Se in fiorito ameno prato

The violin sonatas by Händel that he composed in London span from the heyday of Italian opera productions of the Royal Academy of Music to his last English oratorios. The original purposes, contexts and performers of the sonatas are unknown: only a few have been preserved in autograph manuscripts, and the authorship and instrumentation of pieces preserved in unreliable early printed sources are a confusing mess. Quartetto Vanvitelli devises a narrative that explores the possibilities of emotions, sonorities and connecting tonalities offered by different authentic violin sonatas, a couple of false misattributions, quotations from Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724) and arrangements of various keyboard pieces - a creative vision designed to break light through the prism of Händel's music.