This is María, and this is Hester!
Together we are the CONSORT COUNSELLORS!
Before the Summer holidays we posted a video recommending 10 INSPIRING CONSORTS.
Today, to start the year with fresh ideas, fresh inspiration...
We bring you TEN MORE!
The good news is: there are still more than 20 inspiring consorts all over the world,
so if your favourite has not been mentioned yet, please leave a comment
so that we can all check it out.
And now, without further ado, let's proceed with today's ten inspiring consorts...
... in alphabetical order!
The Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet is essential in any collection of inspiring recorder consorts.
Their career lasted for exactly 30 years, from 1978 until 2008.
They were real pioneers of ensemble playing, and besides their immense artistic achievements,
they also stimulated lots of recorder players all over the world
to be seriously busy with consort playing, among them, us!
Indeed!
In my teenage years I went to summer courses by the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
and listened to their CDs for hours!
In the summer courses I got to learn that the recorder has so many more possibilities
than I could ever imagine!
For example, I took a workshop with Paul Leenhouts about
Bebop and the recorder.
How cool is that?
That is really cool indeed!
You know what else is really cool?
Their version of the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Giovanni Palestrina,
which they recorded on very low Renaissance recorders.
I still think this is the most virtuosic track recorded on such instruments to date,
because it sounds as if they are singing!
We warmly recommend you to go through their discography,
to check out the arrangements and compositions that they published,
which are quite a few – and check out the YouTube channel dedicated to them:
Loeki Stardust!
This is an international trio based in the Netherlands.
On their own website they define themselves as
"an interdisciplinary collective specialised in contemporary performance,
with the recorder trio at the core."
In their performances, they combine early music and contemporary music,
but also folk music and improvisation.
You will also find the three core members of this trio
in the only post-pop and art-rock band involving three recorders, which is called Jerboah.
If you are looking for new territories in recorder consort playing, you should definitely check them out!
The Flautadors is a recorder quartet based in the UK.
They recently celebrated their 20th anniversary releasing a very special CD called "Bavardage".
In their programmes you will usually find an accent on repertoire from Britain,
from all kinds of different periods.
From ancient tunes to traditional and folk music,
and of course, also contemporary commissions from young composers...
A great choice if you like interesting and varied programmes, good arrangements and discovering new repertoire!
This quartet is going through a very exciting moment in their career,
as they just released their very first CD under the title "Sound Clouds".
Imagination and creativity are keywords for their artistic practice, and if we may add:
true passion for recorder consort and its repertoire!
Enjoy their fresh, skilled and expressive playing,
it's going to put a smile on your face!
Ensemble Mezzaluna is the result of the cooperation between recorder player and researcher Peter Van Heyghen
and recorder maker Adrian Brown.
Both are authorities in the field of renaissance recorders and their music.
The ensemble focuses on the performance of Renaissance polyphony
using historically documented performance practice
and copies of original instruments, all made by Adrian Brown.
Are you curious?
Check out the audio samples on their website or get hold of their CD "Recorders greate and smale".
This recorder quartet from London has an unbelievable drive!
They are the only ensemble we know that organised a 24-hour long playing session, streamed live
on the Internet, to fund one of their instruments.
Needless to say: they succeeded!
They have also self-produced their first CD, with the mysterious title "Beware the Spider!"
Besides, they develop school workshops, inventive concert programmes and family shows!
The members of SIRENA come from Denmark and Sweden.
They define themselves as "a quartet in motion", and you can literally see this in their performances
and videos, in which they always include a choreography to the music.
SIRENA has been active for 25 years and in that time,
their contribution to the recorder world is a series of CDs,
a YouTube channel where you can find full performances of several pieces,
plus they have commissioned a lot of new music, particularly from Nordic composers.
Talking about generating new repertoire: the Italian recorder player and teacher Antonio Politano
founded a very special ensemble in 2008, called PRIME.
His goal was to create new repertoire for large recorder ensembles,
often involving live electronics as well.
And although the ensemble is not active anymore, you can still listen to their fantastic CD, "Spray",
in which you are going to discover a lot of new sounds, new repertoire,
all performed at the highest possible standard!
This is the Spanish trio Vox Tremula, formed by former recorder students of Vicente Parrilla
at the Conservatoire in Seville.
The name of this trio comes from "De Musica", which is a 16th century treatise by Girolamo Cardano,
who was mainly a scientist but also a very keen amateur musician.
It's clear that he liked colourful music, and so do the players of Vox Tremula.
For Cardano, "vox tremula" is a very special effect,
using a combination of a trill, a 'flattement' and a vibrato.
They focus on Renaissance repertoire and the art of diminution,
and sometimes they also play folk music.
In this case you find a combination of the two,
with this beautiful "Begger Boy" from "The Dancing Master" by Playford.
We finish today's video with a quartet from Denmark.
They focus on very old and also very new repertoire for the recorder.
In their concerts you are likely to hear folk melodies,
sparkling baroque music and new repertoire for their combination!
One of their specialties is performing for children.
They literally give dozens of school concerts in Denmark every year!
You may think that this is easy, but it is probably not!
If you have every played for kids, you know they are very demanding
and very honest when it comes to music.
Therefore, you have to be very convincing, and they certainly are, with their communicative,
expressive and fun performances, always performed from memory and at the highest standard!
These 10 inspiring recorder consorts for sure own a lot of different recorders all together...
I'm sure that each and every one of those recorders
is absolutely precious to them.
We are sure that you also own recorders that are very precious to you,
therefore our 30-second tip of today is: take good care of them!
If you take good care of your instruments, following a simple set of basic rules,
you are going to make sure that they stay in the best possible condition
and that they sound the best for many years.
Are you looking for good advice to take care of your precious instruments?
Adrian Brown, who we mentioned in connection to the Mezzaluna Ensemble,
wrote a very good little book which is called "The Recorder: a Basic Workshop Manual."
It has been re-printed recently after being out of stock for a while,
so now it is your chance to order it and make sure
that your instruments are always in the best condition!
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See you next time! Bye bye!
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