Kathryn Rudge
Image credit: © Sussie Ahlburg
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.
'Hearing me on one of her visits to London, Madame Clara Schumann took a fancy to my singing, and at quite an early stage of my career invited me to stay with her in Frankfort, where she most kindly offered to impart to me the tradition of her husband’s songs. I had already so many concert engagements that I could go only for three weeks; but during those three weeks she gave me a lesson every day in those wonderful Lieder only too little heard at London concerts nowadays.'
Lehmann, Liza. The Life of Liza Lehmann, by Herself. T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1919, p. 57ff.
Clara Schumann and Elisabetha ‘Liza’ Lehmann graced the golden age of salon music, a time when outstanding musicians (like Clara and Liza) enchanted old friends and won new ones with the expressive eloquence of their compositions. Kathryn Rudge, tipped by The Times as a rising star of classical music, and Grammy Award-winning accompanist Christopher Glynn recall the heyday of the two women with a recital of their seductive songs.