Notes on the Ensemble

The Manhattan Recorder Orchestra (MRO), conducted by Matthias Maute, made its debut in January 2004 at St. John's in the Village Episcopal Church in Greenwich Village.  Since then, MRO has presented numerous concerts, performed at the Montreal Recorder Festival, and participated in the first New York Early Music Celebration in 2004. Using instruments that range from the tiny sopranino to the sub-contrabass, the orchestra plays a repertoire that includes early music as well as arrangements of classical, romantic, twentieth century and new music, with an emphasis on works composed for recorder orchestra.

Conductor Matthias Maute has achieved an international reputation as a recorder player, flautist and composer. In 1990, he won First Prize in the soloist category at the prestigious Early Music Competition in Bruges, Belgium. He is the Artistic Director of Ensemble Caprice and also tours regularly as a recorder and flute soloist with the baroque ensemble Rebel. Matthias’ compositions are frequently heard in concerts in Europe, Canada and the United States. He is a professor at McGill University in Montreal and has taught at the San Francisco Early Music Society, the Recorder Academy in Bloomington, Indiana, Amherst Early Music Festival and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

In a Concert entitled “Exultate”

Hugh Ashton’s Maske                            William Whytbroke
                                                             (16^th century)

Sellenger’s Round                                 William Byrd
                                                              (c. 1539-1623)

 Laetentur Caeli                                     Jacob Handl
                                                              1550-1591
 
Exultate Justi                                         Andreas Hakenberger
                                                              (c. 1574-1627)

Engels Nachtegaeltje                            Jacob van Eyck
Theme and Variations                           (c. 1590-1657)
(Daphna Mor, soloist)

Suite for Recorder Orchestra                 Charles Gamble
Disjunctification-Castles-Elizaville           (b. 1952)

Concerto in a minor (after Vivaldi)         Johan Sebastian Bach
BWV 593                                                 (1685-1750)
Allegretto-Adagio-Allegro

Toccata (1991)                                         David Hurd, Jr.
                                                                (b. 1950)

Arbos                                                       Arvo Pärt
                                                                (b. 1935)

La Musica Notturna di Madrid (1780)        Luigi Boccherini
Minuetto dei Ciechi-Il Rosario-                  (1743-1805)
I spagnoli si divertono per le strade-
Ritirata

Les Fleurs Dissipées                                 Matthias Maute
Andante-Larghetto-Allegro                        (b. 1963)

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