Franz Schubert wrote a fine Piano Quintet in which he recycled the theme from one of his own favourite Lieder as the basis for a set of variations in one of the middle movements of the work. The whole quintet (his D.667 in A major, written in 1819 when the composer was just 22 years old), is usually nicknamed from the title of the song, which was ... ?

While many of us love the pageantry of a great musical occasion ~ such as an oratorio, concerto or symphony concert ~ the intimacy of chamber music, played perhaps by a string quartet, has charms and powers of its own.