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Posted: April 24, 2020

Inventiveness waxes ever stronger, it seems, in quarantine, as do the number of faces and instrumental sounds gathered together at any one time. As the branches diversify, embracing pre-filmed concert and opera, solo and multiple livestreams from home, it made sense not to try and yoke all this together, and to give individual slots to each happening, from two innovative opera productions to a fabulous young cellist playing in his back garden.

The deservedly celebrated young cellist has been livestreaming from home, giving further insight into the happy musical family scene in Nottingham, but his latest offering, a blissful two-minute meditation, is a thing apart – just released, his own composition, played in the garden (with a brief interjection from a querulous blackbird). It sounds like an offshoot from Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, and none the worse for that, given the familiar subtlety and artistry. Despite his rise to fame, Sheku will not be deserting the musicians with whom he began: he'll be trying out Dvorak's Cello Concerto with the young players of the Fantasia Orchestra later this year.

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