Handel: Complete Flute Sonatas

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
March 20, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      George Frideric Handel
    • PERFORMER
      Duo Astra, Lorenzo D'Anto, Michele Difilippo
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 20, 2026
    • UPC
      5063758975803
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI97580
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Larghetto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    2. II. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    3. III. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    4. IV. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    5. I. Grave

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    6. II. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    7. III. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    8. IV. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    9. I. Largo

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    10. II. Vivace

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    11. III. Presto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    12. IV. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    13. V. Alla breve

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    14. VI. Andante

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    15. VII. A tempo di menuetto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    16. I. Larghetto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    17. II. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    18. III. Siciliana

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    19. IV. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    20. I. Larghetto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    21. II. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    22. III. Larghetto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    23. IV. A tempo di gavotta

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    24. V. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    25. I. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    26. II. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    27. III. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    28. IV. Bourree

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    29. V. Minuetto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    30. I. Larghetto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    31. II. Andante

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    32. III. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    33. IV. Presto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    34. I. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    35. II. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    36. III. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    37. IV. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    38. I. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    39. II. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    40. III. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    41. IV. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    42. I. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    43. II. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    44. III. Grave

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    45. IV. Minuetto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    46. I. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    47. II. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    48. III. Largo

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    49. IV. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    50. I. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    51. II. Adagio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra

    52. III. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Duo Astra


Landmark works of Baroque chamber music given a 21st-century twist. The extent to which George Frederic Handel's flute sonatas 'belong' on the flute is an open question. Some sonatas were composed with the violin in mind, and then arranged by Handel's London publisher, John Walsh, ever alert to a commercial opportunity. Others were probably conceived for recorder and basso continuo, and then transposed for the different register of the flute. Most of them were written around the 1720s, but some date from rather earlier, so far as we can tell. Even more than his contemporaries such as Bach, Handel was an assiduous reuser and recycler of his own material, and thus the notion of early and late style in this music, and an evolution between them, becomes somewhat moot. Not entirely, however, for there is a discernible movement away from Italian and towards French models of rhetoric in the sonatas, just as the oratorios develop an increased richness of harmony and economy of gesture during the decades of Handel's English period. To accompany this new recording, the flautist Lorenzo d'Ant� has supplied invaluable chapter and verse for each sonata in his booklet essay. He also brings them alive in his partnership with the guitarist Michele Di Filippo, with the aim of rediscovering 'these antique masterpieces, and observing them from a new and modern perspective.' Thus the basso continuo lines, usually encountered on a harpsichord or combination of cello, lute and keyboard, have been mapped on to the guitar. This is a practice with many honourable precedents, dating back to Handel's own time. Lorenzo d'Ant� graduated from the conservatoire in Rome in 2017. While at a relatively early stage in his career, he is already principal flute of the orchestra of the Arena di Verona. He has also performed as a concerto soloist and recitalist in festivals and venues across Italy and Switzerland. He is partnered here by Michele di Filippo, a guitarist born in 1994 who is also active as a composer.