Although the Sitkovetsky Trio is currently working on its highly acclaimed cycle of all of Beethoven's trio works, its festival concert in Heidelberg has a completely different musical focus. In spring 2022, the world was shaken by the news of the Butscha massacre. The Ukrainian composer Lena Sierova pauses and commemorates the cruelly deceased with a piano trio. One of Dmitri Shostakovich's most poignant pieces of mourning music is undoubtedly his second Piano Trio in E minor from 1944, which he dedicated to the memory of his friend and musicologist Ivan Sollertinsky and in which the pain of war always resonates. But hope triumphs over suffering in the cantabile Andante of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Piano Trio in D minor.