Wigmore Hall Concert Diary July 2017

July 2017 Andreas Ottensamer INSIDE: Arcangelo Joshua Bell Andrei Bondarenko Ian Bostridge The Cardinall’s Musick Doric String Quartet & Alastair Beatson Christian Gerhaher Steven Isserlis Vijay Iyer Trio Simon Keenlyside Quatuor Mosaïques Carolyn Sampson Cédric Tiberghien and many more

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Royal Academy of Music Family Day For ages 5 plus

Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 1 July 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Discover the hidden gems at the Royal Academy of Music Museum with Academy students and workshop leader Hannah Opstad. Blow away the dust, get up close to the museum’s treasures, and write your very own music to perform at Wigmore Hall at the end of the day.

Children £10 Adults £15

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Saturday 1 July 7.30 pm Giorgia Bertazzi

Doric String Quartet Alasdair Beatson piano Thomas Adès Piano Quintet Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84 Alasdair Beatson joins the Doric String Quartet in Thomas Adès’s single-movement Piano Quintet, a virtuosic modern take on classical sonata form, and Elgar’s dramatically intense Piano Quintet in A minor. Peter Pears described Britten’s late Third String Quartet as being ‘of a profound beauty more touching than anything else, radiant, wise, new, mysterious – overwhelming’. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Alasdair Beatson

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’.

George Garnier

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Doric String Quartet

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Doric String Quartet Mozart String Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’ Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1

George Garnier

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Sunday 2 July 11.30 am

Brahms, conscious of comparisons with Beethoven, pushed his creativity to new heights with his Op. 51 string quartets.

He began Op. 51 No. 1 in the early 1850s but did not complete the work until 1873. The Doric String Quartet prefaces the composer’s heroic score with the second of Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ quartets, a judicious blend of flowing lyricism and rhythmic high spirits. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Doric String Quartet

SETTINGS OF THEODOR KÖRNER Schubert Sängers Morgenlied I; Liebesrausch I (fragment); Sängers Morgenlied II; Liebesrausch II; Sehnsucht der Liebe; Liebeständelei; Das gestörte Glück

Keith Saunders

Markus Schäfer tenor Piers Lane piano

Werner Kmetitsch

Sunday 2 July 7.30 pm

SETTINGS OF FRIEDRICH VON MATTHISSON Schubert Entzückung; Stimme der Liebe (D418); Lebenslied; Skolie (D507); Vollendung; Die Erde Markus Schäfer Piers Lane SETTINGS OF THE BROTHERS FRIEDRICH AND AUGUST VON SCHLEGEL Schubert Abendröte; Die Berge; Der Knabe; Der Fluß; Der Schmetterling; Die Sterne (D684); Die Gebüsche; Lob der Tränen; Die gefangenen Sänger; Wiedersehn; Abendlied für die Entfernte; Ständchen (D889)

Young Schubert idolised Theodor Körner, the dashing scion of a Dresden literary family. The poet inspired the teenager to exchange life as a school teacher for that of a composer. Markus Schäfer’s programme casts light on writers who influenced Schubert at decisive moments in his artistic development, including August Wilhelm von Schlegel, best known today for his German translations of Shakespeare. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Hasse Cantata in D for flute and basso continuo Falconieri La suave melodia Storace Ciaccona Castrucci Sonata for recorder and basso continuo (after the Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 8 by Corelli) Scarlatti Sonata in D minor Kk213; Sonata in D Kk119 Sammartini Sonata in G for recorder and basso continuo Op. 2 No. 4

Edouard Bressy

Maurice Steger recorder Jean Rondeau harpsichord

Marco Borggreve

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Monday 3 July 1.00 pm

Maurice Steger has worked as soloist and director with Maurice Steger Jean Rondeau many of the world’s leading period-instrument ensembles.

He leads a whistle-stop tour to major landmarks of the recorder repertoire, including Hasse’s joyful Cantata and the Sonata in G by Giuseppe Sammartini, oboist to the Prince of Wales and music master to his wife and children.

Award-winning young harpsichordist Jean Rondeau completes the programme with jewels of the keyboard repertoire. £15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Monday 3 July 7.30 pm

Royal College of Music String Showcase Pierre Frapier violin Craig White piano The Antipodes Duo: Bryony Gibson-Cornish viola Gamal Khamis piano The Nova Guitar Duo: Nelly von Alven & Luiz Mantovani The RCM Double Bass Sextet Jobine Siekman cello Roberto Ruisi violin Nina Kiva cello Salih Gevrek piano DANCE MOVES Brahms Hungarian Dances WoO. 1: No. 1 in G minor; No. 4 in F minor; No. 7 in A; No. 5 in F# minor Granados Ochos Valses Poeticos Prokofiev Suite from Romeo and Juliet Op. 64 (arr. Borisovsky for viola and piano) Villa-Lobos from 12 Cirandinhas: No. 3 Vamos, maninha...; No. 11 Nesta rua tem um bosque...; No. 9 Carneirinho, carneirão Falla Danza ritual del fuego from El Amor brujo Sibelius Valse Triste Op. 44 No. 1 (arr. Charles DeRamus) Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008 Dvorˇák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ Some of the world’s most outstanding emerging musicians come together for this programme of great string music, permeated by the energy and the movement of dance, from Brahms’s folk-like Hungarian Dances to the ritualistic fire dance of Falla. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 (£5 for students from the RCM) Royal College of Music

Craig White

The Antipodes Duo

The Nova Guitar Duo May Yan Man

Pierre Frapier

The RCM Double Bass Sextet

Roberto Ruisi

Nina Kiva

Salih Gevrek

Tuesday 4 July 7.30 pm

Håvard Gimse piano Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 54 Debussy Images oubliées Janácˇek In the Mists Rachmaninov Morceaux de fantaisie Op. 3 Sibelius Impromptu in B minor Op. 5 No. 5; Impromptu in E Op. 5 No. 6; Björken (The Birch) Op. 75 No. 4; Granen (The Spruce) Op. 75 No. 5; Pièce enfantine Op. 76 No. 8; Elegiaco Op. 76 No. 10; Arabesque Op. 76 No. 9

John Andersen

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Jobine Siekman

Among his many honours, Norwegian pianist Håvard Gimse has received the Grieg and Sibelius Prizes in recognition of his deep feeling and affinity for the music of both composers. He presents a colourful selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and virtuoso pieces by Sibelius together with evocative works by Debussy, Janácˇek and Rachmaninov. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Håvard Gimse

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Wednesday 5 July 7.30 pm

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Simon Keenlyside baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Vaughan Williams 5 Mystical Songs Finzi Fear no more the heat o’ the sun from Let us garlands bring Sibelius Romeo; Illalle (To Evening); Kaiutar (The Echo Nymph); Svarta rosor (Black Roses); Im Feld ein Mädchen singt; Die stille Stadt Poulenc From Chansons Gaillardes: La maîtresse volage; Chanson à boire; Madrigal; Invocation aux Parques; L’offrande; La belle jeunesse; Sérénade Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Verlorne Müh; Ablösung im Sommer; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?; Das irdische Leben; Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Der Tamboursg’sell; Revelge Simon Keenlyside made his career breakthrough thirty years ago while a student at the Royal Northern College of Music and has subsequently established his place among Britain’s finest singers, equally at home on the opera stage and in the concert hall. His recital partnership with Malcolm Martineau is hallmarked by breathtaking insight and daring artistry. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Uwe Arens

Russell Duncan

Song Recital Series

Simon Keenlyside

Thursday 6 July 7.30 pm

Andreas Ottensamer clarinet José Gallardo piano Weber Grand Duo Concertant in E b Op. 48 Baermann Adagio in D b Danzi Fantasy on ‘Là ci darem la mano’ Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen; Rheinlegendchen Cimarosa Oboe Concerto (arr. for clarinet by A Benjamin) Brahms Wie Melodien zieht es mir Bassi Concert Fantasia on themes from Verdi’s Rigoletto

Anatol Kotte /Mercury Classics

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Malcolm Martineau

Andreas Ottensamer

José Gallardo

Austrian clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer’s sumptuous tone and thrilling virtuosity have won admirers world-wide. He is joined by José Gallardo in a programme that explores some of the most celebrated Romantic works in his instrument’s repertoire, alongside an indulgent collection of Lieder transcriptions. £37 £32 £26 £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’.

Music for the Moment A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for this informal afternoon concert with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm.

Free (ticket required)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Will Alder

SCHUBERT AND WOMEN’S VOICES

Schubert’s songs for female vocal ensemble contain some of his most inspired invention, spanning everything from the ethereal harmonies of Psalm 23 to the sublime part-writing of ‘Gott in der Natur’. Sholto Kynoch, founder and director of the Oxford Lieder Festival, is joined by an outstanding team of young singers in a programme guaranteed to deliver musical surprises and delights.

Katharina Ruckgaber Kaupo Kikkas

Louise Alder Fizz Photography

Schubert Quell’innocente figlio; Misero pargoletto; Thekla: eine Geisterstimme (D73); Gott! Höre meine Stimme; Das Abendrot (D236); Das Leben; Lilla an die Morgenröte; Lied (D284); Vaterlandslied; Lambertine; Lorma I; Lied ‘Mutter geht durch ihre Kammer’; Lorma II; Daphne am Bach; Aus Diego Manzanares (Almerine); Wiegenlied (D498); Phidile; Vedi quanto adoro; Blanka (Das Mädchen); Das Mädchen (D652); Psalm 23 (D706); Johanna Sebus; Gott in der Natur; Lied der Anne Lyle; Coronach; Ständchen (D920b)

Katie Bray

Anna Huntley Raphaëlle Photography

Louise Alder soprano Katharina Ruckgaber soprano Katie Bray mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Sholto Kynoch piano

Mark Noormann

Friday 7 July 7.30 pm

Jose Manuel Bielsa

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Friday 7 July 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

£37 £32 £26 £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’.

Clara Mouriz

Sholto Kynoch

Song Recital Series /Schubert: The Complete Songs

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Saturday 8 July 2.30 pm

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Pascal Saez

Alfred Brendel Lecture ON PLAYING MOZART In his final lecture of the season, Alfred Brendel explores the life and works of Mozart. How was the composer perceived by his contemporaries? How literally does one need to take his notation?

How do his few works in minor keys compare to the many in major, and his concertos to his sonatas?

This event will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval All seats £20

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Alfred Brendel

Martin Roscoe piano MARTIN ROSCOE 65TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Eric Richmond

Saturday 8 July 7.30 pm

Schubert 2 Scherzos D593; Piano Sonata in G D894 ‘Fantasie’; Piano Sonata in Bb D960 ‘What better way to celebrate one’s 65th birthday’, asks Martin Roscoe, ‘than by playing two of the most sublime piano sonatas ever written at London’s top recital venue?’ With the delicious aperitif of the two Scherzi this all-Schubert programme amounts to what the acclaimed British pianist calls his ‘idea of heaven’. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Martin Roscoe

Sunday 9 July 11.30 am

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Navarra String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Beethoven applied the subtitle ‘Serioso’ to his Op. 95, a mark of its specific gravity and a reflection of the composer’s increasingly difficult personal circumstances. The Navarra String Quartet prefaces Beethoven’s concise masterwork with two compositions of contrasting emotions, opening with Haydn’s sonorous Op. 20 No. 2 before plunging into the highly dramatic flow of Schubert’s Quartettsatz. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sussie Ahlburg

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Navarra String Quartet

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Lars Borges/Sony Classical

Raphaëlle Photography

Ben Johnson tenor Nicky Spence tenor Benjamin Appl baritone Gavan Ring baritone Sholto Kynoch piano

Chris Gloag

Sunday 9 July 3.00 pm

SCHUBERT: PARTSONGS FOR MALE VOICES Nicky Spence

Benjamin Appl Raphaëlle Photography

Anthony Riordan

Ben Johnson

Schubert Die Advokaten; Trinklied (D75); Trinklied (D267); Naturgenuss (D422); Mailied; Leiden der Trennung; La pastorella al prato (D513); Das Lied vom Reifen; Hänflings Liebeswerbung; Das Dörfchen; Widerschein; Die Nachtigall; Geist der Liebe (Der Abend schleiert Flur und Hain); Gondelfahrer (D809)

The songs in this recital catch the fervour and joy of Schubert’s works for male-voice ensemble. Four fabulous young artists join Sholto Kynoch to explore a selection complete with two rousing drinking songs and the irresistible Gavan Ring ‘Geist der Liebe’. The programme also includes rich solo songs, ‘Leiden der Trennung’ and the carol-like ‘Das Lied vom Reifen’ among them.

Sholto Kynoch

All seats £15

Song Recital Series /Schubert: The Complete Songs

Ian Bostridge tenor Graham Johnson piano SONGS 1815–1816

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Sunday 9 July 7.30 pm

Schubert Der Geistertanz; Als ich sie erröten sah; Die Mainacht; Seufzer; Die Fröhlichkeit; Der Jüngling an der Quelle; An mein Klavier; Am Tage aller Seelen (Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen); Pflügerlied; Die Knabenzeit; Winterlied; Stimme der Liebe

THE SPIRITUAL QUEST, 1819 Schubert Abendbilder; Hymne I ‘Wenige wissen das Geheimnis’; Hymne II ‘Wenn ich ihn nur habe’; Hymne III ‘Wenn alle untreu werden’; Hymne IV ‘Ich sag’ es jedem’; Nachthymne Ian Bostridge

Schubert Schwestergruß; Drang in die Ferne; Der zürnende Barde; Das Geheimnis; Auf dem Wasser zu singen Schubert’s creative quest drew energy and inspiration from poetry’s potential to unlock fresh ways of being. Ian Bostridge and Graham Johnson begin by exploring the diverse styles present in the young composer’s songs of 1815–16 before fathoming his striking experiments with the spiritual poetry of Novalis’s Hymnen and closing with five sublime masterworks from the early 1820s.

Malcolm Crowthers

SONGS 1822–1823 (In the shadow of the Müllerin)

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Graham Johnson

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Mahler Kindertotenlieder Mahler Rückert Lieder

Monika Rittershaus

Hanno Müller-Brachmann bass-baritone Hendrik Heilmann piano

Monika Rittershaus

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Monday 10 July 1.00 pm

Hanno Müller-Brachmann and Hendrik Heilmann venture into the complex emotional territories of Mahler’s song cycles to poems by Friedrich Rückert. Kindertotenlieder, first performed in 1905, deals with the grief unlocked by the death of two of the poet’s children, while the five Rückert Lieder reveal the psychological insight and captivating beauty of Mahler’s intensely romantic music. £15 concs £13 Hanno Müller-Brachmann

Hendrik Heilmann

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Gould Piano Trio Beethoven Piano Trio in Eb Op. 1 No. 1; Variations in G Op. 121a ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’; Piano Trio in Eb Op. 70 No. 2

Jake Morley

Monday 10 July 7.30 pm

In 1795 Beethoven concluded his formal studies in Vienna, made his debut in his new home city as a pianist and saw the publication of his Op. 1 piano trios. The Gould Piano Trio conjures up the brilliance of the Op. 1 set’s first piece and the popular ‘Kakadu’ Variations of 1794, together with the genial E flat trio from the summer of 1808. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

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Gould Piano Trio

Tuesday 11 July 7.30 pm

Pupils of The Yehudi Menuhin School Vivaldi Concerto in G for 2 mandolins RV532 Martin Butler Sequenza Notturna Bach Suite in A for violin and lute BWV1025 Chopin Polonaise in Ab Op. 53 Daniel Penney New work (world première) Mendelssohn Octet in Eb Op. 20 Yehudi Menuhin School students present a programme of music by Vivaldi, Bach, Mendelssohn and Chopin, as well as chamber music by Martin Butler and the première of a work by one of the school’s pupils Daniel Penney. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Pupils of The Yehudi Menuhin School

The Yehudi Menuhin School

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My Iris KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT This is Trish Clowes’s jazz organ quartet with a twist!

Come and experience music that conjures vivid colour and imagery, with links to literature and history, in this concert presented by Pete Letanka. Trish’s pieces juxtapose startling melodies and ethereal whispers with intricate textures and earthy grooves. This concert is the perfect way to celebrate the end of the school year.

Benjamin Ealovega

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Wednesday 12 July 11.00 am – 12 noon

£3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Wednesday 12 July 7.30 pm Anthony Tam

Ke Ma piano Mozart Piano Sonata in D K311 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 14 Gershwin 3 Preludes Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 The first half of the programme consists of two dramatic piano sonatas: one by Mozart, in which he explores and experiments with a new repertoire of sound, and another by Prokofiev, dedicated to his friend Maximilian Schmidthof who later committed suicide in 1913. After the interval Ma journeys through three short and refreshing Gershwin preludes, eventually finishing the evening with the complete set of Chopin’s Op. 28, all bursting with extremely powerful emotions. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Kirckman Concert Society

Joanna Bergin

Sophie Bevan soprano Allan Clayton tenor Christopher Glynn piano

Laura Harling

Thursday 13 July 7.30 pm Sussie Ahlburg

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Ke Ma

A SHAKESPEARE SONGBOOK Morley It was a lover and his lass Arne When daisies pied Haydn She never told her love Schubert An Silvia Sophie Bevan Allan Clayton Christopher Glynn Ireland When daffodils begin to peer Coleridge-Taylor The Willow Song Warlock Sigh no more, Ladies Harrison I know a bank; Philomel Britten Tell me where is Fancy bred Head How sweet the moonlight sleeps Foster Under the greenwood tree Quilter Blow, blow, thou winter wind Handel As steals the morn Tippett Songs for Ariel Dankworth Our revels now are ended Finzi Come away, come away, death; O mistress mine Korngold Adieu, Good Man Devil; Hey, Robin; For the rain, it raineth every day Vaughan Williams Orpheus with his lute Bridge When most I wink Vaughan Williams Fear no more the heat o’ the sun Quilter It was a lover and his lass Sophie Bevan and Allan Clayton open their Shakespeare Songbook to reveal 25 delightful settings of the Bard. Their recital includes everything from Morley’s ‘It was a lover and his lass’, written during Shakespeare’s lifetime, and the high Victoriana of Myles Birket Foster to John Dankworth’s hauntingly beautiful ‘Our revels now are ended’. £37 £32 £26 £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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Benjamin Ealovega

Caplet Viens! Une flûte invisible soupire ...

Ravel Chansons madécasses Caplet 2 petites pièces: Rêverie & Petite valse Saint-Saëns Une flûte invisible Martin Ballade for flute and piano Judith Weir Nuits d’Afrique for soprano, piano, flute and cello* (world première) Berlioz La captive, orientale Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ Gaubert Soir Païen; Nocturne et allegro scherzando

Ailish Tynan

Adam Walker Kaupo Kikkas

Ailish Tynan soprano Adam Walker flute Alasdair Tait cello James Baillieu piano

Kaupo Kikkas

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Kaupo Kikkas

Friday 14 July 7.00 pm NB starting time

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

Judith Weir’s Nuits d’Afrique, specially commissioned by Wigmore Hall, offers a contemporary take on the great legacy of French song. Adam Walker and Alasdair Tait join Ailish Tynan and James Baillieu for the work’s world première, part Alasdair Tait of a programme that includes the shimmering Ballade by the Francophone Swiss composer Frank Martin and Philippe Gaubert’s languid ‘Soir Païen’.

James Baillieu

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season Friday 14 July 10.00 pm

Dinosaur Laura Jurd* trumpet Elliot Galvin keyboards Conor Chaplin bass Corrie Dick drums, percussion Award-winning trumpeter, composer and bandleader Laura Jurd and her recently rechristened band Dinosaur scored rave reviews with their debut album, Together, As One. Laura, winner of the 2015 Parliamentary Jazz Award for ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ and a current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, gives the full Dinosaur treatment to Wigmore Lates.

All seats £15 * Laura Jurd is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Dave Stapleton

Wigmore Lates

Dinosaur

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Saturday 15 July 7.30 pm

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Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Ulrich Tukur actor Brahms Die schöne Magelone Christian Gerhaher and his regular duo partner, Gerold Huber, return to Wigmore Hall to survey Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone, a cycle of 15 songs rooted in themes from medieval legend to poetry taken from Ludwig Tieck’s Romantic novella about the beautiful Magelone, a Neapolitan princess, and her love for Count Peter of Provence. The songs are interwoven with descriptive prose, read in English translation by actor Ulrich Tukur. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Christian Gerhaher

Lars Borges

Thomas Egli

Marion Koell/Avi-Service for music.

Song Recital Series

Gerold Huber

Ulrich Tukur

Sunday 16 July 11.30 am

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Quatuor Zaïde Wolf Italian Serenade in G Schubert String Quartet in G D887 Quatuor Zaïde makes a very welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a quartet movement by Hugo Wolf drenched in Italian sunshine. The stellar ensemble completes its coffee concert programme with the expansive lyricism and drama of Schubert’s String Quartet in G, a masterwork in four movements. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Marco Borggreve

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Quatuor Zaïde

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Sunday 16 July 7.30 pm Wolfgang Krautzer

Quatuor Mosaïques Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 Mozart String Quartet in G K387 Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Performing with gut strings since its foundation in 1985, Quatuor Mosaïques has matured into one of the world’s finest period-instrument quartets. The ensemble explores Mozart’s debt to Haydn before closing with Borodin’s popular Second String Quartet, an inspired attempt by its composer ‘to conjure up an impression of a light-hearted evening in one of the suburban pleasure gardens of St Petersburg’. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Quatuor Mosaïques

Chamber Music Season

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Monday 17 July 7.30 pm

The Monday Platform

Alexander Soares piano Consone Quartet Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 50 No. 5 Mendelssohn String Quartet in Eb Op. 12 Dutilleux 3 Préludes: D’ombre et de silence; Sur un même accord; Le jeu de contraires Messiaen La fauvette passerinette Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110

Alexander Soares

Consone Quartet

Alexander Soares won the 2015 Annual Music Competition Gold Medal and has performed in several of the UK’s most prestigious venues, including the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The Consone Quartet is the winner of the 2016 Strings/Piano Ensembles prize, as well as the 2015 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 ROSL Arts

Sponsored by the Royal Over-Seas League

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Tuesday 18 July 7.30 pm

The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director OUT OF THE DEEP Morales Missa pro defunctis Tallis Incipit lamentatio Plainsong Ego sum resurrectio et vita; Benedictus Tye Nunc dimittis Byrd Tristitia et anxietas Plainsong Si iniquitatis observaveris; Psalm 129 Morley Nunc dimittis Tallis De lamentatione The destinies of Spain and England were closely intertwined in the 1500s, brought together by dynastic marriages and forced apart by religious strife, colonial The Cardinall’s Musick rivalry and ruinous wars. The Cardinall’s Musick and Andrew Carwood give voice to the austere beauty of Morales’s Requiem mass, written after the Spanish composer’s homecoming following more than a decade as a member of the papal chapel in Rome. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Elizabeth Watts soprano Simon Lepper piano Schubert Des Mädchens Klage (D6); Thekla: eine Geisterstimme (D73); Das Mädchen aus der Fremde (D117); Des Mädchens Klage (D191); An den Frühling (D283); Klage der Ceres; Der König in Thule; Des Mädchens Klage (D389); Auf dem See (D543); An den Frühling (D587); Liebhaber in allen Gestalten; Gretchen im Zwinger (Gretchens Bitte); Thekla: eine Geisterstimme (D595); An den Mond (D296); Der Jüngling am Bache (D638); Suleika I & II

Marco Borggreve

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Robert Workman

Wednesday 19 July 7.30 pm

Elizabeth Watts

Simon Lepper

Schubert discovered Schiller’s poetry in his early teens and was moved to create his first setting of ‘Des Mädchens Klage’ soon after. Elizabeth Watts surveys a selection of the composer’s Schiller songs before exploring works to poems by another titan of the Romantic era, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and concluding with Schubert’s passionate evocations of love and desire in his settings of Suleika. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Thursday 20 July 7.30 pm

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Vijay Iyer Trio Vijay Iyer piano Stephen Crump double bass Tyshawn Sorey drums For the second instalment of his Jazz Residency, Vijay Iyer brings his critically acclaimed trio to Wigmore Hall.

Renowned for pushing boundaries, exploring radiating grooves and innovative polyrhythms, the group’s music is pioneering yet firmly rooted in tradition. Influential albums, along with countless glowing reviews, have helped boost its reputation as one of the pivotal jazz bands of the twenty-first century. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

This concert will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval.

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’

David Kaufman

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Vijay Iyer Trio

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Sophie Gent

Bojan Cˇ icˇic´

Thomas Dunford

Georgia Browne

Jonathan Manson Christina Raphaëlle

Arcangelo* Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord Sophie Gent violin Bojan Cˇ icˇic´ violin Jonathan Manson viola da gamba Thomas Dunford theorbo Georgia Browne flute Sophie Junker soprano

Marco Borggreve

Baroque Ensemble in Residence

Charles Plumey

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Marco Borggreve

Friday 21 July 7.00 pm NB starting time

Clérambault Cantata: Léandre et Héro Couperin La Françoise & L’impériale from Les Nations Montéclair Le retour de la paix

Sophie Junker

Arcangelo’s final concert as Wigmore Hall’s Baroque Ensemble in Residence closes with a dramatic invocation of post-war peace by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, the musician who introduced the double bass to the Paris Opéra orchestra. Two sonatas from François Couperin’s ambitious portrait of four Catholic nations underline the inventive wealth of French music during the early 1700s. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Marco Borggreve

Simon Jay Price

Early Music and Baroque Series

Arcangelo

Jonathan Cohen

Dittersdorf Concerto No. 2 in Eb with cadenza by J M Sperger Efrain Oscher Soledad Roland Moser ... sehr mit Bassstimme sanft ...

Hommage à Friederike Mayröcker) Sperger Concerto No. 15 with cadenza by Anner Bylsma

Marco Borggreve

Edicson Ruiz double bass Yu Kosuge piano

Nohely Oliveros

Friday 21 July 10.00 pm

Caracas-born Edicson Ruiz began playing double bass at the age of 11 and was nurtured by Venezuela’s ‘El Sistema’ music education programme. He launches this Wigmore Lates concert with the thrusting energy of Dittersdorf’s Edicson Ruiz Yu Kosuge Concerto before presenting the mind-bending sonorities of Roland Moser’s ... sehr mit Bassstimme sanft ... and heart-melting melody of Efrain Oscher’s Soledad.

All seats £15

Wigmore Lates

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Avex Recital Series 2017

Daishin Kashimoto violin Alessio Bax piano

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Daisuke Akita

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Saturday 22 July 1.00 pm

Mozart Violin Sonata in G K301 Szymanowski Mythes Op. 30 Grieg Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45 The final lunchtime concert in the Avex Recital Series 2017 features violinist Daishin Kashimoto, the First Concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2010, and pianist Alessio Bax with a programme including works by Mozart, Szymanowski and Grieg. Kashimoto plays on a violin made by Andrea Guarneri, 1674.

Daishin Kashimoto

Alessio Bax

‘Kashimoto and Uchida’s combined quietness and exceptional control meant the incredibly rarefied, atmospheric ending – in which the violin rises to stratospheric altitude then descends in a slow, unshakeable, pianissimo succession of fifths and fourths – was breathtaking.’ David Fay, Bachtrack ‘And this was indeed an ensemble concert, not a star recital; of the final encore, Strauss’s Morgen, it’s Daishin Kashimoto’s violin solo that lingers in the memory’ Erica Jeal, Guardian, January 2016 This recital will be 90 minutes in duration, without an interval All seats £20 Promoted by Avex Classics International

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

Juriy Sheftsoff

Andrei Bondarenko baritone Gary Matthewman piano

Johan Persson

Saturday 22 July 7.30 pm

Ibert Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte Fauré Les berceaux; Après un rêve; Fleur jetée Massenet Elégie Ravel Sainte Saint-Saëns Si vous n’avez rien à me dire Duparc Le manoir de Rosemonde Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Tchaikovsky Amid the din of the ball; I should like in a single word; The nightingale; My genius, my angel, my friend; Why?; We sat together; I bless you, forests; Reconciliation; A tear trembles; Not a word, O my friend; Again, as before, alone; Don Juan’s serenade

Andrei Bondarenko

Gary Matthewman

Andrei Bondarenko has forged a stellar international career in the decade since he joined the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. The Ukrainian baritone, Song Prize-winner at the 2011 Cardiff Singer of the World, revels in French mélodies in his recital’s first half before mining the vital emotions of Tchaikovsky’s Russian romances and songs. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Chloë Hanslip violin Danny Driver piano Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’

Raphael Mouterde

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Sunday 23 July 11.30 am

Although written for George Bridgetower, the exceptionally gifted Polish-born son of a West Indian father, Beethoven dedicated his Op. 47 to the French composer and violinist Rudolphe Kreutzer following what Bridgetower recalled as Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver ‘a silly quarrel about a girl’. Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver preface the ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata’s virtuoso fire and dramatic momentum with Schubert’s tuneful Sonatina. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Sunday 23 July 7.30 pm

BOHEMIAN NOTES: A CONCERT FOR PARKINSON’S UK

Elena Urioste Hanya Chlala

Sam Trench

Tai Murray

Angela Morris

Janácˇek Na památku VIII/9 Bartók Duos for 2 violins BB104 (a selection, transcribed for violin and viola) Borodin String Trio in G minor (Variations on a Russian theme) Suk Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 1 Dvorˇák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81

Sophie Zhai

Marco Borggreve

Tai Murray violin Elena Urioste violin Jennifer Stumm viola Laura van der Heijden cello Tom Poster piano

This programme, with its Eastern Jennifer Stumm Laura van der Heijden Tom Poster European, folkish flavour, follows an unusual format by opening with a solo, moving through a duo, trio and quartet, and finishing with an acknowledged masterpiece, Dvorˇák’s glorious Piano Quintet in A. Five world-class musicians have chosen to perform without fee and donate the proceeds from their concert to Parkinson’s UK. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season Monday 24 – Thursday 27 July 11.00 am – 3.30 pm

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Musical Portraits SUMMER COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS We invite young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders to be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, and to create their own works of art and music with inspiring visual artists alongside Wigmore Hall Learning Associate Artists Ignite.

For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Ceri Black at Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or ceri@turtlekeyarts.org.uk.

Free (application required)

In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts

Benjamin Ealovega

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Ignite

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WIGMORE HALL LEARNING GALA CELEBRATIONS CONNECTING PEOPLE THROUGH MUSIC For over 20 years Wigmore Hall’s renowned Learning programme has been giving people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities opportunities to take part in creative music making, engaging a broad and diverse audience through innovative creative projects, concerts, events and online resources. The spirit of chamber music lies at the heart of all that we do: making music together as an ensemble, with every voice heard and equally valued.

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 July 7.30 pm

We collaborate with a range of community, health, social care and education organisations, working together to engage people who might not otherwise have the opportunity to take part. In the 2015/16 Season we led 539 Learning events, and engaged 11,532 people with 22,364 visits to the programme.

All proceeds from these concerts will go towards Wigmore Hall Learning

Felix Rettberg

Aidan Woodcock

Joshua Bell violin Arisa Fujita violin Amihai Grosz viola Rachel Roberts viola Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon piano

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Monday 24 July 7.30 pm

Joshua Bell

Arisa Fujita

Amihai Grosz

Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58; Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66; String Quintet No. 1 in A Op. 18 Mendelssohn projected his youthful genius into the String Quintet in A Op. 18, a work influenced by the form and instrumentation of Mozart’s string quintets. Steven Isserlis and friends also perform the composer’s C minor Piano Trio and impassioned Second Cello Sonata, the brilliant product of a year of personal upheaval. £60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

Chamber Music Season

Pilvax Studio

Jean-Baptiste Millot

Joshua Bell violin Arisa Fujita violin Amihai Grosz viola Rachel Roberts viola Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon piano

Nikoloaj Lund

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Tuesday 25 July 7.30 pm

Rachel Roberts

Steven Isserlis

Dénes Várjon

Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F (1838); Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49; String Quintet No. 2 in B b Op. 87 A world-class roster of artists assembles for a second successive summer evening of Mendelssohn. Joshua Bell and Dénes Várjon launch proceedings with the Violin Sonata in F, a work lost until it was revived in the 1950s by Yehudi Menuhin, and are joined by Steven Isserlis in Op. 49, which Schumann described as ‘the master trio of the age’. £60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Chamber Music Season

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REASON IN MADNESS Schumann Herzeleid Brahms Ophelia-Lieder Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia Wolf Mignon Lieder Duparc Romance de Mignon Fauré Mélisande’s Song Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Saint-Saëns La mort d’Ophélie Chausson Chanson d’Ophélie from Chansons de Shakespeare Op. 28 Duparc Au pays où se fait la guerre Poulenc La dame de Monte Carlo

Sussie Ahlburg

Carolyn Sampson soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Marco Borggreve

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Wednesday 26 July 7.30 pm

Carolyn Sampson

Joseph Middleton

Strikingly individual musical responses to the androgynous Mignon and tormented Ophelia, respective creations of Goethe and Shakespeare, occupy the heart of Carolyn Sampson’s programme of German and French songs. She and Joseph Middleton include Strauss’s breath-taking mad songs and close with Poulenc’s monologue on the theme of suicidal despair played out at the gaming tables of Monte Carlo. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Cédric Tiberghien piano Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ Liszt Csárdás macabre S224; Bagatelle sans tonalité S216a; Mephisto Waltz No. 4 S696; La lugubre gondola; Piano Sonata in B minor S178

Jean-Baptiste Millot

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Thursday 27 July 7.30 pm

Cédric Tiberghien’s pianism rests on foundations set as a prodigious teenager and developed since over a career spanning the past quarter century. His recital contains two of the most influential and enduring of nineteenth-century piano sonatas and a quartet of late Liszt masterworks, the fourth Mephisto Waltz and hypnotic Bagatelle sans tonalité among them.

Cédric Tiberghien

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Malcolm Crowthers

Robin Tritschler tenor Graham Johnson piano

Garreth Wong

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Friday 28 July 7.30 pm

Schubert Erinnerung; Die Betende; Der Geistertanz (D116); Nachtgesang (D119); Nähe des Geliebten; Wandrers Nachtlied I; Morgenlied (D266); Abendlied (D276); Auf den Tod einer Nachtigall (D399); An die Nachtigall (D497); Ganymed; Entzückung an Laura II (fragment); Elysium; Evangelium Johannis VI; Einsamkeit; Über allen Zauber Liebe; Nachtstück; Der Musensohn; Am Fluße; Willkommen und Abschied Robin Tritschler

Graham Johnson

Robin Tritschler and Graham Johnson begin with an evocation of heightened sensual experience in settings of poems by Matthison and Goethe before moving through a series of hymns to nature and the realms of myth. Their programme also includes Schubert’s churchly setting of words from St John’s Gospel and beguiling ‘Über allen Zauber Liebe’, a little-known masterwork. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

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Sim Canetty-Clarke

Christina Raphaelle

Tara Erraught

Kitty Whately

Benjamin Hulett

Sussie Ahlburg Raphaëlle Photography

Nicky Spence Anthony Riordan

Benjamin Ealovega

Falk Kastell

Marcus Farnsworth

Gavan Ring Molina Visuals

Clive Barda

Milan Siljanov

Kathryn Rudge

Nick Pritchard

Benjamin Appl Marco Borggreve

Robin Tritschler

Ruby Hughes

Anna Huntley Mark James

Natalie J Watts

Gemma Summerfield

Garreth Wong

Eleanor Dennis

Mary Bevan Christian Kaufmann

Robert Piwko

Elizabeth Watts

Kaupo Kikkas

A SERENADE TO MUSIC Elizabeth Watts soprano Mary Bevan soprano Eleanor Dennis soprano Ruby Hughes soprano Gemma Summerfield soprano Tara Erraught mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano Benjamin Hulett tenor Nick Pritchard tenor Nicky Spence tenor Robin Tritschler tenor Benjamin Appl baritone Marcus Farnsworth baritone Gavan Ring baritone Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Graham Johnson piano Eugene Asti piano

Victoria Cadisch

Final Song Recital of the Season

Marco Borggreve

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Saturday 29 July 7.00 pm NB starting time

Graham Johnson

Eugene Asti

Schubert Viel tausend Sterne prangen; Klaglied; Trost in Tränen; Nun laßt uns den Leib begraben (Begräbnislied); Jesus Christus unser Heiland (Osterlied); Das Mädchen von Inistore; Am ersten Maimorgen; Der Entfernten; Klage (D371); Lied in der Abwesenheit; Lied ‘Ferne von der großen Stadt’; Nur wer die Liebe kennt (fragment); Trost (D523); Der Kreuzzug; Das große Halleluja; Mirjams Siegesgesang; Kantate für Irene Kiesewetter Purcell Music for a while (arr. Tippett/Bergmann) Croft A Hymn on Divine Musick (realised by Britten) Purcell If music be the food of love (realised by Britten) Schubert An die Musik Chabrier Ode à la musique Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music Wigmore Hall crowns its acclaimed Schubert: The Complete Songs series, among the most ambitious projects in the venue’s history, with a gala concert featuring performances by stars of the younger generation and overseen by Graham Johnson, one of the truly great Schubertians. Chabrier’s Ode and Vaughan Williams’s Serenade pay tribute to Music for her role in Schubert’s peerless achievement.

This concert will be approximately 2 hours 15 minutes in duration, including an interval £60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO. 45 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Martin Variations on a theme by Rossini

Benjamin Ealovega

Gemma Rosefield cello Tim Horton piano

Marco Borggreve

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Sunday 30 July 11.30 am

Gemma Rosefield, whose Wigmore Hall debut was described by The Strad as ‘a mesmerising musical treasure’, returns in partnership with Tim Horton. The sumptuous textures and serious dialogue of Gemma Rosefield Tim Horton Brahms’s First Cello Sonata provide contrast with Beethoven’s ebullient Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ and Martin’s Rossini Variations, written in 1942 for Gregor Piatigorsky. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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