CSO Program Notes: Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Elgar

05/02/2024 12 min
CSO Program Notes: Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Elgar

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason, hailed by The New Yorker as “a cellist of blazing sensitivity,” makes his CSO debut in Elgar’s rhapsodic Cello Concerto. Paavo Järvi conducts Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony, a visceral, dramatic work exploring humanity’s potential for conflict, born in the aftermath of World War I. Beethoven’s jubilant hymn to liberty opens the program.

Learn more: cso.org/performances/23-24/cso-classical/sheku-kanneh-mason-plays-elgar