Xavier de Maistre – with Cologne's WDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann – has recorded harp concertos by Glière and Mosolov for Sony Classical, supplemented by a couple of transcriptions of Russian ballet music. 

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James Jolly spoke to the French harpist about the album, the two women harpists who inspired the works and the detective work involved in resurrecting the Mosolov concerto.

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And you can listen to the new album, in lossless audio, on Apple Music below.

Wigmore Hall concerts for the week from October 22

Saturday, October 22 at 11.30am, 2pm, 4.30pm & 7.30pm
The Hall plays host to the Ludlow English Song Day, a London home for a day of the festival held each year in April in the Shropshire town and curated by the pianist Iain Burnside. In four concerts audiences are offered a feast of English song (and songs in English) performed by some of the finest British singers, including a former Gramophone Young Artist of the Year, Natalya Romaniw.

Sunday, October 23 at 11.30am
The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam play Tchaikovsky’s First and Shostakovich’s Fifth String Quartets.

Sunday, October 23 at 3pm
The mezzo Kitty Whately with pianist William Vann draw attention to Vaughan Williams’s female pupils – Elizabeth Maconchy, Madeleine Dring, Rebecca Clarke and Grace Williams – and also includes his own major cycle setting poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life.

Sunday, October 23 at 7.30pm
Sunday ends with an evening visit by Les Arts Florissants and William Christie with four fine soloists to perform secular vocal works from the court of Louis XIII, who reigned from 1610 to 1643.

Monday, October 24 at 1pm & live streamed
The trombone player Christian Lindberg with pianist Roland Pöntinen play music by themselves as well as by Hindemith and Tchaikovsky.

Monday, October 24 at 7.30pm
The American Dover Quartet play Schnittke’s Third and Mendelssohn’s Fifth String Quartets with, in between, Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge.

Tuesday, October 25 at 1pm
The soprano Carolyn Sampson and pianist Jospeh Middleton performing French songs by Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Hahn, Józef Szulc and Poldowski, the pseudonym of the Belgian-born British composer and pianist Régine Wieniawski, daughter of the great Henryk.

Tuesday, October 25 at 7.30pm
The French connection continues that evening with a visit from recent Gramophone Award winners, the Quatuor Ebène, who play Purcell Fantasias, Ligeti’s First Quartet and Schumann’s A minor, Op 41 No 1, in a concert dedicated to – and in the presence of – the pianist Menahem Pressler, ahead of his 99th birthday in December.

Wednesday, October 26 at 1pm
The Parkhouse Award Winner's Concert with the 2021 winners, the Trio Bohémo from the Czech Republic. They play Shostakovich’s First Piano Trio, Smetana’s G minor, and Paul Schoenfeld’s Café Music.

Wednesday, October 26 at 7.30pm & streamed at 8pm
Another recent Gramophone Award winner, Alina Ibragimova is joined by her regular piano partner Cédric Tiberghien for John Cage’s Six Melodies, Schubert’s Fantasy in C, D934 and the Violin Sonata by Richard Strauss.

Thursday October 27 at 7.30pm & streamed at 8pm
The harpist Oliver Wass and 12 Ensemble play music by Edmund Finnis, Debussy and George Enescu, his String Octet in a full string orchestra version.

Friday October 28 at 7.30pm
O/Modernt and Hugo Ticciati – winners of Gramophone’s Concept Album Award two years ago – give a concert that explores the wide influence on Western classical music of Hungarian and related folk musics while returning to the latter’s sources. Expect works by Brahms and Bartók alongside traditional and Roma music.

To watch any of the streamed concerts just visit the Wigmore Hall website.
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