As part of the events around the special exhibition on the anniversary "200 years MOLLENHAUER woodwind instrument manufacture", the Mollenhauer Quartet plays consort music from old and recent times.

Many musical ensemble formations were popular in the past. Even before the classical string quartet, the striving for the greatest tonal homogeneity was part of the ideal sound. Among wind instruments, the pure sound of recorders formed the intersection between vocal and instrumental music. It manifests itself like no other in the basic stops of every organ.

The concert with the Mollenhauer Quartet traces these origins. Its members are made up of employees from the Fulda recorder workshop. Their lifelong curiosity - combined in building and playing the instruments - testifies to a special motivation for the subject.

In their concert program they present self-made small and large recorders made after models from different eras with appropriate historical music.


Mollenhauer Quartet: Vera Jahn, Sina Bayer, Beate Temper, Nik Tarasov

Program and played recorders

0:00 Begrüßung durch Berthold Mollenhauer
4:52 Giovanni Gabrieli (ca. 1557–1612) | Canzon seconda
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Kynseker Sopran/Alt/Tenor/Bass
7:33 Ansage Vera Jahn
8:53 Adriano Banchieri (1568–1634) | Canzon »L‘Alcenagina (sopra Vestiva i colli)«
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Kynseker Alt/Tenor/Bass/Großbass
11:42 Ansage Beate Temper
14:26 Anonymus, eventuell Heinrich VIII (1491–1547) | Consort XXI
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Kynseker G-Alt/Tenor/Bass/Großbass
15:36 John Ward (1571–1638) | Fantasia
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Kynseker G-Alt/Tenor/Bass/Großbass
19:06 Ansage Beate Temper
21:20 William Byrd (1543–1623) | Pavan and Galliard »The Earl of Salisbury«
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Kynseker Tenor/Bass, Subbass von Rainer Weber
24:14 Ansage Beate Temper
24:51 Joan Brudieu (ca. 1520–1591) | »Si una dulce vista«
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Kynseker 2 x Tenor/Bass/Großbass
26:10 Juan Vasquez (ca. 1500–ca. 1560) | Villancico »Zagaleja de lo verde«
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Kynseker Sopran/Alt/Tenor/Bass
27:46 Pierre Phalèse d. J. (1550–1629) | Saltarello
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Kynseker Garklein/Sopranino/Sopran/Alt
28:54 Ansage Vera Jahn und Beate Temper
32:17 Henry Purcell (1659–1695) | The Fairy Queen
Entry Dance – Now winter comes slowly – Rondeau
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Denner-Edition (Sondermodell), Denner Knick Comfort Tenor, Denner Bass
36.00 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) | Kunst der Fuge: Contrapunctus I
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Denner Großbass, Bass, Knick Comfort Tenor, Küng Subbass
40:57 Ansage Beate Temper
43:04 Louis-Antoine Dornel (1680–1757) | Sonate en quatuor: Allegro moderato – Adagio – Allegro
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Denner-Edition hell und dunkel, Tenor von Takeyama, Bass von Martin Kehr
49:11 Ansage Beate Temper
51:28 Hans Ulrich Staeps (1909–1988)
Sieben Flötentänze: Schalmy – Czakan – Syrinx – Sambuca
Verwendete Instrumente »Schalmy«: Mollenhauer Denner Großbass, Bass, Knick Comfort Tenor, Solist Bass
Verwendete Instrumente »Czakan«: Mollenhauer/2 x Helder Evo Alt, Helder Evo Tenor, Zylindrische Sopranblockflöte von Gyla Foky Gruber, Modell Silberton, aus Sterling Silber.
Verwendete Instrumente »Syrinx« & »Sambuca«: Mollenhauer/2 x Helder Evo Alt, Helder Evo Tenor, Moderne Sopranblockflöte in Birnbaum (Syrinx) und Grenadill (Sambuca)
58:27 Ansage Vera Jahn
1:00:09 Allan Rosenheck (1938–2018) | »Emma’s Blues«
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Denner Großbass, Bass, Denner Knick Comfort Tenor, Küng Subbass
1:03:12 Allan Rosenheck (1938–2018) | »Die alte Standuhr am Sonntag«
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Denner Großbass, Bass, Denner Knick Comfort Tenor, Küng Subbass
1:05:18 Ansage Beate Temper
1:06:24 James Duncan Carey (1927–2011) | »Mock Baroque: Tango Baroquita«
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Canta Knickbass, Denner Edition in Alt, Bass, Denner Knick Comfort Tenor, Waldorf Sopranblockflöte
1:09:15 Ansage Beate Temper
1:10:09 Björn Hagvall (1954) | »Fonerier«
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Denner-Edition Alt & Sopran, Denner Knick Comfort Tenor, Küng Subbass
1:13:26 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) | Zauberflöte: »Marsch der Priester«
Verwendete Instrumente: Mollenhauer Denner Großbass, Bass, Denner Knick Comfort Tenor, Küng Subbass