Ryan Wigglesworth
Image credit: © Benjamin Ealovega
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
Priority Booking for this concert will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 9 April 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 Wednesday 23 April.
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In 2012, the Academy’s Principal, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, asked composer Anthony Payne (of Elgar's Third Symphony fame) if he would reignite the reductive principles of Schoenberg's arrangements for his Society for Musical Performance in a new version of Bruckner's Symphony No. 2. Whilst employing a slightly larger ensemble than the core chamber group used by Schoenberg in our opener – Johann Strauss’s ‘Emperor Waltz’ – the distilled scoring serves to reveal the luminescent appeal of a little-known 19th-century masterpiece.