The AMSTERDAM LOEKI STARDUST QUARTET, founded in 1978, won the 1981 Musica Antiqua Competition in Bruges by performing an unusual arrangement of a Stevie Wonder song.
Historical Context
During the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, music became a pleasant way of passing time, and recorders were sometimes built into walking sticks for playing melodies during country walks.
Instruments
The Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet has collected a unique assembly of recorders, ranging from an 8-inch sopranino to a 9-foot sub-contrabass built to extend the low register.
Performer Biography
The Quartet has helped create new repertoire for the recorder by inspiring composers to write for them and by publishing new recorder music with Moeck Verlag.
Composition History
Pietro Antonio Locatelli, an Italian composer and violin virtuoso, settled in Amsterdam because of its developed music printing industry, which made the city an important distribution point for sheet music.
Composer Biography
Giovanni Battista Sammartini, an organist and teacher, is considered a key figure between the Baroque and Classical styles due to his influence on younger composers and his development of the symphony.
Historical Context
The melodious and natural sound of the recorder led Renaissance composers to use it in motets for the Virgin Mary and Baroque composers in pastoral scenes or cantatas on love and death.
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