Farallon Recorder Quartet | June 14

Evoking the rich soils and roots of the earth to the aethereal space of the heavens, the Farallon Recorder Quartet creates anew the sounds of Guillaume Dufay, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Johann Sebastian Bach. Recorders of all sizes blend together to evince, by turns, the earthy might and consonance of the organ or the aethereal harmonies of angelic voices, and virtuosic riffs will mingle with contemplative sonorities.

Miyo Aoki, Letitia Berlin, Frances Blaker, Vicki Boeckman, recorders

Farallon Recorder Quartet is a Bay Area and Seattle-based early music group that brings the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and modern eras to today’s audiences with professional polish, verve, and precision. The Quartet was founded in 1996 to explore the vast and varied repertoire for four recorders employing a fascinating range of recorder sizes and period styles, ranging from six inches to six feet tall. Their most recent CD recording, “From Albion’s Shores,” has been described by Early Music America as “the sound one would get if one could turn honey into wood or stand underneath a caramel fountain.”