The revolutions of Europe are raging outside the windows - and the musicians of the day are entertaining their employers in the drawing rooms of Vienna, Paris, and London, among them one Franz Schubert.

The political upheavals of the time were matched by a breathless pace of change and the forging of new styles, forms, and tastes both in the music and in the instruments used.

Members of the Revolutionary Drawing Room are joined by the cellist Andrew Skidmore for Schubert's magical String Quintet. The string quartet opens the concert with the first movement of the composer's unfinished quartet, the fiery Quartettsatz.