Melodies in Mind
Handel Suites & Trio Sonatas
Ensemble Amarillis
The first thing to hit your ears is how exceptionally bright and immediate the sound is…There’s also real vitality and conviction across the disc, as you might expect from such a labour of love…All...
Melodies in Mind
Handel Suites & Trio Sonatas
Ensemble Amarillis
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The first thing to hit your ears is how exceptionally bright and immediate the sound is…There’s also real vitality and conviction across the disc, as you might expect from such a labour of love…All...
About
When the ensemble Amarillis focuses on Handel, the musicians reinvent the genre of the baroque suite. They take advantage of their variable geometry formation to concoct a joyous musical ballet in homage to the most Italian of the English composers. No voice here, and yet what lyricism in these pages!
Thanks to transcriptions that constantly renew the instrumentation of the program, the performers, led by Héloïse Gaillard (flute) and Violaine Cochard (harpsichord), emphasize the colours of this contrasting and special anthology of Handel’s Suites and Trio Sonatas.
Contents and tracklist
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Handel:
Concerto for Harpsichord in G Major, HWV 487 (Transcription for Recorder, Violin and Continuo) [First Imaginary Suite]
Work length1:19
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Handel:
Larghetto for Harpsichord in G Minor, HWV 580 (Transcription for Harpsichord and Cello) [First Imaginary Suite]
Work length1:42
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Handel:
Sonata for Recorder and Continuo in G Major, HWV 358: I. Allegro (First Imaginary Suite)
Work length1:36
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Handel:
Impertinence for Harpsichord in G Minor, HWV 494 (Transcription for Soprano Recorder, Violin and Continuo) [First Imaginary Suite]
Work length0:41
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Handel:
Sonata for Recorder and Continuo in G Major, HWV 358 (First Imaginary Suite)
Work length2:07
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Handel:
Chaconne for Harpsichord in G Major, HWV 435 (Transcription for Recorder, Violin and Continuo by Erik Desimpelaere) [First Imaginary Suite]
Work length7:53
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Handel:
Trio Sonata for Recorder, Violin and Continuo, HWV 389 in F Major, Op. 2 No. 4
Work length10:28
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Handel:
Suite No. 3 for Harpsichord in D Minor, HWV 428: III. Allemande (Second Imaginary Suite)
Work length4:15
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Handel:
Sonata for Recorder and Continuo in B-Flat Major, HWV 377 (Second Imaginary Suite)
Work length2:49
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Handel:
Suite No. 7 for Harpsichord in G Minor, HWV 432: III. Allegro (Second Imaginary Suite)
Work length2:07
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Handel:
Duo for Recorder and Violin in B-Flat Major, HWV 470 (Second Imaginary Suite)
Work length1:35
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Handel:
Suite No. 7 for Harpsichord in B-Flat Major, HWV 440 (Second Imaginary Suite): III. Sarabande
Work length1:59
- Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Awards and reviews
July 2018
The first thing to hit your ears is how exceptionally bright and immediate the sound is…There’s also real vitality and conviction across the disc, as you might expect from such a labour of love…All in all, great stuff.
Classical Music June 2018
This is a lovely programme, juxtaposing ‘pure’ Handel Sonatas from Op 2 (for recorder, violin and basso continuo) with constructed suites from diverse pieces (‘Suites imaginaires’), then placing two movements from Handel’s second keyboard suite at its heart. Each constructed suite ends with an arrangement by Erik Desimpelaere (the arrangement of the Aria from HWV449 that closes the second constructed suite is remarkably slick and stylish). Solo harpsichord movements provide contrast, confidently performed by Violaine Cochard.
