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Wigmore Hall The Wigmore Hall is a concert hall specialising in classical music on Wigmore Street, London, UK. Designed by T. E. Collcutt, who also designed the Savoy Hotel on The Strand, for Friedrich Bechstein the German piano manufacturer whose showroom was next door it was originally named the Bechstein Hall, similar halls also being built by Bechstein in Saint Petersburg and Paris. The building follows the Renaissance style, using alabaster and marble walls to furnish a flat, rectangular hall with a small raised stage area complete with a cupola depicting the Soul of Music above. The hall is considered to have excellent acoustics. The hall opened on 31 May 1901 with a concert featuring the virtuoso pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni and violinist Eugne Ysae. During this early period, the hall attracted great artists like Artur Schnabel, Pablo Sarasate, Percy Grainger, Myra Hess, Artur Rubinstein and Camille Saint-Sans. Because of its German ownership the hall was seized as enemy property during World War I but re-opened as the Wigmore Hall in 1917. Since re-opening great artists including Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Sergey Prokofiev, Paul Hindemith, Andrs Segovia, Benjamin Britten and Francis Poulenc have held performances here. Located near the BBC's Broadcasting House in Portland Place its concerts are frequently relayed by Radio 3. The Wigmore hall mainly hosts chamber music and solo recitals with around 400 concerts each year. On May 5 2005 the hall announced that it is to set up its own record label later in the year. Links http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/
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