The Italian Songbook
16 October 2026, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch (‘Italian Songbookʼ) is a masterpiece. It is a particularly special occasion tonight to welcome the legendary pianist Imogen Cooper, as she has recently announced that this will be her final season before retiring from the concert platform. Together with two exceptional German singers, she performs these 46 songs, most of which are only a single page or two of printed music, and which Graham Johnson has described as ‘a new song landscape – a delightfully hybrid country where Italian folk earthiness is wedded to the highest German art.’
