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The Nash Ensemble Resident Chamber Ensemble at Wigmore Hall The Nash EnsembleAfter 40 years and over 300 premires 193 commissions the Nash Ensemble is still the best champion that any composer could hope to have. Its concerts are always meticulously polished but what impressed about this heroically wellstuffed programme two premires and four other chamber pieces none more than four years old was the illusion conjured by the players that they lived with this music for years even if the ink was barely dry on the page. Perhaps it is precisely because the ensemble is not entirely dedicated to doing contemporary work that it can radiate so persuasive a feeling of new pieces being assimilated into chambermusic heritage stretching back two centuries or more. The Times Friends of the Nash EnsembleThe Friends are a vital element in the success of the Nash Ensemble providing funds that help us embark boldly and with confidence on future programming planning and the commissioning of new works.