Biography

This remarkable recorder quartet is internationally noted for its ensemble's unsurpassed beauty of timbre, balance, precision, and agility, as well as for its adventuresome programming. The original group members were Daniel Brüggen, Bertho Driever, Paul Leenhouts, and Karel van Steenhoven, who formed the group while students at the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam in 1978. In 2001, Leenhouts left the ensemble and Daniel Koschitzki, a first-prize winner in London's Moeck/SRP Solo Recorder Playing Competition, joined the group. The Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (sometimes abbreviated as A.L.S.Q.) has created a repetoire that ranges from the traditional consort music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods (for example, its widely lauded 1999 recording of Bach's The Art of the Fugue) through contemporary and originally commissioned works (recorded on the CD Pictured Air and a published series of new music for the Moeck Verlag), even including the arrangement of a Stevie Wonder song with which the group won the 1981 Musica Antiqua Competition in Bruges. The group has a collection of over 100 Renaissance, Baroque, and modern recorders (ranging from an eight-inch sopranino to a nine-foot sub-contrabass) on which to draw to create unique timbres. The A.L.S.Q. tours extensively throughout the world and has appeared in festivals in Berlin, Utrecht, London, Barcelona, Moscow, Sapporo, Boston, San Antonio, and Berkeley, and the group appears regularly in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. ~ "Blue Gene" Tyranny, All Music Guide

Discography

Time Signals Buy this CD	Consort Songs Buy this CD	Anthony Holborne: The Image of Melancolly Buy this CD	Pictured Air: Contemporary Quartets Buy this CD	Fantazia Buy this CD
Fugue Around the Clock [Hybrid SACD] Buy this CD	Fugue Around the Clock Buy this CD	Nocturne [Hybrid SACD] Buy this CD