Wigmore Hall Announces Concert Series Featuring Iestyn Davies, Lucy Crowe, Roderick Williams

By Francisco Salazar

The BBC and the Wigmore Hall have announced a concert series that will reopen the London stage.

The series will feature soloists or duos at 1 p.m. each weekday starting on June 1 in an empty hall. The performances will be livestreamed on the venue’s website and broadcast on Radio 3 and BBC Sounds. All concerts will then be available on demand for 30 days.

Among the performers featured Iestyn Davies, Roderick Williams, Stephen Hough, Iain Burnside, Michael Collins, Imogen Cooper, Lucy Crowe, Nicholas Daniel, Julius Drake, Benjamin Grosvenor, Angela Hewitt and Paul Lewis. Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida will end the series with Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise.

Wigmore Hall’s artistic director John Gilhooly told the Guardian, “When we shut the hall on March 16, we made sure to leave the piano on the stage, and the camera and audio equipment – all of which can be operated remotely – in place. With only one or two performers on stage it’s very possible to make this work within government guidelines observing social distancing. There’ll be one producer backstage for Wigmore Hall, one producer for Radio 3, we need someone to tune and then anti-viral the piano, the artists will come on stage from separate entrances, the presenter will sit in the middle of the hall, I will sit in the balcony and we’ll communicate via radio, email and texts.”

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