Louis Lortie
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This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
Priority Booking for this concert will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 14 January 2026 at 10.00am. For a full breakdown of booking dates, please visit our Priority Booking page.
General sale for this concert will open at 10.00am on Tuesday 27 January 2026.
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Louis Lortie explores the art of variation in works that embrace the breadth of invention and emotions that can be extracted from a simple melody or musical idea. The renowned Canadian artist, hailed by the Guardian for his ‘immaculate pianism and artistry’, interleaves sublime compositions by Beethoven with strikingly poetic works by Mendelssohn and Fauré and Thomas Adès’s set of five grief-tinged variations on the Ladino folk tune Lavaba la blanca niña.