La Triomphante-Chamber Music for Recorders Flute: Passacaglia

LOUIS-ANTOINE DORNEL (c.1680 - c.1757)
Chamber Music for Recorders, Flute and Continuo

Sonate en Quatuor, from Livre de Simphonies (1709)
Sonate IV in D major, ‘La Forcroy’, Op. 2 (1711)
Cinquieme Suite in C major, from Pieces de Clavecin (1731)
Sonate II in D major, ‘La Triomphante’, Op. 3 (1713)
Troisieme Suite in E minor, Op. 2 (1711)
Sonate VII in D minor, ‘Pour trois dessus’, Op. 3 (1713)
Sonate III in B minor, Op. 3 (1713)

Passacaglia:
Annabel Knight (recorders, flute), Louise Bradbury (recorders), Reiko Ichise (viola da gamba)
Robin Bigwood (harpsichord, organ), With Dan Laurin (recorders) and Eligio Quinteiro (theorbo)

Digital Recording: 05/2006

Antoine Dornel’s imaginative and dynamic compositional style was perfectly suited to the lively and ever-changing musical environment of Paris in the first decades of the eighteenth century. The few works that survive testify to a seemingly talented and inventive composer eager to try the latest musical fashions, as exemplified by the opening work on this recording, the magnificent Sonate en Quatuor. This harmonically adventurous and dramatic work, especially in the first movement which alternates sections of slow, expressive writing with virtuosic, Italianate outbursts, was quite probably Dornel’s first experiment with the title and genre ‘sonata’. ( NAXOS )