Piano Trio Evening with Antje Weithaas, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen

20.08 Acht nach Acht, VERDO Konzertsaal

Antje Weithaas - violin
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker - cello
Martin Helmchen - piano

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Piano Trio No. 4 op. 90 "Dumky"

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Trio in E-flat minor, Hob. XV:31

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György Kurtág (*1926): Varga Bálint Ligaturája for piano trio

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Piano Trio in E-flat major op. 100, D 929

Violinist Antje Weithaas, recently named "Instrumentalist of the Year 2025" at the Opus Klassik awards, returns to Hitzacker. She is joined by her long-standing trio partners Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen, who last appeared here in 2012.

The programme places Haydn's trio in the remote, five-flat key of E-flat minor at the centre of a journey through Dvořák's Bohemian Dumky songs and dances, the only piano trio by centenary composer György Kurtág - who turned 100 on 19 February this year - and Schubert's expansive E-flat major Trio op. 100. Haydn's music becomes the link between styles that could hardly seem more different, yet speak to one another with remarkable ease.