Giovanni Antonini and Sheng-Fang Chiu form a wonderful recorder duo that loves to perform varied and unusual programs. This album is named after a piece that Giovanni Sollima composed in 2024: it is a tribute to William Byrd and combines the tenor recorder with the sopranino recorder, which can perfectly imitate birdsong. The program spans different periods, from the art of diminution and improvisation in the 15th century to the refined duets of Jacques Hotteterre in the 18th century and a sonata by Telemann from 1727 to the duets by Bartók from the 1930s, which were originally composed for two violins. The Nuovo ricercare No. 4 (1973) was written by the flute virtuoso Amico Dolci, son of the great sociologist and pacifist Danilo Dolci. With a wink, the two instrumentalists quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "[Playing recorder] is as easy as lying: work these holes here with your finger and thumb, blow in this pipe, and it will discourse most eloquent music..."