Tchaikovsky & Korngold: String Sextets
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble’s performances are first-rate, but a bit more space around the recorded sound wouldn’t have gone amiss.
Tchaikovsky & Korngold: String Sextets
The Nash Ensemble
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The Nash Ensemble’s performances are first-rate, but a bit more space around the recorded sound wouldn’t have gone amiss.
About
The teenage Korngold possessed a compositional fluency and maturity which belied his youth; in contrast, Tchaikovsky feared—wholly unjustifiably—his own creative powers to be on the wane when writing 'Souvenir de Florence'. The Nash Ensemble brings passion and conviction to both.
FERDINAND RIES Piano Trios & Sextets CDA68380
"All these works should be in the mainstream chamber repertoire." - BBC Music Magazine
"Performances of the exemplary standard customarily expected from The Nash Ensemble." - Gramophone Magazine
MAX BRUCH Piano Trio & other chamber music CDA68343
"These are performances to make you realise that you've underestimated Bruch - and to leave you very happily corrected." - Gramophone Magazine
Contents and tracklist
- Stephanie Gonley (violin), Jonathan Stone (violin), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Rachel Roberts (viola), Adrian Brendel (cello), Gemma Rosefield (cello)
- The Nash Ensemble
- Recorded: 2023-01-11
- Recording Venue: St. Silas the Martyr, London
- Stephanie Gonley (violin), Jonathan Stone (violin), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Rachel Roberts (viola), Adrian Brendel (cello), Gemma Rosefield (cello)
- The Nash Ensemble
- Recorded: 2023-01-11
- Recording Venue: St. Silas the Martyr, London
Awards and reviews
May 2024
The Nash Ensemble’s performances are first-rate, but a bit more space around the recorded sound wouldn’t have gone amiss.
April 2024
perhaps the group’s elegant name and its long reputation for finesse led me to expect a particular kind of interpretation. Wrongly, as it happens: the boldness, ferocity and raw red-blooded vigour of this pairing of Tchaikovsky and Korngold string sextets comes as a bracing surprise.
31st March 2024
The Nash attack with bracing brio and vigour. A richly rewarding disc.
