Mozart: String Quintets – review

Nash EnsembleThe Nash Ensemble plays all six of Mozart's string quintets here – the early B flat work K174, and the C minor quintet K406 that was a commercial arrangement of the wind serenade in the same key, form an upbeat to four masterpieces that follow on the later discs. With Lawrence Power as the ensemble's viola player and Philip Dukes joining him here, there's no chance of forgetting that Mozart favoured a quintet of strings with two violas rather than the lineup with two cellos that...

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