If you bumped into the six fresh-faced members of Ars Eloquentiae cooling their heels at a train station you might guess that they are musicians.

Pressed to specify what kind of music they perform, you’d probably plump for something along the lines of the virtuoso sturm und drang of Radiohead.

In a sense, you wouldn’t be that wide of the mark. The six-piece ensemble may have swapped guitars and drums for recorder, cello, violins and harpsichord , but their performances of 18th century pieces by Marais, Rameau, Vivaldi and others posses a swagger and dynamism not a million miles away from Thom Yorke’s boys.

At the Latest Music Bar on Saturday morning, they presented A Sentimental Journey, punctuating the musical performances with quotations from Laurence Sterne’s novel.

Laszlo Rozsa on the recorder tackled the tricky baroque licks with aplomb while violinists James Toll and Guy Botton displayed an unbuttoned flair for period pieces that can feel stale from more self-effacing performers.

Gavin Kelly on cello and Chad Kelly on harpsichord laid a secure floor from which their more florid partners could tackle the dizzy changes in keys and tempo that characterise the enduring appeal of early music.