A few days before British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and his sister, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, were scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall, he had a dispute with Air Canada about a seat they had booked for his cello (worth approximately $3.15 million, according to CNN). After the airline refused to allow them to board the plane with the instrument, they cancelled their concert date in Toronto. On Sunday afternoon at Carnegie Hall, that same instrument in Sheku’s hands resonated with authority as he navigated the compositions of Felix Mendelssohn, Gabriel Fauré, Natalie Klouda, and Francis Poulenc.
Isata established the joyful poignance of Mendelssohn’s “Cello Sonata No.1 in B-flat Major Op. 45” with her opening chords and sweeping octaves. Sheku swooped in and accentuated the swelling force of the string of notes. Isata concluded the segment with rapid arpeggios — a veritable filigree of folk songs. By the third movement, the brother and sister, just two of seven…
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