Hyperion: CDA67590

“The Nash players do these deeply attractive and enjoyable works proud… in affectionate performances that revel in Coleridge-Taylor's idiomatic and challenging writing.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2007 *****

“The Nash Ensemble’s performances, as one would expect, are devoted and full of insight” Daily Telegraph

“Suave musicianship and sonic warmth … The Nash Ensemble offers a vital and intellectually stimulating account of these rarities and their devotion repays the listener’s curiosity many times over. The playing is fresh and vibrant, not to mention poised and erudite … not as much as a single note will disappoint” Fanfare

“This wonderful Hyperion collection featuring The Nash Ensemble at its golden-toned and responsive best … Coleridge-Taylor’s Op 10 emerges as a quite astonishingly mature achievement … backed up by a blemish-free production from the Keener/Eadon team and attractively presented, this has to be one of the most engaging releases I’ve heard all year” Gramophone Magazine

“Coleridge-Taylor is enjoying a decent innings at present… now comes this wonderful Hyperion collection featuring the Nash Ensemble at its golden-tones and responsive best. …the 1895 Clarinet Quintet… emerges as a quite astonishingly mature achievement for a 19-year-old... The even earlier Piano Quintet (893) may be marginally less assured but likewise manifests a tumbling lyricism and joyful spontaneity worthy of Dvorák, and well merits the entrancingly poised championship it receives here.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2007