sunday | ||
| Anne Marie Klein | Il Primo Libro de Balli: Giorgio Mainerio | SATB |
| Ann Marshall | Ann’s Choice vol.5, various: (arr. A.M.) | SATB |
| To menu | ||
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Lower-intermediate: Saturday |
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Piers Adams |
Dances (The Honey Suckle, the Night Watch, Heigh Ho Holiday, Galliard): Holborne | |
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Josee Beeson |
Suite from ‘Danserye’: Susato | S/ATTB |
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Steve Marshall |
Santa Maria, Strela Do Dia: Alfonso el Sabio |
SopSSAATTBBGbCb |
| John Hawkes |
Bonny Tyneside: Paul Clark |
SAATB |
| Sandra Foxall |
Fantasia à 6: John Wibye |
SSAATB |
| Matthew Taylor |
Moments of delight: G. Russell-Smith |
SSAATB |
| Graham Hamlett |
Ushaw (Moor and College): Graham Hamlett |
SAATTBGb |
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Lower-intermediate: Sunday |
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Harriet Oliver |
Quatro Fontane Triste: Bjorn Hagvall |
SATB |
| Joan Reeve |
Canzon on ‘O Nachbar Roland’: Samuel Scheidt |
SSATB |
| Alyson Lewin |
Susanna Faire Lassus/Ferrabosco |
SATTB |
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To menu | |
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Intermediate: Saturday |
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| Mary Tyers |
Concerto in G: Avison |
SATB |
| Helen Hooker |
Overture – The Old Bachelor: Henry Purcell |
SATBGb |
| Mary Tyers |
Mass a 4-In Stile Antico – Kyrie/Gloria: Monteverdi |
ATTB |
| Pamela Flanagan |
Country Club: Scott Joplin |
SATBGbCb |
| Terry Smurthwaite |
Jubilate Deo: Giovanni Gabrielli |
SSAATTBB |
| Joris van Goethem |
Viva Vivaldi: concerto op.3 no.4 |
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Intermediate: Sunday |
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| Terry Smurthwaite |
Pasacaille: G.F. Handel |
SATB |
| Pamela Flanagan |
Nonet – Minuet: Franz Krommer |
SAATTBBGbCb |
| Ruth Burbidge |
Wild Thyme: Arthur Butterworth |
SATB |
| Mary Tyers |
Mass a 4 In Stile Antico – Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei: Monteverdi |
ATTB |
| Joan Reeve |
I’m beginning to see the light: Ellington. Stormy Weather: Arlen (arr. Southern) |
SAATTBB |
| Sheila Richards |
Prelude & Fugue on ‘Nun Danket Alle Gott’: P. Fletcher |
SATBGbCb |
| To menu | ||
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Upper intermediate: Saturday |
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| Piers Adams | Quartet: Francis Baines | AATT |
| Lynne Hope |
Hymnus de Adventi: arr. Tom Beets |
SATB (TBGbCb) |
| Joan Reeve | Opus 42: F.J. Haydn | SATB |
| Steve Marshall | The Long Path Home: Steve Marshall | SopSSAATTBBGbCb |
| Michael Graham |
Joshua: Paul Richard |
SSATBB or SATBCb |
| Harriet Oliver |
Yorkshire Dales Suite: Judith Bush |
SATB |
| Michael Graham |
Bristolian Rhapsody: Michael Graham |
SATBGbCb |
| Marg Hall |
Klesmer Swing: Marg Hall |
SATB |
| Upper intermediate: Sunday | ||
| Sandra Foxall |
Suite Pastiche: Denis Bloodworth |
SATTBB |
| Michael Graham |
Four Scottish Folksongs: Paul Clark |
SAATB |
| Sheila Richards | Taradiddle: P.Richards | SATB |
| Harriet Oliver | The Foggy Dew: Pieter Campo | SATB(GbCb) |
| DIFFICULT |
|
To menu |
| Difficult: Saturday | ||
| Helen Hooker |
The Boxwood Bounce: Ken Andresen |
SATB |
| Alyson Lewin |
T’andernaken: Anon |
ATTBB |
| Anne Marie Klein |
Das ist meine Freude: Johann Ludwig Bach |
SATB + SATB |
| Lynne Hope |
Three Tudor Cats: Antony Baldwin (arr.LH) |
SATB (TBGbCb) |
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Difficult: Sunday |
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| Moira Usher |
Liebenauer Tanze: Victor Fortin |
SopSATBGb |
| John Hawkes |
Quartet No.9 ‘Changing Times’: John Hawkes |
SATB |