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Sarah Walker presents more highlights from last Summer's Australian Festival of Chamber Music, held in Townsville, Northern Queensland.

Today's programme begins on familiar territory, but soon heads into less well known territory, and instrument combinations: Harp and Quartet in Graham Fitkin's Recur, Three Cellos and piano in David Popper's 'Requiem', and a mixed string and wind accompaniment to the solo piano in Janacek's Concertino.

The Concertino is a late work by Janacek, not often performed - to which he added beguiling movement descriptions after the first performance in 1925. So, the theme in the first is like a 'grumbling Hedgehog', the second movement, a 'fidgety squirrel' and the last, 'a scene from a fairy tale where everyone starts arguing'.

Schubert
Piano Trio in E flat major, D897 'Notturno'
Yura Lee, violin
Timo-Veikko Valve, cello
Charles Owen, piano

Graham Fitkin
Recur
Ruth Wall, Harp
Goldner String Quartet

Janacek
Concertino
Charles Owen, piano
David Griffiths, clarinet
Martin Kuuskmann, bassoon
Ben Jacks, horn
Alexandra Conunova, violin
Elizabeth Layton, violin
Thomas Chawner, viola

Popper
Requiem, Op 66
Johannes Moser, Julian Smiles, Timo-Veikko Valve, cellos
Aura Go, piano