April 2015 Khatia Buniatishvili INSIDE: Arcanto Quartet Borodin Quartet Allan Clayton & Paul Lewis Alice Coote Andreas Haefliger Alina Ibragimova & CĂŠdric Tiberghien Garrick Ohlsson Miah Persson Andreas Scholl Vienna Piano Trio and many more
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Cover: Khatia Buniatishvili © Julia Wesely
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Khatia Buniatishvili piano Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition Liszt Réminiscences de Don Juan S418; La leggierezza S144 No. 2; Feux follets S139 No. 5; Étude in G # minor ‘La campanella’ S141 No. 3; Grand galop chromatique S219 Liszt/Horowitz Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C# minor
Julia Wesely
Wednesday 1 April 7.30 pm
Energy and electricity seem to flow from Khatia Buniatishvili’s being whenever she performs. The Georgian pianist, born in 1987, gave her first concerts as a child and has astonished audiences with the visionary power of her performances ever since. She has matured to become one of her generation’s most charismatic artists, acclaimed worldwide for creating interpretations of great spontaneity and psychological depth. £35 £30 £25 £18
London Pianoforte Series Khatia Buniatishvili
Thursday 2 April 7.30 pm
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Thilo Beu
The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Terry Wey countertenor Schütz Die mit Tränen säen SWV378 JC Bach Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte (Lamento) Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri BuxWV75 The English Concert, Harry Bicket and a small consort of singers recreate Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri, the seven sections of which address different parts of Christ’s crucified body. This masterwork of Lutheran oratorio, the title of which translates as ‘the limbs of our Jesus’, is prefaced by Johann Christoph Bach’s lachrymose ‘Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte’, an inestimably moving solo cantata that evokes the compassion of Easter through its lament, ‘Oh, that I had enough tears in my head to bewail my sins’. £35 £30 £25 £18
Terry Wey
Richard Haughton
Early Music and Baroque Series
Harry Bicket and The English Concert
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Friday 3 April No performances. Box Office closed.
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Saturday 4 April 7.30 pm
Dunedin Consort John Butt director Anna Dennis soprano Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist, tenor Matthew Brook Jesus, bass
Stefan Schweiger
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John Butt
Anna Dennis
Clare Wilkinson Richard Shymansky
John Butt and the Dunedin Consort shed fresh light on Bach’s St John Passion in their revelatory recording, hailed by Gramophone for its ‘naturalness and emotional honesty’. They bring their vision of the work to Wigmore Hall for a special Holy Week performance, projecting the vivid drama of Christ’s betrayal and suffering, and the profound humanity of Bach’s response to it.
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Bach St John Passion BWV245
£50 £40 £30 £20
Early Music and Baroque Series
Matthew Brook
Sunday 5 April 11.30 am
London Bridge Ensemble
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Nicholas Mulroy
Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898 An early work by Beethoven and a late work by Schubert mark the historic boundaries of the London Bridge Ensemble’s programme. In terms of their contents, however, the two compositions span a vast cosmos of invention. Haydn, present at the première of Beethoven’s Piano Trio Op.1 No. 3, was surprised and delighted that its well-heeled Viennese audience had ‘so rapidly and easily grasped’ such a quixotic and often tempestuous composition. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert No evening performance. Box Office open 10.00 am to 2.00 pm Monday 6 April 1.00 pm
Meta4 Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1
Noora Isoeskeli
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London Bridge Ensemble
Not long after its foundation the Finnish quartet Meta4 made its mark by winning the 2004 International Shostakovich Quartet Competition in Moscow. Formerly in the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, the ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall with the fascinating combination of Haydn’s String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2, a richly textured early masterwork, and Schumann’s intensely romantic String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1. £13 concs £11 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net
Meta4
Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
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Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94 Bach Partita in A minor for solo flute BWV1013 Poulenc Sonata for flute and piano Enescu Cantabile et presto Prokofiev Flute Sonata in D Op. 94 Diego Aceña and Jonathan Musgrave present a varied and virtuosic programme, ranging from the Baroque era to the mid-twentieth century, containing many highlights of the flute repertory. In recent years both have graduated with distinction from the Royal College of Music and passed through the Park Lane Group Young Artists Scheme.
Simon Jay Price
Diego Aceña flute Jonathan Musgrave piano
Javier Ramírez Serrano
Monday 6 April 7.30 pm
Jonathan Musgrave
Diego Aceña
£13 £11 £9 £8 Kirckman Concert Society/Sarah Gordon Concert Management
Supported by LankellyChase Foundation
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Andreas Scholl countertenor Avi Avital mandolin Marco Frezzato cello Tiziano Bagnati lute Tamar Halperin harpsichord
James McMillan
Tuesday 7 April 7.30 pm
Lanzetti Sonata in G for cello and basso continuo Op. 1 No. 7 Vivaldi Trio Sonata in C RV82 A Scarlatti Cantata: M’ha diviso il cor dal core Venetian Gondolier songs (Anonymous) L’occasion delle mei pene; La biondino; La farfalle Caldara Cantata: Da tuoi lumi Vivaldi Trio Sonata in G minor RV85 Handel Cantata: Sento là che ristretto Caldara Cantata: Vaghe luci Andreas Scholl has inspired countless new listeners to fall in love Andreas Scholl with lesser-known works. His artistry reveals the timeless qualities of great music from the distant past, restoring the rhetorical power and emotional impact of pieces conceived for star performers of eighteenth-century Europe. Scholl’s latest Wigmore Hall programme explores the vitality of Italian cantatas by three masters of the genre and frames their work with the seductive songs of Venetian gondoliers. £50 £40 £30 £20
Uwe Arens /DG
ACT/ Grosse Geldermann
Song Recital Series/Early Music and Baroque Series
Avi Avital
Marco Frezzato
Tiziano Bagnati
Tamar Halperin
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Ben Johnson tenor James Baillieu piano
Kaupo Kikkas
Rosenblatt Recital Series 2014 /15
Chris Gloag
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Wednesday 8 April 7.30 pm
Tosti Malinconia: Dorme la selva; Quand'io ti guardo; L'ora è tarda; Or dunque addio; Chi sei tu che mi parli Parry No longer mourn for me when I am dead Stanford A soft day Elgar Pleading; Is she not passing fair? Respighi Nevicata; Pioggia; Notte; Tanto bella; Nebbie Sullivan The lost Chord Coates I heard you singing; Betty and Jonny Head Money, O!; The little road to Bethlehem Hughes The stuttering lovers Woodforde-Finden Kashmiri Song; Till I Wake Lehmann Henry King; If I built a world for you Coates Tell me where is fancy bred?; Rise up and reach the stars
Ben Johnson
James Baillieu
Winner of the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Audience Prize, Ben Johnson is one of the finest young British singers. Already held in high regard by audiences and critics alike for his song-singing ability, he boasts ‘impeccable phrasing and subtle control and colouring’ (Guardian). ‘Ben Johnson has a fine, bold Italianate voice which … amply justifies his already amassed honours’ Gramophone £30 £25 £20 £15
Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 4 March (Simone Piazzola), 19 May (Jessica Pratt) and 8 June (Marcello Giordani)
Andreas Haefliger piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54 Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) Sz. 81 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90 Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5
Marco Borggreve
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Thursday 9 April 7.30 pm
Andreas Haefliger’s Perspectives project, in which he explores the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven alongside works by other composers ranging from Mozart to Ligeti, has formed the focus of his solo recital appearances and recordings in recent years. He comes to Wigmore Hall to present one instalment of his series. Beethoven’s miniature masterwork, the exquisitely subtle F major Piano Sonata Op. 54, and his expressive and lyrical E minor Piano Sonata Op. 90, are presented in company with the pulsating energy of Bartók’s five Szabadban pieces, and Brahms’s monumental F minor Piano Sonata Op. 5. £35 £30 £25 £18
London Pianoforte Series Andreas Haefliger
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Mozart Duo for violin and viola in B b K424; Clarinet Trio in E b K498 ‘Kegelstatt’; String Quintet in G minor K516 Wigmore Hall’s ambitious Mozart Odyssey continues to unfold with an irresistible collection of the composer’s chamber works performed by an ideal gathering of Mozarteans. Their programme opens with one of the two Duos Mozart wrote to help his esteemed Salzburg colleague Michael Haydn honour a commission deadline, and includes the tragic and tender-hearted G minor String Quintet, a cornerstone work of the chamber music repertoire.
Irène Zandel
Marco Borggreve
Kari Kriikku clarinet Nils Mönkemeyer viola Tim Horton piano Heath Quartet
Kari Kriikku
Nils Mönkemeyer
Tim Horton
Sussie Ahlburg
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Friday 10 April 7.30 pm
£30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season / The Mozart Odyssey
Stories Sung FAMILY FOLK DAY For ages 5 plus Join workshop leader Ruairi Glasheen and fellow members of vibrant young folk ensemble, Tir Eolas, for a fun day exploring folk music. Learn songs and tunes from across the British Isles, listen to traditional stories, and create some tall tales and magical music of your own to perform alongside Tir Eolas on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day.
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Saturday 11 April 10.30 am – 3.30 pm
Adults £15 Children £10
Wigmore Hall’s Family Programme is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust
Wigmore Hall Learning Event Saturday 11 April 7.30 pm
Kuss Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 50 No. 6 ‘The Frog’ Lutosławski String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133
Molina Visuals
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Heath Quartet
The Kuss Quartet’s interpretations of the chamber repertoire are informed by a shared desire to recreate the energy and excitement generated by great works when they were new. The approach is sure to deliver a compelling account of Beethoven’s String Quartet in B flat, performed here complete with its original finale, the Grosse Fuge, described by Igor Stravinsky as ‘the most perfect miracle in music … contemporary for ever ’. £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season
Kuss Quartet
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Wigmore Hall Debut
Lukas Geniušas piano Chopin 12 Études Op. 10 Brahms Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Op. 1
Evgenij Evtiukhin
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Sunday 12 April 11.30 am
Lukas Geniušas, winner of the Silver Medal at the 2010 Chopin International Piano Competition, studied with his grandmother, Vera Gornostaeva, a distinguished professor at the Moscow Conservatory. The young pianist’s Wigmore Hall debut programme, complete with Chopin’s dazzling Op. 10 Études, promises to display his virtuosity as well as the characteristic seriousness, intense focus and searching eloquence of his music-making. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Lukas Geniušas
Sunday 12 April 3.00 pm
Dominik Köninger* baritone Volker Krafft piano *Winner of the 2011 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition
SONGS OF THE ELEMENTS WATER Schubert Der Schiffer; Auf dem Wasser zu singen Mahler Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Brahms Verzagen Wolf Seemanns Abschied AIR Brahms Unbewegte laue Luft Mahler Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft from Five Rückert Lieder Liszt Es rauschen die Winde Brahms Wehe, so willst du mich wieder
Dominik Köninger
FIRE Mendelssohn And’res Maienlied Mahler Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen from Kindertotenlieder Wolf Der Feuerreiter EARTH Schubert Die Mutter Erde Brahms Juchhe! Schumann Mondnacht Wolf Nachtgruss Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen from Five Rückert Lieder Volker Krafft
Recipient of the Wigmore Hall/INDEPENDENT OPERA Voice Fellowship, German baritone Dominik Köninger presents a meditation on the four elements and their qualities. His programme engages with the myriad ways in which Romantic composers connected with the essential materials for life and with their immense potential to affect human feelings, sensations and emotions. £15 concs £12.50
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity. To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series
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Sunday 12 April 7.30 pm
Lisa Ueda violin Daniele Rinaldo piano Janácˇek Violin Sonata Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K378 Robert Matthew-Walker Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (world première) Respighi Violin Sonata in B minor The Lisa Ueda/Daniele Rinaldo violin and piano duo joins two prize-winning soloists in a highly successful collaboration. Formed in 2009 at the Royal Academy of Music, the duo has already received many coveted Lisa Ueda Daniele Rinaldo awards; and for its Wigmore Hall debut will perform works by Mozart and Robert Matthew-Walker alongside two late Romantic masterpieces, the sonatas by Janác˘ek and Respighi. £13 £11 £9 £8 Kirckman Concert Society/Sarah Gordon Concert Management
Supported by LankellyChase Foundation
Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Mozart Piano Sonata in F K332; Adagio in F K.Anh. 206a; Piano Sonata in D K284 Kristian Bezuidenhout continues his survey of Mozart’s works for solo keyboard, opening with a sonata dating from the composer’s early years in Vienna. The critic Arthur Hutchings wisely described the F major Piano Sonata’s Adagio as ‘the summit of expression Mozart reached without departing from the formality and reticence of his epoch’.
Marco Borggreve
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Monday 13 April 1.00 pm
£13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert / The Mozart Odyssey Kristian Bezuidenhout
Monday 13 April 7.30 pm
The Monday Platform
Bethan Langford mezzo-soprano Ben-San Lau piano Ducasse Trio clarinet trio Ives Songs my mother taught me Howells King David Britten from A Charm of Lullabies: A Cradle Song; A Charm Ives The Circus Band Schubert Der blinde Knabe Dvor˘ák from Gypsy Songs Op. 55: Songs my mother taught me and Given a cage to live in made of pure gold Bartók Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano Sz. 111 Mahler from Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Trost im Unglück and Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen Poulenc from Calligrammes: Il pleut; La grâce exilée and Aussi bien que les cigales Bennett Tango from A History of the Thé Dansant Ives Largo for violin, clarinet and piano Khachaturian Trio for clarinet, violin and piano
Bethan Langford
Ben-San Lau
Ducasse Trio
The Ducasse Trio is a vibrant young ensemble of musicians from France, Ireland and the UK, whose members are passionate about presenting the many neglected works for this ensemble to new audiences. Mezzo-soprano, Bethan Langford accompanied by Ben-San Lau have already performed with notable success at the Oxford Lieder Festival. £18 £16 £12 £10 The Worshipful Company of Musicians and Concordia Foundation Artists Fund (Reg. Charity)
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Tuesday 14 April 1.00 pm Kaupo Kikkas
YCAT Lunchtime Series 2014/15
Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano Rossini La regata veneziana Schumann Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op. 135 Nin El vito Braga São João-da-ra-rão Guastavino La rosa y el sauce Braga Nighe-Nighe-Ninhas; Capim di pranta Weill The Saga of Jenny Flanders & Swann The Warthog Coward If love were all Peter Winkler Tamara, Queen of the Nile
Kaupo Kikkas
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Anna Huntley
James Baillieu
In 2011 Anna Huntley won 3rd Prize at the Das Lied Competition in Berlin and also the Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Vocal Fellowship. Recent engagements include recitals with James Baillieu at Perth Concert Hall (broadcast by BBC Radio 3) and Graham Johnson at the Oxford Lieder Festival. In 2014 she returned to English National Opera to cover Dorabella (Così fan tutte) and the lead role in The Way Back Home. £12.50 concs £10 Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490)
YCAT is grateful for support for this series from the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund, the Goulding Murray Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake.
Sussie Ahlburg
London Handel Players Sophie Bevan soprano Daniel Taylor countertenor Adrian Butterfield director, violin
Marie Reine Mattera
Tuesday 14 April 7.30 pm
ANNA MARIA STRADA AND GIOVANNI CARESTINI Handel Arias, duets and instrumental music from Alcina and Il pastor fido
Sophie Bevan
Daniel Taylor
Sophie Bevan and Daniel Taylor join the London Handel Players to sing a selection of the glorious arias and duets that Handel created in Alcina and Il pastor fido for two sensational Italian opera stars of the 1730s. Canadian countertenor Daniel Taylor’s present status as a world-class Handelian rests on foundations set two decades ago with postgraduate studies in London, while young British soprano Sophie Bevan’s great passion for Handel’s music began during childhood. £35 £30 £25 £18
Chris Christodoulou
Early Music and Baroque Series
London Handel Players
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Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Simon Lepper piano
Ken Dundas
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Wednesday 15 April 7.30 pm
Grieg 6 Songs Op. 48 Gustav Mahler Rückert Lieder Alma Mahler Die stille Stadt; In meines Vaters Garten; Laue Sommernacht; Bei dir ist es traut; Ich wandle unter Blumen Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Karen Cargill’s sonorous mezzo-soprano voice has beguiled audiences around the world ever since she won the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She is joined for this recital by her regular duo partner, Simon Lepper, in a programme steeped in the imagery of Nature and, in the case of Wagner’s sublime Wesendonck Lieder, fuelled by the turbulent energy of love. Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper
£35 £30 £25 £18
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity. To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series
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Thursday 16 April 1.00 pm
Lisa Peacock Presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases
Alexei Grynyuk piano Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960 Stravinsky Three Movements from Petrushka Kiev-born pianist, Alexei Grynyuk has been touring as a soloist and with orchestras since the age of thirteen. He has won numerous awards in international piano competitions, including first prizes at the Vladimir Horowitz and Shanghai International piano competitions. Based in London, he performs regularly in the major London halls as well as on the international circuit, and broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, several European channels and on Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Chinese and Russian TV channels. His repertoire is extensive, including Classical, Romantic and twentieth-century works. Gramophone declares Grynyuk ‘among the finest’ for his Liszt CD (August 2013). Alexei Grynyuk
£12.50 concs £10 Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd
Thursday 16 April 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
Introduction to Music 1 BEETHOVEN Beethoven’s reputation as arguably the ‘greatest composer’ has remained relatively intact since his death in 1827. This series of talks with Roy Stratford (16, 23, and 30 April; 7 May) investigates the powerful and individual way he interpreted the classical musical language, and the extraordinary evolution of his style from the dynamic and individualistic early works to the transcendental utterances of the late quartets, piano sonatas and the Missa Solemnis. Series ticket price £30
Wigmore Hall Learning Event Portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler
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The Keyboard Charitable Trust Prizewinner's Concert Series
Vitaly Pisarenko piano
Ken Dundas
Thursday 16 April 7.30 pm
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ Ravel Miroirs Rachmaninov from Morceaux de fantaisie Op. 3: Elégie; Mélodie Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 82 Since winning the first prize at the 8th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in 2008, Vitaly Pisarenko has performed in more than 25 countries including appearances in Germany, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain, Norway, Lithuania, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, China, Japan, Mexico and the United States, and at festivals such as the Basilica Festival of Flanders, the Piano Pic Festival in France, the Berlin International Music Festival, the Delft Chamber Music Festival and the Busoni Festival in Bolzano.
Vitaly Pisarenko
‘Immensely gifted pianist … with prodigious technique, myriad shadings and scrupulous accuracy.’ New York Times £25 £22 £18 £12 Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd
Keyboard Charitable Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1017036)
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Friday 17 April 7.30 pm
Maurice Hasson 80th Birthday Concert
Maurice Hasson violin Tadashi Imai piano Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano Ravel Tzigane To celebrate his 80th birthday, Maurice Hasson has chosen a programme of French repertoire for which he is justly famous. A former pupil of Henryk Szeryng and a well-loved Professor Maurice Hasson Tadashi Imai at the RAM, his highly distinguished international career has earned him many plaudits. This will be his farewell performance in London where he has been based for many years. £26 £22 £16 £12 Nigel Grant Rogers Musical Artists Management
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Saturday 18 April 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Parkhouse Award 2015 Finals Concert Four ensembles of piano with strings, from duos to piano quartet, will compete for the 2015 Parkhouse Award set up in memory of the pianist David Parkhouse. They have been selected following two days of intensive auditions from an international entry to this unique chamber music competition, which has been discovering exceptional young groups since 1991. The distinguished jury can choose only one winner, which will be announced on the day. All seats £5 (free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Parkhouse Award) GBZ Management
The Parkhouse Award is sponsored by The Gordon Foundation and The Tertis Foundation David Parkhouse
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Borodin Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’
Keith Saunders
Saturday 18 April 7.30 pm
Interior worlds open up in Shostakovich’s Second String Quartet, completed in September 1944. The work probes dark shadows of the mind, conjured up most vividly in its dissonant waltz and final Theme and Variations. Beethoven’s second ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, meanwhile, uses silence and unexpected harmonic shifts to pull the listener deep into mysterious imaginative territory. £35 £30 £25 £18
Borodin Quartet
Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle
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Sunday 19 April 11.30 am
London Conchord Ensemble Duruflé Prélude, Récitatif et Variations for flute, viola and piano Op. 3 Loeffler L’Étang from Two Rhapsodies Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15 Paris stood at the heart of the artistic world for decades before and after the First World War, a cosmopolitan melting pot of invention, innovation, conservatism and elegance. The three works in the London Conchord Ensemble’s Coffee Concert evoke the rich variety of the city’s musical milieu, complete with Duruflé’s plainchant-influenced Prélude, Récitatif et Variations of 1928 and Fauré’s noble C minor Piano Quartet. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
London Conchord Ensemble
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Daniel Behle tenor Oliver Schnyder Trio piano trio Schubert Winterreise (UK première of an arrangement by Behle)
Marco Borggreve
Sunday 19 April 3.00 pm
Daniel Behle’s perceptive response to poetic texts, apparently infinite vocal nuance and spine-tingling feeling for the silence between individual notes and phrases have made his song recitals unmissable events. His work as a composer has also attracted wide attention. Behle’s arrangement of Winterreise for voice and piano trio, completed in 2013, reaches the UK for the first time. This concert will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval Daniel Behle and the Oliver Schnyder Trio
£15 concs £12.50
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity. To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series Sunday 19 April 7.30 pm Keith Saunders
Borodin Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 10 in A b Op. 118; String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 By turns furious and fierce, gentle and reflective, Shostakovich’s Tenth String Quartet charts a vast terrain of emotions while leaving its audience free to determine the work’s message. The Borodin Quartet offers it in tandem with the Eighth Quartet, an unequivocal indictment of inhumanity as experienced by those who lived through Stalin’s Terror and suffered under Nazi oppression, and crowns its programme with the ultimately consoling invention of Beethoven’s Quartet in C sharp minor.
Borodin Quartet
£35 £30 £25 £18
Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle
Programme to include: Handel Three German Arias Spohr 6 deutsche Lieder Op. 103 (a selection) Donald Waxman Lovesongs Strauss Morgen; Beim Schlafengehen from Four Last Songs
Russell Duncan
Miah Persson soprano Birgit Kolar violin Malcolm Martineau piano
Mina Artistbilder
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Monday 20 April 1.00 pm
Miah Persson
Birgit Kolar
Malcolm Martineau
Much-loved soprano Miah Persson, celebrated by The Sunday Times for her Wigmore Hall Live recording ‘mixing charm, depth and romantic ardour’, returns with a programme spanning over two and a half centuries of music, from Handel to Donald Waxman’s Lovesongs. The recital is crowned by Strauss’s ‘Morgen’ and ‘Beim Schlafengehen’ from Four Last Songs, sparkling jewels of the Lieder repertoire. £13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
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A programme of French mélodies by Poulenc, Hahn, Fauré, Gounod, Chabrier, Chausson, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Bachelet, Debussy, Satie and Koechlin
Marco Borggreve
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano
Benjamin Ealovega
Monday 20 April 7.30 pm
Much loved by Wigmore Hall audiences for the tonal beauty, lyrical intensity and coruscating wit of her artistry, Alice Coote is universally acknowledged to be among the greatest performers of our time. She launched her 2014/15 season in the title-role of Handel’s Xerxes at English National Opera before singing Oktavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna Alice Coote State Opera. Reigniting her recital partnership with Julius Drake, this concert promises an evening of captivating and enchanting music.
Julius Drake
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series
FOR PARENTS AND BABIES UP TO 1 YEAR OLD A series of concerts with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, presented in an accommodating environment for parents or carers and their babies. Although the music will be appropriate for babies, these concerts are not interactive.
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For Crying Out Loud!
£7.50 per adult – babies come free
Wigmore Hall Learning Event Tuesday 21 April 7.30 pm
Wihan Quartet Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’
Marklik.cz
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Tuesday 21 April 11.00 am – 11.45 am Repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm
Over the past three decades, the Wihan Quartet has flourished on the world stage thanks to performances shot through with rhythmic élan and gripping commitment. The ensemble celebrates its 30th anniversary year with two masterworks from its Czech homeland and the first of Beethoven’s ‘Razumovsky’ Quartets, the haunting Adagio of which was almost certainly influenced by news of death and defeat brought to Vienna from the battlefield at Austerlitz. Wihan Quartet
£35 £30 £25 £18 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net
Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season
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Semi-Final of the Competition for the Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2015
Maximilian Fuhrig.
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Wednesday 22 April 1.30 pm – 6.00 pm
The annual auditions for the famous singing competition attract capacity houses from both devoted lovers of vocal art and students of singing, since no one can resist the challenge of spotting the stars of the future. All seats £18 students £10 Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship Fund
Pictured right: Gareth Brynmor John, winner of the 2013 Kathleen Ferrier Award
Kun Woo Paik piano Schubert Impromptus D899: No. 1 in C minor; No. 3 in G b; No. 2 in E b; No. 4 in A b; Klavierstücke D946: No. 3 in C; No. 1 in E b minor; No. 2 in E b; Moments Musicaux D780: No. 2 in A b; No. 4 in C# minor; No. 6 in A b
Cho Sei-hon
Wednesday 22 April 7.30 pm
Described by Gramophone as a pianist of ‘consummate artistry, great tonal finesse and elegance’, Kun Woo Paik is admired for his passionate and virtuosic playing. This all-Schubert programme takes us on an emotional journey of joy, excitement, torment, conflict and sorrow. £35 £30 £25 £18 Presented by International Classical Artists
London Pianoforte Series
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Kun Woo Paik
Thursday 23 April 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
Introduction to Music 2 BEETHOVEN See 16 April at 5.00 pm for full details. Series ticket price £30
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Wigmore Hall Debut
Alice Sara Ott piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’ Bach Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV944 Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV1004 Liszt From Liebesträume S541: Seliger Tod (Gestorben war ich); O lieb, o lieb, so lang du lieben kannst Liszt Grandes études de Paganini S141
Marie Staggat/DG
Thursday 23 April 7.30 pm
Alice Sara Ott’s fiery virtuosity and impassioned performance style ideally complement the works in her programme, from the unrelenting concentration of Beethoven’s ‘Tempest’ Sonata and the cumulative power of the Bach/Busoni Chaconne to Liszt’s fiendishly difficult, utterly thrilling Grandes études de Paganini. She also surveys the contrasting qualities of fantasy and contrapuntal rigour at work in Bach’s Fantasia and Fugue in A minor. Alice Sara Ott
£35 £30 £25 £18
London Pianoforte Series
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Friday 24 April 6.00 pm – 10.00 pm
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Final of the Competition for the Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2015 The annual auditions for the famous singing competition attract capacity houses from both devoted lovers of vocal art and students of singing, since no one can resist the challenge of spotting the stars of the future. £35 £30 £25 £18 Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship Fund There will be an Interval Supper from 8.20 pm – 9.30 pm. Please contact the Wigmore Hall Restaurant to make your supper reservation: 020 7258 8292 or catering@wigmore-hall.org.uk
Pictured right: Christina Gansch, winner of the 2014 Kathleen Ferrier Award
Saturday 25 April 2.00 pm – 3.15 pm
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Interactive Recital
Tana String Quartet The Tana String Quartet, founded in 2004, is rapidly gaining a reputation across Europe for its performances of contemporary repertoire. This event focuses on the Spanish school of composition with music by Arriaga, Turina and a world première by Hèctor Parra. Inspired by Velázquez’s painting, ‘Les Fileuses’, Parra’s work* is not the final depiction, but rather the beginning of invention and exploration, and musicians must find space to discover the music and invent their own final score. The Tana String Quartet performs from electronic scores on computers or iPads and, for this recital, the music will also be projected on-screen at the back of the stage. The quartet will introduce its programme from the stage and there will be an opportunity to ask questions. *Co-commissioned by Musée du Louvre, Festival Nits de Clàssica de Girona, organised by the Concert Hall of Girona, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation. All seats £15
Nicolas Draps
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Tana String Quartet
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Saturday 25 April 7.30 pm
Arcanto Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 Formed by four outstanding soloists in 2002, the Arcanto Quartet has garnered critical acclaim and audience ovations ever since its debut concert. The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall programme unveils the psychological complexities, expressive transformations and emotional conflicts of three Romantic masterworks, each touched by formative events in the lives of their composers. £35 £30 £25 £18
Marco Borggreve
Chamber Music Season
Arcanto Quartet
Vienna Piano Trio Beethoven Variations in G Op. 121a ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’; Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’
Nancy Horowitz
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Sunday 26 April 11.30 am
One of the world’s finest piano trios returns to Wigmore Hall to perform two richly contrasted works by Beethoven. The composer based his delightful Variations in G on a song popular in Vienna in the early 1800s. His ‘Archduke’ Trio, meanwhile, turns to loftier matters and projects a sense of symphonic grandeur and spiritual nobility. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Vienna Piano Trio
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Sunday 26 April 7.30 pm Benjamin Ealovega
Michael Collins clarinet Heath Quartet Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 It would be hard to imagine two more elegiac compositions than the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, both conceived to display the talents of outstandingly gifted clarinettists. Michael Collins joins the Heath Quartet as part of Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odyssey to bring these sublime masterworks to life. £35 £30 £25 £18
Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey Sussie Ahlburg
Michael Collins
Heath Quartet
Antoine Tamestit viola Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007 Hindemith Sonata for solo viola Op. 25 No. 1 Bach Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009
Eric Larrayadieu
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Monday 27 April 1.00 pm
Antoine Tamestit’s affinity for the music of Bach runs deep. The Parisian viola player, a regular visitor to Wigmore Hall, received five-star reviews for his recording of three of the composer’s Cello Suites. He presents two of the works in his lunchtime recital, together with the wild energy and rhapsodic twists and turns of Paul Hindemith’s Sonata for solo viola of 1922. £13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Antoine Tamestit
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Monday 27 April 6.00 pm
Artists in Conversation Garrick Ohlsson discusses Skryabin with Geoffrey Norris before the final instalment in his two-concert focus on the composer. £4
Wigmore Hall Learning Event Monday 27 April 7.30 pm
Garrick Ohlsson piano Skryabin Piano Sonatas: No. 1 in F minor Op. 6; No. 8 Op. 66; No. 9 Op. 68 ‘Black Mass’; No. 3 in F # minor Op. 23; No. 10 Op. 70 Marking the centenary of Skryabin’s death to the very day, Garrick Ohlsson’s two-concert series focusing on the composer concludes with a programme immersed in the mysticism and transcendental soundscapes of his music. His recital opens with the emotionally volatile F minor Piano Sonata and embraces the haunting chromatic dissonances and meditative intensity of the so-called ‘Black Mass’ Sonata, a work with the power to open minds to new ways of being in the world. £35 £30 £25 £18
Kacper Pempel
London Pianoforte Series/Garrick Ohlsson Skryabin Focus
Garrick Ohlsson
Vienna Piano Trio Mozart Piano Trio in C K548 Turina Piano Trio No. 1 Op. 35 Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63
Nancy Horowitz
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Tuesday 28 April 7.30 pm
The Vienna Piano Trio’s collective insights, tonal warmth and irresistible panache contribute to performances that live long in the memory. The ensemble’s Wigmore Hall programme includes Joaquín Turina’s Piano Trio No. 1, a fascinating blend of rigorous counterpoint, folk-like melodies and evocative Spanish dance rhythms, first performed in London in 1927. £30 £25 £20 £15
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Vienna Piano Trio
Molina Visuals
Allan Clayton tenor Paul Lewis piano
Jack Liebeck
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Wednesday 29 April 7.30 pm
Schubert Die schöne Müllerin Our season-long Paul Lewis: A Celebration continues when the much-loved English pianist partners Allan Clayton in a work of timeless musical beauty and artistic truth. Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, which was first performed at Wigmore Hall in 1903, explores a young man’s love, despair, contemplation of death and ultimate recognition of impermanence. This concert will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval
Allan Clayton
Paul Lewis
£35 £30 £25 £18
Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity. To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series/Paul Lewis: A Celebration
Introduction to Music 3 BEETHOVEN See 16 April at 5.00 pm for full details. Series ticket price £30
Wigmore Hall Learning Event Thursday 30 April 7.30 pm
Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454; Violin Sonata in G K27; Violin Sonata in C K296; Violin Sonata in F K547; Violin Sonata in Bb K31; Violin Sonata in D K306
Benjamin Ealovega
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Thursday 30 April 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien began their complete survey of Mozart’s violin sonatas last September as part of Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odyssey. In this recital they journey through six works, including two pieces written during the composer’s prodigious childhood and his final essay in the genre, the delightful Violin Sonata in F K547, described by Mozart as ‘a small piano sonata for beginners, with violin’. £35 £30 £25 £18 Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien
Supported by the Chamber Music Circle CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net
Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey
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How to get to Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 John Gilhooly OBE Director The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity No. 1024838 Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s West End and is easily accessible by public transport or car. Tubes Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines) tube stations are both close by. Buses A large number of buses travel along Oxford Street, which is approximately five minutes walk from Wigmore Hall. Car Parking There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a five minute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall par ticipates 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. Restaurant and Bars Full information on pre-concert and interval refreshments can be found at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or by calling 020 7258 8292. Table reservations can be made by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.
OXFORD CIRCUS
Benjamin Ealovega
BOND STREET