FR2 - The Dolmetsch 1930s Legacy Project - Episode 4

Grand Duo - Stephan Franz (1785-1850)
Flanders Recorder Duo, Tom Beets & Joris Van Goethem
This fourth Episode showcases Dolmetsch descants #1087 and #1193. These A439/440 instruments were made about a year apart, in the late 1930s. They are near identical in design. Both have shorter, steeper ramps than players of older Dolmetsch instruments were used to. This modification allowed harder blowing than would have been wise on earlier models, and more assertive sound-projection when playing solos, concertos or virtuoso duos as here. Some loss of “feel” and flexibility did result when larger sizes of recorder were modernized in the same way, but sopranos like #1087 and #1193 offered their owners something close to pure gain: fully responsive, baroque-type performance at regular breath pressure, with headroom for extra volume if needed.
Our Dolmetsch 1930s Legacy Project aims to showcase some of the best surviving baroque-style recorders from that forgotten golden era, allowing listeners today to hear for themselves how well they behave.
More information about this project can be found on www.flanders-r...
Research informing the project, much of it undertaken by Andrew Pinnock of the University of Southampton with whom we are collaborating, is accessible free of charge via the The Galpin Society Journal. www.galpinsoci...
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