Double Image is a quartet that specialises in performing trios.
In Brighton it alternated its clarinettist with its violin player for a programme of works by Beethoven and Glinka along with a world premiere by Nicola LeFanu.
Pianist David Carhart, violinist Sophie Langdon, cellist Miriam Lowery and clarinettist Andrew Sparling are veteran musicians and it shows in their music-making.
Beethoven's Clarinet Trio was given a smooth workout with the diminutive Carhart getting a superb sound from his Steinway while the clarinet added bags of colour in a seemingly effortless way.
It is a joyous piece and these players wrung all the passion out of it that they possibly could.
The violin replaced the clarinet for the world premiere of Nicola LeFanu's Piano Trio, a much darker and more sombre piece but full of light and shade and touches of sheer lyricism.
It is a complicated work that must be fiendish to perform, requiring some notes to be bent so out of shape as to be unrecognisable.
The recital closed with a trio by Glinka. Here the clarinet stepped back into the limelight for this jolly romp of a Russian piece putting the audience well into the mood to spend the afternoon amid the Streets Of Brighton acts.
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