Northern Recorder Course 2013
Plans for the 2013 course are now well underway. In the meantime we’ve left
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Northern Recorder Course 2012
We had a fantastic week at Bawtry Hall on the 2012 NRC. We explored a wide range of music from Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel Im Speigel to Cangiasi’s Canzonas played at Eight Foot pitch. We learnt how to play Jazz properly on recorders and gave a swinging rendition of ‘Turkey In The Straw’. Once again the NRC pioneered a new idea with two Chamber Orchestras running all week; one with ‘Easier’ and one with ‘Harder’ music.
But it's not just recorders at the NRC…
We had a go at playing Hümmelchen and sounding like Bumble Bees. The number of Gemshorns increases every year and we had a veritable Gemshorn orchestra on the course. Our Renaissance Band was the best ever with a solid base end supplemented by a Rackett and Serpent.
One of the highlights of the course was playing Helen Hooker’s magnificent arrangement of Eric Coates’ ‘The Dam Busters March’ in the ex-RAF Bomber Command. The forest of Contra and Sub Basses mimicking the Lancaster Bombers in such an atmospheric setting was spine-tingling!
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