Lucie Horsch on her new album, Origins
Friday, September 16, 2022
The recorder player introduces her new Decca album
Lucie Horsch’s new album Origins begins with the bebop of Charlie Parker before taking us on wide-ranging and diverse journey embracing Bartók, Piazzolla, and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, with a particular focus on folk music. The Dutch recorder player joined Editor Martin Cullingford on this week's Gramophone Podcast to talk about the release, which will be available on Decca next Friday.
Gramophone Podcasts are presented in association with Wigmore Hall. To see details of concerts for the week starting September 17, please scroll down.
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Upcoming concerts at Wigmore Hall, September 17-24
Saturday, September 17 (7.30pm with a stream following at 8pm)
Le Concert Spritual and Hervé Niquet give a programme of French choral music, dedicated to the memory of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second and culminating in a performance of Fauré’s Requiem.
Sunday, 18 September, 11.30am
Trio Gaspard perform piano trios by Shostakovich (his First), Haydn (the C major, Hob 15 No 21) and Smetana.
Sunday, 18 September, 7.30pm
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Ton Koopman perform music by Bach – the Double Concerto for oboe and violin, Brandenburg Concertos Nos 3 and 4 and the First Orchestral suite.
Tuesday September 19, 7.30pm
Elisabeth Leonsakaya and the Staatskapelle String Quartet perform Brahms’s two piano quartets.
Wednesday, September 21
Countertenors Iestyn Davies and Hugo Cutting are joined by Ensemble Guadagni for a sold-out programme of Baroque music from England and Italy.
Thursday, September 22 - 1pm
Académie Orsay-Royaumont present mezzo Anne-Lise Polchlopek and pianist Nicolas Royez in French and Spanish songs.
Thursday, September 22- 7.30pm (streamed from 8pm)
Pianist Angela Hewitt plays music from Bach’s Second Book of the Well-tempered Clavier, two Mozart piano sonatas and two Chopin Nocturnes and his Second Scherzo.
Friday, September 23 -1pm
Académie Orsay-Royaumont featuring the mezzo Florence Losseau with pianist Elenora Pertz, and the baritone Gregory Feldman with pianist Nathaniel LaNasa, perform songs by Berg, Debussy, Poulenc, Schubert, Ravel and Viktor Ullmann.
Friday, September 23 - 7.30pm
Artists in Residence, the Danish String Quartet, play Purcell’s Chacony in G minor, arranged by Benjamin Britten, Mozart’s E flat Quartet, K 428 and Britten’s Second String Quartet, a work first heard at Wigmore Hall in 1945.
For full details visit wigmore-hall.org.uk