Classical music and jazz have always enjoyed a symbiotic relationship – uneasy at times, happy at others. Dave Brubeck, Wynton Marsalis, Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett are all jazzmen who have been equally at home in both environments and it is now almost de rigueur for recitalists to finish the evening with a little Gershwin or a jazzed up classical standard.

From the “other side”, progressive string quartets like Americans Kronos and Brits the Brodskys have never shied away from crossing trans-genre boundaries, with the Kronos setting the benchmark in the 1980s by taking on the music of Thelonius Monk and Bill Evans.

Bach, Mozart and Erik Satie...