Onslow / Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt / Luisi: Chamber Music - COMPACT DISCS

Onslow / Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt / Luisi: Chamber Music - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Chamber Music Artist: Onslow Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt Luisi Label: MDG Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 760623211725 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2019 05 03 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: 2 PACK The Ensemble Concertant regularly celebrates great successes with it's extraordinary instrumental forces. Since George Onslow alone dedicated dozens of works to the string quartet plus double bass, the ensemble has espoused the music of

Title: Chamber Music
Artist: Onslow / Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt / Luisi
Label: MDG
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 760623211725
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-05-03
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: 2 PACK

The Ensemble Concertant regularly celebrates great successes with it's extraordinary instrumental forces. Since George Onslow alone dedicated dozens of works to the string quartet plus double bass, the ensemble has espoused the music of this Anglo- French composer with special interest. MDG is now presenting a special edition of two long sold-out albums at an attractive price with works including the Piano Sextet, a concerto en miniature that took the Parisian salons by storm. Onslow composed the Piano Quintet op. 79bis during the middle years of the nineteenth century- when he was at the height of his popularity- in the famous and just as rare "Trout Quintet" instrumentation with double bass. However, Onslow pursued a path different from that of Schubert; here the virtuosity of the piano with it's leaps, arpeggios, scales, octaves, and other daring technical deeds let's the other instruments know who is the boss. The Quintets for String Quartet and Double Bass- so to speak, Onslow's specialty- reveal a master situated between classicism and romanticism. Marvelously sumptuous melodies in classical form breathe the romantic spirit but refrain from virtuosity for mere show. Instead, the works go straight to the heart and make it beat to the big sound supplied by the double bass and it's profound foundation.

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