The Nash Ensemble
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The Nash ensemble have a natural feeling for the music's ebb and flow, and while they're not afraid of big gestures and the bite of horsehair and rosin, they play beautifully as an ensemble...Together,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st March 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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New. Colin Matthews: Seascapes
Claire Booth (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Nash Ensemble, Jessica Cottis
[Booth and the Nash Ensemble] perform everything here with exemplary brilliance. The music seems ideally suited to Booth's well-known vocal flexibility - a luminous fluidity of tone allied to... —
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Musical lines pass in a single, continuous breath from one instrument to the next, and the sensual, dreamlike soundscapes are tinged with immaculately drawn moments of both despair and joy.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, Chamber Choice
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Schumann: Chamber Music
Richard Watkins (horn) & Ian Brown (piano), Lawrence Power (viola) & Ian Brown (piano), Richard Hosford (clarinet) & Ian Brown (piano), Richard Hosford (clarinet), Gareth Hulse (oboe) & Ian Brown (piano), Marianne Thorsen (violin) & Ian Brown (piano)
The Nash Ensemble
how thoroughly each one of these performers warms to his or her allotted task (perhaps 'role' would be a better word), though it's violinist Marianne Thorsen and pianist Ian Brown in the Sonata... —
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Bruch: Piano Trio & Other Chamber Music
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Stephanie Gonley (violin), Adrian Brendel (cello), Lawrence Power (viola), Jonathan Stone (violin), The Nash Ensemble
Taking their cue from Stephanie Gonley’s first-violin leadership, the Trio and Quartet performances have a classy verve that convinces strongly, although the lower strings feel rather too hectoring... —
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Saint-Seëns in full vigour and mastery - a wonderful pair of discs —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2005, Chamber Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Invidious as it may seem to pick out just one of these excellent artists, special mention must be made of Ian Brown, who plays in nine of the 13 works included and confirms his standing as one... —
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[The Duet for Eight Strings] has been extended since its first performance in 2019 and now spans almost twenty minutes, during which everything and nothing happens. The piece is brightly coloured,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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The performances of the four original works (the last two, written in 1790 and 1791, look forward to Beethoven and pay homage to Haydn) are magnificently played throughout — conversational,... —
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…the String in E flat, Op. 4… is agreeable, relaxed and undemanding… The Quintet in C major, Op. 29, … is an impressive work… sensuously appealing, and … intricate in structure… I can’t envisage... —
