The recorder consort A Imagem da Melancolia (The Image of Melancholy) was founded in december 2002 and is constituted by 5 musicians graduated from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa in the class of prof. Pedro Couto Soares. This ensemble focus its attention on the polyphonic repertoire written between 1400 and 1700, devoting special attention to the musical, literary and iconographical sources of the same period in order to build an interpretational concept. The recorders used are copies of historical instruments crafted by Luca de Paolis, Monika Musch, Tom Prescott and Peter van der Poel. A Imagem da Melancolia has given concerts in Portugal (Porto, Loulé, Tomar, Faro and Lisbon) and was one of the selected groups to play in the FRINGE concerts of the 2004 Utrecht's Early Music Festival (Holland).