Wigmore Hall Diary July 2016

July 2016 Julia Fischer INSIDE: Florian Boesch Ian Bostridge & Lars Vogt Doric String Quartet Mahan Esfahani Igor Levit Christian McBride & Chick Corea Francesco Piemontesi Quatuor Van Kuijk Nathalie Stutzmann & Orfeo 55 Roderick Williams and many more

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Cover: Julia Fischer © Felix Broede

Sophie Gent

Matthew Truscott Gerard Collett

TRIOS AND SOLOS BY THE MOST FAM’D MASTERS

Purcell Sonata in Four Parts No. 9 in F Z810; Suite in A minor Z663; Sonata in Three Parts No. 10 in A Z799; Sonata in Three Parts No. 6 in C Z795 Croft Ground for harpsichord (formerly attr. Purcell) Purcell Sonata in Three Parts No. 9 in C minor Z798; Sonata in Four Parts No. 6 in G minor Z807 Corelli Trio Sonata in G Op. 2 No. 12 Thomas Dunford ‘Ciaccona’; Trio Sonata in C Op. 3 No. 8 Dowland The King of Denmark’s Galliard; Lachrimae Kapsberger Toccata No. 6 from Libro primo d’intavolatura di lauto Dalza Calate ala spagnola Handel Trio Sonata in F HWV392

Jonathan Manson Peer Lindgreen

Sophie Gent violin Matthew Truscott violin Jonathan Manson viola da gamba, cello Thomas Dunford lute Trevor Pinnock harpsichord, organ

Marco Borggreve

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Marco Borggreve

Friday 1 July 7.30 pm

Trevor Pinnock

Wigmore Hall’s acclaimed Purcell series closes in fitting style with a survey of the composer’s chamber music.

Trevor Pinnock, a pioneer of period-instrument performance, is joined by an outstanding trio of string players in a programme complete with Purcell’s Italianate sonatas in four parts and Handel’s Trio Sonata in F, probably written during his apprentice years in Italy. £40 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective Saturday 2 July 7.30 pm

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Nathalie Stutzmann Orfeo 55

director, contralto

Vivaldi Concerto in D for lute and strings RV93; Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro RV169; Stabat Mater RV621 Vivaldi Agitata infido flatu from Juditha triumphans; Ritornello di Medoro from Orlando Furioso; Io sento in questo seno from Arsilda, regina di Ponto; Cor mio, che prigion sei from L’Atenaide; Largo from Bassoon Concerto in G RV493; Gelido in ogni vena from Farnace; Concerto for Strings in C RV109; Gemo in un punto e fremo from L’Olimpiade Nathalie Stutzmann’s artistry stems from early studies in piano, bassoon, chamber music and conducting. Her rich contralto voice was developed during lessons with her mother, the soprano Christiane Stutzmann, and subsequently at the École d’Art Lyrique de l’Opéra de Paris with the legendary Hans Hotter. In addition to performing with the world’s leading orchestras and being an esteemed recitalist, she has flourished in recent years as a conductor.

Stutzmann returns to Wigmore Hall with her ensemble Orfeo 55 to explore the energy, emotion and lyrical beauty of some of Vivaldi’s finest arias, complete with his plangent setting of Stabat Mater. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Supported by Dunard Fund

Simon Fowler

DR – VG

Early Music and Baroque Series

Nathalie Stutzmann

Orfeo 55

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Uwe Neumann

Philippe Cassard piano Cédric Pescia piano

Bernard Martinez

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Sunday 3 July 11.30 am

Mozart Sonata in F for piano duet K497 Debussy Six épigraphes antiques Schubert Fantasie in F minor D940

Two artists blessed with rich experience as solo artists and chamber musicians share the stage to create the irresistible force of a piano duet. Philippe Cassard and Cédric Pescia open with Mozart’s most Philippe Cassard serious work for piano four-hands and probe Debussy’s atmospheric portraits of everything from ‘Pan, god of the summer wind’ to ‘a tomb without name’.

Cédric Pescia

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 3 July 3.00 pm

Royal College of Music Junior Department Young Artists Programme to include performances by the winners of the 2016 RCMJD Chamber Music Prize and other leading soloists from the RCM Junior Department.

The RCM Junior Department offers advanced training to young musicians aged 8 – 18, providing individually-tailored programmes of instrument, voice and composition lessons, supported by chamber music, orchestra, choir and musicianship classes. This concert will feature performances from some of the RCMJD’s leading soloists together with the winners of the RCMJD 2016 Chamber Music Prize.

Royal College of Music Juniors

All seats £15 Royal College of Music Junior Department

Sunday 3 July 7.30 pm

Royal College of Music String Showcase Concert

Emily Sun Aiga Ozo

Yume Fujise

Jamal Aliyev Jana Koelmel

Laia Braun, Yume Fujise, Jian Ren, Emily Sun violin Bryony Gibson-Cornish viola Jamal Aliyev, Yoon-Kyung Cho, Yaroslava Trofymchuk cello Jon Mikel Martínez Valgañón double bass Hin-Yat Tsang piano Maria Tarasewicz piano REFLECTIONS

Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A b Op. 70 Prokofiev Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis Szymanowski Three Paganini Caprices Op. 40 Schubert Erlkönig D328 (arr. for solo violin by Ernst) Martinu° Variations on a theme by Rossini Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’

Yoon-Kyung Cho

Jon Mikel Martínez Valgañón

The Royal College of Music annual summer concert showcases some of the RCM’s most outstanding young string players. This year’s programme, ‘Reflections’, features works where the composer himself has arranged the work of another composer or one of his own pieces, such as Schubert’s ever popular ‘Trout’ Quintet. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 (£5 RCM Students) Royal College of Music

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Monday 4 July 1.00 pm

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Lukas Beck

Florian Boesch baritone Justus Zeyen piano Schumann Es leuchtet meine Liebe; Die feindlichen Brüder; Die beiden Grenadiere; Märzveilchen; Muttertraum; Der Soldat; Der Spielmann; Verratene Liebe Wolf Der Schäfer; Phänomen; Wanderers Nachtlied; Anakreons Grab; Harfenspieler I–III; Prometheus

Austrian baritone Florian Boesch is widely regarded to be among Florian Boesch Justus Zeyen today’s foremost interpreters of Lieder, a consummate artist blessed with the breadth of tonal colours, keen intelligence and insight required to create the alchemical marriage between words and music. He is joined for this concert by Grammy Award nominee Justus Zeyen.

All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Monday 4 July 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Pianist Igor Levit and violinist Julia Fischer discuss their lives as performers, as well as the evening programme, alongside Annette Morreau. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Monday 4 July 7.30 pm

Julia Fischer violin Igor Levit piano Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Op. 12 No. 1; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2; Violin Sonata No.3 in E b Op. 12 No. 3; Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23 Julia Fischer and Igor Levit launch their survey of Beethoven’s violin sonatas with the three strikingly individual works of the composer’s Op. 12, a popular success following their publication in the late 1790s. Creative striving and a tumult of ideas hallmark the Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 23, a work of daring experiment and invention. £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’.

Felix Booede and Gregor Hohenberg

Chamber Music Season

Julia Fischer and Igor Levit

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Julia Fischer violin Igor Levit piano Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’; Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1; Violin Sonata No.7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2; Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Op. 30 No. 3

Gregor Hohenberg

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Harald Hoffmann

Tuesday 5 July 7.30 pm

Beethoven reflects on the individual’s relationship to the natural world and the blissful qualities of nature in his lyrical ‘Spring’ Sonata Julia Fischer Igor Levit of 1800. The three sonatas of Op. 30 date from 1802, the time of the Heiligenstadt Testament, Beethoven’s heart-breaking letter about the despair and anguish caused by his hearing loss. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Wednesday 6 July 7.30 pm Felix Broede

Julia Fischer violin Igor Levit piano

Simon Jay Price

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Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’; Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96 Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata was written for George Polegreen Bridgetower, former leader of the Brighton Pavilion Orchestra, while Julia Fischer Igor Levit the warm-hearted Violin Sonata No. 10 was conceived in 1812 for a private performance given by the composer’s patron and piano pupil Archduke Rudolph of Austria and the French violinist Pierre Rode. Both are virtuoso works that deliver rich rewards to performers and audiences alike. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle

Chamber Music Season Thursday 7 July 7.30 pm

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Ian Bostridge tenor Lars Vogt piano Schubert Hymne I–4; Marie; Nachthymne; Einsamkeit; Sängers Morgenlied I & II; Das war ich; Auf der Riesenkoppe; Der Tod und das Mädchen; Ihr Grab; Schwestergruss; Am See; An die Leier; Im Haine Schubert’s songs often subvert ideas of high art by using the simplest musical material to fathom spiritual depths.

The four hymns that open Ian Bostridge’s recital, for example, match music of the greatest economy to profoundly moving words by Novalis, while the haunting quality of ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ (‘Death and the Maiden’) arises directly from its insistent melodic and rhythmic repetitions. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Neda Navaee

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Lars Vogt

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Ian Bostridge

Christian McBride double bass Chick Corea piano For the second concert in his curatorship of the Wigmore Hall Jazz Series, star bassist Christian McBride is joined by the great jazz pianist Chick Corea. A DownBeat Hall of Famer, NEA Jazz Master and 22-time Grammy winner, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of vibrant creativity and a staggering artistic output. Following their spectacular collaboration on the 2014 trio album ‘Trilogy’, McBride and Corea join forces again for a special duo recital that promises to be one of the jazz highlights of the year.

dickzimmerman.com/Courtesy of Chick Corea Productions

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R R Jones

Friday 8 July 7.00 pm NB starting time

Christian McBride

Chick Corea

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

AT WILTON’S MUSIC HALL

Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano Ondrˇej Havelka and his Melody Makers Programme to include: Cole Porter (arranged by Juraj Bartoš) Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye; I Get a Kick Out of You; I’ve Got You Under My Skin; Night and Day; Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love; What Is This Thing Called Love?

James Mackenzie and Tony Simpson and White Light Ltd

Friday 8 July 7.30 pm (repeated Saturday 9 July 7.30 pm)

As part of Magdalena Kožená’s series this season, the mezzo-soprano has partnered with Ondrˇej Havelka and his Melody Makers for this Wilton’s Music Hall extraordinary Wigmore Series concert taking place at Wilton’s Music Hall.

Wilton’s is one of the last and oldest surviving grand music halls in the world, offering a vibrant blend of culture, heritage, learning and participation, with a diverse programme of theatre, opera, dance and music. £50 £35 £15 Tickets only available from Wigmore Hall Box Office Please note that best available seats will be assigned at your chosen price at the time of purchase

Song Recital Series / Wigmore Hall Jazz Series /Celebrating Magdalena Kozˇená Wilton’s Music Hall 1 Graces Alley London E1 8JB Nearest stations: Aldgate East, Tower Hill, Tower Gateway & Shadwell

Mathias Bothor/Deutsche Grammophon

For directions and details of the venue, please visit www.wiltons.org.uk or call 020 7702 2789.

Magdalena Kožená

Ondrˇej Havelka and his Melody Makers

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Friday 8 July 10.00 pm

Zoë Martlew cello REVUE Z – ONE WOMAN CABARET WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY ZOË MARTLEW Revue Z, the spectacular cabaret creation from pigeonhole-defying cellist, performer, composer, blogger, broadcaster and educator Zoë Martlew, comes to Wigmore Hall for an unmissable late-night outing. Since its inaugural London performance eight years ago, this uproarious, moving, sexy, hilarious and defiantly off-the-wall show has stormed to success at festivals in the UK, Denmark, Iceland, Vietnam and Canada.

All seats £15

Wigmore Lates

Zoë Martlew

Saturday 9 July 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

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Come and Sing: Music and Monarchs Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring songs written for, and by, monarchs from around the world and across the ages. 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

Jonathan Plowright piano Bach/Busoni Chorale Prelude ‘Nun komm der Heiden Heiland’ BWV659; Chorale Prelude ‘Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’ BWV639 Brahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 Liszt Funérailles S173 No. 7 Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV1004 Schumann Carnaval Op. 9

Dianae Shaw

Saturday 9 July 7.30 pm

Liszt, notes Alfred Brendel, ‘revealed the full horizon of what the piano was able to offer’. Jonathan Plowright’s recital includes the composer’s elegy to lives and dreams destroyed by the bloody suppression of the Hungarian revolution of 1848. He also presents Busoni’s brilliant Bach transcriptions and Schumann’s collection of miniature portraits in sound, Carnaval, inspired by a turbulent and short-lived love affair. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

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Jonathan Plowright

Saturday 9 July 7.30 pm James Mackenzie and Tony Simpson and White Light Ltd

AT WILTON’S MUSIC HALL

Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano Ondrˇej Havelka and his Melody Makers Repeat of concert on Friday 8 Juy £50 £35 £15 Tickets only available from Wigmore Hall Box Office Please note that best available seats will be assigned at your chosen price at the time of purchase

Song Recital Series / Wigmore Hall Jazz Series / Celebrating Magdalena Kozˇená

Wilton’s Music Hall

Wilton’s Music Hall 1 Graces Alley London E1 8JB Nearest stations: Aldgate East, Tower Hill, Tower Gateway & Shadwell

Jirˇi Sláma

For directions and details of the venue, please visit www.wiltons.org.uk or call 020 7702 2789.

Magdalena Kožená

Sunday 10 July 11.30 am Christian Steiner

Benjamin Beilman* violin Andrew Tyson piano

Giorgia Bertazzi

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Ondrˇej Havelka and his Melody Makers

Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454 Janácˇek Violin Sonata Schubert Rondo in B minor D895 Benjamin Beilman’s impassioned performances have earned plaudits from leading critics and invitations to appear at the world’s most prestigious venues.

The American violinist, now in his mid-20s, made his international breakthrough in 2010 as winner of the Montreal International Music Competition.

His programme is, by turns, meditative and playful.

Benjamin Beilman

Andrew Tyson

£13 concs £11 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

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Sunday 10 July 7.30 pm

Tine Thing Helseth trumpet Kathryn Stott piano Honegger Intrada Jennifer Higdon Trumpet songs Martinu˚ Sonatina for trumpet and piano Rolf Wallin Elegie Pilss Sonata for trumpet and piano Bartók Romanian Folk Dances (transcribed for trumpet) Grieg Haugtussa Op. 67 ‘The Mountain Maid’ (transcribed for trumpet) Tine Thing Helseth’s ‘ability to transform the brassy trumpet sound into something soft, supple, lyrical and delectable needs to be heard to be believed’, notes the Evening Standard. In recent seasons the Norwegian artist has established a winning partnership with Kathryn Stott, touring together worldwide with programmes that show the versatility and variety of the trumpet. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Cicconi Massi

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Tine Thing Helseth

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Kathryn Stott

Monday 11 July 1.00 pm

Ensemble Marsyas Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Mozart Quintet in Eb for piano and winds K452 Beethoven Quintet in Eb for piano and winds Op. 16 Kristian Bezuidenhout and Ensemble Marsyas use period instruments to explore the colourful soundworld of two masterworks for piano and winds. ‘I myself consider it to be the best work I have ever composed’, Mozart told his father soon after the première of his K452. Beethoven studied its score and modelled his Op. 16 on Mozart’s work. £13 concs £11

Marco Borggreve

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Ensemble Marsyas

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Kristian Bezuidenhout

The Monday Platform

Ferio Saxophone Quartet Jackson/Beilby Duo:

Charlotte McMurray

Monday 11 July 7.30 pm

Martyn Jackson violin Annie Beilby viola

Ferio Saxophone Quartet Kaupo Kikkas

Mozart Duo in G K423 Martinu˚ Three Madrigals for violin and viola Schubert Erlkönig D328 (arr. for violin and viola by Wolff) Handel/Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin and viola Laura Bowler Ludovico Technique Pierné Introduction et variations sur une ronde populaire Guillermo Lago From Ciudades: Tokyo; Sarajevo; Addis Ababa

These ensembles are both finalists from the Royal Over-Seas League’s 2015 Annual Music Competition. The Ferio Saxophone Quartet has just released its first recording, ‘Polychroma’, and will be appearing at the Martyn Jackson and Annie Beilby Edinburgh Fringe, St John’s, Smith Square and numerous other festivals throughout 2016. The Jackson/Beilby Duo are both members of the renowned Cavaleri Quartet, and they have performed as a duo at major festivals in Austria, Spain and London. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 ROSL ARTS (Royal Over-Seas League, Reg. Charity No. 306095)

Kirckman Concert Society Series

Foyle-Štšura Duo: Michael Foyle violin Maksim Štšura piano

Benjamin Ealovega

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Tuesday 12 July 7.30 pm

Lutosławski Partita for violin and piano Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor K304 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Prokofiev 5 Melodies Op. 35bis Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano The Foyle-Štšura Duo, praised for playing of ‘compelling conviction’ by the Daily Telegraph, is the 2015 winner of the Salieri-Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition and the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Duo Competition. The current season includes performances at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, New York’s Chamber Music Festival, the Estonia Michael Foyle and Maksim Štšura Concert Hall, Tallinn and Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. For their Wigmore Hall debut Michael and Maksim present a versatile programme ranging from Mozart to Lutosławski. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Kirckman Concert Society

Supported by LankellyChase Foundation (Reg. Charity No. 1107583)

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Francesco Piemontesi piano Mozart Piano Sonata in C K279; Piano Sonata in F K280; Piano Sonata in Bb K281; Fantasia in C minor K475; Piano Sonata in C minor K457

Benjamin Ealovega

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Wednesday 13 July 7.30 pm

Mozart’s piano sonatas require brilliant musicianship and a profound feeling for humanity. Francesco Piemontesi, hailed as ‘a Mozartean of rare refinement and wisdom’, makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall, opening his recital with a fine product of Mozart’s late teens and pairing the passionate C minor Sonata with the Fantasia in C minor. This cycle of Mozart’s works for piano continues on Thursday 15 December 2016, and stretches into 2017 with two further recitals. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall

London Pianoforte Series/The Mozart Odyssey

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Francesco Piemontesi

Thursday 14 July 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Join ethnomusicologist Theodore Levin and Director of Aga Khan Music Initiative Fairouz Nishanova, alongside musicians performing in the evening concert, for a discussion with musical excerpts and a short film. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Thursday 14 July 7.30 pm Sebastian Schutyser/AKTC

Sirojiddin Juraev dutar, tanbur, sato Alim Qasimov Ensemble Alim Qasimov vocals, daf Fargana Qasimova vocals, daf Rafael Asgarov balaban Rauf Islamov kamancha Zaki Valiyev tar Javidan Nabiyev naghara Linked by a millennium-old tradition of classical music known variously as mugham, maqom, and muqam, the celebrated Azerbaijani vocalists Alim Qasimov and his daughter, Fargana, accompanied by their four-man ensemble, are paired with Tajik instrumentalist Sirojiddin Juraev, the leading dutar player of his generation and an influential composer of new tradition-based music.

Sebastian Schutyser/AKTC

Sirojiddin Juraev

CLASSICAL MASTERS OF AZERBAIJAN AND TAJIKISTAN

This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes in duration, including an interval

The concert will be followed by a Question and Answer session in the auditorium. This is free to concert ticket holders and will take place immediately after the performance. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

This series (10 March, 14 July & 2 December 2016) is generously presented in collaboration with the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. www.akdn.org/music

AGA KHAN TRUST FOR C ULTURE Music Initiative

World Music Series /The Other Classical Musics Pictured right: A young man playing the lute: a sixteenth-century miniature in watercolour, gold and ink, adorning the poetry collection of Sultan Ibrahim Mirza. Mashhad, Iran, 1852. © Aga Khan Music Initiative

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Alim Qasimov and Fargana Qasimova

Friday 15 July 7.30 pm

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Doric String Quartet BRACING CHANGE NEW STRING COMMISSIONS Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 64 No. 6 Donnacha Dennehy New commission* (world première) Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ *Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, Carnegie Hall, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Over the past decade the Doric String Quartet has established its place as one of the finest British quartets of its generation, achieving the highest standards of ensemble and refinement in everything from mainstream repertoire to contemporary compositions. The group’s latest Wigmore Hall performance opens with the last of Haydn’s Op. 64 quartets, famed for its wit and virtuosity, and includes the world première of a work commissioned from the outstanding Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy, known for the vitality, freshness and expressive power of his music. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

George Garnier

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Doric String Quartet

Saturday 16 July 11.00 am – 12 noon

TROUPE: The Bad Mood FAMILY CONCERT For ages 7 plus

Camilla Whitehall

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Donnacha Dennehy

TROUPE invites sound-makers everywhere to join them for a noisy morning at Sonic HQ! HQ does its best to keep the world ticking tidily along but when a Bad Mood arrives on the grid, HQ’s sound-makers realise they haven’t a clue how to reach it.

Join musicians from TROUPE in an interactive family adventure featuring movement, storytelling and music by Bach, Cage and Ravel. Weaving together brand new poetry with music from across the centuries, they present an eclectic performance of humour, colour and invention.

TROUPE

Children £8 Adults £10

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Jean-Baptiste Millot

Alexander Kniazev cello Nikolai Lugansky piano

James McMillan

Saturday 16 July 7.30 pm

Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 Two charismatic Russian artists focus on works charged with intense energy and emotion.

Brahms’s confidante, Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, first noted the ‘torrent-like’ force of his Second Cello Sonata, a term also apt to describe Rachmaninov’s mighty Op. 19 and the irresistible power of its writing for cello and piano. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Alexander Kniazev

Nikolai Lugansky

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

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Sunday 17 July 11.30 am

Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition Winner’s Concert

Quatuor Van Kuijk Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ ‘These four young Frenchmen made the music smile, and would have made Beethoven do the same’, noted the Observer after the Quatuor Van Kuijk emerged as winners of the 13th Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. The ensemble returns to perform a programme that includes the poignant String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’, written soon after the onset of Smetana’s deafness. £13 concs £11 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

Quatuor Van Kuijk

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The Brook Street Band Rachel Harris baroque violin Farran Scott baroque violin Tatty Theo baroque cello Carolyn Gibley harpsichord John Crockatt baroque viola Lisete da Silva baroque flute Leo Duarte baroque oboe Joel Raymond baroque oboe Nathaniel Harrison baroque bassoon

Kate Mount

Sunday 17 July 7.30 pm

Nicki Kennedy soprano Matthew Brook bass-baritone THE BROOK STREET BAND 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS Handel Trio Sonata in C HWV403; ‘Oxford’ Water Music Suites; Trio Sonata in G Op. 5 No. 4 HWV399; Apollo e Dafne HWV122

Richard Shymansky

As part of its 20th Anniversary celebrations, The Brook Street Band returns to its roots with an all-Handel programme, presenting some of the composer’s best-loved chamber music and The Band’s favourite repertoire. The Band’s core members are joined by musical friends, familiar faces from its line-up over the past two decades.

Hanya Chlala

The Brook Street Band

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Matthew Brook

Ailish Tynan

Garreth Wong

Anna Huntley Falk Kastell

SONGS OF SEDUCTION

Beethoven Der Kuss Brahms Ständchen (Op. 106 No. 1); Willst du, dass ich geh?; Vergebliches Ständchen Mozart An Chloe Wolf Auf dem grünen Balkon & Wenn du zu den Blumen gehst from Spanisches Liederbuch Loewe Erlkönig Schubert Erlkönig Schoenberg Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm; Lockung Quilter Love’s philosophy Shostakovich Chermookaya Clara Schumann Lorelei Liszt Die Loreley Gershwin Lorelei Debussy La chevelure from Chansons de Bilitis Benjamin Appl Duparc Phidylé Strauss Cäcilie Satie Je te veux Schumann Waldesgespräch Schumann Songs from Spanisches Liederspiel Op. 74

Robin Tritschler Kaupo Kikkas

Ailish Tynan soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Robin Tritschler tenor Benjamin Appl* baritone James Baillieu piano

Kaupo Kikkas

Monday 18 July 7.30 pm Benjamin Ealovega

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Nicki Kennedy

James Baillieu

James Baillieu is joined by four strikingly gifted singers in a programme spanning the gamut of emotions and an equally broad spectrum of song, from riveting settings of Goethe’s ‘Erlkönig’ by Loewe and Schubert to three contrasting responses to the Lorelei legend by Clara Schumann, Liszt and Gershwin. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Song Recital Series/Introducing James Baillieu

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Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

Bernhard Musil/DG

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Tuesday 19 July 7.30 pm

Bull Chromatic (Queen Elizabeth’s) Pavan and Galliard K87 Kalabis Aquarelles Op. 53 Bull Fantasia XII D’Anglebert Pièces de clavecin (selection) Borup-Jørgensen Tarocco per il cembalo Op. 124 Kaija Saariaho Jardin secret II for harpsichord and tape Daniel Kidane Six Etudes Scarlatti Sonatas (a selection) Few artists have done more to project the harpsichord into the concert mainstream than Mahan Esfahani. Recently lauded by The Times as ‘a superstar whose musicianship, imagination, virtuosity, cultural breadth and charisma far transcends the ivory tower in which the harpsichord has traditionally been placed’, he returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme of virtuoso pieces from past and present. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series Wednesday 20 July 7.30 pm

Tim Horton piano Brahms 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119 Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 in F# minor Op. 11 Schoenberg Drei Klavierstücke Op. 11; 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’

Benjamin Ealovega

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Mahan Esfahani

In high demand as a chamber musician and solo artist, Tim Horton made his international breakthrough soon after graduating from Trinity College Cambridge in 1994 when he replaced Alfred Brendel in two performances of Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle. His programme for this recital includes Schoenberg’s aphoristic Drei Klavierstücke and Beethoven’s all-encompassing ‘Appassionata’. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust London Pianoforte Series

Elizabeth Watts soprano Roger Vignoles piano THOSE SUMMER NIGHTS: THE POEMS OF THÉOPHILE GAUTIER Vierne Beaux papillons blancs Lalo L’esclave Gounod La chanson du pêcheur Bizet Absence Duparc Lamento Hahn Infidélité Chausson La caravane Debussy Les papillons; Coquetterie posthume; Séguidille Falla 3 mélodies de Théophile Gautier Berlioz Les nuits d’été

Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 21 July 7.30 pm Marco Borggreve

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Tim Horton

Elizabeth Watts

Roger Vignoles

Elizabeth Watts and Roger Vignoles celebrate high summer with a scintillating programme of French song. Their programme includes some of the finest of all mélodies, including Debussy’s seductive ‘Séguidille’ and the haunting lines of Duparc’s ‘Lamento’. The verse of Théophile Gautier, polemicist, poet and storyteller, supplies the thread that links each piece and proved such an inspiration to Berlioz in his Les nuits d’été. £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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Music for the Moment Mary Reid harp Hao Zi Yoh piano A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS

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Friday 22 July 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

If you are, or you know someone who is living with dementia, please join us for this afternoon concert. This relaxed performance includes a captivating programme by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music.

You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm No ticket is required for this concert, but if you have any access requirements please call the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Friday 22 July 7.30 pm

Kirckman Concert Society Series

Costanza Principe piano Bach Italian Concerto in F BWV971 Schubert Drei Klavierstücke D946 Schumann Gesänge der Frühe Op. 133 Janácˇek Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 36 (Revised version) Italian pianist Costanza Principe makes her Wigmore Hall debut with a programme ranging from the freshness of Bach’s Italian Concerto to Rachmaninov’s passionate romanticism, while exploring a wide variety of styles through the moving lyricism of Schubert’s Drei Klavierstücke D946 and gems by Schumann and Janácˇek. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Kirckman Concert Society

Supported by LankellyChase Foundation (Reg. Charity No. 1107583)

Saturday 23 July 7.30 pm

Roderick Williams baritone Gary Matthewman piano

Johan Persson

Final Evening Concert of the 2015/16 Season

Benjamin Ealovega

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Constanza Principe

Schubert An die Freude; Laura am Klavier; Die Erwartung; Klage um Ali Bey; Bei dem Grabe meines Vaters; Abendlied (D499); Am Grabe Anselmos; An eine Quelle; Täglich zu singen; Am Bach im Frühling; Trost im Liede; An die Musik; Der Kampf; Sehnsucht (D636); Pax vobiscum; Todesmusik; Schatzgräbers Begehr; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Der Pilgrim; Dithyrambe Roderick Williams

Gary Matthewman

Schubert: The Complete Songs reaches its midpoint, a milestone marked by the uplifting melody of Schiller’s ‘An die Freude’, created almost a decade before Beethoven set the same text at the close of his Ninth Symphony. Roderick Williams also embraces the more serious matters of ‘Todesmusik’ and ‘Schatzgräbers Begehr’ before closing with another joyful Schiller setting, ‘Dithyrambe’. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

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Sunday 24 July 11.30 am

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Final Coffee Concert of the 2015/16 Season

Armida Quartet Mozart String Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’ Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 14 in Ab Op. 105 Since winning the ARD International Music Competition in 2012, the Armida Quartet has forged ahead with critically acclaimed performances and an outstanding debut CD of works by Bartók, Ligeti and Kurtág. The Berlin-based ensemble takes to the Wigmore Hall stage with Mozart’s K589, written for Frederick William II of Prussia, and Dvorˇák’s final string quartet, a work of great lyricism and tonal warmth. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Felix Broede

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Armida Quartet

Musical Portraits FOUR-DAY SUMMER COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS Be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, and create your own works of art and music with Wigmore Hall Learning’s Associate Artists Ignite. Finish the course by performing your own pieces onstage at Wigmore Hall.

This course is for new and returning participants with Autism Spectrum Disorders aged 10 – 14 years.

For more information contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email ruth@turtlekeyarts.org.uk.

Free (application required)

In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Monday 25 – Thursday 28 July 11.00 am – 3.30 pm

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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

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