Here are some (24) of my favourite YouTube videos of recorder playing. They are taken from the 72 weekly emails I sent to the Wallingford Recorder Group during the lockdown of 2020-2021.
Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra perform Bach's Cantata, BWV 106 (Actus Tragicus), with Marion Verbruggen and Reine-Marie Verhagen (alto recorders) and soloists as listed at the start of the video (duration 20 minutes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i5O923PzeQ
Telemann, Concerto for (alto) Recorder and Flute in E minor, Bremer Baroque Orchestra (players listed on YouTube).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D-y2kJU0lg
A number of recordings by famous Danish recorder player Michala Petri (born 1958).
Michala Petri (sopranino) and James Galway (flute) play La Basque by Marais.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1GuPhZRR-E
Michala (on alto and soprano) plays two of Franz Bruggen's Five Studies for alto recorder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBB6rfFyk8o
Michala (soprano) plays "Wat Zal Men op den Avons Doen" ("What shall we do in the evening?") by the blind Dutchman Jacob van Eyck (c.1590-1657) - like many of his pieces for solo soprano a set of variations on a well-known tune of the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwLZcxJLjKQ
Michala (sopranino) plays her own piece "Mads Doss" - variations on a folk tune, like van Eyck's pieces, but with a number of tricks you may not have heard before...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlF7dJLt1PY
Corelli, La Folia, played by Michala Petri (alto) and Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) (10 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXSsN5SDyM0
Woodwork plays Holborne and Brade. An excellent British consort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6XQ-C4EpLQ
The Flautadors (UK Recorder Quartet) - "Bavardage", excerpts from their CD (2017).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewu26QgoQN0
Uccellini: Aria sopra la Bergamasca: Tabea Debus and Olwen Foulkes (soprano recorders).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXjanumHN28
A number of recordings by young Dutch recorder player Lucie Horsch (born 1999).
Lucie, aged 9, plays Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5, at an outdoor concert in Amsterdam (3 minutes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQd2oeOeXic
Handel: "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"). Lucie Horsch and Charlotte Barbour-Condini play the oboe parts on soprano recorders (3 minutes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AJMrub11Lk
Vivaldi: Lucie plays soprano in two movements from a concerto in G (6 minutes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcaJyzvlrik
J.M. Hotteterre(1674-1763), Prelude and A.D. Philidor(1681-1728), Sonata: Lucie Horsch(recorders) and Thomas Dunford(lute) (5 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW4wU6ahpxM
Now two pieces by British composers:
Hidehiro Nakamura(2014) plays all the parts (SATB) of the Suite in D by Robin Milford(1903-1959) (7 minutes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h32WdFkcW2s
Il Flautario(2011) play "Riffs", the third piece of "Ballad, Blues and Riffs" (for SAATB) by Andrew Challinger (2 minutes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRJqOGCMPpo
Some performances by the Flanders Recorder Quartet(FRQ), now disbanded:
FRQ: Bach/Vivaldi concerto BWV596b, 3rd movement (fugue) (3 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di6dl5jBwh4
FRQ: Catch (an angel), Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk (1 minute).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4HBW8quYtM
FRQ: Moonlight Serenade (3 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yunl7Uc6qGU&list=RDyunl7Uc6qGU&start_radio=1
Telemann, Fantasia No. 3 in D minor, Franz Bruggen (alto recorder) (4 minutes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQatlvFvGdM
Telemann: Duet for alto recorders in B flat (Der getreue Music-Meister) (8 minutes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i74jnpOdFq8
Telemann: Concerto in F for 4 alto recorders, played by the Bux Quartet (whom I have just discovered!) (6 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfzJWvcJCWs
Bach: Two movements from the Flute Sonata in E minor, played by Kristine West (alto recorder) (7 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDrpMA6_rw4
Jacob van Eyck, Boffons, played by Hanneke van Proosdij (alto recorder in G) (2 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEV_25Zad8U
(This is piece no. 105 in Volume 3 of Der Fluyten Lust-hof).
(last modified 14th February 2026)