This CD contains an anthology of the repertoire that has been built up over the past two decades by the Brisk Recorder Quartet Amsterdam. All in all, the program provides a fascinating and colorful portrait of what the recorder can do: high sounds, like the traditional flutes in a Gagaku orchestra (Bart Visman: Song), low flutes, like liquid wood (Theo Abazis: Johnie Buy, Guus Jansen: Rahoe !, -
… the title is an ironic variation of 'hooray'), and 'of course' the expressive intervals of Renaissance flutes (Ron Ford: Sequentia). But we also hear something like Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee. At least that was the reaction of one of the players when they made the super short Gotta Minute? Van Roderik de Man looked in. In some pieces the quartet confronts other sonic worlds: - with vocalists (the Egidius Quartet, originating from the circle around Ton Koopman), - with electronic sounds (the tropical Brisk Frog Project by Huba de Graaff) - and, ironically, with a modern concert grand piano: that equal-floating monstrum with which the industrial revolution finally dealt the final blow to the natural resonance. (HJ)more
