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A programme of variety and invention from a quartet of Austro-German composers opens with music by a Â鶹ԼÅÄ SO favourite, Thomas Larcher (whose Symphony made such an impact at the 2016 Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms). It is followed by Bruch’s Double Piano Concerto (with two of today’s most exciting young pianists), a work from 1912 of unashamed Romantic sensibility. Anton Webern’s exquisite Six Pieces from two years earlier show a very different musical language.

The concert ends with a rare chance to hear Haydn’s Farewell Symphony with its closing plea to the composer’s employer to move his court back to Vienna – all these years later it retains its powerful originality, invention and humour.