After a 16-month closure for refurbishment,
Britain's premiere recital hall reopens its doors with A Celebration of Shakespeare.
Barbara Bonney, Margaret Price, Dawn Upshaw and Lillian Watson (sopranos) Linda Finnie ,
Felicity Palmer and Sarah Walker
(mezzos)
Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor)
John Mark Ainsley ,
Gunnar Gudbjornsson , Philip Langridge and Keith Lewis (tenors)
Wolfgang Holzmair , Kurt Ollmann and Francois Le Roux (baritones), Alastair Miles (bass) Jill Balcon (speaker)
Graham Johnson (piano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) conductor Matthew Best
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Poulenc Fancy Britten Fancie
Foster Wilt thou begone love? Schubert An
Silvia Haydn
She never told her love
Cornelius Komm , herbei, Tod! Sibelius
Kom nu hit, dod!; Hallila, uti, storm och i regn Porter
Where is the life that late I led? Brush Up Your Shakespeare Dankworth
The Compleat Works
8.30 Welcome Back, Wigmore Hall !
John Amis introduces recorded impressions of the Wigmore Hall, from its earliest days as the Bechstein Hall to its reopening today, with contributions from Gerald Moore , Ivor Newton , Artur Rubinstein ,
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Joyce Grenfell , among others.
8.50 Parry
Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing
Thomas Doute de la lumière (Hamlet)
Strauss Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss (Ophelia Ueder III)
Berlioz La mort d'Ophélie
Shostakovich Hamlet to his conscience
Finzi Fear no more the heat of the sun Schubert
Horch, horch! die Lerch Tippett
Three Songs for Ariel Britten / know a bank
(A Midsummer Night's Dream) Wolf
Lied des transferierten Zettel; Elfenhed
Verdi Willow Song; Ave Maria (Otello)
(In association with National Power)