Glazunov:
String Quintet in A Op.39

Borodin:
String Sextet in D minor (unfinished)

Arensky:
String Quartet no.2 in A minor with two cellos Op.35

After a highly acclaimed series of Brahms chamber music releases for ONYX, the Nash Ensemble turn their attention to 19th-century Russian repertoire. Glazunov’s superbly crafted String Quintet in A of 1891 is coupled with Arensky’s Second Quartet with two cellos, and Borodin’s unfinished Sextet for strings in D minor, written according to the composer in Mendelssohnian style ‘to please the Germans’ while he was in Heidelberg.