Not only was the recorder a staple instrument up to the baroque era, it also gains importance again in modern music. This collection, recorded in the relatively dry and controlled environment of our second studio, the Silent Stage, features soprano, alto, tenor, and bass recorders played by the Austrian flute and recorder virtuoso Leopold Eibl.
Four different recorders: soprano, alto, tenor, bass
Short and long notes, dynamics, legato, repetitions, with and without vibrato
Recorded at Silent Stage
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Compared with its close relative, the flute (“flauto traverso”), the instrument range of the wooden recorder (“flauto dolce”) is more limited in terms of pitch and dynamics. This is one of the reasons why the recorder was replaced by the (transverse) flute in orchestras around the 18th century. However, recorders were very popular during medieval times and into the renaissance, and even in the baroque era famous composers such as Telemann, Bach, Händel and Vivaldi wrote pieces for these instruments.
Staccato
Repetitions legato with and without vibrato, staccato
Sustained and marcato with and without vibrato
Legato normal and fast with and without vibrato
Crescendo and diminuendo, 1.5/2/3 sec.
Windows 10 (latest update, 64-bit), Intel Core i3 or AMD Athlon 64 X2
macOS 10.14 Mojave (latest update), Intel Core i3
7200 rpm hard drive (HFS+, APFS or NTFS formatted)
8 GB RAM
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Free storage space: 2 GB
Windows 11 (latest update), Intel Core i5/i7/i9/Xeon
macOS 13 Ventura (or higher), Intel Core i5/i7/i9/Xeon/M1/M2
16 GB RAM
SSD (M2, SATA 6 or USB3/3.1, UASP Support - HFS+, APFS or NTFS formatted)
AU/VST/VST3/AAX Native compatible host
88 key master keyboard