Abel / Il Gardellino Chamber Music CD

The most critical Leopold Mozart appreciated the chamber music works by Johann Christian Bach the light, fluid style and remarked quite rightly that compose such music is more difficult "than all the most incomprehensible Artificial harmonic progressions and difficult to execute Melodyen". This one may be stated for the Chamber Music Carl Friedrich Abel, whose works were considered by his contemporaries even as a measure of good music. The chamber music of the two was probably for private concerts at the House of Composers in aristocratic or wealthy bourgeois patrons and of course at the soirees of the English queen who was even an accomplished harpsichordist. Abel and Johann Christian Bach are today considered an important pioneer of Viennese Classicism. Above all, they are significant and stylistic contemporaries an era that elegance and grace have the same meaning in the music meted out as the only the connoisseurs reserved contrapuntal art. Performed by a top-notch ensemble occupied as Il Gardellino unfolds the music only her charm.

1. Quartet for Flute (Or Oboe/Violin), Violin, Viola ; Cello in B Flat Major, CW B60: 1. Allegro 2. Quartet for Flute (Or Oboe/Violin), Violin, Viola ; Cello in B Flat Major, CW B60: 2. Rondo Grazioso 3. Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola Da Gamba ; Cello in B Flat Major, Op. 8/2, Wko 62: 1. Allegro Con Spirito 4. Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola Da Gamba ; Cello in B Flat Major, Op. 8/2, Wko 62: 2. Adagio 5. Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola Da Gamba ; Cello in B Flat Major, Op. 8/2, Wko 62: 3. Tempo Di Minuetto 6. Quintet for Flute (Or Violin), Oboe (Or Violin), Violin, Viola ; Cello in E Flat Major, Op. 11/4, CW B73 (T. 303/8): 1. Andante 7. Quintet for Flute (Or Violin), Oboe (Or Violin), Violin, Viola ; Cello in E Flat Major, Op. 11/4, CW B73 (T. 303/8): 2. Allegretto 8. Adagio, for Viola Da Gamba (MS Drexel 5871), Wko 209 9. Allegro for Solo Viola Da Gamba, Wko 207 10. Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola Da Gamba ; Cello in G Major, Wko 227: 1. Allegro Moderato 11. Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola Da Gamba ; Cello in G Major, Wko 227: 2. Allegretto 12. Sextet for Keyboard, Oboe, Violin, Cello ; 2 Horns in C Major ('Andr? Op. 3'), CW B78 (T. 302/1): 1. Allegro 13. Sextet for Keyboard, Oboe, Violin, Cello ; 2 Horns in C Major ('Andr? Op. 3'), CW B78 (T. 302/1): 2. Larghetto 14. Sextet for Keyboard, Oboe, Violin, Cello ; 2 Horns in C Major ('Andr? Op. 3'), CW B78 (T. 302/1): 3. Rondo: Allegro