“What a fine and distinctive player she is! My ears were pricking up before even the album’s first 30 seconds were over with her confidently poised, bright, pure, open tone… The technical fireworks of Corelli’s Follia, performed on a sweet, bright descant in C and folkily strumming guitar, make for a very fitting album climax, and beyond Koudelková’s constant innovation with the ornaments, the reading is also outstanding for the degree to which the original violin-writing’s polyphony has been honoured. Lovely stuff.”
Gramophone, July 2025
“Try the little “Furioso” from Handel’s Recorder Sonata in D minor, two minutes of exuberant froth, Koudelková’s dancing solo line having the upper hand (just) over a frenzied accompaniment… Koudelková’s expressivity in Corelli’s slow movements is startling, and she draws some exquisite colours from her treble recorder in the slow fourth movement of the Sonata in F. The best comes last, the single-movement Sonata in D minor (better known as “La Follia”) sounding thoroughly idiomatic recast for descant recorder.”
The Arts Desk, October 2025
Arcangelo Corelli
Sonata No. 4 in F major, Op. 5
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1. | I. Adagio | 02:17 | |
2. | II. Allegro | 02:27 | |
3. | III. Vivace | 02:38 | |
4. | IV. Adagio | 02:27 | |
5. | V. Allegro | 02:25 | |
George Frideric Handel
Recorder Sonata in D minor, HWV 367a
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6. | I. Largo | 02:27 | |
7. | II. Vivace | 03:07 | |
8. | III. Furioso | 02:07 | |
9. | IV. Adagio | 01:21 | |
10. | V. Alla breve | 01:53 | |
11. | VI. Andante | 02:44 | |
12. | VII. A Tempo di Menuet | 01:20 | |
George Frideric Handel
Sonata No. 5 in G major, Op. 1, HWV 363b
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13. | I. Adagio | 01:50 | |
14. | II. Allegro | 01:54 | |
15. | III. Adagio | 02:15 | |
16. | IV. Bourrée | 00:47 | |
17. | V. Menuetto | 01:11 | |
George Frideric Handel
Flute Sonata No. 1b in E minor, Op. 1, HWV 359b
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18. | I. Grave | 02:33 | |
19. | II. Allegro | 01:42 | |
20. | III. Adagio | 00:52 | |
21. | IV. Allegro | 02:35 | |
Arcangelo Corelli
Sonata No. 6 in C major, Op. 5
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22. | I. Grave | 03:08 | |
23. | II. Allegro - Adagio | 02:14 | |
24. | III. Allegro | 00:59 | |
25. | IV. Adagio | 02:18 | |
26. | V. Allegro | 02:01 | |
George Frideric Handel
Sonata No. 13 in F major, Op. 1, HWV 371
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27. | I. Afetuoso | 03:39 | |
28. | II. Allegro | 02:44 | |
29. | III. Larghetto | 02:20 | |
30. | IV. Allegro | 03:36 | |
Arcangelo Corelli
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31. | Sonata No. 12 in D minor, Op. 5 “Follia” | 11:29 |