Handel Complete Flute Sonatas 1080p 25fps H264 128kbit AAC

Landmark works of Baroque chamber music given a 21st-century twist.

Composer: Georg Friedric Handel
Artists: Duo Astra: Lorenzo D'Antò (flute), Michele Di Filippo (guitar)

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The extent to which George Friederic Handel’s flute sonatas ‘belong’ on the flute is an open question. Some sonatas were composed with the violin in mind, and then arranged by Handel’s London publisher, John Walsh, ever alert to a commercial opportunity. Others were probably conceived for recorder and basso continuo, and then transposed for the different register of the flute. Most of them were written around the 1720s, but some date from rather earlier, so far as we can tell.

Even more than his contemporaries such as Bach, Handel was an assiduous reuser and recycler of his own material, and thus the notion of early and late style in this music, and an evolution between them, becomes somewhat moot. Not entirely, however, for there is a discernible movement away from Italian and towards French models of rhetoric in the sonatas, just as the oratorios develop an increased richness of harmony and economy of gesture during the decades of Handel’s English period.

To accompany this new recording, the flautist Lorenzo d’Antò has supplied invaluable chapter and verse for each sonata in his booklet essay. He also brings them alive in his partnership with the guitarist Michele Di Filippo, with the aim of rediscovering ‘these antique masterpieces, and observing them from a new and modern perspective.’ Thus the basso continuo lines, usually encountered on a harpsichord or combination of cello, lute and keyboard, have been mapped on to the guitar. This is a practice with many honourable precedents, dating back to Handel’s own time.
Lorenzo D’Antò graduated from the conservatoire in Rome in 2017. While at a relatively early stage in his career, he is already principal flute of the orchestra of the Arena di Verona. He has also performed as a concerto soloist and recitalist in festivals and venues across Italy and Switzerland. He is partnered here by Michele di Filippo, a guitarist born in 1994 who is also active as a composer.

Tracklist:
Flute Sonata in A Minor, HWV 362:
00:00:00 I. Larghetto
00:02:49 II. Allegro
00:05:03 III. Adagio
00:07:02 IV. Allegro

Flute Sonata in E Minor, HWV 359b:
00:09:39 I. Grave
00:12:02 II. Allegro
00:13:50 III. Adagio
00:14:42 IV. Allegro

Flute Sonata in B minor HWV 367b:
00:16:34 I. Largo
00:18:37 II. Vivace
00:20:43 III. Presto
00:22:21 IV. Adagio
00:23:48 V. Alla breve
00:25:50 VI. Andante
00:27:45 VII. Minuetto

Flute Sonata in F Major, HWV 369:
00:29:15 I. Larghetto
00:31:14 II. Allegro
00:32:54 III. Siciliana
00:34:01 IV. Allegro

Flute Sonata in C Major, HWV 365:
00:35:27 I. Larghetto
00:37:40 II. Allegro
00:39:46 III. Larghetto
00:42:03 IV. A tempo di gavotta
00:43:22 V. Allegro

Flute Sonata in G Major, HWV 363b:
00:44:50 I. Adagio
00:46:40 II. Allegro
00:48:39 III. Adagio
00:50:37 IV. Bourrée
00:51:32 V. Minuetto

Flute Sonata in G Minor, HWV 360:
00:52:35 I. Larghetto
00:54:42 II. Andante
00:57:05 III. Adagio
00:57:55 IV. Presto

Flute Sonata in D Major, HWV 378:
00:59:25 I. Adagio
01:01:12 II. Allegro
01:03:29 III. Adagio
01:04:32 IV. Allegro

Flute Sonata in A Minor, HWV 374 (Halle Sonata No. 1):
01:05:37 I. Adagio
01:07:52 II. Allegro
01:10:19 III. Adagio
01:13:41 IV. Allegro

Flute Sonata in E Minor, HWV 375 (Halle Sonata No. 2):
01:15:17 I. Adagio
01:17:12 II. Allegro
01:18:52 III. Grave
01:20:39 IV. Minuetto

Flute Sonata in B Minor, HWV 376 (Halle Sonata No. 3):
01:22:44 I. Adagio
01:25:27 II. Allegro
01:26:48 III. Largo
01:28:04 IV. Allegro

Flute Sonata in B-Flat Major, HWV 377:
01:29:38 I. Allegro
01:31:22 II. Adagio
01:32:41 III. Allegro