Performer: Quatuor Van Kuijk

The Van Kuijks communicated with great directness the obsessive nature of Bartók’s music in his Fourth Quartet.

The classical masterpieces of Haydn and Schubert miss the spot, but Ligeti and Poulenc enthral in the splendid setting of the Concert Room, St George’s Hall, Liverpool.

An exploration of expression within controlled structure from Van Wauwe and the Quatuor Van Kuijk, in passionate Webern, tense Durupt and spirited Mozart.