Recorder making from originalsThe recorder makers featured on this DVD were interviewed around the time the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet ended its activities. Meetings with recorder makers were always part of our tours and inspiring events for me. Their pioneering achievements definitely needed to be documented.While the DVD Ricercata (2011) explored the personality of the recorder in a broader sense, Master Makers focuses on the perspective of those who build the instruments themselves. With Friedrich von Huene, Martin Skowroneck, Hermann Moeck, Bob Marvin and Frederick Morgan.In five individual portraits, influential masters of the 20th century talk about their history, their motivation and their views. Together they offer a fascinating account of the redefinition of the recorder as a historical instrument after the Second World War.The video production is excellent, with good sound and appealing images. This Master Makers DVD is an excellent chronicle of the rather magical art and craft of recorder making and the community that fostered this endeavour. [American Recorder]MusicFrameFilms 2017 Language: German/English Total Time: 1h 43m PAL dvd

The recorder is currently one of the most widely played instruments and is mainly associated with elementary music education. What lies behind the recorder's reputation as an easy-to-play and inexpensive instrument and what is it that captures the imagination of many players, including professional onesThe chats with Bob and Frans alone make this film worth watching, and the cinematography is impressive, whether it's Bob's workshop in the woods and his attempt to dismantle a beaver dam, the neon-lit bustle of Tokyo's main streets or a cabbage-white butterfly (that ancient symbol of the soul) in the beautiful afternoon light of Tuscany. [Calliope's Sister]MusicFrameFilms2011. Total time: 37 m Subtitles: English, Dutch, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish