Webern’s admiration for the music of Schubert frequently extended to his concert programmes as conductor.

The Belcea Quartet’s concert offers a natural pairing of works by two composers profoundly concerned with the spiritual qualities of sound and the power of music to speak where words fall short. It closes with Brahms’s String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2, the rich outcome of many years of experiment and painstaking work.