In this series the works of the three great Viennese masters, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, are juxtaposed with pieces by composers working in Vienna around 100 years later, in whose musical language the late fl owering of ultra-romantic expression reached its zenith.

Repertoire by Korngold, Strauss and Zemlinsky together with youthful o erings by Mahler, Schoenberg and Berg illustrate the degree to which music in Vienna had reached something of a late-romantic saturation point at the start of the 20th century. Each of these marvellous works is dripping with the colour and sensuality that are probably better known from Mahler’s symphonies or Richard Strauss’s operas, but which make an extraordinary impact in chamber works such as these.

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