Credits:

Sheku Kanneh-Mason,Edward Williams Elgar

Description:

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 on TV!) This is the second DECCA album by Sheku Kanay-Mason, a 20-year-old British cellist who has created a sensation around the world with her performance at the royal wedding of Prince Henry and Meghan Markle, which is said to have been seen by nearly 3 billion people on TV! 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 music that looks at the musical landscape of prewar and postwar Europe at the time Elgar wrote his "Cello Concerto" (1919). The album includes works by Julius Klengel, Gabriel Fauré, and Swiss-born Ernest Bloch, among others.Fauré's "Elegy" is best known as a piece for cello, but it 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 cellos, and premiered in 1922. Krengel's "Hymn" was written in 1920 for 12 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 Schek's cello colleagues and friends participate in this work, and his brother Brymer plays violin in Bloch's "Prayer".