This new offering consists of sonatas and concertos for recorder, violins and continuo composed by Alessandro Scarlatti in 1725, the year of his death. Scarlatti’s recorder works are at once intellectual and sensual, and are presumed to have been composed for recorder virtuoso Joachim Quantz on the occasion of his visit to Naples.

Founded by Francis Colpron in 1991, period ensemble Les Boréades de Montréal has made more than a dozen recordings for the ATMA label. The ensemble’s most recent ATMA recording — music by Henry Purcell with soprano Karina Gauvin — was nominated for a 2007 Juno Award.