The music of this concert is very visual. It will include a first performance of Per Nørgård, a moving Smetana and a sweet Mozart.In his notes for this piece being performed for the first time, Per Nørgård writes that it is a question of “fragments – dream-images changing between light and darkness, fast and slow – but sharing introspective melodious features. As in the world of dreams, the images are vague, exploratory and full of atmosphere.”Smetana lost his four-year-old daugther in 1855. The Piano Trio is a deeply moving depiction of the pain of the loss juxtaposed with beautiful passages perceived as sunny memories of the child.The 19th century’s Mozart was the sobriquet Schumann coined for Mendelssohn, a moniker he probably was quite happy with. Typical for this composer is the melodic sweetness which we experience again and again in the Piano Trio in C minor.Trio con Brio CopenhagenJens Elvekjær and the Korean sisters Soo-Jin Hong (violin) and Soo-Kyung Hong (cello) have established themselves as one of the finest chamber ensembles on the international concert stage.Programme:Per Nørgård (1932- ): Trio breve – Three fragments (after a dream) 2012. First performanceBedřich Smetana (1824-1884): Piano Trio in G minor, op. 15Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Piano Trio in C minor, op. 66