Latest Content
Below, you will find a list of new pieces, along with the date they were added. For each piece we have included a 20 second sample for you to audition. All the sample clips are free to listen to whether you are a member or not. We hope you will like them and perhaps consider becoming a member.
June 23
This months new music includes 5 more Bransles from the Terpsichore… we preview two here… In addition there are Fantasias by Purcell and Ward and the beautiful Vocalise by Rachmaninoff…. and for the premium subscribers, Gustav Holst’s Fugal concerto in a brand new arrangement for 7 recorders.
The Coronation – May 23
We are celebrating the coronation this month and it is not possible to have a coronation without the Zadok the Priest…. Try out our new 19 part arrangement… there is something for everyone, with both easy and difficult parts. Although Premium content, we will be making this arrangement and a selection of other items free for the week.
We also have a new composer to Consorts. Anthony St Pierre will be no stranger to our North America colleagues as he writes plenty of recorder music and works very closely with the ARS. His Medieval Suite is a trio which is both fun to play and not too difficult.
Our more usual upload of music also includes Boismortiers 1st Concerto for 5 Flutes (Trebles), four more Venetian Canzons by Maschera, a Fantasia sextet by Martin Pearson and an 8 part Sonata from the SPCM by Schmeltzer.
Easter 23
Two exclusives this month… The Universal Sparrow is a suite of 5 trios by Spanish composer Victor Carbajo… lovely music, relatively easy and well worth a play! Coupled with that there is an exclusive Consorts edition of The Menuet Antique by Maurice Ravel for the premium subscribers. Add to that 3 more Bransles from the Terpsichore… very easy to play and all arranged for double quintet… along with another of Telemann’s Duo Sonatas.
March 23
Top of the bill this month is Telemann’s Ouverture suite ‘La Lyra’. It is wonderful music and not too difficult to play either in this brand new arrangement. We add 5 more Maschera Canzon’s to the Venetian collection in a mixture of high and low voice recordings. John Jenkin’s appears for the first time with his Fantasia No2… which has some surprisingly tricky rhythms and finally, there is Contrapunctus 7 by the master himself – JS Bach. Enjoy!
Feb 23
This month, we complete the Holborne project and all 65 pieces he wrote are now posted… We also have two more Fantasias by Purcell, a suite by Johannes Schein and for the premium subscribers, a brand new arrangement for quartet of the Op.1 A minor Sonata by Georg Handel.
Christmas 2022
This month, we will celebrate Christmas and that means Consorts has some festive content to enjoy! As Christmas gift to all our subscribers, free samples, standard or premium, there is an arrangement of the Gloucestershire Wassail.
Two movements from Tchaikovsky sparkling Christmas masterpiece – The Nutcracker, two beautiful carols by Peter Warlock and a Christmas Concerto by Manfredini. Christmas is also a time of joy and fun, so what better than some Scott Joplin… we start our Joplin collection with two of his best known pieces, Bethana Waltz and the Entertainer Rag. …and finally for those just wanting more repertoire, we have Suite No. 1 by Johann Schein.
Peter Warlock
Scott Joplin
Peter Tchaikovsky
Peter Warlock
November 2022
Th November collection includes the next four Venetian Canzons from the Washington Recorder Society Collection, two Oxford Fantasias by John Ward from the Dolmetsch library and for our premium subscribers a brand new arrangement of Crisantemi by Puccini a beautiful miniature, originally for string quartet… but we think works well on recorders.
October 2022
New this month, we items 60, 61 and 62 from Anthony Holborne’s collection of dances… Two Fantazias by Henry Purcell and a Quartet from Tafelmusik by G.P. Telemann.
