Carl Dolmetsch and the Recorder Repertoire of the 20th Century

This book explores the repertoire of Carl Dolmetsch's concerts at the Wigmore Hall in London, featuring important twentieth-century composers and their contributions to the recorder music of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 January 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This title, originally published in 2003, chronicles the remarkable concerts held by the recorder virtuoso Carl Dolmetsch at the Wigmore Hall in London between 1939 and 1989, with harpsichordist Joseph Saxby. These concerts featured a specially commissioned work, showcasing the talents of numerous twentieth-century composers, including Lennox Berkeley, York Bowen, Arnold Cooke, Gordon Jacob, and Edmund Rubbra. This book is the first to delve into this repertoire in depth, providing a comprehensive catalog of Dolmetsch's works and offering detailed discussions of each piece. Drawing on extensive previously unexplored correspondence and manuscript scores held in the Dolmetsch Archive in Haslemere, the author places this music in the broader context of the twentieth-century recorder revival and assesses its impact on recorder music of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His analyses of the works include composers' programme notes, supplemented with information directly from the composers whenever possible.

ISBN-13: 9781138714878