Selby & Friends’ season finale showcases music from Spain, France, Latvia and Germany while highlighting the evolution of chamber music and piano trios in Europe.

The performers are Kathryn Selby, piano; the friends this time are the husband-and-wife team of cellist Julian Smiles and Dimity Hall on violin.

This evening commenced with the Piano Trio No. 2 in B minor, Op. 76 by Joaquín Turina, a Spanish composer who helped create the distinctive national sound of 20th-century Spanish music. Three dramatic measures into the trio, the main theme states its presence. From there, it moves with a strong Spanish passion.

It is a grand, showy and moving piece, and these three highly experienced players bring out its inner depth and clarity in a tempestuous performance. Rapid violin tremolos, crashing piano chords and a strongly plucked cello add to the drama of the work. While quite a short piece, it is all entertainment-plus.

Almost immediately, the melody on the cello lets you know that the next work is Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120. The andantino second movement is a perfect response to the attacking opening allegro. Full of love and swooning, it gives way to a final movement that restlessly...