Onslow - Piano Quintet & Sextet | MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm) MDG6031442

Onslow - Piano Quintet & Sextet

Label: MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm)

Cat No: MDG6031442

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 16th April 2007

Contents

Artists

Gianluca Luisi (piano)
Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt

Works

Onslow, Georges

Piano Quintet, op.79b
Piano Sextet, op.30

Artists

Gianluca Luisi (piano)
Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt

About

George Onslow had both English and French aristocratic blood in his veins, which meant that he led an unsettled life during the revolutionary years. Born in the Auvergne, he soon had to flee to Hamburg with his parents. He later studied in London and Vienna and then returned to Paris in the early 19th century as an admired pianist and young composer - here the public could not get enough of his sophisticated and virtuoso chamber concertos.

The Sextet op.30 of 1825 marked Onslow’s entry into the world of the miniature concerto. He composed the Piano Quintet op.79 bis during the mid-century, when he was at the height of his popularity: the virtuosity of the piano with its leaps, arpeggios, scales, octaves, and other technical wizardry is remarkable.

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