Lucie Horsch & Max Volbers

ECHO Rising Stars

It would be news even to many Baden-Baden residents: the world's largest recorder can be found in the Toccarion, the children's music world at the Festspielhaus. You’ll get the chance to hear a few smaller specimens in today’s concert, which mainly features Baroque music and the “sentimental style” that characterized the end of this era. With its silky woodwind sound, the recorder was the province of the melancholics. Talking about deep things in a hushed voice was a rhetoric well suited to the instrument, which will be played in our concert by young Dutch musician Lucie Horsch, who BBC Music Magazine praised for her “fearless virtuosity and superb technique.”