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Handel: Solo Sonatas | MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm) MDG10224002

Handel: Solo Sonatas

£28.47

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Label: MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm)

Cat No: MDG10224002

Barcode: 0760623240022

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Chamber

Expected Release Date: 21st August 2026

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This exceptional double album stands as a landmark historically informed recording of Handel's solo sonatas, uniting pioneering scholarship, extraordinary period-instrument artistry, and superb audiophile sound in one of the most compelling chamber music portraits of the Baroque era. The Ganassi Consort, joined by guest violinist Anne Röhrig, illuminate the astonishing breadth of Handel's imagination across four decades of his creative life, revealing music of remarkable elegance, invention, and emotional depth.

The musicians approach these sonatas not as polite salon works, but as dramatic utterances alive with rhetorical nuance, daring ornamentation, and richly characterised continuo playing. Recorder, flute, oboe, violin, and viola da gamba each speak with a distinctive vocal personality, while Joachim Vogelsänger's imaginative harpsichord realisations lend the entire set an improvisatory freshness that recalls the spontaneity of Handel's own circle.

Particular fascination lies in the ensemble's reconstruction of Handel's original intentions regarding instrumentation, an issue long obscured by unreliable eighteenth-century editions and publisher interference. Drawing upon autograph sources, historical pitch practices, and the technical possibilities of surviving instruments, the performers illuminate these sonatas with rare authenticity and persuasive musical logic, allowing familiar works to emerge with newly transparent colours and expressive depth.

Recorded in the warmly resonant acoustic of a 13th-century church, the album preserves an extraordinary balance between intimacy and architectural space. The legendary MDG engineering, transferred from pioneering digital masters created with painstaking care, retains astonishing immediacy and clarity, giving modern listeners the sense of being present at a uniquely inspired encounter between scholarship, craftsmanship, and musical eloquence.

"They turn in attractive performances here. I was particularly taken by the profuse and idiomatic ornamentation in the flute and recorder works, of a quality and inspiration not often ventured." - Fanfare

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