Consortium Classicum

Early Music Ensemble

In the early sixties the clarinettist Dieter Klöcker founded the Consortium Classicum - a German chambermusic ensemble - which not only cultivated the standard repertory, but also brought back to life rediscovered musical masterworks. The instrumentation of these works include wind instruments only as well as the combination of woodwinds and strings up to a nonette. The members of the Ensemble are all solists, professors from music academies and leaders from first class orchestras, who uphold the Ensemble's concept in a very individual and consistent manner. International appearances in concerts, honorable awards and invitations to famous festivals - including the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Festival and the Berlin festival etc. - as well as numerous records, radio and TV productions, all go to confirm the extraordinary status of this unique ensemble.

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Danzi - Septets & Potpourris

Danzi:

Sextet, Op. 15

Wind Sextet in E flat major, Op. 10

Clarinet Potpourris Nos. 1 & 3 in B flat major

Consortium Classicum, Dieter Klöcker

Franz Danzi exerted a profound influence on the German musical scene at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century.A product of the Mannheim School, he was extensively involved in orchestral advances in Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. In particular the two Clarinet Potpourris featured on the present CD are performed by Dieter Klöcker and his colleagues with a virtuoso delight in the composer's melodic vein, which ranges from songlike simplicity to elaborate examples of variation form. Danzi reveals himself as a true master in his two Septets which explore a wide expressive range between strings and winds and between dance-like rhythms and lively hunting fanfares. In recording these works the Consortium Classicum render outstanding service to a composer whose works are unjustly neglected but deserve to be far better known.

Orfeo - C674071A

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Onslow - Nonet & Grand Septuor

Onslow:

Grand Septuor Op.79

Nonet, Op. 77 in A minor

Stefan Irmer (piano)

Consortium Classicum

MDG’s chamber music series featuring the compositions of George Onslow (1784-1853) now focuses on his works for large ensemble. On this CD the Consortium Classicum presents two of the very last works of this wonderful but sadly neglected composer, the Nonet Op. 77 and the Grand Septuor Op. 79. Clarinetist, Dieter Klöcker, leads the ensemble Consortium Classicum and pianist Stefan Irmer in flawless performances.

MDG - MDG3011480

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Rheinberger - Sextet & Nonet

Rheinberger:

Sextet in F major

Nonet Op. 139 in E flat major

Consortium Classicum

MDG - MDG3011453

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Pleyel: Wind Serenades for Octet and Sextet

Pleyel:

Wind Octet in B flat major

Wind Sextet in E flat major

Wind Sextet in B flat major

Wind Octet in E flat major

Consortium Classicum

These pieces by Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, (1757-1831) and recorded here by the Consortium Classicum, use the original versions of these works found by the ensemble’s founder Dieter Klöcker in autographed scores or contemporary copies in libraries and museums in Germany and Bohemia. Pleyel, the twenty-fourth child in a teacher’s family of thirty-eight children, served as music director in various European cities and during the French Revolution, only barely escaped the guillotine. As soon as the revolutionary turmoil had subsided, however, he returned to Paris, where he opened a music shop and founded a piano company still in existence today.

MDG - MDG3010460

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