Editing Recorder (musical instrument) (section)

==== Players ====
{{see also|List of recorder players}}
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Carl Dolmetsch, the son of Arnold Dolmetsch, became one of the first virtuoso recorder players in the 1920s; but more importantly he began to commission recorder works from leading composers of his day, especially for performance at the Haslemere festival which his father ran. Initially as a result of this, and later as a result of the development of a Dutch school of recorder playing led by [[Kees Otten]], the recorder was introduced to serious musicians as a virtuoso solo instrument both in Britain and in northern Europe.

Among the influential virtuosos who figure in the revival of the recorder as a serious concert instrument in the latter part of the twentieth century are Ferdinand Conrad, Kees Otten, [[Frans Brüggen]], [[Roger Cotte]], [[Hans-Martin Linde]], [[New York Pro Musica|Bernard Krainis]], and [[David Munrow]]. Brüggen recorded most of the landmarks of the historical repertoire and commissioned a substantial number of new works for the recorder. Munrow's 1975 double album ''The Art of the Recorder'' remains as an important anthology of recorder music through the ages.

Among late twentieth-century and early 21st-century recorder ensembles, the trio [[Sour Cream Trio|Sour Cream]] (led by [[Frans Brüggen]]), [[Flautando Köln]], the [[Flanders Recorder Quartet]], [[Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet]] and [[Quartet New Generation]] have programmed remarkable mixtures of historical and contemporary repertoire. Soloists such as [[Piers Adams]], [[Dan Laurin]] and [[Dorothee Oberlinger]], [[Michala Petri]], [[Maurice Steger]].

In the 2012 Charlotte Barbour-Condini became the first recorder player to reach the final of the biennial [[BBC Young Musician of the Year]] competition. Recorder player Sophie Westbrooke was a finalist in the 2014 competition.<ref>{{citation|author=BBC|title=BBC Young Musician|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2z5sMZbDZKnvmdml5FjxnLH/sophie-westbrooke|access-date=25 November 2014|year=2014}}</ref>