Appreciation of Andrew Manze's and Richard Egarr's delicious set of Handel's complete violin sonatas takes little more than open ears and a willingness to let go of preconceptions or certainties. Complete -- according to the best scholarship -- means only five bona fide sonatas (those in D major, D minor, A major, G minor, and G major), three acceptable sonatas of uncertain provenance but high musical quality (the "Walsh" in F major, and the "Roger" sonatas in A major and E major), and two single movements from incomplete ...
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Appreciation of Andrew Manze's and Richard Egarr's delicious set of Handel's complete violin sonatas takes little more than open ears and a willingness to let go of preconceptions or certainties. Complete -- according to the best scholarship -- means only five bona fide sonatas (those in D major, D minor, A major, G minor, and G major), three acceptable sonatas of uncertain provenance but high musical quality (the "Walsh" in F major, and the "Roger" sonatas in A major and E major), and two single movements from incomplete manuscripts. This winnowed set is therefore shorter than the familiar 12 sonatas known as Op. 1, several of which now have lost standing on account of misattribution or because they were intended for other instruments. But this has been sorted out to most historians' satisfaction, and the sonatas on this CD are as close to Handel's genuine work as possible. Manze and Egarr, both leading proponents of Baroque period practice, have delivered the sonatas with splendid polish, exquisite...
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