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Jean-Marie Trotereau, Laurent Martin - Georges Onslow: Pieses pour violoncelle et piano (2003)

Jean-Marie Trotereau, Laurent Martin - Georges Onslow: Pieses pour violoncelle et piano (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 54:43 | 234 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Integral Classics | Catalog: INT 221. 118

Pour les connaisseurs, Georges Onslow, né en 1784, est l'un des rares compositeurs pré-romantiques français à s'être consacré à la musique de chambre. Berlioz rendra hommage à Onslow: "Vous savez que depuis la mort de Beethoven, il tient le sceptre de la musique instrumentale" ainsi que Schumann: "On s'est habitué une fois pour toutes à la manière des trois grands maîtres allemands: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, et en toute justice, on a admis parmi eux, Onslow". Intercalé entre les deux sonates de Onslow nous retrouvons le nocturne de Duport.
Ma'alot Quintett, Mandelring Quartett - George Onslow: Nonet op. 77, Quintet op. 44 (2006)

Ma'alot Quintett, Mandelring Quartett - George Onslow: Nonet op. 77, Quintet op. 44 (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 65:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 151-2 | Recorded: 2003

In der Zeit nach Beethoven galt Onslow als einer der führenden Komponisten von Kammermusik, . Vor allem seine 70 Streichquartette und -quintette begründeten seinen Ruf als außergewöhnlich befähigter, sehr detailreich und differenziert komponierender Musiker. Dem Mandelring Quartett ist sein Schaffen ein echtes Anliegen und neben der Einspielung seiner Streichquartette, von denen schon 9 auf cpo-CDs erschienen sind, hat das Ensemble zusammen mit dem Kontrabassisten. Wolfgang Güttler jetzt sein 1832 entstandenes spannungsreiches Streichquintett op. 44 eingesielt.

Quatuor Ruggieri - George Onslow: Quatuors (2012) (Repost)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Dec. 27, 2019
Quatuor Ruggieri - George Onslow: Quatuors (2012) (Repost)

Quatuor Ruggieri - George Onslow: Quatuors (2012)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:19:52 | 350 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Agogique | Catalog: AGO 006

Ce disque est le premier à proposer une interprétation sur cordes en boyaux des quatuors d'Onslow dont deux (opus 10 et 21) totalement inédits au disque. Une musique intelligente, complexe et contrastée? la redécouverte de cet important compositeur de musique de chambre de la première moitié du XIXème siècle est d'un intérêt majeur. Plus de trente-six quatuors, trente-quatre quintettes ainsi que dix trios et quelques oeuvres pour vents ou claviers font de lui l'un des auteurs français les plus prolifiques du genre à cette époque.

Ma'alot Quintet - Onslow: Quintet Op. 81, Sextet Op. 30 (2018)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at July 5, 2021
Ma'alot Quintet - Onslow: Quintet Op. 81, Sextet Op. 30 (2018)

Ma'alot Quintet - Onslow: Quintet Op. 81, Sextet Op. 30 (2018)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 208 MB | 55:56
Genre: Classical | Label: MDG Gold

Known during his lifetime as the 'French Beethoven', on this SACD Markus Becker teams up with the Ma'alot Quintet for a closer look at Onslow's virtuoso side. Functioning as virtuoso concertos for the salon, both the Wind Quintet op. 81 and the Sextet op. 30 fully satisfied the discriminating taste of Parisian high society. George Onslow was five years old when the French Revolution began and completely disrupted the life of his noble family with British roots. The young Onslow spent the next two decades travelling throughout Europe, received instruction from Dussek in Hamburg, Cramer in London, and finally from the famous Antonín Reicha in Paris after his return to France.

Trio Cascades - George Onslow: Piano Trios, Vol. 3 & 4 (2011)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Feb. 18, 2020
Trio Cascades - George Onslow: Piano Trios, Vol. 3 & 4 (2011)

Trio Cascades - George Onslow: Piano Trios, Vol. 3 & 4 (2011)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:29:45 | 685 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 7772322

CPO’s George Onslow complete Piano Trios series demonstrates that the rediscovery of this virtuosic, dramatically expressive, emotionally intimate, and finely crafted music is long overdue. Of volume two Gramophone said the performances by Trio Cascades were “spirited and expressive.”
Quatuor Diotima - George Onslow: String Quartets Op. 54-56 (2009)

Quatuor Diotima - George Onslow: String Quartets Op. 54-56 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 370 Mb | Scans included | Time: 01:17:42
Genre: Classical, Chamber Music | Label: Naïve | # V 5200

Fans of the string quartets by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Mendelssohn should by all means try this disc of string quartets by George Onslow. British-born and Bohemian-trained composer spent most of his career in France, and aside from their tonal language and their four-movement structure, his quartets have little in common with his German contemporaries. In fact, they have little in common with the music of his French contemporaries, who concentrated mostly on stage works. But in these overwhelming persuasive performances by the Quatuor Diotima, Onslow's quartets come across as fully formed, wholly confident, and enormously expressive works. There is tremendous power in the fast movements: the rip-roaring Scherzo, from his D minor Quartet, Op. 55; immense pathos in the slow movements: the heartbreaking Andante con variazioni from the E flat Quartet, Op. 54; and awesome intensity in the opening movements: the monumental Allegro maestoso ed espressivo from the C minor Quartet, Op. 56.
Mandelring Quartett - George Onslow: String Quartets Vol.3 (2002)

Mandelring Quartett - George Onslow: String Quartets Vol.3 (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 334 Mb | Total time: 73:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 793-2 | Recorded: 2000

What a pity that Vol. 3 of string quartets by George Onslow (1784-1853) is the last in the survey. It may just be the best of the three, including Onslow’s great early C minor quartet op. 8, and two other top-notch specimens overflowing with melody, excitement, and power. If you’re new to Onslow, this program is the perfect introduction to his variegated talents and expressive aims. The Mandelring Quartet is a spirited and persuasive team playing from the heart; three members of the quartet are siblings and their father was an Onslow scholar.
Johannes Goritzki, Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR - George Onslow: Symphonies No.1 & 3 (2004)

Johannes Goritzki, Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR - George Onslow: Symphonies No.1 & 3 (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 64:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 747-2 | Recorded: 2002

Even when the Symphony No. 1 debuted in 1831, it was considered old fashioned. Although it was well received, audiences that same year were also exposed to Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Old fashioned or not, Onslow’s first symphony was performed throughout Europe to generally high acclaim. There were some dissenters who felt Onslow’s themes would have been better served in chamber works using fewer musicians (Symphony No. 3 actually began as a string quintet), but other people felt Onslow moved the symphony in a new direction and his works should not be compared to the symphonies of other composers. Onslow’s symphonies are classical in structure: four movements, not straying too far from the Classical notions of harmony; however they embrace the burgeoning Romanticism of the time.
Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt - George Onslow: String quintets, Opp. 33 & 74 (2004)

Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt - George Onslow: String quintets, Opp. 33 & 74 (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 252 Mb | Total time: 59:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: MDG | # MDG 603 1233-2 | Recorded: 2003

Throughout the 19th century, the chamber music of Georges Onslow (1784-1853) was afforded the same respect as that of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. According to one source, “his work was admired by both Beethoven and Schubert, the latter modeling his own 2 cello quintet (D.956) on those of Onslow and not, as is so often claimed, on those of Boccherini.” While Onslow was known as “the French Beethoven,” his string quartets/quintets fit neatly within the 'quatuor brilliants' genre that arose from Louis Spohr. This type of string writing gives the first violin freer rein as a soloist; a concerto for violin and string quartet, in other words.
Johannes Goritzki, Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR - George Onslow: Symphonies No.2 & 4 (2002)

Johannes Goritzki, Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR - George Onslow: Symphonies No.2 & 4 (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 292 Mb | Total time: 65:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 738-2 | Recorded: 1999

The symphonies of Georges Onslow (1784-1853), rather than following the path blazed by countryman Hector Berlioz, instead adopt the German romantic style epitomized by Schumann and Mendelssohn. For example, the high-spirited Symphony No. 2, a smart and finely crafted work continuously self-propelled by busy string writing, presents a very Schumannesque profile (explicitly so in the scherzo), while the orchestration, with its bucolic woodwind writing, owes much to Mendelssohn. Symphony No. 4 immediately announces its weightier countenance with a powerfully portentous introduction reminiscent of Schubert. Onslow enlivens both the first movement and finale with skillful pacing and an unerring sense of dramatic timing, but it's the spiritually elevated adagio–the emotional center of the work–that remains most in the memory.