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Saint-Saëns by Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the Concertgebouw Orchestra

Saint-Saëns by Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the Concertgebouw Orchestra

Musicians

  • Concertgebouw Orchestra
  • Semyon Bychkov conductor
  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello

Works

  • J. Adams

    Frenzy (Nederlandse première)

  • Saint-Saëns

    Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, op. 33

  • Moesorgski

    Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

  • This concert has an intermission

Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes a solo appearance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto. Semyon Bychkov also conducts John Adams’s Frenzy and Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Since Sheku Kanneh-Mason won the 2016 BBC Young Musician Award, the young cellist has conquered concert stages and hearts around the world. He is making his Concertgebouw Orchestra debut in a performance of Saint-Saëns’s gripping First Cello Concerto. Conductor Semyon Bychkov has juxtaposed this romantic work with the Dutch premiere of the thrilling Frenzy – John Adams at his best! – and a true classic: Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition

Mussorgsky composed Pictures at an Exhibition in memory of a good friend, the painter Viktor Hartmann. The collection of ten paintings, drawings and sketches offers impressions of everyday life and bizarre fantasies from the world of fairy tales and legends. Powerful images of old Russia abound, and Maurice Ravel’s magical orchestration truly brings to life Mussorgsky’s paintings in music.

  • Genre

    Orchestra

  • Organizer

    Concertgebouworkest

  • Thanks to:

    ING, Booking.com and The Magnum Ice Cream Company, Global Partners Concertgebouw Orchestra

Tickets

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