I've got a flute and a recorder edition of a Handel flute sonata in B minor. The flute version is 7 movements long, the recorder version is 5 movements long with the remaining 2 being 1) slightly different in notation, length etc and 2) classed as a whole new sonata!

Now I'm personally better at the recorder version than the flute version, but do you think that despite it having movements classed as a whole new sonata, put them at the end of it? (There's also a short minuet at the end of this second sonata which has movements 6 and 7 tagged on, might add that also )

Any advice etc is appreciated

P.S. The flute version is the Handel complete sonatas by Barenreiter, the recorder version is the Fitzwilliam sonatas by Schott

IL - I have the Schott edition, but also Faber's Handel Complete Sonatas for recorder, in which the sonata has the seven movements. The Schott one is likely to be a fairly old edition, as it is by Thurston Dart, the Faber one probably rather more recent, edited by Walter Bergmann and David Lasocki. It says in the forward to the Schott one that sonata II has been assembled from various copies of its movements. Dart implies that for once the recorder music has been transposed up for flute, rather than the other way round...my guess is that either version is likely to be valid, but I prefer the seven movement myself! Lasocki and Bergmann have a report at the end of the Faber edition, and had I been playing this one for my diploma, I'd have read it through as part of the preparation....but I'm not, and I'm too lazy! If you did want further notes on sources etc, I'm sure the Faber edition would have some information for you.

Thanks! Methinks I'll just play from the Schott edition and use the 2 sonatas together (even if it involves the pianist turning BACK several pages )