Top notch musicianship from the Schubert Ensemble in Czech masterworks

The Schubert Ensemble on a mission to promote Schumann and Fauré's chamber works in their two concerts series this year at the Wigmore Hall. 

Perfectly judged Brahms from the Schubert Ensemble, complemented by satisfyingly rustic Dvořák.

The Schubert Ensemble's good-in-parts performance of Schumann, Schubert and John Woolwich.

Bohuslav Martinů's Piano Quartet no. 1 (1942) is a beautiful work. The first and third movements are sharp and witty pieces which touch on jazz influences almost as strongly as on Bohemian folk music.

Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin deliver a lean, razor-sharp exploration of captivity and survival, balancing Beethoven’s and Brahms’ structural clarity against the devastating, high-fidelity distortion of Henze’s Ninth Symphony.

French clarinettist Raphaël Sévère unearths beauty in Nielsen's concerto and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta impress in two settings of Pan's antics at the French May Festival.