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The Recorder
The recorder is a fairly simple wind instrument, whose basic acoustic mechanism was already known by the cave dwellers. This instrument can be perfectly identified in medieval pictures, but it reaches its highest importance during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, when all the great masters composed remarkable pieces for it.
Although quite neglected during the Classic and Romantic times, the recorder was revived in the XXth. century, as part of a general interest in the music of ancient periods. Besides that, modern composers began to write original pieces for those instruments.
Thus, the recorder has gained a wide and important repertoire in the present days, side by side with its role as a historical instrument. This allows its inclusion in outstanding chamber music groups all over the world, as soloist or in greatly variable combination with other ancient or modern instruments.
