Performance score with basso continuo (without figured bass realisation). At the beginning of the 18th century, the recorder enjoyed great popularity as a solo instrument for amateurs. Among these were also the princesses of the English court, for whose musical entertainment and training Handel?s six recorder sonatas were probably written in 1725/26. Only four of them appeared shortly thereafter in print and thus also reached a broader audience: the other two were first discovered for the recorder in the 20th century. Thanks to their melodic and rhythmic incisiveness, the pieces, whose recorder parts are relatively easily mastered, number among the most beautiful written for this instrument. Owing to wide-ranging bass lines and copious figures, the continuo instrument requires a rather well-versed player./ Répertoire / Flûte à Bec Alto et Basse Continue

Two sonatas for Treble Recorder and Continuo by Italian Baroque composer Pietro Castrucci as edited by Myriam Eichberger. This edition has been selected for the ABRSM Treble Recorder examination grade 8.

or alto recorder and continuo. These two pieces are not from the set printed by Walsh, but from manuscript collections in Parma and Detroit in which they have been arranged for recorder. Important new repertoire for the serious player.