Among other things, he studied the recorder for four years, the instrument of horror for all parents who ever had to listen to their children’s recorder concert in elementary school. “I know that dictum,” he laughs. “The recorder suffers a mean fate!” Nevertheless, this year he has invited “the fantastic five-part recorder consort Element of Prime” to the Krems Imago Dei festival, and Dörte Lyssewski is one of them The anatomy of melancholy read in which the self-professedly melancholy Robert Burton (1577–1640) compiled all the knowledge of his time on black bile. “Great!”
