Sheku Kanneh-Mason, John Wilson, Sinfonia of London, Isata Kanneh-Mason - Shostakovich & Britten (2025)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 80:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 487 0835 | Recorded: 2024
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 80:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 487 0835 | Recorded: 2024
Decca Classics proudly announces Shostakovich & Britten, the new album from internationally acclaimed cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Featuring Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2, performed with John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London, alongside the cello sonatas of Shostakovich and Britten, this deeply personal recording pays tribute to cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the towering figure who inspired both composers—and Kanneh-Mason himself.
Sheku Kanneh-Mason has a long-standing connection and affinity to Rostropovich and Shostakovich. His 2018 debut album, Inspiration, featured Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto —the piece that secured his victory at the 2016 BBC Young Musician competition and launched his international career. The album made chart history, making him the youngest cellist ever, at 18 years old, to break into the Top 20 of the UK Official Album Chart. Now, seven years later, he returns to the composer’s music with Cello Concerto No. 2, an introspective masterpiece composed for Rostropovich in 1966, and the Sonata in D minor, written in 1934 for Viktor Kubatsky. “This concerto is a piece I’ve loved and studied for a long time,” Kanneh-Mason reflects. “It contains some of the most beautiful and sweetest moments in music, as well as some of the darkest and bleakest. To have all of that within one piece is very powerful.”
Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s performance captures the raw vulnerability and unrelenting depth of Shostakovich’s writing. Reflecting on the recording process, he recalls: “It was very intense spending seven hours in a world of emotions that have a genuine effect on me. John is always searching for more, and the orchestra was invested in every note, which is really the dream for this piece.”
Performer:
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Sinfonia of London (1-3)
John Wilson, conductor (1-3)
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano (4-12)
Tracklist:
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Cello Concerto No.2 in G major, Op.126
01. I. Largo
02. II. Allegretto
03. III. Allegretto
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Cello Sonata, Op.65
04. I. Dialogo. Allegro
05. II. Scherzo-Pizzicato. Allegretto
06. III. Elegia. Lento
07. IV. Marcia. Energico
08. V. Moto perpetuo. Presto
Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Sonata in D minor, Op.40
09. I. Allegro non troppo – Largo
10. II. Allegro
11. III. Largo
12. IV. Allegro
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