Browse: Handel - Sonata in D major for violin and continuo, HWV371, Op. 1 No. 13

Armed with his 1703 baroque violin, Cicic’s eloquent, gracefully ornamented delivery of Handel’s melodic flights sits perfectly alongside the sprightly sounds of Devine’s 1756 harpsichord. — The Times, 21st February 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Uncertainty over the authenticity of the violin sonatas, coupled with the fact that Handel and his publisher were notoriously imprecise about which instruments his various solo sonatas were even... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This is a wonderful recording. — American Record Guide More…

Generally speaking the performances are stylish and, where required virtuosic. That is not to say, however, that they afford unqualified pleasure. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The Brook Street Band play all the works indisputably by Handel as well as those generally accepted as part of the canon…The music, dare I say it, is on occasion uneven in quality, but the finest... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the sumptuous underlay sometimes over-eggs the music, yet it's very much at one with Minasi's warmly lyrical yet purposeful approach...Idiosyncrasies aside, compelling stuff. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performances in this attractive set are further distinguished by an interpretive sponaneity that invariably brings the music to life — BBC Music Magazine More…