YSAŸE, SHOSTAKOVICH, BRITTEN, SIMPSON, FRANCK | LIZA FERSCHTMAN, VIOLIN | ENRICO PACE, PIANO
📅 Streaming live on April 14, 2025, at 19:30 BST (GMT+1)
📍 Watch free on YouTube or wigmore-hall.com.uk
🔹 Free streaming
🔹 Live from Wigmore Hall, London
Programme:
– Eugène Ysaÿe: Poème élégiaque, Op. 12
– Dmitry Shostakovich: Selections from 24 Preludes, Op. 34 (arr. Tsyganov)
– Benjamin Britten: Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 6
– Mark Simpson: An Essay of Love
– César Franck: Violin Sonata in A major
Wigmore Hall continues its tradition of high-level chamber music with a free live-streamed recital by violinist Liza Ferschtman and pianist Enrico Pace. This wide-ranging programme brings together works from the late 19th century to the present, offering an emotionally varied and technically demanding journey through expressive sound worlds.
The concert opens with Ysaÿe’s Poème élégiaque, followed by a selection of Shostakovich’s Preludes, arranged for violin and piano. Britten’s Suite, composed early in his career, blends playfulness with intensity, while Mark Simpson’s An Essay of Love, written during the 2020 lockdown, explores emotional extremes in a contemporary language. The recital concludes with the Sonata in A by Franck, a cornerstone of the violin repertoire and originally composed as a wedding gift for Ysaÿe.
Offered for free on YouTube and Wigmore Hall’s website, this concert will remain available in the hall’s online archive after the live broadcast.
OVERVIEW
This recital brings together two internationally established artists with strong chamber music backgrounds.
Liza Ferschtman is a Dutch violinist known for the breadth of her repertoire and her work both as a soloist and artistic curator. She has performed with major orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Budapest Festival Orchestra, and held long-standing collaborations with composers, choreographers, and chamber musicians. She served for 14 years as artistic director of the Delft Chamber Music Festival and is especially noted for her interpretations of solo violin repertoire.
Enrico Pace, born in Rimini in 1967, is an Italian pianist whose career spans solo, orchestral, and chamber music performance. Winner of the 1989 Franz Liszt International Piano Competition, he has played with orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic and BBC Philharmonic and collaborated with artists such as Leonidas Kavakos and Frank Peter Zimmermann. He is a regular guest at chamber music festivals across Europe and has recorded repertoire from Liszt to contemporary works.
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