Balmoral Suite for Recorder and Piano - Robin Stevens

Robin Steven’s Balmoral Suite is an affectionate tribute to the Royal Family in the late reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Featuring musical sketches of imagined family life during summers at their Scottish home, the work is a pastiche of well known Scottish folk tunes, delivered with the occasional modernist twist and plenty of humour.

1. Overture - The Family Gathers
2. Grandpa Hankers for the Past
3. A Graceful Beauty
4. Enter Great-Grandpa
5. Rough and Tumble in the Nursery

Click the links to hear a version for string orchestra and harp accompaniment, recorded by John Turner with the Manchester Sinfonia conducted by Richard Howarth, also available on CD (Prima Facie PFCD101 - Balmoral Suite and Other Recorder Favourites).