Claude Debussy - String Quartet & Sonatas (Nash Ensemble)

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Composer: Claude Debussy

• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, CD 87 (arr. David Walter)
• Violin Sonata in G Minor, CD 148
• Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp, CD 145
• Cello Sonata in D Minor, CD 144
• String Quartet in G Minor, CD 91

Nash Ensemble

Date: 2025

Label: Hyperion

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From two players to twelve: few ensembles could respond with equal authority to the very varied demands made by this wonderful collection of Debussy’s chamber music. But then, few ensembles can stand comparison with the Nash, whose members continue to set the standards across a dauntingly wide repertoire. A realization of the Prélude à l’après-midi … for chamber ensemble adds to this album’s more familiar attractions of the string quartet and three sonatas.

The Nash Ensemble of London is an English chamber ensemble. It was founded by Artistic Director Amelia Freedman and Rodney Slatford in 1964, while they were students at the Royal Academy of Music, and was named after the Nash Terraces around the academy. The Ensemble has won awards from the Edinburgh Festival Critics and the Royal Philharmonic Society, as well as a 2002 Gramophone Award for contemporary music. In addition to their classical repertoire, the Ensemble performs works by numerous contemporary composers, and has given premier performances of more than 200 works.