Welcome to the Basilisk Edition!…

...the Basel-based music publisher specializing in recorders and viola da gamba. However, our music is also mostly suitable for other melodic instruments, broken consorts and vocal ensembles. Our publishing program includes works of new music by contemporary composers as well as early music.

News from the Basilisk Edition:

Advent Calendar

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Appenzell – Galway & return

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Angelus for pastors

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Concerto VI°

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Canons for recorders

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The complete publishing program of the Basilisk Edition can be found in our catalog

Catalog

Gift of the Month:

Every month our Basilisk lays an egg that has a particular surprise in store for you. You can download the "Gift of the Month" from our website every month for free. But hurry! The surprise eggs are only available for three months from the date of publication. In this way, the music hatched by the Basilisk always remains fresh. A regular visit is worthwhile!

Gift of the Month

Courses & Concerts:

Music books are only really fun when you can hear the music printed in them. In the “Courses & Concerts” section you will find an events calendar with exciting courses and lessons as well as information on concerts worth hearing and seeing.

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CD release:

With a lot of wit and virtuosity, the Basel recorder band presents the first recording of the “Flute Organ”. The music for recorder quartet was composed by our publishing house co-founder Raphael B. Meyer and captures the variety, fair and barrel organ romance of days long gone. Come in…

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Frisch von der Quelle (German only):

Musical theatre

Flute Douse:

Des Klanges Süssigkeit zeigt schon der Flöten-nahme.

die dient zur Courtoisie bey Sternen voller Nacht.

Sie ists die offt bewegt, manch angenehme Dame

wann ihr ein Ständgen wird bey stiller ruh gebracht

das sie des sanfften Betts, sich offt wohl gar entziehet

und zu dem süssen thon, hin an das Fenster fliehet.

Johann Christoph Weigel (1661 – 1726)

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