Sunday morning with Tedi Papavrami, Xavier Phillips and François-Frédéric Guy

Sunday morning concert at the TCE with violinist Tedi Papavrami, cellist Xavier Phillips and pianist François-Frédéric Guy.

I remember the 1st time I saw Tedi Papavrami, who was the first of them I heard in concert: he played a Mozart Violin Concerto under the baton of the tremendous Kurt Sanderling with the wonderful Orchestre de Paris.

The musicians played Leoš Janáček strange and beautiful Violin & Piano Sonata – typical of the late chamber music of the Czech composer -, then Felix Mendelssohn’s 2nd Cello & Piano Sonata with its wonderful Adagio reminiscent of JS Bach.

The 3 musicians joined forces in Robert Schumann’s 1st Piano Trio, with again an absolutely remarkable slow movement, marked “Langsam, mit inniger Empfindung” (slowly, with intimate sensation), that makes you leave yourself behind and travel very far.