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Sound Files

Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander

AU Format

• AU files: Samples from Studio aHOYO (Japan) featuring the recorder playing of Hiromi & Yoshiko Okamoto
• AU files: Samples from Quodlibet (USA), featuring recorder playing by Margaret Erin, Charles Larkowski, Barbara Mann & Mary White

Digitalphono

• Sound clips from Jacob van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-Hof, featuring the recorder playing of Marion Verbruggen (Netherlands)

Flash Format

• Sound clips from Rara Avis, featuring the recorder playing of Terri Hron (Netherlands)
• Sound clips featuring the jazz recorder playing of Gianluca Barbaro (Italy)
• Sound clips featuring the recorder playing of Maria Dorothea Loos (Germany)
• Sound clip from Recorder Recital, featuring the recorder playing of Tosiya Suzuki (Japan)

MIDI Format

• The Virtual Recorder, MIDI files of music for recorder, including Music Minus One (playalong) examples, from Nicholas Lander (Australia)
• Sound Files, from David Bellugi (Italy)
• Makoyan's Classical and Recorder Midi Page, from Makoto Tahira (Japan
• Ensemble 1915 (Netherlands), from the Enschedese MuziekSchool (Netherlands)
• Flauto Nuovo (Netherlands)
• Early music MIDI files from Curtis Clark
• The Classical MIDI Archives
• The Classical MIDI Connection
• Midiworld
• Standard MIDI Files on the Net, MIDI files of all genres
• Renaissance Music for Viols or Recorders, from David Miles (UK)

MPEG Format

Qdesign/Quicktime Format

• Quicktime audio samples featuring the recorder playing of Brad White (USA)
• Quicktime audio samples featuring the recorder playing of Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen (Germany)
• Quicktime files: Samples from CDs by David Young (USA), New Age Music

Real Audio Format

• RA files from More Hispano, featuring the recorder playing of Vicente Parilla (Spain)
• RA files from Romero Damião (Brasil)
• Real Audio clips featuring the recorder plyaing of Hugo Reyne (France)
• Real Audio files featuring the recorder playing of Dan Laurin & Hanneke van Proosdij, from Parnassus Avenue Baroque (USA)
• Real Audio files featuring the recorder playing of Pamela Thorby (UK)
• Real Audio files from Ensemble Dreiklang Berlin (Germany)
• Real Audio sound clip of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, featuring recorder player Marion Verbruggen (Netherlands) & Flanders Recorder Quartet
• Real Audio sound clip of Vivaldi Concertos, featuring recorder player Marion Verbruggen (Netherlands)
• Real Audio sound clip of Alessandro Scarlatti's cantata Bella Dame di Nome Santa, featuring the recorder playing of Hans-Dieter Michatz (Australia)
• Real Audio sound clip of Movement 5 of David Bedford's Recorder Concerto, featuring the recorder playing of Piers Adams (UK)
• Real Audio sound clips from Trio Delight (Germany), featuring the recorder playing of Meike Herzig
• Real Audio sound clips from Spirits, featuring the recorder playing of jazz multi-instrumentalist Keith Jarrett (USA)
• Real Audio clips featuring the recorder playing of Michala Petri (Denmark)
• Continuo Marketplace, sound clips from a number of early music CDs including some for recorder
• Real Audio Examples from the Japan Lutheran Hour, featuring the recorder playing of Mino Yoshizawa, Kenji Kaneko, Takashi Yasui, Yasanore Hayazeki & Toru Yoshi-tawe (Japan)
• Real Audio Examples from Duo al Dente, featuring the recorder playing of Kirsten Lund Jensen (Denmark)
• Real Audio Examples from October's End, cassette featuring Berkshire Recorder Consort (UK)
• Real Audio Examples from Jacob van Eyck & Dutch Songs of the Golden Age, featuring Camerata Trajectina and the recorder playing of Saskia Coolen (Netherlands)
• Real Audio Examples from CAOS Recorder Ensemble (Japan)
• Real Audio samples from La Castella, CD featuring the recorder playing of Maurice Steger (Switzerland), includes review by Peter Dale
• RA sample of Denis Murphy's Koo-Koo featuring the composer playing recorders
• RA tunes by Jacob van Eyck played by Robert Walker (UK)

Scorch Format

• Lindsay Aked (Australia)
• Betty Beath (Australia)
• Andy Brook (UK)
• Dafydd Bullock (Luxembourg)
• Derek Calder (UK)
• John Hawkes (UK)
• Chris May (UK)
• Stan McDaniel (USA)
• Howard Oberg (Australia)
• Pete Peters (Ireland)
• Andrew Robinson
• Glen Shannon (USA)
• Alan Taylor (UK)

Shockwave Format

• Shockwave sample from CD by Piers Adams (UK)

SND Format

• SND files: Samples from CDs by László Czidra (Hungary)
• SND files: Samples from CDs by György Róbert (Hungary)

WAV Format

• WAV files from composer Peter Madge (Australia)
• WAV files: Samples from Chalilio's Wooden Flutes (Netherlands)
• WAV file: Sample from Les Doits Parlans (Netherlands)
• WAV files: Samples from the Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia (UK), recorder orchestra
• WAV files: Samples from Poema Harmonico (Spain), featuring the recorder playing of Guillermo Peñalver Sarazin
• WAV files: Samples from Robin Sherwood's Spirit of the Renaissance (USA)
• WAV files: Samples from Jean-François Rousson's Spinnaker (France)
• WAV files: Samples from Nikolaj Tarasov's Cantabile (Germany)
• WAV file: Sample from Ensemble Gallilei's Ancient Noels
• WAV files: Samples from Jugularity, In a Jugular Vein, featuring the recorder playing of Ernier Gruner and Tony Bannister (Australia)

Windows Media Audio Format

• WMA files featuring the recorder playing of Muriel Rochat Rienth (Switzerland)
• WMA files from Baroquenroll, featuring the recorder-playaing of Louise Salmond Smith (UK)
• WMA files from Ensemble Dreiklang Berlin (Germany)
• WMA files from Musica Ficta (Argentina), featuring recorder player Ruben Soifer