loveHandel 2023: The Bassoon Abroad

A rare chance to revel in the sensual sonorities of the baroque bassoon, an instrument championed by Handel.

German-based Jennifer Harris is one of the world’s premiere soloists and is joined here by members of The Brook Street Band for chamber music by Handel, Telemann and a few of their fellow ‘abroad’ composers.

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Trio in Bb major for violin, bassoon and bc TWV 42:B6Trio in F major for violin, bassoon and bc TWV 42:F1Sonatina for bassoon in A minor, TWV 41:a

Johann Ernst Galliard (1687-1747)
Sonata III in C major

Luigi Merci (1695-1750)
Sonata VI in G minor op. 3 no. 4

Handel
Violin Sonata in A major, HWV 361