Kickstart your morning with music from some of the most influential composers of the late 19th and 20th centuries, performed by cellist Benjamin Kruithof.
Keywords: ECHO Rising Stars at 30
| Benjamin Kruithof | Cello |
| Marco Sanna | Piano |
| Nadia Boulanger | Three pieces for cello and piano |
| Maurice Ravel | Pièce en Forme de Habanera |
| Sally Beamish | Reverie (new work) |
| Sergei Rachmaninov | Cello Sonata |
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Each year, the European Concert Hall Organisation selects six Rising Stars and sends them on a journey through its member concert halls. The young stars of 2024/25 also include cellist Benjamin Kruithof, who thanks to his »classy, cantabile and lovely tone« (bachtrack.com) emerged as the winner of the George Enescu Cello Competition in 2022. He can wholeheartedly display this beautiful tone at the Elbphilharmonie. After all, the programme culminates in the almost infinite melodies of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s cello sonata. However, first of all, Kruithof gives the evening a poetic start with the »Trois Pièces« by Nadia Boulanger and then presents his Rising Star commissioned work by British composer Sally Beamish. It continues with music by Benjamin Britten, who always knew how to produce a superb balance of modernity and sensuality in his works. In the five movements of his cello sonata, a real kaleidoscope of moods and textures evolves in which the melodic flair of the cello already appears several times. Rachmaninoff propelled this unrivalled ability to span the broadest arcs in his large-scale sonata to a glittering climax and lets the cello paint sensually over the edge – a fitting end!
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Cellist Benjamin Kruithof performs on a rare 18th-century cello made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini. His repertoire ranges from Nadia Boulanger's impressionistic richness to Benjamin Britten's bizarre sonata and Rachmaninoff's dramatic opus. He'll also premiere a new piece by British composer Sally Beamish with pianist Marco Sanna as part of the ECHO "Rising Stars" series.
Robert Schumann praised Felix Mendelssohn's "Concert Overtures," which condensed symphonic ideas. The Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra, led by Johannes Klumpp, brings to life the Scottish natural forces and Ossian's sagas in the Hebrides Overture. Cellist Benjamin Kruithof joins them for Schumann's Cello Concerto. Schubert's Great C Major Symphony, praised by Schumann for its "heavenly length," crowns the festival.
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