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Sheku Kanneh-Mason MBE

Cello

Conductor

Vasily Petrenko

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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Mirjam Mesak

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Pavel Petrov

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Andrii Kymach

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Icons Rediscovered: Rachmaninov’s The Bells

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

In the South, op. 50

Cello Concerto op. 43

The Bells

Keerthi Raj

Approved

In the old Russia of Rachmaninov’s youth, bells rang and chimed throughout the whole of life: the bronze-voiced heralds of joy, terror, love – and oblivion. They peal, too, through Rachmaninov’s great choral symphony The Bells, in music that’s exactly as heartfelt, as gorgeous and as unforgettably tuneful as you’d expect from the composer of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Rachmaninov thought it was one of his greatest works and Vasily Petrenko agrees, making this London performance a real high point of the series. It’s the climax of a concert filled with great music that goes beyond your expectations: from Elgar relaxing in the Italian sunshine to a powerful, forgotten cello concerto by Shostakovich’s great friend Mieczysław Weinberg – championed today by the irrepressible Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

English

Icons Rediscovered: Rachmaninov’s The Bells by Elgar, Weinberg, Rachmaninoff, From (2024/2024), Conductor Vasily Petrenko, Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

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