Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas

Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas

Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas
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Brand: MANZE,ANDREW
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Performer: Andrew Manze
Performer: Richard Egarr
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-01-11
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi
Soundtracks:
  1. Violin Sonata in D major, Op.1/13, HWV 371: Affetuoso
  2. Violin Sonata in D major, Op.1/13, HWV 371: Allegro
  3. Violin Sonata in D major, Op.1/13, HWV 371: Larghetto
  4. Violin Sonata in D major, Op.1/13, HWV 371: Allegro
  5. Violin Sonata in F, Op.1/12, HWV 370 (doubtful): Adagio
  6. Violin Sonata in F, Op.1/12, HWV 370 (doubtful): Allegro
  7. Violin Sonata in F, Op.1/12, HWV 370 (doubtful): Largo
  8. Violin Sonata in F, Op.1/12, HWV 370 (doubtful): Allegro
  9. Violin (or Oboe) Sonata in D minor, HWV 359a: Grave
  10. Violin (or Oboe) Sonata in D minor, HWV 359a: Allegro
  11. Violin (or Oboe) Sonata in D minor, HWV 359a: Adagio
  12. Violin (or Oboe) Sonata in D minor, HWV 359a: Allegro
  13. Violin Sonata in A major, Op.1/3, HWV 361: Andante
  14. Violin Sonata in A major, Op.1/3, HWV 361: Allegro
  15. Violin Sonata in A major, Op.1/3, HWV 361: Adagio
  16. Violin Sonata in A major, Op.1/3, HWV 361: Allegro
  17. Violin Sonata in G minor, Op.1/6, HWV 364a: Larghetto
  18. Violin Sonata in G minor, Op.1/6, HWV 364a: Allegro
  19. Violin Sonata in G minor, Op.1/6, HWV 364a: Adagio
  20. Violin Sonata in G minor, Op.1/6, HWV 364a: Allegro
  21. Violin Sonata in A major ('Roger'), Op. 1/10 (doubtful): Adagio
  22. Violin Sonata in A major ('Roger'), Op. 1/10 (doubtful): Allegro
  23. Violin Sonata in A major ('Roger'), Op. 1/10 (doubtful): Largo
  24. Violin Sonata in A major ('Roger'), Op. 1/10 (doubtful): Allegro
  25. Violin Sonata in E major ('Roger'), Op. 1/12 (doubtful): Adagio
  26. Violin Sonata in E major ('Roger'), Op. 1/12 (doubtful): Allegro
  27. Violin Sonata in E major ('Roger'), Op. 1/12 (doubtful): Largo
  28. Violin Sonata in E major ('Roger'), Op. 1/12 (doubtful): Allegro
  29. Violin (or recorder) Sonata in G major, HWV 358: [Allegro]
  30. Violin (or recorder) Sonata in G major, HWV 358: [Adagio]
  31. Violin (or recorder) Sonata in G major, HWV 358: [Allegro]
  32. Andante for violin & continuo in A minor, HWV 412
  33. Allegro for violin & continuo in C minor, HWV 408

Music reviews of Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas

Music Review: Recommended - With Reservations
Rating: 4 Stars

Handel's five authenticated violin sonatas are gems of the high baroque violin repertoire; why they have not been more widely recorded is hard to understand. Leave it to baroque violin superstar Andrew Manze to put a complete version before the public. Manze plays the opening slow movements in a rhapsodic, dreamy manner, like improvisations, and lends his accustomed humor and audacity to the fast movements. It is enlightening to learn that the opening of the D major sonata is marked AFFETTUOSO, not MAESTOSO, and I am continually surprised by Manze's use of finger extensions (creeping up to higher positions on the fingerboard) for expressive effect.

Now, recording the "complete" anything can be a questionable enterprise. The violin sonatas for which Handel's authorship is undisputed are five in number. In addition to these, Manze and Egarr have decided to record several spurious works, some of lesser merit; these tend to diminish the effect of the whole and give the impression of having been included simply to justify the title of the CD. (Indeed, Manze fiddles through these selections in an off-hand, careless manner, as if he himself isn't convinced of their worth.) My second contention is with the absence of a cello or other sustaining bass instrument. In his historical note Manze does not provide a serious justification for omitting the cello beyond the fact that it was done in Handel's time. I miss the strength in the bass line that a sustaining instrument can provide, especially in contrapuntal material, but also in the slow movements, where there is a lot of right-hand "doodling" with no firm "bottom".

Are these reservations important enough to dissuade one from buying this disc? Well, consider this: the only other version of these works on baroque violin - by Hiro Kurosaki on Virgin - appears to be no longer available except in used copies; as it happens, that recording also lacks a bass instrument! Manze is always a charismatic performer, and for buyers on a budget who really want this repertoire, this will likely be the disc to choose.
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Release Date: 11-JAN-2005

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