A STERLING start to Clwyd Theatr Cymru's new season of the Aaron and Partners' celebrity classical concerts at Mold was assured when cellist Natalie Clein and pianist Charles Owen got the season going. Both have been heard and seen at the Chester Summer Music Festival. Again they played with top technique and musical inspiration in a programme covering several different centuries of compositions. Ms Clein immediately revealed her gifts with Bach's Suite No 1 in G major for solo cello - she was playing on a 1777 instrument. The duo's version of Beethoven's Cello Sonata in G minor well captured the levity of the piece's contrasting finale. This enviable form was maintained in Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata in G minor where the pianist has ample opportunity to shine in the second movement which here he grabbed with both hands! The cello comes back into its own in the An-dante with the cellist encompassing a range of textures. The same composer's Vocalise, opus 34 reaches fresh lyrical heights in the work's final 'song'. To conclude the concert we're off to Buenos Aires for Le Grand Tango by Piazzolla, lively and captivating in sound, like the dance itself in action. Last tango in Mold! uJohn Lill, the distinguished pianist, gives the next concert on Sunday, October 29. | 
