Maurice Steger is working hard to re-establish the recorder as a legitimate solo instrument. Here, he joins the Akademie Fur Alte Musik to play Telemann's Recorder Concerto in C.

Baroque music is openly amenable to transformation. Even composers of the period were happy to borrow (sometimes from themselves) and tweak to suit an artist or a performance situation. So it was no ...

It is high time that the truth about the recorder was faced. I hate to be a balloon-buster, but someone at last has to be honest about this musical pip-squeak, whose importance is bloated out of all ...

Musica Antiqua Koeln specializes in music on period instruments, including the recorder, an end-blown flute that has gotten a bad rap in the last 200 years. Danish recorder virtuoso Michala Petri is ...