Chamber Music vs. Orchestral Music

[Jo498]

Many of my favorite composers wrote more great chamber music than orchestral, so I naturally drifted towards more chamber music. I also tend to prefer smaller ensembles (Keyboars, chamber, chamber/baroque orchestra) for home listening at moderate volume (an embarrasingly practical criterion...)

I don't think that chamber music aligns with introversion. The "Kreutzer" sonata (admittedly a bad example, as Beethoven remarked that it was written in a concertante style) is far more extrovert than Beethoven's violin concerto.

[Turner]

In the patterns of Baroque music I probably tend to prefer works for bigger and more complex ensembles overall. Major exceptions are Bach on piano and his cello suites, and a few Baroque solo flute works.

Elsewhere there´s no preference in general.

[Uhor]

There is the chamber pot and the orchestral pit, it comes in all sizes.