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Two years ago he played Johannes Brahms's Double Concerto with Anne-Sophie Mutter at the opening concert of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. He has appeared with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Fabio Luisi and Christoph Eschenbach, who says of cellist Leonard Elschenbroich: 'He is synonymous with depth, expression, charisma and perfection. The music he plays is the ideal that everyone is seeking.' He has also performed with Dmitri Kitaenko, honorary conductor of the Gürzenich Orchestra. During their Gürzenich concert they will present Camille Saint-Saëns's elegant and voluptuous Cello Concerto No. 1. Kitajenko continues his Tchaikovsky cycle with a surprise – the Symphony in E-flat major, Tchaikovsky's unofficial Seventh, which was reconstructed from sketches and the Third Piano Concerto by composer Semyon Bogatïryov. The concert opens with Darius Milhaud's ballet music La création du monde – a sparkling homage to the jazz of the 1930s and a fireworks display of burlesque melodies and rhythms.