Repertoire
ECHO Rising Stars. Nominated by Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam with Philharmonie du Luxembourg
Nadia Boulanger: Three pieces for cello and piano (1917)
Sally Beamish: New Work. National premiere
Sergei Rachmaninov: Sonata in G for cello and piano, op. 19 (1901)
ARTISTS
Benjamin Kruithof, cello
Zora Sargsyan, piano
Programme
Nadia Boulanger is distinguished as the teacher of many of the twentieth century’s key musicians. Her list of outstanding pupils is so long that no one, even today, has equalled it. But her work as a composer, which she devoted her early career to, has been almost unnoticed. We will discover this facet of her talent with a gem of a trilogy: her Three pieces for cello and piano.Rachmaninoff’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 19 is the Russian composer’s great chamber music duo. Rapturous melodies in a discourse of high dramatic intensity create a score that achieves the finest possible balance between the two instruments. The Luxembourger Benjamin Kruithof, elected Rising Star by ECHO (European Concert Hall Organisation), with Zhora Sargsyan at the piano, completes the programme. He will play his 18th century Guadagnini cello in the Spanish premiere of a new work by Sally Beamish (1956), the eclectic British composer and violist.
