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WELCOME TO OUR 2012 SUMMER SEASON
The Prince Consort, Susan Graham, Mark Padmore (with Paul Lewis), Florian Boesch and Miah Persson, to name just a few. Young singers include Christiane Karg, whose debut is eagerly anticipated, and the baritone Henk Neven, already creating a good impression wherever he appears. Harpsichordist and conductor Christophe Rousset presents Monteverdi’s Zefiro Torna, a smilingly exuberant showpiece of Baroque musicianship written for two tenors and continuo, a 17th-century smash hit, and still a hit today.
We are very pleased that Maxim Vengerov will join us on 5 April for a rare recital, so note that date in your diary now! Another date sure to be in demand is 10 June when Jonas Kaufmann will appear in recital with pianist Helmut Deutsch. Watch out for the important final of the Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition on 1 April. Last year Paul Lewis began a long-term Schubert cycle, comprising eight (repeated) programmes over three seasons. On 17 and 19 April he bases his programme around two magnificent examples of the last sonatas. On 22 April, Hilary Hahn, only just into her 30s, plays a programme of new miniatures by such contemporary composers as Nico Muhly and Paul Moravec, scattered alongside more traditional fare. Our season long Beethoven celebration continues in the company of the Belcea Quartet and Leonidas Kavakos with Emanuel Ax throughout the summer period. The six unaccompanied Bach cello suites will be played in two recitals by Colin Carr on 5 May, and the JACK Quartet performs a programme of Ives, Glass and Górecki on 27 May. A strong line-up of song recitals includes Joyce DiDonato, Iestyn Davies, Ian Bostridge, Magdalena Koz˘ená (with Mitsuko Uchida),
Other highlights from our Early Music and Baroque series include Stile Antico in a programme designed for Easter Day and the continuation of our special William Byrd Sacred Music Series on 17 May in the company of Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall’s Musick. The London Haydn Quartet – using gut strings, classical bows and period conscious scholarship – joins us for a weekend residency of Haydn Quartets and Mozart Quintets (with violist Steven Dann) on 2 and 3 June, whilst piano enthusiasts will be pleased to welcome back Richard Goode. Kirill Gerstein presents a wide ranging programme which includes the London première of Oliver Knussen’s Ophelia’s Last Dance. Louis Lortie joins us for a BBC lunchtime recital and we also welcome Angela Hewitt, Timothy Andres, Bertrand Chamayou and Steven Osborne (in Ravel). Large and enthusiastic audiences turned out for our Summer Late Night Series last season, and we have an eclectic mix of artists lined up for our 2012 late night celebrations, including pianist Gabriela Montero and the iconic Amjad Ali Khan with Britten Sinfonia. It is always impossible for me to mention more than a few of the concerts listed in the brochure, but I know you will choose your own favourites and I look forward to seeing you at the Hall. John Gilhooly Director
AT A GLANCE APRIL – JULY 2012
See pages 3 to 73 for full details of these concerts and pages 74 to 75 for subscription savings and how to book.
Series and Events to look out for ...
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts
ROGER VIGNOLES: Page 4, 7, 9, 21, 43, 49, 50 ‘PERSPECTIVES’ ˘ 5, 9, 64 DVOR ÁK PLUS SERIES MAXIM VENGEROV AND ITAMAR GOLAN 6 PASSION AND RESURRECTION: STILE ANTICO 8 IN 27 PIECES: THE HILARY HAHN ENCORES 14 BEETHOVEN CHAMBER AND 15, 28, 47 INSTRUMENTAL SERIES 22 BACH CELLO SUITES: COLIN CARR THE BOSTRIDGE PROJECT: ‘ANCIENT AND MODERN’ 26, 59, 70 WILLIAM BYRD SACRED MUSIC SERIES 25, 29 MAGDALENA KOZ˘ENÁ AND MITSUKO UCHIDA 30, 31 ALICE COOTE: A CELEBRATION 35 HAYDN QUARTETS AND MOZART QUINTETS 37 OLIVER KNUSSEN LONDON PREMIÈRE 39 LATE NIGHT SERIES 42, 43, 47, 51, 62, 66, 69 JONAS KAUFMANN AND HELMUT DEUTSCH 45 KNIGHT AND DAME 52 JOYCE DIDONATO AND DAVID ZOBEL 57, 59 ZEFIRO TORNA: LES TALENS LYRIQUES 58 CHRISTIANE KARG DEBUT 65
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Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Sun 1 Apr Sun 8 Apr Sun 15 Apr Sun 22 Apr Sun 29 Apr Sun 6 May Sun 13 May Sun 20 May Sun 27 May Sun 3 Jun Sun 10 Jun Sun 17 Jun Sun 24 Jun Sun 1 Jul Sun 8 Jul Sun 15 Jul Sun 22 Jul Sun 29 Jul
Doric Quartet Stile Antico Keller Quartet Formosa Quartet Sunwook Kim Cuarteto Casals Gautier Capuçon/Jérôme Ducros Chloë Hanslip/Charles Owen Sitkovetsky Trio Eugene Ugorski/Konstantin Lifschitz Kungsbacka Piano Trio Natalie Clein Trio Wanderer Leipzig String Quartet Aurora Orchestra Endymion Artis Quartet of Vienna Carducci Quartet
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Late Night Series Fri 8 Jun Fri 15 Jun Fri 22 Jun Fri 13 Jul Fri 20 Jul Fri 27 Jul
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Timothy Andres Amjad Ali Khan/Britten Sinfonia Ignite I Fagiolini Gabriela Montero The Prince Consort
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Fauré Quartet Page 3 Tokyo String Quartet 7 Martin Fröst/Roland Pöntinen 11 Sally Matthews/Simon Lepper 13 Christoph Prégardien/Christoph Schnackertz 19 Janina Fialkowska 23 Allan Clayton/Julius Drake 27 Johannes Moser/Paul Rivinius 31 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 35 Louis Lortie 38 Francois Leleux/Emmanuel Strosse 44 Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau 49 Trio Wanderer 53 François-Frédéric Guy/Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 56 Pavel Haas Quartet 60
Wigmore Hall Learning Fri 13 Apr Thu 26 Apr Sat 28 Apr Wed 2 May Fri 4 May Thu 10 May Fri 11 May Sat 12 May Tue 15 May Thu 17 May Sat 19 May Wed 23 May Thu 24 May Thu 31 May Sat 2 Jun Thu 7 Jun Fri 8 Jun Sat 9 Jun Wed 13 Jun Thu 14 Jun Sat 16 Jun Fri 22 Jun Sat 23 Jun Wed 27 Jun Sat 30 Jun Fri 6 Jul Sat 7 Jul Tue 24 Jul Sat 28 Jul 7 to 10 Aug
Pre-Concert Talk 9 Pre-Concert Talk 16 RNCM Study Day: Colin Matthews 18 Pre-Concert Talk 20 Roger Vignoles Masterclass 21 Wigmore Study Group 25 Pre-Concert Talk 26 Family Day: Dickens Discovery 71 Wigmore Study Group 25 Wigmore Study Group 25 RNIB Family Day: A Knight’s Quest 71 Voiceworks 32 Introduction to Indian Classical Music 33 Introduction to Indian Classical Music 33 Pre-Concert Talk 37 Introduction to Indian Classical Music 33 Schools Concert: Neil Cowley Trio 41, 71 Family Concert: Neil Cowley Trio 43, 72 Amjad Ali Khan/Ignite 46 Introduction to Indian Classical Music 33 Steven Isserlis Legends Interview Series 48 Ignite: A Late Night Concert 51 Come and Sing: Schubert 72 Pre-Concert Talk 54 Family Concert: The Chimpanzees 55, 72 of Happytown Songspace 73 Pre-Concert Talk 59 Beautiful Sounds 73 Pre-Concert Talk 70 Musical Portraits 73
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Song Recital Series
Early Music and Baroque Series
Joan Rodgers/Roderick Williams Page 4 Roger Vignoles Wed 4 Apr Henk Neven/Hans Eijsackers 5 Wed 11 Apr Sandrine Piau/Roger Vignoles 7 Fri 13 Apr Bernarda Fink/Roger Vignoles 9 Wed 25 Apr Anthony Dean Griffey/Warren Jones 16 Sun 6 May Ekaterina Scherbachenko/Anna Tilbrook 23 Mon 7 May Iestyn Davies/Malcolm Martineau 24 Thu 10 May Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff 25 Fri 11 May Ian Bostridge/Sophie Daneman 26 Elizabeth Kenny/Graham Johnson Fri 18 May Magdalena Koz˘ená/Mitsuko Uchida 30 Sun 20 May Magdalena Koz˘ená/Mitsuko Uchida 31 Tue 29 May Alice Coote/The English Concert 35 Sat 9 Jun Christine Brewer/Roger Vignoles 43 Sun 10 Jun Jonas Kaufmann/Helmut Deutsch 45 Tue 12 Jun Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis 46 Thu 14 Jun Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis 47 Sun 17 Jun Renata Pokupic´/Antoine Tamestit 49 Roger Vignoles Tue 19 Jun Miah Persson/Roger Vignoles 50 Sat 23 Jun Dame Felicity Lott/Sir Thomas Allen 52 Eugene Asti Tue 26 Jun Ailish Tynan/Christopher Glynn 53 Fri 29 Jun Susan Graham/Malcolm Martineau 55 Wed 4 Jul Joyce DiDonato/David Zobel 57 Fri 6 Jul Joyce DiDonato/David Zobel 59 Sat 7 Jul Ian Bostridge/Angelika Kirchschlager 59 The English Concert Wed 11 Jul Thomas Oliemans/Malcolm Martineau 61 Sat 14 Jul Wolfgang Holzmair/Sonia Wieder-Atherton 62 Sat 14 Jul Juliane Banse/Aleksandar Madz˘ar 63 Tue 17 Jul Christoph Prégardien/Julius Drake 64 Thu 19 Jul Christiane Karg/Malcolm Martineau 65 Wed 25 Jul Christianne Stotijn/Mark Padmore 68 Julius Drake Sat 28 Jul Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake/Xuefei Yang 70
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London Pianoforte Series Thu 12 Apr Tue 17 Apr Thu 19 Apr Tue 8 May Sat 12 May Wed 23 May Fri 1 Jun Mon 4 Jun Thu 7 Jun Sat 16 Jun Wed 20 Jun Thu 21 Jun Mon 2 Jul Fri 13 Jul Mon 16 Jul Mon 23 Jul
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Hong Xu Paul Lewis Paul Lewis Alasdair Beatson Stephen Beus Christian Blackshaw Richard Goode Kirill Gerstein Angela Hewitt Steven Osborne Martin Roscoe Andreas Staier Bertrand Chamayou Simone Dinnerstein Stephen Kovacevich Kit Armstrong
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London Handel Orchestra Page Academy of Ancient Music The Cardinall’s Musick Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra/Rachel Podger Florilegium Alice Coote/The English Concert Elizabeth Kenny/Daniel Hyde/Phantasm Academy of Ancient Music Les Talens Lyriques Ian Bostridge/Angelika Kirchschlager The English Concert
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Chamber Music Season Sun 1 Apr Tue 3 Apr Thu 5 Apr Tue 10 Apr Sat 14 Apr Sun 15 Apr Wed 18 Apr Sat 22 Apr Mon 23 Apr Tue 24 Apr Sat 28 Apr Sat 28 Apr Tue 1 May Wed 2 May Thu 3 May Sat 5 May Wed 9 May Mon 14 May Wed 16 May Sat 19 May Sun 27 May Wed 30 May Thu 31 May Sat 2 Jun Sun 3 Jun Tue 5 Jun Wed 13 Jun Fri 15 Jun Fri 15 Jun Mon 18 Jun Fri 22 Jun Sat 30 Jun Sun 8 Jul Tue 10 Jul Thu 12 Jul Sat 14 Jul Wed 18 Jul Sat 21 Jul Thu 26 Jul
Wigmore Hall London International 3 String Quartet Competition 2012 Gould Piano Trio 5 Maxim Vengerov/Itamar Golan 6 Tokyo Quartet/Andreas Haefliger 7 Soloists of the London Philharmonic 10 Orchestra Trio Blacher/Hagen/Gerstein 10 Calefax/Lenneke Ruiten 12 Hilary Hahn/Valentina Lisitsa 14 Razumovsky Young Artists & Ensemble 15 Leonidas Kavakos/Emanuel Ax 15 RNCM Study Day: Colin Matthews 18 Han-Na Chang/Finghin Collins 17 Quatuor Ebène 20 Britten Sinfonia 20 Gil Shaham/Akira Eguchi 21 Colin Carr 22 Jerusalem Quartet/Alexander Melnikov 25 Belcea Quartet 28 Janine Jansen & Friends 28 Jerusalem Quartet 31 JACK Quartet 34 Elias String Quartet/Pascal Moraguès 36 Vienna Piano Trio 36 London Haydn Quartet/Steven Dann 37 London Haydn Quartet/Steven Dann 37 Stephen Hough/Endellion String Quartet 40 Belcea Quartet 47 Sunil Saxena/Smita Nagdev 47 Sunanda Sharma Amjad Ali Khan/Britten Sinfonia 47 Razumovsky Young Artists & Ensemble 49,50 Evelyn Glennie/Philip Smith 51 Soloists of the London Philharmonic 55 Orchestra/Rustem Hayroudinoff Leopold String Trio/Steven Osborne 60 Xavier de Maistre 60 Wihan Quartet 61 Wolfgang Holzmair/Sonia Wieder-Atherton 62 S˘kampa Quartet 64 IMS Prussia Cove 40th Anniversary 67 Nobuko Imai/Yuko Inoue/François Killian 69
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WIGMORE SERIES A P R I L – J U LY 2 0 12 Booking Opens to Friends on 6 January, to Mailing List Subscribers on 20 January and to the General Public/Online on 31 January. Monday 2 April 1.00 pm
FAURÉ QUARTET SUK Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 1 ˘ ÁK Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 87 DVOR ‘Anyone who heard the Fauré Quartet perform will want to hear it again’, said Martha Argerich of this outstanding ensemble from Germany, which now ranks among the pre-eminent piano quartets in the world. Recording for Deutsche Grammophon, the quartet’s discs have been showered with prizes and include the Suk Op. 1 featured in this all-Czech recital. £12 concs £10 DORIC STRING QUARTET
George Garnier
Sunday 1 April 11.30 am
DORIC STRING QUARTET
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5 BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Young, stylish and distinctive, the Doric String Quartet has amassed a world-following in a short time, with success at three major international competitions in the same year. Described by Gramophone as having ‘fascinating things to say’, expect them to be saying nothing less in this programme of early quartets from the Beethoven and Brahms canon. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Coffee Concert
Sunday 1 April 6.00 pm
WIGMORE HALL LONDON INTERNATIONAL STRING QUARTET COMPETITION 2012 FINAL The selected finalists will each play their chosen work from the Romantic repertoire, which could include quartets by ˘ ÁK, MENDELSSOHN, RAVEL, BRAHMS, DEBUSSY, DVOR SCHUMANN, SCHUBERT and SMETANA. The concert will be followed by the Awards Ceremony at about 9.00 pm.
FAURÉ QUARTET
KASSKARA/Deutsche Grammophon
£18 £25 £30 £35
Chamber Music Season 3
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Monday 2 April 7.30 pm
ROGER VIGNOLES: ‘PERSPECTIVES’
ROGER VIGNOLES
JOAN RODGERS soprano RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone ROGER VIGNOLES piano
Benjamin Ealovega
It wasn’t so long ago that accompanists were shadowy, unspotlit figures, barely recognised for what they brought to the collaborative chemistry of song recitals. Then came Gerald Moore, Geoffrey Parsons and a succession of supremely erudite practitioners whose understanding of the art demanded recognition. Among their number is unquestionably Roger Vignoles who curates this series – called ‘Perspectives’ in acknowledgement of his embracing vision and complete musicianship alongside a diversity of vocal partners. BOOKING FOR ALL EVENTS IN THIS SERIES IS NOW OPEN Monday 2 April 7.30 pm
JOAN RODGERS soprano RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone ROGER VIGNOLES piano Wednesday 11 April 7.30 pm
SANDRINE PIAU soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano Friday 13 April 7.30 pm
SCHUMANN Er ist’s; Lied der Suleika; Das verlassne Mägdelein; Die Kartenlegerin BRAHMS Geheimnis; Nachtigall; Feldeinsamkeit; Botschaft MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen; Ich ging mit Lust; Das irdische Leben; Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Lob des hohen Verstandes WOLF From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ihr seid die Allerschönste; Wie soll ich fröhlich sein; Was soll der Zorn, mein Schatz; Mein Liebster ist so klein; Schon streckt’ ich aus im Bett; Mein Liebster singt am Haus; Ein Ständchen euch zu bringen; Geselle, woll’n wir uns in Kutten hüllen; Wie lange schon; Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen; Du denkst mit einem Fädchen mich zu fangen; Wer rief dich denn?; Der Mond hat eine schwere Klag’ erhoben; Wohl kenn ich Euren Stand; Heut’ Nacht erhob ich mich; Wir haben beide lange Zeit; Wie viele Zeit verlor ich; Ich hab in Penna einen Liebsten Roger Vignoles’s ‘Perspectives’ series continues with two favourite British singers alternating in some favourite German Lieder. Selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn rub shoulders with Schumann’s Verlassne Mägdelein and Brahms’s Nachtigall, while the entire second half is given over to Wolf’s Italianisches Liederbuch – with the inevitable final flourish of Ich hab in Penna. £15 £20 £25 £30
Song Recital Series/Roger Vignoles: ‘Perspectives’
BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano Friday 4 May 1.00 pm
ROGER VIGNOLES MASTERCLASS Saturday 9 June 7.30 pm
CHRISTINE BREWER soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano Sunday 17 June 4.00 pm
RENATA POKUPIC´ mezzo-soprano ANTOINE TAMESTIT viola ROGER VIGNOLES piano Tuesday 19 June 7.30 pm
MIAH PERSSON soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano 4
RODERICK WILLIAMS
Benjamin Ealovega
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Wednesday 4 April 7.30 pm
HENK NEVEN baritone HANS EIJSACKERS piano DEBUSSY La mer est plus belle; Le son du cor; L’échelonnement des haies; Beau soir FAURÉ L’horizon chimérique; Poème d’un jour; Les berceaux; En sourdine; Les matelots; La chanson du pêcheur; Larmes SCHUBERT Der Schiffer; Meeres Stille; Fahrt zum Hades; Auf der Donau; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Erlafsee; Gondelfahrer; Rückweg; Am Strome; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus A former BBC New Generation Artist, baritone Henk Neven recently won the leading musical award in his home country – the Dutch National Prize – and has just released a debut recital album for Onyx. Hans Eijsackers is also from The Netherlands, with an international career that includes first prize at the European Piano Competition, Luxembourg. £15 £20 £25 £30
Song Recital Series
GOULD PIANO TRIO
Anthony Hurren
Tuesday 3 April 7.30 pm
GOULD PIANO TRIO ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in G minor Op. 26 DVOR JANÁC˘EK String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ (arr. Korber) ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ DVOR Celebrating its 20th anniversary this season, the Gould Piano Trio is a much-travelled ensemble known for its committed explorations of the repertoire. Here at Wigmore Hall the Trio is engaged in a Dvor˘ák cycle of which this concert forms a part. It coincides with a CD release of all four Dvor˘ák piano trios on the Champs Hill label. £12 £18 £24 £28
Chamber Music Season/Dvor˘ák Plus Series
HENK NEVEN
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Marco Borggreve
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MAXIM VENGEROV Thursday 5 April 7.30 pm
MAXIM VENGEROV violin ITAMAR GOLAN piano HANDEL Violin Sonata in D Op. 1 No. 13 BACH Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’
Having performed in public from the age of five and risen through the following quarter-century to a place among the giants of the music world, Maxim Vengerov took a sabbatical from the violin in favour of conducting, teaching and humanitarian projects. When he returned to playing, at a concert in Brussels in 2011, he was met with overwhelming critical acclaim. In this concert, he brings together some of the greatest cornerstones of the repertoire in what promises to be a landmark in the London concert season. £30 £40 £45 £50
Chamber Music Season/Maxim Vengerov 6
Sunday 8 April 11.30 am
STILE ANTICO PASSION AND RESURRECTION See page overleaf for full details
Monday 9 April 1.00 pm
TOKYO STRING QUARTET SCHUBERT Andante (second movement fragment) D703 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 After four decades of live performance at the highest level, and some forty critically acclaimed recordings, the Tokyo String Quartet unchallengeably ranks among the leading ensembles of its kind. For this BBC lunchtime concert it performs, as usual, on a renowned collection of Stradivari instruments once owned by the legendary Paganini. £12 concs £10
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert SANDRINE PIAU
Antoine Le Grand/Naïve
Wednesday 11 April 7.30 pm
SANDRINE PIAU soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano
TOKYO STRING QUARTET
Marco Borggreve
Tuesday 10 April 7.30 pm
TOKYO STRING QUARTET ANDREAS HAEFLIGER piano HAYDN String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34
FAURÉ Le papillon et la fleur; Au bord de l’eau; Après un rêve; Le secret; Les berceaux LISZT Der Fischerknabe; Oh! quand je dors; Die Loreley CHAUSSON Amour d’antan; Dans la forêt du charme et de l’enchantement; Les heures; Les papillons DEBUSSY Ariettes oubliées ZEMLINSKY Liebe und Frühling; Das Rosenband; Frühlingslied STRAUSS Mädchenblumen POULENC Deux poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire; Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon Roger Vignoles continues his ‘Perspectives’ series of shared platforms with a range of leading singers – in this case soprano Sandrine Piau whose career has largely been based in the baroque world of composers like Gluck and Monteverdi. Here, though, she presents another aspect of her work: French mélodie from Fauré through to Poulenc (with romantic interlopers from elsewhere).
For its second appearance, the Tokyo String Quartet maintains its habit of world-class collaborations by joining the pianist Andreas Haefliger for Brahms’s one and only Piano Quintet: an epic score that caused the composer much trouble but stands among the great masterpieces of 19th-century chamber writing.
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Song Recital Series/Roger Vignoles: ‘Perspectives’
Chamber Music Season 7
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Sunday 8 April 11.30 am
PASSION AND RESURRECTION STILE ANTICO GIBBONS Hosanna to the son of David TALLIS O Sacrum convivium SHEPPARD I give you a new commandment BROWNE Jesu, mercy, how may this be? VICTORIA O vos omnes TALLIS Salvator mundi DE LASSUS Vide homo TAVERNER Dum transisset sabbatum BYRD In resurrectione tua GIBBONS I am the resurrection LHÉRITIER Surrexit pastor bonus WEELKES Gloria in excelsis Deo Working without a conductor or instrumental accompaniment, Stile Antico is a vocal group which rehearses and performs as individual chamber musicians contributing to a collective result; and its achievements on disc have been recognised with notable prizes, including the Diapason d’or de l’année and a Gramophone Award for Early Music. Last year they made a very successful debut at Wigmore Hall with a thematically-related programme largely based on the response to Passiontide of English Tudor composers. For this Easter Sunday concert Stile Antico returns with an extension of the theme: seasonal motets and anthems by composers active through the 16th and early 17th centuries. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Coffee Concert/Passion and Resurrection
STILE ANTICO
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Marco Borggreve
Friday 13 April 7.30 pm
BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano ˘ ÁK Songs from the Dvu˚r Králové DVOR Manuscript BRAHMS 4 Deutsche Volkslieder ˘ ÁK From Biblical Songs: Clouds and DVOR darkness; Give ear to my prayer; The Lord is my shepherd; By the rivers of Babylon; I will sing a new song ˘KERJANC Jesenska pesem; Vecerna impresija S IPAVEC Pomladni veter LAJOVIC Mesec v izbi; Kaj bi le gledal BRAHMS Vergebliches Ständchen; Der Gang zum Liebchen; Die Mainacht; Von ewiger Liebe ˘ ÁK Folk Songs Op. 73 DVOR Continuing his ‘Perspectives’ Series, Roger Vignoles here partners the versatile and celebrated Argentine mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink. Having just released a CD of songs that reflect her Eastern European parentage, she explores that theme here at Wigmore Hall, with Slovenian music and folk settings by Dvor˘ák. £18 £25 £30 £35 HONG XU
Chad Johnston
Song Recital Series/Dvor˘ák Plus Series/ Roger Vignoles: ‘Perspectives’
Thursday 12 April 7.30 pm
HONG XU piano ROCHBERG Nach Bach BACH Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 CHOPIN 4 Mazurkas Op. 33 WILLIAM BOLCOM 9 Bagatelles CPE BACH 12 Variations on La folia d’Espagne H263 LISZT Rhapsodie espagnole S254 Not just another dazzling Chinese virtuoso, Hong Xu was pointedly welcomed by the Sunday Telegraph as ‘one from whom his over-hyped compatriots could learn’. This season the acclaimed young pianist makes his Royal Festival Hall debut, performs again with the Hallé and tours China with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. £15 £20 £25 £30
London Pianoforte Series
Friday 13 April 6.00 pm
PRE-CONCERT TALK Dvor˘ák and his songs with PROFESSOR JAN SMACZNY £3 (not part of subscription scheme)
BERNARDA FINK
Klemen Breitfuss
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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Saturday 14 April 7.30 pm
SOLOISTS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA RAVEL Introduction and Allegro BLISS Clarinet Quintet TCHAIKOVSKY String Sextet in D minor Op. 70 ‘Souvenir de Florence’ This richly coloured programme begins with Ravel’s ravishingly beautiful miniature concerto. Bliss’s Clarinet Quintet, written for the legendary Frederick Thurston, combines and reconciles muscular energy and Romantic lyricism. Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, conceived as the title suggests on a holiday in Italy, is full of Italianate warmth in perfect balance with Germanic craftsmanship and Russian vigour.
KOLJA BLACHER
Priska Ketterer
£12 £16 £22 £26
Chamber Music Season
Sunday 15 April 11.30 am
CLEMENS HAGEN
Attergauer Kultursommer
KELLER QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ BRAHMS String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 Formed at the Liszt Conservatory in Budapest, the Keller Quartet is well-known for its fearless engagement with the challenges of new music. But for this concert it takes on the equal challenge of core repertoire: the kind of much-loved music audiences know by heart and have confirmed ideas about. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Coffee Concert
KIRILL GERSTEIN
Marco Borggreve
Sunday 15 April 7.30 pm
KOLJA BLACHER violin CLEMENS HAGEN cello KIRILL GERSTEIN piano HAYDN Piano Trio in D HXV:24 BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1 SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 2 in E b D929 A trio of established solo artists who enjoy the discourse of making music together, Kirill Gerstein won the 2010 Gilmore Artist Award, Kolja Blacher has a prize-winning discography of concerti under conductors like Abbado, and Clemens Hagen recently recorded the Brahms Double Concerto with Gidon Kremer and the Concertgebouworkest. £15 £20 £25 £30
Chamber Music Season KELLER QUARTET
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Monday 16 April 1.00 pm
MARTIN FRÖST clarinet ROLAND PÖNTINEN piano SKRYABIN Prelude in B (arr. for clarinet and piano) BRAHMS Hungarian Dance (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst) TRADITIONAL Klezmer medley (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst) FALLA Nana from 7 canciones populares españolas (arr. Fröst/Pöntinen) BRAHMS Wie Melodien zieht es mir (arr. for clarinet and piano) ANDERS HILLBORG Påfågelsögonblick (The Peacock Moment) RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Flight of the Bumble-Bee (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst) TRADITIONAL Catalan Folksong MARTIN FRÖST Cadenza MESSAGER Solo de concours BACH/GOUNOD Ave Maria AHBEZ Nature Boy (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst) MONTI Csárdás (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst) Martin Fröst is one of those rare creatures, a wind-player of star solo status. Swedish pianist Roland Pöntinen is a passionately committed chamber musician. Between them they’ve devised this eclectic programme which embraces everything from Skryabin to Klezmer, much of it in arrangements by the performers themselves. £12 concs £10
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert PAUL LEWIS
Jack Liebeck
Tuesday 17 April 7.30 pm (Repeated on 19 April 7.30 pm)
PAUL LEWIS piano SCHUBERT 16 German Dances D783; Piano Sonata in A minor D784; Allegretto in C minor D915; Piano Sonata in A minor D845 Last year Paul Lewis began a long-term Schubert cycle shared between Wigmore Hall and other leading international venues. Comprising eight programmes over three seasons, the Wigmore cycle takes in all the composer’s piano music; and this instalment is based around two magnificent examples of the later sonatas. £18 £25 £30 £35
London Pianoforte Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series ROLAND PÖNTINEN AND MARTIN FRÖST
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Mats Bäcker
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Saturday 21 April 7.30 pm
JULIA DOYLE soprano LONDON HANDEL ORCHESTRA ADRIAN BUTTERFIELD director, violin IL FURIBONDO – FRANCESCO GEMINIANI, MRS ARNE AND THE CONCERTO GROSSO IN ENGLAND GEMINIANI Concerto Grosso in E minor Op. 3 No. 6 FESTING Concerto Grosso in D Op. 3 No. 8 HANDEL Arias from Alcina CORELLI/GEMINIANI Concerto Grosso in C Op. 5 No. 3 AVISON Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 4 No. 1 HANDEL Concerto Grosso in B minor Op. 6 No. 12 LAMPE Arias from The Dragon of Wantley HANDEL Arias from Ariodante
CALEFAX
Wednesday 18 April 7.30 pm
CALEFAX reed quintet LENNEKE RUITEN soprano HANS ABRAHAMSEN Walden MATTHEW SHLOMOWITZ Line and length BACH Die Kunst der Fuge BWV1080 (arr. Raaf Hekkema) NICO MUHLY New Work for soprano and reed quintet (UK première)* STEVE REICH New York Counterpoint
‘Il Furibondo’ – the wild man – was Tartini’s name for the Italian violinist and composer Francesco Geminiani who, alongside Handel, dominated London’s musical life in the early 18th century. An important teacher, one of his most renowned pupils was the soprano Cecilia Young who premièred several Handel opera roles and later married Thomas Arne. £15 £20 £25 £30
Early Music and Baroque Series
* Commissioned by Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant making foundation.
Calefax is something different: a Dutch quintet of virtuoso woodwind players which tackles everything from the Renaissance to Steve Reich and does it with panache. The programme here includes the UK première of a new work by composer-of-themoment Nico Muhly, in which the ensemble is joined by Dutch soprano Lenneke Ruiten. £12 concs £10
Chamber Music Season
Thursday 19 April 7.30 pm
PAUL LEWIS piano Repeat of concert on 17 April £18 £25 £30 £35
London Pianoforte Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series
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LONDON HANDEL ORCHESTRA
Chris Christodoulou
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Monday 23 April 1.00 pm
SALLY MATTHEWS soprano SIMON LEPPER piano FAURÉ Notre amour; Après un rêve; Mandoline; Le secret; Fleur jetée; Clair de lune; Green; Les berceaux BERG Sieben frühe Lieder BARBER Knoxville Divided between radiant Fauré favourites, the feverish emotionality of early songs by Alban Berg, and a gem of lyrical Americana, this recital comes from a young British soprano now much in demand on the world stage. Simon Lepper is her regular recital partner and an official accompanist for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. £12 concs £10
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
FORMOSA QUARTET
Tal Shpantzer
Sunday 22 April 11.30 am
FORMOSA QUARTET RAVEL String Quartet in F ˘ ÁK String Quartet No. 11 in C Op. 61 DVOR Formosa is the old Portuguese name for Taiwan, reflecting the shared heritage of the founder members of this group. But since the word specifically means ‘beautiful’, it could as well apply to the two quartets in their programme: the Ravel with its cross-rhythmed gamelan colours, and the Dvor˘ák with its melodies (as the composer said) ‘whispered by God’. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Coffee Concert
Sunday 22 April 7.30 pm
HILARY HAHN violin VALENTINA LISITSA piano IN 27 PIECES: THE HILARY HAHN ENCORES See page overleaf for full details SALLY MATTHEWS
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Johan Persson
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IN 27 PIECES: THE HILARY HAHN ENCORES Sunday 22 April 7.30 pm
HILARY HAHN violin VALENTINA LISITSA piano BACH Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violin BWV1001 BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2 BRAHMS Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata (Sonatensatz) Interspersed with selected short pieces by contemporary composers Only just into her 30s, Hilary Hahn has won Grammy Awards, premièred significant concertos written specially for her, and continues to make a durable impact on the violin world with her latest project to commission, tour and record over two dozen short pieces capable of functioning as modern encores. Supplied by composers like Lera Auerbach, Nico Muhly and Gillian Whitehead, these new miniatures will be scattered among more traditional fare in two Wigmore recitals: this concert and one next January. The combination for this concert could well be off-the-wall, but at the same time it can only be intriguing, memorable, and an event. £15 £20 £25 £30
Chamber Music Season/ In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores
Forthcoming concert in this series Saturday 26 January 2013 7.30 pm
HILARY HAHN violin VALENTINA LISITSA piano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23 BACH Sonata No. 2 in A minor for solo violin BWV1003 Interspersed with new commissions Chamber Music Season/ In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores
Photo by Peter Miller
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Monday 23 April 6.00 pm
PRE-CONCERT EVENT RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTIST RECITAL The Razumovsky Academy in North London provides an environment where exceptionally gifted young musicians work with some of the world’s finest artists and teachers. This concert showcases a selection of them and gives the chance to hear potential stars of the future at an early stage in their performing lives.
BEETHOVEN CHAMBER AND INSTRUMENTAL SERIES
£6 (not part of subscription scheme) or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)
Chamber Music Season
Monday 23 April 7.30 pm
BEETHOVEN
RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE OLEG KOGAN director, cello ALEXANDER SITKOVETSKY violin MAXIM RYSANOV viola BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B b BWV1051 SCHUBERT Fantasie in F minor D940 for string ensemble (arr. Dobrinka Tabakova) MOZART Sinfonia concertante in E b K364 ‘They open a world of music-making fabulously rich in tone colours, ensemble precision, and lyrical sweep of a kind rarely met this side of paradise’ said The Times of the Razumovsky Ensemble – which returns with a programme embracing great masterpieces by Bach and Mozart and a new arrangement of Schubert’s Fantasie in F minor. £15 £20 £25 £30
Chamber Music Season
Detail of a painting by Isidor Neugass
The span of Beethoven’s mature chamber music – from the Haydnesque piano trios Op. 1 to the awesome majesty of the late quartets – covers some three decades through which the genius of a ‘restless and profoundly ranging mind’ (as the critic Richard Capell called it) took on and transformed the ‘givens’ of classical discipline. Wigmore Hall’s ongoing series of the composer’s chamber and instrumental music explores that transformation; and it does so in the company of leading artists on the chamber music circuit. Tuesday 24 April 7.30 pm
LEONIDAS KAVAKOS violin EMANUEL AX piano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Op. 12 No. 1; Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Op. 30 No. 3; Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ The third and final concert by Leonidas Kavakos and Emanuel Ax in Wigmore Hall’s ongoing Beethoven series, this programme groups three contrasted violin sonatas culminating in the mighty ‘Kreutzer’ – arguably the greatest of its kind ever conceived, with a diverting background history and (as it transpired) a torrid afterlife in literature. £15 £20 £25 £30
Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series Forthcoming concerts in this series Monday 14 May 7.30 pm Wednesday 13 June 7.30 pm LEONIDAS KAVAKOS
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Yannis Bournias
EMANUEL AX
Harald Haugan
BELCEA QUARTET Box Office 020 7935 2141 Online Booking www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Wednesday 25 April 7.30 pm Wednesday 25 April 2.00 pm
ANTHONY DEAN GRIFFEY tenor WARREN JONES piano
Friday 27 April 6.00 pm
KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARD 2012
DOMINICK ARGENTO Six Elizabethan Songs: Spring; Sleep; Winter; Dirge; Diaphenia; Hymn QUILTER To Julia: Prelude; The Bracelet; The Maiden Blush; To Daisies; The Night Piece; Julia’s Hair; Interlude; Cherry Ripe BOWLES Blue Mountain Ballads: Heavenly grass; Lonesome man; Cabin; Sugar in the cane FOSTER If you’ve only got a moustache; Open thy lattice love; Kissing in the dark; Gentle Annie BARBER Rain has fallen; Sleep now; I hear an army
2012 marks the centenary of the birth of much-loved British contralto Kathleen Ferrier, and there will be a special Wigmore concert to celebrate the event on 28 June. Meanwhile, the singing competition founded in her memory in 1953 conducts its annual search for an outstanding young voice to join the proud list of previous Ferrier winners.
With Peter Grimes as his signature role, Anthony Dean Griffey is one of America’s leading lyric tenors, known for his compelling presence on the opera stage and consummate musicianship on the recital platform. Warren Jones plays for a glittering array of singers and has been described by the San Francisco Chronicle as ‘the single finest accompanist now working’. £15 £20 £25 £30
25 April All seats £18 students £10 27 April £18 £24 £28 £32 (not part of subscription scheme)
Song Recital Series
JONATHAN COHEN
Pascal Gély
Thursday 26 April 6.30 pm
PRE-CONCERT TALK BBC Radio 3’s SARA MOHR-PIETSCH is joined by JONATHAN COHEN to introduce the evening’s performance. Free (separate ticket required) (not part of subscription scheme)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event ANTHONY DEAN GRIFFEY
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Harry Heleotis
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Saturday 28 April 10.00 am
COLIN MATTHEWS STUDY DAY See page overleaf for full details
Saturday 28 April 7.30 pm
HAN-NA CHANG cello FINGHIN COLLINS piano RACHMANINOV Vocalise; Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 FALLA 7 canciones populares españolas (for cello and piano) PIAZZOLLA Le Grand Tango (for cello and piano)
ANNA PROHASKA
Monika Rittershaus
Thursday 26 April 7.30 pm
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC JONATHAN COHEN director, keyboards ANNA PROHASKA soprano JAMES GILCHRIST tenor BENJAMIN HULETT tenor
Han-Na Chang’s sensational rise to stardom began by winning the Rostropovich Competition in Paris at the tender age of 11. Since then she has developed a successful relationship with Antonio Pappano and the LSO, issuing acclaimed recordings of Russian repertoire that promise much for the Rachmaninov works, with pianist Finghin Collins. £15 £20 £25 £30
Chamber Music Season
MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS: DAWN OF THE CANTATA MARINI Passacaglia in G minor MONTEVERDI Zefiro torna from Madrigali e canzonette a due e tre voci; Se vittorie sí belle from Concerto: settimo libro de madrigali FALCONIERI Ciaccona in G CASTELLO Sonata a 4 from Sonate Concertate in Stil Moderno CAVALLI Restino Imbalsamente from La Calisto MONTEVERDI Ardo e scoprir from Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi, libro ottavo; Act 1 Scene 2 from Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria; Ohimé ch’io cado, ohimé ZANETTI Saltarello della battaglia from Il Scolaro MONTEVERDI Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Jonathan Cohen makes his AAM debut in a performance of vivid vocal and instrumental works from the earliest days of the baroque. Concluding with Monteverdi’s ingenious mini-opera Il Combattimento, this concert also explores the fresh and heartfelt music of his contemporaries as they gave the human voice a new centrality in their work. £18 £24 £28 £32
Early Music and Baroque Series
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HAN-NA CHANG
Sheila Rock
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Saturday 28 April
COLIN MATTHEWS STUDY DAY Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music bring works spanning three decades of music by one of this country’s most highly regarded composers, Colin Matthews. From early works for piano to recent works for voice and strings, the day offers a perfect opportunity to hear a wide range of Matthews’s outstanding chamber music. The event reflects both his fascination with speed in music as well as his service to other composers, especially Debussy, through his beautiful and sensitive arrangements. Matthews himself will be in conversation with leading composer Philip Cashian and broadcaster Tom Service.
MUSICIANS FROM THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC CLARK RUNDELL conductor 10.00 am COLIN MATTHEWS Oboe Quartet No. 2 COLIN MATTHEWS Selection from Eleven Studies in Velocity for solo piano COLIN MATTHEWS String Quartet No. 2
11.00 am – Study Event PHILIP CASHIAN in conversation with COLIN MATTHEWS
12.15 pm COLIN MATTHEWS Three Enigmas for cello and piano COLIN MATTHEWS Partita for solo violin COLIN MATTHEWS Luminoso and scorrevole for viola and piano
2.00 pm – Study Event TOM SERVICE in conversation with COLIN MATTHEWS
3.15 pm DEBUSSY (arr. COLIN MATTHEWS) Trois Poèmes de Stephane Mallarmé for voice and chamber ensemble COLIN MATTHEWS The Island for voice and chamber ensemble
All tickets £3 concessions £2 (each event) or Day Ticket £10 concessions £5 (not part of subscription scheme)
In partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music Wigmore Hall Learning Event Photo by Maurice Foxall
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Monday 30 April 1.00 pm
CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN tenor CHRISTOPH SCHNACKERTZ piano WOLF Begegnung; Der Gärtner; An die Geliebte; Der Feuerreiter LISZT Freudvoll und leidvoll; Der du von dem Himmel bist; Es war ein König in Thule; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Die Loreley MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Revelge Hugely experienced and internationally admired, Christoph Prégardien has been the lyric tenor of choice for many listeners, with a career that covers everything from Bach (a notable Evangelist) to Britten. Here he sings a Lieder programme that embraces Liszt’s sometimes neglected contribution to the genre. £12 concs £10
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
SUNWOOK KIM
Tae-Uk Kang
Sunday 29 April 11.30 am
SUNWOOK KIM piano SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A D959 LISZT Piano Sonata in B minor S178 The first ever Asian winner of the Leeds Piano Competition, Sunwook Kim devotes this concert to two towering works: one of the trilogy of great sonatas written in the final year of Schubert’s life, and the mighty, much-analysed but still mysterious B minor sonata by Liszt that ranks among the world landmarks of keyboard literature. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Coffee Concert
CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN
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Marco Borggreve
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Wednesday 2 May 1.00 pm
BRITTEN SINFONIA JACQUELINE SHAVE violin MIRANDA DALE violin CLARE FINNIMORE viola CAROLINE DEARNLEY cello EMER MCDONOUGH flute NICHOLAS DANIEL oboe
MARK PADMORE tenor VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Ten Blake Songs JONATHAN DOVE New Work (London première)* WARLOCK The Curlew *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia
A new work by Jonathan Dove, co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia, with support from the Tenner for a Tenor campaign, receives its London première here. The concert opens with Vaughan Williams’s Ten Blake Songs, scored for just tenor and oboe, and ends with what is arguably Peter Warlock’s finest work, The Curlew. £12 concs £10 QUATUOR EBÈNE
Julien Mignot
Chamber Music Season
Tuesday 1 May 7.30 pm
QUATUOR EBÈNE MOZART String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ SCHUBERT String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 ‘A string quartet that can easily morph into a jazz band’ wrote the New York Times after a concert that proved Quatuor Ebène’s omnivorous approach to programming: there’s nothing they don’t do. But that includes core repertoire as heard in this concert, which comes enlivened by their out-of-the-box thinking about other kinds of music. £12 £18 £24 £28
Chamber Music Season
Wednesday 2 May 12.15 pm
PRE-CONCERT TALK JONATHAN DOVE introduces his new work Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event JONATHAN DOVE
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Friday 4 May 1.00 pm
ROGER VIGNOLES MASTERCLASS If anyone knows what it takes to present a successful song recital it’s Roger Vignoles, whose experience of working with the leading singers of the world is legendary. At this event he shares some of that knowledge with student duos from UK music colleges. £7 concs £4 (not part of subscription scheme)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Roger Vignoles: ‘Perspectives’
Saturday 5 May 1.00 pm & 7.30 pm
COLIN CARR cello BACH CELLO SUITES See page overleaf for full details
Sunday 6 May 11.30 am
CUARTETO CASALS HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 SCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887
GIL SHAHAM
Christian Steiner
Thursday 3 May 7.30 pm
GIL SHAHAM violin AKIRA EGUCHI piano WALTON Sonata for violin and piano BACH Sonata No. 3 in C for solo violin BWV1005 JULIAN MILONE New Work (world première) SARASATE Zortzico Op. 39; Adiós montañas mias Op. 37; Malagueña from Spanish Dances Op. 21 RODRIGO Sonata pimpante
Named after the great Catalan cellist, this Spanish ensemble won the London String Quartet Competition in 2000 and was taken into the award scheme of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust. Here it pairs the most strikingly innovative of all the Haydn quartets with one by Schubert that might also suggest new directions – except it turned out to be his last. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Coffee Concert
A distinguished Israeli-American violinist and JapaneseAmerican pianist, Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi offer an unusual programme here, with Sarasate show-pieces, a new work by British violinist/composer Julian Milone, and the undervalued but substantial violin sonata by Walton – originally written for Yehudi Menuhin and very much a virtuoso score. £15 £20 £25 £30
Chamber Music Season
CUARTETO CASALS
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Felix Broede
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BACH CELLO SUITES The six unaccompanied cello suites by J S Bach have held a unique place in the baroque canon since they were reappraised by Pablo Casals in the 1930s. Until then, they were admired but with reservations (that Schumann ‘completed’ them with accompaniments says it all ). Today, they tend to be worshipped with the reverence shown to religious icons; and there’s no shortage of explanatory, often spiritual theories that interpreters read into their austere, mesmeric intimacy. Colin Carr will doubtless have his own views as he plays them over two concerts here at Wigmore Hall in what will surely prove a highlight of the season. Saturday 5 May 1.00 pm
COLIN CARR cello BACH Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007; Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009; Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 There will be no interval during this performance £12 concs £10
Chamber Music Season/Bach Cello Suites
Saturday 5 May 7.30 pm
COLIN CARR cello BACH Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008; Cello Suite No. 4 in E b BWV1010; Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012 £12 concs £10
Chamber Music Season/Bach Cello Suites
Photo of Colin Carr courtesy of The Banff Centre
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Sunday 6 May 4.00 pm
EKATERINA SCHERBACHENKO soprano ANNA TILBROOK piano Romances by TCHAIKOVSKY and SVIRIDOV Well-known to audiences worldwide after winning the 2009 Cardiff Singer of the World competition, lyric soprano Ekaterina Scherbachenko is a member of the Bolshoi Opera company and a leading stage interpreter of Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Here she sings a programme of Tchaikovsky songs, coupled with those of a significant composer from the Soviet era, Georgy Sviridov. £12 concs £10
Song Recital Series
JANINA FIALKOWSKA
Michael Schilhansl
Monday 7 May 1.00 pm
JANINA FIALKOWSKA piano CHOPIN Polonaise in E b minor Op. 26 No. 2; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54; Waltz in A b Op. 64 No. 3; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Nocturne in E b Op. 55 No. 2; Mazurka in B b Op. 7 No. 1; Mazurka in C minor Op. 30 No. 1; Mazurka in C # minor Op. 50 No. 3; Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20 The recent Chopin bicentenary proved a career highlight for Janina Fialkowska, with three Chopin CDs that won ecstatic reviews internationally. One made the Sunday Times 10 Best Discs of the Year, and Gramophone invited ‘lesser mortals [to] weep with envy’ at the ‘unfaltering authority’ of another. EKATERINA SCHERBACHENKO
£12 concs £10 Damir Yusupov
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
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Tuesday 8 May 7.30 pm
ALASDAIR BEATSON piano MOZART Piano Sonata in F K332 FAURÉ Nine Préludes Op. 103 RAVEL Sonatine SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ Already a Wigmore Hall favourite with three previous solo-recital appearances here, this young Scottish pianist – officially declared a ‘Rising Star’ by BBC Music Magazine – has chosen a diversely balanced programme for his fourth. Schubert’s stormily assertive ‘Wanderer’ fantasy – perhaps the most demanding keyboard score he ever wrote – completes the evening. £15 £20 £25 £30
London Pianoforte Series
IESTYN DAVIES
Marco Borggreve
Monday 7 May 7.30 pm
IESTYN DAVIES countertenor MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano HISTORY REPEATING PURCELL/BRITTEN Lord, what is Man?; In the black dismal dungeon of despair; I’ll sail upon the Dog-star; Sweeter than Roses PURCELL/TIPPETT Music for a while TIPPETT Songs for Ariel BACH/BRITTEN Five Spiritual Songs HAHN A Chloris SCHUBERT Der Tod und das Mädchen BRAHMS Alte Liebe; Unüberwindlich BRITTEN The Choirmaster’s Burial NICO MUHLY Four Traditional Songs* HOWELLS O my deir hert BRITTEN That yongë child COPLAND Long time ago BRITTEN The Ash Grove; Oliver Cromwell *Commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall
One of the hottest properties on the international singing circuit, Iestyn Davies does the usual things that countertenors do: baroque and Britten (recently as Oberon in ENO’s divisive A Midsummer Night’s Dream). But he’s not afraid of breaking into other fields, like 19th-century French mélodie and German Lieder. Possibly provocative, definitely interesting. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)
ALASDAIR BEATSON
Giorgia Bertazzi
Song Recital Series
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Thursday 10 May 7.30 pm
VÉRONIQUE GENS soprano SUSAN MANOFF piano
JERUSALEM QUARTET
Felix Broede
Wednesday 9 May 7.30 pm
JERUSALEM QUARTET ALEXANDER MELNIKOV piano SCHUMANN Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47; Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44 Schumann’s Op. 44 Piano Quintet and Op. 47 Piano Quartet were written back-to-back and broadly illustrate the conflicting personality traits he characterised as Eusebius (reflective, as encountered in the Quartet) and Florestan (energised, as in the Quintet). Both were intended for his wife Clara, her role taken here by the award-winning Alexander Melnikov.
FAURÉ Le papillon et la fleur; Au bord de l’eau; Après un rêve; Les berceaux; Lydia; Mandoline DUPARC L’invitation au voyage; Romance de Mignon; Chanson triste DEBUSSY Fleur des blés; Nuit d’étoiles CHAUSSON Les papillons; Le colibri; Le temps de lilas; La chanson bien douce HAHN Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Trois jours de vendange; Lydé; Tyndaris; Pholoé; A Chloris; Le printemps A leading exponent of Mozart, Handel and the French baroque, soprano Véronique Gens appears regularly at Aix-en-Provence and other major European venues. Not so long ago she was in London for the Royal Opera’s Niobe. But another focus of her life is mélodie, as featured here in her recital with American accompanist Susan Manoff. £15 £20 £25 £30 Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall
Song Recital Series
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Chamber Music Season
WIGMORE STUDY GROUP Thursday 10 May 3.00 – 6.00 pm Tuesday 15 May 3.00 – 6.00 pm Thursday 17 May 3.00 – 6.00 pm
PSALMS, SONNETS AND SONGS – THE CHORAL MUSIC OF WILLIAM BYRD The final Wigmore Study Group of the season explores the breadth of vocal music by English composer William Byrd – not only for its religious and political context but also its enduring significance over nearly four centuries. Participants will discover Byrd’s music from the inside with composer-host JULIAN PHILIPS, who will be joined by a number of distinguished musicologists and musicians, including ANDREW CARWOOD, the director of The Cardinall’s Musick. Linked to the evening concert with The Cardinall’s Musick on 17 May Series ticket price £53 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 17 May. (not part of subscription scheme)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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VÉRONIQUE GENS
M. Ribes & A. Vo Van Tao
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THE BOSTRIDGE PROJECT: ‘ANCIENT AND MODERN’
Friday 11 May 7.30 pm
SOPHIE DANEMAN soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor ELIZABETH KENNY lute GRAHAM JOHNSON piano FÊTES GALANTES LE CAMUS Fuyons cette rive charmante MOULINIÉ Objét le plus beau DE VISÉE Prélude LAMBERT Ombre de mon amant; Par mes chants DE VISÉE Chaconne LAMBERT Vos mespris chaque jour me causent des alarmes from Livre d’Airs de cour CHARPENTIER Tristes déserts, sombre retraite; Sans frayeur dans ce bois CORBETTA Chaconne CHARPENTIER Charmantes fleurs naissez LULLY Scene of Atys and Sangaride from Act IV of Atys DEBUSSY Fêtes galantes Books I & II FAURÉ Clair de lune; Tristesse; Au bord de l’eau; Lydia; Prison; Notre amour; Les berceaux; Mandoline; Nell; Le parfum impérissable; Fleur jetée; Le papillon et la fleur; Puisqu’ici-bas
IAN BOSTRIDGE
Benjamin Ealovega
Asked to curate a concert series at Wigmore Hall, Ian Bostridge seized on a memory from childhood – Hymns Ancient and Modern – and applied the name to an idea for programmes that would span the centuries, mix performing styles, and (as he says) ‘reflect upon the ways we colonise and remodel the past in our own image’. Planned with the broad sweep of a journey through time, the series started with a predominance of the old and concludes with a shift toward the new. But as Bostridge admits, it’s also an excuse for him to sing his choice of music with his choice of artists. Which is excuse enough.
French song isn’t the repertoire for which Ian Bostridge has been best-known, but it’s an abiding love. For this programme – which continues the ancient and modern theme of his Project, with baroque airs de cour in the first half, Fauré and Debussy in the second – he is joined by colleagues who turn a song recital into a concert party. £18 £25 £30 £35
Song Recital Series/The Bostridge Project: ‘Ancient and Modern’ Forthcoming concerts in this series Saturday 7 July 7.30 pm
ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano
PRE-CONCERT TALK
IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET director, harpsichord
COMPOSERS IN FOCUS
Saturday 28 July 7.30 pm
Friday 11 May 6.00 pm
PROFESSOR PETER BURKE on The Fabrication of Louis XIV. £3 (not part of subscription scheme)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor XUEFEI YANG guitar JULIUS DRAKE piano
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Saturday 12 May 7.30 pm
STEPHEN BEUS piano STEVENS Fantasia on ‘Giles Farnaby’s Dreame‘ Op. 22 GRIFFES The Fountain of the Acqua Paola Op. 7 No. 3; The Lake at Evening Op. 5 No. 1; Scherzo Op. 6 No. 3 from Fantasy Pieces BACH/BUSONI Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV1004 MEDTNER Fairy Tale Op. 51 No. 6; Fairy Tale Op. 20 No. 2 MOZART Variations on Gluck’s ‘Unser dummer Pöbel meint’ K455 LISZT/HOROWITZ Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C # minor Stephen Beus is a young American pianist of distinction and originality, returning to Wigmore Hall after a memorable debut here that featured music from his homeland. Once again he brings a programme of unusual reach, focusing on works by an American impressionist with a taste for the exotic and a short but hidden life, Charles Griffes. £15 £20 £25 £30
ALLAN CLAYTON
Jack Liebeck
Monday 14 May 1.00 pm
ALLAN CLAYTON tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano
Supported by an anonymous donor
London Pianoforte Series
BRITTEN The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35 Songs by SCHUBERT A superb young lyric tenor who excels in Britten repertoire, Allan Clayton has sung Albert Herring at Glyndebourne and Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for ENO. Now he reaches further into Peter Pears territory with the disturbing darkness of a cycle written after touring the justliberated German concentration camps in 1945. £12 concs £10
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert STEPHEN BEUS
Christian Steiner
Sunday 13 May 11.30 am
GAUTIER CAPUÇON cello JÉRÔME DUCROS piano BRIDGE Cello Sonata in D minor SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Gautier Capuçon is one of the young, string-playing brothers from France whose stylish musical accomplishment has captivated audiences everywhere. Appearing here with an equally stylish compatriot, he plays two sonatas that share the same key and a comparably high standing in the canon – the Bridge ranking among the finest works in the composer’s output. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
GAUTIER CAPUÇON
Michael Tammaro/Virgin Classics
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Wednesday 16 May 7.30 pm
JANINE JANSEN violin BORIS BROVTSYN violin AMIHAI GROSZ viola MAXIM RYSANOV viola TORLEIF THEDÉEN cello JENS PETER MAINTZ cello SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D956 For the final concert in her 2011/12 residency at Wigmore Hall, the Dutch violinist Janine Jansen joins a group of dazzling young colleagues to play two contrasting takes on Viennese tradition: Schubert’s last and arguably greatest chamber work, and the young Schoenberg’s emotionally fraught experiment in storytelling through the medium of a string sextet. £15 £20 £25 £30
Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Residency
BELCEA QUARTET
Ronald Knapp
Monday 14 May 7.30 pm
BELCEA QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4; String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in F Op. 135 Of all the quartets to have emerged from Britain in recent years, the Belcea ranks among the best-loved and most admired. For this concert in Wigmore Hall’s ongoing Beethoven series it plays two earlier quartets dedicated to aristocrats and the one he intended as his last, dedicated to a cloth merchant. Times were changing in the post-Napoleonic world. £12 £18 £24 £28 The presentation of the complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle by the Belcea Quartet has been made possible with a bequest from the late Mrs Kate Goetz, a long-standing and much missed member of the Wigmore Hall audience.
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JANINE JANSEN
Sara Wilson/Decca
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WILLIAM BYRD SACRED MUSIC SERIES
Thursday 20 December 2012
STILE ANTICO PUER NATUS EST – MUSIC BY BYRD AND TALLIS FOR ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS £15 £20 £25 £30
Tuesday 26 March 2013
STILE ANTICO MISERERE – PENITENTIAL MUSIC BY BYRD AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES £15 £20 £25 £30
Thursday 30 May 2013
STILE ANTICO FRETWORK WILLIAM BYRD
Coloured engraving of William Byrd by Nicholas Haym. © akg-images
O SACRED BANQUET – WILLIAM BYRD AND THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI Programme to include BYRD Mass in Four Parts
A Catholic in a Protestant country, William Byrd trod a dangerous path through the religious politics of Tudor times but survived by composing public works for the new Church of England and discreet ones that reflect his personal beliefs. Last year The Cardinall’s Musick completed a project to record all the composer’s Latin settings with a release that won Gramophone’s Recording of the Year award. Since then the group has launched this Wigmore series which includes the 5-part Mass designed for very private use as it would have been unlawful. Future concerts in the series feature one of Britain’s other leading vocal consorts, Stile Antico.
£15 £20 £25 £30
Early Music and Baroque Series/William Byrd Sacred Music Series
Booking for all events in this series is now open. Thursday 10 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Tuesday 15 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 17 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
WIGMORE STUDY GROUP See page 25 for full details
STILE ANTICO
Marco Borggreve
Thursday 17 May 7.30 pm
THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK ANDREW CARWOOD director BYRD: THE HIDDEN CATHOLIC BYRD Mass for Five Voices with Propers for the Feast of Corpus Christi; Venite, exultemus Domino; Haec dicit Dominus; Visita quaesumus, Domine; Cantate Domino; Infelix ego £15 £20 £25 £30 Supported by Hutton Collins Partners LLP
THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK
Dmitri Gutjahr
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MAGDALENA KOZ˘ENÁ MITSUKO UCHIDA However great the tendency towards equality between a singer and accompanist, the voice is bound to rule – except in those rare cases where the person at the piano is a star of equal magnitude, as you find in this unusual partnership between two world-class virtuosi. Neither Magdalena Koz˘ená nor Mitsuko Uchida need the slightest introduction. Together they can only promise double-insight into this programme of French and German songs – an idiomatically particular and personal programme that concludes with poems set by Messiaen in the 1930s for his first wife, known as Mi.
Friday 18 May 7.30 pm (Repeated on Sunday 20 May 7.30 pm)
MAGDALENA KOZ˘ENÁ mezzo-soprano MITSUKO UCHIDA piano MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen; Das irdische Leben DEBUSSY Chansons de Bilitis MAHLER Five Rückert Lieder DEBUSSY Ariettes oubliées MESSIAEN Poèmes pour Mi (a selection from Book II) £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)
Song Recital Series
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Saturday 19 May 7.30 pm
Sunday 20 May 7.30 pm
JERUSALEM QUARTET
MAGDALENA KOZ˘ ENÁ mezzo-soprano MITSUKO UCHIDA piano
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2 MARK KOPYTMAN String Quartet No. 4 BRAHMS String Quartet in B b Op. 67
Repeat of concert on 18 May
Back for the second time this month, the Jerusalem Quartet brings music by an Israeli polymath who happens to be a medical doctor as well as a pioneering composer. By coincidence, Brahms’s third and last quartet was dedicated to a physician, whose ministrations must have been effective. No. 3 reveals Brahms at his most relaxed and cheerful.
£18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)
Song Recital Series
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Chamber Music Season
Sunday 20 May 11.30 am
CHLOË HANSLIP violin CHARLES OWEN piano ARVO PÄRT Fratres for violin and piano SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D934 STRAUSS Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18 A prodigy signed up by Warner Classics at the tender age of 13, Chloë Hanslip is now one of the leading younger generation of British violinists and a regular chamber music partner to Charles Owen, who joins her for this mixed programme that includes Richard Strauss’s early and not often heard violin sonata. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Supported by John and Amy Ford
Coffee Concert
JOHANNES MOSER
Cristina Hirst
Monday 21 May 1.00 pm
JOHANNES MOSER cello PAUL RIVINIUS piano BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 BRITTEN Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 The Brahms sonata here was written for an amateur cellist and looks back to the baroque; Britten’s sonata was conceived for the great Rostropovich and in some ways looks back to Brahms. Together the two works are played by a German-Canadian described by Gramophone as ‘one of the finest’ young virtuosi in his field. £12 concs £10
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert CHLOË HANSLIP
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Benjamin Ealovega
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Wednesday 23 May 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm
VOICEWORKS A concert of new works for voice from the Wigmore Hall Learning project Voiceworks. Now in its fifth year, Voiceworks is a unique collaboration between poets from the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck, and composers, singers and instrumentalists from Guildhall School of Music & Drama. This concert will also include a new work written as part of the Voiceworks Masterclass. Details at www.voiceworks.org.uk Free (ticket required)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Wednesday 23 May 7.30 pm
CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW piano MOZART Sonata No. 3 in B b K281; Sonata No. 4 in E b K282; Sonata No. 5 in G K283; Sonata No. 10 in C K330; Sonata No. 13 in B b K333
RACHEL PODGER
Chris Stock
Monday 21 May 7.30 pm
ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC BAROQUE ORCHESTRA RACHEL PODGER director, violin EXOTIC BAROQUE VIVALDI Concerto in E minor for 4 violins Op. 3 No. 4 C PE BACH Concerto in D minor for harpsichord Wq. 23 VIVALDI Concerto in D ‘Il Grosso Mogul’ RV208 LOCATELLI Concerto Grosso in E b ‘Il Pianto d’Arianna’ VIVALDI Concerto in D minor for 2 violins and cello Op. 3 No. 11 from L’estro armonico LOCATELLI Concerto for 4 violins in F Op. 4 No. 12
Turbulence, serenity, darkness and wit – Mozart’s eighteen keyboard sonatas make a collective study in contrasts, and for several years now Christian Blackshaw has passionately championed the virtues of performing them together as a cycle. This selection groups three early, Salzburg-sketched examples with the aching beauty of the more mature K333. £15 £20 £25 £30
London Pianoforte Series/Christian Blackshaw: Mozart Series Forthcoming concerts in this series Tuesday 25 September 7.30 pm Saturday 5 January 2013 7.30 pm Booking for all concerts in this series is now open.
Rachel Podger led The English Concert before developing a solo career of distinction in period performance. Her recording of Vivaldi’s 12 violin concertos, La Stravaganza, won Gramophone magazine’s Best Baroque Instrumental award, and her involvement with the Royal Academy of Music has helped establish it as a world centre for historically-informed musicianship. £15 £20 £25 £30
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CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW
Herbie Knott
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INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC
Thursday 24 May 7.30 pm
FLORILEGIUM ASHLEY SOLOMON director, flute BOJAN C˘IC˘IC´ violin JENNIFER MORSCHES cello TERENCE CHARLSTON harpsichord
FREDERICK THE GREAT: AN EVENING AT THE PALACE OF REASON CPE BACH Trio Sonata in C for flute, violin and continuo FREDERICK THE GREAT Sonata in C for flute and continuo BACH Ricercar a 3 from The Musical Offering BWV1079 QUANTZ Trio Sonata in C minor for flute, viola d’amore and continuo CPE BACH Sonata in D for piccolo cello and obbligato harpsichord BENDA Sonata in A for violin and continuo BACH From The Musical Offering: Ricercar a 6; Trio Sonata in C minor
MUSIC AND NATURE
Indian miniature Kangra painting
Thursday 24 May 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm Thursday 31 May 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm Thursday 7 June 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm Thursday 14 June 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
To celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Frederick the Great – one of the greatest musical patrons in history – Florilegium’s programme includes works by Frederick and members of his household, as well as ricercars from Bach’s Musical Offering based on a theme composed by the King himself. £12 £18 £22 £25
Early Music and Baroque Series
INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC Despite a remarkable cohesion, supported by centuries of tradition, Indian music cannot really be talked about as if it were a single entity. Such a vast and densely populated area – and Indian music covers the entire subcontinent, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and, to some extent, Nepal and Afghanistan – can be expected to have diversity in its music to match that of its languages, religions, ethnic groups and customs. So Indian music is not just the classical tradition but also the wealth of folk music and the familiar output of the film industry, which is much wider than just ‘Bollywood’. At the same time it is probably easier to define what is termed classical music in India than in the West, as it is based on clearly identifiable musical foundations: the melodic system of raga and the rhythmic system of tala. NEIL SORRELL introduces this remarkable tradition over four study sessions. Series ticket price £24 (not part of subscription scheme) Linked to the Amjad Ali Khan: Indian Music Series – concert tickets must be purchased separately.
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FLORILEGIUM
Amit Lennon
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Friday 25 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm
YCAT Public Final Auditions 2012 YCAT offers guidance, advice and management to emerging artists who have, in the past, included Ian Bostridge, Susan Gritton, the Belcea Quartet and a host of others who went on to become stars. They are selected by audition; and in this final round of a rigorous process, promising young hopefuls take their turn before an eminent panel of judges. £10 concs £8 per session (not part of subscription scheme)
Sunday 27 May 11.30 am
SITKOVETSKY TRIO HAYDN Piano Trio in G HXV:25 ‘Gypsy Rondo’ ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 DVOR
JACK QUARTET
Formed in 2007 at the Menuhin School, the Sitkovetsky Trio has in a short time become a well-established ensemble on the international chamber music scene. Here it brings two favourites of the piano trio repertoire with Central European folk-dance elements deeply embedded in its DNA.
Sunday 27 May 7.30 pm
£12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Coffee Concert
Justin Bernhaut
JACK QUARTET IVES String Quartet No. 2 PHILIP GLASS String Quartet No. 5 GÓRECKI String Quartet No. 2 ‘Quasi una fantasia’ Op. 64 Dedicated to performing cutting-edge, up-tothe-minute music, the supremely cool, New York-based JACK Quartet reaches back to what for them is distant history with the Ives that starts this programme – but then returns closer to home ground with the Glass and the Górecki. ‘Brilliant ... viscerally exciting’ New York Times ‘Emphatic and fearless’ Radio Station WQXR £12 concs £10
WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T * Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Chamber Music Season
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Monday 28 May 1.00 pm
ALICE COOTE: A CELEBRATION
JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET piano DEBUSSY Images oubliées; Images Series 1 LISZT La Notte; Grosses Konzertsolo S176 Debussy is one of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s signature composers, and his cycle of the piano works for Chandos has won awards from both Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. Here the Debussy comes with one of Liszt’s haunting Funeral Odes, and the thunderously extrovert Grosses Konzertsolo – a piece almost on the scale of the B minor sonata. £12 concs £10
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
ALICE COOTE
Benjamin Ealovega
One of Britain’s most distinguished mezzosopranos, Alice Coote sings everything from Schubert’s Winterreise to new music by Judith Weir, and spends much of her time on the international opera circuit. But for this concert she continues a long association with The English Concert in a programme, directed and devised by Harry Bicket, that surveys early 18th-century London’s operatic taste – including two of Handel’s most profound portrayals of jealousy and madness, Ariodante and Hercules. Tuesday 29 May 7.30 pm
ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET director, harpsichord PURCELL Suite from Dioclesian HANDEL From Hercules: Overture; Sinfonia; 3 Arias PURCELL Suite from The Fairy Queen HANDEL From Ariodante: Overture; Ballet music; 3 Arias JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET
Paul Mitchell
£18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)
Early Music and Baroque Series/ Song Recital Series
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Friday 1 June 7.30 pm
RICHARD GOODE piano MOZART Fantasia in C minor K475 MOZART Piano Sonata in C minor K457 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 18 in E b Op. 31 No. 3 BRAHMS 7 Fantasien Op. 116 CHOPIN Barcarolle in F # Op. 60 An iconic figure in the American music world, Grammy Award-winning Richard Goode ranks among the leading Beethoven interpreters of modern times (his recent discs of the concerti were described as ‘landmark’ by the Financial Times) and is universally admired for the integrity of his approach to core classical composers of the kind in this programme. ELIAS STRING QUARTET
£15 £20 £25 £30 Benjamin Ealovega
Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle
Wednesday 30 May 7.30 pm
London Pianoforte Series
ELIAS STRING QUARTET PASCAL MORAGUÈS clarinet MOZART String Quartet in A K464 GYÖRGY KURTÁG Officium breve Op. 28 BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 Principal clarinet of the Orchestre de Paris, Pascal Moraguès also has a flourishing career as a chamber musician. Here, he joins the Elias String Quartet (recently made BBC New Generation Artists) for Brahms’s much-loved classic – preceded by a quartet that famously caused Mozart problems, and an example of György Kurtág’s complicated simplicity. £15 £20 £25 £30
Chamber Music Season
Thursday 31 May 7.30 pm
VIENNA PIANO TRIO BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in G Op. 1 No. 2 REINHARD FUCHS Piano Trio (UK première) SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 in B b D898 ‘One glance at Schubert’s Trio’, said Robert Schumann, ‘and the troubles of our human existence disappear: the world is fresh and bright again’. Refreshing the world here is the outstanding Vienna Piano Trio which includes in this last concert of its 2011/12 Wigmore residency a new work by the Austrian composer and accordionist Reinhard Fuchs.
RICHARD GOODE
Sasha Gusov
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HAYDN QUARTETS AND MOZART QUINTETS A string quartet named after one of the supreme quartet composers would be running risks unless its playing was exceptional – as the playing of this group undoubtedly is. Using gut strings, classical bows, and period-conscious scholarship, its recent recordings of Haydn on the Hyperion label have been described as ‘marvellous’ ( Goldberg Magazine ) and ‘superlative’ (The Strad ). In this weekend residency it examines all the quartets of the Opus 20 set known as the ‘Sun’ and generally considered a landmark in Haydn’s output, encompassing a grander scale and deeper expressivity than any of his earlier quartet writing. The set comes coupled with all six of Mozart’s string quintets, with the Canadian violist Steven Dann. Saturday 2 June 1.00 pm
LONDON HAYDN QUARTET STEVEN DANN viola HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 MOZART String Quintet in B b K174 MOZART String Quintet in E b K614 £12 concs £10
Saturday 2 June 6.00 pm
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Saturday 2 June 7.30 pm
LONDON HAYDN QUARTET STEVEN DANN viola HAYDN String Quartet in A Op. 20 No. 6 HAYDN String Quartet in E b Op. 20 No. 1 MOZART String Quintet in D K593 £12 concs £10
Sunday 3 June 4.00 pm
LONDON HAYDN QUARTET STEVEN DANN viola HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 HAYDN String Quartet in G minor Op. 20 No. 3 MOZART String Quintet in G minor K516 £12 concs £10
Sunday 3 June 7.30 pm
LONDON HAYDN QUARTET STEVEN DANN viola MOZART String Quintet in C minor K406 HAYDN String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 MOZART String Quintet in C K515
DAVID CAIRNS on Mozart’s String Quintets £12 concs £10 £3 (not part of subscription scheme)
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Monday 4 June 1.00 pm
LOUIS LORTIE piano THOMAS ADÈS Traced Overhead SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B b D960 Known to Wigmore audiences for a memorable Beethoven sonata cycle and to CD collectors for a sparkling exploration of Ravel’s complete piano music, Louis Lortie doesn’t do things by halves. His enthusiasm for the work of Thomas Adès has been similarly probing, thorough, and persistent. Recently he gave the German première of Adès’s piano quintet. Tonight he plays an Adès score from the mid-90s inspired by the idea of angels rising heavenwards in shafts of light. EUGENE UGORSKI
Marco Borggreve
£12 concs £10
Sunday 3 June 11.30 am
EUGENE UGORSKI violin KONSTANTIN LIFSCHITZ piano
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 BARTÓK Rhapsody No. 2 FRANCK Sonata in A for violin and piano Born in Russia but raised in the USA, Eugene Ugorski made his concerto debut aged 8, starred in the Moscow Easter Festival as a teenager, and now – at 22 – is an established name on the international circuit. The career of Konstantin Lifschitz has followed a similar pattern, with a noted debut at 13 in Moscow and a recording of his school graduation recital that was nominated for a Grammy – described in the New York Times as ‘the most powerful pianistic interpretation [of the Goldberg Variations] since Glenn Gould’s’. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Sunday 3 June 4.00 pm
LONDON HAYDN QUARTET STEVEN DANN viola HAYDN QUARTETS AND MOZART QUINTETS See previous page for full details
Sunday 3 June 7.30 pm LOUIS LORTIE
Elias
LONDON HAYDN QUARTET STEVEN DANN viola HAYDN QUARTETS AND MOZART QUINTETS See previous page for full details
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KIRILL GERSTEIN RECITAL OLIVER KNUSSEN LONDON PREMIÈRE Monday 4 June 7.30 pm
KIRILL GERSTEIN piano BACH English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV811 MOZART/BUSONI Gigue, Bolero and Variations OLIVER KNUSSEN Ophelia’s Last Dance (London première) WEBER Invitation to the Dance: rondo brillant in D b SCHUMANN Carnaval Op. 9 SCHUBERT/LISZT A selection from Valses caprices d’après Schubert S427 One of the great windfalls of classical music, the prestigious, valuable and happily maverick Gilmore Award is given every four years to a pianist who has no idea that he or she is in the running for it. Past recipients have included Leif Ove Andsnes and Piotr Anderszewski. In 2010 it fell into the unsuspecting lap of Kirill Gerstein, acknowledging him as a musician who combines high calibre with curiosity and imagination. Born in Russia, he began his studies as a jazz pianist but switched to classical and contemporary. His programme here reflects wide-ranging interests, with a piece by Oliver Knussen that lays to rest an idée fixe of the composer’s scores through the past three decades. £15 £20 £25 £30
London Pianoforte Series/Knussen – London Première
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Marco Borggreve
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Wednesday 6 June 7.30 pm
ELIZABETH KENNY lute, theorbo DANIEL HYDE organ PHANTASM viol consort LAURENCE DREYFUS treble viol, director EMILIA BENJAMIN treble & tenor viols JONATHAN MANSON tenor viol MIKKO PERKOLA tenor viol MARKKU LUOLAJAN-MIKKOLA bass viol Consorts by DOWLAND and LAWES The brooding obsession of Lachrymae prepared the ground for William Lawes’s sets with organ, in which the consort resembles a cosmic leviathan. A more gracious, while still quirky, elegance characterises the Royall Consorts, in their early versions using the single plucked instrument so evocative of Dowland, the master-mixer of ‘grave and light’. £15 £20 £25 £30
Early Music and Baroque Series
STEPHEN HOUGH
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Tuesday 5 June 7.30 pm
STEPHEN HOUGH piano THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET BYRD The Galliard Jig; Callino casturame; Hugh Aston’s Ground (solo piano) BRITTEN String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 ELGAR Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84 Articulate, sharp-witted, individual, Stephen Hough is a musician with ideas, and as Artist in Residence during the current Wigmore season his idea has been to explore the often sidelined piano quintet genre. Here, with the Endellion Quartet, he plays the last in Elgar’s small output of chamber works: a late piece from the end of World War I, with the most heartfelt of Adagios that the critic W H Reed regarded as ‘a message from another world’. £15 £20 £25 £30
ELIZABETH KENNY
Benjamin Ealovega
Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle
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Friday 8 June 11.00 am – 12.00 noon
MR BIG PLAYS JAZZ: NEIL COWLEY TRIO KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT Known for his English wit and mischievous humour, NEIL COWLEY brings his unique brand of contemporary jazz to Ed Vere’s story of Mr Big, published by Puffin Books. Sensitively and humorously tackling the subject of inclusion, and supported by a resource pack with ideas for tackling bullying in school, this concert provides the opportunity for children to take part in the creation of a jazz soundtrack to the story. £2.50 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by John Lyon’s Charity, The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust and The Monument Trust
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Friday 8 June 7.00 pm
MIHKEL POLL piano GUILDHALL WIGMORE RECITAL PRIZE ANGELA HEWITT
Bernd Eberle
Thursday 7 June 7.30 pm
ANGELA HEWITT piano COUPERIN From Second livre de pièces de clavecin, 6e ordre: Les moissoneurs; Les langueurs-tendres; Les Baricades mistérieuses; Le moucheron COUPERIN Le rossignol-en-amour from Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin, 14e ordre; La pantomime from Quatrième livre de pièces de clavecin, 26e ordre; Passacaille from Seconde livre de pièces de clavecin, 8e ordre FAURÉ Thème et Variations in C # minor Op. 73; Nocturne No. 5 in B b Op. 37; Nocturne No. 6 in D b Op. 63; Nocturne No. 13 in B minor Op. 119 RAMEAU Suite in A minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin Best-known for her Bach, of course, Angela Hewitt nonetheless excels in everything from Couperin to contemporary repertoire. Selections from Couperin’s four published books of harpsichord music (grouped in ‘ordres’, the composer’s own, distinctive variant on dance suites) get much of the attention in this recital, which comes as part of her French series at Wigmore Hall. £15 £20 £25 £30
ENESCU Piano Sonata in F# minor Op. 24 No. 1 LIGETI Etude No. 5 ‘Arc-en-ciel’; Etude No. 13 ‘L’escalier du diable’ BARTÓK Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) Sz. 81 RAVEL Ondine from Gaspard de la nuit MOSSOLOV 2 Nocturnes Op. 15 PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 82 The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards a talented Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Estonian pianist Mihkel Poll is the recipient of this year’s award, and his winner’s recital promises to be a special occasion. £12 concs £10 Photo by Kaupo Kikkas
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LATE NIGHT SERIES Following the successes of the Late Night Series last season, Wigmore Hall is excited to unveil this collection of hour-long concerts this summer. Featuring a great diversity of programmes, from madrigals by Monteverdi to Damnalot (Faust the musical), this series also presents some favourite Schubert Lieder and a world première which fuses the Indian sarod with a Western orchestra. A special focus on improvisations will bring themes from the audience to Wigmore Hall’s Steinway too! Rounding off the week in style, these intimate and atmospheric concerts promise to be a perfect musical night-cap. Friday 8 June 10.00 pm
Friday 13 July 10.00 pm
TIMOTHY ANDRES piano
I FAGIOLINI ROBERT HOLLINGWORTH
Young Californian pianist and composer Timothy Andres makes his debut at Wigmore Hall in this recital focusing on his own music and that of his contemporaries. See page opposite for details
Friday 15 June 10.00 pm
AMJAD ALI KHAN sarod BRITTEN SINFONIA Concluding his Wigmore Hall residency, sarod virtuoso Amjad Ali Khan is joined by Britten Sinfonia to give the world première of his latest composition. See page 47 for details
Friday 22 June 10.00 pm
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VOCAL EXTREMES Founded at Oxford University in 1986, I Fagiolini focuses on Renaissance and contemporary ensemble repertoire, and has recently branched out into innovative staged productions. See page 62 for details
Friday 20 July 10.00 pm
GABRIELA MONTERO piano Internationally renowned for her visionary interpretations and unique improvisational gifts, Gabriela Montero returns to Wigmore Hall for a concert with an exciting twist! See page 66 for details
IGNITE TIME AT THE BAR Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble, Ignite, performs new music with improvised elements in the intimate and informal setting of the Wigmore Hall Restaurant. See page 51 for details
Friday 27 July 10.00 pm
THE PRINCE CONSORT Founded by British pianist Alisdair Hogarth, The Prince Consort is a versatile ensemble of outstanding singers, all graduates from the Royal College of Music. See page 69 for details
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Saturday 9 June 7.30 pm
CHRISTINE BREWER soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano
TIMOTHY ANDRES
Mingzhe Wang
TURINA Poema en forma de canciones MOMPOU Cançoneta incerta; Pastoral; Llueve sobre el río TOLDRÁ Mananita de San Juan from Seis Canciones OBRADORS Al Amor; En el Pinar; Con amores, la mi madre; Del cabello mas sutil; Chiquitita BARBER The Daisies; With Rue my Heart is Laden; Bessie Bobtail; Rain has fallen; Sure on this Shining Night COPLAND My heart is in the east; Alone; Night; A Summer Vacation; Old Poem BOLCOM From 12 Cabaret Songs: Song of Black Max; George; Amor
Friday 8 June 10.00 pm
TIMOTHY ANDRES piano TED HEARNE Two movements from Parlor Diplomacy (London première) TIMOTHY ANDRES How can I live in your world of ideas INGRAM MARSHALL Authentic Presence BRAHMS Intermezzo in B minor Op. 119 No. 1 TIMOTHY ANDRES It takes a Long Time to be a Good Composer SCHUMANN Vogel als Prophet Op. 82 No. 7 Praised for his ‘acute ear’ by the New York Times and a ‘stubborn nose’ by the New Yorker, Timothy Andres is an American composer-pianist whose work crosses boundaries and defies categorisation. When his debut album Shy and Mighty was released in 2010, the New Yorker observed ‘an unhurried grandeur that has rarely been felt in American music since John Adams came on the scene … more mighty than shy’.
Songs from the New World, north and south, fill this programme by the Grammy Awardwinning American soprano Christine Brewer. Internationally acclaimed in Strauss, Mahler and Wagner, the warmth and virtuosity of this outstanding voice works just as well in English (Spanish too). Here it comes as part of Roger Vignoles’s celebration of the human voice at Wigmore Hall, ‘Perspectives’. £15 £20 £25 £30
Song Recital Series/ Roger Vignoles: ‘Perspectives’
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Late Night Series
Saturday 9 June 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm
MR BIG PLAYS JAZZ: NEIL COWLEY TRIO FAMILY CONCERT For age 5 plus Known for his English wit and mischievous humour, NEIL COWLEY brings his unique brand of contemporary jazz to Ed Vere’s story of Mr Big, published by Puffin Books. Sensitively and humorously tackling the subject of inclusion, this concert also provides the opportunity for children to take part in the creation of a jazz soundtrack to the story. Adult £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Andor Charitable Trust and The Monument Trust
CHRISTINE BREWER
Christian Steiner
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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Monday 11 June 1.00 pm
FRANÇOIS LELEUX oboe EMMANUEL STROSSE piano BRITTEN Temporal Variations BRITTEN Six Metamorphoses after Ovid POULENC Sonata for oboe and piano DUTILLEUX Sonata for oboe and piano It takes a lot for an oboist to acquire star status, but the remarkable François Leleux has managed to do so thanks to an astounding technique and engaging personality that launched him from principal positions with the Paris Opera and Bavarian RSO into a solo career of international significance. An exclusive Sony recording artist, he’s a champion of modern music, and has based this recital around English and French works of the mid-20th century – including an early sonata by the venerable Henri Dutilleux. £12 concs £10
KUNGSBACKA PIANO TRIO
Hanya Chlala
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sunday 10 June 11.30 am
KUNGSBACKA PIANO TRIO BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1 HUW WATKINS Lento (Second movement from Piano Trio) BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Taking its name from the Swedish festival where the members of this leading piano trio came together, the Kungsbacka has a distinguished record for identifying and performing worthwhile new works. In this case it’s music by the young Welsh composer Huw Watkins, whose violin concerto had a notable Proms première in 2010 and whose chamber opera Crime Fiction has been toured by Music Theatre Wales. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Sunday 10 June 7.30 pm
JONAS KAUFMANN tenor HELMUT DEUTSCH piano See page opposite for full details FRANÇOIS LELEUX
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Sunday 10 June 7.30 pm
JONAS KAUFMANN tenor
HELMUT DEUTSCH piano LISZT Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Freudvoll und leidvoll; Es war ein König in Thule; Ihr Glocken von Marling; Die drei Zigeuner MAHLER Five Rückert Lieder DUPARC L’invitation au voyage; Phidylé; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Chanson triste; La vie antérieure STRAUSS Schlechtes Wetter; Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne; Befreit; Junggesellenschwur; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten Arguably the leading lyric tenor of the moment, certainly the most high-profile, Jonas Kaufmann needs no introduction. A unique voice that combines Germanic eloquence and focus with the warmth of a convincing Latin sound, its virtuosity has captivated audiences across the world – not only on the opera stage but in the concert hall, with song recitals partnered by the most distinguished of accompanists, Helmut Deutsch. To Wigmore Hall these two great artists bring a French and German programme that includes some jewels from Liszt’s neglected vocal output and the cycle of five Rückert settings – wistful songs of love and death – by Mahler. £30 £40 £45 £50
Song Recital Series
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Tuesday 12 June 7.30 pm (Repeated on 14 June 7.30 pm)
MARK PADMORE tenor PAUL LEWIS piano BEETHOVEN Mailied; Neue Liebe, neues Leben; Adelaide; An die ferne Geliebte SCHUBERT Schwanengesang Paul Lewis’s long-running Schubert series at Wigmore Hall has inevitably been based around the piano literature, but it also takes in music for voice and piano. In this case, Beethoven’s prototype of the Romantic song cycle is paired with Schubert’s posthumously designated ‘farewell’ to the genre – sung by one of the most sensitive, intelligent and nuanced of all tenors on the international stage, Mark Padmore. £18 £25 £30 £35
Song Recital Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series
PAUL LEWIS AND MARK PADMORE
Marco Borggreve
Wednesday 13 June 10.30 am – 1.00 pm
AMJAD ALI KHAN sarod IGNITE EXCHANGING NOTES ‘There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.’ Amjad Ali Khan Join the audience to hear what happens when AMJAD ALI KHAN, master of the sarod, meets Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble, IGNITE. Garner expert insights into the art of Indian raga based compositions and improvisation, and watch and listen as the music and techniques are interpreted through Ignite’s Western instrumentation. A great opportunity to learn from professional musicians in a masterclass-style setting; as well as hearing brilliant new music by Amjad Ali Khan himself. £7 concs £4
Wigmore Hall Learning Event AMJAD ALI KHAN
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Wednesday 13 June 7.30 pm
BELCEA QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5; String Quartet in B b Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133 The Belcea first emerged as an ensemble with a striking pedigree, having been coached by both the Amadeus and the Alban Berg Quartets: a serious engagement with the grand tradition. Now firmly established in the front rank of their generation, the quartet has enjoyed a close association with Wigmore Hall for many years, and returns for this Beethoven programme featuring the late, great Opus 130 with the finale – a ‘grand fugue, as free as it is erudite’ according to the publisher – that Beethoven originally appended but then replaced after complaints that it was too long and too bizarre. SUNANDA SHARMA £12 £18 £24 £28 The presentation of the complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle by the Belcea Quartet has been made possible with a bequest from the late Mrs Kate Goetz, a long-standing and much missed member of the Wigmore Hall audience.
Friday 15 June 7.00 pm
SUNIL SAXENA & SMITA NAGDEV sitar duo
SUNANDA SHARMA vocalist
Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series
This programme of Indian classical music features two accomplished sitar players, both of them disciples of the sarod master Amjad Ali Khan, who curates this concert as part of his Wigmore Hall residency. After the interval, the Hindustani tradition of romantic and devotional Thumri singing is realised by vocalist Sunanda Sharma. £15 £20 £25 £30 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2011–12 Wigmore Series
Chamber Music Season/Amjad Ali Khan: Indian Music Series
Friday 15 June 10.00 pm
AMJAD ALI KHAN sarod BRITTEN SINFONIA BELCEA QUARTET
Thursday 14 June 7.30 pm
MARK PADMORE tenor PAUL LEWIS piano Repeat of concert on 12 June £18 £25 £30 £35
Ronald Knapp
Amjad Ali Khan concludes his Wigmore Hall series in his guise as composer, giving the world première of his latest work for sarod and an ensemble of western classical instruments. He will be joined by members of one of Britain’s most creative and versatile chamber orchestras, Britten Sinfonia. £12 concs £10
Chamber Music Season/Amjad Ali Khan: Indian Music Series/Late Night Series
Song Recital Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series
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Saturday 16 June 11.00 am
STEVEN ISSERLIS LEGENDS INTERVIEW SERIES STEVEN ISSERLIS in conversation with MARTA CASALS ISTOMIN For the third in a series of conversations in which Steven Isserlis pays tribute to outstanding figures who have influenced his musical life, he talks to Marta Casals Istomin, the widow of the great Pablo Casals – herself a cellist and famous arts administrator – to discuss her remarkable life in music. All seats £15 (not part of subscription scheme)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Saturday 16 June 7.30 pm
STEVEN OSBORNE piano RAVEL Menuet antique; Miroirs; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Le tombeau de Couperin Steven Osborne has become a prime exponent of Ravel. His recent issue on Hyperion of the complete piano music was nominated for a Gramophone Award and captivated critics worldwide. ‘Even among the greatest of competition, Osborne may have set a new benchmark’ said International Record Review. ‘The finest Ravel anthology of the CD era’, agreed the Financial Times. £15 £20 £25 £30
NATALIE CLEIN
Sussie Ahlburg
London Pianoforte Series/Ravel 75th Anniversary Sunday 17 June 11.30 am
NATALIE CLEIN cello BACH Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009 GYÖRGY KURTÁG From Signs, Games & Messages: Shadows (for Miklós Perényi); Az Hit; Hommage à John Cage KODÁLY Sonata for solo cello Op. 8 Natalie Clein won the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year competition aged just 15, and has gone on to enjoy a major career noted for the diverse repertory interests this programme demonstrates. The Kurtág selections come from a network of pieces, some short and fragmentary, written for differing instruments and combinations over many years. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
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Benjamin Ealovega
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Sunday 17 June 4.00 pm
RENATA POKUPIC´ mezzo-soprano ANTOINE TAMESTIT viola ROGER VIGNOLES piano FRANZ Im Mai; Im Herbst; Die Lotosblume; Frühlingsliebe; Dies und das BRAHMS Viola Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2 BRIDGE Three songs with viola; There is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook (arr. Britten) BRAHMS 2 Songs with viola Op. 91 The Croation coloratura mezzo Renata Pokupic´ made her Covent Garden debut in the recent production of Handel’s Tamerlano and works regularly with period-specialist conductors like Paul McCreesh and John Eliot Gardiner. But for this recital in Roger Vignoles’s ‘Perspectives’ series, she shifts to 19th-century romanticism for some of the 250 (largely forgotten) songs of Robert Franz, and on to 20th-century proto-modernism for songs with viola by Frank Bridge. £12 concs £10
FLORIAN BOESCH
Wiener Konzerthaus/Lukas Beck
Monday 18 June 1.00 pm
FLORIAN BOESCH baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano Songs by SCHUBERT SCHUMANN Dichterliebe Op. 48
Song Recital Series/Roger Vignoles: ‘Perspectives’
Among the rising generation of new Lieder singers of distinction, baritone Florian Boesch enjoys a special place. With a career initially established in the opera houses of his native Austria, he’s now an audience favourite at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade and at international festivals like Edinburgh and Salzburg. A recent Winterreise in New York was much acclaimed. £12 concs £10
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Monday 18 June 6.00 pm
PRE-CONCERT EVENT RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTIST RECITAL The Razumovsky Academy in North London provides an environment where exceptionally gifted young musicians work with some of the world’s finest artists and teachers. This concert showcases a selection of them and gives the chance to hear budding stars of the future at an early stage in their performing lives. £6 (not part of subscription scheme) or free with evening concert (separate ticket required) RENATA POKUPIC´
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Chris Gloag
Chamber Music Season
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Tuesday 19 June 7.30 pm
MIAH PERSSON soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano GLINKA The poor singer; I remember that wonderful moment; The lark; 3 Italian songs TCHAIKOVSKY At the ball; Spring; The nightingale; Cradle song; If only I had known NYSTROEM From The Tempest: Come unto these yellow sands; Where the bee sucks; From Sinfonia del Mare: Det Ende LARSSON Serenad; Bortom berg och mörka vatten; För vilsna fötter sjunger gräset; Skyn, blomman och en lärka; Kyssande vind GRIEG En svane; Mens jeg venter; Til Én; Et Håb An outstanding Anne Trulove at Glyndebourne in 2010, the versatile soprano Miah Persson has built a major international career on repertoire that spans from Monteverdi to Stravinsky and beyond. For this recital as part of Roger Vignoles’s ‘Perspectives’ series, she looks north – to Russia and the music of her Scandinavian homeland, featuring songs by two eclectic 20th-century Swedish masters alongside more familiar works by Grieg. £15 £20 £25 £30 Supported by the Benefactor Friends of Wigmore Hall
Song Recital Series/ Roger Vignoles: ‘Perspectives’
MIAH PERSSON
Mina artistbilder
Wednesday 20 June 7.30 pm
MARTIN ROSCOE piano Monday 18 June 7.30 pm
RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE OLEG KOGAN director ˘ ÁK String Sextet in A Op. 48 DVOR BRAHMS String Quintet in G Op. 111
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’; Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110; Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’
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‘I can think of no better way to celebrate my 60th Birthday than with a programme of Beethoven sonatas at Wigmore Hall. These timeless masterpieces have always been at the centre my musical life and it is most fascinating how one’s view of them has changed and developed over the years.’ Martin Roscoe
Chamber Music Season
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The acclaimed Razumovsky Ensemble presents this attractive programme of Romantic chamber compositions, offering great colouristic possibilities and powerful sonorities. ‘… a vividly communicated relish for playing chamber music at such a high level of accomplishment.’ The Guardian
London Pianoforte Series
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Friday 22 June 7.30 pm
EVELYN GLENNIE percussion PHILIP SMITH piano MAYUZUMI Concertino for xylophone and piano EVELYN GLENNIE Waterphone improvisation CHRISTOS HATZIS Eternity’s heartbeat GLENNIE/SHEPPARD Orologeria Aureola JOHN PSATHAS Drum Dances VIVALDI/GLENNIE Concerto in C for piccolo recorder PHILIP SHEPPARD New Work SEAN BEESON Prometheus Rapture PIAZZOLLA/GLENNIE Libertango NEBOJSA ZIVKOVIC Quasi una sonata
Thursday 21 June 7.30 pm
Famous for hitting anything that neither moves nor flinches, Evelyn Glennie does so with a flair, invention and imagination that has made her without doubt the world’s most celebrated percussionist. She creates new instruments, with a whole body of new repertoire for them to play. Here, collaborating with the pianist Philip Smith, she reconfigures old, established works for new, exploratory sound-worlds.
ANDREAS STAIER fortepiano
£15 £20 £25 £30
EVELYN GLENNIE
Jim Callaghan
A Selection of Diabelli Variations from the Vaterländischer Künstlerverein BEETHOVEN 6 Bagatelles Op. 126; 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120
Chamber Music Season
For several years, Andreas Staier was the harpsichordist with Musica Antiqua Köln and is now one of the most charismatic and convincing champions of period keyboard instruments around. Here he gives some context to a famous work by Beethoven, providing examples from some of the other composers Diabelli invited to submit variations on his Viennese waltz theme.
Friday 22 June 10.00 pm
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London Pianoforte Series
TIME AT THE BAR A LATE NIGHT CONCERT WITH IGNITE Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble, IGNITE, specialises in taking chamber music beyond the concert hall; and where better to take it than the intimate and informal setting of the Wigmore Hall Restaurant? Relax and enjoy a drink while listening to new music by both young and established composers, sprinkled with dazzling improvisation. A must for jazz and contemporary music enthusiasts, as well as anyone wanting to see chamber music performed outside the box. Admission Free
Late Night Series/Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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Knight and Dame
Saturday 23 June 7.30 pm
DAME FELICITY LOTT soprano SIR THOMAS ALLEN baritone EUGENE ASTI piano PURCELL Let us wander, not unseen; Lost is my quiet forever; Sound the trumpet HEAD The Estuary TRADITIONAL Ma bonny lad IRELAND Sea Fever ELGAR Shepherd’s Song GURNEY Sleep G BUSH It was a lover and his lass SCHUMANN Tanzlied; Er und Sie; Ich bin dein Baum; So wahr die Sonne scheinet SAINT-SAËNS Pastorale FAURÉ Pleurs d’or MESSAGER De-ci, de-là from Véronique SAINT-SAËNS Cherry Tree Farm HAHN The swing from Five Little Songs POULENC Fancy COATES Bird songs at eventide KERN All the Things You Are, from Very Warm for May; The Folks Who Live on the Hill LERNER & LOEWE Heather on the Hill from Brigadoon RODGERS & HART Bewitched, bothered and bewildered WEILL September Song RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN People will say we’re in love from Oklahoma The title says it all: the knight and dame here are two much-loved international artists who have enjoyed extraordinary careers, and can now look back on their lifetimes of achievement with a smile. Sir Thomas Allen always says that he believes in entertainment, and this shared stage will be entertainment from start to finish (though, as you’d expect, of an exalted kind). From Purcell and Saint-Saëns to Weill and assorted musicals, it covers much ground. As knights and dames should always be attended by a squire, their entourage will be accompanied by Eugene Asti with whatever fanfares are required. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)
Song Recital Series/Knight and Dame
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Photo of Dame Felicity Lott by Trevor Leighton
Tuesday 26 June 7.30 pm
AILISH TYNAN soprano CHRISTOPHER GLYNN piano UNE RARE ÉMOTION – THE SONGS OF MAURICE RAVEL AND HIS CIRCLE
TRIO WANDERER
Marco Borggreve
Sunday 24 June 11.30 am
TRIO WANDERER BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’; Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2 With a name that pays homage to the German Romantic idea of the lonely traveller, Trio Wanderer is based in France but is constantly on the road, in terms of repertoire as well as touring dates. The Trio’s main recording projects for 2012 include music by composer Bruno Mantovani and the complete Beethoven piano trios, two of which are performed in this concert.
RAVEL Chanson du rouet; From Chants populaires: Chanson française; Chanson italienne; Chanson écossaise; Chanson espagnole; Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera FALLA From 7 canciones populares españolas: El paño moruno; Asturiana; Jota; Canción STRAVINSKY Three Little Songs (Recollections of my Childhood) RAVEL Ballade de la reine morte d’aimer; Rêves; Noël des jouets DEBUSSY Apparition RAVEL Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé STRAUSS Nichts; Ständchen; Die Nacht; Morgen GERSHWIN The Man I Love; Nice Work If You Can Get It; Summertime RAVEL Sur l’herbe MARCHETTI Fascination Ailish Tynan, acclaimed for her performances in opera and recital, sings Ravel’s inspired folksong arrangements alongside some masterful and atmospheric songs of his late period. She also sings music by composers that Ravel especially admired – Falla, Stravinsky, Strauss and Gershwin. £15 £20 £25 £30
Song Recital Series/Ravel 75th Anniversary
£12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Monday 25 June 1.00 pm
TRIO WANDERER BEETHOVEN Variations in E b on an Original Theme Op. 44; Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ For the second of their Wigmore programmes, Trio Wanderer takes on the greatest and grandest of the Beethoven piano trios – qualities that suit its dedication to an Emperor’s son who happened also to be a fine pianist and one of the composer’s chief benefactors. Not for nothing did Archduke Rudolph receive more Beethovenian dedications than any other individual. £12 concs £10
AILISH TYNAN
Sussie Ahlburg
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
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ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC AND CHOIR OF THE AAM
Marco Borggreve
Wednesday 27 June 6.30 pm
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Thursday 28 June 7.30 pm
AAM Music Director RICHARD EGARR introduces the evening’s performance.
FERRIER CENTENARY CONCERT SARAH-JANE BRANDON soprano ANNA STÉPHANY mezzo-soprano BEN JOHNSON tenor JONATHAN McGOVERN baritone JAMES BAILLIEU piano JOHN REID piano
Free (separate ticket required)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Wednesday 27 June 7.30 pm
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC CHOIR OF THE AAM RICHARD EGARR director, keyboards MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS: AGE OF THE FRENCH BAROQUE LULLY De profundis CHARPENTIER Sonate à huit LULLY Regina coeli laetare; Salve regina MARAIS Suite from Sonatas pour le Coucher du Roy LULLY Dies irae The AAM closes its season by visiting the court of the ‘Sun King’, Louis XIV, whose patronage and love of the arts ushered in a golden age in French music. Lully’s innovative and bold works for the church are complemented by instrumental pieces of huge ingenuity by his contemporaries Charpentier and Marais. £18 £24 £28 £32
Early Music and Baroque Series
KATHLEEN FERRIER AND HER MUSICAL WORLD Songs by SCHUBERT, BRAHMS, MAHLER, BRUNO WALTER and the English composers – BRITTEN, LENNOX BERKELEY, ARTHUR BLISS among others – who wrote for her. A programme devised by Graham Johnson and performed by Ferrier Prizewinners. 2012 marks the centenary of the birth of one of Britain’s best loved contraltos, Kathleen Ferrier, who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the works of the great classical composers. Her centenary is being celebrated in special concerts around the UK and in two evenings at Wigmore Hall. The first concert features recent competition winners, and the second in September will be a recital by the ever popular Alice Coote, performing Kathleen’s repertoire and accompanied by Graham Johnson. £12 £18 £22 £25
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Friday 29 June 7.30 pm
Saturday 30 June 11.00 am – 12.00 noon
SUSAN GRAHAM mezzo-soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano
THE CHIMPANZEES OF HAPPYTOWN
PURCELL Tell me, some pitying angel (The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation); Bess of Bedlam BERLIOZ La mort d’Ophélie SCHUBERT Heiß mich nicht reden SCHUMANN So laßt mich scheinen LISZT Mignons Lied (Kennst du das Land) TCHAIKOVSKY None but the lonely heart DUPARC Romance de Mignon WOLF Heiß mich nicht reden HOROVITZ Lady Macbeth – a Scena POULENC Fiançailles pour rire Songs by COWARD, SONDHEIM and PORTER
FAMILY CONCERT
Onstage – as Handel’s Xerxes, Strauss’s Octavian or the Composer in Ariadne – Susan Graham is rarely seen in anything but trousers. The recital platform, though, returns this dazzling American mezzo to her proper gender. Here she celebrates a broad variety of womanhood, from Mignon to the Virgin Mary, and includes a glimpse of Lady Macbeth by composer Joseph Horovitz that she’s been championing in her current programmes. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)
For age 3 plus ‘Chimpanzees, this town is dead. These streets are all the same. Let’s celebrate our differences. Let’s make it fun again!’ ENSEMBLE 360 and POLLY IVES are back! This imaginative and inspirational piece composed by PAUL RISSMANN is based on the magical children’s book The Chimpanzees of Happytown by Giles Andreae, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees and published by Orchard Books. Featuring projected images from the book and lots of audience participation, this is a musical treat for young children. Adult £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme) Ensemble 360 is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, Grants for the Arts, Garrick Charitable Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation and the Foyle Foundation. The Wigmore Hall family programme is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Andor Charitable Trust and The Monument Trust.
Song Recital Series
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Saturday 30 June 7.30 pm
SOLOISTS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA RUSTEM HAYROUDINOFF piano BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101 SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 This programme presents Brahms’s dramatic and sonorous trio, Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet – a work full of the joy of music-making – and Shostakovich’s Quintet, which moves from the intensity of its opening Prelude and Fugue, by way of a brittle Scherzo and a passionate Intermezzo, to a more relaxed Finale. £12 £16 £22 £26
Chamber Music Season
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LEIPZIG STRING QUARTET
Sunday 1 July 11.30 am
LEIPZIG STRING QUARTET MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 ‘If there is a Leipzig sound, this is it!’ declared the New York Times of this acclaimed quartet, three of whose members are former First Chairs of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Here they bring mid-period Mendelssohn written at the height of his success as Director of the Gewandhaus, paired with Beethoven’s Op. 132, the second in his triptych composed for Prince Galitzin. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Coffee Concert
Monday 2 July 1.00 pm
FRANÇOIS-FRÉDÉRIC GUY piano JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET piano
Monday 2 July 7.30 pm
BERTRAND CHAMAYOU piano DEBUSSY Suite bergamasque; Ondine; La terasse des audiences du clair de lune; Feux d’artifice; L’isle joyeuse LISZT From Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année: Sposalizio; Il penseroso; Sonetto del Petrarca No. 104; Sonetto del Petrarca No. 123; Après une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi sonata Pianist Bertrand Chamayou has become a major name in his home country, playing with orchestras like that of Radio France and with chamber partners like Renaud and Gautier Capuçon. In 2011 he won a Victoire de la Musique as ‘Soloist of the Year’. A recent César Franck CD was Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine. £15 £20 £25 £30
London Pianoforte Series
DEBUSSY/BAVOUZET Jeux (for piano duo) STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring (for piano duo) Two French master-pianists playing two French masterpieces for the ballet, in keyboard arrangements. Debussy made his own transcription of Jeux for two hands, which Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has enlarged to give more sense of the original orchestral textures. It was with Debussy that Stravinsky first performed his own four-hand version of The Rite of Spring. £12 concs £10
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
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Richard Dumas/Naïve
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Wednesday 4 July 7.30 pm (Repeated on 6 July 7.30 pm)
JOYCE DIDONATO mezzo-soprano
DAVID ZOBEL piano VIVALDI From Ercole sul Termodonte: Onde chiare che sussrrate; Amato ben FAURÉ Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ ROSSINI La regata veneziana SCHUBERT Gondelfahrer SCHUMANN From Myrthen: Zwei Venetianische Lieder HEAD Three songs of Venice HAHN Venezia – Chansons en dialecte vénetien
A dazzling personality with a voice The Times called ‘nothing less than 24-carat gold’, Joyce DiDonato is the kind of singer who can’t help but light up whatever show she’s in, and has done so on most of the world’s main operatic stages, including most recently Covent Garden in Cendrillon, and La Scala, where she captivated audiences in both Rosenkavalier and La Donna del Lago. Named as Gramophone’s Artist of the Year in 2010, DiDonato, a committed recitalist, here celebrates her love of the baroque and 19th-century bel canto, but extends it outwards in a programme themed around another of her passions, Venice.
£18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2011–12 Wigmore Series
Song Recital Series
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Zefiro Torna Thursday 5 July 7.30 pm
LES TALENS LYRIQUES CHRISTOPHE ROUSSET harpsichord, organ, director
ANDERS J. DAHLIN tenor
EMILIANO GONZALEZ TORO tenor MONTEVERDI From Settimo libro de madrigal: Chiome d’oro; O come sei gentile CASTELLO Deuxième Sonate from Sonate concertate in stilo moderno MONTEVERDI From Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi, libro ottavo: O sia tranquillo il mare; Ardo e scoprir CASTELLO Instrumental Work MONTEVERDI Excerpts from Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria MONTEVERDI Mentre vaga angioletta from Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi, libro ottavo MONTEVERDI Zefiro torna from Madrigali e canzonette a due e tre voci MONTEVERDI Excerpts from L’incoronazione di Poppea Christophe Rousset was already well-established as a harpsichordist when, in 1991, he created Les Talens Lyriques – the Parisian period ensemble that specialises in unearthing treasures of the French baroque but carries its combination of brilliance, vigour and scholarship into other territories. Chief among them is Monteverdi, who dominates this programme with perhaps the most exquisite of all his madrigal-settings. Written for two tenors and continuo, Zefiro torna is a smilingly exuberant showpiece of baroque musicianship, designed to be a 17th-century smash-hit, as it remains today. £18 £25 £30 £35
Early Music and Baroque Series
Detail of Zephyros fom Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
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Friday 6 July 7.30 pm
JOYCE DIDONATO mezzo-soprano DAVID ZOBEL piano Repeat of concert on 4 July £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)
Song Recital Series
Saturday 7 July 6.00 pm
PRE-CONCERT TALK PROFESSOR STEPHEN WALSH on Stravinsky’s Cantata and the antique dimension £3 (not part of subscription scheme)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Saturday 7 July 7.30 pm
ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET director, harpsichord MONTEVERDI Tempro la cetra; Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Pur ti miro from L’incoronazione di Poppea GESUALDO 3 madrigals from Book 5 STRAVINSKY Cantata Ian Bostridge’s ‘Ancient & Modern’ series continues with the tenor joined by an illustrious Austrian mezzo-soprano no stranger to Wigmore Hall. Their ‘ancient’ repertoire includes one of Monteverdi’s greatest operatic duets (no less ravishing for the fact that it may actually have been written by someone else). The ‘modern’ has them share the solo roles in a 1950s revisitation of old English texts. £15 £25 £35 £40
Song Recital Series/Early Music and Baroque Series/ Ian Bostridge Project: ‘Ancient and Modern’
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ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER
Nikolaus Karlinsky
Sunday 8 July 11.30 am
AURORA ORCHESTRA KORNGOLD Suite for 2 violins, cello & piano (left hand) SCHOENBERG/WEBERN Kammersymphonie No. 1 Op. 9 One of the most interesting arrivals on the UK music scene in recent years has been the Aurora Orchestra, founded in 2005 by conductors Robin Ticciati and Nicholas Collon and bringing together some of Britain’s finest young instrumentalists for imaginatively planned programmes that think ‘outside the box’. For this concert they reduce down to a chamber ensemble, but with no reduction in dynamism, energy or spirit. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Coffee Concert
Richard Haughton
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Sunday 8 July 7.30 pm
LEOPOLD STRING TRIO STEVEN OSBORNE piano MOZART Duo in G K423 FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 SCHUBERT String Trio in Bb D471 FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15 The Borletti-Buitoni award-winning Leopold String Trio has performed on the Wigmore stage with such artists as Pascal Rogé and Paul Lewis. For this concert the trio joins forces with Steven Osborne for the stifled passion of the two great Fauré piano quartets: turbulent emotions prophylactically contained in salon style.
Marco Borggreve
Tuesday 10 July 7.30 pm
XAVIER DE MAISTRE harp
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FRANCISQUE Pavane et Bransles PESCETTI Sonata in C minor TÁRREGA Recuerdos de la Alhambra SALZEDO Chanson dans la Nuit FALLA Spanish Dance No. 1 PARISH ALVARS La Mandoline GRANADOS Valses Poéticos CAPLET Divertissement à la française; Divertissement à l’espagnole SMETANA The Moldau
Chamber Music Season
LEOPOLD STRING TRIO
XAVIER DE MAISTRE
Benjamin Ealovega
Few harpists have an international profile as distinguished, diverse or distinctive as that of Xavier de Maistre. Graduating through the ranks of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, his now flourishing solo career acknowledges no boundaries and takes in transcriptions of orchestral music that, in his hands, seem as full and rich as the original scoring. Hence the Smetana in this programme. £12 £18 £24 £28
Monday 9 July 1.00 pm
Chamber Music Season
PAVEL HAAS QUARTET JANÁC˘EK String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ SMETANA String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Former BBC New Generation Artists, the Czech-based Pavel Haas Quartet brings an undisputed authority to the music of its homeland. The ensemble’s recording of Janác˘ek’s ‘Intimate Letters’ won a Gramophone Award. A recent release of Dvor˘ák quartets was ranked by The Sunday Times ‘alongside the greatest performances on disc. In this repertoire, [the quartet] is simply matchless’. £12 concs £10
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert PAVEL HAAS QUARTET
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Marco Borggreve
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Wednesday 11 July 7.30 pm
THOMAS OLIEMANS baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano MAHLER Frühlingsmorgen; Hans und Grethe; Erinnerung; Scheiden und Meiden STRAUSS Nachtgang; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Befreit DUPARC Chanson triste; L’invitation au voyage; Extase; Le galop DEBUSSY Trois ballades de Villon MAHLER Five Rückert Lieder The five free-standing songs of Mahler’s Rückert Lieder crown this programme by a Dutch baritone who studied with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and has since gone on to operatic success with Figaros, Papagenos and Guglielmos on the world’s most spotlit stages. A recent recording of French mélodie with Malcolm Martineau confirmed his equal strengths as a recitalist.
SIMONE DINNERSTEIN
Lisa Marie Mazzucco
£15 £20 £25 £30
Friday 13 July 7.00 pm
Song Recital Series
SIMONE DINNERSTEIN piano BACH 15 Inventions BWV772–786; Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825 BACH/BUSONI Chorale Prelude in F minor ‘Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’ BWV639 BACH/KEMPFF Chorale Prelude ‘Nun freut euch, lieben Christen’ BWV734 BACH/HESS Chorale Prelude ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’ from Cantata BWV147 BACH Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826 Simone Dinnerstein has been praised by The Independent for the ‘magic originality of her vision.’ Three of her albums have topped the US charts. She returns to Wigmore Hall with an all-Bach programme including selections from her newest Sony album. £15 £20 £25 £30
THOMAS OLIEMANS
Marco Borggreve
London Pianoforte Series
Thursday 12 July 7.30 pm
WIHAN QUARTET WOLF Italian Serenade in G MOZART String Quartet in G K387 ˘ ÁK String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106 DVOR Heir to the great musical tradition of middle Europe, the Czech Wihan Quartet has nonetheless been a regular and cherished feature of musical life in Britain since winning the London International String Quartet Competition in 1991. Master of its home repertoire, the quartet’s disc of Dvor˘ák’s Op. 106 was considered by a BBC Music Magazine reviewer ‘the best recorded performance I’ve encountered’. £12 £18 £24 £28
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Sussie Ahlburg
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Saturday 14 July 4.00 pm
WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone SONIA WIEDER-ATHERTON cello LORI LAITMAN Todesfuge (UK première)* BACH Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008 SCHUBERT/KRAWCZYK Gesänge des Harfners: Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; An die Türen will ich schleichen; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß TORSTEN RASCH Lieder on poems by W.B. Yeats *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Wolfgang Holzmair
Solo voice with solo cello isn’t the most common pairing in recital programmes, but Sonia WiederAtherton is an artist who likes to stretch possibilities, and Wolfgang Holzmair knows how to captivate in any context. Some of the familiar music here will be played in adaptations, but Lori Laitman’s Todesfuge was written specially for baritone and cello. £12 concs £10
Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Series
I FAGIOLINI
Eric Richmond
Friday 13 July 10.00 pm
I FAGIOLINI ROBERT HOLLINGWORTH director VOCAL EXTREMES MONTEVERDI Madrigals from The Full Monteverdi Motets on the death of Prince Henry by TOMKINS, CRANFORD and RAMSEY POULENC Sept Chansons BERBERIAN Stripsody RODERICK WILLIAMS Damnalot (Faust the musical)
SONIA WIEDER- ATHERTON
JB Mondino
Resisting all reasonable description, I Fagiolini is an ensemble which acknowledges Monteverdi and Monty Python as equal influences and on that basis has built a reputation for events (as they always are) combining exemplary musicianship with off-the-wall ideas. The ensemble’s Gramophone Award winning disc of Striggio’s monumental 40-part Mass shot to the top of the classical charts and stayed there for four months. As for Damnalot, expect a monument to comic erudition. £12 concs £10
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WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR
Ernest W Gruber
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Sunday 15 July 11.30 am
ENDYMION BRAHMS Clarinet Trio in A minor Op. 114 BRAHMS Horn Trio in E b Op. 40 A leading exponent of new music, with over 100 premières to its name, the ensemble Endymion has a comparable love for Viennese classics and has chosen here two examples of Brahms working with non-standard instrumental combinations: the pastoral Trio for horn, violin and piano and its darkly poetic counterpart for clarinet, cello and piano. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Coffee Concert
Monday 16 July 7.30 pm
STEPHEN KOVACEVICH piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata in C minor Op. 10 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B b D960
JULIANE BANSE
Susi Knoll
Saturday 14 July 7.30 pm
JULIANE BANSE soprano ALEKSANDAR MADZ˘ AR piano
Revered as one of the true master-musicians of our time, Stephen Kovacevich has been playing at Wigmore Hall for more than 50 years, and in 2010 he celebrated his 70th birthday here in a concert with Martha Argerich and the Belcea Quartet that was a highlight of the season. Almost certainly this Beethoven and Schubert programme, which presents him in his homeground repertoire, will prove the same. £15 £20 £25 £30
London Pianoforte Series
BRAHMS Bei dir sind meine Gedanken; An die Nachtigall; Die Mainacht; Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer; Auf dem Kirchhofe SCHUMANN Liederkreis Op. 39 FAURÉ Mandoline; Les roses d’Ispahan; Fleur jetée; Ici-bas!; Green; Notre amour STRAUSS Junghexenlied; Freundliche Vision; Die Nacht; Allerseelen; Ruhe, meine Seele; Zueignung; Cäcilie Juliane Banse has been a star since she made her operatic debut, aged 20, as Pamina in a Harry Kupfer staging of Die Zauberflöte in Berlin. Now a distinguished Arabella, Fiordiligi, Eva and Agathe, she also has a regular recital partnership with Aleksandar Madz˘ar who joins her for this mélodie and Lieder programme. £15 £20 £25 £30
Song Recital Series STEPHEN KOVACEVICH
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David Thompson/EMI
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˘ kampa Quartet S
Jakub Ludvík
Wednesday 18 July 7.30 pm
˘KAMPA QUARTET S SUK Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale (St Wenceslas) Op. 35a ˘ ÁK String Quartet in D minor Op. 34 DVOR SMETANA String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Another of the leading Czech chamber groups of our time – with a link through its mentors, the Smetana Quartet, back to the heart of Central ˘kampa renews its long European tradition – the S relationship with Wigmore Hall in a programme that features Smetana’s unusual example of autobiography in chamber music. A piece that tells the story of his life, and graphically depicts the tinnitus that came to plague it. £15 £20 £25 £30
Chamber Music Season/Dvor˘ák Plus Series CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN
Rosa-Frank.com
Tuesday 17 July 7.30 pm
CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano SCHUBERT Tiefes Leid (Im Jänner 1817); An mein Herz; Um Mitternacht; Über Wildemann; Im Frühling; Auf der Brücke SCHUMANN Lied eines Schmiedes; Meine Rose; Kommen und Scheiden; Die Sennin; Einsamkeit; Der schwere Abend; Requiem SCHUMANN Dichterliebe Christoph Prégardien sings everything from baroque to modern music, but at the heart of his repertoire lie Schubert and Schumann. His 2009 recording of Die schöne Müllerin won Record of the Year at MIDEM. He concludes this programme of the two composers with the great Schumann cycle whose ending mirrors Die schöne Müllerin, the poet drowning his emotions in the sea. £15 £20 £25 £30
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JULIUS DRAKE
Marco Borggreve
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Christiane Karg D E B U T Thursday 19 July 7.30 pm
CHRISTIANE KARG soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano STRAUSS Die erwachte Rose; Rote Rosen; Mädchenblumen FAURÉ Le papillon et la fleur; Nell; Les roses d’Ispahan; La rose DEBUSSY From Ariettes oubliées: Green; Spleen POULENC Fleurs from Fiançailles pour rire STRAUSS Die Nacht; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Weisser Jasmin WOLF Verschwiegene Liebe; Die Nacht; Unfall; Nachtzauber BERG Sieben frühe Lieder The young Bavarian soprano Christiane Karg made a prodigious debut at the 2006 Salzburg Festival, joined the Frankfurt Opera company, and soon found herself with an international career. In 2009 she was declared Young Singer of the Year by Opernwelt magazine. In 2010 her first Lieder CD won an Echo Klassik award. She’s now busily singing the lighter lyric repertoire – Susanna, Musetta, Pamina, Zerlina – in leading opera houses. For this recital she’s organised a thematically linked programme: botanical in the first half, nocturnal in the second, and finishing with more of the night in Berg’s Seven Early Songs. £15 £20 £25 £30 Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle
WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
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Saturday 21 July
IMS PRUSSIA COVE 40TH ANNIVERSARY Please see page opposite
Sunday 22 July 11.30 am
ARTIS QUARTET OF VIENNA HAYDN String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 SCHUBERT String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Whatever the pros and cons of playing standing up, the Artis Quartet – who abandoned chairs almost ten years ago – is living proof that it can meaningfully as well as literally keep the music on its toes. Expect high-energy performances in this emotionally charged Sturm und Drang quartet of Haydn and in Schubert’s darkly self-absorbed D810. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Coffee Concert
GABRIELA MONTERO
Colin Bell
Friday 20 July 10.00 pm
GABRIELA MONTERO piano CHOPIN Ballades Nos. 1, 3 & 4 LECUONA La comparsa, Cordoba, Gitanerias, Malagueña Improvisations around themes provided by the audience An inspirational pianist with an unconventional approach to what she does, Gabriela Montero emerged through the Venezuelan ‘Sistema’ and made her concert debut with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra. After studies in the USA, a wide-ranging career began. She’s particularly known for public improvisation on themes provided by her audience – as practised by the virtuosi of the past, although these days a rare accomplishment. £12 concs £10
Late Night Series ARTIS QUARTET OF VIENNA
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Lukas Beck
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Saturday 21 July
IMS PRUSSIA COVE 40TH ANNIVERSARY Founded by the great Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh, the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove has become a world-renowned haven of musical idealism located on the wild Cornish coast. The 40th anniversary celebrations will feature public masterclasses, talks and two unmissable concerts, offering a musical taster from the seminars.
HANNAH DAWSON violin KATHARINE GOWERS violin ANDREA HALLAM violin PEKKA KUUSISTO violin GABRIELLE LESTER violin THOMAS RIEBL viola JENNIFER STUMM viola STEVEN ISSERLIS cello BARTHOLOMEW LAFOLLETTE cello CHRISTIAN ELLIOTT cello CHRISTOPH RICHTER cello DAVID WATERMAN cello ALASDAIR BEATSON piano MATTHEW HUNT clarinet
SÁNDOR VÉGH IMS Prussia Cove Founder
4.15 pm – 5.15 pm
PIANO MASTERCLASS With ANDRÁS SCHIFF 5.15 pm – 6.15 pm
STRING QUARTET MASTERCLASS With DAVID WATERMAN £7 concs £4 (for both sessions) (not part of subscription scheme)
11.30 am – 12.30 pm
6.30 pm
CELLO MASTERCLASS With STEVEN ISSERLIS
PRE-CONCERT TALK Free (ticket required)
£5 concs £3 (not part of subscription scheme)
7.30 pm 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
CONCERT
CONCERT
BARTÓK Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44
CHRISTIAN ELLIOTT String Sextet MENDELSSOHN Octet in E b Op. 20 To mark its 40th anniversary, IMS Prussia Cove has commissioned a new string sextet by young composer Christian Elliott, a regular participant at the Open Chamber Music seminar. Mendelssohn’s exuberant Octet in E flat Op. 20 completes the programme. £12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme)
With programmes put together by Artistic Director Steven Isserlis, both the lunchtime and evening concerts will feature musicians who have come to IMS Prussia Cove over the years. The evening concert will include Pekka Kuusisto, Matthew Hunt and Alasdair Beatson performing Bartók’s Contrasts, and Steven Isserlis playing in Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)
3.00 pm – 4.00 pm
STUDY EVENT A panel discussion will explore topics around the work of IMS Prussia Cove and its significance for classical music training. Free (ticket required)
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All Day Ticket: £45 This covers all events in the auditorium. Tickets for the 3.00 pm Study Event and the 6.30 pm Pre-Concert Talk in the Bechstein Room to be obtained separately.
Chamber Music Season
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Wednesday 25 July 7.30 pm
CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN mezzo-soprano MARK PADMORE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano THE HUGO WOLF SONGBOOKS
CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN
Marco Borggreve
Monday 23 July 7.30 pm
KIT ARMSTRONG piano BACH 3 Preludes and Fugues from The Well-tempered Clavier Book I: in B b minor BWV867; in B BWV868; in B minor BWV869 BEETHOVEN Rondo in G Op. 51 No. 2; Bagatelle ‘Für Elise’; Rondo a Capriccio ‘Rage over a lost penny’ KIT ARMSTRONG Miniatures SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus D899 Kit Armstrong is a true phenomenon: a 19 year-old polymath musician who came to prominence as Alfred Brendel’s protégé and is now launched on the international circuit. A composer, mathematician and origami expert as well as a pianist of emerging genius, he’s played with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the LPO, and at Verbier – each appearance marked by a Brendelian combination of intelligence and mischief that commend him as a personality. £15 £20 £25 £30
WOLF Mörike: Gesang Weylas; Der Schäfer; An den Schlaf; Die Geister am Mummelsee; Der Tambour; Auftrag; Peregrina I & II; Auf eine Christblume I & II; Um Mitternacht WOLF Goethe: Phänomen; Erschaffen und Beleben; So lang man nüchtern ist; Was in der Schenke waren heute; Ob der Koran von Ewigkeit; Trunken müssen wir allen sein!; Sie haben wegen der Trunkenheit; Nicht Gelegenheit macht Diebe; Hochbeglückt in deiner Liebe; Erschaffen und Beleben; Als ich auf dem Euphrat schiffte; Dies zu deuten, bin erbötig; Hätt ich irgend wohl Bedenken; Komm, Liebchen, komm!; Wie sollt ich heiter bleiben; Wenn ich dein gedenke; Locken, haltet mich gefangen; Nimmer will ich dich verlieren Two singers known for the intense dramatic power they bring to the recital platform, Mark Padmore and Christianne Stotijn are established collaborators who appeared together with Julius Drake earlier this season at Wigmore Hall in a programme of Janác˘ek and Schumann. Now they turn their attention to Hugo Wolf, with a selection of his Mörike and Goethe settings. £15 £20 £25 £30
Song Recital Series Forthcoming concerts in the series: Sunday 6 January 2013 7.30 pm
ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER
London Pianoforte Series
mezzo-soprano
DIETRICH HENSCHEL baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano Friday 15 February 2013 7.30 pm
SOPHIE DANEMAN soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano
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Künstlersekretariat Schoerke GmbH
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THE PRINCE CONSORT
Richard Ecclestone
Friday 27 July 10.00 pm
THE PRINCE CONSORT SCHUBERT Der Hirt auf dem Felsen; Der Tod und das Mädchen; Die junge Nonne; Die Forelle; Ganymed; Heidenröslein; Fischerweise; An die Musik; An Silvia; Du bist die Ruh; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Der Zwerg; Im Frühling; Nacht und Träume; Erlkönig
NOBUKO IMAI
The Prince Consort is an ensemble of outstanding young voices all now with flourishing solo careers but originally students together at the Royal College of Music (in Prince Consort Road: hence the name). The Consort’s repertoire is wide and includes part-songs by pianist and composer Stephen Hough, recently released on CD. Here, though, they sing individual songs by Schubert with the pianist who founded the ensemble, Alisdair Hogarth. £12 concs £10
Thursday 26 July 7.30 pm
Late Night Series
NOBUKO IMAI viola YUKO INOUE viola FRANÇOIS KILLIAN piano BAX Sonata for viola and piano BRITTEN Cello Suite No. 1 Op. 72 (arranged for viola by Nobuko Imai) BRIDGE Lament for two violas PROKOFIEV/BORISOVSKY 7 Pieces from the ballet Romeo and Juliet An intriguing programme from an unusual platform line-up: two violas with piano. Largely British 20th-century repertoire, the Bridge was written for himself to perform here at Wigmore Hall with Lionel Tertis, while the Britten was originally composed for Rostropovich – although here it comes in an arrangement by Nobuko Imai that will show the music in a very different light. £15 £20 £25 £30 Supported by the Tertis Foundation
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David Thompson/EMI
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Sunday 29 July 11.30 am
CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in B b Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Having studied with members of the Amadeus, Alban Berg and Chilingirian Quartets, the Anglo-Irish Carducci players have impeccable pedigrees – which are applied here to two chamber music favourites: the monumental, muscular first Razumovsky, and a Haydn masterpiece to whose evolutionary opening movement the Razumovsky owes a clear debt. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Coffee Concert XUEFEI YANG
Neil Muir
Saturday 28 July 6.00 pm
PRE-CONCERT TALK Pre-concert talk on Orientalism with the potter and writer EDMUND DE WAAL £3 (not part of subscription scheme)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Final Evening Concert of the 2011–12 Season
CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET
Andy Holdsworth Photography
Saturday 28 July 7.30 pm
IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano XUEFEI YANG guitar BRITTEN Songs from the Chinese HENZE Three Auden Songs OLIVER KNUSSEN Auden Haiku (world première)* HENZE 6 Songs from the Arabian *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant making foundation.
The concluding concert in Ian Bostridge’s ‘Ancient & Modern’ series, this one settles in modernity with related works by Britten, his friend and contemporary Henze, and his Aldeburgh heir Oliver Knussen. Endorsing the geographical drift of the programme, Xuefei Yang was the first guitarist to launch an international career out of China and now enjoys a high profile in both East and West. £18 £25 £30 £35
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IAN BOSTRIDGE
Simon Fowler/EMI
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EVENTS FOR FAMILIES, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS All events listed on pages 71 – 73 will open for booking on 31 January. The events on 9, 23 and 30 June are open for priority booking alongside the other concerts in the April – July Wigmore Series. Family Events are supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Andor Charitable Trust and The Monument Trust Friday 8 June 11.00 am – 12.00 noon
MR BIG PLAYS JAZZ: NEIL COWLEY TRIO KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
Known for his English wit and mischievous humour, NEIL COWLEY brings his unique brand of contemporary jazz to Ed Vere’s story of Mr Big, published by Puffin Books. Sensitively and humorously tackling the subject of inclusion, and supported by a resource pack with ideas for tackling bullying in school, this concert provides the opportunity for children to take part in the creation of a jazz soundtrack to the story.
Saturday 12 May 10.30 am – 3.30 pm
Tickets £2.50 (not part of subscription scheme)
DICKENS DISCOVERY
Supported by John Lyon’s Charity, The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust and The Monument Trust
FAMILY DAY For age 5 plus To celebrate the bicentenary of Dickens’s birth, explore the musical landscape of Victorian London, discover some of Dickens’s iconic characters and devise your own theme music for them. Finish with a performance of your new pieces on the Wigmore Hall stage. Adults £12 Children £8 (not part of subscription scheme)
Saturday 19 May 11.00 am – 4.00 pm
RNIB FAMILY DAY: A KNIGHT’S QUEST For blind and partially sighted children aged 6–12 years and their families Discover the stories hidden in the Wallace Collection and create your own medieval Knight’s Quest. This family day will be jam-packed with activities including armour handling, lyric writing and composing your own music, which you will perform on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day. For more information please contact James Risdon, RNIB Music Officer, on 020 7391 2273 or james.risdon@rnib.org.uk Free (ticket required)
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Saturday 30 June 11.00 am – 12.00 noon
THE CHIMPANZEES OF HAPPYTOWN FAMILY CONCERT For age 3 plus ‘Chimpanzees, this town is dead. These streets are all the same. Let’s celebrate our differences. Let’s make it fun again!’ ENSEMBLE 360 and POLLY IVES are back! This imaginative and inspirational piece composed by PAUL RISSMANN is based on the magical children’s book The Chimpanzees of Happytown by Giles Andreae, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees and published by Orchard Books. Featuring projected images from the book and lots of audience participation, this is a musical treat for young children. Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme) Ensemble 360 is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, Grants for the Arts, Garrick Charitable Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation and the Foyle Foundation Cover Image from The Chimpanzees of Happytown by Giles Andreae, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees and published by Orchard Books.
Saturday 9 June 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm
MR BIG PLAYS JAZZ: NEIL COWLEY TRIO FAMILY CONCERT For age 5 plus A repeat of the 8 June concert, for families. Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme)
Saturday 23 June 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
COME AND SING: SCHUBERT ISABELLE ADAMS leads a day of singing workshops for adults inspired by Schubert song. Learn some new songs, join in with fun vocal warm-ups and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. Open to everyone – no experience required! All activities will be inclusive and music will be taught by ear. £18 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme) Linked to Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis’s concert on 14 June – concert tickets to be purchased separately. www.benjaminharte.co.uk
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Friday 6 July 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
SONGSPACE Join the audience as young people from schools in Westminster, Camden and Waltham Forest come together to celebrate the culmination of the Wigmore Hall Learning song writing project Songspace. Supported by composer JOHN BARBER and singer ZOE PALMER, students will perform newly written songs alongside soprano SOPHIE DANEMAN in this concert inspired by French song. Free (ticket required) Supported by John Lyon’s Charity, The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust and The Monument Trust
Tuesday 7 to Friday 10 August 2012 10.30 am – 3.30 pm
MUSICAL PORTRAITS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS Be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, experience the acoustic of Wigmore Hall and create a brand new piece with professional musicians from IGNITE. Finish with a performance at the National Portrait Gallery at the end of this 4-day course. For more information, contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or ruth@turtlekeyarts.org.uk Free, application required
Tuesday 24 July 1.30 pm – 2.30 pm
BEAUTIFUL SOUNDS COMMUNITY CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCE Beautiful Sounds is a Wigmore Hall Learning community project inspired by the Olympics. The project brings together Wigmore Hall’s commitment to exceptional music making in the community with the Cultural Olympiad’s aim of inspiring creativity across cultures. IGNITE, Wigmore Hall Learning’s outreach ensemble, has worked with local community partners to develop a new piece of chamber music, to be premièred in this concert. The piece draws on different musical traditions including Western and Indian classical music.
Supported by Arts Council England, Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts
Free (ticket required) Supported by Arts Council England, Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust
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Booking Information
BOOKING DATES BOOKING PERIOD 3 Sunday 1 April – Sunday 29 July 2012 Friends Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by 6 January Mailing List Benjamin Ealovega
Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by 20 January
WIGMORE HALL BOX OFFICE
General Public
36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
By telephone/online from 31 January
Tel: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
SUBSCRIPTION BOOKINGS
Email: (not for bookings) boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk
WIGMORE SERIES SUBSCRIPTIONS
TICKETS
(excludes Coffee Concerts, BBC Lunchtime Concerts and other events where stated)
Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into four price ranges
Subscription I: Book 10 – 11 concerts at a 5% discount Subscription II: Book 12 or more concerts at a 10% discount
Stalls C – M: Highest price Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd price Stalls AA, T – X: Lowest price
BBC LUNCHTIME CONCERT SUBSCRIPTIONS Book 10 or more concerts at a 5% discount Book all concerts in any one booking period at a 10% discount
A-D BALCONY
T-X
COFFEE CONCERT SUBSCRIPTIONS
Q -S
Book 10 or more concerts at a 5% discount Book all concerts in any one booking period at a 10% discount
N-P STA LLS C-M
To qualify for a subscription, the same number of tickets need to be booked for each event. Any tickets bought in addition to a subscription series must be paid for at the full rate.
A -B CC BB AA
CC BB
PL ATFO R M
AA
Discounts cannot be combined.
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BOOKING INFORMATION 1 April – 29 July 2012
BOX OFFICE HOURS
CAR PARKING
7 days a week: 10.00am–8.30 pm. Days without an evening concert 10.00am–5.00pm. No advance booking during the half-hour prior to performance.
There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm (Mon – Sat) and Sunday before 1 pm and after 6 pm. Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a five minute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their parking. Please contact the Box Office for further details or visit our website.
TELEPHONE BOOKINGS 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00 pm. Days without an evening concert 10.00am–5.00pm. There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration charge for each transaction. This includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits.
FACILITIES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE Full details from 020 7258 8210
POSTAL BOOKINGS Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Hall with the amount left open but stating an upper limit, and add an administration charge of £2.00. Tickets will then be sent by post. ONLINE BOOKINGS Online booking is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There is a £1.00 administration charge online. You can select your own seat and make subscription bookings online. TICKETS FOR CONCESSIONS Where a concession (concs) ticket price is listed these are available to students, senior citizens and the unemployed. GROUP BOOKINGS Discounts of 10% are available for groups of 12 or more, subject to availability. RESTAURANT/BAR Wigmore Hall has its own restaurant and bars serving pre-concert and interval refreshments. Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or call 020 7258 8292 for further information. TRANSPORT Tubes: Bond Street (Central, Jubilee lines), Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines). Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford Street.
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This brochure is available in alternative formats. Please contact the Box Office if this would be of assistance to you. Telephone: 020 7935 2141 Email: boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary. Cover photos by Benjamin Ealovega Cover design by aka Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson
BOOKING INFORMATION 1 April – 29 July 2012
Supporting Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall’s size brings an unparalleled sense of intimacy to every performance and is loved by audiences and musicians alike. However, the limitation that this places on audience numbers means that ticket sales alone cannot meet all our costs. Additional support from individuals, companies and charitable foundations is vital in order to ensure that the world’s finest musicians, together with promising young performers, can continue to appear at Wigmore Hall. If you would like to support the Hall by becoming a Friend, or by sponsoring a concert or Learning event, please call 020 7258 8230 or email friends@wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information. The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert, learning and community programmes this season: HONORARY PATRONS Aubrey Adams Donald Kahn OBE Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan
DONORS AND SPONSORS Mr Eric Abraham and Miss Natasha Abraham* Neville Abraham CBE Aubrey Adams* † Tony and Marion Allen* American Friends of Wigmore Hall † The Andor Charitable Trust David and Jacqueline Ansell* Stephen Arthur Arts Council England Anthony Austin David and Margaret Beaton Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez Mrs Arline Blass The Blue Door Foundation Karl Otto Bonnier*† David and Mary Bowerman* Alan Bradley* Nicolas and Hilary Browne-Wilkinson* Rainer and Doreen Burchett* Gwen and Stanley Burnton* Clive Butler A bequest from the late Peter Canter † Capital International Limited (corporate matched giving) Charities Advisory Trust Eric Clause* Café de Colombia Cavatina Chamber Music Trust Clifford Chance LLP Edwin C Cohen* The John S Cohen Foundation Sonia and Harvey Cole Complete Coffee John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Anthony Davis* Pauline Del Mar J L Drewitt The Dunard Fund
The Ellerdale Trust Annette Ellis* The Elton Family The Equitable Charitable Trust Mrs Susan Feakin The Fidelio Charitable Trust † Peter and Sonia Field John and Amy Ford Foyle Foundation S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 Friends of Wigmore Hall Jonathan Gaisman* A bequest from the late Mrs Kate Goetz John and Lauren Goldsmith* The Gordon Foundation The Lucille Graham Trust Charles Green The Milton Grundy Foundation* Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* The Hargreaves and Ball Trust The Hobson Charity André and Rosalie Hoffmann Honeymead Arts Trust Gay Huey Evans* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Hutton Collins Partners LLP Hyde Park Place Estate Charity Simone Hyman* John Lyon’s Charity Marc Jourdren* Donald and Jeanne Kahn* Jerome Karet* David and Louise Kaye* A bequest from the late Peter King Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn* The Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Maryly La Follette* Su Lesser and Neil Kaplan* Lloyds TSB Private Banking Simon and Pamela Majaro Martin Randall Travel Ltd Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Milton Damerel Trust The Monument Trust Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Amyas and Louise Morse* Valerie O’Connor and Jeannette McIntosh
The Wigmore Hall Trust, registered charity number 1024838
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Lionel and Lynn Persey* The Piano Fund The Pidem Fund Dr Clive Potter* Oliver Prenn Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Rayne Foundation David B Rockwell* † Charles Rose* Rosenblatt Recitals Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, Hon. RCM* Ruth Rothbarth* N M Rothschild and Sons Limited The Rubinstein Circle The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Victoria Sharp* Lois Sieff OBE Martin and Elise Smith* Sound Connections Cita and Irwin Stelzer*† John Stephens OBE, Hon. FTCL* Joshua Swidler* The Tertis Foundation A bequest from the late Margaret Mary Tewkesbury Allen L Thomas and Jane Simpson* ’Scilla and Tony Thornton* † John and Ann Tusa* Marina Vaizey* Kathleen Verelst* Robin Vousden* Gerry Wakelin Marie-Luise Waldeck Michael and Rosemary Warburg David and Frances Waters* Michael Watson Anne and David Weizmann* Mrs Mary Weston Tony Wingate The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Philip and Emeline Winston The Wolfson Foundation Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Simon Yates and Kevin Roon* and several anonymous supporters * also Rubinstein Circle members † also Season Patron
Wigmore Hall 2012 London
International
String Quartet Competition
27 March – 1 April 2012
JURY Chair John Gilhooly Christoph Richter Sylvia Rosenberg Simon Rowland-Jones Laura Samuel Barry Shiffman Mark Steinberg Alasdair Tait PRIZES 1st Prize £10,000 2nd Prize £6,000 3rd Prize £3,000
Preliminary Round Royal Academy of Music, Tuesday 27 – Friday 30 March Semi-Finals Wigmore Hall, Saturday 31 March, 2pm and 7pm Final Wigmore Hall, Sunday 1 April, 6pm
Tickets available to buy from 020 7935 2141 or www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Ticket prices for Preliminary Round: Day Pass (all events at Royal Academy of Music on 27, 28, 29 or 30 March) £15 concessions £13 (not part of subscription scheme) Week Pass (all events at Royal Academy of Music 27 – 30 March inclusive) £50 concessions £42 (not part of subscription scheme) Ticket prices for each Semi-Final session: £10 £14 £18 £20 (Book for both Semi-Final sessions and receive a 20% discount) Ticket prices for the Final: £18 £25 £30 £35
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/competitions/string-quartet
DIRECTOR JOHN GILHOOLY
36 WIGMORE STREET LONDON W1U 2BP WWW.WIGMORE-HALL.ORG.UK BOX OFFICE 020 7935 2141
SUNDAY TIMES CONCERT HALL OF THE YEAR
WIGMORE HALL
‘Wigmore Hall, that unregenerate refuge of high culture, is a continually stimulating place. The best concert hall in London, it approaches its 110th anniversary year as the natural home of chamber music. Nearly every night of the year, there’s something of note… it’s easy to start feeling that the Wigmore is London music.’ SUNDAY TIMES , DECEMBER 2010