Isata Kanneh-Mason performs Clara Schumann with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Our opening concert for the 2022-23 season at Cadogan Hall stars Isata Kanneh-Mason, who plays Clara Schumann’s rich and melodious Piano Concerto in her first performance as our Artist-in-Residence.

With the hymn-tunes and icy harmonies of Sibelius’s Symphony No 3 providing the concert’s centrepiece under the baton of Estonian conductor Anu Tali, the piece marks a shift from Sibelius’s heart-on-sleeve romanticism to a starker classical style. Tali also conducts her compatriot Arvo Pärt’s Fratres for strings and percussion, with simple but deeply moving lines of melody that builds with a powerful crescendo.

“[Isata] is a pianist who makes lines sing beautifully and virtuosic passages dance, finding intimacy and eloquence at telling moments"
BBC Music Magazine