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Each of the group members got to choose some of their favorite selections for the sampler. It includes works by Holborne, Bach, Shostakovich, Purcell, Caldini, Muffat, Dowland, members of the quartet, and anonymous. The DVD is an illustrated history of the quartet and shows their changing appearances over the thirty-year span. It also shows the wide variety of different instruments on which the quartet perform – some of the bass recorders being the size of a contrabass bassoon. The concerts appear to have been done for Dutch TV. One of the standouts is their delightful arrangement of Errol Garner’s “Misty,” in which the group is enlarged with some added recordists – one of whom is conductor Frans Brüggen, father of one of the quartet members. He started his career as one of the world’s leading recorder virtuosi. One wouldn’t think on the face of it that a recorder quartet could be this much fun, but The Loeki Files proves differently.
