Tchaikovsky:
String Sextet in D minor, ‘Souvenir de Florence’ Op 70

Korngold:
String Sextet in D major Op 10

The teenage Korngold possessed a compositional fluency and maturity which belied his youth; in contrast, Tchaikovsky feared wholly unjustifiably his own creative powers to be on the wane when writing ‘Souvenir de Florence’. The Nash Ensemble brings passion and conviction to both.