Handel, GF :: Elf Sonaten fur Flote [Eleven Sonatas for Flute]

The contents of this volume are the six sonatas for flute (HWV359b, 363b, 367b, 374-376) and the four for recorder (HWV 360, 362, 365, 369) with basso continuo accompaniment, which were published under Handel s name in his life. Also included is a flute sonata (HWV 379) which first appeared in print in 1879. This new Barenreiter Urtext edition draws on all available sources, incorporating the revised version of the Halle Handel Edition and the many original publications against later and pirated versions across the centuries, to produce a definitive reading for the new millennium. In addition to the realized keyboard part with figured bass notation and the pull-out solo part it also includes optional pull-out parts for cello or other basso instrument.

Contents

• Sonata in E minor HWV 379
• Sonata in E minor HWV 359b
• Sonata in G minor HWV 360
• Sonata in A minor HWV 362
• Sonata in G major HWV 363b
• Sonata in C major HWV 365
• Sonata in B minor HWV 376b
• Sonata in F major HWV 369
• Sonata in A minor HWV 374
• Sonata in E minor HWV 375
• Sonata in B minor HWV 376