A Fauré into the emotional

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Each autumn, a series of concerts takes place in the hospital complex, either in the Council Chamber of the State Apartments - an exquisite oakpanelled room designed by Wren - or in the equally magnificent Chapel.

This season's opening concert, in the architecturally splendid yet intimate Council Chamber, featured three of the country's finest young musicians masquerading under the unassuming name of the Consort Piano Trio.

Naomi Williams, who regularly leads the cellos of the Royal Opera orchestra, has a wonderfully rounded, mellow tone, nicely offset by the distinctive, pleasantly astringent tone of violinist Alexandra Wood (who leads the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group), while Huw Watkins binds the ensemble together with his fluent virtuosity.

The Beethoven Variations in G major on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu offered a warm-up for the trio which really got into its stride with FaurÈ's Piano Trio in D minor.

Alert to the work's psychological complexity as well as its emotional turmoil, the players brought consummate musicianship to bear in a reading of FaurÈ's late masterpiece that ideally combined resurgent passion and autumnal resignation.

The lyrical ardour of Mendelssohn's D minor Piano Trio is always irresistible, especially in an account as genial and warm-hearted as this, but the elfin lightness of the Scherzo drew an appreciative chuckle from the audience. Four events still to come in venues well worth investigating.

Information: 020 7881 5305, www.chelsea-pensioners.co.uk.

Faure piano trio
Royal Hospital Chelsea
London
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