In the 6^th year of Winland’s participation in the Festival Croisements arts festival, the Sino-French friendship deepened further as people-to-people and artistic exchanges became increasingly intimate. To ring in the summer season, the French Trio Karénine was invited to perform Haydn’s Piano Trio in E Major, Fauré’s Piano Trio in D Minor, as well as Schubert’s Piano Trio in E-flat Major. Haydn’s oeuvre exudes a refreshing and delicate sophistication, and emits an intoxicating ambiance which is at once joyful, vivacious and mesmerizing. Fauré’s chamber pieces give off an air of ingenuity, refinement and sophistication, with some stating that his music, much like the rare commodities being sold along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, give expression to the elegant and lyrical traditional temperament of French music. Meanwhile, Schubert, in his compositions, emphasizes the use of capricious melodies to portray the fluctuations of the soul, resulting in a composition that is as poetic as it is imaginative.