This will be the Wigmore debut of the Waldstein Ensemble, a new piano quartet founded by Gerhard Schulz who for 30 years was a violinist in the world-famous Alban Berg String Quartet.

Composers of piano quartets seem for some reason to love the key of G minor and Mozart, Brahms and Fauré alike have conjured some of their most felicitous textures for this instrumental combination in this key. And yet this extraordinary musical canvas will touch upon three completely contrasted musical aesthetics, from Viennese Classicism to French Impressionism via the Hungarian-inspired fantasy of Brahms.