Windes Blast (medieval and renaissance)
4 musicians
Shawms, dulcians
Music for shawms and dulcians from the middle ages to the renaissance
Landini, Praetorius, Josquin des Prez, Palestrina
The Marriage of Fat Kate (baroque)
8 musicians, 8 singers, 6 dancers
Baroque oboes, taille, bassoon, harpsichord, percussion
Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos, Philidor & Dancian 1688
A rare example of a masque written for oboe band from the court of Louis XIV
Harmonia Anglicana (renaissance and baroque)
4 musicians
Shawms, dulcians, baroque oboes and taille, baroque bassoon
English stage music from the Jacobean courtly masques to Restoration theatre suites
A Hollow Reed (medieval, renaissance, baroque)
4 - 6 musicians
Shawms, dulcians, baroque oboes and taille, baroque bassoon
A blast through the centuries from medieval alta capella, to renaissance town waites and sophisticated baroque oboe bands
Missa Sancti Hieronymi (classical)
Michael Haydn
4 Soloists
(SATB) and chorus
4 oboes, 2 bassoons, 3 trombones and organ
A rare example of a mass written for winds and voices
"The whole affair lasted an hour and a quarter and I found it far too short, for it is really an excellent composition."
"I have this moment come in from the Cathedral service, during which Haydn's oboe mass was performed, he himself conducting it... I liked the whole mass very much..."
Leoplod Mozart's letter to his son, Wolfgang
Harmoniemusik (classical)
6 - 13 musicians
Classical oboes, horns, clarinets, basset horns, bassoons
Can include a selection of the following pieces:
Mozart
Serenade in C Minor K. 388, Serenade in E flat Major K.375, Gran Partita K. 361
Beethoven
Ocetet in E Flat Major Op. 103, Rondino in E Flat Major WoO 25, Symphony No.7 Op. 92
Hummel
Partita in E Flat S.48
Schubert
Octet in F Major D. 72
Krommer
Octet in F major Op.57
Rossini
Barber of Seville
