Sheku Kanneh-Mason - Winner BBC Young Musician 2016 - Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1

I'd love to hear him in the Brahms Double-Concerto.

I saw him when he came to New Orleans, preCOVID of course. He was mesmerizing! Brilliant and humble. His music has kept me going through 2020 and I just appreciate him and his family.

This piece is SO Russian and the orchestra is SO British 😂

This is the Future I want to live in. Love this young man.

The conductor also makes me feel with him...

Spectacular

Fabuleusement bien!!!

Stuart.. can your son marry my daughter? Call me weird, but 🤦🏽‍♀️ she has not one musical bone in here body. I’m looking for some hope to go along with my prayer. 🤣😂
You’ve to be extremely proud as parents. He shows a maturity that is so beyond his years. We’ve a son that we call the professor. 😀he came into this world with logic. So serious 🧐. But I adore it, especially it being their personality and not forced upon them. Btw.. we too are an attractive family. 😂🤣ok, ...but feel free to contact if considering. (Laughter is great medicine) .. I pray that all of your children continue to prosper.

Watched the whole thing love it ❤❤❤❤❤❤

He is really good.

If the composer isn’t Saved by Jesus, then O’ Man… he is in for a surprise

I love the piece and his performance!

WHAT CELLO IS HE PLAYING ON? MAKE ? MODEL? ANY IDEA?

Wow , Sheku that piece is very very difficult and extremely long ..yet you memorized it .

It baffles me that this performance didn't get at least 1M views or more likes! This is amazing! It truly is a God-given talent!

Mason 👌🤫🧐🏛️🪐☠️

17????? ohmy god

It took me a good five minutes to realize that I had bodily frozen and fully zoned out everything but the performance - the thing that snapped me out of it was feeling the hair on my arms standing on end while a sort of zapping feeling went through me.

Absolutely amazing performance and interpretation! I'll surely be coming back to this one time and again!!!

Edit: I'd like to make a special add-on note that the soloist on the french horn is a PHENOMENAL player, really building up and and completing Kenneh-Mason's playing during those answer-and-call/conversation bits. (If anyone knows the technical term for those, please enlighten me - my classical training consists of public grade-school classes and self-education...)

Fantastic horn playing

17? Nah imma go suicide

17? -- I mean....17-years-old? This is possibly the best version of this concerto I've ever heard.

Amazing performance Sheku I really enjoyed it thank you :)

Loved it in 2016 and still love it now in 2022!

Wonderful!!!❤️🎉🎉🎉🎉

She must is a very special talent. This man stands out from the rest of the greats. I really hope that he records or performs much more then 2 and 3 minute masterpieces. I very much want to hear him play the gorgeous cello repertoire. Best of luck Sheku and family. You guys and gals are such shinning stars.

4 years later and I'm back to watch this talented young man do his thing! Notice, EVERYONE is reading music. SHEKU HAS NO MUSIC IN FRONT OF HIM, yet he know's every note and every nuance. 8th Wonder of the World.... HE IS!

How many out there think that Sheku could be the reincarnation of the Black Mozart--Chevalier Joseph Boulogne?

This is amazing. He's telling the hell out of that story!

cleanest ending ive ever heard

What a prodigious musician. You are so accomplished Skeku. God Bless!

Im so excited im going to get to hear Sheku live in April with this Concerto! 👏👏

This performance gave me goosebumps. I discovered this piece when I first heard it performed by Yo-Yo Ma, and I was completely amazed by it. That performance was and still is my reference for this particular piece. It's insanely difficult and subtle. This young man gave it his all and it touched me to the core. He's wonderful. Can't wait to hear more of him.

Oh my god!!!!!

Wish Shostakovich could see this.

17 …no sheet music….😮😮 Gloriously magnificent! Surpasses perfection!

💜💥

Yes JduP like

Beautiful thank u hx

Wild temperament,therefore Shostakovich is universal composer

Incredible at only 17 years of age!! Brother master classical musician Ludwig Beethoven as today Sheku Kanneh-Mason is so mighty black and proud he is! 2120

8 years later and I still cry when I watch this performance. Since then, I've seen Sheku live in concert twice in the States, and I even got to meet him briefly and take a photo. But there's something about this performance that touches my core. This performance rekindled my joy for classical music. Thank you, Sheku.

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Bravissimo❤❤❤❤❤