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Concerts

BRITTEN SINFONIA WITH JENEBA KANNEH-MASON

Performers

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason
piano
Jacqueline Shave
violin / leader
Britten Sinfonia

Programme

Elena Kats-Chernin
Fast Blue Village 5
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 K.488
Robin Haigh
Grin
Schubert
Symphony No. 5

Rising star Jeneba Kanneh-Mason is the soloist in Mozart’s exquisite and lyrical piano concerto no. 23

Britten Sinfonia also perform Schubert’s most Mozart-like symphony, filled with grace and invention, Elena Kats-Chernin’s high-tempo opener, and Robin Haigh’s superb Grin, commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and winner of an Ivor Novello Award, which brilliantly conveys “brutality through frivolity”, its light and cheerful music with echoes of Richard Strauss run through a dark “millennial haze”.

“Jeneba impresses as a pianist of enormous technical resources in service of an uncommonly rich and versatile musical imagination.” – Gramophone

WATCH

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason performs the cadenza from the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23.

The Cambridge performance is dedicated to the memory of Judith Rattenbury. 

The Norwich performance is dedicated to the memory of Richard Somerford.