Wigmore Hall Diary April 2016

April 2016 Sir András Schiff INSIDE: Les Arts Florissants Borodin Quartet Tara Erraught Isabelle Faust & Kristian Bezuidenhout Werner Güra Hagen Quartet Quatuor Ebène Angela Hewitt Rolf Hind Ann Murray DBE Christoph Prégardien Les Talens Lyriques Ailish Tynan and many more

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Vadim Gluzman violin Angela Yoffe piano Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 (transcr. Schumann) Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Lera Auerbach Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano ‘September 11’ Op. 63 Tchaikovsky Sérénade mélancolique in B minor Op. 26; Valse-scherzo Op. 34

Marco Borggreve

Friday 1 April 7.30 pm

A student of the glories of the golden age of violin playing, Vadim Gluzman is famed for the rich warmth Vadim Gluzman Angela Yoffe of his tone, the grace of his technique and the insight of his interpretations. The Ukrainian-born Israeli artist returns to Wigmore Hall with regular duo partner Angela Yoffe to perform works of great spiritual substance and emotional depth. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Saturday 2 April 7.30 pm

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Sir András Schiff piano THE FINAL SONATAS: HAYDN, MOZART, BEETHOVEN AND SCHUBERT Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Mozart Piano Sonata in C K545 Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958 London’s Broadwood pianos, sonorous and strong, influenced the symphonic sweep of Haydn’s Piano Sonata in C. The work’s thematic concentration and audacious humour complement the restless lyricism of Beethoven’s Op. 109.

Mozart styled his Piano Sonata in C K545 as a ‘little piano sonata for beginners’. He completed his elegant work in June 1788, on the same day as he finished his Symphony No. 39.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval £45 £35 £30 £25 £15

Yutaka Suzuki

London Pianoforte Series

Sir András Schiff

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Giorgia Bertazzi

Adrian Brendel cello Alasdair Beatson piano

Jack Liebeck

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Sunday 3 April 11.30 am

Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1 Bridge Cello Sonata in D minor Chopin Introduction et polonaise brillante in C Op. 3 Frank Bridge wrote his Cello Sonata between 1913 and 1917, absorbing the grim darkness and despair of the era’s global conflict into its score. The two-movement work, premièred at Wigmore Hall almost a century ago, is prefaced by Beethoven’s genial Cello Sonata Op. 5 No. 1. Adrian Brendel and Alasdair Beatson conclude with Chopin’s dashing Introduction et polonaise brillante. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Adrian Brendel

Alasdair Beatson

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 3 April 7.30 pm

Artemis Quartet Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87 Eduard Demetz String Quartet No. 2 (UK première) (Prize-winner of the Artemis Quartet Composition Competition 2015) Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27 Named after the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt, the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet secured its place at the top table of string quartets with sensational debut performances at the world’s leading chamber music venues in the 1990s. The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall programme opens with early Schubert and includes the prize-winning work from its pioneering string quartet competition.

Eduard Demetz

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Monday 4 April 1.00 pm

John Mark Ainsley tenor Gary Matthewman piano

Johan Persson

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Britten Fish in the unruffled lakes L Berkeley Five Poems of WH Auden Op. 53 Huw Watkins Three Auden Songs Britten On this Island Op. 11 WH Auden described the 1930s as ‘a low dishonest decade’. The poet’s line suited the era’s political catastrophes but not its shining artistic achievements, including those arising from his collaboration with Benjamin Britten. John Mark Ainsley’s lunchtime programme includes Britten’s first published songs with piano, On this Island, and other captivating Auden settings by Lennox Berkeley and Huw Watkins. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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John Mark Ainsley

Gary Matthewman

Les Arts Florissants William Christie director, harpsichord Emmanuelle de Negri soprano Anna Reinhold mezzo-soprano Reinoud Van Mechelen high tenor Cyril Auvity tenor Lisandro Abadie bass

Philippe Grollier

Monday 4 April 7.30 pm

AIRS SÉRIEUX ET A BOIRE – VOLUME 2

Simon Fowler

Charpentier Overture and Scenes 1 & 2 from Les Arts Florissants Petite pastorale H479 Moulinié Amis enivrons nous du vin d’Espagne en France Lambert Amour, je me suis plaint cent fois Charpentier Prelude and Scene 1 from Pastorelette del Sgr M. Ant. Charpentier: Amor vince ogni cosa H492 Lambert Vos yeux adorables Moulinié Enfin la beauté que j’adore Le Camus Ah, que vous êtes heureux! Charpentier Charmantes fleurs naissez; Scene 2 from Pastorelette del Sgr M. Ant. Charpentier: Amor vince ogni cosa H492; Tristes déserts, sombre retraite Lambert J’aimerais mieux souffrir la mort Charpentier Scene 3 from Pastorelette del Sgr M. Ant. Charpentier: Amor vince ogni cosa H492 Lambert Sans murmurer Le Camus Laissez durer la nuit, impatiente Aurore Lambert Laissez-moi soupirer importune raison; Vous avez trop d’appas William Christie Moulinié Guillot est mon ami Lambert Vos mépris chaque jour me causent mille alarmes Charpentier Scene 4 and Finale from Pastorelette del Sgr M. Ant. Charpentier: Amor vince ogni cosa H492 Founded in Paris in 1979 by William Christie, Les Arts Florissants revived interest in music of the French Baroque and has since attracted a vast international audience to works overshadowed by centuries of neglect. The ensemble’s critically acclaimed interpretations are influenced by the colour and nuance of the French language and by the art of rhetoric, revealing the poetic nature of the music it performs. This programme features a selection of Michel Lambert’s sublime airs for the court of Louis XIV together with dramatic and pastoral scenes, including Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s cantata-like ‘Pastorelette’, an innovative blend of Italian and French musical influences. £60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Supported by Dunard Fund

Early Music and Baroque Series

London Handel Orchestra Adrian Butterfield director, violin Rachel Brown flute

Chris Christodoulou

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Tuesday 5 April 7.30 pm

HANDEL AND HIS EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS Corelli Concerto Grosso in F Op. 6 No. 9 Purcell The Married Beau Suite Z603 Quantz Flute Concerto No. 5 in B minor Wassenaer Concerto Armonico No. 5 in F minor Leclair Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 7 No. 1 Handel Concerto Grosso in A Op. 6 No. 11 To celebrate 35 years devoted to the performance of Handel’s music, the London Handel Orchestra – London Handel Orchestra led by its director Adrian Butterfield – crowns its programme with the composer’s glorious Concerto Grosso in A Op. 6 No. 11. The programme also features a selection of pieces by several illustrious European composers with whom Handel was closely associated. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Sir András Schiff piano THE FINAL SONATAS: HAYDN, MOZART, BEETHOVEN AND SCHUBERT Mozart Piano Sonata in B b K570 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110 Haydn Piano Sonata in D HXVI:51 Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959

Birgitta Kowsky, Leipzig

Wednesday 6 April 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff’s exploration of late works continues with four contrasting compositions. Haydn’s Piano Sonata in D, written in London in 1794, is small of scale but large in invention. Beethoven creates the perfect blend of strict counterpoint and open-hearted emotional expression in his Op. 110, while Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata pays tribute to Beethoven in its lyrical finale. £45 £35 £30 £25 £15

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle Sir András Schiff

London Pianoforte Series Thursday 7 April 7.30 pm

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Kuss Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Sir Harrison Birtwistle From 9 Movements for String Quartet: Fantasia 1; Fantasia 3; Frieze 2; Fantasia 4; Fantasia 5; Frieze 3 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Experiment and risk-taking belong to the Kuss Quartet’s artistic outlook. The ensemble’s programming reflects its determination to break down barriers between different periods of music history, past and present. This concert offers a chance to hear the Berlin-based quartet’s artistry in masterworks by Haydn and Schubert as well as extracts from Birtwistle’s 9 Movements for String Quartet, written between 1991 and 1996. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Molina Visuals

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Kuss Quartet

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Friday 8 April 6.00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk Writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explores the poetic world of Schubert’s songs, widely regarded as some of the greatest music ever written. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Friday 8 April 7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Michael Gees piano Schubert Sehnsucht (D123); Geistes-Gruss; An Mignon; Nähe des Geliebten; Rastlose Liebe; Der Liedler; Zufriedenheit (D362); Abendlied (D382); Geist der Liebe; Julius an Theone; Der Leidende; Seligkeit; Gesänge des Harfners I–III; An die Entfernte; Am Flusse (D766); Willkommen und Abschied Poetic inflections and the music of words have been a lifelong inspiration to Christoph Prégardien. The German lyric tenor’s apparently limitless ability to colour phrases and project profound emotions will be directed to a programme of songs based chiefly on exquisite verse by Goethe, including Schubert’s settings of the ‘Gesänge des Harfners’ from the influential novel Wilhelm Meister. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Hans Morren

Hermann and Clärchen Baus

Song Recital Series /Schubert: The Complete Songs

Christoph Prégardien

Saturday 9 April 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff piano THE FINAL SONATAS: HAYDN, MOZART, BEETHOVEN AND SCHUBERT Haydn Piano Sonata in E b HXVI:52 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Mozart Piano Sonata in D K576 Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960

Nadia F Romanani/ECM Records

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Michael Gees

Each piece in this programme offers a sense of striving for the infinite, heard in the contrapuntal ingenuity of Mozart’s final piano sonata and ever-present in Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in C minor Op. 111. Sir András Schiff begins with Haydn’s mighty Piano Sonata in E flat and draws his survey of final sonatas to a close with Schubert’s majestic Piano Sonata in B flat D960.

This concert will be approximately 2 hours 15 minutes in duration, including an interval £45 £35 £30 £25 £15 Sir András Schiff

London Pianoforte Series

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Wigmore Hall Debut

Uwe Neumann

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Sunday 10 April 11.30 am

Cédric Pescia piano Couperin 25e ordre from Quatrième livre de pièces de clavecin Messiaen Le courlis cendré from Catalogue d’oiseaux Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6 Cédric Pescia, born in Lausanne, made his breakthrough in 2002 with victory in the Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition. He makes his Wigmore Hall debut with a programme that spans the gamut of keyboard character pieces, from François Couperin’s Quatrième livre de pièces de clavecin to Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze, intimate reflections on contrasting aspects of the composer’s artistic personality. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Cédric Pescia

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Judith Weir Ständchen; Blackbirds and Thrushes; On Buying a Horse Judith Weir From Songs from the Exotic: Sevdalino, my little one; In the lovely village of Nevesinje; The Romance of Count Arnaldos Ravel Histoires naturelles

Kaupo Kikkas

Johnny Herford baritone James Baillieu piano

Maximilian Van London

Sunday 10 April 3.00 pm

Storytelling is central to the work of Judith Weir, one of Britain’s finest contemporary composers. Johnny Herford and James Baillieu enter Weir’s bold soundworld, exploring Johnny Herford James Baillieu the confrontations and dramatic twists and turns of her Songs from the Exotic and other landmark compositions. Their programme is crowned by Ravel’s Histoires naturelles, witty settings of verse about the individual characteristics of five animals.

All seats £15

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.

To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series /Introducing James Baillieu Sunday 10 April 7.30 pm

RNCM Gold Medal Winners Concert 2016

Dominic Degavino solo piano Amy Yule flute, with Benjamin Powell piano Tom Hicks solo piano Gulda Prelude and Fugue David Matthews Piano Sonata Op. 47 Ligeti From Études Book II: No. 11 En suspens; No. 13 L’escalier du diable Bach Sonata in Eb for flute and Dominic Degavino piano BWV1031 Paganini Cantabile for flute and piano Lowell Liebermann Sonata for flute and piano Op. 23 Liszt Fantasie und Fuge über das Thema B–A–C–H S529 ii Ireland The Island Spell Rodion Shchedrin Piano Sonata No. 1

Amy Yule

The Royal Northern College of Music’s annual Gold Medal Competition features the finest young performers at the College, each competing for the coveted RNCM Gold Medal in front of a distinguished panel from across the industry. This showcase features the winners of the 2015 competition performing repertoire from their winning programmes. Don’t miss this chance to hear the stars of tomorrow.

All seats £15 Royal Northern College of Music

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Tom Hicks

I Fagiolini Robert Hollingworth director

Keith Saunders

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Monday 11 April 1.00 pm

Byrd This sweet and merry month of May (a4) Wilbye Adieu, sweet Amaryllis; Ye restless thoughts; Draw on a sweet night Tomkins Weep no more thou sorry boy; Too much I once lamented Gibbons The silver swanne Ward If the deep sighs Janet Wheeler Music to Hear William Brooks New work (world première) Adrian Williams Those lines that I before have writ do lie English composers such as Wilbye and Byrd were inspired by the I Fagiolini madrigals of Italy to make their own distinctive marks on the genre’s history. The spontaneity and freshness of I Fagiolini’s full-blooded madrigal performances have helped engage new audiences with a fascinating and strikingly fruitful repertoire of fine words and music. £13 concs £11

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.

To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Monday 11 April 7.30 pm Peter Freudenreich

The Monday Platform

Alena Lugovkina flute Pavel Timofeyevsky piano Dinara Klinton solo piano

Corelli Sonata No. 4 (arr. Lugovkina/Timofeyevsky) Jolivet Chant de Linos Liszt Études d’exécution Alena Lugovkina Pavel Timofeyevsky Dinara Klinton transcendante S139: No. 1 in C; No. 2 in A minor; No. 3 in F; No. 4 in D minor; No. 5 in Bb Scarlatti Sonatas: in F minor Kk466; in G Kk455 Prokofiev Sarcasms Schulhoff Sonata for flute and piano Gaubert Nocturne et allegro scherzando Prizewinner of the Busoni, Paderewski and BNDES International Piano competitions, Dinara Klinton is also a recipient of the Benjamin Britten Fellowship at the RCM. Flautist Alena Lugovkina is the recipient of the Guildhall Artists Fellowship 2014–15; she has won numerous prizes as well as being an accomplished orchestral and chamber musician and soloist. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10

Presented by Musicians’ Company Concerts (Reg. Charity) and Maisie Lewis Young Artists’ Fund

YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2015 /16

Alexander Ullman piano

Kaupo Kikkas

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Tuesday 12 April 1.00 pm

Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 Ravel From Miroirs: Noctuelles; Oiseaux tristes Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Born in London, Alexander studied at The Purcell School, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and is currently at the Royal College of Music with Dmitri Alexeev.

Over the last year Alexander has performed Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra Filharmonica Marchigiani in Italy. Future international engagements include recitals and concertos in Milan, Munich, Leipzig, Ankara and Athens. ‘Ullman followed in the best interpretative tradition, flaunting mastery and absolute assuredness’ Il Nuovo Pesaro, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiani – Tchaikovsky Concerto, May 2015 Alexander Ullman

£13 concs £11 Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490)

YCAT is grateful for support from the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund, and the legacy of Richard Oake for this series

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Detlev Schneider

Isabelle Faust violin Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord

Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 12 April 7.30 pm

Bach Violin Sonata in G BWV1021; Sonata No. 2 in A minor for solo violin BWV1003; Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016; Violin Sonata No. 5 in F minor BWV1018; Toccata in D minor BWV913 (for solo harpsichord); Violin Sonata No. 2 in A BWV1015 Bach extended the techniques of violin playing in his works for the instrument and broadened its possibilities in pursuit of previously unimagined creative goals.

Isabelle Faust Kristian Bezuidenhout Isabelle Faust places the composer’s Sonata No. 2 in A minor, which conjures up the impression of four-part counterpoint from a single instrument, together with three of his sonatas for violin and keyboard, and the Violin Sonata in G BWV1021, in which acclaimed early keyboard player Kristian Bezuidenhout will improvise the harmonies from Bach’s figured bass line. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Wednesday 13 April 12.15 pm

Pre-Concert Talk An introduction to the lunchtime concert with composer Bryce Dessner.

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Photo of Bryce Dessner by Anne Mie Dreves /Deutsche Grammophon

Bartók Duos for 2 violins BB104 (a selection, transcribed for violin and viola) Bryce Dessner New work* (London première) Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Harry Rankin

Thomas Gould

Clare Finnimore Benjamin Ealovega

Thomas Gould violin Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano

Sussie Ahlburg

Britten Sinfonia

Aga Tomaszek

Wednesday 13 April 1.00 pm

Bryce Dessner, known to many as the guitarist from The National, has been leading a double life as a prolific composer and curator in the realm of creative new music.

His compositions, marked by a keen sensitivity to Caroline Dearnley instrumental colour and texture, feature in this hour-long programme alongside Bartók’s folklore-inspired Duos and Schumann’s evergreen Piano Quartet. £13 concs £11

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series

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Huw Watkins

KOMM, TROST DER WELT Robert Schumann Aus den östlichen Rosen; Volksliedchen; Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint Clara Schumann Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort; O Lust, O Lust; Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen; Sie liebten sich beide; An einem lichten Morgen Mahler Rückert Lieder Robert Schumann Frühlingsfahrt; Stirb, Lieb und Freud!

Barber Hermit Songs Robert Schumann Der Einsiedler

Esther Haase/EMI Classics

Kate Royal soprano Roger Vignoles piano

Benjamin Ealovega

Wednesday 13 April 7.30 pm

Kate Royal

Roger Vignoles

Kate Royal’s recital includes the Hermit Songs of Samuel Barber, settings of evocative texts largely by anonymous early medieval Irish monks, together with other works dealing with the world of the spirit and the flesh. The duo’s choice of songs by Robert and Clara Schumann highlight the melodic gifts of both composers, capped by Robert’s profoundly moving reflections on the hermit’s solitary life in ‘Der Einsiedler’. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.

To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Song Recital Series

Rosenblatt Recitals 2015/16

Marco Borggreve

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Thursday 14 April 7.30 pm

Javier Camarena tenor Ángel Rodriguez piano Rossini Que les destins prospères from Le comte Ory Mozart Vado incontro al fato estremo from Mitridate Massenet En fermant les yeux from Manon Donizetti Vivi tu, te ne scongiuro ... Nel veder la tua costanza from Anna Bolena Bellini Vaga Luna, che inargenti Rossini La Danza (Tarantella) Serrano Te quiero, morena from El trust de los tenorios Chapí No extrañeis, no, que se escapen from La bruja Lara Medley: Oracion Caribe; Mujer; Veracruz Arcaráz Bonita Tata Nacho Medley: La borrachita; Tengo nostalgia de ti; Intima Moral No niegues que me quisiste

Javier Camarena

Ángel Rodriguez

Javier Camarena returns to the Rosenblatt Recitals series having made his sensational debut last season. Hailed as ‘one of the most exciting tenors singing today’ (Huffington Post ), he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2011 and became the third singer in modern times to give a rare encore at the Met – preceded only by Luciano Pavarotti and Juan Diego Flórez – after stepping in for Flórez in La cenerentola in 2014.

‘Javier Camarena had a triumphant evening, singing with a hearty, burnished tone ... He’s a singer capable of gladiatorial power but also subtle shadings, supple phrasing and a thoroughly convincing Italian flavor.’

New York Times ‘In Javier Camarena, it was clear the company had a new star, a rival to fellow tenors Juan Diego Flórez and Lawrence Brownlee for the title of ‘King of the High Cs.’ Mr. Camarena's voice combines the flexibility and high range usually associated with the ‘tenore di grazia’ type with an unusual depth and richness of timbre.’

New York Observer £30 £26 £22 £18 £16

Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 25 February (Bryan Hymel & Irene Roberts), 16 March (Ekaterina Siurina & Charles Castronovo) and 14 June (Mariella Devia)

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Alexander Gavrylyuk piano Schubert Piano Sonata in A D664 Chopin Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Nocturne in C minor Op. 48 No. 1; Polonaise in Ab Op. 53 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor Op. 28 Rachmaninov Études-tableaux Op. 39: No. 1 in C minor; No. 2 in A minor; No. 5 in Eb minor; No. 6 in A minor; No. 7 in C minor; No. 9 in D Balakirev Islamey

Mika Bovan

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Friday 15 April 7.30 pm

Alexander Gavrylyuk, born in Ukraine in 1984, confirmed his place among the finest artists of his generation as winner of the 2005 Arthur Rubinstein Alexander Gavrylyuk International Piano Master Competition. His probing interpretations of Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, on disc and in the concert hall, have attracted critical superlatives and favourable comparisons with benchmark recordings by past greats. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

London Pianoforte Series

Avex Recital Series

Yuji Hori

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Saturday 16 April 1.00 pm

Nobuyuki Tsujii piano Chopin 12 Études Op. 10 Chopin The Four Ballades: No. 1 in G minor Op. 23; No. 2 in F Op. 38; No. 3 in Ab Op. 47; No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 The first of three lunchtime concerts in the Avex Recital Series features Japanese pianist, Nobuyuki Tsujii making his Wigmore Hall debut. A joint Gold Medal winner at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and a musician of ‘unparalleled excitement’ (Observer ), Nobuyuki Tsujii performs Chopin’s much-loved Études Op. 10 and Ballades.

All seats £20

Nobuyuki Tsujii

This concert will be 90 minutes in duration, without an interval.

Presented by Avex Classics International.

Avex Recital Series is kindly sponsored by Tarisio – Fine Instruments and Bows Tickets also on sale for concerts in the Avex Recital Series on 21 May (Akiko Suwanai violin & Enrico Pace piano) and Saturday 18 June (Sayaka Shoji violin & Jonathan Gilad piano).

Elias String Quartet Simon Crawford-Phillips piano Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 Britten String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 25 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34

Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 16 April 7.30 pm

Simon Crawford-Phillips joins the Elias String Quartet in Brahms’s monumental Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34, a milestone work from the composer’s early maturity. The Quartet begins with Haydn’s Op. 54 No. 2, a tour de force of violin virtuosity, and continues with Britten’s adventurous First String Quartet of 1941, written in the garden toolshed of his wartime hosts in California.

Elias String Quartet

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Simon Crawford-Phillips

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Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101 Brahms String Sextet in G Op. 36

Hanya Chlala

Elias String Quartet Kungsbacka Piano Trio

Benjamin Ealovega

Brahms composed the last of his three piano trios during the summer of 1886, in a rented villa near Lake Thun in Switzerland. Clara Schumann praised Elias String Quartet Kungsbacka Piano Trio her friend’s ‘wonderfully gripping’ work, commending ‘its power of thought, its gracefulness, its poetry’. Members of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio join the Elias String Quartet in Brahms’s G major String Sextet, a work of Schubertian warmth and lyricism. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Schumann Röselein, Röselein!; Die Blume der Ergebung; Mädchen-Schwermut; Nachtlied; Einsamkeit; Meine Rose; Die Sennin; Abendlied (Op. 107 No. 6); Requiem (Op. 90 No. 7) Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Ravel Deux mélodies hebraïques Britten A Charm of Lullabies Op. 41

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Ruby Hughes soprano Julius Drake piano

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Sunday 17 April 3.00 pm

Ruby Hughes graduated as a cellist before returning to study voice and winning the 2009 London Handel Singing Competition. Her programme for this recital explores Schumann’s later songs, including four of the composer’s Ruby Hughes settings of verse by Nikolaus Lenau and the ‘Requiem’ he added to his Op. 90 collection in response to mistaken news of the poet’s death.

Julius Drake

All seats £15

Song Recital Series Sunday 17 April 7.30 pm

Schubert Romanze (D114); An Laura, als sie Klopstocks Auferstehungslied sang; Der Geistertanz; Stimme der Liebe (D187); Naturgenuss; Totenkranz für ein Kind; An mein Klavier; Grablied auf einen Soldaten; An den Tod; Die Forelle; Morgenlied (D685); Frühlingsglaube; Der Jüngling auf dem Hügel; Der Blumen Schmerz; Der Wachtelschlag; Schwanengesang (D744); Selige Welt; Todesmusik; Schatzgräbers Begehr; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Der Musensohn

Kaupo Kikkas

Julian Prégardien tenor James Baillieu piano

Marco Borggreve

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Sunday 17 April 11.30 am

Julian Prégardien

James Baillieu

Schubert’s early ‘Romanze’, written in 1814, catches the Gothic tale of a maiden imprisoned by her uncle in a castle tower. Scene-painting and story telling flow throughout Julian Prégardien’s recital. The tenor’s programme includes the rarely heard ‘Todesmusik’, operatic in intensity, and the pastoral beauty of ‘Der Musensohn’, among the last but not least of Schubert’s Goethe settings. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs/Introducing James Baillieu

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Monday 18 April 1.00 pm

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Hagen Quartet Schubert String Quartet in G D887 In his final years Schubert absorbed lessons learned from the late string quartets of Beethoven.

His String Quartet in G D887 stands among the most adventurous of all his chamber compositions, operatic in the power of its drama and the impact of its lyrical themes. The Hagen Quartet, formed in 1981, has developed its engrossing interpretation of the work over many years in performance at the highest level.

All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Hagen Quartet

Monday 18 April 7.30 pm

Hagen Quartet Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 György Kurtág Hommage à Mihály András (12 Microludes) Op. 13 Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 There is an edge of anxiety and restlessness about both of the works in the first half of this concert. The Hagen Quartet pairs Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2, an impassioned product of the composer’s late teens, with György Kurtág’s Hommage à Mihály András, completed in 1978. The programme closes with Schumann’s exquisite String Quartet in A minor, dedicated to the composer’s friend Mendelssohn. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Harald Hoffmann

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Hagen Quartet

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IRISH CULTURE IN BRITAIN: A CENTENARY CELEBRATION Tuesday 19 April 1.00 pm Micheál Ó’Súilleabháin Wednesday 20 April 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Ann Murray DBE Masterclass Thursday 21 April 6.30 pm – 7.00 pm Keynote Address Thursday 21 April 7.30 pm Gala Concert Friday 22 April 11.00 am – 12 noon Masterclass Showcase Recital Sunday 24 April 3.00 pm Pre-Concert Talk Sunday 24 April 4.00 pm Ensemble Marsyas/Peter Whelan John Gilhooly OBE has directed a major part of London’s contribution to the Ireland 2016 centenary programme. He is very pleased to play a significant role at this pivotal moment in relations between Ireland and the UK, and to help, through culture, the strengthening of this important bond of friendship and reconciliation, recognising and enhancing further Ireland’s reputation for cultural excellence over the past century. His week-long festival is one of the highlights of the global celebrations, and aims to underline the extensive and productive network of contacts between both countries, which has been especially fruitful in the fields of music and literature.

Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme

Tuesday 19 April 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin piano THE CAROLAN CELEBRATION Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Chair of Music and Founder/Director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, is noted for his development of a uniquely Irish traditional piano style.

Mícheál makes a much-anticipated Wigmore Hall debut with the first performance of a new series of suites for solo piano, edited from the eighteenthcentury Irish harp music of Turlough O’Carolan.

The music of this nomadic blind traditional harper, known simply as Carolan to his Anglo-Irish patrons, represents a sonic encodement of a rapidly changing Ireland.

All seats £15

Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

London Pianoforte Series/Irish Culture in Britain: A Centenary Celebration

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Llyˆr Williams piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Op. 79; Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90; 6 Bagatelles Op. 126; Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’

Benjamin Ealovega

Tuesday 19 April 7.30 pm

Welsh pianist Llyˆr Williams continues his complete Beethoven cycle at Wigmore Hall by tackling one of the most formidable musical monuments in the piano literature, the all-encompassing, strikingly complex ‘Hammerklavier’. According to Beethoven scholar Lewis Lockwood, the work signalled ‘a turning point … in the history of the piano sonata’.

Williams prefaces the work with two contrasting compositions, including the highly charged Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, and Beethoven’s final work for piano, the Op. 126 Bagatelles. This series continues with three further concerts in the 2016/17 Season. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Llyˆr Williams

London Pianoforte Series

Ann Murray DBE Masterclass Over the course of her long and distinguished career, Ann Murray DBE has performed on the world’s leading opera and concert platforms.

She is held in the highest affection by Wigmore Hall’s audience, not least for her many recitals here in partnership with Graham Johnson and with the Songmakers’ Almanac. The charismatic mezzo-soprano, born and raised in Dublin, returns to Wigmore Hall for an afternoon masterclass in which she will work with selected students and alumni from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, accompanied by Dearbhla Collins.

Sian Trenberth

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Wednesday 20 April 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

All seats £4

Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Ann Murray DBE

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/London Pianoforte Series/Irish Culture in Britain: A Centenary Celebration

Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Sir Harrison Birtwistle Bogenstrich – Lied ohne Worte; Bogenstrich – Wie eine Fuge; Bogenstrich – Variationen Sean Shepherd Cello Sonata* (world première) Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2

Eric Richmond

Anssi Karttunen cello Nicolas Hodges piano

Leander Lammertink

Wednesday 20 April 7.30 pm

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

Anssi Karttunen and Nicolas Hodges range across more than two centuries of repertoire for cello and piano, embracing Anssi Karttunen Nicolas Hodges everything from the concentrated expression of Beethoven’s Op. 102 No. 2 to Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Bogenstrich (‘Bow-stroke’) of 2006–09. Their programme also contains the world première of a new Cello Sonata by American composer Sean Shepherd, specially commissioned by Wigmore Hall. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

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Centenary Ireland Irish Ambassador H.E. Daniel Mulhall gives the keynote address on 100 years of Ireland, including culture.

Free to concert ticket holders (no extra ticket required)

Pictured right: H.E. Daniel Mulhall, Irish Ambassador

Kristin Speed

Sian Trenberth

Ann Murray DBE

Tara Erraught Tina Foster

Anthony Riordan

Ailish Tynan Garreth Wong

Ailish Tynan soprano Ann Murray DBE mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught mezzo-soprano Robin Tritschler tenor Gavan Ring baritone Lucy Wakeford harp Jonathan Ware piano Finghin Collins piano Michael Collins clarinet RTÉ Contempo String Quartet

Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 21 April 7.30 pm

Choirs from:

British and Irish national anthems Solo piano works by Schubert and Field Schubert songs to include: An die Musik; Heidenröslein; Die Forelle; Die Sterne (D939); Licht und Liebe; Nacht und Träume; Erlkönig; Ellens Gesang III (Ave Maria); Der Hirt auf dem Jonathan Ware Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock); Ständchen (D920) Gerald Barry String Quartet No. 1* (revised) (world première) Irish songs to include: Balfe I dreamt that I dwelt in Marble Halls Trad/Irish Galway Bay; She moved thro’ the fair J L Molloy The Kerry Dance; The Salley Gardens (arr. Britten); The lark in the clear air (arr. Stanford); I have a bonnet trimmed with blue; Phil the Fluter’s Ball Head The ships of Arcady; A Blackbird Singing Lambert She is far from the land Trad/Irish Danny Boy; Molly Malone

Gavan Ring Mark Stedman

GALA CONCERT

Robin Tritschler

Lucy Wakeford Benjamin Ealovega

Royal Irish Academy of Music Royal Academy of Music Kaupo Kikkas

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Thursday 21 April 6.30 pm – 7.00 pm

Finghin Collins

Michael Collins

*Co-commissioned by RTÉ and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Following this concert, Ann Murray DBE will be presented with The Wigmore Medal, in recognition of her significant international career.

RTÉ Contempo String Quartet

This Gala honours those who died at Easter 1916, Irish and British, and all the soldiers who lost their lives in the Great War. This concert will be 2 hours and 30 minutes in duration, with an interval. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme

Song Recital Series /Chamber Music Season/Irish Culture in Britain: A Centenary Celebration

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Friday 22 April 11.00 am – 12 noon

Masterclass Showcase Recital With students and alumni from the Royal Irish Academy of Music who took part in the masterclass with Ann Murray DBE, accompanied by Dearbhla Collins.

All seats £4

Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Irish Culture in Britain: A Centenary Celebration

Angela Hewitt Masterclass Celebrated for her Bach interpretations and the dazzling brilliance, vitality and wit of her readings of works by everyone from Rameau, Couperin and Ravel to Mozart, Beethoven and Messiaen, Angela Hewitt has gathered a vast store of experience and a wealth of insight into the art of performance.

The Canadian pianist shares her perceptive thoughts and opinions on musical interpretation in this masterclass session with postgraduate pianists from the four London music colleges.

Mai Wolf

Friday 22 April 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm

£8 concs £6

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Angela Hewitt

Borodin Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83 Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; Grosse Fuge in B b Op. 133

Keith Saunders

Friday 22 April 7.30 pm

For the latest in its Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle, the Borodin Quartet presents a programme rich in contrasts. Shostakovich’s Fourth Quartet evokes the emotional depths of song and the spirit of folksong, while Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge strives to reach the outer limits of the universe through the art of counterpoint. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by the Benefactor Friends of Wigmore Hall

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Borodin Quartet

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season

Angela Hewitt piano Haydn Piano Sonata in Ab HXVI:46 Schubert Moments Musicaux D780: No. 1 in C; No. 2 in Ab & No. 3 in F minor Haydn Piano Sonata in G HXVI:40; Piano Sonata in B minor HXVI:32 Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D784 Haydn Fantasia in C HXVII:4

Bernd Eberle

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Saturday 23 April 7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt’s pianism has been hailed for its lyricism and sense of rhythmic nuance. She directs her artistry to a thrilling combination of works, framing three of Schubert’s Moments Musicaux in her recital’s first half with Haydn’s early Piano Sonata in A flat and the quixotic humour of his later Piano Sonata in G. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

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Angela Hewitt

Sibelius String Trio in G minor Mozart Divertimento in E b K563

Simon Weir

Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra Mozart wrote his Divertimento in E flat K563 for his friend the Viennese merchant Michael Puchberg. This superb work, the first ever trio for violin, viola and cello, was probably written for performance to a small private audience. Principal players of Aurora Orchestra offer Mozart’s score in company with Sibelius’s early String Trio in G minor, serious and intense in mood. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/ The Mozart Odyssey

3D model of Aurora Orchestra

Sunday 24 April 3.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk JS COUSSER AND THE IRISH STATE MUSICK AT DUBLIN CASTLE Professor Samantha Owens introduces John Sigismond Cousser’s work The Universal Applause of Mount Parnassus ahead of the concert. £4

Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Irish Culture in Britain: A Centenary Celebration Sunday 24 April 4.00 pm

Ensemble Marsyas Peter Whelan director, harpsichord Samuel Boden tenor (Apollo) Mhairi Lawson soprano (Calliope/Polymnia) Emilie Renard mezzo-soprano (Thalia/Terpsichore) Chloe Morgan soprano (Clio/Euterpe) Sarah Brady soprano (Melpomene/Urania) Niamh O’Sullivan mezzo-soprano (Erato) Cousser The Universal Applause of Mount Parnassus Handel Eternal source of light divine

This concert is dedicated to HM Queen Elizabeth II in the week of her 90th birthday.

Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme

Early Music and Baroque Series/Irish Culture in Britain: A Centenary Celebration

Samuel Boden Miriam Kaczor

All seats £15

Peter Whelan

Emilie Renard

Chloe Morgan

Mhairi Lawson Mark Stedman

Ensemble Marsyas and guest soloists perform an Ode written for the birthday celebrations of Queen Anne in Dublin, 1711, composed by John Sigismond Cousser, a student of Lully and ‘Master of State Musick’ at Dublin Castle.

Katie Glastonbury

Robert Bridgens

Ensemble Marsyas

Raphaëlle Photography

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Sunday 24 April 11.30 am

Sarah Brady

Niamh O’Sullivan

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Borodin Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F# minor Op. 108; String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122 Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 127

Keith Saunders

Sunday 24 April 7.30 pm

Sorrow pervades Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 11, woven into its fabric by a composer all too familiar with grief and loss.

The Borodin Quartet prefaces the work with the short String Quartet No. 7, a score distilled down to leave the essence of emotional expression. Beethoven’s Op. 127, the first of his late quartets, points to the eternal serenity that lies beyond the chaos of humanity’s struggle for survival. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Borodin Quartet

Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle Monday 25 April 1.00 pm

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Benjamin Ealovega

Borodin Quartet Michael Collins clarinet Tchaikovsky Album pour enfants Op. 39 (arr. for string quartet by R. Dubinsky) Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 The late Rostislav Dubinsky, the Borodin Quartet’s founding first violinist, fashioned a delightful arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s Album pour enfants for string quartet, enhancing the music’s playfulness and also highlighting its romantic qualities. The Borodins are joined by Michael Collins for a performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, among the great masterworks of chamber music. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Ny Che Goyang /Aram Nuri Arts Center

Michael Collins

Borodin Quartet

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Robert Schumann Sängers Trost; Dein Angesicht; Es leuchtet meine Liebe; Mein altes Ross; Schlusslied des Narren Brahms Es reit ein Herr und auch sein Knecht; Schwesterlein; Es steht ein Lind; Jungfräulein, soll ich mit euch gehn; Da unten im Tale Clara Schumann Sie liebten sich beide; Warum willst du and’re fragen; Geheimes Flüstern; Er ist gekommen Robert Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35

Monika Rittershaus

Werner Güra tenor Christoph Berner piano

Monika Rittershaus

Monday 25 April 7.30 pm

Werner Güra

Christoph Berner

Werner Güra and Christoph Berner have cultivated a sixth sense of communication in their critically acclaimed partnership. They begin by exploring the five songs of Schumann’s Op. 127, two of which were originally conceived as part of the original version of Dichterliebe, before presenting works from Brahms’s Deutsche Volkslieder together with four enchanting songs by Clara Schumann. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.

To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Song Recital Series

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The English Concert Christian Curnyn guest director, harpsichord

Eric Richmond

Tuesday 26 April 7.30 pm

Marais Suite from Alcyone Haydn Symphony No. 44 in E minor ‘Trauer’ Rameau Suite from Les Boréades Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A K201 The English Concert returns to Wigmore Hall with guest director Christian Curnyn to perform two suites from French opera-ballets, Marin Marais’s Alcyone and Rameau’s Les Boréades. This typically inventive programme challenges preconceptions of baroque and classical timelines: Les Boréades, a landmark of high baroque opera, was written in 1763, while the 30-year-old Haydn was developing foundations of the new classical style in Vienna. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series Richard Haughton

Christian Curnyn

The English Concert

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The annual auditions for this famous singing competition, founded in memory of one of the UK’s best loved contraltos, attract capacity houses from both devoted lovers of vocal art and students of singing.

Salzburger Festspiele/Franz Neumayr

Semi-Final of the Competition for the Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2016

Angus McBean

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Wednesday 27 April 1.30 pm – 6.00 pm

All seats £18 students £10 Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship Fund

Pictured right: Christina Gansch, winner of the 2014 Kathleen Ferrier Award

Rolf Hind piano SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES PIANO SONATA NO. 2 WORLD PREMIÈRE Rolf Hind Thus Have I Heard Hans Abrahamsen Ten Studies (UK première) Simon Steen-Andersen Rerendered (for piano and two assistants) Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Piano Sonata No. 2* (world première)

Alexander Banck-Petersen

Wednesday 27 April 7.30 pm

*Co-commissioned by Nottingham Lakeside Arts, the University of Nottingham and the Sound Festival in association with the University of Aberdeen, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Rolf Hind’s recital features the world première of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s Second Piano Sonata, a major new work commissioned by Wigmore Hall from the octogenarian composer. Hind, an acclaimed pianist-composer, considers Rolf Hind impermanence and transcendence in his own work Thus Have I Heard, which recalls the opening lines of Buddhist scriptural texts, reflecting the aural tradition of the Buddha’s teachings. The programme also includes the keenly awaited UK première of Ten Studies (1984–98

by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen, who refers to his creation as ‘studies of the piano’s character or soul.

A soul that has been created by all the music … written for the instrument, from its childhood until today.’ £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series

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Thursday 28 April 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Performance Join us for a performance by quartets that took part in the National Young String Quartet Weekend earlier in the year at Chetham’s School of Music.

Free (ticket required)

Supported by the Leverhulme Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Julien Mignot

Quatuor Ebène Gautier Capuçon cello

Michael Tammaro

Thursday 28 April 7.30 pm

Schubert String Quintet in C D956 Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133 French cellist Gautier Capuçon, one of the foremost cellists of his generation, joins Quatuor Ebène for the first half of a concert comprising two of the greatest of all chamber music compositions. Schubert’s String Quintet stands here as the sublime complement to Beethoven’s Op. 130 String Quartet, performed with its original finale, the cosmic, ultimately consoling Grosse Fuge.

Quatuor Ebène

Gautier Capuçon

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season

Final of the Competition for the Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2016

Angus McBean

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Friday 29 April 6.00 pm – 10.00 pm NB starting time

The annual auditions for this famous singing competition, founded in memory of one of the UK’s best loved contraltos, attract capacity houses from both devoted lovers of vocal art and students of singing. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 There will be an Interval Supper from 8.20 pm – 9.30 pm. All tables in the Wigmore Hall Restaurant must be pre-booked. To reserve a table for dinner, please call the Restaurant on 020 7258 8292.

Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship Fund

Pictured right: Gemma Lois Summerfield, winner of the 2015 Kathleen Ferrier Award

Christophe Rousset director, harpsichord Gilone Gaubert-Jacques violin Jivka Kaltcheva violin Emmanuel Jacques cello

Nancy Glor

Les Talens Lyriques

Ignacio Barrios Martinez

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Saturday 30 April 7.30 pm

Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano ARCADIAN CANTATAS FROM ROME TO VENICE Christophe Rousset

Ann Hallenberg

Scarlatti Cantata: Dall’oscura magion dell’arsa Dite (L’Orfeo) Corelli Trio Sonata in D minor Op. 3 No. 5 Vivaldi Cantata: Perché son molli RV681 Handel Trio Sonata in G Op. 5 No. 4 HWV399 Handel Cantata: Notte placida e cheta HWV142 Ann Hallenberg returns to Wigmore Hall with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset to perform chamber cantatas

by Alessandro Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Handel infused with warmth and fiery passion. The Swedish mezzo-soprano’s visionary readings of Baroque music, together with her appearances on the world’s leading opera stages, have triggered rave reviews. She opens this recital with Dall’oscura magion dell’arsa Dite, Scarlatti’s heart-melting response to the myth of Orpheus, and explores the seductive melodic lines of Vivaldi’s Perché son molli before charting the yearning emotions of Handel’s Notte placida e cheta, an exquisite product of the composer’s apprentice years in Italy. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

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How to get to Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM 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