Craig Carmichael's Recorder Music Index Page
Craig Carmichael's Music - Sound Files
Here are some sample sound files of a few of my musical works.
from a "Consort Orchestra" rehearsal:
The Highwayman Suite
(scored for Recorder quartet + string quartet.)
(We were missing bass recorder; parts were covered by tenor.)
1. Overture
2. A Ride in the Countryside
3. The Holdup
4. Revelry
5. The End
Fun With a Cassette Sound Studio
Recordings with a cassette sound studio, MIDI and some musical instruments. The alto recorder is my 'superrecorder' prototype with my three improvement-inventions and low-E key installed. The soprano recorder has the tuning-dynamics control and the index-finger-only F/F# key. The sopranino in "Weather Lifts" is plain.
Consort ("Closet") Symphony
ConsortSymphony1.MP3 - 'The Weather Lifts'
ConsortSymphony2.MP3 - 'Chorus'
ConsortSymphony3.MP3 - 'By a Forest Stream'
ConsortSymphony4.MP3 - 'Scotland and Ireland'
Recorder Concerto #2
1. Moderato Mysterioso
2. Adagio
3. Scherzatto
4. Freestyle
Computer Sound Studio Program
Better audio quality and editing features than the cassette unit.
Blockflute Overture
Pagan Ritual
Hymn
In Hymn I play the soprano, alto and tenor recorder parts all with the "superrecorder", with just a few tenor low 'D's transposed up.
High Prairie
BC Tone Poem
With Orchestral Winds
Here's the "superrecorder" prototype played in lieu of oboe in a mixed wind ensemble with 2 flutes, recorder (oboe 1), clarinet (oboe 2), 3 clarinets (as clarinets), 2 bassoons, 3 horns, and a string bass. (Evening rehearsal, November 2003).
Partita for Winds ln D Major: Rondeau - Antonio Rosetti (1753 - 1793)
from Concert, April 23rd, 2004:
Bonanza Concerto for Recorder & Strings
(Recorder + string quartet.)
I put on a concert, where I played this. (at the Isabelle Reader Theatre in Langford, next to Victoria BC Canada). One mic was too close to the cello and the other too close to the recorder, so the violins and viola are a bit hidden in the background. I called the concerto "Bonanza" because I "discovered" the first movement in a box of music I had written 20 years previously and long since forgotten about. I came up with a beautiful theme and decided it would make a great second movement for a recorder concerto, so then I just had to write a finale so I could say I'd written a real concerto!
1. Bonanza
2. Twilight
3. Finale
Some of my Trios
Here's a SupercorderTM, Violin and Bassoon playing some of my trios. (Session Aug 2004) (I really ain't practicing enough, but here they are anyway!).
SeaShanty.mp3
MarshMarch.mp3
OnTheMountainside.mp3
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