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VOX NOSTRA WITH VLAD SMISHKEWYCH

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If you’ve got it, ‘flute’ it: Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, born this day in 1674, not only could deliver the goods when playing the flute and other wind instruments; he made the things as well. The best-known of a celebrated family of wind instrument makers and performers, Jacques Hotteterre composed for and played the bassoon, oboe, and musette (chamber bagpipe), but he was a flute virtuoso above all, and official flautist to the King of France to boot. We’ll get to hear Hotteterre’s music for all of these instruments, accompanied by orchestra as well as chamber ensemble. Visits to medieval France with trouvère Gautier de Coincy, and 17th century England with William Lawes, are all part of the early music voyage this Sunday morning on Vox Nostra.

RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 29th September, 7am-10am