Handel- Complete Violin Sonatas

Product Description All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. Review Ensemble Vintage Cologne was founded in 2009 by Boston-born violinist Ariadne Daskalakis, and she is joined by some of her colleagues at the Hochschule fur Musik Koln in various configurations to perform music of the 18th century. For this recording of chamber music, she forms a trio with Rainer Zipperling, playing the viola da gamba and Baroque cello, and harpsichordist Gerald Hambitzer. There's a good overview of the history of Handel violin sonatas in the notes for this recording, written by Daskalakis. She notes that the best-known music by that description is a collection of six sonatas. Unfortunately, four of the six are now thought to be by some other composer, although there's no agreement about who that composer might be. Because these six are so well-known as a group, the trio has included them in this recording, the last four 'imposter' sonatas following the music known to be authentically by Handel. Because of John Walsh's decision to publish some of Handel s sonatas for violin as though they were for different instruments, three of these sonatas are more likely to be known as played by other instruments, namely flute and oboe. Here they are played by violin as originally intended. Two short movements, an Andante in A Minor and Allegro in C Minor, complete this recital by three of Europe's most accomplished period instrument performers. --WETA Radio