
Willem Jeths Premiere at Cello Biënnale Amsterdam
The Cello Biennale Amsterdam is a ten-day international music festival based around the cello. Under the direction of assistant conductor Giuseppe Mengoli, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra will play a world premiere by Willem Jeths. He composed his Cello Concerto No. 2 ‘Nell Oltretomba’ especially for the Cello Biennale and the German-Canadian soloist Leonard Elschenbroich. Victor Julien-Laferrière is the soloist in Shostakovich’s virtuoso Cello Concerto.
Program
Takemitsu — How Slow the Wind
Jeths — Cello’Concerto no. 2 ‘Nell Oltretomba’
Miloradovic — Variations on Dvořák 8
Sjostakovitsj — Cello Concert No. 1
- Composer(s) Willem Jeths
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Title(s) of the Work(s)
Cello'Concerto no. 2 'Nell Oltretomba'
- Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Giuseppe Mengoli - conductor, Leonard Elschenbroich - soloist cello