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Internationally-acclaimed soprano Sonya Yoncheva joins pianist Malcolm Martineau for a radiant evening of Italian and Spanish song. From Puccini’s lyrical gems to Verdi’s intimate miniatures and Albéniz’s sultry Tango, this programme reveals Yoncheva’s expressive depth in repertoire that spans operatic passion and poetic introspection.

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Sonya Yoncheva soprano; Malcolm Martineau piano

Wigmore Hall

'Where other children would have nursery rhymes, I’d go to bed to the sounds of Haydn, Mozart and Schubert,' recalls Sir Simon Keenlyside, whose father and grandfather were both professional violinists. Those priceless formative years continued when he became a boy chorister, then a choral scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge, and set rock-solid foundations for his subsequent career as a wonderfully perceptive concert singer, one of the most exciting operatic performers of modern times.

Sir Simon Keenlyside baritone; Malcolm Martineau piano

Austrian baritone Florian Boesch has earned his place among the immortals of Lieder singing as an artist famed for his deep love of poetic words and their musical expression. As the son and grandson of singers, he absorbed the art by osmosis as a child and, following studies with his grandmother, then with fellow baritone Robert Holl, came of age as a recitalist at the world’s leading concert venues. A regular guest at Wigmore Hall since the early 2000s, he returns with a typically compelling programme.

Florian Boesch baritone; Malcolm Martineau

RCS regular Malcolm Martineau returns with the first in a series of three concerts featuring RCS alumni. This afternoon, tenor Matthew McKinney joins him for Finding Freedom, featuring music by Clara and Robert Schumann, Britten, Bridge, and Weir, interwoven with poetry by Breytenbach, Tagore, and Auden.

Fridays at One: Malcolm Martineau & Matthew McKinney

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Unfortunately, the concert Fatma Said & Friends cannot take place and is cancelled without replacement. The Soprano deeply regrets the cancellation and hopes to be able to come to Dresden soon. Already purchased tickets will be refunded and can be returned through our customer service.

Fatma Said & Friends

STROMWERK | Kulturarena Kraftwerk Mitte

Song recital Elīna Garanča

State Opera Unter den Linden

The leading collaborative pianist has worked with innumerable great artists and covered vast swathes of repertoire. His complete Fauré songs on disc has been much praised: ‘Martineau’s understanding of Fauré’s piano-writing, in which less means more, and virtuosity is avoided in favour of nuance, remains impeccable’, wrote Gramophone of Volume 2, while for The Observer he has been ‘ever an authoritative, agile and responsive pianist’.

Fauré Song Masterclass with Malcolm Martineau

Hugo Wolf remains one of the high points of the entire Lieder tradition, his songs combining sophistication with directness of utterance. Here two admired singers and one of the most experienced of collaborative pianists tackle one of his greatest and most varied compositional achievements.

Erin Morley soprano; Huw Montague Rendall baritone; Malcolm Martineau piano

As the San Francisco Chronicle suggested of a recent Das Lied von der Erde, ‘anytime you add Cooke into the mix, there’s a whole new level of magic involved. She brings an extraordinary wealth of tonal colour to a performance, as well as a degree of emotional intensity that can be almost unnerving in its focus’. Her programme culminates in a cycle setting texts written by Cooke and her husband and which the singer premièred in the US in February.

Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano; Malcolm Martineau piano

Glaswegian mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor, praised for her ‘warm, caressing timbre’ and ‘sensational coloratura’, has already made notable debuts across Europe and the UK, and is an active arts accessibility advocate.

Beth Taylor & Malcolm Martineau

St John's Church Buxton

One of today’s most in-demand lyric coloratura sopranos, Erin Morley has been praised for the “silken clarity of her voice and the needlepoint precision of her coloratura” (The New York Times). Since graduating from the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Morley has appeared in more than 100 Met performances, most notably as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Olympia in Tales of Hoffmann, Constance in Les Dialogues des Carmélites, and Pamina in The Magic Flute. Opera lovers who streamed the Met Stars at Home Gala during the pandemic will never forget her delightful rendition of “Chacun le sait, chacun le dit” from La Fille du Régiment, as she deftly accompanied herself at the piano. Here the supremely sensitive pianist Martin Martineau joins Morley for a magical matinee performance.

Erin Morley, soprano Malcolm Martineau, piano

University of California, Berkeley

At the now traditional recitals, you will experience internationally renowned singers not in the usual opera productions, but with specially compiled song and aria programs.

Recital Günther Groissböck

Vienna State Opera

In turn a symbol of freedom, imagination, escape and independence, the vagabond has haunted the imagination of artists and poets as well as philosophers. In the work of Robert Schumann, he takes the form of a lonely minstrel who asks his king for a simple cup of wine; in that of Gustav Mahler, that of a saint who speaks to animals. And while Richard Strauss takes you on nocturnal wanderings, Francis Poulenc gives you a taste of a painter’s Parisian ‘vie de bohème’.

A Vagabond’s daydream

La Monnaie - De Munt

Peter Pears, who died 40 years ago, was a regular presence at Wigmore Hall where, in 1942, he and his partner Benjamin Britten gave the world première of the Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo. Robin Tritschler and Malcolm Martineau’s tribute concert includes the dozen Songs of the Zodiac which Geoffrey Bush composed in memory of the great English tenor and the emotionally incendiary music of Richard Rodney Bennett’s Tom O’Bedlam’s Song, written for Pears and Malcolm Martineau’s aunt, the cellist Joan Dickson.

Robin Tritschler tenor; Malcolm Martineau piano; Philip Higham cello

Magdalena Kožená opens her recital with songs in her mother tongue. The Czech mezzo-soprano, born in Janáček’s home town, has few equals when it comes to touching the spirit and soul of his music. She and Malcolm Martineau move from a selection of Janáček’s haunting love songs to a sequence of pieces from the Mörike Lieder, Hugo Wolf’s first great song collection. Vivid contrasts and striking imagery permeate their recital’s second half, crowned by the songs Schoenberg wrote in 1901 for Berlin’s Überbrettl cabaret.

Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano; Malcolm Martineau piano

Expression of poetic texts and the communication of the emotions they contain belong to Fatma Said’s insightful interpretations of German art song. ‘Differentiating between diverse kinds of expressive worlds is for me what lieder-singing is all about,’ she explains. ‘Her voice, with its distinctive fast vibrato, certainly makes some succulent sounds,’ observed The Times in its review of the enthralling Egyptian soprano’s recent Lieder album

Pianist

Malcolm Martineau

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 22, 2026 - May 25, 2027

Recital Günther Groissböck · Wiener Staatsoper

Oct 2, 2026

A Vagabond’s daydream · La Monnaie / De Munt

Dec 4, 2026

Robin Tritschler tenor; Malcolm Martineau piano; Philip Higham cello · Wigmore Hall

Dec 6, 2026

Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano; Malcolm Martineau piano · Wigmore Hall

Dec 17, 2026

Fatma Said soprano; Malcolm Martineau piano · Wigmore Hall

Past events

Jul 9, 2026

Sonya Yoncheva soprano; Malcolm Martineau piano · Wigmore Hall

Jul 5, 2026

Sir Simon Keenlyside baritone; Malcolm Martineau piano · Wigmore Hall

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen by Mahler

Wigmore Hall

Piano in Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Mahler

Wigmore Hall

Piano in 3 Balladen by Loewe

Wigmore Hall

Piano in Der Pilgrim vor St. Just by Loewe

Wigmore Hall

Piano in Odins Meeresritt by Loewe

Wigmore Hall

Piano in Tom der Reimer by Loewe

Wigmore Hall

Piano in Süsses Begräbnis by Loewe

Wigmore Hall

Piano in Der du von dem Himmel bist by Loewe

Wigmore Hall

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