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2026

October

• 2: Can Çakmur – Lachenmann: 5 variations on a theme of Franz Schubert, Schubert: Impromptus D 899, Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, première année, Suisse. Vallée d'Obermann [Wigmore]
• 4: Esa-Pekka Salonen, PO, Leif Ove Andsnes – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3, Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 [Royal Festival Hall]
• 4: Robert Levin – (lecture-recital) Mozart: Suite K 399, Variations K 455, Adagio K 356, Sonata K 332 [Wigmore]
• 5: Mark Padmore, Jonathan Biss – Schubert: Lieder D 870, 880, 800, 938, Schumann: Lieder op. 35 [Wigmore]
• 19: Mahan Esfahani, Aapo Häkkinen, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra – Bach, C.P.E.: Symphonies Wq. 175, 178, 182/4, Concertos Wq. 15, 47 [Wigmore]
• 23: Sakari Oramo, BBCSO, Senja Rummukainen – Britten: Four Sea Interludes, Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1, Coll: Elysian, Debussy: La mer [Barbican]
• 30: Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo, Hilary Cronin, Daisy Livesey, James Hall, Jeremy Budd, Hugo Brady, Matthew Long, Dominic Sedgwick, William Gaunt – An English baroque journey I, sacred music. Gibbons, Locke, Purcell, Humfrey, Blow, Greene, Handel [Wigmore]

November

• 2: Richard Goode – Bach, J.S.: Partita BWV 825, Schönberg: Sechs kleine Klavierstücke op. 19, Gesulado: O vos omnes, Byrd: My Ladye Nevells Booke. Pavane and Galliarde Nos. 2, 3, Rameau, Gluck, Bizet, Paderewski, Schubert: Ungarische Melodie D 817, Janáček: Po zarostlém chodníčku. Dobrou noc! [Wigmore]
• 3: Hannes Minnaar – Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues op. 87 [Wigmore]
• 9: Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion, Sabine Devieilhe, Lea Desandre, Xenia Puskarz Thomas, Kieran Carrell, Huw Montague-Rendall – Bruckner, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Mozart: Mass K 427, Haydn, M. [Barbican]
• 10: Sakari Oramo, BBCSO, Inmo Yang – Enescu: Rhapsody No. 1, Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1, Brahms: Symphony No. 1 [Barbican]
• 12: Manfred Honeck, PO, Emanuel Ax – Strauss II: Die Fledermaus, Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25, Strauss: Elektra Suite (arr. Honeck and Ille) [Royal Festival Hall]
• 15: Angela Hewitt, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Baptiste Lopez – Bach, C.P.E.: Symphony H 654, Mozart: Concerto K 413, Symphony K 16, Bach, J.C.: Symphony op. 6 no. 6, Bach, J.S.: Concerto BWV 1058 [Wigmore]
• 17: Laurence Cummings, AAM, Anna Dennis, Ed Lyon, Katie Bray, Christopher Lowrey – Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea [Barbican]
• 19: Paul Lewis – Mozart: Sonatas K 570, 333, Weber: Sonata op. 39, Chopin: Polonaise op. 26 no. 1, Nocturnes op. 37 [Wigmore]
• 26: William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew – Monteverdi: Madrigals, Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda [Wigmore]
• 27: Semyon Bychkov, BBCSO – Mahler: Symphony No. 7 [Barbican]
• 28: Quatuor Ébène – Beethoven: String Quartets op. 18 no. 3, op. 95, op. 59 no. 2 [Wigmore]
• 29: Simone Young, PO, Diana Damrau, Gerald Finley – Strauss: Lieder, Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem [Royal Festival Hall]
• 29: Quatuor Ébène – Beethoven: String Quartets op. 18 no. 6, op. 132 [Wigmore]

December

• 2: Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert, Nicolas Altstaedt – Bach, J.S.: Suite BWV 1066, 1068, Bach, C.P.E.: Concerto H 432, Symphony Wq. 182 No. 5 [Wigmore]
• 4: Sakari Oramo, BBCSO, Beth Taylor, Benjamin Bruns, Lawrence Power – Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Hillborg: Viola Concerto, Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps [Barbican]
• 6: Magdalena Kožená, Malcolm Martineau – Janáček: Moravská lidová poesie v písních (selections), Wolf: Mörike-Lieder (selections), Rachmaninov: Songs op. 38, Schönberg: Brettl-Lieder [Wigmore]
• 10: Gerald Finley, Julius Drake – Schumann, Grieg, Barber [Wigmore]
• 12: Nash Ensemble, Claire Booth – Beethoven: Octet op. 103, Matthews: C.A.N.O.N. for soprano and piano trio, Saint-Saëns: Variations on a theme of Beethoven op. 35, Haydn: String Quartet op. 33 no. 2 [Wigmore]
• 15: Masato Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Rachel Nicholls, Terry Wey, Mauro Peter, Dingle Yandell – Handel: Messiah [Barbican]
• 18: Peter Whelan, Irish Baroque Orchestra and Choir – Handel: Messiah [Wigmore]
• 20: Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Mozart: Sonata K 454, Enescu: Sonata op. 25, Kodály: Adagio, Bartók: Sonata BB 85 [Wigmore]
• 21: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Haydn: Sonatas HXVI/1, 24, 32, 52, D'Indy, Hahn, Ravel, Debussy, Dukas, Widor [Wigmore]
• 23: John Butt, Dunedin Consort, Lucy Crowe, Joanna Songi, Sarah Anne Champion, Guy Cutting, Chris Webb – Scheidt, Rosenmüller, Geist, Bach, J.C., Böhm, Buxtehude, Theile, Schütz, Bach, J.S. [Wigmore]

2027

January

• 3: Juliet Fraser, Newton Armstrong – Feldman: Three Voices [Wigmore]
• 8: Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo, Carolyn Sampson, Hugo Hymas – Blow, Purcell, Eccles, Sammartini, Handel, Arne, Corelli, Croft [Wigmore]
• 9: Tamara Stefanovich – Suk: A selection from Things Lived and Dreamt, Szymanowski: Métopes, Webern: Variations op. 27, Copland: Piano Variations, Hartmann: Piano Sonata 27 April 1945 [Wigmore]
• 19: Anna Lucia Richter, Gerold Huber – Schumann: Dichterliebe op. 48, Heucke: Dichterleben op. 141 [Wigmore]
• 20: Ariel Lanyi – Haydn: Piano Sonata HXVI/39, Benjamin: Fantasy on Iambic Rhythm, Beethoven: 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli [Wigmore]
• 21: Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout – Stravinsky: Three Pieces for string quartet, Haydn: String Quartet op. 74 no. 2, Mendelssohn: String Quintet op. 18 [Wigmore]
• 22: Barbara Hannigan, Bertrand Chamayou – Cage, Satie [Wigmore]
• 23: Belcea Quartet – Beethoven: String Quartets op. 18 no. 4, op. 74, op. 59 no. 1 [Wigmore]
• 24: Zlatomir Fung, Zitong Wang – Janáček: Pohádka, Fauré: Sicilienne op. 78, Chopin: Étude op. 25 no. 7 (arr. Franchomme), Fung: A Sailor's Day Off, Messiaen: Louange à l'éternité de Jésus, Chopin: Cello Sonata op. 65 [Wigmore]
• 25: Sitkovetsky Trio – Schumann: Piano Trio op. 110, Andrée: Piano Trio in G minor [Wigmore]
• 25: Belcea Quartet – Beethoven: String Quartets op. 18 no. 6, op. 132 [Wigmore]
• 26: Pieter Wispelwey, Piers Lane – Beethoven: 12 Variations on Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen op. 66, Cello Sonata op. 102 no. 1, 7 Variations on Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen WoO 46, 12 Variations on See the conqu'ring hero comes WoO 45, Cello Sonata op. 5 no. 2 [Wigmore]
• 31: Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber – Schubert: Lieder D 737, 690, 634, 691, 692, 693, 745, 633, 620, 905, 649, 652, 684, 646, 406, Trojahn [Wigmore]

February

• 1: Cédric Tiberghien – Schubert: 3 Klavierstücke D 946, Janáček: On an Overgrown Path Book 1 [Wigmore]
• 1: Thomas Dunford, Jupiter Ensemble, Kristian Bezuidenhout – Bach, J.S.: Concerto BWV 1054, Cello Suite BWV 1007, Orchestral Suite BWV 1068 (Air), Toccata BWV 913, Concerto BWV 1052 [Wigmore]
• 4: Lionel Meunier, Vox Luminis, Carine Tinney, Jacob Lawrence, Perrine Devillers – Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Dowland: Lachrimae Pavan, Lachrimae Tristes Purell: Odes Z 193, 15, 184, 860, 50, 504 [Wigmore]
• 8: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Caroline Pether, Hannah Roberts – Haydn: Piano Trio HXV/29, HXVI/50, HXV/28, HXV/27, Benjamin: Meditation on Haydn's Name, Mantovani: Prelude sur le nom de Haydn [Wigmore]
• 10, 11: Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI – Mainerio, Parabosco, Gabrieli, Guami, Tye, Dowland, Gibbons, Brade, Johnson, Rossi, Scheidt, de San Lorenzo, Martín y Coll [Wigmore (10, 11)]
• 14: Robert Levin, Ya-Fei Chuang – (lecture-recital) Mozart: Allegro K 357/I/479a, Andante and variations K 501, Liszt: Réminiscences de Don Juan S 418, Mozart: Sonata K 497 [Wigmore]
• 16: Henk Neven, Imogen Cooper – Schubert: Winterreise [Wigmore]
• 25: Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Polina Leschenko – Enescu: Impressions d'enfance op. 28, Debussy: Violin Sonata, Fauré: Violin Sonata op. 13 [Wigmore]
• 26: Florian Boesch, Malcolm Martineau – Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge op. 121, Martin: 6 Monologues from Jedermann, Schumann: Kerner Lieder op. 35 [Wigmore]
• 27: Angela Hewitt – Scarlatti: Sonatas K 491, 377, 208, 14, Bach, J.S.: Partita BWV 828, Chopin: Mazurkas op. 50, Fantasy op. 49, Scherzo op. 31 [Wigmore]
• 28: Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Javier Perianes – Schumann, Joachim, Brahms, Kurtág [Wigmore]

March

• 16: Quatuor Danel, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Yann Dubost – Dvořák: Piano Quintet op. 81, Schubert: Piano Quintet D 667 [Wigmore]
• 20: Arditti Quartet, Jake Arditti – Milliken: In Speak, Mundry: Lost Voices, Kwieciński: "Opulenza!" Szena (troppo) drammatica [Wigmore]
• 22: Doric String Quartet – Mozart: Fugues K 405, Alberga: String Quartet No. 2, Schumann: String Quartet op. 41 no. 2 [Wigmore]
• 23: Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques – Charpentier: H 103, 117, 115, 126, Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint [Wigmore]
• 24: Daniel Barenboim, Boulez Ensemble – Boulez: Dérive 1, Mozart: Serenade K 361 [Wigmore]
• 27: Harry Bicket, The English Concert – Bach, J.S.: Matthäus-Passion [Wigmore]
• 29: Nicolas Altstaedt, Maxim Emelyanychev – Beethoven: Cello Sonata op. 5 no. 1, Britten: Cello Sonata op. 65, Schumann: Fantasiestücke op. 73 [Wigmore]
• 31: Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Justin Taylor – Francoeur, Rebel, Anet, Rameau, Corelli [Wigmore]