Daniel Pioro
Image credit: © Raphaël Neal
This concert will be approximately 70 minutes in duration, without an interval
Priority Booking for this event will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 24 September at 10.00am. For a full breakdown of booking dates, please visit our Priority Booking page.
General sale for this event will open at 10.00am on Tuesday 7 October.
Daniel Pioro’s artistic curiosity draws him towards repertoire combinations that illuminate and refresh familiar works by presenting them in company with radical yet complementary companions. Here he is joined by celebrated pianist and free improviser Pat Thomas for a performance of a sonata Beethoven composed in 1803 for the violinist George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower. Dedicated posthumously to Rodolphe Kreutzer even though the French virtuoso found the work too baffling to consider performing, Pioro and Thomas reinterpret the work as a sonic provocation and an homage to Bridgetower himself. The programme is framed with Salvatore Sciarrino’s virtuosic solo Capricci (1975-6) and intensely beautiful miniature, Per Mattia (1975).