My personal highlights were the performances of Schnittke's Second and Third Quartets and the Piano Quintet. There is one moment in the Quintet when Schnittke uses the sound of the piano pedal being repeatedly depressed to represent a beating heart which suddenly stops; I've never noticed this before but Rolf Hind brought it out very clearly. It's sadly ironic that Schnittke wrote this work as an elegy for his mother, but it could equally well have been an elegy for himself, since he inherited from her the predisposition to strokes which eventually killed them both. Also outstanding was Rolf's performance of six of the Ligeti Etudes. The upward rushing chromatic scales of L'Escalier du Diable were still running through my head at the interval - who says that contemporary music isn't hummable?! It was also fascinating to hear the two pieces of late Liszt, with their crunching harmony, which Rolf included in his programme.