In none of his sonatas does Leclair display a more sensitive feeling for melodic and harmonic material than here in his second book (opus 2). While Leclair's third and fourth books of sonatas (volumes B 4, B 5, B 10, and B 11 of this series) make great demands on the technical abilities of the performer, such a concern is not apparent in the second book, where five of the twelve sonatas are written for alternate performance on the transverse flute. Although less idiomatic, these earlier sonatas ...