British pianist Howard Shelley's series of forgotten Romantic piano works has never done anything less than acquaint listeners with the works that 19th century audiences and composers would have known. This recording, with the ubiquitous Louis Spohr and George Onslow, "the French Beethoven," certainly fills that role. But a few of them have gone beyond it to deliver bona fide lost masterpieces, and this is one. The unexpected find is the Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 2, of Onslow. It was composed in 1807, and it's quite a ...
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British pianist Howard Shelley's series of forgotten Romantic piano works has never done anything less than acquaint listeners with the works that 19th century audiences and composers would have known. This recording, with the ubiquitous Louis Spohr and George Onslow, "the French Beethoven," certainly fills that role. But a few of them have gone beyond it to deliver bona fide lost masterpieces, and this is one. The unexpected find is the Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 2, of Onslow. It was composed in 1807, and it's quite a bit like early-period Beethoven even if it's unclear whether Onslow, then 23, knew Beethoven's music well or not. Among his teachers were Dussek and Reicha, both of whom influenced Beethoven, so it may be a case in which he independently arrived at some of the same conclusions. At any rate, Beethoven himself, who didn't admire very many other composers, admired Onslow, and this compact, brilliant work shows why. The slow movement, in a variation form that, like many of Beethoven's,...
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