21/05/2026
Wow! Great Review for Ensemble Rossignol Magazine “Luister!”
MISCELLANEOUS Twilight’s Dancing Glow Works by Giuliani, Sor, Vivaldi, Genzmer, Schubert, Strozzi, and others
Alice Gort-Switynk (soprano and recorder), Elly van Munster (chitarrone and guitar)
Aliud Records ACD OL 151-2 • 1hr09’
RATING 8
Soprano and recorder player Alice Gort-Switynk and guitarist Elly van Munster have formed the likeable Ensemble Rossignol for nearly thirty years. During that time, the duo made five albums, of which Twilight’s Dancing Glow is the latest addition. As on the other albums, the repertoire moves primarily within the realm of the early Romantic, Baroque and early Classical music, and the musicians do not choose the easiest path. This means that it features much lesser-known repertoire by Mauro Giuliani, Carlo Tessarini, and Louis Spohr, supplemented by more famous songs and works for recorder and chitarrone (in the Baroque works) and guitar (in the Classical pieces) by Vivaldi, Frescobaldi, Strozzi Qa (her L’Amante segreto can be assumed to be reasonably well-known by now), and Schubert. In addition, there is room for two short but interesting more recent recorder solos by the German composer Harald Genzmer (1909-2007) and three Etudes by Fernando Sor—certainly very well-known among guitar enthusiasts—played on the modest but beautiful-sounding copy of a Stauffer guitar from 1825. It is primarily the Baroque works where the musicians focus best at feeling at home, and it is primarily the pieces featuring the recorder that make the biggest impression, but the whole forms a wonderfully relaxed and very pleasantly recorded ‘salon recital’.
Paul Janssen
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