With the proliferation of Early Music ensembles and recordings over the past several decades, it may be difficult to put oneself in the mindset of what it used to be like to play the recorder - or how ...

Contact this contributing writer at [email protected]. When people think about recorders, they remember their squeaky elementary school rehearsals. However, one local group is taking the ...

Horacio Franco has spent three decades trying to erase the recorder’s stigma as (a) a prim salon matron; (b) a shrill educational toy; (c) a generic substitute for bird sounds and (d) the “ugly ...

The Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra presents its final Valley Vivaldi concert of the season Sunday at Wesley Church in Bethlehem. Joining the ensemble, which includes principal instrumentalists of the ...

Did you play recorder in school music class? It's great for learning the basics, and in the hands of international concert artist Michala Petri, we hear its full potential as an agile and ...

That these sonatas were originally composed by Bach for flute is surely of no consequence; Michala Petri’s affectionate, idiomatic performances on alto and tenor recorders convince from the outset.

A recorder revival is taking place on Britain’s roads, and it’s all thanks to one man named Miguel Lawrence. For most people, the recorder is an instrument you might have played in school, before ...

Two conductors, two Durban orchestras, and both coming out of the same Cape Town church recorder group. For both their first recording was in the church choir singing Christmas carols. The city is ...

LAHORE: The Lahore Arts Council (Alhamra), in collaboration with the Sham Chaurasi Music Circle, hosted a two-day event titled “Yaad-e-Salamat” to honour the legendary Ustad Salamat Ali Khan. The ...

That these sonatas were originally composed by Bach for flute is surely of no consequence; Michala Petri’s affectionate, idiomatic performances on alto and tenor recorders convince from the outset.