Recipes (1989)
five pieces for descant recorder, and optional piano, or guitar, or string orchestra or string quartet 10 mins: Grade 4-7
For John Turner: first performance Wilmslow, 12 November 1989, First performance of string orchestra version, Chester, 1998.
This best-selling and much-performed suite comprises a menu of five courses:
1.Coffee and Croissants
2.Barbecue Blues
3.Prawn Paella
4.Special Chop Suey
5.Fish and Chips
‘a delightful menu’ – Guitar International
‘light music of the best kind…very good fun: compliments to the chef’ – Recorder Magazine
FORSYTH (score on sale, string score and parts on hire)
Recorded on two CDs:
`John and Peter’s Whistling Book’ English music for Recorder and Piano performed by John Turner (recorders) and Peter Lawson (piano) FORSYTH FS 001/002
`English Recorder Music’ performed by John Turner (recorders) and the strings of the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conducted by Gavin Sutherland
NAXOS 8.572503
`the cookbook of recipes prepared by Bullard certainly titillates the palette…an extremely enjoyable and recommendable disc’ – Ivan March, Gramophone
A youtube link – one of many