We will find out when three of them present music that is special to them in Music in the Round's autumn season at the Upper Chapel in Norfolk Street, booking for which opens this Saturday.

Of course, the musicians are confined to chamber music, no symphonies, operas or anything like that.

But, as each Desert Island evening is preceded by a talk to discover why the music following is special to the 'castaway,' there is no reason why Guy Eshed should not confess to being, say, a Wagner Ring fanatic.

The Israeli flautist is shipwrecked first on October 3, also the first concert of the season, when he presents three works in versions which may or may not have the respective composer's name attached to it.

Messiaen's Interstellar Call, the sixth movement of the orchestral Canyon to the Stars (1974), does.

A horn solo, it began life with a different title as a memorial piece (1971) and Naomi Atherton plays it.

Debussy's song cycle Chanson du Bilitis (three Pierre Louÿs prose-poems) is heard in a version for flute, piano – Tim Horton – and narrator – Laurène Durantel, who then reaches for her double bass to play the second cello part in Schubert's immortal String Quintet with the Elias Quartet.

Oboist Adrian Wilson calls on his 360 Wind colleagues and Tim Horton for his choice of music on November 1: Mozart and Caplet's piano/ wind quintets, Josef Bohuslav Foerster's Wind Quintet Op 95 and Debussy's Syrinx for solo flute.

Tim Horton needs all his Ensemble 360 colleagues, except Adrian Wilson, for his shipwreck selection on December 4: Berwald's Grand Septet, Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No 1 arranged by Webern for the instrumental forces used in Pierrot Lunaire, and Brahms' Op 60 piano quartet.

Other wholly ensemble evening concerts are two from the Elias Quartet, the first on October 15 taking in two Purcell fantasias, Kurtág's Quartet Op 1, Schubert's Quartettsatz and Mendelssohn's Op 44 No 1.

The second on November 27 has a similar look: two other Purcell fantasias, Kurtág's Officium Breve Op 28, Mozart's K464 (No 18) and Mendelssohn's Op 44 No 2.

Soprano star of growing fame Elizabeth Watts returns as the first of the visiting artists in the season on October 9 when she sings Mozart, Liszt, Hahn, Poulenc, Roussel and Rachmaninov with her Cardiff Singer of the World pianist Phillip Thomas, not to be confused with the better-known-in-Sheffield Philip Thomas.

The Cropper/ Welsh/Roscoe Trio are back with with piano trios by Haydn: No 28, Beethoven: Op 1 No 2 and Schubert: B flat trio on October 22.

The renowned Belcea Quartet play Haydn's Op 50 No 6, Britten's valedictory No 3 and Beethoven's third Rasumovsky (Op 58 No 3) on November 4 and on November 19 the emergent young Badke Quartet make their Sheffield debut with Mozart's K421 (No 15), Bartok's No 2 and Debussy's sole string quartet.

Two days later a trombone quartet, the all-female Bones Apart, play arrangements of Shakespeare-inspired music, including Bernstein, Debussy, Ellington, Gounod and Mendelssohn.

Evening classical concerts are completed with two piano recitals, of the four-handed variety when Ben Frith and Peter Hill play Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen on November 12.

On December 2 exceptional Shanghai-born pianist Jin Ju returns with a programme of Beethoven sonatas: Op 22 (No 11), Op 28 (No 15) the Pastorale, Op 27 No 1 (No 13) and No 2 (No 14) the Moonlight.

Three lunchtime concerts are in the hands of Ensemble 360 members

Naomi Atherton offers Beethoven's Horn Sonata, Richard Strauss' Andante in C, his dad Franz's Nocturno Op 7, Ravel's Sonatine and Bozza's En Forêt with Tim Horton on October 9.

Tim partners Elias viola player Martin Saving in an arrangement of Bach's Viola da Gamba Sonata in D, Britten's Lachrymae Op 48 and Schumann's Märchenbilder Op 113 on November 19 and on December 2 Donald Grant and Catriona McKay renew acquaintances for Scottish fiddle and harp music.

The duo also offer a schools concert, Folk Around the Globe, on December 4 and another Music in the Community event for young people takes place earlier in the season, a Woodwind Masterclass with top bassoonist Julie Price on November 4.

A single outright jazz concert on November 29 features pianist John Taylor, although jazz sounds will be heard in two fusion concerts.