Last night saw the latest in a series of excellent ongoing chamber music programs featuring the finest of local musicians, replacing advertised recitals that could not go ahead as scheduled because of the unavailability of some artists due to ongoing interstate lockdowns. For this concert, the fine first desk Adelaide Symphony Orchestra cellist Simon Cobcroft replaced the Seraphim Trio’s usual cellist, Tim Nankervis. So effective  and sympathetic a chamber musician was he that he dovetailed effortlessly with the always dependable pianist Anna Goldsworthy and top-flight violinist Helen Ayres.

Anna Goldsworthy, Helen Ayres and Simon Cobcroft. Photos supplied

Here was a a trio which seemingly breathed as one, so in tune with each other were its members, again proving just what fine local musicians we have access to. In a program consisting of Haydn’s late C major Piano Trio and perhaps Beethoven’s finest work in the genre, the formidable large scaled ‘Archduke’. Here was a recital which was eloquent, passionate and big boned yet marked by empathy and balance, played without intermission.

These works proved an ideal coupling with Haydn’s late Trio in C major, H.27 and Ludwig van’s broad structured...