A BREATH OF NEW LIFE

In 2012 Saskia Coolen discovered in the Historical Museum in Den Briel, the head joint of an alto recorder. She brought in a recorder expert who cleaned and restored the joint. Soon after, Coolen realized that there were probably other playable recorders to be found in private collections and set out in search of rare, eighteenth-century recorders. On this album, Saskia Coolen plays these rediscovered recorders along with gambist Rainer Zipperling and harpsichordist Patrick Ayrton.