| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 19-Mar-2013 Wigmore Hall | David Matthews' 70th birthday celebration with the Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall |
 Benjamin Britten isn’t the only British composer with an anniversary this year, and I’m not talking about the 450-year-old John Dowland. David Matthews is 70, and a birthday concert from the Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall last Tuesday presented several of his works in tribute. Despite the absence of scheduled soprano Claire Booth, this was an evening filled with the high-quality music-making that should be expected from the Nash Ensemble, as well as some beautiful compositions.
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| 22-Sep-2012 Wigmore Hall | The Nash Ensemble: Dreamers of Dreams at the Wigmore Hall |
 As I took my seat at Saturday’s concert by the Nash Ensemble, one in a series entitled “Dreamers of Dreams” put on as part of their residency at the Wigmore Hall, I wondered what I was about to let myself in for. That the Nash Ensemble had chosen to present the works of early 20th-century composers was not especially surprising – after all, they are known for unusual, inventive programming – but among the composers represented in Saturday’s concert were names such as Roger Quilter, Percy Grainger and Arthur Bliss, often regarded as second-rate.Read full review... | |
| 27-Aug-2012 Cadogan Hall | Proms Chamber Music 7: The Nash Ensemble illustrate the musical contrasts of the 20th century |
 The seventh of the chamber music Proms this year brought together two of the greatest composers of the early 20th century. Though Debussy was twelve years Schoenberg’s senior, of the two works performed it is Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire which was written first, in 1912, with Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola and harp following three years later in 1915.Read full review... | |
| 11-Feb-2012 Wigmore Hall | Echoes of Romanticism: the Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall play Mozart, Wagner and Strauss |
 Hanya Chlala, ArenaPAL.jpg) The Nash Ensembles' "Echoes of Romanticism" series at the Wigmore Hall, of which this concert was a part, is not really an exploration of romanticism as such, but rather a charting of the rise and fall of Teutonic music between Mozart and Schoenberg. This is a fascinating story to tell, and this evening provided a particular insight into Richard Strauss – a key and particularly divisive figure in this narrative, his career spanning as it did from the highest high-romanticism to the era's last glorious gasps in the perenially celebrated works of his "Indian Summer" period.Read full review... | |
