This programme is bookended by two contrasting works for five instrumentalists, Mozart’s perfectly finished Quintet for piano and winds and Brahms’s passionate Quintet for piano and strings.

Sarah Connolly also sings Mahler’s lyrical settings of poems by Rückert and Brahms’s eloquent songs with viola and piano, ‘Gestillte Sehnsucht’ (‘Stilled Desire’) and ‘Geistliches Wiegenlied’ (‘Sacred Lullaby’).