The violinist and cellist Anne-Sophie Mutter and Pablo Ferrández have recorded Brahms’s Double Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Manfred Honeck, plus Clara Schumann's Piano Trio in G minor for which they are joined by Lambert Orkis at the piano. Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford caught up with them to discuss their collaboration on this new album, released today on Sony Classical. 

Gramophone Podcasts are made in association with Wigmore Hall, sponsors of the 2022 Gramophone Chamber Award. Full details of next week's concerts below.

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Wigmore Hall concerts for the week beginning November 5

Saturday, November 5 – 1pm and 7.30pm
Two appearances by husband-and-wife pianists, Benjamin Frith and Heidi Rolfe. At 1pm they play four-hand works by Mozart, Schumann (arranged by Debussy), Satie and Chabrier, while in the evening at 7.30pm they play Britten, Schubert and Holst, the composer’s own two-piano version of The Planets.

Sunday, November 6 - 11.30am and 7.30pm
Four young soloists of Germany’s Kronberg Academy playing Brahms’s Second Violin Sonata, Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro and Fritz Kreisler’s Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta. And the soloists return in the evening in the company of viola-player Tabea Zimmermann, Principal Professor of the Kronberg Academy Study Programmes since 2017, for music by Bach, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Ravel and Hindemith, his Fourth String Quartet.

Monday, November 7- 1pm and live streamed
Cinquecento turns its attention to England and the rupture in liturgical music caused by the Reformation, as composers had to change style according to whether their monarch was Catholic or Protestant. Expect music by Thomas Tallis, Christopher Tye, John Sheppard and William Byrd.

Monday, November 7 – 7.30pm
The Belcea Quartet play Haydn’s C major Quartet Op 20 No 2, Shostakovich’s Eighth Quartet and Debussy’s sole String Quartet.

Tuesday, November 8 - 7.30pm
Karita Mattila with Keval Shah at the piano sings Poulenc’s La voix humaine followed by songs by Theo Mackeban, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin and Burt Bacharach.

Wednesday, November 9 – 7.30pm
Six alumni of the renowned Samling Artist Programme present Samling Institute’s annual showcase concert, based around songs with a maritime theme, including Sibelius’s Luonnotar and Elgar’s Sea Pictures.

Thursday, November 10 - 7.30pm
Florian Boesch joined by Malcolm Martineau sings Schubert’s Winterreise.

Friday, November 11 – 7.30pm
Clarinet trios by Mozart, Fauré and Brahms played by Martin Fröst, Antoine Tamestit and Shai Wosner.

To watch any of the streamed concerts just visit Wigmore Hall. And booking for everyone is now open for concerts from January to March next year.