Recorded September 2024, RCM Belle Shenkman Studios Sound Engineer: Mack Kniese, Stephen Harrington

Recorded September 25th, 2024 RCM Belle Shenkman Studio Engineer: Mack Kniese

This video has been updated with a newer version: https://youtu.be/oiJMbwmNKpU These concerts are free to view but your donations are essential. We are relying on the generosity of our audience to make these concerts possible. Together we can continue to provide work for musicians and present live music from Wigmore Hall. If you are watching, please visit our website and make a contribution. Thank you. https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/supportdigital Paypal: https://paypal.me/wigmorehall Donate via American Friends of Wigmore Hall: https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/support-us/american-friends The leading collaborative pianist has worked with innumerable great artists and covered vast swathes of repertoire. His complete Fauré songs on disc has been much praised: ‘Martineau’s understanding of Fauré’s piano-writing, in which less means more, and virtuosity is avoided in favour of nuance, remains impeccable’, wrote Gramophone of Volume 2, while for The Observer he has been ‘ever an authoritative, agile and responsive pianist’. Find out more about the Gabriel Fauré Centenary Celebrations: https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/series/gabriel-faur%C3%A9-centenary-celebrations Malcolm Martineau piano Stephen Walker tenor Pietro Lacopini piano Maryam Wocial soprano Ayane Nakajima piano Georgie Malcolm soprano Paul St-Georges piano Aksel Rykkvin baritone Alfred Fardell piano

Royal College of Music pianists Ayane Nakajima and Louis-Victor Bak give a thrilling performance of Gustav Holst’s ‘Mars’ from The Planets in its two-piano version as we celebrate Holst’s 150th anniversary year. Find out more about the RCM’s Holst scores in our interview with RCM Librarian Peter Linnitt, also on our YouTube channel. Read the full digital issue of Upbeat magazine at: https://www.rcm.ac.uk/upbeat