Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
The Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (ALSQ for short) is a Dutch recorder quartet. Due to its individual handling of the recorder and its unconventional repertoire, it has changed the conception of a recorder quartet considerably.
history
The quartet was founded in 1978 by Daniel Brüggen (a nephew of Frans Brüggen ), Bertho Driever , Paul Leenhouts and Karel van Steenhoven , who were then studying at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam . The ensemble became famous in 1981 when it took part in the Musica Antiqua Concours in Bruges . Contrary to the competition rules, it performed its own arrangement of a song by Stevie Wonder , but it was nevertheless chosen as the winner of the competition. The quartet can make a number of appearances. a. in Berlin, Utrecht, Sapporo and London and some tours through Europe, the USA and Japan.
In 2001 Paul Leenhouts left the quartet and was replaced by Daniel Koschitzki . In 2004 Bertho Driever also left the quartet and was replaced by Andrea Ritter .
On November 26th 2007 the quartet gave their last appearance in the formation Brüggen, Steenhoven, Ritter and Koschitzki. Later it appeared several times in the former founding line-up of Brüggen, Steenhoven, Leenhouts and Driever.
Discography
- 2011: Loeki Stardust Collection (Newton Classics)
- 2009: The Loeki Files (Channel Classics)
- 2008: Fade Control (Channel Classics)
- 2005: Nocturne (Channel Classics)
- 2003: Fugue around the clock (Channel Classics)
- 2002: Fantazia (Channel Classics)
- 2001: Time Signals (NM Classics)
- 1999: The Art of Fugue (Channel Classics)
- Dutch Masters volume 40 (Philips Classics)
- La Spagna (L'Oiseau-Lyre)
- Consort Songs (Channel Classics)
- Pictured Air (Channel Classics)
- Concerti di Flauti (L'Oiseau-Lyre)
- Capriccio di Flauti (L'Oiseau-Lyre)
- A Concorde of Sweete Sound (L'Oiseau-Lyre)
- The Image of Melancolly (Channel Classics)
- Italian Recorder Music (L'Oiseau-Lyre)
- Extra Time (Decca)
- Baroque Recorder Music (L'Oiseau-Lyre)
- Virtuoso Recorder Music (L'Oiseau-Lyre)
- Early music in Linz Castle (Extempore)