Aurora Orchestra / Kanneh-Mason / Collon
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Setting new standards
From memory, without a stand or a score: that is a familiar, perhaps even expected, sight with concert soloists and opera singers, and to some extent also for string quartets and choirs. But an orchestra that plays entire symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms and Shostakovich from memory? That’s something the »Aurora Orchestra«, which is based at London’s Southbank Centre and Kings Place, have set new standards doing.
Performing at SHMF for the first time, the award-winning chamber orchestra under conductor Nicholas Collon present the »Cockaigne Overture«, Edward Elgar’s musical portrait of London, and Igor Stravinsky’s »Le Sacre du printemps«, which caused one of the biggest scandals in music history at its premiere due to its dissonance and extreme rhythms. The Aurora Orchestra is also joined by Sheku Kanneh-Mason, one of the best cellists of his generation, for a performance of Ernest Bloch’s romantic, modern rhapsody »Schelomo«.
Performers
Aurora Orchestra
Sheku Kanneh-Mason violoncello
conductor Nicholas Collon
Programme
Edward Elgar
Cockaigne (In London Town) / Konzertouvertüre op. 40
Ernest Bloch
Schelomo / Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra
– Interval –
Igor Strawinsky
Le sacre du printemps / Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts