Cellist Gavriel Lipkind, born into an Israeli Russian immigrant family, currently lives in Germany. He studied in Tel Aviv, Frankfurt and Boston, has worked together with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Pinchas Zukerman and Yehudi Menuhin, has worked with some of the greatest orchestras and holds master classes around the world. For this performance he will play two works with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra: Schumann’s classic Cello Concerto in A minor, in a rarely performed arrangement for string orchestra written in the 19th century, and Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei, composed to Hebrew melodies. These two works are complemented by a virtuosic orchestral composition by Edward Elgar and one of the finest pieces in the oeuvre of Schubert, the String Quartet in D minor (in the string orchestral version by Gustav Mahler).