With more than 40 events over two weeks, the Newbury Spring Festival is alive and kicking. On Monday, the much-admired Vienna Piano Trio took to the platform at a new venue: St George’s Church, Wash Common. It is possessed of a cavernous acoustic, far from ideal for chamber music. But the trio took the venue in its stride, aided by discreet amplification supplied by the BBC — who broadcast the concert live (it’s on the iPlayer till Monday).

The trio established an intimate, happy, fluent feel in Mozart’s G major trio, K564. Rapport between the players (Matthias Gredler cello, Stefan Mendl piano, Wolfgang Redik violin) was impeccable, fully reflecting Mozart’s desire to create a partnership of equals, rather than a piano sonata with added strings.

Ravel, on the other hand, regarded the piano trio as a challenge: “I am working with the manic assurance and clarity of a madman,” he wrote when composing his A minor trio. As the Vienna Trio vividly demonstrated, Ravel used every sort of musical device to display the possible relationships between the three instruments. Finally in this class-act concert, Schubert and the Vienna Trio made it all seem easy — from the opening seconds, Schubert’s Trio in B flat major, D898, sounded youthful, energetic, and above all, confident.

The Newbury Festival (www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk) gives many opportunities to young artists, not least in its lunchtime Corn Exchange concerts. The first saw the Navarra String Quartet give a carefully detailed account of Haydn’s Quartet, Opus 20 No 3, followed by a full reflection of the light and shade to be found in Ravel’s string quartet. The Ravel — a last-minute substitution — was a particular triumph.