A harpsichord leading a string quartet in a juddering dance;
Orpheus seeking passage into the underworld; afantastical parade of images caricaturing musicalRomanticism. The inspirations for these four pieces byLaurence Osborn range from the quirky and ironic to thedeadly serious as they engage with and reflect on classicalmusic’s heritage culture, the bold imaginative world ofchildhood, and the sometimes uncertain boundarybetween the mechanical and the human.

RPS Young Artist2025 award winners GBSR Duo join the string soloists of12 Ensemble in TOMB!, itself the winner of both an IvorNovello Award and the RPS Award for Chamber-ScaleComposition, while Mahan Esfahani is the virtuosoharpsichordist at the centre of Coin Op Automata.