Hans-Martin Linde’s Music for a Bird is a contemporary recorder work, using Extended technique vocabulary and bird-like sound gestures. Rather than relying only on melody, the piece presents different bird calls through changes in timbre and ways of producing sound.

Louis Andriessen’s ENDE is a contemporary work for recorder, with a direct and concentrated musical language. Its clear sense of rhythm focuses the music on even the smallest unstable changes.

In performance, I focused on rhythmic stability and clarity of sound, keeping the articulation precise so that the tension of the piece can emerge naturally.

A duet for two recorders

As both composer and performer, I often encounter the same problem: no matter how I try to avoid it, the music I make always carries a certain accent. Especially on an instrument I know well, the act of composing almost determines its way of speaking, as if that were the only possible “authorial intention.”