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Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet was composed for his wife, Clara, who was an excellent pianist and composer. Felix Mendelssohn played the piano part privately in one of the salons of the time, but it was Clara Schumann who publicly premiered the piano quintet in Leipzig in 1843; and that at a time when it was not appropriate for female musicians to perform in public. But Clara Schumann was an exception, and the artistic milieu a mixture of something conservative and progressive. A piano quintet in itself was progressive, because there were not many before Robert Schumann who had combined the piano with a string quartet. Actually, however, he probably got the idea from Mozart himself, when he had edited his own versions of his piano concertos into quintet format, so that they could be performed under more intimate circumstances.

It is wartime in Europe and in the rest of the world. It cannot be avoided, and the war takes up a lot of our collective consciousness. It is historical, it is close, it is potential, smoldering and actual, it is physical and political. It is blunt and heartbreaking.

Join the great musical centrifuge with this gut-wrenching concert. Never has it been more relevant to mock the urge of Russian intellectuals to express themselves despite changing oppressive regimes – an unfortunately recurring relevant theme. Shostakovich had to wait until after Stalin's death to have his daring and emotionally charged 1st Violin Concerto premiered - with a solo part so demanding that David Oistrach himself had to ask the composer for just an 8-measure break at the start of the 3rd movement because in it at least to be able to wipe the sweat from the forehead! It is a wild concert on all parameters – not least the 6-minute long solo cadenza is unique in the repertoire.

Take your favorite stuffed animal or your favorite teddy bear in hand and come with us to the teddy bear concert. Once again, we open the doors to our large musical playhouse and welcome children, adults and teddy bears of all shapes and sizes to our teddy bear journey with the Odense Symphony Orchestra. For the first Teddy bear concert of the year, the teddy bears will be sent on winter holiday with easy-to-listen music that suits the season.

Films must be seen in the cinema, but their fantastic music MUST be enjoyed in the concert hall with a huge symphony orchestra that envelops you in cinematic surround sound. Close your eyes and let your favorite scenes run before your inner gaze, while our large orchestra provides the soundtrack for you. For a classic movie night, only the best is good enough; and we've gone through the vast DVD collection to find some of the most enchanting, immersive, dramatic and recognizable background music from some of the world's best films and composers such as Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Jerry Goldschmidt and many more. And for that not to be enough, we have also teamed up with a large choir, which ensures that we can turn the sound and intensity all the way up to 11.

If you are curious about classical music, this concert is the perfect place to start, when the Odense Symphony Orchestra dazzles two of classical music's greatest hits in one and the same concert. Grieg's iconic piano concerto looms large in the little Norwegian's production as a mountain of good sound and good melodies that reflect his love for nature and longing for his homeland; it was written in Søllerød in flat Denmark, but oozes Norwegian expanses, granite and musical whey cheese, and the Nordic master melodik shows his full potential here already from the first, shattering A minor chord, which is known far outside the confines of classical music .

Based on the popular TV series 'Sigurd and the Symphony Orchestra', we open the door to the fantastic universe of the orchestra. Together with all of Denmark's Sigurd, we focus sharply on the many diverse instruments, each of which can do something very special, and which together create the great symphonic sound, so that we are all blown back in our seats. We will of course also sing along to 'Symfo-én, Symfo-two, Symfo-tre', when the Odense Symphony Orchestra and a large children's choir with well-singing children from all over Funen dive headlong into the music together with the always exuberant Sigurd. Come and feel the joy of music bubbling from the 300 performers on stage in an experience that can be felt - and taken home with you.

Four Eastern European composers complement each other with works that are very different in both instrumentation and expression – from Prokofiev's quintet for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and double bass to Janáček's 1st string quartet, nicknamed Kreuzer after Tolstoy's novel, with reference to Beethoven's violin sonata. Where Janácek's programmatic work has a romantic expression, Prokofiev's is more modern; almost circus-like. Originally the latter was composed for a dance performance, but the music is said to have been too complicated for the dancers; fortunately the work has survived. Both of these works were composed in the early twenties – 1923 and 24 respectively.

If you're also a fan of musicals, you can start looking forward to it. Odense Theater and Odense Symphony Orchestra welcome you to A world of musicals, where you can settle in and enjoy hits from the biggest musicals written by the best composers.