Summary: "Octets and Nonets" Where does ensemble music stop being “chamber” music? There isn’t a straight-forward answer to that question, but suffice it to say that we rarely see chamber works that involve more than 10 players… So this partly explains our focus on groups of eight (octets) and nine players (nonets), as these are probably the most muscular configurations we will find that “stop short” of being viewed as orchestral or ensemble play. Works by Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, Gouvy and Gounod. Details on our archives page @ https://archive.org/details/pcast223
