Autumn 2018 Wigmore Series by Wigmore Hall

2018/19 Season

September - December 2018

2• I am very much looking forward to focusing on a beloved composer in 2018/19. Our Schumann Song Series will explore in depth the great composer’s extraordinary output, which is amongst the most rewarding within the entire Lieder tradition. I am very pleased to welcome Florian Boesch who, with Malcolm Martineau, will open the series. As the season progresses, we will be focusing on Robert Schumann’s highly personal art with the Elias String Quartet interpreting his great string quartets.

Director’s Introduction

Whether as classical violinist or improviser, composer or orchestral director, Pekka Kuusisto certainly enlivens the musical scene with levels of energy and engagement few can match. As he continues to refresh the classics, he proves equally able to enthuse audiences for new music conceived in a variety of genres. He joins us in residence throughout the season.

Mozart made Vienna his home for the last decade of his life, and now Viennese pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja will be presenting a series which brings his music together with works from the school founded by Arnold Schoenberg, whose impact on the course of musical history would be profound. With his interest in period instruments and historically-informed performance practice, Alexander Melnikov is one of the most stimulating musicians of our time. You will have a chance to experience just how seamlessly he can move between different repertoires when, in the opening concert of his residency, he offers Prokofiev’s wispy but characterful collection of 20 miniature ‘fleeting visions’. He will follow this by joining the Cuarteto Casals in Brahms’s grandly impassioned Piano Quintet, a cornerstone of the Romantic chamber repertory. Another pianist of special qualities, Christian Blackshaw turns 70 during the course of this season, when his unique artistry will be celebrated in a series of concerts in which he is partnered by distinguished colleagues. ‘Of all the great composers’, said Sir András Schiff, ‘Schubert touches me the most’. In his concert on 10 October we have the enviable opportunity to hear him present three major works, including the ambitious sonata composed in the spa of Bad Gastein in 1825 and the freely-flowing Fantasie-Sonate of the following year. Although founded just nine years ago, Ensemble Correspondances has won an international reputation for its historically-informed performances of music from the French Baroque period. I am delighted they are returning to Wigmore with programmes which focus on Charpentier, Purcell and de Lalande. The Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis has also acquired a wide reputation for its specialist programming and I am very pleased to welcome them in residence this season. Dame Sarah Connolly has maintained a standard of excellence in the opera house as in concert and recital halls. She joins us throughout the 18/19 season offering a truly eclectic repertoire ranging from the Baroque masters through bel canto, Wagner and Elgar to new works. I look forward to welcoming you to the Hall this season.

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Contents At a Glance

Calendar 6 September 8 October 28 November 52 December 73 Contemporary Music Series

Spring Preview

Summer Preview

Booking Information

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At a Glance

September – December 2018

See pages 8 – 89 for full details of these concerts and page 104 for booking information. Series and Events to look out for…

Andreas Scholl

Sat 3 Nov

Avi Avital

Wed 7 Nov Takács Quartet 56

La Serenissima

Brenda Rae

Fri 9 Nov

Joshua Redman

Dunedin Consort

Contemporary Music Series

Sun 11 Nov Academy of St Martin in the 60 Fields/Joshua Bell

Schumann Song Series

Dorothea Röschmann

Pekka Kuusisto Residency

Mozart & the 2nd Viennese School: Elisabeth Leonskaja

Dame Sarah Connolly Residency

15, 48

Ravel Song Series

16, 63

Schubert Cycles

17, 18

James Ehnes/Andrew Armstrong

Parry Focus

Alexander Melnikov Residency

Christian Blackshaw Focus

21, 87

Russian Song Series

22, 73

Mon 24 Sep Lucy Crowe/Joseph Middleton 21 Mon 1 Oct

Chiaroscuro Quartet/ Annelien Van Wauwe

Mon 8 Oct

Catriona Morison/Yuka Beppu 35

Mon 15 Oct Nicholas Daniel/Charles Owen 38

Sat 24 Nov Nash Ensemble

67, 69

Mon 12 Nov Jonathan Biss

Fri 30 Nov

Robin Tritschler

30 32 34, 73 35 36, 37 41 42-43, 67, 69, 80

Ensemble Correspondances Residency

Mon 22 Oct Karina Gauvin/Maciej Pikulski 45

Mon 19 Nov Roberta Invernizzi/ 65 Craig Marchitelli/ Franco Pavan/Rodney Prada Mon 26 Nov Silke Avenhaus/Tai Murray

Mon 17 Dec Ensemble Zefiro

Wed 12 Dec Quatuor Ebène 81

Mon 10 Dec Pavel Haas Quartet

79 85

Wed 12 Se Schumann String Quartet 11

Sat 29 Dec Trio Wanderer 88

Thu 13 Sep Pekka Kuusisto/Additional Artists TBC

Sun 30 Dec Castalian Quartet 89

Thu 20 Sep Alexander Melnikov/ 20 Cuarteto Casals

Yaniv d’Or/Ensemble NAYA

Fri 21 Sep

James Ehnes/ 17 Andrew Armstrong

Sun 23 Sep Heath Quartet

Mon 24 Sep Christian Blackshaw/ 21 Soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker

Vox Luminis Residency

Joshua Bell/Academy of St Martin in the Fields

100th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic of Latvia

Faure/Schumann Project

Arditti Quartet/Paul Cannon

Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber

Brahms Plus: Jonathan Plowright

Tue 2 Oct

Soile Isokoski

Narek Hakhnazaryan/ 29 Pavel Kolesnikov

Escher String Quartet: American Series

Fri 5 Oct

IMS Prussia Cove 29

Sat 6 Oct

Pieter Wispelwey 31

Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen

Sat 13 Oct

Veronika Eberle/Dénes Várjon 37

Tue 16 Oct

Danish String Quartet 39

Sat 8 Dec

Mon 17 Dec Steven Isserlis 60th Birthday Concert

Chamber Music Season

Nash Ensemble/ 80 Sophie Bevan/Roderick Williams

Michaela Schuster

Richard Goode

Wed 5 Dec Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio

Bertrand Chamayou

Mon 3 Dec Escher String Quartet 76

78, 79

Alina Ibragimova/ 73 Cédric Tiberghien

Mon 3 Dec Lara Melda

Piotr Beczała

56, 59

Mon 26 Nov Arditti Quartet/Paul Cannon 70

Mon 10 Dec Augustin Hadelich/ Charles Owen

Martin Helmchen

Janáček Focus

Thu 22 Nov Hagen Quartet 67

Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey

Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

Wed 21 Nov Britten Sinfonia 66

28, 82

René Pape

Thu 15 Nov Belcea Quartet 61 Sat 17 Nov Isabelle Faust/Steven 64 Isserlis/Alexander Melnikov/ Rachel Roberts/Katharine Gowers

Mahan Esfahani

Nash Ensemble ‘German Romantics’

Wed 14 Nov Baiba Skride/Lauma Skride/ 62 Trio Palladio/Antonina Suhanova

Composers and Their Muses

Jeremy Denk

Mon 17 Sep Trio Mediæval

Mon 5 Nov Aleksey Semenenko/ Inna Firsova

Schumann String Quartet Series

Sir András Schiff

Mon 10 Sep Ilker Arcayürek/ Ammiel Bushakevitz

Tue 13 Nov Artemis Quartet 61

Mon 29 Oct Thibaut Garcia

Benjamin Appl

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts

Takács Quartet 59

Sun 25 Nov Anthony Marwood/ 69 Susan Tomes/Aleksandar Madžar/Richard Lester/ Doric String Quartet

Manuel Walser

Marlis Petersen Residency

90-91

Music in the Round 53

Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Sun 9 Sep

Doric String Quartet 9

Sun 16 Sep Wihan Quartet 13 Sun 23 Sep Natalie Clein/Yeol Eum Son 19 Sun 30 Sep Hermès Quartet Sun 7 Oct

Adrian Brendel/ 31 Christian Ihle Hadland

Tue 25 Sep Pavel Haas Quartet 23

Sun 14 Oct Jennifer Pike/Petr Limonov 37

Wed 26 Sep Elena Bashkirova/ 23 Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival Ensemble

Sun 21 Oct Quatuor Voce 45

Fri 28 Sep

Elias String Quartet/ 26 Jonathan Biss

Sat 29 Sep Steven Isserlis/Connie Shih

Sat 20 Oct Nash Ensemble 42-43 Fri 26 Oct

The Endellion String Quartet 49

Sun 28 Oct Emma Johnson/ 50 Finghin Collins Sun 4 Nov

Music in the Round 53

Sun 11 Nov Daniel Lebhardt 60 Sun 18 Nov Parker String Quartet 63 Sun 25 Nov Aquinas Piano Trio 69 Sun 2 Dec

Vadym Kholodenko

Sun 9 Dec

Benjamin Baker/ 80 Daniel Lebhardt

Sun 16 Dec Novus String Quartet 83 Sun 23 Dec Quatuor Arod 87 Sun 30 Dec RTÉ Contempo Quartet/ 89 Arcadia Quartet

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Early Music and Baroque Series Sun 9 Sep

La Serenissima/ 9 Adrian Chandler

Tue 18 Sep Classical Opera/The Mozartists 15 Thu 27 Sep The Cardinall’s Musick

Mon 1 Oct

Mahan Esfahani 28

Mon 8 Oct

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/ 35 Sandrine Piau

Mon 15 Oct Richard Egarr 38 Sun 21 Oct Ensemble Correspondances 44 Wed 24 Oct Dame Sarah Connolly/ 48 Tenebrae/Nigel Short/ Eugene Asti Sat 27 Oct

Yaniv d’Or/Ensemble NAYA

Sun 28 Oct The English Concert

Wed 31 Oct L’Arpeggiata

Mon 5 Nov Florilegium

Thu 8 Nov

Vox Luminis 58

Tue 20 Nov The English Concert 65 Fri 7 Dec

Arcangelo 77

Tue 11 Dec

La Nuova Musica/Lucy Crowe 81

Sat 15 Dec Mahan Esfahani 82 Sat 22 Dec Avi Avital/Venice Baroque Orchestra

Mon 31 Dec Dunedin Consort 89

London Pianoforte Series Fri 14 Sep

Elisabeth Leonskaja 14

Sun 16 Sep Andreas Staier 13 Thu 20 Sep Alexander Melnikov/ 20 Cuarteto Casals Thu 4 Oct

Angela Hewitt 32

Sun 7 Oct

Francois-Frédéric Guy 33

Wed 10 Oct Sir András Schiff 36 Fri 12 Oct

Sir András Schiff 37

Thu 18 Oct Jeremy Denk

Tue 23 Oct Martin Helmchen 47 Tue 30 Oct Nicolas Hodges Thu 1 Nov

Federico Colli 52

Sat 10 Nov Cédric Tiberghien 59 Mon 19 Nov Alexandre Tharaud 65 Tue 27 Nov Boris Giltburg

Sun 2 Dec

Jonathan Plowright

Sun 9 Dec

Thomas Adès 79

Thu 13 Dec Bertrand Chamayou

74 82

Mon 17 Sep Ian Bostridge/Thomas Adès 18 Wed 19 Sep Ian Bostridge/Thomas Adès 17 Sat 22 Sep Olena Tokar/Pavel Kolgatin/ Nikolay Didenko/Iain Burnside 22 Sun 23 Sep Mary Bevan/Nicky Spence/ 19 William Vann Sun 30 Sep Manuel Walser/Anano Gokieli 25 Wed 3 Oct Robin Tritschler/ 30 Malcolm Martineau Sun 7 Oct ENO Harewood Artists 33 Tue 9 Oct Marlis Petersen/ 34 Matthias Lademann Thu 11 Oct Benjamin Appl/ 35 Graham Johnson Fri 19 Oct Independent Opera Scholars’ Recital 2018 41 Sun 21 Oct Tareq Nazmi/Gerold Huber 45 Mon 22 Oct Piotr Beczała/Helmut Deutsch 46 Thu 25 Oct Michaela Schuster/ 47 Matthias Veit Fri 26 Oct Andrew Watts/Iain Burnside 47 Fri 2 Nov Marie-Nicole Lemieux/ 52 Roger Vignoles Sun 4 Nov Hanna-Elisabeth Müller/ 55 Juliane Ruf Tue 6 Nov René Pape/Camillo Radicke 54 Fri 16 Nov Dame Sarah Connolly/ 63 James Newby/Joseph Middleton Wed 21 Nov Samling Showcase 66 Wed 28 Nov Christian Gerhaher/ 72 Gerold Huber Thu 29 Nov Justina Gringytė/Andrey 73 Zhilikhovsky/Iain Burnside Sat 1 Dec Marlis Petersen/ 73 Die Kölner Akademie Tue 4 Dec Soile Isokoski/Ilkka Paananen 75 Fri 14 Dec Kiri Te Kanawa 82 Foundation Gala Tue 18 Dec Fatma Said/James Vaughan 85 Wed 19 Dec Mark Padmore/Simon Lepper 85 Thu 20 Dec Andreas Scholl/ 84 Tamar Halperin Fri 21 Dec Alice Coote/ 87 Christian Blackshaw Sun 23 Dec Brenda Rae/Jonathan Ware 87 Fri 28 Dec Nicky Spence/Roger Vignoles 88 We are grateful to The Monument Trust for essential additional support for our expanded vocal series

Sun 16 Dec Richard Goode 83

Jazz Series

Thu 27 Dec Nick van Bloss

Tue 11 Sep

Joshua Redman/Ola Kvernberg 10

Song Recital Series

Contemporary Music Series

Florian Boesch/ 8 Malcolm Martineau Mon 10 Sep Dorothea Röschmann/ 11 Malcolm Martineau Sat 15 Sep Mary Bevan/Henk Neven/ 16 Joseph Middleton

Thu 13 Sep Pekka Kuusisto 12

Sat 8 Sep

Fri 21 Sep

James Ehnes/ Andrew Armstrong Francois-Frédéric Guy

Thu 18 Oct Jeremy Denk

Sun 21 Oct Quatuor Voce 45 Fri 26 Oct

Andrew Watts/Iain Burnside 47

Mon 29 Oct Thibaut Garcia

Tue 30 Oct Nicolas Hodges

Tue 13 Nov Artemis Quartet 61 Wed 14 Nov Baiba Skride/Lauma Skride/ 62 Trio Palladio/Antonina Suhanova Thu 15 Nov Belcea Quartet 61 Sun 25 Nov Anthony Marwood/Susan 69 Tomes/Aleksandar Madžar/ Richard Lester/ Doric String Quartet Mon 26 Nov Silke Avenhaus/Tai Murray 71 Mon 26 Nov Arditti Quartet/Paul Cannon 70 Fri 30 Nov

Alina Ibragimova/ 73 Cédric Tiberghien

Mon 10 Dec Augustin Hadelich/ 81 Charles Owen Thu 20 Dec Andreas Scholl/ 84 Tamar Halperin

Wigmore Hall Learning Wed 12 Sep Chamber Tots: Autumn 11 Thu 13 Sep Post-Concert Open Mic Q&A 12 Sat 15 Sep Family Concert: Folk Up North 13 Wed 19 Sep Dame Sarah Connolly Masterclass

Sat 22 Sep Open House Day

Sat 22 Sep Pre-Concert Talk 22 Fri 28 Sep

For Crying Out Loud! 25

Wed 3 Oct

Chamber Tots: Autumn 29

Sun 7 Oct

Silver Sunday 33

Tue 16 Oct

Come and Sing 39

Thu 18 Oct Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt 39 Sat 20 Oct Relaxed Concert: 41 Magnard Ensemble Sat 27 Oct

Family Day: Autumn Senses 49

Tue 30 Oct Bechstein Sessions: The Hermes Experiment

Thu 1 Nov

Schools Concert: The King with Donkey Ears

Sat 3 Nov

Family Concert: The King with Donkey Ears

Wed 7 Nov Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt 57 Thu 8 Nov

For Crying Out Loud!

Thu 8 Nov

Artists in Conversation 58

Fri 9 Nov

Music for the Moment 57

Sat 17 Nov Chamber Tots: Into Space 63 17

Sun 23 Sep Heath Quartet 19 Sun 7 Oct

Mon 15 Oct Nicholas Daniel/Charles Owen 38

Sat 24 Nov Come and Sing: Vivaldi’s Gloria 67 Tue 27 Nov Wigmore Study Group commences Thu 6 Dec

Chamber Tots: Into Space 77

Mon 10 Dec Pre-Concert Talk 79

Calendar September – December 2018 September

Thu 4 Oct

7.00pm Angela Hewitt

Fri 5 Oct

7.30pm IMS Prussia Cove

Sun 9 Sep 11.30am Doric String Quartet 9 7.30pm La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler 9

Sat 6 Oct 3.00pm Pieter Wispelwey 7.30pm Pieter Wispelwey

31 31

Mon 10 Sep 1.00pm Ilker Arcayürek/Ammiel Bushakevitz 9 7.30pm Dorothea Röschmann/ 11 Malcolm Martineau

Sun 7 Oct 11.30am Adrian Brendel/Christian Ihle Hadland 12 noon Silver Sunday 3.00pm ENO Harewood Artists 7.30pm Francois-Frédéric Guy

31 33 33 33

Mon 8 Oct 1.00pm Catriona Morison/Yuka Beppu 7.30pm Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/ Sandrine Piau

35 35

Tue 9 Oct 7.30pm Marlis Petersen/ Stephan Matthias Lademann

Wed 10 Oct 7.30pm Sir András Schiff

Sat 8 Sep

Tue 11 Sep

7.30pm Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau

7.30pm Joshua Redman/Ola Kvernberg

Wed 12 Sep 10.15am Chamber Tots: Autumn 11 11.45am Chamber Tots: Autumn 11 7.30pm Schumann String Quartet 11 Thu 13 Sep 7.30pm Pekka Kuusisto/Teemu Korpipää/ 12 Suvi Savola/Maija Tammi/Jukka Huitila 9.30pm Post-Concert Open Mic Q&A 12 7.30pm Elisabeth Leonskaja 14

Thu 11 Oct

7.30pm Benjamin Appl/Graham Johnson

Sat 15 Sep 11.00am Family Concert: Folk Up North 13 7.30pm Mary Bevan/Henk Neven/ 16 Joseph Middleton

Fri 12 Oct

7.30pm Sir András Schiff

Sat 13 Oct

7.30pm Veronika Eberle/Dénes Várjon 37

Fri 14 Sep

Sun 16 Sep 11.30am Wihan Quartet 13 7.30pm Andreas Staier 13

Sun 14 Oct 11.30am Jennifer Pike/Petr Limonov 37 7.30pm Larissa Gergieva/ 38 Singers from the Mariinsky Academy

Mon 17 Sep 1.00pm Trio Mediæval 15 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Thomas Adès 18

Mon 15 Oct 1.00pm Nicholas Daniel/Charles Owen 7.30pm Richard Egarr

38 38

Tue 18 Sep 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 15 7.30pm Classical Opera/The Mozartists 15

Tue 16 Oct 10.30am Come and Sing 7.30pm Danish String Quartet

39 39

Wed 19 Sep 1.00pm Dame Sarah Connolly Masterclass 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Thomas Adès

15 17

Thu 20 Sep 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov/Cuarteto Casals

Thu 18 Oct 10.15am Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt 11.45am Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt 7.30pm Jeremy Denk

39 39 41

Fri 19 Oct 7.30pm Independent Opera Scholars’ Recital 2018

Fri 21 Sep

7.30pm James Ehnes/Andrew Armstrong

Sat 22 Sep 10.30am Open House Day 17 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 22 7.30pm Olena Tokar/Pavel Kolgatin/ 22 Nikolay Didenko/Iain Burnside Sun 23 Sep 11.30am Natalie Clein/Yeol Eum Son 3.00pm Mary Bevan/Nicky Spence/William Vann 7.30pm Heath Quartet

19 19 19

Sat 20 Oct 3.00pm Relaxed Concert: Magnard Ensemble 41 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 42-43 7.30pm Nash Ensemble 42-43 Sun 21 Oct 11.30am Quatuor Voce 45 3.00pm Tareq Nazmi/Gerold Huber 45 7.30pm Ensemble Correspondances 44

Mon 24 Sep 1.00pm Lucy Crowe/Joseph Middleton 21 7.30pm Christian Blackshaw/ 21 Soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker

Mon 22 Oct 1.00pm Karina Gauvin/Maciej Pikulski 7.30pm Piotr Beczała/Helmut Deutsch Tue 23 Oct 7.30pm Martin Helmchen

Tue 25 Sep 7.30pm Pavel Haas Quartet

Wed 24 Oct 7.30pm Dame Sarah Connolly/Tenebrae/ Nigel Short/Eugene Asti

Thu 25 Oct 7.30pm Michaela Schuster/Matthias Veit

Fri 26 Oct 1.00pm Andrew Watts/Iain Burnside 7.30pm The Endellion String Quartet

47 49

Wed 26 Sep 7.30pm Elena Bashkirova/ 23 Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival Ensemble Thu 27 Sep 7.30pm The Cardinall’s Musick

Fri 28 Sep 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 7.30pm Elias String Quartet/Jonathan Biss

25 25 26

Sat 29 Sep 7.30pm Steven Isserlis/Connie Shih

Sun 30 Sep 11.30am Hermès Quartet 25 7.30pm Manuel Walser/Anano Gokieli 25

October Mon 1 Oct 1.00pm Chiaroscuro Quartet/Annelien Van Wauwe 28 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 28 Tue 2 Oct

7.30pm Narek Hakhnazaryan/Pavel Kolesnikov

Wed 3 Oct 10.15am Chamber Tots: Autumn 11.45am Chamber Tots: Autumn 7.30pm Robin Tritschler/Malcolm Martineau

29 29 29 30

45 46

Sat 27 Oct 10.30am Family Day: Autumn Senses 49 7.30pm Yaniv d’Or/Ensemble NAYA 49 Sun 28 Oct 11.30am Emma Johnson/Finghin Collins 50 7.30pm The English Concert 50 Mon 29 Oct 1.00pm Thibaut Garcia

Tue 30 Oct 5.45pm Bechstein Sessions: The Hermes Experiment 7.30pm Nicolas Hodges

Wed 31 Oct 7.30pm L’Arpeggiata

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November Thu 1 Nov 11.00am Schools Concert: The King with Donkey Ears 52 7.30pm Federico Colli 52 Fri 2 Nov

7.30pm Marie-Nicole Lemieux/Roger Vignoles

Sat 3 Nov 11.00am Family Concert: The King with Donkey Ears 53 7.30pm Music in the Round 53 Sun 4 Nov 11.30am Music in the Round 7.30pm Hanna-Elisabeth Müller/Juliane Ruf

53 55

Mon 5 Nov 1.00pm Aleksey Semenenko/Inna Firsova 55 7.30pm Florilegium 55 Tue 6 Nov

7.30pm René Pape/Camillo Radicke

Wed 7 Nov 12.30pm Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt 57 2.00pm Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt 57 7.30pm Takács Quartet 56 Thu 8 Nov 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 6.00pm Artists in Conversation 7.30pm Vox Luminis

57 57 58 58

Fri 9 Nov 3.00pm Music for the Moment 7.30pm Takács Quartet

57 59

Sat 10 Nov 11.30am Graham Johnson Songmakers’ Almanac Lecture 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien

59 59

60 Sun 11 Nov 11.30am Daniel Lebhardt 7.30pm Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ 60 Joshua Bell

Mon 26 Nov 1.00pm Silke Avenhaus/Tai Murray 7.30pm Arditti Quartet/Paul Cannon

71 70

Tue 27 Nov 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: America 7.30pm Boris Giltburg

71 71

Wed 28 Nov 7.30pm Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber

Thu 29 Nov 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: America 71 7.30pm Justina Gringytė/Andrey Zhilikhovsky/ 73 Iain Burnside Fri 30 Nov 7.30pm Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien

December Sat 1 Dec

7.30pm Marlis Petersen/Die Kölner Akademie

Sun 2 Dec 11.30am Vadym Kholodenko 7.30pm Jonathan Plowright

75 74

Mon 3 Dec 1.00pm Lara Melda 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: America 7.30pm Escher String Quartet

75 71 76

Tue 4 Dec

7.30pm Soile Isokoski/Ilkka Paananen

Wed 5 Dec 7.30pm Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio

75 77

Thu 6 Dec 10.15am Chamber Tots: Into Space 77 11.45am Chamber Tots: Into Space 77 Fri 7 Dec

7.30pm Arcangelo

Sat 8 Dec 5.30pm Nash Ensemble/Sophie Bevan 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Roderick Williams

80 80

60 61

Sun 9 Dec 11.30am Benjamin Baker/Daniel Lebhardt 7.30pm Thomas Adès

80 79

Tue 13 Nov 7.30pm Artemis Quartet

Wed 14 Nov 7.30pm Baiba Skride/Lauma Skride/ Trio Palladio/Antonina Suhanova

Mon 10 Dec 1.00pm Augustin Hadelich/Charles Owen 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 7.30pm Pavel Haas Quartet

81 79 79

Thu 15 Nov 7.30pm Belcea Quartet

Mon 12 Nov 1.00pm Jonathan Biss 7.30pm Truls Mørk/Behzod Abduraimov

Fri 16 Nov 7.30pm Dame Sarah Connolly/James Newby/ 63 Joseph Middleton Sat 17 Nov 10.15am Chamber Tots: Into Space 63 11.45am Chamber Tots: Into Space 63 7.30pm Isabelle Faust/Steven Isserlis/ 64 Alexander Melnikov/Rachel Roberts/ Katharine Gowers Sun 18 Nov 11.30am Parker String Quartet

Mon 19 Nov 1.00pm Roberta Invernizzi/Craig Marchitelli/ 65 Franco Pavan/Rodney Prada 7.30pm Alexandre Tharaud 65 Tue 20 Nov 7.30pm The English Concert

Wed 21 Nov 12.15pm Pre-Concert Talk 66 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia 66 7.30pm Samling Showcase 66 Thu 22 Nov 7.30pm Hagen Quartet

Sat 24 Nov 10.00am Come and Sing: Vivaldi’s Gloria 5.30pm Nash Ensemble 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Christine Rice

67 67 69

Sun 25 Nov 11.30am Aquinas Piano Trio 7.30pm Anthony Marwood/Susan Tomes/ Aleksandar Madžar/Richard Lester/ Doric String Quartet

69 69

Tue 11 Dec

7.30pm La Nuova Musica/Lucy Crowe

Wed 12 Dec 7.30pm Quatuor Ebène

Thu 13 Dec 7.30pm Bertrand Chamayou

Fri 14 Dec

7.30pm Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Gala

Sat 15 Dec 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani

Sun 16 Dec 11.30am Novus String Quartet 7.30pm Richard Goode

83 83

Mon 17 Dec 1.00pm Ensemble Zefiro 7.30pm Steven Isserlis 60th Birthday Concert

83 85

Tue 18 Dec 7.30pm Fatma Said/James Vaughan

Wed 19 Dec 7.30pm Mark Padmore/Simon Lepper

Thu 20 Dec 7.30pm Andreas Scholl/Tamar Halperin

Fri 21 Dec

7.30pm Alice Coote/Christian Blackshaw 87

Sat 22 Dec 7.30pm Avi Avital/Venice Baroque Orchestra

Sun 23 Dec 11.30am Quatuor Arod 7.30pm Brenda Rae/Jonathan Ware

87 87

Thu 27 Dec 7.30pm Nick van Bloss

Fri 28 Dec

7.30pm Nicky Spence/Roger Vignoles

Sat 29 Dec 7.30pm Trio Wanderer

Sun 30 Dec 11.30am RTÉ Contempo Quartet/Arcadia Quartet 7.30pm Castalian Quartet

89 89

Mon 31 Dec 7.00pm Dunedin Consort

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Schumann Song Series

Wigmore Hall’s opening concert focuses on a beloved composer whose works will be widely featured in various series throughout the 2018/19 season. The Schumann Song Series is devised by Malcolm Martineau and musicologist Susan Youens with singers chosen by John Gilhooly. Launched in partnership with baritone Florian Boesch, it explores in depth the great composer’s extraordinary output, amongst the most rewarding within the entire Lieder tradition. Saturday 8 September 7.30pm

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Opening Concert of the 2018/19 Season Franz Selection of settings by Heine Schumann Abends am Strand Liszt Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Du bist wie eine Blume; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome (S272/1); Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Die Loreley Schumann Belsazar; Die beiden Grenadiere; Morgens steh’ich auf und frage; Schöne Wiege, meiner Leiden; Warte, warte, wilder Schiffman; Anfangs wollt ich fast verzagen; Mit Myrten und Rosen; From Myrthen: Die Lotosblume, Was will die einsame Träne?, Du bist wie eine Blume & Tragödie I-III The German-born, Parisian-resident Heinrich Heine was a favoured source of texts for Romantic composers, none more regularly than his contemporary Schumann. In this first concert in the sequence, alternative settings by Liszt and Robert Franz are interspersed with Schumann’s own. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 11 January 2019 with Anne Schwanewilms soprano Monday 4 February 2019 7.30pm with Christiane Karg soprano Wednesday 24 April 2019 7.30pm with Paula Murrihy mezzo-soprano & Robin Tritschler tenor Malcolm Martineau © K K Dundas

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Sunday 9 September 11.30am

Sunday 9 September 7.30pm

Monday 10 September 1.00pm

Doric String Quartet

La Serenissima Adrian Chandler director,

Ilker Arcayürek tenor Ammiel Bushakevitz

Hilary Summers contralto Neal Davies bass baritone

The Path of Life

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 33 No. 5 Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Op. 130 The Dorics, amongst Britain’s leading quartets, make a welcome return with a programme combining the humour of one of Haydn’s ‘Russian’ quartets – whose opening gesture once earned it the nickname ‘How do you do?’ – with the profundity of one of Beethoven’s late masterpieces. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice In Memory of Peter Flatter

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Per Sua Maestà Cattolica Cesarea Programme to include arias and works from: Caldara/Matteis Ormisda, Re di Persia Conti Il finto Policare Caldara Scipione nelle Spagne Caldara/Matteis Cajo Marzio Coriolano Caldara Sirita Vivaldi Concerto in C for violin, strings and continuo RV171 The musical legacy of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI is commemorated with vocal and instrumental works by Viennese court composers Antonio Caldara and Francesco Conti, as well as Vivaldi, whose hopes of local preferment were dashed by the Emperor’s death. In this concert, La Serenissima explore various arias, sinfonias and concertos from His Majesty’s Imperial Court.

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Schubert Fischerweise; An Silvia; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Atys; Sei mir gegrüsst; Wehmut; Der Wanderer (D493); Am Tage aller Seelen (Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen); Einsamkeit The former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist enjoys a rising reputation as a Lieder singer, joining here with the IsraeliSouth African pianist who won both the pianist and Schubert prizes at the 2013 Wigmore Hall/ Kohn Foundation International Song Competition. £16 concs £14

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Doric String Quartet © George Garnier

Adrian Chandler © Paul Hurst

Ilker Arcayürek © Janina Laszlo

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Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Tuesday 11 September 7.30pm

Joshua Redman saxophone Ola Kvernberg violin Two pioneers of their instruments join forces as a duo, once described as a ‘collaboration for the history books’. First meeting at Molde International Jazz Festival in 2006, when Joshua Redman was Artist in Residence, they made their first live appearance together ten years later when Ola Kvernberg took the reins. ‘Certainly one of the most intriguing, demanding and ultimately rewarding collaborations I have ever been a part of, and quite possibly the most unique’, notes Redman. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Monday 10 September 7.30pm

Wednesday 12 September 10.15am and 11.45am

Wednesday 12 September 7.30pm

Dorothea Röschmann

Chamber Tots: Autumn

Schumann Quartet

Malcolm Martineau piano

We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us in celebrating the season! This interactive music-making workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging ensembles.

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Beethoven Die Trommel gerühret; Freudvoll und leidvoll; Kennst du das Land; Wonne der Wehmut; Aus Goethes Faust: Es war einmal ein König Schumann 5 Lieder der Maria Stuart Brahms Von waldbekränzter Höhe; Sapphische Ode; Unbewegte laue Luft; Auf dem Kirchhofe; O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück; Meine Liebe ist grün; Von ewiger Liebe Brahms From Zigeunerlieder: He, Zigeuner, greife; Hochgetürmte Rimaflut; Wisst ihr, wann mein Kindchen; Lieber Gott, du weisst; Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze; Röslein dreie in der Reihe; Kommt dir manchmal & Rote Abendwolken ziehn

10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & 11.45am (3-5 year-olds) Approximately 1 hour in duration Children £7 Adults £5 Not booked for Chamber Tots before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person.

Schubert String Quartet in D D74 Mendelssohn String Quartet in E flat Op. 12 Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Written at the age of 16, Schubert’s engaging score precedes an accomplished Mendelssohn work composed on his first visit to England and the anxious second of six quartets Mozart dedicated to Haydn, the only one in a minor key. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In Memory of Peter Flatter

Schumann’s intensely moving settings of poems attributed to Mary Stuart and a clutch of gypsy melodies arranged by Brahms form part of this beautiful programme. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Dorothea Röschmann © Harald Hoffmann/Sony Entertainment

Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

Schumann Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas

12 • SEPTEMBER

Pekka Kuusisto Residency

Whether as classical violinist or improviser, composer or orchestral director, Pekka Kuusisto enlivens the musical scene with levels of energy and engagement few can match. Over the course of his residency, he brings innovative and thought-provoking programmes to the Hall, focusing on challenging subject matter and diverse musical responses.

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Thursday 13 September 7.30pm

Pekka Kuusisto violin Teemu Korpipää electronics Suvi Savola speaker Maija Tammi photography Jukka Huitila visual designer Programme to include: Bartók Sonata for solo violin BB124 Perttu Haapanen New work (UK première)* Improvisations *commissioned by Silence Festival Finland

The Finnish violinist champions Bartók’s solo sonata, a late work beginning with a largescale chaconne, which was written during the composer’s battle with leukaemia. Perttu Haapanen’s new work also explores the idea of mutation within the chaconne form, and responds musically to Henrietta Lacks’s immortalised cancer cells, which have proven vital in the development of medicine. Cancer researcher Suvi Savola joins to speak throughout, and photographer and researcher Maija Tammi’s photographs of cancer cells examine the dichotomy between the cells’ inherent threat to life and their invaluable use in medical research.  £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Thursday 13 September 9.30pm

Post-Concert Open Mic Q&A The concert will be followed by an Open Mic session, with audience members invited to participate in a live Q&A with the artists. Free (with evening concert ticket) Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Wednesday 23 January 2019 7.30pm Pekka Kuusisto © Kaapo Kamu

Wednesday 1 May 2019 7.30pm

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SEPTEMBER • 13

Saturday 15 September 11.00am – 12 noon

Sunday 16 September 11.30am

Sunday 16 September 7.30pm

Family Concert: Folk Up North

Wihan Quartet

Andreas Staier piano

Schulhoff Five Pieces for String Quartet Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959; Piano Sonata in B flat D960

For ages 5 plus Join the Donald Grant Quartet and presenter Lucy Drever for this concert exploring Scottish folk music, featuring a specially commissioned film projected live onstage, created by Emmy-award winning cinematographer Oliver Wilkins. This concert delves into the mysterious stories of Scottish folklore and the unique soundworld of Scottish traditional music. Children £10 Adults £12 Not booked for a Family Concert before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person.

Folk Up North Family Concert © Benjamin Ealovega

Decades after his death in a concentration camp in 1942, Ervín Schulhoff’s output is steadily gaining recognition, including his sharp-edged but entertaining suite of character pieces evoking the waltz, tango and tarantella, paired here with Schubert’s deathhaunted masterpiece.

Though an appreciation of their vast scale and structural novelty was slow in coming, Schubert’s final sonatas – of which Andreas Staier plays the very last two – have deservedly achieved a status and popularity commensurate with their unique and monumental individuality. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Wihan Quartet © Marklik.cz

Andreas Staier © Josep Molina

14 • SEPTEMBER

Mozart & the 2nd Viennese School

Vienna has been home to several musical traditions. In this series the magisterial Russian pianist brings together music by Mozart – who made the Austrian capital his home for the last nine years of his life – with works by the school founded by Arnold Schoenberg, whose impact on the course of musical history would be profound.

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Friday 14 September 7.30pm

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Mozart Piano Sonata in C K330 Schoenberg Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat K333; Piano Sonata in F K332 Webern Variations Op. 27 Mozart Piano Sonata in A K331 Elisabeth Leonskaja, one of the most authoritative musicians of our time, intersperses some of Mozart’s best known sonatas with scores by his 20th-century Viennese successors: Schoenberg’s aphoristic Six Little Piano Pieces and Webern’s emotionally intense Variations, his only published work for solo piano. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Tuesday 16 July 2019 7.30pm

Elisabeth Leonskaja © Marco Borggreve

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SEPTEMBER • 15

Monday 17 September 1.00pm

Tuesday 18 September 6.00pm

Wednesday 19 September 1.00pm – 4.00pm

Trio Mediæval

Pre-Concert Talk

Dame Sarah Connolly

Ian Page introduces Bastien und Bastienne, written when Mozart was only 12 years old.

Masterclass

Anon (England) Salve Mater Miscericordie Trad (Norway) Solbønn Trad (Sweden) Limu Limu Lima Trad (Norway) Lova Line Anon (Iceland) Anda þinn guð mér gef þú vist Trad (Norway) Sven Svane Anon (England) Alma mater/Ante thorum; Benedicta es caelorum regina Anon (Iceland) Rís upp, drottni dýrð Trad (Sweden) Om ödet skulle skicka mig; Jag haver ingen kärare; St Örjan och draken Trad (Norway) So ro liten tull; Sulla lulla Anon (Iceland) O Jesu dulcissime Trad (Norway) Fryd dig du Kristi brud The all-female vocal and instrumental trio blend sounds from medieval Europe and Scandinavian folk song in a performance enhanced with melody chimes, shruti box and hardanger fiddle. £16 concs £14

£5 Tuesday 18 September 7.30pm

The Mozartists/ Classical Opera

Ian Page Conductor Ellie Laugharne Bastienne Alessandro Fisher Bastien Darren Jeffery Colas

mezzo-soprano

Famed for her breadth of repertoire – from Purcell and Handel through Elgar, Mahler and Strauss to Brett Dean and Mark-Anthony Turnage – one of the great mezzos of our time gives a masterclass with students from the London colleges. £10 concs £8 Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Haydn Symphony No. 49 in F minor ‘La Passione’ Anon Four arias from Teutsche Comoedie Arien Mozart Bastien und Bastienne K50 The MOZART 250 series continues with the one-act Bastien und Bastienne, composed in Vienna 250 years ago. This performance recreates the original version for the first time since its première, alongside a Haydn ‘Sturm und Drang’ great, also composed in 1768. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Trio Mediæval © Åsa Maria Mikkelsen

Ian Page

Dame Sarah Connolly © Peter Warren

16 • SEPTEMBER

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Ravel Song Series

Maurice Ravel was a complex, creative figure, in whose sophisticated art elements from his native French tradition meld with other influences, notably a fascination with Spanish culture and an attraction to various kinds of exoticism – aspects explored in this series brought together by pianist Joseph Middleton, with singers chosen by John Gilhooly. Saturday 15 September 7.30pm

Mary Bevan soprano Henk Neven baritone Joseph Middleton piano Members of Aurora Orchestra Ravel, Orientalism and the Decadents Ravel Deux mélodies hébraïques; D’Anne jouant de l’espinette; D’Anne qui me jecta de la neige Hahn From Études latines: Vile potabis & Tyndaris Ravel Ballade de la reine morte d’aimer Stravinsky Three Japanese Lyrics Ravel Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé Debussy Trois poèmes de Mallarmé Berlioz La captive Chausson Chanson perpétuelle Ravel Noël des jouets Debussy Noël des enfants qui n’ont pas de maison Ravel Sur l’herbe Fauré La bonne chanson Op. 61 The appeal of the exotic runs like a colourful thread through the work of Ravel and other French Romantics, with elements of ancient cultures, paralleled by the exploration of decadent poets. Joseph Middleton is joined by renowned singers Mary Bevan and Henk Neven in the opening concert of his series. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 16 November 7.30pm with Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano & James Newby baritone Monday 6 May 2019 7.30pm with Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano & Roderick Williams baritone Mary Bevan © Victoria Cadisch

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SEPTEMBER • 17

Schubert Cycles Wednesday 19 September 7.30pm

Friday 21 September 7.30pm

Saturday 22 September 10.30am – 3.00pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Thomas Adès piano

James Ehnes violin Andrew Armstrong piano

Open House Day

Repeat of concert on 17 September

Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105 Ravel Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Brahms Scherzo in C minor from F-A-E Sonata (Sonatensatz) Corigliano Violin Sonata

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

John Corigliano’s violin sonata put him on the map when his work designed for two equally virtuosic partners won the 1964 Festival of Two Worlds chamber music prize. Here it follows Ravel’s jazzinfluenced sonata and Brahms’ ebullient tribute to Joachim.

Join us for an opportunity to look behind the scenes at Wigmore Hall, with free performances and workshops taking place throughout the day. Bring the family and join music leaders Lucy Drever and Georgia Duncan for a musical mystery trail around the building, as well as free music-making workshops at 11.00am, 12.15pm and 1.30pm. Please sign up for workshops on the day. Free (no ticket required)

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Ian Bostridge © Sim Canetty-Clarke

James Ehnes © Benjamin Ealovega

Open House Day © Benjamin Ealovega

18 • SEPTEMBER

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Schubert Cycles

One of the finest Lieder singers of our time, Ian Bostridge brings his unique vocal personality and interpretative mastery to bear on Schubert’s three great cycles, in each of which he shares the platform with a leading pianist in performances that will be recorded for release on the Wigmore Hall Live digital label. Monday 17 September 7.30pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Thomas Adès piano Schubert Winterreise D911 Encompassing more than 100 performances as well as a searching literary study of this endlessly fascinating masterpiece, Ian Bostridge’s lifelong commitment to Schubert’s song cycle continues in his collaboration with Thomas Adès, a special partnership in this work. Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Concert Repeated Wednesday 19 September 7.30pm Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 13 April & Monday 15 April 2019 7.30pm with Sir Antonio Pappano piano Tuesday 2 July & Thursday 4 July 2019 7.30pm with Lars Vogt piano

Ian Bostridge © Sim Canetty-Clarke

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SEPTEMBER • 19 Parry Focus

Sunday 23 September 11.30am

Sunday 23 September 3.00pm

Sunday 23 September 7.30pm

Natalie Clein cello Yeol Eum Son piano

Mary Bevan soprano Nicky Spence tenor William Vann piano

Heath Quartet

Bloch Suite ‘From Jewish Life’ Suite No. 1 for solo cello Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folksong Bridge Cello Sonata in D minor According to an early interpreter, Frank Bridge’s sonata was written ‘in utter despair over the futility of war and the state of the world’, while Vaughan Williams’ studies testify to one of the deepest sources of his inspiration. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

My Heart is Like a Singing Bird Parry My true love hath my heart Bennett Maienthau Brahms Therese; Die Mainacht; So lass uns wandern! Parry O mistress mine; Take, O take those lips away; Blow, blow thou winter wind; Through the Ivory Gate Vaughan Williams Summum bonum Parry Weep you no more Ireland The trellis Parry On a time the amorous Silvy; Nightfall in Winter; My heart is like a singing bird; From a City Window Stanford O mistress mine Holst The Heart Worships Bridge The last invocation Parry The sound of hidden music Howells An Old Man’s Lullaby A centenary tribute to one of the most distinguished of English musicians. His exceptional song settings are interspersed with other examples by friends, colleagues, pupils, and Johannes Brahms, whom Parry particularly admired.

Bach Fuga a 3 Soggetti (Contrapunctus XIV) from The Art of Fugue BWV1080 Gubaidulina Reflections on the Theme B-A-C-H Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Britten’s second string quartet, originally premièred at Wigmore in 1945, makes a welcome return to the Hall. The Heath Quartet precedes this with Gubaidulina’s emotional take on Bach’s great unfinished fugue and close the performance with Beethoven’s A minor quartet, with its beautiful Adagio, full of overlapping and entwining melodies. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

All seats £16

Natalie Clein © Neda Navaee

Mary Bevan © Victoria Cadisch

Heath Quartet © Simon Way

20 • SEPTEMBER

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Alexander Melnikov Residency

With his ability to move seamlessly between different repertoires, and a long-term interest in period instruments and historical performance practice, Alexander Melnikov is one of the most stimulating musicians of our time, whose prodigious technique harnessed by intellectual curiosity enables him to chart an especially rewarding path. Thursday 20 September 7.30pm

Alexander Melnikov piano Cuarteto Casals Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 Prokofiev Visions fugitives Op. 22 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 The Russian pianist offers Prokofiev’s wispy but characterful collection of 20 miniature ‘fleeting visions’, written between 1915 and 1917, before joining the Cuarteto Casals in Brahms’s grandly impassioned piano quintet, a cornerstone of the Romantic chamber repertory. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2018/19 Wigmore Series Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Thursday 10 January 2019 7.30pm with Andreas Staier piano Sunday 31 March 2019 7.30pm with Teunis van der Zwart horn Lorenzo Coppola clarinet Javier Zafra bassoon & Marcel Ponseele oboe Friday 21 June 2019 7.00pm

Alexander Melnikov © Marco Borggreve

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SEPTEMBER • 21

Christian Blackshaw Residency Monday 24 September 1.00pm

Lucy Crowe soprano Joseph Middleton piano Purcell/Britten Lord, what is Man?; O solitude Weldon/Britten Alleluia Head Over the rim of the moon Ireland The trellis; My true love hath my heart; When I am dead, my dearest; If there were dreams to sell; Earth’s call Walton Daphne; Through gilded trellises; Old Sir Faulk Lucy Crowe and Joseph Middleton present a programme of English song, ranging from Purcell’s 17thcentury examples – as refracted through Britten’s imaginative realisations – to settings by Britten’s teacher John Ireland and his older contemporaries William Walton and Michael Head. £16 concs £14

A pianist of unique qualities, Christian Blackshaw turns 70 during this season, when his artistry will be celebrated in a series of concerts in which he is partnered by distinguished colleagues, including Alice Coote and soloists from the Berliner Philharmoniker. Monday 24 September 7.30pm

Christian Blackshaw piano Soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker Noah Bendix-Balgley violin Máté Szücs viola Bruno Delepelaire cello Matthew McDonald double bass

Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478; Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat K493 Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ Commissioned as a set of three – though only two were completed – Mozart’s piano quartets were the first works for the medium and demonstrate his inventive powers at their height. The evening is crowned by Schubert’s immensely popular ‘Trout’ quintet. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to the 2018/19 Season Benefactors Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 21 December 7.30pm with Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Sunday 27 January 2019 7.30pm Christian Blackshaw 70th Birthday Gala

Lucy Crowe © Marco Borggreve

Christian Blackshaw © Benjamin Ealovega

22 • SEPTEMBER

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Russian Song Series

One of the most widely experienced and knowledgeable accompanists of our time, Iain Burnside has explored the repertoire for voice and piano with extraordinary diligence. Here, he traverses the outputs of leading Russian composers from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. Saturday 22 September 6.00pm

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Thursday 29 November 7.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk

with Justina Gringytė mezzo-soprano & Andrey Zhilikhovsky baritone

Iain Burnside and Philip Ross Bullock, Professor of Russian Literature and Music, introduce the Russian Song Series ahead of its opening concert.

Monday 28 January 2019 7.30pm

£5 Saturday 22 September 7.30pm

with Sofia Fomina soprano Oleksiy Palchykov tenor & Rodion Pogossov baritone Friday 1 March 2019 7.30pm with Kristina Mkhitaryan soprano & Dmytro Popov tenor

Olena Tokar soprano Pavel Kolgatin tenor Nikolay Didenko bass Iain Burnside piano Rimsky-Korsakov A flock of passing clouds Borodin For the shores of thy far native land Glinka I remember that wonderful moment Tchaikovsky The Nightingale; Zemfira’s song Glazunov Drinking Song; The Wish Cui The statue at Tsarskoye Selo; The Last Flowers Vlasov To the fountain of Bakhchisaray Medtner The Rose; The Singer Dargomïzhsky The night zephyr stirs the air Medtner Incantation Shostakovich Jenny; O wert thou in the cauld blast; Macpherson’s Farewell Myaskovsky My Heart’s in the Highlands; Mary Rachmaninov Before my window; The muse; How painful for me; Fate; Night is Mournful; They answered; Lilacs; Letter to K.S. Stanislavsky The opening concert takes a wide overview of Russian song over the course of a century from Glinka to Shostakovich, and includes some important lesser-known figures among the more familiar names. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Olena Tokar © Frank Tuerpe

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SEPTEMBER • 23

Tuesday 25 September 7.30pm

Wednesday 26 September 7.30pm

Thursday 27 September 7.30pm

Pavel Haas Quartet

Elena Bashkirova piano Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival Ensemble

The Cardinall’s Musick

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703; String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Dvořák String Quartet No. 14 in A flat Op. 105 Schubert’s single quartet movement is a heartfelt fragment, while the troubled ‘Rosamunde’ quartet’s slow movement borrows a well-known theme from some incidental music. Conversely, Dvořák transferred a memorable theme from his final quartet to his symphonic poem A Hero’s Song. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Michael Barenboim violin Mohamed Hiber violin Gérard Caussé viola Kyril Zlotnikov cello Gyula Orendt baritone

Schumann 6 pieces in canonic form Op. 56; Märchenbilder Op. 113; Liederkreis Op. 39; Liederkreis Op. 24; Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47 Celebrated pianist Elena Bashkirova brings an all-Schumann programme uniting chamber works with Lieder, including the delightful ‘Fairy-tale Pictures’ and his canonic pieces originally written for pedal-piano, alongside two major cycles – the Heine and Eichendorff collections, both written in 1840 – interpreted by the HungarianRomanian baritone Gyula Orendt.

The Company of Heaven Palestrina Missa Tu es Petrus Gregorian Propers for the Feast of St Peter’s Chains Victoria O quam gloriosum est regnum Bassano O Rex gloriae Gombert Virgo sancta Katherina Victoria Doctor bonus amicus Dei Andreas Palestrina Magnus Sanctus Paulus a8 Handl Sanctus Bartholomeus Victoria Magnificat primi toni The liturgical calendar once placed the lives of the saints at the centre of public devotions. Palestrina’s Mass in honour of St Peter opens a programme that also pays obeisance to saints Catherine of Alexandria, Paul, Bartholomew and the Virgin Mary. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Pavel Haas Quartet © Marco Borggreve

Elena Bashkirova © Nikolaj Lund

The Cardinall’s Musick © Ben Eolavega

24 • SEPTEMBER

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CARDINAL HUME CENTRE SINGING GROUP Wigmore Hall Learning has been working in partnership with Cardinal Hume Centre, which supports people who have experienced poverty and homelessness, since 2010. In January 2018 we launched a new weekly singing group, which promotes healthy singing and offers the chance to explore group singing and songwriting. It is open to all who access the Centre, including staff, clients and volunteers. The links between group singing and improved health and wellbeing are well documented, and this group has improved a sense of community cohesion, helping to reduce social isolation and creating a safe and supportive environment for anyone in the Centre to access.

Cardinal Hume Centre © Benjamin Ealovega

‘I came to the session today feeling quite down, but this will keep me upbeat for the rest of the week now!’

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SEPTEMBER • 25

Friday 28 September 11.00am and 12.30pm

Sunday 30 September 11.30am

Sunday 30 September 7.30pm

For Crying Out Loud!

Hermès Quartet

Manuel Walser baritone Anano Gokieli piano

Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment. Approximately 45 minutes in duration Adults £8.50 (babies come free) Not booked for a For Crying Out Loud! concert before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person. In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Mozart String Quartet in D K575 ‘Prussian’ Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Opening with the first of Mozart’s three ‘Prussian’ quartets, dedicated to King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia, the Hermès Quartet crown their performance with Debussy’s Op. 10, the only quartet he ever completed. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALENT Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Brahms Von ewiger Liebe; Die Mainacht Rachmaninov The Dream Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung Rachmaninov Morning Strauss Morgen Brahms Dein blaues Auge hält so still Rachmaninov She is as Lovely as the Noon Brahms Wie rafft ich mich auf Rachmaninov Oh no, I beg you, forsake me not Brahms Verzagen Strauss Zueignung; Nichts Brahms Meine Liebe ist grün; Salamander Strauss Das Rosenband; Ach weh, mir unglückhaften Mann Brahms Wie bist du, meine Königin Rachmaninov In the silence of the secret night; Child! You are as fair as a flower Strauss Ich trage meine Minne; Liebeshymnus; Leise Lieder Rachmaninov Sing not to me, beautiful maiden A creative engagement between voice and piano in a programme of textual sensitivity and heightened lyrical expression. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

For Crying Out Loud! © Benjamin Ealovega

Hermès Quartet © Christian Steiner

Manuel Walser © Thomas Walser

26 • SEPTEMBER

Schumann String Quartet Series Robert Schumann’s highly personal art again provides the theme, with the Elias musicians exploring his string quartets. At different periods the composer concentrated on different genres: 1842 was the year he threw himself at chamber music, producing within 12 months all three of his string quartets and several other individual masterpieces. Friday 28 September 7.30pm

Elias String Quartet Jonathan Biss piano Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105; String Quartet in F Op. 41 No. 2; Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44 The ensemble’s regular collaborator Jonathan Biss joins them for a programme whose centrepiece is the second of Schumann’s quartets – a work of immense melodic immediacy and charm – and which ends with the most popular of all his chamber works. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In Memory of Peter Flatter Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 22 February 2019 7.30pm Thursday 23 May 2019 7.30pm

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SEPTEMBER • 27

Composers and their Muses Saturday 29 September 7.30pm

Steven Isserlis cello and Connie Shih piano Clara Schumann 3 Romances Op. 22 (arr. Isserlis) Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Kaprálová Ritournelle Op. 25 Martinů Cello Sonata No. 1 Holmès Récitatif et chant from La vision de la reine (arr. Isserlis) Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano Steven Isserlis highlights significant relationships between Clara and Robert Schumann with their respective Romances, Vitězslava Kaprálová and her teacher Martinů with her 1940 Ritournelles, and Augusta Holmès and her teacher César Franck with an extract from her 1895 scène lyrique. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Steven Isserlis © Kevin Davis

28 • OCTOBER

Monday 1 October 1.00pm

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Mahan Esfahani Bach Harpsichord Works

clarinet

Ever since he gave the first solo harpsichord recital at the Proms in 2011, the Iranian-American has brought his chosen instrument to a new level of prominence, his distinctive personality enabling him to engage with audiences throughout a repertoire he is helping to expand but which retains the works of Johann Sebastian Bach as its focal point.

Haydn String Quartet in E flat Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581

Monday 1 October 7.30pm

Chiaroscuro Quartet Annelien Van Wauwe

Dedicated to Grand Duke Paul of Russia – hence their collective nickname as the ‘Russian’ quartets – Haydn’s Op. 33 shows the composer wrong-footing his audience, especially in No. 2’s sequence of false endings, here succeeded by Mozart’s sublime quintet. All seats £16

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Bach Duetto No. 1 BWV802; Partita No. 1 in B flat BWV825; Italian Concerto in F BWV971; Ouvertüre nach französischer Art BWV831 The second volume of Bach’s Keyboard Exercises consists of a solo concerto modelled on Italian examples and an overture emulating suites by his French contemporaries, Esfahani preceding these with the first of the four solo keyboard ‘duets’ from volume III. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 15 December 7.30pm Saturday 30 March 2019 7.30pm Tuesday 9 July 2019 7.30pm

Chiaroscuro Quartet © Eva Vermandel

Mahan Esfahani © Bernhard Musil/DG

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OCTOBER • 29

Narek Hakhnazaryan Series Tuesday 2 October 7.30pm

Wednesday 3 October 10.15am and 11.45am

Friday 5 October 7.30pm

Narek Hakhnazaryan cello Pavel Kolesnikov piano

Chamber Tots: Autumn

IMS Prussia Cove

Tchaikovsky Nocturne in D minor; Pezzo capriccioso Op. 62; Mélodie in E flat Op. 42 No. 3 from Souvenir d’un lieu cher (arr. Hakhnazaryan) Myaskovsky Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor Op. 81 Rachmaninov Elégie from Morceaux de fantaisie Op. 3 No. 1 Glazunov Chant du ménestrel Op. 71 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40

10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & 11.45am (3-5 year-olds)

Two major Russian sonatas form the soulful centrepieces of a programme that otherwise features smaller, lighter works by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, the Mélodie (in Narek Hakhnazaryan’s own arrangement) recalling the former composer’s happiness on his patron Nadezhda von Meck’s Ukrainian estate.

Approximately 1 hour in duration Children £7 Adults £5 Not booked for Chamber Tots before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Sunday 10 February 2019 11.30am

Alexi Kenney violin Timothy Crawford violin Ulrike-Anima Mathé violin Lars Anders Tomter viola Adrian Brendel cello Marie Macleod cello Zoltán Fejérvári piano Haydn Piano Trio in F sharp minor HXV:26 Kurtág 3 pieces from Signs, Games and Messages Janáček String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Bartók Duos for 2 violins (selection) Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44 IMS Prussia Cove brings together some of the finest international musicians for their Annual Autumn Tour, at the invitation of Artistic Director Steven Isserlis. Experienced musicians will work in partnership with young rising stars of the next generation, offering an exciting programme. £30 £25 £20 £16 £10

Saturday 25 May 2019 7.30pm with Pavel Kolesnikov piano Narek Hakhnazaryan © Marco Borggreve

Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

Alexi Kenney © Yang Bao

30 • OCTOBER

Robin Tritschler The Seasons

A questioning artist who explores deeply whatever he sings, and conveys his discoveries with eloquence, the Irish tenor has selected The Seasons as the overall theme of his series, exploring winter, spring and summer through the creative minds of some of the greatest Lieder poets and composers.

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Wednesday 3 October 7.30pm

Robin Tritschler tenor Malcolm Martineau piano Schubert’s Winter Journey Schubert Der Einsame; Nähe des Geliebten; Der Winterabend; Die Sterne (D939); Nachtgesang (D119); Schäfers Klagelied; Der Musensohn; Der Knabe in der Wiege; Der Vater mit dem Kind; Vor meiner Wiege; Vom Mitleiden Mariä; Fahrt zum Hades; Nachtstück; Der Tod und das Mädchen; Nachthymne; An mein Herz; Alinde; An die Laute; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Willkommen und Abschied Winterreise is surely Schubert’s single greatest achievement in song, but he explored wider aspects of the season in other contexts, as revealed in this varied programme of Lieder composed during the winter months. Not necessarily all wintry in mood, the programme features songs that mix his personal isolation and torments with ones of a happier time. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Monday 14 January 2019 7.30pm with Graham Johnson piano Sunday 26 May 2019 7.30pm with Simon Lepper piano

Robin Tritschler © Benjamin Ealovega

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Pieter Wispelwey Cello Bach Complete Cello Suites Saturday 6 October 3.00pm Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007; Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009; Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 It was only when Pablo Casals took them up at the beginning of the 20th century that Bach’s cello suites began to attract wide attention, eventually achieving their current status as treasurable centrepieces of the instrument’s repertoire. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Approximately 1 hour 25 mins in duration, including an interval In Memory of Peter Flatter Saturday 6 October 7.30pm Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008; Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat BWV1010; Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012 An artist, like Casals, closely associated with the Cello Suites – which he has recorded on both historic and modern instruments – Pieter Wispelwey seeks in his performances ‘a balance between the erudite and the sensual, between the physical and the emotional’.

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Sunday 7 October 11.30am

Adrian Brendel cello Christian Ihle Hadland piano

Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO. 45 Widor Cello Sonata Op. 80 Liszt Elegy No. 2 S197 Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 A substantial work written in 1907, Charles-Marie Widor’s impassioned cello sonata demonstrates that there is more to this French late-Romantic than his organ music; it finds its place in a programme alongside Beethoven’s dramatic sonata and his entertaining Handel variations. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Pieter Wispelwey © Caroline Sikkink

Adrian Brendel © Jack Liebeck

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Angela Hewitt

The Bach Odyssey

The keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach have been part of Angela Hewitt’s daily life since childhood, resulting in an involvement with his music that informs her inspiring performances. ‘To develop in his company one’s musical intelligence, technique, beauty of sound and spirit,’ she has written, ‘is a great gift and a lifelong adventure’.

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Thursday 4 October 7.00pm NB time

Angela Hewitt piano Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book II BWV870-893 Conceived and composed in two separate parts produced some 20 years apart, Bach’s collection has long been regarded as one of the cornerstones of Western musical literature. Angela Hewitt continues her series paying attention to the second volume of his magnum opus The Well-tempered Clavier, which promises to be a concert not to miss. Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Thursday 18 April 2019 7.30pm Thursday 13 June 2019 7.30pm

Angela Hewitt © Keith Saunders

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Sunday 7 October 12 noon – 4.30pm

Sunday 7 October 3.00pm

Sunday 7 October 7.30pm

Silver Sunday

English National Opera Iain Burnside piano

François-Frédéric Guy

As part of Silver Sunday, we invite people living with dementia and their family, friends and carers to join us in the beautiful space of The Wallace Collection. Meet at The Wallace Collection at 12 noon for tea and sandwiches before exploring the gallery, then turn pictures into music with Julian West, Tim Keasley and students from the Royal Academy of Music. Free (booking required) Book through the Wigmore Hall Learning department on 020 7258 8246 or learning@wigmore-hall.org.uk In partnership with The Wallace Collection, Resonate Arts and the Royal Academy of Music

Silver Sunday © James Berry

Programme to include: Works by Schubert, Brahms, Shostakovich, Messiaen, Finzi & Bennett Iain Burnside curates a very special programme of song, working with members of the ENO Harewood Artist programme. Established in 1998, this flagship scheme provides coaching, training and mentorship for the next generation of opera talent. Former artists include Sophie Bevan, Allan Clayton, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Elizabeth Watts, Iain Paterson, Leigh Melrose and Sarah Tynan.

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Boulez 12 Notations Beethoven 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme in E flat ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35 Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5 Boulez’s fascinating early collection of short but highly charged piano pieces begins this concert which features works spanning 150 years. Beethoven’s inventive variations on a theme of great significance to him precede Brahms’s quasi-symphonic final sonata. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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ENO The Winter’s Tale ENO Chorus Samantha Price (c) Johan Persson

François-Frédéric Guy © Caroline Dourtre

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Marlis Petersen Residency

With an exceptional commitment to whatever she sings – whether new works, Baroque opera, coloratura and bel canto roles or Romantic Lieder – the German soprano is one of the most enterprising as well as one of the most virtuosic of our time, her programmes bound together by a coherent intellectual thread. Tuesday 9 October 7.30pm

Marlis Petersen soprano Stephan Matthias Lademann piano Robert Schumann Himmel und Erde Schubert Cora an die Sonne Schubert An die untergehende Sonne Sommer Herbstabend Schubert Die Mutter Erde; Naturgenuss Robert Schumann Die Hütte Mozart Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge Schubert Die Berge Brahms Juchhe! Robert Schumann Des Sennen Abschied Brahms Däm’rung senkte sich von oben Mozart Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt Brahms Der Strom, der neben mir verrauschte; Serenade Op. 70 No. 3 Koch Das Los des Menschen from Die wilden Schwäne Sommer Gesang des Lebens Robert Schumann Sehnsucht Wagner Stehe still! Schubert Am See Clara Schumann Mein Stern Beethoven Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel Brahms Feldeinsamkeit Robert Schumann Mondnacht Sommer Erinnerung Two neglected late-Romantic composers – the German Hans Sommer and the Swedish Sigurd von Koch – make rare appearances in a programme exploring themes of Heaven and Earth, Man and Nature, Fate and Awareness, Hope and Longing. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 1 December 7.30pm with Die Kölner Akademie Thursday 31 January 2019 7.30pm with Werner Güra tenor & Christoph Berner piano Monday 25 February 2019 7.30pm with Anke Vondung mezzo-soprano Werner Güra tenor Paul Armin Edelmann baritone Christoph Berner piano & Camillo Radicke piano Marlis Petersen © Y.Mavropoulos

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Monday 8 October 1.00pm

Monday 8 October 7.30pm

Thursday 11 October 7.30pm

Catriona Morison

Sandrine Piau soprano Sebastian Wienand

Benjamin Appl baritone Graham Johnson piano

mezzo-soprano

Yuka Beppu piano

harpsichord

Programme to include: Mahler Rückert Lieder Korngold Fünf Lieder Op. 38 Songs by Brahms

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Plamena Nikitassova

The Scottish mezzo won the main prize at the 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition while also sharing the song prize. Having already made her Proms debut, she is now a member of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists.

Rebel Les caractères de la danse Rameau Pièces de clavecin Clérambault La Muse de l’Opéra ou les caractères lyriques Destouches Suite from Les élémens Couperin Concert Royal IV Montéclair La Morte di Lucretia

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Celebrated soprano Sandrine Piau embodies the Muse of French opera in Clérambault’s cantata and the tragic Lucretia in Montéclair’s, as part of a diverse programme also taking in harpsichord pieces by Rameau and suites by other leading figures of the French Baroque.

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£50 £40 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to the Early Music and Baroque Circle

Schubert Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Orest auf Tauris; Der zürnenden Diana; Der entsühnte Orest; An die Leier; Amphiaraos Fauré Lydia Duparc Phidylé Debussy Le faune from Fêtes galantes Book II; La chevelure from Chansons de Bilitis Chabrier L’île heureuse Butterworth Look not in my eyes from A Shropshire Lad Warlock Heraclitus L Berkeley From Three Greek Songs Op. 38: To Aster & Spring Song Britten Sokrates und Alcibiades Schubert Atys; Freiwilliges Versinken; Lied des Orpheus, als er in die Hölle ging; Fahrt zum Hades; Prometheus Drawing on a wide range of musical traditions to explore the continuing impact of its ancient culture, this anthology of songs with Greek resonances charts a course between gods and mythology, philosophers and love poetry. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Catriona Morison © Julie Howden

Sandrine Piau © Sandrine Expilly/Naïve

Benjamin Appl © Lars Borges/Sony Classical

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Wednesday 10 October 7.30pm

Sir András Schiff piano Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D845; Piano Sonata in D D850; Fantasy Sonata in G D894 ‘Of all the great composers’, said Sir András Schiff, ‘Schubert touches me the most’. Here he presents three major works, including the ambitious sonata composed in the spa of Bad Gastein in 1825 and the freely-flowing Fantasy Sonata of the following year. £50 £45 £40 £35 £25 Concert repeated Friday 12 October 7.30pm

Sir András Schiff © Nadia F Romanini/ECMRecords

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Friday 12 October 7.30pm

Saturday 13 October 7.30pm

Sunday 14 October 11.30am

Sir András Schiff piano

Veronika Eberle violin Dénes Várjon piano

Jennifer Pike violin Petr Limonov piano

Bach Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016 Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 BB85 Janáček Violin Sonata Schumann Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor

Bacewicz Polish Caprice Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Szymanowski Nocturne and Tarantella for violin and piano Op. 28

Repeat of concert on 10 October £50 £45 £40 £35 £25

Of the two early 20th-century sonatas, Janáček’s was written in the summer of 1914, when he ‘could hear the sounds of steel clashing in my troubled head’, while Bartók’s rhapsodic second sonata of 1922 is one of his most exploratory achievements. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Grażyna Bacewicz was an exceptional violinist who later concentrated on composition: her folk-based Polish Caprice forms a vivid contrast with her compatriot Szymanowski’s Mediterranean-inspired miniatures and with Vaughan Williams’ idyllic pastoral vision. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sir András Schiff © Nadia F Romanini/ECMRecords

Veronika Eberle © Felix Broede

Jennifer Pike © Tom Barnes

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Sunday 14 October 7.30pm

Monday 15 October 1.00pm

Monday 15 October 7.30pm

The Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers Larissa Gergieva piano

Nicholas Daniel oboe Charles Owen piano

Richard Egarr harpsichord

Arias, songs, duets and trios by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Borodin, Cui, Glinka and Arensky. Under their accompanist and director Larissa Gergieva, postgraduate singers from the world-famous Mariinsky Academy – who regularly take part in performances at the theatre itself – offer songs, arias and ensembles by leading figures from the lateRomantic period of Russian music. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Larissa Gergieva

Bach Sinfonia from Easter Oratorio BWV249 ‘Kommt, eilet und laufet’ (arr. for oboe and piano) Haas Oboe Suite Julian Anderson The Bearded Lady Stravinsky Russian Maiden’s song (arr. for oboe and piano) Bowen Sonata for oboe and piano A diverse programme taking in the richly lyrical oboe sonata (1927) of English Romantic York Bowen, and the quasi-vocal Oboe Suite (1939) by Pavel Haas, which includes a hidden text as an act of resistance to the Nazis.

Bach Partita No. 1 in B flat BWV825; Partita No. 4 in D BWV828; French Suite No. 5 in G BWV816; Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 Appearing in print between 1726 and 1731, Bach’s six varied partitas marked the first publications of his works supervised by the composer himself; given the posthumous title ‘French Suites’, similar collections of characterful dance movements would follow. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Nicholas Daniel

Richard Egarr © Marco Borggreve

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Tuesday 16 October 10.30am – 1.30pm

Tuesday 16 October 7.30pm

Thursday 18 October 10.15am and 11.45am

Come and Sing

Danish String Quartet

For families living with dementia

Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5 Webern String Quartet (1905) Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’

Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt

If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, join us for a session of group singing, exploring a mixture of music old and new, followed by tea and coffee. No previous experience needed, just an enthusiasm to sing! Free (ticket required) Book through the Wigmore Hall Learning department on 020 7258 8246 or learning@wigmore-hall.org.uk

Works written near the beginning and end of Beethoven’s creative life are intersected by Webern’s expressive string quartet, an early piece inspired by the work of the Italian visual artist Giovanni Segantini. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

In partnership with Resonate Arts

Come and Sing © James Berry

We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us on a bear hunt! This interactive music-making workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging ensembles. 10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & 11.45am (3-5 year-olds) Approximately 1 hour in duration Children £7 Adults £5 Not booked for Chamber Tots before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person.

Danish String Quartet © Caroline Bittencourt

Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

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MUSIC FOR LIFE We believe that dementia should not stop people from doing the things they love, or from trying new things. With the right support people can live well with dementia, and Wigmore Hall is committed to this goal: helping to build a dementia-friendly society and enabling people living with dementia to continue accessing high quality, life-enriching musical experiences. Music for Life is a pioneering programme for people living with dementia and their family, friends and carers. The project was founded by Linda Rose in 1993 and has been led by Wigmore Hall since 2009. Over the course of the years the programme has continued to develop from working primarily in care settings to incorporate a growing number of projects and events in community settings and at the Hall itself. We are proud to work in partnership with a range of community, arts, health and social care organisations to provide a range of meaningful opportunities for people at all stages of dementia.

Music for Life © James Berry

‘It widens the horizons of my life. It gives me a lot of happiness and it keeps me going.’

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Thursday 18 October 7.30pm

Friday 19 October 7.30pm

Saturday 20 October 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Jeremy Denk piano

Independent Opera Scholars’ Recital 2018

Relaxed Concert: Magnard Ensemble

Beethoven 5 Variations in D on ‘Rule Britannia’ WoO. 79 John Adams Pocket Variations (European première) Bizet Variations chromatiques de concert Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54 Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98 (trans. Liszt) Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Jeremy Denk’s first half consists of variations, among them a rare and virtuosic set by Bizet and the European première of a new work by John Adams. His second half links Schumann’s improvisatory Fantasie with Beethoven’s song cycle, which Schumann quotes, here transcribed by Liszt. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Claire Lees soprano Michael Mofidian bass-baritone Ida Ränzlöv mezzo Svetlina Stoyanova mezzo Nino Chokhonelidze piano Programme to include: Mozart From Mass in C Minor: Domine Deus & Et incarnatus est; Ravel Deux mélodies hebraïques Rossini Nacqui all’affanno... Non piu mesta Britten The Tower Scene Larsson Kyssande Vind Nystroem Havet Sjunger Rangström En Gammal dansrytm Arensky 3 Romances Op. 38 Pipkov Nani mi nani, Damyancho Tchaikovsky Noch Ēriks Ešenvalds New work (world première)

This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides a special opportunity to explore music in an informal environment. Join the Magnard Ensemble, a wind quintet which has recently released its debut album, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee afterwards. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement, and house lights will remain up. Audience members are able to move in and out of the auditorium as they need to, and there is a designated quiet area. £5

Independent Opera’s annual showcase shines a spotlight on today’s young stars. Joined by prizewinning pianist Nino Chokhonelidze, they will explore works from German Lieder to 20th-century Swedish song. £30 £25 £20 £16 £10

Jeremy Denk © Michael Wilson

Independent Opera Group © Benjamin Ealovega

Magnard Ensemble

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Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble: German Romantics

19th-century Romanticism offered German music new relationships with literature, fine art and nature, with an emphasis on drama and first-person expressivity, all couched in language and forms that broke free of earlier precedents. Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Ensemble in residence presents a season-long exploration of the German repertoire of the era, from Beethoven and Weber, via Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms and Wagner to Max Bruch and Richard Strauss. The interest and variety of the Ensemble’s programmes is enhanced by the collaboration of a cohort of leading singers of our time.

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Saturday 20 October 6.00pm

Pre-Concert Talk An introduction to the series by writer, lecturer and broadcaster Katy Hamilton. Free (ticket required) Saturday 20 October 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble Richard Hosford clarinet Bruch String Octet Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 in B flat Op. 87 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 Gramophone declared that the Nash’s recent Max Bruch disc ‘needs to be heard by everyone who loves German Romantic chamber music’. His very last chamber work opens the first concert of the series, followed by two other late works, Mendelssohn’s powerful second quintet and Brahms’s autumnal quintet for clarinet and strings.

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 24 November 5.30pm Saturday 24 November 7.30pm with Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Saturday 8 December 5.30pm with Sophie Bevan soprano Saturday 8 December 7.30pm with Roderick Williams baritone Saturday 12 January 2019 5.30pm Saturday 12 January 2019 7.30pm Saturday 16 February 2019 7.30pm with Lucy Crowe soprano Sunday 10 March 2019 11.30am Tuesday 19 March 2019 5.30pm with students from the Royal Academy of Music Tuesday 19 March 2019 7.30pm with Maximilian Schmitt tenor

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Caspar David Friedrich �Moonrise over the sea’

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Ensemble Correspondances Residency

Founded in Lyon in 2009 by the musicologist, organist and harpsichord player Sébastien Daucé, Ensemble Correspondances has won an international reputation for its historically informed performances of music from the French Baroque period which fulfil the spirit as well as the letter of the scores they revive.

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Sunday 21 October 7.30pm

Ensemble Correspondances Orpheus Chant Purcell Here the deities approve from Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day) Z339 Charpentier La descente d’Orphée aux enfers H488 (Act 1) Purcell If love’s a sweet passion from The Fairy Queen; Prepare, the rites begin! from Theodosius, or The Force of Love Charpentier La descente d’Orphée aux enfers H488 (Act 2) Purcell When Orpheus sang from Celestial music did the Gods inspire Z322 After his death Henry Purcell was mourned as ‘Orpheus Britannicus’. In a programme in which ‘Orpheus Sings’, his connections with the legendary singer are celebrated alongside those of a French contemporary whose chamber opera was written for private performance in 1686. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Monday 22 April 2019 7.30pm Friday 5 July 2019 10.00pm

Ensemble Correspondances © Molina Visuals

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Sunday 21 October 11.30am

Sunday 21 October 3.00pm

Monday 22 October 1.00pm

Quatuor Voce

Tareq Nazmi bass Gerold Huber piano

Karina Gauvin soprano Maciej Pikulski piano

Schumann Der frohe Wandersmann; Frühlingsfahrt; Der Schatzgräber; Der Einsiedler; Kerner Lieder Op. 35; Die beiden Grenadiere; Die feindlichen Brüder; Die Nonne; Es leuchtet meine Liebe; Mein Wagen rollet langsam; Belsazar

Hahn Quand je fus pris au pavillon from Rondels; Si mes vers avaient des ailes; A Chloris Debussy Nuit d’étoiles; Mandoline; Beau soir; Récitatif et air de Lia from L’Enfant prodigue Poulenc Trois poèmes de Louise Lalanne; Métamorphoses; Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon Bizet Guitare; La Coccinelle; Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe; Ouvre ton cœur

Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’ Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Op. 74 ‘Harp’ Now risen to a high position amongst contemporary ensembles, the Quatuor Voce returns with a programme linking Györgi Ligeti’s early Bartók-inspired nocturnal variations with Beethoven’s exhilarating ‘Harp’ quartet, whose nickname references pizzicato passages in the first movement. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALENT Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

A programme almost entirely selected from Schumann’s famous ‘year-of-song’ in 1840 focuses on three poets particularly dear to the composer: Joseph von Eichendorff, Heinrich Heine, and Justinus Kerner, whose celebrated Kerner Lieder Op. 35 makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall. All seats £16

The Canadian soprano and her Polish accompanist select an entirely French programme, with many of the best-known songs of her four chosen composers, among them Reynaldo Hahn’s Victor Hugo setting ‘Si mes vers’, published when he was just 13. £16 concs £14

Quatuor Voce © Sophie Pawlak

Tareq Nazmi © Marco Borggreve

Karina Gauvin © Michael Slobodian

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Monday 22 October 7.30pm

Piotr Beczała tenor Helmut Deutsch piano Donaudy Vaghissima sembianza; Freschi luoghi, prati aulenti; O del mio amato ben Wolf-Ferrari Quando ti vidi; Jo dei saluti; E tanto c’è pericol; O sì che non sapevo Respighi Lagrime; Scherzo; Stornellatrice; Nevicata; Pioggia; Nebbie Tosti L’ultima canzone; Chi sei tu che mi parli from Malinconia; Ideale Szymanowski 6 Songs Op. 2 Karłowicz Sometimes when long I dream; On the calm, dark sea; Rusty Leaves; The Still Night; A grieving Maiden; Before the Eternal Night; The Enchanted Princess Moniuszko Dwie Zorze; Prząśniczka; Polna różyczka; Krakowiaczek The Polish tenor sings songs by Stanisław Moniuszko, who created their mutual homeland’s first national operas, as well as his successors Mieczysław Karłowicz and Karol Szymanowski, whose Op. 2 settings represent a highlight of his early output. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Piotr Beczała © Jean-Baptiste Millot

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OCTOBER • 47

Tuesday 23 October 7.30pm

Thursday 25 October 7.30pm

Friday 26 October 1.00pm

Martin Helmchen piano

Michaela Schuster mezzo Matthias Veit piano

Andrew Watts

Robert Schumann From Novelletten Op. 21: No. 1 in F, No. 3 in D, No. 4 in D, No. 5 in D, No. 6 in A, No. 7 in E & No. 8 in F sharp minor Clara Schumann From Soirées musicales: Toccatina & Notturno Schoenberg Nos. 2 – 6 from 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 Bach Sarabande from Partita No. 4 in D for solo piano BWV828 Messiaen Regard des hauteurs from Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus Chopin Grande valse brillante in A minor Op. 34 No. 2 Liszt Bagatelle sans tonalité S216a; Nuages gris S199 This intriguing programme moves backwards and forwards from Bach via the Romantic period of Robert Schumann (whose Novelettes provide regular points of return) and his wife Clara, as well as Chopin and Liszt, and on through Schoenberg to Olivier Messiaen. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In Memory of Peter Flatter

Unvergänglichkeit Korngold Unvergänglichkeit; Sommer; Das eilende Bächlein; Mond so gehst du wieder auf; Gefasster Abschied; Liebesbriefchen; Alt-spanisch; Glückwunsch Reger Es blüht ein Blümlein rosenrot; Von der Liebe; Zwiesprach; Mei Bua; In einem Rosengärtelein; Klein Marie; Mit Rosen bestreut; Mausefangen; Zwei Mäuschen Mahler Phantasie aus Don Juan; Frühlingsmorgen; Erinnerung; Starke Einbildungskraft; Nicht wiedersehen!; Das schlafende Kind; Stärker als der Tod; Selbstgefühl Weill Wie lange noch?; Berlin im Licht-Song; Nannas Lied; Der Abschiedsbrief Korngold’s 1933 song-cycle Unvergänglichkeit, German for immortality, intersperses a programme which focuses on his contemporaries Mahler and Weill, and the neglected Reger.

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Iain Burnside piano A Countertenor Songbook Tansy Davies A song of pure nothingness Handel What though I trace each herb from Solomon Tippett Three songs for Ariel Neville Bower Songs of Innocence Joe Cutler Song for Arthur Raymond Yiu When thou and I first one another saw; Forget-Me-Not Marking the launch of Andrew Watts’s CD on the NMC label, his Songbook ranges from Handel’s oratorio through Tippett’s Shakespearean incidental music, and Blake settings by the neglected Neville Bower to recent works by Tansy Davies, Joe Cutler and Raymond Yiu. All seats £16

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Martin Helmchen © Giorgia Bertazzi

Michaela Schuster © Nikola Stege

Andrew Watts © Sarah Hickson

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Dame Sarah Connolly Residency

Appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2017, Dame Sarah Connolly has maintained a standard of excellence in the opera house as in concert and recital halls. With a repertoire ranging from the Baroque masters through bel canto, Wagner and Elgar to new works, she continues to explore a wide variety of music with dedication and unique interpretative skills.

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Wednesday 24 October 7.30pm

Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Tenebrae vocal ensemble Nigel Short conductor Eugene Asti piano A Walk with Ivor Gurney Elgar They are at rest Gurney Since I believe in God the Father Almighty; By a Bierside; In Flanders Judith Bingham A Walk with Ivor Gurney Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing Gurney Sleep Parry Songs of Farewell Schoenberg Friede auf Erden Written for Dame Sarah Connolly and Tenebrae, Judith Bingham’s setting of Gurney’s poetry is surrounded by three of his songs, as well as valedictory pieces by Elgar and by Gurney’s friend Herbert Howells, preceding Schoenberg’s unaccompanied choral plea for peace on earth. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2018/19 Wigmore Series

Concerts in this Series Wednesday 19 September 1.00pm Masterclass Friday 15 March 2019 7.30pm with Julius Drake piano Tuesday 23 July 2019 7.30pm with Malcolm Martineau piano

Dame Sarah Connolly © Peter Warren

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Friday 26 October 7.30pm

Saturday 27 October 10.30am – 3.30pm

Saturday 27 October 7.30pm

The Endellion String Quartet

Family Day: Autumn Senses

Yaniv d’Or countertenor Ensemble NAYA

Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1 Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’

For ages 5 plus

Psalms Exaltation (arr. Yaniv d’Or) King Alfonso X of Spain Rosas das Rosas (arr. Yaniv d’Or) Bésard Ma Belle, Si ton Áme Rossi Barechu Trad (Sephardi) El Nora Alila; A la Nana y a la Buba; Ya Viene El Cativo; La Mañana de San Juan; El Nora Alila Trad (Sufi) Demedim Mi; Aşkın Ile Âşıklar Llobet El Testament d’Amelia Frescobaldi Se L’aura Spira Tutta Vezzosa Trad (Bosnian) Yemei Horpi (arr. ShemTov Levi) Anon Mareta, Mareta No’m Faces Plorar Trad (Turkish) Üsküdara gideriken, Katibim Murat Cakmaz Hayat Muwashshah (Arab-Andalusian) Lamma Bada Yatathanna Erez Mounk Lluvia de Pensamientos de Falla Nana

This year celebrating its 40th season together, the quartet opens with an exciting programme of Mendelssohn and Beethoven alongside a Britten quartet which it has championed throughout its career, recording for EMI and again for Warner. ‘There’s always a feeling when listening to the Endellion Quartet that you’re listening to the Urtext method of quartet playing.’ Gramophone

When autumn comes around, it brings with it (apart from the rainy weather!) some amazing sights, sounds and smells. Join music leader Georgia Duncan to explore our senses during this season, and be inspired to create your own music and soundscapes. We invite you to join us as a family in this interactive and exploratory day for children aged 5 plus and their families. Children £10 Adults £16 Not booked for a Family Day before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person.

Following the success of their collections Liquefacta Est and Latino-Ladino, tonight’s performers present a new programme collating the traditions of three monotheistic religions from various periods and cultures.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 The Endellion String Quartet © Eric Richmond

Family Day © Benjamin Ealovega

Yaniv d’Or © Bernhard Musil

50 • OCTOBER

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Sunday 28 October 11.30am

Sunday 28 October 7.30pm

Monday 29 October 1.00pm

Emma Johnson clarinet Finghin Collins piano

The English Concert Harry Bicket director,

Thibaut Garcia guitar

Beethoven Variations on La Ci Darem La Mano (arr. Johnson) Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Stravinsky Three pieces for solo clarinet Ravel Pièce en forme de Habanera (arr. for clarinet and piano) Bernstein Clarinet Sonata The clarinettist’s programme pays homage to Leonard Bernstein in his centenary year with his first published piece, dating from 1942 and already full of those characteristically jazzy inflections that can also be detected in Stravinsky’s solo pieces of 1919. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

fortepiano

The Art of the Arrangement Mozart Fantasia in F minor K608 (arr. Bicket) Haydn Symphony No. 104 ‘London’ (arr. Salomon) Mozart Fantasia in F minor K594 (arr. Bicket) Haydn Divertimento II, after String Quartet in D Op. 71 No. 2 (arr. Wranitzky) Composers have long been inspired by the music of others, reworking their ideas into new forms. Bach transcribed Vivaldi’s concerti for alternative instruments, Mozart reorchestrated Messiah, and Mendelssohn set to work on the St Matthew Passion. Here, The English Concert explore arrangements of Haydn and Mozart through the eyes of later generations.

Barrios Mangoré La Catedral Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004 Tansman Inventions & Passacaille Dušan Bogdanović Suite Hommage a Bach Bach continues to be an inspiration to today’s musicians, including the Franco-Spanish BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, who plays the great Chaconne from the D minor Partita alongside Bach tributes by FrancoPolish Alexandre Tansman and Serbian-born American guitarist Dušan Bogdanović. £16 concs £14

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Emma Johnson © Helen Maybanks

Harry Bicket © Richard Haughton

Thibaut Garcia © Luis Castilla

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OCTOBER • 51

Tuesday 30 October 5.45pm

Tuesday 30 October 7.30pm

Wednesday 31 October 7.30pm

Bechstein Sessions: The Hermes Experiment

Nicolas Hodges piano

L’Arpeggiata

Lutyens Five Impromptus Op. 116 (World première) Liszt Nuages gris S199; Unstern! Sinistre, disastro S208; La lugubre gondola S200 James Clarke Untitled No. 7 (UK première)*† Brahms Ballade in D Op 10 No 2 Hans Thomalla Ballade.Rauschen (UK première)*

Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Céline Scheen soprano

Héloïse Werner soprano Oliver Pashley clarinet Marianne Schofield double bass Anne Denholm harp Join us for our latest Bechstein Session, as part of a new series of informal performances in the Bechstein Bar, which offer a platform for emerging artists. Winners of the Tunnell Trust Awards 2016, Park Lane Group Young Artists 2015/16 and Nonclassical’s Battle of the Bands 2014, The Hermes Experiment is a contemporary quartet. Capitalising on its deliberately idiosyncratic combination of instruments, the ensemble regularly commissions new works, as well as creating its own innovative arrangements and venturing into live free improvisation. £5 Approximately 1 hour in duration

*Co-commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, with support from Kunststiftung NRW, and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Foundation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation With the support of The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

†

A champion of contemporary music, Nicolas Hodges includes a work by the powerful musical personality of Elizabeth Lutyens, German composer Hans Thomalla’s 2014 piece – subsequently expanded into a concerto – and a short but intricate miniature by James Clarke. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Bechstein Session © Benjamin Ealovega

Nicolas Hodges © Eric Richmond

Komm, süsser Tod Schütz Es steh’ Gott auf SWV356; Erbarm Dich mein, o Herre Gott SWV447; Von Gott will ich nicht lassen SWV366 Merula Chiaccona a3 Bach Mein Jesu, was vor Seelenweh BWV487; Prelude from Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor; Komm, süsser Tod, komm, selge Ruh BWV478 Biber Die Verkündigung Anon Ninna nanna al Bambin Giesù Cazzati Ciaccona Merula Hor ch’è tempo di dormire Kapsberger Toccata L’Arpeggiata Mealli La Vinciolina Sances Stabat mater Monteverdi Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius SV287 L’Arpeggiata is joined by celebrated soprano Céline Scheen to explore connections between the German and Italian traditions with a focus on the spiritual. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Approximately 1 hour 30 mins in duration, without an interval Christina Pluhar © Marco Borggreve

52 • NOVEMBER

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Thursday 1 November 11.00am – 12 noon

Thursday 1 November 7.30pm

Friday 2 November 7.30pm

Schools Concert: The King with Donkey Ears

Federico Colli piano

Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Key Stage 2 Pssst! Did you hear? The King has donkey ears! Don’t let anyone know… The Royal Barber has an important job, an important pair of scissors and a VERY important secret to keep. But sometimes, secrets have a way of coming out into the open… Join the impeccably-coiffed Castalian Quartet and hairy presenter Sam Glazer for a morning of musical storytelling for Key Stage 2 students and their teachers, inspired by this traditional Somali folk tale. Children £4 / Accompanying Adults Free (ticket required)

Scarlatti Sonatas: in F minor Kk481, in E Kk380, in G minor Kk450, in F minor Kk69, in D minor Kk32, in D minor K396, in D Kk492, in D minor Kk9, in A Kk208, in D minor Kk1 & in A Kk39 Mozart Fantasia in D minor K397 Brahms Theme and Variations in D minor Op. 18b Bach/Busoni Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004 Mozart forms the centrepiece of this programme by the winner of the 2011 Salzburg Mozart Competition, who surrounds it with a varied clutch of Scarlatti’s distinctive sonatas, Brahms’s early set of variations, and Bach’s great Chaconne in Busoni’s mighty transcription. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

contralto

Roger Vignoles piano Schumann Kennst du das Land?; Lied der Suleika from Myrthen Schubert Der Musensohn; Ganymed; Gretchen am Spinnrade Beethoven Wonne der Wehmut; Die Trommel gerühret Fanny Mendelssohn Harfners Lied; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh Wolf Blumengruss; Frühling übers Jahr; Mignon IV – Kennst du das Land? Chausson L’albatros Fauré Chant d’automne de Séverac Les hiboux Fauré Hymne Charpentier La mort des amants Debussy Le jet d’eau; Recueillement Duparc L’invitation au voyage; La vie antérieure The Canadian contralto moves from an all-Goethe Lieder first half to a second half devoted to mélodies set to Charles Baudelaire in which the neglected figures of Déodat de Séverac and Gustave Charpentier find a place alongside their more famous colleagues. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Schools Concert © Benjamin Ealovega

Federico Colli © Sarah Ferrara

Marie-Nicole Lemieux © Denis Rouvre

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NOVEMBER • 53 Music in the Round

Saturday 3 November 11.00am – 12 noon

Saturday 3 November 7.30pm

Family Concert: The King with Donkey Ears

Roderick Williams baritone Ensemble 360

For ages 5 plus Pssst! Did you hear? The King has donkey ears! Don’t let anyone know…

Suk Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 1 Howard Skempton Man and Bat for baritone, string quintet and piano (London première) Dvořák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81

The Royal Barber has an important job, an important pair of scissors and a VERY important secret to keep. But sometimes, secrets have a way of coming out into the open…

Framed by two major chamber works from the late 19th-century Czech repertoire is Howard Skempton’s D. H. Lawrence setting, premièred last year by Roderick Williams and Ensemble 360 following successful performances of the composer’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Join the impeccably-coiffed Castalian Quartet and hairy presenter Sam Glazer for a morning of musical storytelling for families, inspired by this traditional Somali folk tale.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Children £10 Adults £12 Not booked for a Family Concert before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person.

Dvořák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ Brahms Horn Trio in E flat Op. 40

Sunday 4 November 11.30am

Ensemble 360

The versatile Ensemble 360 – who can field an extraordinary range of players, from duos up to 11 musicians for new commissions – offer two late-Romantic works: Dvořák’s American-influenced quartet and Brahms’s horn trio, partly composed in response to his mother’s death. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Family Concert © Benjamin Ealovega

Roderick Williams © Benjamin Ealovega

Ensemble 360 © David Saphiro

54 • NOVEMBER

Tuesday 6 November 7.30pm

René Pape bass Camillo Radicke piano Programme to include: Works by Sibelius & Schubert One of the great basses of our time, René Pape possesses a vast repertoire ranging from major operatic roles, with a particular accent on Wagner, through to contemporary music. He returns to Wigmore with a programme of works by Schubert and Sibelius, amongst others. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

René Pape © Jiyang Chen

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NOVEMBER • 55

Sunday 4 November 7.30pm

Monday 5 November 1.00pm

Monday 5 November 7.30pm

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller

Aleksey Semenenko

Florilegium Ashley Solomon director Elin Manahan Thomas

soprano

Juliane Ruf piano

violin

Inna Firsova piano

Schumann Sechs Gesänge Op. 107 Poulenc La courte paille Zemlinsky Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Volksliedern Op. 6 Poulenc Fiançailles pour rire Schumann 6 Gedichte von N. Lenau und Requiem Op. 90

Grieg Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45 Ysaÿe Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 27 No. 3 ‘Ballade’ Debussy La plus que lente Tchaikovsky Valse-scherzo Op. 34 Paganini La Campanella

Emerging from the shadow of contemporary admirers Mahler and Schoenberg, Zemlinsky reveals a charming aspect to his creativity in this set of vocal waltzes based on Tuscan folksongs, placed in between mature Schumann groups and two delicately ambiguous Poulenc song-cycles for Hanna-Elisabeth Müller’s exciting Wigmore debut.

Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe’s solo sonatas are among the summits of the repertoire, the third both rhapsodic and gripping. The Ukrainian violinist, who is a BBC New Generation Artist, follows with three lighter pieces, including the ‘even slower’ waltz by Ysaÿe’s friend and adherent Debussy. £16 concs £14

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soprano

Handel Suite No. 3 in G HWV350 ‘Water Music’; Calm thou my soul... Convey me to some peaceful shore from Alexander Balus; With plaintive notes from Samson; Da tempeste from Giulio Cesare Vivaldi Concerto in D RV562; Concerto in G minor for flute Op. 10 No. 2 ‘La notte’ RV439; From Griselda: Agitata da due venti & Ombre vane, ingiusti orrori Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV351 November 5 seems a suitable day to experience Handel’s Royal Fireworks – though it actually debuted in April 1749. Here it is preceded by the originally riverborne Water Music (1717), with the Welsh soprano complementing them with popular Baroque arias. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller © Chris Gonz

Aleksey Semenenko © Christian Steiner

Elin Manahan Thomas © AP Wilding

56 • NOVEMBER

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Takács Quartet: Associate Artists Wednesday 7 November 7.30pm

Takács Quartet Mozart String Quartet in G K387 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists open with a fascinating programme: the first of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ quartets, dedicated to his most revered contemporary, a work by Shostakovich written during his second period in official disgrace, and Mendelssohn’s moving memorial to his sister. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Takács Quartet © Glenn Asakawa

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 9 November 7.30pm Wednesday 15 May 2019 7.30pm Friday 17 May 2019 7.30pm with Garrick Ohlsson piano

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NOVEMBER • 57

Wednesday 7 November 12.30pm and 2.00pm

Thursday 8 November 11.00am and 12.30pm

Friday 9 November 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt

For Crying Out Loud!

Music for the Moment

If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for this informal afternoon concert with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30pm.

Approximately 45 minutes in duration

Free (ticket required)

We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us on a bear hunt! This interactive music-making workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging ensembles. 12.30pm (1-2 year-olds) & 2.00pm (3-5 year-olds) Approximately 1 hour in duration Children £7 Adults £5 Not booked for Chamber Tots before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person.

Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

Adults £8.50 (babies come free) Not booked for a For Crying Out Loud! concert before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person.

In partnership with Resonate Arts and the Royal Academy of Music

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

For Crying Out Loud! © Benjamin Ealovega

Music for the Moment © www.benjaminharte.co.uk

58 • NOVEMBER

Vox Luminis Residency

Founded in 2004 by singer, musician and conductor Lionel Meunier, the Belgian vocal ensemble has acquired a wide reputation for its specialist programming realised to a standard of creative imagination that places it at the forefront of such groups today, drawing on rigorous historical research to achieve music-making of prodigious vitality. Thursday 8 November 6.00pm

Artists in Conversation

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Thursday 8 November 7.30pm

Vox Luminis Musikalische Exequien Schütz Musikalische Exequien SWV279-281; Selig sind die Toten SWV391; Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener SWV352 Selle Die mit Tränen säen Johannes Bach Weint nicht um meinen Tod Johann Michael Bach Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil Johann Christoph Bach Der Mensch vom Weibe geboren Scheidt Ist nicht Ephraim Johann Ludwig Bach Das Blut Jesu Christi

Join Lionel Meunier as he shares his experience as artistic director and founder of Vox Luminis ahead of the evening concert.

The early music ensemble’s 2011 disc of Heinrich Schütz’s Funeral Music won numerous awards. Here they perform a similar programme, incorporating related pieces by the Saxon composer’s contemporaries and successors, including four members of the Bach family.

£5

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Wednesday 20 March 2019 7.30pm Saturday 13 July 2019 7.30pm

Vox Luminis © Ola Renska

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NOVEMBER • 59

Friday 9 November 7.30pm

Saturday 10 November 11.30am

Saturday 10 November 7.30pm

Takács Quartet

Graham Johnson

Cédric Tiberghien piano

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52 Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2

Songmakers’ Almanac Lecture

Armistice recital

The fourth of Haydn’s ‘Sun’ quartets – so-called because of the device of a rising sun emblazoned on an early published score – is notable for the ‘gypsy’ inflections in its final two movements, while Bartók’s first quartet mourns an unhappy love affair.

Graham Johnson presents a history of his Songmakers’ Almanac founded in 1976 – a concept imitated by pianists and their singers throughout the world. Three decades of legendary Almanac evenings covered every imaginable theme and were a proud Wigmore tradition. Programmes such as these also have a role to play in the Hall’s future.

Skryabin Vers la flamme ‘Poème’ Op. 72 Bridge 3 Improvisations for the Left-Hand H134 Debussy Nos. 7, 8 & 9 from Études Book II Szymanowski Twelve Études Op. 33 Debussy Nos. 10, 11 & 12 from Études Book II Debussy Études Book I Hindemith In einer Nacht...Träume und Erlebnisse Op. 15

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

£16 concs £14

In Memory of Peter Flatter

Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval

In this programme immediately preceding Armistice Day, the French pianist offers a thoughtful and varied collection of works written during the First World War by composers from the former combatant nations, including rarely heard pieces by Hindemith and Frank Bridge. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Takács Quartet © Ellen Appel

Cédric Tiberghien © Jean-Baptiste Millot

60 • NOVEMBER

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Sunday 11 November 11.30am

Sunday 11 November 7.30pm

Monday 12 November 1.00pm

Daniel Lebhardt piano

Joshua Bell violin Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

Jonathan Biss piano

Schubert Fantasy Sonata in G D894 Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 36 Begun in Rome in 1913 and premièred in Moscow that same year, Rachmaninov’s virtuosic second sonata was revised by the composer in 1931, but it is the longer and more challenging first version that the Hungarian pianist performs. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Mendelssohn Octet in E flat Op. 20 Enescu String Octet in C Op. 7 A double helping of youthful string octets, with the ever popular Mendelssohn work – composed when he was a mere 16 – succeeded by another by George Enescu that dates from 1900, when the Romanian composer was just three years older.

Haydn Piano Sonata in A flat HXVI:46 Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6 Few pieces offer more insight into Schumann’s soul than his collection of 18 character pieces based on a mazurka by his beloved Clara, and individually signed by ‘Florestan’ and ‘Eusebius’ – pseudonyms representing different aspects of the composer’s personality. £16 concs £14

£60 £50 £45 £40 £25

Daniel Lebhardt © Kaupo Kikkas

Joshua Bell © Eric Kabik

Jonathan Biss © Benjamin Ealovega

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NOVEMBER • 61

Monday 12 November 7.30pm

Tuesday 13 November 7.30pm

Thursday 15 November 7.30pm

Truls Mørk cello Behzod Abduraimov

Artemis Quartet

Belcea Quartet

Haydn String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’ Demetz String Quartet No. 2 Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1

Mozart String Quartet in B flat K589 ‘Prussian’ Joseph Phibbs String Quartet No. 3 (European première) Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

piano

Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1 Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C Op. 119 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 Premièred in 1950 by Mstislav Rostropovich and Sviatoslav Richter, Prokofiev’s sonata is a late work written at a time of political disfavour, and forms a worthy companion to the equally substantial masterpiece composed by his Russian predecessor in 1901.

Broken Islands is the title of the quartet with which Eduard Demetz – from the German-speaking Italian Alps – won a competition for a new work organised by the ensemble, its title referring to a kayak journey off Vancouver Island. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to the String Quartet Circle

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Truls Mørk © Johs Boe

Artemis Quartet © Nikolaj Lund

Following its world première in the US in October 2018, Joseph Phibbs’ third quartet comes to London, where its composer was born in 1974; two previous quartets for the medium by this former Birtwistle pupil have attracted exceptional praise. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Belcea Quartet © Marco Borggreve

62 • NOVEMBER

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Wednesday 14 November 7.30pm

100th Anniversary of the Republic of Latvia

Baiba Skride violin Lauma Skride piano Antonina Suhanova piano Trio Palladio piano trio Vītols From 10 Chants populaires Lettons Op. 29: Aijā žūžū lāča bērni; Āvu, āvu baltas kājas & Pūt, vējiņi Rachmaninov Preludes: in C Op. 32 No. 1, in G Op. 32 No. 5, in A minor Op. 32 No. 8, in G sharp minor Op. 32 No. 12 & in D flat Op. 32 No. 13 Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F Pēteris Vasks Plainscapes (arr. for piano trio) Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Latvian musicians perform a work by the country’s leading contemporary composer inspired by his country’s landscapes and ending, as he describes, ‘with a vision of nature awakening’. Originally a choral piece, Plainscapes is heard here in Vasks’s arrangement for piano trio. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Baiba Skride © Marco Borggreve

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NOVEMBER • 63

Ravel Song Series Friday 16 November 7.30pm

Saturday 17 November 10.15am and 11.45am

Sunday 18 November 11.30am

Dame Sarah Connolly

Chamber Tots: Into Space

Parker Quartet

mezzo-soprano

James Newby baritone Joseph Middleton piano Adam Walker flute Amy Harman bassoon L’Invitation au Voyage Duparc L’invitation au voyage Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Saint-Saëns Une flûte invisible Ravel Shéhérazade Chabrier L’invitation au voyage Ravel Histoires naturelles Séverac Les hiboux Sauguet Le chat Debussy Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire A programme that takes the audience on various exotic journeys courtesy of Maurice Ravel, his predecessors and contemporaries, notably to the east in Tristan Klingsor’s oriental triptych and to the animal kingdom in Jules Renard’s witty natural histories.

We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us on a journey into space! This interactive music-making workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging ensembles. 10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & 11.45am (3-5 year-olds) Approximately 1 hour in duration

Mozart String Quartet in E flat K428 Ravel String Quartet in F Completed in 1903, Ravel’s sole, subtle string quartet owes something to Debussy’s similarly solitary example penned 10 years earlier, and received an approving response from the elder composer himself. It is preceded by the first of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ quartets. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Children £7 Adults £5 Not booked for Chamber Tots before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Dame Sarah Connolly © Peter Warren

Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

Parker Quartet

64 • NOVEMBER

Fauré/Schumann Project Steven Isserlis has regularly championed individual composers, his love and enthusiasm for their music shining through his exceptional interpretations. In this series he joins with a group of distinguished musical friends to focus on two contrasting figures, in each case concentrating on a body of work that deserves to be better known.

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Saturday 17 November 7.30pm

Isabelle Faust violin Katharine Gowers violin Rachel Roberts viola Steven Isserlis cello Alexander Melnikov piano Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105 Fauré Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120; Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 117 Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44 Schumann’s ebullient quintet (1842) – the first important work ever composed for this combination – dates from the year the composer threw himself into writing chamber music, while the two Fauré works represent his late style at its most elusive. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 23 March 2019 7.30pm with Joshua Bell violin & Jeremy Denk piano Tuesday 23 April 2019 7.30pm with Janine Jansen violin Amihai Grosz viola & Connie Shih piano Sunday 16 June 2019 7.30pm with Anthony Marwood violin Dénes Várjon viola & Izabella Simon piano Steven Isserlis © Kevin Davis

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NOVEMBER • 65

Monday 19 November 1.00pm

Monday 19 November 7.30pm

Tuesday 20 November 7.30pm

Roberta Invernizzi soprano Rodney Prada viola da gamba Craig Marchitelli lute Franco Pavan lute

Alexandre Tharaud piano

The English Concert Harry Bicket director,

Caccini Dolcissimo sospiro; Dalla porta d’oriente Kapsberger Passacaglia Monteverdi Ecco di dolci raggi; Disprezzata Regina Bassani Toccata per B quadro Frescobaldi Canzone a basso solo Merula Folle è ben che si crede Rossi La bella più bella Kapsberger Arpeggiata D’India Intenerite voi, lagrime mie; Cruda Amarilli Monteverdi Sí dolce è’l tormento; Voglio di vita uscir A collection of instrumental and vocal works from Italy dating from the decades when the Renaissance style was giving way to the Baroque.

Couperin La logivière; Les Calotines; Les rozeaux; Passacaille; Les ombres errantes; Le tic-toc-choc, ou Les maillotins Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (arr. Tharaud) Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Distinguished French pianist Alexandre Tharaud places two of Beethoven’s final sonatas – works which in their depth, imagination, range and originality continue to fascinate as well as to challenge the greatest artists – alongside six pieces for keyboard by Couperin and Tharaud’s own take on Debussy’s colourful Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

All seats £16

harpsichord, organ

Dorothee Mields soprano James Hall countertenor Hugo Hymas tenor Ashley Riches bass-baritone Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland: Music for Advent Bach Cantata: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV61; Cantata: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV62; Cantata: Schwingt freudig euch empor BWV36 Erlebach Ouverture in G minor No. 6 In the build-up to Christmas, The English Concert turns to JS Bach’s three surviving cantatas written for Advent. Despite Bach’s gruelling schedule composing almost one cantata per week, his music is still full of characteristic invention, including the French overture style that opens ‘Nun komm, der heiden heiland’. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Roberta Invernizzi © Ribalta Luce Studios

Alexandre Tharaud

Harry Bicket © Richard Haughton

66 • NOVEMBER

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Wednesday 21 November 12.15pm

Wednesday 21 November 1.00pm

Wednesday 21 November 7.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Britten Sinfonia

Samling Showcase

Luke Styles discusses his new work with Dr Kate Kennedy Free (ticket required)

Jacqueline Shave violin Miranda Dale violin Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano

Mark Padmore tenor Luke Styles New work* (London première) Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grantmaking foundation Tenor Mark Padmore is joined by principals of Britten Sinfonia for the London première of a new song cycle by Luke Styles, former Young Composer-in-Residence at Glyndebourne. The programme is crowned by Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge, which depicts rural life at a time when the First World War was drawing near. £16 concs £14

Elin Pritchard soprano Svetlina Stoyanova mezzo-soprano Nicky Spence tenor Julien Van Mellaerts baritone Christopher Glynn piano Jâms Coleman piano Alex Jennings actor Programme to include: Mahler Revelge Brahms Da unten im Tale Schubert Der Fischer; Erlkönig Schumann Blaue Augen Liszt Die drei Zigeuner Tchaikovsky Was I not a blade of grass? Grieg Solveigs sang Sibelius Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte Shostakovich Lullaby Canteloube Malurous qu’o uno fenno Grainger Bold William Taylor Ireland The three ravens Warlock Yarmouth Fair Clarke The Seal Man Britten Tom Bowling Samling Artists from across the years explore songs inspired by folklore. Telling stories of childhood, spirits, soldiers and lovers, this colourful programme includes songs from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with songs and readings from many other lands. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Luke Styles © Kira Doherty

Britten Sinfonia © Harry Rankin

Samling Showcase Detail from ‘Avenue’ (oil on canvas) © by kind permission of Julian Vilarrubi

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NOVEMBER • 67 Nash Ensemble: German Romantics

Thursday 22 November 7.30pm

Saturday 24 November 10.00am – 3.30pm

Saturday 24 November 5.30pm NB time

Hagen Quartet

Come and Sing: Vivaldi’s Gloria

Nash Ensemble

Schubert String Quartet in G minor D173 Berg String Quartet Op. 3 Haydn String Quartet in B flat Op. 55 No. 3 Composed in 1910, Berg’s early masterpiece shows a composer finely balanced between his lateRomantic heritage and the nascent modernism he was discovering in his studies with Schoenberg; the closing work is the last of Haydn’s first set of ‘Tost’ quartets.

Join choral leader Charles MacDougall for a day exploring Vivaldi’s joyful Gloria. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. £25 concs £20

Philippa Davies flute Adrian Brendel cello Lucy Wakeford harp Ian Brown piano Alasdair Beatson piano Brahms Waltzes for two pianos Op. 39 Spohr Fantasie in C minor for solo harp Op. 35 Weber Trio in G minor for flute, cello and piano Op. 63 This early evening concert brings three Romantic rarities: five of Brahms’s waltzes for piano duet, arranged by the composer for two pianos, a fantasia written by Spohr for his harpist wife, and Weber’s substantial trio, with its slow movement called ‘Shepherd’s Lament’.

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Hagen Quartet © Harald Hoffmann

Come and Sing © Benjamin Ealovega

Nash Ensemble © K Leighton

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FAMILY SOUNDS In Spring 2018, Wigmore Hall led three days of dedicated activity for children in early childhood and their families, as part of our Seven Ages festival. Over the course of the three days, Wigmore Hall co-produced a new piece, and we were delighted to partner with Positively UK, Westminster Early Help, Fairbeats! and Great Ormond Street Hospital to offer their families the chance to take part in workshops. The piece we created together included voices, text, soundscapes and multi-sensory play. We celebrated the participants’ creations through capturing the work with a sound artist and sharing it online at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning.

� Thanks very much for arranging the Wigmore Hall music workshop today. We had a fantastic morning! ’

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Nash Ensemble: German Romantics Saturday 24 November 7.30pm

Sunday 25 November 11.30am

Sunday 25 November 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble Christine Rice mezzo-soprano

Aquinas Piano Trio

Anthony Marwood violin Richard Lester cello Susan Tomes piano Aleksandar Madžar piano Doric String Quartet

Schumann Andante and variations for 2 pianos, 2 cellos and horn Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 Exploring some delightful discoveries, the Nash open with a bold work by Schumann scored for an unusual combination of forces, followed by a Wagner song cycle written at the same time as Tristan and Isolde – here sung by the in-demand mezzo Christine Rice. The concert ends with the more familiar territory of Brahms’s extravert G minor quartet for piano and strings, with its gypsystyle finale.

Haydn Piano Trio in A HXV:18 Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 One of a set of three trios dating from 1793-4 and dedicated to the wife of Haydn’s patron Prince Anton Esterházy, the genial A major work precedes Brahms’s richly Romantic first piano trio, composed in 1854 but radically revised in 1881. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice In Memory of Peter Flatter

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Peasmarsh Festival: 20th Anniversary Concert Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Dohnányi Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor Op. 1 Thomas Adès The Four Quarters Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 Thomas Adès’s The Four Quarters (2010) reflects on the diurnal cycle, with its final movement – The Twenty-Fifth Hour – taking the listener beyond measurable time. Composed when he was 18, Ernő von Dohnányi’s work is the Hungarian master’s official Opus 1. Established for its first 15 years as the Florestan Trio’s Festival in Peasmarsh, 2018 sees the Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival celebrate 20 years of music making in Sussex. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Christine Rice © Patricia Taylor

Aquinas Piano Trio

Anthony Marwood © Felix van Dijk

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Monday 26 November 7.30pm

Arditti Quartet Paul Cannon double bass Dan Yuhas Quartet Mark Barden Viscera for viola, cello and bass James Clarke String Quartet No. 4 (world première)* *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall Brian Ferneyhough String Quartet No. 3; Christus Resurgens The Ardittis première James Clarke’s latest alongside a recent piece by Brian Ferneyhough drawn from his cycle Umbrations, based on music by the Renaissance composer Christopher Tye, while also celebrating the 70th birthday of Israeli composer Dan Yuhas. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Arditti Quartet © Astrid Karger

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Monday 26 November 1.00pm

Tai Murray violin Silke Avenhaus piano Grieg Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Op. 13 Philip Glass Pendulum Saint-Saëns Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 75 Written to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the American Civil Liberties Union, Pendulum received its première in its second form as a duo in New York in 2011, having been premièred as a piano trio on Ellis Island the previous year. £16 concs £14

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Wigmore Study Group: America Tuesday 27 November 3.00pm – 6.00pm Thursday 29 November 3.00pm – 6.00pm Monday 3 December 3.00pm – 6.00pm Immerse yourself in the American styles that became a fresh and vibrant force in the music of the 20th-century. Explore the film music of Hollywood, featuring Bernard Herrmann’s scores for such iconic films as Hitchcock’s Psycho and North by Northwest, as well as the work of composers who fled from Hitler’s Europe for the United States including Erich Korngold, hailed as a genius by Mahler when he was still only a child. We look at the reciprocal influences between European and American composers exemplified by the relationship between Gershwin and Ravel. These study afternoons are presented by composer Julian Philips and pianist Laura Roberts, alongside musicologist Ian Christie and student performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Tuesday 27 November 7.30pm

Boris Giltburg piano Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor Op. 28 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 (arr. Giltburg) The Russian-born Israeli pianist made his transcription of Shostakovich’s third string quartet following the success of his arrangement of the Eighth. In this programme he surrounds it with mighty sonatas by Beethoven and Prokofiev and Ravel’s charming 18th-century pastiche. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In Memory of Peter Flatter

Series ticket price £70 including three study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on Monday 3 December. Tai Murray © Julia Wesely

Bernard Herrmann

Boris Giltburg © Sasha Gusov

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Wednesday 28 November 7.30pm

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Wolf Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; An die Türen will ich schleichen; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass; Wanderers Nachtlied Wolfgang Rihm Tasso-Gedanken (UK première) Schubert Sei mir gegrüsst; Dass sie hier gewesen; Lachen und Weinen; Greisengesang; Du bist die Ruh; Abendbilder; Himmelsfunken Berg Vier Lieder Op. 2 Wolf Begegnung; Um Mitternacht; Schlafendes Jesuskind; Gebet; Auf eine Christblume II; Lied eines Verliebten; Grenzen der Menschh Appearances by Lieder specialist Christian Gerhaher and his regular accompanist Gerold Huber have become red-letter dates at Wigmore Hall. Very much at home in this ambience, the renowned baritone is certain to provide a special occasion with a programme of Wolf, Schubert and Berg, crowned by the UK première of a new song-cycle by Wolfgang Rihm, Tasso-Gedanken. £60 £50 £45 £40 £25

Christian Gerhaher © Thomas Egli

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Russian Song Series

Marlis Petersen Residency

Thursday 29 November 7.30pm

Friday 30 November 7.30pm

Saturday 1 December 7.30pm

Justina Gringytė mezzo Andrey Zhilikhovsky

Alina Ibragimova cello Cédric Tiberghien piano

Marlis Petersen soprano Die Kölner Akademie

Stravinsky Suite italienne for violin and piano Work by Mendelssohn George Crumb Four Nocturnes Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121

Telemann and CPE Bach

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Iain Burnside piano Tchaikovsky I should like in a single word; The fires in the room were already out; We sat together; The sun has set; I opened the window; Frenzied nights; Dusk fell on the earth; Again, as before, alone; Why? Medtner Twilight; Whenever I hear birdsong; Sleeplessness Rachmaninov Sing not to me, beautiful maiden; Oh, do not Grieve; Fragment from Musset; The Dream; Before the icon; No Prophet, I; Christ is Risen; To the Children; The Ring; Again I am alone; There are Many Sounds; Spring Waters

Dating from 1964 and following on from George Crumb’s chamber work of the previous year, the four nocturnes (or Night Music II) consist of music of tremendous delicacy and refinement, while Stravinsky’s Suite italienne draws material from the Pergolesiderived ballet Pulcinella. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

A programme that explores the late-Romantic tradition of the lyrical Russian romance through three central figures: Tchaikovsky, his follower Rachmaninov, and their compatriot and the latter’s friend Nikolai Medtner, who spent his last 15 years in exile in London.

CPE Bach Symphony No. 1 in D Wq183; Flute Concerto in G Wq169; Cantata: Der Frühling Wq237 for soprano and strings Telemann Divertimento in E Flat major TWV50:21; Cantata: Ino TWV20:41 Marlis Petersen continues her residency opening with fascinating works by CPE Bach, later exploring Telemann at his most companionable, in a divertimento celebrating a hunt and a meal, and at his most dramatic, in a cantata recounting the fate of Semele’s sister Ino. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Justina Gringytė © Paul Marc Mitchell

Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien © Sussie Ahlburg

Marlis Petersen © Y Mavropoulos

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Brahms Plus Series Sunday 2 December 7.30pm

Jonathan Plowright piano Brahms plus Bach Brahms Variations on a Hungarian Song Op. 21 No. 2 Bach French Suite No. 5 in G BWV816 Brahms Variations on an Original Theme Op. 21 No. 1 Bach Italian Concerto in F BWV971 Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op. 24 Music in the French and Italian styles by Johann Sebastian Bach intersperses three sets of variations by Brahms written in his twenties, which reach a creative high point in his masterly variations on a movement from a harpsichord suite by Handel. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Monday 4 March 2019 7.30pm Brahms plus Beethoven Sunday 21 July 2019 7.30pm Brahms plus Schubert

Jonathan Plowright © Diane Shaw

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Sunday 2 December 11.30am

Monday 3 December 1.00pm

Tuesday 4 December 7.30pm

Vadym Kholodenko piano

Lara Melda piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2 Tchaikovsky Piano Sonata Op. 37 ‘Grand Sonata’

Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38 Liszt Ballade No. 2 S171 Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A flat Op. 47; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52

Soile Isokoski soprano Ilkka Paananen piano

Beethoven’s vital early sonata precedes a rare performance of Tchaikovsky’s only piano sonata, its four movements written on a quasisymphonic scale and in a style that demands not only an impregnable technique but an almost orchestral approach to sonority. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Composed between 1831 and 1842, and amongst the most ambitious and technically demanding of all his works, Chopin’s ballades are the first instrumental pieces to employ a literary title that would later be taken up by Liszt, Brahms and many others. £16 concs £14

Peterson-Berger Fyra visor i svensk folkton Rangström Den mörka blomman Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia Schumann 5 Lieder der Maria Stuart Op. 135 Sibelius Se’n har jag ej frågat mera; Illalle; Lastu lainehilla; Längtan heter min arvedel; I systrar, I bröder, I älskande par!; Den första kyssen; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte Kilpinen Tunturilauluja The Finnish soprano focuses on songs by composers from her homeland, including the neglected figure of Yrjö Kilpinen and his Tunturilauluja (Songs of the Fells, 1926), as well as the Swedish Wilhelm Peterson-Berger’s Four Folk Ballads of 1892. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Vadym Kholodenko © Ira Polyarnaya

Lara Melda © Benjamin Harte

Soile Isokoski © Heikki Tuuli

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American Series Music either from or written in America is the theme of this residency by the New York-based Escher String Quartet, one of today’s most acclaimed ensembles, here concentrating on the artistic productions of their homeland while also glancing at works influenced by the rich heritage of America’s own home-grown music – especially jazz.

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Monday 3 December 7.30pm

Escher String Quartet Herrmann Psycho Suite for Strings Korngold String Quartet No. 3 in D Op. 34 Gershwin Lullaby Ravel String Quartet in F American Styles: Hollywood, Jazz Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Hitchcock’s regular collaborator Bernard Herrmann both remain best known for their film scores. Much of the former’s third quartet is borrowed from his score for The Sea Hawk, while the latter made his own concert suite from Psycho, notable for its piercing strings. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Tuesday 5 February 2019 7.30pm Wednesday 10 April 2019 7.30pm

Escher String Quartet © Sarah Skinner

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Wednesday 5 December 7.30pm

Thursday 6 December 10.15am and 11.45am

Friday 7 December 7.30pm

Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio

Chamber Tots: Into Space

Arcangelo

Nicola Benedetti violin Leonard Elschenbroich cello Alexei Grynyuk piano Strauss Cello Sonata in F Op. 6; Violin Sonata in E flat Op. 18 Schubert Notturno in E flat D897 Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87 The individual members of the acclaimed trio offer early sonatas by Strauss – the Mendelssohnian work for cello and the heroic piece for violin – before coming together for an isolated slow movement by Schubert and Brahms’s impassioned second piano trio. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

In Memory of Peter Flatter

Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord Sophie Gent violin Louis Creach violin Max Mandel viola Jonathan Byers cello

Thomas Dunford lute Louise Alder soprano Tim Mead countertenor Alessandro Scarlatti Cantata: Piango, sospiro, e peno; Mentre sul carro aurato from Clori e Mirtillo Handel Trio Sonata Op. 2 No. 1 HWV386b Porpora Ecco che il primo albore; Lasciovi al fin grandezze (Il ritiro); Sinfonia da camera in G minor Op. 2 No. 3 Handel Cantata: Amarilli Vezzosa HWV82 Two leading singers join Jonathan Cohen and his period-instrument orchestra for cantatas by Scarlatti, Handel and the latter’s onetime rival, the Neapolitan Porpora – prolific vocal composer and teacher of the famed castrato Farinelli. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Nicola Benedetti © Simon Fowler

Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

Arcangelo © Adam Swann

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Janáček Focus Once considered eccentric, or at the very least in need of interventionist editing by other hands, the music of Leoš Janáček has grown exponentially in appeal over the decades to become a much-loved part of our modern listening experience, universally prized for its profound originality and emotional directness.

Thomas Adès © Brian Voce

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Sunday 9 December 7.30pm

Monday 10 December 6.00pm

Monday 10 December 7.30pm

Thomas Adès piano

Pre-Concert Talk

Pavel Haas Quartet

Musicologist and broadcaster Nigel Simeone explores Leoš Janáček’s impassioned string quartets ahead of the evening concert.

Smetana String Quartet No. 2 in D minor Janáček String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’; String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’

Janáček On an Overgrown Path (Book I); Na památku; Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the Street’; On an Overgrown Path (Book II); Narodil se Kristus Pán; Malostranský palác; Vzpomínka; In the Mists Thomas Adès explores the piano music of one of his favourite composers, on whom he has written perceptively, defining the greatness of In the Mists as lying ‘in its very claustrophobia, an austerity of means affecting every aspect of the music’. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Janáček’s two highly personal quartets have earned their places as 20th-century classics of the medium, the first inspired by Tolstoy’s passionate novella The Kreutzer Sonata, about an extramarital affair, the second reflecting his own love for the married Kamila Stösslová. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Nash Ensemble: German Romantics

Saturday 8 December 5.30pm NB time

Saturday 8 December 7.30pm

Sunday 9 December 11:30am

Nash Ensemble

Nash Ensemble Roderick Williams

Benjamin Baker violin Daniel Lebhardt piano

Philippa Davies flute Richard Hosford clarinet Marie Lloyd basset horn Ian Brown piano

Sophie Bevan soprano Felix Mendelssohn Konzertstück in F minor Op. 113 Reinecke Ballade for flute and piano Op. 288 Songs by Clara Schumann Songs by Fanny Mendelssohn Much-loved soprano Sophie Bevan performs a selection of the attractive songs by Robert Schumann’s wife Clara and Felix Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny. They’re prefaced by wind music by Felix Mendelssohn and Carl Reinecke, a friend of both families. All seats £4

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Bruch String Quintet in E flat Brahms Six Songs (arr. for voice and ensemble by David Matthews) Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 A late string quintet by Max Bruch and Mendelssohn’s popular D minor trio frame two items featuring Wigmore favourite Roderick Williams: a selection of well-known Brahms songs clothed by master-arranger David Matthews in new instrumental colours, and Beethoven’s pioneering song cycle To the distant beloved.

Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Poulenc Violin Sonata Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis Poulenc composed his sonata (1942-3) in memory of the poet Lorca, whose line ‘La guitare fait pleurer les songes’ is quoted at the beginning of the second movement, while Prokofiev’s contemporary sonata is his arrangement of a work for flute. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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Sophie Bevan © Sussie Ahlburg

Roderick Williams © Benjamin Ealovega

Benjamin Baker © Kaupo Kikkas

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Monday 10 December 1.00pm

Tuesday 11 December 7.30pm

Wednesday 12 December 7.30pm

Augustin Hadelich violin Charles Owen piano

La Nuova Musica David Bates director Lucy Crowe soprano

Quatuor Ebène

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 27 No. 4 (à Fritz Kreisler) John Adams Road Movies John Adams describes the title of Road Movies as ‘total whimsy’, probably suggested by the ‘groove’ in the piano part, all of which is required to be played in a ‘swing mode’ – rising to ‘40% swing’ in the finale. £16 concs £14

Vivaldi Overture from Farnace; Siam navi from L’Olimpiade; Gelido in ogni vena from Farnace Corelli Concerto Grosso in F Op. 6 No. 9 Vivaldi Motet: In Furore Handel Gloria HWV deest; Sonata a5 HWV288 Nico Muhly Two motets (London première) Handel From Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno: Tu del ciel ministro eletto, Un pensiero nemico de pace & Come nembo che fugge col vento

Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 Two Beethoven quartets, one from his first opus for the medium (1801), the second his final quartet, composed a quarter of a century later; in between comes Brahms’s first quartet, long delayed partly due to his consciousness of Beethoven’s sovereign examples. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

David Bates and his Baroque ensemble bring together operatic extracts by Vivaldi and items from Handel’s very first oratorio Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (The Triumph of Beauty and Disillusion) alongside a concerto by the highly influential Corelli, and a London première of a new work by Nico Muhly. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Augustin Hadelich © Luca Valenta

Lucy Crowe © Marco Borggreve harmonia mundi USA

Quatuor Ebène © Julien Mignot

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Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works

Thursday 13 December 7.30pm

Friday 14 December 7.30pm

Saturday 15 December 7:30pm

Bertrand Chamayou piano

Nardus Williams soprano Bianca Andrew mezzo Thomas Atkins tenor Phillip Rhodes baritone Gary Matthewman piano

Mahan Esfahani

Schumann Blumenstück in D flat Op. 19; Carnaval Op. 9 Ravel Miroirs Saint-Saëns Les cloches de Las Palmas from Six études Op. 111; Mazurka No. 2 in G minor Op. 24; Mazurka No. 3 in B minor Op. 66; Étude en forme de valse Op. 52 An exceptional pianist as well as a great organist, Camille SaintSaëns was a man of many talents, whose piano music – represented here by four lighter pieces – testifies to his technical skills and inventive powers. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Gala With a spoken introduction from Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Programme to include works by Mozart, Strauss, Duparc, Jake Heggie, Puccini and Verdi Kiri Te Kanawa created her Foundation 15 years ago to support exceptional young singers. Hear four rising stars tonight in a concert where the net proceeds go directly to the Foundation.

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Bach Duetto No. 2 BWV803; Praeludium et Partita del Tuono Terzo BWV833; Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826; Fantasia in C minor BWV906; Partita No. 3 in A minor BWV827 Amongst some rarely heard pieces, Bach’s partitas – suites by any other name, made up of dances and character pieces preceded by a more formal introductory movement – contrast with the freer structure of the C minor fantasia. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

A limited number of best seats, priced at £150, which include an invitation to a special reception, are available exclusively from the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation on 0207 622 8549 or by email to gilliannewson@outlook.com £100 £75 £50 £30 £15

Bertrand Chamayou © Marco Borggreve Warner Classics

Nardus Williams

Mahan Esfahani © Bernhard Musil DG

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Sunday 16 December 11.30am

Sunday 16 December 7.30pm

Monday 17 December 1.00pm

Novus String Quartet

Richard Goode piano

Ensemble Zefiro

Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11

Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 Mozart March in C K408; Courante in E flat K399; Minuet in D K355; Gigue K574 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat Op. 81a �Les Adieux’ Janáček In the Mists Chopin Impromptu No. 3 in G flat Op. 51; 4 Mazurkas; Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49

Mozart Serenade in B flat K361 ‘Gran Partita’

With his tremendous authority in the repertoire, Richard Goode devotes his first half to the Viennese classics before moving on to two improvisatory works by Chopin and Janáček’s four-movement cycle, composed in 1912 at a time of isolation and depression.

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Mendelssohn’s A minor quartet is an early work, written in 1827 when he was 18 and shows the impact of Beethoven’s recent late quartets – many of them unpublished at the time – as well as an early use of cyclic form. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

In 18th-century Austria serenades were a popular form of outdoor evening entertainment, and though the exact occasion for the writing of this piece (which probably dates from 1781-2) is unknown, its scale and seriousness have earned it the name ‘Gran Partita’.

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Novus String Quartet © Jin-ho Park

Richard Goode © Steve Riskind

Ensemble Zefiro © Vito Magnanini

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Thursday 20 December 7.30pm

Andreas Scholl countertenor Tamar Halperin piano The Twilight People Ari Frankel The Rest Copland From Old American Songs II: The Little Horses & At the river Vaughan Williams In the Spring Berg Wo der Goldregen steht Vaughan Williams Silent Noon from The House of Life Copland I Bought me a Cat from Old American Songs I Cage Jazz Study Britten The Ash Grove Joseph Tawadros Beauty is Life (arr. Matt McMahon) Pärt Es sang vor langen Jahren; Vater Unser Britten Greensleeves Berg Abschied; Vielgeliebte schöne Frau; Ferne Lieder Vaughan Williams The Twilight People; Tired from Four Last Songs Cage In a Landscape Britten The Salley Gardens Joseph Tawadros A Truth (arr. Matt McMahon) An intriguing programme that takes its title from a song by Vaughan Williams setting a poem by the Irishman Seamus O’Sullivan, and which treads a path through a wide literary and musical heritage, including contemporary figures Ari Frankel and Joseph Tawadros. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Andreas Scholl © James McMillan Decca

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Monday 17 December 7.30pm

Tuesday 18 December 7.30pm

Wednesday 19 December 7.30pm

Steven Isserlis cello Joshua Bell violin Simon Keenlyside

Fatma Said soprano James Vaughan piano

Mark Padmore tenor Simon Lepper piano

Songs by Walton, Debussy, Strauss, Abdel-Rahim & Obradors

Haydn She never told her love; The Spirit’s Song; Antwort auf die Frage eines Mädchens Mozart Das Veilchen; Abendempfindung Beethoven Mailied; Neue Liebe, neues Leben; Aus Goethes Faust: Es war einmal ein König; Adelaide; Selbstgespräch; Resignation; Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel Schumann Kerner Lieder

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Connie Shih piano Radu Lupu piano Sir András Schiff piano Additional performers to be announced Steven Isserlis 60th Birthday Concert Programme to include works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann & Fauré A celebration of Steven Isserlis on the occasion of his 60th birthday brings together a group of the cellist’s many distinguished musical friends in music that means much to him by composers he has resolutely championed, notably Fauré and Schumann.

Bringing a programme themed on ‘travelling around the world’, Cairo-born Egyptian soprano Fatma Said, currently a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, is now appearing in some of the world’s leading concert venues and opera houses, garnering plaudits for her exceptional voice, musicality and interpretative skills. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In association with the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition

Mark Padmore’s Lieder selection includes well known examples by Haydn (including two of his English songs), Mozart and Beethoven, before meeting the larger challenge of Schumann’s collection of 12 texts by Justinus Kerner, a member of the Swabian school of poets. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

£75 £60 £45 £30 £18

Joshua Bell © Lisa Marie Mazzuco

Fatma Said © Felix Bröde

Mark Padmore © Marco Borggreve

86 • DECEMBER

Saturday 22 December 7.30pm

Avi Avital mandolin Venice Baroque Orchestra Geminiani Concerto Grosso in D minor after Corelli’s ‘La Follia’ Op. 5 No. 12 Vivaldi Concerto in D for lute and strings RV93; Sinfonia in G RV146; Concerto in A minor Op. 3 No. 6 RV356; Concerto in D minor for strings RV127; Mandolin Concerto in C RV425 Paisiello Concerto in E flat for mandolin Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for mandolin, strings and basso continuo; Summer from The Four Seasons Israeli Avi Avital is dedicated to giving the mandolin a higher profile, his mission involving commissioning new pieces, but his focus here is original or attributed works and arrangements from 18th-century Italy, including his own transcriptions. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

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Christian Blackshaw Residency Friday 21 December 7.30pm

Sunday 23 December 11.30am

Sunday 23 December 7.30pm

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Christian Blackshaw piano

Quatuor Arod

Brenda Rae soprano Jonathan Ware piano

Programme to include: Haydn Arianna a Naxos Songs by Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Brahms & Mahler Joining Christian Blackshaw on this occasion is mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, whose deeply expressive artistry is well matched with his own; their mainly 19th-century programme also includes Haydn’s dramatic cantata in which Ariadne laments her desertion by Theseus. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Haydn String Quartet in E flat Op. 76 No. 6 Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, Quatuor Arod plays the last of Haydn’s late set of six quartets, whose nickname recalls dedicatee Count Erdődy, and the last of Beethoven’s set of three commissioned by the Russian ambassador to Vienna. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Strauss Die Nacht; Befreit; Muttertändelei; Schlagende Herzen; Frühlingsgedränge Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Wanderlied; Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass? Wo kommst du her? Die furchtsame Träne; Bergelust Liszt Comment, disaientils S276; Es muss ein Wunderbares sein S314; Bist du S277; Wie singt die Lerche schön S312; Oh! quand je dors S282 Debussy Rondel chinois; Clair de lune from Fêtes galantes Book I; Pierrot; Apparition Schubert Vergebliche Liebe; Von Ida; Aus �Diego Manzanares’ (Ilmerine); Du bist die Ruh; Die verfehlte Stunde; Lied der Delphine Enjoying an international career as a lyric coloratura soprano, the American Brenda Rae offers a programme that explores 19thcentury German Lieder and the French mélodie from Schubert to Strauss and Debussy, with the cosmopolitan Liszt straddling both traditions. £60 £50 £40 £30 £18

Alice Coote © Benjamin Ealovega

Quatuor Arod © Richard Dumas

Brenda Rae © Kristin Hoebermann

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Thursday 27 December 7.30pm

Friday 28 December 7.30pm

Saturday 29 December 7.30pm

Nick van Bloss piano

Nicky Spence tenor Roger Vignoles piano

Trio Wanderer

Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16 Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 A creation of E. T. A. Hoffmann, Johannes Kreisler was a fictional Kapellmeister whom Schumann also viewed as an alter ego. Supposedly composed to alleviate the insomnia of a Russian diplomat, Bach’s variations are arguably the greatest ever written for keyboard. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Schumann From Myrthen: Hochländers Abschied, Jemand, Hochländisches Wiegenlied, Niemand & Jemand; Dem roten Röslein gleicht mein Lieb Shostakovich O wert thou in the cauld blast; Macpherson’s Farewell Britten Who are these Children? Musgrave A Song for Christmas Hughes Oh men from the fields Stanford The Monkey’s Carol Howells Come sing and dance Respighi Nevicata Rodrigo Pastorcito Santo Britten That yongë child Debussy Noël des enfants qui n’ont pas de maison Strauss Weihnachtsgefühl; Winterweihe Wolf Epiphanias

Haydn Piano Trio in E flat minor HXV:31 Dvořák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat D929 (with original final movement) Paying homage to Schubert in their name, the Trio Wanderer performs the longer, original version of the composer’s already large-scale piano trio, one of his final major works, alongside Dvořák’s so-called ‘Dumky’ trio, which alternates sorrowful with cheerful episodes. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Originally from Dumfries, the versatile tenor presents a cornucopia of song, including an all-Scottish first half – with Robert Schumann and Shostakovich setting Robert Burns, and Benjamin Britten setting William Soutar – before an even more varied and seasonal second half. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Nick van Bloss © Sussie Ahlburg

Nicky Spence © David Bebber

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Sunday 30 December 11.30am

Sunday 30 December 7.30pm

Monday 31 December 7.00pm NB time

RTÉ Contempo Quartet Arcadia Quartet

Castalian Quartet

Dunedin Consort John Butt director, harpsichord

Bartók Romanian Folk Dances (arr. for string quartet by M. Naughtin) Enescu String Octet in C Op. 7 Revered by every musician with whom he came into contact, the Romanian George Enescu produced his String Octet in 1900, when he was just 19. As with Mendelssohn’s more famous work, an early composition turned out to be a major masterpiece. £16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Fauré String Quartet in E minor Op. 121 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ At the end of his life Fauré attempted the genre of the string quartet, which – he claimed – ‘causes all those not Beethoven to be terrified’. The fearless German himself appears with the second of his quartets dedicated to Count Razumovsky. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Bach Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV1067a Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV225 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G BWV1049 Bach Magnificat BWV243 The Dunedin Consort’s New Year’s Eve all-Bach programme includes one of his intricate double-choir motets and the resplendent Magnificat, both dating from his long period as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, plus a reconstructed early version of the second orchestral suite. £60 £50 £40 £30 £18

RTÉ Contempo String Quartet

Castalian Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas

Dunedin Consort © David Barbour

Contemporary Music Series

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Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, and as a commissioner of new works and a champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least through its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London premières. ‘Our commissioning scheme

Thursday 13 September 7.30pm Pekka Kuusisto violin Perttu Haapanen Friday 21 September 7.30pm James Ehnes violin Andrew Armstrong piano John Corigliano Sunday 7 October 7.30pm François-Frédéric Guy piano Boulez

is already the most extensive

Monday 15 October 1.00pm

in Europe for chamber music’,

Charles Owen piano Nicholas Daniel oboe

comments Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly, ‘and in recent years Wigmore Hall has become one of

Georg Friedrich Haas, Julian Anderson

the world’s foremost centres for

Thursday 18 October 7.30pm

contemporary chamber music.’

Jeremy Denk piano John Adams Sunday 21 October 11.30am Quatuor Voce string quartet Ligeti

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Friday 26 October 1.00pm

Thursday 15 November 7.30pm

Friday 30 November 7.30pm

Iain Burnside piano Andrew Watts countertenor

Belcea Quartet string quartet

Cédric Tiberghien piano Alina Ibragimova violin

Tansy Davies, Neville Bower, Joe Cutler, Raymond Yiu Monday 29 October 1.00pm Thibaut Garcia guitar Dušan Bogdanović Tuesday 30 October 7.30pm Nicolas Hodges piano James Clarke*, Hans Thomalla* Tuesday 13 November 7.30pm Artemis Quartet string quartet Eduard Demetz Wednesday 14 November 7.30pm Baiba Skride violin Lauma Skride piano Trio Palladio piano trio Antonina Suhanova piano Pēteris Vasks

Joseph Phibbs* Sunday 25 November 7.30pm Anthony Marwood violin Susan Tomes piano Aleksandar Madžar piano Richard Lester cello Doric String Quartet string quartet

George Crumb Monday 10 December 1.00pm Charles Owen piano Augustin Hadelich violin John Adams

Thomas Adès

Thursday 20 December 7.30pm

Monday 26 November 1.00pm

Andreas Scholl countertenor Tamar Halperin piano

Tai Murray violin Silke Avenhaus piano Philip Glass

John Adams, Joseph Tawadros, Ari Frankel, Arvo Pärt

Monday 26 November 7.30pm Arditti Quartet string quartet Paul Cannon double bass Dan Yuhas, Mark Barden, James Clarke*, Brian Ferneyhough

*Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

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January 2019

Iestyn Davies © Benjamin Ealovega

Pavel Kolesnikov © Eva Vermandel

Doric String Quartet © George Garnier

Christian Gerhaher © Thomas Egli

Alina Ibragimova © Eva Vermandel

Mary Bevan © Victoria Cadisch

Pekka Kuusisto © Kaapo Kamu

Wed 2 Jan 7.30pm

Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper

Tue 15 Jan 7.30pm

Juilliard String Quartet

Thu 3 Jan 7.30pm

Sergio Tiempo

Wed 16 Jan Christian Gerhaher/ 7.30pm Gerold Huber

Fri 4 Jan 7.30pm

The King’s Consort/ Iestyn Davies

Thu 17 Jan 7.30pm

The Sixteen

Sat 5 Jan 1.30pm

Come & Sing

Fri 18 Jan 9.00am

For Crying Out Loud!

Sat 5 Jan 7.30pm

Christoph Pohl/Marcelo Amaral

Fri 18 Jan 7.30pm

Christian Zacharias Lecture-Recital

Sun 6 Jan 11.30am

Rolston String Quartet

Sat 19 Jan 7.30pm

Alina Ibragimova/ Cédric Tiberghien

Sun 6 Jan 7.30pm

Pavel Kolesnikov

Sun 20 Jan Israeli Chamber Project/ 11.30am Antje Weithaas

Mon 7 Jan 1.00pm

Alexander Gavrylyuk

Sun 20 Jan The Endellion String Quartet 7.30pm

Tue 8 Jan 7.30pm

Sunwook Kim

Mon 21 Jan Leila Josefowicz/John Novacek 1.00pm

Wed 9 Jan 7.30pm

Tasmin Little/Piers Lane

Mon 21 Jan Rafał Blechacz 7.30pm

Thu 10 Jan Andreas Staier/ 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov

Tue 22 Jan François Le Roux/Olivier Godin 1.00pm

Fri 11 Jan 7.30pm

Anne Schwanewilms/ Malcolm Martineau

Tue 22 Jan Mary Bevan/Marcus 7.30pm Farnsworth/Christopher Glynn

Sat 12 Jan 5.30pm

Nash Ensemble

Wed 23 Jan Pekka Kuusisto 7.30pm

Sat 12 Jan 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble

Thu 24 Jan Graham Johnson’s 7.30pm Songmakers’ Almanac

Sun 13 Jan Hyeyoon Park/ 11.30am pianist to be announced

Fri 25 Jan 1.00pm

ECMA Showcase

Sun 13 Jan Doric String Quartet 7.30pm

Fri 25 Jan 7.30pm

Roman Rabinovich

Mon 14 Jan Juilliard String Quartet 1.00pm

Sat 26 Jan 11.00am

ECMA Showcase

Mon 14 Jan Robin Tritschler/ 7.30pm Graham Johnson

Sat 26 Jan 1.00pm

ECMA Showcase

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January 2019 Sat 26 Jan 7.30pm

Borodin Quartet

Mon 28 Jan Sofia Fomina/Oleksiy Palchykov/ 7.30pm Rodion Pogossov/Iain Burnside

Sun 27 Jan Borodin Quartet 11.30am

Tue 29 Jan Les Arts Florissants/ 7.30pm William Christie

Sun 27 Jan ECMA Showcase 3.00pm

Wed 30 Jan The Cardinall’s Musick 7.30pm

Sun 27 Jan Christian Blackshaw 7.30pm

Thu 31 Jan Marlis Petersen/Werner Güra/ 7.30pm Christoph Berner

Mon 28 Jan Simon Höfele/Frank Dupree 1.00pm

February 2019 Sat 2 Feb 7.30pm

Piers Lane

Sun 10 Feb Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 7.30pm

Sun 3 Feb 11.30am

Zahir Quartet

Mon 11 Feb François-Frédéric Guy 1.00pm

Sun 3 Feb 3.00pm

James Newby/Joseph Middleton

Mon 11 Feb Alisa Weilerstein/Inon 7.30pm Barnatan/Sergey Khachatryan

Sun 3 Feb 7.30pm

Piers Lane/Goldner Quartet

Tue 12 Feb 7.30pm

Mon 4 Feb 1.00pm

Sophie Pacini

Wed 13 Feb Britten Sinfonia 1.00pm

Mon 4 Feb 7.30pm

Christiane Karg/Malcolm Martineau

Wed 13 Feb Nikolaj Znaider/Robert Kulek 7.30pm

Tue 5 Feb 7.30pm

Escher String Quartet

Thu 14 Feb For Crying Out Loud! 9.00am

Wed 6 Feb 7.30pm

Britten Sinfonia

Thu 14 Feb Stile Antico 7.30pm

Thu 7 Feb 7.30pm

Sonia Prina

Fri 15 Feb 7.30pm

Anne Schwanewilms/ Malcolm Martineau

Fri 8 Feb 7.30pm

Llŷr Williams

Sat 16 Feb 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble

Fri 8 Feb 7.30pm

Michael Collins/Michael McHale

Sun 17 Feb 11.30am

Trio Isimsiz

Sun 17 Feb 7.30pm

Elīna Garanča/ Malcolm Martineau

Sun 10 Feb Narek Hakhnazaryan/ 11.30am Oxana Shevchenko

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February 2019

Mon 18 Feb Kitty Whately/Simon Lepper 1.00pm

Sun 24 Feb Kirill Gerstein 7.30pm

Tue 19 Feb 7.30pm

Mon 25 Feb Quatuor Arod 1.00pm

Imogen Cooper/Henk Neven

Wed 20 Feb Skride Quartet 7.30pm Thu 21 Feb Les Talens Lyriques 7.30pm

Dame Emma Kirkby

Mon 25 Feb Marlis Petersen/Anke Vondung/ 7.30pm Werner Güra/Paul Armin Edelmann/Christoph Berner/ Camillo Radicke

Fri 22 Feb 7.30pm

Elias String Quartet

Tue 26 Feb Quatuor Zaïde 7.30pm

Sat 23 Feb 7.30pm

Trio Zimmermann

Wed 27 Feb Garrick Ohlsson 7.30pm

Sun 24 Feb Albion String Quartet 11.30am

Thu 28 Feb Dame Emma Kirkby 7.30pm

March 2019

Kristina Mkhitaryan

Fri 01 Mar 7.30pm

Kristina Mkhitaryan/ Dmytro Popov/Iain Burnside

Thu 7 Mar 7.30pm

Denis Kozhukhin

Sat 2 Mar 7.30pm

Stéphane Degout/ pianist to be announced

Fri 8 Mar 7.30pm

The English Concert

Sun 3 Mar 11.30am

Kronberg Academy

Sat 9 Mar 7.30pm

Hans Keller Day

Sun 3 Mar 7.30pm

Ian Bostridge/Brad Mehldau

Sun 10 Mar Nash Ensemble 11.30am

Mon 4 Mar 1.00pm

Mariam Batsashvili

Sun 10 Mar Marc-André Hamelin 7.30pm

Mon 4 Mar 7.30pm

Jonathan Plowright

Mon 11 Mar 1.00pm

Belcea String Quartet

Tue 5 Mar 7.30pm

Ensemble Modern/ Sir George Benjamin

Mon 11 Mar 7.30pm

Nils Mönkemeyer/William Youn

Wed 6 Mar 7.30pm

Florilegium

Tue 12 Mar 7.30pm

Janine Jansen/ Alexander Gavrylyuk

Wed 6 Mar 7.30pm

Wigmore at the Roundhouse: Ensemble Modern Orchestra/ Sir George Benjamin

Wed 13 Mar Die Kölner Akademie/ 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani Thu 14 Mar 7.30pm

Simon Bode/Igor Levit

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March 2019 Fri 15 Mar 7.30pm

Dame Sarah Connolly/ Julius Drake

Sat 23 Mar 7.30pm

Steven Isserlis/Joshua Bell/ Jeremy Denk

Sat 16 Mar 7.30pm

Heath Quartet

Sun 24 Mar Dover String Quartet 11.30am

Sun 17 Mar 11.30am

David Oistrakh String Quartet

Sun 24 Mar Nathan Gunn/Julie Gunn 7.30pm

Sun 17 Mar 7.30pm

Renata Pokupić/La Serenissima/ Adrian Chandler

Mon 25 Mar Novus String Quartet 1.00pm

Mon 18 Mar Jeremy Denk 1.00pm

Mon 25 Mar Paul Appleby/ 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau

Mon 18 Mar Young Producers 5.45pm

Tue 26 Mar 7.30pm

Tue 19 Mar 5.30pm

Nash Ensemble

Wed 27 Mar Britten Sinfonia 1.00pm

Tue 19 Mar 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble

Wed 27 Mar The King’s Consort 7.30pm

Zlata Chochieva

Wed 20 Mar Side by Side 1.00pm

Fri 29 Mar 7.30pm

Kristóf Baráti/Vikingur Ólafsson/István Várdai

Wed 20 Mar Vox Luminis 7.30pm

Sat 30 Mar 7.30pm

Mahan Esfahani

Thu 21 Mar 7.30pm

Christoph Prégardien/ Ensemble Pentaèdre

Sun 31 Mar Horszowski Trio 11.30am

Fri 22 Mar 7.30pm

Škampa Quartet

Sun 31 Mar Alexander Melnikov/Teunis van 7.30pm der Zwart/Lorenzo Coppola/ Javier Zafra/Marcel Ponseele

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April 2019

Milan Siljanov

Tue 1 Apr 7.30pm

Ekaterina Semenchuk/ Semjon Skigin

Sun 14 Apr Gavan Ring/Simon Lepper 3.00pm

Tue 2 Apr 7.30pm

Royal Academy of Music Song Circle

Sun 14 Apr Lise de la Salle 7.30pm

Wed 3 Apr 7.30pm

London Handel Players

Mon 15 Apr Tabea Zimmermann/ 1.00pm Adam Walker/Agnès Clément

Thu 4 Apr 7.30pm

Matthew Rose/Tom Poster

Mon 15 Apr Ian Bostridge/Sir Antonio 7.30pm Pappano

Fri 5 Apr 7.30pm

Arcangelo

Tue 16 Apr 7.30pm

Sat 6 Apr 7.30pm

JACK Quartet

Wed 17 Apr The Sixteen 7.30pm

Sun 7 Apr 11.30am

Tesla String Quartet

Thu 18 Apr Angela Hewitt 7.30pm

Sun 7 Apr 3.00pm

Milan Siljanov/Nino Chokhonelidze

Sat 20 Apr Trio Mediæval 7.30pm

Sun 7 Apr 7.30pm

Louis Schwizgebel

Sun 21 Apr Kelemen String Quartet 11.30am

Mon 8 Apr 1.00pm

Katarina Karnéus/Julius Drake

Mon 22 Apr Pavel Haas Quartet 1.00pm

Mon 8 Apr 7.30pm

Christina Landshamer/ Gerold Huber

Mon 22 Apr Ensemble Correspondances 7.30pm

Tue 9 Apr 7.30pm

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Tue 23 Apr Steven Isserlis/Janine Jansen/ 7.30pm Amihai Grosz/Connie Shih

Solomon’s Knot

Wed 10 Apr Escher String Quartet 7.30pm

Wed 24 Apr Kathleen Ferrier Awards 1.00pm Semi-Final

Thu 11 Apr 7.30pm

Sally Matthews/Simon Lepper

Wed 24 Apr Robin Tritschler/Paula Murrihy/ 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau

Fri 12 Apr 3.00pm

Music for the Moment

Thu 25 Apr Orlando Consort 7.30pm

Fri 12 Apr 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble

Fri 26 Apr 6.00pm

Kathleen Ferrier Awards Final

Sat 13 Apr 7.30pm

Ian Bostridge/Sir Antonio Pappano

Sat 27 Apr 7.30pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Reto Bieri/Polina Leschenko

Sun 14 Apr Alexandra Dariescu 11.30am

Sun 28 Apr Ning Feng/Thomas Hoppe 11.30am

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April 2019 Sun 28 Apr Louis Lortie 7.30pm

Mon 29 Apr Hagen Quartet 7.30pm

Mon 29 Apr Julian Prégardien/Eric Le Sage 1.00pm

Tue 30 Apr Marcus Farnsworth/James 7.30pm Baillieu

May 2019 Wed 1 May 7.30pm

Pekka Kuusisto/additional artists to be announced

Sat 11 May 7.30pm

Steven Osborne/Alban Gerhardt

Thu 2 May 7.30pm

Notos Quartet

Sun 12 May Castalian Quartet 11.30am

Fri 3 May 7.30pm

Piotr Anderszewski

Sun 12 May Sumi Jo/Gary Matthewman 3.00pm

Fri 3 May 10.00pm

Anne Sofie von Otter/additional artists to be announced

Mon 13 May Gould Piano Trio 1.00pm

Sat 4 May 7.30pm

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Mon 13 May Håkan Hardenberger/Roland 7.30pm Pöntinen

Sun 5 May 11.30am

Jan Vogler/Boris Giltburg

Tue 14 May Sir András Schiff 7.30pm

Sun 5 May 3.00pm

Paula Murrihy/Malcolm Martineau

Wed 15 May For Crying Out Loud! 9.00am

Sun 5 May 7.30pm

Aaron Pilsan

Wed 15 May Takács Quartet 7.30pm

Mon 6 May 1.00pm

The King’s Singers

Thu 16 May YCAT Public Audition Finals 3.00pm

Mon 6 May 7.30pm

Clara Mouriz/Roderick Williams/Joseph Middleton

Fri 17 May 7.30pm

Tue 7 May 7.30pm

Andreas Staier

Sun 19 May Jonathan Plowright 11.30am

Wed 8 May 7.30pm

Jerusalem Quartet

Sun 19 May Royal Academy of Music 3.00pm Soloists/Thomas Gould

Thu 9 May 7.30pm

Jerusalem Quartet

Sun 19 May Royal Academy of Music 7.30pm Soloists/Thomas Gould

Fri 10 May 7.30pm

Sir András Schiff

Mon 20 May Andreas Haefliger 1.00pm

Sat 11 May 1.00pm

Sumi Jo Masterclass

Mon 20 May Imogen Cooper/Adrian Brendel/ 7.30pm Henning Kraggerud

Takács Quartet/Garrick Ohlsson

Sumi Jo

Hakan Hardenberger

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May 2019

L’Arpeggiata

Tue 21 May Castalian Quartet/Aleksandar 7.30pm Madžar/Anthony Marwood

Mon 27 May Kuss Quartet 1.00pm

Wed 22 May Igor Levit 7.30pm

Mon 27 May Igor Levit 7.30pm

Thu 23 May Voiceworks 1.00pm

Tue 28 May L’Arpeggiata 7.30pm

Thu 23 May Elias String Quartet 7.30pm

Wed 29 May RNIB Study Day 1.30pm

Fri 24 May 7.30pm

Wed 29 May The Endellion String Quartet 7.30pm

Igor Levit

Sat 25 May Piatti Quartet 1.00pm

Thu 30 May Hilary Hahn 7.30pm

Sat 25 May Narek Hakhnazaryan/Pavel 7.30pm Kolesnikov

Fri 31 May 7.00pm

Jason Moran

Sun 26 May Sheku Kanneh-Mason/Isata 11.30am Kanneh-Mason

Fri 31 May 10.00pm

Amaan Ali Bangash/ Ayaan Ali Bangash

Sun 26 May Jacques Imbrailo/Alisdair 3.00pm Hogarth Jason Moran

Sun 26 May Robin Tritschler/Simon Lepper 7.30pm

June 2019

Sat 1 Jun 7.30pm

Till Fellner

Thu 6 Jun 7.30pm

Katya Apekisheva

Sun 2 Jun 11.30am

Daniel Pioro/Roderick Chadwick

Fri 7 Jun 7.30pm

Cinquecento

Sun 2 Jun 7.30pm

Graham Johnson’s Songmakers’ Almanac

Sat 8 Jun 7.30pm

Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day

Mon 3 Jun 1.00pm

Ilya Gringolts/Peter Laul

Sun 9 Jun 11.30am

Hugo Wolf Quartett

Mon 3 Jun 7.30pm

Doric String Quartet/ Jonathan Biss

Sun 9 Jun 7.30pm

Julia Kleiter/pianist to be announced

Tue 4 Jun 7.30pm

Camilla Tilling/Paul Rivinius

Mon 10 Jun Jean Rondeau 1.00pm

Wed 5 Jun 7.30pm

Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Huber

Mon 10 Jun Pavel Haas Quartet 7.30pm

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June 2019 Tue 11 Jun 7.30pm

The English Concert

Fri 21 Jun 7.00pm

Alexander Melnikov

Wed 12 Jun Stile Antico 7.30pm

Fri 21 Jun 10.00pm

Chineke! Orchestra

Thu 13 Jun For Crying Out Loud! 9.00am

Sat 22 Jun 7.30pm

Franz-Josef Selig/Gerold Huber

Thu 13 Jun Angela Hewitt 7.30pm

Sun 23 Jun Andrew Tyson 11.30am

Fri 14 Jun 7.00pm

Jean-Guihen Queyras/Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov

Sun 23 Jun Ensemble Marsyas 7.30pm

Fri 14 Jun 10.00pm

Viktoria Mullova

Mon 24 Jun Christopher Maltman/pianist to 1.00pm be announced

Sat 15 Jun 7.30pm

Gerald Finley/Julius Drake

Mon 24 Jun Matthias Goerne/pianist to be 7.30pm announced

Sun 16 Jun Heath Quartet 11.30am

Tue 25 Jun Emanuel Ax/Simon Keenlyside/ 7.30pm Dover Quartet

Sun 16 Jun Steven Isserlis/Dénes Várjon/ 7.30pm Izabella Simon/Anthony Marwood

Wed 26 Jun Matthias Goerne/pianist to be 7.30pm announced

Mon 17 Jun Nicolas Altstaedt 1.00pm

Thu 27 Jun La Nuova Musica 7.30pm

Mon 17 Jun Cuarteto Casals/Alban Gerhardt 7.30pm

Fri 28 Jun 7.30pm

Alice Sara Ott

Tue 18 Jun 7.30pm

Sergei Babayan

Fri 28 Jun 10.00pm

Sean Shibe

Wed 19 Jun Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala 7.30pm

Sat 29 Jun 7.30pm

Evgeny Kissin

Thu 20 Jun The Cardinall’s Musick 7.30pm

Sun 30 Jun Vision String Quartet 11.30am

July 2019 Mon 1 Jul 1.00pm

Colin Currie Quartet

Tue 2 Jul 7.30pm

Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt

Mon 1 Jul 7.30pm

Rachel Podger/additional artists to be announced

Wed 3 Jul 7.30pm

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July 2019

Thu 4 Jul 7.30pm

Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt

Fri 19 Jul 3.00pm

Music for the Moment

Fri 5 Jul 7.00pm

Lucas Debargue

Fri 19 Jul 7.00pm

Kian Soltani/pianist to be announced

Fri 5 Jul 10.00pm

Ensemble Correspondances

Fri 19 Jul 10.00pm

Susan Bullock/pianist to be announced

Sat 6 Jul 7.30pm

Xavier Phillips/FrançoisFrédéric Guy

Sat 20 Jul 1.30pm

Come & Sing

Sun 7 Jul 11.30am

Smetana Trio

Sat 20 Jul 7.30pm

Ronald Brautigam

Sun 7 Jul 7.30pm

Wihan Quartet

Sun 21 Jul 11.30am

Calidore String Quartet

Mon 8 Jul 1.00pm

Imogen Cooper

Sun 21 Jul 7.30pm

Jonathan Plowright

Mon 8 Jul 7.30pm

Classical Opera

Mon 22 Jul Lana Trotovšek/Maria 7.30pm Canyigueral

Tue 9 Jul 7.30pm

Mahan Esfahani

Tue 23 Jul 7.30pm

Thu 11 Jul 7.30pm

Max Emanuel Cenčić/Ensemble Desmarest/Ronan Khalil

Wed 24 Jul Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis 7.30pm

Fri 12 Jul 10.00pm

James Newby/Adam Walker/ Seas Shibe/Owen Gunnell

Thu 25 Jul 7.30pm

Kit Armstrong

Sat 13 Jul 7.30pm

Vox Luminis

Fri 26 Jul 7.30pm

Sun 14 Jul 11.30am

Maxim Bernard

Simon Keenlyside/Matthew Regan/Howard McGill/Richard Pryce/Gordon Campbell/Mike Smith

Sun 14 Jul 7.30pm

Django Bates/additional artists to be announced

Sat 27 Jul 7.30pm

Le Concert Spirituel

Mon 15 Jul 1.00pm

István Várdai/Sunwook Kim

Sun 28 Jul 11.30am

Chiaroscuro Quartet

Mon 15 Jul 5.45pm

Young Producers

Tue 16 Jul 7.30pm

Elisabeth Leonskaja

Wed 17 Jul 7.30pm

Alexi Kenney/Orion Weiss

Thu 18 Jul 7.30pm

Werner Güra/Christoph Berner

Dame Sarah Connolly/Malcolm Martineau

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CHAMBER ZONE Free concert tickets for young people and school groups Wigmore Hall and CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust have been offering free tickets to young people since 1999. This year we are delighted to offer over 2,000 free tickets to young people aged 8 – 25 and school groups, as well as free pre-concert workshops for schools. Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/chamberzone or check our Learning brochure for forthcoming concert dates. Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust

Box Office: 020 7935 2141 • 101

Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Enjoy the unique sound of Wigmore Hall at home

Enjoy the unique sound of Wigmoreâ&#x20AC;ŻHall at home Explore our catalogue of releases, all live in concert at Wigmore Hall Over 90 titles available on CD or as digital downloads

www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/live Also on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon and Google Play

Join Friends of Wigmore Hall Membership from £5 a month* • Priority booking • Advance information • Exclusive events

Ask at the Box Office. Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/friends Call Isabel Harvey-Kelly in the Friends Office on 020 7258 8230 *When paying by Direct Debit in 10 instalments

Registered Charity No. 1024838

Booking information Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Booking Dates

Wigmore Hall Box Office

Booking Period 1

36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Tel: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Email (not for bookings): boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk

Saturday 8 September – Sunday 31 December 2018 Priority Booking opens to Friends and Mailing List Subscribers on Tuesday 10 April 2018

Tickets

Friends: Request to be submitted by Thursday 3 May 2018

Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into five price ranges:

Mailing List: Request to be submitted by Thursday 10 May 2018

■ Stalls C – M: Highest price ■ Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price ■ Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price ■ Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd highest price ■ Stalls AA, T – V: 4th highest price ■ Stalls W – X: Lowest price

General Public: By telephone/online from Tuesday 29 May 2018 We strongly recommend early booking for Pre-Concert Talks, Artists in Conversation and Study Events.

Telephone Bookings

Wigmore Hall Seating Plan AA AA AA BB CC A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X

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7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm. Days without an evening concert: 10.00am–5.00pm. There is a non-refundable £4.00 administration charge for each transaction.

Online Bookings Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk to book seats. There is a non-refundable administration charge of £3.00.

Tickets for Concessions Where a concession (concs) ticket price is listed these are available to students, senior citizens and the unemployed. Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/ concessions for full details.

Under 35s Ticket Scheme Ticket buyers under the age of 35 are entitled to reduced price tickets for selected concerts. Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/u35 for full details.

Facilities for Families Wigmore Hall is proud to meet the Family Arts Standards reflecting its commitment to offering family-friendly events and spaces.

www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

BOOKING INFORMATION • 105

36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP HARLEY ST

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Transport Tubes: Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines), Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines). Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford Street.

Car Parking There is limited street parking after 6.30pm (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a fiveminute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their parking when using the Cavendish Square (Q Park Oxford Street) car park. Please contact the Box Office for further details.

Disabled Access and Facilities Full details from 020 7935 2141 or access@wigmore-hall.org.uk

Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze Charter Mark from Attitude is Everything

This brochure is available in alternative formats. If this would be of assistance to you, please email access@wigmore-hall.org.uk or call 020 7935 2141. Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary. The first time booker offer is subject to availability and can be removed at the discretion of Wigmore Hall.

Table reservations can be made by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.

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Wigmore Hall Restaurant & Bar

Supporting Wigmore Hall With over £1.8 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend or making a donation towards our Artistic Series or Learning programme, please call 020 7258 8230 or email friends@wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information. The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert and Learning programmes: Royal Patron HRH The Duke of Kent, KG Honorary Patrons Aubrey Adams OBE André and Rosalie Hoffmann Kohn Foundation Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Season Patrons 2017/18 Aubrey Adams OBE* Tony and Marion Allen* American Friends of Wigmore Hall Karl Otto Bonnier* Henry and Suzanne Davis The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Pauline and Ian Howat* Harry Lee and Clive Potter* Valerie O’Connor Hamish Parker Victoria and Simon Robey David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma* Julia Schottlander* Cita and Irwin Stelzer* William and Alex de Winton* and several anonymous donors Season Benefactors 2017/18 Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Mark Echlin and Victoria Gath Lord and Lady Lloyd Julia MacRae* The Tertis Foundation Kathleen Verelst* Philip and Emeline Winston* Early Music and Baroque Circle Geoffrey Barnett Sandra Carlisle Dr C Endersby and Prof. D Cowan OBE Dr M T A Evans Deborah Finkler and Allan Murray-Jones David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma* Philip T Smith Professor Christopher Thompson Marina Vaizey* Anne and David Weizmann and an anonymous donor The Haydn String Quartet Circle Nicola Coldstream Katherine Douglas Nina Drucker Felicity Fairbairn Margery Gray Benjamin Hargreaves Pauline and Ian Howat* Harriet and Michael Maunsell Roy and Celia Palmer Louise Scheuer Michael and Claudia Spies In Memory of Robert Streit Marina Vaizey* Gerry Wakelin*

Piano Circle Mrs Arline Blass Clive Butler Mr Martin and Dr Mina Edwards Philip and Susan Feakin Charles Green Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Edith Randall Grace Yu Voices at Wigmore Geoffrey Barnett Katie Bradford Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair Michael Brind Nicola Coldstream Pauline Del Mar J L Drewitt Margery Gray In memory of Ray Hall Benjamin Hargreaves Dame Felicity Lott Julia MacRae* John and Ann Tusa Susan Ward David and Frances Waters* David Evan Williams and an anonymous donor Corporate Supporters Capital Group (corporate matched giving) Complete Coffee Ltd Dawood & Tanner Specialist Dental Practice The Howard de Walden Estate Kirker Holidays Martin Randall Travel Ltd Rothschild & Co Steinway & Sons Donors and Sponsors The 29th May 1961 Charitable TrustL Mr Eric Abraham* Neville and Nicola Abraham Elaine Adair Ralph and Elizabeth Aldwinckle Alexis Gregory Foundation and the Vendome Prize Ian Allan The Andor Charitable TrustL Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation David and Jacqueline Ansell* Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne‡ Arts Council England Mrs Arlene Beare Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez Mrs Arline Blass David and Mary Bowerman* John and Julia Boyd* Alan Bradley* Donald Campbell A bequest from the late Peter Canter Cavatina Chamber Music TrustL Lord and Lady Chadlington* Charities Advisory TrustL Mary and Robert Childs Colin Clark Sheila Clarke*

Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation‡ John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Michael and Felicia Crystal* Celia and Andrew Curran Anthony Davis* In memory of Margaret Dewhirst James Dooley The Dorset Foundation – in memory of Harry M Weinrebe In memory of Robert Easton Douglas and Janette Eden The Eldering/Goecke Family Annette Ellis* Vernon and Hazel Ellis* The Elton Family The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation Caroline Erskine The Fidelio Charitable Trust Patricia and Jeffrey Fine In memory of Peter Flatter John and Amy Ford The Foyle Foundation Neil and Deborah Franks* Michael Freegard Friends of Wigmore Hall Jonathan Gaisman* The Garfield Weston Foundation Alan and Joanna Gemes* John Gilhooly* John and Lauren Goldsmith* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Peter Goodwin Elaine and Peter Hallgarten Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* The Harbour FoundationL The Hargreaves and Ball Trust The Harold Hyam Wingate FoundationL Malcolm Herring* Simon Hillary Nicholas Hodgson André and Rosalie Hoffmann‡ Gay Huey Evans* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Hyde Park Place Estate CharityL Simone Hyman* Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust Peter and Nikki Jeffcote John Lyon’s CharityL Marc Jourdren* In memory of Donald Kahn Su and Neil Kaplan* David and Louise Kaye* Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Maryly La Follette* Gabor Lacko Alan Leibowitz and Barbara Weiss The Leverhulme TrustL The Linbury TrustL Tim Llewellyn The Loveday Charitable Trust Simon and Sophie Ludlam* Marianne and Andy Lusher* David Lyons* Anne and Brian Mace Julia MacRae*L The Estate of Pamela Majaro MBE Simon Majaro MBE The Marchus Trust‡

Selina and David Marks* Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Michael and Lynne McGowan* George MeyerL Michael Watson Charitable Trust Milton Damerel TrustL David Moldon in memory of his brother Peter L Moldon The Monument Trust Amyas and Louise Morse* A C and F A Myer Sara Naudi Valerie O’ConnorL Paxos Festival Trust The du Plessis Family Foundation Isabel and Jonathan Popper Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Radcliffe Trust Greg and Karen Reid Stuart and Bianca RodenL Charles Rose* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM* The Rubinstein Circle S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3L The Sampimon TrustL Annette Scawen Morreau Julia Schottlander*L Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Rhona Shaw Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Serena Simmons and Michael Thomas* Jo and Barry Slavin The Estate of N S L Smart Sir Martin and Lady Smith* Michael Smith and Nicholas Bartlett* Spencer Hart Charitable TrustL Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* In memory of Colin Steele Gill and Keith Stella* John Stephens OBE, HonFTCL* Lord and Lady Stirrup* Anne and Paul Swain* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* Coen Teulings Allen L. Thomas and Jane Simpson The Three Monkies TrustL Robin Vousden* Andrew and Hilary Walker* David and Margaret Walker* Professor Janet Walker CD and Professor Doug Jones AO* Dame Fanny Waterman* Michael and Rosemary Warburg The Welton Foundation David and Martha Winfield* William and Alex de Winton*L The Wolfson Foundation Youth MusicL and several anonymous donors * Rubinstein Circle members ‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters L Learning Programme supporters Details correct as of February 2018 The Wigmore Hall Trust Registered Charity No. 1024838

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Concert tickets for Under 35s for ÂŁ5 for selected concerts throughout the season:

www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/u35

Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonRCM, HonFGS, HonFRIAM 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity Number 1024838

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