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Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 - 1775):  Sostenuto e piano in F major from Overtura No. 113
source: Fonds Blancheton, Op. 3. Ms. RES F–443. Manuscript preserved in Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France
scoring: AAB
Friedrich Schwindl (1737 - 1786):  Quartet in F major, Op. 7, No. 6
scoring: ATB (Bass instrument)
Andrea Bornstein (1956 - ):  Vostre beaulté gente et jolie
source: Fantasies on Norman Songs from the Bayeux Manuscript, No. 13
scoring: A (Harpsichord)
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Victor Dolmetsch (1852 - 1904):  Barcarolle
source: Album-Musica N° 5 (Paris 1903)
scoring: A (Piano)
Bernardo Pasquini (1637 - 1710):  Allemanda in Eb major
scoring: A (Harpsichord)
Bernardo Pasquini (1637 - 1710):  Aria in C major
scoring: SAB
Bernardo Pasquini (1637 - 1710):  Variazioni per il Paggio Tedesco
scoring: SATB
Bernardo Pasquini (1637 - 1710):  Nei lor scempi orribili esempi, Air
scoring: B (Bc)
Bernardo Pasquini (1637 - 1710):  Partite di Bergamasca
scoring: SATB
Bernardo Pasquini (1637 - 1710):  Canzone Francese
scoring: SATB
Bernardo Pasquini (1637 - 1710):  Giga in C major
scoring: TBL
Bernardo Pasquini (1637 - 1710):  Aria con tristezza in G minor
scoring: SAB
Bernardo Pasquini (1637 - 1710):  Adagio in D minor
scoring: SSAATTBB
Niccolò Piccinni (1728 - 1800):  O notte, o gran dea del mistero
source: Le faux Lord (1783)
scoring: A (Harpsichord)
Giovanni Paisiello (1740 - 1816):  Andante in F major
scoring: SATB
Raphael Courteville (c. 1675 - 1772):  Love heard and straight prepar’d a dard
source: Deliciae musicae. The second book (London 1696)
scoring: A (Bc)
Alfred Margis (1874 - 1913):  Armenonville
source: Album-Musica N° 4 (Paris 1903)
scoring: A (Piano)
Xavier Leroux (1863 - 1919):  Les Ailes inutiles
source: Album-Musica N° 3 (Paris 1902)
scoring: A (Piano)
Traditional:  Willst du mir die Gunst erweisen, Traditional Swiss song
Edited and/or arranged by Andrea Bornstein
scoring: STB
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Santo Lapis (1699 - 1765):  Sonata VII in D minor
source: Sonnates pour le clavessin, pouvant également servir pour d’autres instrumens (The Hague c. 1730), No. 7
scoring: S (Harpsichord)
Santo Lapis (1699 - 1765):  Sonata VI in C minor
source: Sonnates pour le clavessin, pouvant également servir pour d’autres instrumens (The Hague c. 1730), No. 6
scoring: A (Harpsichord)
Santo Lapis (1699 - 1765):  Sonata III in Eb major
source: Sonnates pour le clavessin, pouvant également servir pour d’autres instrumens (The Hague c. 1730), No. 3
scoring: A (Harpsichord)
Santo Lapis (1699 - 1765):  Minuetto in G minor from Sonata II in G major
source: Sonnates pour le clavessin, pouvant également servir pour d’autres instrumens (The Hague c. 1730), No. 2
scoring: A (Harpsichord)
Santo Lapis (1699 - 1765):  Sonata V in Bb major
source: Sonnates pour le clavessin, pouvant également servir pour d’autres instrumens (The Hague c. 1730), No. 5
scoring: A (Harpsichord)
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687):  Minuet in D minor
source: The delightful pocket companion for the German flute (London c. 1763)
scoring: A
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750):  Prélude in Bb major
source: Cello suite No. 4 in Eb major – BWV 1010
scoring: AB or TB
The top line can conveniently be played on either a treble or tenor recorder.
Andrea Bornstein (1956 - ):  Ne l’oseray je dire
source: Fantasies on Norman Songs from the Bayeux Manuscript, No. 10
scoring: A (Harpsichord)
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Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (1693 - 1768):  Adagio cantabile
source: Sonata in A major
scoring: AAB
Andrea Bornstein (1956 - ):  Es ist ein Ros entsprungen – German Christmas carol and Marian hymn from the 16 century
scoring: SATB
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Hercule de Fontenailles (1858 - 1922):  Sais-tu?
source: Album-Musica N° 2 (Paris 1902)
scoring: A (Piano)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921):  Gavotte
source: Suite, Op. 90
scoring: ABBBL
Tommaso Albinoni (1671 - c. 1750):  Grave in C minor from Sonata II
source: Sinfonie e concerti a 5. Op. 2 (Venice 1700)
scoring: ATBBF
Tommaso Albinoni (1671 - c. 1750):  Allegro in Bb major from Sonata I
source: Sinfonie e concerti a 5. Op. 2 (Venice 1700)
scoring: A (Harpsichord)
Tommaso Albinoni (1671 - c. 1750):  Grave in G minor from Sonata IV
source: Sinfonie e concerti a 5. Op. 2 (Venice 1700)
scoring: AATBL
Tommaso Albinoni (1671 - c. 1750):  Grave e Fuga in D minor from Sonata IV
source: Sinfonie e concerti a 5. Op. 2 (Venice 1700)
scoring: AT (Harpsichord)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847):  Allegretto from Sonata IV, Op. 65
scoring: A (Piano)
Hye-seung Nam (XXI cent.):  The Hill of Yearning, from the soundtrack of Crash Landing on You
scoring: STBBL
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Andreas Hammerschmidt (1612 - 1675):  Alleluja ach mein herzliebes Jesulein
source: Cunis Solennib. Jesuli Recens–Nati Sacra Genethliaca (Legnica 1646)
scoring: SSATTB (Bc)
Rodolphe Berger (1864 - 1916):  Réponse à “Amoureuse”
source: Album-Musica N° 2 (Paris 1902)
scoring: A (Piano)
Samuel Scheidt (1587 - 1654):  Passemezzo - SSWV 107
source: Tabulatura nova (Hamburg 1624), No. 6
scoring: TTB or ATB (Bass instrument)
Émile Paladilhe (1844 - 1926):  Retour des champs
source: Album-Musica N° 1 (Paris 1902)
scoring: ATBB (Piano)
René de Boisdeffre (1838 - 1906):  Berceuse
source: Album-Musica N° 2 (Paris 1902)
scoring: C (Piano)
Samuel Scheidt (1587 - 1654):  Psallite unigenito Christo
source: Cunis Solennib. Jesuli Recens–Nati Sacra Genethliaca (Legnica 1646)
scoring: SATB (Bc)
Baldassare Galuppi (1706 - 1785):  Minuetto in C major
scoring: ATB
Oreste Ravanello (1871 - 1938):  Cantilena dei Bambini - Christmas carol from the Venetian islands
source: Antiche Canzoni di Natale (Padua 1911)
scoring: SATB
Arturo Prestipino (1911 - 1989):  Cinque minuti e poi, Song recorded by Maurizio in 1968
scoring: AATB or ATTB
Regardless of the value of the musical writing — both the original and my arrangement — this piece is remarkable for its treatment of accidentals and how it modulates from C major to C sharp major while remaining perfectly playable by a recorder quartet.
I would highly recommend it as an ensemble exercise, even to those who are not interested in this type of music.
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Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741):  Largo e spiccato from Concerto in D major - RV 549
source: L’Estro armonico […] Op. 3, book 1 (Amsterdam [1711])
scoring: AAB
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741):  Sinfonia in C major - RV 192
scoring: A (Harpsichord)
Traditional:  Une jeune Pucelle, French popular song
Edited and/or arranged by Andrea Bornstein
scoring: AB
A French folk song from the mid–16th century, traditionally sung at Christmas.
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Herman Bemberg (1859 - 1931):  La Chanson de ma mie
source: Album-Musica N° 2 (Paris 1902)
scoring: A (Piano)
Victorin de Joncières (1839 - 1903):  Matinée d’avril
source: Album-Musica N° 2 (Paris 1902)
scoring: A (Piano)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847):  Lied ohne Worte - Op. 62, No. 1
scoring: ATBF
L. Elsen (1835 - 1902):  Émeraude - Valse lente
source: Album-Musica N° 1 (Paris 1902)
scoring: A (Piano)
Louis-Victor Simon (1764 - 1820):  Il pleut bergère
scoring: SATB
Traditional:  Il pleut bergère, French popular song
Edited and/or arranged by Alfred Rabuteau (1843 - 1916)
scoring: C (Piano)
Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828):  Andante con Moto - Adaptation of the second movement of the Piano Trio in E-flat major, D.929 (1827)
scoring: TB (Piano)
This arrangement is based on the second movement of Trio D.929, which was itself an elaboration of the Swedish folk song Se solen sjunker.
Traditional:  Se solen sjunker, Swedish folk song
scoring: SATB
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827):  Andante moderato
source: Third movement of Symphony No. 9
scoring: ATB
William Hayes (1708 - 1777):  Gently touch the warbling lyre - A Glee being a favourite air of Sig.r Geminiani harmonized by the addition of three parts
source: Catches, Glees and Canons (Oxford 1757)
scoring: ATBB or ATTB
Henry Eccles (1670 - 1742):  Prelude in D minor
source: Select preludes or volentarys for ye violin (London 1705), No. 13
scoring: A
William Corbett (1680 - 1748):  Prelude in C major
source: Select preludes or volentarys for ye violin (London 1705), No. 12
scoring: A
Benedetto Marcello (1686 - 1739):  Allegro in D minor
source: Sonata for Harpsichord S.720
scoring: AA
Daniel Alomía Robles (1871 - 1942):  El Cóndor Pasa
scoring: SATB
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Anonymous (XVII cent.):  Chaconne in F major
source: Deusiesme recueil des dances et contre-dances avec la basse continue (Amsterdam 1688), No. 52
scoring: STB or SAB
Johann Adolph Hasse (1699 - 1783):  Larghetto in G minor
source: from Trio Sonata IV. Op. 2
scoring: AAB or ATB
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729 - 1817):  O ma tendre musette
source: Airs populaires, chants nationaux et motifs célèbres (Paris 1873)
Edited and/or arranged by Alfred Rabuteau (1843-1916)
scoring: SATB
Alfred Rabuteau (1843 - 1916):  Ah! Vous dirai-je Maman
source: Airs populaires, chants nationaux et motifs célèbres (Paris 1873)
scoring: SATB
Traditional:  Au clair de la lune, French popular song
Edited and/or arranged by Alfred Rabuteau (1843 - 1916)
scoring: A (Piano)
Antonio Mortaro (? - 1619):  La Claudia
source: Primo libro de canzoni da sonare a quattro voci (Venice 1600), No. 11
scoring: SATB
Antonio Mortaro (? - 1619):  La Mortara
source: Primo libro de canzoni da sonare a quattro voci (Venice 1600), No. 10
scoring: SATB
Alessandro Besozzi (1702 - 1793):  Sonata VI in F major
source: VIII Sonatas for two German flutes (London n.d.)
scoring: A (Harpsichord)
Andrea Bornstein (1956 - ):  Fantasia on «Always On My Mind»
scoring: ATTB
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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767):  Adagio variato from Trumpet Concerto TWV 51:D7
scoring: B (Bass instrument, Harpsichord)
Andrea Bornstein (1956 - ):  Variazioni su Geordie
scoring: A (Harmonic Instrument)
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Traditional:  Christmas carol from the Surselva (Switzerland)
scoring: STB
Filippo Prover (1727 - 1774):  Villanella from Sonata VI
source: Sei sonate per l’oboe, flauto traverso o violino con basso. Op. 1 (Paris c. 1750)
scoring: AAB
John Travers (1703 - 1758):  The Old Bacchanal
source: Eighteen Canzonets for two and three voices (London 1746)
scoring: ATB (Bc)
Hagood Hardy (1937 - 1997):  Anne’s Theme
scoring: A (Piano)
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Andrea Bornstein (1956 - ):  En despit des faulx envieux
source: Fantasies on Norman Songs from the Bayeux Manuscript, No. 9
scoring: TB (Guitar)
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Andrea Bornstein (1956 - ):  Royne des fleurs
source: Fantasies on Norman Songs from the Bayeux Manuscript, No. 4
scoring: TTB
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Andrea Bornstein (1956 - ):  Quand on trouve de mauvais vin
scoring: A (Harpsichord)
Composition based on a 17th century French melody published by Christophe Ballard in La Clef des chansonniers (Paris 1717)
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Bob Haggart (1914 - 1998):  What’s New?
scoring: A (Piano)
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Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757):  Sonata in G major K 103
scoring: STB
Led Zeppelin (flourished 1968-80):  Stairway to Heaven
scoring: SATTB (Harpsichord)
The whole first part of this song is originally played by four recorders and an acoustic guitar, plus the voice of course. So my edition is almost a faithful transcription rather than an arrangement.
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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767):  Larghetto in G minor
source: Solo X in C major - TWV 41:C5
scoring: STB
Andrea Bornstein (1956 - ):  Ciaccona in canone
scoring: TTTB
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John Baptist Grano (c. 1692 - c. 1748):  Largo in G minor from Sonata IV
source: Solos for a German flute (London c. 1728)
scoring: STB
Andrea Bornstein (1956 - ):  Passacaglia in A minor
scoring: SABB
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Jacob van Eyck (c. 1589 - 1657):  Een Spaense Voys (A Spanish melody)
source: Der Fluyten Lust-hof (Amsterdam 1649-54)
scoring: STB
Arranged from the original score for solo descant recorder
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767):  Siciliana from Concerto di Camera in G minor - TWV 43:g3
source: Mus. ms. 1033/49 . Manuscript preserved in Darmstadt: Hessische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
scoring: STTB
André Grétry (1741 - 1813):  Le mariage est une envie
source: L’amant jaloux (Paris 1779)
scoring: ATB
This short air is based on the Folia ground and is, as far as I know, the last example of a composition based on this ground.
In fact, there is a reason for this in the text (see the original French text below), which reads "Marriage is a wish that can be fulfilled once in a lifetime. But it would be madness to want to do it again. Of course, ’madness’ is the translation of the Italian word ’follia’.
André Grétry (1741 - 1813):  Tandis que tout sommeille
source: L’amant jaloux (Paris 1779)
scoring: A (Piano)
Giulio Mussi da Lodi (XVII cent.):  La Meduna
source: Il primo libro delle canzoni da sonare a due voci. Op. 5 (Venice 1620), No. 14
scoring: BBB
Arranged from the original score for two bass instruments and continuo.
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741):  Concerto I in F major - RV 549
source: L’Estro armonico […] Op. 3, book 1 (Amsterdam [1711])
scoring: SSAABBF
Traditional:  Ayli Lyuli
scoring: TTB (Piano)
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732 - 1795):  Solfeggio in G major
source: Musikalische Nebenstunden (Rinteln 1787)
scoring: S (Piano)
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732 - 1795):  Solfeggio in G major
source: Musikalische Nebenstunden (Rinteln 1787)
scoring: STB
Nicola Fiorenza (? - 1764):  Largo e staccato from Concerto in A minor
source: Ms. 2210-17 (1726). Manuscript preserved in the Music conservatories of Naples
scoring: ATTB
Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach [William Bach] (1759 - 1845):  Seid gegrüßt ihr grün bemooste Hügel, Air
source: Musikalische Nebenstunden (Rinteln 1787)
scoring: T (Piano)
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732 - 1795):  Villanella
source: Musikalische Nebenstunden (Rinteln 1787)
scoring: T (Piano)