Susan Tomes
Image credit: © Robert Philip
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without 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.
Today’s programme arises from Susan Tomes’s new book, Nocturnes and the Fascination of Night Music, published by Yale University Press in March 2026. In the book, she considers our current obsession with ‘sleep music’ and traces a line back through history to where the genre began with John Field’s gentle Nocturnes for piano. In this concert she will play some classic nocturnes by Field, Chopin and Fauré, but also some contrasting examples of music showing that not every composer has viewed night as a peaceful time.