{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Celebrating Wigmore Hall at 125 with Director John Gilhooly and author Julia Boyd","description":"On May 31, 1901 London\u2019s Wigmore Hall (originally Bechstein Hall) opened its doors, and hosted its first concert. Among the performers were the great Belgian violinist and composer Eug\u00e8ne Ysa\u00ffe and the Italian pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni. Mrs Helen Trust, a much-admired English soprano, performed as did the baritone Raimund von Zur-M\u00fchlen. Supporting the singers were Hamilton Harty and Victor Biegel. To mark this auspicious anniversary, Wigmore Hall is holding a two-week festival from May 25 and, over 24 concerts, welcoming some of today\u2019s greatest musicians to perform, including Gramophone Award winners, singers Lise Davidsen, Asmik Grigorian, Carolyn Sampson, Ian Bostridge, Christian Gerhaher, pianists Thomas Ad\u00e8s, Yunchan Lim, Igor Levit, Alexandre Kantorow and Angela Hewitt, violinists Alina Ibragimova and Christian Tetzlaff, as well as numerous quartets and ensembles. A new book also marks the anniversary, There is Sweet Music Here, The World of Wigmore Hall (Elliott & Thompson; \u00a325) by Julia Boyd. James Jolly sat down with Wigmore Hall\u2019s Director John Gilhooly and Julia Boyd to reflect on the hall\u2019s 125 years but also to look to the future.  All the music in the podcast comes from the Wigmore Hall Live catalogue and includes performances by the Elias Quartet, Iestyn Davies with Richard Egarr and friends, Alina Ibragimova and C\u00e9dric Tiberghien, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson with Julius Drake, and Sir Thomas Allen with Malcolm Martineau. ","author_name":"Gramophone Classical Music Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.gramophone.co.uk\/content\/podcasts","html":"