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String Quartets by Ligeti, Pintscher, Cage, Xenakis / Jack Quartet

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2012-07-17

Works: György Ligeti: Quartet for Strings no 2; Matthias Pintscher: Study no 4 for Treatise on the Veil, for string quartet; John Cage: Quartet for Strings in Four Parts; Iannis Xenakis: Tetras, for st...
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Ensemble: Jack Quartet

Dedicated to performing cutting-edge, up-to-the-minute music, the supremely cool, New York based JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with "explosive virtuosity" (Boston Globe) and "viscerally...continue...
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Haydn & Schumann: String Quartets / Elias Quartet

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2012-05-08

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet for Strings in E flat major, Op. 64 no 6/H 3 no 64; Robert Schumann: Quartet for Strings no 1 in A minor, Op. 41/1; Spoken Word: Spoken introduction to the performance of ...
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Ensemble: Elias String Quartet

The Elias String Quartet returns to Wigmore Hall Live with a much anticipated disc of Haydn and Schumann, recorded live in concert, September 2010.

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Schubert: Piano Trio No 2; MacMillan: 14 Little Pictures / Gould Piano Trio

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2009-03-10

Works: James MacMillan: Fourteen Little Pictures, for piano trio; Franz Schubert: Trio for Piano and Strings no 2 in E flat major, Op. 100, D 929
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Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio

Acclaimed by audiences, critics and fellow musicians, the Gould Piano Trio has firmly established a reputation as one of the finest, most stylish and versatile...continue...

Wagner, Wolf, Britten, etc: Songs / Brewer, Vignoles

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2008-04-29

Works: Richard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder; Hugo Wolf: Goethe Lieder; Benjamin Britten: Cabaret songs (4) for Hedli Anderson, for voice & piano; John Carter: Cantata, for voice & piano; Spoken Word: Announcem...
Performers: Brewer, Christine; Vignoles, Roger [Piano]

Grammy Award winning American soprano Christine Brewer's appearances in opera, concert and recital are marked with her own unique timbre, at once warm and brilliant,...continue...

Mozart, Smetana, etc: String Quartets / Skampa Quartet

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2008-01-22

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet for Strings no 21 in D major, K 575; Bedrich Smetana: Quartet for Strings no 2 in D minor, T 131; Dmitry Shostakovich: Quartet for Strings no 8 in C minor, Op. 110; R...

After the Skampa Quartet's debut performance at Wigmore Hall in February 1993, William Lyne, the Hall's then Director, commented: "After their first concert in 1993...continue...

Mahler, Handel, etc / Lieberson, Vignoles

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2007-04-10

Works: Gustav Mahler: Rückert Lieder (5); George Frederick Handel: Ariodante; Theodora; Peter Lieberson: Rilke Songs (5); Ashoka's Dream, opera; Spoken Word: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's spoken introducti...
Performers: Hunt Lieberson, Lorraine; Vignoles, Roger [Piano]

"The major work in Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson's recital is the five Ruckert settings of Mahler, whose orchestrally conceived piano parts are realised by Roger Vignoles. The...continue...

Moscheles: Fantasy, Variations, etc / Nash Ensemble

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2006-06-06

Works: Robert Schumann: Märchenerzählungen for clarinet (or violin), viola & piano, Op. 132; Ignaz Moscheles: Fantasy, variations and finale, for piano, clarinet, violin & cello on the Bohemian fo...
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Ensemble: Nash Ensemble

This CD was recorded live at Wigmore Hall on October 8, 2004 and was selected as an 'Editor's Choice' by Gramophone magazine. The Guardian of...continue...