Work: String Quartet no. 64 in D major, Op.76 no. 5, Hob III:79

After decades as a period instrument revolutionary, the 87-year old conductor bows out with “Dr Haydn's London Academy”, an entertaining recreation of concert-going in the 1790s.

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.

The Takács Quartet proved once more that among the long-established American quartets they are, arguably, the most reliable.