A 30-year celebratory commissioned piano trio by Colin Matthews, who didn’t appear to be at the event, ostensibly the highlight of The Schubert Ensemble’s concert at the Wiltshire Music Centre, didn’t quite live up to the heralded expectations and instead left more musical questions than it did answers.

Its title, Nowhere to Hide, was, frankly, as inspiring as its meat. There were times, I must admit, when I wondered if they were all playing from the same script.

And, though a barely audible, lengthy preamble from Simon Blendis, might have been enlightening - if only I could have heard it - it really became one of those pieces I would not willingly opt to hear again.

But the rest of the evening was quality in full. Faure’s Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, written when French music publishers were somewhat hostile to the genre, was played with a jaunty brightness.

The dark, earthy tones of the Adagio were well contrasted with the glittering final movement.

Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat, which comprised the whole of the second half, was highly satisfying.

Pianist William Howard, who founded the ensemble 30 or so years ago, was a no-nonsense bedrock of infallibility.

It’s one of those works that is humbling. Carla Schumann should have played the piano part at its first public performance but he was indisposed; Mendelssohn stood in and sight-read the work.

He would certainly have approved of Howard’s performance.