Webern’s Five Movements Op. 5, with theirkaleidoscopic range of tone colours, nuanceddynamic shadings and brief breathing spaces,invite listeners to meditate on the nature of soundand silence.

The Belcea Quartet surrounds theseintense miniatures with Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’Quartet and Schubert’s String Quintet, two greatmasterworks of the First Viennese School.