Alexander Melnikov
Image credit: © Julien Mignot
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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Paris thrived in the wake of Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat at Waterloo, energised by an industrial revolution and corresponding cultural resurgence. Alexander Melnikov recalls the city’s vitality with an appetising selection of Rossini’s ‘Sins of Old Age’, pieces written or assembled in Paris in the 1850s, and the jaw-dropping virtuosity and brio of Liszt’s transcription of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique.