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Alisa Weilerstein cello; Pavel Kolesnikov piano

Brahms and Prokofiev

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/YYYY

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36 Wigmore St
Marylebone
London
W1U 2BP
England

Tickets

Prices: £18 (concessions £16)
Booking line: 020 7935 2141

Programme

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Performers

– cello
 – piano

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’.

Alisa Weilerstein cello; Pavel Kolesnikov piano - Brahms and Prokofiev

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