Wigmore Hall36 Wigmore Street, London, Greater London, W1U 2BP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
| Monday 26 January 2026 | 13:00 |
Programme
| Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953) | Sonata for Cello and Piano in C major, Op.119 | |
| Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) | Cello Sonata no. 1 in E minor for Cello and Piano, Op.38 |
Performers
| Alisa Weilerstein | Cello |
| Pavel Kolesnikov | Piano |
Two artists known for their striking individuality and searching insights join forces to perform works that make a natural coupling. Prokofiev’s Cello Sonata was composed in 1949, the year after he was denounced by the Soviet authorities for deviating from the state’s narrow artistic ideology. Alisa Weilerstein’s reading of it prompted the New York Times to note how she ‘dispatched every technical test with astonishing ease and visceral joy, and took obvious pleasure in the music’s often sardonic humor’.
Tickets: £18 (concessions £16)
General sale for this event will open at 10.00am on Tuesday 7 October.
