Greensleeves to a Ground (from "The division flute")

[wizardviolinist]

Beautiful! Your sounds is amazing! I only came across The Division, Recorder a couple of days ago, I have them on loan. As the books are out of print now I'll be buying the flute version soon. I am playing A Division on a Ground, Finger for a presentation in April, looking forward to get cracking on it!

[CardinalPugwash]

Best interpretation I've ever heard.

[FlutistOfWind]

This performance is simply fantastic: you two are great musicians! I'm a beginner recorder player and I hope in the future I'll be able to play my instrument so well too :D

Greetings from Italy!

[96Thoron]

I will play this on alto too..so I hope, that it will sound similarly :-) you are xecellent player :-)

[MrSwimmingmango]

Go tenor recorder ! or recorder

[sutherndudetx]

No cd, no recordings? Well you should. You are an excellent musician.

[VoidEngineerPDC]

This is (in my opinion, of course) the most beautiful version i have heard of this magnificent piece, and, having been a fan of it since i was a child, i've heard quite a few versions. On top of that, you two performed it superbly. Thanks for uploading!

I have two questions, then: Whose arrangement is it? Have you released a cd or any other sort of recording of you two playing renaissance music?

[romeoamkj]

@VoidEngineerPDC

Thank you for your kindness!

The arrangment comes from an anthology called "The division flute"...it is very famous.

No Cd, no recordings...sorry!

[Vcfalves]

Abandon all of ye olde ideas! We are Renaissancers! Thou shalt spin the growing of plants, then the nutrients absorbed by each plant present shall be in the other yard! That is by Science, our principle! Then we shall trade, the lost activity! We shall invent banks! That is ye capitalism! Ye Man hath ye power, not God! Ye Man shalt invent! Call that ANTROPOCENTRISM! No more Middle Ages!

[chriswales19]

Most charming!

[magdaknappe]

I played this today on soprano recorder!

Good job!!! :)

[Silvane770]

Muito bom!

Ótimo...

Parabéns, muito sucesso...

[speardock]

Excellent

Regards

Phil

[lichtbroeder]

Lovely! I own a spinet and play variations on this myself, but none as varied and fine sounding as yours!

[earlymusicus]

Beautiful performance! I just received the sheet music for this, transcribed for soprano recorder. Are you playing it on an alto or a tenor recorder?

[romeoamkj]

Thnak a lot! I am plating it on an alto.

[Blockflote26]

I playing it on soprano few days ago :D

[Blockflote26]

Very nice! :D

[gizzleA]

I played this for my advanced higher music exam but your soooooo much better! Very nice!

[PADSEnsemble]

Splendida performance! Regge e supera il confronto con la macchinosa interpretazione della Petri, a mio umile avviso. Peccato per l'eccesso di eco nella registrazione. Sono andato subito a riascoltare un mio vecchio cavallo di battaglia, quando la musica antica era pane quotidiano. Grazie a Rome Ciuffa e a Giancarlo delle Chiaie,

Matteo Sommacal, PADS, Roma

[magdaknappe]

Mmmmm... thank you :)

[NewEdit617]

Lively and fantastic!

[romeoamkj]

Many thanks! Romeo Ciuffa

[contessa1750]

very interresting! :-)

[meggypeggy5]

Evvivaaaa Romeooooo!!!!!

sei il migliore...ma non suonavi la tromba tu?!

compliments da Francy e Meggy  :o)

[sreinecker]

Bravo I felt as if I was in Elizabeths court.

[romeoamkj]

Thank you Sam!

[kibblets777]

simply beautiful...ive played this with my friend before....it was harpsichord and violin...i sang with it..

[annevanschothorst]

great performance! beautiful version of greensleeves.. grtz anne

[berkshireee]

Where can I get the sheet music?

[allengarvin]

It's on the Werner Icking archive, for free. Or, you can get the facsimile from Performer's Facsimiles. It's quite readable.

[felipeclerigo]

Oh My God !!!

[Gealach74]

excellent!!

bravo....

[pitbikecrazy]

is there a version of this what you can play on piano/keyboard?

[romeoamkj]

Probably yes it is, but this version is composed in the start of XVIII° century for a melodic instrument and basso continuo

[dolofonos]

If it's written for flute and continuo then the there is sufficient music on the score to play the piece entirely on the keyboard. Merely, the right hand plays the melody assigned the flute and the left plays the fundamental bass notes without necessarily realizing them. This would be the rudest interpretation but possible chords and embellishments could be filled in where appropriate at the performer's discretion to enrich the performance.

[hellomate639]

I needs the Harpsichord. I don't know what my love of those instruments is...

[mrpenta]

This is precious playing "Greensleeves", I like very much.

Harpsichord playing is also very good itself,

but I think the sound of harpsichord is a little bit stronger for me...

If it is possible I'd like to listen to the

version with Virginal or even solo.

Thank you for your playings and I have been

very enjoying them.

[romeoamkj]

Thank you, this melody is so nice in any version!

[86daia]

Great, I really like this version!

I play the recorder a bit myself, and Greensleeves is one of my favourite tunes. I have also played numerous improvisations over this theme on the keyboard over the years. Such a beautiful melody!