I love the french use of soprano recorders in their baroque music. It is amazing how well they compete with the brass and other woodwinds and stand out in pieces like this.
This is really very nice, well done. The arrangement is really cool. But, if I may say so, to my knowledge, there is no evidence that trumpets were used in this piece. Since the intermediate parts are missing, we could allow ourselves to reconstruct them, but if there were to be trumpets, this would surely have been specified in the scores as it is done for the "Concert de trompettes". JF Paillard was probably the first to add trumpets and, perhaps, this inspired other arrangements of this work, but this choice is purely speculative. On the contrary, in my opinion it seems rather obvious that this "Caprice" is intended for a large instrumental ensemble but certainly not with trumpets... On the other hand, the "Concert de trompettes" by the same Delalande clearly requires a trumpet ensemble (probably 2 "dessus" voices + 1 "basse de trompette" and timpani) with orchestra. This corresponds much more to the music that the King's trumpeters really played. I have reconstructed the missing parts myself, what a shame not to be able to hear your version in this video! In any case, concerning the Caprice, what we hear here is magnificent, but it is simply not music for trumpets. Delalande's music does not need to have Bach-style trumpet parts added to it (even if it is well done and well played) to be interesting and beautiful.
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I love the french use of soprano recorders in their baroque music. It is amazing how well they compete with the brass and other woodwinds and stand out in pieces like this.
Especially if you sit very near to these three wonderful colleagues (2 recorders and bassoon) - that was heaven on earth for me!!!
gorgeous performance !
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What happened with Charpentier, Philidor, Fash and Händel?!
This is really very nice, well done. The arrangement is really cool.
But, if I may say so, to my knowledge, there is no evidence that trumpets were used in this piece. Since the intermediate parts are missing, we could allow ourselves to reconstruct them, but if there were to be trumpets, this would surely have been specified in the scores as it is done for the "Concert de trompettes". JF Paillard was probably the first to add trumpets and, perhaps, this inspired other arrangements of this work, but this choice is purely speculative. On the contrary, in my opinion it seems rather obvious that this "Caprice" is intended for a large instrumental ensemble but certainly not with trumpets...
On the other hand, the "Concert de trompettes" by the same Delalande clearly requires a trumpet ensemble (probably 2 "dessus" voices + 1 "basse de trompette" and timpani) with orchestra. This corresponds much more to the music that the King's trumpeters really played. I have reconstructed the missing parts myself, what a shame not to be able to hear your version in this video!
In any case, concerning the Caprice, what we hear here is magnificent, but it is simply not music for trumpets. Delalande's music does not need to have Bach-style trumpet parts added to it (even if it is well done and well played) to be interesting and beautiful.