These spirited, cheap and short lunchtime concerts held in the simple environment and acoustic of the Chapel Royal are a real hallmark of the fringe. This years programme offers the same combination of well known favourites and others rather more forgotten. This years theme is ‘Mostly Mozart’, and the season started with the vibrant Greenwich Piano Trio who’s youthful and energetic playing brought the Trio K564 in G bouncing into life.

Yoko Misumi’s piano was a revelation and along with the other two superb musicians in this trio, Lana Trotovsek on violin and Stjepan Hauser on cello they teased out the uncomplicated domesticity of this piece, It’s not as intimate compared to Mozart’s previous work in this genre but the Greenwich Trio gave it a fresh invention and tightness that perhaps the shortness, seemingly lightness and gaiety of the G major score of the piece deserves.

If you’ve not managed to catch one of these concerts yet, do so, the program is varied, the seats are comfy, it’s right in the middle of town and the tickets are (a bargain), just £2.50 to listen to musicians of this calibre.

Well done Chapel Royal on a lovely concert but perhaps you could get the grumpy dismissive folk on the door to smile at the punters from behind their table of leaflets, it does so help to build the right atmosphere.

Concerts run every Tuesday from 1.10pm to 1.55pm

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Tickets, info and the Chapel Royals year long programme can be found here: