Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Sonata à Flauto e Cembalo in F major, HWV 369
Preludio (from HWV 426), Grave (2:51), Allegro (5:07), Alla Siciliana (7:42), Allegro (8:55)

Marco Scorticati, recorder
Davide Pozzi, harpsichord

Sound engineer: Rino Trasi
Recorded in September 2011

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Excerpt from the CD:

"Son d'Amore - Sonate per flauto dolce"
Ensemble Estro Cromatico

Stradivarius, 2014 - STR 33979

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MARCO SCORTICATI
Born in Milan in 1980, he began studying recorder at a very early age. He studied with Giovanni Antonini and Pedro Memelsdorff in Milan, with Walter van Hauwe in Amsterdam, and with Kees Boeke in Zurich. He also studied composition with Fabio Vacchi at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan, and baroque transverse flute with Marco Brolli in Milan.
As a recorder and transverse flute player he regularly performs with his ensemble Estro Cromatico, and collaborates a.o. with Accademia Bizantina (O. Dantone), Europa Galante (F. Biondi) and Il Giardino Armonico (G. Antonini). He has performed with the Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra directed by Ottavio Dantone, Giovanni Antonini and Rinaldo Alessandrini; he has also appeared as a soloist with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, both directed by Fabio Biondi, and with the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova. He has played together with such well-known soloists as Cecilia Bartoli, Fabio Biondi, María Espada, Vivica Genaux, Ann Hallenberg, María Hinojosa Montenegro, Emma Kirkby, Stefano Montanari, Enrico Onofri, Nuria Rial, Andreas Scholl and Mária Zádori.
He appears on CD and DVD recordings with Accademia Bizantina (Decca, Naïve Classique), Europa Galante (Virgin Classics, Dynamic) and Il Giardino Armonico (Warner Classics, Naïve Classique).
He has performed as a soloist in some of the most important European concert halls and festivals, such as Berliner Philharmonie and Berliner Konzerthaus, Bozar (Brussels), Die Glocke (Bremen), Musikhalle Hamburg, Teatro della Pergola (Florence), Alte Oper Frankfurt, Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Barbican Hall (London), Philharmonie Luxenbourg, Baluarte (Pamplona), Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Paris), Auditorio di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Auditorio Kursaal in San Sebastián, Stavanger Concert Hall (Norway), De Oosterpoort (Utrecht), Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía (Valencia), Auditorio Miguel Delibes (Valladolid), Wiener Konzerthaus, Tonhalle (Zurich), Berliner Tage für Alte Musik, Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin, Festival de Beaune, Festival de Música de Canarias, Festival de Música de Compostela, Opera Rara Krakow, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, MilanoArteMusica, Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio and Società del Quartetto (Milan), Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore and Lingotto Musica (Torino).
With Estro Cromatico he has recorded the albums “Son d’Amore - Recorder sonatas by G.F. Handel” (Stradivarius, 2014) and "Arcangelo Corelli: Solos and Concertos Fitted for the Flutes" (Arcana, 2019).
He taught recorder at the Conservatories in Bari, Trento, Rome and Cosenza, and is currently teaching at the "Luigi Cherubini" Conservatory in Florence and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig.

DAVIDE POZZI
Born in 1975, he graduated with honors in harpsichord, fortepiano and clavichord, as well as organ and organ composition at the Conservatorio "G. Verdi" in Milan. He then continued his studies at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan receiving his diploma, cum laude, in Lorenzo Ghielmi's baroque organ class. He attended the "Schola Cantorum" of Basel for post-graduate studies in organ with Jean-Claude Zehnder and in harpsichord with Andrea Marcon.
He has played in numerous countries such as Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Croatia, Poland, Finland, Latonya, Israel, USA and Japan, performing at such well-known music festivals and venues as Tage Alte Musik Regensburg, Museum of Musical Instruments, Konzerthaus and Philarmonie in Berlin, Salle Gaveau and Cité de la Musique in Paris, Vienna Konzerhaus, Concertgebow in Amsterdam, Tonhalle in Zurich, Società del Quartetto, Auditorium, Teatro degli Arcimboldi and Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Real in Madrid a.o.
He has played as a soloist with such artists as Enrico Dindo, Sergio Azzolini and Emmanuel Pahud. He recorded C.P.E. Bach's fortepiano works with Streicherakademie Bozen under Sergio Azzolini (Sony Classical), C.P.E. Bach's harpsichord and fortepiano sonatas (Stradivarius) and J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations (Pan Classics, 2017). He appears on CD recordings for Decca, Sony, Arcana, Stradivarius, Naive, Glossa, Chandos, Amadeus, Bongiovanni, Tactus, Bottega Discantica and Arts.
He teaches harpsichord at the Cosenza Conservatory.

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