SaturDAY, 18 June 2022; 10 AM - Noon

Show and Tell Recorder Workshop

WITH emily o’Brien, Aldo Abreu and Roy Sansom

St. John’s Episcopal Church

400 Main Street

Niantic, CT

Bach's six organ sonatas are written in three independent parts (right hand, left hand, and feet), so they work wonderfully well as recorder trios.

In the video above, Emily is playing a Moeck Rottenburgh soprano, a Mollenhauer Helder alto, a Mollenhauer Helder tenor, a Yamaha bass, a Yamaha great bass, and a contrabass by Friedrich von Huene.

In this movement, all the parts are doubled in octaves. The extended range of the Helder instruments allows for slightly fewer alterations to the original line, although there are slight differences between the parts played on those instruments and their octave doubles.

What instrument can be small enough to fit in your pocket or so large you can’t reach the top of it? What instrument claims a millennium of history and variety, and is still one of the most played instruments in the world?

The humble recorder has been the entertainment of Henry VIII, the musical voice of the Divine for J.S. Bach, the vehicle for virtuosic contemporary compositions, and perhaps the very first instrument you played as a child.

Join Emily, Aldo and Roy for a demonstration of a rich cross section of the many types and sizes of recorders, and a discussion about its history and repertoire, and its place in the modern world.

Refreshments will be served.