Since you are interested in Elgar: Quintet and Violin Sonata, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JEAN SIBELIUS / BEDRICH SMETANA
Sibelius / Smetana: String Quartets Dante Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] "The fluctuations of darkness and light, the juxtapositions of animation and still reflection, are communicated here with palpable heart." (The Daily Telegraph) |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Songs (Incls 'On Wenlock Edge' for tenor, piano & string quartet / 10 Blake Songs) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) / The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Sep/2000 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) 'John Mark Ainsley's performance is among his best on record in these austerely beautiful, imaginatively scored settings' - Gramophone |
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet / Clarinet Quintet Richard Hosford (clarinet) / The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 9/Nov/2007 ] BBC Award finalist 2008 - Best Chamber recording - 'Coleridge-Taylor is best-known, when he's remembered at all, for his Violin Concerto…but the Nash Ensemble offers us delightful chamber music from the 1890s, of which the Clarinet Quintet is the... |
ARTHUR BLISS
Rout and Rhapsody Elizabeth Gale (soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) / The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] 'Performances are outstanding... beautifully recorded' (The Monthly Guide to Recorded Music |
CONSTANT LAMBERT
Piano Concerto / Eight Poems of Li-Po / Piano Sonata / etc Ian Brown (piano) Philip Landridge (tenor) Nigel Hawthorne (narrator) / The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE / CRITICS' CHOICE |
BRITTEN
Phaedra and other chamber music Jean Rigby (mezzo) Roger Chase (viola) NIigel Hawthorne (narrator) The Nash Ensemble / Lionel Friend [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 23/Jan/2006 ] 'I can highly recommend this CD for the wonderful mixture of Britten's chamber works and the all-round excellent playing' (The Musician) |
TURNAGE
Music to Hear Mark-Anthony Turnage / The Nash Ensemble [ Black Box / CD - released 21/Sep/2001 ] chamber music from one of the leading composers of his generation |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quintet in C minor, Op 104 / Piano Quartet in E flat Op 16 / etc The Nash Ensemble, with Ian Brown (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] The Nash Ensemble continues its critically acclaimed survey of Beethoven's rarer chamber music in an intriguing new disc. |
DOHNANYI
Piano Quintet No 1 / Serenade for String Trio / etc The Schubert Ensemble of London [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "This excellent group plays with calm confidence throughout and features some notably silvery violin tone. A delightful disc" (Hi-Fi News) |