Jakub Józef Orliński, Matthias Goerne, Lawrence Brownlee, Benjamin Appl, Barbara Hannigan Véronique Gens, Hugh Cutting & Nicholas Phan Lead Wigmore Hall’s Fall 2025-26 Season

By Francisco Salazar

Wigmore Hall has announced its 2025-26 fall season. Here is a look at the vocal performances, and click here for a preview of the spring and summer season.

Matthias Goerne and Maria João Pires opens the season.

Performance Date: Sept. 9, 2025


Anna Dennis, Hugh Cutting, Nicholas Mulroy, Marcus Farnsworth, Jessica Cale, Sarah Anne Champion, Hiroshi Amako, and Chris Webb perform Bach’s “St Matthew Passion.” John Butt conducts.

Performance Date: Sept. 10, 2025


Véronique Gens and James Baillieu perform music by Gounod, Hahn, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, Ropartz, Duparc, Debussy, Canteloube, Limouzi, Louiguy, Monnot, Weill, and Willson.

Performance Date: Sept. 12, 2025


Benjamin Appl and Martynas Levickis take on Mahler, Alma Mahler, Korngold, Schoenberg, Gerswhin, Franck, Hahn, Poulenc, Ravel, Piazolla, Hollaender Weill, Mackie, Philip, Copland, and Bernstein.

Performance Date: Sept. 15, 2025


Lea Desandre leads a program featuring the Jupiter Ensemble and Thomas Dunford.

Performance Date: Sept. 16, 2025


Vox Luminis will perform Bach’s Mass in B minor with Erika Tandiono, Sophia Faltas, Victoria Cassano, William Shelton, Raphael Höhn, Sebastian Myrus, and Felix Schwandtke.

Performance Date: Sept. 18, 2025


Samuel Hasselhorn leads a program of music by Clara and Robert Schumann as well as Brahms. Joseph Breinl and Waltraud Meier accompany on the program.

Performance Date: Sept. 20, 2025


Nikola Hillebrand and Malcolm Martineau perform Schubert.

Performance Date: Sept. 25, 2025


Les Arts Florissants and Paul Agnew will perform alongside Miriam Allan, Maarten Engeltjes, Thomas Hobbs, and Edward Grint. The program includes music by Telemann, Kuhnau, Bach, Graupner, and Bach.

Performance Date: Sept. 26, 2025


Hugh Cutting is joined by The English Concert and Harry Bicket for Monteverdi, Purcell, Strozzi, Cavalli, and JC Bach.

Performance Date: Sept. 28, 2025


Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton perform a program entitled “Elegy” featuring works by Ravel, Schubert, Grieg, Schumann, Errollyn Wallen, Mahler, Strauss, Clara Schumann, Chausson, Liszt, and Viardot.

Performance Date: Oct. 3, 2025


Camerata RCO performs Britten and Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde ” with Philipp von Steinaecker, Barbara Kozelj, and Toby Spence.

Performance Date: Oct. 8, 2025


Jakub Józef Orliński and Aleksander Debicz present one program featuring Bach, Purcell, Vivaldi, Handel, Moniuszko and Dębicz.

Performance Date: Oct. 10, 2025


Jakub Józef Orliński and Michał Biel perform Purcell, Händel, and Dowland.

Performance Date: Oct. 11, 2025


Anja Mittermüller and Richard Fu perform Schubert, Grieg, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Wolf, Strauss, and Marx.

Performance Date: Oct. 17, 2025


Jack Sheen and Manchester Camerata perform alongside Eleonore Cockerham in a program by Delage, Jack Sheen, Stravinsky, Cassandra, and Ravel.

Performance Date: Oct. 18, 2025


The Sixteen and Harry Christophers perform Palestrina and Anon.

Performance Date: Oct. 22, 2025

Stéphane Degout and Simon Lepper lead a program of music by Schumann, Ropartz, Strohl, Ravel, and Debussy.

Performance Date: Oct. 24, 2025


Ruby Hughes and Errollyn Wallen perform music by Errollyn Wallen, Britten, and Ives.

Performance Date: Oct. 27, 2025


Vivaldi’s “Serenata a tre Mio cor” will be performed by Modo Antiquo, Federico Maria Sardelli, Valeria La Grotta, Giuseppina Bridelli, and Valentino Buzza.

Performance Date: Oct. 28, 2025


Cantoría will perform Spanish Baroque Jácaras & Villancicos.

Performance Date: Oct. 30, 2025


Ilker Arcayürek joins Benjamin Baker, Maciej Kułakowski, Benjamin Frith, and Matthew Hunt for music by Thomas Larcher.

Performance Date: Nov. 1, 2025


Sarah Gilford, Ellen Pearson, Hugo Brady, Sam Hird, Jonathan Ware, and Francesca Lauri perform music by Beethoven, Fauré and Schumann.

Performance Date: Nov. 4, 2025


Kitty Whately, Nicholas Phan, and Anna Tilbrook perform music by Rebecca Clarke with Leah Broad and Christopher Johnson serving as speakers.


Performance Date: Nov. 8, 2025

Kitty Whately, Nicholas Phan, Max Baillie, and Anna Tilbrook take on Songs and Chamber Works of Rebecca Clarke.

Performance Date: Nov. 8, 2025


Ailish Tynan, Kitty Whately, Nicholas Phan, Ashley Riches, and Anna Tilbrook perform in “A British Voice: The Royal College of Music’s Cornucopia of English Song.” Natasha Loges is teh speaker.

Performance Date: Nov. 8, 2025


Ailish Tynan, Kitty Whately, Nicholas Phan, Ashley Riches, Max Baillie, and Anna Tilbrook celebrate 100 years since Rebecca Clarke’s sold-out recital at Wigmore Hall in 1925.

Performance Date: Nov. 8, 2025


James Newby and Joseph Middleton perform “The Shipping Forecast” featuring music by Schubert, Ives, Chabrier, Duparc, Rachmaninov, Elgar, Gibbs, Finzi, and many others.

Performance Date: Nov. 10, 2025


The Tallis Scholars under Peter Philips perform des Prez, Palestrina, and Byrd.

Performance Date: Nov. 10, 2025


Dorothea Röschmann and Joseph Middleton perform songs by Schubert, Brahms, Berg, and Schoenberg.

Performance Date: Nov. 11, 2025


Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau perform selected songs by Robert Schumann and Zemlinsky.

Performance Date: Nov. 17, 2025


Dunedin Consort and Nicholas Mulroy lead soloists Jessica Cale, Samuel Boden, and Chris Webb in Purcell, Blow, Draghi, Hall, and Croft.

Performance Date: Nov. 18, 2025


Lawrence Brownlee and Iain Burnside lead a program of music by Donizetti, Respighi, Denza, Sibella, Liszt, Argento, Owens, Jasmine Barnes, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Joel Thompson.

Performance Date: Nov. 22, 2025


Iestyn Evans, Philippa Boyle, Rebecca Hardwick, Diana Moore, Michael Bell, and Michael Hickman lead a program of works by Quilter, Parry, Warlock, Dring, and Tate.

Performance Date: Nov. 22, 2025


Katharina Konradi and Joseph Middleton take on Schubert, Dvořák, and Liszt.

Performance Date: Nov. 24, 2025


Nardus Williams and Elizabeth Kenny lead an evening entitled “The Four Humors.”

Performance Date: Nov. 24, 2025


Claire Barnett-Jones and Rebecca Cohen perform works by Zemlinsky, Strauss, Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Korngold, Müller-Hermann, and Schoenberg.

Performance Date: Nov. 30, 2025


Christiane Karg and Gerold Huber celebrate Christmas at Wigmore.

Performance Date: Dec. 1, 2025


Hiroshi Amako and Michael Pandya take on the music of Britten, Schubert, Messiaen, Purcell, Stephen Hough, and others.

Performance Date: Dec. 1, 2025


Ashley Riches joins pianist David Owen Norris for “A Christmas Carol.”

Performance Date: Dec. 5, 2025


Barbara Hannigan teams up with Bertrand Chamayou for Messiaen, Skryabin, and John Zorn.

Performance Date: Dec. 6, 2025


Ema Nikolovska and Hikaru Kanki perform works by Richard Strauss, Rachmaninov, and Alma Mahler.

Performance Date: Dec. 10, 2025


Sir Willard White and Eugene Asti lead a program of music by R Schumann, Schubert, Britten, Copland, Weill, and Stephen Flaherty.

Performance Date: Dec. 12, 2025


Zoltán Daragó performs “A Night in London” with Pulcinella and Ophélie Gaillard.

Performance Date: Dec. 12, 2025


Brahms, R Schumann, Pfitzner, and Shostakovich form part of Günther Groissböck and Julius Drake’s recital program.

Performance Date: Dec. 14, 2025


The English Concert under Harry Bicket perform Humfrey, Purcell, and Blow with soloists Amy Carson, Alexander Chance, and Anthony Gregory.

Performance Date: Dec. 16, 2025


Vox Luminis under Lionel Meunier take on the music of Bach and Kuhnau.

Performance Date: Dec. 19, 2025


Hugh Cutting and the Refound Ensemble lead a program entitled “Morpheus.”

Performance Date: Dec. 21, 2025


Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” will star Solomon’s Knot, Zoë Brookshaw, Clare Lloyd-Griffiths, Kate Symonds-Joy, James Hall, Thomas Herford, David de Winter, Jonathan Sells, and Alex Ashworth.

Performance Date: Dec. 22, 2025


Christmas Folklore will showcase Siglo de Oro and Patrick Allies.

Performance Date: Dec. 23, 2025


Andrei Kymach and James Baillieu perform works by Lysenko, Zherbin, Lopatynsky, Kos-Anatolsky, Lyatoshinsky, Stetsenko, Bobykevych, Meitus, and Haidamaka.

Performance Date: Dec. 28, 2025


The English Concert and Iestyn Davies lead the New Year’s Eve gala.

Performance Date: Dec. 31, 2025

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