Recorder Concertos

"Throughout the disc Dan Laurin exploits the recorder's expressive qualities to the full creating tremendous variety of both dynamic and articulation."
(The Recorder Magazine)

The combination of recorder virtuoso Dan Laurin and the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble is definitely a winning one. On this disc they have applied themselves to the many-facetted recorder concertos of Vivaldi, to the joy of us all. Including one of the most popular of all baroque
pieces - the Largo of the Concerto in C major - as well as the much loved 'La notte', this is a programme which amply demonstrates Vivaldi's virtuosic and extremely free treatment of the concerto form - often ending up well inside the border of that other baroque genre par excellence: the opera.

And who better to exploit this than Dan Laurin - a true phenomenon among recorder players with a gift for drama and an urge to communicate which equal his impressive technique. That he gets the support he needs from Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble of course goes without saying: this is what the recorder should sound like - and what's more important, this is what Vivaldi should sound like!