Corelli: Sonates OP. 5

It is unlikely that Corelli expected the impact his Opus V would have throughout the 18th century and beyond. Indeed, the Corellian Solos, as they were called at the time, had been reprinted more than 50 times by the 1800s along with hundreds of manuscript copies and dozens of arrangements. No other collection of pieces has seen such evidence of free ornamentation. Luis Beduschi, the internationally renowned flautist, has chosen ornaments by Corelli, himself, to appropriate these works for the flute because of their undeniable beauty and coherence as a whole, removing the various unsatisfactory Baroque transcriptions to develop his own, with the aim of restoring the original line.