Photo: Mark Allan
This concert is part of a European summer tour which will also visit Snape Maltings, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Helsinki Music Centre. 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 Lucerne 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.
Performers
Chineke! Orchestra
Kevin John Edusei, conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Programme
Brian Nabors: Pulse
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 2
Interval
William Dawson: African- American Folk Symphony