Carl Dolmetsch and the Recorder Repertoire of the 20th Century

by Andrew D. Mayes and Colin Brown

This title was first published in 2003. Between 1939 and 1989 the recorder virtuoso Carl Dolmetsch gave 45 concerts at the Wigmore Hall in London, all but a few with harpsichordist Joseph Saxby. The highlight of these concerts was the performance of a specially commissioned work. Many important twentieth-century composers contributed to this corpus of works, including Lennox Berkeley, York Bowen, Arnold Cooke, Gordon Jacob and Edmund Rubbra. This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138714879
• ISBN13: 9781138714878
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge