Handel: Solo Sonatas (Op.1) / Frans Brüggen, Barthold Kuijken, Masahiro Arita, etc.

I have a number of discs of this as well. The first one is an analog disc by Frans Brüggen, Bruce Haynes and others. Brüggen played the traverso and recorder, which Recording is not very good. The volume level of the traverso is lower than that of the recorder. I don’t know why, but it seems to be recorded with an off-microphone. Also, Brüggen recorded seven of Handel’s recorder works long before this recording, probably in the 1960s, and his performance at that time had a fine vibrato. It is interesting to see how his playing has changed. Next, I bought a complete collection of wind sonatas by the members of the Hotteterre Ensemble. And a complete collection of flute works only by Masahiro Arita too. I also bought a complete collection of flute works by Carl Kaiser of Camerata Köln. And the best of all, the complete flute sonatas by Barthold Kuijken (there had never and will never be anything better). As for the complete violin sonatas, I have the discs by Eduard Melkus and Ryo Terakado. In addition, “The Art of the Recorder”, a collection of 12 CDs by Frans Brüggen, is available from Das Alte Werk, and is a valuable collection of his recordings from 1962 to 1979, a compilation (or worse, a mishmash). #baroque #handel #片山俊幸