Der Fluyten Lust-Hof ("The Flute's Magic Courtyard") is a collection of pieces for solo recorder or flute, published in 1644. In Dutch and French, the word for recorder is a variant of the word for flute, so casual browsers may think they're getting an album of flute music here; in fact, much of the music is for recorder, with one work for musette. The pieces had a function that was in part instructional, but the book was a best-seller (as books of recorder music go), running through multiple editions, and this was surely ...
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Der Fluyten Lust-Hof ("The Flute's Magic Courtyard") is a collection of pieces for solo recorder or flute, published in 1644. In Dutch and French, the word for recorder is a variant of the word for flute, so casual browsers may think they're getting an album of flute music here; in fact, much of the music is for recorder, with one work for musette. The pieces had a function that was in part instructional, but the book was a best-seller (as books of recorder music go), running through multiple editions, and this was surely down to the variety of the contents. There is quite a crop of virtuoso recorder players nowadays, and François Lazarevitch can hold his own with these, but there has been a need for an album that delves into the role the recorder and early transverse flute played in home music-making, and Lazarevitch's album fills this need. Those wondering whether an hour plus of solo early wind instruments music is too much can rest easy, for there is great variety here. The pieces, some of them...
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