photo Mark Allen
This concert is part of a European summer tour which will also visit the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Helsinki Music Centre and the Lucerne Festival. Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Kevin John Edusie renew their partnership which began in 2017 when conductor, soloist and orchestra made their BBC Proms debut together. This tour features Sheku as soloist in Shostakovich's 2nd Cello Concerto performed alongside Brian's Nabors Pulse which is, in the composer's words, a contemplation of daily life as we know it, combined with thoughts of life in nature, and the programme ends with the first performance in Snape of William Dawson's African-American Folk Symphony which was first performed in 1934 by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski and then revised in 1952 incorporating a rhythmic foundation inspired by the composer's journey to West Africa
Snape Maltings
The orchestra championing diversity in classical music is joined by star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason in Shostakovich's Cello Concerto and more.
Chineke! play orchestral works by two composers from Alabama distanced by almost a century. Brian Nabors' 2019 piece evokes the rhythms of nature around the world. William Dawson's symphony, premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski in 1934 and revised in 1952 following a visit to West Africa, is a brilliantly scored, filmic piece charismatically conveying the tragedy of slavery and the unity of its sufferers. Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins the orchestra to perform Shostakovich's enthralling and much loved cello concerto.
Programme:
Brian Nabors Pulse
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2
William Dawson African-American Folk Symphony
Kevin John Edusei, conductor & Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello