All you need to do is a quick search for Michala Petri on amazon.com to get an idea of how important she’s been for her instrument, the recorder. Given up for dead in the 19th century when it was ...

Who would have thought that a hollow piece of wood, adorned only with eight tiny holes and looking just as it did in the 14th Century, would become one of the glamor instruments of the `80s? Call it ...

This week, the spotlight is on Danish recorder virtuosa, Michala Petri. Petri began playing the recorder aged 3, and gave her debut performance as a soloist aged 11. She's since gone on to have a rich ...

Is there an instrument played by so many, yet mastered by so few, as the recorder? Schoolchildren by the millions learn the rudiments of recorder playing, but even during the early music revival of ...

Prince Leopold was Bach’s patron in the small town of Cöthen, where the young composer arrived to take up the post of Capellmeister in 1717. Leopold was a cultured and genial employer, who, according ...

Our Valentine's Day show opens with music played by a husband and wife duo — Michala Petri, who plays the recorder, and guitarist Lars Hannibal. They play two little pieces by Edvard Grieg, the ...

This recording, the first commercial release by the Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra, is a significant addition to the recorder-concerto genre that puts the local group on the classical music map. The ...

Did you play recorder in school music class? It's great for learning the basics, and in the hands of international concert artist Michala Petri, we hear its full potential as an agile and ...

Recorder player Michala Petri teams up with Barrueco to play an arrangement of the Sonata in F, Op. 1, No. 11, by Handel. Their performance comes from the 92nd Street Y, in New York City.

has been touring the world for decades, preaching the gospel of the recorder. Like anyone with supreme skill, she transforms her medium, turning the seemingly simple recorder into a musical voice of ...

Michala Petri is one of the world’s leading recorder virtuosos. She has done as much as anyone living to popularise the instrument, and revive and expand its repertoire. In 1992, she formed an ...