Recorder Music
Listening Page

Listen to early music
as well as popular and folk music
arranged for the recorder.

Selections arranged and synthesized by:

Jim Phypers

Where I live:

In the desert foothills
west of Tucson, Arizona

What I'm doing there:

Performing music on the recorder now and then
and producing accompaniments on the computer.

My wife and I are constructing a straw bale house
and generating all of our electricity with solar and wind power.
We call our place Solar Haven.

The Recorder Selections

 
Click on the title of each selection to listen.

          

• "Alta" - Dance from the late Middle Ages/early Renaissance by Francisco de la Torre, c.1500
  
  

• "Irlandaise"- Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano by Claude Bolling
  (1973), originally written for French flutist, Jean-Pierre Rampal
  
  
  

• "Colors of the Wind" - Song from "Pochahantis" by Alan Menken (music) and Stephen Schwartz (lyrics), 1996 - (lyrics, very special)
  
  
  

• "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" - Song from the "Lion King" by Elton John (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics), 1994 - (lyrics)
  
  
  

• "Erev Shel Shoshanim" - (Evening of Roses) - Israeli folk melody and dance by Moshe Dor (music) and Yosef Hadar (lyrics), 1940's
  
  
  

• "Hello" - Popular song by Lionel Riche, 1985 Grammy Award winner (lyrics)
  
  
  "Innsbruck" - Beautiful song of the early Renaissance by Heinrich Isaac, 1450-1517 (a personal opinion)  
  
  
  Picture at right: This instrument is the largest member of the recorder family, the sub-contrabass recorder. It was made by the lady who is playing it, Adriana Breuknik. She lives in Holland.
  
  

• "Ja Nuns Hon Pris" - Medieval ballad by King Richard I Lionheart, 1157-1199
  (lyrics and a crash, brush-up history lesson)
  
  
  

• "Lord Franklin" - English folk song (lyrics and some quite interesting historical information)
  
  
  

• "Nice 'n Easy" - Light jazz selection by Brian Bonsor
  
  
  

• "Pastyme With Good Company" - Renaissance song by Henry VIII Tudor of England, 1491-1547 (most interesting lyrics, a little historical information, and a picture)
  
  
  

• "Welcome" - Irish folk song by Thurlough O'Carolan (1670 -1738) - fascinating blind harpist of Ireland who combined both folk and classical Baroque elements in his music
  
  
  

• "With Cheerful Notes" - Baroque masterpiece from the Chandos Anthem No. 9 by George Fredrick Handel , 1685-1759 (brief biography of Handel with pictures)
  
  

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"The Amazing Recorder"


A brief two-page illustrated history of the recorder
for folks who are relatively unfamiliar with the instrument.

"Producing the Recorder MIDI's"


How the recorder music MIDI's were produced.
("Everything you thought you never particularly wanted to know about MIDI,
but should have asked about anyway.")

click here