Michala Petri - The art of the recorder: Vivaldi, Handel, Telemann, Sammartini (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 945 Mb | Total time: 186:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 475 8464 | Recorded: 1979, 1982, 1984
Denmark's Michala Petri has continued to dominate the modest but persistent recorder "scene" despite the emergence of a host of younger recorder players from the ranks of Dutch-trained historical-instrument specialists. Collecting a group of her 1970s and 1980s recordings, as has been done here, is an eminently justifiable enterprise, for it was these recordings whose laserlike intonation, whip-smart ornamentation, and all-around attractiveness that caught the attention of listeners in the first place. Petri uncovered and recorded a good deal of Baroque repertory for the instruments, recording it with the likes of England's Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.