It will cost a minimum of £990 but the Chatsworth concerts are available to a wider audience at £15 each,. which may have considerably more fiscal appeal.

They are on successive days, September 18-21, in the 19th-century Belvedere Theatre and feature internationally-known musicians, some of them familiar to Music in the Round audiences.

Iain Burnside, for instance, who is highly-promising young British mezzo soprano Anna Stéphany's pianist at the first on September 18.

Winner of the 2005 Kathleen Ferrier Award, the year before Liz Watts won it, Anna appears in opera but most of her activity so far has been as a soloist with choirs and orchestras in concert halls.

She undertakes a fair bit of recital work, as here when she sings four Lieder by Clara Schumann, four by her more famous husband Robert, including Widmung (Dedication), and the Op 91 pair Brahms penned with viola obbligato.

Anna also performs three songs by Frank Bridge, including Music When Soft Voices Die, two by Noël Coward, The Party's Over and Nina, and Cole Porter's Tale of the Oyster.

The viola player present, Simon Rowland-Jones, further contributes Rebecca Clarke's Passacaglia, Percy Grainger's Arrival Platforrn Humlut and his own Whirling.

Efforts to discover more about Scottish pianist Martin Cousin's recital on September 19 have failed, except that he is playing works by Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms and Rachmaninov.

One thing is certain. He won't be playing the latter's Third Piano Concerto.

Although his career has taken off since coming second in the piano competition run by the Sheffield branch of the Incorporated Society of Musicians in 1997, he probably remains best known as the owner of the hands seen throughout the film Shine playing the aforementioned 'Rach Three.'

The highly-rated Anglo-Swedish Kungsbacka Trio, Music in the Round visitors in recent years, are on stage on September 20 to play Tchaikovsky's elegiac Op 50 piano trio, Beethoven's Op 70 No 2 and the undervalued Josef Suk's Elegy.

On the following day, the fast-rising Anglo-Irish Carducci String Quartet end the series with Haydn's Op 50 No 6 – the Frog, Ravel's popular string quartet essay and Beethoven's third Rasumovsky, Op 59 No 3, the concert beginning at 3pm.

The other three are at 6.30pm and the concerts are organised by London-based Kirker Holidays, who specialise in music cruises, music festival and opera holidays throughout Europe.

As alluded to earlier, the concerts are part of a five-night tour package on September 17-21 to the Peak District that also taking in visits to Haddon Hall, Hardwick Hall and Tissington Hall.

It is based at the Palace Hotel in Buxton where the Dante Quartet play Beethoven, Brahms, Fauré and Haydn on the first night for the ears of Kirker patrons only.

Tickets for the Chatsworth concerts can be reserved by ringing 01246 565 300.

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