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Brahms - The String Sextets
The Nash Ensemble
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2007, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, April 2025, Recommended Recording (Sextet No. 1)
Gorgeous chamber music-making - urgently recommended
Brahms - The String Sextets
The Nash Ensemble
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2007, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, April 2025, Recommended Recording (Sextet No. 1)
Gorgeous chamber music-making - urgently recommended
About
“Britain’s premier chamber ensemble” (The Times)
Contents and tracklist
Work length39:02
This work is only available as an album download.
Allegro ma non troppo
Track length15:15
This track is only available as an album download.
Rondo: Poco allegretto e grazioso
Track length11:09
This track is only available as an album download.
Work length38:14
This work is only available as an album download.
Allegro non troppo
Track length14:08
This track is only available as an album download.
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineSeptember 2007Editor's Choice
Gorgeous chamber music-making - urgently recommended
2010
The Nash Ensemble, with a particularly strong line-up of violas and cellos, offer superb new versions, crisp and clear, beautifully coordinated, with plenty of light and shade, and infectious springing of rhythms.
There is real precision and polish of ensemble here that marks the Nash performances out.
The players appear to be listening keenly and responding to one another. The Nash omit exposition repeats in the first movement of each sextet, unlike the older versions. As a sampler try the delectable third movement Scherzo of No 1, which with the Nash Ensemble is beautifully and wittily sprung, one of the gems of Brahms's chamber music.
September 2007
The Brahms String Sextets… make an ideal coupling on disc. The Nash Ensemble, with a particularly strong line-up of violas and cellos, offer superb new versions, crisp and clear, beautifully co-ordinated, with plenty of light and shade, and infectious springing of rhythms.
The Independent on Sunday
A red wine, red-meat disc from the must-have boutique label
