Alisa Weilerstein
Image credit: © Paul Stuart
This concert will be approximately 1 hour 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.
Two artists known for their striking individuality and searching insights join forces to perform works that make a natural coupling. Prokofiev’s Cello Sonata was composed in 1949, the year after he was denounced by the Soviet authorities for deviating from the state’s narrow artistic ideology. Alisa Weilerstein’s reading of it prompted the New York Times to note how she ‘dispatched every technical test with astonishing ease and visceral joy, and took obvious pleasure in the music’s often sardonic humor’.
