£12

Trio Sonata in B minor op.2 no.1 for flute, violin and continuo

Trio Sonata in G minor op.2 no.2 for 2 violins and continuo

Trio Sonata in Bb major op.2 no.3 for 2 violins and continuo

Trio Sonata in F major op.2 no.4 for flute, violin and continuo

Trio Sonata in G minor op.2 no.5 for 2 violins and continuo

Trio Sonata in G minor op.2 no.6 for 2 violins and continuo

 

London Handel Players

Rachel Brown - flute (copy of Palanca by Martin Wenner)

Adrian Butterfield and oliver Webber violins

Katherine Sharman cello

Laurence Cummings harpsichord

 

"gently breathed and musically refined...The First Sonata in particular emerges here with a Gallic exquisiteness of gesture to match that of a Couperin or a Marais". Gramophone

"What the London Handel Players bring to the table is a crystal-clear recorded sound which lends a thrilling immediacy to textures which themselves are always elegantly enunciated. Sonatas nos.1 and 4 benefit from the expressive eloquence of Rachel Brown's flute, and in the opening Andante of the B minor, she and Adrian Butterfield converse with flirtatious suppleness - the ravishing Largo her chance to soar like a Handelian operatic diva".  BBC Music Magazine