Chameleon colours from Batiashvili, Capuçon and Thibaudet

By Mark Pullinger, 13 November 2018

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“like the aroma of an elegant perfume that wafts past and then evaporates almost instantly”

Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 12 November 2018

Shostakovich, Piano Trio no. 1 in C minor, Op.8

Ravel, Piano Trio in A minor

Mendelssohn, Piano Trio no. 2 in C minor, Op.66

Tchaikovsky, Net, tol'ko tot, kto znal (None but the lonely heart), Op.6 no.6

Shostakovich, Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor, Op.67 (Allegro con brio)

Lisa Batiashvili, Violin

Gautier Capuçon, Cello

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano

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****1

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Morlot's evening of French music charms Seattle

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Chameleon colours from Batiashvili, Capuçon and Thibaudet at the Barbican