Magdalena Kožená / Mitsuko Uchida

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Wigmore Hall36 Wigmore Street, London, Greater London, W1U 2BP, United Kingdom

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Programme

Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)	Chansons de Bilitis
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)	5 poèmes de Baudelaire
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)	Ariettes oubliées
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)	Poèmes pour Mi, for solo voice (L’épouse)
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)	Poèmes pour Mi, for solo voice (Ta voix)
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)	Poèmes pour Mi, for solo voice (Les deux guerriers)
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)	Poèmes pour Mi, for solo voice (Le collier)
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)	Poèmes pour Mi, for solo voice (Prière exaucée)

Performers

Magdalena Kožená	Mezzo-soprano
Dame Mitsuko Uchida	Piano

Two exceptional individual artists forming a regular duo come together for a programme of music by a pair of French composers. Debussy’s settings of Pierre Louÿs, Verlaine and Baudelaire precede Messiaen’s of his own texts in highly personal songs which, in the words of The Times, ‘could have been composed for the voice of Magdalena Kožená and the fingers of Mitsuko Uchida’.

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Enchanté: Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida at Wigmore Hall

Roy Westbrook, 9th October

A Wigmore Hall recital to take the listener from the Belle Époque to the acceptable face of modernism.

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