No Strings Attached. Concertos, Overture and Sonatas for Oboe Band

Featuring

Miriam Jorde Hompanera
Valerie Colen
Marc Bonastre Riu
Giovanni Battista Graziadio
Philipp Lamprecht
La Petite Écurie

Henry Purcell
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
George Frideric Handel
Louis-Antoine Dornel
Johann Christian Schieferdecker
Antonio Vivaldi
Reinhard Keiser

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Performer Biography

La Petite Écurie, the ensemble on this album, was founded in 2018 and consists of five musicians playing historical oboes, bassoon, and percussion.

Compositional Technique

Johann Christian Schieferdecker, a composer featured on this album, suggested his music could be happily used with just three oboes and one bassoon if other musicians were missing.

Album & Artwork

The album title 'No Strings Attached' is a play on an 18th-century English idiom, also referring to the absence of string instruments in the ensemble.

Historical Context

The Lilien Partbooks in the Sonsfeld Collection are a vital 18th-century Prussian source for oboe band music, containing transcriptions of works by composers like Handel and Telemann.

Instruments

The album features original baroque timpani from Bohemia, dating around 1700, along with historic drums and tamburelli.

Interpretation

The album features repertoire originally written for other instrumentations, reflecting a common practice throughout music history and highlighting modern historical performance practices.