This is a selection of Swedish recorder music which, like an image of time, describes the present: this is the sound produced when Swedes write recorder music today. My intention has been to let the repertoire reflect some of the principal currents in modern music, heard through an instrument with roots in the early middle ages; the selection makes no claim to be anything other than subjective. (Dan Laurin)

In the musical landscape of the sixteenth century there was little place for 'Dutch' composers in the strict sense of the word. […] Due to the favourable cultural and economic climate the region developed into a breeding ground for renaissance polyphony. […] On this CD, the step from the past to the present is a small one.

The Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet was founded in 1978. Its unusual name derives from one of the Quartet's first arrangements: the Loeki the Lion melody from Dutch television commercials. Their recording of 'Virtuoso Recorder Music' (L'Oiseau Lyre 414 277-1) received an Edison Award in 1986. The jury observed that 'Their intensely musical performance, their great devotion and evident pleasure in playing draw attention immediately to the music itself. Playing of this standard is seldom heard on a first recording'.

"We became 'infected' with the desire to arrange The Four Seasons for our own instrument. In order to present Vivaldi's 'famous four' in a new light, we use the whole range of recorders from sopranino to contrabass in F. Our 'cello', a bass recorder in C. by F. von Huene, was specially built for this project." - Joris van Goethem

Der Fluyten Lust-Hof (The Flute's Garden of Delights) contains almost all Van Eyck's work. Volume I, which was essentially a reprint of an earlier book, Euterpe (1644), appeared in 1649; Volume II was published in 1654. This printed collection of 17th century European popular tunes contains in its two volumes some 150 pieces or sets of variations based on 120 tunes.

The Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet was founded in 1978 by Daniël Brüggen, Bertho Driever, Paul Leenhouts and Karel van Steenhoven who were students at the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam at that time. The quartet has continually explored the boundaries of the recorder consort. Following its formation, the ensemble's reputation grew quickly and was further strengthened at the 1981 Musica Antiqua Competition in Bruges where, challenging the competition rules, it performed an unusual arrangement of a Stevie Wonder song and emerged as the winner.