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Six Recorder Sonatas for Alto Recorder and Basso continuo

score and parts

Edited by Schaper, Heinz-Christian – Scheideler, Ullrich
Setting: Recorder (alto)
Period: Baroque
Published: 2021
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1497
Other reference: HN 1497
ISMN: 9790201814971
At the beginning of the 18th century, the recorder enjoyed great popularity as a solo instrument for amateurs. Among these were also the princesses of the English court, for whose musical entertainment and training Handel’s six recorder sonatas were probably written in 1725/26. Only four of them appeared shortly thereafter in print and thus also reached a broader audience, the other two were first discovered for the recorder in the 20th century. Thanks to their melodic and rhythmic incisiveness,
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