buckle up nerds, here's my new programme of experimental recorder music | Team Recorder

[@giorgiolamborghini813]

I'm not a fanatic of the recorder played in contemporary music contexts, but listening to you you can change my mind.

[@Team_Recorder]

That’s a very high compliment for me, thank you! ❤️

[@DrLogical987]

I'm not even a fanatic of recorder; but I look forward to Sarah's KZbins just for the musical: breadth, depth and enthusiasm.

[@Ma93nta174]

@LionelSacks Well she is a pro and it shows. But yes the depth of info and enthusiasm is 2nd to none!

[@rainbowkittycat627]

God…. I love experimental music. I’m usually a fan of experimental electronic music, but contemporary music always brightens my day. Thanks for sharing!!

[@Team_Recorder]

Ah thank you!

[@baumannjorg9998]

best recorder channel 👍😁

[@danalawrence4473]

So much more to recorder music than people realize! What a concert this will be!

[@yoshisounds]

The sound around 1:35 is magical!!!

[@SashaSvensson]

I want to thank you so much for opening my eyes up for the recorder. I was thought it wasn't a real instrument and all that. Then, i found you. You showed me how incredible and wonderful the recorder is as an instrument. Today I got my first tenor recorder and I have never loved music more. (I have played the flute and the clarinet for years now but the recorder has a special place in my heart)

[@Garflips]

Wonderful - you are a breath of fresh air. Thanks for sharing your gift and for all your hard work. And thanks to all the composers - masters and fledgling, young and old.

[@klaatupensacola8996]

The contra bass looks like it’s from another planet. I’ve enjoyed your performances and even these more er um eclectic pieces and learned good tips as a beginner. My main instrument is flute with its pure sine wave but I’ve always loved the woody and complex tones of a recorder. You push the limits of the instruments in this episode and explore the sound and it’s fascinating. Not sure I’d listen to the contemporary without seeing too; however. The virtuosity is apparent but I’d be bored watching anyone else with the same skill level as you. Thanks for sharing your work.

[@jaredviolin14]

Also mind blown watching this video. I'm still watching it. Wow

[@MemoryGray]

You are very dear! I enjoy your upbeat style and your enthusiasm for the music is contagious! Thanks for sharing your music and I will definitely follow up on some of these compositions. Safe travels and have a great time playing your shows!!!

[@kharmaviv]

I love that more and more music is being created for the recorder. Great work! Keep them coming! 🥰🎶

[@chevalier2022]

Thanks so much for sharing your recent concert with us in this way, Sarah!

[@rabidwasp]

Wow - Absolutely loved this! You are definitely taking the recorder into places that I never imagined it could go. You have inspired me to dig out my old Aulos alto!

[@Team_Recorder]

So glad to hear it! And it was nerdy contemporary music video that did it 🥹

[@jaredviolin14]

I love the recorder. You helped me love it. It's so beautiful. I have played violin and keyboard for 18 years and I'm 38 and not a prodigy but I busk ever day in Melbourne Australia. Now I busk recorder. I'm basic but it's such a cool instrument. cheap ones sound good. Wood ones sound beautiful

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

I recognise the title of one of these pieces, it's from a poem called The Horse and it goes like this "Here, where grace is laced with muscle, and strength by gentleness confined", and so on. It ends with "All England's past has been born on his back: we are his heirs; he is our inheritance; the horse." Or something like that, my memory isn't perfect. They used to say it every year at either the Horse of the Year show or Olympia.

[@Team_Recorder]

It is! The poem is credited and inscribed at the start if the score.

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

@@Team_Recorder - that's wonderful. Only just seen your reply!

[@chaines.official]

Some very cool pieces, sounds and techniques in this, great stuff!

[@quinn7894]

10:46 This is the coolest and most beautiful thing I've ever heard

[@brini2439]

Holy mackerel, I'm missing words. This is so phantastic! Fabulous! Magical! Sarah, you have so much talent and you know how to use it. Thank you for sharing! (BTW my great love is the paetzold bass)

[@enaphaid5213]

I loooove all you are able to do with your recorder !

[@cherdrol]

Wowie. Loved every little bit of that. Thank you ❤

[@SoulinSadness]

I love this kind of madness Now imagine my coworkers faces when I say A) I play the recorder and it is more than the squeaky thing you remember from school B) Now listen to this lovely person making weird sounds full of energy The Nerdism is strong in you

[@Cmaj7]

These pieces are awesome! really love the fx pedals in your piece

[@terrenceseidel3054]

Amazing!!!

[@thejewk386]

Some great sounding material there. The Minuet from Bach's first Cello suite is a mainstay in my practice routine, and lots of lovely stuff otherwise. Lullaby in particular.

[@Gorgo-22056]

SHE´S A REKAWDÄPLÄ!!!

[@FlorenceAnnaMaunders]

Wow these pieces all sound amazing! Thanks so much for playing my doots 'n' toots! Can't wait to hear you play the whole programme ❤

[@Team_Recorder]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@IgneelS11]

Thanks for the update :)

[@jerrykorten664]

Lullaby by Yoshimine had me all choked up. So beautiful! This stuff is fantastic.

[@jerrykorten664]

Is it published?

[@Team_Recorder]

you can buy the score directly from the composer via the link in the description! It’sooo beautiful

[@ornleifs]

Wow that sounded so interesting - and those bass sounds - so cool !!

[@dillyweedable]

Great stuff Sarah!

[@HollandHiking]

If anyone likes to play Lullaby (recommended for advanced players!) be aware there are several versions around. I played the original one, which has a handwritten score and gives you a lot of freedom to find out for yourself how to do it. Very rubato, no bars and you are encouraged to improvise. It's a wonderful piece of music.

[@Ma93nta174]

This is ULTRA experimental but as I listen to a lot of prog rock it was quite relatable. I'm a drummer first and foremost and bass guitar is my 2nd instrument. Several years ago I started composing/song writing ✍️ as well as collaborating with a friend and fellow drummer. However, originally I wanted to play the oboe but it was a no brainer aged 11, as at school I failed to even play the simplest pieces on recorder due to dyspraxia ADHD and asthma which was all congenital. Most of my immediate family were drummers, so it's just something I naturally picked up. Many bands and moons later with my clumsiness long gone I found my fine motor skills were still lacking. However with covid shite hitting the fan and lockdown looming large in rear view mirror so to speak, myself and a housemate bought some wind instruments. I got a Valentino budget soprano recorder and soon started watching your videos. I've pretty much learnt most things from you... before to long I was able to play amazing Grace and scarborough farye and I noticed how I felt less restless though initially I had pain in the intercostal muscles as the muscles took a while to strengthen. Also I salivated too much and often ran out of puff. Then I went on another channel and challenged myself a bit more to play something intermediate. One evening I learnt green sleeves and spent a few hours and wouldn't stop till I'd learnt it. Some of those jumps like the first high E to the next note (I can't read music but play mostly by ear and memorising patterns) that I can't recall were very tricky at first but nowadays there's virtually no saliva and none ever gets inside the instrument. Makes having to do a deep clean far less frequent! Anyway several months ago I wrote my first prog track and thought the intro would sound better on recorder... so in just under 3 years I composed my first piece for recorder. In terms of experimental playing? The end of the iconic '21st century Schizoid man' immediately springs to mind. It was Ian Mc Donald who originally inspired me to want to play woodwind. At the end of this dark and twisted masterpiece it is very discordant crescendo. Gregg Lake plays some kind of diminished A# I think with quite a big string bend. However it sounded like Ian just wanted to blow too hard and rather than play a note as such, just make it sound as discordant and screechy as possible, almost sounding like a train being derailed. Of course it IS a note but what it is exactly I have no idea but I can sort of play it is the point. I play it on treble recorder. Though it sounds pretty scary and crazy it is controlled chaos. There is a method in the madness. Some of the notes you played on this array of fascinating instruments sounded not dissimilar to that. That percussive recorder though? Most unusual looking instrument!!! It looks like someone has stuck together a load of different sized jenga blocks yet it sounds amazing 👏. I look forward to seeing more videos like this for sure and thanks for teaching me remotely I wouldn't have progressed anywhere near as quickly without you 😉

[@Team_Recorder]

Yes there’s so much similarity between prog rock and ‘contemporary classical’ music!

[@willy_wombat]

A lot of variation. Some funny, some very strange. Some beautifull. Inventive. 😄

[@luckybarrel7829]

I do luv older sounds better than newer sounds but I'm slowly warming up to the newer sounds. I liked the sparrows one and the whistle tone one which sounded somewhat like a whale mating call, eerie and beautiful!

[@peteroselador6132]

Gorgeous music and gorgeous playing! This makes me wanna write for recorder more than I already wanted to

[@Team_Recorder]

Do it!!

[@rebekahbullock4048]

just cool!

[@jaredviolin14]

Singing and recorder playing 🤯

[@thb-music]

Take Back.... oh yeah. That's the good stuff 😂 ❤

[@FlorenceAnnaMaunders]

Thanks so much! It be the good stuff indeed!

[@andyneill6391]

This video is wonderful sarah

[@jhhl]

I like that purring fipple cover technique.

[@Team_Recorder]

It’s my FAVOURITE!

[@persianney]

Can you do Le Greygnour Bien by Mattheo de Perusio?

[@janinesartandcrafttime4930]

You inspired me!

[@MayCeline]

Hey, I have a suggestion. Can you make a video on Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion on the soprano recorder? I just started playing about a month ago and I love it. I am blind so I learn by ear but I am coming along quickly. Thank you.

[@Fantam-BamboU]

"gratitude on my tongue" this name is nice 🤣

[@monowavy]

Wind Way, Sparrows in Supermarkets and Lullaby were my favorite, very inventive and melodic. Also I'm not sure if this property is something purely subjective of mine or not but, your microphone, while extremely analytical, raw and precise, kind of lacks a punch, it might be the abscence of reverb due to the small room... nevertheless, your playing was awesome and expressive!

[@gustavoa.belfiore4701]

All these pieces together would make an incredible album, just sayin'

[@Team_Recorder]

That’s not *not* the plan… 🤭

[@gustavoa.belfiore4701]

@@Team_Recorder 😮😮

[@carudatta]

Feeling an urge to play Windway, and dedicate it to my neighbour.

[@michaellee2731]

I wish you can play the great train race on recorder ihis is by Ian clarke

[@enoffz8021]

An alto recorder with some keys on it?

[@orirune3079]

Eagle Recorder by Adrianna Breukink

[@Fenyxfire]

*stares at Sarah's hands in slo mo*

[@joaquinmendozas]

wonderful programme

[@ALI_JUST]

She plays on everything that is hollow. If you give Sarah a lamppost, she will play beautiful sounds 😂 I'm kidding

[@andrearayner6126]

I've GOTTEN?? Brilliant recorder playing though

[@Team_Recorder]

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[@andrearayner6126]

@@Team_Recorder At 0.20 you say "I've gotten to know over social media" which is fine for our American friends but in English as you know it's '"I've got to...". Sorry, it is the music that counts, and I love your videos. Do you know of Edgar Hunt? I had lessons from him - I was a student at the same time as Jacqueline du Pre so please excuse me for being an old pedant!

[@Team_Recorder]

@@andrearayner6126 I’ve not lived in the UK for 15 years, speak Dutch all day, and my husband is American so it figures my language is a bit of a hybrid!

[@ivrz]

Your speaking voice and accent are lovely

[@dnshrock]

1st like

[@AlexanderReinwarth]

I love the recorder and I love your videos, but my brain didn't even recognize most of the sounds today as music. Sorry. I liked the Bach, though.

[@Marie579]

Your first few pieces were what separates the professional musician from casual listeners, I admire you talent but some of it sounded like you were blowing into a length of scaffolding tube, then kissing a plywood periscope. I reminded me of really contemporary jazz or Cleo Lane none of which i could get my head around sometimes I feel contemporary music and art get so elitist it’s like the emperors new clothes, But there’s no doubt you know your stuff . 👍👍👍 as always a pleasure to watch you do your thing.

[@luckybarrel7829]

Your sweater is what I imagine your synesthesia looks like

[@baumannjorg9998]

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