24 August 2008
Artworks Feature: Fred Morgan
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This Artworks feature is all about the recorder and, most especially, it's about one man, Fred Morgan, who for a time made the world's most beautiful recorders.
The recorder was introduced into Australian schools in the 1940s and at that time, that's just about the only place you'd see or hear one. For nearly two hundred years the recorder had completely disappeared from use. Its reincarnation began in the 1920s, but it was really not till the 1960s that it came into its own again, with the Baroque revival and a Dutch musician called Frans Bruggen who played a recorder made in Australia by Fred Morgan. And together they redefined the recorder as a virtuoso concert instrument.
Further Information
Publications
Title: Recorders Based on Historical Models: Fred Morgan Writings and Memories
Author: Gisela Rothe
Publisher: Mollenhauer Verlag
ISBN 978-3-00-021215-4
Music
CD title:
Evergreens From The Pleasure Garden
Track title:
Doen Daphne d'over Schoone Maeght
Artist: Dan Laurin
Composer: Jacob van Eyck
Publishing/Copyright: BIS-CD-1375 (89-19480 Tk 2)
CD title:
The Four Seasons
Track title:
Largo, Winter, Concerto in F minor, RV 297
Artist: Dan Laurin/Arte dei Suonatori
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Publishing/Copyright: BIS SACD-1605 (88-21913 Tk 11)
Track title:
Les Folies d'Espagne
Artist: Genevieve Lacey
Composer: Marin Marais
Publishing/Copyright: Two, Move MD 3216 (89-11645 Tk 2)
CD title:
Il Flauto Dolce
Track title:
Allegro non molto, Concerto in C minor, RV 441
Artist: Genevieve Lacey/Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Publishing/Copyright: ABC Classics 461 828-2 (88-17474 Tk 15)
CD title:
Recorder Music From Renaissance England
Track title:
Upon salve nos
Artist: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
Composer: John Baldwin
Publishing/Copyright: Decca 476 1972 (89-2978 Tk 18)
Track title:
Sonata in B Flat Vivace
Artist: Frans Bruggen
Composer: Arcangelo Corelli
Publishing/Copyright: Corelli Sonatas, RCA RD71055 (89-899, Tk 5)
Presenter
Amanda Smith
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