Steven Isserlis is joined by three close friends and colleagues for this programme of Czech music, complete with Martinu’s radiant Second Cello Sonata.

Growing awareness of national identity, underpinned by the rediscovery of Bohemian and Moravian folk music, found its way into the fabric of works such as Dvorák’s Piano Quartet in E flat and the Piano Quartet in A minor by his pupil and future son-in-law, Josef Suk. Janácek’s Violin Sonata, meanwhile, was influenced by the song-like qualities of the Czech language.