Steven Isserlis cello; Connie Shih piano
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Steven Isserlis’s programme recalls the musical powerhouse of Leipzig in the mid-1800s. Mendelssohn, so impressed by the works of William Sterndale Bennett, invited the young English composer to the German city, where he met and became friends with Robert Schumann. Bennett’s gift for melodic invention shines in his Sonata Duo, written in 1852 for the virtuoso cellist, Antonio Piatti, as does Mendelssohn’s in his Bach-inspired Second Cello Sonata ...
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1 dates (9 Nov - 9 Nov)
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9
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1:00 pm
Wigmore Hall
London, United Kingdom
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