Final Favourites

Flanders Recorder Quartet

• Bart Spanhove
• Paul Van Loey
• Tom Beets
• Joris Van Goethem

Chamber Music CD Recording

Recorded 2017.

Final Favourites is the ultimate plea for the recorder of the Flanders

Recorder Quartet. It’s a Best-of album, nevertheless its content for sure is

unexpected! 'We dug up those pieces that we think are the the best, the

most fascinating, the most rewarding to play and put them together on

one jam-packed CD'. Both well-known (e.g. Johann Sebastian Bach and

Jan Van Landeghem) as more obscure (e.g. Costanzo Festa and Robert

Parsons) composers have found their way into this compilation, that exists

not only as a CD but also as a concert programme.

Final Favourites is more than a musical testament. The 36-page CD

booklet gives insight into the personal adventures of the members of the

FRQ, back then and now. Over a dozen pictures of the group combine

with textual contributions about being Always on the Road, about the

Milestones of the FRQ, about the Dance of the Muses on stage, about the

CD Programme and about gratitude. Because Gratitude...that is what Final

Favourites is all about…

Tracklist:

1. Passacaglia in g BWV 582 (JS Bach 1685-1750)

2-4. Czaldy Waldy, La Manfredina, La Rotta della Manfredina (Anon)

5. Ut re mi fa sol la (R Parsons 1535-1572)

6. Capriccio & Volta du Tambour (Anon)

7-11. Concerto in a BWV 596 (JS Bach 1685-1750)

12. Hugh Ashton’s Maske (H Ashton 1558-1585)

13-16. 4 Contrapunti (C Festa 1495-1545)

17. Descendit angelus Domini (Clemens non Papa 1510-1556)

18. Fantazie in F (M Locke 1622-1677)

19. Africa (J Van der Roost *1956)

20. You made me love you (J Monaco 1885-1945)

21. Turkish Bumble-bee Rondo (J Van Landeghem *1954)