Composer Peter Lyne views the recorder as an instrument capable of conveying deep emotion, challenging the 20th-century perception of its limitations.
Performer Biography
Dan Laurin, the recorder soloist, finds it a fantastic feeling to converse directly with composers to understand their inspiration and notation.
Compositional Technique
Jan Sandström's 'A Dance in the Sub-Dominant Quagmire' features 'broad melody' ('vidmelodik'), where the recorder part jumps rapidly between melodic levels, partly due to computer-assisted composition.
Composer Biography
Björn J:son Lindh, a flautist and recorder player, is known for his crossover music and has released nineteen records of his own compositions.
Performer Biography
Dan Laurin, the recorder soloist, believes it is absurd for musicians in 1994 to confine themselves exclusively to music written before 1900.
Composition History
Ladislau Müller composed his recorder concerto in 1988 for his daughter Claudia, with a prominent cello solo lovingly written for his musician son.
Composition History
Jan Sandström's piece, 'A Dance in the Sub-Dominant Quagmire,' was commissioned by Robert von Bahr, owner of the BIS record label, after a discussion about a Vivaldi recording.
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