Selection of program proposals for recitals in the season 2018/2019:
Cello Solo:
Heaven and Hell
Cello and Piano with pianist Tobias Borsboom
Love and Death Romantic program
Bohemian Rhapsody Czech program
Maître et Apprenti French program with a teacher-pupil line
All-time Favourites Easy-listening romantic cello favourites program
Hungarian Canvas Hungarian cello/piano program, with Kodály cello solo sonata
Cello and Double Bass with double bass player Quirijn van Regteren Altena:
Deep Feelings and Moments Musical
Considerations concerning other repertoire is open for discussions.
See also repertoire list..
Or, feel free to send an email to Pamela via info@pamelasmits.com and she will be happy to contact you directly to consider the various ideas.
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Suite for cello solo |
| Giovanni Sollima | Hell 1. Songs from the Devine Comedy |
| Gaspar Cassadó | Suite per violoncello |
| -Intermission- | |
| Zoltán Kodály | Sonata opus 8 |
This program is possible in combination with a presentation (including audio and video material) by Dr. Albert van der Schoot, professor aestehics and social philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and professor music philosophy of the University of Antwerpen.
| L. van Beethoven | 12 Variations in F major 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen' |
| from Mozart's die Zauberflöte | |
| Franz Schubert | Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D 821 |
| Franz Liszt | Romance Oubliée |
| -intermission- | |
| Franz Liszt | La lugubre gondola |
| Frédéric Chopin | Sonata in G minor opus 65 |
Love and Death: Many of the greatest works of music owes its origin to two cornerstones of life: love and death. And they are often intertwined and used as a source of inspiration. This program leads from simple musical flirtations to workse that contain the full depth of feelings over a lifetime.
| Leoš Janáček | Pohádka (fairytale) |
| Bohuslav Martinů | Variations on a theme by Rossini |
| Antonín Dvořák | Waldesruhe from the Bohemian Forrest opus 68 |
| Antonín Dvořák | Rondo in g minor opus 94 |
| -intermission- | |
| Josef Suk | Ballada and Serenade, opus 3 |
| Antonín Dvořák | Polonaise in A major B.94 |
| Bohuslav Martinů | Sonata for cello and piano nr. 1 |
Bohemian Rhapsody: What makes so much Czech music so irresistible? Is it the charm of the innocent and open-eyed inner child? Or perhaps the fairy-tale magic, spooky and dark atmospheres, and melodies rooted in folk music and dances from Bohemia and Moravia at the time..
| Camille Saint-Saëns | Sonata for cello and piano no. 1 in C minor opus 32 |
| Gabriel Fauré | Romance in A major opus 69 |
| Maurice Ravel | Deux mélodies hébraïques |
| -intermission- | |
| Nadia Boulanger | Trois pièces pour cello et piano |
| Gabriel Fauré | Sonata for cello and piano no. 2 in G minor opus 117 |
| George Enescu | Nocturne and Saltarello |
French music in a concert that follows the line of master to pupil from Saint-Saëns to Fauré to Ravel, Boulanger and Enescu. A program full of french romanticism, Yiddish prayer songs, twinkling stars across the melancholic Parisian sky, and playful virtuosity.
| Franz Liszt | Romance oubliée, S.132 for cello and piano |
| Franz Liszt | Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S. 382 for cello and piano |
| Béla Bartók | Romanian Folk Dances |
| Franz Liszt | La lugubre gondola, S. 135 voor cello and piano |
| David Popper | Hungarian Rhapsody |
| -intermission- | |
| Zoltán Kodály | Sonata for unaccompanied cello, Opus 8 |
All composers represented here were, in their different ways greatly important educators in and outside Hungary. Their influence were of great impact in the world.
| J. Barrière | Sonate à deux |
| J. Massenet | DUO voor contrabas en cello (1883) |
| Jan Hanuš | Divertimento in pensieri |
| Julius Golterman | Souvenirs de Bellini’ für Violoncello and Kontrabass |
| -pauze- | |
| Renato Lemos | Folklore-Duette aus Südamerika |
| A. Schnittke | ‘Hymnus II’ für Violoncello und Kontrabass |
| G. Rossini | Duet in D groot voor cello en contrabas |
Pamela Smits – cello
Quirijn van Regteren Altena - double bass
| Georg Philipp Telemann | Canonic Sonate nr. 1 |
| Vivace | |
| Andante | |
| Allegro | |
| Béla Bartók | 10 Duos uit ’44 Duos für 2 Violin’ |
| Tót Nóta (Slowaks Song) | |
| Ugyan Édes Komámasszony (Teasing Song) | |
| Menuetto | |
| Rutén Nóta (Ruthenian Song) | |
| Párnás Tánc (Pillow Dance) | |
| Mese (Fairy Tale) | |
| Oláh Nóta (Rumanian Song) | |
| Játék (Play Song) | |
| Magyar Nóta (Hungarian Song 1) | |
| Rutén Kolomejka (Ruthenian Kolomejka) | |
| Riccardo Drigo | Serenade |
| Franz von Suppé | Dichter und Bauer |
| Edgar Meyer | Duo for Cello and Double Bass |
| David Ellis | Sonata opus 42 for Unaccompanied Double Bass |
| Franz Schubert | Moment Musical |
| Pjotr Illitsj Tchaikovsky | Barcarolle |
| Benjamin Godard | Berceuse |
| Giovanni Sollima | Hell 1 for cello solo |
| Johan Sebastian Bach | Air uit Suite nr. 3 |
Pamela Smits, cello
Quirijn van Regteren Altena, double bass
