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Concert Review: Trio Wanderer Play Schumann, Liszt, Ravel at Bargemusic
The French ensemble played a muscular concert of Piano Trios by Schumann and Ravel, along with Liszt's weird and wily "Tristia – La Vallée d'Obermann" and an invigorating encore by Lili Boulanger.