The Whistling Book - English Music for Recorder and Piano

The Whistling Book - English Music for Recorder and Piano

John Turner (recorder) & Peter Lawson (piano)

Works and Composers

Skally Skarecrow’s Whistling Book (Geoffrey Poole)

Prospero’s Music (Michael Ball)

Recipes (Alan Bullard)

Suite (Alan Rawsthorne)

Caprice (Nicholas Marshall

Song (Douglas Steele)

A Book of Song and Dance (Robin Walker)

Air (Walter Leigh)

Capriccio (Arnold Cooke)

Farings (Anthony Gilbert)

Four Diversions (John Turner)

Shadows in Blue (David Ellis)

Divertissement (John Golland)

New World Dances (John Golland)

Saturday Soundtrack (Kevin Malone)

John Turner (solo recorder):

Spring Dances (John Addison)

Her Rapture (Robin Walker)

Richard Whalley (prepared piano):

Kokopelli (Richard Whalley)

Three works receive their premiere recording – recorded 2021 

(Spring Dances and her Rapture) and 2017 (Kokopelli).

British Piano Concertos: Addison, Bush, Maconchy, Searle, Rubbra, Benjamin

British Piano Concertos

John ADDISON (1920-1998)

Wellington Suite for Two Horns, Piano, Timpani, Percussion and Strings (1959)

Arthur BENJAMIN (1893-1960)

Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (1927) 

Elizabeth MACONCHY (1907-1994)

Concertino for Piano and String Orchestra (1949)

Humphrey SEARLE (1915-1982)

Concertante for Piano, Percussion and String Orchestra (1954) 

Edmund RUBBRA (1901-1986)

Nature’s Song, Tone Poem for Orchestra, Organ and Pianoforte (1920) 

Geoffrey BUSH (1920-1998)

A Little Concerto on Themes of Thomas Arne for Pianoforte and Strings (1939) 

Simon Callaghan (piano)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Martyn Brabbins

rec. 29-30 June 2021, Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, UK