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Why we learn recorder

Why do we learn to play the recorder at school?

Red Priest

Watch some gorgeous Handel at The Foundling Museum

Red Priest

Palisander Quartet

This piece is called the ‘Nightmare Concerto’, and this amazing recorder quartet will show you why
Sophie Westbrooke recorder

Recorders: from the contrabass to the descant (that’s the one you played at school)

Contrabass recorder

This is without doubt the biggest-sounding recorder we've ever heard

Tabea Debus

‘Many people don’t believe playing the recorder is something you can do seriously’

czardas on recorder

Watch this kid play an insanely difficult piece… on RECORDER

Harpsichord

Baroque music: a beginner's guide