Details

Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St
Marylebone
London
W1U 2BP
England

Monday 1st December 2025
1:00 PM

Programme

Stephen Hough – Songs from Isolation: 'Transformation'
Benjamin Britten – The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35: 'Oh my black Soule!'
Osamu Katsuki – Pram
Henry Purcell – In the black, dismal dungeon of despair, Z.190 (realised by Benjamin Britten)
Benjamin Britten – The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35: 'Oh might those sighes and teares'
Tōru Tamura – When the wind blows
Benjamin Britten – The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35: 'Oh, to vex me'
Stephen Hough – Songs from Isolation: 'Hotel'
Benjamin Britten – The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35: 'What if this present'
Olivier Messiaen – Poèmes pour Mi: 'Paysage'
Benjamin Britten – The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35: 'Since she whom I loved'
Ralph Vaughan Williams – 5 Mystical Songs: IV. The Call
Franz Schubert – Auflösung, D.807
Benjamin Britten – The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35: 'At the round earth’s imagined corners'
Frank Bridge – Journey's End
Paul Hindemith – Wie Sankt Franciscus schweb' ich in der Luft
Benjamin Britten – The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35: 'Thou hast made me'
Benjamin Britten – The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35: 'Death, be not proud'
John Weldon – Alleluia (realised by Benjamin Britten)

Performers

Hiroshi Amako – tenor
Michael Pandya – piano

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Programme Note

Collaborative pianist Michael Pandya, currently on the BBC New Generation Artists scheme, is joined for this lunchtime recital by the tenor Hiroshi Amako, a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music. The duo presents a programme built around Britten’s haunting Holy Sonnets of John Donne.