Wigmore Hall June Diary 2017

June 2017 Cecilia Bartoli & Philippe Jaroussky INSIDE: Akademie fßr Alte Musik Berlin | Arditti Quartet | Florian Boesch Borodin Quartet | Ensemble intercontemporain | Isabelle Faust Angela Hewitt | Igor Levit | Quatuor Ebène Vienna Piano Trio & Mark Padmore and many more

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Cover: Cecilia Bartoli © Decca /Uli Weber; Philippe Jaroussky © Simon Fowler

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RNIB Family Day FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED CHILDREN AGED 6 –12 YEARS AND THEIR FAMILIES

Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 1 June 11.00 am – 4.00 pm

Be inspired by art and music at The Wallace Collection and Wigmore Hall, and create your own masterpieces in this interactive multi-sensory workshop for blind and partially sighted children and their families.

Free (application required)

For more information and to book, contact James Risdon, RNIB Music Officer on 020 7391 2273 or mas@rnib.org.uk.

In partnership with RNIB and The Wallace Collection

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Thursday 1 June 7.30 pm

Borodin Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 12 in D b Op. 133 The Borodins continue their survey of the complete quartets of Beethoven and Shostakovich, composers essential to the ensemble’s artistic identity since its formation in 1945. They open with the most innovative and introspective of Beethoven’s Op. 18 quartets, placing it in company with Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 12, another work of visionary imagination and originality. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Ny Che Goyang /Aram Nuri Arts Center

Chamber Music Season

Borodin Quartet

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Janine Jansen violin Torleif Thedéen cello Martin Fröst clarinet Lucas Debargue piano Messiaen Theme and Variations Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time (Quatuor pour la fin du temps)

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Torleif Thedéen Jean-Baptiste Millot

Janine Jansen Mats Bäcker

Janine Jansen closes her Perspectives series with a recital programme of deep emotion and virtuosity. The evening begins with Messiaen’s Theme and Variations, originally written as a wedding present for his first wife, the violinist Claire Delbos. Schubert’s Fantasy for violin and piano was inspired by Josef Slavík, hailed as ‘a second Paganini’ by Chopin. Jansen welcomes three close musical friends in Messiaen’s haunting Quartet for the End of Time, written and first performed in a German prisoner-of-war camp.

Nikolaj Lund

Harald Hoffmann/Decca

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Friday 2 June 7.30 pm

Martin Fröst

Lucas Debargue

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season

In partnership with the LSO Janine Jansen’s Wigmore Hall recitals are interspersed with concerts at the Barbican with the LSO as its Artist Portrait this season. www.lso.co.uk Friday 2 June 9.45 pm

Artists in Conversation Following her recital, Janine Jansen discusses the evening programme and her life as a performer.

Free to concert ticket holders (no separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Alfred Brendel Lecture BEETHOVEN’S LAST SONATAS

Pascal Saez

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Saturday 3 June 2.30 pm

Beethoven’s late piano sonatas are the magnificent conclusion of a series of works that covered most of the composer’s lifetime. What happens when a composer creates three major works side by side? How can one define Beethoven’s late style? How do these works relate to Beethoven the man? How were these sonatas received, and what do they mean to us today?

This event will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval Returns only

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Alfred Brendel

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Borodin Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in E b minor Op. 144

Keith Saunders

Saturday 3 June 7.30 pm

Shostakovich’s intimate final string quartet, completed in a hospital bed little over a year before his death in 1975, addresses the end of life and the nature of existence in music of profound reflection and melancholy. The Borodin Quartet also reveals Beethoven’s contemplation of mortality in his Op. 132, completed in 1825 on recovery from serious illness. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Borodin Quartet

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 Dvorˇák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’

Hagai Shaham

‘I should like to compose a couple of good trios’, Mendelssohn wrote to his sister in 1832, an ambition partly fulfilled seven years later with the creation of his Op. 49. Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch, known for its subtle artistry and refined musicianship, follows the composer’s exhilarating work with Dvorˇák’s fifth and final piano trio, the ebullient, folk-inspired ‘Dumky’. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 4 June 3.00 pm

Jongmin Park bass Simon Lepper piano

Robert Workman

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Sunday 4 June 11.30 am

Schumann Dichterliebe (original version) F Mendelssohn Song without words Op. 8 No. 3 Hyo Gun Kim Nun (Snow) Soon Ae Kim Geudae iteume (Because you are here) Du Nam Cho Baetnorae (Boat song) Jongmin Park, winner of the Song Prize at Cardiff Singer of the World 2015, makes his Wigmore Hall debut with works ideally matched to the power and richness of his sonorous bass voice. The South Korean artist charts the turbulent emotional course of Schumann’s Dichterliebe, in its original version of 20 songs, before exploring other vibrant musical destinations.

Jongmin Park

Simon Lepper

All seats £15

Song Recital Series

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Christian Ihle Hadland piano Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor K310 Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Webern Variations Op. 27 Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958

Anders Bergersen

Sunday 4 June 7.30 pm

Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland, born in Stavanger in 1983, is among the most interesting and insightful artists of his generation, known not least for the depth of his repertoire and breadth of his artistic collaborations. His programme pairs minor-key sonatas by Mozart and Schubert with Brahms’s gnomic Fantasien and Webern’s meditative Variations. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series Monday 5 June 1.00 pm

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Tomkins Pavan in A minor Farnaby Woody-Cock Cowell Set of Four WF Bach Sonata in E b Steve Reich Piano Phase (arr. Esfahani)

Bernhard Musil/DG

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Christian Ihle Hadland

Mahan Esfahani’s programme explores multiple approaches to creative fantasy, from the imposing Pavan by Thomas Tomkins to Henry Cowell’s virtuosic Set of Four, written in 1960 for Ralph Kirkpatrick and complete with a left-hand trill in octaves. There’s wit, too, in the form of WF Bach’s Sonata and unstoppable rhythmic energy in Reich’s pulsating Piano Phase. £15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Mahan Esfahani

Monday 5 June 7.30 pm

Rosenblatt Recitals 2016/17

Nahuel Di Pierro bass Alphonse Cemin piano Monteverdi Seneca’s death scene from L’incoronazione di Poppea Vivaldi Orribile lo scempio and Se il cor guerriero from Tito Manlio Rameau Puisque Pluton est inflexible from Hippolyte et Aricie Handel Fra L’ombre e gl’orrori from Aci, Galatea e Polifemo Rameau Les Cyclopes from Pièces de clavecin avec une method (piano solo) Mozart In diesen heil’gen Hallen from Die Zauberflöte; O, wie will ich triumphieren from Nahuel Di Pierro Alphonse Cemin Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Madamina, il catalogo è questo from Don Giovanni Donizetti Era pura, come in cielo from Adelia Rossini Ah! già trascorse il dì from Zelmira; Una voce m’ha colpito from L’inganno felice; Assur’s madness scene from Semiramide Debussy Hommage à Rameau from Images, 1ere série (piano solo) Berlioz Devant la maison from La damnation de Faust Debussy La grotte: Auprès de cette grotte sombre from 3 Chansons de France; Arkel’s final monologue from Pelléas et Mélisande To conclude the 2016/17 season, Rosenblatt Recitals welcomes Argentine operatic bass, Nahuel Di Pierro, former member of the Paris Opera Studio and the Salzburg Festival Young Singer Project. Di Pierro made his Royal Opera debut in 2012 and has performed with several of the most respected opera companies internationally, including the Opéra National de Paris and Deutsche Oper Berlin. ‘Nahuel di Pierro’s Doctor was perfectly judged. It is hard to imagine this opera better cast.’ The Telegraph £30 £26 £22 £18 £16

Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 9 May (Lise Davidsen & James Baillieu)

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Tuesday 6 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 of their careers.

Free (ticket required)

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

Ida Haendel with students from the Razumovsky Academy

Robet Cassen

Razumovsky Ensemble Oleg Kogan artistic director, cello Kolja Blacher violin

Bernd Buehmann

Tuesday 6 June 7.30 pm

Bach Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violin BWV1001 Beethoven String Trio in C minor Op. 9 No. 3 Schubert String Quintet in C D956 One of the great landmarks of western classical music, Oleg Kogan Kolja Blacher Schubert’s String Quintet in C stands at the heart of the Razumovsky Ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall programme. The work’s first movement, inspired by the poem ‘Hymn to the Holy Spirit’, sets the intense tone for its sublime Adagio, among the most requested of all Desert Island Discs. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Promoted by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848)

Chamber Music Season

Richard Haughton

The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Nadja Zwiener violin Joseph Crouch cello Christopher Ainslie countertenor

Harry Bicket

Marcello Sinfonia from Le quattro stagioni Uccellini Violin Sonata ‘La ebrea marinata’ Op. 4 No. 3 Lidarti Kol HaNeshama Cervetto Cello Concerto in G (world première) Rossi Sonata quarta sopra l’arie di Ruggiero; Sonata in dialogo detta La Viena Cervetto Trio Sonata No. 1 in G minor Marcello Psalm 21 ‘Volgi mio Dio, deh volgi’ Inspired by the diasporic communities of Amsterdam, known as the ‘Jerusalem of the North’ not least because of its vast Sephardic synagogue, the ‘Esnoga’, The English Concert sets out to explore the fusion of cultures and the haunting beauty of Jewish musical life and creativity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Nadja Zwiener Denis Jouglet

ESNOGA: JERUSALEM OF THE NORTH

Joseph Crouch

Christopher Ainslie

Richard Haughton

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Wednesday 7 June 7.30 pm

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

The English Concert

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Thursday 8 June 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm

Introduction to Music 1 JAZZ Led by Roy Stratford alongside saxophonist Katie Brown, this series (on 8, 15, 22 & 29 June) explores the language of the music of jazz, its history, ethics and influence on twentieth-century symphonic music. Tackling questions such as ‘is jazz instinctive or learned?’, ‘what is improvisation and how do jazz musicians think about it?’, and ‘is all music really jazz?’, this series of talks unravels and explores this fascinating genre of music.

Louis Armstrong said ‘if you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know …’ let’s put that remark aside and do some digging!

Series ticket price £30

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Jessy Lee

Anna Lucia Richter soprano Michael Gees piano

Hermann and Clärchen Baus

Thursday 8 June 7.30 pm

Schubert Hoffnung (D637); Suleika II; from Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen Schubert Romanze zum Drama Rosamunde; Nachtviolen; Viola; Erster Verlust; An mein Herz; An den Mond (D259); Der Zwerg; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Das Heimweh (D456); Totengräbers Heimweh; Ellens Gesänge I, II & III; Abschied von der Erde Anna Lucia Richter

Michael Gees

Anna Lucia Richter, winner of the 2012 Internationaler Robert Schumann Wettbewerb, brings a refreshing lightness of spirit to her Schubert interpretations. The young German soprano directs her passionate affection for the composer’s songs to a programme complete with radiant settings of poems by Schiller and Goethe, and the exquisite ‘Romanze’ from Helmina von Chézy’s play Rosamunde. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

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

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Yevgeny Sudbin piano Skryabin Vers la flamme ‘Poème’ Op. 72 Tchaikovsky Nocturne in F Op. 10 No. 1 Tchaikovsky From The Seasons: June & November Liszt Transcendental Study No. 11 in Db S138 ‘Harmonies du soir’ Scarlatti 6 Sonatas Medtner Sonata tragica Op. 39 No. 5

Peter Rigaud

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Friday 9 June 7.00 pm NB starting time

Melodic simplicity and harmonic complexity combine in Skryabin’s late Vers la flamme to create a metaphysical meditation on the purifying power of fire. Yevgeny Sudbin’s scintillating programme embraces other works of transcendent eloquence, from Tchaikovsky’s rhapsodic little Nocturne, written in Nice in the winter of 1871/72, to Medtner’s dramatic Sonata tragica Op. 39 No. 5. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

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Yevgeny Sudbin

A programme of arrangements by Guy Barker and Alison Balsom: Chano Pozo/Dizzy Tin Tin Deo Bonfá Manhã de Carnaval Piaf La Vie en Rose Beiderbecke Davenport Blues Brown Joy Spring Johnson Since I Fell For You Wheeler Everybody’s Song But My Own Davis If I were a Bell Kern The way you look tonight Two great names in trumpet playing join forces for a red-letter Wigmore Lates date. Alison Balsom, described as ‘simply divine’ by The Sunday Telegraph, and Guy Barker, a legend of the British jazz scene, continue a collaboration that began with a trip to Uganda for the Brass for Africa charity and flourished with Barker’s 2015 Proms concerto for Balsom.

Alison Balsom

Guy Barker

Chris Hill

Ross Stanley

Antonio Porcar

Alison Balsom trumpet Guy Barker trumpet Chris Hill double bass Ross Stanley piano

Maker

Friday 9 June 10.00 pm

All seats £15

Wigmore Lates/Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’

Angela Hewitt piano

Bernd Eberle

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Saturday 10 June 7.30 pm

Bach Partita No. 1 in B b BWV825; Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826; Sonata in D minor BWV964; Partita No. 4 in D BWV828 Bach’s Partitas, issued in separate editions between 1726 and 1730, formed the composer’s first major publication, offered to ‘music-lovers, to delight their spirits’. Angela Hewitt explores the diverse delights of three of Bach’s suites together with the Sonata BWV964, the composer’s virtuoso transcription for keyboard of his Sonata for solo violin in A minor. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

London Pianoforte Series Angela Hewitt

Natalia Prischepenko violin Thomas Hoppe piano

Frank Jerke

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Sunday 11 June 11.30 am

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Scharwenka Suite in G minor for violin and piano Op. 99 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Natalia Prischepenko has firm roots in the great Russian tradition of violin playing, schooled from an early age by her mother, Tamara Prischepenko, among the leading teachers of the Soviet music education system. She crowns her recital with Prokofiev’s First Violin Sonata, conceived in the late 1930s to the harrowing background noise of Stalin’s Great Terror.

Natalia Prischepenko

Thomas Hoppe

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Chris Gloag

Ben Johnson tenor Graham Johnson piano

Clive Barda

Sunday 11 June 7.30 pm

Schubert Trost: An Elisa; Erinnerungen; Andenken; Lied der Liebe; Der Mondabend; Das Bild (D155); Die Sterne (D176); Alles um Liebe; An den Frühling (D283); Entzückung an Laura I; Entzückung an Laura II (fragment); An den Frühling (D587); Sonette I, II & III; Der 13. Psalm (fragment); Die Allmacht; Fröhliches Scheiden; Vor meiner Wiege; Der Winterabend; Die Sterne (D939) Ben Johnson

Graham Johnson

Ben Johnson and Graham Johnson open this recital with four early songs, including the recitative-like ‘Trost: An Elisa’ and lilting ‘Lied der Liebe’. Their programme reveals Schubert’s genius for projecting expressive light and shade into everything from simple strophic songs to the complex rhyme schemes of translations by Schlegel and Gries of three Petrarch sonnets. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Brahms Nachtigall Op. 97 No. 1 Berg Die Nachtigall from Seven Early Songs Vieuxtemps Elégie Op. 30 Brahms Viola Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1

Jean-Baptiste Millot

Antoine Tamestit viola Cédric Tiberghien piano

Eric Larrayadieu

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Monday 12 June 1.00 pm

Late Romanticism’s red-hot passion fuels Berg’s single-movement Piano Sonata No. 1, inspired by its composer’s studies with Schoenberg. Antoine Tamestit Antoine Tamestit Cédric Tiberghien joins Cédric Tiberghien for wordless performances of Brahms’s ‘Nachtigall’ and Berg’s lyrical ‘Die Nachtigall’. Their lunchtime programme closes with Brahms’s contemplative F minor Sonata, originally written in 1894 for clarinet and piano. £15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Monday 12 June 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group FRENCH CHAMBER MUSIC Come and immerse yourself in the immensely rich world of French chamber music. From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, French composers produced a vast array of masterpieces within this genre, ranging in style from the Wagnerism of César Franck’s Piano Quintet, the Viennese inspiration of piano trios by Saint-Saëns, the modal harmonies of Fauré’s chamber music, the neo-classical elegance of works by Debussy and Ravel, and the wit and pathos of late woodwind sonatas by Poulenc, to the unique musical language of Olivier Messiaen in his Quatuor pour la fin du temps.

These afternoons (12, 14 & 20 June) are hosted by composer Julian Philips with pianist Laura Roberts, alongside invited guest speakers and students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by Ensemble intercontemporain on 20 June.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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‘The Water-Lily Pond’ by Claude Monet, 1899

Kaupo Kikkas

Michael Petrov cello Erdem Misirliogˇlu piano

Kaupo Kikkas

Monday 12 June 7.30 pm

GUILDHALL WIGMORE RECITAL PRIZE Stravinsky Suite italienne for cello and piano Dutilleux Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher Debussy Cello Sonata Carter Figment for solo cello Poulenc Cello Sonata Michael Petrov Erdem Misirliogˇ lu The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Rising star cellist Michael Petrov, described by The Telegraph as playing ‘with the bravura and calm assurance of a long-established maestro’, is this year’s recipient, accompanied by pianist Erdem Misirliogˇlu.

£15 concs £13 Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Igor Levit piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111

Simon Jay Price

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Tuesday 13 June 7.30 pm

Igor Levit concludes his intense season-long Beethoven Cycle with the composer’s final piano sonatas. ‘Beethoven’s pianistic imagination is stamped on every page of these three [works]’, observes the veteran American scholar Lewis Lockwood. Each sonata reveals fresh facets of invention, with jaw-dropping pianistic effects allied to formal structures of extraordinary ingenuity.

Returns only

Supported by Simon Ludlam, William de Winton and the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2016 /17 Wigmore Series

Igor Levit

London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

Kaupo Kikkas

Carers’ Week: Relaxed Concert Marcus Farnsworth baritone James Baillieu piano

Benjamin Ealovega

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Wednesday 14 June 11.00 am – 12 noon

This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides a special opportunity to explore music in an informal setting. We invite carers, and anyone who would benefit from a more relaxed performance environment, to join award-winning musicians Marcus Farnsworth and James Baillieu for a diverse range of song, and to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee after the concert.

Marcus Farnsworth

James Baillieu

£5

Celebrating Carers’ Week www.carersweek.org

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Wednesday 14 June 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group FRENCH CHAMBER MUSIC See 12 June for full details Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket fo the evening concert by Ensemble intercontemporain on 20 June.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

‘The Water-Lily Pond’ (detail) by Claude Monet, 1899

Wednesday 14 June 7.30 pm Please note change of programme

Arditti Quartet; Eliot Fisk guitar Berio Sequenza XI for solo guitar Hugues Dufourt Le Supplice de marsyas d’après Titien* (UK première) Younghi Pagh-Paan Horizont auf hoher See (UK Première) Hilda Paredes Son dementes cuerdas (UK première) * Co-commissioned by Konzerthaus Wien, Philharmonie de Paris, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

A new work by French composer and philosopher Hugues Dufourt for the legendary Arditti Quartet, co-commissioned

by Wigmore Hall, receives its first outing in a programme interleaved with Luciano Berio’s Sequenza XI, written in 1986– 87 for Eliot Fisk. Two further UK premières – a string quartet by the South Korean Younghi Pagh-Paan, and ‘Son dementes cuerdes’ by Hilda Paredes for guitar and quartet – complete the programme. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Jesse Weiner

Astrid Karger

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Arditti Quartet

Thursday 15 June 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

For Crying Out Loud!

Victoire Bunel mezzo-soprano Sarah Ristorcelli piano Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment.

Adults £7.50 (babies come free)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Benjamin Ealovega

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Eliot Fisk

Thursday 15 June 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm

Introduction to Music 2 JAZZ See 8 June for full details Series ticket price £30

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Nicolas Altstaedt cello Alexander Lonquich piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1; Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2; Cello Sonata in A Op. 69; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1; Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2

Marco Borggreve

Thursday 15 June 7.30 pm

In tune with social and political changes sweeping through Europe during his youth, Beethoven invested his compositions with revolutionary energy and ground-breaking originality. His two Op. 5 pieces, widely considered to be among his finest early works, launch Nicolas Altstaedt and Alexander Lonquich’s survey of the composer’s complete sonatas for cello and piano.

Nicolas Altstaedt

Alexander Lonquich

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season

Jasper String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Aaron Jay Kernis String Quartet No. 3 ‘River’* (UK première) Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

Vanessa Brinceno

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Friday 16 June 7.00 pm NB starting time

*Co-commissioned by Caramoor, Carnegie Hall, Classic Chamber Concerts (Naples, FL), Chamber Music Monterey Bay (CA), Chamber Music Northwest (OR), Chamber Music America, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation.

Winner of the Cleveland Quartet Award, the Jasper String Quartet marks its Wigmore Hall debut with the UK première of ‘River’ by Aaron Jay Kernis, specially written for the group in 2015. The programme also includes Debussy’s pioneering String Quartet in G minor, a work of the early 1890s influenced by recent developments in Impressionist art and Symbolist literature. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Jasper String Quartet

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Miss Hope Springs London cabaret sensation, lounge-tastic ex-Vegas nightclub chanteuse Miss Hope Springs – the towering blonde alter ego of composer, lyricist, pianist and comic actor Ty Jeffries – presents her ‘laugh-out-loudmove-you-to-tears’ one-woman show.

Featuring her award-winning repertoire of catchy original songs, the show has been described by Julian Clary as ‘Tragic-comic genius’.

Zoe Hunn

Friday 16 June 10.00 pm

All seats £15

Wigmore Lates

Miss Hope Springs

Saturday 17 June 1.00 pm

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Avex Recital Series 2017

Fumiaki Miura violin Itamar Golan piano Dvorˇák Romance in F minor Op. 11 Stravinsky Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée (transcribed for violin and piano by Stravinsky & Samuel Dushkin) Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96 The second of three lunchtime concerts in the Avex Recital Series 2017 features violinist Fumiaki Miura, the youngest ever winner of the 2009 Joseph Joachim Hanover International Violin Competition, and pianist Itamar Golan, with a programme including works by Dvorˇák, Stravinsky and Beethoven. Miura performs on the violin

by J.B. Guadagnini (1748) on loan from Yellow Angel Foundation.

‘This recording ranks as one of most satisfying accounts of this perennial pairing I have heard, and worthily has a place on the shelves next to my favourite versions. I am almost certain that we will be hearing a lot more of Fumiaki Miura in days to come. Such outstanding talent bodes well for his future career.’ [Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn Violin Concertos], Musicweb.com, September 2015 This recital will be 90 minutes in duration, without an interval All seats £20 Promoted by Avex Classics International

Yuji Hori

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

Fumiaki Miura

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Itamar Golan

Schubert Prometheus; Grenzen der Menschheit; Der Weiberfreund; Bundeslied; Lachen und Weinen; Pilgerweise; An den Mond (D296); An den Mond (D468); Grablied für die Mutter; Der Zufriedene; An die Natur; An den Schlaf; Abendstern; Die Mutter Erde; Der Wanderer (D493); Der Wanderer (D649); Der Wanderer an den Mond; Im Frühling; Der Sieg; Frühlingsglaube

Russell Duncan

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Wiener Konzerthaus/Lukas Beck

Saturday 17 June 7.30 pm

Florian Boesch launched Wigmore Hall’s grand survey of Schubert’s complete songs in September 2015, earning a five-star review in the Guardian.

Florian Boesch Malcolm Martineau He returns in company with Malcolm Martineau for a programme chiefly comprising songs to poems by Goethe, the majestic ‘Grenzen der Menschheit’ and ‘Prometheus’ among them, together with such little-known gems as the rousing ‘Bundeslied’ and ‘Der Weiberfreund’. £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/Schubert: The Complete Songs Sunday 18 June 11.30 am

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Michelangelo Quartet Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Formed by four distinguished soloists and chamber musicians in 2002, the Michelangelo Quartet returns to Wigmore Hall to perform the sixth of Mozart’s so-called ‘Haydn’ Quartets, with its daring, dissonant slow introduction, and Smetana’s semi-autobiographical String Quartet No. 1. ‘My intention’, noted Smetana, ‘was to paint a tone picture of my life’. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Marco Borggreve

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Michelangelo Quartet

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Quatuor Ebène Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Ravel String Quartet in F

Julien Mignot

Sunday 18 June 7.30 pm

Slovenly traditions are swept aside by Quatuor Ebène in its life-enhancing performances. The French ensemble’s approach to Mozart and Beethoven challenges, stimulates and inspires, while its profound interpretation of Ravel’s String Quartet confirms why Debussy told its young composer to ignore critics and change not a single note of it. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Quatuor Ebène

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season

Carducci String Quartet Philip Glass String Quartet No. 3 ‘Mishima’ Arvo Pärt Summa Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’

Tom Barnes

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Monday 19 June 1.00 pm

Philip Glass originally wrote the music of his Third String Quartet for Paul Schrader’s film Mishima, a cinematic treatment of the life and literature of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The Carducci String Quartet moves from an American composer’s creative response to Japanese culture to a Czech composer’s decidedly European take on his years in America. £15 concs £13 Carducci String Quartet

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Schubert Auf der Brücke; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Nachtstück; Die Sterne (D939) Dapoz Ben danter mile steres Frontull Nos salvans Dapoz Alalt al ci Schubert Der Wanderer (D649); Wandrers Nachtlied II; Auf der Donau; Willkommen und Abschied Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca S270/1 Tosti Quattro canzoni d’Amaranta; L’ultima canzone

Alexander Busch

Andrè Schuen baritone Daniel Heide piano

Guido Werner

Monday 19 June 7.30 pm

Flowing melodies run throughout Andrè Schuen’s recital, Andrè Schuen Daniel Heide spanning everything from the headlong dash of Schubert’s ‘Auf der Brücke’ to the charming folksongs of Felix Dapoz and Jepele Frontull. The baritone, winner of Young Artist of the Year at the 2016 ECHO Klassik awards, was raised in Italy’s South Tyrol. He performs here in his three native languages – Italian, German and Ladin. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

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Tuesday 20 June 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group FRENCH CHAMBER MUSIC See 12 June for full details Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket fo the evening concert by Ensemble intercontemporain on 20 June.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

‘The Water-Lily Pond’ (detail) by Claude Monet, 1899

Ensemble intercontemporain Sophie Cherrier flute Jérôme Comte clarinet Hidéki Nagano piano Jeanne-Marie Conquer violin Odile Auboin viola Éric-Maria Couturier cello

Franck Ferville

Tuesday 20 June 7.30 pm

Debussy Première rapsodie for clarinet and piano Maderna Viola Messiaen Le merle noir for flute and piano Philippe Schoeller Madrigal for piano quintet Berio Sequenza I for solo flute Ensemble intercontemporain Ravel Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Matteo Franceschini ‘Les Excentriques’ Traité physionomique à l’usage (UK première)* *Co-commissioned by Ensemble intercontemporain and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Ensemble intercontemporain’s stellar line-up of contemporary music specialists returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme of great virtuosity and variety, highlighting contrasts and correspondences between the musical cultures of France and Italy. The ensemble’s concert includes the UK première of ‘Les Excentriques’ by the young Italian composer Matteo Franceschini, co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Ensemble intercontemporain. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

The King’s Consort Robert King conductor

Keith Saunders

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Wednesday 21 June 7.30 pm

BACH: THE FOUR ORCHESTRAL SUITES Bach Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D BWV1069; Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066; Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067; Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV1068 Bach’s four orchestral suites create a programme filled with vivid instrumental colours and timbres, embracing everything from the grand fourth suite and oboe-dominated first suite to the pure chamber The King’s Consort music of the second ‘flute’ suite – complete with famous Badinerie – and the exultant trumpets and timpani that command the third suite. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Thursday 22 June 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm

Introduction to Music 3 JAZZ See 8 June for full details Series ticket price £30

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Thursday 22 June 7.30 pm

Royal College of Music Junior Department Young Artists 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.

Programme to include performances by the winners of the 2017 RCMJD Chamber Music Competition plus leading soloists from the RCMJD. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Royal College of Music Junior Department

Friday 23 June 6.30 pm NB starting time

Fretwork Emily Ashton viol Richard Boothby viol David Hatcher viol Reiko Ichise viol Asako Morikawa viol Sam Stadlen viol

Wendy Gillespie

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Royal College of Music Juniors

Simon Callow narrator (subject to availability) THE WORLD ENCOMPASSED Orlando Gough Leaving Plymouth Parsons The Song Called Trumpets Anon Preserve us Lord Orlando Gough Mogador Taverner In Nomine Orlando Gough Maio Santiago Fogo; Fortune my Foe; Port Desire White In Nomine Orlando Gough Terra Incognita Anon The Humble Suit of a Sinner Parsons De la Court Anon Preserve us Lord Orlando Gough The Spanish Main; Albion; 180 degrees; Ternate Alberti Pavin of Albarti Picforth In Nomine Orlando Gough Java; Fortune my Foe Anon Psalm 100 Parsons The Song Called Trumpets

Fretwork

‘Fretwork came to me with a proposition which I considered for about half a second before accepting – to create a piece for them about Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the world in 1577– 80’, recalls Orlando Gough. Terra Incognita, or The World Encompassed, the composer’s rich response to Fretwork’s call, combines original composition and existing repertoire of the period, as part of a dramatic reflection on Drake, the music of his time and the eternal spirit of musical adventure.

Simon Callow

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

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

Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series

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Avi Avital mandolin Omer Avital oud Yonathan Avishai piano Itamar Doari percussion

Jean-Baptiste-Millot

Friday 23 June 10.00 pm

AVITAL MEETS AVITAL Wigmore Lates presents a dialogue between two artists from different worlds who share a rich musical heritage. Grammynominated classical mandolinist Avi Avital and award-winning jazz bassist, composer and oud player Omer Avital draw from Moroccan and North African sounds, folk and classical traditions, Israeli harmonies and Mediterranean rhythms to create a musical melting pot filled with the finesse of chamber music and raw emotional energy of jazz.

Avi Avital

Omer Avital

Yonathan Avishai

Itamar Doari

All seats £15

Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

Wigmore Lates

Simon Fowler/Virgin Classics

Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano Philippe Jaroussky countertenor Ensemble Artaserse

Uli Weber/Decca

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Saturday 24 June 7.30 pm

IDOLO MIO Cecilia Bartoli

Philippe Jaroussky

Bettina Stoess

This exceptional encounter between two stars of bel canto is enhanced by the enduring friendship and strong musical bond between Cecilia Bartoli and Philippe Jaroussky. Following an acclaimed Giulio Cesare in Salzburg and mutual guest appearances on several of their recording projects, they finally share a concert in company with the virtuoso Ensemble Artaserse, founded by Jaroussky in 2003.

Returns only

Supported by Simon Hillary and an anonymous donor

Early Music and Baroque Series Ensemble Artaserse

Vienna Piano Trio Schubert Sonatensatz in Bb D28; Notturno in E b D897; Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898

Nancy Horowitz

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Sunday 25 June 11.30 am

Schubert’s late piano trios, the Notturno in E flat and Piano Trio No. 1 among them, contain some of the composer’s most profound and tender reflections on existence.

The Vienna Piano Trio has lived with these works for almost 30 years, bringing penetrating insight and a wealth of experience to every performance. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Vienna Piano Trio

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Sunday 25 June 7.30 pm Stefan Schweiger

Amit Lennon

Florilegium; Ashley Solomon director Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano TELEMANN 250TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Telemann Ouverture in E minor from Tafelmusik I; Solo fantasie; Cantata: Ihr Volker, hört; Quartet in E minor from the Paris Quartets (1738 collection); Trio Sonata in A TWV42:A5; Trio Sonata in Bb TWV42:B4; Conclusion in E minor from Tafelmusik I

Clare Wilkinson

John Yip Brandies

To mark the 250th anniversary of Telemann’s death, Florilegium showcases the exceptional variety of his compositions, from an intimate solo fantasie to the extraordinary collections of chamber music from his Tafelmusik, Essercizii Musici and Paris Quartets.

Mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson joins Florilegium in one of the virtuosic cantatas from his Harmonischer Gottesdienst cycle of 1725–6.

Ashley Solomon

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano SONGS OF THE ANTIQUE

Sussie Ahlburg

Monday 26 June 1.00 pm Jose Manuel Bielsa

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Florilegium

Purcell/Britten Alleluia Scarlatti Son tutta duolo Anchieta Con Amores, la mi madre (arr. Dørumsgaard) Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Duparc La vie anterieure Hahn Tyndaris Ravel Kaddisch from Deux mélodies hébraïques Falla 7 canciones populares españolas Clara Mouriz Joseph Middleton Clara Mouriz and her regular duo partner, Joseph Middleton, offer a programme guaranteed to project the mezzo-soprano’s rich register of expression and powerful stage presence.

They open with Britten’s realisation of a Purcell masterwork before venturing into the titanic realm of Liszt’s Tre sonetti di Petrarca, virtuosic works of impassioned emotions.

£15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Bennett Tom O’Bedlam’s Song Schubert Gesänge des Harfners I–III Thomas Larcher A Padmore Cycle* (UK première) Schubert Herbst; Auf dem Strom Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb D929

Marco Borggreve

Vienna Piano Trio Mark Padmore tenor

Nancy Horowitz

Monday 26 June 7.30 pm

Vienna Piano Trio

Mark Padmore

*Co-commissioned by Wiener Konzerthaus, supported by the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Compassion runs as a theme throughout this concert, present in Schubert’s visionary response to Goethe’s Gesänge des Harfners and in Richard Rodney Bennett’s Tom O’Bedlam’s Song, works of searing expressive power written for and dedicated to Peter Pears. Schubert’s Second Piano Trio offers a gentle summation of the composer’s compassionate engagement with life. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

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Inon Barnatan piano VARIATIONS ON A SUITE Handel Chaconne in G HWV435 Bach Allemande from Partita No. 4 in D BWV828 Rameau Courante from Premier livre de pièces de clavecin Couperin L’Atalante from Second livre de pièces de clavecin 12e ordre Ravel Rigaudon from Le tombeau de Couperin Thomas Adès Blanca Variations (UK première) Ligeti Musica Ricercata Nos. 11 & 10 Barber Piano Sonata in E b minor Op. 26 (fourth movement) Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op. 24

Marco Borggreve

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Tuesday 27 June 7.30 pm

Inon Barnatan’s formidable musicianship is matched by his intellectual Inon Barnatan curiosity and determination to demolish conventional boundaries between works from different periods. The pianist’s programme explores multiple approaches to the idea of variations in music, opening with Handel’s Chaconne, built around an eight-bar theme, and including the UK première of Thomas Adès’s graceful Blanca Variations, written for the 2015 Clara Haskil International Piano Competition. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Caroline Doutre

Edgar Moreau cello Pierre-Yves Hodique piano

Matt Dine

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Wednesday 28 June 7.30 pm

Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Poulenc Cello Sonata Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A b Op.70 Saint-Saëns Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix from Samson et Dalila Paganini Variations on a theme by Rossini The four-year-old Edgar Moreau fell in love with the cello when he heard a girl playing the instrument in an antique shop he was visiting with his father. The young Parisian, Edgar Moreau Pierre-Yves Hodique born in 1994, received his first lessons soon after and made prodigious progress, entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 13 and winning the prestigious Rostropovich Cello Competition two years later. He makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a programme that includes three contrasting cello sonatas and a trio of exquisite salon pieces for cello and piano. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season

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Thursday 29 June 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm

Introduction to Music 4 JAZZ See 8 June for full details Series ticket price £30

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Isabelle Faust violin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Bernhard Forck leader, violin

Molina Visuals

Thursday 29 June 7.30 pm

JS Bach Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV1067a; Concerto in E for violin BWV1042; Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041 CPE Bach String Symphony in B minor Wq. 182/5 JS Bach Concerto for 2 violins in D minor BWV1043 Isabelle Faust’s long association with the Akademie für Alte Isabelle Faust Bernhard Forck Musik Berlin continues to deepen in company with members of the Bach dynasty. The German violinist, who received five-star reviews for her survey of JS Bach’s six sonatas at Wigmore Hall last year, joins the period-instrument ensemble’s leader, Bernhard Forck, in the Double Concerto in D minor, and also explores the composer’s two concertos for solo violin. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Kristof Fischer

Early Music and Baroque Series

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

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Friday 30 June 7.30 pm

The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor Purcell Hear my prayer, O Lord; O solitude, my sweetest choice; Plung’d in the confines of despair; Pavan a 4 in G minor; Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day); In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; From silent shades; Of all the instruments that are; From hardy climes (Welcome song for the Wedding of Prince George and Princess Anne 1683) Harry Christophers directs an ace ensemble of singers and instrumentalists in a concert Harry Christophers and The Sixteen of masterworks from Restoration London.

Hear my prayer, O Lord, memorably described by one scholar as a ‘noble fragment’, sets the creative benchmark for a programme that includes one of Purcell’s earliest Odes for St Cecilia’s Day, complete with the haunting countertenor aria, ‘Here the deities approve’, and the wonderful verse anthem ‘In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust’. The Sixteen also explores the intense chromatic harmonies of ‘Plung’d in the confines of despair’, an inspired setting of a psalm paraphrase by the clergyman and religious controversialist, John Patrick. £60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Monday 12 June, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall

Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize Michael Petrov cello Erdem Misirliog ˘lu piano

Stravinsky Suite italienne Dutilleux Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher Debussy Cello Sonata Carter Figment for solo cello Poulenc Cello Sonata The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Rising star cellist Michael Petrov, described by The Telegraph as playing ‘with the bravura and calm assurance of a long-established maestro’, is this year’s recipient, accompanied by pianist Erdem Misirliog˘lu.

Tickets: £15 (£13 concessions), available from the Wigmore Hall Box Office: 020 7935 2141 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

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

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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.

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