Plank Road Publishing

For Players Young and Old

Arranger: Paul Jennings
Format: Book and CD
Version: Kit with CD
(Teacher's Handbook with Reproducible Student Parts and Performance/Accompaniment CD)

Paul Jennings has created some unique settings to feature recorders in your holiday concerts. These arrangements have been very popular for a number of reasons:

• Full orchestral accompaniments, with rich and subtle orchestrations and truly engaging arrangements that will capture the attention of both your players and your audiences.
• Most settings have multiple recorder parts, usually two soprano recorder parts, and an optional alto recorder part.
• One of the soprano parts is very easy, featuring simple rhythms and just a few of the beginning notes.
• The arrangements are orchestrated so that they can be successfully performed with any or all of the parts, including just the easiest part by itself.

This very special collection includes:

• Good King Wenceslas
  • Bold and brassy, with lots of exciting contrasts
• Fantasia On A Christmas Spiritual
  • Based on "Mary Had A Baby," this arrangement is full of subtle textures and moods, building to a satisfying ending
• Huron Carol Fantasy
  • Dramatic and haunting orchestral effects make this arrangement one of our all-time favourites
• The Holly And The Ivy
  • Modern harmonies and striking countermelodies
• Rhapsody On An Ancient Carol
  • One of the oldest carols, "Adeste Fideles" gets a powerful orchestral workout that is also a joy for recorders
• A Russian Christmas
  • This acclaimed bonus song combines "Carol Of The Russian Children" with "Kaliada" for a spectacular showstopper