Rossi and Baiano pay homage to Handel: Baroque sonatas resound in San Pietro a Majella

Handel's sonatas for flute and harpsichord performed in concert by soloists Tommaso Rossi (on the recorder and baroque flute) and Enrico Baiano (on the harpsichord) are scheduled for Friday 30 May (at 6 pm) in the Sala Scarlatti of the San Pietro a Maiella Conservatory in Naples .

A preview, scheduled as part of the “Musical Fridays” , through which the two Neapolitan musicians pay homage to the great composer born 340 years ago (in 1685) in Halle, Germany.

A Handel evening that will offer the public the opportunity to listen to the sonatas in “B minor for flute and basso continuo HWV 367 b”, in “C major for recorder and basso continuo HWV 365”, in “F major for recorder and basso continuo HWV 369”. The musical program will close with the performance of the “Chaconne in G major for harpsichord HWV 435”. Pieces chosen from the 11 compositions that make up the “track list” of the recording work entitled “ Händel, flute sonatas ”, a double CD released by the Stradivarius label (available in stores and on digital streaming platforms from next June 10) which is announced and presented on this occasion.

“Handel's instrumental music – Tommaso Rossi underlines – although less frequented than his other compositions, such as melodramas and oratorios, fully proposes the wonderful annotations (of charm and originality of the melody, expressiveness of slow tempos, rhythmic vivacity and virtuosity in fast tempos) that distinguish the work of the great Saxon composer”.

The sonatas composed by Georg Friedrich Händel for solo instrument formally recall the sonata da chiesa and the sonata da camera of Italian style, being divided into four main movements to which are added dance rhythms, such as the minuet, the giga and the Sicilian. “Characteristics that seem to testify – adds Tommaso Rossi – to the influence exerted by the music of our country on the great composer who stayed for a long time in Venice, Florence, Rome and, in particular, in Naples, where the “Saxon” received, in June 1708, an enthusiastic welcome”.

“The characteristic of the sonatas – concludes Enrico Baiano – is the strong role given to the basso continuo part and therefore to the harpsichord, in constant dialogic dynamics with the solo part and particularly incisive from an expressive point of view”. Free admission, until all seats are taken. Info: Tel. 081 5449255, www.sanpietroamajella.it