On the evening of March 21, cellist Florian Kitt and pianist Carlos Rivera performed a classical cello & piano duet at Beihang Sunrise Concert Hall, providing a feast for the ears of music lovers.

Accompanying the exponents’ superb skills and diverse musical styles, four classical works—Piano and Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 102, No. 1 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 4 by Zoltan Kodaly, Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor by Claude Debussy, and Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99 by Johannes Brahms—were presented at the concert, bringing extraordinary artistic enjoyment for the viewers. Throughout the whole show, the audience was exposed to an unparalleled exchange of arts, culture and knowledge, and they finally burst into rapturous applause for the players’ exquisite performance and remarkable skills after the show.

As The Daily Telegraph London once commented, “Kitt’s performance was masterly, a blazingly impressive exhibition of really big playing, one which obviously relished the interpretative and technical challenge of the music.” The Strad London also praised Kitt as “one of the best exponents of the contemporary cello repertoire.”

Reported and edited by Song Chao

Translated by Lyu Xingyun