Playing Recorder Sonatas: Interpretation and Technique

Contents

• The approach to playing baroque sonatas - some general points
• sound and expression - Handel's "Sonata in G Minor"
• dynamics and Italian style - Telemann's "Sonata in D Minor"
• French style and inequality - Lavigne's sonatas
• articulation and slurs - Herbert Murrill's "Sonata" and Handel's "Furioso" ("D Minor Sonata")
• ornamentation and improvization - Fontana's "Sonata Terza"
• further aspects of performance
• other sonatas. Appendices: "Three Blind Mice" and baroque trills
• suggestions for starting to explore the recorder-sonata repertoire.