Webern’s intensely romanticLangsamer Satz was inspiredby a hiking holiday taken by thecomposer and his fiancée in thefoothills of the Austrian Alps.Shot through with resonancesof Beethoven, this programme iscompleted with Bartók’s FourthString Quartet and Brahms’s Op.51 No. 2, two works distinguishedby their thematic unity andallusions to folk music.