Variations and virtuosity
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Wed 4 Nov 202616:30 - 17:30Grote Zaal
1 Normaal € 29,00 CJP € 23,00 Stadspas € 23,00 Early Bird (13-30jr) € 12,50 2 Normaal € 23,00 CJP € 23,00 Stadspas € 23,00 Early Bird (13-30jr) € 12,50
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven Twelve variations on Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen / Cello Sonata No. 2
Giacomo Rossini Une larme
Frédéric Chopin Introduction et Polonaise brillante (arr. Maurice Gendron)
Pjotr Tsjaikovski Pezzo capriccioso (arr. Maurice Gendron)
Credits
Chu Yi-Bing cello
Giovanni Gnocchi cello
Leonard Elschenbroich cello
Alexei Grynyuk piano
Frank van de Laar piano
The Italian cellist Giovanni Gnocchi performs two compositions of variations on a theme. Beethoven borrowed the aria Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen from Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte. Opera composer Rossini used his own theme Une larme (originally for double bass and piano) to let the cello sing and frolic in all registers.
Chu Yi-Bing brings a homage to his former professor, the French cellists Maurice Gendron, who gave an extra virtuosic twist to well-known works by Chopin and Tchaikovsky. Leonard Elsenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk formidably recorded all of Beethoven’s works in 2019, and they will now play one of the first sonatas for cello and piano in which the cello features as an equal to the piano.
This concert is a part of Everything by Beethoven.
