I posted the Telemann Suite from this 1974 album last year and here are the two recorder concertos making up side 2.
Giuseppe Sammartini was an Italian Baroque composer who lived in London from 1727, and was oboist at the King's Theatre - gaining an excellent reputation on the instrument (see the album sleeve reproduced below). His Concerto in F is one of the very few in existence from the period to use the descant, rather than treble recorder.
George Frideric Handel - another composer from abroad who settled in London (in 1712) - is a lot better known than Sammartini. The B flat Concerto for treble recorder is a reconstruction from his organ concerto op.IV no.6 by Christopher Hogwood, who plays harpsichord continuo on this recording, and contributed the album notes for this piece detailing its convoluted and uncertain history.
Cartridge: Ortofon Xpression MC MC
Phono amp: Graham Slee Accession MC
Turntable: CTC Classic 301 with SME M2-12R
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