Guitarist Plínio Fernandes's debut album for Decca Gold, 'Saudade', is a very personal album drawing on his Brazilian roots. From music at the heart of the classical guitar repertoire such as Villa-Lobos's Five Preludes, to collaborations with Sheku and Braimah Kanneh-Mason and arrangements of popular songs, it's a wonderful portrait of both Fernandes as an artist and of the guitar's place in Brazilian musical life. Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford met up with Plínio Fernandes to explore the album.

Gramophone Podcasts are presented in association with Wigmore Hall. To see details of concerts for the week starting September 3, please scroll down.

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You can listen to Plínio Fernandes's album 'Saudade' below in Spatial Audio via Apple Music.

Wigmore Hall concerts - September 3 to 10

The 2022 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition
Rounds will be streamed live and then made available for catch-up

Saturday and Sunday September 3 and 4
11am and 2.30pm - the preliminary rounds

Monday, September 5
3pm and 7.30 - the semi-finals

Tuesday, September 6
10am and 1pm - soprano Claron McFadden gives two masterclasses

Wednesday, September 7
6pm - the final, followed by the prize-giving

The Wigmore Hall 22-23 season begins
Thursday, September 8
7.30pm (with a live stream starting at 8pm, available to view for seven days) - Soprano Regula Mühlemann and La Folia Barockorchester give a programme called ‘Cleopatra’ featuring arias by Graun, Legrenzi, Alessandro Scarlatti, Hasse and Handel, interspersed with concertos by Vivaldi and Geminiani.

Friday, September 9
7.30pm - Soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn and pianist Simon Lepper give a recital featuring songs by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Mahler and Richard Strauss.

Saturday, September 10
1pm and 7.30pm - two performances of Schubert’s Octet. The clarinettist Michael Collins will be joined by Amy Harman (bassoon), Ben Goldscheider (horn), Ning Feng and Benjamin Baker (violins), Timothy Ridout (viola), Maciej Kułakowski (cello) and Edicson Ruiz (double bass).

To watch any of the streamed concerts, or for more details, visit Wigmore-hall.org.uk.

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