12 Ensemble
Image credit: © Raphaël Neal
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including 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.
‘It’s time to take cinema music in hand, to eliminate the bungling and the inartistic and to thoroughly clean the Augean stable. The only way to do this is to write special music’. – Shostakovich
Sheffield-based 12 Ensemble displayed its daring artistry and jaw-dropping versatility during a four-concert residency at Wigmore Hall in 2023-4. Its returns with a typically imaginative programme that includes Bernard Herrmann’s chilling music from François Truffaut’s dystopian film Fahrenheit 451, trains the spotlight on two Hollywood exiles from Nazi Europe, Franz Waxman and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and ends with a masterwork by Dmitry Shostakovich, whose world was turned upside down by Stalinism and the Second World War.