Sheku Kanneh-Mason who appeared with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Friday and Saturday, rose to fame after performing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Comparisons are unfair, but it’s hard not to draw parallels between the careers of Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Jacqueline du Pré. The latter captivated audiences with her preternatural abilities and larger-than-life musical personality, tragically cut short by multiple sclerosis. The former, who appeared with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Friday and Saturday, rose to fame after performing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
It’s fitting given that he supposedly fell in love with classical music after listening to du Pré’s recording of the Elgar concerto — the definitive version, as far as I’m concerned. Piers and Hilary du Pré, the late cellist’s siblings, even said that Kanneh-Mason is the first cellist since their sister, who died in 1987, to possess a “natural and vibrant abandonment when playing.”
His “Cello Concerto” was tender and introverted. The recitative in the opening movement shimmered hauntingly as it floated above the bed of string accompaniment. It’s also clear that Kanneh-Mason has strong technical command of his instrument, navigating the pizzicato passages and the 16th-note motifs with panache.
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