Here's an own version of the "Thoughts". This piece is one of the 430 little dances and airs from a hand written booklet found in a bass pipe of the organ in the church of Viane (Flanders). Very likely the organ player (Petrus Josephus Van Belle) did other things than paying attention during the annoying long sermons of the parish priest in 1790. He compiled a huge number of popular tunes, some well known extracts of operas and 4 complete pieces for harpsichord. Probably he was caught red handed and threw his annotations quickly in the biggest bass pipe... where it remained until 1996... It was discovered during a restauration of the (17th century) organ.
The booklet only shows the melody line (no bass, no basso continuo). So I had to arrange it in the spirit of the late 18th century (in between baroque and classicism).
The ensemble consists of strings (chambers + 1 solo for each group), 1 oboe, 2 recorders (soprano and alto), all VSL.
Enjoy the listen and all comments are welcome!
Max