Solas

The album not only highlights beautiful sounds from the soprano and alto saxophones but also features the incredible energy of the sopranino saxophone, rarely recorded.

•  Leonardo VINCI (1690-1730)
  Sonata No. 1 in D major for Flute and Basso Continuo
  
  
•  Franz Joseph HAYDN (1732–1809)
  String Quartet No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 1, No. 1, Hob.III:I, ‘La Chasse’
  
  
•  Nicolas CHÉDEVILLE (1705–1782)
  (previously attributed Antonio VIVALDI (1678–1741)
  6 Sonatas, ‘Il pastor fido’: No. 6 in G minor
  
  
•  George Frideric HANDEL (1685–1759)
  Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (Eternal Source of Light Divine), HWV 74
  
  
•  Barbara THOMPSON (1944–)
  Darkness into Light (2002)
  
  
• G.F. HANDEL
  Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act I
  
  
•  James WHITBOURN (1963–)
  Brief Story of Peter Abelard (2011)
  
  
• G.F. HANDEL
  Sonata in G minor for Violin and Basso Continuo, HWV 364a
  
  
• Jehan ALAIN (1911–1940)
  G Choral phrygien, AWV 76 (1935)
  
  
• Henry PURCELL (1659–1695)
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III

Recorded at The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula, The Tower of London
Engineered and produced by Ken Blair • Edited by Will Anderson and Charlie Hembrow
24bit, 44.1kHz hi-resolution recording and mastering