septet Humble Septet Attempt

I don't usually post here in this sub-board or make chamber music or any sort of orchestral compositions, I'm usually in the rock section..
This is actually my first attempt, I decided to do a very simple 'Septet', with the setup made famous by Beethoven: clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, and double bass.

All criticism will be appreciated, I have no experience in this type of music and would love to gain some.

The composition itself is a mixture of rather horror or grief in the beginning, resolving into the satisfaction from the calm following anxiety. I hope you like it, if it's not very formal for an orchestral piece, judge it as music as well. In my opinion, I preferred the second part, what about you?

EDIT: Thought it would help to add that I created this through D.A.W., no scores (I can extract a score per instrument but that's not very friendly). It's done through MIDI Notation or a technique similar to that, which when used to is much easier than one would think. I actually think it's as easy as scores are for who understand them, which for me I barely understand anything of them.

I like it very much! Especially in the second half as you said. I actually thought it almost ended too early: I liked where it was going and I wanted more in that direction.

I'm not very qualified to give feedback but I'm almost of the opinion that it's too bass heavy. I thought it would've been nice to take the violin and maybe the clarinet higher over the other instruments?

7 hours ago, Keifer Brown said:

I like it very much! Especially in the second half as you said. I actually thought it almost ended too early: I liked where it was going and I wanted more in that direction.

I'm not very qualified to give feedback but I'm almost of the opinion that it's too bass heavy. I thought it would've been nice to take the violin and maybe the clarinet higher over the other instruments?

 

Thanks for your feedback, you're correct in both of your notices, it was indeed very short; I was testing my capabilities in this genre/style of music, so it was a little bit done in a hurry. And yes, I had volume distribution issues, mainly I couldn't achieve proper mixing without making the bass louder than needed in some parts - it would have felt as if someone is playing with the volume every second or so, taking you out of the atmosphere.

I'm now excited to try and continue it. Thanks again!