Today Wigmore Hall audiences can enjoy a celebration of Brett Dean, as part of his 23/24 residency. Highlights include:
🎶The Homage Etudes with Benjamin Grosvenor
🎶Dean String quartets with Doric String Quartet + Dean on viola
🎶 'Approach' with Nash Ensemble
Plus much more!

Team Bath Mozartfest are busy planning Nov’s festival. We don’t launch until June so can’t reveal much but we have been thinking about W A M as ever. Or was he, W A?? Turns out not…. He was baptized (deep breath) Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilius Mozart. Who knew??

We are delighted to be a part of this day of concerts tomorrow, celebrating the music of our friend Brett Dean

Despite supposedly not liking any of her own recordings, Myra Hess has a discography well worth exploring. We picked out some of the highlights from her collection

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Fascinating Tippett doc on BBC - great learning more about his life and music and wonderful also seeing moving performances from BBCSSO friends and interviews with the always inspiring Sally Groves - not to be missed!

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Priority booking is now open for Wigmore Hall's 2024-25 season, including our 60th Anniversary series which begins on 5th October. Discover the full Autumn season here: wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/serie…

Huge congratulations and thanks to the fabulous young performers and composers from Royal Academy of Music for a wonderful concert Wigmore Hall this afternoon!

At 5.30pm, the Nash Ensemble will be joined by soprano Claire Booth for a programme including Birtwistle's 9 settings of Lorine Niedecker for soprano and cello.

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At 3.30pm, members of the Nash Ensemble perform alongside current students of the Royal Academy of Music in a programme of works by Birtwistle and two RAM composers, commissioned by the Nash for this concert.

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Today Wigmore Hall we are celebrating the life and music of the great Harrison Birtwistle with 3 concerts throughout the day. Find out more: wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on
Royal Academy of Music

So are we!

The Brahms, Piano Quintet was first performed in Paris on this very day in 1868 and still as popular as ever! barenreiter.co.uk/piano-quintet-…

This Tuesday Nash Ensemble presents 'A Celebration of the Life and Music of Sir Harrison Birtwistle' Wigmore Hall! The 3 concerts, culminating in a performance of The Moth Requiem, see the ensemble joined by BBC Singers + Royal Academy of Music students.
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Very much looking forward to hosting this.

Next Tuesday Wigmore Hall - don’t miss our favourite concert of the year, our Side-by-Side collaboration with composers and performers from Royal Academy of Music. This is part of a day celebrating the life and music of our much-missed friend Harrison Birtwistle wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20240…

Our day Wigmore Hall from 3pm on Saturday focuses on the rich cultural life of the Terezín ghetto during WWII. The day includes an exhibition of children's art and a talk by Simon Broughton, who introduces his film, The Music of Terezín. Find out more: wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20240…

We look forward to welcoming guest soloist Konstantin Krimmel to our 8pm concert on Saturday Wigmore Hall, to perform songs by composers who were among a lost generation of Czech musicians: Ilse Weber, Adolf Strauss, Carlo Sigmund Taube & Hans Krása. wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20240…

For March's Record of the Month, Nash Ensemble responds thrillingly to the lush, heady Romanticism which courses through Tchaikovsky's 'Souvenir de Florence' and Korngold’s string sextet, two of the greatest contributions to the genre ...

Our 8pm concert [note change of start time] Wigmore Hall next Saturday 9th March features a suite from Hans Krása’s children’s opera Brundibár. The full opera was performed a remarkable 55 times in the Terezín camp during WWII. Concert details: wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20240…

Tonight at 7.30pm Academy of Ancient Music ⁦AAM⁩ celebrate The Art of the Italian Concerto at Bath Bachfest. ⁦Mozartfest & Bachfest⁩ bathbachfest.org.uk