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Leif Ove Andsnes
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György Kurtág and Schubert
Leif Ove Andsnes piano; Bertrand Chamayou piano
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Date
Wed 21 May 2025, 7.30pm
Tickets
£50 £42 £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

  • Leif Ove Andsnespiano
  • Bertrand Chamayoupiano

Programme

  • György Kurtág
    b. 1926
      • Játékok
        :
      • Hommage à Farkas Ferenc (3) (Evocation of Petrushka)
      • Les Adieux (in Janáceks Manier)
      • Sirens of the Deluge - Waiting for Noah
      • An Apocryphal Hymn (In the Style of Alfred Schnittke)
      • Hommage à Farkas Ferenc (2)
      • Dühös korál (Furious Chorale)
      • Hommage à Stravinsky - Harangok (Bells)
      • Hommage à Halmágyi Mihály

Interval

  • György Kurtág
    b. 1926
      • Játékok
        :
      • A Voice in the Distance (For Alfred Schlee's 80th birthday)
      • The little squall
      • Hommage à Schubert
      • Hommage tardif à Karskaya
      • Chorale (for Benjamin Rajeczky's 80th Birthday)
      • Study to Pilinszky's 'Hölderlin' (position exercise)
      • Kyrie
      • Hommage à Soproni (in memoriam matris carissimae)

Overview

György Kurtág’s lifelong love for the music of Schubert forms the backdrop to this delectable collaboration between Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou, two performers who share a fascination for the infinite tonal gradations and inflections that can be coaxed from the piano.

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