Christian Zacharias
Image credit: © Constanze Zacharias
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.
During the late 1600s, French authors promoted the value of ‘natural’ emotional expression in the arts, reinforcing a trend already embraced by composers such as Louis Couperin and soon to be adopted by a new generation of musicians, Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer among them. Christian Zacharias recalls Francis Poulenc’s admiration for Couperin’s art and the music of the French harpsichord school in a lecture-recital of dazzling delights and enticing surprises.