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Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Bloch
The music
- Robert Laidlow Exoplanets (world premiere) (23’)**
The performers
- Edward Gardner conductor*
- Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Be transported to a different world.
Music can take us to different worlds. For the LPO it’s always an adventure to play with cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and tonight he summons up Bloch’s sumptuous vision of a Biblical past and a longed-for future. But Edward Gardner also conducts Rachmaninov’s sweeping Third Symphony – music filled with nostalgia, hope, and heartfelt melodies – and travels with the young British composer Robert Laidlow to the outer reaches of our galaxy, where he beams an urgent musical message back home to Earth. A very special moment in our Harmony with Nature season.
*Edward Gardner’s position in the LPO is generously supported by Aud Jebsen.
**Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Interfinity Festival Basel.
Supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a Donor Advised Fund, held at The Prism Charitable Trust.
[Sheku] held the audience spellbound with an interpretation of exceptional authority.
The Guardian
Featuring
Edward Gardner, LPO Principal Conductor
