Carolyn’s Music

Jean Daniel Braun, 16??-1740?. Very little information about him, I’ll have to look more.

This piece is out of The Baroque Solo Book, a must-have compilation of pieces that sit well on the alto recorder.

Recorded this at home. It’s very interesting, how different this experience was both from live concert recording, and from studio recording. None of the tension of live performance, it’s extremely freeing to know that if I mess up I can just do another take. On the other hand, it makes me much more critical of the recording. Also, there are a lot of outside things going on–turn off the fridge, dont do laundry or dishes, pray that the furnace doesnt decide to kick in (I suppose I could have turned the thermostat way down…), and of course there are birds and dogs and neighbor’s trucks. And an extremely patient and understanding husband (dont make any sounds at all for the next hour or so dear, I’m recording!). Visions of sound studios danced in her head….Played a bit with reverb (too much, perhaps), and actually ended up splicing two of the takes together. Learning….