Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era

Jean-Marie Leclair
Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo, Opus 2
Edited by Robert E. Preston

B 58	ISBN 0-89579-220-6	(1988) xxi+134 pp.	$51.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-220-4 (13-digit)
B 58P	Parts		$28.00

In none of his sonatas does Leclair display a more sensitive feeling for melodic and harmonic material than here in his second book (Opus 2). While Leclair's third and fourth books of sonatas (previously published as volumes B 4, B 5, B 10, and B 11 of this series) make great demands on the technical abilities of the performer, such a concern is not apparent in the second book, where five of the 12 sonatas are written for alternate performance on the transverse flute. Although less idiomatic, these earlier sonatas are perhaps more expressive than the later ones.

Music Sample

Contents 

Sonata I in E Minor ("Cette sonate peut se jouer sur la flûte allemande"); Sonata II in F Major; Sonata III in C Major ("Cette sonate peut se jouer sur la flûte allemande"); Sonata IV in A Major; Sonata V in G Major ("Cette sonate peut se jouer sur la flûte allemande"); Sonata VI in D Major; Sonata VII in B-flat Major; Sonata VIII in D Major ("a trois: Violon ou Flûte/Viole/ Violoncelle"); Sonata IX in E Major; Sonata X in C Minor; Sonata XI in B Minor ("Cette sonate peut se jouer sur la flûte allemande"); Sonata XII in G Minor

 
 

Parts 

vn./fl.; viol; b.c.