It was a recorder that could last quite a while [for the kids], until they wanted to explore another fingering or an alto recorder or something like that. Eng: OK, so those were the historical ...

One afternoon last month, at a recording studio in Montclair, New Jersey, Tony Visconti, the record producer, sat in a control room turning a lyric sheet into a paper cone. He had an alto recorder ...

In 1981 the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen wrote what became one of Brüggen’s favourite encore pieces, Ende, for two alto recorders played simultaneously, with sensational effect.