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22 June 2024
The Kanneh-Masons and friends at the 75th
Aldeburgh Festival
By Roy Westbrook, 22 June 2024
Mendelssohn’s Cello Sonata no.1 in B flat major was written for the composer’s brother
Paul, as fine a cellist it seems as ever rose to run a banking dynasty. Celebrated siblings
pianist Isata and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, after a slightly sketchy account of the elusive
opening, made it sound as if it was written for them, and as if they were playing for
themselves in the family’s music room. We were not just hearing, but overhearing. Perhaps
that was why it did not always leap across the footlights and project into the Snape Maltings
Concert Hall. The BBC Radio 3 broadcast of this Aldeburgh Festival concert next week
might yet correct that impression.
Braimah, Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason
© Marcus Roth | Britten Pears Arts
