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The British classical scene has a tendency toward musicians and singers of unusual backgrounds, who are lauded and marveled at and then discarded until the next one comes along. But there are strong indications that the cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the first non-white winner of the BBC Young Musicians competition, will have staying power beyond the norm. The "Inspiration" title is more than just a general one: the program pays tribute to Kanneh-Mason's role models, including Mstislav Rostropovich, who premiered the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 107, Jacqueline du Pré, who was associated with the French repertory heard here, Pablo Casals, and Bob Marley, whose No Woman No Cry is heard in a delightful chamber arrangement for multiple cellos. Kanneh-Mason succeeds more in the Shostakovich than in the little-known Offenbach pieces here, really catching the venom of the finale. But throughout, he shows the capacity to make a distinct personal statement, which is unusual in a teenage musician, and which is more important than technical precocity or the beauty of tone he produces from his 1610 Amati instrument. Kanneh-Mason has worked with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and others to create arrangements that reveal group cooperation and a sense of investment in the project rather than the phoned-in standard performances endemic to projects of this type. He's definitely one to watch, and his Shostakovich can stand with anyone's.
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Jonathan Allen, Producer, Recording Producer - Mark Rogers, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Josef Hadar, ComposerLyricist - Tom Hodge, Arranger, Work Arranger - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello, Contributor, Transcription, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CBSO Cellos, Ensemble, MainArtist - Oliver Janes, Clarinet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Decca Music Group Limited
Le carnaval des animaux, R. 125 (Camille Saint-Saëns)
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS, Composer - Jonathan Allen, Producer, Recording Producer - Mark Rogers, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Hodge, Arranger, Work Arranger - Katherine Thomas, Harp, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CBSO Cellos, Ensemble, MainArtist
℗ 2017 Decca Music Group Limited
Jonathan Allen, Producer, Recording Producer - Anonymous, ComposerLyricist - Pablo Casals, Arranger, Work Arranger - Mark Rogers, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CBSO Cellos, Ensemble, MainArtist
℗ 2018 Decca Music Group Limited
The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Levon Atovmyan, Contributor, Work Editor - Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Jonathan Allen, Producer, Recording Producer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Conductor, MainArtist - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Decca Music Group Limited
Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 107 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Jonathan Allen, Producer, Recording Producer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Conductor, MainArtist - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Jonathan Allen, Producer, Recording Producer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Conductor, MainArtist - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Jonathan Allen, Producer, Recording Producer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Conductor, MainArtist - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Jonathan Allen, Producer, Recording Producer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Conductor, MainArtist - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Decca Music Group Limited
Harmonies des bois, Op. 76 (Jacques Offenbach)
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Jonathan Allen, Producer, Recording Producer - Jacques Offenbach, Composer - Werner Thomas-Mifune, Contributor, Revision - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Conductor, MainArtist - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Decca Music Group Limited
Guy Johnston, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pablo Casals, Composer - Mark Rogers, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Stokes, Producer, Recording Producer - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CBSO Cellos, Ensemble, MainArtist
℗ 2018 Decca Music Group Limited
Jonathan Allen, Producer, Recording Producer - Bob Marley, ComposerLyricist - Mark Rogers, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Arranger, Cello, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Decca Music Group Limited
Jonathan Allen, Producer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Leonard Cohen, Composer - Hodge, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Hodge, Arranger, Work Arranger - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Didier Osindero, Violin, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alinka Rowe, Viola, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Yong Jun Lee, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Decca Music Group Limited
Album review
The British classical scene has a tendency toward musicians and singers of unusual backgrounds, who are lauded and marveled at and then discarded until the next one comes along. But there are strong indications that the cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the first non-white winner of the BBC Young Musicians competition, will have staying power beyond the norm. The "Inspiration" title is more than just a general one: the program pays tribute to Kanneh-Mason's role models, including Mstislav Rostropovich, who premiered the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 107, Jacqueline du Pré, who was associated with the French repertory heard here, Pablo Casals, and Bob Marley, whose No Woman No Cry is heard in a delightful chamber arrangement for multiple cellos. Kanneh-Mason succeeds more in the Shostakovich than in the little-known Offenbach pieces here, really catching the venom of the finale. But throughout, he shows the capacity to make a distinct personal statement, which is unusual in a teenage musician, and which is more important than technical precocity or the beauty of tone he produces from his 1610 Amati instrument. Kanneh-Mason has worked with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and others to create arrangements that reveal group cooperation and a sense of investment in the project rather than the phoned-in standard performances endemic to projects of this type. He's definitely one to watch, and his Shostakovich can stand with anyone's.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 01:03:43
- Main artists: Sheku Kanneh-Mason
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Genre: Classical
© 2018 Decca Music Group Limited, under exclusive license to Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc ℗ 2018 Decca Music Group Limited, under exclusive license to Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc
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