The twenty-seventh concerto deals with the recorder, an instrument many of us will have played as a child, but long surpassed by the flute in the conventional classical music orchestras (image by Tomasz Sienicki sourced from here). Recorder concertos have been rare since the baroque days, with Malcolm Arnold possibly the most famous name to have contributed to the repertoire. I have selected the recorder concerto by contemporary Swedish composer Bjoern Lindh, played by Dan Laurin and the Sundsvall Chamber Orchestra under Niklas Willen, taken from a BIS CD.
