Events

Enlightenment

with Emily Ross (oboe) and N. N. (viola)

Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 11
Interval
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arr. C. F. G. Schwencke: Serenade No.10 in B flat Major K.361, Gran Partita

Puss in Boots

Concerts for Cologne’s youngest music fans! We offer families with children the opportunity to experience classical music of an international caliber up close – freely and in a relaxed atmosphere! Dancing, laughing, sleeping, playing – anything goes! We’re also hosting another story time, this year featuring the fairy tale ” Puss in Boots ,” accompanied by music from Mozart, Mendelssohn-Hensel, Beethoven, and many more. Come and immerse yourself in the world of fairy tales!

Unreal

with Shira Patchornik (soprano), Emily Ross (oboe), N. N. (viola), Jacopo Giovannini (piano)

Alvin Lucier: Nothing is Real
Erik Satie: Gymnopédie no. 3
Francis Poulenc: Songs from La Courte Paille and Fiançailles pour rire
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: Moro, lasso, al mio duolo
Justina Repečkaitė: Echoes III
Francis Poulenc: Cello Sonata
Interval
John Cage: Living Room Music
Francis Poulenc: Songs from Banalités and Fiançailles pour rire
Erik Satie: Gnossienne No. 3
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: Beltà, poi che t’assenti
Benjamin Britten: Phantasy Quartet
Erik Satie, arr. Linos Piano Trio, after Debussy: Gymnopédie no. 1

Puss in Boots

Concerts for Cologne’s youngest music fans! We offer families with children the opportunity to experience classical music of an international caliber up close – freely and in a relaxed atmosphere! Dancing, laughing, sleeping, playing – anything goes! We’re also hosting another story time, this year featuring the fairy tale ” Puss in Boots ,” accompanied by music from Mozart, Mendelssohn-Hensel, Beethoven, and many more. Come and immerse yourself in the world of fairy tales!

Aurea Terra

with Weerakit Suwanphithak (Southeast Asian Percussion)

Claude Debussy, arr. Linos Piano Trio: La Mer
Chinary Ung: Khse Buon
Bela Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin, Sz. 117, III. Melodia
Traditional Thai Music
Prach Boondiskulchok: Burmese Days Suite – World Premiere

with Marcus Ledwig (dancer):

»Tanz, tanz, tanz!«

It is quiet – my body is sleepy, nothing is moving… But there! The first note! I feel a tingling sensation in my legs, my feet are fidgeting, my shoulders are twitching up and down. I want to jump up, hop, spin around…

In this concert for all the senses, the Linos Piano Trio brings dance music to life. Together with the audience, the three musicians and a dancer discover how music moves our bodies. When does it make our hearts beat faster, when does it relax our muscles? Why do we sometimes want to dance along? And sometimes just listen in peace?

The trio of violin, cello and piano invites young and old alike to experience music up close and personal and become part of it themselves.

with Marcus Ledwig (dancer):

»Tanz, tanz, tanz!«

It is quiet – my body is sleepy, nothing is moving… But there! The first note! I feel a tingling sensation in my legs, my feet are fidgeting, my shoulders are twitching up and down. I want to jump up, hop, spin around…

In this concert for all the senses, the Linos Piano Trio brings dance music to life. Together with the audience, the three musicians and a dancer discover how music moves our bodies. When does it make our hearts beat faster, when does it relax our muscles? Why do we sometimes want to dance along? And sometimes just listen in peace?

The trio of violin, cello and piano invites young and old alike to experience music up close and personal and become part of it themselves.

with Marcus Ledwig (dancer):

»Tanz, tanz, tanz!«

It is quiet – my body is sleepy, nothing is moving… But there! The first note! I feel a tingling sensation in my legs, my feet are fidgeting, my shoulders are twitching up and down. I want to jump up, hop, spin around…

In this concert for all the senses, the Linos Piano Trio brings dance music to life. Together with the audience, the three musicians and a dancer discover how music moves our bodies. When does it make our hearts beat faster, when does it relax our muscles? Why do we sometimes want to dance along? And sometimes just listen in peace?

The trio of violin, cello and piano invites young and old alike to experience music up close and personal and become part of it themselves.

with Marcus Ledwig (dancer):

»Tanz, tanz, tanz!«

It is quiet – my body is sleepy, nothing is moving… But there! The first note! I feel a tingling sensation in my legs, my feet are fidgeting, my shoulders are twitching up and down. I want to jump up, hop, spin around…

In this concert for all the senses, the Linos Piano Trio brings dance music to life. Together with the audience, the three musicians and a dancer discover how music moves our bodies. When does it make our hearts beat faster, when does it relax our muscles? Why do we sometimes want to dance along? And sometimes just listen in peace?

The trio of violin, cello and piano invites young and old alike to experience music up close and personal and become part of it themselves.

with Marcus Ledwig (dancer):

»Tanz, tanz, tanz!«

It is quiet – my body is sleepy, nothing is moving… But there! The first note! I feel a tingling sensation in my legs, my feet are fidgeting, my shoulders are twitching up and down. I want to jump up, hop, spin around…

In this concert for all the senses, the Linos Piano Trio brings dance music to life. Together with the audience, the three musicians and a dancer discover how music moves our bodies. When does it make our hearts beat faster, when does it relax our muscles? Why do we sometimes want to dance along? And sometimes just listen in peace?

The trio of violin, cello and piano invites young and old alike to experience music up close and personal and become part of it themselves.

with Marcus Ledwig (dancer):

»Tanz, tanz, tanz!«

It is quiet – my body is sleepy, nothing is moving… But there! The first note! I feel a tingling sensation in my legs, my feet are fidgeting, my shoulders are twitching up and down. I want to jump up, hop, spin around…

In this concert for all the senses, the Linos Piano Trio brings dance music to life. Together with the audience, the three musicians and a dancer discover how music moves our bodies. When does it make our hearts beat faster, when does it relax our muscles? Why do we sometimes want to dance along? And sometimes just listen in peace?

The trio of violin, cello and piano invites young and old alike to experience music up close and personal and become part of it themselves.

with Marcus Ledwig (dancer):

»Tanz, tanz, tanz!«

It is quiet – my body is sleepy, nothing is moving… But there! The first note! I feel a tingling sensation in my legs, my feet are fidgeting, my shoulders are twitching up and down. I want to jump up, hop, spin around…

In this concert for all the senses, the Linos Piano Trio brings dance music to life. Together with the audience, the three musicians and a dancer discover how music moves our bodies. When does it make our hearts beat faster, when does it relax our muscles? Why do we sometimes want to dance along? And sometimes just listen in peace?

The trio of violin, cello and piano invites young and old alike to experience music up close and personal and become part of it themselves.

with Marcus Ledwig (dancer):

»Tanz, tanz, tanz!«

It is quiet – my body is sleepy, nothing is moving… But there! The first note! I feel a tingling sensation in my legs, my feet are fidgeting, my shoulders are twitching up and down. I want to jump up, hop, spin around…

In this concert for all the senses, the Linos Piano Trio brings dance music to life. Together with the audience, the three musicians and a dancer discover how music moves our bodies. When does it make our hearts beat faster, when does it relax our muscles? Why do we sometimes want to dance along? And sometimes just listen in peace?

The trio of violin, cello and piano invites young and old alike to experience music up close and personal and become part of it themselves.

with Marcus Ledwig (dancer):

»Tanz, tanz, tanz!«

It is quiet – my body is sleepy, nothing is moving… But there! The first note! I feel a tingling sensation in my legs, my feet are fidgeting, my shoulders are twitching up and down. I want to jump up, hop, spin around…

In this concert for all the senses, the Linos Piano Trio brings dance music to life. Together with the audience, the three musicians and a dancer discover how music moves our bodies. When does it make our hearts beat faster, when does it relax our muscles? Why do we sometimes want to dance along? And sometimes just listen in peace?

The trio of violin, cello and piano invites young and old alike to experience music up close and personal and become part of it themselves.

Sacred and Profane

Not an immediate image of Beethoven in the popular imagination, but he was a master of juxtaposing the sacred and the profane. Often letting the profane and humour have the last words, as is the case in his culminating final piano trio Op. 97 that was the last piece he performed in public.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in G major, op. 1, no. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Beethoven: Scherzo and Finale, from Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 36
Interval
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat major, op. 97, Archduke

Sturm und Drang

Haydn famously didn’t like Beethoven’s extreme dramatic style in Op. 1/3, but we trace the opening theme back to Haydn’s own String Quartet. The “storm” topic continues to inspire Beethoven to experiment with cloudy sounds in the Ghost trio.

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Franz Joseph Haydn, arr. Linos Piano Trio: Quartet no. 25 in C major, op. 20, no. 2, Hob.III:32, Capriccio: Adagio
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in C minor, op. 1, no. 3
Interval
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in D Major, op. 70, no. 1, Ghost

Pre-concert talk

In 2024-2025, the Linos Piano Trio recorded the complete Beethoven Trios on three different historical instruments, tracing the technological changes throughout the composer’s life.
The trio will discuss how its interpretation of these works have transformed in the process, and how the cycle at Leiden Stadsgehoorzaal takes a further step of combining the original works with various symphonic transcriptions.

Eroica (or Heroic)
The “heroic” topic was prevalent around 1800 as Europe was entangled in the Napoleonic wars.
Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony has come to be a flag bearer of this movement in music. In the same key of E-flat, we hear echoes of the revolutionary sentiments in both Op. 1/1 and Op. 70/2.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 1, no. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Linos Piano Trio: Finale from Symphony no. 3 in E flat major, op. 55, Eroica
Interval
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 70, no. 2

Prinz Louis Ferdinand: Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 3, Allegro espressivo
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 70, no. 2
Interval
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat major, op. 97, Archduke

With Ramón Gardella (percussion)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 70, no. 2
Miles Walter: New Commission
Interval
Prach Boondiskulchok: Aurea Terra Suite
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, arr. Linos Piano Trio: Nutcracker Suite, op. 71a

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
Concerts for Cologne’s young music fans! We give families with children the opportunity to experience classical music at an international level up close – completely free of charge and in a relaxed atmosphere! Dancing, laughing, sleeping, playing – everything is allowed! This year, we invite you to a reading hour where Hoffmann’s story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s music, and where children have the chance to participate in the performance.

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
Concerts for Cologne’s young music fans! We give families with children the opportunity to experience classical music at an international level up close – completely free of charge and in a relaxed atmosphere! Dancing, laughing, sleeping, playing – everything is allowed! This year, we invite you to a reading hour where Hoffmann’s story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s music, and where children have the chance to participate in the performance.

In partnership with SWR

Franz Joseph Haydn, arr. Linos Piano Trio: Quartet no. 25 in C major, op. 20, no. 2, Hob.III:32, Capriccio: Adagio
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in C minor, op. 1, no. 3
Interval
Daniel Steibelt, arr. Linos Piano Trio: Rondo Pastoral op. 33, L’Orage
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in D Major, op. 70, no. 1, Ghost

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in D Major, op. 70, no. 1, Ghost
Paul Dukas, arr. Linos Piano Trio: L’apprenti sorcier
Interval
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 11

Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 120
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 11
Interval
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, arr. Linos Piano Trio: Nutcracker Suite
Paul Dukas, arr. Linos Piano Trio: L’apprenti sorcier

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in G major, op. 1, no. 2
Felix Mendelssohn: Three Songs without Words
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 11

In partnership with SWR

Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in E flat major, Hob.XV:11, Tempo di Menuetto
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 1, no. 1
Interval
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Piano Trio in G major, Wq. 90, no. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in G major, op. 1, no. 2

With Quatour Zaïde, Mireia Coma Casellas (violin), and Eleanor Kendra James (viola)

When it comes to songs, we think directly of the lyrics. But if there is no text, an infinite number of new possible meanings arise for the song. The famous songs without words by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn express this through their extremely sensitive and melodic musical language. With their songs, the Mendelssohn siblings offer the audience a unique, personal approach to music and an insight into their relationship with each other in a similar yet very different way.

Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 11, movement. ii, Andante Espressivo
Prach Boondiskulchok: Piano Trio no. 2, Songs without Words
Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet no. 1 in E flat major, op. 12
Interval
Fanny Mendelssohn: Songs without Words op. 6 no. 1
Felix Mendelssohn: String Octet in E flat major, op. 20

Concerts for Cologne’s little music fans! We give families with children the opportunity to experience a classical concert at an international level up close – completely free and in a relaxed atmosphere! Dancing, laughing, sleeping, playing – everything is allowed! Come along on a musical adventure where the melodies of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Beethoven and many more will let your imagination fly free.
For ages 6+. Siblings and friends are of course welcome!

With Carmen Konopka (actor) and Hannah Schareck (director)

An engineer who builds pianos in the 19th century. Nannette tells the life story of Nannette Streicher, who became one of the most famous piano makers of her time thanks to her skill and ability as an engineer and businesswoman. The piece also honours the influence she had on the music of one of the most important composers of the Classical and Romantic periods: Ludwig van Beethoven.

Concerts for Cologne’s little music fans! We give families with children the opportunity to experience a classical concert at an international level up close – completely free and in a relaxed atmosphere! Dancing, laughing, sleeping, playing – everything is allowed! Come along on a musical adventure where the melodies of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Beethoven and many more will let your imagination fly free.
For up to 5 years old. Siblings and friends are of course welcome!

Concerts for Cologne’s little music fans! We give families with children the opportunity to experience a classical concert at an international level up close – completely free and in a relaxed atmosphere! Dancing, laughing, sleeping, playing – everything is allowed! Come along on a musical adventure where the melodies of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Beethoven and many more will let your imagination fly free.
For up to 5 years old.Siblings and friends are of course welcome!

Concerts for Cologne’s little music fans! We give families with children the opportunity to experience a classical concert at an international level up close – completely free and in a relaxed atmosphere! Dancing, laughing, sleeping, playing – everything is allowed! Come along on a musical adventure where the melodies of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Beethoven and many more will let your imagination fly free.

For ages 6+. Siblings and friends are of course welcome!