2018/19 Season
April - July 2019
2• Join us for a fascinating celebration on 8 June; leading oboist Nicholas Daniel consecrates an entire day to an instrument relatively rarely featured in chamber works but whose contemporary repertoire he has expanded significantly with commissions from leading composers.
Director’s Introduction
In 2016, Igor Levit simultaneously won (among others) two Gramophone Awards – the Instrumental Award as well as Recording of the Year – for his three-CD set of variations, the works he will revisit with us in May alongside Ronald Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH.
The American jazz pianist, composer and multimedia performer, Jason Moran, has recorded some 40 albums to date, as a soloist and member of numerous ensembles. Presenting original compositions and jazz standards, he will announce his eclectic May programme from the stage.
Founded as long ago as 1975 in Budapest but resident at the University of Boulder, Colorado, since 1983, the long-revered Takács Quartet has maintained a close connection with Wigmore Hall as Associate Artists. They perform two concerts in May including works by Elgar, Haydn, Bartók and Amy Beach. On 10 and 14 May, Sir András Schiff, unquestionably one of today’s leading Bach interpreters, takes on a group of the composer’s keyboard suites published between 1726 and 1730. Students from the Royal Academy of Music’s Song Circle present a recital in April devoted entirely to the songs of Carl Loewe. Loewe performed his songs throughout Germany to great acclaim and was known as the North German Schubert, composing over 500 songs in a great variety of genres. Inspired by the heart-breaking stories of refugees which are never far from the news, vocal ensemble Stile Antico and Dartington Arts commissioned poet Peter Oswald to create texts for Dowland’s instrumental Lachrimae pavans. Based on testimonies from today’s refugees and migrants, these new poems about displacement and exile present a contemporary and deeply moving counterpoint to this exquisite music in a concert in June, all interspersed by improvised oud music from London-based Syrian musician Rihab Azar. The Armenian-American pianist Sergei Babayan offers an all-Chopin programme in June, featuring the characteristically Polish form of the mazurka in the second half and the first consisting of popular individual pieces. Hervé Niquet, the founder-director of Le Concert Spirituel, one of Europe’s most durable and expert period-instrument ensembles, leads a programme in July that simulates the musical experience of the Mass in the time of Mozart and Haydn. Solomon’s Knot makes its debut at Wigmore Hall in April with a rarely heard version of a familiar favourite; fans of the Bach Johannes-Passion unfamiliar with the 1725 version will have the pleasure of seeing (or hearing!) an old friend in a new light. Please join us for two celebrations, with the JACK Quartet performing the complete Elliot Carter quartets in April and the Jerusalem Quartet presenting the complete Bella Bartók quartets the following month, both bound to be highlights of the season as it comes to an end.
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Contents At a Glance
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Calendar 8 April 10 May 33 June 59 July 85 Contemporary Music Series
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Booking Information
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At a Glance
April - July 2019
See pages 10-103 for full details of these concerts and page 108 for booking information. Series and Events to look out for…
Emanuel Ax 70th birthday concert
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Benjamin Beilman/Narek Hakhnazaryan/ 10 Louis Schwizgebel
La Nuova Musica/Christine Rice
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Evgeny Kissin
84
Royal Academy of Music Song Circle
12
Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works 91
London Handel Orchestra
14
JACK Quartet: Complete Elliot Carter String Quartets
16
Max Emanuel Cenčić/ Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu/ Franck-Emmanuel Comte
Christina Landshamer/Gerold Huber
15
Vox Luminis Residency
95
American Series: Escher String Quartet 17
Mozart and the 2nd Viennese School
94
Sally Matthews/Simon Lepper
17
Alexi Kenney/Orion Weiss
96
Nash Inventions – Focus on Sir Harrison Birtwistle
18
Kian Soltani/Aaron Pilsan
97
Brahms Plus Series
99
Ian Bostridge: Schubert Cycles 19, 23, 86, 87
Lana Trotovsek/Maria Canyigueral
101
Solomon's Knot
20
Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis
100
The Sixteen
22 25
Pavel Haas Quartet
27
Sir Simon Keenlyside/Howard McGill/ Gordon Campbell/Richard Pryce/ Matthew Regan/Mike Smith
103
Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Ensemble Correspondances Residency
27
Le Concert Spirituel
102
Final concert of the season: Chiaroscuro Quartet
103
Fauré/Schumann Project
26, 73, 74
Schumann Song Series
28
The Orlando Consort
29
Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Reto Bieri/ Polina Leschenko
30
Louis Lortie
31
Pekka Kuusisto Residency
33
Piotr Anderszewski
34
92
JACK Quartet 16
Tue 9 Apr
The Chamber Music 17 Society of Lincoln Center
Wed 10 Apr Escher String Quartet 17 Nash Ensemble: 18 Nash Inventions
Tue 23 Apr Steven Isserlis/ Janine Jansen/Arisa Fujita Amihai Grosz/Connie Shih
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Sat 27 Apr Patricia Kopatchinskaja/ 30 Reto Bieri/Polina Leschenko Mon 29 Apr Hagen Quartet 32 Wed 1 May Pekka Kuusisto/ 33 Prof Dr Erik Scherder/ Jukka Huitila Thu 2 May Notos Quartett 34 Sat 4 May
In Focus: 38 Sir George Benjamin
Wed 8 May Jerusalem Quartet 44 Thu 9 May Jerusalem Quartet 44
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts
Sat 11 May Steven Osborne/ Alban Gerhardt
41
Mon 13 May Håkan Hardenberger/ 43 Roland Pöntinen
Mon 1 Apr Benjamin Beilman/ Narek Hakhnazaryan/ Louis Schwizgebel
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Mon 8 Apr Katarina Karnéus/ Julius Drake
15
Thu 16 May YCAT Public Final 45 Auditions 2019
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Fri 17 May Takács Quartet/ Garrick Ohlsson
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Sun 19 May Royal Academy of Music Soloists/Thomas Gould
49
Mon 20 May Henning Kraggerud/ Adrian Brendel/ Imogen Cooper
51
Wed 15 May Takács Quartet 48
38
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
40
Ravel Song Series
42
Mon 15 Apr Tabea Zimmermann/ Adam Walker/ Agnès Clément
Jerusalem Quartet: The Complete Bartók String Quartets
44
Mon 22 Apr Pavel Haas Quartet 27
45, 46
Sat 6 Apr
Fri 12 Apr
In Focus: Sir George Benjamin
Sir András Schiff
Chamber Music Season
Mon 29 Apr Julian Prégardien/ Eric Le Sage
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Sumi Jo
41
Mon 6 May The King's Singers 39
Håkan Hardenberger/Roland Pöntinen
43
Mon 13 May Gould Piano Trio 43
Takács Quartet Associate Artists
48
Mon 20 May Andreas Haefliger 49
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Tue 21 May Castalian Quartet/ 51 Anthony Marwood/ Aleksandar Madžar
Mon 27 May Kuss Quartet 56
Thu 23 May Elias String Quartet 53 Sat 25 May Piatti Quartet 54
Igor Levit: Variations
Schumann String Quartet Series
53
Robin Tritschler The Seasons
55
Mon 3 Jun Ilya Gringolts/ 61 Peter Laul
Till Fellner
60
Mon 10 Jun Jean Rondeau 69
Sat 25 May Narek Hakhnazaryan/ Pavel Kolesnikov
64
Mon 17 Jun Nicolas Altstaedt 74
Wed 29 May The Endellion String Quartet 57
Mon 24 Jun Christopher Maltman/ Graham Johnson
81
Thu 30 May Hilary Hahn 59
Katya Apekisheva Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day
65, 66-67
54
Stile Antico/Rihab Azar
68
Isabelle Faust/Jean-Guihen Queyras/ Alexander Melnikov
71
Mon 1 Jul
Colin Currie Quartet 85
Mon 3 Jun Doric String Quartet/ 61 Jonathan Biss
Mon 8 Jul
Imogen Cooper 89
Sat 8 Jun
Gerald Finley/Julius Drake
73
Sergei Babayan
72
Mon 15 Jul István Várdai/ 96 Sunwook Kim
The Cardinall's Musick
79
Alexander Melnikov Residency
79
Chineke! Orchestra
76
Franz-Josef Selig/Gerold Huber
78
Matthias Goerne Ensemble Marsyas
80, 83 81
Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day 66-67
Mon 10 Jun Pavel Haas Quartet/ Enno Senft/Boris Giltburg
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Fri 14 Jun Isabelle Faust/ Jean-Guihen Queyras/ Alexander Melnikov
71
Sun 16 Jun Steven Isserlis/ 74 Anthony Marwood/Irène Duval/ Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad/ Dénes Várjon/Izabella Simon
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Mon 17 Jun Cuarteto Casals/ Alban Gerhardt
74
Fri 21 Jun Alexander Rudin/ Alexander Melnikov
79
Tue 25 Jun Emanuel Ax/ 82 Sir Simon Keenlyside/ Dover Quartet Sat 6 Jul Sun 7 Jul
Xavier Phillips/ François-Frédéric Guy
88
Sat 4 May
Tue 28 May L'Arpeggiata Fri 7 Jun
29
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 40 56
Cinquecento/Nicholas Todd 65
Tue 11 Jun The English Concert
70
Wed 12 Jun Stile Antico/Rihab Azar 68 Thu 20 Jun The Cardinall's Musick
79
Mon 24 Jun Ensemble Marsyas 81
Wihan Quartet 89
Wed 10 Jul Benjamin Beilman/ Louis Schwizgebel
Thu 25 Apr The Orlando Consort
91
Thu 27 Jun La Nuova Musica/ Christine Rice
83
Mon 1 Jul
Rachel Podger/ 86 Brecon Baroque/ Marcin Świątkiewicz/ Daniele Caminiti
Mon 8 Jul
The Mozartists/ Ian Page/Louise Alder/ Katy Bircher/Oliver Wass/ Gavin Edwards
Tue 9 Jul
Mahan Esfahani 91
Thu 11 Jul
Max Emanuel Cenčić/ 92 Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu/ Franck-Emmanuel Comte
Sun 28 Apr Ning Feng/Yukako Morikawa 31
Sat 13 Jul
Vox Luminis 95
Sun 5 May Jan Vogler/Antti Siirala
Sat 27 Jul Le Concert Spirituel
Fri 12 Jul
Silesian String Quartet 93
Wed 17 Jul Alexi Kenney/Orion Weiss 96 Fri 19 Jul
Kian Soltani/Aaron Pilsan 97
Mon 22 Jul Lana Trotovsek/ Maria Canyigueral
101
Sunday Morning Concerts Sun 7 Apr Tesla Quartet
13
Sun 14 Apr Alexandra Dariescu 21 Sun 21 Apr Kelemen Quartet
25 35
89
102
Sun 12 May Castalian Quartet 43 Sun 19 May Jonathan Plowright
49
Sun 26 May Sheku Kanneh-Mason/ Isata Kanneh-Mason 55 Sun 2 Jun
Daniel Pioro/ Roderick Chadwick/ Charlotte Bonneton/ Clare O’Connell
60
73
Sun 23 Jun Andrew Tyson 81 Sun 30 Jun Vision String Quartet Sun 7 Jul
85
Smetana Trio 88
Sun 14 Jul Maxim Bernard
95
Sun 21 Jul Calidore String Quartet 99 Sun 28 Jul Chiaroscuro Quartet
103
Wed 3 Apr London Handel Orchestra/ 14 Anna Dennis/Anna Huntley/ Edward Grint Arcangelo/Emőke Baráth/ 13 Anna Reinhold/Callum Thorpe
Tue 16 Apr Solomon's Knot
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Sun 14 Apr Lise de la Salle 21 Thu 18 Apr Angela Hewitt Fri 3 May
25
Piotr Anderszewski
20
34
Sun 5 May Aaron Pilsan 39 Tue 7 May Andreas Staier
39
Fri 10 May Sir András Schiff 46 Tue 14 May Sir András Schiff
45
Wed 22 May Igor Levit
52
Fri 24 May Igor Levit 54 Mon 27 May Igor Levit Sat 1 Jun
56
Till Fellner 60
Thu 6 Jun Katya Apekisheva
Early Music and Baroque Series
Fri 5 Apr
Sun 7 Apr Louis Schwizgebel
Sun 28 Apr Louis Lortie 31
Sun 9 Jun Hugo Wolf Quartett 69 Sun 16 Jun Heath Quartet
London Pianoforte Series
64
Thu 13 Jun Angela Hewitt 70 Tue 18 Jun Sergei Babayan
72
Fri 21 Jun Alexander Rudin/ Alexander Melnikov
79
Fri 28 Jun Alice Sara Ott
83
Sat 29 Jun Evgeny Kissin 84 Lucas Debargue
Wed 17 Apr The Sixteen/ 22 Harry Christophers/ Michael Pennington
Fri 5 Jul
Sat 20 Apr Trio Mediæval
Sun 21 Jul Jonathan Plowright 99
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Mon 22 Apr Ensemble Correspondances/ 27 Sébastien Daucé/ Sophie Karthäuser
87
Tue 16 Jul Elisabeth Leonskaja 94 Sat 20 Jul Ronald Brautigam Thu 25 Jul Kit Armstrong
98 101
Song Recital Series Mon 1 Apr Ekaterina Semenchuk/ 11 Semyon Skigin Tue 2 Apr Royal Academy of Music 12 Song Circle Thu 4 Apr Matthew Rose/Tom Poster 11 Sun 7 Apr Milan Siljanov/ 13 Nino Chokhonelidze Mon 8 Apr Christina Landshamer/ 15 Gerold Huber Thu 11 Apr Sally Matthews/Simon Lepper 17 Sat 13 Apr Ian Bostridge/Saskia Giorgini 19 Sun 14 Apr Gavan Ring/Simon Lepper 21 Mon 15 Apr Ian Bostridge/Saskia Giorgini 23 Wed 24 Apr Kathleen Ferrier Awards 29 Semi-Final Wed 24 Apr Dame Sarah Connolly/ 28 Robin Tritschler/Malcolm Martineau Fri 26 Apr Kathleen Ferrier Awards Final 29 Tue 30 Apr Marcus Farnsworth/ 33 James Baillieu Sun 5 May Paula Murrihy/ 35 Malcolm Martineau Mon 6 May Clara Mouriz/ 42 Roderick Williams/Adam Walker/ Guy Johnston/Joseph Middleton Sun 12 May Sumi Jo/Gary Matthewman/ 41 Krzysztof Meisinger Sat 18 May Ema Nikolovska/Dylan Perez 47 Sun 26 May Jacques Imbrailo/ 55 Alisdair Hogarth Sun 26 May Robin Tritschler/Simon Lepper 55 Sun 2 Jun Graham Johnson 60 Songmakers' Almanac Tue 4 Jun Camilla Tilling/Paul Rivinius 63 Wed 5 Jun Maximilian Schmitt/ 63 Gerold Huber Sat 15 Jun Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 73 Wed 19 Jun Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala 75 Sat 22 Jun Franz-Josef Selig/ 78 Gerold Huber Sun 23 Jun Matthias Goerne/ 80 Sir Antonio Pappano Wed 26 Jun Matthias Goerne/ 83 Alexander Schmalcz Tue 2 Jul Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt 86 Wed 3 Jul Brett Polegato/Iain Burnside 87 Thu 4 Jul Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt 87 Thu 18 Jul Werner Güra/Christoph Berner 97 Tue 23 Jul Dame Sarah Connolly/ 101 Malcolm Martineau Wed 24 Jul Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis 100 Fri 26 Jul Sir Simon Keenlyside/ 103 Howard McGill/Gordon Campbell/ Richard Pryce/Matthew Regan/ Mike Smith We are grateful to The Monument Trust for essential additional support for our expanded vocal series
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At a Glance
April - July 2019
Jazz Series Fri 31 May Jason Moran
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Sun 14 Jul Django Bates Belovèd/ 95 Evan Parker Fri 26 Jul
Sir Simon Keenlyside/ 103 Howard McGill/ Gordon Campbell/Richard Pryce/ Matthew Regan/Mike Smith
Wigmore Lates Fri 3 May
Anne Sofie von Otter/ Bengt Forsberg
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Fri 31 May Amaan Ali Bangash/ 59 Ayaan Ali Bangash/ Jennifer Pike Fri 14 Jun Viktoria Mullova
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Wed 29 May The Endellion String Quartet 57
Thu 13 Jun For Crying Out Loud!
Sat 8 June Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day 66 71
Thu 13 Jun Introduction to Music: 65 Second Viennese School
Sat 15 Jun Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 73
Sat 15 Jun Relaxed Concert: Bloomsbury Quartet
71
Tue 18 Jun Leeds Lieder Young Artists Masterclass
77
Fri 14 Jun Viktoria Mullova Mon 17 Jun Nicolas Altstaedt
74
Wed 19 Jun Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala 75 Fri 21 Jun Chineke! Orchestra
76
Fri 28 Jun Sean Shibe’s softLOUD 85 Mon 1 Jul
Colin Currie Quartet
Wed 3 Jul
Brett Polegato/Iain Burnside 87
Fri 12 Jul
Adam Walker/Sean Shibe
85 93
Wed 17 Jul Alexi Kenney/Orion Weiss 96 Fri 19 Jul
Susan Bullock/Richard Sisson 98
The Contemporary Music Series is supported by
Fri 21 Jun Chineke! Orchestra 76 Fri 28 Jun Sean Shibe’s softLOUD
85
Fri 12 Jul
Adam Walker/Sean Shibe
Fri 19 Jul
Susan Bullock/ 98 Richard Sisson
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The Wigmore Lates Series is supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust
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JACK Quartet 16
Tue 9 Apr
The Chamber Music Society 17 of Lincoln Center
Wed 10 Apr Escher String Quartet 17 Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth/ 18 Simone Leona Hueber
Sun 14 Apr Gavan Ring/Simon Lepper 21 Mon 15 Apr Tabea Zimmermann/ 23 Adam Walker/Agnès Clément Sat 20 Apr Trio Mediæval 25 Sat 27 Apr Patricia Kopatchinskaja/ 30 Reto Bieri/Polina Leschenko Tue 30 Apr Marcus Farnsworth/ 33 James Baillieu Sat 4 May
In Focus: Sir George Benjamin 38
Mon 6 May The King’s Singers 39 Mon 13 May Håkan Hardenberger/ 43 Roland Pöntinen Sat 18 May Ema Nikolovska/Dylan Perez 47 Thu 23 May Elias String Quartet 53 Fri 24 May Igor Levit
54
Sat 25 May Piatti Quartet 54 Mon 27 May Kuss Quartet
11
56
Mon 27 May Igor Levit 56
Tue 18 Jun Bechstein Sessions: 77 BirdWorld Thu 20 Jun Schools Concert: Glitter Bird
77
Thu 20 Jun Introduction to Music: 65 Second Viennese School Sat 22 Jun CAVATINA Family Concert: 79 Thorne Trio Thu 27 Jun Introduction to Music: 65 Second Viennese School Wed 3 Jul
Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles
Thu 11 Jul
Pre-Concert Talk 93
86
Sat 6 Apr
Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk 16
Wed 17 Jul Bloomsbury Quartet
Fri 12 Apr
Music for the Moment
Thu 18 Jul Music for the Moment 97
Sat 27 Apr Family Day: Wild River Adventures
Sat 6 Apr
Fri 12 Apr
Thu 4 Apr Chamber Tots: Train Ride
19
Wed 17 Apr Chamber Tots: In the Garden 23
Contemporary Music Series Thu 4 Apr Matthew Rose/Tom Poster
Wigmore Hall Learning
70
29
Sat 20 Jul Come and Sing: Sounds of America
Mon 29 Apr Wigmore Study Group: 32 Ravel Thu 2 May Wigmore Study Group: Ravel
32
Mon 6 May Wigmore Study Group: 32 Ravel Sat 11 May Sumi Jo Masterclass
41
Wed 15 May For Crying Out Loud! 45 Fri 17 May Schools Concert: Heroes and Villains
47
Sat 18 May Family Concert: Heroes 47 and Villains Wed 22 May Chamber Tots: In the Garden 51 Thu 23 May Voiceworks 53 Fri 24 May Artists in Conversation: Igor Levit
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Wed 29 May RNIB Study Day 57 Thu 30 May György Pauk Masterclass
57
Sat 1 Jun
RNIB Family Day
Tue 4 Jun
Singing with Friends: 61 Come and Sing
Thu 6 Jun Chamber Tots: Train Ride
59
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Thu 6 Jun Introduction to Music: 65 Second Viennese School Fri 7 Jun
Nicholas Daniel Masterclass 65
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Calendar April - July 2019 April Mon 1 Apr 1.00pm 7.30pm Tue 2 Apr 7.30pm Wed 3 Apr 7.30pm Thu 4 Apr 10.15am 11.45am 7.30pm Fri 5 Apr 7.30pm Sat 6 Apr 1.00pm 6.00pm 7.30pm Sun 7 Apr 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm Mon 8 Apr 1.00pm 7.30pm Tue 9 Apr 7.30pm Wed 10 Apr 7.30pm Thu 11 Apr 7.30pm Fri 12 Apr 3.00pm 6.00pm 7.30pm Sat 13 Apr 7.30pm Sun 14 Apr 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm Mon 15 Apr 1.00pm 7.30pm Tue 16 Apr 7.00pm Wed 17 Apr 10.15am 11.45am 7.30pm Thu 18 Apr 7.30pm Sat 20 Apr 7.30pm Sun 21 Apr 11.30am Mon 22 Apr 1.00pm 7.30pm Tue 23 Apr 7.30pm Wed 24 Apr 1.30pm 7.30pm Thu 25 Apr 7.30pm Fri 26 Apr 6.00pm Sat 27 Apr 10.30am 7.30pm Sun 28 Apr 11.30am 6.30pm Mon 29 Apr 1.00pm 3.00pm 7.30pm Tue 30 Apr 7.30pm
May Benjamin Beilman/Narek Hakhnazaryan/ Louis Schwizgebel Ekaterina Semenchuk/Semyon Skigin Royal Academy of Music Song Circle London Handel Orchestra/Anna Dennis/ Anna Huntley/Edward Grint Chamber Tots: Train Ride Chamber Tots: Train Ride Matthew Rose/Tom Poster Arcangelo/Emőke Baráth/ Anna Reinhold/Callum Thorpe JACK Quartet Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk JACK Quartet Tesla Quartet Milan Siljanov/Nino Chokhonelidze Louis Schwizgebel Katarina Karnéus/Julius Drake Christina Landshamer/Gerold Huber The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Escher String Quartet Sally Matthews/Simon Lepper Music for the Moment Pre-Concert Talk Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth/ Simone Leona Hueber Ian Bostridge/Saskia Giorgini Alexandra Dariescu Gavan Ring/Simon Lepper Lise de la Salle Tabea Zimmerman/Adam Walker/ Agnès Clément Ian Bostridge/Saskia Giorgini Solomon's Knot Chamber Tots: In the Garden Chamber Tots: In the Garden The Sixteen/Harry Christophers/ Michael Pennington Angela Hewitt Trio Mediæval Kelemen Quartet Pavel Haas Quartet Ensemble Correspondances/ Sébastien Daucé/Sophie Karthäuser Steven Isserlis/Janine Jansen/ Arisa Fujita/Amihai Grosz/Connie Shih Kathleen Ferrier Awards Semi-Final Dame Sarah Connolly/Robin Tritschler/ Malcolm Martineau The Orlando Consort Kathleen Ferrier Awards Final Family Day: Wild River Adventures Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Reto Bieri/ Polina Leschenko Ning Feng/Yukako Morikawa Louis Lortie Julian Prégardien/Eric Le Sage Wigmore Study Group: Ravel Hagen Quartet Marcus Farnsworth/James Baillieu
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Wed 1 May 7.30pm Thu 2 May 3.00pm 7.30pm Fri 3 May 7.00pm 10.00pm Sat 4 May 10.30am 12 noon 2.00pm 7.30pm Sun 5 May 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm Mon 6 May 1.00pm 3.00pm 7.30pm Tue 7 May 7.30pm Wed 8 May 7.30pm Thu 9 May 7.30pm Fri 10 May 7.00pm Sat 11 May 1.00pm 7.30pm Sun 12 May 11.30am 3.00pm Mon 13 May 1.00pm 7.30pm Tue 14 May 7.00pm Wed 15 May 11.00am 12.30pm 7.30pm Thu 16 May 3.00pm 7.00pm Fri 17 May 11.00am 7.30pm Sat 18 May 11.00am 7.30pm Sun 19 May 11.30am 7.30pm Mon 20 May 1.00pm 7.30pm Tue 21 May 7.30pm Wed 22 May 10.15am 11.45am 7.30pm Thu 23 May 1.00pm 7.30pm Fri 24 May 6.00pm 7.30pm Sat 25 May 1.00pm 7.30pm Sun 26 May 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm Mon 27 May 1.00pm 7.30pm
Pekka Kuusisto/ Prof Dr Erik Scherder/Jukka Huitila Wigmore Study Group: Ravel Notos Quartett Piotr Anderszewski Anne Sofie von Otter/Bengt Forsberg In Focus: Sir George Benjamin – RNCM Soloists In Focus: Sir George Benjamin – In Conversation In Focus: Sir George Benjamin – RNCM New Ensemble/Callum Smart Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Jan Vogler/Antti Siirala Paula Murrihy/Malcolm Martineau Aaron Pilsan The King's Singers Wigmore Study Group: Ravel Clara Mouriz/Roderick Williams/ Adam Walker/Guy Johnston/Joseph Middleton Andreas Staier Jerusalem Quartet Jerusalem Quartet Sir András Schiff Sumi Jo Masterclass Alban Gerhardt/Steven Osborne Castalian Quartet Sumi Jo/Gary Matthewman/ Krzysztof Meisinger Gould Piano Trio Håkan Hardenberger/Roland Pöntinen Sir András Schiff For Crying Out Loud! For Crying Out Loud! Takács Quartet YCAT Public Final Auditions 2019 YCAT Public Final Auditions 2019 Schools Concert: Heroes and Villains Takács Quartet/Garrick Ohlsson Family Concert: Heroes and Villains Ema Nikolovska/Dylan Perez Jonathan Plowright Royal Academy of Music Soloists/ Thomas Gould Andreas Haefliger Henning Kraggerud/Adrian Brendel/ Imogen Cooper Castalian Quartet/Anthony Marwood/ Aleksandar Madžar Chamber Tots: In the Garden Chamber Tots: In the Garden Igor Levit Voiceworks Elias String Quartet Artists in Conversation: Igor Levit Igor Levit Piatti Quartet Narek Hakhnazaryan/Pavel Kolesnikov Sheku Kanneh-Mason/Isata Kanneh-Mason Jacques Imbrailo/Alisdair Hogarth Robin Tritschler/Simon Lepper Kuss Quartet Igor Levit
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L'Arpeggiata RNIB Study Day The Endellion String Quartet György Pauk Masterclass Hilary Hahn Jason Moran Amaan Ali Bangash/ Ayaan Ali Bangash/Jennifer Pike
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June Sat 1 Jun 11.00am 7.30pm Sun 2 Jun 11.30am 7.30pm Mon 3 Jun 1.00pm 7.30pm Tue 4 Jun 10.30am 7.30pm Wed 5 Jun 7.30pm Thu 6 Jun 10.15am 11.45am 4.45pm 7.30pm Fri 7 Jun 1.00pm 7.30pm Sat 8 Jun 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm Sun 9 Jun 11.30am Mon 10 Jun 1.00pm 7.30pm Tue 11 Jun 7.30pm Wed 12 Jun 7.30pm Thu 13 Jun 11.00am 12.30pm 4.45pm 7.30pm Fri 14 Jun 7.00pm 10.00pm Sat 15 Jun 11.00am 7.30pm Sun 16 Jun 11.30am 6.00pm 7.30pm Mon 17 Jun 1.00pm 7.30pm Tue 18 Jun 1.00pm 6.15pm 7.30pm Wed 19 Jun 7.00pm Thu 20 Jun 11.00am 4.45pm 7.30pm Fri 21 Jun 7.00pm 10.00pm Sat 22 Jun 11.00am 7.30pm
RNIB Family Day 59 Till Fellner 60 Daniel Pioro/Roderick Chadwick/ 60 Charlotte Bonneton/Clare O’Connell Graham Johnson Songmakers’ Almanac 60 Ilya Gringolts/Peter Laul 61 Doric String Quartet/Jonathan Biss 61 Come and Sing 61 Camilla Tilling/Paul Rivinius 63 Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Huber 63 Chamber Tots: Train Ride 63 Chamber Tots: Train Ride 63 Introduction to Music: Second Viennese School 65 Katya Apekisheva 64 Nicholas Daniel Masterclass 65 Cinquecento/Nicholas Todd 65 Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day: 67 Nicholas Daniel/Lucy Wakeford/ Wigmore Oboe-Fest Ensemble Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day: 67 Nicholas Daniel/Julius Drake/ Guildhall School Wind Quintet Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day: Nicholas Daniel/ 67 Tom Owen/Kyeong Ham/Amy Harman/ Jacqueline Shave/Timothy Ridout/ Guy Johnston/Martin Owen/Maggie Cole Hugo Wolf Quartett 69 Jean Rondeau 69 Pavel Haas Quartet/Enno Senft/ 69 Boris Giltburg The English Concert 70 Stile Antico/Rihab Azar 68 For Crying Out Loud! 70 For Crying Out Loud! 70 Introduction to Music: Second Viennese School 65 Angela Hewitt 70 Isabelle Faust/Jean-Guihen Queyras/ 71 Alexander Melnikov Viktoria Mullova 71 Relaxed Concert: Bloomsbury Quartet 71 Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 73 Heath Quartet 73 Pre-Concert Talk 73 Steven Isserlis/Anthony Marwood/ 74 Irène Duval/Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad/ Dénes Várjon/Izabella Simon Nicolas Altstaedt 74 Cuarteto Casals/Alban Gerhardt 74 Leeds Lieder Young Artists Masterclass 77 Bechstein Sessions: BirdWorld 77 Sergei Babayan 72 Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala 75 Schools Concert: Glitter Bird 77 Introduction to Music: Second Viennese School 65 The Cardinall's Musick 79 Alexander Rudin/Alexander Melnikov 79 Chineke! Orchestra 76 CAVATINA Family Concert: Thorne Trio 79 Franz-Josef Selig/Gerold Huber 78
Sun 23 Jun 11.30am 7.30pm Mon 24 Jun 1.00pm 7.30pm Tue 25 Jun 7.00pm Wed 26 Jun 7.30pm Thu 27 Jun 4.45pm 7.30pm Fri 28 Jun 7.00pm 10.00pm Sat 29 Jun 7.30pm Sun 30 Jun 11.30am
Andrew Tyson Matthias Goerne/Sir Antonio Pappano Christopher Maltman/Graham Johnson Ensemble Marsyas Emanuel Ax/Sir Simon Keenlyside/ Dover Quartet Matthias Goerne/Alexander Schmalcz Introduction to Music: Second Viennese School La Nuova Musica/Christine Rice Alice Sara Ott Sean Shibe Evgeny Kissin Vision String Quartet
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Colin Currie Quartet Rachel Podger/Brecon Baroque/ Marcin Świątkiewicz/Daniele Caminiti Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles Brett Polegato/Iain Burnside Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt Lucas Debargue Xavier Phillips/François-Frédéric Guy Smetana Trio Wihan Quartet Imogen Cooper Pre-Concert Talk The Mozartists/Ian Page/Louise Alder/ Katy Bircher/Oliver Wass/Gavin Edwards Mahan Esfahani Benjamin Beilman/Louis Schwizgebel Pre-Concert Talk Max Emanuel Cenčić/Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu/Franck-Emmanuel Comte Silesian String Quartet Adam Walker/Sean Shibe Vox Luminis Maxim Bernard Django Bates Belovèd/Evan Parker István Várdai/Sunwook Kim Elisabeth Leonskaja Bloomsbury Quartet Alexi Kenney/Orion Weiss Music for the Moment Werner Güra/Christoph Berner Kian Soltani/Aaron Pilsan Susan Bullock/Richard Sisson Come and Sing: Sounds of America Ronald Brautigam Calidore String Quartet Jonathan Plowright Lana Trotovsek/Maria Canyigueral Dame Sarah Connolly/Malcolm Martineau Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis Kit Armstrong Sir Simon Keenlyside/Howard McGill/ Gordon Campbell/Richard Pryce/ Matthew Regan/Mike Smith Le Concert Spirituel Chiaroscuro Quartet
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10 • APRIL
Monday 1 April 1.00pm
Benjamin Beilman violin Narek Hakhnazaryan cello Louis Schwizgebel piano Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 Rachmaninov Vocalise (arr. Gayane Hakhnazaryan for piano trio) Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor Op. 8 Three rising star young musicians – American violinist Benjamin Beilman, Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan and Swiss-Chinese pianist Louis Schwizgebel – come together to perform two classics of the piano trio repertoire, plus Rachmaninov’s Vocalise, arranged by Hakhnazaryan’s pianist mother, Gayane. £16 concs £14
Benjamin Beilman © Giorgia Bertazzi
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APRIL • 11
Monday 1 April 7.30pm
Thursday 4 April 10.15am and 11.45am
Thursday 4 April 7.30pm
Ekaterina Semenchuk
Chamber Tots: Train Ride
Matthew Rose bass Tom Poster piano
mezzo-soprano
Semyon Skigin piano Glinka A Farewell to Saint Petersburg Musorgsky Sunless; The Peep-Show The leading mezzo-soprano joins with a pianist widely acclaimed as one of the world’s leading accompanists for a programme of songs from their Russian homeland, with major cycles by Glinka, progenitor of the nationalist group The Five, and his follower Musorgsky. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Interactive music-making sessions for children aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers, with songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close. Presented by music leaders Esther Sheridan and Lucy Drever alongside emerging chamber ensembles. 10.15am – 11.15am (1–2 year-olds) 11.45am – 12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) Children £7 Adults £5
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Schubert Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Fahrt zum Hades; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Im Abendrot; Wandrers Nachtlied II Schubert Impromptu in E flat D899 No. 2 Liszt Impromptu (Nocturne) S191 Liszt Gebet; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh; Gastibelza Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death Musorgsky Impromptu passionné Tom Poster Songs (world première) Ives 3 Improvisations Ives Ilmenau; The Children’s Hour; Down East; At the River; The Circus Band Pianist/composer Tom Poster joins with leading bass Matthew Rose for a diverse programme, including piano pieces by each of the featured composers, Musorgsky’s song cycle setting poems that deal with death, plus a new work of Poster’s own. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Ekaterina Semenchuk and Semyon Skigin © Irina Tuminene
Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega
Matthew Rose © Lena Kern
12 • APRIL
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The Songs of Carl Loewe Tuesday 2 April 7.30pm
Royal Academy of Music Song Circle
Frances Gregory mezzo-soprano Olivia Warburton mezzo-soprano Kieran Carrel tenor Paul Grant baritone Thomas Bennett bass Richard Gowers piano Gus Tredwell piano Leo Nicholson piano
Students from the Royal Academy of Music’s ‘Song Circle’ present a recital of Lieder devoted entirely to the songs of Carl Loewe (1796-1869). Born a year before Schubert and outliving him by more than four decades, Loewe performed his songs throughout Germany to great acclaim and was known as the North German Schubert. Greatly admired by Schumann, Liszt, Wolf and Wagner (who preferred his ‘Erlkönig’ to Schubert’s), he composed over 500 songs in a great variety of genres. The students will perform a breadth of Loewe’s repertoire, from comic gems to celebrated ballads, through lyrical pieces, a song cycle, and much more. A whole evening of Loewe Lieder is almost unprecedented, and surtitles will be provided to increase the enjoyment. £30 £25 £20 £16 £10 Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
RAM Song Circle © Helen Wills
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APRIL • 13
Friday 5 April 7.30pm
Sunday 7 April 11.30am
Sunday 7 April 3.00pm
Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen director,
Tesla Quartet
Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Nino Chokhonelidze piano
harpsichord
Emőke Baráth soprano Anna Reinhold mezzosoprano
Callum Thorpe bass-baritone Vivaldi La Senna festeggiante RV693 Over the last nine years, the early music ensemble Arcangelo, under its founder-director Jonathan Cohen, has attracted high praise through its recordings and international appearances. Here it presents Vivaldi’s large-scale cantata, a celebration of France and Louis XV.
Famous Last Words Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 Villa-Lobos String Quartet No. 17 Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 Named after the SerbianAmerican physicist and futurist Nikola Tesla, the high-profile 11-year-old quartet has created a programme of Famous Last Words, a trio of works written at the end of each composer’s creative life and including the 17th work for the medium (1957) by the prolific Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Approximately 1 hour 40 minutes in duration, including an interval
Brahms 4 Serious Songs Op. 121 Finzi Let us garlands bring Op. 18 Duparc Chanson triste; La vie antérieure Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Music from Germany, England and – with a nod to its Spanish derivation – France in this programme by the SwissMacedonian bass-baritone and the Georgian pianist, who together won the two top prizes at the 2015 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition. All seats £16 With grateful thanks to the Voices at Wigmore Circle
£50 £40 £30 £25 £18
Anna Reinhold © Charles Plumey
Tesla Quartet © Dario Acosta
Milan Siljanov
14 • APRIL
Handel Aci, Galatea e Polifemo HWV72
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Wednesday 3 April 7.30pm
Anna Dennis soprano (as Aci) Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano (as Galatea) Edward Grint bass-baritone (as Polifemo) London Handel Orchestra Adrian Butterfield conductor Having staged Handel’s English version of the Acis and Galatea story in 2018, the London Handel Orchestra now presents his earlier Italian version, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, which he wrote in Naples in June 1708 as a celebratory cantata for a wedding. This work is completely different from the 1718 version for the Duke of Chandos and is notable for the variety of Handel’s invention as well as its colourful scoring. All three roles are demanding, but the range required of the bass who sings the part of Polifemo is truly remarkable, covering two and a half octaves! £45 £42 £40 £35 £25
Anna Huntley © Kaupo Kikkas
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APRIL • 15
Sunday 7 April 7.30pm
Monday 8 April 1.00pm
Monday 8 April 7.30pm
Louis Schwizgebel piano
Katarina Karnéus mezzo-
Christina Landshamer
Schubert Allegretto in C minor D915; 4 Impromptus D935 Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28
Julius Drake piano
Gerold Huber piano
Admired across a wide range of repertoire, the young pianist performs Chopin’s set of preludes in all 24 keys, strikingly diverse in character, alongside Schubert’s second set of Impromptus, in which some commentators detect a sonata structure underlying the four contrasting individual pieces. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
soprano
Robert Schumann Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op. 135 Alma Mahler Die stille Stadt; Laue Sommernacht; Bei dir ist es traut; Der Erkennende Berg 7 frühe Lieder Herzogin Anna Amalia Das Veilchen Clara Schumann Liebst du um Schönheit Robert Schumann Widmung from Myrthen; Herzeleid; Singet nicht in Trauertönen A Wigmore favourite since she won the Cardiff Competition in 1995, the Swedish mezzo includes songs by female composers, among them Clara Schumann (whose 200th anniversary falls this year) and Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1739-1807). All seats £16
Louis Schwizgebel © Marco Borggreve
Katarina Karnéus © Mats Baecker
soprano
Purcell/Britten Sweeter than Roses and other songs Copland From 12 poems of Emily Dickinson: Nature, the Gentlest Mother, There came a wind like a bugle, The world feels dusty, Heart, we will forget him, Dear March, Come In!, Sleep is supposed to be, Going to Heaven! & The Chariot Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Songs by Schumann A selection of German Baroque Songs A lyric soprano with a steadily rising international reputation includes songs from her homeland from the Baroque and Romantic periods, plus Britten’s imaginative Purcell realisations and Copland’s sensitive settings of the reclusive Emily Dickinson. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Christina Landshamer © Marco Borggreve
16 • APRIL
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Complete Elliott Carter String Quartets Saturday 6 April 1.00pm
Saturday 6 April 7.30pm
JACK Quartet
JACK Quartet
Carter String Quartet No. 5; String Quartet No. 1
Carter String Quartet No. 4; String Quartet No. 2; String Quartet No. 3
Founded in New York in 2005, the JACK Quartet has received exceptional praise for its tireless advocacy of contemporary music. In these two programmes, it presents the entire sequence of numbered quartets by Elliott Carter, who died in 2012 aged 103, beginning with his first and last works in the genre. Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval £16 concs £14 Saturday 6 April 6.00pm
Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk Join us for a musically illustrated pre-concert talk with the JACK Quartet ahead of the evening concert. Approximately 45 minutes in duration £5
JACK Quartet © Shervin Lainez
In 1960, Carter’s exhilarating Second Quartet won the Pulitzer Prize, his Third matching that success thirteen years later. In the latter, Carter divides the instruments into pairs, giving a sense of what he called ‘ever-varying perspectives of feelings, expression, rivalry and cooperation’, while the Fourth is preoccupied with ‘giving every member of the group its own identity’. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
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APRIL • 17
American Series Tuesday 9 April 7.30pm
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Tommaso Lonquich clarinet Arnaud Sussmann violin Yura Lee viola Nicholas Canellakis cello Wu Qian piano Beethoven String Trio in D Op. 9 No. 2 Debussy Première rapsodie Brett Dean New work for clarinet, violin, cello and piano* (UK première) Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25
Founded in 2005 and currently Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New-York based ensemble places works from America at the core of its residency. Wednesday 10 April 7.30pm
Escher String Quartet Ives String Quartet No. 2 Andrew Norman New work* Copland 2 Pieces for string quartet Barber String Quartet Op. 11
*Co-commissioned by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall and La Jolla Music Society
*Co-commissioned by Tuesday Musical Association, Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, and Aspen Music Festival and School
The visiting Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center brings the UK première of what promises to be a major new work – a Wigmore co-commission by the Australian composer and viola player Brett Dean, whose opera Hamlet was a hit at Glyndebourne in 2017.
The programme includes a newly-commissioned piece by the much-awarded Andrew Norman, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1979, alongside classic works by Charles Ives and Samuel Barber, whose First Quartet contains his famous and much-arranged Adagio for Strings.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £18
£40 £35 £30 £25 £18
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center © Tristan Cook
Escher String Quartet © Sarah Skinner
Thursday 11 April 7.30pm
Sally Matthews soprano Simon Lepper piano Grieg 6 Songs Op. 48 Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Sibelius Demanten på marssnön; Våren flyktar hastigt; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte; Var det en dröm? Pfitzner Hast du von den Fischerkindern das alte Märchen vernommen?; Venus mater Strauss Wiegenlied; Das Rosenband; Morgen; Cäcilie The admired Lieder singer draws on song traditions from Scandinavia as well as Germany, taking in examples by the neglected late-Romantic Hans Pfitzner, who – like Strauss – died seventy years ago. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Sally Matthews © Sigtryggur Ari Jóhannsson
18 • APRIL
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Nash Inventions Friday 12 April 6.00pm
Pre-Concert Talk Sir Harrison Birtwistle in conversation with the broadcaster and journalist Tom Service. Free (ticket required)
Friday 12 April 7.30pm
Nash Ensemble Stefan Asbury conductor Claire Booth soprano Simone Leona Hueber reciter Lawrence Power viola Adrian Brendel cello Ursula Leveaux bassoon Lucy Wakeford harp Focus on Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle © Hanya Chlala
Sir Harrison Birtwistle Fantasia upon all the notes* Carter Mosaic* Sir Harrison Birtwistle 3 Songs from The Holy Forest; Songs by Myself; Duet for 8 Strings for viola and cello* (world première) Knussen Study for ‘Metamorphosis’ for solo bassoon (UK première) Sir Harrison Birtwistle The Woman and the Hare* *Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble The Nash Ensemble’s annual contemporary music showcase features six works by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, with whom the group has enjoyed a long and close association. In addition to two earlier Nash commissions, Fantasia upon all the notes and The Woman and the Hare, they include a new Duo specifically written for the Nash’s violist Lawrence Power and cellist Adrian Brendel. The programme also takes in Elliott Carter’s Mosaic, inspired by memories of the pioneering harpist Carlos Salzedo, and a newly revised piece for solo bassoon by the late Oliver Knussen, originally written as a study for a large-scale project based on the writings of Kafka. Stefan Asbury conducts the ensemble works and the solo soprano is the Nash’s frequent and welcome guest, Claire Booth. This concert is dedicated to the eminent composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, who died in July 2018. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10
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APRIL • 19
Schubert Cycles Friday 12 April 3.00pm – 4.00pm
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 in the Bechstein Room. Free (ticket required) Wigmore Hall is committed to playing its part in building a dementia-friendly society, and is proud to have 3 Dementia Friends Champions and 44 Dementia Friends on its staff team. To find out more visit dementiafriends.org.uk In partnership with Resonate Arts and the Royal Academy of Music
One of the finest Lieder singers of our time, Ian Bostridge once again brings his unique vocal personality and interpretative mastery to one of Schubert’s three great cycles. In each performance he shares the platform with a different collaborating pianist in performances that will be recorded for digital only release on the Wigmore Hall Live label. Saturday 13 April 7.30pm
Ian Bostridge tenor Saskia Giorgini piano Schubert Die schöne Müllerin D795 Joining the pre-eminent Lieder interpreter for a traversal of the first of Schubert’s great cycles, the Italian-Dutch pianist won the Salzburg International Mozart Competition in 2016 and made her debut at the Musikverein in Vienna the following year. Composed in 1823, The Fair Maid of the Mill shows Schubert’s mastery of the combination of lyricism with narrative in full flower. Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Concert Repeated Monday 15 April 7.30pm Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Tuesday 2 July 2019 and Thursday 4 July 7.30pm with Lars Vogt
Music for the Moment © Hope Fitzgerald
Ian Bostridge © Sim Canetty-Clarke
Saskia Giorgini © Christine Rechling
20 • APRIL
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Tuesday 16 April 7.00pm NB time
Solomon’s Knot: St John Passion Bach St John Passion BWV245 (2nd version, 1725) Handl Ecce quomodo moritur justus Solomon’s Knot makes its debut at Wigmore Hall with a rarely heard version of a familiar favourite. The Johannes-Passion of JS Bach exists in four different variants, not all of which are fully reconstructible, and that with which we are most familiar is a combination of these. For his second performance in 1725, just one year after the first, Bach made significant changes: the framing choral pillars of the work were replaced, and key arias, above all for the tenor, were changed. Fans of the Johannes-Passion unfamiliar with the 1725 version will have the pleasure of seeing (or hearing!) an old friend in a new light. Solomon’s Knot will also perform the motet that was sung after every Passion performance in Leipzig, ‘Ecce quomodo moritur justus’ by Jacob Handl. With its small forces, no conductor, and memorised performances, Solomon’s Knot is giving its beloved 17th- and 18th-century repertoire a ‘serious kick up the baroque backside’ (365Bristol). Approximately 2 hours 15 minutes, including an interval £50 £40 £30 £25 £18
Solomon’s Knot © Gerard Collett
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APRIL • 21
Sunday 14 April 11.30am
Sunday 14 April 3.00pm
Sunday 14 April 7.30pm
Alexandra Dariescu piano
Gavan Ring baritone Simon Lepper piano
Lise de la Salle piano
Debussy Estampes Tailleferre Romance; Pastorale; Impromptu; Larghetto; Valse lente L Boulanger Prelude in D flat; 3 Morceaux pour piano Messiaen Préludes: No. 1 ‘La colombe’, No. 7 ‘Plainte calme’ & No. 8 ‘Un reflet dans le vent’ Fauré Préludes: in G minor Op. 103 No. 3 & in F Op. 103 No. 4 Debussy L’isle joyeuse In 2017, the Romanian-born British pianist made a splash with her innovative performance piece The Nutcracker and I. A current focus is women composers, notably the prodigious Lili Boulanger and Les Six member Germaine Tailleferre.
Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Seóirse Bodley Stróll; Do bhádhasa Uair; Cré; Paidir I Harty A Mayo Love Song Larchet The Philosophy of Love Winning plaudits everywhere he sings, baritone Gavan Ring joins with Simon Lepper to perform music from his homeland in the shape of works by Hamilton Harty, John Francis Larchet (1884-1967) and Seóirse Bodley (born 1933), all influenced by Irish traditional music. All seats £16 Supported by Frances and David Waters
£16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Alexandra Dariescu © Marco Borggreve
Mozart Fantasia in D minor K397; Rondo in D K485; Rondo in A minor K511; Variations on ‘Ah vous dirai-je, maman’ K265 Fauré Barcarolles: No. 4 in A flat Op. 44, No. 5 in F sharp minor Op. 66 & No. 6 in E flat Op. 70 Chopin Nocturnes: in D flat Op. 27 No. 2, in F Op. 15 No. 1 & in C minor Op. 48 No. 1 Prokofiev 10 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet Op. 75 The French pianist returns to Wigmore Hall in a classical-tomodern programme that includes Chopin’s luminous nocturnes and Fauré’s substantial barcarolles alongside Prokofiev’s selfarranged ballet score. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Gavan Ring © Anthony-Riordan
Lise de la Salle © Stéphane Gallois
22 • APRIL
Wednesday 17 April 7.30pm
The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor
Michael Pennington narrator
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Music from the Chapel Royal with excerpts from Pepys’ diary Cooke O Lord, thou hast searched me out Blow In the time of trouble Humfrey Lord, I have sinned Blow Salvator mundi Corbetta Preludio and Chiacona Humfrey O Lord my God; By the waters of Babylon Pepys/Morelli Beauty retire Cooke Put me not to rebuke Humfrey Wilt thou forgive that sin (A Hymne to God the Father) Humfrey/Blow/Turner I will alway give thanks (The ‘Club’ Anthem) In its 40th anniversary season, the ensemble celebrates the group of young composers who revivified the Chapel Royal at Charles II’s Restoration, adding a contemporary commentary from Samuel Pepys.
The Sixteen © Molina visuals
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APRIL • 23 Schubert Cycles
Monday 15 April 1.00pm
Monday 15 April 7.30pm
Wednesday 17 April 10.15am and 11.45am
Tabea Zimmermann viola Adam Walker flute Agnès Clément harp
Ian Bostridge tenor Saskia Giorgini piano
Chamber Tots: In the Garden
Bax Elegiac Trio for flute, viola and harp Debussy Syrinx for solo flute; Sonata for flute, viola and harp Stravinsky Elegy for solo viola Sofia Gubaidulina Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten for flute, viola and harp
Repeat of concert on 13 April
Schubert Die schöne Müllerin D795 Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle
Works for the combination of flute, viola and harp are explored by three exceptional artists, with Debussy’s late Sonata (1915) and Bax’s Elegiac Trio (1916) interspersed with solo miniatures and preceding Sofia Gubaidulina’s haunting Garden of Joys and Sorrows (1980).
10.15am – 11.15am (1–2 year-olds) 11.45am – 12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) Children £7 Adults £5
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Tabea Zimmermann © Marco Borggreve
Interactive music-making sessions for children aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers, with songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close. Presented by music leaders Esther Sheridan and Lucy Drever alongside emerging chamber ensembles.
Ian Bostridge © Sim Canetty-Clarke
Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega
24 • APRIL
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SOLACE WOMEN’S AID Wigmore Hall works in partnership with Solace Women’s Aid, an organisation that for more than 40 years has supported women and children in London to build safe and strong lives and futures free from abuse and violence. Musicians from Wigmore Hall lead weekly workshops with women and children who have experienced domestic abuse, using singing and creative music making to help improve their wellbeing and provide a space where women and children can have fun together and express themselves creatively. We see first-hand the positive effect that music can have on the participants: over the series of workshops we often witness participants increasing in confidence, and the bond between mothers and children is strengthened.
'Music offers an emotional release for both mother and child, it helps strengthen bonds, unlocks creativity that has been stifled and suppressed, because of abuse.' Solace Women’s Aid staff member
Music Leader Georgia Duncan © Benjamin Ealovega
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APRIL • 25
Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Bach’s keyboard works have been part of Angela Hewitt’s daily life since childhood – an ongoing involvement that continues to inform her inspiring performances today. ‘To develop in his company one’s musical intelligence, technique, beauty of sound and spirit,’ she wrote, ‘is a great gift and a lifelong adventure.’ Thursday 18 April 7.30pm
Angela Hewitt piano Bach Toccatas: in C minor BWV911, in G BWV916, in F sharp minor BWV910, in E minor BWV914, in D minor BWV913, in G minor BWV915 & in D BWV912; Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor BWV903 The Italian word ‘toccata’ simply means touched, implying music that should be lightly and brilliantly despatched. Angela Hewitt concentrates on those by Bach, which date from the earlier part of his career.
Saturday 20 April 7.30pm
Sunday 21 April 11.30am
Trio Mediæval
Kelemen Quartet
Lumen de Lumine
Haydn Seven Last Words from the Cross Op. 51
Anon (16th century) Ecce lignum crucis (an antiphon for Good Friday) (arr. Trio Mediæval); Alleluia: Surrexit Dominus vere (an antiphon for Easter) (arr. Trio Mediæval) Trad/Estonian/Friman Abba, hjärtans Fader god; Pris vare Gud; Nu haver denna dag Sungji Hong From Missa Lumen de Lumine: Kyrie & Agnus Dei Anon (13th century) De la crudel morte de Cristo (arr. Trio Mediæval); Plangiamo quel crudel basciar (arr. Trio Mediæval); Oi me lasso Anon Veni creator Spiritus Trad/Norwegian/Fuglseth Kyrkjeklokka; Nu solen går ned; Krist er oppstanden; Fryd dig, du Kristi brud Andrew Smith New work Gavin Bryars Ave regina gloriosa (Lauda VII) attr. Pérotin Beata Viscera
Forthcoming Concerts in this Series
Founded in 1997, the Norwegian vocal trio explores its specialisms in music from its chosen period and works by selected contemporary composers such as the English Gavin Bryars and Andrew Smith as well as the Korean Sungji Hong.
Thursday 13 June 7.30pm
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£40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Angela Hewitt © Keith Saunders
Trio Mediaeval © Ingvil Skeie Ljones
Founded in 2010, the Kelemen Quartet has achieved considerable prominence among today’s ensembles. Haydn composed his originally orchestral Seven Last Words for liturgical performance in Cádiz in 1786, each of Jesus’ moving statements being represented by a slow movement; the following year the present version for string quartet was published as his Op. 51. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Kelemen Quartet © László Emmer
26 • APRIL
Fauré/Schumann Project
Steven Isserlis has consistently championed his favourite composers, his love and enthusiasm for their music shining through committed interpretations. Throughout this series, he joins with a group of musical friends to espouse the causes of two contrasting figures, in each case exploring works that deserve to be more frequently heard.
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Tuesday 23 April 7.30pm
Steven Isserlis cello Janine Jansen violin Arisa Fujita violin Amihai Grosz viola Connie Shih piano Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Fauré Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor Op. 89; Romance Op. 69; Elégie Op. 24 Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47 The latest instalment of Steven Isserlis’s juxtaposition of two favourite composers includes the first of Fauré’s two piano quintets, unveiled in 1906, and Schumann’s single piano quartet, an exuberant work emanating from his year devoted to chamber music (1842). £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Events in this Series Saturday 16 June 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk with Steven Isserlis Saturday 16 June 7.30pm Steven Isserlis cello with Anthony Marwood violin Irène Duval violin Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad viola Dénes Várjon piano & Izabella Simon piano
Steven Isserlis © Kevin Davis
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Ensemble Correspondances Residency Monday 22 April 1.00pm
Pavel Haas Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor Op. 108; String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Named after a Czech composer taught by Janáček and subsequently murdered in the Holocaust, the ensemble’s performances have been described as ‘spellbinding’ due to its ‘total immersion in the music’. Dedicated to the memory of his first wife, Nina, Shostakovich’s Seventh Quartet (1960) precedes his wartime Second (1941), which refers to Jewish folk music. £16 concs £14
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. Monday 22 April 7.30pm
Ensemble Correspondances Sébastien Daucé conductor, organ Sophie Karthäuser soprano Leçons des Ténèbres de Lalande Plainchant: Tristis est anima mea, Ecce vidimus eum, Vinea mea electa, Plange quasi virgo & Salve regina; Leçons: du Mercredy Saint, du Jeudy Saint & du Vendredy Saint Charpentier Salve Regina de Lalande Cantique sur le bonheur des justes; Miserere mei Deus A varied programme of sacred works by a leading French Baroque composer who held several important appointments under both Louis XIV and his successor and which climaxes in one of his celebrated grands motets. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18
Pavel Haas Quartet © Marco Borggreve
Ensemble Correspondances with Sébastien Daucé © Molina Visuals
28 • APRIL
Schumann Song Series
Focusing on a figure widely featured in themed programmes throughout the season, the Schumann Song Series – devised by Malcolm Martineau and musicologist Susan Youens, with singers chosen by John Gilhooly – offers an in-depth exploration of the great composer’s extraordinary output, which is amongst the most rewarding within the entire Lieder tradition. The Schumann Song Series is made possible with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund Wednesday 24 April 7.30pm
Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Robin Tritschler tenor Malcolm Martineau piano Schumann Myrthen Op. 25 Schumann Duets: Er und Sie; In der Nacht from Spanisches Liederspiel; Liebhabers Ständchen; Unterm Fenster Two leading singers join Malcolm Martineau in the final concert of the series, with a programme featuring Myrthen, one of Schumann’s major song collections, presented in 1840 to Clara Wieck as a wedding present from her new husband: myrtles are regularly made into bridal wreaths. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall
Malcolm Martineau © Russell Duncan
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Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2019 The annual auditions for the famous singing competition, founded in memory of one of the UK’s best-loved contraltos, attract capacity houses from both devoted lovers of vocal art and students of singing. Wednesday 24 April 1.30pm
Semi-Final £19 students £12 Friday 26 April 6.00pm
Final £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
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Thursday 25 April 7.30pm
Saturday 27 April 10.30am – 3.30pm
The Orlando Consort
Family Day: Wild River Adventures
The Secrets of Heaven Dunstaple Veni sancte spiritus/ Veni creator spiritus; Quam pulchra es; Descendi in ortum meum Anon (13th century) Alleluya Christo iubilemus Anon (14th century) O sponsa Dei electa; Kyrie, Cuthberte prece Power Gloria Bittering En Katerine solennia Roy Henry Sanctus Anon (2nd Fountains Abbey Manuscript) Credo Anon (Trent Codices) Stella caeli Pyamour Quam pulcra es Forest Tota pulcra es Plummer Anna mater matris Christi Anon (Egerton Manuscript) Audivi vocem Anon (Ritson Manuscript) Gaude virgo Trouluffe Nesciens mater Lambe Stella celi The Orlando Consort’s selection of 14th- and 15th-century sacred music from England’s first great age features works by John Dunstaple, Leonel Power and John Plummer, the forebears of Taverner, Sheppard and Byrd. Everything is here: beauty, spirituality, invention, complexity and virtuosity.
For ages 5 plus Join music leader Hannah Opstad on a winding adventure as we follow the journey of a river through mountains, waterfalls and wherever our imaginations take us! Together we’ll explore stories and music inspired by rivers and create our own musical journey to share with each other onstage. Children £10 Adults £15
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£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 The Orlando Consort © Eric Richmond
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Family Day © James Berry
30 • APRIL
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Saturday 27 April 7.30pm
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Reto Bieri clarinet Polina Leschenko piano Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Vivier Piece for violin and clarinet Bartók Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano BB116 Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano Milhaud Jeu from Suite for clarinet, violin and piano Op. 157b Paul Schoenfield Trio for clarinet, violin and piano Three highly individual musicians – the Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist, Swiss clarinettist and Russian pianist – come together in different permutations for a broad programme climaxing in a 1990 trio by the American Paul Schoenfield, which incorporates a variety of Jewish-influenced material. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Patricia Kopatchinskaja © Marco Borggreve
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Sunday 28 April 11.30am
Sunday 28 April 6.30pm NB time
Ning Feng violin Yukako Morikawa piano
Louis Lortie piano
Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor K304 Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano Sarasate Zigeunerweisen Op. 20 A multi-award-winning Chinese violinist joins with the Japanese pianist for a programme drawing on three different traditions: Mozart’s troubled sonata written at the time of his mother’s death in 1778; Franck’s buoyant late-Romantic masterpiece; and the late 19th-century Spanish composer-violinist Pablo de Sarasate’s flamboyantly colourful tribute to gypsy melodies.
Liszt Années de pèlerinage: première année, Suisse S160, deuxième année, Italie S161 & troisième année S163 The French-Canadian pianist celebrates his 60th birthday this year, four years after his set of Liszt’s three-volume Years of Pilgrimage – impressions of travels in Italy and Switzerland, composed over a period of 40 years – was hailed as one of the ten best recordings of the year by The New Yorker. Approximately 3 hours 10 minutes in duration, including two intervals £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
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Ning Feng © Felix Broede
Louis Lortie © EliasPhotography
32 • APRIL
Monday 29 April 1.00pm
Julian Prégardien tenor Eric Le Sage piano Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Fauré Nocturne No. 6 in D flat Op. 63 (solo piano) Fauré La bonne chanson Op. 61 Two exceptional artists – the French pianist especially admired for his interpretations of Schumann and Fauré – unite for a programme devoted to major cycles by both composers. The former’s Heine cycle precedes the latter’s Verlaine settings of 1892-4, dedicated to Emma Bardac, with whom Fauré was in love at the time of composition. £16 concs £14
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Wigmore Study Group: Ravel Monday 29 April Thursday 2 May Monday 6 May All dates 3.00pm – 6.00pm Crossing the divide: Ravel's music for voice and chamber ensemble Ravel pushed boundaries in his song writing, blurring the lines between natural spoken and sung French in ways that scandalised his contemporaries. In 1913, Stravinsky introduced him to Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and his own Three Japanese Lyrics. Ravel was inspired to bring an instrumental quality to his vocal writing and this led to his Chansons madécasses. Explore Ravel's superlative mastery of instrumentation alongside his unique imaginative approach to setting the French language, in these sessions presented by composer Julian Philips, with pianist Laura Roberts, visiting speakers and student performers from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Monday 29 April 7.30pm
Hagen Quartet Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 13 in B flat minor Op. 138 Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor Op. 131 Offering masterpieces by three of the greatest composers for the medium, what is by general consensus one of the world’s finest quartets has achieved renown for its performances not only of the classical repertoire but also of Shostakovich, whose innovative one-movement work was completed in August 1970 following a period of ill health. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Series ticket price £70 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on Monday 6 May Julian Prégardien © Marco Borggreve
Maurice Ravel
Hagen Quartet © Harald Hoffmann
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Pekka Kuusisto Residency Tuesday 30 April 7.30pm
Marcus Farnsworth baritone
James Baillieu piano Lines from a Wanderer Schubert Der Wanderer an den Mond; Auf der Donau; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Auf der Bruck (Auf der Brücke) Fauré L’horizon chimérique Op. 118 Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Scheiden und Meiden & Ich ging mit Lust; Ging heut’ Morgen from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen from Rückert Lieder John Casken Lines from a Wanderer (London première) Britten Lemady; The False Knight upon the Road; The Soldier and the Sailor; At the mid hour of night; The Crocodile After winning several vocal prizes, Marcus Farnsworth has gone on to found and direct the Southwell Music Festival. A highlight of his programme is John Casken’s cycle, which he and James Baillieu premièred in 2016. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Marcus Farnsworth © Andy Staples
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. As he continues to refresh the classics, he demonstrates an equal ability to enthuse audiences for new music conceived in a variety of genres. Pekka Kuusisto’s Residency is supported by Sir Siegmund Warburg's Voluntary Settlement, with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund Wednesday 1 May 7.30pm
Pekka Kuusisto violin Prof Dr Erik Scherder neuropsychologist Jukka Huitila visual designer Programme to include music by JS Bach, Kreutzer, Thomas Adès, Jörg Widmann and Paganini Pekka Kuusisto and Professor Scherder demonstrate the strength and beauty of music when experienced by different human brains; a developing versus an adult brain, a vulnerable brain affected by diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, and the brain of a patient experiencing pain. They also explore what, if anything, happens in the brain of a professional violinist and the brain of a musical improviser, look at the possible differences between musical and non-musical brains and explore the involvement of important neural systems when singing. This event promises to be an exciting and insightful evening! £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2018/19 Wigmore Series Pekka Kuusisto © Kaapo Kamu
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Thursday 2 May 7.30pm
Friday 3 May 7.00pm NB time
Notos Quartett
Piotr Anderszewski piano
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 60 Françaix Divertissement for string trio and piano Bartók Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 20 (UK première)
50th Birthday Concert
This programme contains the UK première of a major work by Bartók championed by the outstanding German piano quartet in its search for forgotten musical treasure. Lost for many years, the quartet was written in lateRomantic style in 1898, when the composer was 17.
Programme to include: Preludes and Fugues from Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II Beethoven 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 A celebratory event for the popular Polish pianist who turns 50 this year and who made his Wigmore debut nearly 30 years ago. His own recording of Beethoven’s mighty set of variations won various prizes while his long relationship with the piece has been chronicled in a film by Bruno Monsaingeon. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
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Notos Quartett © Uwe Arens
Piotr Anderszewski © MG de Saint Venant licenced to Virgin Classics
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Wigmore Lates Friday 3 May 10.00pm
Sunday 5 May 11.30am
Sunday 5 May 3.00pm
Anne Sofie von Otter
Jan Vogler cello Antti Siirala piano
Paula Murrihy mezzo-
mezzo-soprano
Bengt Forsberg piano Purcell/Thomas Adès By Beauteous Softness Britten Voici le Printemps; La belle est au jardin d’amour; Fileuse; The Plough Boy; The Foggy, Foggy Dew; At the mid hour of night; Come you not from Newcastle?; The Salley Gardens Grainger Peace and Saxon Twiplay and other piano solos Shostakovich 6 Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva Op. 143 The great mezzo returns for a late-night event with her regular pianist Bengt Forsberg, their main work Shostakovich’s powerful settings of a poet who had lived outside Russia for many years before returning in 1939, eventually committing suicide in 1941, alongside an admiring realisation by Thomas Adès of a great predecessor’s work.
Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat Op. 70 Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 The German-born, New-Yorkresident cellist and his Finnish pianist partner offer two major sonatas – Beethoven’s last work for the instrument, which prefigures his final period, and Shostakovich’s intense work of 1934, alongside Schumann’s late and expressive pair of movements. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
soprano
Malcolm Martineau piano The Mendelssohns and the Schumanns Programme to include: Felix Mendelssohn 6 Gesänge Op. 99 Robert Schumann 6 Gedichte von N Lenau und Requiem Op. 90 Selection of Lieder by Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann The Irish mezzo and her Scottish pianist present a programme assembling songs by Fanny Mendelssohn and her brother Felix, and Clara Schumann and her husband Robert – those by the two female composers steadily moving towards the centre of our listening experience. All seats £16
All seats £16
Anne Sofie von Otter © Mats Bäcker
Jan Vogler © Jim Rakete
Paula Murrihy © Barbara Aumüller
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Wigmore Lates Wigmore Lates, firm fixtures in the Hall’s summer calendar, make the ideal start to the weekend. Join us for a late-night concert, followed by live music in the bar. Kicking off with a wonderful mezzo-soprano and piano duo, highlights include the Chineke! Orchestra, Europe’s first majority-BME orchestra, Sean Shibe’s ‘bracingly original concert programme’ softLOUD (Gramophone), and sarod virtuosi Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash. Visit wigmore-hall.org.uk/lates for full details. The Wigmore Lates series is supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust All seats £16 (including entry to the bar after the concert)
Friday 3 May 10.00pm
Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo-soprano Bengt Forsberg piano Haunting songs by Shostakovich, folksongs by Britten and a Purcell realisation by Thomas Adès open this year’s Wigmore Lates series
Friday 31 May 10.00pm
Amaan Ali Bangash sarod Ayaan Ali Bangash sarod Jennifer Pike violin Sons of the sarod great Amjad Ali Khan play works by their father, joined by Jennifer Pike, who also explores a solo Bach partita
Friday 14 June 10.00pm
Viktoria Mullova violin The Russian violinist plays solo works by Bach, Dai Fujikura, Sir George Benjamin, Prokofiev and her son Misha Mullov-Abbado
Friday 21 June 10.00pm
Chineke! Orchestra Celebrated ensemble and Europe’s first majority BME orchestra explores chamber works by Saint-Saëns and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, alongside the London première of Nnenna by Errollyn Wallen
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Sean Shibe guitar softLOUD = acoustic and electric, ancient and modern, traditional and innovative... Sean Shibe brings Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint together with mellow, old and new Scottish tunes
Friday 12 July 10.00pm
Adam Walker flute Sean Shibe guitar Flautist Adam Walker is joined by guitarist Sean Shibe for Piazolla’s most famous work Histoire du Tango, as well as pieces by Takemitsu and Shankar
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Friday 19 July 10.00pm
Susan Bullock soprano Richard Sisson piano Songs from the Great American Songbook, from classic Rodgers & Hammerstein and George Gershwin to modern masters Burt Bacharach and Stephen Sondheim
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In Focus: Sir George Benjamin Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music Clark Rundell artistic director
The Royal Northern College of Music and Wigmore Hall are delighted to present a day of music to celebrate the work of composer Sir George Benjamin. Benjamin is truly one of the musical giants of our time, composing music that must be heard live. The visceral quality of the music he creates absorbs the listener in constantly shifting layers of sound, from the startling to the touching and from the virtuosic to the beautifully simple. Following on from performances in Manchester in January, this study day features solo, chamber and orchestral works performed by students from the RNCM.
Saturday 4 May 10.30am – 11.20am
RNCM soloists Maria Luc, Luke Jones, Anna Denisova piano Katie Hyland flute Sir George Benjamin Meditation on Haydn’s Name; Relativity Rag; Flight; Sortilèges; Piano Figures Saturday 4 May 12 noon – 1.00pm
In Conversation Music broadcaster and curator Sara Mohr-Pietsch (BBC Radio 3) leads an informal conversation with today's featured composer Sir George Benjamin. Saturday 4 May 2.00pm – 3.00pm
RNCM New Ensemble Mark Heron, Jack Sheen, Laurent Zufferey conductors Callum Smart violin Sir George Benjamin Octet; 3 Miniatures for solo violin; Fantasia 7 after Henry Purcell; At First Light All seats £5 (each event) or day ticket £12 In partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music
Sir George Benjamin © Matthew Lloyd
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Sunday 5 May 7.30pm
Monday 6 May 1.00pm
Tuesday 7 May 7.30pm
Aaron Pilsan piano
The King’s Singers
Andreas Staier fortepiano
Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Op. 10 No. 3 Szymanowski Metopes Op. 29 Liszt Sonetto del Petrarca No. 47 from Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année, Italie S161; Mephisto Waltz No. 1 S514
An unconventional journey from Moscow to London in one hour
Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959; Piano Sonata in B flat D960
Currently studying with Lars Vogt, the 24-year-old Austrian has already garnered significant attention with performances and a solo recording of Beethoven and Schubert; in his Wigmore debut, he reveals wider interests in Liszt and in Szymanowski’s triptych inspired by Greek mythology. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Alexander Levine New work (part one) Kedrov Otche Nash Sibelius Rakastava (The Lover) Tormis Ratas Zieleński In monte oliveti Kodály Esti dal Tučapský Slough Comedian Harmonists Eins, zwei, drei und vier Brahms Abendständchen Poulenc 4 petites prières de Saint François d’Assise Alexander Levine New work (part two) Music from Home – songs in The King’s Singers’ signature close-harmony style from the British Isles Now in their sixth decade, the everinventive King’s Singers take us on an entertaining journey with many and multifarious stopping-off points, topped and tailed by a new work.
Andreas Staier has become particularly admired for his performances of works from the classical and early Romantic periods on the fortepiano. Two large-scale sonatas, both dating from Schubert’s final year, will offer him supreme opportunities for his talents, both expansive compositions conceived on a substantial scale and executed with profundity. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In Memory of Peter Flatter
£16 concs £14
Aaron Pilsan © Marie Staggat
The King's Singers © Marco Borggreve
Andreas Staier © Josep Molina
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Saturday 4 May 7.30pm
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Georg Kallweit leader Handel and Telemann Handel Concerti Grossi Op. 3: No. 4 in F, No. 5 in D minor, No. 2 in B flat, No. 6 in D, No. 3 in G & No. 1 in B flat Telemann From Canons Mélodieux: Piacevole non Largo from Sonata No. 4 in D minor TWV40:121, Presto from Sonata No. 2 in G minor TWV40:119, Adagio from Sonata No. 1 in G TWV40:118 & Soave from Sonata No. 6 in A minor TWV40:123 One of the most widely admired of all Baroque ensembles, the Berlin period-instrument orchestra’s programme focuses on Handel’s Concerti Grossi Op. 3, published in 1734, alternating with Telemann’s Canonic Sonatas, which appeared four years later. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin © Uwe Arens
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Saturday 11 May 1.00pm
Saturday 11 May 7.30pm
Sumi Jo Masterclass
Alban Gerhardt cello Steven Osborne piano
For more than 30 years, the consummate artistry of the lyric coloratura soprano and bel canto specialist has enchanted audiences the world over. Working here with students from London music colleges, she passes on her insights into vocal technique and interpretation in a repertoire in which she has few peers. Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval £10 concs £8 Sunday 12 May 3.00pm
Sumi Jo soprano Gary Matthewman piano Krzysztof Meisinger guitar Rossini La fioraia fiorentina; Sombre forêt from Guillaume Tell Villa-Lobos Melodia Sentimental from Floresta do Amazonas; Aria (Cantilena) from Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 Tárrega Rosita Chabrier España (arr. Krzysztof Meisinger for voice, piano and guitar) Debussy Nuit d’étoiles; Rondel chinois; L’âme évaporée; La romance d’Ariel Ravel Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera Lecocq O Paris, gai séjour de plaisir from Les cent vierges The star Korean soprano collaborates with two eminent musicians for this programme visiting Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, Spain (including an unusual arrangement of Chabrier’s showpiece), Cuba and China before focusing on Paris.
Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Falla 7 canciones populares españolas (arr. Maurice Maréchal for cello and piano) Debussy Estampes (solo piano) Ravel Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs (arr. Mario CastelnuovoTedesco); Pièce en forme de habanera (arr. Paul Bazelaire); Tzigane (arr. Laszlo Varga) A pairing of ‘superbly instinctive players with an almost subliminal sense of what the other is about to do’ (The Guardian) return for a programme whose German first half is succeeded by a second highlighting arrangements of Spanish and gypsy-related pieces. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
All seats £16 Sumi Jo © Youngho Kang
Alban Gerhardt © Kaupo Kikkas
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Ravel Song Series Maurice Ravel was a complex creative figure, in whose highly sophisticated art elements from his native French tradition meld with other distinctive influences – notably a fascination with Spanish culture, and an attraction to various kinds of exoticism – both aspects explored in this series put together by pianist Joseph Middleton.
Monday 6 May 7.30pm
Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Roderick Williams baritone Adam Walker flute Guy Johnston cello Joseph Middleton piano Basque blood and the folksong Fauré Vocalise-étude Ravel Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera; Don Quichotte à Dulcinée; 5 mélodies populaires grecques; From Chants populaires: Chanson française, Chanson espagnole, Chanson italienne, Chanson hébraïque & Chanson ecossaise Guridi 6 Canciones Castellanas Britten Il est quelqu’un sur terre Falla Asturiana from 7 canciones populares españolas Scarlatti Son tutta duolo Schumann Aus den hebräischen Gesängen from Myrthen Trad/Scottish Ca’ the yowes Ravel Chansons madécasses An intriguing programme exploring folksong and its impact on the classical world, especially through the works of Maurice Ravel, whose mother was Basque, as was Jesús Guridi. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Clara Mouriz © Jose Manuel Bielsa
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Sunday 12 May 11.30am
Monday 13 May 1.00pm
Monday 13 May 7.30pm
Castalian Quartet
Gould Piano Trio
Håkan Hardenberger
Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’
Kirchner From Bunte Blätter Op. 83: Novellette, Lied ohne Worte, Barcarola, Capriccio & Abendmusik Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8
Over the last few years, the Castalian Quartet has won a number of awards that testify to its excellence within a crowded field; its programme comprises Britten’s 1945 masterpiece and a popular work by a composer Britten particularly loved. Schubert’s quartet refers to more than one of his songs, while its slow movement is a set of variations on a theme from his incidental music to the play Rosamunde.
Coloured Leaves is a title readily associated with Schumann, but the enterprising Gould Piano Trio performs extracts from a similar set of pieces by the forgotten Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903), a figure admired not only by Schumann but also Brahms, whose First Trio completes the programme. £16 concs £14
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trumpet
Roland Pöntinen piano Antheil Trumpet Sonata Staffan Storm Three Autumns Berio Sequenza X for solo trumpet; Wasserklavier Salvatore Sciarrino Anamorfosi Gershwin Swanee Roland Pöntinen L’éléphant rose Jan Lundgren The Seagull Thomson At the Beach One of the most virtuosic trumpeters and a prominent Swedish pianist team up to ensure a lively event, distinguished here by Staffan Storm’s work inspired by Anna Akhmatova, the sonata by the self-styled ‘bad boy’ of music, and a piece by Roland Pöntinen himself. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Castalian Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas
Gould Piano Trio © Jake Morley
Håkan Hardenberger © Marco Borggreve
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The Complete Bartók String Quartets Wednesday 8 May 7.30pm
Thursday 9 May 7.30pm
Jerusalem Quartet
Jerusalem Quartet
Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52; String Quartet No. 3 BB93; String Quartet No. 5 BB110
Bartók String Quartet No. 2 BB75; String Quartet No. 4 BB95; String Quartet No. 6 BB119
‘Beauty and muscularity abound’, said The Strad of the Jerusalem Quartet’s recording of three of Bartók’s quartets – together one of the cornerstones of the repertoire. In the first of two programmes the leading Israeli ensemble offers the odd-numbered works, traversing a musical journey that takes the composer from 1909 to 1934.
The even-numbered works date from between the period 1915-17 and the beginning of the Second World War. Highly original in their thematic material and technical demands, these three works form a mighty challenge to any group of players but remain infinitely rewarding for listeners in their variety and expressive power.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £18
£40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Jerusalem Quartet © Robert Torres
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Tuesday 14 May 7.00pm NB time
Wednesday 15 May 11.00am and 12.30pm
Thursday 16 May 3.00pm and 7.00pm
Sir András Schiff piano
For Crying Out Loud!
YCAT Public Final Auditions 2019
Bach Partitas: No. 5 in G BWV829, No. 3 in A minor BWV827, No. 1 in B flat BWV825, No. 2 in C minor BWV826, No. 4 in D BWV828 & No. 6 in E minor BWV830 Repeat of concert on 10 May Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval £50 £45 £40 £35 £25
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. Parents-to-be are also warmly welcomed. Approximately 45 minutes in duration Adults £8.50 (babies come free)
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Young Classical Artists Trust: the destination point for emerging talent YCAT Artists are selected through a rigorous annual auditions process. In this third and final round, outstanding young soloists and chamber ensembles, selected from over 100 applicants in the preliminary rounds, audition before a panel of distinguished judges. Join YCAT in celebrating the very best emerging talent in the UK at this unique event. Previous artists include Ian Bostridge, Alison Balsom, James Baillieu and the Heath, Doric and Belcea Quartets. Both sessions (3.00pm and 7.00pm): £20 Individual session: £12 concs £10 YCAT is grateful for support from the Rachel Baker Memorial Charity, Help Musicians UK and the International Music and Art Foundation for this series
Sir András Schiff © Nadia F Romanini
For Crying Out Loud! © Benjamin Ealovega
YCAT © Kaupo Kikkas
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Friday 10 May 7.00pm NB time
Sir András Schiff piano Bach Partitas: No. 5 in G BWV829, No. 3 in A minor BWV827, No. 1 in B flat BWV825, No. 2 in C minor BWV826, No. 4 in D BWV828 & No. 6 in E minor BWV830 Having won exceptional praise for his performances of the 48 Preludes and Fugues at the Proms, a musician who is unquestionably one of today’s leading Bach interpreters takes on the group of keyboard suites published between 1726 and 1730. Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval £50 £45 £40 £35 £25 Concert Repeated Tuesday 14 May 7.00pm
Sir András Schiff © Yutaka Suzuki
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Friday 17 May 11.00am – 12 noon
Saturday 18 May 11.00am – 12 noon
Saturday 18 May 7.30pm
Schools Concert: Heroes and Villains
Family Concert: Heroes and Villains
Ema Nikolovska
Key Stage 2
For ages 5 plus
Join countertenor Patrick Terry, presenter Isabelle Adams and characters from 18th-century opera for a concert of glorious arias and diva behaviour. Travel on a marvellous musical journey and explore the costumes, drama and characters of the time.
Join countertenor Patrick Terry, presenter Isabelle Adams and characters from 18th-century opera for a concert of glorious arias and diva behaviour. Travel on a marvellous musical journey and explore the costumes, drama and characters of the time.
Children £4 Accompanying Adults Free (ticket required)
Children £10 Adults £12
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mezzo-soprano
Dylan Perez piano Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize 2019 Purcell Sweeter than Roses; From Silent Shades Schubert Auflösung; Abendstern; Der Musensohn; An die Entfernte Wolf Auf einer Wanderung; Lied vom Winde; Verschwiegene Liebe; Nimmersatte Liebe Mahler Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?; Phantasie aus Don Juan; Erinnerung; Frühlingsmorgen; Selbstgefühl Medtner Twilight; The Raven; Sleeplessness Rodrigo En Jerez de la Frontera; Adela; De ronda; Canción del cucú; ¡Un Home, San Antonio! Ned Rorem What Sparks and Wiry Cries; A Journey; A Birthday; Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair; Visits to St Elizabeth’s The prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska offers a programme covering five distinctive national traditions. £16 concs £14
Schools Concert © Benjamin Ealovega
Family Concert © Belinda Lawley
Ema Nikolovska © Lazar Nikolovski
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Associate Artists
Takács Quartet
Founded as long ago as 1975 in Budapest but resident at the University of Boulder, Colorado, since 1983, the long-revered Takács Quartet has undergone inevitable changes in personnel while retaining its position as one of the world’s most distinctive ensembles and maintaining a close connection with Wigmore Hall as Associate Artists. Wednesday 15 May 7.30pm
Takács Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Bartók String Quartet No. 6 BB119 Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27 A varied programme including mature masterpieces by Haydn and Bartók alongside Grieg’s sole completed and extant work in the medium – a substantial piece in which the composer strove for ‘breadth and soaring flight’ and achieves emotional power as well as dynamic flow. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to The String Quartet Circle Takács Quartet © Amanda Tipton photography
Friday 17 May 7.30pm
Takács Quartet Garrick Ohlsson piano Beach 5 Improvisations Op. 148 Elgar May Song; Serenade for piano Beach Piano Quintet Op. 67 Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84 Joined by Garrick Ohlsson, who plays some rarely heard piano pieces, the Takács players explore the admired Piano Quintet (1907) by Amy Beach, an American late-Romantic composer whose work is steadily, if belatedly, coming to the fore, and the energetic example written by Elgar some 10 years later. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
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MAY • 49
Sunday 19 May 11.30am
Sunday 19 May 7.30pm
Monday 20 May 1.00pm
Jonathan Plowright piano
Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble Trevor Pinnock conductor Thomas Gould violin, leader
Andreas Haefliger piano
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV1048 Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 (arr. Józef Koffler) (UK première)
‘Even more than many musicians,’ wrote The Daily Telegraph, ‘Andreas Haefliger has made Beethoven central to his thinking.’ A regular guest at Wigmore Hall over many seasons, the Swiss pianist returns with two of the late piano sonatas in a recital sure to be savoured as a highlight of considered musicianship.
Paderewski From Humoresques de Concert Op. 14: Menuet célèbre, Sarabande & Caprice (genre Scarlatti) Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op. 37b With his interest in works beyond the regular repertoire, Jonathan Plowright tackles rarities by two late-Romantic composers; three pieces by the celebrated Polish pianist and politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1887), and Tchaikovsky’s delightful traversal of the months of the year. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Trevor Pinnock directs the Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble, who are joined for this collaboration by violinist Thomas Gould and students from Toronto’s Glenn Gould School. This concert features the UK premiere of Józef Koffler’s remarkable arrangement of the Goldberg Variations, completed in 1938. Scored for small orchestra, the version is largely unknown, surprisingly so given the ubiquity of Bach’s keyboard original.
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111
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Jonathan Plowright © Diane Shaw
Trevor Pinnock © Matthias von der Tann
Andreas Haefliger © Marco Borggreve
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APPRENTICE COMPOSER As part of Wigmore Hall’s Pathways programme, we are delighted to be working with Daniel Fardon, the Rosie Johnson RPS Wigmore Hall Apprentice Composer 2018/19. The Apprentice Composer scheme, in partnership with the Royal Philharmonic Society, is part of a trio of opportunities Wigmore Hall offers for emerging artists, alongside the Trainee Music Leader and the Royal Academy of Music/Wigmore Hall Fellowship Ensemble programmes. Across the year, the Apprentice Composer has opportunities to observe, take part in and collaborate on projects led by Wigmore Hall Learning, as well as mentorship from Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, Helen Grime. On Wednesday 17 July 2019 Wigmore Hall is proud to host the world première of a newly commissioned work by Daniel Fardon, commissioned by the RPS, for the 2018/19 Fellowship Ensemble, the Bloomsbury Quartet.
Daniel Fardon © James Hamp
'I am incredibly excited to be working with the Wigmore Hall, Royal Philharmonic Society, and Bloomsbury Quartet on the Rosie Johnson Apprentice Composer scheme for 2018/19. The collaborative and supportive nature of this invaluable year-long project is a deeply rewarding and enriching opportunity for an emerging composer, and I am very much looking forward to developing a new string quartet as a culmination of this programme.’ Daniel Fardon
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MAY • 51
Monday 20 May 7.30pm
Tuesday 21 May 7.30pm
Wednesday 22 May 10.15am and 11.45am
Henning Kraggerud violin Adrian Brendel cello Imogen Cooper piano
Castalian Quartet Anthony Marwood violin Aleksandar Madžar piano
Chamber Tots: In the Garden
Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat Op. 1 No. 1; Piano Trio in B flat Op. 97 ‘Archduke’
Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82; String Quartet in E minor Op. 83; Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84
Three exceptional musicians who are long-term collaborators together explore the first and last piano trios by Beethoven, the good-natured E flat from his official Opus 1, published in 1795, and the B flat ‘Archduke’ composed in 1810-11 and dedicated to Beethoven’s friend and pupil, the Archduke Rudolph – the last work the composer ever played in public. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
An all-Elgar programme from the Castalian Quartet with their guests brings together three works completed in sequence in 1918, during the final period of the composer’s creativity, and representing his distinctive voice at its most personal and intimate. Both the String Quartet and the Piano Quintet had their first public performances at Wigmore Hall on this day in 1919. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall
Henning Kraggerud © Robert Romik
Castalian Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas
Interactive music-making sessions for children aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers, with songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close. Presented by music leaders Esther Sheridan and Lucy Drever alongside emerging chamber ensembles. 10.15am – 11.15am (1–2 year-olds) 11.45am – 12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) Children £7 Adults £5
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Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega
52 • MAY
Igor Levit: Variations Two years prior to winning the prestigious Gilmore Award in 2018, Igor Levit simultaneously won (among others) two Gramophone Awards – the Instrumental Award as well as Recording of the Year – for his threeCD set of variations, the works he revisits here live alongside a further example of the genre.
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Wednesday 22 May 7.30pm
Igor Levit piano Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 In the first of his three programmes, the outstanding pianist essays an iconic work and one of the pinnacles of the keyboard repertoire, which, as the original 1741 publication puts it, was ‘composed for connoisseurs, for the refreshment of their spirits’. Consisting of an aria and 30 variations, the work shows Bach’s incomparable compositional skills at their height. Approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in duration, without an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Forthcoming Events in this Series Friday 24 May 6.00pm Artists in Conversation: Igor Levit Friday 24 May 7.30pm Monday 27 May 7.30pm
Igor Levit © Robbie Lawrence
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MAY • 53 Schumann String Quartet Series
Igor Levit: Variations
Thursday 23 May 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Thursday 23 May 7.30pm
Friday 24 May 6.00pm
Voiceworks
Elias String Quartet
Artists in Conversation: Igor Levit
Join us for this lunchtime concert featuring brand new works for the voice, the result of a unique collaboration between writers, composers, singers and instrumentalists from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Free (ticket required)
Bach The Art of Fugue BWV1080 (extracts) Mozart String Quartet in B flat K458 ‘Hunt’ RNCM composition competition winner New work (companion piece to Schumann String Quartet No. 3) Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3
Join pianist Igor Levit in conversation ahead of his evening concert. Approximately 45 minutes in duration £5
Robert Schumann’s highly personal art again provides the theme, with the Elias musicians focusing on his string quartets. At different periods, the composer concentrated on different genres: 1842 was the year he threw himself at chamber music, producing within twelve months all three of his string quartets and several other individual masterpieces. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 The Schumann String Quartet Series is made possible with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund
Voiceworks © Benjamin Ealovega
Elias String Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas
Igor Levit © Robbie Lawrence
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Igor Levit: Variations Friday 24 May 7.30pm
Saturday 25 May 1.00pm
Saturday 25 May 7.30pm
Igor Levit piano
Piatti Quartet
Narek Hakhnazaryan
Beethoven 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 Frederic Rzewski Variations on ‘The People United’
Purcell/Britten Chacony in G minor Mark-Anthony Turnage Quartet No. 4 ‘Winter’s Edge’* (UK première) Walton String Quartet in A minor
Levit presents two sets of variations, beginning with Beethoven’s vast collection based on a trivial waltz theme by Anton Diabelli, composed between 1819 and 1823, followed by the American radical Frederic Rzewski’s mighty exemplar (1975) based on a Chilean revolutionary song, which was conceived as a companion piece to the Beethoven. Approximately 2 hours 25 minutes in duration, including an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
*Co-commissioned by the Piatti String Quartet, Flagey ASBL and Wigmore Hall A co-commission from Wigmore Hall, Turnage’s new piece was premièred in March at Flagey, an arts centre in Brussels, by long-time champions of his music the Piatti Quartet – a group that won multiple prizes at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. £16 concs £14
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Pavel Kolesnikov piano Beethoven 7 Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte WoO. 46; Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73; Träumerei from Kinderscenen Op. 15 No. 7 Chopin Introduction and polonaise brillante in C Op. 3; Etude in C sharp minor Op. 25 No. 7 Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36 A 19th-century programme for the Armenian cellist and the Russian pianist that includes two major sonatas, Beethoven’s middleperiod masterpiece, and Grieg’s sole work for the medium (1883), which includes material from both an earlier funeral march and a wedding march. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Igor Levit © Robbie Lawrence
Piatti Quartet © Viktor Erik Emanuel
Narek Haknazaryan © Marco Borggreve
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MAY • 55
Sunday 26 May 11.30am
Sunday 26 May 3.00pm
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Jacques Imbrailo baritone Alisdair Hogarth piano
cello
Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Beethoven 12 Variations in F on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Op. 66 Lutosławski Grave (Metamorphoses for cello and piano) Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58 Two members of the illustrious Kanneh-Mason family – cellist Sheku and his pianist sister Isata – join forces for Beethoven’s early but entertaining variations on one of Papageno’s songs from Mozart’s The Magic Flute (1796), Lutosławski’s short but intense slow movement (1981), and Mendelssohn’s Bach-influenced Second Sonata of 1842-3. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sibelius From 5 Christmas Songs Op. 1: Nu står jul vid snöig port, Det mörknar ute & Giv mig ej glans, ej guld, ej prakt; På verandan vid havet; Norden; Svarta rosor; Säv, säv, susa; Den första kyssen; Lasse liten; Soluppgång; Var det en dröm?; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte Rachmaninov Letter to K.S. Stanislavsky; Lilacs; How fair this spot; On the Death of a Linnet; Christ is risen; To the children; In the silence of the secret night; Sing not to me, beautiful maiden; Spring waters The South African baritone and the British pianist and song specialist select two late-Romantic composers for in-depth scrutiny in a pairing that has already won them many plaudits on disc. All seats £16
Robin Tritschler The Seasons A questioning artist who explores deeply and conveys his discoveries with eloquence, the Irish tenor has selected The Seasons as the theme of his series, a topic he recently discussed in a Wigmore Hall Podcast with John Gilhooly. Sunday 26 May 7.30pm
Robin Tritschler tenor Simon Lepper piano Transitional Seasons Brahms 9 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 32; Von waldbekränzter Höhe; Wir wandelten; Schön war, das ich dir weihte; Botschaft Wolf Er ist’s; Frage und Antwort; Zitronenfalter im April; Der Gärtner; Der Jäger; Lied eines Verliebten; Jägerlied; Verborgenheit; Auftrag; Peregrina I; Peregrina II; Nimmersatte Liebe; Begegnung; Zur Warnung; Im Frühling; Storchenbotschaft Two composers in particular seasons – Brahms in autumn and Wolf in spring – offer two very contrasting explorations of love. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Sheku Kanneh-Mason © Lars Borges
Jacques Imbrailo © Sim Canetty-Clarke
Robin Tritschler © Benjamin Ealovega
56 • MAY
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Monday 27 May 1.00pm
Monday 27 May 7.30pm
Tuesday 28 May 7.30pm
Kuss Quartet
Igor Levit piano
L’Arpeggiata
Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Enno Poppe Freizeit (UK première)
Stevenson Passacaglia on DSCH
The Kuss Quartet has established a strong reputation for combining music with literature and drama; this year will mark the distinctive ensemble’s first complete Beethoven cycle. Born in 1969, Enno Poppe is one of Germany’s leading contemporary composers: the Kuss premièred his miniature Freizeit (Free Time) in Hanover in 2016.
Himself an exceptional pianist, the highly original and politically committed British composer Ronald Stevenson died in 2015 at the age of 87. Written between 1960 and 1963 and characteristically ambitious, his vast Passacaglia, based on Shostakovich’s musicalisation of his name in the form DSCH, is perhaps the largest single span of piano music ever composed.
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Approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in duration, without an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Céline Scheen soprano Doron Sherwin cornetto Judith Steenbrink violin Francesco Turrisi harpsichord, organ Josep Maria Martí Duran lute, baroque guitar Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Time Stands Still Dowland Time stands still; Flow my tears; Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears; I saw my Lady weep Johnson Care-charming sleep; Have you seen the bright lily grow? Bennet Venus’ birds Brade Scottish Dance Trad/English The Three Ravens; The Tailor and the Mouse; The Oak and the Ash; The Frog and the Mouse Playford Stanes Morris; Parson’s Farewell; Paul’s Steeple; Newcastle; An Italian Rant Purcell Music for a while L'Arpeggiata has won a wide following for its highly original interpretations, with performances influenced by both improvisation and jazz. Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval £50 £40 £30 £25 £18
Kuss Quartet © Molina Visuals
Igor Levit © Robbie Lawrence
Christina Pluhar © Michal Novak
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MAY • 57
Wednesday 29 May 11.00am – 4.30pm
Wednesday 29 May 7.30pm
Thursday 30 May 1.00pm
RNIB Study Day
The Endellion String Quartet
György Pauk Masterclass
Professional development day for blind, partially sighted and sighted musicians This practical study day is an opportunity for blind and partially sighted musicians to focus on career development and explore pathways into the classical music industry. The day will include discussion, talks and the opportunity to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage. For more information and to book contact Sally-Anne Zimmerman, RNIB Music Adviser at sally.zimmerman@rnib.org.uk or on 020 7391 2273. Free (application required) In partnership with RNIB
Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 New short commissioned works by Sally Beamish, Prach Boondiskulchok, Jonathan Dove and Giles Swayne in celebration of the quartet’s 40th Anniversary Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ The concert starts with Beethoven’s masterly Op. 18 No. 1, the heartfelt slow movement of which was inspired by Romeo and Juliet. It ends with Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’, whose intensity and lyricism have profoundly touched its listeners from the moment it was first performed. In between, in celebration of its 40th Anniversary, the quartet presents a series of newly commissioned short pieces. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
The leading Hungarian violinist was the First Prize winner of the Paganini and the Jacques Thibaud International Violin Competitions before settling in the UK in 1961. Since his London debut at Wigmore Hall in 1962, he has travelled the world to perform with renowned orchestras and conductors, boasting a wide, rich repertoire and several awardwinning recordings to his name. Now retired from performing, he gives masterclasses at music academies and festivals internationally. Today, György will be working with violin-piano duos and piano trios from London’s music colleges. Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval £10 concs £8
Sponsored by Lark Music, Turner Sims Southampton and Brompton’s Auctioneers. RNIB Study Day © Benjamin Ealovega
The Endellion String Quartet © Eric Richmond
György Pauk © Jackie Rado
58 • MAY
Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Friday 31 May 7.00pm NB time
Jason Moran piano
The American jazz pianist, composer and multimedia performer has recorded some 40 albums to date, either as a soloist, as part of his trio The Bandwagon, or as a member of larger ensembles, working in a variety of fields from post-bop to avant-garde jazz, from stride piano to hip-hop. Presenting original compositions and jazz standards, Jason Moran will announce his eclectic programme from the stage. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Jason Moran © Clay Patrick McBride
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JUNE • 59 Wigmore Lates
Thursday 30 May 7.30pm
Friday 31 May 10.00pm
Saturday 1 June 11.00am – 4.00pm
Hilary Hahn violin
Amaan Ali Bangash sarod Ayaan Ali Bangash sarod Jennifer Pike violin
RNIB Family Day
Bach Partita No. 3 Amjad Ali Khan Sacred Evening (Raga Yaman); By the Moon (Raga Behag); Romancing Earth (Raga Pilu); Temple of Hope (Raga Kirwani)
Be inspired by art and music at The Wallace Collection and Wigmore Hall, and create your own masterpieces in this interactive multi-sensory workshop for blind and partially sighted children and their families.
Bach Sonata No. 2 in A minor BWV1003; Partita No. 3 in E BWV1006; Sonata No. 3 in C BWV1005 In Bach’s unaccompanied works, Hilary Hahn looks for ‘the core elements that appeal to me, so that I can work with that and make it something very personal for me, and hopefully something very personal for the audience as well.’ Approximately 1 hour 45 minutes in duration, including an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash represent the 7th generation of a musical lineage, as sons and disciples of the sarod icon, Amjad Ali Khan. They have performed across the globe, from Carnegie Hall to WOMAD festivals, and established themselves as a duo, carrying forward their musical legacy in sync with both tradition and contemporary times.
For blind and partially sighted children aged 6 – 12 years and their families
For more information and to book contact Sally-Anne Zimmerman, RNIB Music Adviser at sally.zimmerman@rnib.org.uk or on 020 7391 2273. Free (application required) In partnership with RNIB and The Wallace Collection
All seats £16
Hilary Hahn © Dana van Leeuwen Decca
Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash © Suvo Das
RNIB Family Day © James Berry
60 • JUNE
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Saturday 1 June 7.30pm
Sunday 2 June 11.30am
Sunday 2 June 7.30pm
Till Fellner piano
Daniel Pioro violin Roderick Chadwick piano
Soraya Mafi soprano Catriona Morison mezzo-
Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959; Piano Sonata in B flat D96 Viennese classics including the works of Schubert feature prominently in the repertoire of the Vienna-born pianist. His programme consists of two of the composer's final sonatas, written in September of the last year of his life (1828), and conceived on a grand scale while frequently intimate in their expression. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
with special guests Charlotte Bonneton viola Clare O’Connell cello
Biber Passacaglia in G minor from the Mystery Sonatas Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96 Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending A performer of many talents, violinist Daniel Pioro takes on a varied programme comprising what is perhaps the most searching of Beethoven’s violin sonatas and the challenging concluding passacaglia from Biber’s ‘Rosary’ sonatas, alongside an unusual arrangement of Vaughan Williams’ famous piece in which he and pianist Roderick Chadwick are joined by two other musicians.
soprano
William Thomas bass Graham Johnson piano If Fiordiligi and Dorabella had been Lieder Singers Based on the plot of Cosi fan tutte (and containing numerous Mozartian echoes), Graham Johnson has devised a programme of Lieder, English songs and duets. The interactions between the Neapolitan sisters, and the manipulative Don Alfonso, progress along Da Ponte's lines: Sisters in love - "Bella vita militar" - Constancy - Weakening - Capitulation and Abandon Reconciliation. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
£16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Till Fellner © Gabriela Brandenstein
Daniel Pioro © Hugh Carswell
Graham Johnson © Clive Barda
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JUNE • 61
Monday 3 June 1.00pm
Monday 3 June 7.30pm
Tuesday 4 June 10.30am – 1.30pm
Ilya Gringolts violin Peter Laul piano
Doric String Quartet Jonathan Biss piano
Singing with Friends: Come and Sing
Stravinsky Suite italienne; 3 movements from The Firebird Suite; Ballade; Divertimento
Martinů String Quartet No. 3 Dvořák Piano Quartet in D Op. 23 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34
For families living with dementia
As Ilya Gringolts’ programme reminds us, Stravinsky collaborated with violinist Samuel Dushkin on arrangements of the orchestral Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss, three popular movements from The Firebird, and the Suite italienne using music from Pulcinella; and Jeanne Gautier on the Ballade, also from The Fairy’s Kiss.
One of the finest quartets of their generation, and one enjoying success over a wide repertory, the Doric renews its collaboration with pianist Jonathan Biss in a programme including the earlier of Dvořák’s two piano quartets, plus a rarity it has recorded to acclaim in the form of Martinů’s highly individual Third Quartet (1929).
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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 Wigmore Hall is committed to playing its part in building a dementia-friendly society, and is proud to have 3 Dementia Friends Champions and 44 Dementia Friends on its staff team. To find out more visit dementiafriends.org.uk In partnership with Resonate Arts
Ilya Gringolts © Tomasz Trzebiatowski
Jonathan Biss © Benjamin Ealovega
Come and Sing © Hope Fitzgerald
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MUSIC FOR LIFE: RESIDENCY We are delighted to be embarking on a two-year residency in a care setting, in partnership with Jewish Care. The residency will be an exciting opportunity for us to continue the development of our pioneering Music for Life programme alongside staff, residents and family members with activity being organised in response to the needs and ideas of those involved.
'The whole of me was in this beauty. There was so much peace. So much quiet. You are aware of yourself. You feel well. There is a complete state of wellbeing.' Music for Life, member of care staff
'To me, I’ve never seen anything like it before. To me, it is everything.’ Music for Life participant
Music for Life © James Berry
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JUNE • 63
Tuesday 4 June 7.30pm
Wednesday 5 June 7.30pm
Thursday 6 June 10.15am and 11.45am
Camilla Tilling soprano Paul Rivinius piano
Maximilian Schmitt tenor Gerold Huber piano
Chamber Tots: Train Ride
Jugend
Liszt Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Ihr Auge; Es muss ein Wunderbares sein; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh; Der du von dem Himmel bist; Du bist wie eine Blume; Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Lorelei Schubert Der Musensohn; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Ganymed; Willkommen und Abschied; Der Zwerg; Herbst; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Wandrers Nachtlied I; Wandrers Nachtlied II Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Korngold Schneeglöckchen; Ständchen; Liebesbriefchen; Sommer Schoenberg 4 Lieder Op. 2 Mahler From Rückert Lieder: Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft, Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder, Liebst du um Schönheit & Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Zemlinsky Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Volksliedern Op. 6 Berg 7 frühe Lieder Youth is the theme, with (mostly) early songs: Zemlinsky’s from his 27th year, Schoenberg’s from his 26th. Berg’s were written between the ages of 20 and 23 and Korngold’s between 14 and 16. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Camilla Tilling © Maria Ostlin
Equally renowned for his work in concert or recital halls and the opera house, the German tenor features several of the finest songs by the protean Liszt. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Maximilian Schmitt © Christian Kargl
Interactive music-making sessions for children aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers, with songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close. Presented by music leaders Esther Sheridan and Lucy Drever alongside emerging chamber ensembles. 10.15am – 11.15am (1–2 year-olds) 11.45am – 12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) Children £7 Adults £5
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Chamber Tots © James Berry
64 • JUNE
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Thursday 6 June 7.30pm
Katya Apekisheva piano
Prokofiev Visions fugitives Op. 22 Schubert 4 Impromptus D899 Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat HXVI:49 Janáček Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ Rachmaninov Etude-tableau in A minor Op. 39 No. 6; Etude-tableau in D Op. 39 No. 9 The Russian-born, London-based pianist has built a formidable reputation for her technique and coloristic range. Her programme extends from Viennese classics through to early 20th-century modernism, with the second set of Rachmaninov’s richly Romantic Etudes-Tableaux as its endpoint. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Katya Apekisheva © Sim Canetty-Clarke
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JUNE • 65
Introduction to Music: Second Viennese School Thursday 6 June Thursday 13 June Thursday 20 June Thursday 27 June All dates 4.45pm – 6.00pm The transformation of the language of music from tonality to atonality is one the most fascinating and shocking manifestations of the modernist movement. The common chords (triads) that had formed the basis of Western music since the beginning of the 17th century no longer held sway and a new and strange soundworld emerged. The father figure of this musical maelstrom was Arnold Schoenberg, who, along with his pupils Anton Webern and Alban Berg, represents what is known as the Second Viennese School and a musical style which many music lovers find rather baffling.
Friday 7 June 1.00pm – 4.00pm
Friday 7 June 7.30pm
Nicholas Daniel Masterclass
Cinquecento
From the moment he won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Award in 1980, Nicholas Daniel has devoted his career to raising the profile of his chosen instrument in every available context. As the creator of many new works for the oboe, he passes on his in-depth knowledge of its secrets to students from London music colleges, ahead of his Oboe Day on 8 June. Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval £10 concs £8
Terry Wey countertenor Achim Schulz tenor Tore Tom Denys tenor Tim Scott Whiteley baritone Ulfried Staber bass
Nicholas Todd tenor
Josquin des Prez and his legacy Gregorian chant Circumdederunt me; De profundis; Absolve, Domine; Libera me Richafort Requiem a6 des Prez Nymphes, nappés a6; Faulte d’argent; Stabat mater; Inviolata a5; Nymphes des bois, or Déploration sur la mort d’Ockeghem Appenzeller Musae Iovis a4 Formed in 2004 and based in Vienna, the five-member vocal group – in company with celebrated tenor Nicholas Todd – explores the legacy of an influential Franco-Flemish composer whose death in 1521 inspired the Requiem by his pupil Jean Richafort.
This course led by Roy Stratford seeks to explain the circumstances of the rise of this new style, to explore the huge differences between the three musicians, and most of all to expose some of the music which is both hugely approachable and emotionally rewarding.
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Series ticket price £33 Arnold Schoenberg © Florence Homolka/Schoenberg Archives at USC
Nicholas Daniel © Eric Richmond
Cinquecento © Theresa Pewal
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Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day At the invitation of John Gilhooly, leading oboist Nicholas Daniel consecrates an entire day to an instrument relatively rarely featured in chamber works but whose contemporary repertoire he has expanded significantly with commissions from leading composers.
Nicholas Daniel © Eric Richmond
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Saturday 8 June 11.30am
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Saturday 8 June 3.00pm
Nicholas Daniel oboe Lucy Wakeford harp Wigmore Oboe-Fest Ensemble
Nicholas Daniel oboe Julius Drake piano Guildhall School Wind Quintet
John Woolrich Array for 10 oboes Pasculli Omaggio a Bellini for English horn and harp Spohr Sonata No. 1 in C minor WoO. 23 Beethoven Variations in C on ‘La ci darem la mano’ from Mozart's Don Giovanni WoO. 28 Michael Berkeley Second Still Life for oboe and harp James MacMillan Intercession for 3 oboes David Bruce New work for 10 oboes*
Schumann 3 Duos from 6 pieces in canonic form Op. 56 Jolivet Quintette avec Hautbois Principal Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94; Abendlied Op. 85 No. 12 (arr. Joseph Joachim) Haas Suite Op. 17
*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall In this morning’s concert, Nicholas will be joined by one of the most outstanding harpists of her generation, Lucy Wakeford, and the Wigmore Oboe-Fest Ensemble, in a programme covering a breadth of oboe repertoire, including two works for ten oboes. All seats £16
A serenade with a vital contribution from the oboe (1945) by the versatile French composer André Jolivet (1905-74) and an attractive Suite (1939) by the Czech-Jewish Pavel Haas, killed during the Holocaust, form highlights of a programme including some Schumann arrangements. All seats £16
Saturday 8 June 7.30pm
Nicholas Daniel oboe Tom Owen oboe Kyeong Ham oboe Amy Harman bassoon Jacqueline Shave violin Timothy Ridout viola Guy Johnston cello Lynda Houghton double bass Martin Owen horn Alexei Watkins horn Maggie Cole harpsichord and friends Albinoni Concerto for 2 Oboes Yun 2 movements from Inventionen Mozart Oboe Quartet in F K370 Zelenka Sonata No. 5 in F for 2 oboes, bassoon and basso continuo ZWV181 Mark Simpson Oboe Quartet* (world première) Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F BWV1046 *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Leicester International Music Festival A programme covering three centuries runs from Baroque masters to the music of Isang Yun, who was born in Korea in 1917, later worked in West Germany, and died in 1995, and a new work by 30-year-old Mark Simpson, himself a distinguished woodwind player. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Other Events in this Series Friday 7 June 1.00pm – 4.00pm Masterclass with Nicholas Daniel
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Wednesday 12 June 7.30pm
Stile Antico Rihab Azar oud Songs of Longing and Exile Programme to include: White Lamentations a5 Dowland In this trembling shadow; Lachrimae Antiquae (Flow my Tears); Lachrimae Antiquae Novae*; Lachrimae Gementes*; Lachrimae Tristes*; Lachrimae Coactae*; Lachrimae Amantis*; Lachrimae Verae* Interspersed with improvised music for oud *with new texts by Peter Oswald Inspired by Dowland’s melancholic song Flow my Tears, and the heart-breaking stories of refugees which are never far from the news, vocal ensemble Stile Antico and Dartington Arts commissioned poet Peter Oswald to create texts for Dowland’s instrumental Lachrimae pavans. Based on testimonies from today’s refugees and migrants, these new poems about displacement and exile present a contemporary and deeply moving counterpoint to this exquisite music; Dowland was himself no stranger to uncertainty and misfortune during his own, self-imposed exile. Between the pavans, London-based Syrian musician Rihab Azar intersperses partly improvised music for oud. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Rihab Azar
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JUNE • 69
Sunday 9 June 11.30am
Monday 10 June 1.00pm
Monday 10 June 7.30pm
Hugo Wolf Quartett
Jean Rondeau harpsichord
Haydn String Quartet in G minor Op. 20 No. 3 Komitas From Armenian folk songs: She is slender like a plane tree, Oh Nazan, Echmiadzin dance & Clouds (arr. Sergey Aslamazyan) Janáček String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Bach Prelude from Partita in C minor BWV997; Fantasia in C minor BWV906 Scarlatti Sonatas: in C Kk132, in F Kk6, in F minor Kk185, in D Kk119, in D minor Kk213, in A minor Kk175 & in A Kk208 Brahms Chaconne by JS Bach for piano left hand (arr. of Chaconne in D minor for solo violin BWV1004)
Pavel Haas Quartet Enno Senft double bass Boris Giltburg piano
Honouring the Austrian composer in their name, the 26-year-old ensemble’s programme includes an unusual item in transcriptions of Armenian folk music by the priest, musicologist and composer Komitas (1869-1935), also known as Soghomon Soghomonian, a pioneer collector of such material. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Hugo Wolf Quartett © Andrej Grilc
An individualist, whose performances have enthralled international audiences, rounds off a programme of works imagined for his instrument with Brahms’s keyboard arrangement of Bach’s great D minor violin chaconne.
Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ The much-admired Czech quartet presents two standard repertory works: the rigorous final one of Beethoven’s three quartets, dedicated to Vienna’s Russian ambassador; and what is arguably the most companionable of all chamber pieces, for which they bring on board two more leading players. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
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Jean Rondeau © Edouard Bressy
Pavel Haas Quartet © Marco Boggreve
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Tuesday 11 June 7.30pm
Thursday 13 June 11.00am and 12.30pm
Thursday 13 June 7.30pm
The English Concert
For Crying Out Loud!
Angela Hewitt piano
Orpheus of Princes Handel Overture from Rodrigo Legrenzi Sonata for four violins from La Cetra Op. 10 Corelli Concerto grosso in D Op. 6 No. 1 Vivaldi Concerto in D minor for 2 violins and cello Op. 3 No. 11 from L’estro armonico RV565 Scarlatti Introduction from Cain, overo il primo omicidio Vinaccesi Sonata IV Marcello Oboe concerto in C minor Vivaldi Concerto in B minor for 4 violins Op. 3 No. 10 from L’estro armonico RV580 An accomplished musician and avid supporter of the arts, Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany stood as the last in the Medici dynasty. He turned Florence into a centre of excellence, attracting the best musicians from far and wide.
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. Parents-to-be are also warmly welcomed. Approximately 45 minutes in duration Adults £8.50 (babies come free)
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Bach English Suite No. 1 in A BWV806; English Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV807; Suite in F minor BWV823; English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV808; Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV894 Angela Hewitt’s programme focuses on three English Suites – thought to be the earliest of Bach’s works in the genre, and perhaps composed around 1715, though in reality with nothing especially ‘English’ about them – plus another single, fragmentary work in the same form. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
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For Crying Out Loud! © Benjamin Ealovega
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JUNE • 71 Wigmore Lates
Friday 14 June 7.00pm NB time
Friday 14 June 10.00pm
Saturday 15 June 11.00am – 12 noon
Isabelle Faust violin Jean-Guihen Queyras
Viktoria Mullova violin
Relaxed Concert: Bloomsbury Quartet
cello
Alexander Melnikov piano
Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat WoO. 38; Piano Trio in E flat Op. 70 No. 2; Variations in E flat on an Original Theme Op. 44; Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Three exceptional musicians concentrate on Beethoven, from his earliest work written for the piano trio combination, the E flat piece of 1791, to two mature works of 1809, plus a set of variations sketched in 1792 but not published until twelve years later. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Bach Allemande and Double from Partita No. 1 in B minor for solo violin BWV1002 Dai Fujikura line by line Bach Largo and Allegro from Sonata No. 3 in C for solo violin BWV1005 Sir George Benjamin 3 Miniatures for solo violin Bach Tempo di Borea and Double from Partita No. 1 in B minor for solo violin BWV1002 Misha Mullov-Abbado Brazil Bach Siciliano and Presto from Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violin BWV1001 Prokofiev Sonata in D for solo violin Op. 115 Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004
This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides a special opportunity to hear a live performance in an informal environment. Enjoy an hour’s music performed by the Bloomsbury Quartet, the Royal Academy of Music/Wigmore Hall Fellowship Ensemble for 2018/19. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement, and house lights will remain up. Audience members are welcome to move in and out of the auditorium as they need to, and there is a designated quiet area. £5
Throughout the varied career of the charismatic violinist, Bach has remained a constant. Here she combines his music for solo violin with similar pieces, including examples by Dai Fujikura, Sir George Benjamin, and her son, as well as Prokofiev’s major sonata (1947). All seats £16
Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov © Marco Borggreve
Viktoria Mullova © Henry Fair
Bloomsbury Quartet © Christian Maier Smith
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Tuesday 18 June 7.30pm
Sergei Babayan piano Chopin Polonaise in C sharp minor Op. 26 No. 1; Waltz in C sharp minor Op. 64 No. 2; Barcarolle in F sharp Op. 60; Waltz in B minor Op. 69 No. 2; Polonaise-fantaisie in A flat Op. 61; Impromptu No. 1 in A flat Op. 29; Prelude in A flat Op. 28 No. 17; Waltz in A flat Op. 34 No. 1; Waltz in F Op. 34 No. 3 Chopin Mazurkas: in C sharp minor Op. 6 No. 2, in C sharp minor Op. 63 No 3, in F minor Op. 63 No. 2, in F minor Op. 7 No. 3, in B flat minor Op. 24 No. 4, in B flat Op. 7 No. 1, in G minor Op. 67 No. 2, in C Op. 67 No. 3, in A minor Op. 67 No. 4, in A minor Op. 68 No. 2, in F Op. 68 No. 3, in B flat Op. Posth., in E flat minor Op. 6 No. 4, in A flat Op. 41 No. 4, in C minor Op. 30 No. 1, in B minor Op. 30 No. 2, in B minor Op. 33 No. 4 & in C Op. 56 No. 2 The Armenian-American pianist offers an all-Chopin programme, featuring the characteristically Polish form of the mazurka in the second half and the first consisting of popular individual pieces. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Sergei Babayan © Marco Borggreve
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JUNE • 73 Fauré/Schumann Project
Saturday 15 June 7.30pm
Sunday 16 June 11.30am
Saturday 16 June 6.00pm
Gerald Finley bass-baritone Julius Drake piano
Heath Quartet
Pre-Concert Talk
Schubert Meeres Stille; Willkommen und Abschied; An Den Mond; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Rastlose Liebe; Die Sterne; Der Kreuzzug; Der Winterabend; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Du bist die Ruh; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus; Erlkönig Rachmaninov Oh no, I beg you, forsake me not; Fate; On the Death of a Linnet; Christ is risen; Spring waters Mark-Anthony Turnage 3 Animal Songs Britten The red cockatoo; She’s like the swallow; Tit for Tat; The Crocodile
Britten String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 25 Ravel String Quartet in F Since its formation in 2002, the Heath Quartet has impressed with its versatility and breadth. Winner of the 2015 RPS Young Artists’ Award, it is a regular visitor to Wigmore Hall, here offering a contrasting programme of English and French scores: Britten’s lucid first essay in the genre and Ravel’s single, subtle work for the medium.
Join Steven Isserlis, who will talk about Fauré's String Quartet in E minor Op. 121 ahead of the evening concert. Approximately 45 minutes in duration £5
£16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
The leading baritone and pianist resume their exceptional partnership in a programme covering three major composers, including some rarely heard songs by Britten, notably his early Walter de la Mare settings. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Gerald Finley © Sim Canetty-Clarke
Heath Quartet © Kauko Kikkas
Steven Isserlis © Kevin Davis
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Fauré/Schumann Project Sunday 16 June 7.30pm
Monday 17 June 1.00pm
Monday 17 June 7.30pm
Steven Isserlis cello Anthony Marwood violin Irène Duval violin Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad viola Dénes Várjon piano Izabella Simon piano
Nicolas Altstaedt cello
Cuarteto Casals Alban Gerhardt cello
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007; Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 Dutilleux 3 Strophes sur le nom de Sacher A solo recital by a cellist with unusually wide musical sympathies, increasingly active both as a conductor as well as artistic administrator, who plays two classics of the medium, plus a work commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovich to celebrate the 70th birthday of the renowned conductor and musical patron, Paul Sacher.
Fauré String Quartet in E minor Op. 121 (arr. Alfred Cortot for piano 4 hands) (London première) Schumann Gesänge der Frühe Op. 133; Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor (arr. Steven Isserlis); Langsam from Violin Concerto in D minor WoO. 23 (arr. Steven Isserlis); Variations on an original theme in E flat WoO. 24 ‘Geister Variations’ Fauré String Quartet in E minor Op. 121
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Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 Schubert String Quintet in C D956 What is perhaps the most beloved of all chamber works is made possible by a second cellist joining with a string quartet to form the personnel required by Schubert’s quintet, completed during his final months. The Spanish Cuarteto Casals – formed in Madrid in 1997, but now resident in Barcelona – also perform Shostakovich’s autobiographical masterpiece. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Arrangements provide unusual fare in the final instalment of the series, giving us not one but two versions of Fauré’s string quartet. In addition, there are rare performances of piano works from Schumann’s final period, his ‘Dawn-Songs’ and ‘Ghost’ Variations. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Steven Isserlis © Jean Baptiste Millot
Nicolas Altstaedt © Marco Borggreve
Cuarteto Casals © Igor Cat
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Wednesday 19 June 7.00pm NB time
Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala Elly Ameling Sir Thomas Allen reader, baritone Mary Bevan, Ruby Hughes, Kate Royal, Carolyn Sampson soprano Jennifer Johnston, Katarina Karnéus, Ann Murray DBE, Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano James Gilchrist, Nicky Spence, Nick Pritchard, David Webb tenor Roderick Williams, Marcus Farnsworth baritone William Thomas bass-baritone Malcolm Martineau, Joseph Middleton piano Guest of Honour
A Serenade to Music: sonnets by William Shakespeare read by Sir Thomas Allen, woven around songs by Schubert, Strauss, Brahms, Poulenc, Britten, Bridge, Joseph Horowitz, Dankworth, Tippett and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music
In recent seasons, Leeds Lieder ‘has fully realised its potential and become an event of international stature’ (Opera Now), championing song across the north of England through thriving education projects, commissioning and presenting the finest song recitalists. Tonight, a star-studded line up performs a Shakespearian programme to secure the financial stability of the organisation, led by Sir Thomas Allen and Leeds Lieder Director Joseph Middleton, at the invitation of John Gilhooly. A limited number of best seats, priced at £200, which include an invitation to a special dinner with the artists, are available exclusively from the Leeds Lieder office on 0113 234 6956 or by email to info@leedslieder.org.uk £70 £50 £35 £25 £18 All tickets include a glass of wine Other Related Events: Friday 7 June 1.00pm Leeds Lieder Young Artists Masterclass
Sir Thomas Allen © Sussie Ahlburg
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Wigmore Lates Friday 21 June 10.00pm
Chineke! Orchestra Saint-Saëns Septet in E flat Op. 65 Errollyn Wallen Nnenna (London première) Coleridge-Taylor Nonet in F minor Op. 2 One of the most exciting developments of recent years has been the foundation of Europe’s first majority BME orchestra, whose inaugural concert in 2015 was hailed by The Guardian as ‘culturally inspiring’. Here its programme includes an early work by the English mixed-race composer Samuel ColeridgeTaylor and a new piece by Errollyn Wallen. All seats £16
Chineke! Orchestra © Eric Richmond
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Tuesday 18 June 1.00pm – 4.00pm
Tuesday 18 June 6.15pm – 7.05pm
Thursday 20 June 11.00am – 12 noon
Leeds Lieder Young Artists Masterclass
Bechstein Sessions: BirdWorld
Schools Concert: Glitter Bird
Gregor Riddell cello, electronics Adam Teixeira drums, percussion
WRANGLE!
Leading Dutch soprano Elly Ameling runs a masterclass with alumni from the Leeds Lieder programme, many of whom have gone on to become BBC New Generation Artists and winners of prestigious awards. Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval £10 concs £8
Join us for an informal performance in the Bechstein Bar from London/ Oslo-based duo BirdWorld, who weave between ambient electronic, contemporary classical, world music and jazz improvisation, creating soundscapes both natural and otherworldly. £5
Tim Keasley oboe Jess Mollie percussion, electronics Rosie Bergonzi percussion Key Stage 1 When the Queen hears the most beautiful birdsong in all the world, she knows she must have it for herself. But when Glitter Bird is trapped away from all he loves, he forgets how to sing. Come and help us find his voice on this magical journey of empathy and understanding. Join musical story telling trio WRANGLE! for this brand new performance written for Key Stage 1 pupils and their teachers, drawing on over 300 years of music! Children £4 Accompanying Adults Free (ticket required)
BirdWorld
Schools Concert © Benjamin Ealovega
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Saturday 22 June 7.30pm
Franz-Josef Selig bass Gerold Huber piano Loewe Odins Meeresritt; Edward; Herr Oluf; Die nächtliche Heerschau; Erlkönig; Der Pilgrim von St Just; Archibald Douglas Wolf Harfenspieler I-III Stephan Am Abend; Memento vivere Wolf Grenzen der Menschheit; Abendbilder Marking the 150th anniversary of the death of Carl Loewe, one of the great bass voices of our time explores some of his masterly ballads in a programme that also includes songs by Rudi Stephan (1887-1915), whose promising career ended in wartime action. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Gerold Huber © Marion Köll
Franz-Josef Selig © Marion Köll
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Thursday 20 June 7.30pm
The Cardinall’s Musick The Company of Heaven III Palestrina Missa Ecce ego Johannes Gregorian Chant Propers for Nativity of St John the Baptist Palestrina Valde honorandus est beatus Johannes; Misso Herodes spiculatore Lassus Martini festum celebremus Isaac Angeli, Archangeli Victoria Veni sponsa Christi Byrd Justorum animae Praetorius Magnificat quinti toni The importance of the liturgical year provides the framework for this third instalment of a series in which Andrew Carwood’s leading early-music ensemble performs music associated with the saints – here John the Baptist is remembered – the angels and the just. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
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Alexander Melnikov Residency With his ability to move between different repertoires, and a long-term interest in both period instruments and historical performance practice, Alexander Melnikov has developed into one of the most stimulating musicians of our time. Friday 21 June 7.00pm NB time
Alexander Rudin cello Alexander Melnikov piano Rachmaninov Variations on a Theme of Chopin Op. 22 Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65 Golovin Elegy Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 Alexander Melnikov is joined by a recipient of the State Prize of Russia, cellist Alexander Rudin, presenting a programme including Chopin’s 1846 sonata, one of only nine works he wrote for instruments other than the piano, and Rachmaninov’s most famous piece of chamber music, his Op. 19 sonata.
Saturday 22 June 11.00am – 12 noon
CAVATINA Family Concert: Thorne Trio For ages 5 plus Join CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust for this fun and interactive introduction to the sounds of the orchestra’s reed instruments. Try conducting and take a musical trip to Scotland and back as we explore the sights and sounds of the oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. Children £10 Adults £12 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringing chamber music to young people and young people to chamber music, is delighted to present this concert in association with Wigmore Hall.
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£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 The Cardinall’s Musick © Benjamin Ealovega
Alexander Melnikov © Molina Visuals
CAVATINA Family Concert © Belinda Lawley
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Sunday 23 June 7.30pm
Matthias Goerne baritone Sir Antonio Pappano piano Shostakovich 4 Romances on Poems by Alexander Pushkin Op. 46 Shostakovich 4 Monologues to Poems by Alexander Pushkin Op. 91 Martin 6 Monologues from Jedermann Mahler Selection of early songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn A leading Lieder singer of our time is partnered by a conductor who is equally one of the great accompanists, and which takes in some of the Austrian late-Romantics as well as Swiss composer Frank Martin’s settings of parts of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Everyman text. Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concert Wednesday 26 June 7.30pm Matthias Goerne baritone with Alexander Schmalcz piano
Sir Antonio Pappano © Musacchio & Ianniello
Matthias Goerne © Caroline de Bon
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Sunday 23 June 11.30am
Monday 24 June 1.00pm
Monday 24 June 7.30pm
Andrew Tyson piano
Christopher Maltman
Ensemble Marsyas
Couperin Les baricades mistérieuses; Le dodo, ou L’amour au berceau; Le tic-tocchoc, ou Les maillotins Messiaen Le Baiser de l’EnfantJésus from Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus Liszt Vallée d’Obermann from Années de pèlerinage: première année, Suisse S160 Respighi Notturno Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58 The young American pianist begins with short character pieces from François Couperin’s harpsichord suites, then traverses the grand Romantic gestures of Chopin and Liszt to reach Ottorino Respighi’s atmospheric nocturne and one of the most intimate movements from Messiaen’s meditative suite.
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Graham Johnson piano Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Wolf Die Nacht; Nachtzauber Pfitzner Nachts; In Danzig; Das Alter; Der Weckruf Leading baritone Christopher Maltman joins with one of the most expert of accompanists for a programme of Eichendorff settings, featuring the neglected output of the self-declared ‘anti-modernist’ Hans Pfitzner in a selection of songs written between 1907 and 1921. All seats £16
Peter Whelan director Mozart Serenade in B flat K361 ‘Gran Partita’ Mozart Serenade in C minor K388 ‘Night Music’ Acclaimed for their historically based approach and specialising in music from the 18th century, the Edinburgh-based wind ensemble performs an unusually substantial serenade, probably composed in 1781, whose third movement found fame in the play and film Amadeus where it identifies the moment when Peter Shaffer’s fictionalised Salieri first appreciated Mozart’s superior genius. Approximately 1 hour 45 minutes in duration, including an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
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Andrew Tyson © Sophie Zha
Christopher Maltman © Pia Clodi
Peter Whelan © Jen Owens
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Tuesday 25 June 7.00pm NB time
Emanuel Ax piano Sir Simon Keenlyside baritone
Dover Quartet Emanuel Ax 70th birthday concert Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47; Fantasiestücke Op. 12; Dichterliebe Op. 48; Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44 A celebration of Emanuel Ax’s 70th birthday devoted to Schumann, with Sir Simon Keenlyside singing Dichterliebe and members of the Dover Quartet joining Ax for two favourite chamber works. As a soloist, the pianist himself performs an early set of character pieces. Approximately 3 hours in duration, including two intervals £50 £40 £30 £25 £18
Emanuel Ax © Lisa Marie Mazzucco
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Wednesday 26 June 7.30pm
Thursday 27 June 7.30pm
Friday 28 June 7.00pm NB time
Matthias Goerne baritone Alexander Schmalcz
La Nuova Musica Christine Rice mezzo-soprano David Bates conductor
Alice Sarah Ott piano
piano
Schubert Der Wanderer D489; Wehmut; Der Jüngling und der Tod; Fahrt zum Hades; Schatzgräbers Begehr; Grenzen der Menschheit; Das Heimweh D851; Gesänge des Harfners I-III; Pilgerweise; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Der Winterabend; Abendstern; Die Sommernacht; Der liebliche Stern Important to all Lieder singers, Schubert’s songs continue to be central to the artistry of Matthias Goerne, whose dedication to their exploration is evidenced in countless performances and numerous recordings receiving the highest praise. Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Matthias Goerne © Caroline de Bon
Mozart Symphony No. 1 in E flat K16 Traetta Si diversi sembiante... Giusto amor from Il Siroe; Adagio espressivo from Overture to Ifigenia in Tauride; Per pietà maggior tormento; Pur una volta... Chi crederia... Mori, so mori from Armida Haydn Symphony No. 6 in D ‘Le Matin’ HI:6 Traetta From Ifigenia in Tauride: Deh, con qual core amica... So che Pietà & Ah qual scopre... Che mai risolvere David Bates’ vital period ensemble includes early symphonies by Mozart and Haydn while the renowned mezzo is the soloist in arias by Tommaso Traetta (1727-79) – like Gluck, a pioneer of operatic reform.
Nightfall Debussy Suite bergamasque Chopin Nocturne in B flat minor Op. 9 No. 1; Nocturne in E flat Op. 9 No. 2; Nocturne in C minor Op. 48 No. 1; Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23 Debussy Rêverie Satie Gnossienne No. 1; Gymnopédie No. 1; Gnossienne No. 3 Ravel Gaspard de la nuit Works by Debussy, Satie and Ravel are heard on the German pianist’s recent album Nightfall, while the three evocative Chopin nocturnes in the first half pursue a similar theme. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
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David Bates © Nick Rutter
Alice Sarah Ott © Jonas Becker
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Evgeny Kissin, widely known as one of the greatest living pianists, is generously donating his performance on this occasion to Save a Child’s Heart (SACH).
Saturday 29 June 7.30pm
Evgeny Kissin piano
Benefit Concert for Save a Child’s Heart Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme in E flat ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35 Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘Tempest’ Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’
Save a Child’s Heart is an Israel-based international humanitarian organisation which provides free life-saving heart surgery and treatment and a life-time of follow-up care to children from developing countries, regardless of the child’s nationality, religion, colour, gender or financial situation. SACH also creates centres of competence in these countries, offering a comprehensive training program at the Wolfson Medical Centre in Israel for doctors and nurses from developing countries and leads surgical and teaching missions to partner countries. SACH was recently awarded the highly coveted 'United Nations Population Award' and is in official relations with the United Nations. Furthermore, SACH has been accredited with many other prestigious awards for its remarkable humanitarian work. To date, SACH has saved the lives of more than 4,900 children from 57 countries in Africa, South America, Europe, Asia and throughout the Middle East. A limited number of VIP concert seats priced at £250, which include an invitation to join a reception with Evgeny Kissin, are available exclusively from Save a Child’s Heart. Purchase available at 0203 866 5740 or kissin@saveachildsheart.com. £150 £125 £100 £75 £50
Evgeny Kissin © F Broede
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Wigmore Lates Friday 28 June 10.00pm
Sunday 30 June 11.30am
Monday 1 July 1.00pm
Sean Shibe guitar
Vision String Quartet
Colin Currie Quartet
softLOUD
Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132
Joseph Pereira Mallet Quartet Kevin Volans 4 Marimbas Stockhausen Vibra-Elufa (for solo vibraphone) Steve Reich Drumming Part 1
Anon Music from the Straloch and Rowallan Manuscripts c.1700 Maxwell Davies Farewell to Stromness James MacMillan From Galloway (arr. Sean Shibe); Motet No. 1 from Since it was the Day of Preparation (arr. Sean Shibe) Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint for electric guitar and tape Julia Wolfe LAD (originally for bagpipes, arr. Sean Shibe) David Lang Killer (originally for electric violin, arr. Sean Shibe) Acoustic and electric, ancient and modern, traditional and innovative... Sean Shibe brings modern classic Electric Counterpoint (Steve Reich) together with mellow, old and new tunes; the driving sound of Julia Wolfe’s LAD (originally for 9 bagpipes) plays against the gentle melancholy of Peter Maxwell Davies’ hugely popular Farewell to Stromness. Join him as he goes electric, fusing ancient ambient Scotland with pulsating modern New York.
Founded in 2012 and based in Berlin, the highly individual Vision String Quartet – whose members play standing up and from memory – is already making significant waves throughout the musical world with its avowed aim of altering how classical music is presented and perceived; here it offers a major masterpiece of the repertoire. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Described by The Spectator as ‘the world’s finest and most daring percussionist’, Colin Currie launched his quartet with a concert in Beijing in September 2018 with a similar programme to this one, consisting of works by recent or current avant-garde composers. All seats £16
All seats £16 Sean Shibe © Kaupo Kikkas
Vision String Quartet © Tim Klöcker
Colin Currie Quartet
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Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Schubert Cycles
Monday 1 July 7.30pm
Tuesday 2 July 7.30pm
Wednesday 3 July 12.30pm and 2.00pm
Rachel Podger violin, director Brecon Baroque Marcin Świątkiewicz
Ian Bostridge tenor Lars Vogt piano
Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles
Daniele Caminiti lute
Together with the German pianist and conductor – a regular collaborator – Ian Bostridge returns to a collection of songs the duo have already toured widely and to consistent acclaim, posthumously brought together under the title Swansong by Schubert’s publisher and containing his last and in a number of instances most famous inspirations.
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Vivaldi Sonata a4 al Santo Sepolcro RV130; Concerto in G minor for strings RV157; Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro RV169; Concerto in D for lute and strings RV93 Bach Concerto for harpsichord, strings and continuo BWV972 (after Vivaldi RV230) Vivaldi The Four Seasons Op. 8 Founded in mid-Wales in 2007 by Baroque violinist Rachel Podger, the ensemble’s programme focuses on sonatas and concertos by Vivaldi plus a work by the Italian master arranged by Bach.
Schubert Schwanengesang D957
Approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
12.30pm – 1.30pm (1–2 year-olds) 2.00pm – 3.00pm (3–5 year-olds) Children £7 Adults £5
£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2018/19 Wigmore Series
£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Concert Repeated Thursday 4 July 7.30pm
Rachel Podger © Theresa Pewal
Interactive music-making sessions for children aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers, with songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close. Presented by music leaders Esther Sheridan and Lucy Drever alongside emerging chamber ensembles.
Ian Bostridge © Sim Canetty-Clarke
First Time Booker Offer New to Family events at Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either by phone or in person.
Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega
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JULY • 87 Schubert Cycles
Wednesday 3 July 7.30pm
Thursday 4 July 7.30pm
Friday 5 July 7.00pm NB time
Brett Polegato baritone Iain Burnside piano
Ian Bostridge tenor Lars Vogt piano
Lucas Debargue piano
A Transatlantic Voyage: English Songs from Here to There
Schubert Schwanengesang D957
Britten Lemady; I was lonely and forlorn; O Waly, Waly Gurney The scribe Gibbs Silver Robin Holloway Fare Well Finzi The Birthnight Britten Tit for Tat Ireland Sea Fever Clarke The Seal Man Vaughan Williams The Infinite Shining Heavens Willan Drake’s Drum Vaughan Williams Joy, Shipmate, Joy! Somers Look Down, Fair Moon Ned Rorem From War Scenes: Inauguration Ball & Specimen Case Craig Urquhart Among The Multitude Blitzstein Emily (Ballad of the Bombardier) Barber Sure on this Shining Night Duke I ride the great black horses Ives Charlie Rutlage Copland At the river; Zion’s walls; Ching-a-ring chaw
Repeat of concert on 2 July Approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Scarlatti Sonatas Bach Toccata in C minor BWV911 Medtner Piano Sonata in F minor Op. 5 Still only in his late 20s, the French pianist and composer returned to the keyboard following a period concentrating on literature. Since coming to international attention at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, he has won plaudits for his highly personal performances of a carefully selected repertoire. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
A leading US baritone and an equally distinguished British pianist join in a transatlantic enterprise comprising a true cornucopia of English and American song and covering a multitude of moods. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Brett Polegato © Peter Phoa
Lars Vogt © Giorgia Bertazzi
Lucas Debargue © Xiomara Bender
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Saturday 6 July 7.30pm
Sunday 7 July 11.30am
Xavier Phillips cello François-Frédéric Guy piano
Smetana Trio
Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2; 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO. 45; Cello Sonata in A Op. 69; 7 Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte WoO. 46; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1; Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Devoting their programme to a single composer, two exceptional French artists perform almost the entirety of Beethoven’s output for cello and piano, demonstrating his range and development over a series of pieces produced between 1796 and 1815.
Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat Op. 11 Dvořák Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 Though its origins go back to 1934, the trio has maintained its unique quality over the decades. It brings a mature and dramatic work by Dvořák and a charming early one by Beethoven in which the violin is an alternative to the clarinet.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £18
£16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Xavier Phillips © Caroline Doutre
Smetana Trio © Martin Kubica
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Sunday 7 July 7.30pm
Monday 8 July 1.00pm
Monday 8 July 6.00pm
Wihan Quartet
Imogen Cooper piano
Pre-Concert Talk
Suk Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale (St Wenceslas) Op. 35a Dvořák String Quartet in E Op. 80 Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor Op. 131
Brahms Intermezzo in E flat Op. 117 No. 1; Intermezzo in B flat minor Op. 117 No. 2 Liszt Gretchen – 2nd movement from A Faust Symphony S513 Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116
Conductor Ian Page sets the scene for the evening concert.
The Wihan Quartet is an exceptional Czech ensemble, named after a famous exponent of the music of Dvořák. In this programme, it performs one of Dvořák’s most personal early works alongside an equally moving piece (1914) by his pupil and son-in-law, Suk, whose theme has long held special resonance for the Czech people.
In the year she turns 70, the greatly admired English pianist devotes her recital to shorter, late pieces by Brahms that encapsulate his individual style at its most concentrated, plus the slow movement from Liszt’s Faust Symphony in the composer’s transcription. £16 concs £14
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£5 Monday 8 July 7.30pm
The Mozartists Ian Page conductor Louise Alder soprano Katy Bircher flute Oliver Wass harp Gavin Edwards horn
Mozart Symphony No. 1 in E flat K16; O temerario Arbace... Per quel paterno amplesso K79; Concerto in C for flute and harp K299; Se iI padre perdei from Idomeneo; Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat K495; Bella mia fiamma... Resta, o cara K528; Symphony No. 10 in G K74 The Mozartists present a fascinating survey of Mozart’s travels across Europe, featuring two of his finest early symphonies, two of his most popular concertos and arias sung by award-winning soprano Louise Alder. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Wihan Quartet © Lukáš Novotný
Imogen Cooper © Sim Canetty-Clarke
Louise Alder © Gerard Collett
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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 wigmore-hall.org.uk/chamberzone or check our Learning brochure for forthcoming concert dates. Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust
Chamber Zone © Benjamin Ealovega
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Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works Since he gave the first ever solo harpsichord recital at the Proms in 2011, the Iranian-American has brought his chosen instrument to a new level of international prominence, his exuberant personality enabling him to engage with audiences throughout a repertoire he is determined to expand but which retains the works of Johann Sebastian Bach as its focal point. Tuesday 9 July 7.30pm
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Bach Sonata in D BWV963; Aria variata BWV989; Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV944; Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 A varied programme comprising a suite, a fantasia and fugue – the former merely a sequence of chords for improvisation – plus two early works: a sonata composed around 1704 and ‘an air with variations in the Italian style’ dating around 1709. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Wednesday 10 July 7.30pm
Benjamin Beilman violin Louis Schwizgebel piano Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat K454 Poulenc Violin Sonata Mozart Violin Sonata in D K306 Saint-Saëns Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 75 Two musicians who regularly play together feature two French sonatas. Dedicated to the poet, playwright and musician Federico García Lorca, murdered in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, Poulenc’s elegiac piece was composed in 1942-3, Saint-Saëns’ stormy work in 1885. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Mahan Esfahani © Bernhard Musil
Benjamin Beilman © Giorgia Bertazzi
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Thursday 11 July 7.30pm
Max Emanuel Cenčić countertenor Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu Franck-Emmanuel Comte director, harpsichord Orlando Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for strings RV156; Sol da te mio dolce amore from Orlando furioso Handel Fammi combattere from Orlando Porpora Sinfonia da camera in E minor Op. 2 No. 5; Ombre amene from Angelica e Medoro Handel Venti turbini from Rinaldo; Gia l’ebro mio ciglio from Orlando Vivaldi Sorge l’irato nembo from Orlando furioso; Concerto in D for flute and strings Op. 10 No. 3 ‘Il gardellino’ Handel Cielo! se tu il consenti from Orlando Vivaldi Nel profondo, cieco mondo from Orlando furioso The fictionalised historical figure of the Carolingian knight Roland (or Orlando) inspired innumerable Baroque operas, sampled here by the Croatian star countertenor alongside his period-instrument colleagues and with a handful of instrumental interludes. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18
Max Emanuel Cenčić © Anna Hoffman
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JULY • 93 Wigmore Lates
Thursday 11 July 6.00pm
Friday 12 July 7.00pm NB time
Friday 12 July 10.00pm
Pre-Concert Talk
Silesian String Quartet
The Chief Executive of the Royal Philharmonic Society, James Murphy, interviews conductor and musicologist Jane Glover about her recent book Handel in London: The Making of a Genius.
Szymanowski String Quartet No. 2 Op. 56 Bacewicz String Quartet No. 4 Stravinsky 3 Pieces for string quartet Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3
Adam Walker flute Sean Shibe guitar
Approximately 45 minutes in duration £5
The members of the Silesian String Quartet are graduates of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and have premièred more than 100 works, many of them Polish. Here they champion Szymanowski’s partly folk-influenced Second Quartet (1927) and Grażyna Bacewicz’s neoclassical Fourth (1942).
Piazzolla Histoire du Tango Debussy Syrinx Takemitsu Toward the Sea Poulenc Sarabande Shankar L'Aube enchantée, sur le Raga ‘Todi’ An ambassador for the flute with a ferocious appetite for repertoire, Adam Walker is joined by the acclaimed Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe for Piazolla’s most famous work Histoire du Tango, as well as works by Takemitsu, Debussy, Poulenc and Shankar. All seats £16
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Jane Glover © John Batten
Silesian String Quartet © Magda Górecka
Adam Walker © Christa Holka
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Mozart and the 2nd Viennese School Vienna has been home to several musical traditions. In this series, the magisterial Russian pianist, Elisabeth Leonskaja, 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 there by Arnold Schoenberg, whose impact on the course of musical history would be profound.
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Tuesday 16 July 7.30pm
Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Mozart Piano Sonata in F K280 Herschkowitz Klavierstück in 4 Sätzen Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor K310; Piano Sonata in E flat K282 Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Mozart Piano Sonata in D K284 Alongside four Mozart sonatas, this instalment includes Berg’s sole mature work for solo piano, designated his Op. 1, a major and emotionally highly expressive one-movement piece on which he worked during his studies with Schoenberg and published in 1910, and Romanian-born Philip Herschkowitz’s four-movement keyboard work, composed in 1969. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Elisabeth Leonskaja © Marco Borggreve
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Vox Luminis Residency Founded in 2004 by musician and conductor Lionel Meunier, the Belgian vocal ensemble has acquired an international reputation for its specialist programming realised to a standard that sets it at the forefront of today’s choral groups, drawing on rigorous historical research to achieve music-making of prodigious vitality and creative imagination.
Sunday 14 July 11.30am
Sunday 14 July 7.30pm
Maxim Bernard piano
Django Bates Belovèd
Chopin in all his states
Django Bates piano Petter Eldh double bass Peter Bruun drums
Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58; Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp Op. 36; Mazurka in C Op. 67 No. 3; Mazurka in D Op. 33 No. 2; Mazurka in C sharp minor Op. 41 No. 1; Polonaise in B flat Op. 71 No. 2; Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23; Ballade No. 3 in A flat Op. 47
Saturday 13 July 7.30pm
Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier artistic
A protégé of the legendary Menahem Pressler, Canadian pianist Maxim Bernard takes a wideranging look at Chopin’s oeuvre, including works in several forms, large and small, and setting off with his final and most taxing sonata.
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Bach Motets: Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf BWV226; Ich lasse dich nicht BWV159a; Jesu, meine Freude BWV227; Fürchte dich nicht BWV228; Komm, Jesu, Komm! BWV229; Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV225 Bach’s motets are some of the most challenging and exciting works of their kind. In between the individual items organist Bart Jacobs will provide short interludes to take both performers and audience to the key of the next piece.
£16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Evan Parker saxophone A double celebration: Evan Parker’s 75th birthday and a look ahead to next year’s 100th anniversary of Charlie Parker’s birth. Two revolutionary saxophonists meet under the musical microscope of Django Bates’ Belovèd, his piano trio with Petter Eldh on bass and Peter Bruun at the drums. Following their much-praised 2018 visit to Wigmore Hall, Belovèd return to present Django’s highly detailed arrangements of Charlie Parker compositions with interludes from master improviser Evan Parker. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
£50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Vox Luminis © David Samyn
Maxim Bernard © Kelly Kruse
Django Bates Belovèd © Nick White
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Monday 15 July 1.00pm
Wednesday 17 July 5.30pm – 6.15pm
Wednesday 17 July 7.30pm
István Várdai cello Sunwook Kim piano
Bloomsbury Quartet
Alexi Kenney violin Orion Weiss piano
Falla 7 canciones populares españolas (for cello and piano) Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 Kodály Hungarian Rondo Enjoying a full-scale international career, the Hungarian cellist has won numerous major prizes. In his programme with the Korean pianist he includes a 1917 work by his compatriot Zoltán Kodály plus Schubert’s sonata (1824) written for a now obsolete instrument.
Eva de Vries violin Janell Yeo violin Rachel Maxey viola Felicity Smith cello
The Royal Academy of Music/ Wigmore Hall Fellowship Ensemble, Bloomsbury Quartet, performs a range of repertoire including the world première of a new work by the Rosie Johnson RPS Wigmore Hall Apprentice Composer 2018/19, Daniel Fardon. Free (ticket required)
£16 concs £14
Bach Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016 Paul Wiancko New work for solo violin Schubert Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in A minor D385 Stravinsky Airs du Rossignol & Marche Chinoise Dowland Lute Song (arr. Alexi Kenney) Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 BB85 The young American violinist with a burgeoning reputation includes a new work by the cellist and composer Paul Wiancko, himself an admired jazz musician as well as classical performer, plus his own arrangement of a song by Elizabethan lutenist John Dowland. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
István Várdai © Balazs Borocz
Bloomsbury Quartet © Christian Maier Smith
Alexi Kenney © Yang Bao
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Thursday 18 July 3.00pm
Thursday 18 July 7.30pm
Friday 19 July 7.00pm NB time
Music for the Moment
Werner Güra tenor Christoph Berner piano
Kian Soltani cello Aaron Pilsan piano
Schubert Der blinde Knabe; Im Walde D834; Auf der Bruck (Auf der Brücke); Das Heimweh D851; Fülle der Liebe; Wiedersehn; Abendlied für die Entfernte; Alinde; An mein Herz; Sehnsucht D879; Im Freien; Im Frühling; Lebensmut; Um Mitternacht
Debussy Cello Sonata Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C Op. 119 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Chopin Introduction and polonaise brillante in C Op. 3
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 in the Bechstein Room. Free (ticket required) Wigmore Hall is committed to playing its part in building a dementia-friendly society, and is proud to have 3 Dementia Friends Champions and 44 Dementia Friends on its staff team. To find out more visit dementiafriends.org.uk In partnership with Resonate Arts and the Royal Academy of Music
In his lifetime, Schubert wrote more than 600 completed songs, starting in his mid-teens. In this concert, German tenor Werner Güra joins forces with Austrian pianist Christoph Berner in a programme covering songs in a three year period from 1825, towards the end of the composer’s life.
Both from the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, a cellist of Iranian descent and a pianist with a Romanian background offer Shostakovich’s dramatic First Sonata of 1934 and a brilliant early work of Chopin’s in a form that held specific nationalist resonances for him. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
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Music for the Moment © Benjamin Ealovega
Werner Güra © Monika Rittershaus
Kian Soltani © Holger Hage & Deutsche Grammophon
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Wigmore Lates Friday 19 July 10.00pm
Saturday 20 July 10.00am – 3.30pm
Saturday 20 July 7.30pm
Susan Bullock soprano Richard Sisson piano
Come and Sing: Sounds of America
Ronald Brautigam
Songs my father taught me
Join choral leader Charles MacDougall for a day exploring some of the greatest vocal works by American composers including George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein.
Arlen I’ve Got the World on a String Rodgers & Hammerstein Hello Young Lovers Rodgers & Hart My Funny Valentine David Shire What about today? Kern Bill; All the Things You Are Arlen One for my baby T Wolf The Ballad of the Sad Young Men Gershwin ‘S Wonderful; Someone To Watch Over Me Burt Bacharach A House is not a Home M Rodgers & Stephen Sondheim The Boy From… Stephen Sondheim Losing my Mind
£25 concs £20
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Beethoven 7 Bagatelles Op. 33; Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat Op. 31 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘Tempest’; Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ A musician dedicated to the music of Beethoven, the Dutch pianist has become a leading adherent of historical instruments. While his approach has surprised as well as delighted listeners, he insists that he plays ‘what Beethoven writes, nothing more, nothing less’. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
One of the world’s leading sopranos makes a late-night selection from the Great American Songbook, ranging through classics from the 1920s and 1930s to modern masters Burt Bacharach and Stephen Sondheim. All seats £16
Susan Bullock © Christina Raphaelle
Come and Sing © Benjamin Ealovega
Ronald Brautigam © Marco Borggreve
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Brahms Plus Series Sunday 21 July 11.30am
Calidore String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Op. 127 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Formed at the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles in 2010, the Calidore Quartet is now based in New York, from where it reaches out on its international tours and recordings; its programme comprises two late masterpieces, including Mendelssohn’s impassioned work written in the wake of the death of his beloved sister. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Calidore String Quartet © Sophie Zhai
Hailed by Schumann as a genius when he was just 20 years old, Brahms is incontrovertibly one of the great figures of 19th-century music, a composer of unusual consistency who applied a conservative musical language to entirely original ends. This series highlights his work and contrasts it with that of others. Sunday 21 July 7.30pm
Jonathan Plowright piano Brahms Plus Schubert Schubert Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ Brahms Waltzes Op. 39; 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119; Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Op. 1 For many listeners, the British pianist’s recorded Brahms series provides benchmark interpretations. Once again, he explores the great German Romantic in three widely different modes: those of his heroic first sonata, his final set of piano miniatures, and his enchanting waltzes. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
Jonathan Plowright © Diane Shaw
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Wednesday 24 July 7.30pm
Mark Padmore tenor Paul Lewis piano Brahms Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze; Sommerabend; Es schauen die Blumen; Meerfahrt; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht Mahler Rückert Lieder Schumann Dichterliebe The German poet Heinrich Heine provides the beginning and end of this programme by two formidable musicians, beginning with a selection of Brahms’s Heine settings and ending with Schumann’s famous cycle in a ‘historically correct version’ (with four additional songs). £50 £40 £30 £25 £18
Mark Padmore © Marco Borggreve
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JULY • 101 Dame Sarah Connolly Residency
Monday 22 July 7.30pm
Tuesday 23 July 7.30pm
Thursday 25 July 7.30pm
Lana Trotovsek violin Maria Canyigueral piano
Dame Sarah Connolly
Kit Armstrong piano
mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau piano
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 Škerjanc Intermezzo romantique Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96
Schumann 6 Gedichte von N Lenau und Requiem Op. 90 Mahler Kindertotenlieder Bridge Day after Day; Speak to me my love Britten Winter Words Op. 52
Born in Slovenia but based in London, the increasingly prominent violinist and her Spanish-Catalan pianist partner take on four major sonatas from the 19th- and 20th-century repertoires, plus a rediscovered work (1934) by the Slovenian late-Romantic Lucijan Marija Škerjanc.
Recently seen as Fricka in the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth and the Royal Opera House, as well as in the title role of Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne, Dame Sarah possesses an equally distinguished career in the world’s leading concert and recital halls. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by an anonymous donor
Mozart Suite in C K399 Bach Chorale Preludes: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele BWV654, Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich BWV605, Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott BWV721, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr BWV715 & Jesus Christus, unser Heiland BWV666 Mozart Fantasia in F minor for mechanical organ K608 Byrd Sellenger’s Round; Prelude, Pavan and Galliard (Sir William Petre); The Bells Mozart Piano Sonata in A K331 The young British-American pianist and composer selects a programme of music by Mozart and earlier composers, much of it – unusually – conceived for organ, mechanical organ, or harpsichord. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by an anonymous donor
Lana Trotovsek and Maria Canyigueral © Boris Bizjak
Dame Sarah Connolly © Jan Capinski
Kit Armstrong © Neda Navae
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Mozart in Salzburg Saturday 27 July 7.30pm
Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet director
Le Concert Spirituel © Guy Vivien
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Mozart Missa brevis in F K192; Missa brevis in D K194; Church Sonata in C K328; Church Sonata in A K225; Ave verum corpus K618 Haydn Offertorium ‘Non nobis, Domine’; Alleluia from O coelitum beati; Adagio from Keyboard Concerto No. 8 in C HXVIII:8; Te Deum in C HXXIIIc:1 Michael Haydn Sub tuum praesidium in C; Ave Verum Corpus The founder-director of one of Europe’s most durable and expert period-instrument ensembles leads a programme that simulates the musical experience of the mass in the time of Mozart and Haydn. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18
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JULY • 103 Last concert of the season
Friday 26 July 7.30pm
Sunday 28 July 11.30am
Sir Simon Keenlyside baritone Howard McGill woodwind Gordon Campbell trombone Richard Pryce double bass Matthew Regan piano Mike Smith drums
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Blue Skies: Songlines to American Music Berlin Isn’t this a lovely day? Kálmán Lichtreklamen (first verse only) Weill Johnny Johnson’s Song Kálmán Cowboy Song Weill Song of the bigshot Ory Muskrat Ramble Weill Lonely House Rodgers & Hammerstein Soliloquy Ellington Mood Indigo Berlin Call me up some rainy afternoon Kern Let’s begin Strayhorn Lush Life Lerner & Loewe On the street where you live Carmichael Stardust Gershwin Our love is here to stay Porter What is this thing called love? Martin & Blane The Girl next door Porter So in love Ellington Do Nothin’ till You Hear from Me Kern She didn’t say yes
Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Playing on gut strings and with historical bows, the four Chiaroscuro musicians – who came together in 2005 – bring their individual and multi-national talents to two masterpieces of the Viennese classical tradition, Beethoven’s impassioned example (1801) and Schubert’s sombre, song-based masterpiece (1824). £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
The favourite baritone, joined by five British jazz musicians, unlocks the energy and heart of songs from American musicals and popular standards by both visiting and native composers. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18
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Chiaroscuro Quartet © Eva Vermande
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 is already the most extensive
Nash Ensemble Stefan Asbury conductor Claire Booth soprano Simone Leona Hueber reciter Lawrence Power viola Adrian Brendel cello Ursula Leveaux bassoon Lucy Wakeford harp Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Carter, Knussen Sunday 14 April 3.00pm Gavan Ring baritone Simon Lepper piano Seóirse Bodley
in Europe for chamber music,’ comments Wigmore Hall Director,
Monday 15 April 1.00pm
John Gilhooly, ‘and in recent years
Tabea Zimmermann viola Adam Walker flute Agnès Clément harp
Wigmore Hall has become one of the world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’
Sofia Gubaidulina Saturday 20 April 7.30pm Trio Mediæval
Thursday 4 April 7.30pm Matthew Rose bass Tom Poster piano Tom Poster Saturday 6 April 1.00pm and 7.30pm JACK Quartet Carter Tuesday 9 April 7.30pm The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Brett Dean Wednesday 10 April 7.30pm Escher String Quartet Andrew Norman
Wigmore Hall © Benjamin Ealovega
Friday 12 April 7.30pm
Sungji Hong, Andrew Smith, Gavin Bryars Saturday 27 April 7.30pm Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Reto Bieri clarinet Polina Leschenko piano Paul Schoenfield Tuesday 30 April 7.30pm Marcus Farnsworth baritone James Baillieu piano John Casken Saturday 4 May 10.30am, 2.00pm and 7.30pm In Focus: Sir George Benjamin Sir George Benjamin
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Contemporary music • 105
Monday 6 May 1.00pm
Wednesday 29 May 7.30pm
The King’s Singers
The Endellion String Quartet
Alexander Levine, Tormis, Tučapský
Sally Beamish, Prach Boondiskulchok, Jonathan Dove, Giles Swayne
Monday 13 May 7.30pm Håkan Hardenberger trumpet Roland Pöntinen piano
Saturday 8 June 11.30am
Staffan Storm, Berio, Salvatore Sciarrino, Roland Pöntinen, Jan Lundgren
Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day
Saturday 18 May 7.30pm
John Woolrich, Michael Berkeley, James MacMillan, David Bruce
Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano Dylan Perez piano Ned Rorem Thursday 23 May 7.30pm Elias String Quartet RNCM composition competition winner Friday 24 May 7.30pm Igor Levit piano Frederic Rzewski Saturday 25 May 1.00pm Piatti Quartet Mark-Anthony Turnage Monday 27 May 1.00pm Kuss Quartet
Nicholas Daniel oboe Lucy Wakeford harp Wigmore Oboe-Fest Ensemble
Saturday 8 June 7.30pm Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day Nicholas Daniel oboe Tom Owen oboe Kyeong Ham oboe Amy Harman bassoon Jacqueline Shave violin Timothy Ridout viola Guy Johnston cello Martin Owen horn Maggie Cole harpsichord and friends Mark Simpson Friday 14 June 10.00pm Viktoria Mullova violin Dai Fujikura, Sir George Benjamin, Misha Mullov-Abbado
Enno Poppe
Saturday 15 June 7.30pm
Monday 27 May 7.30pm
Gerald Finley bass-baritone Julius Drake piano
Igor Levit piano Stevenson
Mark-Anthony Turnage Monday 17 June 1.00pm Nicolas Altstaedt cello Dutilleux
The Contemporary Music Series is supported by
Wednesday 19 June 7.00pm Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala Joseph Horowitz, Dankworth Friday 21 June 10.00pm Chineke! Orchestra Errollyn Wallen Friday 28 June 10.00pm Sean Shibe guitar Maxwell Davies, James MacMillan, Steve Reich, Julia Wolfe, David Lang Monday 1 July 1.00pm Colin Currie percussion Joseph Pereira, Kevin Volans, Stockhausen, Steve Reich Wednesday 3 July 7.30pm Brett Polegato baritone Iain Burnside piano Robin Holloway, Ned Rorem, Craig Urquhart Friday 12 July 10.00pm Adam Walker flute Sean Shibe guitar Shankar Wednesday 17 July 7.30pm Alexi Kenney violin Orion Weiss piano Paul Wiancko Friday 19 July 10.00pm Susan Bullock soprano Richard Sisson piano David Shire, Burt Bacharach, M Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim
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Latest Release from Wigmore Hall Live Elias String Quartet
Beethoven – The Complete String Quartets Vol. 6 Release date: 28 September 2018
Available in all good record outlets, at wigmore-hall.org.uk/live and on
Also available: Elias String Quartet Beethoven – The Complete String Quartets Volumes 1-5
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The Competition recognises the song tradition as a whole and requires contestants to perform in at least three languages. At the same time, it honours the Lied’s place at the heart of the song repertoire and celebrates the Shakespearean stature of Schubert in the genre.
JURY John Gilhooly OBE Chairman John Mark Ainsley Iain Burnside Bernarda Fink David Jackson Graham Johnson OBE Dame Felicity Lott Natalie Murray Beale Thomas Quasthoff Richard Stokes Ailish Tynan
Saturday 7 September 11.00am and 2.30pm PRELIMINARY ROUND – DAY 1 All day £16 concs £14 Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List Subscribers
Sunday 8 September 11.00am and 2.30pm PRELIMINARY ROUND – DAY 2 All day £16 concs £14 Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List Subscribers
Monday 9 September 3.00pm and 7.30pm SEMI-FINAL ROUND All day £20 concs £16 Please note that there will be a supper interval from 6.00pm to 7.30pm. Please contact the Wigmore Restaurant to make your supper reservation; advance reservations only.
Wednesday 11 September 6.00pm FINAL ROUND AND PRIZE-GIVING £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Please note that there will be a supper interval from approx. 8.20pm to 9.30pm. Please contact the Wigmore Restaurant to make your supper reservation; advance reservations only.
Book for the first three days at the same time for £39 concs £33
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