FROM ALBUM NOTES by Edmondo Filippini
Written between 1724 and 1726, the six George Frideric Handel’s Recorder Sonatas are nowadays part of recorder’s great repertoire and one of the highest levels of Baroque Sonata.
As incisive combination of vocal theatre experience and instrumental writing so well assimilated by Arcangelo Corelli- the 6 Sonatas appear to be actually the connection between the instrumental and the vocal writing style of the period. They take advantage of all the recorder’s features avoiding those recreational parameters to which these compositions were usually subjected to satisfy the client. And this actually is one of the most unclear issues.