Ruth Leon recommends Wigmore Hall’s archive
Ruth Leon recommendsStephen Hough – Bach and Schumann
This is the 5th week of Wigmore Hall’s free access to their archive and includes a number of special concerts. Here is one of them:
This is the 5th week of Wigmore Hall’s free access to their archive and includes a number of special concerts. Here is one of them:
First, this was a significant concert in the history of Wigmore Hall. Sir Stephen Hough opened the special series of lockdown concerts in June 2020 with Busoni’s piano arrangement of Bach’s D minor Chaconne for violin, evoking Busoni’s own gala performance at the opening of the Wigmore Hall almost 119 years ago to the day.
Here too is Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C Op.17.
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Another rebuttal to a ‘Kosky’ like argument here that streaming is bad. There are many factors (Covid being the most dramatic) that lead to music lovers not being able to attend live performances.
When I was 11 years old, I taught myself the Bach, and sang along the Ave Maria (which I had learned to play on the violin).
This lovely video recalled that childhood “accomplishment” and is a reminder that children should never be underestimated as to their intelligence, ability to learn things, and, most of all, their spirituality.
Some real gems in that archive, including both Schubert trios with Elisabeth Leonskaja, Liza Ferschtman and István Várdai.