Olivier Stankiewicz oboe; Christopher Richards clarinet; Liza Ferschtman violin; Hélène Clément viola; Tim Posner cello; Will Duerden double bass; Alasdair Beatson piano

Three 20th-century works prominently featuring the oboe. Martinů’s Quartet was composed in New York in 1947. Poulenc’s delightful duo Sonata (1962) was his final work, described by a New York Times critic as ‘a paradoxical mix of the elegiac, the suave and the clever’; the composer dedicated it to the memory of Prokofiev, the material of whose 1924 Quintet largely derives from his ballet, Trapeze.