This week’s Gramophone Podcast sees flautist Sharon Bezaly talk to Editor Martin Cullingford about her new and wide-ranging album of concerto collaborations in music from Telemann to Villa-Lobos called ‘Synergy’, available today on BIS. 

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

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Upcoming concerts at Wigmore Hall, October 7-14

Saturday, October 8, 1pm (preceded by a lecture at 12pm about the programme)
Siglo de Oro give a concert entitled ‘The Mysterious Motet Book of 1539’

Saturday, October 8, 7.30pm
Countertenor Xaxier Sabata and the ensemble Vespres d’Arnad, give a concert called ‘InVISIBILI’, a programme of extracts from rare Baroque operas concentrating on 'inVISIBILI' – forgotten composers and obbligato players.

Sunday, October 9, 11.30am
Sisters Maria and Nathalia Milstein play violin sonatas by Ravel (his First) and Franck alongside shorter works by Reynaldo Hahn. 

Sunday, October 9, 6pm
The Santander International Piano Competition Gala, celebrating the competition’s 50^th anniversary with a concert that finds one of its former winners Barry Douglas joining the Cuarteto Casals, alongside 2022’s winner, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko in Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata and Rachmaninov’s First Piano Sonata as well as Brahms’s Piano Quintet and a piece by Albeniz.

Monday, October 10, 1pm (also live streamed)
The Gesualdo Six give a concert entitled 'Josquin’s Legacy', a programme featuring gems from the Italian Renaissance repertory influenced by the example of Josquin des Prez.

Monday, October 10, 7.30pm (and streamed at 8pm)
The Brabant Ensemble perform a programme entitled 'Jean Mouton in memoriam'.

Tuesday, October 11, 7.30pm
A former Gramophone Young Artist of the Year, Beatrice Rana, plays two great piano sonatas – Chopin’s Second, the so-called Funeral March and Beethoven’s Hammerklavier. The evening opens with a selection of Etudes and Preludes by Scriabin.

Wednesday 12, 6pm
Duo Eunoia joins the Wigmore Sessions, a series of informal and intimate performances in the Bechstein Bar with a wide-ranging programme from Clara Schumann to Ludovico Einaudi.

Wednesday 12, 7.30pm
Apartment House play two world premieres, the Lithuanian Juta Pranulytė’s Harmonic Islands and Scott McLaughlin’s Natura Naturans II as well as the UK premiere of Zoltán Jeney’s El Silencio and pieces by Oliver Leith and Jack Sheen.

Thursday, October 13, 7.30pm (and live streamed from 8pm)
Baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Susie Allen give a 'Birthday Celebration for Ralph', Vaughan Williams’s works set alongside others by his teachers, pupils, friends and colleagues.

Friday October 14, 11am and 12.30pm
‘For Crying Out Loud! - informal concerts for parents or carers and their babies up to 1 year old.

Friday October 14, 7.30pm
Pianist Andreas Haefliger plays Copland’s Piano Variations, Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze and Beethoven’s last piano sonata, the C minor, Op 111.

To watch any of the streamed concerts just visit wigmore-hall.org.uk. Tickets for September to December concerts are on sale now. 

And you explore Sharon Bezaly's new album, ‘Synergy’, released by BIS, via Apple Music below.