Portraits - Shostakovich. Wamper. Coppens

If sound is color, and time is space, composers and musicians can be painters. On its electrifying debut CD Portraits, the Belgian-Dutch Mosa Trio interprets three pictures: Shostakovitch's desolately intense tombeau for a friend (the Piano Trio No. 2 of 1944), Sam Wamper's scintilating portrait of his beloved (2015), and Mathias Coppens' versatile celebration of listeners and performers (2015). Whether painting or playing, the Mosa Trio pays a generous homage to the coloristic and expressive power of the modern piano trio.