George Onslow - Chamber Music for Wind Instruments (Ensemble Initium; Ensemble Contraste)

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Composer: George Onslow

CD1:

• (01) Sextet in E flat major, Op. 30
• (05) Septet in B flat major, Op. 79

CD2:

• (01) Nonet in A major, Op. 77
• (05) Wind Quintet in F major, Op. 81

Ensemble Initium

Édouard Sabo, flute

Armel Descotte, oboe

François Lemoine, clarinet

Batiste Arcaix, bassoon

Frank Sibold, bassoon (Nonet)

Stéphane Bridoux, horn (CD 1)

Julien Desplanque, horn (CD 2)

Yann Dubost, double bass

Ensemble Contraste

Johan Farjot, piano

Pierre Fouchenneret, violin

Arnaud Thorette, viola

Antoine Pierlot, cello

Date: 2013

Label: Timpani

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George Onslow (27 July 1784 – 3 October 1853) was a French composer of English descent. His wealth, position and personal tastes allowed him to pursue a path unfamiliar to most of his French contemporaries, and more similar to that of his contemporary German romantic composers. Onslow was a prolific composer of chamber music (including 36 string quartets, 34 string quintets and 10 piano trios). He also wrote four symphonies, four operas and other works for piano and strings. Esteemed by many of the critics of his time, his reputation declined swiftly after his death and has only been revived in recent years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Onslow_(composer)

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Founded in 2005 at the Paris Conservatory in the chamber music class of Maurice Bourgue, the Ensemble Initium is above all a wind octet of young professional musicians who furthered the practice of their instruments with the best present-day representatives of the French schools of woodwind and brass, including Jacques Tys, Pascal Moragues, André Cazalet, Marc Trenel, Gilbert Audin, Daniel and Michel Arrignon. The ensemble recorded for Timpani chamber music of George Inslow, Albéric Magnard, Charles Koechlin, Jacques Ibert, Reynaldo Hahn and André Caplet.

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https://www.ensemblecontraste.com/

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