Belcea Quartet
Image credit: © Maurice Haas
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.
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Stefan George’s ‘Transcendence’, with its famous opening line, ‘Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten’ (‘I feel air from another planet’), influenced a generation of younger artists, Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky among them. Stellar soprano Barbara Hannigan joins the Belcea Quartet in Schoenberg’s ethereal setting of George’s symbolist verse and in the heartbreaking expressionism of Hindemith’s Melancholie, composed in memory of a friend killed during the First World War.