Page 81 - FULL BOOK Isata Kanneh-Mason Childhood Tales

Schumann, whose piano concerto features on Isata's chart-topping debut recording, as in
Prokofiev and Dohnányi.

In 2022/23 Isata steps into her role as Artist in Residence with the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, performing three concerti across the season at London's Cadogan Hall. She will
also be returning to Dortmund's Konzerthaus as one of their 'Junge Wilde' artists and
multiple visits to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic are also on the cards. Other highlights of the season include recital
performances at the Barbican, Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls in London, the Berlin
Philharmonie, Dublin National Concert Hall and Perth Concert Hall. The Prinzregenten-
theater in Munich and the Sala São Paolo in Brazil will also host this budding star of the
keyboard. As concerto soloist, Isata appears with the Orchestra of Opera North, New
World Symphony Miami, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Duisburg Philharmonic,
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Geneva Chamber Orchestra, Detroit Symphony and the
Norwegian Opera Orchestra. Recently she made her long-awaited debut with the LA
Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.

This is a tornado of activities that makes the mind boggle, but her explosive enthusiasm for
the art permits her to perform consistently at the highest level. This is what Zachary Woolfe
in The New York Times had to say after one of her concerts:

She played beautifully, her touch patrician in a Beethoven Sonata, dreamy in one by Shostakovich,
suave in one by Frank Bridge and alert without being anxious in one by Britten. Calmly commanding
throughout, she was also unfailingly subtle
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Truly she is a pianist for all seasons. Apart from all this activity, Isata has also been busy in
the studio.

Listen — Debussy: Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner)
(4854180 track 28, 0:00-0:43) ℗ 2023 Universal Music Operations Ltd :

This latest issue has all the hallmarks that make this music exquisitely gentle, full of joy
and deeply affective, and the soloist's supreme mastery of each piece is unimpeachable
throughout.

Listen — Robert Schumann: Der Dichter spricht (Kinderszenen)
(4854180 track 46, 0:00-0:45) ℗ 2023 Universal Music Operations Ltd :

If you are entering the world of Claude Debussy's Children's Corner, Ernő
Dohnányi's Variations on a Nursery Song, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Ah, vous dirai-je,
maman Variations and Robert Schumann's Kinderszenen, then prepare yourself for a
captivating experience that comes not that often.

Listen — Dohnányi: Finale fugato (Variations on a Nursery Song)
(4854180 track 27, 2:21-3:19) ℗ 2023 Universal Music Operations Ltd :

An extremely wonderful and charming collection evoking the magical childhood years that
never seem to escape one's memory. Sound and annotations are first rate.

Copyright © 13 May 2023 Gerald Fenech,
Gzira, Malta