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Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Harry Baker

Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Harry Baker

Diverse compositions spanning Janáček to Lianne La Havas are woven together by Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist Harry Baker.

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, former winner of the BBC Young Musician Competition, joins forces with the pianist and composer Harry Baker. This wide-reaching concert explores the enduring inspiration of Johann Sebastian Bach and his impact on musicians across the ages, from Leoš Janáček to Bill Evans, and Lianne La Havas to Laura Mvula.

Baker and Kanneh-Mason contrast Bach’s First Cello Suite with Leoš Janáček’s Pohádka (Fairy Tale) and Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras No 2, a direct tribute to the German composer himself. Songs by two iconic jazz musicians Pat Metheny and Bill Evans – who were likewise influenced by Bach – also feature.

The duo concludes a dazzlingly diverse selection with their own arrangements of Bach.

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    Programme

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    Sheku Kanneh-Mason Cello
    Harry Baker Piano

    Lianne La Havas arr. Sheku Kanneh-Mason / Harry Baker Sour Flower
    Trad. Czech arr. Janáček / Harry Baker Nos 3, 4, 10 & 15 from Fifteen Moravian Folksongs
    Janáček Pohádka
    Bill Evans Waltz for Debby
    Pat Metheny James
    Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Harry Baker Prelude & Fugue
    Laura Mvula arr. Harry Baker Green Garden

    -- interval --

    Bach Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV 1007 : I. Prelude
    Bach Piano Improvisation on Chorale: Ich Ruf Zu Dir
    Baker (after Bach) I Call to You
    Bach Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV 1007 : III. Courante, IV Sarabande
    Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No 2: III. Dansa, IV. Toccata
    Bach Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV 1007 : VI. Gigue
    Bach arr. Baker Prelude & Fugue in D flat

    ENCORE

    Piazzola'Libertango', Arr. Baker


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