The London-based Linos Trio is renowned for rearranging orchestral works for piano trio, recreating them as chamber pieces. This strategy, which they refer to as ‘stolen music’, reimagines these pieces’ musical character and makes them accessible to a wider audience.

This concert, in which pianist Kathryn Selby is joined by the incoming concertmaster of the MSO, Natalie Chee, and cellist Benett Tsai, opens with a performance of the Linos Trio’s arrangement of Debussy’s gorgeous Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune.

Debussy’s piece is more than melody and harmony, it’s also instrumental colour, texture, sonority and so on — so how might a piano trio recreate the ethereal sounds of the flute, harp and the other winds that elicit the impressionistic feel of this masterpiece? In the Linos arrangement, the violin carries the flute’s voice at the opening, later the cello takes the melodic line, and the tinkling piano provides much of the orchestration.

But this is not merely a rearrangement or reduction — it’s almost a new piece of music, as if thought through from the ground up, and it’s enchanting. Natalie Chee makes her violin shimmer, Benett Tsai uses vibrato to great effect, and Kathryn Selby’s piano sparkles like dappled sunlight on...