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Austrian composer Bruckner may have left his Symphony No. 9 incomplete, but it still serves as a summation of his life, heard here in its first three movements. The overwhelming Adagio stands as the work’s emotional, even religious, heart, while the pounding Scherzo is among the most bombastic and inspiring of anything Bruckner conceived.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason performed the world premiere of Edmund Finnis’ Cello Concerto in 2025. Finnis, a former LSO Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Composer, describes the work as ‘the most lyrical, intense and emotionally direct music that I have written so far’ and it runs the musical gamut of introspective beauty to outward, unrelenting energy. Kanneh-Mason is renowned for playing of expressive beauty and power – ideal qualities for Finnis’ shimmering tableaux.