Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his Orchestral Series debut with Dmitri Shostakovich’s subtly sinister Cello Concerto No. 1. Shostakovich once told Sofia Gubaidulina that his wish for her was always to continue along her “mistaken path”, turning a critical remark from her Soviet censors into a virtue. Her poignant Fairytale Poem portrays a small piece of chalk in the hand of a child who draws “castles, gardens with pavilions and the sea with the sun on the pavement.”
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1
Fairytale Poem [First San Francisco Symphony Performances]
Sofia Gubaidulina
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini
Performers
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Cello
San Francisco Symphony