12 Feb. Martha Argerich, Janine Jansen and Mischa Maisky perform for Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia.

These three magnificent soloists play Shostakovich's trio no 2 for piano, violin and cello and Tchaikovsky's trio in A minor. Their concert comes straight after performances in Amsterdam and London with the same programme. The musical friendship between Argerich and Maisky is a long one and it is now enriched by the inclusion of violinist Janine Jansen. Shostakovich's second trio was written during world war two and the Tchaikovsky work, which was written in Rome between December 1881 and January 1882, was composed at the time of the composer's mourning for his friend Nicolai Rubinstein and is his only piano trio.