Tickets have just gone on sale for my lunchtime recital at Wigmore Hall in London on Friday April 17. Click here for booking information.
As you’ll read on the Wigmore Hall website, the concert marks the publication of my book on the history of the nocturne.
To give a flavour of what’s in the book, I’ve put together a programme of night-related music which focuses on nocturnes but contrasts them with other kinds of night music where the mood is far from tranquil. John Field, Clara Schumann, Maurice Ravel, Fanny Mendelssohn, Chopin, Janacek, Grieg, Poulenc, Fauré, Satie, Debussy …. an array of composers all fascinated by the subject of night and what it does to our imagination.
This concert was arranged too late to go into the Wigmore Hall’s printed brochure, and is only advertised online, so I thought it was worth doing some extra publicity to draw people’s attention to the date. It would be great to see some of my readers at the concert.
I wish I could have been there but I do hope you have a very successful concert. I will mention it on Twitter as I know I have a few followers who would be interested. I have ordered the book and am greatly looking forward to it.
Many thanks, James – that would be very helpful.
Very much ooking forward to your Wigmore concert. It was in the 1970s when I last heard you play live in two so memorable (chamber) concert performances!
Wow, Paul! I wonder what those two concerts were – can you remember?
Two separate concerts in a Nottingham University venue to which I came with three string quartet playing friends. I’m ashamed to say I can’t remember what you played, who were your fellow performers or exactly when it was (1978/79??) but we all raved about the rare sensitivity and musicality of your piano playing!
Paul, those concerts must have been with the Allegri String Quartet. I was always grateful to them for giving me several of my first ‘professional’ concerts when I was still a postgraduate student. The quartet was lovely, and getting paid for those concerts was a thrill!
What a feast! I wish that I was on your side of the world to be able to attend!
Thank you James!
I could theoretically pop over from Austria, but probably won’t make it. Lovely programme – toi toi toi!
Thank you Will!
Bought my ticket on Tuesday. Yet to order the book.
Hooray! That’s one person in the audience at least.