Boston, Massachusetts
This week From the Top is at its home base, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston, where you'll hear a 13-year-old cellist perform Tchaikovsky and a 9-year-old violinist perform a lively...
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This week From the Top is at its home base, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston, where you'll hear a 13-year-old cellist perform Tchaikovsky and a 9-year-old violinist perform a lively...
View ArticleTour Baroque Italy with Maurice Steger
Recorder virtuoso Maurice Steger gives a tour of Italy through its Baroque music, from Venice in the north down to Naples in the south.Steger has become one of the leading interpreters of Baroque music...
View ArticleListen: Flanders Recorder Quartet Explores Complexities of the Instrument
Founded in 1987, the Flanders Recorder Quartet returned to the Frick Collection last winter, the first time in more than a decade, to present an evening of Renaissance and Baroque music. The musicians...
View ArticleListen to This Amazing New Recorder Concerto (Link)
A quick note: Sophie Westbrooke's premiere of Graham Fitkin's Recorder Concerto, discussed below, must be listened at the BBC 3 website, which you can find by clicking here. The concert, which also...
View ArticleWatch This Recorder Player Slay a Vivaldi Concerto
Recorders are amazing. We talked about them last week, and we’re talking about them today. After listening to Sophie Westbrooke premiere composer Graham Fitkin’s Recorder Concerto, we couldn’t help but...
View ArticleThis Is What a Saxophone-Recorder Hybrid Sounds Like
Meet the Venova. It’s the first of its kind — the product of what happens when the saxophone, with its blistering sensuality ... ... and the graceful, sentimental recorder ... ... love each other very...
View Article7 Wild Recorder Pieces That Will Have You Wishing You Never Gave Up The...
Say the word “recorder” and memories of oh-so-adorable—but also oh-so-squeaky and oh-so-atonal (and not the good kind)—concerts come rushing back to you. Elementary school recorder classes are a rite...
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