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Handel: Sonatas for Violin & Piano, Op. 1
- Format: CD
- Release Date: 1/20/2023

Handel: Sonatas for Violin & Piano, Op. 1
- Format: CD
- Release Date: 1/20/2023
- Composers: George Frideric Handel
- Label: Dux Recording Prod.
- UPC: 5902547017983
- Item #: 2536033X
- Genre: Classical
- Theme: Baroque Era
- Release Date: 1/20/2023

Product Notes
A composition, as a phenomenon or an act of creation, can be understood as a reflection of the time in which it was written. An improvisation, in some sense, is also an act of creation, a kind of composition, and it also reflects it's time. Performing transcriptions, "borrowings" (even of whole pieces), remakes, and quotations was a common thing at the time of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Handel himself, as the first cosmopolitical composer in the world, was open to various styles and cultures and would quote and remake his own works. He was a Great Master, undoubtfully equal to Johann Sebastian Bach, but he was not a purist, which may explain some of the solutions we used on this album. Handel was a star and a celebrity of his times. He would compose, understand, and love the genre of opera, which, out of all kinds of art, is closest to the man (with his issues, traumas, and challenges); a genre that is full of life and "venous" like a human body. He was perfectly at ease in the world of theatre, stage, and entertainment. All the above can be easily heard in the harmony and melodies of his sonatas. In some way, we are following this way of thinking - being fascinated by the music of the Great Master, we allow ourselves some surprising (in our opinion) differentiations and modifications. We are doing this here and now, drawing on the past eras (classicism and especially romanticism [sic!]). We are also not afraid to refer to different forms of popular music such as jazz or even pop music. We are doing it, because the music of our time, i.e. popular music, is all around us and sneaks into our minds. We are being impregnated with it beyond our conscience and will, since it is "everywhere we listen", i.e. in restaurants, shops, on our way to work. Although this aspect of entertainment stands out a bit on our recording, we decided not to remove it. The sonatas presented on this CD are not one-dimensional - there are many parenthesis, interrupted thoughts, and surprising endings. However, the listener will quickly find the beauty, charm, elegance, logic, and depth of this music, always combined with masterful harmony and melodies. The audience can notice perfect, but natural and sincere melodies, in which Handel vents his feelings in a bit uncontrolled and improvised way; feelings that are "poignant in their poetry." It is especially the slow movements that sound like elegies, epitaphs, or odes, full of pain, longing, mysticism, and wisdom. "Our art, weary of post-Beethovenesque and post-Wagneresque art, can find in Handel's music (similarly to chamber music by Mozart) a poetic refuge, to heal it's futile anxiety and to experience again silence and wellbeing." Paweł Losakiewicz & Robert Morawski