Haydn’s D minor Trio begins with a stunning set of double variations alternating minor and major modes, ascending and descending themes, melancholy chill and witty warmth. The Oberon Trio play this game of emotional ping-pong with panache – and without skimping on expressive detail. Listen, for instance, to how their anxious sighs in the first variation’s minore section (at 3'16") give way to the maggiore’s bursts of good humour, or to their articulate grace in the Adagio ma non troppo’s elaborate figuration. It’s a scintillating performance from start to finish. But then, even in the often thick textures of Schumann’s F major Trio, the Oberon maintain a remarkably light touch, thanks in large part to the pianist Jonathan Aner’s fleet fingerwork. The first movement is so buoyant it positively flies, although it never feels at all rushed, with the strings’s occasional buzzing of semiquavers conveying surges of giddy excitement. Perhaps the loping gait of the third movement is slightly too fluent – Andsnes and the Tetzlaffs (EMI, 7/11) give greater poignancy to the music’s awkward charms – but the finale is at once feather-light and full of fantasy.

Between those bookends we’re given Toshio Hosokawa’s Trio (2017) and Copland’s Vitebsk (1928). The former is an abstract study in texture and tone colour with a handful of pitches as focal points. The violinist Henja Semmler and cellist Antoaneta Emanuilova make an event of nearly every individual note or gesture, creating woozily palpable tension between stasis and movement. The latter presents Copland in his modernist mode. Inspired by The Dybbuk, an Eastern European Jewish folk tale of demonic possession, this compact work features quarter-tones and harsh, hammering chords. The Oberon seize upon the music’s oppositional pull – keeping with their theme of ‘Duality’ – by making the fleeting lyrical sections as arresting as the harsh grotesqueries.

All in all, the programme hangs together as a satisfying whole, and that’s especially impressive given how disparate its elements are. Strongly recommended.