Wigmore Hall Diary April 2017 by Wigmore Hall

April 2017 Bernarda Fink INSIDE: Basel Chamber Orchestra & Daniel Hope Le Concert Spirituel Sarah Connolly Thomas Dunford Janina Fialkowska Hagen Quartet Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Sol Gabetta Alexander Melnikov Jean-Guihen Queyras Les Talens Lyriques Nikolaj Znaider & Piotr Anderszewski and many more

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Saturday 1 April 1.00 pm

Yuji Hori

Avex Recital Series 2017

Nobuyuki Tsujii piano Bach Italian Concerto in F BWV971 Mozart Piano Sonata in Bb K570 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’

The first of three lunchtime concerts in the Avex Recital Series 2017 features Japanese pianist, Nobuyuki Tsujii. A joint Gold Medal winner at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Nobuyuki Tsujii Competition and a musician of ‘unparalleled excitement’ (Observer), Tsujii performs Bach’s Italian Concerto and sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven. ‘Nobuyuki Tsujii proved he has a sensitive ear, a light touch and the sort of technique that needs no allowances. ... Tsujii was greeted with an enormous, sustained ovation – justifiably so’ Andrew Clark, Fina ‘His opening chords were spectral wisps but they swelled to a ripe fullness, after which he was off in an interpretation of notable restraint and refinement ... he dominated the Adagio with easy grace, giving its lyrical lines a sweet sincerity, and avoiding all temptation to milk the music for emotional effect. His way with the Scherzo was beautifully judged, with brilliant passage-work and exuberant power. His encore – Liszt’s ‘La campanella’ – was exquisite’ Michael Church, Independent This recital will be 90 minutes in duration, without an interval All seats £20 Promoted by Avex Classics International

The Avex Recital Series is kindly sponsored by Tarisio – Fine Instruments and Bows

Saturday 1 April 7.30 pm

EXAUDI James Weeks director Arcadelt Il primo libro di madrigali (a selection) James Weeks New work (world première) Monteverdi Ecco mormorar l’onde; Quell’augellin che canta Wert Vezzosi augelli Salvatore Sciarrino 12 Madrigali (a selection) Since its formation 15 years ago, EXAUDI has expanded the boundaries of repertoire for vocal ensemble and explored compelling combinations of contemporary and early repertoire. The clarity and focus of the ensemble’s sound, produced by outstanding individual singers performing as chamber musicians, ideally suits its immersion here in two of Monteverdi’s most expressive madrigals and works by two Franco-Flemish composers who made their reputations in Italy. The madrigal form’s vivacity is also present in EXAUDI’s selections from Salvatore Sciarrino’s 12 Madrigali, settings of nature-themed Japanese haiku created for the 2007 Salzburg Festival, and in James Weeks’s new work for EXAUDI. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Matthew Andrews

Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series

EXAUDI

Dante Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130

Phillip Pratt

Sunday 2 April 11.30 am

Emotional intensity and shrewd programming belong to the Dante Quartet’s checklist of qualities. The group, winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Chamber Music Award 2007, sets Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 2, with its famous stop-start ending, in company with the inexhaustible invention and creative refinement of Beethoven’s late String Quartet in B flat. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Dante Quartet

Ari Rossner

Nikolaj Znaider violin Piotr Anderszewski piano

Lars Gundersen

Sunday 2 April 7.30 pm

Janácˇek Violin Sonata Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96 Two outstanding artists perform a programme of compelling contrasts and rich invention, moving from the turbulent energy of Janácˇek’s Violin Sonata of 1914 to Beethoven’s radiant Op. 96 by way of the intense passions of Schumann’s Second Violin Sonata. Nikolaj Znaider was recently hailed by The Arts Desk as ‘a fine thinker among musicians’, while his recital partner Piotr Anderszewski scored a rave review in the Guardian for his Wigmore Hall 25th anniversary recital in February 2016.

Nikolaj Znaider

Piotr Anderszewski

£40 £35 £30 £25 £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

Apollon Musagète Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Arensky String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 35

Marco Borggreve

Monday 3 April 1.00 pm

Anton Arensky, best known today for his D minor Piano Trio, dedicated the second of his two string quartets to the memory of Tchaikovsky and built one of its movements around his late friend’s ‘Legend’ from Children’s Songs. The Apollon Musagète Quartet prefaces Arensky’s impassioned composition with Haydn’s evergreen ‘Lark’ Quartet. £15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Apollon Musagète Quartet

Monday 3 April 7.30 pm Tall Wall Media

Rosenblatt Recitals 2016/17

Ivan Magrì tenor Iain Burnside piano Bellini Malinconia, ninfa gentile; Ma rendi pur contento Donizetti Una furtiva lagrima from L’elisir d’amore; Angelo casto e bel from Le duc d’Albe Verdi Quando le sere al placido from Luisa Miller; La mia letizia infondere from I Lombardi alla prima crociata; Parmi veder le lagrime from Rigoletto Flotow Aria from Martha Massenet Pourquoi me réveiller from Werther Tosti A Vucchella; La serenata; Canzoni d’Amaranta; L’alba sepàra dalla luce l’ombra De Curtis Non ti scordar di me Gastaldon Musica Proibita Op. 5 Puccini Che gelida manina from La bohème

Ivan Magrì

Iain Burnside

Ivan Magrì, the second singer of the season to have studied under Luciano Pavarotti, is known for his fresh, light tenor, and has won a number of European singing competitions. Having made a name for himself performing in opera houses and festivals in Italy, France and Japan, Rosenblatt Recitals welcomes him for his London recital debut. ‘The Sicilian tenor boasts a naturally powerful tenor which he used without restraint … the cocky aplomb with which he delivered his arias suited the character of the libertine count perfectly’ Bachtrack £30 £26 £22 £18 £16

Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 6 March (Tara Erraught & James Baillieu), 9 May (Lise Davidsen & James Baillieu) and 5 June (Nahuel Di Pierro & Alphonse Cemin)

YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2016/17

Alexander Ullman piano

Kaupo Kikkas

Tuesday 4 April 1.00 pm

Bach Toccata in C minor BWV911 Schumann Papillons Op. 2 Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite (arr. Pletnev) Stravinsky The Firebird (3 transcriptions: trans Guido Agosti) In 2011 Alexander Ullman won First Prize at the Franz Liszt Competition in Budapest. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and the Royal College of Music, this season he debuts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Manchester Camerata and embarks on a recital tour of Argentina and Colombia. ‘To Ravel’s G-major Piano Concerto he brought poise, flair and style’ Classical Source, Cadogan Hall Kensington Symphony Orchestra, January 2016 ‘Ullman followed in the best interpretative tradition, Alexander Ullman flaunting mastery and absolute assuredness’ Il Nuovo Pesaro, Orchestra Regionale delle Marche: Tchaikovsky Concerto, May 2015 ‘He heard the score with immense clarity and vision, and brought it to life as if the composer were watching over his shoulder’ Huffington Post, Montréal Symphony Orchestra, June 2014 £13 concs £11 YCAT (Reg. Charity No. 326490)

YCAT is grateful for support from the Fresh Leaf Charitable Foundation, the International Music and Art Foundation, the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake for this series.

Tuesday 4 April 7.30 pm

Jaques Samuel Pianos Intercollegiate Piano Competition 2016 Winner’s Recital

Jonathan Ferrucci piano Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826 Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue Albéniz El Corpus Christi en Sevilla from Iberia Book I Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Italian-Australian pianist Jonathan Ferrucci, winner of the Jaques Samuel Pianos Intercollegiate Competition of 2016, presents a varied programme – ranging from Bach to Franck, to Albéniz and Ravel – which explores different uses of the piano across time and traditions. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10

Sponsored by Fazioli and S. W. Mitchell Capital LLP

Wednesday 5 April 7.30 pm

Alexander Melnikov piano Debussy Préludes Books I & II Debussy rose from a humble family to become one of the greatest of all French composers, dubbed by the writer and poet Gabriele D’Annunzio as ‘Claude de France’. His two books of Préludes for piano reflect their creator’s openness to visual and literary imagery, and his uncanny ability to conjure soundscapes from the keyboard. Alexander Melnikov’s interpretations of these sublime miniatures have developed over many years and have been informed by his deep study of the period.

Marco Borggreve

Jonathan Ferrucci

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series Thursday 6 April 7.30 pm

Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Ensemble Prisma Wien Thomas Fheodoroff director, violin

Stefan Reichmann

Alexander Melnikov

Schubert 5 Minuets D89 Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1 (arranged for strings by Thomas Fheodoroff ) Haydn Arianna a Naxos Dvorˇák String Quintet in G Op. 77 (mvts 2 & 3) Dvorˇák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs) Op. 99 (arranged for voice, oboe and strings by Christian Mondrup)

Stefan Schweiger

Vienna occupied the heart of a vast empire during the years in which the works in this programme were conceived, one held together by a curious mix of repression, incompetence and time-honoured traditions. The Habsburg Empire, for all its faults, provided ideal conditions for a remarkable flourishing of music and musicians. Prisma Wien, founded in 2006 as a flexible ensemble dedicated to playfulness, truth and vision, makes its Wigmore Hall debut under the direction of violinist Thomas Fheodoroff. Their programme is cut from rich material, complete with Haydn’s dramatic scena Arianna a Naxos and Dvorˇák’s Biblical Songs performed by Wigmore Hall favourite Bernarda Fink. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall This concert will be followed by the annual Patron Friends dinner. To book for the dinner please contact the Friends Office on 020 7258 8230.

Song Recital Series /Chamber Music Season

Ensemble Prisma Wien

Bernarda Fink

Music for the Moment A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for this relaxed afternoon concert with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm.

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Friday 7 April 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Free (ticket required)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts

Music for the Moment

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Marco Stroppa Ay, there’s the rub Ross Daly Karsilamas Sokratis Sinopoulos Nihavent Saz Semai György Kurtág 3 pieces from Signs, Games and Messages Bijan & Keyvan Chemirani Percussion improvisation: ‘7 beat’ Lutosławski Sacher Variation Traditional Homayoun Krzysztof Penderecki Capriccio per Siegfried Palm Franck Leriche 5 beat Traditional Sunday Morning (arr. Sokratis Sinopoulos); Hasapiko

Jean-Guihen Queyras

Sokratis Sinopoulos Gilles Abegg

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Bijan Chemirani zarb, percussion Keyvan Chemirani zarb, percussion

Marco Borggreve

Friday 7 April 7.30 pm

Repertoire adventures are key to Jean-Guihen Queyras’s work. The French cellist, who spent part of his childhood in Algeria, Bijan Chemirani Keyvan Chemirani has developed a close partnership with the genre-crossing Greek musician Sokratis Sinopoulos, master of the Byzantine lyra, and percussionists Bijan and Keyvan Chemirani. Together they evoke the distinctive sounds, traditional and freshly imagined, of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean region. Their rich programme is woven together with works for solo cello by Stroppa, Penderecki, Lutosławski and Kurtág. £40 £35 £30 £25 £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’

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series

Saturday 8 April 1.00 pm

Parkhouse Award Final 2017 Four ensembles of piano with strings, from duos to piano quartet, will compete for the 2017 Parkhouse Award. 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 who will be announced on the day. Will the audience agree with the jury? All seats £5 (free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Parkhouse Award, and Students) GBZ Management

The Parkhouse Award is sponsored by The Gordon Foundation and The Tertis Foundation

David Parkhouse

Mitch Jenkins

Toby Spence tenor Julian Milford piano

Patrick Allen

Saturday 8 April 7.30 pm

Britten On this Island Tippett Boyhood’s End Poulenc Tel jour, telle nuit Finzi Till Earth Outwears Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Toby Spence has secured his place on the international stage as an artist of great refinement, blessed with deep feeling for poetic nuance and a voice capable of projecting bold dramatic contrasts. His programme explores five major vocal works, including Poulenc’s crystalline settings of Eluard and Britten’s heartfelt response to the sonnets of Michelangelo.

Toby Spence

Julian Milford

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Colin Carr cello Thomas Sauer piano

Peter Schaaf

Jo Schofield

Sunday 9 April 11.30 am

Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 1 in G BWV1027 Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Colin Carr’s Wigmore Hall recitals invariably draw a loyal following, such is the power of his artistry. He is joined by Thomas Sauer in a programme of works by the Three Bs, opening with Bach’s lyrical Sonata in G before embracing Beethoven’s Handel-inspired Op. 5 No. 2 and the radiant tonal beauty of Brahms’s late Cello Sonata No. 2.

Thomas Sauer

Colin Carr

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset director, harpsichord Jocelyn Daubigney flute

Eric Larrayadieu

Sunday 9 April 7.30 pm

BACH ET LA FRANCE Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1059 Leclair Flute Concerto in C Op. 7 No. 3 Rameau Orchestral Suite from Castor et Pollux Les Talens Lyriques Caroline Doutre

Eric Larrayadieu

Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques have opened countless ears to the rich expressive possibilities and dashing musical vitality of Baroque music over the past quarter of a century. Named after the subtitle of one of Rameau’s operas, Les fêtes d’Hébé, Rousset’s band is famed worldwide for its entrancing interpretations and profound understanding of early French repertoire. The group here turns its acclaimed collective expertise to the French dance rhythms of Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 1 and the Orchestral Suite from Rameau’s opera Castor et Pollux, presenting each work in company with instrumental concertos of terrific virtuosity and spirit. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by Dunard Fund

Early Music and Baroque Series

Christophe Rousset

Jocelyn Daubigney

Sussie Ahlburg

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Peter Warren

Monday 10 April 1.00 pm

Torsten Rasch A Welsh Night (London première) James MacMillan The Children Douglas Wilkie Three Elizabethan Songs Vaughan Williams Four Last Songs Ireland Earth’s call; If there were dreams to sell; My true love hath my heart Sarah Connolly’s artistry arises from her feeling for words and their meaning, allied to deep reserves of emotion and vocal colour. The mezzo-soprano joins forces with regular duo partner Joseph Middleton for a fascinating lunchtime Sarah Connolly Joseph Middleton programme, complete with the London première of Torsten Rasch’s commission for the 2016 Three Choirs Festival, and James MacMillan’s haunting The Children. £15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Monday 10 April 7.30 pm

Ensemble Plus Ultra Victoria O Domine Jesu Christe; Lamentations for Maundy Thursday; Vere languores nostros; Lamentations for Good Friday; O vos omnes Lobo O quam suavis est, Domine; Lamentations for Holy Saturday Tejeda Miserere mei Deus; Rex autem David Lobo Ave Regina caelorum; Versa est in luctum There’s a mystical quality about Tomás Luis de Victoria’s sacred music, conditioned not least by the composer’s deep commitment to the spiritual life. Ensemble Plus Ultra enters Holy Week with a programme coloured by the Easter season’s heightened emotions, powerfully present in Tejeda’s spellbinding Miserere, Victoria’s Lamentations and the works of his younger contemporary, Alonso Lobo, the 400th anniversary of whose death we mark this year. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Ensemble Plus Ultra

Tuesday 11 April 7.30 pm Marco Borggreve

Henk Neven baritone Imogen Cooper piano Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

Sussie Ahlburg

Since its first performance at Wigmore Hall in 1903, Die schöne Müllerin has been recognised as one of the great treasures of western music. Henk Neven, among the most imaginative of the younger generation of song recitalists, joins forces with Imogen Cooper, a truly great Schubertian, to offer fresh insights into this enduring masterwork. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Henk Neven

Imogen Cooper

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle This concert will be aproximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval

Song Recital Series Wednesday 12 April 7.30 pm

Le Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet director LEÇONS DE TÉNÈBRES Couperin Première Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint Charpentier Répons: Unus ex discipulis meis H114 Lochon Tuere nos mortales (instrumental) Couperin Seconde Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint Charpentier Répons: Eram quasi agnus innocens H115 Chein Introït from Missa pro defunctis (Requiem) Couperin Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint Charpentier Répons: Una hora non potuistis H116 Delalande Miserere mei Deus Secumdum S27 Holy Week was a time for profound reflection and sacred ritual at the court of Louis XIV. Le Concert Spirituel, in its 30th anniversary year, evokes the intense atmosphere of musical worship in the era of the Sun King with a programme built around François Couperin’s three Leçons de Ténèbres, written in 1714 for the Abbaye Royale de Longchamp near Paris, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Tenebrae Responses. The concert also offers a rare chance to hear part of the Requiem setting by Louis Chein, a chaplain and chorister at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, and an instrumental version of Lochon’s Marian motet Tuere nos mortales. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in duration, without an interval

JP Campion

Early Music and Baroque Series

Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel

Thursday 13 April 7.30 pm

Marco Borggreve /Naïve

Sergey Khachatryan violin Lusine Khachatryan piano Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Regular duo partners Sergey and Lusine Khachatryan are in demand at the world’s leading concert halls, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Carnegie Hall among them. Their latest recording of Armenian music, ‘My Armenia’, released to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian genocide, received a coveted prize at the 2016 ECHO Klassik Awards. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Sergey and Lusine Khachatryan

Friday 14 April

No performances Box Office closed Saturday 15 April 7.30 pm

Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon pianoforte Hummel Variations alla Monferrina Op. 54 Liszt Romance oubliée (for cello and piano) S132 Onslow Cello Sonata in C minor Op. 16 No. 2 Chopin Introduction and polonaise brillante in C Op. 3 Merk Variations on an Original Theme in F ‘Aux Amateurs No. 3’ Op. 14 Franchomme Nocturne Op. 15 No. 1 Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65 Steven Isserlis and Dénes Várjon catch the buoyant spirit of the mid-1800s with a delightful programme of works, which reveals the inventive brilliance of Auguste Franchomme’s Nocturne, Liszt’s Romance oubliée and one of Joseph Merk’s many tuneful pieces ‘For Amateurs’. To explore the repertoire in this recital, Várjon has specially chosen an 1847 Streicher pianoforte. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Satoshi Aoyagi

Pilvax Studio

Chamber Music Season

Steven Isserlis

Dénes Várjon

Castalian String Quartet Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Thomas Adès The Four Quarters Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’

Kaupo Kikkas

Sunday 16 April 11.30 am

Although only performed for the first time in 2011, Thomas Adès’s The Four Quarters is already firmly established in the chamber music repertoire. The work, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, occupies the centre of a fascinating programme from the Castalian String Quartet, winner of the 2015 Lyon International Chamber Music Competition. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Castalian String Quartet

No evening performance. Box Office open from 10.00 am until 2.00 pm

Alessio Bax piano Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D784 Skryabin Piano Sonata No. 3 in F# minor Op. 23 Ravel La valse

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Monday 17 April 1.00 pm

Alessio Bax, described by The New Yorker as ‘perhaps the most elegant of today’s young pianists’, places Skryabin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 at the heart of his lunchtime recital. He frames the Russian composer’s dramatic vision of ‘States of the Soul’ with Schubert’s majestic Piano Sonata in A minor D784 and Ravel’s virtuoso transcription for solo piano of La valse. £15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Alessio Bax

Monday 17 April 7.30 pm

Adrian Butterfield

Rachel Brown Jen Hart

HANDEL AND TELEMANN: LONG-DISTANCE MUSICAL FRIENDS Telemann Sonata a 4 TWV43:A1 ‘Paris’ Handel Cantata: Un alma innamorata HWV173 Telemann Cantata: Wandelt in der Liebe TWV1:1498 Telemann Quartet in E minor TWV43:e4 ‘Paris’ Handel Cantata: Tra le fiamme HWV170

Juan Manuel Quintana Robert Workman

London Handel Players Adrian Butterfield director, violin Juan Manuel Quintana viola da gamba Rachel Brown flute, recorder Laurence Cummings harpsichord Rowan Pierce soprano

Rising-star soprano Rowan Pierce, a Samling Artist, joins the London Handel Laurence Cummings Rowan Pierce Players for a programme of exquisite cantatas and chamber music by Handel and Telemann, friends and colleagues who corresponded frequently and borrowed extensively from each other in a long-distance friendship that lasted for more than half a century. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Tuesday 18 April 1.00 pm Kaupo Kikkas

YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2016/17

Nika Goricˇ soprano Jonathan Ware piano

Kaupo Kikkas

Schumann 6 Gedichte von N Lenau and Requiem Op. 90 Rachmaninov 6 Romances Op. 38 Songs by Schubert, Strauss and Debussy This summer Nika Goric˘ joined Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project and performed the role of Norina (Don Pasquale) with Slovene National Theatre. She is currently completing her studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Jonathan Ware has won the Pianist’s Prize at Wigmore Nika Goricˇ Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song and Das Lied competitions, and First Prize in the 2014 International Hugo Wolf Competition.

Jonathan Ware

‘Easily the strongest and most finished showing came from Slovenian Nika Goricˇ, deliciously crisp, pert and on the note as Suzman’s spunky Susanna’ The Times, The Marriage of Figaro, Royal Academy Opera, November 2015 ‘How Ware forms words into the keys in his piano preludes and (especially) postludes, how his fine sound positively creeps into the words, and how he, for instance, advances the strophic and musical dénouement in Goethe’s Ganymed: this is thrilling sorcery’ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Hugo Wolf Akademie with Ludwig Mittelhammer, October 2015 £13 concs £11 YCAT (Reg. Charity No. 326490)

Basel Chamber Orchestra Daniel Hope violin Bach Concerto in A minor for violin, strings and continuo BWV1041 Mendelssohn Concerto in D minor for violin and strings Martin Pavane Couleur du Temps Bartók Divertimento for Strings

Harald Hoffmann

Tuesday 18 April 7.30 pm

Contrasts and coincidences abound in the Basel Chamber Orchestra’s programme. Daniel Hope play-directs the ensemble in Mendelssohn’s youthful D minor Violin Concerto, written for the composer’s childhood friend, Ferdinand David, who also led the orchestra in his famous revival of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Bartók’s Divertimento, written for the BCO in 1939, is prefaced by Frank Martin’s lyrical Pavane in its version for strings. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season Christian Flierl

Daniel Hope

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Wednesday 19 April 12.15 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Brian Elias discusses his new work with Dr Kate Kennedy. Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wednesday 19 April 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Nicholas Daniel oboe Finzi Interlude for oboe and string quartet Op. 21 Brian Elias Oboe Quintet* (world première) Mozart String Quintet in C minor K406 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

This programme, centred on the artistry of renowned oboist Nicholas Daniel, features a new work by Brian Elias, commissioned by Wigmore Hall, together with Finzi’s intimate yet cinematic Interlude and Mozart’s String Quintet in C minor, in which the oboe takes the role of first violin. £13 concs £11

Eric Richmond

Harry Rankin

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Nicholas Daniel

Britten Sinfonia

Piers Lane piano Chopin Impromptu No. 1 in Ab Op. 29; Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Étude in E Op. 10 No. 3; Ballade No. 3 in Ab Op. 47; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54; Polonaise in F# minor Op. 44; Mazurka in A minor Op. 17 No. 4; Nocturne in B Op. 62 No. 1; Nocturne in E Op. 62 No. 2; Barcarolle in F# Op. 60

Eric Richmond

Wednesday 19 April 7.30 pm

Technical bravura, poetic reflection and heart-melting lyricism are just some of the many qualities present in Piers Lane’s all-Chopin programme, a feast of pianism comprising such exquisite miniatures as the two Op. 62 Nocturnes and the spectacular Barcarolle in F sharp Op. 60, among the composer’s final and finest compositions. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Piers Lane

RNIB Study Day PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED MUSICIANS

Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 20 April 10.00 am – 4.30 pm

This practical study day is an opportunity for blind and partially sighted musicians to explore pathways into the classical music industry and career development, including how to make the most out of opportunities for sponsorship. The day will include discussion, talks and the opportunity to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage. Free (application required) For more information and to book, contact James Risdon, RNIB Music Officer on 020 7391 2273 or mas@rnib.org.uk.

In partnership with RNIB

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Thursday 20 April 7.30 pm Charles Plumey

Thomas Dunford lute LACHRIMAE Dowland Preludium; Fortune; A fancy; Semper Dowland semper dolens; Mrs Winter’s Jump; A Dream; The King of Denmark’s Galliard Kapsberger Toccatas Nos. 6 & 1 from Libro primo d’intavolatura di lauto Dalza Calate ala spagnola Dowland Melancholy Galliard; Round Battle Galliard; La mia Barbara; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; Farewell; Frog Galliard; Lachrimae A wealth of critical superlatives bear witness to Thomas Dunford’s star status. His debut disc prompted BBC Music Magazine to describe him as ‘the Eric Clapton of the lute’. Following studies at the Paris Conservatoire and Schola Cantorum in Basel, his career has gathered momentum in company with many of the world’s leading Early Music ensembles and soloists. Dunford’s Wigmore Hall solo debut places Dowland’s highly charged works at the core of a captivating programme of Renaissance showpieces. All seats £20

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Thomas Dunford

Early Music and Baroque Series

Kaupo Kikkas

Benjamin Appl baritone James Baillieu piano

David Jerusalem

Friday 21 April 1.00 pm NB starting time

HEIMAT Schubert Seligkeit Reger Des Kindes Gebet Schubert Der Einsame Schreker Waldeinsamkeit Brahms Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund Grieg Zur Rosenzeit Richard Strauss Allerseelen Schubert Drang in die Ferne; Der Wanderer an den Mond Adolf Strauss Ich weiß bestimmt, ich werd’ dich wiedersehen Schubert Das Heimweh; Der Wanderer Poulenc Hyde Park Benjamin Appl Vaughan Williams Silent Noon Bishop Home, sweet home Warlock The Bachelor; My own country Ireland If there were dreams to sell Grieg Ein Traum

James Baillieu

Images of home and of belonging run as themes through Benjamin Appl’s latest recital. The German baritone, named Gramophone 2016 Young Artist of the Year, launches Heimat, his latest recording on the Sony label, with a programme shot through with nostalgia, yearning and joy inspired by those places or surroundings that make us feel at home. £15 concs £13

Song Recital Series

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Michael Fabiano tenor Julius Drake piano

Arielle Doneson

Friday 21 April 7.30 pm

Programme to include songs by Duparc, Liszt, Toscanini, Puccini, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Beach Michael Fabiano captivated audiences at the Royal Opera House with his debut as Lensky in Eugene Onegin in 2015. ‘I can’t think of a Lensky at Covent Garden who has held the audience so spellbound in forty years of Onegin-going’, observed The Sunday Times. The American tenor is joined by Julius Drake for his first Wigmore Hall recital. Michael Fabiano

Julius Drake

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Saturday 22 April 11.30 am NB starting time

Purcell School Chamber Concert Start your weekend with a morning concert performed by the brilliant young musicians of The Purcell School, consisting of an eclectic hour-long programme of chamber works of various contrasting forces, by ensembles that have been carefully chosen through pupil auditions. The Purcell School is one of the UK’s leading specialist music schools and holds the UNESCO Mozart Gold Medal in recognition of its unique contribution to music, education and international culture. ‘… it gives me great hope for the future of the music profession when I hear what these young people are capable of ’ Sir Simon Rattle CBE This concert will be approximately one hour in duration, without an interval Student from The Purcell School

£13 concs £11 The Purcell School (Reg. Charity No. 312855)

Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Brahms Trio in Eb Op. 40 Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’

Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 22 April 7.30 pm

Brahms composed his Horn Trio in the aftermath of his mother’s death, making it one of his most profoundly personal works. Its moving blend of tenderness and sorrow is the ideal foil for the sunlit melodies of Schubert’s evergreen ‘Trout’ Quintet, the music of friends performed here by five colleagues from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Ivana Gavric´ piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’ Chopin 4 Mazurkas Liszt 3 Petrarch Sonnets S158; Rhapsodie espagnole S254

Sussie Ahlburg

Sunday 23 April 11.30 am

Ivana Gavric´ secured the BBC Music Magazine Newcomer Award in 2011 with revelatory readings of works by, among others, Janácˇek and Liszt. The Sarajevo-born British musician’s soulful artistry has matured since, drawing rave reviews and keen interest from piano connoisseurs. She returns to Wigmore Hall with a recital programme infused with striking expressive contrasts and poetic imagery. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Ivana Gavric´

Andreas Haefliger piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2 Berio Erdenklavier; Wasserklavier Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Berio Luftklavier; Feuerklavier Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17

Marco Borggreve

Sunday 23 April 7.30 pm

For the latest in his acclaimed Perspectives programmes at Wigmore Hall, Andreas Haefliger offers landmarks of the keyboard repertoire – Beethoven’s intimate Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 and Schumann’s Beethoven tribute, the Fantasie in C Op. 17 – together with vibrant, virtuoso miniatures by Berio inspired by the four elements, earth, water, air and fire. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Monday 24 April 1.00 pm

Louis Lortie piano

ELIAS

Andreas Haefliger

George Benjamin Shadowlines: 6 Canonic Preludes Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 Louis Lortie recently succeeded Maria João Pires as Master in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels, further underlining his status among the world’s leading pianists. The French-Canadian musician’s lunchtime programme comprises works sure to reveal every facet of his acclaimed artistry and the limitless scope of his aesthetic imagination. £15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Louis Lortie

Monday 24 April 7.30 pm

The Monday Platform

Eblana String Trio; Lipatti Piano Quartet Beethoven String Trio in C minor Op. 9 No. 3 Dohnányi Serenade in C Op. 10 Bridge Phantasie Piano Quartet in F# minor Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47 The Eblana String Trio came together as students at the RNCM, winning all the major chamber music prizes. The trio has since developed an excellent sequence of performances; its several concerts for the PLG were extremely high in quality. The Lipatti Piano Quartet consists of four award-winners who have already performed widely and with much success. The quartet’s PLG Young Artists Spring Series concert of Bax, Francisco Coll and Maxwell Davies was received with acclaim. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Park Lane Group (Reg. Charity No. 252205)

Eblana String Trio

Lipatti Piano Quartet

Tuesday 25 April 11.00 am – 12 noon

Juice SEN SCHOOLS CONCERT Explore the voice alongside vocal ensemble Juice and presenter Sam Glazer in a dynamic and engaging concert. Expect a wide range of classical, contemporary and folk music, with lots of audience participation in both singing and body percussion. This concert is ideal for SEN students of all ages and bookers will receive a teachers’ resource pack in advance of the concert. £3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

Morag Galloway

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Juice

Janina Fialkowska piano Chopin Polonaise in Eb minor Op. 26 No. 2; Nocturne in B Op. 9 No. 3; Impromptu No. 3 in Gb Op. 51; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Waltz in B minor Op. 69 No. 2; Waltz in Ab Op. 42; Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54; Prelude in Eb minor Op. 28 No. 14; Prelude in Db Op. 28 No. 15 ‘Raindrop’; 3 Mazurkas Op. 50; Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20

Julien Faugère

Tuesday 25 April 7.30 pm

Widely acknowledged as one of today’s foremost interpreters of Chopin, Janina Fialkowska appears to be reborn every time she performs the composer’s music. The natural spontaneity and immediacy of her playing rests on almost five decades of experience and deep foundations of impeccable musicianship, unshakeable focus and intense musical creativity. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 26 April 1.30 pm NB starting time

Semi-Final of the Competition for the Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2017 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. All seats £15 Students £10 Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship Fund

Pictured right: Alessandro Fisher, joint winner of the 2016 Kathleen Ferrier Award

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Sol Gabetta cello Xenakis Dhipli zyia Jörg Widmann 24 Duos for violin and cello (a selection) Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Ligeti Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg Peter Eötvös ‘Now, Miss!’* (world première of arrangement for violin and cello) Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 Interspersed with works by CPE Bach, JS Bach and Scarlatti *Commissioned by Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Marco Borggreve

Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm Marco Borggreve

Janina Fialkowska

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Sol Gabetta

Two kindred spirits join forces for a programme packed with high energy, dramatic twists and turns, and lyrical beauty. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta offer fresh perspectives on modernity and post-modernity, complete with a new version of Peter Eötvös’s Beckett-inspired ‘Now, Miss!’, a selection of Jörg Widmann’s coruscating Duos and Kodály’s Duo for violin and cello. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Thursday 27 April 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm

Young Producers Present: Zoë Martlew and Cato Langnes What happens when a group of young people from London secondary schools programme their own concert at Wigmore Hall? What theme will inspire them? What music will they choose? We’ll find out in this concert featuring Zoë Martlew and Cato Langnes, which explores cello and electronic contemporary music, featuring a range of composers from across Europe and the USA. Find out more about this unique project at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/young-producers. Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning is a proud supporter of Arts Award, and as part of this project our Young Producers work towards achieving their Silver Arts Award.

Supported by London Stock Exchange Group Foundation

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Young Producers

Zoë Martlew

Marco Borggreve

Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Nino Chokhonelidze piano

Marco Borggreve

Thursday 27 April 7.30 pm

WIGMORE HALL /KOHN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION WINNER’S RECITAL Schubert Der Einsame; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Aufenthalt; Der Doppelgänger; Schäfers Klagelied; Auf der Brücke Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Rheinlegendchen; Lob des hohen Verstandes Schumann Tragödie I (Entflieh mit mir); Tragödie II (Es fiel ein Reif); Der Schatzgräber; Mein Wagen Milan Siljanov rollet langsam; Der Nussbaum; Die Löwenbraut Schoenberg Warum bist du aufgewacht (Nachtblumen); Warnung; Dank

Nino Chokhonelidze

Around 140 fine young singers entered the 2015 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition. Milan Siljanov emerged as the biennial event’s winner, whilst his wife Nino took the Pianist’s Prize, thanks to their final performance of great wit and panache. The duo makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a full recital programme sure to project an innate artistry and delight in bringing words and poetic phrases to life. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Friday 28 April 6.00 pm NB starting time

Final of the Competition for the Kathleen Ferrier Award 2017 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. £40 £35 £30 £25 £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: James Newby, joint winner of the 2016 Kathleen Ferrier Award

Saturday 29 April 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Come and Sing: World Folk Music Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring folk music, popular music, and other forms from around the world. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. £25 concs £19

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Come and Sing

Hagen Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73; String Quartet No. 14 in F# Op. 142; String Quartet No. 15 in Eb minor Op. 144

Harald Hoffmann

Saturday 29 April 7.30 pm

Any list of the world’s leading chamber ensembles would be incomplete without the Hagen Quartet, decisive in its contributions to the modern history of string quartet playing. The group turns to Shostakovich for its latest Wigmore Hall concert, opening with the composer’s post-war reflections on the victims of tyranny and embracing his elegiac final quartets. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season

Hagen Quartet

Martin Teschner

Caroline Goulding violin Danae Dörken piano

Jamie Jung

Sunday 30 April 11.30 am

Schubert Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Enescu Impressions d’enfance Op. 28 Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Each of the pieces in Caroline Goulding’s Wigmore Hall debut programme seduces the ear with melodic beauty. The young American violinist, joined by regular duo partner Danae Dörken, moves from Schubert’s charming ‘Sonatina’ by way of Enescu’s delightful suite of childhood impressions to the impassioned romanticism of Schumann’s Violin Sonata in D minor of 1853.

Caroline Goulding

Danae Dörken

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 30 April 7.30 pm

Hagen Quartet Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ By the time young Schubert created his String Quartet in E flat in 1813, the teenager had already completed nine other works for string quartet. The Hagen Quartet presents the composer’s tuneful early piece in company with Beethoven’s final complete quartet and Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’, a shattering confrontation with despair and human suffering. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Chamber Music Season

Hagen Quartet

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, HonFRIAM The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity No. 1024838 Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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