Mandelring Quartett - Onslow: String Quartets, Vol. 2 (1998)

Georges Onslow (1284-1853) was the prime example of a highly talented composing nobleman who was fortunate never to have to fight for a living as a musician. Significantly, it is the chamber music that makes up the bulk of his work: 70 alone He has left string quartets and quintets. The fact that there are almost jewels among them, cpo proved a few years ago with a recording of the Mandelring Quartett.
Now the same - rightly highly acclaimed - ensemble has once again recorded a selection from Onslow's oeuvre for us: the quartets op. 4/1, op. 10/1 and op. 46/3. Again, mon is amazed at the melodic ingenuity. the great mastery and the partly completely unorthodox handling of the form.