Instrument: String quartet

Hélène Clément is called in at the last minute to join the Chiaroscuro Quartet for their Wigmore Hall recital. 

This electic performance of Pierrot Lunaire was preceded by a clutch of contemporary Australian works (and a poem), which served to demonstrate that Schoenberg's modernity is still way ahead of the times.

SDC delivers this long-awaited world premiere by Rafael Bonachela, featuring a Bryce Dessner score performed to perfection by the Australian String Quartet.

The marathon chamber concert leg of the Beethoven Day in Budapest's Liszt Academy featured artists such as Miklós Perényi, Dénes Várjon and the Hungarian Quartet.

A rare outing for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Clarinet Quintet in New York along with a youthful Mendelssohn string quartet. 

Song cycles by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ernest Chausson are paired at the Barbican.

The Atlanta Symphony manages to keep live performance flourishing under the current unprecedented circumstances.