Sample Programmes with Crispin Ward

PROGRAMME 0NE:

BRITISH AND IRISH MUSIC  FOR RECORDER AND STRINGS 

Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite (1926)   

Edward Elgar – Serenade (1892)   

Giuseppe Sammartini - Recorder Concerto in F (England, c.1730)  

Interval 

John Ireland - A Downland Suite (1932) 

Crispin Ward - Celtic Concerto for Recorder and Strings (2018)  

 

PROGRAMME TWO:

VIRTUOSO FANTASIA FOR RECORDER AND STRINGS 

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910)  

Dimitri Shostakovich - Prelude Suite No. 2 (arr. C Ward*)  10' 

Georg Phillip Telemann - Recorder Concerto in C   

Interval

Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite 1884)   

David Bedford - Concerto for Recorder and Strings (1994)  

PROGRAMME THREE: 

20th/21st CENTURY MUSIC FOR RECORDER AND STRINGS  

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleves (1934)   

Bela Bartok - Romanian Dances (1917) (version for strings and recorder)  

Crispin Ward - Celtic Concerto for Recorder and Strings (2018)  

Interval 

Dimitri Shostakovich  - String Symphony (from 8th quartet arr. C Ward*)  

David Bedford - Concerto for Recorder and Strings  (1994)  

  

PROGRAMME FOUR:

FOR LARGER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WITH WINDS 

George Butterworth - The Banks of Green Willow (1913)  

Claude Debussy - Three Orchestral Pieces (arr C Ward)   

Crispin Ward - Celtic Concerto for Recorder and Strings (2018)  

Interval 

Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (Chamber version) (1944)  

David Bedford - Concerto for Recorder and Strings (1994)