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James Baillieu
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Duparc, Jake Heggie, C Schumann and more
James Baillieu piano; Jamie Barton mezzo-soprano
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Date
Sat 17 May 2025, 7.30pm
Tickets
£40 £36 £32 £26 £18
Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Availability

Ticket bookings are subject to a £4.00 booking fee. This fee covers the whole booking and is not per ticket

Important Information

Priority Booking for this concert will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 8 January at 10.00am. For a full breakdown of booking dates, please visit our Priority Booking page.

General sale for this concert will open at 10.00am on Tuesday 21 January.

Artists

  • James Baillieupiano
  • Jamie Bartonmezzo-soprano

Programme

  • Henri Duparc
    1848-1933
      • L'invitation au voyage
      • Extase
      • Phidylé
      • La vie antérieure
      • Chanson triste

Interval

  • Leigh Harline
    1907-1969
      • When you wish upon a star (arranger info of all these tbc)
  • Al Hoffman
    1902-1960
      • A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
  • Mack David
    1912-1993
      • A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
  • George Bruns
    1914-1983
      • Once Upon a Dream
        (based on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

Overview

Wigmore Hall’s James Baillieu Focus Day ends in high style with a recital, given in company with the inimitable Jamie Barton, of enchanting mélodies by Henri Duparc and classics from the Walt Disney songbook. Their programme includes the song cycle Jake Heggie wrote for Barton in 2021 and Melissa Dunphy’s dramatic 4 Poems of Nikita Gill.

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