Links to other sites of interest
Rather than listing the many dozens of sites on recorder playing or early music in general, here are a few of the more useful sites for those interested in NRC. The description of each site is taken directly from the homepage in question. Please note that although the links should work, none of the sites have been checked for useability.
Tutors and performers
- Ruth Burbidge: Recorder MusicMail
- An excellent source for all types of recorder music: supplier to the Northern Recorder Course.
- http://www.recordermail.co.uk
- phone (+44) 01422 882751
- John Hawkes
- For further information about John Hawkes visit his website below:
- http://www.johnhawkes.co.uk
- Helen Hooker
- Helen Hooker's website:
- http://www.helenhooker.co.uk
- Steve Marshall: May Hill Edition
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May Hill Edition is a new collection of compositions and arrangements by Steve Marshall. Over the years Steve has written music for choirs, opera groups, jazz and rock bands and the theatre, but May Hill Edition concentrates on music for recorders.
It is possible to hear all of the pieces before buying at the May Hill Edition site - http://www.mayhill.co.uk
Course suppliers and other sites of interest
- Cheltenham Recorder Festival
- Details of the 2008 Festival can be found on its new website as below:
- http://www.cheltenhamrecorderfestival.org.uk
- www.chestertourism.com
- Chester, where to stay and what to do
- http://www.chestertourism.com
- Dolmetsch
The Dolmetsch family has devoted 120 years to music, in particular 'early music'
- This is a well developed and useful resource for the recorder and its music.
- http://www.dolmetsch.com
- The Early Music Shop
the largest single source of early musical instruments worldwide
- EMS will be present at the NRC during the course with a varied range of instruments, accessories and CDs.
- http://www.e-m-s.com
- Making Music
- Making Music. formerly the National Federation of Music Societies, represent over 2300 voluntary music making organisations in the UK.
- http://www.makingmusic.org.uk
- Manchester Recorder Orchestra
- The biggest and best - our own entirely biased view:
- http://www.mro-online.co.uk
- NEMA - The National Early Music Association
National Early Music Association is a coordinating organisation for all concerned with early music, whether professional or amateur - performer, teacher, researcher, instrument maker, promoter or listener.
- http://www.nema-uk.org/
- NWEMF - the North West Early Music Forum
Aims to promote interest in the study and informed performance of early music, especially Renaissance and Baroque.
- http://www.nwemf.org.uk
- pOLyPhoNiCA Recorder Trio
- Grace Barton's trio: Grace has both tutored and been a student on the NRC
Presenting the recorder as a truly versatile instrument. Our repertoire encompasses sacred and secular music and works requiring virtuosic technique, from the Medieval period to the 21st Century.
- http://www.polyphonica.eu
- Recorder Home Page
Links to articles, lists, catalogues and databases concerning all aspects of the recorder worldwide. An ideal springboard for players, students, teachers, makers and researchers alike.
- http://www.recorderhomepage.net
- Recorder MusicMail
- An excellent source for all types of recorder music: supplier to the Northern Recorder Course.
- http://www.recordermail.co.uk
- phone (+44) 01422 882751
- recorders@plymouth
- This is our home recorder group; if you're ever in Plymouth, with or without recorders, come and join in.
- http://www.recordersatplymouth.org.uk
- SRP - the Society of Recorder Players
For more than sixty years the Society of Recorder Players has been stimulating interest and enjoyment in the art of recorder playing.
- http://www.srp.org.uk
- Ogg Vorbis information
- This is the home page of Ogg Vorbis. This is an open source, royalty free music compression system. Compression rates and audio quality are supposedly better than MP3. Here you will find more information about the format as well as software for your own platform if you are lacking it.
- http://www.vorbis.com
- Visitwirral.com
- A website about events, places to visits and accommodation etc. on the Wirral and surrounding areas.
- http://www.visitwirral.com
- Wirral Recorder Orchestra
- Founded in1998 by Diane Barton and conducted until 2005 by Colin Martin, WRO is conducted by GraceBarton (see also Polyphonica above).
- http://www.wirralrecorderorchestra.org