Intérprete: Nicholas Daniel

For the Aldeburgh Festival's 75th anniversary celebrations, Daniel delivered a great performance of Vaughan Williams's Oboe Concerto, in the company of Gustav and Imogen Holst.

How many of Albéric Magnard's 22 works do you know? Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and the Orsino Ensemble perform his Quintet in D minor to Wigmore Hall and it becomes the sixth star of the evening. 

Early and late Beethoven in the closing two recitals of Wigmore Hall's Beethoven Festival Weekend. 

As he does when his spirit is most honestly invoked, Schumann spoke directly across the ages through Moraguès and Pinto-Ribeiro, and in the process allowed the two musicians to reveal the dimensions of their own love for music.

Eldar Nebolsin, Corey Cerovsek and Gary Hoffman did not completely answer whether Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio is chamber music that wants to be a ballet score or vice versa, but the intoxicating beauty of their playing banished all doubts of whether the answer mattered. 

With a smaller programme and a humbler premise, the stars of the show – those young, immensely talented performers – could have shone even brighter