Early Birds grapples with Baroque music\u2019s representation of birdsong, an ideal that was featured in music particularly effectively during this period. The recorder player Simon Borutzki has chosen works for his musical bird show that challenge his instrument: many composers from Jacob van Eyck, Francois Couperin and Georg Friedrich Handel to Louis Claude Daquin, from German countries, France, Italy, and England have been inspired by birds\u2019 tweeting and twirping, first and foremost by the nightingale. Their music tries to package these sounds in stylised music. Borutzki performs the compositions on a number of historical recorder types which afford the creative instrumentalist with a broad range of tone colours: these include the sopranino, the fifth flute, the sixth and fourth flute, alto recorders, the voice flute, as well as tenor and bass recorders. The CD\u2019s programme can be seen as a short narration of a bird\u2019s life: after a number of examples of a bird\u2019s flights in freedom, the bird fights against being caged in Johann Adolph Hasse\u2019s aria di bravura \u201cL\u2019augeletto in laccistretto\u201d, and in Christoph Graupner\u2019s orchestral suite in G major (GWV 466), the movement \u201cUccellino chiuso\u201d tells of a captured bird that laments in its cage and finally drops dead from its perch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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