Concerto for Lute and Harp in B-flat major, op. 4 no. 6 (arr. of HWV 294 by Julian Bream)

The CD sleeve notes of the Dutton Epoch remastered release (CDlX 7333) include a description:

"The first of these, Handel's Op 4, No. 6, part of a set published by Walsh in 1738, was intended as an interpolation into a performance of the oratorio Alexander's Feast, and has enjoyed a respectable career ever since as an organ concerto. Nevertheless the late Professor Thurston Dart has pointed out that it had originally been scored for lute and harp, though the lute part had disappeared. Despite the lack of an original lute part, working from the existing material he was able to reconstruct it, so that it formed a close, interlocking dialogue with the harp part. Its success in that guise inspired Bream to go a stage further, to adapt it for two lutes, so creating a rank of consistent plucked sound set against the predominantly bowed strings. His version is based partly on Dart's reconstruction, but in order to convert it into a fully integrated concerto for two lutes he has devised some extra material, elaborating where necessary the concerto's contrapuntal texture."