12 Flute Sonatas Nos. 1 - 5

In Stockholm during Johan Helmich

Roman's lifetime, the recorder was

the most common wind instrument,

used throughout the social spectrum

- including the Royal music

establishment.

The transverse flute, however, was

generally the preserve of the nobility

and bourgeoisie.

That hasn't stopped the celebrated

recorder player Dan Laurin from taking

up his countryman's sonatas on his own

instrument.

With his fellow musicians in Paradiso

Musicale, Laurin opts for a justifiably

Italianate slant - providing great variety

in realizations characterized by bold and

striking harmonization.