Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo

Quartetto Vanvitelli

A 578

Handel’s violin sonatas composed in London stretch from the heyday of the Royal Academy of Music’s Italian opera productions to his last English oratorios. The original purposes, contexts and performers of the sonatas are unknown: only a few survive in autograph manuscripts, and the authorship and instrumentation of pieces preserved in unreliable early printed sources are a confusing mess.

Quartetto Vanvitelli invent a narrative that explores the possibilities of emotions, sonorities and connecting tonalities that are offered by several authentic violin sonatas, a few spurious misattributions, quotations from Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724) and arrangements from several keyboard pieces – a creative vision designed to refract light through the prism of Handel’s music.

Works:

• Handel: Sonata in D major for violin and continuo, HWV371, Op. 1 No. 13
• Handel: Sonata in D Minor for violin and continuo, HWV359a, Op. 1 No. 1
• Handel: Violin Sonata in E major, Op. 1, No. 15, HWV 373

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Arcana

16-04-2025

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