MILLENNIUM OF MUSIC week 11: Some of the most beautiful and haunting music in Handel's work is for recorder (or flute) and harpsichord, Erik Bosgraaf and Francesco Corti illustrate why.

Georg Friedrich Händel

Sonata in F major HWV 358
Sonata in C major HWV 365

Sonata in b minor HWV 367a
Sonata in B-flat major HWV 377

Sonata in a minor HWV 362
Sonata in D major HWV 369 

Erik Bosgraaf, recorder
Francesco Corti, harpsichord
 

Listen to the programme:

Erik Bosgraaf performs 'Come Again' from Der Fluyten Lusthof by Jacob van Eyck