Recorder31 Day 3 | Side-By-Side Interview: Lucie Horsch & Max Volbers

Back for 2025 is our Side-By-Side interview series, exclusively for Recorder31. Each week, two professional recorder players meet up for a chat about their careers, current projects and other recorder stories! These candid conversations offer an inspirational glance into life as a recorder player and we hope you love listening to them!

This week, virtuosic recorder soloists Lucie Horsch (NL) and Max Volbers (DE) join us for the first in this year's series. Join them as they discuss life on the road as a professional musician, the things they love most about playing the recorder, discovering new music, and much more!

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About the artists

As a recorder player, harpsichordist and increasingly also as a conductor, Max Volbers is one of the most versatile young musicians in the field of early music. Following the sound worlds of the 17th and 18th centuries, in which musicians naturally mastered several instruments, as a multi-instrumentalist he illuminates the repertoire of early music from very different perspectives. He also devotes himself to contemporary music and regularly works with composers on commissioned compositions. He studied at Mozarteum University Salzburg with Dorothee Oberlinger, Walter van Hauwe, Reinhard Goebel and Florian Birsak. In addition to his concert activities, Max teaches at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and at various masterclasses. He has been under contract with Berlin Classics since 2024, and his new album “Foreign Masters” with harpsichordist Alexander von Heißen was released in September that year. www.maxvolbers.de

Sparkling rising star Lucie Horsch is a passionate and charismatic advocate of her instrument. First revealed as a recorder Wunderkind, become a stylish baroque virtuoso, Lucie is a smart and innovative musician bringing her curiosity into approaching multiple musical genres and developing new repertoire with the same incredible talent. Lucie is an exclusive Decca Classics artist. Her second album Baroque Journey, recorded with the Academy of Ancient Music and Thomas Dunford, featuring works by Sammartini, Bach, Marin Marais and Händel among others reached the No. 1 in the UK Classical Charts and was awarded the prestigious OPUS KLASSIK prize in Germany in 2019. In her third album “Origins” released in September 2022, Lucie explores folk-inspired and traditional music from all over the world with dazzling arrangements of works by 20th century modernists from Bartok, Debussy and Stravinsky to Piazzolla, Isang Yun and Charlie Parker together with traditional tunes from the four corners of the world with a stunning team of guest artists. www.luciehorsch.com

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Today our Sopranos & Smaller savings come to an end! Featured in the collection is the Mollenhauer Denner Soprano in Boxwood. The Denner range is one of our bestsellers and this boxwood model is a great all-rounder, with a strong sound for solo work but also a sweetness of tone. Check out the audio clips below or follow this link to find out more about this instrument.