Three leading period instrumentalists play three of the finest chamber works of the early 19th century, and the disc is a surefire winner. Daniel Sepec plays a 1780 Storioni, Roel Dieltiens a modern copy of a Strad and Andreas Staier a fortepiano based on an 1827 model by Conrad Graf. The sounds they create are delicious: the piano may lack the roar of a Steinway but it certainly has a full-throated bark, while the strings retain their sweetness across the range, and there’s a rich ‘thrum’ to their pizzicato. The two trios are played with sensitivity and wit, and the central Notturno – one of Schubert’s most touching creations – is a ruffled oasis of calm between its two big brothers.

That’s not all. Christopher Clarke’s 1996 fortepiano is fitted with five pedals, including one marked ‘Fagott’ and another ‘Janitscharenzug’ or ‘Janissary bell’. Line up the Scherzando third movement of the big E flat Trio, D929, and you can hear what they do in the A flat section, with bells and bass drum accentuating the sforzandos and the bassoon buzzing away like an angry bee. It’s Schubert as you’ve almost certainly never heard it before. (For the record, it’s the revised, shortened version of D929’s finale that they perform.)

Staier, Sepec and Dieltiens have been playing these works together for six years now, which helps explain the naturalness with which they rise to the high spirits of the B flat and respond to the darker clouds that shade the E flat. Add to that their first-class playing – not only their technical mastery in these stamina-sapping scores but also their cheeky ornamentation and deadpan comic timing – and you have a recording of the trios that’s worth returning to again and again.