Australia's Journal of Recorder & Early Music
formerly The Recorder
Introduction | Contents
Australia's Journal of Recorder & Early Music (formerly The Recorder) is a publication of the Victorian Recorder Guild, Inc, of 20 Keyes Street Ashburton, VIC, 3146; tel. +61 (03) 9525-8204; email leah@netlink.com.au; WWW Page.
Recorder & Early Music is a journal devoted to a wide range of topics relating specifically to the recorder and to Early Music generally: instruments and their history, acoustics, construction, design and maintenance; Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque repertoire; performance practice and related issues; Australian performers and instrument makers; 20th-century recorder and Australian composers; pedagogy; technique; reviews of books, music and CDs; interviews with visiting and Australian artists; and reports on festivals and special events. In the past the journal has published articles by noted performers and academics from around Australia and overseas.
Issue 21 will include an article by John Weretka on the 18th-century Italian oepra singer Francesco Borosini, the first true tenor hero in Baroque opera who created the role of Bajazet in Gasparini and Handel's versions of Tamerlano; an in-depth review by Greg Dikmans of The Recorder in the 17th-century, the proceedings of the International Recorder Symposium held in Utrecht in 1993; reviews of original compositions and arrangements by a number of Australian composers; reports of festivals and summer schools in New Zealand and Australia; and CD reviews.
| Editor: | Greg Dikmans, Early Music Studio, Faculty of Musc, University of Melbourne, Parkville Vic 3052, Australia, email dikmans@music.unimelb.edu.au |
| Society Page: | Rose Ovendon |
| Advertising: | Rachel Snedden, 1/46 Bayswater Road, Kensington Vic 3031, Australia. Phone +61 03 9376 3061 |
| Subscriptions and Archives: | Margaret Morrissey, 27 Manica St, West Brunswick, Vic 3055, Australia, phone +61 03 9376 2711 |
| ISSN No.: | 0816 - 152x |
Listing is sequential within each issue, & items are coded as Articles (A), Profiles/interviews (P), Reviews (R), Letters (L) or Society News (N))
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversation with Howard Mayer Brown | Grawe | Ursula & Jan Epstein | 1 | 2-7 | P |
| Original Wind | Bandt | Ros | 1 | 8-11 | A |
| Old recorders & new ones | Morgan | Fred | 1 | 12-16 | A |
| Profile: Chris Burgess | Ferris | Jill & Jan Norman | 1 | 17-18 | P |
| Australian music for recorders | Tattersall | Malcolm | 1 | 19-22 | A |
| On tour with Capella Corelli | Thorn | Paul | 1 | 29-30 | A |
| Wiener Blockflötenensemble -- Live; & Les Fêtes Galantes -- Franzoisich Musik für Blockflöte um 1720 | Love | Harold | 1 | 30-32 | R |
| The Recorder Book by Kenneth Wollitz | Grawe | Ursula | 1 | 32 | R |
| Title | Author Surname | Author Christian Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversations with Brian Bonsor | Praetz | Barbara | 2 | 2 | P |
| Old recorders -- our design heritage | Morgan | Fred | 2 | 8 | A |
| Hans Maria Kneihs | Epstein | J, & Ursula Grawe | 2 | 12 | P |
| Writing for the recorder: Brenton Broadstock on Aureole 3 | Broadstock | Brenton | 2 | 16 | A |
| Blockflötensonaten [Quadro Hotteterre] | Stinson | John A. | 2 | 19 | R |
| Recorder '84: Picture Review | Anon. | 2 | 20 | R | |
| Profile: Euan & Nancy MacLean | Barnes | Julie & Janet Norman | 2 | 22-24 | P |
| Acoustics for beginners | Martin | John | 2 | 26 | A |
| AMEB Curriculum review | Blore | Ann & Jan Stockigt | 2 | 31 | R |
| Notebok -- News from the societies | Various | 2 | 32 | N |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversations with Kees Boeke & Walter van Hauwe | Epstein | Jan & Ursula Grawe | 3 | 1 | P |
| Writing for the recorder -- David Worrall on Silhouettes | Worrall | David | 3l | 8 | A |
| EMU Retrospect | Love | Harold | 3 | 13 | R |
| Musical structure & interpretation | Kneihs | Hans Maria | 3 | 15 | A |
| Profile: Hans-Dieter Michatz | Grawe | Ursula | 3 | 20 | P |
| Rhetoric & affect in baroque music | Coomber | David | 3 | 23 | A |
| Evelyn Nallen | Rodgers | Gwen | 3 | 28 | P |
| Preparing Aureole 2 for performance | Martin | John | 3 | 31 | A |
| Dear Recorder Doctor | Joof | Laura Beha | 3 | 33 | A |
| Sonatas (1734) [Miessen et al.] | Michatz | Hans-Dieter | 3 | 35 | R |
| Notebook -- News from the societies | Various | 3 | 36 | N |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hans-Dieter Michatz talks to Andreas Staier | Michatz | Hans-Dieter | 4 | 1 | P |
| Florid Italian instrumental music circa 1600: an introduction | Dikmans | Greg | 4 | 5 | A |
| Handels Susanna | Epstein | Jan | 4 | 14 | R |
| Susanna: Behind the scenes | Parkinson | Cassandra | 4 | 16 | A |
| Fundamental recorder techniques | Hauwe | Walter van | 4 | 18 | A |
| Recorder in Victoria: a 30 year retrospect | Ernst | Barbara van & Barbara Praetz | 4 | 25 | A |
| With the recorder in Italy -- a personal journey | Waterman | Rodney | 4 | 29 | A |
| Profile: Ruth Wilkinson | Barnes | Julie | 4 | 34-35 | P |
| Handel, Recorder Concertos [Petri] | Nallen | Evelyn | 4 | 36 | R |
| Notebook -- News from the societies | Various | 4 | 37 | N |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jean Francois Beaudin | Epstein | Jan | 5 | 1 | P |
| Fundamental recorder techniques 2 | Hauwe | Walter van | 5 | 7 | A |
| Playing the recorder toungue-in-cheek | Martin | John | 5 | 12 | A |
| Conversation with Marijke Miesssen | Rivers | Lynton & Jan Epstein | 5 | 16 | P |
| The 16th Melbourne International Festival Of Organ & Harpsichord | Steele | Bruce | 5 | 21 | R |
| Melbourne International Festival Of Organ & Harpsichord: Concert review | Rivers | Lynton | 5 | 22 | R |
| A new Gradus ad Parnassum: Report on the new AMEB recorder syllabus | Stockigt | Jan | 5 | 24 | R |
| Profile: Alan Murphy & the Melbourne College of Advanced Education | Murphy | Alan | 5 | 27 | P |
| On being your own publisher | Wyatt | Theo | 5 | 30 | A |
| On tour: Camerata H6 from Hannover | Grawe | Ursula | 5 | 32 | R |
| Virtuoso Recorder Music [Amsterdam Loecki Stardust Quartet] | Waterman | Rodney | 5 | 34 | R |
| Notebook -- News from the societies | Various | 5 | 37 | N |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A player's guide to the recorder | Morgan | Fred | 6 | 1 | A |
| Wider horizons: More Australian recorder music | Tattersall | Malcolm | 6 | 5 | A |
| Medieval music on record | Stinson | John A. | 6 | 10 | A |
| Conversation with Paul Clark | Simpson | Adrienne & Alec Loretto | 6 | 15 | P |
| Fundamental recorder techniques 3 | Hauwe | Walter van | 6 | 20 | A |
| Recorders & all that jazz [Recorder in Ragtime, Monsbourgh; Spirits, Keith Jarrett] | Waterman | Rodney | 6 | 26 | R |
| Letter from Holland | Tol | Han | 6 | 29 | L |
| EMU '87 concert reviews | Ovenden | Rose & Peter Brereton | 6 | 32 | R |
| Memo from Wales: Lecturers hit the right note with spit-free recorder | Stephenson | Nigel | 6 | 34 | A |
| Notebook: News from the societies | Various | 6 | 35 | N | |
| The solo cult | Wiliams | Ken | 6 | 40 | L |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversation with Eva Legene | Epstein | Jan | 7 | 1-6 | P |
| How do you know how to play a piece? | Kneihs | Hans Maria | 7 | 7-9 | A |
| A players guide to the recorder, Part 2 | Morgan | Fred | 7 | 10-16 | A |
| You must have a story to tell | Michatz | Hans-Dieter | 7 | 17-18 | A |
| The acoustics of the recorder | Martin | John | 7 | 22-27 | A |
| Oh Sweet Woods | Love | Harold | 7 | 27-28 | R |
| Recorder '87 -- The concerts | Tattersall | Malcolm | 7 | 28-31 | R |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Der Fluyten Lust-Hof -- a translation of the introduction of Jacob van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-Hof of 1649 | Humphries | Nicholas | 8 | 1-7 | A |
| An interview with Frans Brüggen | Epstein | Jan | 8 | 8-10 | P |
| Hotteterre's Principes: A guide to the performance of French music for recorder & flute, Part 1 | Dikmans | Greg | 8 | 11-17 | A |
| Concert Review: Amsterdam Loeke Stardust Quartet | Brereton | Peter | 8 | 18-19 | R |
| Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble | Ovenden | Rose | 8 | 19-20 | R |
| New plans for old flutes | Beaudin | Jean-Francois | 8 | 22-25 | A |
| Profile: Lance Eccles | Tattersall | Malcolm | 8 | 26-28 | P |
| EMU'88 -- Festival review | Ovenden | Rose | 8 | 29-30 | R |
| Dear Recorder Doctor | Joof | Laura Beha | 8 | 32-33 | A |
| More Oriel Music | Zetzmann | Liz | 8 | 34-35 | R |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversation with Clas Pehrsson | Epstein | Jan | 9 | 4-8 | P |
| Hotteterre's Principes: A guide to the performance of French music for recorder & flute, Part 2 | Dikmans | Greg | 9 | 9-16 | A |
| How authentic is authenticity? | Burgess | Geoffrey | 9 | 17-19 | A |
| Profile: George Geiger | Epstein | Jan | 9 | 20-23 | P |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Ensemble of the 14th Century | Keightley | Ron | 9 | 24-25 | R |
| Reflections of a recorder maker | Saunders | Joanne | 9 | 29-30 | A |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traveller's tales: Robyn Mellor talks to Malcolm Tattersall | Tattersall | Malcolm | 10 | 2-4 | P |
| New sounds from old pipes | Thorn | Paul | 10 | 5-9 | A |
| Developing the AMEB Grade Books | Stockigt | Jan | 10 | 10-12 | A |
| The new AMEB Grade Book | Marillier | Glyn | 10 | 14-15 | R |
| Extempore at St Mary's | Rivers | Lynton | 10 | 25 | R |
| The Oriel Common Room | Brereton | Peter & Peter Madge | 10 | 26-27 | R |
| Bombarde | Tattersall | Malcolm | 10 | 28-29 | R |
| The Oriel Library | Williams | Ken | 10 | 32 | R |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| It's the extra beating that makes the difference | Martin | John | 11 | 1 | A |
| Towards Federation | Hancocks | Margaret, & Jan Epstein | 11 | 6 | A |
| Festival Preview: Recorder '90, Canberra | Hancocks | Margaret | 11 | 7 | A |
| Music for a Bird -- & for the Adventurous | Fairhall | Helen | 11 | 10 | A |
| When is a slur not a slur? | Tattersall | Malcolm | 11 | 13 | A |
| The EMSV Workshop with Emma Kirkby & Anthony Rooley | Robinson | Annie | 11 | 17 | R |
| Melpo [Steinmann] | Woodhill | Vanessa | 11 | 19 | R |
| Suite with a Beat [Mageau] | Draper | Diane | 11 | 21 | R |
| Notebook: News from the Societies | Various | 11 | 22 | N |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prejudice, Practice & Pride: How to be a happy recorder player (part 1) | Ehrlich | Robert | 12 | 1 | A |
| Peggy Glanville-Hicks [obit.] | Tattersall | Malcolm | 12 | 5 | P |
| Profile: David Lasocki | Tattersall | Malcolm | 12 | 7 | P |
| The first Australian recorder competition | Michatz | Hans-Dieter | 12 | 13 | A |
| Recorder in education | Woodhill | Vanessa | 12 | 15 | A |
| Nearer to Federation | Connell | Lorraine | 12 | 16 | A |
| Making it happen [Margaret Hancocks] | Dixon | Kay | 12 | 17 | P |
| Towards a modern recorder technique | van Hauwe | Walter | 12 | 20 | A |
| Judith Clingan, composer | Dixon | Kay | 12 | 23 | P |
| The Seven Deadly Sins | Clingan | Judith | 12 | 26 | A |
| Recorder '90: The Concerts | Tattersall | Malcolm, with reviews by Benjamin Thorn, Vanessa Woodhill, & W L Hoffmann | 12 | 28 | R |
| Finished -- the New AMEB Syllabus | Stockigt | Jan | 12 | 33 | A |
| Notebook: News from the Societies | Various | 12 | 35 | N |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will the real recorder please stand up? | Thorn | Benjamin | 13 | 1 | A |
| Profile: Natasha Anderson | Clarke | Zana | 13 | 3 | P |
| Prejudice, practice & pride (part 2) | Ehrlich | Robert | 13 | 5 | A |
| More on echo flutes | Lasocki | David | 13 | 14 | A |
| Recorders in Victoria: planning for the future | Farmer | Belle | 13 | 17 | A |
| Towards Federation | Connell | Lorraine | 13 | 20 | A |
| Greensleeves Renewed [Mageau] | Tattersall | Malcolm | 13 | 21 | R |
| Recorders Now & Then [Thorn] | Shanahan | Ian | 13 | 23 | R |
| Baroque Virtuosity | Geiger | Georg | 13 | 25 | L |
| Letter [The Recorder in England] | Rowland-Jones | Anthony | 13 | 25 | L |
| Letter [The FARC] | Little | P. | 13 | 27 | L |
| Letter [reply to Dr Little] | Michatz | Hans-Dieter | 13 | 27 | L |
| Recorder '90 | Downer | Jill | 13 | 28 | A |
| Notebook: News from the Societies | Various | 13 | 29 | N |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The great authenticity debate | Lasocki | David | 14 | 1 | A |
| An interview with Susanne Ehrhardt | Zetzmann | Liz | 14 | 9 | P |
| The French cantata | Hamilton | Vivien | 14 | 11 | A |
| Victorian Recorders before the Guild | Hughes | Geoff | 14 | 18 | A |
| I just wanted someone to play with [Gwen Rodgers] | Norman | Janet | 14 | 21 | P |
| Rewards & challenges: The history of the VRG | Rodgers | Gwen | 14 | 25 | A |
| The Victorian Recorder Guild in concert | Webster | Graeme | 14 | 35 | R |
| Cantigas on tour | Farmer | Belle | 14 | 36 | R |
| Cosmic Dances [Rimmer] | van Ernst | Barbara | 14 | 37 | R |
| Letter [reply to Georg Geiger] | Lasocki | David | 14 | 38 | L |
| Federation update | Connell | Lorraine | 14 | 39 | N |
| Notebook: News from the Societies | Various | 14 | 39 | N |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An interview with Sigiswald Kuijken | Kennedy | Julian | 15 | 1 | P |
| Farewell: Euan MacLean [obit.] | Anon | 15 | 7 | P | |
| Flattening your recorder | Martin | John | 15 | 8 | A |
| A Treasury of Recorder Music | Various | 15 | 9 | A | |
| The compleat recorder para-medic (Part 1) | Geiger | Georg | 15 | 20 | A |
| Michala Petri on stage | Lacey | Genevieve | 15 | 26 | R |
| The Recorder Today [O'Kelly] & The Reptile [Thorn] | Marillier | Glyn | 15 | 27 | R |
| Recorders at Large [Thorn] | Martin | John | 15 | 30 | R |
| Letter | Geiger | Georg | 15 | 33 | L |
| Federation News | Connell | Lorraine | 15 | 34 | N |
| Notebook: News from the Societies | Various | 15 | 34 | N | |
| Personal notes [John Treloar, Walter van Hauwe, Conrad Steinmann] | Various | 15 | 37 | P |
| Playing for renaissance dance | Baker | Shirley | 16 | 1 | A |
| Taking tea with Loeki Stardust | Lacey | Genevieve | 16 | 5 | P |
| Don't panic! | Hajncl | Jeanette | 16 | 8 | A |
| Glyn Marillier -- the music & the spirit | Farmer | Belle | 16 | 11 | P |
| The compleat recorder para-medic (Part 2) | Geiger | Georg | 16 | 18 | A |
| A Recorder Player's Handbook [Linde] | Tattersall | Malcolm | 16 | 23 | R |
| Boogies for two, fun for one [Peychar] | Tattersall | Malcolm | 16 | 24 | R |
| Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet [Concert] | van Ernst | Barbara | 16 | 25 | R |
| Federation News | Connell | Lorraine | 16 | 26 | N |
| Notebook: News from the Societies | Various | 16 | 26 | N |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The recorder in the twenty-first century | Tattersall | Malcolm | 17 | 2 | A |
| Festival Report: Recorder Week '93, NZ | Hajncl | Jeanette | 17 | 9 | A |
| Newsfile | Kennedy | Julian, Malcolm Tattersall & Doug Truter | 17 | 10 | A |
| Putting the clock back | Rowland-Jones | Anthony | 17 | 12 | A |
| A Weekend in Marysville | Young | Robin, & Diane Rex | 17 | 13 | A |
| The good oil | Simmons | Terry | 17 | 15 | A |
| MIFOH '93: Baroque highlights [Concerts] | Brereton | Peter | 17 | 23 | R |
| Der Fluyten Lust-Hof [Griffionen] | Wilkinson | Ruth | 17 | 25 | R |
| Playing Recorder Sonatas [Rowland-Jones] | Tattersall | Malcolm | 17 | 26 | R |
| March On! [Mageau] | Thorn | Benjamin | 17 | 26 | R |
| MIFOH '93: A Medieval Fiddle [Concert: Wishart] | Kennedy | Julian | 17 | 27 | R |
| Alamire Facsimile Editions | Dikmans | Greg | 17 | 28 | R |
| Letter [response to Montagu] | Baker | Shirley | 17 | 29 | L |
| Letter [Renaissance percussion] | Montagu | Jeremy | 17 | 29 | L |
| Notebook: News from the Societies | Various | 17 | 30 | N |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken Williams's Oxford Sketchbook | Latham | Greg | 18 | 1 | A |
| Une Conversation Galante with Kate Clark | Kennedy | Julian | 18 | 2 | P |
| Recorder '95 | Parr-Smith | Geoff | 18 | 7 | A |
| Streamlining for the future | Anderson | Natasha | 18 | 8 | A |
| Newsfile [mini-reviews of books by Jackson & Bedford, & CDs by Evans & Kinsela] | Anon | 18 | 11 | R | |
| The Fifth Canberra Early Musick Fayre | Tapscott | Malcolm | 18 | 13 | A |
| MIFOH '94 | Hajncl, | J & Brereton, P | 18 | 15 | R |
| Opa -- A Sexual Odyssey [Cornelius & Vella] | Hajncl | Jeanette | 18 | 17 | R |
| Travellers' Tapestry [Cantigas] | Tattersall | Malcolm | 18 | 18 | R |
| Vivaldi with vivacity [Wispelway & Florilegium] | Caley | Margaret | 18 | 19 | R |
| Intuition-Ratio [Stempfel & Rokyta] | Mellor | Robyn | 18 | 20 | R |
| ClarNan Editions: An overview | McLennan | Isobel | 18 | 21 | R |
| Acoustics & your Recorder [Martin] | Dessy | Raymond | 18 | 22 | R |
| Walter van Hauwe: Modern Recorder Player, Vol. 3 | Lacey | Genevieve | 18 | 24 | R |
| Songs from Asia [Tattersall, Eccles] | Martin | John | 18 | 24 | R |
| Notebook: News from the Societies | Various | 18 | 27 | N |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Wallfisch & the art of the violin | Beesley | Rachael | 19 | 1 | P |
| Telemann's Illustrious Ladies | Love | Harold | 19 | 4 | A |
| Research in progress | Dikmans | Greg | 19 | 7 | A |
| Branching out: Playing other Woodwinds | Tattersall | Malcolm | 19 | 10 | A |
| Newsfile | Willis | R & Kennedy, J | 19 | 14 | R |
| Festivals: MIFOH '95, Recorder '95, Melbourne University, Canberra Early Musick Fayre '95, EM Summer School UWA '96 | Various | 19 | 16 | R | |
| Modern travellers: Medieval Journeys [Cantigas] | Kennedy | Julian | 19 | 23 | P |
| Handel Arias [Pushee & Brandenburg Orch.] | Russell | David V. | 19 | 25 | R |
| Phoenix Songs [Lacey] | Robinson | Stephen | 19 | 26 | R |
| Harpsichord Recital [Parle] | Collyer | David | 19 | 27 | R |
| The Recorder: diversity & importance [Griscom & Lasocki] | Dikmans | Greg | 19 | 29 | R |
| La Sonnerie [Marais] | Thorn | Benjamin | 19 | 30 | R |
| Notebook: News from the Societies | Various | 19 | 31 | N |
| Title | Author Surname | Author First Name | Issue | Page | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Laurin in Conversation | Rivers | Lynton | 20 | 3 | P |
| Early Music Studio, University of Melbourne | Watts | Victoria | 20 | 8 | A |
| The Lure of Jacob van Eyck (A Forest Full of Nightingales) | Waterman | Rodney | 20 | 11 | A |
| Baroque Third Generation Workshops at Royaumont, France, Impressions from a Participant | Catanach | Alison | 20 | 17 | A |
| The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder: an excellent reference for teachers and players | Dikmans | Greg | 20 | 21 | R |
| Reviews | Various | 20 | 27 | R | |
| Newsfile | 20 | 29 | |||
| Recorder '95 | 20 | 32 | |||
| Notebook: News from the Societies | Various | 20 | 33 |
