Cello Concerto New York Performances

Edward Elgar’s *Cello Concerto* (1919) is a late work shaped by the post–First World War mood, where private grief replaces public ceremony. Its four movements move between restrained lyricism and uneasy momentum, with the cello often speaking as a solitary narrator against a muted orchestra. At David Geffen Hall, Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins the New York Philharmonic led by Elim Chan, on a program that also includes Prokofiev and the New York premiere of Noriko Koide’s *Swaddl*. One could call the concerto Elgar’s quiet reckoning with a changed world.