Elgar: CD

Award-winning British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason presents his new album Elgar, a brand new album of works anchored around Elgar’s Cello Concerto, arguably the best-known work in the classical canon written for solo cello, which was first performed 100 years ago on 27 October 1919. Award-winning British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason has announced his new album Elgar will be released on 10 January 2020. Elgar is a brand new album of works anchored around Elgar’s Cello Concerto, arguably the best-known work in the classical canon written for solo cello, which was first performed 100 years ago on 27 October 1919. Special projections of Sheku will be visible near major international landmarks in London, New York, Sydney, Beijing and Berlin to coincide with the announcement of his new album.

Sheku recorded Elgar’s Cello Concerto at Abbey Road Studios (famously opened by Elgar himself in 1931) with the internationally-renowned London Symphony Orchestra and its celebrated Music Director, conductor Sir Simon Rattle. For his latest album Sheku uses Elgar’s iconic work as a lens through which to explore the wider musical landscape of pre-and post-war Europe. New arrangements of Elgar’s powerful and ubiquitously British ‘Nimrod’ from his Enigma Variations, and ‘Romance In D Minor’ are also featured on his new album. Sheku recorded many of the chamber works alongside his cello friends and colleagues, as well as his brother Braimah Kanneh-Mason who plays violin on Bloch’s ‘Prayer’.

Sheku performed at the Royal Wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in May 2018 which was watched across the world by 3 billion people. He continues to perform with many of the world’s leading orchestras and will tour Europe and the US with his sister Isata Kanneh-Mason in 2019/2020.

TRACKS:
1    Trad. – ‘Blow The Wind Southerly’     
2    Elgar – ‘Nimrod’ from Enigma Variations     
3    Elgar – ‘Cello Concerto In E Minor’     
4    Elgar – ‘Romance In D minor’     
5    Bridge – ‘Spring Song’     
6    Trad. – ‘Scarborough Fair’ (with Plinio Fernandes)     
7    Bloch – ‘Prélude’     
8    Bloch – ‘Prayer’ (with Braimah Kanneh-Mason)     
9    Fauré – ‘Élégie In C Minor’     
10    Klengel – ‘Hymnus For 12 Cellos’