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Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Dvořák

Former Ö÷²¥´óÐã Young Musician Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Dvořák's Cello Concerto in Glasgow.

Former Ö÷²¥´óÐã Young Musician, now rising cellist superstar, Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Dvořák’s much loved work, while Sir James MacMillan describes his work 'Tryst' as ‘a meeting place of different music elements’. And the concert opens with a work whose title says it all; originally a vocalise for solo soprano, Augusta Read Thomas’s ‘Plea for Peace’ is performed here in a version for wind instruments and strings. Recorded in City Halls, Glasgow. Martyn Brabbins conducts.

Augusta Read Thomas
Plea for Peace
for flute, oboe, trumpet and strings

Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto in B minor
(reduced version, orch. George Morton)

James MacMillan
Tryst

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1 hour, 29 minutes

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