March 20th 2011
Philip Dukes – 20 years anniversary concert at the Purcell Room
Brahms Trio in A Minor
It is twenty years since Philip Dukes made his Purcell Room debut. He chose to mark the occasion with this afternoon recital, enticing in choice of repertoire and excellent in quality of performance, Dukes enjoying the dedicated collaboration of Piers Lane and Julian Lloyd Webber.
Dukes and Lane were then joined by Julian Lloyd Webber for a rather lovely account of Brahms’s Clarinet Trio, played in its alternative version with viola. This was a caring, sharing performance alive to melancholy and beauty of phrase, brimful of beauty and confidential asides. One may have missed the breath and liquorice of a clarinet, but Lloyd Webber’s contribution was notable for tenderness and poise, and also how the three musicians (one very distinctively playing a viola, one a cello) interacted to bring us the import of this music without harming its essential privacy.
Colin Anderson
