Composer: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Louis-Antoine Dornel, George Frideric Handel, Rheinhard Keiser, Henry Purcell, Johann Christian Schieferdecker, Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: La Petite Écurie
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Arcana
Catalogue: A570
Release: 2024
Size: 991 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Purcell: Timon of Athens, Z. 632
01. Curtain Tune on a Ground
Boismortier: Sonata in A Minor, Op. 34 No. 6
02. I. Adagio
03. II. Allegro
04. III. Largo
05. IV. Allegro
Handel: Concerto grosso in F Major, Op. 3 No. 4, HWV 315
06. I. Ouverture
07. II. Andante
08. III. Allegro
09. IV. Allegro [Minuetto & Trio]
Dornel: Sonate en Quatuor in A Minor
10. I. Gravement – [Vite] – Gravement – Vite – [Gravement] – [Vite]
11. II. [Allegro]
12. III. [Adagio]
13. IV. [Allegro]
Schieferdecker: Concerto No. 8 in F major
14. I. Ouverture
15. II. Concert
16. III. Sarabande
17. IV. Gavotte en Rondeau
18. V. Menuet [& Trio]
19. VI. Giquée
Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings and Continuo in G minor, RV153
20. I. Allegro
21. II. Andante
22. III. Allegro
Keiser: Ouverture a 4 in D Major
23. I. Overtür. [Adagio] – [Allegro]
24. II. Aria. Adagio – Presto – Adagio – Adagio – Presto
25. III. March
26. IV. Gavotta & Trio
27. V. Menuett
28. VI. Gique
With the release of The Queen’s Favourites in 2021, La Petite Ecurie provided listeners insight into the original repertoire for the Oboe Band, which was very much in vogue at the time of Queen Anne (c. 1700). The debut album received five Diapasons in the renowned French magazine and numerous positive reviews. The International Double Reed Society described their “beautiful tone, precise intonation, rhythmic vigor, and wonderful sense of style.” The inspiration for the latest album by La Petite Ecurie, No Strings Attached, originates from the preface of Johann Christian Schieferdecker’s thirteen Musikalische Concerte, in which he expressed that: “They were composed with such care that, in the absence of the necessary people, they could also be performed with only 4 voices, namely 3 Hautbois and 1 Bassoon”. With this sentence, Schieferdecker encapsulates the fundamental idea that strings are sometimes redundant! No Strings Attached presents music by composers from Germany (Schieferdecker & Keiser), France (Boismortier & Dornel), Italy (Vivaldi) and England (Handel & Purcell), whose compositions showcase the endless virtuosic capabilities of the Oboe Band.