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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

BoldComposer
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

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

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.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio no. 43 in C major, Hob XV:27
Edward Elgar, arr. Linos Piano Trio: Serenade for Strings
Interval
Byrd and Purcell, arr. Linos Piano Trio: Selections of Songs
Frank Bridge: Piano Trio no. 2