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Ensemble 360 was formed in 2005 to take up residency in South Yorkshire succeeding The Lindsays who were retiring as a quartet. The ensemble brings together musicians from across the globe to form one versatile ensemble of eleven musicians; five wind players, a pianist, double bassist and the Elisas String Quartet. Cesar Franck's Piano Quintet is a work of extraordinary passion that is almost entirely out of character with the restrained beauty of the composer's other work. So brazen was the expressivity that the dedicatee and pianist at the ?rst performance, Camille Saint-Saens, stormed o? the stage at the end of the concert in disgust. The inspiration for the piece is believed to have been Augusta Holmes, a young singer and composer with whom, it is said, the majority of male students and teachers at the Paris Conservatoire were infatuated.