Händel - Complete Recorder Sonatas
Catalog Number: BIS208
A poised, historically alert traversal of Handel’s recorder sonatas: supple lines, eloquent ornamentation, and a continuo team that breathes with the soloist, illuminating these works’ lyric grace and quietly dramatic poise.
Händel - Complete Recorder Sonatas
Handel’s recorder sonatas occupy a cherished place in the instrument’s literature, marrying high musical substance to writing that invites cantabile phrasing and imaginative diminutions. This album treats them as living chamber music: tempos are chosen for clarity of line and pulse, while ornamentation blooms from the text rather than upon it. The continuo pairing—harpsichord supported by a singing cello line—shapes the bass with flexibility, sometimes lightening one part so that phrasing remains supple and the dialogue with the recorder feels newly dimensional. Drawing on the scholarly edition by David Lasocki and Walter Bergmann, the performers ground their choices in close attention to sources, yet keep the rhetoric spontaneous and clear. The sequence touches contrasting characters: passacaglia poise and lyrical inwardness in the C-major Sonata, pastoral warmth in F major, and, in the expansive D-minor Sonata with its seven movements, an invitation to a cadenza that heightens the work’s dramatic arc. Throughout, one senses a preference for musical vitality over studio polish—the kind of risk that lets lines breathe, textures dance, and Handel’s eloquence speak with unforced grace.
Published date
1986-01-31
Number of discs
1
Channels
stereo:16:2.0
Made in Sweden since 1999. In collaboration with Textalk.
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