Wigmore Hall February 2014 Concert Diary

Wigmore Hall Concert Diary FEBRUARY 2014

Piotr Anderszewski Inside: Aurora Orchestra • Cantus Cölln Richard Goode • Soile Isokoski Angelika Kirchschlager • Alexander Melnikov Truls Mørk • Phantasm Kate Royal • Takács Quartet And many more

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SATURDAY 1 FEBRUARY 11.00 AM – 12.00 NOON Wigmore Hall Learning Event

For age 5 plus Featuring a wonderful arrangement of Peter and the Wolf, the award-winning Camarilla Wind Quintet introduce their instruments through the well-known characters in Prokofiev’s enchanting story. This young and dynamic ensemble performs for audiences of all ages and presents many concerts in schools with the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. They are currently artists in residence at The Purcell School.

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

CAVATINA Family Concert: Camarilla Ensemble

£7 Adults £5 Children

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringing chamber music to young people and young people to chamber music, is delighted to present this concert in association with Wigmore Hall.

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Monument Trust and The Andor Charitable Trust

SATURDAY 1 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Europe’s old empires were already at war when Stravinsky crafted his Easy Pieces for piano duet, while the Blitz was about to hit Britain when Walton wrote his Duets for Children. Poulenc’s Violin Sonata, first performed in 1943, reflects its composer’s reluctant coming to terms with the Fall of France and his homeland’s subsequent partition by the Nazis. This programme spans a wide emotional gamut, embracing childhood’s innocence and the melancholy of life under a brutal occupying power.

Janine Jansen

Steven Isserlis

Dénes Várjon

Izabella Simon

Pilvax Studio

Stravinsky Easy Piano Duets Poulenc Violin Sonata Martinu˚ Cello Sonata No. 1 Walton Duets for Children Ravel Piano Trio in A minor

Satoshi Aoyagi

Harald Hoffmann

Janine Jansen violin Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon piano Izabella Simon piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Music in the Shadow of War CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Trust

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£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Signum Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 ‘Fifths’ Ravel String Quartet in F

Irene Zandel

SUNDAY 2 FEBRUARY 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

The Signum Quartet returns to Wigmore Hall to perform two ‘classical’ works.

Haydn’s second Op. 76 string quartet naturally acquired the nickname ‘Fifths’ because of the falling perfect fifths that launch its taught opening movement.

Like Haydn, Ravel cast his wistful String Quartet of 1903 in four movements and took infinite care over its formal construction, thematic development and textural contrasts.

Signum Quartet

SUNDAY 2 FEBRUARY 4.00 PM Song Recital Series

Haydn Arianna a Naxos Duparc L’invitation au voyage; Extase; Au pays où se fait la guerre; Le manoir de Rosemonde Granados La maja y el ruiseñor from Goyescas; Canciones amatorias Spanish mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz, a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme, has captured the affections of Wigmore Hall audiences with her winning combination of vocal artistry, onstage presence and engaging performance style since making her debut at the Hall in 2007. She was awarded an Independent Opera/Wigmore Hall Fellowship and was recently elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, her alma mater.

SUNDAY 2 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition Winner

Jose Manuel Bielsa

Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Roger Vignoles piano

£12.50 concessions £10

Clara Mouriz

£10 £12 £16 £18

Ziyu Shen viola Anthony Hewitt piano Bloch Rhapsodie from Suite hébraïque Peter Maxwell Davies Six Sorano Variants (UK première) Brahms Viola Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Qingwu Guan Song of the Prairie Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. for viola and piano by Vadim Borisovsky) Hindemith Viola Sonata Op. 25 No. 4 15-year-old Ziyu Shen won the 11th Lionel Tertis International Viola Festival and Competition 2013, held on the Isle of Man, setting a new record of the youngest winner. She also gave the world première of the Six Sorano Variants by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the commissioned work for the competition.

Sponsored by the Tertis Foundation & Isle of Man Arts Council

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Ziyu Shen

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MONDAY 3 FEBRUARY 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£12.50 concessions £10

Sean Shibe guitar Dowland Fantasias (selection) Bach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro BWV998 Henze Drei Tentos Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland Op. 70 Young Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe, a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2012 in a concert shared with the Cavaleri String Quartet. His work then was praised by Classical Guitar Magazine for its ‘great sensitivity’. He returns for a solo programme spanning four centuries of guitar composition.

Sean Shibe is a member of Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme Sean Shibe

MONDAY 3 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM The Monday Platform

£10 £12 £16 £18

Laurie Ashworth soprano William Vann piano Francesco Scelzo guitar Purcell Hark! How all things with one sound rejoice from The Fairy Queen Mahler Frühlingsmorgen; Hans und Grethe Britten The Poet’s Echo Op. 76 Ginastera Sonata for solo guitar Op. 47 Llobet Variazioni sulla Follia Op. 15 Ramirez Alfonsina y el mar (arr. Roland Dyens) Walton 5 Bagatelles Debussy Quatre chansons de jeunesse Messiaen Résurrection from Chants de terre et de ciel

Laurie Ashworth

William Vann

RNCM Gold Medalist, Laurie Ashworth, soprano, winner of the Song Prize at the 2010 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, was a finalist in BBC Radio 2’s Kiri Te Kanawa Prize. International prizewinning, Peruvian guitarist Francesco Scelzo, is a postgraduate student at the GSMD, and 2012 winner of the Ivor Mairants International Guitar Competition.

The Worshipful Company of Musicians Francesco Scelzo

TUESDAY 4 FEBRUARY 1.00 PM YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2013/ 14

Scarlatti Sonata in D Kk119/L415 Berio 6 Encores Rachmaninov Preludes Nos. 1–5 Op. 23

Kaupo Kikkas

Richard Uttley piano

£8 concessions £6

A passionate exponent of new music, Richard Uttley performs a selection of Scarlatti’s Sonatas – by turns sparkling and melancholic – interspersed with Berio’s intriguing Encores, sparking fascinating connections. Five of Rachmaninov’s much-loved Preludes conclude the recital.

Young Concert Artists Trust YCAT is grateful for support from the Paul Woodhouse Fund and the Anthony Nesbitt Fund for this series

Richard Uttley

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TUESDAY 4 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 (Nos. 13 – 24) In 1950, two years after suffering the humiliation of public denunciation for his ‘formalist’ works, Shostakovich travelled to Leipzig for the bicentenary of Bach’s death. Tatiana Nikolayeva’s performance there of the German composer’s 48 Preludes and Fugues inspired Shostakovich to create his own set of 24 Preludes and Fugues. Alexander Melnikov’s interpretations of Shostakovich’s great keyboard work, on record and in recital, have been acclaimed for their perception, depth and touching empathy.

Marco Borggreve

Alexander Melnikov piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

This concert will be approximately 85 minutes in duration, without an interval Alexander Melnikov

WEDNESDAY 5 FEBRUARY 12.15 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Free (ticket required)

Pre-Concert Talk An introduction to the lunchtime concert, with Roderick Williams.

WEDNESDAY 5 FEBRUARY 1.00 PM Song Recital Series Benjamin Ealovega

Roderick Williams baritone Joy Farrall clarinet Tom Poster piano Britten Sinfonia Voices Eamonn Dougan director of Britten Sinfonia Voices

£12.50 concessions £10

Roderick Williams Red Herring Blues Schubert Der Tanz; Trinklied D75 Roderick Williams New work (London première*) Schubert An die Sonne Schumann Auf einer Burg Schubert Des Tages Weihe (Schicksalslenker) Schumann Mondnacht Schubert Lebenslust; Trinklied D183 * Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Roderick Williams

Britten Sinfonia Voices makes its At Lunch debut in a programme centred on the partsongs of Schubert, a genre that inspired rarely heard works of genius from one of the greatest of all composers for the voice. Baritone and composer Roderick Williams graces the programme with a new work commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall.

Contemporary Music Series Young people aged for 8 –25 can book free tickets for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme. Please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Supported by The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

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WEDNESDAY 5 FEBRUARY 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£53 for 3 sessions & ticket for 13 Feb (7.30 pm)

Wigmore Study Group The Songs of Hugo Wolf For the first time in its history, the Wigmore Study Group at last turns its attention to the extraordinary songs of Hugo Wolf, tied to Angelika Kirchschlager’s recital on 13 February. Wolf has long remained deeply cherished by lovers of the Lied – his songs miraculously assimilating the legacy of Schubert and Schumann with the tonal and motivic innovations of Wolf’s great idol, Richard Wagner, while demonstrating a quite remarkable sensitivity to the deeper psychological resonances of poetic text.

Hosted by composer Julian Philips and pianist Laura Roberts, this Wigmore Study Group will look in detail at Wolf songs over three afternoons (5, 11 & 13 February), with contributions not only from visiting musicologists but also outstanding performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

WEDNESDAY 5 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Andy Holdsworth

£15 £20 £25 £30

Carducci String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 Bartók String Quartet No. 4 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Bartók’s five movement String Quartet No. 4, written in the summer of 1927, pushed beyond conventional composition to explore the fecund expressive possibilities of whole-tone, pentatonic and other scales and extended instrumental techniques. Experiment and innovation are also present in the emotional interplay between instruments in the fifth of Haydn’s Op. 20 string quartets and Beethoven’s String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2, in which silence is deliberately deployed in the musical argument.

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Hugo Wolf

Carducci String Quartet

Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Trust

THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY 6.00 PM

£6 or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)

Pre-Concert Event Razumovsky Academy Young Artists Recital The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment in which exceptionally gifted young musicians collaborate closely with some of the world’s finest artists and teachers. This concert offers the chance to hear potential future stars at an early stage in their careers.

Supported by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848)

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THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Robert Cassen

£15 £20 £25 £30

Razumovsky Ensemble Beethoven String Trio in E b Op. 3 Schubert Octet in F D803 Clarinettist Ferdinand Troyer’s commission for a new chamber work for wind and string instruments inspired Schubert to create an abiding monument of the chamber repertoire. His Octet was written in 1824, around the time of the composer’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ and ‘Rosamunde’ quartets.

Its mighty scope and scale would be impressive enough, yet it is the richness of Schubert’s melodic invention and formal ingenuity that set the work in a class apart.

Promoted by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848)

Oleg Kogan

FRIDAY 7 FEBRUARY 5.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Free (ticket required)

Young Producers 2014 present O Duo: Oliver Cox & Owen Gunnell A chance to see this dynamic percussion duo in a unique concert programmed and produced by a group of talented young people from three secondary schools in Tower Hamlets. Find out more and follow the project at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/young-producers In partnership with Tower Hamlets Arts and Music Education Service (THAMES) Supported by The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust O Duo

FRIDAY 7 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Russell Duncan

Schubert An Silvia; Romanze zum Drama Rosamunde; An den Mond D259; Rastlose Liebe; Heimliches Lieben; Im Frühling; Nachtviolen; An die Nachtigall; An die Musik; Abendstern; Frühlingsglaube; Lied der Delphine Mahler Frühlingsmorgen; Erinnerung; Scheiden und Meiden from Des Knaben Wunderhorn; From Five Rückert Lieder: Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft; Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Strauss Ich trage meine Minne; Das Rosenband; Einerlei; Malven; September from Four Last Songs

Esther Haase/ EMI Classics

Kate Royal soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

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Kate Royal

Malcolm Martineau

Schubert set unshakeable foundations for Lieder composition for a century and more after his death and for the pursuit of romantic themes in song. Kate Royal journeys through the creative territory of restless love, spring landscapes and the natural world towards abundant awareness of life. The latter arises in Mahler’s ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’ and again out of the noble lyrical sweep of Strauss’s ‘September’.

Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall

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Angela Hewitt piano Andrea Oliva flute Julia Schröder violin

£15 £20 £25 £30

Mai Wolf

SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series/ Chamber Music Season

Bach Flute Sonata in A BWV1032; Partita No. 4 in D BWV828; Violin Sonata No. 6 in G BWV1019; From The Musical Offering BWV1079: Ricercar a 3; Ricercar a 6; Trio Sonata in C minor Dance and the expressive language of physical movement play a central part in Angela Hewitt’s revelatory Bach interpretations. She is joined Angela Hewitt Andrea Oliva Julia Schröder by two kindred musical spirits, Julia Schröder, leader of the Basel Chamber Orchestra since 2004, and Andrea Oliva, principal flute of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

SUNDAY 9 FEBRUARY 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1 Dvorˇák Klid (Silent Woods) Op. 68 No. 5 Strauss Cello Sonata in F Op. 6 Since winning the Pierre Fournier Award at Wigmore Hall in 2007, Gemma Rosefield’s chamber music career has flourished with solo recitals and compelling programmes performed together with Sheffield’s Ensemble 360.

She returns to Wigmore Hall with her regular duo partner, Tim Horton, to perform early sonatas by Beethoven and Strauss, and Dvorˇák’s ever-popular transcription for cello and piano of his Silent Woods, originally written for piano duet in 1883.

Marco Borggreve

Gemma Rosefield cello Tim Horton piano

£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Gemma Rosefield

Tim Horton

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SUNDAY 9 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Sussie Ahlburgh

Benjamin Ealovega

Aurora Orchestra Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Robert Murray tenor Nicolas Fleury horn Andrew Gourlay conductor

£15 £25 £35 £40

Please note change of programme Mozart Serenade in G K525 ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’ Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Iain Farrington) Shostakovich Chamber Symphony in C minor (arr. Rudolf Barshai)

Alice Coote

Robert Murray

Darkness falls on Wigmore Hall as the Aurora Orchestra pairs Britten’s crepuscular Serenade for tenor, horn and strings with one of Shostakovich’s greatest masterpieces – his String Quartet No. 8, heard in this programme in Rudolf Barshai’s ‘Chamber Symphony’ version for string orchestra. By turns melancholic, savage, and soaringly beautiful, Shostakovich’s music here stands alongside Mozart’s shimmering Eine kleine Nachtmusik – an altogether lighter perspective on the shadows – and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, presented in a newly-commissioned arrangement by Iain Farrington.

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’ Suk Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale (St Wenceslas) Op. 35a Bartók String Quartet No. 3

Jerry Davies

Ehnes Quartet

£12.50 concessions £10

Scholars widely agree that Beethoven wrote his String Quartet in E b Op. 74 as a tribute to Haydn, who died shortly before the work’s creation in 1809. Expressions of sorrow and loss pervade the ‘Harp’ Quartet, so called for the pizzicato passages in its opening movement.

The Ehnes Quartet explores music’s transformative powers in Bartók’s concise Third String Quartet, which emerges from dark despair into life-affirming joyfulness.

Ehnes Quartet

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MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Rosenblatt Recitals 2013/ 14

£12 £16 £22 £26

Nino Surguladze mezzo-soprano Gianluca Marciano piano Schumann Widmung Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade; Die junge Nonne Brahms Die Mainacht; O liebliche Wangen; Am Sonntag Morgen; O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück; Vergebliches Ständchen Wolf Verborgenheit; Lebe wohl Strauss Morgen; Zueignung Gomez Ave Maria Massenet Va, laisse couler mes larmes from Werther Berlioz D’amour l’ardente flamme from La Damnation de Faust Verdi Oh chi torna l’ardente pensiero from Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio Donizetti O mio Fernando from La Favorita

Nino Surguladze

Gianluca Marciano

Georgian mezzo-soprano Nino Surguladze first drew attention in the UK as a competitor in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2003 and has since sung at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House and regularly at La Scala. Rosenblatt Recitals welcome Nino to the UK for her London recital debut.

Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 11 March (Giuseppe Filianoti), 2 April (Antonio Poli), 5 May (Dennis O’Neill) and 16 June (Dimitri Platanias). See Wigmore Hall website for more details.

TUESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£53 for 3 sessions & ticket for 13 Feb (7.30 pm)

Wigmore Study Group The Songs of Hugo Wolf See page 7 for full details TUESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Schubert Four Mignon Songs; Du bist die Ruh; Die junge Nonne Kuula Kesäyö kirkkomaalla; Sinikan laulu; Yö nummella; Suutelo (Kouta) Brahms From Zigeunerlieder: He, Zigeuner, greife; Hochgetürmte Rimaflut; Wisst ihr, wann mein Kindchen; Lieber Gott, du weisst; Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze; Röslein dreie in der Reihe; Kommt dir manchmal; Rote Abendwolken ziehn Bernstein I Hate Music (A cycle of Five Kid Songs for soprano and piano) Strauss Allerseelen; Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne; Mein Herz ist stumm; Cäcilie

Heikki Tuuli

Soile Isokoski soprano Ilkka Paananen piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Toivo Kuula became Jean Sibelius’s first composition student in 1908. He created a series of works closely identified with the cause of Finnish independence from Russian rule, including Soile Isokoski the many songs he wrote for his wife. Kuula, whose family name translates as ‘bullet’, was killed in 1918 by a gun fired in a quarrel during the final days of the Finnish Civil War. Soile Isokoski blends a quartet of his songs together with famous Goethe settings by Schubert, closing her recital with romantic works by her beloved Richard Strauss.

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WEDNESDAY 12 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100; Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108

Marco Borggreve/ Naive

Sergey Khachatryan violin Lusine Khachatryan piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Following their ‘Homage to Ysaÿe’ programme last summer, Sergey and Lusine Khachatryan return to Wigmore Hall to perform all three of Brahms’s Sonatas for violin and piano, originally conceived for the composer’s friend Joseph Joachim.

Their sublime interpretations of these masterworks were recorded in the Hall and have since been released on Naïve Classique.

Sergey and Lusine Khachatryan

THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY 1.00 PM Lisa Peacock Presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases

£12.50 concessions £10

Mei Yi Foo piano Messiaen Regard de l’Esprit de joie from Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus Ravel Ma Mère l’oye (Transcription for piano solo by Jacques Charlot, 1910) Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) Sz.81 Balakirev Islamey: Oriental Fantasy Winner of the Best Newcomer of the Year award, Malaysian-born Mei Yi Foo dazzled critics and audiences at the prestigious BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 with her ‘liberating’ and ‘virtuoso display’ (The Times) and her ‘distinct character as a player’ (Independent ) combined with her ‘personal, intelligent and unique interpretation’ (La Opinion Granada).

Lisa Peacock Concert Management Limited Mei Yi Foo

THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wigmore Study Group The Songs of Hugo Wolf See page 7 for full details

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THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Wolf Auf einer Wanderung; Nimmersatte Liebe; Verborgenheit; Er ist’s; Lebe wohl; Elfenlied Strauss Nichts; Du meines Herzens Krönelein; Das Rosenband; Für fünfzehn Pfennige Marx Die Liebste spricht; Am Brunnen; Sendung; Die tote Braut; Bitte; Hat dich die Liebe berührt Korngold Fünf Lieder Op. 38 Berg Vier Lieder Op. 2 Marx Schlafend trägt man mich in mein Heimatland!; Der bescheidene Schäfer; Lob des Frühlings; Nachts; Ein junger Dichter denkt an die Geliebte; Der Ton

Jaqui McSweeney

Twilight of the Romantics

Nikolaus Karlinsky

Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano Simon Lepper piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Angelika Kirchschlager

Simon Lepper

Wilhelm Furtwängler described Joseph Marx as the ‘leading force of Austrian music’. The second concert in Simon Lepper’s Marx series reveals Marx’s fluency as a song composer and underlines points of comparison and contrast with older and close contemporaries. ‘Like his south Styrian compatriot Wolf,’ notes the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ‘Marx was a born song composer’. And it’s equally clear that his compatriot Angelika Kirchschlager is a born singer of Marx’s songs.

Joseph Marx Song Series FRIDAY 14 FEBRUARY 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£3

Pre-Concert Talk Geoffrey Norris introduces the evening concert.

FRIDAY 14 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

Prokofiev Sarcasms Ravel Miroirs Prokofiev Visions fugitives Op. 22 Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 2 in B b minor Op. 36

Benjamin Ealovega

Steven Osborne piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Steven Osborne’s affinity for the works of Ravel took root during childhood and has since matured to inform his revelatory interpretations of the composer’s music. This programme places the impressionistic Miroirs in company with two adventurous keyboard masterworks

by Prokofiev and Rachmaninov’s inspired Second Piano Sonata, originally written in 1913.

The Spotlight on Steven Osborne Series is supported by Dunard Fund

Spotlight on Steven Osborne

Steven Osborne

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SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY 6.00 PM Chamber Music Season

Keith Saunders

Clive Barda

Nash Ensemble; Marianne Thorsen violin Ian Brown piano Richard Hosford clarinet

Bea Levine-Humm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

£8 or £4 with evening concert ticket (separate ticket required)

Hollywood film composers Ian Brown

Marianne Thorsen

Richard Hosford

Max Steiner Piano miniatures from Gone with the Wind Franz Waxman Four Scenes of Childhood for violin and piano Bernard Herrmann Souvenirs de voyage for clarinet quintet Nash Ensemble American Series SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Nash Ensemble; Lionel Friend conductor Ian Brown piano Simon Crawford-Phillips piano Music for film, theatre and dance Copland Music for Movies (arr. David Matthews) Franz Waxman The Young in Heart and Come Back, Little Sheba from Hollywood Suite for chamber ensemble Grainger Fantasy on George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess for two pianos Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (transcription for two pianos) Copland Appalachian Spring (original chamber scoring for 13 instruments)

Julie Kim

Sussie Ahlburg

£15 £20 £25 £30

Simon Crawford-Phillips

Lionel Friend

After an early-evening prologue of music by three celebrated Hollywood studio composers, this American programme includes film music by Copland and Waxman, Percy Grainger’s Fantasy on melodies from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, the suite from Leonard Bernstein’s hit musical West Side Story, and Copland’s popular ballet score Appalachian Spring in its luminous original scoring.

Nash Ensemble American Series £12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Nash Ensemble Dvorˇák Plus Johann Strauss II Waltz: Where the Lemon Trees Bloom! Op. 364 (arr. Max Schönherr for string sextet) Dvorˇák String Sextet in A Op. 48 Tchaikovsky String Sextet in D minor Op. 70 ‘Souvenir de Florence’ A morning full of the glorious sound of six strings in a Strauss waltz inspired by Italy and a late chamber masterpiece by Tchaikovsky written after a visit to Florence, and between them a lovable work by Dvorˇák in the vein of his Slavonic Dances.

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SUNDAY 16 FEBRUARY 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Nash Ensemble

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SUNDAY 16 FEBRUARY 4.00 PM Song Recital Series

Christopher Purves baritone Simon Lepper piano Handel Vieni, O Cara from Agrippina; I rage, I melt, I burn! – O ruddier than the cherry from Acis and Galatea; Fra l’ombre e gl’orrori from Aci, Galatea e Polifemo Duparc L’invitation au voyage; Extase; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Phidylé Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death

Clive Barda

£12.50 concessions £10

Handelians are still reeling from their delight in Christopher Purves’s 2012 recording of the composer’s finest arias for solo bass, especially his supreme command of the extreme high and low notes in ‘Fra l’ombre e gl’orrori’ and the vertiginous leaps between them.

Beyond the alluring prospect of hearing ‘Fra l’ombre’ performed live, this recital’s magnetic attractions include Duparc’s exquisite Baudelaire setting, ‘L’invitation au voyage’, and Musorgsky’s haunting reflections on death.

Christopher Purves

SUNDAY 16 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Anders Bergersen

Grieg Intermezzo for cello and piano Janácˇek Pohádka Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C Op. 119 Sibelius Malinconia Op. 20 Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36

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Truls Mørk cello Christian Ihle Hadland piano

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Hailed by the Daily Telegraph as ‘a player of angelic grace and purity of tone’, Norway’s Truls Mørk is admired by fellow cellists, critics and audiences alike for his impassioned interpretations. Mørk’s recording of Rautavaara’s Towards the Horizon with the BBC Symphony Orchestra won a Gramophone Truls Mørk Christian Ihle Hadland Award in 2012, while his recent concerto series as resident artist with the Oslo Philharmonic was universally acclaimed. He is partnered with the thrilling young Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland.

MONDAY 17 FEBRUARY 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A Op. 2 No. 2 Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor BWV903 Angela Hewitt prefaces her exploration of Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue with two significant works from the 1790s. Haydn’s Variations in F minor, one of his final piano compositions, sounds as fresh and original today as it did in 1793.

Its qualities were doubtless in Beethoven’s mind when he dedicated his Second Piano Sonata to his famous teacher, the great Haydn.

Bernd Eberle

Angela Hewitt piano

£12.50 concessions £10

Angela Hewitt

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MONDAY 17 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series Koichi Miura

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Piotr Anderszewski piano Schumann Papillons Op. 2 Bartók 14 Bagatelles Op. 6 Szymanowski Mazurkas Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958

Audiences first took Piotr Anderszewski to their hearts in 1990 during the Leeds International Piano Competition. The Polish-Hungarian artist made his Wigmore Hall debut six months later and has been a regular visitor ever since, captivating listeners most recently with his Szymanowski Focus in 2010, and always delivering pianism of the utmost sensitivity and conviction. His Piotr Anderszewski penetrating interpretations, infused with personal insights and nuance, balance Anderszewski’s famous perfectionism with an intense spirituality that transcends matters of keyboard technique. Small wonder that his recitals around the globe attract capacity audiences and regularly rejuvenate the spirits of even the most world-weary listeners.

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

Ignition Half-Term Course For ages 11 – 16 Ignition is Wigmore Hall’s ensemble for young people, giving them the opportunity to write and perform their own music. Led by Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble Ignite, create music influenced by jazz, chamber and contemporary music, collaborate with other young performers and professional musicians and perform on the Wigmore Hall stage. This course is open to all types of instruments, from violins to bass guitars, snare drums to sitars.

£40 for the 2 days

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TUESDAY 18 & WEDNESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 10.00 AM – 3.30 PM both days Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Supported by The Monument Trust and Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

TUESDAY 18 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series

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Cantus Cölln; Konrad Junghänel director Jesu, meine Freude – Motets and early cantatas by J S Bach Bach Cantata: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen BWV12; Motet: Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden BWV230; Cantata: Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee BWV18; Cantata: Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV4; Motet: Jesu, meine Freude BWV227

Cantus Cölln

Cantus Cölln, a world leader in the historically informed performance of everything from the music of Monteverdi to Buxtehude, Schütz and Weckmann, makes its Wigmore Hall debut with an all-Bach programme deeply rooted in the traditions of Lutheran worship. Death and mourning, addressed here in Christ lag in Todesbanden and the funeral motet Jesu, meine Freude, are counterbalanced by the tone of comfort and consolation central to the two Weimar cantatas BWV12 and BWV18.

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WEDNESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series Vico Chamla

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Piotr Anderszewski piano Schumann Papillons Op. 2 Bartók 14 Bagatelles Op. 6 Szymanowski Mazurkas Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958 Repeat of concert on 17 February Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2013/ 14 Wigmore Series

Piotr Anderszewski

THURSDAY 20 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Beethoven String Quartet Cycle Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4; String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’; String Quartet in B b Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

Benjamin Ealovega

Elias String Quartet

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Labels attached to Beethoven’s so-called early, middle and late periods can often feel prescriptive, too narrow to account for the originality found within works produced at different times in his creative life.

The Elias String Quartet launches its Beethoven cycle with three strikingly complementary works, in which Beethoven used aspects of music’s past to produce scores that would help shape its future.

Elias String Quartet

‘The Elias played Beethoven … with powerful grit and rough, human edges’ Guardian, July 2011 Supported by the Chamber Music Circle

FRIDAY 21 FEBRUARY 10.30 AM – 3.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Half-Term Family Day For age 5 plus Have you ever wanted to make your own animated film? Join workshop leader Rus Pearson, animator Reza ben Gajra and musicians from the Royal Academy of Music for an action-packed day exploring a range of stop-motion animation techniques and creating your own animated characters. Compose a soundtrack to your film and perform it live on the Wigmore Hall stage.

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Animate!

£12 Adults £8 Children

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Monument Trust and The Andor Charitable Trust

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FRIDAY 21 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

£15 £20 £25 £30 Brice Toul

Nelson Goerner piano Bach Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) Sz. 81 Schumann Études symphoniques Op. 13 (with posthumous Études) Nelson Goerner’s four-concert ‘Portrait’ series continues with a programme constructed in part around study pieces by Bach and Schumann. The latter’s delightful Études symphoniques were reissued by Brahms in 1890, complete with five movements absent from the work’s second edition of 1852. The Nelson Goerner Portrait Series concludes on Saturday 17 May. Nelson Goerner Portrait Series

Nelson Goerner

SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series

£15 £20 £25 £30 Marco Borggreve

Phantasm Laurence Dreyfus treble viol, director Emilia Benjamin treble viol Jonathan Manson tenor viol Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol

Arts of Fugue Bach The Art of Fugue BWV1080 Bach / Mozart 5 Fugues from The Well-tempered Clavier Book II K405 The Art of Fugue, published posthumously in May 1751, stands as an exemplary collection of fugal works, most of which are in four parts and all of which are based on one main theme.

Phantasm The score, unfinished yet monumental, is on a scale only matched in the chamber music repertoire by Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge. Gramophone Award-winning viol consort Phantasm, founded by Laurence Dreyfus twenty years ago, invests its long corporate experience and crystal-clear tonal qualities into the work’s interpretation in this concert. £12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Apollon Musagète Quartet Prokofiev Visions Fugitives Op. 22 arr. by Sergei Samsonov for string quartet (selection) Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’

Marco Borggreve

SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

War-weariness and revolutionary fervour supplied the backdrop to Visions Fugitives.

Prokofiev’s work, originally written for piano, reflects its composer’s optimistic hopes for the Russian Revolution and the radical prospects for art in the new Soviet society.

Poland’s Apollon Musagète Quartet, BBC New Generation Artists, couple movements Apollon Musagète Quartet from Sergei Samsonov’s arrangement with Stravinsky’s Concertino, an ironically austere reaction to the ‘conventional middle-class’ he encountered during a summer stay in Brittany in 1920.

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SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY 4.00 PM Song Recital Series

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Royal Academy of Music Song Circle A Goethe Palindrome A recital of celebrated Goethe poems set to music by Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Loewe, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann and Wolf Rome and Love were synonymous in Goethe’s visionary mind, a closeness underlined by the delicious palindrome provided by the Latin words ‘Roma’ and ‘Amor’. The Royal Academy of Music Song Circle explores Goethe’s passion for all things Italian (and much more besides) with a selection of exquisite song settings created before and after the great German writer’s death.

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Royal Academy of Music Song Circle

SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Takács Quartet; Graham Mitchell double bass

Peter Smith

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

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Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Dvorˇák String Quintet in G Op. 77 Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet, continue their journey through the music of Bohemia and Moravia. Although Dvorˇák’s String Quartet in F was written in Iowa during a summer vacation from his teaching duties in Takács Quartet Graham Mitchell New York, the work’s essence belongs to the spirit of Czech folksong and the flavour of Gypsy music. Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata fuelled deep romantic passions in Leosˇ Janácˇek. Its tale of the disastrous consequences of an extramarital affair clearly touched a raw nerve with the composer, no doubt mirroring the anxieties of his own unhappy marriage. The String Quartet No. 1 of 1923 projects his response to the emotions aroused by Tolstoy’s story.

MONDAY 24 FEBRUARY 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder achieved his breakthrough at the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw as winner of the Best Concerto and Best Polonaise-fantaisie prizes.

Chopin is his companion once more in this lunchtime concert, with the Polish pride and poetic eloquence of the composer’s four single-movement Ballades suitably prefaced by Beethoven’s evergreen ‘Moonlight’ Sonata.

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Ingolf Wunder piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’ Chopin The Four Ballades

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Ingolf Wunder

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MONDAY 24 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1; Impromptu in G b D899 No. 3; Klavierstück in E b minor D946 No. 1; Klavierstück in C D946 No. 3 Chopin Mazurka in B b Op. 17 No. 1; Mazurka in B minor Op. 30 No. 2; Mazurka in A b Op. 41 No. 3; Mazurka in C# minor Op. 30 No. 4; Polonaise-fantaisie in A b Op. 61 Debussy Préludes Book I

Michael Wilson

Richard Goode piano

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Richard Goode, who celebrated his 70th birthday at Wigmore Hall last June with an all-Beethoven concert, returns this season to perform music replete with expressive contrasts, romantic lyricism and finely focused creative intelligence. Goode has been compared with Artur Schnabel in his Richard Goode readings of Schubert, the ultimate accolade, and stands among the finest interpreters of Debussy’s Préludes. The acclaimed emotional force of the pianist’s playing is certain to register in his choice of Chopin’s Mazurkas and, above all, in the chromatic harmonies and imaginative twists and turns of the composer’s late Polonaise-fantaisie in A flat.

TUESDAY 25 FEBRUARY 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Pre-Concert Talk Anthony Burton introduces the evening concert.

TUESDAY 25 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

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Takács Quartet; Graham Mitchell double bass Repeat of concert on 23 February. See page 19 for full details CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Trust

WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

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Scottish Ensemble; Jonathan Morton artistic director, violin Sophie Harmsen mezzo-soprano Haas Study for Strings Dvorˇák Love Songs Op. 83 (arr. for voice and strings by David Matthews) Handel Arias Biber Battalia Suk Serenade for strings in E b Op. 6 Following a series of concerts across Scotland, the Scottish Ensemble makes its way to Wigmore Hall in company with the thrilling young South-African born mezzo-soprano Sophie Harmsen for a concert with a distinctly Czech flavour. Their programme culminates in a performance of one of the highlights of the string repertoire, Josef Suk’s evocatively romantic Serenade of 1892.

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THURSDAY 27 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series

Josquin des Prez Motet: Gaude virgo, mater Christi; Missa ‘Hercules dux Ferrariae’ Gombert Motets: Musae Jovis; Ave Maria Byrd Plorans ploravit; Ne irascaris, Domine; Laetentur coeli; Vigilate

Eric Richmond

The Tallis Scholars; Peter Phillips director

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Founded in 1973 as a student group by Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars have led the revival of Renaissance and Baroque vocal polyphony ever since. The group’s The Tallis Scholars instantly recognisable sound rests on the foundations of immaculate intonation and a blend so ethereal as to set new definitions for the meaning of tonal beauty. The group returns to Wigmore Hall after a long absence with a programme of sacred works spanning more than a century of music history. Josquin’s Missa ‘Hercules dux Ferrariae’ was probably written in the early 1480s to mark the alliance between the composer’s employer, Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, and the music-loving Ercole d’Este, the Duke of Ferrara. Latin masterworks by Josquin’s artistic heir Nicolas Gombert and William Byrd supply the spiritual substance of the programme’s second half.

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FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Schubert Rondo in B minor D895 Debussy Première rapsodie Stravinsky Suite from The Soldier’s Tale (for violin, clarinet and piano) Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Bartók Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano

Sussie Ahlburg

Mats Bäcker

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Marc-André Hamelin piano Martin Fröst clarinet Anthony Marwood violin

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Marc-André Hamelin

Martin Fröst

Anthony Marwood

Last season Marc-André Hamelin came to Wigmore Hall with a bold programme of Ives and Brahms. The Canadian pianist and composer, whose mesmerising performances draw on his deep knowledge of the creative process, returns as chamber music partner to two equally inspiring artists.

Marc-André Hamelin Artist in Residence CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

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For Crying Out Loud!

A unique series of concerts for parents and

carers and their babies up to 1 year old The chance to enjoy a programme of beautiful chamber music performed by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music in a calm and accommodating environment.

WITH AN ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCE AT 12.30 PM FROM JANUARY 2014

Wednesday 29 January 11.00 am – 11.45 am 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm

Thursday 27 March 11.00 am – 11.45 am 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm Tickets £6 per adult – babies come free

‘ We had the pleasure of bringing our five-month-old grand-daughter to the Wigmore concert. We very much appreciate the opportunity of bringing her to an event of this kind, and we wanted to pass on our thanks ... she enjoyed the lights, the cellist and the play-mat enormously. For Crying Out Loud! audience member

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