Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Sergio A. Mims forwards this release from the Lucerne Summer Music Festival in Switzerland:
Lucerne Festival
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
cello
Isata Kanneh-Mason
piano
Luigi Boccherini
(1743–1805)
Sonata for cello and piano in A major, G. 4
Sonata for cello and piano in A major, G. 4
Francis Poulenc
(1899–1963)
Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 143
Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 143
Johannes Brahms
(1833–1897)
Sonata for cello and piano No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
Sonata for cello and piano No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
A string quartet that for the most part comprises siblings –
that happens more often than one might think, as with the Hagen and
Schumann Quartets. But the British family Kanneh-Mason may well be
entirely unique, for all seven children are musicians and perform
together. The most successful of them is the third oldest, who was born
in 1999: the cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who won the BBC Young Musician
of the Year Award in 2016, the first musician of color in 38 years. His
career has skyrocketed, leading to performances with the BBC Proms, the
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and
the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. “Technically superb and eloquent in his
expressivity, Kanneh-Mason held the public spellbound,” wrote The Guardian, while The Times
has praised his powerful, thrilling playing and his exquisite phrasing.
In Lucerne, this rising star will introduce himself, along with his
sister Isata at the piano (his senior by three years), in a program of
works by Boccherini, Poulenc, and Brahms.
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