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Benjamin Kruithof, violoncello

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Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 19:30
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,... Read full text

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Info & Ticket (www.elbphilharmonie.de)
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Musicians

Benjamin KruithofCello
Zhora SargsyanPiano

Program

Nadia BoulangerTrois Pièces for Violoncello and Piano
Sally BeamishReverie for Cello and Piano / commissioned by Het Concertgebouw, Philharmonie Luxembourg and the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO)
Benjamin BrittenSonata for Violoncello and Piano in C major, Op. 65
Sergei RachmaninoffSonata for Violoncello and Piano in G minor, Op. 19
Sergei RachmaninoffVocalise / from: 14 Songs, Op. 34
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