Cello quintets with Kalle de Bie, Anatasia feruleva, Ella van Paucke and Alexander Warenberg. With Maria Warenberg, Soprano.

Solo program featuring Bach and Kodály. For Johann Sebastian Bach, one cello was enough to conjure up a world of music and dance. He wrote the necessary notes, and the listener had to think about the rest. In his 6 suites for cello he exploits all the expressive and technical possibilities that the instrument has to offer. Of these, the sixth is still the most overwhelming, perhaps because it was composed for a five-string cello. An extra challenge for the modern cellist, who has to perform it on 4 strings. Two hundred years later, Zoltan Kodály achieved a similar feat with his sonata for solo cello. Lidy Blijdorp received two Edisons for her CD with this majestic solo sonata. The composer literally takes you on a train journey, like the one he took so often: first with his father, the station master, and later with his colleague Bartók, in search of the folk music of Eastern Europe. They can be found in his sonata, the quiet, dark meditations and the cheerful, lively folk tunes.

23:10 - 23:35: To counter the improv frenzy, classical musicians Lidy Blijdorp and Olga Caceanova will present solo and duo works for cello and violin. Castillo Interior by Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks is dedicated to mystic Teresa von Ávila. It combines meditative renaissance-like sounds with more turbulent parts, symbolizing the contrast between inner spirituality and the outside world. Plus solo works for cello and violin by J.S. Bach, and Baladă și joc by Ligeti, based on Romanian folk songs Olga Caceanova violin, Lidy Blijdorp cello

The many courtyards in Leiden present an attractive and surprising open-air stage for 150 of concerts in two days.