Basilisk Edition

With its unusual instrumentation of three tenor and three bass recorders, Glen Shannon’s new piece alludes to the popular 17th-century intrada music. The part for the first tenor recorder can also be...

Franz Schubert’s *Winterreise* (Op. 89, D 911) was composed in the fall of 1827, one year before his death. The song cycle, consisting of 24 songs, is characterized by a deep melancholy that is partic...

Franz Schubert’s *Winterreise* (Op. 89, D 911) was composed in the fall of 1827, one year before his death. The song cycle, consisting of 24 songs, is characterized by a deep melancholy that is partic...

Franz Schubert’s *Winterreise* (Op. 89, D 911) was composed in the fall of 1827, one year before his death. The song cycle, consisting of 24 songs, is characterized by a deep melancholy that is partic...

With its 26 cantons and four language regions (German, French, Italian, and Romansh), Switzerland is a very diverse country. This diversity is also reflected in Swiss folk songs. Based on traditional...

The three-part madrigals included in this volume of the "Song Collection for 3 Voices" series are taken from the collection *Ayres or Phantasticke Spirites*, published in London in 1608. In it, the co...

Alpenglühen is a piece for 4 or 5 bass recorders (BBBSb/SKb) that is also ideal for recorder orchestras. The optional sub-contrabass (or sub-grossbass) part may be omitted. The piece can be expanded t...

The four-part chorales and song settings included in this collection are particularly well-suited for performance by a recorder quartet (SATB, though most pieces can also be played with SAAB), but can...

This collection contains 34 short, technically accessible four-part pieces. The varied pieces range from cheerful and lively to gentle and melancholic spring songs. The pieces are particularly suited...

In this concerto for recorder orchestra, the focus is on the low recorders, with the following instrumentation: T/B1/B2/B3/B4/Gb/Sb. Those with sub-alto and sub-contrabass recorders will find addition...

UMBRA was created to mark the solar eclipse of August 12, 2026, and was commissioned by Antje Susanne Kopp and Renate Sudhaus for the "Sommerwinde" orchestra workshop in Ratzeburg. Inspired by the int...

This contemporary piece moves toward its final cadence in five sections, each in an old style: Canzona—La Volta—Intermezzo—Bicinium—Romanesca. The composition is conceived as a four-part piece (SATB),...

With "Great God of Love" (1839) and "Lay a Garland" (1840), this edition includes two particularly melodious madrigals by Robert L. Pearsall (1795–1856). The English composer had a keen interest in Re...

This arrangement of the eight-part piece by Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795–1856) transposes this impressive choral work for a double-choir recorder ensemble or recorder orchestra. A piano reduction of th...

Beginning in the 16th century, the demand for two-part compositions, known as , increased noticeably. These biciniums did not follow any fixed form. Among others, one finds (with and without text) mad...

Starting in the 16th century, the demand for two-part compositions—known as "bicinium"—grew steadily. These biciniums did not follow any fixed form. Among them are (with and without text) madrigals, s...

Joseph Fiala of Bohemia (1748–1816), a widely traveled oboist, cellist, gambist, and composer, was a remarkable artist in many respects, whose life spanned the period between J.S. Bach and F. Mendelss...

Richard Erig’s seven fables for melody and bass instruments are meant to be understood as stories without words. They are written as duets for two instruments of equal standing, but can also be enrich...

This edition contains 20 psalms from the first edition of Becker’s Psalter, published in 1628. Composer Heinrich Schütz based his work on the complete German rhymed psalter by the Leipzig theologian C...

Every Sunday afternoon, 21-year-old Edward Elgar (1857–1934) rehearsed with his brother and three friends in a garden shed behind his father’s music store. He himself played the bassoon in the wind qu...

The signing of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 brought the devastating Thirty Years' War to an end. That same year saw the publication of the motet collection *Geistliche Chor-Music* by the Dresden co...

The signing of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 brought the devastating Thirty Years’ War to a close. That same year saw the publication of the motet collection *Geistliche Chor-Music* by the Dresden c...

The Christmas story is said to have taken place in the West Bank a little over 2,000 years ago. In the Orient: with palm trees and camels. But without snow or reindeer. And without Santa Claus, too. I...

With this release, Basilisk Edition presents a forgotten treasure trove of Baroque sheet music. Who was Mr. Voyenne?—We don’t know! The "Six Suittes" are the only evidence of the composer’s existence;...

A rediscovery from the French Baroque era: the duo sonatas by Clair-Nicolas Rogets—a composer who has since fallen into obscurity—published in 1736! Originally composed for two transverse flutes, Roge...