ensemble recherche has been played over 30 times on NTS, first on 1 February 2016. ensemble recherche's music has been featured on 15 episodes.

The Ensemble Recherche is a distinguished ensemble of musicians specialized in contemporary classical music founded in 1985. The ensemble's repertoire begins in the late 19th century and extends from French Impressionism to the Second Viennese School and the Expressionists to the Darmstadt School, French Spectralism and the avant-garde experiments in contemporary music.

The nine members of the ensemble take part not only in extensive concert programme, but also in in music theatre projects, radio broadcasts and film productions, gives courses for instrumentalists and composers and offers up-and-coming musicians insight into its rehearsal work.