Handel: The Recorder Sonatas

Erik Bosgraaf is one of the most remarkable recorder players of today. This is the first (2008) of three duo collaborations with harpsichordist Francesco Corti. Handel was truly a man of the stage (some of the recorder sonatas movements are also found in his operas) and these two musicians bring the drama of this music home.

Composer: George Frideric Handel
Artists: Erik Bosgraaf (recorder) & Francesco Corti (harpsichord)

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Handel’s sonatas for recorder were composed in the years 1724–6. What is remarkable is that he found the time to concentrate on such work at a time when his operas were in great demand in London: this is the period of Scipione and Agrippina. The young composer was the toast of the town, and had become a naturalised Englishman having followed his old employer the Elector of Hanover, Georg to London. Georg became King George I, and Georg Frideric Handel became George Frederick Handel. It will come as no surprise that the sonatas contain a lot of ‘operatic’ material, from Handel’s own operas, and those of his contemporaries such as Georg Muffat. Many of the most popular arias from Handel’s operas had been published in transcriptions for recorder and keyboard – the ancestors of the operatic paraphrases by Liszt and Henselt in the 19th century.

Although they can be considered as domestic music, the keyboard parts are quite virtuosic (Handel was an excellent harpsichordist), and the composer’s markings are detailed lending credence to the view that these works were also used as exercises. Handel enthusiasts will find much that is familiar in these works, sprightly fast movements and operatic larghettos, the latter no doubt influenced by the operatic workload Handel faced at the time.

Tracklist:
Sonata in C Major, HWV 365, for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo:
00:00 I. Larghetto
02:35 II. Allegro
04:26 III. Larghetto
06:32 IV. A tempo di gavotta
08:14 V. Allegro

Sonata in B Minor, HWV 367a for Voice Flute and Basso Continuo:
10:11 I. Largo
12:14 II. Vivace
15:01 III. Furioso
16:46 IV. Adagio
18:10 V. Alla breve
19:42 VI. Andante
22:16 VII. A tempo di menuet

Sonata in G Minor, HWV 360 for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo:
23:35 I. Larghetto
25:33 II. Andante
28:09 III. Adagio
28:55 IV. Presto

Sonata in B-Flat Major, HWV 377 for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo:
30:24 I. Allegro
32:15 II. Adagio
33:39 III. Allegro

Sonata in A Minor, HWV 362 for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo:
35:39 I. Larghetto
38:20 II. Allegro
40:29 III. Adagio
42:20 IV. Allegro

Sonata in D Major, HWV 369 for Voice Flute and Basso Continuo:
45:20 I. Grave
47:52 II. Allegro
49:45 III. Alla siciliana
50:54 IV. Allegro

Sonata in F Major, HWV 358 for Sopranino Recorder and Basso Continuo:
52:32 I. Allegro
54:08 II. Adagio
54:43 III. Allegro

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