The Nash Ensemble is joined by Martyn Brabbinsand Roderick Williams for its annual survey ofthe best in British contemporary music.

Theirprogramme includes works by Huw Watkins andJulian Anderson recently premièred by the Nash.There’s a London première for Sir Peter MaxwellDavies’s A Sea of Cold Flame, the last of his manysettings of poems by Orcadian writer George MackayBrown, two pieces by Colin Matthews, his virtuosicFuga and a new work specially written for RoderickWilliams, and another world première, Simon Holt’swind quintet. The latter’s title, a hybrid of theSpanish words for ‘bagatelle’ and ‘cobwebs’, reflectsits breathtaking lightness of touch.