For me, Veress’s trio is the heart of this disc. There have been four previous recordings, none of which I’ve heard, but I can’t imagine a more inspired performance; these three play as if they love the piece and have known it for some time.

Bartók’s Piano Quintet summons Brahms and Strauss as obviously influences…I think it fair to say that Kelemen, Frang, Katalin Kokas, Altstaedt and Alexander Lonquich sell this lovable product of youthful creative excess more securely than any oft heir predecessors on disc…But what makes this CD unmissable is the Veress Trio, a masterpiece and a performance to match. I’ve already pencilled it in as a contender for next year’s Gramophone Awards.

Two real rarities here, and both are terrific: Veress’s 1954 String Trio encompasses Shostakovichesque bleakness, jazz and extended techniques such as knocking and slapping the bodies of the instruments (deployed to hair-raising effect in the moto perpetuo second movement), after which the lush, nigh-on symphonic expansiveness of Bartók’s early Piano Quintet (1897) quite takes the breath away with its whispers of Brahms and even Elgar.