Over the past three decades, the Wihan Quartet has flourished on the world stage thanks to performances shot through with rhythmic élan and gripping commitment.

The ensemble celebrates its 30th anniversary year with two masterworks from its Czech homeland and the first of Beethoven’s ‘Razumovsky’ Quartets, the haunting Adagio of which was almost certainly influenced by news of death and defeat brought to Vienna from the battlefield at Austerlitz.