Handel, Georg Fr. (1685–1759): 7 Arias a 3

for transverse flute (flauto piccolo), viola da gamba & b. c., edited as first edition by Leonore and Günter von Zadow. In Handel’s time, the musical audience in London displayed great interest in everything to do with opera. Shortly after a new opera was presented, the most important arias appeared in simplified versions that one could sing and play oneself. In a library in The Hague such a version is handed down: The singing voice of the original is taken over by the viola da gamba, the flute plays the part of the first violin, the continuo remains and is best realized on a harpsichord. The flute part can be played on a transverse flute or a recorder in D. Edition Güntersberg