The Wigmore Hall's resident chamber ensemble perform the remaining two concerts in the Vienna and its Empire series. The double bill also includes an introductory talk on the Second Viennese School by Gillian Moore MBE, Director of Music, Southbank Centre, writer and broadcaster
The first of two at Wigmore Hall on Saturday 11 February, features the Royal Academy of Music’s senior students performing alongside Nash Ensemble players Ian Brown and Gareth Hulse in chamber music from the twentieth century by composers from the Second Viennese School – Webern and Schoenberg.
The second concert presents acclaimed soprano Claire Booth in Berg’s ravishing Seven Early Songs and Schubert’s late cantata ‘The Shepherd on the Rock’, together with two Nash favourites, Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio in B flat and Schubert’s monumental Octet.
