Trio Gaspard: Symphonie en miniature

In the organizer's words:

Adam Walker: Flute

Trio Gaspard

Jonian Ilias Kadesha: violin

Vashti Hunter: Violoncello

Nicholas Rimmer: piano

Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio Hob. XV:23

Bohuslav Martinů: Piano Trio No. 2

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, version for piano trio and flute by Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Cast-iron struts and shed roof: Mey's factory once produced agricultural machinery, today the clinker brick building serves as a charming venue for the Beethoven Festival. The first concert takes place here in the Rhein-Sieg district. This year, the principle of "Symphonie en miniature" is the common thread running through three concerts in the Bonn area - Beethoven's symphonies in an ultra-small format! The Gaspard Trio, with the exceptional violinist Jonia Ilias Kadesha and the versatile flautist Adam Walker, will perform the quartet version of Beethoven's Fifth. In this intimate form, the powerful "Symphony of Fate" sounds transformed.

They combine two trios in melancholy D minor by Joseph Haydn and Bohuslav Martinů, whose work is unjustly relegated to a shadowy existence in the repertoire. The Czech composer, once expelled from the Prague Conservatory for "incorrigible negligence", was one of the spearheads of his country's composers decades later - although he himself said: "I was never an avant-gardist". In 1950, while in exile in America, he wrote the Piano Trio, which makes his longing for his Slavic homeland palpable.