Tommaso Rossi, Enrico Baiano - Handel: Flute Sonatas (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1 No. 1b, HWV 359b: I. Grave
02. Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1 No. 1b, HWV 359b: II. Allegro
03. Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1 No. 1b, HWV 359b: III. Adagio
04. Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1 No. 1b, HWV 359b: IV. Allegro
05. Recorder Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 2, HWV 360: I. Larghetto
06. Recorder Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 2, HWV 360: II. Andante
07. Recorder Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 2, HWV 360: III. Adagio
08. Recorder Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 2, HWV 360: IV. Presto
09. Recorder Sonata in A Minor, Op. 1 No. 4, HWV 362: I. Larghetto
10. Recorder Sonata in A Minor, Op. 1 No. 4, HWV 362: II. Allegro
11. Recorder Sonata in A Minor, Op. 1 No. 4, HWV 362: III. Adagio
12. Recorder Sonata in A Minor, Op. 1 No. 4, HWV 362: IV. Allegro
13. Flute Sonata in G Major, Op. 1 No. 5, HWV 363b: I. Adagio
14. Flute Sonata in G Major, Op. 1 No. 5, HWV 363b: II. Allegro
15. Flute Sonata in G Major, Op. 1 No. 5, HWV 363b: III. Adagio
16. Flute Sonata in G Major, Op. 1 No. 5, HWV 363b: IV. Bourée
17. Recorder Sonata in C Major, Op. 1 No. 7, HWV 365: I. Larghetto
18. Recorder Sonata in C Major, Op. 1 No. 7, HWV 365: II. Allegro
19. Recorder Sonata in C Major, Op. 1 No. 7, HWV 365: III. Larghetto
20. Recorder Sonata in C Major, Op. 1 No. 7, HWV 365: IV. A tempo di gavotta
21. Recorder Sonata in C Major, Op. 1 No. 7, HWV 365: V. Allegro
22. Flute Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 No. 9, HWV 367b: I. Largo
23. Flute Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 No. 9, HWV 367b: II. Vivace
24. Flute Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 No. 9, HWV 367b: III. Presto
25. Flute Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 No. 9, HWV 367b: IV. Adagio
26. Flute Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 No. 9, HWV 367b: V. Alla breve
27. Flute Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 No. 9, HWV 367b: VII. A tempo di minuet - Flute Sonata in G Major, Op. 1 No. 5, HWV 363b: V. Menuetto

CD2
28. Recorder Sonata in F Major, Op. 1 No. 11, HWV 369: I. Larghetto
29. Recorder Sonata in F Major, Op. 1 No. 11, HWV 369: II. Allegro
30. Recorder Sonata in F Major, Op. 1 No. 11, HWV 369: III. Siciliana
31. Recorder Sonata in F Major, Op. 1 No. 11, HWV 369: IV. Allegro
32. Flute Sonata in A Minor, Op. 1 No. 16, HWV 374: I. Adagio
33. Flute Sonata in A Minor, Op. 1 No. 16, HWV 374: II. Allegro
34. Flute Sonata in A Minor, Op. 1 No. 16, HWV 374: III. Adagio
35. Flute Sonata in A Minor, Op. 1 No. 16, HWV 374: IV. Allegro
36. Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1 No. 17, HWV 375: I. Adagio
37. Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1 No. 17, HWV 375: II. Allegro
38. Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1 No. 17, HWV 375: III. Grave
39. Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1 No. 17, HWV 375: IV. Minuet
40. Flute Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 No. 18, HWV 376: I. Adagio
41. Flute Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 No. 18, HWV 376: II. Allegro
42. Flute Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 No. 18, HWV 376: III. Largo
43. Flute Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 No. 18, HWV 376: IV. Allegro
44. Recorder Sonata in B-Flat Major, HWV 377: I. Corrente
45. Recorder Sonata in B-Flat Major, HWV 377: II. Adagio
46. Recorder Sonata in B-Flat Major, HWV 377: III. Allegro
47. Handel: Flute Sonatas

The reconstruction of the compositional chronology of Georg Friedrich Händel’s repertoire for flute is extremely complex. There are various reasons for this, stemming from two essential factors: on the one hand, the typical tendency for much of Händel’s music to transmigrate from one instrument to another and the consequent impossibility, at times, of determining precisely which version of a particular piece is the original; on the other hand, the proliferation, at a time when no copyright regulations existed, of diverse printed editions. Many of these, unauthorised, generated different versions, errors or misinterpretations, which were possibly also passed on over time. For this CD recording, which features a substantial part of the complete corpus of the sonatas for recorder and transverse flute, we compared the two earliest printed versions containing sonatas for solo instrument by Händel. Both were published by the London publisher Walsh, although for a long time the first of the two editions was attributed to the Amsterdam publisher Roger, but then, thanks to the studies of Terence Best and David Lasocki, it turned out to be a ‘pirate’ publication by the same publisher Walsh (who probably had not yet obtained Händel’s permission to publish).

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