An international ensemble perform Schubert’s evergreen quintet for piano and strings, and surround it with the ‘Trout Project’ – a sequence of responses to the work by an even more strikingly international selection of composers, all commissioned by the recording’s pianist, Silke Avenhaus. It’s a buoyant Trout, with Avenhaus’s glistening pianism conspiring with the ever-responsive double bass of Rick Stotijn to dart effortlessly between the work’s quicksilver changes of mood. It’s not, perhaps, the tidiest of performances, with the occasional fluffed run or missed note, but it’s near-impossible to do damage to this indelible work and occasional moments such as these needn’t register.

It’s also a fiendish work to balance for microphones, and here the piano’s resonance is accentuated to a greater extent than that of the strings. This isn’t a problem in itself but can in places lead to the ring of the piano’s high writing in octaves dominating at the expense of the lower compass of the other instruments. On the other hand, the rhythmic motor that powers the Andante is made all the more audible as it passes between instruments and each player’s moment in the sun in the fourth-movement variations is ably characterised. When charismatic players such as these gather to perform such a charismatic work as this, the results are always highly satisfactory.

The companion pieces take thematic material from ‘Die Forelle’, the song that provides the theme for Schubert’s variations (and the quintet’s nickname). The challenge for each composer is to create individual music in a modern language from material that is ineradicably tonal, based on triads and scalic figures. Ferran Cruixent slows down the theme and fogs it with clouds and clusters; Gerald Resch and Johannes X Schachtner break it into fragments; Dejan Lazić introduces a faintly jazzy feel and Osmo Tapio Räihälä deploys glissandos and extended string techniques. But even without knowing the context in which they were created, you’d guess straightaway the source material for these five modern miniatures.