Trio Orelon: Symphonie en miniature

In the organizer's words:

Trio Orelon

Judith Stapf: violin

Arnau Rovira i Bascompte: violoncello

Marco Sanna: piano

Lili Boulanger: "Deux pièces en trio"

Anton Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2, version for piano trio by the composer

She was called a talent of the century in composition, and Lili Boulanger began composing at the age of nine. In her short life, she created music of beguiling depth and lightness. In 1918, shortly before her death, she wrote two pieces for piano trio in her sickbed: haunting testimonies of a sensitive soul in the face of war and her own transience. Arensky's large piano trio is also a lament. In a Russian-Romantic tone, the piece seems to be carried by an infinitely long breath.

With this first half of the concert, the Orelon trio, led by violinist Judith Stapf from Rheinbach, begins the last of the three "Symphonie en miniature" concerts in the Rhein-Sieg district. The three musicians counter the two harrowing trios with Beethoven's light Symphony No. 2 - in a feather-light trio version written by Beethoven himself. Three very different works that oscillate between seriousness and hope, thoughtfulness and lively joie de vivre.