Flanders Recorder Quartet, October 2, 2016

Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the

Flanders Recorder Quartet Tom Beets Joris Van Goethem Paul Van Loey Bart Spanhove

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B e au t ĂŠ pa r fa i t e our beloved favorites

15 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven 2 October 2016 3:00 p.m.

About the Performers Since it was founded in 1987, the Flanders Recorder Quartet has evolved into one of the world’s top ensembles. Their success in 1990 at the prestigious Musica Antiqua Competition in Bruges, which is sponsored by the Flanders Festival, was the start of an extensive concert career. After more than 1800 concerts in 42 countries on five continents, including some in world-famous concert halls in Tokyo, New York and Salzburg, the ensemble has attained a prominent position in the world of Early Music.

The ensemble also makes regular guest appearances at leading music festivals such as those in Helsinki, Paris, Geneva, Boston, Vancouver, Singapore, Taipei and Mexico City. Numerous prizewinning recordings have been made for record companies such as Harmonia Mundi, Archiv/Deutsche Grammophon, Ricercar, and OPUS III. In 2003 the quartet entered a long and intensive collaboration with the German label AEOLUS. The Flanders Recorder Quartet showcases an instrument that was underestimated for two centuries. In their extraordinary collection are reproductions after illustrations

by Virdung (1511), after originals from the collection of Henry VIII, a Baroque contrabass recorder some 2.3 meters in length (which was built by Friedrich von Huene, Boston), and modern recorders by Hans Coolsma, Utrecht. Their extensive collection of instruments and highly virtuosic performance of a richly varied program makes each concert an unforgettable experience and allows the recorder, one of the most important instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, to shine in its former splendour.

The members of the Flanders Recorder Quartet have also built up impressive careers as teachers, and are able to convey their pedagogical ideas in an inspiring manner in their capacities as professors as well as at master classes. In doing so, they do not avoid the confrontation between contemporary and early music. A tangible result of this work is the book ‘The Finishing Touch of Ensemble Playing’ (Alamire, 2000), which has been translated into a number of languages.

The Flanders Recorder Quartet has been acclaimed for its sensitive arrangements and more than fifty compositions have been dedicated to the group. Some of these pieces have been made publicly available in the ensemble’s own series of editions, ‘The Flanders Recorder Quartet Series’, published by the German publishing house Heinrichshofen.

The press, public, and international juries have praised the clarity of ensemble playing, technical perfection, homogeneous sound, and true-to-style interpretation: “The players swayed and swooned, combining the breathy timbre of a portative organ with the expressive interplay of a fine string quartet” (S. Smith, New York Times).

Yale Collection of Musical Instruments 2 October 2016 3:00 pm

15 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven presents the

Flanders Recorder Quartet B e au t é

pa r fa i t e

Louis Antoine Dornel

Sonate en quatuor (1709) Gravement - Vite - Gravement - Vite - Gravement - Vite Allegro moderato Adagio Allegro

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

Concerto Op. 15, VI in g (1727) Adagio Allegro Allegro

William Byrd

Fantasia (1611)

J. P. Sweelinck/John Dowland

Pavana Lachrimae (c. 1600)

Pieter Campo

Meditation & Fire (2013)*

(1685-1765)

(1689-1755)

(c.1540-1623)

(1562-1621)/(1563-1626) (1980)

INTERVAL Johann Sebastian Bach

Passacaglia BWV 582 (ca. 1710)

Sören Sieg

Inxaxheba (2016)* Yitsho, yintoni ulonwabo – “Tell me, what is sadness?”

Ingxunguphalo – “Sorrow” Phaphazela – “Flight”

(1685-1750) (1966)

* works written for the Flanders Recorder Quartet

This concert is being recorded and streamed live over the internet.

Please turn off all cellphones and electronic devices.

Photography and recording during the performance is prohibited.

uPComIng PerformAnCes In the 2016-2017 serIes October 30 3:00 pm

- Kristian Bezuidenhout, piano

January 15 3:00 pm

- London haydn Quartet Catherine Manson, violin Michael Gurevich, violin John Crockatt, viola Jonathan Manson, violoncello with Eric Hoeprich, clarinet

February 26 3:00 pm

- house of time Tatiana Daubek, violin Gonzalo X. Ruiz, oboe Paul Dwyer, violoncello Beilang Zhu, viola da gamba Leon Schelhase, harpsichord

April 2 3:00 pm

- Benjamin BagBy, baritone & harp

Orders for sERIES tickets should be mailed to the Collection at 15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520 or submitted by telephone at (203)432-0822; series tickets will be mailed to subscribers. Individual tickets should be ordered by telephone at the Yale School of Music box office at (203)432-4158 or over the Internet at: www.music-tickets.yale.edu Tickets

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$25.00 each, reserved seating $100.00, series of 5 concerts $20.00 each, senior citizens & Yale staff $10.00 each, students

Cover ImAge Collection of assorted recorders.

Photograph courtesy of Valerie Bernstien and the Flanders Recorder Quartet.

This concert is made possible by the generous support of the Associate Members of the Collection.