Recorder quartet have a message for Leamington audience

The main event in the girls’ visit to Leamington will be a concert at Kingsley School in Beauchamp Road, Leamington, on Thursday from 7.30pm.

The programme Old Impulses, New Expressions, will cover 500 years of music written for the recorder.

Pieces will range from a solo that the blind recorder player Jakob Van Eyck used to play in the churchyard in Utrecht in the 7th century to Vivaldi to a new work by Nathan Theodoulou, which was recently commissioned by the group.

Described by BBC Radio 3 as “The Girls Aloud of Baroque music”, I Flautisti’s members are from Austria, the Czech Republic and England.

Richard Phillips, of Leamington Music, said: “This dynamic young quartet will be very busy here during their three day stay.

“As well as the Kingsley concert, they will give a short lunchtime concert in Warwick School Chapel on October 14 and participate in a further half dozen workshops in Leamington, Kenilworth and Rugby.

“The recorder is the obvious instrument with which to start off young children at home and at school.

“Many adults however fail to realise that for hundreds of years it was the most played wind instrument and that in the last fifty years outstanding performers from Holland, Denmark and this country have showed it works brilliantly with many different types of music.

“I Flautisti are here as missionaries to get this important message over.”

Tickets for the concert are available from the Birdge House Theatre in Warwick and cost £10 for adults and £1 for children.

Call 776438 or visit www.bridgehousetheatre.co.uk