LINKS
One page sais it all: The Recorder Homepage
All further links are actually unnecessary when you visit this site. Here you will find literally everything that has to do with recorders: manufacturers to published articles, composers to organisations and software to recordings.
On a dutch site it is impossible not to mention this one:Stichting Blokfluit. This is a internationally oreinted site of Dutch origin (Walter van Hauwe and Paul Leenhouts). A bit intransparent, but certainly worthwile. Attention: for full access you need to be subscribed...
For people interested in purchasing a recorder: Bergmann.
(Address: Koningstraat 54a, 6811 DH, Arnhem; telephone: +31-026-4460268; fax: +31-026-4460833; ask for Erick Witten)
Han Hartog's medieval, renaissance & baroque music homepage: A well organised site, fast to load, with a good deal of information about early music and specifically the recorder.
A very wellpresented page is Il Flauto Dolce, which used to be 'The contemporary recorder', by C. Sebastian Loh (Pasir Ris, Singapore).
The International Recorder Page by Bob Redman (USA) is a somewhat badly organised page, that amongst other things contains a special section on the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet an a teaching method, developed by the author.
The microtonal recorder: as the title indicates the webmasters of this page are interested in microtonal music for recorder. It is a no-nonsense site, with a lot of useful information on the subject.
For the fans of 20th century (Japanese) recorder music, the Recorder Homepage Japan" by Minoru Yoshizawa is absolutely a must. A large quatity of information about the musci, the composers and the status quo of the recorder in Japan.
The site of Jim Phifer (USA)(Recorder2's Home Page) contains a lot of MIDI-files bevat, and therefor mainly of interest to people who are looking for those. The site is quite slow, especially in loading the first page.
A nice page, under development, is Die Blockflöte by Katharina Hoeckh (Duitsland). There are only a few sites as well-presentted as this one.
Recorder-L mailing list. Send an e-mail with no subject, or type a space (AOL-users: type a character), and type the following command in capitals in the body of the message: SUB RECORDER-L [YOUR NAME], in which YOURNAME is replaced by your own name. Attention: this mailinglist results in many messages in one day...
American Recorder Teachers Association: an organisation for recorder teachers. Soon an European version will also come available on the same URL.
A nice list of recorder music can be found at Recorder Mail. Neat and categorized.
For people with physical injuries due to playing music Musicians and injuries can be recommended. Here you will find a list with literature and links that are available on this subject.
If you want to know more about a certain composer The Classical Composer Database is a nice startingpoint for your quest.
Homepage of the Praetorius Blokfluitensemble Leiden (Netherlands)www.come.to/praetorius
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