Following last year's Gramophone Award-winning solo Verdi album, which won the 2021 Voice & Ensemble Award, Ludovic Tézier returns to the composer – and a couple of others – for his latest Sony Classical release, 'Insieme' (Together). Joining Jonas Kaufmann he explores some of the great tenor-baritone duets of the operatic repertoire with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano. The album is out on October 7.

Tézier was in London performing more Verdi – Amonasro in Aida – with Pappano, so Gramophone's James Jolly grabbed the opportunity to talk to him about the new album.

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Upcoming concerts at Wigmore Hall, October 1-6

Saturday, October 1, 1pm

Duo Diphonon give a low-stimulus performance as part of Wigmore Hall's Imagine Series. The duo will perform pieces without sudden or loud volume in this informal concert, featuring composers Jessie Montgomery, Arvo Pärt, Joaquín Taboada and others.

Saturday, October 1, 7.30pm

The Sixteen and Harry Christophers perform a programme entitled 'Bach and his own plagiarism' which includes two cantatas, Nos 40 and 72, parts of which re-appear in two of his Masses, which they also perform.

Sunday, October 2, 11.30am

The Viano Quartet play Mendelssohn’s A minor Quartet, Op 13 and Grieg’s G minor, Op 27.

Sunday, October 2, 3pm

The tenor Kieran Carrel and pianist Jonathan Ware perform Schubert’s Winterreise and Britten’s Winter Words.

Sunday, October 2, 7.30pm

Violinist Midori with Antoine Lederlin (cello) and Jonathan Biss (piano) play three Beethoven piano trios – the E flat, Op 1 No 1; the C minor, Op 1 No 3 and the B flat, Op 97, the Archduke.

Monday, October 3, 1pm & live streamed

Pianist Ewa Poblocka plays keyboard works by JS Bach including the 15 Sinfonias, BWV787-801 and the Fifth Partita.

Monday, October 3, 7.30pm

The pianist François-Fréderic Guy plays Chopin’s Nocturne in C minor, Op 48 No 1, the First Ballade and Third Piano Sonata, Impression, soleil levant by Tristan Murail and finishes with Beethoven’s last piano sonata, the C minor, Op 111.

Tuesday, October 4, 1pm

Gabriel Martins plays Bach’s First and Fifth Solo Cello Suites.

Tuesday, October 4, 7.30pm

The Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Celebration: Mendelssohn’s Octet with an ensemble led by Gramophone’s current Artist of the Year, James Ehnes, followed by Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in Erwin Stein’s chamber arrangement, played by students of the Academy conducted by Adam Hickox and featuring Lucy Crowe in the last movement.

Wednesday, October 5, 7.30pm

Two Gramophone Award winners, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Kirill Gerstein, play sonatas by Janáček, Brahms (his Third) and Bartók (his Second) alongside pieces by Thomas Adès and György Kurtág.

Thursday, October 6, 7.30pm

Musicians from IMS Prussia Cove playing piano trios by Mozart and Schumann as well as Janáček’s First String Quartet and Huw Watkin’s Piano Quartet.

Friday, October 7, 7.30pm

The pianist Boris Giltburg plays the Bach/Busoni Chaconne, Chopin’s Second Sonata, Medtner’s Sonata-Reminiscenza and Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte and Le Tombeau de Couperin.

To watch any of the streamed concerts just visit the Wigmore Hall website. Tickets for September to December concerts are on sale now.