Series
Early Music and Baroque
Mon 5th Jul 2010 - Sun 5th Jul 2015
The Hall’s intimate acoustics are ideal for period instruments and this series includes some of the finest ensembles and soloists performing today.
Christian Blackshaw: Mozart Series
Thu 6th Jan 2011 - Sun 6th Jan 2013
Christian Blackshaw’s complete survey of Mozart’s piano sonatas, set to run at Wigmore Hall over the next two years, is certain to elicit strikingly fresh musical insights. Reviewers were unanimous in their praise for the performer’s full...
Alice Coote: A Celebration
Fri 14th Jan 2011 - Tue 29th May 2012
Alice Coote has beguiled international audiences over the past decade, winning plaudits for searching interpretations of everything from Massenet’s Charlotte and Handel’s Ariodante to the songs of Mahler and Berlioz. The Independent praised...
Dvorak Plus Series
Thu 15th Sep 2011 - Tue 18th Sep 2012
Antonín Dvorák was born near Prague on 8 September 1841, so September 2011 marks his 170th anniversary. Starting this month, Wigmore Hall presents a series of eight concerts celebrating the life and music of this still-underrated 19th-century...
Academy of Ancient Music
Mon 19th Sep 2011 - Wed 27th Jun 2012
The course of musical history has been defined by astonishingly short and intense periods of innovation. In Musical Revolutions, the concert series at the heart of the AAM’s work in 2011-12, we explore the moments — from the dawn of...
Nash Ensemble - Echoes of Romanticism
Sun 25th Sep 2011 - Sat 17th Mar 2012
The Romantic period in German and Austrian music is usually defined as the later 19th century. But the formal freedom of Romanticism, its love of nature, its indebtedness to literature and above all its emphasis on intense self-expression, are...
Andreas Staier 'Perspectives'
Sun 25th Sep 2011 - Thu 21st Jun 2012
Andreas Staier has brought the fortepiano out of the shadows into the forefront of the international concert platform. He has established new parameters of appreciation when it comes to performing the masterpieces of what we would tend to take as...
The Bostridge Project: 'Ancient and Modern'
Mon 26th Sep 2011 - Sat 28th Jul 2012
Since first appearing at Wigmore Hall in the mid 1990s, Ian Bostridge has pursued an extraordinary and varied career in recital, opera and concert all over the world. Whether singing Britten's Aschenbach at the ENO, Schubert songs in Vienna or...
Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series
Mon 3rd Oct 2011 - Tue 24th Apr 2012
Beethoven is arguably the most Janus-faced of all great composers, looking back to the Classicism of the 18th century and on into the Romanticism of the 19th. His own music is often mistakenly taken to be a revolutionary upheaval, whereas in fact...
Amjad Ali Khan: Indian Music Series
Tue 4th Oct 2011 - Fri 15th Jun 2012
Described by Songlines magazine as 'one of the 20th-century's greatest masters of the sarod' and acclaimed by the Dalai Lama as a performer with 'a deep human spirit, a warm feeling and a sense of caring', Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has brought the...
William Byrd Sacred Music Series
Fri 7th Oct 2011 - Thu 30th May 2013
Wigmore Hall launches a unique series exploring the music of William Byrd – the largest ever celebration of the English Renaissance master's music in London. In six concerts over two seasons, The Cardinall's Musick and Stile Antico present a range...
Pacifica Quartet Shosktakovich Cycle
Mon 10th Oct 2011 - Thu 29th Mar 2012
Garlanded with awards and admired for the range of its repertoire, the Pacifica Quartet is renowned in concert halls throughout the world for its exuberant performance style in music ranging from Mendelssohn and Janácek to its recorded cycle of the...
Janine Jansen Residency
Thu 20th Oct 2011 - Wed 16th May 2012
Janine Jansen has rapidly become one of the most compelling presences on the international violin scene, renowned for her penetrating interpretations, both in concert and on disc, of music ranging from the Baroque right up to the present day....
Vienna Piano Trio Series
Mon 7th Nov 2011 - Thu 31st May 2012
The Vienna Piano Trio has established a regular Wigmore Hall following and is familiar to Radio 3 audiences from broadcasts and festival appearances throughout the UK. Its special blend of tone colour seems especially suited to the intimacy of the...
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