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Clara Schumann & Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trios & String Quartet
The Nash Ensemble
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
Here is clear evidence that Clara and Fanny possessed significantly more talent than many of their male composing contemporaries…These well recorded and beautifully played performances get inside...
Clara Schumann & Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trios & String Quartet
The Nash Ensemble
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Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
Here is clear evidence that Clara and Fanny possessed significantly more talent than many of their male composing contemporaries…These well recorded and beautifully played performances get inside...
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A release which celebrates the talents and importance of the ‘other’ Mendelssohn and Schumann, who emerge from the shadows of their illustrious family names in a blaze of triumphant chamber music.
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2020
June 2020
Here is clear evidence that Clara and Fanny possessed significantly more talent than many of their male composing contemporaries…These well recorded and beautifully played performances get inside the musical dynamics of these enormously appealing works and in the case of the piano trios make a good case of the piano trios make a good case for their having an enduring presence in the repertoire.
June 2020
This is a strong, proud, full-blooded reading, full of contrasts in tone, attack and mood, nuanced in its colourings, its phrasing and overall architecture deftly shaped, long lines soaring taut and strong, choppy tempestuousness tightly knit, strings sounding bright and clean against the piano’s warm tones. These are readings that firmly place Schumann’s music not in a salon but in a concert hall.
July/August 2020
Unsurprisingly, the Nash excel in this repertory ... Pianistically, Simon Crawford-Phillips offers a masterclass in discretion at the service of presence. Splendid.
July 2020
Though the playing all-round is impressive, Crawford-Phillips is the high-quality glue that binds the stylistic tone together ... richly detailed yet beautifully blended
