VAN EYCK, , Der Fluyten Lust Hof by François Lazarevitch

Release date April 2021 Stream, ,Download, ,Buy Published in Amsterdam in the midseventeenth century, Der Fluyten LustHof (The Garden of Flute Delights) is a collection of variations for solo flute on the hits of European music of the time, borrowed from such composers as Caccini, Dowland, Bull and Moulinié. Its Dutch compiler, Jacob van Eyck, was born blind. As carillonist of Utrecht Cathedral, subsequently in charge of all the citys chimes of bells, he made fundamental advances in acoustics and bell tuning. Despite this busy activity, he also found time to play the recorder as a virtuoso, especially to entertain strollers in the garden of St Johns Church in the evening with the sound of his little flute. It was probably the repertory built up in this context that he published under the title Der Fluyten LustHof. For this recording, François Lazarevitch uses instruments characteristic of Van Eycks time: not only the recorder