It is that old woodwind quintet and bus joke. Not a concert for months and suddenly four come along at once.
Is this quartet of quintets a revival, or just a blip in the programming diary? Nobody is yet willing to say, but the Arts Development Council and RTHK are ploughing money into ensuring that chamber music - so lowly rated in Hong Kong - has a chance of taking off in the next decade.
Richard Tsang, head of Radio 4, said there were two main reasons why chamber music has not really happened in Hong Kong - unlike other big cities.
'Firstly, a lot of chamber performers in Hong Kong just form ad hoc groups for a couple of concerts, so there is no time for them to build a rapport and make music which is intimate and subtle like the best chamber music.' Secondly is that old Hong Kong story: space. 'Rehearsal space is hard to find, so it's not easy for musicians to get together without a lot of advance planning.' If those two problems were overcome, Mr Tsang said, the audience would follow.
'So we have decided to engage one group every year, give them rehearsal space - which we hope they will use very often - and give them exposure in concerts that will be broadcast live.' The first RTHK group is Le Six - pronounced, French-style, 'le sees'. It is a wind quintet plus one - pianist Nancy Loo - and their first appearance will be on October 27, postponed from a few weeks ago by Typhoon York.
The programme includes Haydn's Divertimento In B Flat, Ibert's Trois Pieces Breves For Woodwind and Poulenc's Piano And Woodwind Sextet. To apply for free tickets call 2339 6427 or fax 2339 6427 - or tune into RTHK Radio 4 (FM 97.6-98.9) between 8pm and 10pm.