The Bremen Recorder Touring Company was founded in April 2000. The Company's intention is undertake annual concert tours abroad and to make at least three high-profile public performances each year within Germany. The founders were Gesa Scharf, Sybille Wolf and Geoff Grainger. They were joined by Jutta Köster and Imke Wellmann as guest players for their low-profile debut at a private Ceilidh in Ceilidh in KITO on Sunday, 18th June 2000.
Whilst not entirely forgetting "traditional" classic recorder works, the Company aims to have a wide ranging repertoire of easy-to-understand, entertaining music covering rags, blues, jazz, musicals etc. Own arrangements are encouraged.
The Bremen Recorder Touring Company is looking both for players and venues (especially in the tour countries). Please do not hesitate to contact us!
Our first tours were to New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia in April 2001 and England (Berkshire/Yorkshire), in October 2001. Planning has started for a tour to the USA (June/July 2002) whilst a further tour to Brasil (2003) is being mulled over. For tour details, please see

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After the final appearance of the Company at the 2003 Ceilidh, these webpages were interred in the Recorder Music Webring Graveyard on 1st January, 2004.

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Important: These webpages are no longer active and are hosted for archival purposes only by Ditty Box Enterprises as a public service. In September 2017 they were re-edited reflecting the needs of CSS3 and HTML5. They will not be updated. Former links are underlined. Please respect the wishes of the former webmaster Geoff Grainger in not wanting to correspond on the contents of these pages.

	Title	Remarks	Supplier

	Farewell Recital, BRTC
	Recorder Ceilidh 2000, BRTC
	Recorder Recital at St. Mathews

Useful Links

The following links also give a lot of interesting information.

• Recorder Home Page. This must be the ultimate recorder site by Nicholas S. Lander.
• Makoyan's Classical & Recorder MIDI Page A very interesting site by Makoto Tahira.
• Geoff Grainger's Recorder Music A comprehensive and personal site.
• Radio Vegebüdel The music scene in Vegesack and surrounding district.

MP3 Files

 

The following lo-fi (32 kbits/sec) excerpts can be heard directly from this site:

	Canon a Due Bassi for 2 bass recorders	Domenico Gabrieli
	Concerto D-Moll Nr. 6 for 5 tenor recorders	Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
	Take Five treble/treble/tenor/bass	Paul Desmond
	Chicken Chowder Rag (1905) sopranino/descant/treble/tenor/bass	Irene M. Giblin
	Chattanooga Choo Choo descant/treble/tenor/bass	Harry Warren
	Whistling Rufus descant/treble/tenor/bass	Kerry Mills
	Tea For Two descant/treble/tenor/bass	Vincent Millie Youmans
	Sonaten I, II u. III treble/bass/piano	J. B. Loeillet [de Gant]
	Sonata treble/bass/piano	Daniel Purcell
	Hoe-Down descant/treble/piano	Brian Bonsor
	The Easy Winners descant/D-recorder/piano	Scott Joplin
	A Maori Medley tenor/bass/piano	Maori Trad., arr. Geoff Grainger

Hi-fi (128 kbits/sec) MP3 recordings can be heard at http://www.mp3.com/BremenRecorder

Repertoire

The repertoire is sorted by composer. More details regarding composers, sheet music or recorder CDs can be found by clicking the links to Geoff Grainger's Recorder Music.

A
Milton Ager	Happy Days Are Here Again (D/A/T/B)
Isaac Albéniz	Albeniz-Tango (D/A/T/B)
Lorenzo Allegri	Suite (D/D/A/A/T/T/B/B/CB/GB)
Anon	Amazing Grace (D/D/A/A/T/T/B/B)
May Aufderheide	Dusty Rag (1908) (S/A/T/B)
	Richmond Rag (1909), The (S/A/T/B)
	Totally Different Rag (1910), A (D/D/T/B)
B
Johann Sebastian Bach	Siciliano From Second Flute Sonata (D/A/T/B)
Irving Berlin	Alexander's Ragtime Band (D/A/T/B)
Antonio Bertali	Sonatella For Five Recorders and Continuo (S/D/A/T/B)
Eubie Blake	I'm Just Wild About Harry (1921) (A/A/T/B)
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier	Concerto D-Moll Nr. 6 (T/T/T/T/T)
	Sonata in F (B/B/B)
Otto Bonnell	Turkey in the Straw (1896) (A/T+S/T/B/B/GB(B))
Brian Bonsor	Beguine (D/A/T)
	Hoe-Down (D/A/Piano)
Euday Louis Bowman	12th Street Rag (1915) (D/A/A/T/T+B/B+T/B/GB(B))
John Walter Bratton	Teddy Bears' Picnic, The (S/D/A/T/B)
William Byrd	Leaves Be Green, The (D/A/A/T/B)
C
Jeremiah Clarke	Trumpet Voluntary (D/A/T/B)
Zez Confrey	Kitten on the Keys (1921) (A/T/T+S/B+D/B/GB(B))
John Cooper	While Dancing Rests (D/A/T/B)
	Zwei Fantasien Zu Drei Stimmen (D/A/T)
D
Paul Desmond	Take Five (D/A/T/B)
E
Lance Eccles	Stampede (D/A/T/B)
Edward Elgar	Chanson De Matin (D/A/A/T/B)
F
Gabriel Fauré	Pie Jesu From the Requiem (A/T/T/B/B/CB/CB)
Max C. Freedman	Rock Around the Clock (D/A/T/B)
Matthias Friederich	Highstreet-Dixie (D/A/T)
G
Domenico Gabrieli	Canon a Due Bassi (B/B)
Joe Garland	In the Mood (D/A/T/B)
Irene M. Giblin	Chicken Chowder Rag (1905) (S/D/A/T/B)
	Sleepy Lou (1906) (S/D/T/B)
Giovani B. dalla Gostena	Two Fantasias (A/A/T/B)
Percy A. Grainger	Shepherd's Hey (D/A/T/Piano)
Edvard Hagerup Grieg	Grieg Suite, A (D/Piano)
H
George F. Handel	Feuerwerksmusik (A/T/B)
Joseph Haydn	Kindersinfonie (D/A/T/B)
	Partita For Recoder Trio (D/A/T)
James Hook	Trio For Three Flutes (D/A/T)
J
Léon Jessel	Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (1921), The (T/T/B+T/B/GB(B))
Scott Joplin	Augustan Club Waltzes (1901), The (A+S/A/T/T/B/GB(B))
	Easy Winners, The (D/A/Piano)
	Entertainer, The (D/A/T/B)
	Fig Leaf Rag (D/A/T/B)
	Fig Leaf Rag (D/A/T/B)
	Heliotrope Bouquet (D/A+S/T/B)
	New Rag (D/A/T/B)
	Ragtime Dance (D/A/T/B)
K
Rebecca King	Badinage (A/T)
Collie Knox and Vivian Ellis	Yale Blues, The (D/A/A/T/B)
L
Paul Leenhouts	Tango Für Elise (D/A/T/B)
J. B. Loeillet [de Gant]	Sonaten I,, II u. III (A/B/Piano)
M
Edward MacDowell	To a Wild Rose (D/A/A/T/B)
Glenn Miller	Moonlight Serenade (D/A/T/B)
Kerry Mills	Rastus on Parade - Song (1896) (A/T/T/B/B/GB(B)/V(OT))
	Whistling Rufus (D/A/T/B)
Wolfgang A. Mozart	Allegro From Kv 240 (D/A/A/T)
	Canon on the Death of a Nightingale (B/B/B)
	Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (D/A/T/B)
N
Ernesto Nazareth	Bregeiro (1914) (A/T/T/B/B/GB(B))
Julia Lee Niebergall	Hoosier Rag (1907) (D/A/T/B)
P
Johann Pachelbel	Canon (A/A/A/B)
Daniel Purcell	Sonata (A/B/Piano)
R
J. Bradford Robinson	Show Tunes (D/A/T/B)
S
Antonio Salieri	Piccola Serenata (A/T/B)
Giuseppe Sammartini	Divertimento Für Fünf Blockflöten (D/D/A/T/B)
Alessandro Scarlatti	Quartettino,, Sonata in F (A/A/A/B)
Johann Christian Schickhardt	Concerto I (A/A/A/A/B)
Adaline Shepherd	Pickles and Peppers (1906) (S+D/A/T/B)
	Wireless Rag (1909) (D/A/T/B)
T
Carl Albert Hermann Teike	Old Comrades (A/T/T/T/B/GB(B))
Alec Templeton	Bach Goes to Town (D/A/T(B))
Traditional	Maori Medley, A (T/B)
W
Peter Warlock	Capriol Suite (D/A/A/T/T/B)
Harry Warren	Chattanooga Choo Choo (D/A/T/B)
Andrew Lloyd Webber	Memory (D/A/A/T/B)
Percy Wenrich	Red Rose Rag (D/A/T/B)
Y
Vincent Millie Youmans	Tea For Two (D/A/T/B)

Past Performances

21.06.03	Bremen-Vegesack	Ceilidh 2003
12.04.03		Workshop in Bremen-Vegesack
20.04.02	Emsdetten/Münster, Germany	Reunion with Blue Monday
23.11.01	Mützen near Clenze, North Germany	Workshop with Stephan Schrader
11.10.01	York, Yorkshire	A Day in York with David Grosvenor
10.10.01	Rastrick, Yorkshire	Recital at St Matthew's Church
08.10.01	Cullingworth nr. Keighley, Yorkshire	Parkside School Recorder Workshop
07.10.01	Brighouse, Yorkshire	Calderdale Music Service Concert
02.10.01	Bracknell, Berkshire	Workshop with Simon Feather
01.10.01	Bracknell, Berkshire	Workshop with Paul Clark
29.09.01	England, Berkshire/Yorkshire	Concert Tour, 29th Sept.-13th Oct. 2001
04.09.01	Bremen-Vegesack	Vegesack Fair, Fireworks Night
06.07.01	Bremen-Vegesack	"House-Concert" with Lynne Fitzpatrick (USA) and Stephan Schrader (Germany)
16.04.01	Carlton Hotel, Auckland	Afternoon Recital in Foyer
12.04.01	Khandallah, Wellington	Workshop with Katrin Eickhorst-Squire
11.04.01	Porirua	Lunchtime Recital at the "Porirua Arts' Centre"
06.04.01	Rotorua	Performance at the "Civic Centre"
03.04.01	Royal Oak, Auckland	Performance at the "Roundabout Inn"
02.04.01	Onehunga, Auckland	Recital for Nora Peggy Grainger
31.03.01	New Zealand	Concert Tour, 31st March - 16th April 2001
03.03.01	Emsdetten/Münster, Germany	Reunion with Blue Monday
22.02.01	Stahn-Studio, Worpswede	Recital Recording
20.02.01	Havenhaus, Bremen-Vegesack	Farewell Recital
24.11.00	Mützen near Clenze, North Germany	Workshop with Stephan Schrader
18.06.00	KITO, Vegesack	Reunion with Blue Monday

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