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Francesco Antonioni

Archived Event

Wigmore Hall Voices of Today: Francesco Antonioni
Castalian String Quartet
Date
Sat 01 Jun 2024, 1.00pm
Tickets
Archived Event
Duration

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

Availability

Artists

  • Castalian String Quartet
    • Sini Simonenviolin
    • Daniel Robertsviolin
    • Natalie Loughranviola
    • Steffan Morriscello

Programme

  1. Commissioned by Wigmore Hall (with the generous support of the Marchus Trust and the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund)

Overview

Among the lasting fruits of the lockdown period is a series of works commissioned by the Hall which are now ready for performance, and which will be threaded throughout the next four seasons. Here the Voices for Today series features the work of an Italian-born composer who, in the words of The Guardian, ‘knows what he wants and how to achieve it’. The inspiration behind Antonioni's work came from a Sicilian folksong that was sung by a worker in the sulphur mines.

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