[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Publius, and thank you for Bach's Easter Oratorio...beautiful music, and interesting instruments. Trumpet/trombone? Recorder/oboe? Very nice!

A Blessed Easter to you and yours.

[Publius]

They are the wind instruments before Adolphe Sachs supercharged them in the 1840s. The shaum and the chalemeau were the ancestors of the clarinet. You’re seeing period instruments and period performance practice.