Wigmore Hall Diary September 2016

September 2016 Sarah Connolly INSIDE: Aurora Orchestra Max Emanuel Cencic Jeremy Denk The Endellion String Quartet Freiburg Baroque Orchestra & Kristian Bezuidenhout Hรฅkan Hardenberger Angela Hewitt Soile Isokoski Igor Levit Mark Padmore Les Vents Franรงaix & Eric Le Sage and many more

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Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

Russell Duncan

Opening Concert of the 2016 /17 Season

Peter Warren

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Friday 9 September 7.30 pm

Schumann Märzveilchen; Muttertraum; Der Soldat; Der Spielmann Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35 Mahler Rückert Lieder Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Berlioz Les nuits d’été Poulenc Banalités One of Britain’s foremost singers, in high demand on the international Sarah Connolly Malcolm Martineau stage, Sarah Connolly has been a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall’s audience for almost two decades. She opens the Hall’s new season in company with regular duo partner Malcolm Martineau, leading listeners through a programme rich in emotional contrasts, poetic reflections and glorious melodies.

The acclaimed mezzo-soprano’s recital includes Mahler’s sublime Rückert Lieder, complete with the heart-breaking ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’, the impassioned lyricism of Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, the exotic subtle narrative impressions of Debussy’s three Chansons de Bilitis, and a sparkling selection of Schumann songs. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Song Recital Series

Valtteri Kantanen

Soile Isokoski soprano Ilkka Paananen piano

Heikki Tuuli

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Saturday 10 September 7.30 pm

Schubert Der König in Thule; Gretchen am Spinnrade; Szene aus Goethes ‘Faust’; Gretchen im Zwinger (Gretchens Bitte) Sibelius Våren flyktar hastigt (Spring is Flying); Men min fågel märks dock icke (But my bird is nowhere to be seen); Längtan heter min arvedel (Vain longings are my heritage); Säv, säv, susa (Reed, reed, rustle); Svarta rosor (Black Roses) Mozart Ridente la calma; Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Soile Isokoski Ilkka Paananen Liebhabers verbrannte; Abendempfindung Brahms Liebestreu; Die Mainacht; Von ewiger Liebe; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht; Meine Liebe ist grün Kilpinen Illalla (In the Evening); Rannalta I; Kesäyö (Summer Night); Maassa marjani makaavi (My Love Lies in the Ground) Recognised for the sheer beauty and vibrant intensity of her singing, Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski has achieved distinction on the world’s operatic stages and as a recitalist of striking imagination and eloquence. She returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme complete with songs by Schumann and Yrjö Kilpinen, one of the last century’s most gifted composers of Lieder. £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

Danish String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4

Caroline Bittencourt

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Sunday 11 September 11.30 am

The quartets of Haydn’s Op. 76, first published in London in 1799, are near-miraculous in their breadth of invention and vitality.

The Danish String Quartet turns its beautifully integrated sound to serve the set’s meditative fifth quartet before exploring Beethoven’s almost contemporary Op. 18 No. 4, by turns audacious and charming, violent and serene. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Danish String Quartet

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Sunday 11 September 7.30 pm Marco Borggreve

Denis Kozhukhin piano Handel Suite No. 7 in G minor HWV432 Brahms 3 Intermezzi Op. 117 Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) BB89 Messiaen Prelude ‘Cloches d’angoisses et larmes d’adieu’ Boulez Piano Sonata No. 2 Pierre Boulez’s Second Piano Sonata, galvanised by its powerful reflections on Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata, crowns Denis Kozhukhin’s compelling programme choice. The Russian pianist, winner of the prestigious 2010 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, also surveys the grandeur of Handel’s Suite in G minor and the pulsating energy of Bartók’s Szabadban. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Mark Padmore tenor Morgan Szymanski guitar

Capilla

Monday 12 September 1.00 pm Marco Borggreve

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Denis Kozhukhin

Dowland Come, ye heavy states of night; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; Now, O now I needs must part Alec Roth My Lute and I Stephen McNeff New work (world première) Alec Roth Lights Out Mark Padmore’s eloquent vocal artistry and ability to extract every Mark Padmore Morgan Szymanski drop of emotion from poetic texts have secured his place among today’s finest recitalists. The London-born tenor’s extensive experience in opera also informs his song interpretations, which grow from a vivid sense of drama and feeling for life’s extraordinary energy. He is joined by Morgan Szymanski, described by Classical Guitar magazine as ‘a player destined for future glories’ and recognised as ‘One to Watch’ by Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine.

All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

The Brabant Ensemble Stephen Rice director

Keith Barnes

Monday 12 September 7.30 pm

Jacquet of Mantua Surge Petre Jacquet of Mantua Missa Surge Petre Lassus Tristis est anima mea Rore Fratres: Scitote Lassus Justorum animae Jacquet of Mantua O vos omnes Lassus Deficiat in dolore vita mea Rore Illuxit nunc sacra dies Jacquet of Mantua Ave Maria Lassus Ave regina coelorum The Brabant Ensemble

The critically acclaimed Brabant Ensemble specialises in the performance of European sacred music of the mid-1500s, a period often overlooked yet rich in powerful masterworks. This programme juxtaposes the music of Cipriano de Rore and Jacquet Colebault with motets by their illustrious younger contemporary, Orlande de Lassus. At its centre is Jacquet’s Missa Surge Petre, his only setting in six parts, written for the patron of Mantua Cathedral, St Peter. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Mark Padmore tenor James Baillieu piano Schubert Ballade (D134); Das Finden; Der Abend (D221); Die Mondnacht; Huldigung; An die untergehende Sonne; Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz; Viola (D786); Der Wanderer an den Mond; Das Zügenglöcklein; Am Fenster; Sehnsucht (D879); Das Weinen; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Der Winterabend; Die Sterne (D939)

Kaupo Kikkas

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Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 13 September 7.30 pm

Mark Padmore and James Baillieu’s recital embraces everything Mark Padmore James Baillieu from the folksong-like simplicity of ‘Der Wanderer an den Mond’ and boisterous humour of ‘Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz’ to the hypnotic blend of voice and piano present in ‘Der Winterabend’, from Schubert’s final year, and the complex emotions of ‘Sehnsucht’. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

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

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Wednesday 14 September 7.30 pm

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Richard Shymansky

The English Concert Anna Devin soprano Matthew Brook bass-baritone Actor to be announced

Harry Bicket director, harpsichord DON QUIXOTE Purcell Don Quixote Suite, including excerpts from The Married Anna Devin Matthew Brook Beau and The Comical History of Don Quixote Telemann Don Quixote Suite, including excerpts from Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho and the Ouverture-Suite ‘Burlesque de Quixotte’ Tilting at windmills and rescuing phoney princesses, such are the exploits of the tragicomic knight-errant Don Quixote and his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza. The English Concert recounts the adventures of Cervantes’s irrepressibly idealistic hero on the 400th anniversary of the author’s death, aided by Purcell and Telemann’s vibrant visions of the man of La Mancha. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Richard Haughton

Early Music and Baroque Series

The English Concert

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Lisa Peacock Presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases

Australia Piano Quartet Mozart Piano Quartet in E b K452 (after the Quintet for piano and winds) Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 60

Goldie Soetianto

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Thursday 15 September 1.00 pm

The Australia Piano Quartet, Ensemble in Residence at the University of Technology Sydney, performs concert series at the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Recital Centre, as well as international tours throughout Europe and Asia. Following its London debut in 2015, the Australia Piano Quartet returns this year for performances in the UK, China, France and Italy.

Australia Piano Quartet

‘Intellectually and musically vigorous’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘Chamber playing of the highest order’ Limelight Magazine £15 concs £13 20% discount when you book for 3 or more concerts in this series (see further dates below) Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd The Australia Piano Quartet appears in association with the Australian World Orchestra

Tickets also on sale for Thursday Lunchtime Showcases on 13 October (Florian Heinisch), 24 November (Trio from London International Players), 19 January (Mariam Batsashvili), 16 February (Trio Gewandt) and 16 March (Sophie Rosa & Benjamin Powell)

Thursday 15 September 7.30 pm Harald Hoffmann

Wigmore Hall Debut

Yulianna Avdeeva piano Bach English Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV807 Chopin Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Mazurkas Op. 7: No. 1 in Bb, No. 2 in A minor, No. 3 in F minor & No. 4 in Ab; Polonaise in Ab Op. 53 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 8 in Bb Op. 84 Prokofiev capped his series of three so-called ‘War Sonatas’ with a work of great expressive depth and emotional insight. Moscow-born Yulianna Avdeeva, winner of the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition, sets Prokofiev’s expansive score together with Chopin’s fiendishly difficult second Ballade and the second of Bach’s English Suites, more French in nature than its name implies. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor Daniel Hope Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47 Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25

Paul Neubauer

Christian Steiner

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Daniel Hope violin Paul Neubauer viola David Finckel cello Wu Han piano

Bernard Mindich

Friday 16 September 7.30 pm Harald Hoffmann/DG

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Yulianna Avdeeva

David Finckel

Wu Han

Renowned for his deeply thoughtful musicianship and the enquiring spirit he brings to each work in his repertoire, Daniel Hope invites close colleagues from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to explore a programme that encompasses the piano quartet’s diverse repertoire. They open with Mahler’s only surviving chamber piece for instruments alone before traversing the teeming emotional landscapes of masterworks for the medium by Schumann and Brahms. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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’.

Open House Day Join us for an opportunity to look behind the scenes and behind the music at Wigmore Hall with free performances and family workshops taking place throughout the day. Bring the family and join Detective Inspector Lucy Drever for a musical mystery trail around the building and free music-making workshops at 11.00 am, 12.15 pm and 1.30 pm.

Peter Dazeley

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Saturday 17 September 10.00 am – 3.00 pm

Free (no ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wigmore Hall auditorium

Jeremy Denk piano MEDIEVAL TO MODERN

Michael Wilson

Saturday 17 September 7.30 pm

In a fascinating programme spanning six centuries of repertoire, Jeremy Denk charts the history of Western music from the Medieval and Renaissance worlds of Machaut, Couperin and Frescobaldi to Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, and via the modernists Stravinsky, Cage, Ligeti and John Adams back to Machaut.

Praised by The New York Times as an artist ‘you want to hear no matter what he performs’, Jeremy Denk stands among the leading musicians of his generation. The American pianist, honoured by Musical America as its 2014 Instrumentalist of the Year, is blessed with the potent combination of intellectual curiosity, expressive generosity and poetic spirit, qualities at the heart of his strikingly individual interpretations of everything from Bach and Beethoven to Cowell and Kirchner.

Jeremy Denk

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Nick van Bloss piano

Private

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Sunday 18 September 11.30 am

Beethoven 6 Variations on an Original Theme in F Op. 34; Piano Sonata No. 18 in Eb Op. 31 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ After achieving recognition as a young pianist of tremendous talent, Nick van Bloss effectively retired in his mid-20s and stayed away from the concert platform for 15 years. Since returning to public performance in 2010, he has attracted critical superlatives and a keen following thanks not least to his revelatory Beethoven interpretations. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Nick van Bloss

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Sunday 18 September 7.30 pm wildundleise.de

Les Vents Français Emmanuel Pahud flute François Leleux oboe Paul Meyer clarinet Radovan Vlatkovic´ horn Gilbert Audin bassoon

Eric Le Sage piano Beethoven Trio in G for flute, bassoon and piano WoO. 37 Mozart Quintet in E b for piano and winds K452 Saint-Saëns Caprice sur des airs danois et russes Op. 79; Tarantelle in A minor Op. 6 Poulenc Sextet for wind quintet and piano Emmanuel Pahud and his esteemed colleagues of Les Vents Français evoke two great traditions of music for wind ensemble in this programme, the first rooted in Austro-German soil, the second cultivated in the salons of Paris.

They open with Beethoven’s youthful Trio in G, thought to be a creation of his teenage years, and turn to Mozart’s sublime Quintet in E flat for piano and winds, before exploring French works of the utmost sophistication and verve.

Jean-Baptiste Millot

Les Vents Français

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Eric Le Sage

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 Monday 19 September 1.00 pm

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Håkan Hardenberger trumpet Roland Pöntinen piano Staffan Storm Three Autumns, in 3 movements and inspired by Akhmatova poems (Commissioned by Musik i Syd for the festival Malmö Chamber Music 2016) Stenhammar Sensommarnätter (Late Summer Nights) Op. 33 (a selection) Roland Pöntinen New work for trumpet and piano (world première) Over the past three decades Swedish trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger has made a huge contribution to the expansion of his instrument’s repertoire, commissioning major new works and inspiring many to arrange pieces for him. He is joined by fellow countryman Roland Pöntinen for a lunchtime recital programme complete with Pöntinen’s latest composition for trumpet and piano. £13 concs £11

Mats Bäcker

Marco Borggreve

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Håkan Hardenberger

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Roland Pöntinen

Ailish Tynan

Haydn Symphony No. 34 in D minor Myslivecˇek Arias from Semiramide: Talor se il vento freme; Tu mi disprezzi ingrato; Di Scitalce ... A pastor se torna; Fiumicel che s’ode appena Haydn La canterina (semi-staged)

Sussie Ahlburg

LA CANTERINA

Rachel Kelly

Natalie Watts

Ian Page

Gerard Collett

Sheila Rock

Classical Opera Ian Page conductor Ailish Tynan soprano (Gasparina) Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano (Apollonia) Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano (Don Ettore) Robert Murray tenor (Don Pelagio)

Benjamin Ealovega

Monday 19 September 7.30 pm

Classical Opera’s pioneering MOZART 250 series continues with a compelling programme of works written in 1766 by Joseph Haydn and Josef Myslivecˇek, posthumously styled as ‘the divine Bohemian’. Four Robert Murray Kitty Whately pulsating arias from Myslivecˇek’s first opera are framed by two contrasting Haydn works: a superbly crafted symphony and a vivacious comedy about love, deception and singing lessons. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS One of the iconic landmarks of piano literature, the Beethoven Sonatas trace the immense musical and spiritual journey of the composer’s creative life. Whilst his own performances of them were largely confined to the elite aristocratic salons of Vienna, allowing him to disregard the commercial pressures of the day and write some of his most deeply personal music, Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas soon became central to concert life, and to wider domestic music making, presenting an endlessly fascinating interpretative challenge both to the enthusiastic amateur and to the greatest pianists of each generation. Come and explore Beethoven’s world in three afternoons (20, 22 & 28 September) hosted by the composer Julian Philips alongside pianist Laura Roberts and student performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Painting by Joseph Willibrord Mähler

Wigmore Study Group

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano Finzi Oh Fair to See Op. 13b Julian Philips New work* (world première) Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Patrick Allen

Tuesday 20 September 7.30 pm operaomnia.co.uk

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Tuesday 20 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

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

James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook continue to develop their James Gilchrist Anna Tilbrook dynamic creative partnership with programmes that mine the depths of human experience. Their latest Wigmore Hall recital includes song-cycles by Mahler and Schumann, and a new commission by Julian Philips, acclaimed for his feeling for poetic language and musical sensitivity. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music Series

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Wednesday 21 September 7.30 pm

Young Musicians from The Purcell School Heather Brooks harp Thomas Kelly piano Nikita Lukinov piano Didier Osindero violin Alice McCarthy voice Pierné Impromptu-Caprice in A b Op. 9 for harp Tournier Étude de concert: Au matin in F for harp Guridi Viejo Zortzico for harp Britten Suite Op. 6 for violin and piano Mozart Una donna a quindici anni from Così fan tutte; Voi che sapete from Le nozze di Figaro; Alleluja from Exsultate, jubilate Duparc Soupir; Phidylé Chopin Polonaise in D minor Op. 71 No. 1; Scherzo No. 3 in C# minor Op. 39 Bartók Romanian Dance Op. 8a No. 1 Beethoven 32 Variations on an original theme in C minor WoO. 80 Mendelssohn/Rachmaninov Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Liszt Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este from Années de pèlerinage, troisième année S163

Didier Osindero

This chamber music concert is given by talented young musicians from The Purcell School, one of the UK’s leading specialist music schools. The School 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 All seats £15 The Purcell School (Reg. Charity No. 312855)

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Thursday 22 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS See 20 September for full details Returns only

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit Painting of Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano, director

Marco Borggreve

Thursday 22 September 7.30 pm

SPIRIT OF STURM UND DRANG Haydn Symphony No. 47 in G CPE Bach Concerto in D minor Wq. 17 JC Bach Symphony in G minor Op. 6 No. 6 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in Eb K449

Marco Borggreve

The symphony and keyboard concerto grew as Freiburg Baroque Orchestra major genres during the eighteenth century’s second half, arising respectively from the opera sinfonia and JS Bach’s pioneering early concertos for solo harpsichord and instrumental ensemble. Freiburg Baroque Orchestra’s concert connects with the white-hot invention of landmark pieces from the period, including the dark and dramatic emotions of JC Bach’s Symphony in G minor Op. 6 No. 6 and the chamber-like intimacy of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14. Kristian Bezuidenhout, acclaimed by The Herald as ‘the finest living exponent of the fortepiano’, joins the period instruments of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in works of high energy and creative fantasy. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by Dunard Fund

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Kristian Bezuidenhout

The Endellion String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2 Bartók String Quartet No. 3 BB93 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’

Eric Richmond

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Friday 23 September 7.30 pm

The Endellions, hailed by Gramophone for cultivating ‘the Urtext method of quartet playing’, open their new season with Haydn’s glowing and masterly final complete quartet and end the concert with Beethoven’s symphonic first ‘Razumovsky’ quartet. Bartók’s third quartet burns with a compressed energy that encompasses reflective and profoundly touching melodies. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Saturday 24 September 11.00 am – 12 noon Eric Richmond

Relaxed Concert: Leonore Piano Trio The Leonore Piano Trio presents a diverse programme of music in this concert specifically designed to welcome people who would benefit from a relaxed performance environment, including people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, sensory and communication disorders, and learning disabilities.

All seats £5

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Leonore Piano Trio

Saturday 24 September 7.30 pm

Aurora Orchestra Ligeti Ten pieces for wind quintet Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (arr. Brett Dean for nonet) Anna Meredith New work* (world première) Beethoven Septet in Eb Op. 20

Lewis Brockway

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The Endellion String Quartet

*Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Aurora Orchestra’s imaginative programmes and support for new music combine here, aided by a Wigmore Hall commission from Anna Meredith, herself a fearless genre-hopping, boundary-pushing Aurora Orchestra composer, and Ligeti’s Ten pieces for wind quintet, a collection of intense avant-garde miniatures completed in 1968. Beethoven’s Septet still sounds as fresh today as when it was first performed over two centuries ago. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

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Sunday 25 September 11.30 am

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Jack Liebeck violin Amandine Savary piano Schubert Duo Sonata in A D574 Copland Sonata for violin and piano (1943) Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Since making his Wigmore Hall debut in 2002, London-born Jack Liebeck has established an international career as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He shares the stage for this recital with the beguiling young French pianist Amandine Savary, recently appointed by the Royal Academy of Music to its professorial staff.

Jack Liebeck

Amandine Savary

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 25 September 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Pianist Angela Hewitt, renowned for her knowledge and insight on Bach as well as her mesmerising interpretations of his works, launches The Bach Odyssey with a discussion on the composer’s keyboard works ahead of her evening concert, in conversation with Jessica Duchen. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Sunday 25 September 7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt piano ANGELA HEWITT: THE BACH ODYSSEY Bach Fantasia in C minor BWV906; Aria variata BWV989; 15 Inventions BWV772–786; 15 Sinfonias BWV787–801; Capriccio in B b BWV992 (Capriccio on the Departure of his Most Beloved Brother); Capriccio in E BWV993; Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV904 So often Bach opens the door to music that appears to inhabit the outer reaches of human consciousness, with sounds deeply felt yet rarely heard. The divinely-inspired composer’s keyboard fantasies, inventions and sinfonias provide the creative launch pad for Angela Hewitt’s glorious The Bach Odyssey. Her recital also includes the Capriccio in B flat, Bach’s only surviving piece of programme music.

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Richard Termine

London Pianoforte Series

Angela Hewitt

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Doric String Quartet Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Bartók String Quartet No. 4 BB95

George Garnier

Formal symmetry and thematic consistency govern the elemental power of Bartók’s Fourth String Quartet, written in the summer of 1928. The Doric String Quartet, described

by Gramophone as ‘one of the finest young string quartets’, pairs the Hungarian composer’s complex creation with Debussy’s early G minor Quartet, a work that ditched the rulebook in search of expressive freedom. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Doric String Quartet

Rosenblatt Recitals 2016 /17

Alek Shrader tenor Roger Vignoles piano Iain Bell The Undying Splendour: A lark above the trenches; Comrades; Gallipoli Thomson Mostly About Love: Love song; Down at the docks; Let’s take a walk; A Prayer to St Catherine Nicolai Horch, die Lerche singt im Hain from Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Mozart Ich baue ganz auf deine Stärke from Die Entführung aus dem Serail Handel Where’er you walk from Semele Barber 3 Songs Op. 45: Now have I fed and eaten up the rose; A green lowland of pianos; O boundless, boundless evening Foster Beautiful dreamer; I cannot sing tonight; If you’ve only got a moustache Handel Barbaro fato, si from Partenope Rossini La danza from Soirées musicales Alek Shrader is an American lyric tenor with ‘boyish punch’ (The Opera Critic) and a ‘warm lyric voice’ (Bachtrack).

A recipient of San Francisco Opera’s prestigious Adler Fellowship, Shrader has given high profile performances at the Metropolitan Opera and Salzburg Festival; he makes his Rosenblatt Recitals debut with a fascinating programme of song and opera from both sides of the Atlantic.

Peter Schaaf

Monday 26 September 7.30 pm

Alek Shrader Benjamin Ealovega

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Monday 26 September 1.00 pm

‘Shrader was simply thrilling, his voice precisely vibrant and incisive.’

Bachtrack ‘Shrader, with his matinee-idol good looks, had the most challenging music to sing and he negotiated the long, florid vocal lines with disarming ease, agility and a sweet, open sound.’ Chicago Tribune

Roger Vignoles

£30 £26 £22 £18 £16

Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 10 October (Eleonora Buratto & Nazzareno Carusi), 1 November (Simone Piazzola & Giuseppe Vaccaro) and 10 January (Maria Katzarava, Stefano La Colla & Simon Lepper)

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For Crying Out Loud!

Nicholas Mogg baritone Jaˆms Coleman piano Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and their babies to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment.

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Tuesday 27 September 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

Adults £7.50 (babies come free) In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Parkhouse Award Winner’s Concert

Amatis Piano Trio Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb D929 Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor Op. 8; Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67

Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 27 September 7.30pm

Current holder of the Parkhouse Award, the Amatis Piano Trio has been part of the European Chamber Music Academy since 2015 and in a short space of time has impressed audiences and juries alike. The trio has worked with members of the Beaux Arts Trio, Ysaÿe Quartet and Alban Berg Quartet, following an invitation to the Trondheim International Chamber Music Academy. The ensemble is currently a ‘Dutch Classical Talent 2015 /16’.

‘The Amatis Piano Trio is an outstanding ensemble on their way to establishing a great international career.’ Daniel Hope (Beaux Arts Trio) £25 £23 £20 £18 £15 GBZ Management

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Amatis Piano Trio

Wednesday 28 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS See 20 September for full details Returns only

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit Painting of Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler

Igor Levit piano BEETHOVEN CYCLE: IGOR LEVIT Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 2 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 12 in Ab Op. 26 ‘Funeral March’; Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Op. 79; Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’

Gregor Hohenberg

Wednesday 28 September 7.30 pm

Igor Levit begins his Beethoven Cycle with the composer’s first piano sonata with an opus number, the dashing Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, and embraces works from the composer’s later maturity. His recital’s second half pairs the neo-classical simplicity of the Piano Sonata No. 25 with the Romantic extremes and heroic grandeur of the ‘Waldstein’ Sonata.

Returns only

Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton

London Pianoforte Series

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Igor Levit

Thursday 29 September 7.30 pm

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Ann Hoffmann

Max Emanuel Cencic countertenor Il Pomo d’Oro Maxim Emelyanychev conductor, harpsichord ARIE NAPOLETANE Scarlatti Sinfonia No. 7 in C Porpora Agitata è l’alma mia from Didone abbandonata Sarro Se resto sul lido from Didone abbandonata Hasse Grave and Fuga in G minor Porpora Torbido intorno al core from Meride e Selinunte Sarro Su la pendice from Didone abbandonata Vinci In questa mia tempesta from Eraclea Leo No, non vedete mai from Siface Auletta Concerto in D for harpsichord, two violins and continuo Scarlatti Miei pensieri from Il prigioniero fortunato Porpora Qual turbine che scende from Germanico in Germania

Max Emanuel Cencic

Max Emanuel Cencic’s sensational countertenor voice and entrepreneurial artistic leadership have added momentum to the revival of interest in eighteenth-century opera seria. The Zagreb-born Austrian artist recently recorded arias in this programme with thrilling young period-instrument ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro for Decca, casting brilliant light on works buried for over two centuries. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Emil Matveev

Julien Mignot

Early Music and Baroque Series

Il Pomo d’Oro

Julien Mignot

Renaud Capuçon violin Guillaume Chilemme violin Adrien La Marca viola Gérard Caussé viola Edgar Moreau cello

Caroline Doutre

Friday 30 September 7.30 pm François Darmigny

THE BUSCH PROJECT Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Mozart String Quintet in C K515

Renaud Capuçon

Guillaume Chilemme

Adrien La Marca Matt Dine

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Maxim Emelyanychev

Renaud Capuçon pays homage to Adolf Busch with a programme of works closely associated with the great German violinist. He and a wonderful ensemble of friends reflect on the lasting legacy of a musician whose influence touched everyone, from his son-in-law Rudolf Serkin and pupil Yehudi Menuhin to generations of violinists since his death in 1952. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Gérard Caussé

Edgar Moreau

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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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