Evergreens from the Pleasure Garden (2006)

These "evergreens from the pleasure garden" are excerpts from the complete version of Jacob van Eyck's Der fluyten lust-hof (The Pleasure Garden of the Flute) put on disc by Swedish recorder player Dan Laurin in 1999. To stroll through that garden, Laurin notes, "requires a good physique"; the complete set of solo recorder pieces clocks in at 10 hours and 24 minutes. The single disc is welcome, and it just may be engaging enough to get some listeners to splurge for the whole thing. Der fluyten lust-hof contains more than ... Read More

These "evergreens from the pleasure garden" are excerpts from the complete version of Jacob van Eyck's Der fluyten lust-hof (The Pleasure Garden of the Flute) put on disc by Swedish recorder player Dan Laurin in 1999. To stroll through that garden, Laurin notes, "requires a good physique"; the complete set of solo recorder pieces clocks in at 10 hours and 24 minutes. The single disc is welcome, and it just may be engaging enough to get some listeners to splurge for the whole thing. Der fluyten lust-hof contains more than 140 pieces in all, of which 17 are given here. They were, in a way, popular music, sold for talented amateurs to try out in the booming cities of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century; Laurin's notes do a good job of putting this modestly sized but colorful music into context. The pieces vary in length from just over a minute and a half to more than 10 minutes, and they were intended to bring into the elegant households rendered by Vermeer a range of music from around the European... Read Less

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