Sheku Kanneh-Mason is a cellist who came to international attention when he performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2018. Still only 24, he has performed at a series of high profile locations including the Hollywood Bowl and Downing Street. Last year he was a soloist at the Last Night of the Proms. Sheku was brought up in Nottingham along with his six siblings who are also extremely talented musicians. At six-years-old he went to a concert by the Nottingham Youth Orchestra where he was transfixed by the cello section. He started having lessons not long afterwards and by the age of nine he’d completed all of his music grades – receiving the highest marks in the country. At 17 he won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music and made his debut at the BBC Proms as a soloist with the Chineke! Orchestra in 2017. In 2020 he was appointed an MBE for services to music and two years later became the Royal Academy of Music’s first Menuhin Visiting Professor of Performance Mentoring. DISC ONE: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 - 1st movement: Adagio – Moderato. Composed by Edward Elgar and performed by Jacqueline du Pré, with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli DISC TWO: Rivers of Babylon -The Melodians DISC THREE: Dat - Pluto Shervington DISC FOUR: String Quartet in C major, Op 20 No. 2, Capriccio: Adagio. Composed by Joseph Haydn and performed by The London Haydn Quartet DISC FIVE: Chances Are - Bob Marley DISC SIX: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 , Introitus 1 – Requiem. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and performed by the Monteverdi Choir DISC SEVEN: Symphony No.11 'The Year 1905' - II. The 9th January; Adagio. Composed by Dmitri Shostakovich and performed by The Moscow Philharmonic, conducted by Kirill Kondrashin DISC EIGHT: Largo from Organ Sonata No.5 in C major, BWV 529. Composed by Johan Sebastian Bach and performed by Samuel Feinberg Book: The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman Luxury: A cello and strings CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 , Introitus 1 – Requiem. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and performed by the Monteverdi Choir Presenter Lauren Laverne Producer Paula McGinley
How did the richest people on the planet make their fortunes?
Im Simon Jack and Im Xing Singh.
Join us for good bad, billionaire.
Each episode, we pick a billionaire and we find out how they made their money, like the comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
The financier George Soros, the golf star Tiger woods.
Then Simon and I have a decision to make.
Do we think they are good, bad, or just another billionaire?
Good bad billionaire?
Listen on BBC Sounds.
BBC Sounds Music Radio podcasts hello, I'm Lauren La Verne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
And for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is the cellist Sheikh uku Kane Masonde.
At 24, hes one of classical musics brightest stars with a cv many musicians twice his age would kill for.
His appearance at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2018 catapulted him to international recognition with an estimated global television audience of 2 billion.
Since then, hes performed everywhere from Downing street to the Hollywood bowl and was a soloist at the last night of the Proms.
Last year, hes the first cellist to hit the top ten in the british album chart and had an MBE for outstanding achievement.
By the time he was 21, he began playing the cello when he was six.
By nine, he had completed all of his music grades, receiving the highest marks in the country, and at 17, he won the BBC Young Musician of the year competition.