50+ Greatest Intermediate Classics for Descant Recorder

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50+ Greatest Intermediate Classics for Recorder is a fantastic collection of favourite melodies arranged especially for the intermediate to advanced soprano / descant recorder player, starting with the easiest.

All are in easy keys. Great for sight reading practice or just for fun.

Assuming a good knowledge of the recorder and music reading, some pieces are one page, others longer; the music ranges across three octaves although the easier pieces range up to second octave A; with plenty of familiar melodies.

50+ Greatest Intermediate Classics for Recorder follows on from our popular 50+ Greatest Classics for Recorder which is much easier, contains different repertoire and shorter pieces. This book is for the more advanced player and includes extracts from:

Adagio – Albinoni; Alla Turca – Mozart; Autumn – Vivaldi; Ave Maria – Schubert; Bist du bei mir – Stölzel; Caprice – Paganini; Carol of the Bells – Leontovych; Clog Dance – Hertel; Colonel Bogey – Alford; Csárdás – Monti; Donauwellen Waltz – Ivanovici; Danse macabre – Saint Saëns; Entry of the Gladiators – Fučík; Frühlingsstimmen – J. Strauss; Funiculì, Funiculà – Denza; Für Elise – Beethoven; Garland Waltz – Tchaikovsky; Gliding Dance of the Maidens – Borodin; Gran Valse – Tárrega; Hungarian Dance No. 5 – Brahms; La Campanella – Paganini; Lacrimosa – Mozart; Largo al Factotum – Rossini; Light Cavalry Overture – Suppé; Marche Funèbre – Gounod; Marche Slave – Tchaikovsky; Mazurka – Chopin; Moonlight Sonata – Beethoven; Nimrod – Elgar; Nocturne – Chopin; Overture – Mozart; Pizzicati – Delibes; Prelude – Bizet; Rigaudon – Grieg; Romanze – Mozart; Russian Dance – Tchaikovsky; Sarabande – Handel; Scheherazade – Rimsky-Korsakov; Sheep May Safely Graze – J. S. Bach; Si un jour, La forza del destino – Verdi; Sleepers, Awake – J.S. Bach; Ständchen – Schubert; Te Deum – Charpentier; Theme, Pastoral Symphony – Beethoven; Theme, Piano Concerto No. 1 – Tchaikovsky; Three Little Maids – Sullivan; Toccata and Fugue – J.S Bach; Traümerai – Schumann; Tritsch Tratsch Polka – J. Strauss; Va, Pensiero – Verdi; Vltava – Smetana; Waltz no. 15 – Brahms.

Approved Exam Music

Recommended for the following exam grade(s):

ABRSM Descant Recorder (from 2022)
Grades: 5

Item Details

Instrumentation

• Part 1: Descant Recorder