¡Elgar
¡Sheku Kanneh-Mason
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[Machine Translation] In May 2018, Sheku Kanae-Mason performed at the Royal Wedding of Prince Henry & Meghan Markle, the biggest event of the century, creating a huge buzz around the world (it is said that nearly 3 billion people watched the event via TV! ). This is the second DECCA album by Sheku Kanay-Mason, a 20-year-old British cellist. Elgar's "Cello Concerto," the centerpiece of the album, is needless to say the world's most famous classical work for cello, and was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, where Elgar gave his inaugural performance in 1931. The recording was made with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by LSO Music Director Sir Simon Rattle. The concept of the album goes beyond the framework of British music, focusing on the musical landscape of prewar and postwar Europe at the time Elgar wrote the Cello Concerto (1919). The works include works by Julius Klengel, Gabriel Faure, and Swiss-born Ernest Bloch, among others. Faure's "Elegy," known as a piece for cello, is one of the last Romantic works to convey the atmosphere of "the end of an era" that covered Europe on the eve of World War I. Krengel's "Hymn" was written in 1920 for 12 leverage cellos and premiered in 1922 at the funeral of Artur Nikisch, who had succeeded Elgar as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. In addition, many of Scheck's cello colleagues and friends participated in this work, and his brother Brymer played the violin in Bloch's "Prayer".
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