Variations and virtuosity — Yi-Bing Chu, Giovanni Gnocchi + Leonard Elschenbroich
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About the Event
From classical Beethoven to the high romanticism of Tchaikovsky
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.
Yi-Bing Chu 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 his Second sonata, from his early period.
This concert is a part of Everything by Beethoven.