Lucie Horsch is not only a phenomenal recorder player but also a great singer, something she already demonstrated when she was a guest in our Dutch Delight series in December 2022. Together with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, she will perform a special program with works by J.S. Bach and Vivaldi and a brand new piece by Reza Namavar. Old music in a new way; new music inspired by old masters.

The recorder’s name comes from the Latin “ricordare la voce. Literally, “remembering the voice. Lucie Horsch takes the test. She plays recorder in Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto, an arrangement by Frans Brüggen, founder of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and also a renowned recorder player, who died in 2014. In the second movement, Lucie sings. To do so, she goes back to the vocal roots of this concert: Bach’s own aria Stirb in mir, Welt from the cantata Gott soll allein mein Herze haben. To close, Horsch made an arrangement for recorder of Bach’s Violin Concerto in a. This is how Bach would have sounded if he had composed for recorder.

Especially for this program, composer Reza Namavar wrote a new work inspired by Vivaldi’s Double Concerto in a, which is transformed into a fascinating recorder and violin concerto.