The Royal Wind Music
The Orpheus of Amsterdam (2024)
Pan Classics / Note 1 Music
CD & digital/streaming
Credits: blockflutes
With a fluid, smooth choral sound, the recorder consort paints over Sweelinck’s elaborate toccatas and chromatic fantasias as well as plain vocal music.
–Eleonore Büning / RONDO (19.10.2024)
Freddy Sheinfeld
Simón (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2023)
Digital/streaming
Credits: blockflutes
See also Soundtrack and simonmovie.com for more about the film.
Original music by Freddy Sheinfeld is atmospheric and richly humane in its rhythms both highs and lows.
–Richard Propes / The Independent Critic
The Royal Wind Music
The Orange Tree Courtyard (2023)
Pan Classics / Note 1 Music
CD & digital/streaming
Credits: blockflutes
The eleven musicians celebrate the soft and warm sound of the recorder, but nevertheless remain transparent in their vocal lines. The music comes to life through the breath from eleven mouths and shapes the character of each individual note – but also through its connection to a place that tells of an infinite number of fates, encounters and events in every stone.
–Wolfgang Schicker / BR-KLASSIK (25.05.2023)
Psallentes & The Royal Wind Music
Gratia Plena (To Memling) (2023)
Le Bricoleur
CD & digital/streaming
Credits: blockflutes
…exquisitely detailed and wonderfully evocative. The sounds conjured up by consorts of beautifully tuned and blended Renaissance recorders are a delight, as are the female voices of Psallentes, also beautifully pure and focussed.
–D. James Ross / early music review (28.11.2023)
Ensemble Gamut!
RE (2022)
Eclipse Music
CD digisleeve/digital & streaming
Credits: blockflutes, electronics, vocals, arrangements
This is very definitely a labor of love, and the pieces and context are superbly researched. — …for open ears and minds, there’s an entire world of joy to discover on RE.
–Chris Nickson / RootsWorld (13.02.2023)
Juho Myllylä
Het leven van de pelgrim / Life Of The Pilgrim (Original Short Film Soundtrack) (2022)
Digital & streaming
Credits: music, blockflutes, guitar, electronics, arrangements, production
See Soundtrack for the animated short (2021) and the upcoming full-length radio drama adaptation.
John Franek
Wavelengths (2022)
Donemus/Composers Voice
Digital & streaming
Credits: blockflutes & live electronics
With Mariana Preda (panflutes)
Burntfield
Impermanence (2021)
Progressive Gears Records / Inverse Records
CD digisleeve/vinyl/digital & streaming
Credits: music, lyrics, vocals, guitars, blockflutes, arrangements, production
Rousing choruses, melancholy and yearning, this is a compulsive album that will strike a chord with anyone who has loved and lost and loved again. Magnificent. *****
–David Randall / Get Ready To Rock! (31.10.2021)
Ugly Pug
Crossroads (2021)
Olive Music/Etcetera Records
CD digipak/digital & streaming
Credits: blockflutes, electric guitar, live electronics
I consider the results compelling, and I hope to hear more works for these resurrected instruments in this new idiom.
–John Dante Prevedini / Classical Music Daily (27.10.2021)
Ensemble Gamut!
UT (2020)
Eclipse Music
CD digisleeve/digital & streaming
Credits: blockflutes, electronics, arrangements
Refreshing, soothing, intriguing and enlightening, there’s a wonderful flow through the album in an enthralling and cleansing journey.
–Jez Rowden / The Progressive Aspect (13.12.2020)
Burntfield
Hereafter (2018)
Progressive Gears Records / Inverse Records
CD digipak/digital & streaming
Credits: music, lyrics, vocals, guitars, blockflutes, arrangements, production
A collection of beautifully arranged songs with nice vocal harmonies and excellent musicianship throughout.
–Geoffrey Penn / Progplanet (14.05.2018)
