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Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Dvo艡谩k鈥檚 Cello Concerto

Live 大象传媒 Proms: Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in music by Grace-Evangeline Mason, Richard Strauss and Dvo艡谩k鈥檚 Cello Concerto with Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

Live at the 大象传媒 Proms: Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in music by Grace-Evangeline Mason, Richard Strauss and Dvo艡谩k鈥檚 Cello Concerto with Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly

Grace-Evangeline Mason: The Imagined Forest (大象传媒 co-commission with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: world premiere)
Dvo艡谩k: Cello Concerto in B minor

c. 8.25pm
Interval
Pianist David Owen Norris explores musical re-workings through the centuries.

c. 8.45pm
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Domingo Hindoyan

Former 大象传媒 Young Musician winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason returns to the Proms as the soloist in Dvo艡谩k鈥檚 Cello Concerto. A new Proms commission written for the Royal Albert Hall鈥檚 150th anniversary by former 大象传媒 Young Composer winner Grace-Evangeline Mason contrasts with two scintillating orchestral showpieces 鈥 Hindemith鈥檚 jovial reworking of themes by Weber for what was initially intended as a ballet, and Richard Strauss鈥檚 colourful take on the Spanish lothario Don Juan. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra makes its first Proms appearance under its new Chief Conductor, Domingo Hindoyan.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Cello Concerto in B minor

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
  • Burt Bacharach

    I Say a Little Prayer

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason.
  • Richard Strauss

    Don Juan

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
  • Paul Hindemith

    Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
  • Samuel Sebastian Wesley

    Holsworthy Church Bells (Air with Variations)

    Performer: James McVinnie.
    • Naxos.

Broadcast

  • Sun 5 Sep 2021 19:30

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