Special offer. Ravel
The Nash Ensemble (chamber ensemble)
Awards:
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
The Introduction and Allegro is a perfect example of how Ravel could make small ensembles sound like symphony orchestras. At least that's true in the Nash Ensemble's sweeping performance...The...
Special offer. Ravel
The Nash Ensemble (chamber ensemble)
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Awards:
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
The Introduction and Allegro is a perfect example of how Ravel could make small ensembles sound like symphony orchestras. At least that's true in the Nash Ensemble's sweeping performance...The...
About
The Nash Ensemble is the UK’s premier chamber group, established in 1964 by the late Amelia Freedman. Since then, and by its 60th anniversary last year, it had premiered more than 330 new works from 225 composers and has an unrivalled recorded legacy.
This new album is an all-Ravel programme, a composer particularly close to the Nash Ensemble and especially to Amelia Freedman's heart, and is both a beautiful set of performances and a perfect introduction for the listener discovering these exquisite masterworks for the first time. For lovers of Ravel’s chamber music, this will be an indispensable recording to add to their collection.
From the booklet:
This album is dedicated to the memory of Amelia, a unique, passionate and trailblazing beacon of British music over the last 60 years. The Nash Ensemble is privileged to carry her legacy forward into the future. RIP Amelia Freedman (1940-2025).
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year2025
December 2025
The Introduction and Allegro is a perfect example of how Ravel could make small ensembles sound like symphony orchestras. At least that's true in the Nash Ensemble's sweeping performance...The great Piano Trio in A minor receives as gratifying an interpretation as the best on disc.
4th December 2025
it’s the attention to the details of colour and tone that really makes these performances take flight, the instruments combining to catch the dazzling light and intriguing shade that are such intrinsic features of Ravel’s music.
28th November 2025
it takes the Nash Ensemble’s players, so experienced in early 20th-century French repertoire, to supply the cake’s icing, with playing so colourful and refined, both suave and gutsy, that the pleasure produced soars off the scale.
