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~ George Onslow (Composer), Johannes Goritzki (Conductor), NDR Orchestra (Orchestra)
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  • Orchestra: NDR Orchestra
  • Conductor: Johannes Goritzki
  • Composer: George Onslow
  • Audio CD (1 Nov 2004)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Cpo
  • ASIN: B000641ZE0
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars More - and more successful - symphonies from Onslow and CPO, 3 April 2009
By J. A. Peacock "adalard" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This issue is a follow up to CPO's earlier release of Onslow's second and fourth symphonies (Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 (Goritzki)) and completes the recorded cycle . I recently reviewed that disc and stated some reservations I had about the quality of Onslow's invention - these works seem to make a stronger proposition for him as a symphonist and in both pieces the materials he works with are more memorable.

The first symphony impressed enough at its first performance to encourage him to embark on a second and one can see why. The introduction is imposing and the ensuing sonata form movement, while quite conventional, unfolds satisfyingly. There is a certain stiffness to his writing - it doesn't feel as though the music is progressing organically as, for example, in Beethoven (he was nicknamed `the French Beethoven' - I am not sure why, listening to his music; possibly because he wrote symphonies and string quartets in a musical society dominated by opera and ballet); this is something that occurs in his chamber music for strings as well but is maybe less noticeable or easier to mask in a more intimate ensemble.

The third symphony is a reworking of a chamber work and the effect is more successful than you might anticipate. In the opening allegro, of all the symphonies, this one seems to flow better perhaps because he originally wrote the music in a medium that was more congenial to him. There is a stronger `early Romantic' feel to this music than in the other symphonies of this man who was surely always at heart a Classicist, despite his frequent compositional wanderings into chromaticism. Indeed, if any composer comes to mind when listening to this movement, it is Spohr who balanced with similar occasional unease between the eras of Classicism and Romanticism.

Both symphonies have fine slow movements, attractive scherzo type movements (one is labelled `minuetto', the other `allegro impetuoso' but each is a scherzo in all but name) and successful finales - the finale to the first symphony, a sort of `moto perpetuo' (it is designated `vivace'), is a real tour de force and the performance more than matches its energy without any loss of charm or detail. The shortness of the finale to the third symphony betrays its origins in a smaller scale opus, but the music itself matches the overall tone of the work perfectly - my only criticism perhaps would be that he didn't rework this piece to extend it to a scale to match the symphony as a whole rather than just orchestrate it.

As in the previous disc, performances are all you could wish for and the sound is bright and clean. Recommended.
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