Konradin Kreutzer and Franz Berwald are names you probably don't encounter often, which is partly why this recording is so valuable. They were important figures in 19th-century European chamber music but got overshadowed by more famous contemporaries. The septets here are written for mixed wind and string ensembles, and the Berliner Oktett brings a refined, careful approach to bringing them back to life. The music sits somewhere between Classical elegance and Romantic richness, with beautiful wind writing especially. This is one of those recordings that reminds you how deep the 19th-century chamber music catalogue really is once you start exploring beyond the canonical names.

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