Wigmore Hall June 2015 Concert Diary

June 2015

Christian McBride INSIDE: Arcangelo | Aurora Orchestra Florian Boesch | Borodin Quartet Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov Alban Gerhardt | Richard Goode | Paul Lewis Christoph PrĂŠgardien | Ailish Tynan | and many more

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Benjamin Ealovega

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Wigmore Hall • John Gilhooly OBE Director The Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No.1024838

Cover: Christian McBride © Anna Webber

Monday 1 June 1.00 pm Paul Mitchell

Tasmin Little violin Martin Roscoe piano

Eric Richmond

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Brahms Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata (Sonatensatz) Dvorˇák Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano Tasmin Little’s artistry speaks directly to the heart and beguiles the ear. She is joined by regular duo partner Martin Roscoe for a lunchtime recital of late Romantic masterworks, crowned by César Franck’s majestic Sonata in A for violin and piano. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tasmin Little

Martin Roscoe

Monday 1 June 7.30 pm

The Monday Platform

Anthony Brown saxophone Leo Nicholson piano Françoise-Green Piano Duo Debussy Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C (arr. Vincent David) Ibert Concertino da camera Edwin Roxburgh Homage to Debussy Debussy Petite Suite Mark-Anthony Turnage Sarabande Andy Scott Sonata for saxophone and piano (world première) Schubert Fantasie in F minor D940 Anthony Brown and Leo Nicholson were among the outstanding artists at the 2014 PLG Young Artists New Year Series, giving performances which transfixed their audiences. The Françoise-Green Piano Duo also impressed in the PLG New Year Series, having already achieved great success at the Royal College of Music, Prussia Cove, Davos Young Artists, Biennale Bern, Edinburgh Fringe and other leading festivals and venues. £18 £16 £12 £10 Park Lane Group Young Artists Concerts

Wilfried Hösl

Benjamin Harte

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

Anthony Brown

Leo Nicholson

Robin Green and Antoine Françoise

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Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe director O DOLCE MIO TESORO

Michiel Hendryckx

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Tuesday 2 June 7.30 pm

Gesualdo Madrigali libro sesto

£50 £40 £30 £20

Collegium Vocale Gent Michiel Hendryckx

Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent became pioneers of the Early Music Movement in the 1970s and remain leaders in the interpretation of works written long before the Industrial Revolution. In this concert they explore the extreme emotions and chromatic twists and turns of the mature madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo, the Italian nobleman who turned to composition soon after he took part in the murder of his wife and her lover.

Please note that this concert will be approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in duration, without an interval.

Supported by Dunard Fund

Early Music and Baroque Series Philippe Herreweghe

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Wednesday 3 June 10.30 am – 1.30 pm Thursday 4 June 10.30 am – 1.30 pm

Elly Ameling Masterclasses A true legend of song, Elly Ameling has received critical acclaim worldwide for the interpretative insights and captivating power of her performances. The Dutch soprano shares the fruits of a lifetime’s experience with postgraduate students in two masterclass sessions that focus on repertoire from the heart of German and French art song, exploring works in depth and cultivating strong ideas about their musical and poetic meaning. Her wisdom, based on a fruitful career spanning sixty years, is sure to enlighten anyone interested in the song recitalist’s art. £7 concs £4 each session

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Elly Ameling

Richard Goode piano Mozart Adagio in B minor K540 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78 Brahms Klavierstücke Op. 76 Debussy Children’s Corner Schumann Humoreske in Bb Op. 20

Michael Wilson

Wednesday 3 June 7.30 pm

Known for the intelligence and warm humanity of his music-making, Richard Goode belongs to the pantheon of today’s great pianists.

His programme comprises works by composers central to his art, embracing everything from Mozart’s fantasy-like Adagio in B minor to the uplifting lyricism and dash of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 24. £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series

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Richard Goode

Mauro Peter tenor James Baillieu piano Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98 Schumann From Myrthen: Widmung; Freisinn; Der Nussbaum; Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan; Zwei Venetianische Lieder; Du bist wie eine Blume Brahms Meerfahrt; Nachtigall; Versunken; Wie Melodien zieht es mir; Feldeinsamkeit; Geheimnis Wolf Lied eines Verliebten; Der Knabe und das Immlein; An die Geliebte; Nimmersatte Liebe; Der Tambour; Abschied

Kaupo Kikkas

Thursday 4 June 7.30 pm Franziska Schroedinger

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Lessons from Helmut Deutsch at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater supplied secure Mauro Peter James Baillieu foundations for Mauro Peter’s artistic development.

The young Swiss tenor, who made his international breakthrough at the 2012 Hohenems Schubertiade, returns to Wigmore Hall to perform a delectable banquet of Lieder, complete with such evergreen works as Brahms’s ‘Feldeinsamkeit’ and Beethoven’s impassioned song-cycle An die ferne Geliebte. £35 £30 £25 £18

In memory of Peter Cain (1931– 2013), a faithful supporter of Wigmore Hall, whose bequest is helping to give young people under the age of 35 access to Song Recitals & Chamber Music.

Song Recital Series

Artists in Conversation Christian McBride in conversation with journalist and broadcaster Kevin Le Gendre before the evening concert. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Friday 5 June 7.00 pm NB Starting time

Christian McBride Trio Christian McBride double bass Christian Sands piano Ulysses Owens Jr. drums

Chi Modu

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Friday 5 June 5.30 pm

Christian McBride, Christian Sands and Ulysses Owens Jr. have been honing their trio to a fine point of expressive depth and nuance with high profile performances around the world. ‘The real core foundation is hardcore swingin’, blues and the American songbook’ says McBride. ‘Part of that is because Christian [Sands] is so well-rounded and willing to go to so many places, that I can’t help but want to swing hard with him and Ulysses.’ £30 £25 £20 £15

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Christian McBride Trio

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Saturday 6 June 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Composer and Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir in conversation with Christopher Cook before the world première of her new work. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Benjamin Ealovega

Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor Alice Coote mezzo-soprano

Chris Christodoulou

Saturday 6 June 7.30 pm

JUDITH WEIR: MASTER OF THE QUEEN’S MUSIC Mendelssohn Octet in E b Op. 20 Judith Weir Good Morning, Midnight* (world première) Copland Appalachian Spring Judith Weir

Simon Weir

Alice Coote

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

Judith Weir made headline news following her appointment as Master of the Queen’s Music, the first woman to hold this ancient royal position.

The world première of her work, written for Alice Coote and Aurora Orchestra, is presented in company with Mendelssohn’s Octet and Copland’s Appalachian Spring, performed in its original version for thirteen instruments – two pulsating compositions marked by bold ideas, intense energy and joy. £40 £35 £25 £15

Nicholas Collon and Aurora Orchestra

Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Series/Contemporary Music Series

ATOS Trio Debussy Piano Trio in G Chaminade Piano Trio No. 2 in A minor Op. 34 Boulanger D’un matin de printemps

Frank Jerke

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Sunday 7 June 11.30 am

Berlin-based ATOS Trio turns to the chamber music of fin-de-siècle France, exploring the youthful sentiment of Debussy’s Piano Trio in G and linking it to magnificent works by Cécile Chaminade and Lili Boulanger, the latter completed shortly before its composer’s premature death in 1918. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert ATOS Trio

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Lukas Beck

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Russell Duncan

Sunday 7 June 7.30 pm

Wolf From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ein Ständchen euch zu bringen; Der Mond hat eine schwere Klag’ erhoben; Ihr seid die Allerschönste; Geselle, woll’n wir uns in Kutten hüllen; Heut’ Nacht erhob ich mich; Benedeit die sel’ge Mutter; Was für ein Lied soll dir gesungen werden?; Wenn du mich mit den Augen streifst und lachst Brahms Four Serious Songs Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Florian Boesch is blessed with a rare gift for conveying the subtle alchemy of words and music, matching a Florian Boesch Malcolm Martineau felt sense of their meaning to the appropriate colours and shades of his richly endowed voice. His Wigmore Hall Residency concludes with a programme shot through with striking images and profound emotions, crowned by Schumann’s sublime settings of poetry by Joseph Eichendorff. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series/Florian Boesch Residency Sunday 7 June 9. 45 pm

Post-Concert Talk Following the final concert of his Wigmore Hall residency, Florian Boesch discusses his life and career with Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Škampa Quartet Krzysztof Chorzelski viola

Ivan Pinkava

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Monday 8 June 1.00 pm

Suk Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale (St Wenceslas) Op. 35a Pavel Fischer String Quartet No. 3 ‘Mad Piper’ Dvorˇák String Quintet in E b Op. 97 Folk music’s direct simplicity and deep resonance in the collective unconscious inspired Pavel Fischer, former first violin of the Škampa Quartet, to write his ‘Mad Piper’ Quartet. The work’s multi-hued emotional palette complements the national pride and yearning hope of Suk’s Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale, written following the outbreak of the First World War.

Škampa Quartet

£13 concs £11 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported

by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

Krzysztof Chorzelski

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Rosenblatt Recital Series 2014/15

Marcello Giordani tenor Macrì Simone piano

Kristin Hoebermann

Monday 8 June 7.30 pm

Bellini Malinconia, ninfa gentile; La ricordanza Donaudy O del mio amato bene; Vaghissima sembianza Mascagni Serenata Leoncavallo Lasciati amar; Vieni, amor mio Verdi Forse la soglia attinse from Un ballo in maschera; Quando le sere al placido from Luisa Miller Tosti Serenata; L’ultima canzone; L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra Tirindelli Di te!

Calì E vui durmiti ancora Puccini Mentìa l’avviso Puccini Donna non vidi mai from Manon Lescaut; Nessun dorma from Turandot A rare London appearance from one of today’s leading tenors, Marcello Giordani. A favourite of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Giordani boasts all the hallmarks of a true star tenor: ‘a remarkable range, a strong instrument, [and] an attractive stage presence’ Washington Post

Marcello Giordani

‘The real thing, an Italian tenor who sang with ringing power and sweeping fervor’ The New York Times £30 £25 £20 £15

Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 8 April (Ben Johnson) and 19 May (Jessica Pratt)

Macrì Simone

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Tuesday 9 June 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm

Ignite – Celebrating a Year in the Community Following Ignite’s year of creative projects working in community settings including Chelsea and Westminster Hospital School and The Cardinal Hume Centre, we invite you to join us for a concert celebrating this meaningful and important programme.

Ignite presents pieces inspired by material developed on projects alongside a preview of some of the music from the forthcoming community chamber opera, Reimagining King Arthur.

Free (ticket required) Ignite Hospital Project

Wigmore Hall’s Community programme is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Monument Trust and The Andor Charitable Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Phantasm Laurence Dreyfus director, treble viol Emilia Benjamin treble viol Jonathan Manson tenor viol Mikko Perkola tenor viol Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol

Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 9 June 7.30 pm

Elizabeth Kenny theorbo PURCELL: FANTASIAS Gibbons Fantasies a 3, Nos. 3 & 4 Purcell Fantasias a 3, Nos. 1, 2 & 3 Locke Little Consort ‘for my cousin Kemble’ Purcell Fantasias a 4, Nos. 4, 5 & 12 Lawes Royall Consort No. 5 in D Ward Fancies a 5, Nos. 1 & 5 Locke Consort of 4 Parts in D minor Purcell Fantasias a 4, Nos. 9, 10 & 11

Richard Haughton

Phantasm

Contemplation and cultivation of the imagination appear to have been central to the English fantasia. Purcell’s contribution to the genre, as so often with his work, reached heights rarely scaled by others, although he was clearly inspired by the legacy of compositions by Orlando Gibbons, William Lawes, Matthew Locke and John Ward.

Phantasm’s programme digs deep into the seventeenth-century viol consort tradition to reveal its greatest treasures.

Elizabeth Kenny

£35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Wolf From Mörike Lieder: Um Mitternacht; Elfenlied; Das verlassene Mägdlein; In der Frühe; Begegnung; Er ist’s Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen; Scheiden und Meiden; Ich ging mit Lust; Nicht wiedersehen!

Schoenberg From Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs): Galathea; Gigerlette; Der genügsame Liebhaber; Mahnung; Seit ich soviele Weiber sah (Arie aus dem Spiegel von Arkadien)

Felix Broede

Christiane Iven soprano Igor Levit* piano

Christine Schneider

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Wednesday 10 June 7.30 pm

Christiane Iven

Igor Levit

Igor Levit’s breathtaking artistry has been endorsed by critical consensus, audience acclaim and carefully considered comparisons with legendary performers from the past. The German-Russian pianist’s gifts as duo partner will be on display when he is joined by Christiane Iven, a celebrated member of the Staatsoper Stuttgart and a transcendent interpreter of late Romantic song. £35 £30 £25 £18

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

Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Song Recital Series/Introducing Igor Levit

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Living Music with the Heath Quartet A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS

Rob Stothard

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Thursday 11 June 11.30 am – 12.30 pm

If you are, or someone you know is living with dementia, please join us for this relaxed concert to celebrate Carers’ Week, with tea and coffee served after the performance.

Check www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning for further details.

Carers’ Week is a UK-wide annual awareness campaign with the aim of improving the lives of carers and the people they care for. £2.50

For more information about Wigmore Hall’s work with people living with dementia, please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/musicforlife

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Thursday 11 June 6.00 pm repeated at 9.00 pm NB Starting times Molina Visuals

Paul Lewis piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Beethoven’s three final piano sonatas belong to the category of inexhaustible artworks, compositions that offer their performers and listeners a bridge into an infinite world of creativity and imagination. Paul Lewis crowns his Wigmore Hall Celebration series with two performances of Opp. 109 –111 in one evening, a marathon feat of mental and physical endurance, and an unmissable opportunity to share the pianist’s total immersion in Beethoven’s music.

6.00 pm concert: Returns only 9.00 pm concert: £35 £30 £25 £18

These concerts will each be 1 hour 10 minutes in duration, with no interval.

Paul Lewis

London Pianoforte Series/Paul Lewis: A Celebration

Isabelle Faust violin Alexander Melnikov piano

Molina Visuals

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Friday 12 June 7.00 pm NB Starting time

Dietrich/Schumann/Brahms F.A.E. Sonata Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100; Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 The artistic partnership between Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov has grown over time, shaped by award-winning encounters in the recording studio and refined in the white heat of concert performance. Their latest Wigmore Hall recital opens with the complete F.A.E. Sonata, the collaborative work of Robert Schumann, Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov his pupil Albert Dietrich and the young Johannes Brahms, before turning to the flowing lyricism and telling expressive economy of Brahms’s mature violin sonatas. £35 £30 £25 £18 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season

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Gisela Schenker

Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord Christiane Karg soprano

Marco Borggreve

Friday 12 June 10.00 pm

HANDEL: NINE GERMAN ARIAS

Christiane Karg

Jonathan Cohen

Adam Swann

Handel Die ihr aus dunklen Grüften; Künft’ger Zeiten eitler Kummer; Das zitternde Glänzen der spielenden Wellen; Süsse Stille, sanfter Quelle Buxtehude Sonata in A minor for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV254 Handel Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden; Singe, Seele, Gott zum Preise; In den angenehmen Büschen; Süsser Blumen Ambraflocken; Meine Seele hört im Sehen Handel’s Nine German Arias, the composer’s final musical settings of his mother tongue, were inspired by the popular success of a collection of verse by the Hamburg poet Barthold Heinrich Brockes. Christiane Karg and Arcangelo perform the complete set together with one of Dietrich Buxtehude’s most soulful sonatas, probably written in the 1690s for performance at St Mary’s Church in Lübeck.

All seats £15

Arcangelo

Wigmore Lates The evening continues in the Wigmore Hall Bar with music by the Callum Au Quintet from 11.15 pm.

This is a free event, with no ticket required.

Inspired by Bob Brookmeyer and Gerry Mulligan’s great collaborations, the Callum Au Quintet is co-led by baritone saxophonist Richard Shepherd, and features a hard-swinging rhythm section of Matt Skelton, Jeremy Brown, and Chris Eldred. This band first performed together at Ronnie Scott’s in September 2014, and is quickly establishing itself as one of the hottest emerging groups on the UK scene.

Wigmore Lates

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Callum Au

Saturday 13 June 11.30 am

Young Musicians from The Purcell School SATURDAY MORNING CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 (1st mvt) Debussy Petite Suite Villa-Lobos Sexteto místico Medtner Piano Quintet in C (1st mvt) Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ (1st mvt) Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84 (1st mvt) Young Musicians from The Purcell School

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 This concert will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval £13 £11 £9 £8 The Purcell School (Registered Charity No. 312855) www.purcell-school.org

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Benjamin Ealovega

François-Frédéric Guy piano Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano

Guy Vivien

Saturday 13 June 7.30 pm

Bartók Two Pictures Op. 10 Debussy Jeux (arr. Bavouzet) Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s arrangement for two pianos of Debussy’s Jeux trains the spotlight on the ballet score’s intricate interplay of ideas and intimacy of expression. He joins forces with François-Frédéric Guy, acclaimed for his interpretations of the Viennese classics and affinity for the works of Bartók. Their recital closes with Stravinsky’s barnstorming transcription of The Rite of Spring for piano duo.

François-Frédéric Guy

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

£35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series

Lana Trotovsek violin Simon Lane piano

Sussie Ahlburg

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Sunday 14 June 11.30 am

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Tchaikovsky Meditation from Souvenir d’un lieu cher Op. 42 Arvo Pärt Fratres for violin and piano Frolov Concert Fantasy on Themes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Op. 19 While Brahms and Arvo Pärt applied telling expressive economy to the works in this programme, extrovert display hallmarks the Frolov work, as it delves into themes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. London-based, Lana Trotovsek Simon Lane Slovenian-born violinist Lana Trotovsek also explores Tchaikovsky’s haunting reflections on ‘a dear place’, the country estate of the composer’s patroness, Nadezhda von Meck. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Jack Liebeck

Carducci String Quartet Guy Johnston cello Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Anthony Gilbert Haven of Mysteries for string quintet* (world première) Schubert String Quintet in C D956

Guy Johnston

Anthony Gilbert

Tom Barnes

*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

Maurice Adam

Sunday 14 June 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall’s wholehearted commitment to building the chamber music repertoire continues with the first performance of a new work for string quintet. Anthony Gilbert’s composition, Haven of Mysteries, belongs to the Hall’s Bracing Change programme, a series of new British string commissions. The Carducci String Quartet is joined by Guy Johnston Carducci String Quartet for this performance, which also includes Schubert’s divine String Quintet, among the great masterworks dating from the composer’s final months. The programme begins with Haydn’s dazzling String Quartet in E flat Op. 33 No. 2, the popular nickname of which reflects the stop-start ending of its rondo. £30 £25 £20 £15 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Bracing Change: New British String Commissions

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Gould Piano Trio Bowen Rhapsody Trio for violin, cello and piano Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898

Tashko Tasheff

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Monday 15 June 1.00 pm

York Bowen, youngest son of the owner of a whisky distillery, made the transition from prodigiously talented student to a major figure on the British music scene in the first half of the twentieth century. The Gould Piano Trio received rave reviews for its recent recording of his Romantic Rhapsody Trio, a work underpinned by emotional uplift and optimism. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Gould Piano Trio

Christoph Prégardien tenor Michael Gees piano

H & C Baus

Monday 15 June 7.30 pm

Schubert Winterreise The conflicts between striving and acceptance, literal and poetic truth, and life and death itself are played out in Winterreise, Schubert’s peerless setting of twenty-four poems by Wilhelm Müller. Christoph Prégardien and Michael Gees bring their vast collective experience to its interpretation, probing its spine-chilling melancholy and aiming to uncover insights into the human condition.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall

Song Recital Series Tuesday 16 June 7.30 pm

Till Fellner piano Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book II Nos. 5–8 BWV874–77 Mozart Piano Sonata in E b K282; Rondo in A minor K511 Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16

Benjamin Ealovega

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Christoph Prégardien and Michael Gees

Till Fellner’s broad repertoire spans three centuries of music, from the keyboard works of J S Bach to pieces specially written for him. The Viennese pianist opens his recital with an illustration of the inventive genius of Bach’s The Well-tempered Clavier Book II and journeys towards the fantasy of Schumann’s Kreisleriana by way of two works in which Mozart experiments with bold new ideas. £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series Wednesday 17 June 11.00 am – 11.45 am Repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm

For Crying Out Loud!

FOR PARENTS AND BABIES UP TO 1 YEAR OLD A series of concerts with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, presented in an accommodating environment for parents or carers and their babies. Please note that while the music is appropriate for babies, these concerts are not interactive.

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Till Fellner

£7.50 per adult – babies come free

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Schubert Atys; Ganymed; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Am Strome; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Der Jüngling an der Quelle; Der Schiffer (D536) Britten Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente Britten The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Schubert Die Mutter Erde; Im Abendrot; Die Taubenpost (D965a)

Marco Borggreve

Mark Padmore tenor Roger Vignoles piano

Benjamin Ealovega

Wednesday 17 June 7.30 pm

It is tempting to imagine the spirits of Britten and Schubert tuning in to and approving of Mark Padmore’s artistry. The tenor’s affinity Mark Padmore Roger Vignoles for both composers, not to mention that of Roger Vignoles, has deepened over many years. This recital places Britten’s only song cycle in German and his equally penetrating settings of John Donne in company with some of Schubert’s greatest Lieder. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by Voices at Wigmore: champions of vocal music in all its forms throughout the 2014/15 Season

Song Recital Series

The Endellion String Quartet Mozart String Quartet in E b K428 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 Ravel String Quartet in F

Eric Richmond

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Thursday 18 June 7.30 pm

‘Maybe thirty-five years of playing together has brought … a uniformity of thought and instinct that allows them to play as a single entity,’ observed Gramophone about The Endellion String Quartet. The group’s seasoned blend of art and craft here finds expression in Mozart’s genial String Quartet in E flat K428 and Mendelssohn’s Beethoven-inspired String Quartet No. 2.

Ravel’s youthful String Quartet in F proved a succès de scandale following its rejection by the Prix de Rome jury in 1904. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Friday 19 June 7.00 pm NB Starting time

Pawel Kopczynski

The final concert in Wigmore Hall’s Alban Gerhardt Focus reflects the German cellist’s wide and open repertoire outlook and lifelong love for making chamber music. Brett Dean performs one of the viola parts in his Epitaphs (2010), a personal tribute to five friends and colleagues who died within the space of little more than a year. The programme closes with another work for two violins, two violas and cello, Brahms’s sonorous String Quintet in G. £30 £25 £20 £15

Gergana Gergova

Baiba Skride

Nils Mönkemeyer

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Alban Gerhardt Focus

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Brett Dean Sim Canetty-Clarke

Mozart String Quintet in E b K614 Brett Dean Epitaphs Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111

Irène Zandel

Baiba Skride violin Gergana Gergova violin Brett Dean viola Nils Mönkemeyer viola Alban Gerhardt cello

Marco Borggreve

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The Endellion String Quartet

Alban Gerhardt

Fantasticus Rie Kimura baroque violin Robert Smith Guillermo Brachetta harpsichord

viola da gamba

Rudi Wells

Friday 19 June 10.00 pm

SONNERIE AND OTHER PORTRAITS Musical paintings from the French Baroque Marais Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du-Mont de Paris Rameau Cinquième pièce de clavecin en concert: Fugue, La Forqueray – La Cupis – La Marais Marais Tombeau pour Monsieur de Lully Francœur Adagio and Rondeau from Sonata VI (Deuxième Livre) Leclair Sonata in D Op. 2 No. 8 Fantasticus

Fantasticus stands for intense expression and emotional extravagance. The Netherlands-based baroque ensemble’s playing is directly informed by the stylus fantasticus, a concept coined in 1650 by Athanasius Kircher, the German Jesuit scholar, alchemist and polymath, to describe ‘the most free and unrestrained method of composing’. Each of the works in its programme defies the boundaries of convention, none more so than Marin Marais’s elegiac Tombeau pour Monsieur de Lully.

All seats £15

Wigmore Lates

The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director

Dmitri Gutjahr

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Saturday 20 June 7.30 pm

THE PASSION OF CHRIST – Sub-plot: Cardinal Wolsey Taverner Sospitati dedit aegros; Mater Christi sanctissima Cornysh Woefully arrayed Fayrfax Maria plena virtute Merbecke Domine Jesu Christe Davy Ah blessed Jesu how fortuned this Fayrfax Alas for lak of her presens Taverner O Wilhelme pastor bone Fayrfax Agnus Dei from Tecum principium

The Cardinall’s Musick

The Passion of Christ has brought forth much powerful music chief amongst which is the extended devotion Maria plena virtute by Fayrfax. Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall’s Musick conclude their Fayrfax Celebration with a selection of mellifluous choral works from early Tudor times, complete with Taverner’s Mater Christi sanctissima and the exquisite ‘Agnus Dei’ from Fayrfax’s Mass Tecum principium . The sub-text of this concert focuses on Cardinal Wolsey – Henry VIII’s principal advisor until his fall from power – and is reflected in the music of John Taverner who was appointed Informator (choirmaster) at Cardinal College (now Christ Church), Oxford. £35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series/The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration

Szymanowski Quartet Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Szymanowski Nocturne and Tarantella (arr. for string quartet)

Marco Borggreve

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Sunday 21 June 11.30 am

Since its foundation in Warsaw a decade ago, the Szymanowski Quartet has attracted an international following. The ensemble’s sophisticated musicianship and collective feeling for tonal nuance can be heard in a programme complete with Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor, a work of heart-breaking pathos, and the exotic soundscapes of Szymanowski’s Nocturne and Tarantella. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Szymanowski Quartet

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Sunday 21 June 7.30 pm Emilie Bailey

Royal College of Music Virtuosi Sacconi Quartet Juliana Myslov harp Naoka Aoki, Emily Sun violin Lisa Bucknell, Nazli Erdogan, Anastasia Sofina, Natasha Michael viola Jane Lindsay cello Jon Mikel Martínez Valgañón double bass

Sacconi Quartet

STRING FANTASIA Bottesini Fantasia (Cerrito) Bowen Fantasia for 4 violas Op. 41 Paul Patterson Fantasia for harp and string quartet (UK première) Wieniawski Fantaisie brillante, on themes from Gounod’s Faust Op. 20 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Schubert Fantasy in C D934

Juliana Myslov

Naoka Aoki

Emily Sun

Lisa Bucknell

Jane Lindsay

Jon Mikel Martínez Valgañón

Expect brilliant playing from the stars of the Royal College of Music at the annual string showcase. This exploration of fantasies for strings features some of the most beautiful works performed by the next generation of must-see and must-hear artists. £20 £17 £14 £10 (£5 for RCM students) Royal College of Music

Nazli Erdogan

Natasha Michael

Monday 22 June 1.00 pm

Hahn Fêtes galantes; En sourdine; A Chloris Poulenc La courte paille; Trois poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin Hahn Venezia – Chansons en dialecte vénitien

Reynaldo Hahn’s music always rewards its listeners, offering glimpses of the composer’s soul through its refined surface. Ailish Tynan and her duo partner James Baillieu present four of the Frenchman’s finest mélodies in company with Poulenc’s final song collection, La courte paille (‘The short straw’), inspired by recollections of childhood, and the Trois poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin, written soon after the young composer’s return to Catholicism in the mid-1930s. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Kaupo Kikkas

Ailish Tynan soprano James Baillieu piano

Benjamin Ealovega

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Anastasia Sofina

Ailish Tynan

James Baillieu

Monday 22 June 7.30 pm

The Monday Platform

Solem Quartet BLOCK4 recorder quartet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 Anonymous Istampitta, Saltarello I Arvo Pärt Pari intervallo Cabezón Tiento del quinto tono Michiel Mensingh Wicked Palestrina Lamed. Matribus suis dixerunt from Lamentationum, Liber Secundus, Feria VI Wojciech Blecharz Airlines Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80

Solem Quartet

Prepare to be amazed and beguiled by BLOCK4 recorder quartet with their imaginative mix of early and contemporary music.

They are joined by the dynamic Manchester-based Solem Quartet who frame the programme with masterpieces by Haydn and Mendelssohn. Both groups were ensemble prizewinners at the 2014 ROSL Annual Music Competition. £18 £16 £12 £10 Presented by the Royal Over-Seas League BLOCK4

Max Raabe singer Christoph Israel piano

Olaf Heine

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Tuesday 23 June 7.30 pm

A SPECIAL CONCERT TO MARK 25 YEARS OF GERMAN REUNIFICATION Max Raabe has gained international recognition through his interpretations of music from the 1920s and ’30s. Together with his Palast Orchester he has entertained audiences around the world in concert halls and on live television. Their first tour of Australia and New Zealand will begin at the Sydney Opera House in October 2015. In pianist Christoph Israel, Max Raabe has a congenial accompanist with whom he enthrals audiences in a more personal, intimate atmosphere.

The repertoire for this programme is drawn from the end of the Weimar Era. This buzzing period came to a brutal end when the Nazis came to power and destroyed Jewish culture.

The Jewish composers and lyricists who were meant to be consigned to oblivion come to life again in these performances

by Max Raabe and his pianist Christoph Israel. Most of the songs are in German, many in English, some in Spanish, but the music is boundless. In their three to four minute duration, these mini operas reflect the comedy and tragedy of human abysses.

Max Raabe and Christoph Israel

‘He revealed his operatic training with a superbly controlled voice that ranged from warm baritone croon to soaring, silken alto’ The Times This concert will be approximately one hour in duration, without an interval £25 £20 £15 £10 In cooperation with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany

Song Recital Series

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RNIB Study Day: Success through Sponsorship PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED MUSICIANS

Benjamin Ealovega

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Wednesday 24 June 10.00 am – 4.30 pm

This practical study day is an opportunity for blind and partially sighted musicians to explore pathways into the classical music industry and career development, including how to make the most out of opportunities for sponsorship. The day involves discussion, talks and the opportunity to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage.

For more information and to book, please contact James Risdon, RNIB Music Officer on 020 7391 2273 or email mas@rnib.org.uk Free (application required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Dario Acosta

Matthew Polenzani tenor Julius Drake piano Beethoven Adelaide Liszt Wie singt die Lerche schön; Der Glückliche; Die stille Wasserrose; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Es rauschen die Winde; S’il est un charmant gazon; Enfant, si j’étais roi; Comment, disaient-ils; Oh! Quand je dors Ravel Cinq mélodies populaires grecques Satie Trois Mélodies Barber Hermit Songs

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Wednesday 24 June 7.30 pm

In recent seasons Matthew Polenzani and Julius Drake have developed a partnership of the highest calibre. Their work together continues with a compelling recital that reflects Matthew Polenzani Julius Drake Liszt’s debt to Beethoven and explores Samuel Barber’s love for European culture. The programme also contains Satie’s wonderfully quirky, deeply touching Trois Mélodies, written in 1916 at a time of bloody stalemate on the Western Front. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall

Song Recital Series

Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet director

J P Campion

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Thursday 25 June 7.30 pm

VENETIAN SPLENDOURS Campra Mass ‘Ad majorem Dei gloriam’ Vivaldi Laetatus sum RV607; In exitu Israel RV604; Magnificat RV610; Lauda Jerusalem RV609; Gloria RV589 Routine is a word beyond the ken of Hervé Niquet and the musicians of Le Concert Spirituel. Their vibrant, full-blooded interpretations of baroque masterworks arise from a deep understanding of Le Concert Spirituel the music’s expressive gestures and affects, so much so that they restore a sense of the excitement that must have gripped audiences at the time of their first performances. This programme opens with André Campra’s Mass ‘Ad majorem Dei gloriam’ and moves on to a series of radiant sacred works by Antonio Vivaldi, capped by the so-called Red Priest’s famous Gloria. £35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Friday 26 June 12.00 noon – 4.00 pm

Young British Soloists’ Competition Presented by the Orchid Music Charitable Trust in association with Brompton’s Four outstanding young British artists have been selected to play for a distinguished jury, including Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly and other senior music industry figures. The winner will be offered a fully-funded recording on the Orchid Classics label. Come along to hear some of the stars of the future!

All tickets £5 Orchid Music Charitable Trust ORCHID MUSIC CHARITABLE TRUST www.orchidclassics.cm/omct/orchid-music-charitable-trust Brompton’s Fine & Rare Instruments www.bromptons.com

Borodin Quartet 70th Anniversary Series

Borodin Quartet

Keith Saunders

Friday 26 June 7.30 pm

Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’ Shostakovich String Quartet No. 6 in G Op. 101 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 The legendary Borodin Quartet performs works deeply ingrained in the group’s collective DNA. Generations of Wigmore Hall audiences have followed the Borodins since their earliest visits in the 1960s. Richness of sound, attention to detail and an abiding respect for the music remain the core values of one of the world’s greatest chamber music ensembles.

Borodin Quartet

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

RNIB Family Day: A Night at the Museum FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED CHILDREN AGED 6 –12 YEARS AND THEIR FAMILIES

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Saturday 27 June 11.00 am – 4.00 pm

When the doors are locked and the visitors have gone home, what mischief do the lords and ladies of the Wallace Collection get up to? Come and meet the quirky characters in the paintings, make up some spooky stories and compose your own music to perform onstage at Wigmore Hall at the end of the day.

For more information and to book, please contact James Risdon, RNIB Music Officer on 020 7391 2273 or email mas@rnib.org.uk Free (application required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Saturday 27 June 7.30 pm

Leipzig String Quartet Beethoven Grosse Fuge in Bb Op. 133 Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 103 Hanna Kulenty New work* (UK première) Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1 *Co-commissioned by De Doelen Rotterdam and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge has been described as ‘a poetic discourse of enormous size’, a mighty combination of counterpoint and fantasy that transcends the conventional lines of fugal argument to confront the vastness of the universe. This great masterwork prefaces the Leipzig String Quartet’s account of Haydn’s ‘swansong’, the fragmentary String Quartet Op. 103, before the ensemble then gives the UK première of a new quartet by the Polish composer Hanna Kulenty. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Leipzig String Quartet

Jack Liebeck violin Katya Apekisheva piano

John Batten

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Sunday 28 June 11.30 am

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1 Lekeu Violin Sonata in G Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice, Act II: Dance of the Blessed Spirits ‘Melody’ (arr. Kreisler) Falla Danse espagñole from La Vida breve (arr. Kreisler) In 1802 Beethoven accepted medical advice and moved to the village of Heiligenstadt. The change of scene sparked a period of extraordinary creativity during which he wrote his spellbinding Violin Sonata No. 6 in A. Jack Liebeck’s recital pairs Beethoven’s work with the ill-fated Guillaume Lekeu’s impassioned Violin Sonata in G, a composition of dramatic contrasts and compelling energy. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Jack Liebeck

Katya Apekisheva

Sunday 28 June 4.00 pm

RCM Junior Department Young Artists Programme to include performances by the winners of the 2015 RCMJD Chamber Music Prize and other leading soloists from the RCM Junior Department.

The RCM Junior Department offers advanced training to young musicians aged 8 –18, providing individually-tailored programmes of instrument/ voice/composition lessons, supported by chamber music, orchestra, choir and musicianship classes. This concert will feature performances from some of the RCMJD’s leading soloists together with the winners of the RCMJD 2015 Chamber Music Prize. £15 £13 £10 £8

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval Royal College of Music Junior Department

Pictured right: Joshua Barnett, a student at the RCM Junior Department

Sunday 28 June 7.30 pm Keith Saunders

Borodin Quartet 70th Anniversary Series

Borodin Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’

To mark its 70th anniversary year, the Borodin Quartet offers its vision of a work written soon after the group’s formation. Shostakovich’s enigmatic String Quartet No. 3 reflects on the insanity of war and the legacy of fear fuelled by Stalin’s terror campaign against ordinary citizens. The Borodins turn to Beethoven after the interval Borodin Quartet and the ‘Serioso’ Quartet, originally intended for ‘a small circle of connoisseurs’, and the deeply personal expression of the composer’s third ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

Korngold Violin Sonata in G Op. 6 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Two exceptional artists known for the adventure and vitality of their music-making share the Wigmore Hall stage for this recital. They open with the Violin Sonata in G Op. 6, a seductively Romantic composition completed in 1912 by the fifteen-year-old prodigy Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who later found fame in Hollywood. Debussy’s Violin Sonata in G minor, his final composition, explores the creative tension between contrasting musical moods.

Patrick Allen

Ilya Gringolts violin Ashley Wass piano

Tomasz Trzebiatowski

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Monday 29 June 1.00 pm

Ilya Gringolts

Ashley Wass

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Monday 29 June 7.30 pm

Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize

Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano Bach Prelude and Fugue in E b minor BWV853 from The Well-tempered Clavier Book I Debussy Images, Series 2 Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula Variations fantômes Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960 The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Swiss pianist Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula is the recipient of this year’s award, and his recital promises to be a special occasion.

Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula

£13 concs £11

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Tuesday 30 June 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Event RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment in which exceptionally gifted young musicians collaborate closely with some of the world’s finest artists and teachers. This concert offers the chance to hear potential future stars at an early stage in their careers. £6 or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)

Supported by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848)

Ida Haendel with students from the Razumovsky Academy

Beethoven String Trio in G Op. 9 No. 1 Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Brahms String Sextet in G Op. 36

Kolja Blacher

Chosen from a select pool of world-class players, the Razumovsky Ensemble brings great insight and subtlety to the interpretation of an astonishingly wide range of chamber music. This concert includes Ravel’s elegant Sonata for violin and cello, dedicated to the memory of Debussy, and Brahms’s sublime Sextet in G, among his finest chamber compositions.

Alexander Sitkovetsky

Andriy Viytovych

Oleg Kogan

Alexander Chaushian

Robert Cassen

Kolja Blacher violin Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Andriy Viytovych viola Oleg Kogan cello Alexander Chaushian cello

Priska Ketterer

Razumovsky Ensemble

Serban Mestecaneanu

Tuesday 30 June 7.30 pm

£35 £30 £25 £15 Promoted by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848)

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How to get to Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 John Gilhooly OBE Director 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.

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Benjamin Ealovega

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