Quartetto Vanvitelli is an Italian ensemble (violinist Gian Andrea Guerra, lutenist Mauro Pinciaroli, cellist Nicola Brovelli, and keyboardist Luigi Accardo) specializing in baroque repertoire with a particular focus on Handel’s works. In Se in fiorito ameno prato, the period instrument ensemble explores Handel’s violin sonatas, connecting them to other pieces, including misattributions, opera excerpts, and keyboard pieces. The program invites the listener to listen top the album in sequence, seamlessly inserting additional music by Handel into some of the sonatas, in two cases, arias from Handel’s Giulio Cesare transcribed for violin. Ironically, the title of the album is the name of a rhapsodic aria for the title character of Giulio Cesare, which is not included here.