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Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Orchestre de Paris

Orchestre de Paris / Alain Altinoglu

Sheku Kanneh-Mason - Léo Vermot Desroches - Ravel, Saint-Saëns
Symphonic Concert
Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie
Duration: about 2h15 with 1 intermission

Program

Distribution

Maurice Ravel
Sémiramis, Prélude et Danse - Scène I Air de Manassès
Création française
Camille Saint-Saëns
Concerto pour violoncelle n° 1
Intermission
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé, ballet
Orchestre de Paris
Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris
Alain Altinoglu , conducting
Sheku Kanneh-Mason , cello
Léo Vermot-Desroches , tenor
Richard Wilberforce , choirmaster

‘My cello is my voice’, says the charismatic Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Saint-Saëns’s Concerto lets him sing in every register, framed by Ravel’s lush neoclassical ballet and fragments of a cantata—long thought lost—here making its French premiere.

 

Media

Maurice Ravel : Daphnis et Chloé – Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi (direction)
Camille Saint-Saëns : Concerto pour violoncelle n° 1 – Victor Julien-Laferrière (violoncelle), Orchestre de Paris, Julien Masmondet (direction)
Karina-Canellakis

Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie

See the venue

Getting here

Porte de Pantin station
Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5
Tram 3B 

Address

221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris

To leave after this concert

taxi G7

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