Original post: https://www.revoicemagazine.com/issue-4/2017/4/25/review-quinta-essentias-art-of-fugue
We were delighted to receive leading Brazilian recorder quartet Quinta Essentia’s latest CD for review in this issue. Summer Alp, a final-year undergraduate student of recorder and baroque oboe at the Royal College of Music in London, reviews the disc for us here...
Quinta Essentia is Brazil’s premier recorder quartet. This is their third recording since forming ten years ago (previous discs are ‘La Marca’ in 2008 and ‘Falando Brasileiro’ in 2013), and only the second ever recording of J. S. Bach’s Art of Fugue on recorders (the first is from the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet in 1998).
The recorder consort is uniquely placed to perform this work, which famously does not specify instrumentation. Previous performances and recordin - Leia mais...
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In my last travel to Germany, I had the pleasure to meet this great recorder player, founder member of Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, a recorder quartet with 30 years of history, he told me about his professional background, his last projects improving the modern recorders, and something about the Loeki's backstage.
The entire interview is in English, and can be listened trough this link.
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A família da flauta doce
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A flauta doce possui uma enorme família de instrumentos, variando tanto em tamanho quanto em "sub-famílias" ou períodos históricos. Geralmente as pessoas que conhecem um pouco do instrumento já conhecem as flautas soprano, contralto, tenor e baixo, facilmente encontradas em resina. Mas existem muitas outras flautas como podemos ver na foto acima, da coleção de instrumentos históricos do flautista Frans Brüggen, que foi maestro da Orquestra do Séc. XVIII e também professor de flauta doce e traverso do Conservatório Real de Haia, na Holanda. A foto mostra da direita para esquerda: uma sopranino em fá, uma soprano em ré, 3 sopranos em - Leia mais... Articles
