Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto

Live at the BBC Proms: Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in music by Grace-Evangeline Mason, Richard Strauss and Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly

Grace-Evangeline Mason: The Imagined Forest (BBC co-commission with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: world premiere)
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor

c. 8.25pm
Interval
Pianist David Owen Norris explores musical re-workings through the centuries.

c. 8.45pm
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Domingo Hindoyan

Former BBC Young Musician winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason returns to the Proms as the soloist in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. A new Proms commission written for the Royal Albert Hall’s 150th anniversary by former BBC Young Composer winner Grace-Evangeline Mason contrasts with two scintillating orchestral showpieces – Hindemith’s jovial reworking of themes by Weber for what was initially intended as a ballet, and Richard Strauss’s colourful take on the Spanish lothario Don Juan. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra makes its first Proms appearance under its new Chief Conductor, Domingo Hindoyan.