The two large chamber works on this album were written in the late 1840s, at the end of English-French composer George Onslow's life. The large chamber groups involved look back to Beethoven's Septet, Op. 20, and beyond that to the divertimento tradition, and they are harmonically pretty standard, with large plans rooted in the post-Classical era of Hummel and his contemporaries. So they've been largely forgotten, victims of preposterous evolutionist perspectives, and Germany's Consortium Classicum has performed a valuable ...
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The two large chamber works on this album were written in the late 1840s, at the end of English-French composer George Onslow's life. The large chamber groups involved look back to Beethoven's Septet, Op. 20, and beyond that to the divertimento tradition, and they are harmonically pretty standard, with large plans rooted in the post-Classical era of Hummel and his contemporaries. So they've been largely forgotten, victims of preposterous evolutionist perspectives, and Germany's Consortium Classicum has performed a valuable service by resurrecting them. The Nonet in A minor, Op. 77, is the real find. Onslow's handling of his large instrumental group is not just assured but extremely imaginative. The whole work features a wonderful variety of shifting timbres, and the long Tema con variazioni slow movement is virtually a study in texture. Sample the scherzo (track 2), with the almost impressionist shades conveyed in its serene middle section, and you'll realize that, as critic Charles Keil once said of...
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