Bach: Flute Sonatas
(Avie)
On her modern cocuswood instrument, Davies has the best of both authentic and contemporary technologies. Her beautiful tone is both owl-like and incisive, a toowit with bite. Five sonatas are included, but this duality is best exemplified in the finale of the sonata in B minor, her sophisticated edge relishing the presto double fugue and cooing of the exuberant allegro jig. She makes sensuous beauty of two watery siciliano movements, especially that in E major. On the cello Alison MacGillivray adds a sexy throbbing bass, while the harpsichordist Maggie Coleis a lute-stop short of an utterly seductive disc.
RICK JONES