ESA-PEKKA SALONEN & SHEKU KANNEH-MASON

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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Open Rehearsal Tix - https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2023-24/SALONEN-KANNEH-MASON-OH
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ARTISTS

Esa-Pekka Salonen
CONDUCTOR

Sheku Kanneh-Mason
CELLO

San Francisco Symphony


PROGRAM

Cello Concerto No. 1
Dmitri Shostakovich

Fairytale Poem
[First San Francisco Symphony Performances]
Sofia Gubaidulina

Francesca da Rimini
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky