Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

21 tracks recorded in the Chapel of New College, Oxford, under the direction of Edward Higginbottom. Tracks include "Out of Your Sleep," "Wassail Carol," "A Virgin Most Pure," "Once in David's Royal City," "Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)," "There is a Rose of Such Virtue," Alleluya, a New Work is Come on Hand," and more. (CRD)

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Recording information: Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, London.

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"Spohr's various works for mixed chamber ensemble have found admirable modern interpreters in the Nash Ensemble. It is not only that their make-up, with a number of distinguished wind players and the excellent Ian Brown working with a string ensemble, is well-disposed to the different instrumental groupings which Spohr liked: they seem to have an affinity with his vein of elegant, undemanding, graceful music-making, the nineteenth-century equivalent of the eighteenth-century serenade... The Nonet, Spohr's most popular chamber work, receives from the Consortium Classicum (Orfeo/Harmonia Mundi) a performance that I thought probed a little deeper than that by the Nash, suggesting a vein of sadness in Spohr's famous chromaticisms and in his eloquent melodies. But it is also a serenade, or a divertimento; and the Nash give it a friendly, light touch. These are charming performances of works that fall very easily on the ear."
John Warrack, The Gramophone

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Includes estampie(s) real by Anonymous. Ensemble: St. George's Canzona. Conductor: John Sothcott.

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It would be hard to imagine more amiable performances of these two strongly characterized Brahms works...intense as well as warm, plainly derived from long experience performing this music in concert... The romanticism of the Nash approach comes out particularly strongly in the opening Andante of the Horn Trio, with the horn soloist, Frank Lloyd, producing exceptionally rich, braying tone to remind one of Dennis Brain. After relaxed accounts of the first three movements the galloping finale is then given with great panache, conveying more fun than the more virtuoso reading from Ashkenazy, Perlman and Tuckwell. Thanks partly to the CRD recording, the Nash performances are made to sound satisfyingly beefy, almost orchestral, though some may find the full-bodied sound a degree too reverberant, with the piano rather in front of the strings. The disc can be strongly recommended, particularly as this is the only available coupling of these two works.

-- Edward Greenfield, Gramophone

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