Vivaldi’s Forest (Woodpeckers Recorder Quartet) Click HERE for tickets

Adult ticket €10, accompanying children 0-5 free

Suitable for children 0-5 years and accompanying adult.

Tickets are limited for this event, early booking is advised.

The four virtuoso players of Woodpeckers present an exciting, choreographed performance of music written and arranged for the recorder spanning over 600 years, from the 15th to the 21st century. Throughout the concert, our young listeners get the chance to hear and see many different sizes of recorders at close range. Our aim is to inspire and ignite curiosity in our audience, giving them a long-lasting joy of live music.

The programme is presented without spoken word, where the instruments and music transport our young listeners to a magical forest, alive with birdsong, weaving a story of conflict, friendship & reconciliation through improvisation and carefully chosen works. Bach and Vivaldi are presented alongside old folk melodies and dance tunes from each of our respective countries: Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Ireland. Excerpts from contemporary pieces, such as Chiel Mejlering’s ’Sitting Ducks’, inspired by bird and animal sounds, are tied together with improvised interludes. The concert concludes with a sombre rendition of Orazio Vecchi’s So ben, mi, c’ha bon tempo, first published in 1590. After the concert there will be time to meet the instruments and musicians.