SSO Gala: Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble (12 Nov)
12 November 2016

SSO Gala: Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble (12 Nov)

Yo-Yo Ma is the cello’s superstar The Telegraph
Roving musical laboratory without walls Boston Globe on The Silk Road Ensemble

Prepare to be astounded as the SSO brings you two gala programmes featuring superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble! On November 11, Yo-Yo Ma brings tenderness and exuberance to Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, and Lan Shui will also conduct Kayhan Kalhor’s Silent City with members of the Silk Road Ensemble.

On November 12, Silk Road Ensemble performs with their artistic director Yo-Yo Ma, who partners Wu Tong for Zhao Lin’s Duo, a double concerto for cello and sheng, a traditional Chinese woodwind instrument comprised of 17 bamboo pipes, and the first half includes Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky’s Sacred Signs Suite, which draws parallels between Russian instrumental traditions and seemingly diverse instruments such as sheng, pipa and kamancheh.