WHAT'S GOING ON?

It has been another enriching musical season for us all here in Fribourg. 11 concerts of high quality music featuring the recorder in all it's beauty and diversity. Amateurs playing there hearts out, kids having fun and professionals demonstrating their incredible skills and long term dedication. All giving in the desire to expose a worldwide audience to the instrument and music that they all love.
We sincerely thank you for your active participation in this internet music project. Without you out there listening and giving your precious feedback we would be performing in the dark.

This summer I will be moving my house and studio. I will leave the city for an old farm house in the Swiss countryside. There we will have a wonderful concert and studio space to present are concerts. My goal for next season is to be able to provide live video concerts that everyone can see here on my blog or in Facebook. 1 click and you'll be live in my music room. This will increase the audience size significantly and with that I will be able to interest more high quality artists to perform. In the works are concerts of a professional jazz guitarist and another with a professional saxaphone quartet and......

These are all dreams and ideas that I wanted to share with you. Now I've got to prepare to move and set up. I'll keep you all posted here. Please feel free to give me your ideas and don't forget, ALL MY MUSIC CAN BE DOWNLOADED FOR FREE AT SOUNDCLICK.

All My Best, Thom Dowd (Thomas Coard)

SATURDAY16 APRIL BAROQUE SOLOS AND DUOS FOR RECORDERS

Telemann in Hamburg around 1740

On Saturday 16 April at 12 p.m. pacific, 3 p.m. eastern and 21.00 Suisse we will present a concert of favorite Recorder solos by Jacob van Eyke and a series of duos with 2 recorders or recorder and bass. I have invited my most advanced adult students to participate.
 The concert will take place on beautiful Music Island in SecondLife or you can listen in iTunes by;


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Hope to see you...

A CONCERT DEDICATED TO ROBERT DEVAUD

SOLOS AND DUOS FOR RECORDERS

MUSIC ISLAND

12 p.m. SATURDAY 16 APRIL 2011 

Françoise Prongué- Hofstetter, Marie Gillard,

Gorse Ferarris, Thom Dowd

Recorders

Sonata in C Major for Alto Recoder and B.C.  Georg Philipp Telemann 1681-1767

Cantabile, Allegro, Grave, Vivace,

Sonate No.3 OP. 3 in F Major, for Alto Recorder and B.C., JOHN LOEILLET OF LONDON, 1680-1730

     Adagio - Allegro - Larghetto - Allegro

Ballette Gravesand with variations, Jacob van Eyck, 1590-1657

Philis Schoone with variations, Jacob van Eyck, 1590-1657

Sonata No.4 in B flat major, Robert Valentine 1661-1747

Adagio, Allegro, Adagio Siciliana, Allegro Giga

Sonata No. 5 for 2 Alto recorders Georg Philipp Telemann

Largo, Vivace, Gratioso, Allegro

GET YOUR FREE THOM DOWD MP3's

As of today I have decided to give away all the mp3's I have recorded. 2 Renaissance Dance CD's plus Josquin des Prés CD a Christmas CD and several other gems. Please take, enjoy and share with your early music friends. The MP3's can be downloaded at Soundclick.  Hope to see you all at a future internet concert, Thom.

SATURDAY 5 MARCH, THOM DOWD SOLO WITH GORSE FERRARIS

Thom and Gorse

MUSIC ISLAND 12 pm pst 3 pm est 2100 Suisse
Lots of favorites, some beautiful 4 and 5 part renaissance pieces recorded for SL, a Telemann fantasie that I have dreamed of performing for years and my favorite van Eyck and Demoivre solos. This should be one of those living room concerts to remember. (Oh Yes, It's canaval here. **"++!!%**BOOM!)


Please join us in ITUNES for this special event.

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MUSIC ISLAND

12 p.m. SATURDAY 5 MARCH 2011 

Thom Dowd and Gorse Ferraris

Recorders

Doen Daphne d’over schoone Maeght, 3 variations, Jacob van Eyke, 1590-1657

Courante, of Ach treurt myn bedoefde, 2 variations

Engels Nachtegaeltje, 2 variations

Dances by John Playford

Female Sailor

Gathering Peascods

Grimstock Playford

Clog Branle (Arbeau 1589) Playford 1651

Fantasy in B flat major, Georg Philipp Telemann

Allegro, Adagio, Vivace, Allegro

allemande ATT  Gervais

Wohl kommt der Mai, Ludwig Senfle c.1486-1543 SAAT

Der Vöglein Art, Anon. 1470 SAT

Suite in E minor for alto recorder solo, Daniel Demoivre

Allemand, Gavott, Saraband, Jigg

Bicinias of ORLANDO DE LASSO (1532-1594) :

  Ipsa te cogat pietas  ( will force you to the piety)

Scribantur haec in generatione altera (let these things for the next generation)

Quoniam qui talia agunt   (those who do such things)

Fecit potentiam in brachio suo (he showed the power in his arm)

Fecit potentiam in brachio suo (he showed the power in his arm)

Oculus non vidit nec auris audivit (eye has not seen, nor ears heard)

Pictures, Daniel Hellbach

Ostinato

Mamolo’s song

Ballade

Gospel

SATURDAY 19 FEB. THE EVELINE NOTH GANG!

Saturday 19 Feb. at 12 pm pacific, 3 pm eastern and 21.00 Suisse, Eveline Noth will return with 3 of her pre-professional students to present a virtuoso concert of music for recorders. They will perform music from the renaissance, baroque and modern periods. This will be a multi-lingual world event sent to you via internet at the very best audio quality. Please join us in ITUNES for this special event.

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MUSIC ISLAND

Samedi, 19 février 2011, 12 P.M. SL

Concert de flûte à bec

Nadine Perny

Marc Pauchard

Michèle Mülhauser

Eveline Noth

Hayne van Ghizeghem (1445-1497) De tous biens plaine, Nadine Perny, Michèle Mülhauser, Marc Pauchard

Marco Uccelini (1603-1680)

Aria sopra la Bergamasca, Nadine Perny, Marc Pauchard

Jacob van Eyck (1590-1657)

Pavane Lachrimae Marc Pauchard

Hans Ulrich Staeps(1909-1988), Presto possibile,Nadine Perny

Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768) Sonata Terza

Largo - Allegro - Largo - Allegro, Nadine Perny

Isang Yun (1917-1995), Der Affenspieler, Marc Pauchard

Jaques-Martin Hotteterre (1674-1763) Suite en mi mineur

Prelude Lentement, Vivement, Allemande, Tendrement, Marc Pauchard

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Quartett d-Moll

Andante - Vivace

Nadine Perny

Michèle Mülhauser

Marc Pauchard

Sat. 12 Feb. STUDENT LIVE VIDEO CONCERT

Sat. 12 Feb. STUDENT LIVE VIDEO CONCERT, 12 pm pacific, 3 pm eastern, 2100 Suisse.

The concert will be broadcast live on QUICKTIME PLAYER at the Listening address 

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The stream will be up at least 30 mins. before the concert.

Enjoy and please leave your comments.

The Recorder Series; Perfomance Practice

MUSIC ISLAND ISLAND 12 PM SL 12 FEB. 2011

Perrine Droux, Fabienne Baumann, Gorse Ferarris, Amélie Wantz, Thom Dowd

Recorders

Vous perdez du temps, Anon. c. 1550

Exercitium, Bata 1545

Wel op, wel op, ich gae ter jaght, Jacob van Eyke

Sonata no. 4 in B flat major, Robert Valentine, ca. 1710

Adagio, Allegro, Adagio, Allegro-Gigue

Sonate C major, opus III/1,  for Alto recorder and B.C.,   JOHN LOEILLET OF LONDON (1680-1730)

    Largo - Allegro - Affettuoso - Allegro

"Geswinde Bode van de Min" (swift messenger of love)  JACOB VAN EYCK, (1590-1657)

"Vande Lombart", JACOB VAN EYCK, (1590-1657)

La bergére JACOB VAN EYCK, (1590-1657)

Sonata No. 6 in g major for 2 alto recorders, Georg Philip Tellemann

Affettuoso. Presto, Sauve, Spirituoso

Rockcliffe University SL, 12 p.m. Saturday 29 January 2011

Rockcliffe University SL, 12 p.m. Saturday 29 January 2011. (3 p.m. EST 21.00 Suisse.)

A very esoteric concert of Renaissance duos for Recorders featuring Thom Dowd and Françoise Prongué playing some very special renaissance recorders made by Thomas Prescott. The music is from the very end of the Italian renaissance and is a great example of the polyphony of the period. This concert can be heard live in ITUNES. 

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Guiseppi Giamberti (ca.1600 in Rome, † ca. 1662) was an Italian Chapelmaster and Composer. Giamberti was a pupil of Nanino and Agostini and became the master of the chapel of the Orvieto Cathedral in Rome. Most of his compositions were of a sacred nature and his last published works went through three further editions they were so popular. ~ Keith Johnson, Rovi

PROGRAM

Gioseppe Giamberti 1657

I Perfidia sopra Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La              Ténors

IX                                                                 Ténors

XII Cantilena                                                 Ténors

XXI                                                              Alto-Ténor

XXII                                                             Alto-Ténor

XXXVI Villan di Spagna                              Ténors

XXXVIII Civetta                                          Ténors

VIII Ballo di Mantua                                     Soprano-Ténor

XVI                                                              Soprano-Ténor

XXV                                                            Ténor-Basse

III Scherzi sopra la Girometta                        Ténor-Basse

IV Bergamasca                                              Ténor-Basse

V Fra Iacopino                                              Alto-Basse

XXX Piva                                                     Alto-Basse

XXXIV Corrente                                          Alto-Basse

XXXVII Corrente                                         Alto-Basse

Paolo Fonghetti 

12 Madrigali A cura di Andrea Bornstein (Verona 1598)

No 2 Deh, Dove Senza Me                         Alto-ténor

No 3 A Caso Un Giorno (Prima Parte)      Soprano-Alto

No 16 Vidi Da Dui Bei Lumi                     Soprano-Alto