Melodies in Mind: Handel Suites & Trio Sonatas

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... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2018 More…

Release Date: 13th Apr 2018
Catalogue No: EVCD049
Label: Evidence Classics

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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.

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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.

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