Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his EIF debut

Par Simon Thompson, 18 août 2018

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“Kanneh-Mason plays the cello with a storyteller’s skill”

Critique faite à Usher Hall, Edimbourg, le 17 août 2018

Stravinsky, Chant funèbre

Elgar, Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre en mi mineur, Op. 85

Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Violoncelle

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Ludovic Morlot, Direction

Les orages printaniers de Vilde Frang et Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla à Bozar

Valentin Gautron Lavarone, 22nd March

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla et les musiciens du City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ont manqué de trébucher dans Schumann mais ont porté Elgar au sommet avec Vilde Frang.

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Au-delà des horizons : le CBSO, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla et Yuja Wang

Sylvain Gaulhiac, 22nd May

Le City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra débarque au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées sous la baguette de sa directrice musicale. Un programme bien ficelé autour de Ravel, Brahms et Prokofiev avec la pianiste Yuja Wang.

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Klaus Florian Vogt au TCE avec Andris Nelsons et le CBSO : le père, le fils... et l'esprit wagnérien

Denis Peyrat, 1st June

Klaus Florian Vogt, l'un des grands ténors wagnériens actuels a interprété avec brio au Théâtre des Champs Elysées Parsifal et surtout Lohengrin. Il était magnifiquement soutenu par Andris Nelsons avec le City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, qui ont aussi illuminé Dvorak.

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Carlo Rizzi brings Respighi’s Rome to Birmingham

Robert Gainer, 15th April

Carlos Rizzi believes that Puccini’s orchestrations are good enough to stand alone, without their vocal lines, but can the drama compete with the romance of Respighi?

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Nelson Goerner shines with the CBSO and Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody

Robert Gainer, 9th April

The CBSO present the work of three European émigré composers of the 1930s and 40s, who reimagined their musical influences with contrasting approaches and results.

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Yamada and the CBSO’s Walton expedition at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 10th March

In Hamburg, Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO navigate the thorny brilliance of Walton’s First Symphony, proving that ‘difficult’ music can offer an evening’s most profound human connection.

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Simon Thompson

Simon lives and works in Edinburgh, and teaches History and Modern Studies at a local high school when he is not writing about music. Born an Irishman, he is an enthusiastic adopted Scot, and has lived in the capital for fifteen years since university days, making the most of its many avenues for classical music. He spends his spare time enthusing about music, theatre, art and literature to anyone who will listen, including his long-suffering students, who have no choice.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his EIF debut playing Elgar's Cello Concerto