The Music in the Round festival no longer has the Lindsays as its resident ensemble, but it hasn't lost its capacity to surprise. The theme of the spring festival is Songs Without Words, and the lights snap out to the sound of a wordless Mendelssohn song arranged as a miniature oboe sonata performed in the corridor. It might be an arresting attempt to invest the music with a strange, distant quality; but may simply be down to the fact that the stage entrances are too narrow to push a piano through.

Whatever the case, Music in the Round remains committed to presenting innovative chamber music programmes in the most intimate surroundings - sit any closer and you'd need to be holding an instrument - with the now-disbanded Lindsays replaced by a pan-European conglomerate of talented young soloists known as Ensemble 360.

The beauty of this newly recruited band is that it can expand or contract to any number of configurations. Add a selection of guest artists and the possibilities seem endless - one particular highlight saw the string section doubled by the Vertavo Quartet for a reading of Mendelssohn's Octet so heated that leader Oyvor Volle needed to fan herself with her score between movements.

But perhaps the most exciting prospect is Ensemble 360's ability to explore the more esoteric reaches of the repertoire. George Onslow's idiosyncratic nonet is a particular revelation - a bustling hubbub by an ultra-prolific but almost completely forgotten French Romantic composer.

If Ensemble 360 were to commit the whole of Onslow's output to their repertoire at the rate of two pieces per year, they should just about be finished in time for the bicentenary of his death. Booking for the 2053 festival is open now.