Wigmore Hall Diary March 2017

March 2017 Paul Lewis INSIDE: Thomas Adès Day Pierre-Laurent Aimard Leif Ove Andsnes & Marc-AndrÊ Hamelin Christian Blackshaw Hilary Hahn & Robert Levin Patricia Kopatchinskaja Igor Levit Steven Osborne Patricia Petibon The Tallis Scholars Chris Thile Alisa Weilerstein And many more

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Pre-Concert Performance Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the National Young String Quartet Weekend with a performance given by quartets that took part this year.

Benjamin Ealovega

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Wednesday 1 March 5.45 pm – 6.45 pm

Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Carducci String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122 Webern Langsamer Satz Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’

Tom Barnes

Wednesday 1 March 7.30 pm

The Carducci String Quartet responds with quicksilver speed to musical drama and shifting emotions. Its programme offers the ideal canvas for bold expression, starting with the boisterous energy of Haydn’s Op. 20 No. 4 before turning to the sombre world of Shostakovich’s F minor Quartet and culminating in the striking expressive contrasts of Beethoven’s ‘Serioso’. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Carducci String 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

Paul Lewis piano Bach Partita No. 1 in B b BWV825 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4 in E b Op. 7 Chopin Waltzes: in A minor Op. 34 No. 2; in F minor Op. 70 No. 2; in A b Op. 42 Weber Piano Sonata No. 2 in A b Op. 39

Josep Molina /Harmonia Mundi

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Thursday 2 March 7.30 pm

Paul Lewis’s pianism, eloquent and fully alive, is the result of a harmonious marriage between deep thinking about music and unrestrained physical expression in performance. His all-Beethoven programme at Wigmore Hall last season, repeated twice on the same evening, was hailed by the Guardian in a five-star review for its ‘display of pianistic depth’. Lewis turns to Beethoven again, pairing the composer’s bold Op. 7 with the lyrical grace of Bach’s Partita No. 1 before exploring a second half of heart-on-sleeve passions.

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Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

London Pianoforte Series Paul Lewis

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Mark Allan/BBC

Benjamin Ealovega

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Huw Watkins piano Oliver Knussen conductor

Amy Barton

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Friday 3 March 7.30 pm

HELEN GRIME WORLD PREMIÈRE Huw Watkins

Oliver Knussen

Clive Barda

Carter Canon for 4 – Homage to William Helen Grime Boulez Dérive 1 Maxwell Davies Unbroken Circle Helen Grime Piano Concerto* (world première); A Cold Spring Carter Triple Duo *Co-commissioned by BCMG’s Sound Investment scheme, and by Wigmore Hall with the generous support of The Marchus Trust

Helen Grime’s first commission as Wigmore Hall Composer in Residence, conceived as a vehicle for her husband Huw Watkins, occupies the heart of a programme hallmarked by musical interplay and dialogue. Oliver Knussen and BCMG gave the première of Grime’s A Cold Spring in 2009 and present its three movements in tandem with Elliott Carter’s Triple Duo, written in 1982 for three pairs of instruments.

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence is supported by The Marchus Trust

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Helen Grime Composer in Residence

Paul Lewis piano Repeat of concert on 2 March

Molina Visuals

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Saturday 4 March 7.30 pm

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

London Pianoforte Series

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Paul Lewis

Sunday 5 March 11.30 am

Arcadia Quartet; Amit Peled cello Mozart String Quartet in G K80 Schubert String Quintet in C D956 Winners of the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition and a host of other prestigious prizes, the members of the Arcadia Quartet play with an intensity that draws listeners deep into the matters of musical argument and thematic byplay. The quartet is joined by Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled in Schubert’s final chamber work, the sublime String Quintet in C. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Arcadia Quartet

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Amit Peled

Sunday 5 March 7.30 pm

RNCM Gold Medal Winners

Andres Yauri bassoon Tyler Hay solo piano James Girling guitar Abel Selaocoe cello Benjamin Powell piano Dard Bassoon Sonata in A minor Op. 2 No. 6 Andres Yauri Saint-Saëns Bassoon Sonata Op. 168 Liszt Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este S163; Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen S179 L Berkeley Allegretto from Sonatina Op. 52 No. 1 Takemitsu All in Twilight Giovanni Sollima Lamentatio Ravel Pièce en forme de habanera Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor

Tyler Hay

James Girling

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 Abel Selaocoe Benjamin Powell industry. This showcase features the winners of the 2016 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

Dowland Shall I strive with words to move; Now, O now I needs must part; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; A Dream Anon Galliarda Britten The Shooting of his Dear; I will give my love an apple; The Soldier and the Sailor Stephen Goss The Miller’s Tale for solo theorbo (world première) Purcell Retir’d from any Mortal’s sight; O solitude, my sweetest choice; When first Amintas sued for a kiss

Marco Borggreve

Carolyn Sampson soprano Matthew Wadsworth lute, theorbo

Carolyn Sampson

Matthew Wadsworth

Carolyn Sampson and Matthew Wadsworth appear to share a sixth sense, connecting one to the other in performance to reach the deepest recesses of imagination and spiritual insight. Their lunchtime programme is fuelled by the vitality of English song, with its close relationship to folk art and poetry, and by the creative genius of Dowland, Purcell and Britten.

All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital Monday 6 March 7.30 pm

Tara Erraught mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano Spohr From 6 Deutsche Lieder Op. 103: No. 2 Zwiegesang; No. 5 Das heimliche Lied; No. 6 Wach auf Lachner Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Seit ich ihn gesehen Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen Mozart Soffre il mio cor con pace from Mitridate, rè di Ponto; Voi che sapete from Le nozze di Figaro Rossini Una voce poco fa from Il barbiere di Siviglia; Cantata: Giovanna d’Arco

Kaupo Kikkas

Rosenblatt Recitals 2016/17

Christian Kaufmann

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Monday 6 March 1.00 pm

Tara Erraught

James Baillieu

Tara Erraught is ‘… a tremendously appealing and charismatic singer’ (The Washington Post ) with a penchant for engaging her audiences with unique and compelling dramatic interpretations. A resident principal soloist with the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Erraught’s recent highlights include her role debut as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at Glyndebourne and the BBC Proms. ‘Vocally and dramatically her performance was flawless’ Seen and Heard International. ‘The evening, however, belonged to the young Irish mezzo Tara Erraught as the put-upon Angelina.

With her accurate, fleet divisions and sweet disposition she won the audience’s hearts completely.’ Opera Magazine £30 £26 £22 £18 £16

Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 10 January (Maria Katzarava, Stefano la Colla & Simon Lepper), 3 April (Ivan Magrì & Iain Burnside), 9 May (Lise Davidsen & James Baillieu) and 5 June (Nahuel Di Pierro & Alphonse Cemin)

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YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2016/17

Savitri Grier violin Richard Uttley piano

Kaupo Kikkas

Kaupo Kikkas

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Tuesday 7 March 1.00 pm

Enescu Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor Op. 25 ‘dans le caractère populaire roumain’ Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Over the last year Savitri has made her debut at Carnegie’s Weill Hall and appeared as soloist with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra to critical acclaim. She appears with regular duo partner Richard Uttley, who is noted for the integrity and breadth of his musicianship as soloist, chamber musician and recording artist.

Savitri Grier

Richard Uttley

‘The highlight of the evening: an account of Chausson’s Poème for violin and orchestra, in which Savitri Grier was the wonderfully assured and lyrically poised soloist’ Guardian, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, May 2016. ‘Some of the day’s most arresting moments came in a recital by Richard Uttley. I was enthralled by his composure, lyricism and ability to hold a moment without forcing it.’ Kate Molleson, Guardian, November 2015 £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.

Alisa Weilerstein cello Inon Barnatan piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1 Barber Cello Sonata Op. 6 Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65

Jamie Jung

Tuesday 7 March 7.30 pm

Technical perfection offers Alisa Weilerstein the means to reach her ultimate goal of free-flowing, unfettered expression. The American cellist, born into a family of professional musicians in 1982, continues to develop one of today’s most compelling duo partnerships with Inon Barnatan, a kindred spirit blessed with ceaseless curiosity and passionate commitment as a music maker. Their recital programme opens with Beethoven’s Op. 102 No. 1, a work of great contrapuntal ingenuity, and includes two outstanding twentieth-century cello sonatas. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Inon Barnatan and Alisa Weilerstein

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

The Endellion String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 64 No. 4 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Sibelius String Quartet in D minor Op. 56 ‘Voces Intimae’

Eric Richmond

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Wednesday 8 March 7.30 pm

Mendelssohn’s compelling Op. 80, written shortly before his death, is arguably his most intense, troubled and impassioned composition. It is prefaced here by Haydn’s marvellously genial String Quartet in G and stands in contrast to Sibelius’s ‘Voces Intimae’, a work of symphonic sweep unlike any other in the quartet literature. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

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The Endellion String Quartet

The Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips director Isaac Regina caeli laetare; Missa de apostolis; Angeli archangeli Mouton Quis dabit oculis?

Isaac Quis dabit capiti meo aquam?; Virgo prudentissima

Richard Haughton

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Thursday 9 March 7.30 pm

The Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips have done much to revive interest in two of the greatest of all Renaissance composers.

Their programme reveals the The Tallis Scholars contemplative intensity of sacred works by Heinrich Isaac, who served the Medici court in Florence and also under Emperor Maximilian I, and Jean Mouton, a musician at the French court of Louis XII and Francis I. They open with Isaac’s uplifting Regina caeli laetare before entering the resonant soundworld of the Missa de apostolis, a work of mystic power written for six voices. The concert’s second half celebrates the sophistication and vast inventive range of the motet as cultivated

by Isaac and Mouton. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music & Baroque Series

Pacifica Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 Ravel String Quartet in F

Saverio Truglia

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Friday 10 March 7.30 pm

The wreckage of lives lost to Stalin’s purges of the 1930s conditions the chilling atmosphere of Shostakovich’s Third String Quartet, written not long after the end of World War Two. The Pacifica Quartet presents this work of warning in company with the emotional restraint and calm lyricism of Ravel’s youthful String Quartet in F. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Saturday 11 March 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Disabled Access Day: Relaxed Concert This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides a unique opportunity to explore music in an informal manner. Join us for performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, find out about our 115 years of history and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee after the concert.

Peter Dazeley

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Pacifica Quartet

Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Wigmore Hall auditorium

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Saturday 11 March 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano technician Peter Salisbury and composer Julian Anderson discuss the ways in which a repertoire, an instrument and an acoustic are inextricably linked, as well as the relationship between Wigmore Hall and an old Bechstein concert grand in terms of history, aesthetics and artistry. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Liszt Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (first version) S154 Skryabin Désir Op. 57 No. 1; Caresse dansée Op. 57 No. 2; Poème-nocturne Op. 61; Cinq préludes Op. 74 Debussy From Études Book I: No. 2 Pour les tierces; No. 3 Pour les quartes; No. 4 Pour les sixtes; from Études Book II: No. 7 Pour les degrés chromatiques Julian Anderson Sensation (London première) Obouhow Création d’or; Invocations I & II; La Parabole du Seigneur; Révelation

Marco Borggreve

Saturday 11 March 7.30 pm

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Julian Anderson created Sensation for Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who gave its first performance at the 2016 Aldeburgh Festival. The eighteen-minute score, set here in company with impressionistic keyboard pieces past and present, explores sense perceptions and their momentary changes. Aimard performs on a Bechstein instrument from the time of Wigmore Hall’s opening in 1901, recently refurbished by Peter Salisbury. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series

Wigmore Series Debut*

Simone Lamsma* violin Robert Kulek piano Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Arvo Pärt Fratres Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18

Merlijn Doomernik

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Sunday 12 March 11.30 am

Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma, praised by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for her ‘brilliant … polished, expressive and intense’ playing, focuses her captivating artistry on three distinctive and contrasting pieces. Shades Simone Lamsma Robert Kulek of Mozart resound in Schubert’s Sonatina; Strauss, meanwhile, drew inspiration for his magnificent Violin Sonata from his love for his fiery future wife, the singer Pauline de Ahna. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Robert Workman

Ilker Arcayürek tenor Simon Lepper piano Brahms Auf dem See (Op. 59 No. 2); Die Mainacht; Erlaube mir, feins Mädchen; Da unten im Tale Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Hahn D’une prison Fauré Ici-bas!; Nell Debussy Fleur des blés; Beau soir

David Jerusalem

Sunday 12 March 3.00 pm

The French composers in this programme matched eloquent native poetry to exquisite melodies. Fauré, for instance, was able to enhance the verse of Prudhomme and Leconte de Lisle, while Reynaldo Hahn applied his Ilker Arcayürek Simon Lepper considerable song-writing gifts to Verlaine’s ‘D’une prison’. Ilker Arcayürek, one of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists for 2015–17, also explores Lieder by Brahms and Schumann.

All seats £15

Song Recital Series

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Sheila Rock

Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo-soprano Helmut Deutsch piano

Shirley Suarez

Sunday 12 March 7.30 pm

Rimsky-Korsakov Of what I dream in the quiet night; On the hills of Georgia; Quietly evening falls; The clouds begin to scatter; The Rose and the Nightingale; The lark sings louder Cui I touched the flower; The statue at Tsarskoye Selo; Listening to the horrors of war; Desire Balakirev Embrace, Kiss; When I hear thy voice; Rapture; The Rock; I loved him Borodin My songs are filled with poison; Pride; The Sea Princess; At some folks’ houses Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Helmut Deutsch

Expect high-octane, inspirational music-making from the partnership of Ekaterina Semenchuk, one of the leading soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre, and Helmut Deutsch, a consummate artist with a profound feeling for the multiple shades, textures and expressive nuances of the human voice. The Minsk-born mezzo’s performances at the Royal Opera House in Eugene Onegin and most recently as Azucena in Il trovatore have garnered audience ovations, underlining her status among the foremost artists of her generation. Her arresting vocal richness and gravitas are matched by a compelling stage presence and total mastery of the art of beautiful singing. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series Monday 13 March 1.00 pm

Kungsbacka Piano Trio Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80 Ravel Piano Trio in A minor

Hanya Chlala

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Music is clearly a source of constant delight to the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, ever present in the unwavering focus shared by its members. The group, named after a small Swedish town, presents two masterworks of the piano trio repertoire, moving from the shrewdly blended tonal warmth of Schumann’s Op. 80 to the élan of Ravel’s Piano Trio. £15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Kungsbacka Piano Trio

Monday 13 March 7.30 pm

The Monday Platform

Nardus Williams soprano Peter Foggitt piano Alke Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Mozart Mi tradi from Don Giovanni; Porgi amor from Le nozze di Figaro; Come scoglio from Così fan tutte Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Walton A Song for the Lord Mayor's table

Nardus Williams

Peter Foggitt

The Alke Quartet, described by the Observer as having ‘excelled’, has had considerable success performing in various PLG events, such as St John’s Smith Square and the National Gallery, covering a wide range of repertoire. Nardus Williams (Trinity Laban Gold Medallist, the first singer ever to win the award) is also a Samling Artist and shined in her PLG Young Artists Spring Series concert. Other recent performances include Handel’s Belshazzar and Strauss’s Four Last Songs. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 PLG Young Artists

Sponsored by the Park Lane Group (Reg. Charity No. 252205)

Alke Quartet

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Sim Canetty-Clarke

Christoph Prégardien tenor Julius Drake piano

Hans Morren

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Tuesday 14 March 7.30 pm

Schubert Auf der Brücke; Der liebliche Stern; Im Walde (D834); Um Mitternacht; Lebensmut; Im Frühling; An mein Herz; Tiefes Leid (Im Jänner 1817); Über Wildemann; Daß sie hier gewesen; Greisengesang; Du bist die Ruh; Der Tod und das Mädchen; Im Walde (D708); Nacht und Träume; Fischerweise; Totengräbers Heimweh; Der Winterabend

Christoph Prégardien invariably gives life to metaphor, irony, Christoph Prégardien Julius Drake pathos and the full span of rhetorical invention of poetic texts.

The revered German lyric tenor is joined by Julius Drake for a programme of late Schubert songs, rich in emotional content and resonant in its depth of psychological reflections on the natural world. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Voices at Wigmore Supporting Schubert: The Complete Songs 2015/16 and 2016/17

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Christian Blackshaw piano Mozart Piano Sonata in Bb K333 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 12 Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178

Benjamin Ealovega

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Wednesday 15 March 7.30 pm

Christian Blackshaw has built a dedicated following at Wigmore Hall with interpretations of striking individuality and perceptive wisdom. He moves from the stormy virtuosity of Mozart’s so-called ‘Linz’ Sonata by way of Schumann’s character pieces of 1837 to the mighty structure of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, one of the great landmarks in the history of nineteenth-century music. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

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Christian Blackshaw

Thursday 16 March 1.00 pm

Lisa Peacock Presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases

Sophie Rosa violin Benjamin Powell piano Ravel Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Franck Violin Sonata in A Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op. 28 One of the UK’s most exciting young violinists, Sophie Rosa was awarded Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the Manchester International Violin Competition 2011. Last year, Sophie released her debut album on the Champs Hill Record label. Sophie plays on a Joseph Gagliano violin dated 1795 kindly made available by the Stradivari Trust.

Sophie Rosa

Benjamin Powell

Since winning the British Contemporary Piano Competition in 2010, Benjamin Powell has performed in major venues across the UK and Europe. In 2014 he was appointed pianist for the Manchester-based Psappha ensemble. His recording of Bach’s The Well-tempered Clavier was used in the National Theatre production of Sir Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’. ‘The young British prodigy Sophie Rosa, ably supported by pianist Benjamin Powell, interprets this repertoire … with a depth of emotion that conveys real exuberance’ (Champs Hill label) Music and Vision Magazine 20% discount when you book for 3 or more concerts in this series (see further dates below) Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd

Tickets also on sale for Thursday Lunchtime Showcases on 19 January (Mariam Batsashvili) and 16 February (Trio Gewandt)

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Bach Violin Sonata No. 6 in G BWV1019 Antón García Abril Partita No. 5 ‘Reflexive’ for solo violin (UK première) Mozart Violin Sonata in Eb K481 Hans Peter Türk Träume for solo piano (UK première) Schubert Rondo in B minor D895

Clive Barda

Hilary Hahn violin Robert Levin piano

Michael Patrick O’Leary

Thursday 16 March 7.30 pm

In recent seasons Hilary Hahn, known for her flawless technique and phenomenal musicianship, has developed her highly Hilary Hahn Robert Levin successfull duo partnership with the renowned performer and scholar Robert Levin. Their Wigmore Hall programme includes Mozart’s Sonata in E flat K481, widely considered to be among the composer’s most mature chamber works, and two contrasting new compositions by Antón García Abril and Hans Peter Türk. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Igor Levit piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90; Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101; Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’

Gregor Hohenberg

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Friday 17 March 7.30 pm

The full expressive, emotional and inventive range of the three late sonatas in Igor Levit’s programme, crowned by the monumental complexity and aesthetic weight of the ‘Hammerklavier’, encapsulate the composer’s late style.

Just the first movement of Op. 90 alone charts an impassioned course through despair and contrasting feelings of vitality and sadness.

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Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton Igor Levit

London Pianoforte Series /Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

CAVATINA Family Concert Piatti Quartet For ages 5 plus

Malcolm Crowthers

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Saturday 18 March 11.00 am – 12 noon

Join the award-winning Piatti Quartet, one of the UK’s most exciting young string quartets, for an interactive family concert which explores the wonderful world of chamber music, featuring works by some of the best-loved composers of all time, including Haydn, Ravel and Beethoven.

Children £8 Adults £10

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

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Piatti Quartet

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Eric Manas

Patricia Petibon soprano Susan Manoff piano Programme to include: Songs by Poulenc and Canteloube Granados From Danzas españolas: No. 2 Orientale & No. 5 Andaluza for solo piano; El mirar de la maja; La maja dolorosa Bacri A la mar Obradors Chiquitita la novia; El vito Canteloube La delaïssádo; Pastouro, sé tu m’aymo Copland Excerpt from Appalachian Spring for solo piano Didier Lockwood Someday my prince will come

Felix Broede/DG

Saturday 18 March 7.30 pm

Patricia Petibon

Susan Manoff

Patricia Petibon has enchanted audiences worldwide with her winning blend of technical agility, vocal versatility and irrepressible energy. The French soprano and Susan Manoff make a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a recital comprising mélodies françaises by Poulenc and Canteloube. They also include sultry songs by Obradors, the melancholic ‘A la mar’ by Bacri and the famous Jazz classic ‘Someday my prince will come’ arranged by Didier Lockwood. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Meccore Quartet Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27 One of Poland’s finest young ensembles, founded in 2007, returns to Wigmore Hall to perform two late nineteenth-century masterworks. Liszt greatly admired the adventurous spirit of Grieg’s String Quartet in G minor, a composition recognised as a bridge connecting the worlds of Beethoven’s late quartets and Debussy’s own G minor Quartet.

Arkadiusz Berbecki

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Sunday 19 March 11.30 am

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Meccore Quartet

Sunday 19 March 7.30 pm Frédéric Labrouche

Dublin International Piano Competition Prize Winner’s Recital:

Nathalia Milstein piano Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958 Rachmaninov Études-tableaux Op. 39 First Prize Winner of the 2015 Dublin International Piano Competition, French pianist Nathalia Milstein has a busy career with recitals in Europe, including La Roque d’Anthéron, Lille Piano Festival and the New Ross Piano Festival, and in the USA. She is currently studying with Nelson Goerner in Geneva. ‘She has real pianistic instincts’ Donald Vroon, American Record Guide. ‘Outstanding interpretative talent’ Elena Ashkenazy £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Lisa Peacock Concert Management Sponsored by the Dublin International Piano Competition

Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet Nino Gvetadze piano Debussy Première rapsodie Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano Schumann Arabeske in C for solo piano Op. 18 Brahms Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op. 120 No. 2

Sussie Ahlburg

Monday 20 March 1.00 pm Christian Ruvolo

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Nathalia Milstein

Technical advances in the manufacture of wind instruments in the second half of the nineteenth century led to a rise in virtuoso performers and works written for them. BBC New Generation Artist Annelien Van Wauwe’s lunchtime Annelien Van Wauwe Nino Gvetadze programme spans the virtuosity and lyricism of three landmarks of the clarinet repertoire and is completed by a performance of Schumann’s light and tender Arabeske by pianist Nino Gvetadze. £15 concs £13

Annelien Van Wauwe is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

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David Daniels countertenor Martin Katz piano

Robert Recker/Virgin Classics

Monday 20 March 7.30 pm

Beethoven Andenken; Mit einem gemalten Band; Adelaide Anchieta Con Amores, la mi madre (arr. Dørumsgaard) Mudarra Triste estaba el Rey David (arr. Dørumsgaard) Torre Pámpano Verde (arr. Dørumsgaard) Mena A la caza, sus a caza (arr. Dørumsgaard) Poulenc La grenouillère; Monsieur Sans Souci; La Souris; Fancy; Priez pour paix; La belle jeunesse Handel From Rodelinda: Pompe vane di morte! ... Dove sei, amato bene?; Si, l’infida consorte ... Confusa si miri David Daniels Martin Katz Respighi Notte; Bella porta di rubini; Stornellatrice; Invito alla danza Traditional (arr. Steven Mark Kohn) Ten thousand miles away; On the other shore; Wanderin’; The Farmer’s Curst Wife American countertenor David Daniels, the son of professional singers, has played a decisive part in the restoration of Baroque music to the world’s leading opera houses. He has also helped transform perceptions of his voice type, not least with carefully programmed recitals drawn from a repertoire that spans four centuries of musical history and an equally vast range of musical styles. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Song Recital Series

Pre-Concert Talk Broadcaster and journalist Tom Service in conversation with composers ahead of the evening concert.

Free (ticket required)

Jack Liebeck

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Adrian Brendel cello Roderick Williams baritone

Benjamin Ealovega

Tuesday 21 March 7.30 pm Benjamin Ealovega

NASH INVENTIONS Huw Watkins String Trio* Martyn Brabbins Colin Matthews Fuga for ensemble Maxwell Davies A Sea of Cold Flame for baritone, solo cello and string quartet (London première) Colin Matthews It Rains for baritone and ensemble (world première) Simon Holt Bagatelarañas for wind quintet* (world première) Julian Anderson Van Gogh Blue for ensemble**

Adrian Brendel

Roderick Williams

K. Leighton

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Tuesday 21 March 6.00 pm

*Nash Commission **Co-commissioned by The Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

The Nash Ensemble is joined by Martyn Brabbins and Roderick Williams for its annual survey of the best in British contemporary music. Their programme includes works by Huw Watkins and Julian Anderson recently premièred by the Nash. There’s a London première for Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s A Sea of Cold Flame, the last of his many settings of poems by Nash Ensemble Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown, two pieces by Colin Matthews, his virtuosic Fuga and a new work specially written for Roderick Williams, and another world première, Simon Holt’s wind quintet. The latter’s title, a hybrid of the Spanish words for ‘bagatelle’ and ‘cobwebs’, reflects its breathtaking lightness of touch. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

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Steven Osborne piano Brahms Intermezzo in C minor Op. 117 No. 3 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Brahms Intermezzo in Bb minor Op. 117 No. 2 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110 Brahms Intermezzo in E b Op. 117 No. 1 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111

Benjamin Ealovega

Wednesday 22 March 7.30 pm

Brahms referred privately to his Three Intermezzi Op. 117 as ‘cradle-songs of my sorrows’. Steven Osborne, RPS Instrumentalist of the Year in 2013, presents Brahms’s lachrymose lullabies as reflective interludes between Beethoven’s last three sonatas. The Scottish pianist’s revelatory programme concludes with the Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, in which Beethoven pushes forward the limits of artistic creation. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Steven Osborne

London Pianoforte Series

John Clark

Julia Doyle

Purcell O sing unto the Lord; Thou wakeful shepherd (A Morning Hymn); Why do the heathen so furiously rage together; Close thine eyes and sleep secure (Upon a Quiet Conscience); Behold, now, praise the Lord; My beloved spake; Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest (Adam’s Sleep); Praise the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me; With sick and famish’d eyes; O praise God in his holiness

Robin Blaze Richard Shymansky

‘HENRY PURCELL, BY ROYAL COMMAND’ – MUSIC FOR THE CHAPEL ROYAL

Rebecca Outram Hanya Chlala

The King’s Consort Robert King conductor Julia Doyle soprano Rebecca Outram soprano Robin Blaze countertenor Charles Daniels tenor Matthew Brook bass

Raphaëlle Photography

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Dorothea Heise

Thursday 23 March 7.30 pm

Charles Daniels

Matthew Brook

Renowned worldwide for ground-breaking performances and recordings of Henry Purcell, The King’s Consort returns to the composer’s delicious music for the Chapel Royal. An unbeatable line-up of singers and instrumentalists perform some of the composer’s finest sacred jewels.

‘Some of the most stylish and exuberant Purcell performances of modern times’ The Times £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Keith Saunders

Early Music and Baroque Series

The King’s Consort

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KEY STAGE 1 SCHOOLS CONCERT

Simon Jay Price

Folk Up North Join the Donald Grant Quartet and presenter Lucy Drever for a concert exploring Scottish folk music. This concert will delve into the exciting and notorious stories behind the music and explore how the unique Scottish landscape influences folk music. Designed to support, complement and extend the Key Stage 1 curriculum, bookers also receive a teachers’ resource pack ahead of the concert. £3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Friday 24 March 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group HAYDN PIANO TRIOS Explore some of Haydn’s unjustly neglected masterpieces in three afternoons (24, 29 & 31 March) devoted to his piano trios. Reflecting the composer’s mature genius, these works are full of his finest keyboard writing, improvisatory in style, both playful and profound. Haydn’s piano trios were dedicated to several of the most talented female pianists of his day, demanding exceptional artistry and skill.

Composer Julian Philips investigates these unique works with pianist Laura Roberts, guest speakers and students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by the Eggner Trio on 31 March.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Portrait of Joseph Haydn by Thomas Hardy

Friday 24 March 7.30 pm

Chris Thile mandolin American mandolinist, singer and songwriter Chris Thile made his name with Grammy Award-winning progressive acoustic music group Nickel Creek before striking out with Punch Brothers and a series of fresh creative projects in the mid-2000s. Following many years as a guest on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, Chris succeeded Garrison Keillor as the popular radio show’s host in October 2016. Chris makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a programme drawing on his considerable repertoire of original compositions, as well as contemporary, traditional and classical works.

Brantley Gutierrez

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Friday 24 March 11.00 am – 12 noon

This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Chris Thile

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THOMAS ADÈS DAY ‘ARCADIANA’ Recognised by The New York Times as ‘one of the most accomplished and complete musicians of his generation’, Thomas Adès has created an entire universe of new music, spanning everything from large symphonic scores and sparklingly inventive operas to a great treasure-house of chamber works, ensemble pieces, songs and solo scores. Wigmore Hall’s Thomas Adès Day presents a representative showcase of his work set in a wider musical context.

Brian Voce

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Saturday 25 March

Thomas Adès

Calder Quartet Thomas Adès piano Nicolas Hodges piano

Autumn de Wilde

1.00 pm

Thomas Adès The Four Quarters Lutosławski Variations on a theme of Paganini Thomas Adès Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face Walton Selections from Façade Thomas Adès Piano Quintet Time and the mysterious nature of its passing occupy Thomas Adès’s string quartet The Four Quarters, just as the related process of change and flow occupied Lutosławski in his Variations on a theme of Paganini. Adès joins the Calder Quartet to perform the fiendishly difficult keyboard part in his Piano Quintet.

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval.

All seats £20

Calder Quartet Eric Richmond

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’.

6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation As part of this special day, Thomas Adès is joined by Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly to discuss his inspiration and life as a composer.

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Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Timothy Redmond conductor Calder Quartet Nicolas Hodges piano Thomas Adès piano György Kurtág Officium breve Op. 28 Janácˇek Selections from On an overgrown path György Kurtág Selections from Játékok Gerald Barry Octet Thomas Adès Concerto Conciso Janácˇek In the Mists Thomas Adès Arcadiana

Clive Barda

7.30 pm

Nicolas Hodges

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

György Kurtág’s Officium breve, written in 1989 in memory of fellow composer Endre Szervánszky, passes from one complex state of being to another within the space of fifteen short movements for string quartet. Concision and complexity are also central to Adès’s Concerto Conciso, inspired in part by the form of a medieval French round dance. The programme also features Adès’s Arcadiana, a work for string quartet consisting of seven movements that evokes various vanished or vanishing idylls. £40 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series

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Timothy Redmond

Tamar Beraia piano Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition Schumann Carnaval Op. 9

Marco Borggreve

Wigmore Hall Debut

Tamar Beraia’s prize-winning performance in the 2012 Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition underlined her status as one of the finest among young pianists. The Georgian artist, born into a family of distinguished musicians, has chosen two keyboard masterworks for her Wigmore Hall debut, pairing the elemental energy of Musorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition with the vibrant character pieces of Schumann’s Carnaval. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Tamar Beraia

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Manuel Walser baritone Anano Gokieli piano

Thomas Walser

Sunday 26 March 3.00 pm

Wolf From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ihr seid die Allerschönste; Daß doch gemalt; Ein Ständchen euch zu bringen; Hoffärtig seid Ihr, schönes Kind, und geht; Laß sie nur gehn, die so die Stolze spielt; Wie viele Zeit verlor ich Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Strauss Winternacht; Zueignung; Nichts; Die Nacht; Die Georgine; Geduld; Die Verschwiegenen; Die Zeitlose; Allerseelen; Heimliche Aufforderung; Cäcilie

Manuel Walser

Anano Gokieli

Inspired by Paul Heyse’s imaginative translations of Italian folk poetry, Hugo Wolf produced some of his most heartfelt songs in the Italienisches Liederbuch. Swiss baritone Manuel Walser, who owns the true Lieder artist’s instincts for poetic expression and musical phrasing, sets six of the collection’s finest songs in company with Vaughan Williams’s Stevenson settings and Strauss’s sublime Op. 10 cycle.

All seats £15

Song Recital Series

Lionel Tertis Viola Competition Winner’s Recital

Timothy Ridout viola Anthony Hewitt piano

Robert Cassen

Sunday 26 March 7.30 pm Kaupo Kikkas

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Sunday 26 March 11.30 am

Brahms Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op. 120 No. 2 Tertis 8 Transcriptions Stuart MacRae fenodyree (UK première) York Bowen Viola Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 22 Timothy Ridout won the 12th Lionel Tertis International Viola Festival and Competition 2016 held on the Isle of Man. He gave the world première of Stuart MacRae’s fenodyree solo for viola, the commissioned work for the competition.

Timothy Ridout

Anthony Hewitt

All seats £15

Sponsored by the Tertis Foundation and Isle of Man Arts Council

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Monday 27 March 1.00 pm

Gallicantus BALLAD OF THE MARIGOLD PIETY AND PENITENCE Mundy Exurge Christe Tye Peccavimus cum patribus MARY AT COURT (FROM THE MULLINER BOOK) Anon Ballad of the Marigold (Forrest) Newman Fansy PRAYERS FOR THE QUICKENING – NOVEMBER 1554 Tallis Sarum Litany (abridged); O Sacrum convivium FEAST DAYS IN SPRING 1555 Tallis Videte miraculum Sheppard Christi virgo dilectissima LYING-IN AT HAMPTON COURT, APRIL 1555 Tallis Like as the doleful dove Sheppard Vain, vain, all our life we spend in vain

Gallicantus

With religious strife at home and uncertainty surrounding the succession, Mary Tudor’s marriage to Philip of Spain in 1554 and subsequent pregnancy prompted a rush of courtly tributes. Vocal ensemble Gallicantus recalls this euphoric moment in Mary’s reign, and her subsequent descent into depression as it became clear that no heir would be born. The programme includes music by Mary’s most important composers, including Tye, Mundy, Tallis and Sheppard, and a special reconstruction of the Sarum Litany by Tallis, originally sung on behalf of the pregnant queen. £15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Marco Borggreve

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Polina Leschenko piano

Marco Borggreve

Monday 27 March 7.30 pm

Webern Four Pieces Op. 7 Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 BB85 Ravel Tzigane In company with her regular duo partner, Patricia Kopatchinskaja begins her Wigmore Hall residency by travelling through the vast range of styles, technical challenges and musical rewards of two pairs of works. The vibrant colours and textures of Webern’s Op. 7 miniatures, which at times sound Patricia Kopatchinskaja Polina Leschenko hauntingly like the human voice, and of Ravel’s Tzigane respectively complement the songful nature of Schumann’s D minor Violin Sonata and Bartók’s contemplative Violin Sonata No. 2. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2016 /17 Wigmore Series

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Chamber Music Season

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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’.

Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, presented in a relaxed environment for parents or carers and their babies under one to enjoy together.

Benjamin Ealovega

For Crying Out Loud!

94 String Harp Duo

Adults £7.50 (babies come free)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

William Hagen

Stephen Waarts

Timothy Ridout Neda Navaee

Juventino Mateo

William Hagen violin Stephen Waarts violin Timothy Ridout viola Ziyu Shen viola Pablo Ferrández cello Kian Soltani cello Megumi Hashiba piano

Matt Dine

Pre-Concert Showcase Soloists of the Kronberg Academy:

Jeff Fasano Photography

22nd Annual Jacqueline du Pré Charity Concert

Kaupo Kikkas

Tuesday 28 March 5.30 pm

Matt Dine

Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 27 Ziyu Shen Pablo Ferrández Kian Soltani No. 4 (à Fritz Kreisler) Bruch Kol nidrei: Adagio on Hebrew Melodies Op. 47 Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor Op. 28 Bruch Romance Op. 85 Popper Ungarischer Rhapsodie Op. 68

Megumi Hashiba

£6 (Free to ticket holders for the 7.45 pm concert) The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain (Reg. Charity)

Tuesday 28 March 7.45 pm

22nd Annual Jacqueline du Pré Charity Concert

Steven Isserlis cello Soloists of the Kronberg Academy:

Jean-Baptiste Millot

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Tuesday 28 March 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

William Hagen violin Stephen Waarts violin Timothy Ridout viola Ziyu Shen viola Pablo Ferrández cello Kian Soltani cello

Steven Isserlis

Dvorˇák Terzetto in C Op. 74 Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op. 70 International cellist Steven Isserlis and major emerging soloists of the Kronberg Academy play late and post-romantic masterworks for string ensembles, music of tremendous warmth and beauty in commemoration of cellist Jacqueline du Pré.

Musicians’ careers depend almost entirely on their health, and The Royal Society of Musicians raises money for those in need and unable to work, whether short or long-term. £38 £35 £30 £20 £18 The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain (Reg. Charity)

This concert is generously supported by J & A Beare and Beare’s International Violin Society

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Wednesday 29 March 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group HAYDN PIANO TRIOS See 24 March for full details Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by the Eggner Trio on 31 March.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Portrait of Joseph Haydn by Thomas Hardy

Wednesday 29 March 7.30 pm

Early Opera Company Mary Bevan soprano Benjamin Hulett tenor James Platt bass Handel Alceste HWV45 Originally written as incidental music for a lavish play to be performed at Covent Garden, Alceste is a ravishing score with exquisite choruses and arias. Christian Curnyn and Early Opera Company present this concert performance of their BBC Music Magazine Award-winning CD, which was described by the panel as ‘music by the composer at his most inventive and inspired’. The extraordinary ensemble of musicians return to Wigmore Hall following the triumphant success of Handel La Resurrezione last season.

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Early Music and Baroque Series

Mary Bevan

Benjamin Hulett

Orchestra of Early Opera Company

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James Platt

Thursday 30 March 7.30 pm

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Leif Ove Andsnes piano Marc-André Hamelin piano Mozart Larghetto and Allegro in E b (completed by Paul Badura-Skoda) Stravinsky Concerto for two pianos Debussy En blanc et noir Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (for piano duo) Critical superlatives are soon exhausted when talking about the artistry of Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin. These two master pianists join forces for an evening of duets, complete with Stravinsky’s own duo arrangement of The Rite of Spring and Debussy’s three-movement suite En blanc et noir, dedicated in part to Stravinsky and to a friend killed during World War One. Returns only

Özgür Albayrak

Sim Canetty-Clarke

London Pianoforte Series

Leif Ove Andsnes

Friday 31 March 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group HAYDN PIANO TRIOS See 24 March for full details Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by the Eggner Trio on 31 March.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Portrait of Haydn by Thomas Hardy

Friday 31 March 7.30 pm

Eggner Trio Haydn Piano Trio in D HXV:24; Piano Trio in C HXV:21 Dvorˇák Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65

Nancy Horowitz

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Marc-André Hamelin

The Eggner Trio’s ongoing survey of works by Haydn and Dvorˇák continues with a delightful combination of works. Haydn’s D major Piano Trio includes a passage that evokes bagpipes and a fizzing finale, while Dvorˇák’s Op. 65, a work of powerful emotions cast on a grand scale, shows the Czech composer’s complete mastery of the Brahmsian style. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Eggner Trio: Haydn and Dvorˇák

Eggner Trio

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