Mirja Lorenz says when a recorder is performed alone it reminds her of a bird without a tree — and when the theorbo, a type of lute, is performed alone, it sounds like a tree without a bird. Played ...

This summer, in such diverse settings as a Universalist church on Cape Cod, a 16th century hacienda near Taxco, Mexico, and a leafy glade on the shores of California’s Lake Arrowhead, hundreds of ...

The recorder dates back to the 14th century and was a prominent instrument in the musical Renaissance and Baroque periods before fading away in the 18th and 19th centuries. Revived in the 20th century ...