Erik Bosgraaf
Dutch recorder player Erik Bosgraaf is widely considered one of the world's top players of his instrument; still less debatable is that his attitude toward recorder repertoire, ranging far beyond typical Renaissance and Baroque works, is unusually adventurous.
Bosgraaf was born in Drachten, the Netherlands, on May 9, 1980. He combined recorder studies at the Amsterdam Conservatory with musicology, earning an M.A. from the University of Utrecht in 2006 and the following year releasing a three-CD box set of music by Jacob van Eyck. When this album found unexpected commercial success, Bosgraaf began to devote full time to his recorder career. He made an international tour in 2011-2012 under the auspices of the European Concert Hall Organization's Rising Stars program.
Bosgraaf has made orchestral appearances not only with top Dutch orchestras but with the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He is the dedicatee of more than 100 commissioned works, 12 of which are concertos. These include a recorder concerto inspired by Mahler by Dutch composer Willem Jeths. Bosgraaf's interests have extended beyond contemporary concert music to jazz, electronics, and collaborations with filmmakers, and he has participated in a multimedia realization of Vivaldi's Four Seasons by Dutch filmmakers Paul and Menno de Nooijer. Bosgraaf performed on the soundtrack of the Werner Herzog film Salt and Fire.
Most of Bosgraaf's concerto and group recordings have been made with his Ensemble Cordevento, with which he has also appeared live. The group appears in various guises, depending on the repertoire. The name means "strings and winds" in Italian, and the membership is flexibly deployed in ensembles ranging from a trio to a full Baroque orchestra, playing on historically authentic instruments. The ensemble has performed in Berlin, Utrecht, Barcelona, Modena, Moscow, Madrid, Saint Petersburg, Sofia, Hong Kong, and Seoul.
Bosgraaf is a 2011 recipient of the Nederlandse Muziekprijs (Netherlands Music Prize), the country's foremost musical honor.
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Discography
19 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Telemann: Trio Sonatas for Recorder and Viola da Gamba
Erik Bosgraaf, Lucile Boulanger, Robert Smith, Alessandro Pianu
Miscellaneous - Released by Brilliant Classics on Dec 31, 2021
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Baroque Edition, The Artistry of Erik Bosgraaf
Miscellaneous - Released by Brilliant Classics on Sep 24, 2021
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Adriana: Her Portrait, Her Life, Her Music
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Dec 22, 2023
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Les Sonates pour flûte à bec
Erik Bosgraaf, Francesco Corti
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Dec 1, 2008
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Der Fluyten Lust-Hof
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Jun 1, 2007
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Bach: Concertos for Recorder, Vol. 2
Erik Bosgraaf, Collegium Musicum Riga, Agnese Kanniņa, Maris Kupčs
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Sep 28, 2022
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Concertos pour flûte à bec
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Nov 1, 2011
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Telemann: Complete Suites and Concertos for Recorder
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on May 1, 2016
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Van Wassenaer and the Recorder in the Low Countries
Erik Bosgraaf, Francesco Corti
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Jul 26, 2019
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Telemann: Fantasias - J.S. Bach: Partita
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Apr 1, 2006
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Concertos pour flûte à bec
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Oct 1, 2009
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Telemann: Trio Sonatas
Erik Bosgraaf & Dmitry Sinkovsky
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Sep 29, 2017
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Dec 1, 2013
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Jeths: Recorder Concerto
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Markus Stenz, Erik Bosgraaf
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Sep 4, 2020
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Loevendie and Bosgraaf: Nachklang, Reflex, Dance, Improvisations
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Oct 26, 2018
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Thin Air - Recorder
Classical - Released by Donemus Composers' Voice on Jun 30, 2021
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The First Lament of Ekavi (Live)
Classical - Released by Donemus Composers' Voice on Dec 7, 2020
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Skia (Live)
Classical - Released by Donemus Composers' Voice on Dec 1, 2020
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