With Mozart and Haydn providing the traditional core to this Shropshire Music Trust concert some might have regarded the three modern works on the programme as novelties.

Stravinsky’s entertainingly bizarre Three Pieces for string quartet certainly was, especially when played with such tongue-in-cheek élan by the four string principals of the Britten Sinfonia.

In a totally different league was Anna Clyne’s Within Her Arms, here receiving its UK premiere. Even at a single hearing this elegy for 15 strings, written in memory of the composer’s mother, made a powerfully lasting impression.

Although slightly reminiscent of Arvo Pärt, it is nevertheless an intensely moving and personal expression of personal loss which Jacqueline Shave, the Sinfonia’s leader, conducted with sympathetic restraint.

Nicholas Maw’s Little Concert – a sort of distilled oboe concerto – provided the third stylistic difference. However, not even the lyrical elegance and glittering virtuosity of soloist Nicholas Daniel were able to inject Maw’s highly-structured expanded tonality with memorable significance.

Much more persuasive was Paul Lewis, the soloist/director in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12. The fluid, unfussy directness of his approach in this listening, chamber-music reading, allowed the music to breathe naturally.