The Royal Wind Music ensemble consists of graduates of the Amsterdam Conservatory. They play on recorders of all sizes, from the sopranino to the three-metre-long subcontrabass recorder. All instruments are built by renowned specialists based on historical models, such as the Ambras flutes in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In its unconventional programmes, the ensemble focuses on direct communication with the audience.
At the centre of our concert is one of the key figures of the Renaissance: the German painter-prince Albrecht Dürer. The music performed corresponds with Dürer’s masterpieces, including works from the court chapel of Emperor Maximilian I, who was one of Albrecht Dürer’s most important patrons and patrons. The Innsbruck Court Church, which houses Maximilian’s magnificent tomb with the famous Black Men (Dürer also designed the figure of King Arthur), is therefore the ideal venue for this concert, which promises synaesthetic pleasure in a class of its own and an extraordinary listening experience in an original setting.