Benjamin Kruithof, violoncello
  • Classical Music

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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!

PERFORMERS

Benjamin Kruithof violoncello

Zhora Sargsyan piano

PROGRAM

Nadia Boulanger
Trois Pièces for Violoncello and Piano

Sally Beamish
Reverie for Cello and Piano

Benjamin Britten
Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in C major, Op. 65

- Interval -

Sergej Rachmaninow
Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in G minor, Op. 19

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