CD review: Jeremias Schwarzer: New Recorder Concertos

New Focus Recordings, fcr430 Recorder concerti are pretty rare beasts in contemporary music, so plaudits first of all to the German recorder player Jeremias Schwarzer for finding not only four, but four such and contrasting ones. (All four, it transpires, were written in collaboration with the performer.) The principal challenge with combining recorder and orchestra, Continue reading CD review:…