Review: Liebeck, Walton, Grimwood *****

Once again escaping from London, the three outstanding young soloists brought an unassuming spontaneity to their account of Schubert's

Second Piano Trio, the essential melancholy of the opening movement never exaggerated, while the long lyric passages were captured in the most exquisite string playing.

The drama of the finale unleashed Daniel Grimwood's piano with passages of powerful domination, yet throughout the score they brought more joy to the music than we normally encounter.

Bloch's soulful Nigun from the violin of Jack Liebeck, and Tchaikovsky's eloquent Nocturne from Jamie Walton's gorgeous cello, typified their superb quality and faultless intonation to be enjoyed through the whole concert.

From the ethereal and fiendishly difficult cello harmonics that open Shostakovich's Second Piano Trio, this was a meticulously prepared and ideally balanced reading that rivalled the finest on disc. The anger and intense bitterness in the work at times almost boiled over, before they touched us very deeply in the quiet final moments of resignation at the death and destruction of war. A truly great performance.

St Hilda's Church, Whitby