Baroque - Music for Recorder
Catalog Number: BIS1234
Sirena’s recorder quartet blends four voices into one vivid sound. After their acclaimed contemporary debut, this Baroque disc offers Telemann, Boismortier and Schickhardt, with Dan Laurin and continuo adding sparkle and fresh life.
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44100Hz
Baroque - Music for Recorder
Here is a taste of ensemble music at its most striking – from the heyday of the concerto grosso when the "solo" voice in a concerto could be provided by several players at the same time. Sirena is a quartet of recorder soloists who have now been playing together for a decade and have utterly perfected the art of making four disparate instruments appear to be a single musical source with an unusually large range of pitches and colours.
Their first disc, BIS-CD-1112: "Sitting Ducks", was enthusiastically received by the critics and astounded most people who heard it. (It was given a 5-star rating by the BBC Music Magazine.) The only reason it did not become a best-seller over night was that the programme was radically contemporary, with all of the composers still living and most of them still in their forties.
The present disc is a very different matter altogether in that the composers represent the most listener-friendly of Baroque composers: Telemann, Boismortier and Schickhardt. There is an added bonus in that the inimitable Dan Laurin - who taught the members of Sirena at the Carl Nielsen Academy – in some works features as the fifth wheel/recorder. Completing the picture is a continuo group of harpsichord, viola da gamba and lute. The enthusiasm of the approach paired with the tunefulness of the music should bring new life to jaded CD-players!
Published date
2003-04-30
Number of discs
1
Sample rate
44100Hz
Channels
stereo:16:2.0
Made in Sweden since 1999. In collaboration with Textalk.
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