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Alisa Weilerstein cello; Pavel Kolesnikov piano
Brahms and Prokofiev
Part of the Wigmore Hall Autumn and Spring Concerts - 2025-2026 Series
Add to my Calendar 26-01-2026 13:00 26-01-2026 15:00 36 Alisa Weilerstein cello; Pavel Kolesnikov piano Two artists known for their striking individuality and searching insights join forces to perform works that make a natural coupling. Prokofiev’s Cello Sonata was composed in 1949, the year after he was denounced by the Soviet authorities for deviating from the state’s narrow artistic ideology. Alisa Weilerstein’s reading of it prompted the New York Times to note how she ‘dispatched every technical test with astonishing ease and visceral joy, and took obvious pleasure in the music’s often sardonic humor’. Wigmore Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St
Marylebone
London
W1U 2BP
England
Programme
Sergey Prokofiev – Cello Sonata, Op.119
Johannes Brahms – Cello Sonata no.1 in E minor, Op.38
Performers
Alisa Weilerstein – cello
Pavel Kolesnikov – piano
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Programme Note
Two artists known for their striking individuality and searching insights join forces to perform works that make a natural coupling. Prokofiev’s Cello Sonata was composed in 1949, the year after he was denounced by the Soviet authorities for deviating from the state’s narrow artistic ideology. Alisa Weilerstein’s reading of it prompted the New York Times to note how she ‘dispatched every technical test with astonishing ease and visceral joy, and took obvious pleasure in the music’s often sardonic humor’.
