Performers:
*Calidore String Quartet:
- Jeffrey Myers - violin;
- Ryan Meehan - violin;
- Jeremy Berry - viola;
- Estelle Choi - cello;
* Federico Colli - piano.

Programme:
* Franz Schubert
Quartettsatz in C minor D 703 [7′]
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor KV 478 [26′]
* Robert Schumann
Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44 [35′].

Franz Schubert's biographers have puzzled over why this brilliant composer, who was not fully appreciated during his lifetime, left so many incomplete scores and unrealised sketches. As in the case of the composer's most famous unfinished work (the Symphony in B minor), it is unclear why Schubert abandoned the work he had begun in the winter of 1820 on a quartet in C minor (after all, the completed first movement heralded the full success of the cycle). Happily, this was not Schubert's last word on the genre, and the lone link of the incomplete quartet functions today as the Quartettsatz in C minor.

Thirty-five years earlier, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had received a commission from an enterprising Viennese publisher for a cycle of uncomplicated piano quartets, popular with amateur and amateur home musicians. Mozart's works, however, stood out from similar repertoire and heralded the arrival of the great Romantic forms sometimes referred to as chamber piano concertos.

It is difficult to speak of amateur addressees of Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat major, since he dedicated the work to an extremely talented pianist, his wife Clara Schumann. It was she who took part as soloist in the work's public premiere at Leipzig's famous Gewandhaus. The composition, which gives the pianist hardly a moment's rest, was written at a time when the Schumanns were passionately engaged in analysing the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach.