The Cluj based Flauto Dolce Ensemble will perform at the Church of England in Bucharest in a Renaissance and Baroque music concert dedicated to the recorder ( a family of wind instruments ). The event will take place Friday, February 24th at 19:00.

The Flauto Dolce Ensemble, led by Zoltan Majo, will showcase the long history of the recorder during the concert. The program consists of instrumental fantasies from the Elizabethan era, pair dance, early Baroque music and instrumental compositions characteristic of late Baroque and Rococo. Among the composers are Anthony Holborne, Thomas Morley, Dario Castello, J. Ph. Telemann, J. S. Bach and J. J. Quantz.

The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument belonging to the whistle-like family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes, which also includes the Irish tin whistle, or faedóg. Today, the recorder is known as the flauto dolce in Italian (sweet flute).

The Flauto Dolce ensemble was founded in 2000 in Cluj, North-Western Romania, by Zoltan Majo (recorder, artistic director). The rest of the ensemble consists of Maria Szabo (recorder), Agnes Toth (recorder) and Mihaela Maxim (soprano). For more information about the ensemble visit their official site.

Tickets for the event can be bought for RON 19 at Germanos, Vodafone, Carturesti bookshop, Humanitas and online at www.eventim.ro.

Alex Camburu, alex.camburu@romania-insider.com

(Photo source: Ensemble's official site)