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A programme of variety and invention from a quartet of Austro-German composers opens with music by a ´óÏó´«Ã½ SO favourite, Thomas Larcher (whose Symphony made such an impact at the 2016 ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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.