Trio Lazuli
The Witham, Barnard Castle
NOT for the first time in the welcome Master Musicians series at the Witham there was a slight change to the programme and also a change in title.
An advertised cello sonata was omitted and the Lee Phang Trio has now become the Trio Lazuli.
The musicians, though, were the same, with Lee Jae Phang on piano, Leona Tveite violin and Ángela Zamorano Tardón cello, all post graduate students at the Royal Northern College of Music, giving their first concert in a second North-East tour.
They opened with vigorous, full sounding playing on Beethoven’s Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3.
The second movement variations produced a nice tone from the cello in particular and nimble finger work on the piano.
After a largely energetic Finale, its gentle ending comes almost as a surprise.
Trio Lazuli limited themselves to just the slow second movement of Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 49, which, as the programme notes suggest, sounds rather like one of his Songs Without Words with string accompaniment.
They were well suited to Brahms’ Trio in C major, Op. 87, No. 2, which received a confident, full-blooded performance which brought out much of the richness of the writing.
Peter Bevan
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