For her solo debut, the Israeli recorder player Tamar Lalo has selected five sonatas from the Sibley manuscript that bear witness to Giuseppe Sammartini's musical imagination - and to the recorder at its best.

Sammartini was a famous oboist and highly respected composer of the late Baroque period who made his great career in London from 1720. Oboists in this period usually also played the recorder, and so over 30 sonatas for the recorder by Sammartini have also survived, although many of them have been little played to date. The majority of these pieces are preserved only in one manuscript, the so-called "Sibley manuscript". Sammartini's compositions belong to the late period of the recorder, an instrument that was soon to fall into oblivion. His works are characterised by great inventiveness, daring harmonic turns and a very free approach to form.

Tamar Lalo is an Israeli flautist. After developing an important career in Israel, playing as a soloist with numerous orchestras, such as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Zubin Mehta. Tamar has performed both as a soloist and with groups such as La Ritirata, Euskal Barrokensemble, Música Ficta, Forma Antiqva, Ensemble Fontegarara. She has recorded numerous CDs for the labels Glossa, Arsis, Winter and Winter, Cantus and Enchiriadis. Tamar Lalo holds a Master's degree in Early Music and studied at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Art. Among the teachers with whom she has studied are Pedro Memelsdorff, Daniel Brüggen, Bart Coen, Peter van Heyghen, Drora Bruck and Dorothea Winters.