Lucie Horsch’s recorder concert

In collaboration with the Haydneum – Hungarian Centre for Early Music, Filharmonia Hungary is celebrating historically informed performance practice for the 42nd time this year with a week-long festival, the Early Music Days held in Vác. On this occasion, the young Dutch recorder player Lucie Horsch will visit Hungary; she is one of the most important ambassadors of the instrument’s renaissance.

Born into a family of musicians, she became known as a child prodigy: she began playing the recorder at the age of five and has since developed into a refined Baroque virtuoso. One of the most exciting early music performers of our time, she combines exceptional technical skill and musical sensitivity with a deep commitment to historically informed performance practice, achieving particularly outstanding results in the Baroque repertoire. Her concerts offer a special experience for audiences devoted to early music. She regularly appears as a soloist with leading orchestras and ensembles such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, and the Academy of Ancient Music. Despite her young age, she has already received numerous scholarships and awards.

The recorder is one of the oldest wind instruments, reaching its golden age during the Renaissance and especially the Baroque period. In the 16th to 18th centuries, it was an important instrument in chamber music and orchestral repertoire, often used as a solo instrument or in chamber ensembles. Its tone makes it particularly suitable for ornament-rich, rhetorical musical expression. Among the most outstanding works of the Baroque recorder repertoire are Bach’s two Brandenburg Concertos (Nos. 2 and 4), sonatas by Handel, Telemann, and Mancini, as well as concertos by Vivaldi.

We warmly invite you to this special concert, where through the playing of an exceptional talent you can discover the musical versatility of an instrument that may seem as simple as the recorder.

Collaborating partner: the Haydneum - Hungarian Early Music Centre Foundation.
Haydneum is supported by the Prime Minister’s Office and Bethlen Gabor Fund Management Ltd.