Spring 2019 Wigmore Series by Wigmore Hall

2018/19 Season

January - March 2019

2• This spring, two of today's greatest Lieder interpreters, the German baritone Christian Gerhaher and his regular pianist Gerold Huber, return to survey one of the summits of the repertoire, Schubert’s psychologically intense Winterreise.

Director’s Introduction

Harry Christophers and The Sixteen join us with a programme of odes, written to welcome Charles II back to London from his visits to Newmarket, alongside excerpts from Purcell's incidental music to Theodosius, Nathaniel Lee's 1680 tragedy.

Leading Schubert interpreter Christian Zacharias delves into the composer’s unique melodic, harmonic and thematic flourishes in his lecture-recital. Through close examination of these musical hallmarks and idiosyncrasies, he takes us on a journey to the very essence of Schubert’s style. With her virtuosic ability to sing anything from new works to Baroque opera and Romantic Lieder with exceptional quality, Marlis Petersen is one of the most enterprising singers today. Her residency continues with two concerts, sharing the stage with fellow singers and accompanists of international acclaim. This year’s Wigmore Hall Learning festival, Sense of Home, celebrates the diversity and multicultural melting pot that is London and the borough of Westminster, reflects on Wigmore Hall as a place many call home, and invites you to explore what ‘home’ means to you. One of the most admired singers of the present day, Elīna Garanča, will open the 2018/19 season at the Metropolitan Opera as Dalila in Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila. Her programme in February – comprising four major cycles – includes Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder, two of which were identified by the composer himself as studies for Tristan und Isolde. After witnessing each other perform in Schloss Elmau, Germany, in 2015, American pianist-composer Brad Mehldau and British tenor Ian Bostridge met and professed their admiration for each other’s work. Materialising into a creative spark that resulted in pieces written by Mehldau for Bostridge, they began to build the original material into a song cycle which revolved around text and themes of the ‘modern sinuous nature of human desire as it exists in love and adoration’, and they give its UK première in March. In the first ever concert to be promoted by Wigmore Hall at the Roundhouse, Sir George Benjamin conducts his own Palimpsests (2002) this March, together with an intense work by the Russian Galina Ustvolskaya. This performance harks back to the days of Boulez’s famous avant-garde concerts at the iconic Camden venue, and offers a chance to hear large-scale contemporary works in an inimitable setting. On the previous evening, we will present Benjamin’s chamber opera Into the Little Hill on the Wigmore stage. Russian pianist Zlata Chochieva has received exceptional praise for the Romantic repertory. Works and transcriptions by Rachmaninov, a favourite composer, appear in a March programme that also includes mazurkas by Chopin and Skryabin. There are also many wonderful concerts by our Chamber Ensemble in Residence, The Nash Ensemble, so do have a look at those. I look forward to welcoming you to the Hall.

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Contents At a Glance

Calendar 6 January 8 February 35 March 58 Contemporary Music Series

Booking Information

At a Glance

January – March 2019

See pages 8 – 82 for full details of these concerts and page 88 for booking information. Series and Events to look out for…

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts

Ilker Arcayürek

Mon 7 Jan Alexander Gavrylyuk

Alexander Gavrylyuk

13, 67

Mon 14 Jan Juilliard String Quartet

Alexander Melnikov Residency

10, 82

Schumann Song Series

12, 36

Mon 21 Jan Leila Josefowicz/ John Novacek

Nash Ensemble: German Romantics

16, 17, 49, 66, 73

Mon 28 Jan Simon Höfele/Frank Dupree 31 Mon 4 Feb Sophie Pacini

Robin Tritschler

Mon 11 Feb François-Frédéric Guy

Christian Gerhaher

Mon 18 Feb Kitty Whately/Simon Lepper 50

The Sixteen

Mon 25 Feb Quatuor Arod/Timothy Ridout 56

Christian Zacharias

Mon 4 Mar Mariam Batsashvili

Pekka Kuusisto Residency

Mon 11 Mar Belcea Quartet

Graham Johnson Songmakers' Almanac

Mon 18 Mar Jeremy Denk

ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy) Showcase

26, 27

Mon 25 Mar Novus String Quartet

Borodin Quartet

29, 30

Chamber Music Season

Christian Blackshaw Residency: 70th Birthday Concert Russian Song Series

31 32, 59

Les Arts Florissants/William Christie

The Cardinall's Musick

Marlis Petersen Residency

33, 56

American Series: Escher String Quartet

Sonia Prina

Michael Collins

29, 38

Wigmore Hall Learning Festival 2019: Sense of Home

44, 45

Stile Antico

Elīna Garanča

Henk Neven/Imogen Cooper

Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset 52 Schumann String Quartet Series

Dame Emma Kirkby 70th Birthday

Stéphane Degout

Brad Mehldau/Ian Bostridge

Brahms Plus Series: Jonathan Plowright Sir George Benjamin Denis Kozhukhin Recollections of Hans Keller Marc-André Hamelin

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Dame Sarah Connolly Residency

Renata Pokupić/La Serenissima

Vox Luminis Residency

Christoph Prégardien/Pentaèdre

Fauré/Schumann Project

Paul Appleby

Zlata Chochieva

Kristóf Baráti/István Várdai/ Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Mahan Esfahani

68, 82

Chamber Zone

Contemporary Music Series

Wed 9 Jan Tasmin Little/Piers Lane 13 Sat 12 Jan Nash Ensemble 16-17 Sun 13 Jan Doric String Quartet 18 Tue 15 Jan Juilliard String Quartet 18 Sat 19 Jan Alina Ibragimova/ 21 Cédric Tiberghien Sun 20 Jan The Endellion String Quartet 21 Wed 23 Jan Pekka Kuusisto 25 Fri 25 Jan ECMA: Simply Quartet 26 Sat 26 Jan ECMA Masterclass: 26 Professor Johannes Meissl/ Simply Quartet Sat 26 Jan ECMA: Trio Vitruvi 27 Sat 26 Jan Borodin Quartet/ 30 Alexei Volodin 27 Sun 27 Jan ECMA: Trio Gaon/ Cosmos Quartet Sun 3 Feb Goldner String Quartet/ 36 Piers Lane Tue 5 Feb Escher String Quartet 37 Wed 6 Feb Britten Sinfonia 37 Sat 9 Feb New Elizabethan Award 39 Showcase Sat 9 Feb Michael Collins/ 38 Michael McHale Mon 11 Feb Sergey Khachatryan/ 41 Alisa Weilerstein/ Inon Barnatan/Colin Currie/ Owen Gunnell/Sam Walton Wed 13 Feb Britten Sinfonia 43 Wed 13 Feb Nikolaj Znaider/Robert Kulek 43 Fri 15 Feb Razumovsky Ensemble 47 Sat 16 Feb Nash Ensemble 49 Wed 20 Feb Skride Quartet 53 Fri 22 Feb Elias String Quartet 54 Sat 23 Feb Trio Zimmermann 55 Tue 26 Feb Quatuor Zaïde 57 Tue 5 Mar Ensemble Modern/ 62 Sir George Benjamin/ Anu Komsi/Helena Rasker

Wed 6 Mar Ensemble Modern Orchestra/ 63 Sir George Benjamin Sat 9 Mar Recollections of Hans Keller 64 Mon 11 Mar Nils Mönkemeyer/ 67 William Youn Tue 12 Mar Janine Jansen/ 67 Alexander Gavrylyuk Sat 16 Mar Heath Quartet 71 73 Tue 19 Mar Nash Ensemble Fri 22 Mar Škampa Quartet 75 Sat 23 Mar Joshua Bell/Timothy Ridout/ 76 Steven Isserlis/Jeremy Denk Wed 27 Mar Britten Sinfonia 79 Fri 29 Mar Kristóf Baráti/István Várdai/ 81 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Sun 31 Mar Alexander Melnikov/ 82 Marcel Ponseele/ Lorenzo Coppola/Javier Zafra/ Teunis van der Zwart

Sunday Morning Concerts Sun 6 Jan Sun 13 Jan Sun 20 Jan Sun 27 Jan Sun 3 Feb Sun 10 Feb Sun 17 Feb Sun 24 Feb Sun 3 Mar Sun 10 Mar Sun 17 Mar Sun 24 Mar

Rolston String Quartet 11 Hyeyoon Park/Sholto Kynoch 15 Israeli Chamber Project/ 21 Antje Weithaas Borodin Quartet/ 29 Michael Collins Zahir Quartet 35 Narek Hakhnazaryan/ 39 Oxana Shevchenko Trio Isimsiz 49 Albion Quartet 55 Kronberg Academy 59 Nash Ensemble 66 David Oistrakh String Quartet 71 Dover Quartet 75

Sun 31 Mar Horszowski Trio

Early Music and Baroque Series Fri 4 Jan The King’s Consort/ Iestyn Davies/James Hall Thu 17 Jan The Sixteen Tue 29 Jan Les Arts Florissants/ William Christie Wed 30 Jan The Cardinall’s Musick Thu 7 Feb Sonia Prina/ Alina Pogostkina/ Dorothee Oberlinger/ Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca Thu 14 Feb Stile Antico Thu 21 Feb Les Talens Lyriques Thu 28 Feb Dame Emma Kirkby Wed 6 Mar Florilegium Fri 8 Mar The English Concert/ Nadja Zwiener/Tuomo Suni/ Christian Curnyn Wed 13 Mar Die Kölner Akademie/ Mahan Esfahani

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Wed 20 Mar Vox Luminis/ Reinoud Van Mechelen/ A Nocte Temporis

Wed 27 Mar Carolyn Sampson/ The King's Consort

Sat 30 Mar Mahan Esfahani

London Pianoforte Series Thu 3 Jan Sergio Tiempo Sun 6 Jan Pavel Kolesnikov/ Elīna Bukša/Hermès Quartet Tue 8 Jan Sunwook Kim Thu 10 Jan Alexander Melnikov/ Andreas Staier Fri 18 Jan Christian Zacharias Lecture-Recital Mon 21 Jan Rafał Blechacz Fri 25 Jan Roman Rabinovich Sun 27 Jan Christian Blackshaw Sat 2 Feb Piers Lane Fri 8 Feb Llŷr Williams Sun 10 Feb Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Tue 12 Feb Leon McCawley Sun 24 Feb Kirill Gerstein Wed 27 Feb Garrick Ohlsson Mon 4 Mar Jonathan Plowright Thu 7 Mar Denis Kozhukhin Sun 10 Mar Marc-André Hamelin Tue 26 Mar Zlata Chochieva

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Song Recital Series Wed 2 Jan Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper 8 Sat 5 Jan Christoph Pohl/ 11 Marcelo Amaral Fri 11 Jan Anne Schwanewilms/ 12 Malcolm Martineau Mon 14 Jan Robin Tritschler/ 19 Graham Johnson Wed 16 Jan Christian Gerhaher/ 20 Gerold Huber Tue 22 Jan François Le Roux/ 23 Olivier Godin Tue 22 Jan Mary Bevan/ 25 Marcus Farnsworth/ Christopher Glynn Thu 24 Jan Ailish Tynan/Anna Huntley/ 28 Benjamin Appl/William Thomas/ Graham Johnson Mon 28 Jan Sofia Fomina/ 32 Oleksiy Palchykov/ Rodion Pogossov/Iain Burnside Thu 31 Jan Marlis Petersen/ 33 Werner Güra/Christoph Berner Sun 3 Feb James Newby/ 35 Joseph Middleton Mon 4 Feb Christiane Karg/ 36 Malcolm Martineau Sun 17 Feb Elīna Garanča/ 48 Malcolm Martineau

Mon 18 Feb Kitty Whately/Simon Lepper 50 Mon 18 Feb Ailish Tynan/ 44 Benjamin Appl/Iain Burnside Tue 19 Feb Henk Neven/Imogen Cooper 51 Mon 25 Feb Marlis Petersen/ 56 Anke Vondung/Werner Güra/ Paul Armin Edelmann/ Christoph Berner/Camillo Radicke Fri 1 Mar Sofia Mchedlishvili/ 59 Andrey Zhilikhovsky/ Iain Burnside Sat 2 Mar Stéphane Degout/Alain Planès 58 Sun 3 Mar Brad Mehldau/Ian Bostridge 60 Thu 14 Mar Simon Bode/Igor Levit 68 69 Fri 15 Mar Dame Sarah Connolly/ Julius Drake/Emily Berrington Sun 17 Mar Renata Pokupić/ 70 La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler Thu 21 Mar Christoph Prégardien/ 74 Pentaèdre/Joseph Petric Sun 24 Mar Nathan Gunn/Julie Gunn 75 Mon 25 Mar Paul Appleby/ 77 Malcolm Martineau We are grateful to The Monument Trust for essential additional support for our expanded vocal series

Jazz Series Sun 3 Mar Brad Mehldau/Ian Bostridge 60

Contemporary Music Series Sunwook Kim 13 Juilliard String Quartet 18 Leila Josefowicz/ 23 John Novacek François Le Roux/ 23 Olivier Godin Mon 28 Jan Simon Höfele/Frank Dupree 31 Wed 6 Feb Britten Sinfonia 37 Mon 11 Feb François-Frédéric Guy 41 Mon 11 Feb Sergey Khachatryan/ 41 Alisa Weilerstein/ Inon Barnatan/Colin Currie/ Owen Gunnell/Sam Walton Wed 13 Feb Britten Sinfonia 43 Mon 18 Feb Kitty Whately/Simon Lepper 50 Mon 18 Feb Ailish Tynan/ 50 Benjamin Appl/Iain Burnside Fri 22 Feb Elias String Quartet 54 Sun 3 Mar Young Soloists of the 59 Kronberg Academy Sun 3 Mar Brad Mehldau/Ian Bostridge 60 Tue 5 Mar Ensemble Modern/ 62 Sir George Benjamin/ Anu Komsi/Helena Rasker Wed 6 Mar Ensemble Modern Orchestra/ 63 Sir George Benjamin Thu 14 Mar Simon Bode/Igor Levit 68 Fri 15 Mar Dame Sarah Connolly/ 69 Julius Drake/Emily Berrington

Tue 8 Jan Mon 14 Jan Mon 21 Jan Tue 22 Jan

Tue 19 Mar Nash Ensemble/ Royal Academy of Music Sun 24 Mar Nathan Gunn/Julie Gunn Mon 25 Mar Paul Appleby/ Malcolm Martineau Wed 27 Mar Britten Sinfonia

73 75 77 79

Wigmore Hall Learning Thu 3 Jan Wigmore Study Group: Schumann Song Tue 8 Jan Wigmore Study Group: Schumann Song Fri 11 Jan Chamber Tots: On the Farm Fri 11 Jan Wigmore Study Group: Schumann Song Sat 12 Jan Family Day: Chamber Challenge Fri 18 Jan For Crying Out Loud! Thu 24 Jan Chamber Tots: Under the Sea Thu 31 Jan Pre-Concert Talk

9 9 15 9 15 19 29 33

Sense of Home 44 Tue 12 Feb Big Sing! 42 42 Tue 12 Feb Bechstein Sessions: Diphonon Duo Thu 14 Feb For Crying Out Loud! 47 Sat 16 Feb Family Concert: 49 Nicola Benedetti Mon 18 Feb Home from Home 50 Mon 18 Feb Learning Gala Concert: 44 Home Sweet Home Wed 20 Feb Family Sounds 51 Wed 20 Feb Family Day: No Place Like... 51 Thu 21 Feb Relaxed Concert: Soraya Mafi 53 Fri 22 Feb Family Day: Lullabies 53 Tue 26 Feb Schools Concert: 57 Nicola Benedetti Thu 14 Feb Introduction to Music: Schubert Thu 21 Feb Introduction to Music: Schubert Thu 28 Feb Introduction to Music: Schubert Fri 1 Mar Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles Thu 7 Mar Chamber Tots: Under the Sea Thu 7 Mar Introduction to Music: Schubert Wed 13 Mar Side by Side Fri 15 Mar Schools Concert: Stan & Mabel and the Race for Space Sat 16 Mar Family Concert: Stan & Mabel and the Race for Space Thu 28 Mar Steven Isserlis Masterclass Fri 29 Mar Chamber Tots: On the Farm

47 47 47 59 65 47 68 69

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Calendar January – March 2019 January Wed 2 Jan 7.30pm Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper

Thu 3 Jan 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Schumann Song 7.30pm Sergio Tiempo

9 9

Fri 4 Jan

7.30pm The King’s Consort/Iestyn Davies/ James Hall

Sat 5 Jan

7.30pm Christoph Pohl/Marcelo Amaral

Sun 6 Jan

11.30am Rolston String Quartet 7.30pm Pavel Kolesnikov/Elīna Bukša/ Hermès Quartet

11 11

Sat 26 Jan 11.00am ECMA Masterclass: Johannes Meissl/ Simply Quartet 1.00pm ECMA: Trio Vitruvi 7.30pm Borodin Quartet/Alexei Volodin

26 27 30

Sun 27 Jan 11.30am Borodin Quartet/Michael Collins 29 3.00pm ECMA: Trio Gaon/Cosmos Quartet 27 7.30pm Christian Blackshaw 31 Mon 28 Jan 1.00pm Simon Höfele/Frank Dupree 31 7.30pm Sofia Fomina/Oleksiy Palchykov/Rodion 32 Pogossov/Iain Burnside Tue 29 Jan 7.30pm Les Arts Florissants/William Christie

Mon 7 Jan 1.00pm Alexander Gavrylyuk

Wed 30 Jan 7.30pm The Cardinall’s Musick 31

Tue 8 Jan 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Schumann Song 7.30pm Sunwook Kim

9 13

Thu 31 Jan 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 33 7.30pm Marlis Petersen/Werner Güra/ 33 Christoph Berner

Wed 9 Jan 7.30pm Tasmin Little/Piers Lane

Thu 10 Jan 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov/Andreas Staier

Fri 11 Jan 10.15am Chamber Tots: On the Farm 11.45am Chamber Tots: On the Farm 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Schumann Song 7.30pm Anne Schwanewilms/Malcolm Martineau

15 15 9 12

Sat 12 Jan 10.30am Family Day: Chamber Challenge 15

February Sat 2 Feb

7.30pm Piers Lane

Sun 3 Feb 11.30am Zahir Quartet 3.00pm James Newby/Joseph Middleton 7.30pm Goldner String Quartet/Piers Lane

35 35 36

Mon 4 Feb 1.00pm Sophie Pacini 7.30pm Christiane Karg/Malcolm Martineau

36 36

7.30pm Escher String Quartet

5.30pm Nash Ensemble

7.30pm Nash Ensemble

Sun 13 Jan 11.30am Hyeyoon Park/Sholto Kynoch 7.30pm Doric String Quartet

15 18

Tue 5 Feb

Mon 14 Jan 1.00pm Juilliard String Quartet 7.30pm Robin Tritschler/Graham Johnson

18 19

Thu 7 Feb

7.30pm Sonia Prina/Alina Pogostkina/Dorothee Oberlinger/Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca

Wed 6 Feb 7.30pm Britten Sinfonia

Tue 15 Jan 7.30pm Juilliard String Quartet

Fri 8 Feb

7.30pm Llŷr Williams

Wed 16 Jan 7.30pm Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber

Thu 17 Jan 7.30pm The Sixteen

Sat 9 Feb

1.00pm New Elizabethan Award Showcase 7.30pm Michael Collins/Michael McHale

39 38

Fri 18 Jan 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 7.30pm Christian Zacharias Lecture-Recital

19 19 24

Sat 19 Jan 7.30pm Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien

Sun 20 Jan 11.30am Israeli Chamber Project/Antje Weithaas 7.30pm The Endellion String Quartet

21 21

Sun 10 Feb 11.30am Narek Hakhnazaryan/Oxana Shevchenko 7.30pm Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

39 41

Mon 11 Feb 1.00pm François-Frédéric Guy 7.30pm Sergey Khachatryan/Alisa Weilerstein/ Inon Barnatan/Colin Currie/ Owen Gunnell/Sam Walton

41 41

Mon 21 Jan 1.00pm Leila Josefowicz/John Novacek 23 7.30pm Rafał Blechacz 23

Tue 12 Feb 10.00am Big Sing! 42 6.15pm Bechstein Sessions: Diphonon Duo 42 7.30pm Leon McCawley 42

Tue 22 Jan 1.00pm François Le Roux/Olivier Godin 7.30pm Mary Bevan/Marcus Farnsworth/ Christopher Glynn

23 25

Wed 13 Feb 12.15pm Pre concert Talk 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia 7.30pm Nikolaj Znaider/Robert Kulek

Wed 23 Jan 7.30pm Pekka Kuusisto/Atte Kilpeläinen/ Tomas Djupsjöbacka/Jukka Huitila

Thu 14 Feb 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 47 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 47 4.45pm Introduction to Music: Schubert 47 7.30pm Stile Antico 46

Thu 24 Jan 10.15am Chamber Tots: Under the Sea 29 11.45am Chamber Tots: Under the Sea 29 7.30pm Ailish Tynan/Anna Huntley/Benjamin 28 Appl/William Thomas/Graham Johnson Fri 25 Jan 1.00pm ECMA: Simply Quartet 7.30pm Roman Rabinovich

26 29

Fri 15 Feb

6.00pm Razumovsky Academy Young Artists 7.30pm Razumovsky Ensemble

43 43 43

47 47

Sat 16 Feb 3.00pm Family Concert: Nicola Benedetti 49 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Lucy Crowe 49

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Sun 17 Feb 11.30am Trio Isimsiz 7.30pm Elīna Garanča/Malcolm Martineau

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Mon 18 Feb 1.00pm Kitty Whately/Simon Lepper 50 Afternoon Home from Home 50 7.30pm Learning Gala Concert 44 Tue 19 Feb 7.30pm Henk Neven/Imogen Cooper 51 Wed 20 Feb 10.00am Family Sounds 51 10.30am Family Day: No Place Like... 51 1.00pm Family Sounds 51 7.30pm Skride Quartet 53 Thu 21 Feb 11.00am Relaxed Concert: Soraya Mafi 53 4.45pm Introduction to Music: Schubert 47 7.30pm Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset/ 52 Eugénie Warnier/Emiliano Gonzalez Toro/ Magnus Staveland Fri 22 Feb 10.30am Family Day: Lullabies 7.30pm Elias String Quartet

53 54

Sat 23 Feb 7.30pm Trio Zimmermann

Sun 24 Feb 11.30am Albion Quartet 7.30pm Kirill Gerstein

55 55

Mon 25 Feb 1.00pm Quatuor Arod/Timothy Ridout 7.30pm Marlis Petersen/Anke Vondung/ Werner Güra/Paul Armin Edelmann/ Christoph Berner/Camillo Radicke

56 56

Fri 8 Mar 7.30pm The English Concert/Nadja Zwiener/ Tuomo Suni/Christian Curnyn

Sat 9 Mar 11.00am Who is Hans Keller? 64 2.30pm Music workshop of Mozart K421 64 6.00pm Film Screening: The Keller Instinct 64 7.30pm Elias String Quartet 64 Sun 10 Mar 11.30am Nash Ensemble 7.30pm Marc-André Hamelin

66 66

Mon 11 Mar 1.00pm Belcea Quartet 7.30pm Nils Mönkemeyer/William Youn

67 67

Tue 12 Mar 7.30pm Janine Jansen/Alexander Gavrylyuk 67 Wed 13 Mar 1.00pm Side by Side 7.30pm Die Kölner Akademie/Mahan Esfahani

68 68

Thu 14 Mar 7.30pm Simon Bode/Igor Levit

Fri 15 Mar

11.00am Schools Concert: Stan & Mabel and the Race for Space 7.30pm Dame Sarah Connolly/Julius Drake/ Emily Berrington

69 69

Sat 16 Mar 11.00am Family Concert: Stan & Mabel and the Race for Space 7.30pm Heath Quartet

Sun 17 Mar 11.30am David Oistrakh String Quartet 7.30pm Renata Pokupić/La Serenissima/ Adrian Chandler

71 70

56 Tue 26 Feb 11.00am Schools Concert: Nicola Benedetti 1.00pm Schools Concert: Nicola Benedetti 56 7.30pm Quatuor Zaïde 57

Mon 18 Mar 1.00pm Jeremy Denk

Wed 27 Feb 7.30pm Garrick Ohlsson

Wed 20 Mar 7.30pm Vox Luminis/Reinoud Van Mechelen 9.30pm Post-Concert Open Mic Q&A

Thu 28 Feb 4.45pm Introduction to Music: Schubert 47 7.00pm Dame Emma Kirkby 57

March Fri 1 Mar

12.30pm Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles 59

2.00pm Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles 59

7.30pm Sofia Mchedlishvili/Andrey Zhilikhovsky/ 59 Iain Burnside

Sat 2 Mar

7.30pm Stéphane Degout/Alain Planès

59 Sun 3 Mar 11.30am Kronberg Academy 7.30pm Brad Mehldau/Ian Bostridge 60 Mon 4 Mar 1.00pm Mariam Batsashvili 7.30pm Jonathan Plowright Tue 5 Mar

7.30pm Ensemble Modern/Sir George Benjamin/ Anu Komsi/Helena Rasker

Wed 6 Mar 7.30pm Florilegium 7.30pm Wigmore at the Roundhouse: Ensemble Modern Orchestra/Sir George Benjamin

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Thu 7 Mar 10.15am Chamber Tots: Under the Sea 65 11.45am Chamber Tots: Under the Sea 65 4.45pm Introduction to Music: Schubert 47 7.30pm Denis Kozhukhin 65

Tue 19 Mar 5.30pm Nash Ensemble/Royal Academy of Music 73 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Maximilian Schmitt 73 72 72

Thu 21 Mar 7.30pm Christoph Prégardien/Pentaèdre/ 74 Joseph Petric Fri 22 Mar 7.30pm Škampa Quartet

Sat 23 Mar 7.30pm Joshua Bell/Timothy Ridout/ Steven Isserlis/Jeremy Denk

Sun 24 Mar 11.30am Dover Quartet 7.30pm Nathan Gunn/Julie Gunn

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Mon 25 Mar 1.00pm Novus String Quartet 7.30pm Paul Appleby/Malcolm Martineau

77 77

Tue 26 Mar 7.30pm Zlata Chochieva 78 Wed 27 Mar 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia 7.30pm Carolyn Sampson/The King's Consort

79 79

Thu 28 Mar 1.00pm Steven Isserlis Masterclass 79 Fri 29 Mar 10.15am Chamber Tots: On the Farm 81 11.45am Chamber Tots: On the Farm 81 7.30pm Kristóf Baráti/István Várdai/ 81 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Sat 30 Mar 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani

Sun 31 Mar 11.30am Horszowski Trio 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov/Marcel Ponseele/ Lorenzo Coppola/Javier Zafra/ Teunis van der Zwart

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Wednesday 2 January 7.30pm

Ilker Arcayürek tenor

Simon Lepper piano

Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35 Schumann Blondels Lied; Loreley; Der arme Peter; Nachtlied; Sängers Trost; Schneeglöckchen Op. 96 No. 2; Ihre Stimme; Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint; 6 Gedichte von N Lenau und Requiem Op. 90 The Turkish-born, Austrian rising star, Ilker Arcayürek, is steadily developing a reputation for performances in which his outstanding instrument is placed at the service of an exceptional sensibility. Here he explores Schumann’s cycle setting poems by the kindred spirit of Justinus Kerner. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Ilker Arcayürek © Janina Laszlo

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Wigmore Study Group: Schumann Song Thursday 3 January 3.00pm – 6.00pm Tuesday 8 January 3.00pm – 6.00pm Friday 11 January 3.00pm – 6.00pm ‘Sometimes it seems as though I am embarking on completely new paths in music,’ Schumann wrote, during his famous Liederjahr in 1840. He had spent a decade devoting himself to the piano, before his legal battle to marry Clara Wieck against her father’s wishes led to months of feeling too troubled to compose. Turning to song began a period of intense creativity: ‘I want to sing myself to death like a nightingale.’ Come and explore Schumann’s wonderful song cycles in three afternoons presented by composer Julian Philips, with pianist Laura Roberts and specialist guest speakers and student performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Series ticket price £70 including three study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on Friday 11 January

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Thursday 3 January 7.30pm

Friday 4 January 7.30pm

Sergio Tiempo piano

Iestyn Davies countertenor James Hall countertenor The King’s Consort

Journey to Debussy Rameau L’enharmonique Debussy Hommage à Rameau; Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest; Des pas sur la neige; L’isle joyeuse; Golliwogg’s Cake-Walk Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ Wagner/Kocsis Prelude from Tristan und Isolde Liszt Nuages gris S199 Evans Waltz for Debby (arr. Tiempo) Messiaen Regard du Père Villa-Lobos From A prole do bebê Book I: Branquinha, Moreninha, A Pobrezinha & O Polichinelo Ginastera Malambo Op. 7 A pupil of his compatriot Martha Argerich, the Argentine pianist presents a programme centred on works by Claude Debussy, surrounded by composers who influenced him and on whom he had an influence. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Rebecca Miles recorder Ian Wilson recorder Reiko Ichise bass viol Lynda Sayce theorbo Robert King harpsichord, organ Sound the Trumpet

Purcell Sound the trumpet; In vain the am’rous flute; O solitude, my sweetest choice; No, resistance is but vain; Chaconne (Two in One Upon a Ground); Sing, sing ye Druids; Since from my dear; O dive custos Blow Ah heav’n! what is’t I hear; Paratum cor meum; An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell Humfrey Lord, I have sinned; A Hymne to God the Father Williams Sonata in imitation of birds Iestyn Davies and outstanding young countertenor James Hall explore a programme of duets, including Purcell’s heartfelt elegy to Queen Mary and Blow’s ravishing tribute on the tragic death of Purcell. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Robert Schumann

Sergio Tiempo © Sussie Ahlburg

The King's Consort © Keith Saunders

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Alexander Melnikov Residency

Admired for his ability to move seamlessly between different repertoires and for his long-term interest in period instruments and historical performance practice, Alexander Melnikov is one of the most stimulating musicians of our time, his prodigious technique harnessed by an intellectual curiosity that enables him to chart a rewarding creative path. Thursday 10 January 7.30pm

Alexander Melnikov fortepiano Andreas Staier fortepiano Schubert March & Trio No. 3 in B minor D819; 4 Ländler D814; Polonaise in D minor D824; March No. 1 in C D886; Andantino varié D823; Rondo in A D951; Variations on an original theme in A flat D813; Fantasie in F minor D940 The leading German fortepianist joins Melnikov for a programme exploring Schubert’s varied output for piano duet, including lighter fare alongside the intense F minor Fantasie – one of the medium’s masterpieces. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Sunday 31 March 7.30pm with Marcel Ponseele oboe Lorenzo Coppola clarinet Javier Zafra bassoon & Teunis van der Zwart horn Friday 21 June 7.00pm

Alexander Melnikov © Marco Borggreve

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Saturday 5 January 7.30pm

Sunday 6 January 11.30am

Sunday 6 January 7.30pm

Christoph Pohl baritone Marcelo Amaral piano

Rolston String Quartet

Pavel Kolesnikov piano Elīna Bukša violin Hermès Quartet

Brahms Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze; Bei dir sind meine Gedanken; Sommerabend; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht; O kühler Wald; Über die Heide; Auf dem Kirchhofe; Däm’rung senkte sich von oben; Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen; Kein Haus, keine Heimat; Verzagen; Es schauen die Blumen Wolf 3 Gedichte von Michelangelo Korngold Abschiedslieder Op. 14 Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Following his Wigmore debut in 2017, the German baritone returns for a programme of German and Austrian late Romantics, including Wolf’s final songs and early cycles by Korngold and Mahler.

Haydn String Quartet in B flat Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 The prize-winning Canadians were listed in 2016 among CBC’s ’30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians under 30’. Here they pair the fourth of Haydn’s Op. 76 set – named after its striking opening gesture – with the second of Brahms’s first published opus in the genre. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Op. 21 (version for piano and string quintet) Chausson Concert in D Op. 21 for piano, violin and string quartet A favourite with Wigmore audiences since his 2014 debut, the Russian pianist plays a Chopin concerto in the composer’s own chamber arrangement and is joined by the Latvian violinist for Ernest Chausson’s double concerto for chamber forces. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Christoph Pohl © René Limbecker

Rolston String Quartet © Tianxiao Zhang

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Schumann Song Series Focusing on a figure widely featured in themed programmes throughout the season, the Schumann Song Series is devised by Malcolm Martineau and musicologist Susan Youens, with singers chosen by John Gilhooly, and offers an in-depth exploration of the great composer’s extraordinary output, amongst the most rewarding within the entire Lieder tradition. Friday 11 January 7.30pm

Anne Schwanewilms soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Schoeck Schilflieder Op. 2 Duparc Au pays où se fait la guerre; L’invitation au voyage; Phidylé Debussy Proses lyriques The German lyric soprano – a 2018 Grammy Award winner – surveys three song cycles, beginning with Schumann’s exploration of Eichendorff, followed by the three early ‘reed songs’ (1905) setting Nikolaus Lenau by the Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Events and Concerts in this Series Thursday 3, Tuesday 8 and Friday 11 January 3.00pm - 6.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Schumann Song Monday 4 February 7.30pm with Christiane Karg soprano Wednesday 24 April 7.30pm with Paula Murrihy mezzo-soprano & Robin Tritschler tenor Anne Schwanewilms © Javier del Real

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Monday 7 January 1.00pm

Tuesday 8 January 7.30pm

Wednesday 9 January 7.30pm

Alexander Gavrylyuk piano

Sunwook Kim piano

Bach Italian Concerto in F BWV971 Rachmaninov Preludes: in G flat Op. 23 No. 10, in G minor Op. 23 No. 5, in G sharp minor Op. 32 No. 12, in B flat Op. 23 No. 2 & in E flat Op. 23 No. 6 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat Op. 83

Mozart Piano Sonata in D K311 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’ Donghoon Shin New work (world première) Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58

Tasmin Little violin Piers Lane piano

Born in Ukraine but brought up in Australia, Alexander Gavrylyuk has gone on to enjoy a top-flight international career in which the music of Rachmaninov and Prokofiev has featured prominently. Here he adds one of Bach’s most popular keyboard works.

Winner of the 2006 Leeds Piano Competition, the South Korean’s programme has as its lynchpins three major sonatas alongside a world première of a new work by his compatriot Donghoon Shin, a pupil of Julian Anderson who revels in his diverse musical influences.

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Schubert Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in A minor D385 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Brahms Scherzo in C minor from F-A-E Sonata (Sonatensatz) Schubert Fantasy in C D934 The rewarding partnership between violinist Tasmin Little and pianist Piers Lane is a familiar one to Wigmore audiences. In this programme they explore works by Schubert and Brahms, including the former’s large-scale Fantasy and the latter’s dramatic final violin sonata. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Sunwook Kim © Doh Lee

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PARTNER SCHOOLS PROGRAMME We are delighted to be embarking on the next phase of our Partner Schools Programme from September 2018 until July 2021 with three partner Music Education Hubs and three schools: Chestnuts Primary School and Haringey Music Service St Mary’s Catholic Primary School and Havering Music School Weald Rise Primary School and Harrow Music Service © Benjamin Ealovega

We are working in partnership to make their schools musical places, co-creating a programme of opportunities which meets their needs and places music at the heart of their ethos, and empowering them to become culturally engaged, proactive schools. With the Hubs, we’ll share the learning and activity across the boroughs, developing music leadership across the local areas.

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Friday 11 January 10.15am and 11.45am

Saturday 12 January 10.30am – 3.30pm

Sunday 13 January 11.30am

Chamber Tots: On the Farm

Family Day: Chamber Challenge

Hyeyoon Park violin Sholto Kynoch piano

For ages 5 plus

Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’

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

Join music leader Hannah Opstad and the Wigmore Hall Learning/ Open Academy Fellowship Ensemble, the Bloomsbury Quartet, on a marvellous music-making adventure. Take your seat in your very own chamber ensemble, create your own brand new pieces of music and perform together on the Wigmore Hall stage. Children £10 Adults £15

Children £7 Adults £5

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Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

Making a welcome return to Wigmore Hall, Korean Hyeyoon Park has established herself as a violinist of outstanding gifts and expressive power. Her programme precedes one of Beethoven’s most challenging works for the instrument with Szymanowski’s subtle and elusive myth-based poems. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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Hyeyoon Park © Giorgia Bertazzi

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Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble German Romantics

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

Saturday 12 January 5.30pm

Nash Ensemble

Stephanie Gonley violin Adrian Brendel cello Richard Hosford clarinet Ian Brown piano Clara Schumann 3 Romances Op. 22 Felix Mendelssohn Variations concertantes in D Op. 17 Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D Op. 11 Two long-neglected composers receive a revival of some of their fine works. Clara Schumann’s romances and Fanny Mendelssohn’s trio are featured alongside Felix Mendelssohn’s cello variations, written for his and Fanny’s brother, Paul. All seats £4

Caspar David Friedrich �Moonrise over the sea’

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Saturday 12 January 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble

Lawrence Power viola Adrian Brendel cello Richard Hosford clarinet Ian Brown piano

Martyn Brabbins conductor Schumann Märchenerzählungen Op. 132 Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111 Mendelssohn Song without Words Op. 109 Brahms Serenade in D Op. 11 (original version for wind and string nonet, reconstructed by Alan Boustead) Robert Schumann’s ‘Fairy Tales’ – composed for a combination which he felt would have ‘a very Romantic effect’ – and Felix Mendelssohn’s Song without Words preface late and early works by the former’s protégé Brahms, his richly-coloured Second String Quintet and the engaging Serenade, restored to its original chamber colours. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 16 February 7.30pm with Lucy Crowe soprano & Jamie Phillips conductor Sunday 10 March 11.30am Tuesday 19 March 7.30pm with Maximilian Schmitt tenor

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Sunday 13 January 7.30pm

Monday 14 January 1.00pm

Tuesday 15 January 7.30pm

Doric String Quartet

Juilliard String Quartet

Mozart String Quartet in D K575 ‘Prussian’ Bartók String Quartet No. 5 BB110 Schubert String Quartet in G D887

Lembit Beecher New work (European première) Dvořák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’

Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 Bartók String Quartet No. 3 BB93 Dvořák String Quartet No. 11 in C Op. 61

Acclaimed for its excellence over a wide repertoire, the Doric String Quartet ranges from the first of Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ quartets, composed in 1789 for the cellist king of that country, to Bartók’s Fifth Quartet of 1934, with its two ‘night-music’ slow movements.

Founded in 1946 at New York’s Juilliard School, the eponymous quartet’s personnel has necessarily seen changes while its artistic aims have remained constant. Here it matches Dvořák’s US-inspired work with a new piece by the admired EstonianAmerican, Lembit Beecher.

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Doric String Quartet © George Garnier

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Juilliard String Quartet © Claudio Papapietro

The Juilliards explore an early Beethoven quartet alongside Bartók’s concentrated third, a work premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1929. It crowns the performance with Dvořák’s dramatic Opus 61, notable for its emotionally and harmonically unsettled atmosphere. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Robin Tritschler The Seasons A searching artist who combines insight with expressive eloquence, the Irish tenor has chosen ‘The Seasons’ as the overall theme of his series, exploring autumn, winter, spring and summer through the creative minds of some of the greatest Lieder poets and composers. Monday 14 January 7.30pm

Robin Tritschler tenor Graham Johnson piano Schumann’s Spring and Fall Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Schumann Frühlingsfahrt; Flutenreicher Ebro; Frühlingsbotschaft; Aufträge; Der Abendstern; Meine Töne still und heiter; Die Blume der Ergebung; Loreley; Du bist wie eine Blume; Abends am Strand; Der arme Peter; Des Sennen Abschied; Venetianisches Lied I & II; Mein schöner Stern!; Nachtlied; Der Einsiedler; Requiem Collaborating with one of the most experienced of all accompanists, Robin Tritschler selects from the 138 songs Schumann composed during 1840 as well as others dating from his final period. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

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Friday 18 January 11.00am and 12.30pm

For Crying Out Loud! Comalli Consort Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment. Approximately 45 minutes in duration Adults £8.50 (babies come free) In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

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Sunday 26 May 7.30pm with Simon Lepper piano

Robin Tritschler © Benjamin Ealovega

For Crying Out Loud! © Benjamin Ealovega

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Wednesday 16 January 7.30pm

Christian Gerhaher baritone

Gerold Huber piano

Schubert Winterreise D911 Acclaimed as two of today’s greatest Lieder interpreters, the German baritone and his regular pianist return to survey one of the summits of the repertoire, Schubert’s psychologically intense cycle recounting a solitary journey through a harsh, wintry landscape. Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval £60 £50 £40 £30 £18

Christian Gerhaher © Thomas Egli

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Saturday 19 January 7.30pm

Sunday 20 January 11.30am

Sunday 20 January 7.30pm

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano

Israeli Chamber Project Antje Weithaas violin

The Endellion String Quartet

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 3 in E flat Op. 12 No. 3 Janáček Violin Sonata Cage 6 Melodies for violin and keyboard Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 BB85

Mozart Clarinet Quartet in E flat after K380 Bartók Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano BB116 Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 60

40th Anniversary Concert

Individual artists whose duo appearances have drawn a devoted Wigmore following, Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien here present major sonatas by Beethoven, Janáček and Bartók, plus a collection of six pieces from the avant-garde composer and music theorist, John Cage.

A 10-year-old ensemble described as ‘a hive mind in which egos dissolve and players think, breathe and play as one’ is joined by the German violinist for a programme including a transcription of one of Mozart’s violin sonatas for clarinet quartet.

This date marks the anniversary of the very first Endellion String Quartet rehearsal 40 years ago: 20 January 1979. This programme celebrates some of the key repertoire eagerly performed by the Quartet ever since. Haydn’s ‘Rider’, with its sublime slow movement, is followed by a Bartók quartet known for its melodious and wild, yet highly expressive and accessible, music. Beethoven closes the celebration with his Opus 131, widely regarded as one of the pinnacles of music and one of his own favourites.

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Haydn String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’ Bartók String Quartet No. 2 BB75 Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor Op. 131

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Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien © Sussie Ahlburg

Israeli Chamber Project © Avshalom Levi

The Endellion String Quartet © Eric Richmond

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Thursday 17 January 7.30pm

The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor Royal Welcome Songs for King Charles II Purcell The Lord is my light; From Theodosius: Prepare, prepare, the rites begin, Can’st thou, Marina, The gate to bliss, Hark! Behold the heaven’ly choir & Now the fight’s done; God save our sov’reign Charles; Swifter, Isis, swifter flow (Welcome Song for King Charles II); From Theodosius: Sad as death; Dream no more; Hail to the myrtle shade; In Nomine a6 Z746; In Nomine a7 Z747; The summer’s absence unconcerned we bear (Welcome Song for King Charles II) Taverner Benedictus from Mass Gloria tibi Trinitas Harry Christophers and his choir include odes welcoming Charles II back to London from his annual visits to Newmarket, alongside excerpts from Purcell’s incidental music to Nathaniel Lee’s 1680 tragedy. £60 £50 £40 £30 £18

The Sixteen © Molinavisuals

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Monday 21 January 1.00pm

Monday 21 January 7.30pm

Tuesday 22 January 1.00pm

Leila Josefowicz violin John Novacek piano

Rafał Blechacz piano

François Le Roux baritone Olivier Godin piano

Sibelius Valse triste Op. 44 (arr. Friedrich Hermann) Prokofiev Allegro brusco from Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Knussen Reflection for violin and piano Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 (arr. Otto Wittenbecher) Zimmermann Sonata for violin and piano Keen advocates of 20th-century and contemporary music, the duo offers one of the last compositions by British-born Oliver Knussen, alongside Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s powerfully expressive sonata.

Mozart Rondo in A minor K511; Piano Sonata in A minor K310 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101 Schumann Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 22 Chopin 4 Mazurkas Op. 24; Polonaise in A flat Op. 53 The Polish pianist won an extraordinary success at the 2005 International Frederick Chopin Competition in Warsaw, taking first prize as well as all the special prizes; his 2014 Gilmore Artist Award confirmed the extensive recognition he subsequently received. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Dutilleux Birthday Celebration Dutilleux 4 mélodies; From Au gré des ondes (for solo piano): Prélude en berceuse, Improvisation & Hommage à Bach; 3 mélodies inédites; Regards sur l’infini; Chanson de la déportée; 3 sonnets de Jean Cassou; La geôle; Petit air à dormir debout (for solo piano); San Francisco Night A fastidious craftsman with a unique voice, the distinguished French composer Henri Dutilleux was born exactly 103 years ago; a selection of his songs and solo piano works are performed by artists who have recorded them to considerable acclaim. As part of this concert, François Le Roux and Olivier Godin will discuss how they approach Dutilleux’s captivating music, giving a unique insight into the relationship between composer and performer. All seats £16 Approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in duration, without an interval

Leila Josefowicz © Chris Lee

Rafał Blechacz © Marco Borggreve

François Le Roux © Paul Montag

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Friday 18 January 7.30pm

Christian Zacharias Lecture-Recital

‘Why does Schubert sound like Schubert?’ ‘A pianist of ideas’, as The New Yorker has called him, leading Schubert interpreter Christian Zacharias delves into the great composer’s unique melodic, harmonic and thematic flourishes. Through close examination of these musical hallmarks and idiosyncrasies, he takes us on a journey to the very essence of Schubert’s style. All seats £16 Approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in duration, without an interval Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Christian Zacharias © Felvegi Andrea

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Pekka Kuusisto Residency Tuesday 22 January 7.30pm

Mary Bevan soprano Marcus Farnsworth baritone Christopher Glynn piano A Goethe Songbook

Classical violinist and improviser, composer and orchestral director, the versatile Pekka Kuusisto brings extraordinary levels of energy and commitment to all his projects. During his residency, he will work with a variety of other artists to develop innovative and thought-provoking programmes that will both challenge and delight. Wednesday 23 January 7.30pm

Reichardt Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Mozart Das Veilchen Beethoven Wonne der Wehmut Schubert Der Musensohn; Auf dem See; Liebhaber in allen Gestalten; Ganymed; An Schwager Kronos; Meeres Stille; Gretchen am Spinnrade; Mignon (Kennst du das Land); Mignon und der Harfner Schumann Liebeslied Grieg Zur Rosenzeit Mendelssohn Ach, um deine feuchten Schwingen Brahms Phänomen Pfitzner An den Mond Busoni Lied des Mephistopheles Ives Ilmenau Wolf Der Rattenfänger; Anakreons Grab; Die Spröde; Die Bekehrte; Beherzigung

Pekka Kuusisto violin Atte Kilpeläinen viola Tomas Djupsjöbacka cello Jukka Huitila visual designer

Soprano Mary Bevan, baritone Marcus Farnsworth and pianist Christopher Glynn make a generous selection from the works of countless composers inspired by the giant literary figure of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Wednesday 1 May 7.30pm

Fertility: The Chance of a Lifetime Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 (arr. Sitkovetsky for string trio) Pekka Kuusisto collaborates with Jukka Huitila and members of Meta4 quartet in a programme combining photographs of human embryos by Lennart Nilsson and from the BBC’s The First Nine Months, with Bach’s variations arranged by Dmitry Sitkovetsky. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

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Pekka Kuusisto © Kaapo Kamu

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European Chamber Music Academy Simply Quartet © Nancy Horowitz

Johannes Meissl © Sabine Hauswirth

Friday 25 January 1.00pm

Saturday 26 January 11.00am

Simply Quartet

Masterclass with Professor Johannes Meissl and Simply Quartet

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 33 No. 5 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Presenting some of the finest new musicians selected by ECMA founder Hatto Beyerle in collaboration with Europe’s leading musical organisations, the first concert in this year’s series focuses on an ensemble that currently studies in Vienna with violinist Johannes Meissl. All seats £10

Chamber music specialist and ECMA co-artistic director Johannes Meissl draws from his vast experience as a teacher and quartet player in a masterclass with the Vienna-based Simply Quartet, consisting of outstanding Chinese and Norwegian musicians. Free (ticket required)

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Showcase Trio Vitruvi © Tom McKenzie

Trio Gaon © bearbeitet

Saturday 26 January 1.00pm

Sunday 27 January 3.00pm

Trio Vitruvi

Trio Gaon Cosmos Quartet

Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor Op. 8 Dvořák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ Founded in 2013, the Denmark-based Trio Vitruvi – named after the Roman architect and philosopher Vitruvius – has garnered the highest praise in its international appearances. Here it explores a volatile student work by Shostakovich alongside Dvořák’s example alternating sombre and light-hearted sections. All seats £10

Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 (revised version) Brahms String Quartet in B flat Op. 67 The Cosmos Quartet offers Brahms’s ebullient Third Quartet (1875) while the Trio Gaon – deriving its name from a Korean word meaning both ‘centre of the world’ and ‘generating warmth’ – performs his expansive First Piano Trio (1854) in its 1889 revision. All seats £10

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Graham Johnson Songmakers’ Almanac

John Gilhooly asked Graham Johnson for a new Songmakers’ Almanac series, and this first concert lives up to its name as a source of information pertaining to anniversaries and special days of the year – inspired by Robert Chambers’ famous The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character of 1863. Thursday 24 January 7.30pm

Ailish Tynan soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Benjamin Appl baritone William Thomas bass Graham Johnson piano Celebrating January Songs by Mozart, Schubert, Poulenc, Tippett, Novello and many other January luminaries These January red letter days – the birthdays of ten composers, five poets, and two great songs, and the deaths of two composers and nine poets – represent as random a selection of unlikely bedfellows as only chance can select. The secret of any anthology, however, is to make the progression of information, in this case music, pleasing enough to appear logical, even inevitable, and for the whole to be more than the sum of its many parts. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Sunday 2 June 7.30pm

Graham Johnson © Clive Barda

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Thursday 24 January 10.15am and 11.45am

Friday 25 January 7.30pm

Sunday 27 January 11.30am

Chamber Tots: Under the Sea

Roman Rabinovich piano

Borodin Quartet Michael Collins clarinet

We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us under the sea! This interactive music-making workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging ensembles. 10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & 11.45am (3-5 year-olds) Approximately 1 hour in duration Children £7 Adults £5

Ligeti Musica Ricercata: 11 pieces for piano Bach Partita No. 4 in D BWV828 Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958 In 2008 the Israeli pianist jointly won the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, launching a career that has seen him warmly received on the global circuit. Alongside Bach and a late Schubert sonata, he explores an early collection by Ligeti. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 92 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Written during a period of evacuation in 1941, in his Second Quartet Prokofiev made use of folk material from the area of Kabardino-Balkaria, even imitating the sound of the kamancheh, a Caucasian stringed folk instrument, in the slow movement. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

In Memory of Peter Flatter

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Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

Roman Rabinovich © Jose Franch-Ballester.

Borodin Quartet © Andy Staples

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Saturday 26 January 7.30pm

Borodin Quartet Alexei Volodin piano Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 Originally founded in 1945 and given its present name ten years later, the Borodin Quartet continues to be closely associated with the works of Shostakovich, though his passionate Piano Quintet (1940) predates the ensemble’s founding. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Alexei Volodin © Marco Borggreve

Borodin Quartet © Keith Saunders

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Christian Blackshaw Residency A pianist of exceptional qualities, Christian Blackshaw turns 70 during a season when his artistry is celebrated in a series of concerts, in which he is featured as soloist as well as being partnered by distinguished colleagues. Sunday 27 January 7.30pm

Christian Blackshaw piano 70th Birthday Concert Mozart Fantasia in C minor K475 Schubert 3 Klavierstücke D946 Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue Schumann Humoreske in B flat Op. 20 Increasingly recognised for his authority as well as his individuality, Christian Blackshaw celebrates his 70th birthday by prefacing a characteristically freeform piece by Schumann with shorter works by Mozart and Schubert, and César Franck's masterly triptych.

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Monday 28 January 1.00pm

Wednesday 30 January 7.30pm

Simon Höfele trumpet Frank Dupree piano

The Cardinall’s Musick

Enescu Légende Takemitsu Paths (in memoriam Witold Lutosławski) Hindemith Trumpet Sonata Savard Morceau de Concours Gaubert Cantabile et Scherzetto Charlier Solo de Concours

Lobo Missa Maria Magdalene Gregorian Chant Propers for the Feast of St Mary Magdalene Crecquillon Andreas Christi famulos Palestrina Cantantibus organis Handl Misit Herodes rex manus Victoria Descendit angelus Domini Wert Saule, Saule, quid me persequeris Victoria O decus apostolicum Palestrina Magnificat primi toni

A BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, here joined by a regular keyboard partner, the young German trumpeter Simon Höfele is already an experienced player whose wide command of his instrument’s repertoire is reflected in his diverse programme. £16 concs £14

Works connected to individual saints inform this programme by a vocal ensemble whose performances of the Renaissance repertoire have won consistent acclaim. Initially focusing on St Mary Magdalene, the concert closes with the Magnificat, the Virgin Mary’s hymn of thanksgiving. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Christian Blackshaw © James Hill

The Company of Heaven II

Simon Höfele © Sebastian Heck

The Cardinall’s Musick © Benjamin Ealovega

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Russian Song Series One of the most widely experienced and knowledgeable accompanists of our time, Iain Burnside has explored the repertoire for voice and piano with extraordinary diligence. He continues his Russian Song Series, traversing the outputs of leading Russian composers from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. Monday 28 January 7.30pm

Sofia Fomina soprano Oleksiy Palchykov tenor Rodion Pogossov baritone Iain Burnside piano Glinka Venetian night; Bolero; I am here, Inezilla; Travelling Song Shostakovich The dark-eyed girl; Farewell, Grenada!; From From Jewish Folk Poetry: Before a long separation & The song of misery Medtner Spanish Romance; What does my name mean to you?; I no longer yearn; Day and Night; The Wagon of Life; The Echo; Winter evening Myaskovsky Spanish Lullaby Glazunov Spanish Song Glière A Berber song Grechaninov O, were I a lake Rimsky-Korsakov I love thee, moon: Melody from the banks of the Ganges Prokofiev Remember Me Rachmaninov The Migrant Wind; Twilight has fallen; 6 Songs Op. 38 Russians Rodion Pogossov and Sofia Fomina join with Ukrainian Oleksiy Palchykov in this programme of 19th- and 20th-century examples ranging from Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov through to Prokofiev and Shostakovich. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 1 March 7.30pm with Sofia Mchedlishvili soprano & Andrei Zhilikhovsky baritone Sofia Fomina © Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi & Olga Martinez

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Marlis Petersen Residency Thursday 31 January 6.00pm

Pre-Concert Talk Writer, researcher and presenter Katy Hamilton explores the life, chamber music and songs of Franz Schubert as part of our celebrations of the composer’s birthday. £5 Approximately 45 minutes in duration

Whether she sings new works, Baroque opera, coloratura and bel canto roles or Romantic Lieder, the German soprano is one of the most enterprising and virtuosic of our time, her programmes bound together by a coherent intellectual thread with an exceptional commitment to whatever she sings. Thursday 31 January 7.30pm

Marlis Petersen soprano Werner Güra tenor Christoph Berner piano Lieder nach Gedichten von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Schubert Wer kauft Liebesgötter?; Schweizerlied; Wonne der Wehmut; Erster Verlust; Nähe des Geliebten; An den Mond D296; Rastlose Liebe; Gesänge des Harfners I-III; Mignon und der Harfner; An Mignon; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiss mich nicht reden; So lasst mich scheinen; Der Sänger; Jägers Abendlied I; Tischlied; Der Musensohn; Der Goldschmiedsgesell; Versunken; Willkommen und Abschied; Liebhaber in allen Gestalten Goethe again provides the literary starting point, though in this instance of a programme entirely devoted to Schubert – a composer whose admiration for his older contemporary was as limitless as his own talent, here celebrating his 221st birthday. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Monday 25 February 7.30pm with Anke Vondung mezzo-soprano Werner Güra tenor Paul Armin Edelmann baritone Christoph Berner piano & Camillo Radicke piano

Katy Hamilton © Apple and Biscuit

Marlis Petersen © Y Mavropoulos

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Tuesday 29 January 7.30pm

Les Arts Florissants Emmanuelle de Negri soprano Anna Reinhold mezzo-soprano Cyril Auvity high tenor Marc Mauillon baritone Lisandro Abadie bass Tami Troman violin Emmanuel Reschel violin Myriam Rignol viola da gamba Thomas Dunford theorbo

William Christie director, harpsichord Airs sérieux et à boire Volume 3 Airs de cour for one, two, three, four and five voices by Moulinié, Le Jeune, Boësset & Guédron Under the inspiring leadership of William Christie, the French Baroque ensemble has taken down from the dusty shelves dozens of forgotten works for the delectation of contemporary audiences. Continuing its Airs sérieux et à boire series, here they present a further selection of their popular ‘serious and drinking songs’ for one to five voices. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Supported by Dunard Fund

William Christie © Denis Rouvre

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Saturday 2 February 7.30pm

Piers Lane piano Bach Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor BWV883 from The Welltempered Clavier Book II Chopin Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp Op. 36; Mazurka in F minor Op. 68 No. 4; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ Tchaikovsky 6 Pieces (on a Single Theme) Op. 21 Stravinsky 3 Movements from Petrushka A musician with broad interests and invariably a stimulating interpreter, the Australian pianist takes listeners on a journey from Bach to Stravinsky by way of a considerable rarity in the shape of Tchaikovsky’s 6 pieces varying a single theme.

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Sunday 3 February 11.30am

Sunday 3 February 3.00pm

Zahir Quartet saxophone

James Newby baritone Joseph Middleton piano

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Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D (arr. Guillaume Berceau for saxophone quartet) Glazunov Saxophone Quartet Op. 109 Helping to raise the status of their instrument to new heights, four musicians – who met at the Paris Conservatoire – perform an arrangement of Borodin’s popular Second Quartet, followed by Glazunov’s 1932 work, which includes movements in the styles of Chopin and Schumann. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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Piers Lane © Eric Richmond

Einsamkeit: Solitude in Song Schubert Gesänge des Harfners I-III Fauré Prison; Automne; Les matelots Barber Hermit Songs Op. 29 Fauré Après un rêve; Le voyageur; Les berceaux Wolf Harfenspieler I–III The winner of several prestigious prizes and awards – including at the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition, the Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Voice Fellowship and the 2016 Kathleen Ferrier Award – baritone James Newby devotes his programme to the theme of solitude. All seats £16

Zahir Quartet © Quatuor Zahir

James Newby © Ben McKee

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Sunday 3 February 7.30pm

Monday 4 February 1.00pm

Monday 4 February 7.30pm

Goldner String Quartet Piers Lane piano

Sophie Pacini piano

Christiane Karg soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

Webern Langsamer Satz Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in E flat Op. 117 Korngold Piano Quintet in E Op. 15 Formed in 1995, the Australian quartet is named after the Romanian-born Australian chamber music enthusiast Richard Goldner. Here it joins with its pianist compatriot for Webern’s Brahmsian slow movement (1905) and Korngold’s 1921 quintet – an example of his lavish lateRomanticism.

Wagner/Liszt Tannhäuser Overture S422 Mendelssohn Rondo Capriccioso in E Op. 14 Schumann Carnaval Op. 9 Currently focusing on Viennese classics and Romantic repertoire, the German-Italian pianist performs one of Schumann’s fantastical masterpieces alongside Mendelssohn’s charming Rondo and Liszt’s extraordinary transcription of his (subsequent) son-in-law’s overture. £16 concs £14

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Clara Schumann Er ist gekommen; Liebst du um Schönheit; Warum willst du and’re fragen Fanny Mendelssohn Suleika; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh; Die Ersehnte Robert Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Op. 42 Marie Hinrichs Hör’ ich das Liedchen; Du bist wie eine Blume; Im Mai; Ihr Bild; Wenn du mich lieb hast; Eine alte Kunde Josephine Lang Sie liebt mich; Traumbild; Wenn zwei von einander scheiden Robert Schumann Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op. 135 Clara Schumann Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen; Sie liebten sich beide; Volkslied; Lorelei In addition to Robert Schumann, Christiane Karg’s programme concentrates on songs by 19thcentury female composers, with examples by Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn alongside others by Marie Hinrichs and Felix Mendelssohn’s pupil Josephine Lang. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Goldner String Quartet © Keith Saunders

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American Series Music either from or written in America is the theme of this residency by the New York-based Escher String Quartet, one of today’s most acclaimed ensembles. Tuesday 5 February 7.30pm

Escher String Quartet American Exploration: Visits to the New World Britten String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 25 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83 Dvořák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’

Wednesday 6 February 7.30pm

Thursday 7 February 7.30pm

Britten Sinfonia

Sonia Prina contralto Alina Pogostkina violin Dorothee Oberlinger

Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 Scriabin Rêverie Op. 24 (arr. Colin Matthews) (world première) Britten Temporal Variations (arr. Colin Matthews) Colin Matthews Octet* (world première) Strauss Metamorphosen for string septet *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and The Radcliffe Trust

Inspired by his experiences in the USA, Dvořák composed his ‘American’ Quartet in 1893, while Britten’s First, written in California in 1941, was premièred in Los Angeles the following year and Shostakovich’s Fourth produced shortly after his stateside visit in 1949.

Especially renowned for its vivid interpretations of 20th-century and contemporary music, Britten Sinfonia gives the première of a new work by Colin Matthews, a long-time associate of Britten, whose 1936 work for oboe and piano features in Matthews’ arrangement.

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Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca Vivaldi - The Muses Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for strings RV156; Là, sull’eterna sponda from Motezuma; Ho il cor già lacero from Griselda; Concerto in C for flute RV443; Sol da te mio dolce amore from Orlando furioso; Concerto in E minor for violin RV277 ‘Il favorito’; Concerto in D for violin RV234 ‘L’inquietudine’; Sovente il sole from Andromeda liberata; Anderò, volerò, griderò from Orlando finto pazzo The Italian contralto and her colleagues remember three of Vivaldi protégées in a programme of arias associated with Anna Girò alongside concertos written for the composer’s students, notably violinist Anna Maria della Pietà and an anonymous flautist. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Escher String Quartet © Sarah Skinner

Britten Sinfonia © Harry Rankin

Sonia Prina © Javier Del Real

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Saturday 9 February 7.30pm

Michael Collins clarinet

Michael McHale piano

Reinecke Introduzione ed allegro appassionato Op. 256 Stanford Clarinet Sonata Op. 129 Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Debussy Première rapsodie Abbie Betinis Rhapsodos (European première) Franck Sonata in A (arr. for clarinet and piano) Charles Villiers Stanford was a pupil of both Carl Reinecke and Johannes Brahms, like them producing major works for an instrument whose repertoire was also enhanced by several 20th-century French composers. Their music is accompanied by a European première from American composer, Abbie Betinis. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Michael Collins © Benjamin Ealovega

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Friday 8 February 7.30pm

Saturday 9 February 1.00pm

Sunday 10 February 11.30am

Llŷr Williams piano

New Elizabethan Award Showcase

Narek Hakhnazaryan cello Oxana Shevchenko piano

Jesse Flowers guitar Andrey Lebedev guitar Lotte Betts-Dean mezzo-soprano

Debussy Cello Sonata Fauré Elégie Op. 24; Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1 (arr. for cello) Saint-Saëns Allegro appassionato Op. 43 Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65

Ravel Jeux d’eau; From Miroirs: Noctuelles & La vallée des cloches Grieg Lyric Pieces (selection) Britten Holiday Diary Op. 5 Liszt Selection of études Following his acclaimed Beethoven series at the Hall, Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams assembles an attractive selection of works by 19th- and 20th-century composers, each with an evocative title that provides a clue to the piece’s programmatic contents. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Ayres and Fancies by Dowland and his contemporaries Houghton Ophelia... a haunted sonata Brett Dean Gertrude Fragments Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland Op. 70; Songs from the Chinese Op. 58 This international award celebrates the rare artistic achievements in solo and ensemble repertoire of composers for the lute and guitar during the two golden ages of Elizabethan music. Today’s recital showcases the outstanding performers selected to receive the inaugural award.

Mentored by Rostropovich, and subsequently winner of a first prize at the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition, the Armenian cellist joins with the equally admired Russian pianist for a programme of works by Parisian residents, including the Polishborn Chopin. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£16 concs £14 Approximately 1 hour 40 minutes in duration, including a 20-minute interval

Llŷr Williams © Benjamin Ealovega

Narek Hakhnazaryan © Marco Borggreve

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FELLOWSHIP ENSEMBLE Each year we appoint a Fellowship Ensemble in partnership with Open Academy, the learning and participation department at Royal Academy of Music. This offers ensembles who are no longer full time students a bespoke programme consisting of training days, practical experience and mentoring tailored to their interests and development needs. It provides the ensemble involved with the understanding, skills and experience to cultivate work in this field in the future.

'Being on the Fellowship allowed us to develop some of the strengths that we already had as a quintet before starting the year. We were able to strengthen our performances as an ensemble through regular performance opportunities in a variety of different concert situations. This has given us a stronger understanding of how to create engaging and enjoyable performances suitable to the audience and performance context.'

We're delighted that our ensemble for the 2018/19 season will be the Bloomsbury Quartet.

Cavendish Winds, Fellowship Ensemble 2016/17

In partnership with Royal Academy of Music ÂŠ Benjamin Ealovega

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Sunday 10 February 7.30pm

Monday 11 February 1.00pm

Monday 11 February 7.30pm

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

François-Frédéric Guy

Haydn Piano Sonata in A flat HXVI:46 Schumann Piano Sonata in F minor Op. 14 Boulez 12 Notations Ravel Jeux d’eau; Sonatine; From Miroirs: Une barque sur l’océan & Alborada del gracioso Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor Op. 28

Brahms 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119 Tristan Murail New work (UK première) Debussy From Préludes Book II: Brouillards, La puerta del vino, Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses, La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune & Feux d’artifice

Sergey Khachatryan violin Alisa Weilerstein cello Inon Barnatan piano Colin Currie percussion Owen Gunnell percussion Sam Walton percussion

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Having testified to the value of working with Boulez on his own music, the multi-award-winning French pianist offers a wide selection of pieces by composers he has long championed, including infrequently encountered sonatas by Schumann and Prokofiev. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Marking the Debussy centenary with a group of his Préludes, the French pianist also introduces a new work by a leading contemporary French composer, whose work Guy has performed regularly, and which similarly explores a refined and delicate soundworld. £16 concs £14

Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 (arr. Steuermann for piano trio) Rolf Wallin Realismos Mágicos* Shostakovich Symphony No. 15 in A Op. 141 (arr. for piano trio and percussion by Derevianko) *Co-commissioned by the Bergen International Festival, Sound Festival, Scotland and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation. The distinguished American cellist and her regular recital partner join with the Armenian violinist and three percussionists for an intriguing programme of arrangements £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet © Benjamin Ealovega

François-Frédéric Guy © Caroline Dourtre

Alisa Weilerstein © Harald Hoffmann

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Tuesday 12 February 10.00am – 2.30pm

Tuesday 12 February 6.15pm

Tuesday 12 February 7.30pm

Big Sing!

Bechstein Sessions: Diphonon Duo

Leon McCawley piano

As part of our Sense of Home festival we invite you to join vocal leader Charles MacDougall to explore a range of repertoire before having a Big Sing! together on the Wigmore Hall stage. The event features special guest soloists as well as Singing with Friends, our community choir for families living with dementia. As part of the day, we will also offer a Dementia Friends session for those who would like to find out more. £20 concs £15

Michael Iskas viola Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade accordion Join us for the latest of the Bechstein Sessions, a series of informal performances in the Bechstein Bar. We welcome the Diphonon Duo, a dynamic viola and accordion duo which last year was the Royal Academy of Music/Wigmore Hall Fellowship Ensemble, to perform a range of pieces inspired by our festival theme of Sense of Home.

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat Op. 110; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 An important early event in Leon McCawley’s career was his win at the ninth International Beethoven Competition in Vienna in 1993; here he continues his ongoing relationship with the composer in a programme comprising the final three piano sonatas. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

£5 Approximately 50 mins in duration

We welcome families living with dementia to join us for this event – for more information contact the Learning department on 020 7258 8246 or learning@wigmore-hall.org.uk

Big Sing! © James Berry

Bechstein Sessions © Benjamin Ealovega

Leon McCawley © Sheila Rock

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Wednesday 13 February 12.15pm

Wednesday 13 February 1.00pm

Wednesday 13 February 7.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Britten Sinfonia

Edmund Finnis discusses his new work with Dr Kate Kennedy ahead of the lunchtime concert.

Emer McDonough flute Thomas Gould violin Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano

Nikolaj Znaider violin Robert Kulek piano

Free (ticket required)

Bach Violin Sonata No. 1 in B minor BWV1014 Janáček Pohádka Messiaen Le merle noir Edmund Finnis New work* (world première) Martinů Sonata for flute, violin and piano H254 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grantmaking foundation Edmund Finnis’s music displays a fascination with sound and melodic patterns, and his new chamber work promises to intrigue. The programme traces chamber music’s roots back to Bach’s diverse exploration of the sonata form in Violin Sonata No. 1, via Martinů’s kaleidoscopic trio sonata.

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Op. 12 No. 1 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Shostakovich Preludes: in C sharp minor Op. 34 No. 10, in D flat Op. 34 No. 15, in B flat minor Op. 34 No. 16 & in D minor Op. 34 No. 24 (transcr. for violin and piano by Dmitri Tsyganov) Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis An admired duo offers three substantial sonatas, including Prokofiev’s second, written for flute in 1942 but subsequently arranged for violin, plus arrangements of Shostakovich’s piano preludes by one of his closest associates. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

£16 concs £14 Edmund Finnis © Ruth Mayer

Britten Sinfonia © Harry Rankin

Nikolaj Znaider © Lars Gundersen

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Tuesday 12 – Tuesday 26 February 2019 This year’s Wigmore Hall Learning festival, Sense of Home, celebrates the diversity and multicultural melting pot that is London and the borough of Westminster, reflects on Wigmore Hall as a place many call home, and invites you to explore what ‘home’ means to you…

Font 2 Tuesday 12 February 10.00am Big Sing! Tuesday 12 February 6.15pm Bechstein Sessions: Diphonon Duo

Monday 18 February 7.30pm Learning Gala Concert: Home Sweet Home Wednesday 20 February 10.00am & 1.00pm Family Sounds

Thursday 14 February 11.00am & 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud!

Wednesday 20 February 10.30am Family Day: No Place Like…

Saturday 16 February 3.00pm Family Concert: Nicola Benedetti

Thursday 21 February 11.00am Relaxed Concert: Soraya Mafi

Monday 18 February Throughout the afternoon and evening Home from Home

Friday 22 February 10.30am Family Day: Lullabies Tuesday 26 February 11.00am & 1.00pm Schools Concert: Nicola Benedetti

Learning Gala Concert: Home Sweet Home Monday 18 February 7.30pm

Ailish Tynan soprano Benjamin Appl baritone Iain Burnside piano Three admired artists – an Irish soprano, a German baritone and a Scottish accompanist – take part in this multi-themed selection of songs from Germany, the UK and the USA, as the central celebration of this year’s Wigmore Hall Learning festival, Sense of Home. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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WHERE THE HEART IS Cornelius Heimatgedenken; Scheiden und Meiden Cowen Stay at Home Elgar Pleading Schubert Der Einsame Ives Tom Sails Away ON THE ROAD AGAIN Trad Ten Thousand Miles Away (arr. Steven Mark Kohn) Somervell White in the moon the long road lies Schubert Über Wildemann Mendelssohn Wanderlied Moeran Twilight Bennett The Song of the Wanderer Brahms Abendregen Hely Hutchinson The Owl and the Pussycat

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FAMILY VALUES Schumann Familien-Gemälde Bush Cuisine Provençale Ives The Children’s Hour; Songs my mother taught me Wolf Der Tambour Seóirse Bodley A Call Libby Larsen Pregnant Brahms O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück BRICKS AND MORTAR Bernstein My House Balfe I dreamt that I dwelt in Marble Halls Trad/Irish The Old Turf Fire (arr. Herbert Hughes) John White Houses and Gardens in the Heart of England Schubert Der Winterabend Lehmann If I built a world for you

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Thursday 14 February 7.30pm

Stile Antico Arise, My Love: Sensuous Renaissance settings of the Song of Songs Clemens non Papa Ego flos campi Lassus Veni dilecte mi; Osculetur me Gombert Quam pulchra es Anon Sicut lilium inter spinas Palestrina Osculetur me Victoria Vadam et circuibo Palestrina Nigra sum White Tota pulchra es Guerrero Surge propera Rore Descendi in hortum meum Vivanco Veni, dilecte mi Ceballos Hortus conclusus Praetorius Tota pulchra es The erotic poetry of the biblical Song of Solomon consistently inspired the masters of the Renaissance to some of their most ardent music. Love, desire and seduction are here explored in a rich selection of motets by composers from the Low Countries to the Mediterranean, tracing an expressive arch from the heat and intensity of Gombert and Lassus to the vivacious, polychoral conclusion in the works of Vivanco and Praetorius. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Stile Antico © Marco Borggreve

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Thursday 14 February 11.00am and 12.30pm

For Crying Out Loud! Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment. Approximately 45 minutes in duration Adults £8.50 (babies come free) In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

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Introduction to Music: Schubert Thursday 14 February Thursday 21 February Thursday 28 February Thursday 7 March All dates 4.45pm – 6.00pm Composers are often defined by a genre that seems to most suit their musical character; with Mozart it is opera, Beethoven the symphony, and with Franz Schubert it is song. Schubert was not the first Lieder composer but he arguably made the greatest contribution, and in doing so became a trailblazer for Romanticism. Join Roy Stratford as we explore Schubert's experimentation with new and daring harmonies and development of radical and unconventional musical structures. We also explore how Schubert’s music exemplifies Romantic ideas, perhaps the most compelling of which is the idea of the wanderer; in Alfred Brendel’s words, ‘in his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker.' Series ticket price £33

For Crying Out Loud! © Benjamin Ealovega

Franz Schubert

Friday 15 February 6.00pm

Razumovsky Academy Young Artists Recital The Razumovsky Academy showcases potential future stars at the start of their careers. £5 Friday 15 February 7.30pm

Razumovsky Ensemble Kolja Blacher violin Maxim Rysanov viola Oleg Kogan cello Mozart Divertimento in E flat K563 Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op. 70 Mozart’s Divertimento, among the greatest works penned for the notoriously difficult string trio combination, opens the concert, followed by Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence sextet, named because the composer sketched one of its principal themes whilst visiting the Italian city. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Oleg Kogan © Robert Cassen

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Sunday 17 February 7.30pm

Elīna Garanča mezzo-soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Schumann From Myrthen: Widmung, Der Nussbaum, Jemand & Lied der Braut I & II Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Op. 42 Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Mahler Rückert Lieder One of the most admired singers of the present day, the Latvian mezzo-soprano will open the 2018/19 season at the Metropolitan Opera as Dalila in Saint-Saëns’ opera Samson et Dalila. Her programme – comprising four major cycles – includes the group of five semi-operatic songs by Wagner, two of them identified by the composer himself as studies for Tristan und Isolde. £60 £50 £45 £40 £25

Elīna Garanča © Karina Schwartz

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Saturday 16 February 3.00pm - 4.00pm

Saturday 16 February 7.30pm

Sunday 17 February 11.30am

Family Concert: Nicola Benedetti

Nash Ensemble Lucy Crowe soprano Jamie Phillips conductor

Trio Isimsiz

Wagner Siegfried Idyll (original version) Beethoven String Quintet in C Op. 29 Strauss String Sextet from Capriccio; 4 Last Songs for voice and ensemble (arr. James Ledger)

Formed in 2009 at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where they are currently Fellows, the members of the Trio Isimsiz (Turkish for ‘anonymous’) perform Brahms’s 1854 piano trio, revised in 1889, alongside Fauré’s sole masterpiece for the medium.

For ages 5 plus Join world-renowned violinist Nicola Benedetti and presenter Lucy Drever for an interactive concert inspired by landscapes, stories and people from across the UK. We invite you to discover a song about home, and to explore works by composers who were so inspired by their home that they wrote music to tell the story of their favourite places. Children £10 Adults £12

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Nicola Benedetti © Simon Fowler

This programme visits the roots of German musical Romanticism with Beethoven’s highly original String Quintet, scales its heights with Wagner’s intimate birthday gift to his wife Cosima, and ends in its glowing twilight with Richard Strauss’s 4 Last Songs, here sung by radiant soprano Lucy Crowe.

Fauré Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120 Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8

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Nash Ensemble © K Leighton

Trio Isimsiz © Matt Jolly

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Monday 18 February 1.00pm

Monday 18 February Afternoon & evening

Monday 18 February 7.30pm

Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano Simon Lepper piano

Home from Home

Ailish Tynan soprano Benjamin Appl baritone Iain Burnside piano

From the Pens of Women Jonathan Dove From All the future days: Autobiography, Penelope & The Siren Vaughan Williams 4 Last Songs Judith Cloud Variations on the Word Sleep from Night Dreams Lori Laitman I Was Reading a Scientific Article from Orange Afternoon Lover Dominick Argento Anxiety from From the Diary of Virginia Woolf Clarke Lethe Juliana Hall From Letters from Edna: To Harriet Monroe & To Mother Jonathan Dove Nights not spent alone Kitty Whately and Simon Lepper present a programme of English Song settings of some of the 20th century’s best-loved female poets and writers, including Ursula Vaughan Williams, Virginia Woolf, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Margaret Atwood.

We invite you to explore and contribute to our collective home from home, an immersive sound/ art experience created by people from across the Wigmore Hall programme. Led by music technologist Gawain Hewitt, the Bechstein Room will be transformed through objects and sounds that reflect and celebrate all the people we work with across London. Join us throughout the afternoon until the evening concert and again in the interval to play your part.

Learning Gala Concert: Home Sweet Home This gala concert – the central celebration of this year’s Wigmore Hall Learning festival, Sense of Home – brings together three renowned artists to explore a multi-themed selection of songs. Full details on page 44. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Free (no ticket required)

£16 concs £14

Kitty Whately © Natalie Watts

Home from Home © Benjamin Ealovega

Ailish Tynan © Benjamin Ealovega

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Tuesday 19 February 7.30pm

Wednesday 20 February 10.00am & 1.00pm

Wednesday 20 February 10.30am – 3.30pm

Henk Neven baritone Imogen Cooper piano

Family Sounds

Family Day: No Place Like…

Brahms Meerfahrt; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht; Es schauen die Blumen; Sommerabend; Mondenschein; Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze Schumann Dichterliebe Op. 48 Schubert Der Jüngling auf dem Hügel; Die Liebe hat gelogen; Der Flug der Zeit; Des Fräuleins Liebeslauschen Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98 Two masterly Lieder interpreters conjoin for a programme that travels backwards from Brahms (all settings of Heine) to Beethoven, via Schumann (once more to texts by Heine) and Schubert. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall

Henk Neven © Marco Borggreve

Join us for this music-making workshop for children aged 0-5 and their parents or carers, which offers the opportunity to create a brand new piece together. Workshop leaders Esther Sheridan and Gawain Hewitt lead us in a sound exploration encompassing singing, instrumental play and multisensory composition, and our new piece will be shared online! Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration Children £7 Adults £5

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Family Sounds © Benjamin Ealovega

In partnership with Tri-borough Music Hub, we invite families based in Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham to create and explore music about the local area and the concept of home, including one of this year’s BBC Ten Pieces, No Place Like by Kerry Andrew. We’ll share our music at the end of the day in an informal performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. To book or for more information contact the Learning department on 020 7258 8240 or learning@wigmore-hall.org.uk In partnership with Tri-borough Music Hub

Family Day © Benjamin Ealovega

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Thursday 21 February 7.30pm

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset director, harpsichord Eugénie Warnier soprano Emiliano Gonzalez Toro tenor Magnus Staveland tenor Guerrieri e amorosi Monteverdi Chiome d’oro; Quel sguardo sdegnosetto; Sí dolce è’l tormento; From Madrigali guerrieri e amorosi, libro ottavo: O sia tranquillo il mare, Ardo e scoprir & Mentre vaga angioletta; Ohimé ch’io cado, ohimé; Lamento d’Arianna from Arianna Monteverdi Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Under harpsichordist and founder-director Christophe Rousset, one of the world’s finest period-instrument ensembles has been exploring the Baroque repertoire since 1991. Here their all-Monteverdi programme ends with a quasi-operatic madrigal. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to the Early Music and Baroque Circle

Les Talens Lyriques © Cargo Collective, Eric Larrayadieu

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Wednesday 20 February 7.30pm

Thursday 21 February 11.00am – 12 noon

Friday 22 February 10.30am – 3.30pm

Skride Quartet

Relaxed Concert: Soraya Mafi

Family Day: Lullabies

This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides an opportunity to explore music in an informal environment. Join soprano Soraya Mafi for a concert exploring our festival theme of home, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee afterwards.

Join music leader and sound artist Duncan Chapman, along with South Asian arts organisation Manasamitra, to take part in a musical workshop, share your memories of lullabies, and create night time sounds and songs.

Baiba Skride violin Lise Berthaud viola Harriet Krijgh cello Lauma Skride piano

Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 Bridge Phantasie Piano Quartet in F sharp minor Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 Formed in the 2016/17 season by four accomplished individual musicians, the Skride Quartet explores the treasures of the piano quartet repertoire, here offsetting G minor works by Mozart and Brahms with a one-movement Phantasie composed by Frank Bridge in 1909–10.

For ages 5 plus

There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement, and house lights remain up. Audience members can move in and out of the auditorium as they wish, and there is a designated quiet area.

Finish the day with an immersive and restful performance from The Lullaby Project, a musical exploration of night time sounds interspersed with lullabies from India, and featuring your very own pieces from the day.

£5

Children £10 Adults £15

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Lauma Skride © Marco Borggreve

Soraya Mafi © Christina Haldane

Family Day © Belinda Lawley

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Schumann String Quartet Series Robert Schumann’s highly personal art again provides the theme, with the Elias musicians exploring his string quartets. At different periods, the composer concentrated on different genres; 1842 was the year he threw himself at chamber music, producing all three of his string quartets and several other individual masterpieces within 12 months. Friday 22 February 7.30pm

Elias String Quartet Purcell Fantasias (selection) Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 Sally Beamish New work* (world première) Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Harvard Musical Association The first of Schumann’s string quartets (1842) is heard alongside a new companion piece written by Sally Beamish – herself a viola player whose music the Elias Quartet has previously championed. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Thursday 23 May 7.30pm

Elias String Quartet © Pete Checchia

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Saturday 23 February 7.30pm

Sunday 24 February 11.30am

Sunday 24 February 7.30pm

Trio Zimmermann

Albion Quartet

Kirill Gerstein piano

Schoenberg String Trio Op. 45 Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 (arr. for string trio by Trio Zimmerman)

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Op. 74 ‘Harp’

Founded in 2007 by Frank Peter Zimmermann, the admired string trio – also comprised of viola player Antoine Tamestit and cellist Christian Poltéra – comes together to perform Schoenberg’s Op. 45, written to reflect his physical and psychological suffering following a heart attack. The ensemble crowns the concert with Bach’s iconic Goldberg Variations, probably the most important take on the musical form.

Founded as recently as 2016, the Albion Quartet has already made its mark. Here the players present a characteristically inventive example from Haydn’s 1772 set as well as Beethoven’s famous 1809 work, whose distinctive opening earned it its nickname.

Beethoven 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme in E flat ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35 Janácek Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ Liszt Funérailles S173 No. 7 Debussy Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon Komitas 2 Armenian Dances Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin

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The Russian-born, JewishAmerican virtuoso’s varied programme emblemises the breadth of his interests, from the fascinating music of Armenian composer, priest and ethnomusicologist Komitas, to Beethoven’s Eroica Variations and Debussy’s recently-discovered Les soirs illuminés. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Trio Zimmermann © Mats Bäcker

Albion Quartet © Steve Gullick

Kirill Gerstein © Marco Borggreve

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Monday 25 February 1.00pm

Monday 25 February 7.30pm

Tuesday 26 February 11.00am & 1.00pm

Quatuor Arod Timothy Ridout viola

Marlis Petersen soprano Anke Vondung mezzo-soprano Werner Güra tenor Paul Armin Edelmann

Schools Concert: Nicola Benedetti

Mozart Divertimento in D K136; String Quintet in G minor K516 Currently BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, the French ensemble Quatuor Arod rose swiftly to prominence following its 2013 foundation. Its allMozart programme begins with the exciting Divertimento K136, written to be played by either string orchestra or quartet. Later leading violist Timothy Ridout joins the group for the composer’s emotionally-charged quintet. £16 concs £14

baritone

Christoph Berner piano Camillo Radicke piano

Schubert Des Tages Weihe (Schicksalslenker); Licht und Liebe; Hymne an den Unendlichen; Gebet Haydn Alles hat seine Zeit; Die Beredsamkeit; Der Augenblick; Die Harmonie in der Ehe Schubert Die Geselligkeit (Lebenslust); Der Hochzeitsbraten Brahms Liebslieder Waltzes Op. 52; Zum Schluss from Liebslieder Waltzes Op. 65

Key Stage 2 Join world-renowned violinist Nicola Benedetti and presenter Lucy Drever for an interactive concert inspired by landscapes, stories and people from across the UK. We invite you to discover a song about home, and to explore works by composers who were so inspired by their home that they wrote music to tell the story of their favourite places. Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration Children £4 Accompanying Adults Free (ticket required)

Preceded here by part-songs by Haydn and Schubert, the Liebeslieder show Brahms in lighter mode as he sets texts by Georg Friedrich Daumer (plus one by Goethe) in waltz time. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to the Voices at Wigmore Circle Quatuor Arod © Richard Dumas

Marlis Petersen © Yiorgos Mavropoulos

Nicola Benedetti © Simon Fowler

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Tuesday 26 February 7.30pm

Wednesday 27 February 7.30pm

Thursday 28 February 7.00pm NB time

Quatuor Zaïde

Garrick Ohlsson piano

Dame Emma Kirkby soprano

Bach The Art of Fugue BWV1080 (extracts) Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5 Franck String Quartet in D

Brahms Klavierstücke Op. 76; Variations on an Original Theme Op. 21 No. 1; Variations on a Hungarian Song Op. 21 No. 2; 4 Ballades Op. 10; Variations on a Theme by Paganini (Book I) Op. 35

Miriam Allan soprano Steven Devine harpsichord Jakob Lindberg lute Members of Dowland Works Chelys Consort Fieri Consort

Founded in 2009, the all-female quartet quickly proceeded to multiple competition successes and international appearances. Here it precedes César Franck’s late masterpiece with an early work by Beethoven and extracts from Bach’s incomplete summation of contrapuntal technique.

The distinguished American pianist is currently exploring Brahms’s piano output – a substantial and consistent body of work – in its entirety, his programme ranging from the 1854 Ballades through to the 1878 Klavierstücke, with three sets of variations written in between.

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70th Birthday Concert Dowland Awake sweet love; Can she excuse my wrongs; Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears; Would my conceit that first enforced my woe; Disdain me still, that I may ever love Byrd All as a Sea; Constant Penelope Gibbons Daintie fine bird; What is our life East You meaner beauties of the night Marenzio Se quel dolor che va inanzi al morire (excerpt) D’India Dove potro mai gir tanto lontano Lawes 3 Dialogues Purcell Music for a while; Sweeter than Roses; How blest are Shepherds Works by Notari Dame Emma performs alongside long-term musical associates as well as a younger generation of artists she believes will play an important role in the future of early music. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Quatuor Zaïde © Neda Navaee

Garrick Ohlsson © Dario Acosta

Dame Emma Kirkby © Allan Watson

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Saturday 2 March 7.30pm

Stéphane Degout baritone

Alain Planès piano Debussy Fêtes galantes Book II; 3 poèmes de Mallarmé; Le promenoir des deux amants Duparc La vie antérieure; Elégie; Lamento; Le galop Fauré Les berceaux; Au bord de l'eau; Clair de lune; Fleur jetée Chabrier L'île heureuse; Chanson pour Jeanne With an impressive career in song, oratorio and opera – recently featuring in Sir George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence – Stéphane Degout marks the Debussy centenary as well as celebrating the art of the composer’s predecessor, Henri Duparc. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Stéphane Degout © Jean-Baptiste Millot

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Friday 1 March 12.30pm and 2.00pm

Friday 1 March 7.30pm

Sunday 3 March 11.30am

Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles

Sofia Mchedlishvili soprano Andrey Zhilikhovsky baritone Iain Burnside piano

Young Soloists of the Kronberg Academy

We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us as we explore rivers and jungles! This interactive musicmaking workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging ensembles. 12.30pm (1-2 year-olds) & 2.00pm (3-5 year-olds) Children £7 Adults £5 Approximately 1 hour in duration

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Rimsky-Korsakov Not a sound from the sea; The nymph; A midsummer night’s dream; The wave breaks into spray; Eastern Song: Enslaved by the rose, the nightingale; In the dark the nightingale is silent; The Upas Tree; Hymn to the Sun Glière If life deceives you; Who stopped the waves?; Night approaches; Twilight; Atlas; Rusalka Tchaikovsky Yeletsky’s Aria Prokofiev It is of other planets; The Pillars; Katerina; The King with Grey Eyes; The Monk Rachmaninov How fair this spot; She is as lovely as the noon; All things pass by; The Isle; How painful for me; Two partings; Beloved, let us fly; Were you hiccoughing, Natasha?; Vocalise Iain Burnside is joined by Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky and Russian soprano Sofia Mchedlishvili for a diverse programme of songs and operatic arias.

JiYoung Lim violin Santiago Cañón Valencia cello Megumi Hashiba piano Ginastera Pampeana No. 2 Op. 21 Jérôme Ducros Encore Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Tchaikovsky Valse-scherzo Op. 34 Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin and cello after a Theme by G.F. Handel Recently marking its 25th anniversary, the Kronberg Academy exists to nurture the developing string players featured in a programme opening with a work by Ginastera celebrating gaucho culture and also including a brilliantly skittish piece by French composer Jérôme Ducros. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

Iain Burnside © Tall Wall Media

JiYoung Lim © Kyutai Shim

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Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Brad Mehldau & Ian Bostridge After witnessing each other perform in Schloss Elmau, Germany, in 2015, American pianist-composer Brad Mehldau and British tenor Ian Bostridge met and quickly professed their admiration for each other’s work, discussing everything from their love of Lieder to Bach and jazz. Materialising into a creative spark that resulted in pieces written by Mehldau with Bostridge in mind, they began to build the original material into a song cycle which revolved around text and themes of the ‘modern sinuous nature of human desire as it exists in love and adoration’. Sunday 3 March 7.30pm

Brad Mehldau piano Ian Bostridge tenor Brad Mehldau New song cycle* (UK première) Schumann Dichterliebe Op. 48 *Co-commissioned by Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wigmore Hall, Stanford Live at Stanford University, and Carnegie Hall Two masters of their respective genres come together for an intriguing programme. Acclaimed jazz performer Brad Mehldau accompanies universally-admired Lieder singer Ian Bostridge in a Schumann classic, alongside a new song cycle – composed by Mehldau – co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall for this occasion. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Ian Bostridge © Sim Canetty-Clarke

Brad Mehldau © Michael Wilson

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Brahms Plus Series Monday 4 March 1.00pm

Hailed by Schumann as a genius when he was just 20 years old, Brahms is 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.

Mariam Batsashvili piano Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor BWV903 Haydn Piano Sonata in D HXVI:37 Ravel Sonatine Liszt Rhapsodie Espagnole S254 Currently a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the Georgian pianist has already made a strong impression on Wigmore audiences. Her varied programme consists of four masterpieces dating from the early 18th century to the first decade of the 20th. £16 concs £14

Monday 4 March 7.30pm

Jonathan Plowright piano Brahms plus Beethoven Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116; Rhapsodies Op. 79; Klavierstücke Op. 76 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 In Jonathan Plowright’s programme, the ‘plus’ is Beethoven, under whose mighty shadow even such a giant as Brahms felt daunted. Yet his concentrated smaller pieces heard here form effective counterweights to one of Beethoven’s late sonatas.

Wednesday 6 March 7.30pm

Florilegium Ashley Solomon director Music at the Court of Frederick the Great Bach Ricercar a3 from The Musical Offering BWV1079 CPE Bach Duet for flute and violin H598 CH Graun Cello Sonata in C Quantz Trio Sonata in E minor QV2:20 Müthel Flute Sonata in D Fasch Andantino and 7 Variations for solo harpsichord Benda Violin Sonata in E L3.50 JG Graun Quintet in A minor

With grateful thanks to the Piano Circle

Florilegium present some remarkable works by composers who were in the employ of Frederick the Great of Prussia in the 18th century. They open with Bach’s three-part Ricercar, inspired by a theme composed by King Frederick. Florilegium’s new recording of this programme will be released at this concert.

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

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Sir George Benjamin Sir George Benjamin came to prominence at the age of 20 in 1980, when Mark Elder conducted his Ringed by the Flat Horizon at the Proms. Subsequently this pupil of Olivier Messiaen has gone on to produce a body of work that has been enthusiastically taken up internationally, including his three recent operas.

Focus

Tuesday 5 March 7.30pm

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Ensemble Modern Sir George Benjamin conductor Anu Komsi soprano Helena Rasker contralto Christian Mason Layers of Love Cathy Milliken New work* Dallapiccola Piccola Musica Notturna Sir George Benjamin Into the Little Hill *Commissioned by Ensemble Modern Sir George Benjamin conducts his highly successful first opera, retelling the ancient tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin in a novel way, alongside a new work by the Australian composer Cathy Milliken and a recent one by the English Christian Mason. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Wigmore at the Roundhouse Wednesday 6 March 7.30pm

at the Roundhouse

Ensemble Modern Orchestra Sir George Benjamin conductor Boulez Fanfare for the 80th birthday of Sir Georg Solti Messiaen 7 haïkaï for piano and orchestra Ustvolskaya Composition No. 2 ‘Dies irae’ for 8 double basses, percussion and piano Ligeti Ramifications for 12 solo strings Sir George Benjamin Palimpsests for orchestra As the first ever concert to be promoted by Wigmore Hall at the Roundhouse, this performance harks back to the days of Boulez’s famous avant-garde concerts at the iconic Camden venue, and offers a chance to hear largescale contemporary works in an inimitable setting. Together with an intense work by the Russian Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006), Sir George Benjamin conducts his own Palimpsests (2002), inspired by ‘the concept of a piece of parchment, or slate, used over and over again for different pieces of music’. £40 £30 £20 £10 Priority booking opens to Wigmore Hall Friends and Mailing List subscribers on Tuesday 18 September 2018 (please use the priority booking form) Booking opens to the general public from Tuesday 6 November 2018. Tickets available from the Roundhouse at roundhouse.org.uk or 0300 6789 222

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Recollections of Hans

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Keller

Few writers and broadcasters have made such an impact upon British musical life as Hans Keller, born in Vienna 100 years ago, who came to England as a refugee in 1938; thereafter his ability to communicate his musical enthusiasms made him an influential figure right up to his death in 1985. Saturday 9 March 11.00am – 1.00pm

Who is Hans Keller? by Dr Alison Garnham & Panel Discussion In her lecture, the leading Keller expert Dr Alison Garnham asks the question Who is Hans Keller?, followed by a panel discussion chaired by Keller's friend and long-term colleague Julian Hogg. All seats £10 (Bechstein Room) Saturday 9 March 2.30pm – 4.30pm

Music workshop based on Hans Keller’s analysis of Mozart K421 Using Keller’s detailed analysis of the piece, students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama work with Levon Chilingirian and Keller’s literary executor Christopher Wintle on Mozart’s D minor quartet from the set dedicated to Haydn. All seats £10 (Auditorium) Saturday 9 March 6.00pm – 6.45pm

Film Screening: The Keller Instinct A rare screening of a documentary first shown on Channel 4 in 1986 that offers a personal view of Hans Keller at the end of his life and includes commentary from many distinguished musicians, introduced by Anton Weinberg. All seats £5 (Auditorium)

Saturday 9 March 7.30pm

Elias String Quartet Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133 A work by a contemporary composer Keller consistently championed – Britten’s lucid Second Quartet of 1945 – is heard between the second of Mozart’s quartets dedicated to Haydn and one of Beethoven’s last and most searching contributions to the medium. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Monday 11 March 1.00pm Belcea Quartet Elias String Quartet © Pete Checchia

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Thursday 7 March 10.15am and 11.45am

Thursday 7 March 7.30pm

Friday 8 March 7.30pm

Chamber Tots: Under the Sea

Denis Kozhukhin piano

The English Concert Nadja Zwiener violin Tuomo Suni violin Christian Curnyn director,

We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us under the sea! This interactive music-making workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging ensembles. 10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & 11.45am (3-5 year-olds) Children £7 Adults £5 Approximately 1 hour in duration

Brahms 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119 Schoenberg Kammersymphonie No. 1 Op. 9 (arr. Eduard Steuermann) Boulez Piano Sonata No. 1 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat Op. 84 A prize-winner at several competitions, the Russian pianist has moved swiftly to international prominence and here performs a programme focusing on 20thcentury modernists, including an arrangement of Schoenberg’s innovative First Chamber Symphony. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In Memory of Peter Flatter

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Handel Concerto Grosso in D Op. 6 No. 5 Purcell Suite from Dioclesian Bach Concerto for 2 violins in D minor BWV1043 Leclair Suite from Scylla et Glaucus Muffat Sonata No. 5 in G for strings and continuo from Armonico tributo Godly machinations and Roman power struggles are the subjects of Leclair’s only opera and Purcell’s first major work for the English stage. Muffat moves his own chess pieces in his quest to unite the styles of France, Italy and Germany, while Bach offers one of his timeless masterpieces. Christian Curnyn returns to direct the orchestra with much-loved repertoire. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Nash Ensemble: German Romantics Sunday 10 March 11.30am

Sunday 10 March 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble

Marc-André Hamelin piano

Spohr Nonet in F Op. 31 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66

Castelnuovo-Tedesco Cipressi Op. 17 Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Weissenberg 6 arrangements of songs sung by Charles Trenet Fauré Nocturne No. 6 in D flat Op. 63 Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in A flat Op. 61; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54

Louis Spohr’s Nonet, a colourful piece of tightly woven tunefulness, is paired with the more serious and intense of Mendelssohn’s two piano trios. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

A characteristically personal programme from the thoughtful Canadian virtuoso includes the attractive suite (1920) by the Italian Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), as well as Alexis Weissenberg’s transcriptions of songs by the inimitable Charles Trenet, originally issued on disc as by ‘Mr Nobody’! £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Recollections of Hans Keller Monday 11 March 1.00pm

Monday 11 March 7.30pm

Tuesday 12 March 7.30pm

Belcea Quartet

Nils Mönkemeyer viola William Youn piano

Janine Jansen violin Alexander Gavrylyuk

Debussy Beau soir (arr. for viola and piano) Britten Lachrymae: Reflections on a Song of John Dowland Op. 48 Franck Sonata in A for viola and piano Mozart 6 Variations in G minor on ‘Hélas, j’ai perdu mon amant’ K360 Clarke Sonata for viola and piano

Robert Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105 Clara Schumann 3 Romances Op. 22 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano

Hans Keller’s 100th Birthday Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 ‘Fifths’ Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 On what would have been Keller’s 100th birthday, the Belcea players perform Britten’s last quartet – dedicated to him – alongside an intricate work from Haydn’s final complete set of 1797-8, whose nickname derives from its recurring gesture of falling melodic fifths. £16 concs £14

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One of the world’s finest violists continues his collaboration with the admired Korean pianist in a programme that closes with a sonata (1919) by a former leading exponent of the instrument, here inspired by a poem by Alfred de Musset.

Two great performers come together for a programme of works from the Romantic period, with the warmly lyrical Second Sonata (1886) by Schumann's protégé, Brahms, following the elder composer’s own First Sonata (1851) and his wife Clara’s 3 Romances (1853).

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£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

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Wednesday 13 March 1.00pm – 2.00pm

Wednesday 13 March 7.30pm

Thursday 14 March 7.30pm

Side by Side

Die Kölner Akademie Mahan Esfahani

Simon Bode tenor Igor Levit piano

The Prince Consort and Students from Guildhall School of Music & Drama The Prince Consort is renowned for its imaginative programming, world-class performances and its original approach to commissioning new works. The ensemble is also passionate about supporting the development of the next generation of singers and pianists. For this project, members of the ensemble have worked with students from Guildhall School of Music & Drama towards this performance, in which the students and ensemble perform side by side. £5

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JC Bach Symphony in D Op. 18 No. 4; Harpsichord Concerto No. 6 in F minor Mozart Piano Concerto No. 6 in B flat K238 CPE Bach Symphony in E minor Wq. 178 Distler Harpsichord Concerto Op. 14 The outstanding harpsichordist joins with an orchestra that plays old and new music in a rarity by the neglected figure of Hugo Distler, who committed suicide aged 34 in Berlin in 1936, just one year after composing his neoclassical concerto. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Mozart Das Veilchen; Die betrogene Welt; Die Verschweigung; An Chloe; Das Lied der Trennung; Oiseaux, si tous les ans; Dans un bois solitaire; Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge; Abendempfindung Schubert Viola John Corigliano Blowin’ in the Wind from Mr. Tambourine Man: 7 Poems of Bob Dylan Schubert Dass sie hier gewesen; Auf der Bruck (Auf der Brücke); Drang in die Ferne; Im Frühling; Willkommen und Abschied; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Die Liebe hat gelogen; Das Zügenglöcklein; Bei dir allein! In this programme featuring the rising star tenor – who made his Salzburg debut last year – alongside the Russian-German pianist, something of an outlier amidst Mozart and Schubert is the American John Corigliano’s original setting of a Bob Dylan poem. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Dame Sarah Connolly Residency Friday 15 March 11.00am – 12 noon

Schools Concert: Stan & Mabel and the Race for Space Early Years Foundation Stage & Key Stage 1 Music-loving dog and cat, Stan and Mabel, are back! And this time they’re joined by a whole carnival of animals as they escape from the School for Wild and Dangerous Animals in search of a safe place to call their home. Polly Ives and Ensemble 360 present another lively concert for Early Years Foundation Stage & Key Stage 1 children and their teachers, featuring a brand new illustrated story by Jason Chapman with original music by Music in the Round’s Children’s Composer in Residence Paul Rissmann. Children £4 Accompanying Adults Free (ticket required)

Appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2017, Dame Sarah Connolly has maintained a standard of excellence in the opera house as in concert and recital halls. With a repertoire ranging from the Baroque masters through bel canto, Wagner and Elgar to new works, she continues to explore a wide variety of music with dedication and unique interpretative skills. Friday 15 March 7.30pm

Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano Emily Berrington actor (subject to availability) Dominick Argento From the Diary of Virginia Woolf Interspersed with readings from Woolf’s diary Schumann Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op. 135 Interspersed with readings from Schiller’s Mary Stuart With regular pianist partner Julius Drake, Dame Sarah Connolly offers Dominick Argento’s cycle from Woolf’s posthumously published A Writer’s Diary, which won the composer the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, and Schumann’s moving late settings of texts attributed to Mary Stuart. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Tuesday 23 July 7.30pm with Malcolm Martineau

Schools Concert

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Sunday 17 March 7.30pm

Renata Pokupić mezzo-soprano

La Serenissima Adrian Chandler director

L’Amante Abbandonata: Italian Cantatas from the Settecento Vivaldi Che giova il sospirar RV679 Brescianello Sinfonia in D Op. 1 No. 1 Marcello Arianna abbandonata S98 Ristori Didone abbandonata Vivaldi Concerto in A for strings and continuo RV158 Scarlatti Notte, ch’in carro d’ombre H480 Abandoned heroines are the central figures in this programme by the wide-ranging Croatian mezzo, accompanied by a period-instrument ensemble that specialises in the music of Vivaldi and his contemporaries, including the less familiar Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello and Giovanni Alberto Ristori. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Saturday 16 March 11.00am – 12 noon

Saturday 16 March 7.30pm

Sunday 17 March 11.30am

Family Concert: Stan & Mabel and the Race for Space

Heath Quartet

David Oistrakh String Quartet

For ages 4 plus Music-loving dog and cat, Stan and Mabel, are back! And this time they’re joined by a whole carnival of animals as they escape from the School for Wild and Dangerous Animals in search of a safe place to call their home. Polly Ives and Ensemble 360 present another lively concert for families, featuring a brand new illustrated story by Jason Chapman with original music by Music in the Round’s Children’s Composer in Residence Paul Rissmann.

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 Ligeti String Quartet No. 2 Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Op. 127

Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73

A Wigmore Hall regular, the Heath Quartet has won acclaim for its breadth of repertoire, exemplified in its positioning of György Ligeti’s brilliantly inventive Second Quartet (1968) within a frame provided by an early work by Haydn and a late one by Beethoven.

In 2012, four leading young Russian musicians were granted the honour of using as their name that of the great violinist, which they help to keep alive. They pair Mendelssohn’s most anguished quartet with a similarly troubled work by Shostakovich.

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Vox Luminis Residency Wednesday 20 March 7.30pm

Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier director Reinoud Van Mechelen tenor (Orphée) A Nocte Temporis Charpentier Miserere des Jésuites H193; Litanies de la vierge H83 Charpentier La descente d’Orphée aux enfers H488 Under singer-conductor Lionel Meunier, the Belgian early music ensemble has gone from strength to strength since its foundation in 2004. Here its focus is on liturgical works by the French Baroque master Marc-Antoine Charpentier, offset by his Orpheus-themed chamber opera.

Wednesday 20 March 9.30pm

Post-Concert Open Mic Q&A The concert will be followed by an Open Mic session, with audience members invited to participate in a live Q&A with Lionel Meunier and Reinoud Van Mechelen.

Free (with evening concert ticket)

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2018/19 Wigmore Series

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MARCH • 73 Nash Ensemble: German Romantics

Monday 18 March 1.00pm

Tuesday 19 March 5.30pm

Tuesday 19 March 7.30pm

Jeremy Denk piano

Members of the Nash Ensemble

Nash Ensemble Maximilian Schmitt tenor

Bach Partita No. 5 in G BWV829 Schubert 4 Impromptus D935

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The American pianist has won a devoted following for his exceptional insights in music ranging from Bach to contemporary composers. Dating from 1827, Schubert’s set of Impromptus comprises four beloved pieces which, Schumann suggested, formed a sonata in disguise. £16 concs £14

Musicians from the Royal Academy of Music Carter Inner Song for solo oboe; Steep Steps for bass clarinet Sir Harrison Birtwistle Duet No. 4 for flute and violin; An Interrupted Endless Melody for oboe and piano Knussen Reflection for violin and piano New works by RAM student composers Collaborating with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, the Nash Ensemble explores works by student composers and looks ahead to its ‘Nash Inventions’ of 12 April, which also features music by Birtwistle and Carter. Gillian Moore CBE (Director of Music, Southbank Centre) opens the early evening concert with an introductory talk. All seats £4

Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Mendelssohn 8 songs (arr. for voice and string quartet by Aribert Reimann) Schumann 6 songs Op. 107 (arr. for voice and string quartet by Aribert Reimann) Mendelssohn String Octet in E flat Op. 20 The highly-praised German tenor Maximilian Schmitt joins the Nash Ensemble in transcriptions of Mendelssohn and Schumann by composer and Lieder pianist, Aribert Reimann. The programme is completed by Beethoven’s atmospheric ‘Ghost’ trio and the teenage Mendelssohn’s miraculous Octet. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

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Thursday 21 March 7.30pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Pentaèdre wind quintet Joseph Petric accordion Schubert Winterreise D911 (arr. Normand Forget) With their prize-winning recording having already received widespread acclaim, the German tenor Christoph Prégardien and the Canadian wind ensemble bring to Wigmore Hall the arrangement of Schubert’s great cycle by the group’s artistic director, Normand Forget. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval Christoph Prégardien © Marco Borggreve

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Friday 22 March 7.30pm

Sunday 24 March 11.30am

Sunday 24 March 7.30pm

Škampa Quartet

Dover Quartet

Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

Mendelssohn 4 Pieces Op. 81 Dvořák String Quartet No. 14 in A flat Op. 105

Nathan Gunn baritone Julie Gunn piano

A long-term Wigmore favourite, the leading Czech quartet performs two works central to the repertoire: the first of Beethoven’s three ‘Razumovsky’ quartets (1806), commissioned by the eponymous Russian ambassador to Vienna, and Schubert’s 1824 masterpiece founded on one of his most powerful songs. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Since its remarkable success in the 2013 Banff Competition, the Dover Quartet has gone on to take a high position among contemporary ensembles. Here it precedes the last of Dvořák’s works for the medium with four posthumously-published pieces by Mendelssohn. £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

In Memory of Peter Flatter

CAKE Opera Singer Berlin I Love a Piano Tom Waits The Piano Has Been Drinking Ives The Circus Band; General William Booth Enters into Heaven Van Heusen Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Here’s That Rainy Day Arlen I’ve Got the World on a String Gene Scheer From Voices from World War II: At Howard Hawks’ House & Omaha Beach Barber With Rue my Heart is Laden Weill This is the Life from Love Life Bernstein Lonely Town from On the Town; Captain Hook’s Soliloquy from Peter Pan Goodman City of New Orleans William Bolcom From Cabaret Songs: Song of Black Max, Fur (Murray the Furrier) & Over the Piano Ben Moore The Lake Isle of Innisfree; Darkling I Listen Gorney Brother can you spare a dime? Trad/Irish The Parting Glass The American baritone and his pianist wife Julie Gunn propose a varied programme of poetic and musical voices from Carnegie Hall to Tin Pan Alley via Broadway. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Fauré/Schumann Project Steven Isserlis has regularly championed individual composers, his love and enthusiasm for their music shining through his exceptional interpretations. In this series, he joins with a group of distinguished musical friends to explore two contrasting figures, in each case concentrating on a body of work that deserves to be better known. Saturday 23 March 7.30pm

Joshua Bell violin Timothy Ridout viola Steven Isserlis cello Jeremy Denk piano Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63; 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 Fauré Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 In a further instalment of this thoughtful conjunction of two major masters, Steven Isserlis and friends explore Schumann’s First Piano Trio of 1847 and his 5 Pieces in Folk Style of 1849, alongside Fauré’s early sonata and mature Second Piano Quartet. £60 £50 £40 £30 £18

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Tuesday 23 April 7.30pm Steven Isserlis cello with Janine Jansen violin Arisa Fujita violin Amihai Grosz viola & Connie Shih piano Sunday 16 June 7.30pm Steven Isserlis cello with Anthony Marwood violin Dénes Várjon piano & Izabella Simon piano Joshua Bell © Eric Kabik

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Monday 25 March 1.00pm

Monday 25 March 7.30pm

Novus String Quartet

Paul Appleby tenor Malcolm Martineau piano

Respighi Quartetto dorico Berg Lyric Suite Established in Korea in 2007, the Novus String Quartet has gone on to achieve widespread success, notably with first prize at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 2014. Its programme comprises masterpieces by Respighi and Berg composed during the years 1924–6. £16 concs £14

Matthew Aucoin Merrill Songs* Britten Winter Words Op. 52 Schubert From Schwanengesang: Liebesbotschaft, Ständchen, Aufenthalt, Abschied, Kriegers Ahnung, Frühlingssehnsucht & In der Ferne; Totengräbers Heimweh *Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation. The Chicago-born tenor devotes his first half to Britten’s Hardy cycle and a work he premièred in 2016, settings of American poet James Merrill by his young compatriot Matthew Aucoin. The all-Schubert second half features a selection from the much loved Schwanengesang, written at the end of the composer’s life and published after his death. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Tuesday 26 March 7.30pm

Zlata Chochieva

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Rachmaninov Suite from Violin Partita: Prelude, Gavotte & Gigue (transcr. for piano after JS Bach) Chopin Mazurka in A minor Op. posth; Mazurka in C B82; Mazurka in C minor Op. 30 No. 1 Skryabin Mazurka in F sharp minor Op. 3 No. 2; Mazurka in F minor Op. 25 No. 1; Mazurka in F sharp minor Op. 25 No. 7 Liszt Valse oubliée No. 2 S215; Mephisto Waltz No. 2 S515 Medtner Elegy Op. 59 No. 1 Rachmaninov Canon in E minor; From 4 Pieces: Romance & Gavotte; Prelude in F; Fragments; Oriental Sketch Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 36 The Russian artist has received exceptional praise for the Romantic repertory. Here a favourite composer – Rachmaninov – additionally appears as a transcriber in a programme that also includes mazurkas by Chopin and Skryabin. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In Memory of Peter Flatter

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Wednesday 27 March 12.15pm

Wednesday 27 March 7.30pm

Thursday 28 March 1.00pm – 4.00pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Carolyn Sampson soprano The King’s Consort Robert King director

Steven Isserlis Masterclass

The OPUS2018 winner discusses their new work with Dr Kate Kennedy ahead of its London première in the lunchtime concert.

Handel in Italy

Free (ticket required) Wednesday 27 March 1.00pm

Britten Sinfonia Trad/Scottish Hirta (arr. James MacMillan) James MacMillan For Sally; For Max Maxwell Davies Farewell to Stromness OPUS2018 winner New work (London première) This Scottish folk-inspired concert includes the first live performance of MacMillan's Hirta, his arrangement of a folk-song from St Kilda. Scottish vocalist Hannah Rarity will feature in a new work by the winner of Britten Sinfonia's OPUS2018 competition for unpublished composers, following mentoring from MacMillan.

Handel Cantata: Dietro l’orme fuggaci (Armida abbandonata) HWV105 Hasse Fuga e Grave in G minor Handel Cantata: Tra le fiamme HWV170 Geminiani Concerto grosso in E minor Op. 3 No. 3 Handel Cantata: Agrippina condotta a morire HWV110

Acclaimed British cellist Steven Isserlis, distinguished for his diverse repertoire, distinctive sound with his use of gut strings, and command of phrasing, hosts a masterclass with students from the London colleges. £10 concs £8 Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval

Renowned across the globe for its many performances and recordings of Handel, The King’s Consort joins forces with distinguished soprano Carolyn Sampson in three of Handel’s large-scale, colourfully-scored Italian cantatas: the desolate Armida abbandonata, the gloriously-scored Tra le fiamme, and the intensely dramatic Agrippina condotta a morire. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM CONDITIONS Musical Portraits is a collaborative project between Wigmore Hall, National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts, specifically designed for young people aged 10 – 14, taking place over a week in the summer holidays. Participants create their own works of art and music inspired by paintings at the National Portrait Gallery, culminating in a performance on stage at Wigmore Hall alongside professional musicians. Musical Portraits Band takes place over spring half term and was developed to provide a progression route for returning participants, further building on their musical skills, confidence and teamwork as an ensemble. Come and Create is a monthly club at Wigmore Hall for young people aged 15 – 19. The group meets once a month at Wigmore Hall to explore new and different kinds of music with professional musicians. Each session finishes with refreshments and the opportunity to socialise as a group. Members also receive free tickets to Relaxed Concerts at Wigmore Hall throughout the year. © Brian Slater

For more information contact the Learning department on 020 7258 8240 or learning@wigmore-hall.org.uk.

'When a child is socially excluded, as [he] has been at school, it is critical that he can access other opportunities with other people. This has allowed him interactions that steered him away from feelings of despair and loneliness.' Parent

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Friday 29 March 10.15am and 11.45am

Friday 29 March 7.30pm

Sunday 31 March 11.30am

Chamber Tots: On the Farm

Kristóf Baráti violin István Várdai cello Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Horszowski Trio

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Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D Op. 36 (arr. for piano trio) Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor Op. posth Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Three highly individual performers come together to offer an intriguing programme that includes two rarities: Beethoven’s own arrangement for piano trio of his Second Symphony, dating from 1805, followed by Rachmaninov’s early Trio élégiaque, composed when he was just 19.

Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 Here making their Wigmore debut, the musicians comprising the Horszowski Trio – named after Mieczysław Horszowski, who taught the group’s pianist Rieko Aizawa – came together in 2011. Their programme conjoins Schumann’s dramatic 1847 First Trio with Shostakovich’s powerful Second (1944). £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works Ever since he gave the first solo harpsichord recital at the Proms in 2011, the Iranian-American has brought his chosen instrument to a new level of prominence, his distinctive personality enabling him to engage with audiences throughout a repertoire he is helping to expand but which retains the works of Johann Sebastian Bach as its focal point. Saturday 30 March 7.30pm

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Bach Suite in G minor BWV822; Fugue in B flat BWV954; Partita No. 4 in D BWV828; Fantasia in G minor BWV917; Partita No. 5 in G BWV829 In his latest Bach instalment, Esfahani features an early suite and fantasia, two of the Partitas (unusually, published during the composer’s lifetime, between 1726 and 1730), and a fugue on a theme by the Dutch organist Johann Adam Reincken. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Tuesday 9 July 7.30pm

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Alexander Melnikov piano Marcel Ponseele oboe Lorenzo Coppola clarinet Javier Zafra bassoon Teunis van der Zwart horn Mozart Adagio in B minor K540; Quintet in E flat for piano and winds K452 Beethoven Horn Sonata in F Op. 17; Quintet in E flat for piano and winds Op. 16 Melnikov continues his residency with a concert performed on period instruments. Beethoven’s Quintet for piano and winds (1796) is very much a follow-up to Mozart’s earlier masterpiece for the medium (1784), even sharing its key of E flat. Its immediate successor among the composer’s published works is the delightful Horn Sonata (1800). £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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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

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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 in Europe for chamber music,’ comments Wigmore Hall Director,

Tuesday 8 January 7.30pm Sunwook Kim piano Donghoon Shin Monday 14 January 1.00pm Juilliard String Quartet Lembit Beecher Monday 21 January 1.00pm Leila Josefowicz violin John Novacek piano Knussen Tuesday 22 January 1.00pm François Le Roux baritone Olivier Godin piano Dutilleux

John Gilhooly, ‘and in recent years Wigmore Hall has become one of the world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’

Monday 28 January 1.00pm Simon Höfele trumpet Frank Dupree piano Takemitsu Wednesday 6 February 7.30pm Britten Sinfonia Colin Matthews* Monday 11 February 1.00pm François-Frédéric Guy piano Tristan Murail

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Monday 11 February 7.30pm

Sunday 3 March 11.30am

Friday 15 March 7.30pm

Alisa Weilerstein cello Sergey Khachatryan violin Inon Barnatan piano Colin Currie percussion Owen Gunnell percussion Sam Walton percussion

Young Soloists of the Kronberg Academy

Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano Emily Berrington actor

Rolf Wallin* Wednesday 13 February 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia Edmund Finnis* Monday 18 February 1.00pm Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano Simon Lepper piano Jonathan Dove, Judith Cloud, Lori Laitman, Dominick Argento, Juliana Hall Monday 18 February 7.30pm

Jérôme Ducros Sunday 3 March 7.30pm

Dominick Argento

Ian Bostridge tenor Brad Mehldau piano Brad Mehldau*

Tuesday 19 March 5.30pm

Tuesday 5 March 7.30pm Ensemble Modern Sir George Benjamin conductor Anu Komsi soprano Helena Rasker contralto Christian Mason, Cathy Milliken, Sir George Benjamin Wednesday 6 March 7.30pm Ensemble Modern Orchestra Sir George Benjamin conductor

Nash Ensemble Musicians from the Royal Academy of Music Carter, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Knussen, RAM Student Composers Sunday 24 March 7.30pm Nathan Gunn baritone Julie Gunn piano CAKE, Tom Waits, Gene Scheer, William Bolcom, Ben Moore Monday 25 March 7.30pm

Ailish Tynan soprano Benjamin Appl baritone Iain Burnside piano

Ligeti, Sir George Benjamin, Ustvolskaya

Seóirse Bodley, Libby Larsen

Thursday 14 March 7.30pm

Paul Appleby tenor Malcolm Martineau piano Matthew Aucoin*

Friday 22 February 7.30pm

Simon Bode tenor Igor Levit piano

Wednesday 27 March 1.00pm

Elias String Quartet

John Corigliano

Sally Beamish*

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

Britten Sinfonia James MacMillan, Maxwell Davies

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