Now & Then

On ‘Now & Then’, their latest disc, the Danish-Swedish Sirena Recorder Quartet offers up a wide-ranging selection from their regular concert repertoire, intending to illustrate the huge variety of sounds and moods achievable by just four recorder players – admittedly playing on more than twenty (!) different recorders between them, as well as on a toy piano appearing in the Swedish composer Staffan Mossenmark’s “Childhood.” The repertoire spans from a 14th-century estampie – a renaissance dance – to Chiel Meijering's Sanctus, composed in 2003, by way of Vivaldi and Bach.