Wigmore Hall Podcasts

Epizode

• Beethoven String Quartet Cycles 25.06.2026 58min

  In June’s podcast episode, Professor Laura Tunbridge speaks to violinist Mark Steinberg about performing Beethoven’s string quartets as a cycle.   Spanning the entirety of the composer’s creative life, Beethoven’s sixteen string quartets are often divided into early, middle and late. In this conversation, Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, Professor Laura Tunbridge, discusses different musicological approaches to programming and performing these profound works as a cycle with the first violinist of the Brentano String Quartet, Mark Steinberg.
• There is Sweet Music Here: The World of Wigmore Hall 07.05.2026 46min

  In May’s podcast episode, author Julia Boyd speaks to Ian Skelly about her book, There is Sweet Music Here: The World of Wigmore Hall (Elliott & Thompson, 2026). Drawing on archival sources and first-hand accounts, the book and their conversation charts the Hall’s extraordinary journey from Edwardian beginnings to the present day. There is Sweet Music Here: The World of Wigmore Hall will be available to purchase at the Hall from Thursday 21 May, and throughout our 125th Anniversary Festival from Monday 25 May until Sunday 7 June.
• Contemporary Music 16.04.2026 39min

  In April’s podcast episode, composer-performers Héloïse Werner and Errollyn Wallen discuss their approaches to composition, performance, and contemporary music making.  
• International Women's Day 05.03.2026 1h

  As March is Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating International Women’s Day with Leah Broad and Katy Hamilton in this month’s podcast. The two writers discuss the values and limitations of this yearly commemoration of women’s fight for equality across all aspects of life, with a focus on music-making.    
• Women's Voices in the Baroque 13.02.2026 1h 8min

  In February’s podcast episode, soprano Nardus Williams and lute player Elizabeth Kenny join us to talk about working together on programmes that celebrate baroque women composers, shining a light on their upcoming concert with Mary Beard for International Women’s Day at Wigmore Hall.  
• The Countertenor 08.01.2026 1h 4min

  In this month’s podcast episode, countertenors Hugh Cutting and Iestyn Davies discuss finding their voices, musical inspirations, programming, and more.     Both Hugh and Iestyn have residencies at Wigmore Hall this Season, including a weekend-long celebration of John Dowland’s quartercentenary, baroque festivities, and more.  
• Festive Music Making at Wigmore Hall 04.12.2025 41min

  In December’s podcast episode, Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral and founder of The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood speaks to broadcaster Ian Skelly about festive music making.   Join Andrew and Ian for a festive podcast special, where they discuss putting together programmes, past and present seasonal concerts at Wigmore Hall, what makes a good carol, and much more. 
• The Pianos of Wigmore Hall 13.11.2025 58min

  In this month’s podcast episode, Steinway & Sons’ Director of Concert and Artists services Ulrich Gerhartz introduces the pianos of Wigmore Hall.   Having started looking after the pianos at the Hall in 1996, Ulrich has a long-standing relationship with the two world-renowned instruments and the artists that perform with them, which he talks about in this month’s episode. We were lucky enough to join him onstage during their yearly service this summer and to capture him at work.   
• Rebecca Clarke Focus Day 09.10.2025 1h 1min

  In October’s podcast episode, Dr Leah Broad, Dr Natasha Loges and mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately discuss the life and music of British composer and violist Rebecca Clarke ahead of a Focus Day at Wigmore Hall this November.   One of the most important composers of her generation, Clarke created around 100 works, but only 20 of these were published in her lifetime. Leah, Natasha and Kitty introduce Clarke in the context of music-making in Britain at the start of the 20th century, discussing her life, compositions, and performance career. The trio look ahead to Saturday 8 November 2025, an exciting day of four events to celebrate the centenary of Clarke's major 1925 recital at the Hall, as well as a new recording by Kitty Whately, tenor Nicholas Phan and pianist Anna Tilbrook of Clarke’s complete songs, which will be released on 7 November 2025.  
• Composer in Residence - Thomas Larcher 11.09.2025 42min

  In the first podcast episode of the season, Ian Skelly talks to Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence for 2025/26, Thomas Larcher.   Born in Innsbruck in 1963, Austrian composer Thomas Larcher is a leading voice in contemporary classical music. Since becoming one of the first composers to grace Wigmore Hall’s ongoing series of commissions in 2007, he has beguiled audiences with some of the finest works of contemporary chamber music and song. His residency at the Hall promises to show why his music has been described by The Times as ‘one of this century’s wonders’.
• Women of Wigmore 06.03.2023 47min

  On International Women's Day, our Archivist Emily Woolf explores the trailblazing, influential, unpredictable, and occasionally outrageous women in Wigmore Hall's history. From Ethel Smyth to Ellen Terry, Yvette Guilbert to Yvonne Arnaud - not to mention dancers, lecturers and the occasional psychic - hear their stories, their words and music, and discover their place in the story of the Hall.
• András Schiff Beethoven Lecture Recitals: 33: Piano Sonata in C minor Op. 111 21.02.2023 43min

  András Schiff last performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall from 2004–6 to overwhelming critical acclaim, with the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, describing one particular performance as ‘a riveting mixture of erudition, analysis, passion, wit and memory’. On the day before each of the eight recitals in the series, the world-renowned pianist, pedagogue and lecturer gave a lecture-recital in which he explored the works to be performed. Deeply engaging and insightful, these thought-provoking lecture-recitals, recorded live at the Hall, are available as eight audio lecture-recitals.
• András Schiff Beethoven Lecture Recitals: 32: Piano Sonata in A-flat major Op. 110 21.02.2023 38min

  András Schiff last performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall from 2004–6 to overwhelming critical acclaim, with the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, describing one particular performance as ‘a riveting mixture of erudition, analysis, passion, wit and memory’. On the day before each of the eight recitals in the series, the world-renowned pianist, pedagogue and lecturer gave a lecture-recital in which he explored the works to be performed. Deeply engaging and insightful, these thought-provoking lecture-recitals, recorded live at the Hall, are available as eight audio lecture-recitals.
• András Schiff Beethoven Lecture Recitals: 31: Piano Sonata in E major Op. 109 21.02.2023 49min

  András Schiff last performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall from 2004–6 to overwhelming critical acclaim, with the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, describing one particular performance as ‘a riveting mixture of erudition, analysis, passion, wit and memory’. On the day before each of the eight recitals in the series, the world-renowned pianist, pedagogue and lecturer gave a lecture-recital in which he explored the works to be performed. Deeply engaging and insightful, these thought-provoking lecture-recitals, recorded live at the Hall, are available as eight audio lecture-recitals.
• András Schiff Beethoven Lecture Recitals: 30: Piano Sonata in B-flat major Op. 106 ’Hammerklavier’ (continued) 21.02.2023 43min

  András Schiff last performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall from 2004–6 to overwhelming critical acclaim, with the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, describing one particular performance as ‘a riveting mixture of erudition, analysis, passion, wit and memory’. On the day before each of the eight recitals in the series, the world-renowned pianist, pedagogue and lecturer gave a lecture-recital in which he explored the works to be performed. Deeply engaging and insightful, these thought-provoking lecture-recitals, recorded live at the Hall, are available as eight audio lecture-recitals.
• András Schiff Beethoven Lecture Recitals: 29: Piano Sonata in B-flat major Op. 106 ’Hammerklavier’ 21.02.2023 39min

  András Schiff last performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall from 2004–6 to overwhelming critical acclaim, with the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, describing one particular performance as ‘a riveting mixture of erudition, analysis, passion, wit and memory’. On the day before each of the eight recitals in the series, the world-renowned pianist, pedagogue and lecturer gave a lecture-recital in which he explored the works to be performed. Deeply engaging and insightful, these thought-provoking lecture-recitals, recorded live at the Hall, are available as eight audio lecture-recitals.
• András Schiff Beethoven Lecture Recitals: 28: Piano Sonata in A major Op. 101 21.02.2023 45min

  András Schiff last performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall from 2004–6 to overwhelming critical acclaim, with the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, describing one particular performance as ‘a riveting mixture of erudition, analysis, passion, wit and memory’. On the day before each of the eight recitals in the series, the world-renowned pianist, pedagogue and lecturer gave a lecture-recital in which he explored the works to be performed. Deeply engaging and insightful, these thought-provoking lecture-recitals, recorded live at the Hall, are available as eight audio lecture-recitals.
• András Schiff Beethoven Lecture Recitals: 27: Piano Sonata in E minor Op. 90 21.02.2023 47min

  András Schiff last performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall from 2004–6 to overwhelming critical acclaim, with the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, describing one particular performance as ‘a riveting mixture of erudition, analysis, passion, wit and memory’. On the day before each of the eight recitals in the series, the world-renowned pianist, pedagogue and lecturer gave a lecture-recital in which he explored the works to be performed. Deeply engaging and insightful, these thought-provoking lecture-recitals, recorded live at the Hall, are available as eight audio lecture-recitals.
• András Schiff Beethoven Lecture Recitals: 26: Piano Sonata in E-flat major Op. 81a ’Les Adieux’ 21.02.2023 28min

  András Schiff last performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall from 2004–6 to overwhelming critical acclaim, with the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, describing one particular performance as ‘a riveting mixture of erudition, analysis, passion, wit and memory’. On the day before each of the eight recitals in the series, the world-renowned pianist, pedagogue and lecturer gave a lecture-recital in which he explored the works to be performed. Deeply engaging and insightful, these thought-provoking lecture-recitals, recorded live at the Hall, are available as eight audio lecture-recitals.
• András Schiff Beethoven Lecture Recitals: 25: Piano Sonata in G major Op. 79 21.02.2023 6min

  András Schiff last performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall from 2004–6 to overwhelming critical acclaim, with the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, describing one particular performance as ‘a riveting mixture of erudition, analysis, passion, wit and memory’. On the day before each of the eight recitals in the series, the world-renowned pianist, pedagogue and lecturer gave a lecture-recital in which he explored the works to be performed. Deeply engaging and insightful, these thought-provoking lecture-recitals, recorded live at the Hall, are available as eight audio lecture-recitals.