Just Beautiful [Descant Recorder]

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Twenty-five sumptuous slow descant recorder solos with piano accompaniment

I have chosen these pieces because I love every one of them. I can clearly remember the occasion when I first came across each piece and the excitement I felt.

It was during my time as a chorister at Westminster Cathedral and in my subsequent work as a church musician that I first discoevered many of the sacred pieces. The rest are my choice from years of seeking out beautiful melodies and perfect harmonies.

I hope you enjoy Just Beautiful as much as I do.

Kevin Mayhew

Contents

1. Air from 'Suite no.3' (JS Bach)
2. Arioso (JS Bach)
3. Ave Verum Corpus (WA Mozart)
4. Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from 'Nabucco' (Giuseppe Verdi)
5. Cradle Song (Johannes Brahms)
6. Einsame Blumen (Woodland Flowers) (Robert Schumann)
7. Gymnopedie I (Erik Satie)
8. I Know That My Redeemer Liveth from 'Messiah' (George Frederic Handel)
9. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (JS Bach)
10. Largo from 'Xerxes' (George Frederic Handel)
11. Meditation from 'Thais' (Jules Massenet)
12. Nimrod from 'Enigma Variations' (Edward Elgar)
13. O For The Wings Of A Dove (Felix Mendelssohn)
14. Panis Angelicus (Cesar Franck)
15. Pie Jesu from 'Requiem' (Gabriel Faure)
16. Prelude in A minor (Frederic Chopin)
17. Prelude in G (Frederic Chopin)
18. Prelude in B minor (Frederic Chopin)
19. Salut d'Amour (Edward Elgar)
20. Second movement from 'Symphony no.9 The New World' (Antonin Dvorak)
21. Sheherazade (Robert Schumann)
22. To A Wild Rose (Edward MacDowell)
23. Traumerei (Dreaming) (Robert Schumann)
24. Valse Lente (Oskar Merikanto)
25. Waltz in G (Franz Schubert)

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