Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin (18’) | Elgar Cello Concerto (27’) | Stravinsky Petrushka (1947 version) (34’)
Two years after winning BBC Young Musician, Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his Bridgewater Hall debut with perhaps the greatest cello concerto of all: Elgar’s reflection on the First World War, performed tonight to mark this month’s centenary of the Armistice. Also this evening, a wartime suite from Ravel and a thrilling ballet by Stravinsky.
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