Wigmore Hall March 2015 Concert Diary

March 2015

Leila Josefowicz INSIDE: Belcea Quartet | The Cardinall’s Musick | Gerald Finley Alban Gerhardt & Steven Osborne | Hilary Hahn | Christiane Karg Nash Ensemble | Francesco Piemontesi | Carolyn Sampson Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition and many more

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

Cover: Leila Josefowicz © Deborah O’Grady

Wigmore Hall Debut

Neva Navaee

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Sunday 1 March 11.30 am

Beatrice Rana piano Bach Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825 Chopin Scherzo No. 3 in C# minor Op. 39; Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ Ravel La valse Beatrice Rana’s impassioned music-making entranced listeners at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, and was acknowledged with the prestigious event’s Silver Medal and Audience Award. The 21-year-old Italian pianist makes her Wigmore Hall debut with a programme designed to display the breadth of her musicianship and her gift for expressing vivid images in music. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Beatrice Rana

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Belcea Quartet Webern Five Movements Op. 5 Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2

Ronald Knapp

Sunday 1 March 7.30 pm

Webern’s admiration for the music of Schubert frequently extended to his concert programmes as conductor. The Belcea Quartet’s concert offers a natural pairing of works by two composers profoundly concerned with the spiritual qualities of sound and the power of music to speak where words fall short. It closes with Brahms’s String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2, the rich outcome of many years of experiment and painstaking work. £35 £30 £25 £18 Belcea Quartet

Chamber Music Season

Signum Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

Irène Zandel

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Monday 2 March 1.00 pm

Completed almost two centuries ago, Beethoven’s Op. 130 and its vast finale, the ‘Great Fugue’, stand as a timeless monument to the highest ambitions of human achievement. Stravinsky considered the Grosse Fuge to be ‘an absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary forever’, a view certain to be reinforced when the Signum Quartet presents the movement in its original context in this recital.

Signum Quartet

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Monday 2 March 7.30 pm

Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition Winner's Recital

Antonii Baryshevskyi piano Scarlatti 3 Sonatas: in A Kk113; in C Kk159; in D Kk96 Ligeti Musica Ricercata: 11 pieces for piano Chopin 3 Mazurkas: in Bb Op. 7 No. 1; in C Op. 56 No. 2; in F minor Op. 68 No. 4 Messiaen Première communion de la Vierge, Noël and Regard des hauteurs from Vingt regards sur l’enfant Jésus Schumann Piano Sonata in G minor Op. 22 Multiple prizewinner, Ukrainian-born Antonii Baryshevskyi makes his Wigmore Hall debut after winning first prize in the 2014 Rubinstein Competition in Israel. ‘a subtle spectrum of darker hues that made his interpretative voice stand out as one of freshness and fascinating insight.’ Geoffrey Norris, Daily Telegraph Antonii Baryshevskyi

£25 £22 £18 £12 Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd

Sponsored by The Arthur Rubinstein Society in Israel

YCAT Lunchtime Series 2014/15

Benjamin Baker violin Erdem Misirliogˇlu piano

Kaupo Kikkas

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Tuesday 3 March 1.00 pm

Schubert Violin Sonata (Duo) in A D574 Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 27 No. 4 (à Fritz Kreisler) Kreisler Liebesfreud; Liebeslied; Schön Rosmarin Saint-Saëns /Ysaÿe Caprice after a study ‘En forme de valse’ Op. 52 No. 6 Benjamin Baker

Erdem Misirliogˇlu

In 2013 Benjamin Baker won first prize and the audience prize in the Windsor Festival International String Competition. He went on to make his debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra and over this summer appeared as soloist with the Royal New Zealand Ballet. He is joined by Erdem Misirliogˇlu who was a Concerto Finalist in the BBC Young Musician competition in 2008 and is a member of Trio Isimsiz. £12.50 concs £10 Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490)

YCAT is grateful for support for this series from the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund, the Goulding Murray Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake.

Bridge Novelletten Robert Saxton RSM March for String Quartet on the name George Frideric Handel (world première) Ravel String Quartet in F Toby Young March (world première) Schubert String Quintet in C D956

Guy Johnston

Two of Britain’s finest award-winning string quartets are joined by cellist Guy Johnson in a programme of contrasts – the brilliant textures and vibrant colours of Bridge and Ravel and the titanic Classical quintet by Schubert. This concert supports Britain’s oldest musical charity, The Royal Society of Musicians.

Navarra String Quartet Emilie Bailey

Guy Johnston cello Navarra String Quartet Sacconi Quartet

Jack Liebeck

2015 Annual Jacqueline du Pré Charity Concert

Sussie Ahlburg

Tuesday 3 March 7.30 pm

£25 £22 £18 £12 The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain (Reg. Charity)

Sponsored by J & A Beare Ltd

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Sacconi Quartet

Wednesday 4 March 12.15 pm

Pre-Concert Talk An introduction to the lunchtime concert with composer Joey Roukens.

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series

Britten Sinfonia Thomas Gould violin Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano Owen Gunnell percussion

Hanya Chlala

Wednesday 4 March 1.00 pm Simon Weir

Harrison Varied Trio for violin, piano and percussion Joey Roukens New work* (world première) Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 Thomas Gould

Joey Roukens is one of the finest young composers on the Dutch music scene. His works explore the natural coexistence of different musical genres, be they new or old in style, influenced by high or popular culture, western or non-western. In this hour-long concert we hear a new work from Joey Roukens, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall, alongside music by Lou Harrison, a maverick of twentieth-century American music, and Shostakovich’s haunting second piano trio.

Caroline Dearnley

Huw Watkins Dick Staata

*Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Hanya Chlala

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Owen Gunnell

Joey Roukens

£12.50 concs £10

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’.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Wednesday 4 March 7.30 pm

Rosenblatt Recital Series 2014/15

Simone Piazzola baritone Vincenzo Scalera piano Tosti Non t’amo più; Chanson de l’adieu; A vucchella; L’ultima canzone; La Serenata Verdi L’esule Donizetti Vien Leonora... De’ nemici tuoi from La favorita; Cruda, funesta smania ... La pietade in suo favore from Lucia di Lammermoor Gounod Avant de quitter ces lieux from Faust Verdi Il balen del suo sorriso from Il trovatore Simone Piazzola

Vincenzo Scalera

An Italian baritone in the mould of Piero Cappuccilli, Simone Piazzola is a leading prospect from the next generation of opera stars. Awarded second prize in the 2013 Operalia competition, Piazzola’s burgeoning reputation is built upon an affinity for the heavier Verdian baritone roles.

This is Piazzola’s London recital debut. £30 £25 £20 £15

Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 10 February (Saimir Pirgu), 8 April (Ben Johnson), 19 May (Jessica Pratt) and 8 June (Marcello Giordani)

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Introduction to Music 2 HOW MUSIC WORKS Aimed at music-lovers who do not possess an intimate knowledge of the ‘nuts and bolts’ of music and would like to know a little more. Listening to music is greatly enriched by understanding, and many aspects of the construction of music are easily explained given a little time and the assistance of musical examples to put the ideas in context.

Harmony, melody and rhythm are among the fundamental elements of music, but how do they work and what are the rules that govern their use? These four lectures (26 February; 5, 12 & 19 March) with Roy Stratford demystify what can be an intimidating subject, and help you to gain a better understanding of these key areas.

Benjamin Ealovega

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Thursday 5 March 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm

Returns only

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Schnittke Cello Sonata No. 1 (dedicated to Natalia Gutman) Messiaen Louange à l’éternité de Jésus from Quatuor pour la fin du temps Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1

Sim Canetty-Clarke /Hyperion Records

Alban Gerhardt cello Steven Osborne piano

Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 5 March 7.30 pm

Alban Gerhardt’s spiritually charged interpretations draw energy from his profound reflections on life and the Alban Gerhardt Steven Osborne nature of reality. His duo partnership with Steven Osborne has delivered, among many fine things, insightful readings of Beethoven’s late cello sonatas and a recording of Schnittke’s First Cello Sonata that revels in the work’s imaginative treatment of the often tense, sometimes subtle dialogue between minor and major tonalities. £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2014/15 Wigmore Series

Chamber Music Season/Alban Gerhardt Focus

Francesco Piemontesi piano Scarlatti 4 Sonatas: in A Kk208; in G Kk55; in A minor Kk175; in A Kk212 Mendelssohn Songs without Words: in Eb Op. 53 No. 2; in B minor Op. 30 No. 4; in A Op. 102 No. 5; in Ab Op. 38 No. 6 ‘Duo’ Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110 Maximilian Schnaus New work* (world première) Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16

Felix Broede

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Friday 6 March 7.30 pm

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

Francesco Piemontesi’s poetic artistry and immaculate technique Francesco Piemontesi are at the heart of performances that reveal countless details all too easily overlooked. His latest Wigmore Hall programme explores the light and shade of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words. He also gives the first performance of a new work by the young German composer Maximilian Schnaus. £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series /Contemporary Music Series

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Elias String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in F Op. 135

Keith Saunders

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Saturday 7 March 7.30 pm

For the composer Robert Simpson, Beethoven’s final string quartet contained ‘the most sensitively coloured quartet writing in existence’. The Op. 135 score combines searing tragedy and subtle humour, the latter used to reflect on life’s fragility. The Elias String Quartet’s Beethoven cycle places the piece in company with two other pioneering works, both of which anticipate the spiritual heights attained in the composer’s late quartets.

Elias String Quartet

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle

Paolo Borciani International Quartet Competition Prizewinner’s Concert

Kelemen Quartet Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 in E b minor Op. 30 Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ The Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition, named after the Quartetto Italiano’s founder and first violinist, has helped launch the careers of many of today’s leading string quartets since its creation in 1987, the Artemis, Pavel Haas and Bennewitz quartets among them. The Kelemen Quartet won the triennial competition’s tenth edition in June 2014 and performs this Wigmore Hall recital as part of its prize.

Kelemen Quartet

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 8 March 7.30 pm

Marino Formenti piano PATHS TO A MASTERPIECE

Gyula Fodor

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Sunday 8 March 11.30 am

Barraqué Piano Sonata With short works by D’Anglebert, Debussy, Schubert and Webern Italian pianist and conductor Marino Formenti has created a fascinating programme around Jean Barraqué’s Piano Sonata.

This monumental masterpiece, which was completed in 1952, is presented alongside smaller works that led, like paths, towards it. £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series /Contemporary Music Series Marino Formenti

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Albert Lindmeier

Christiane Karg soprano Gerold Huber piano

Gisela Schenker

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Monday 9 March 1.00 pm

Wolf Heiss mich nicht reden; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land Brahms Wie erkenn ich den Treulieb; Sein Leichenhemd weiss Strauss Wie erkenn’ ich mein Treulieb vor andern nun?

Brahms Auf morgen ist Sankt Valentins Tag Strauss Guten Morgen, ’s ist Sankt Valentinstag Brahms Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss; Und kommt er nicht mehr zurück?

Strauss Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss Saint-Saëns La mort d’Ophélie Hahn Lydé; A Chloris; Séraphine Duparc Phidylé; Romance de Mignon

Christiane Karg

Gerold Huber

Christiane Karg opens her BBC Lunchtime recital with a group of Goethe settings by Wolf, exquisitely judged musical complements to the poet’s already musical use of language. She continues by exploring responses to the desperate tragedy of Shakespeare’s Ophelia in songs by Brahms, Richard Strauss and Saint-Saëns before touching on the musical pastiche of Hahn’s ‘A Chloris’ and seductive beauty of Duparc’s early ‘Romance de Mignon’. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 9 March 7.30 pm

RNCM Gold Medal Winners Concert

Leanne Cody piano Lauren Fielder soprano (with James Hendry piano) Delia Stevens percussion Alexander Panfilov piano Joe Cutler On the Edge Pierre Boulez Piano Sonata No. 1 Mozart Come scoglio from Così fan tutte Wagner Schmerzen and Träume from Wesendonck Lieder Quilter A Last Year’s Rose Mascagni Voi lo sapete, o mamma from Cavalleria rusticana Casey Cangelosi Nail Ferry from Naglfar Leigh Howard Stevens Rhythmic Caprice Compagnie Kahlua Ceci n’est pas une balle Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in Bb Op. 83 The Royal Northern College of Music’s annual Gold Medal Competition features the finest young performers at the College, each competing for the coveted RNCM Gold Medal in front of a distinguished panel from across the industry. This showcase features the four winners of the 2014 competition performing repertoire from their winning programmes. Don’t miss this chance to hear the stars of tomorrow. £18 £16 £12 £10 Royal Northern College of Music

Leanne Cody

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Lauren Fielder

Delia Stevens

Alexander Panfilov

The English Concert Harry Bicket director Rosemary Joshua soprano Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano

Peter Warren

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Tuesday 10 March 7.30 pm

Locke Suite from The Tempest (Part 1) Purcell If music be the food of love; Draw near, you lovers that complain; Oh, the sweet delights of love Locke Suite from The Tempest (Part 2) Rosemary Joshua, Harry Bicket & Sarah Connolly Purcell Music for a while; Oh! Fair Cedaria; My dearest, my fairest Blow Arietta variata from Partita No. 7 in C minor Purcell One charming night; The plaint; Love, thou art best Music by Henry Purcell, his predecessor as composer to Charles II’s violin band, Matthew Locke, and his teacher and friend, John Blow, occupy The English Concert’s attention. Harry Bicket and his acclaimed period-instrument orchestra are joined by Rosemary Joshua and Sarah Connolly in a selection of Purcell’s songs, arias and duets, crowned by ‘One charming night’ and ‘The plaint’ from The Fairy Queen.

Returns only

Early Music and Baroque Series /Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Young Producers Concert: Brass Jaw The Young Producers, a group of talented young people from secondary schools across Tower Hamlets, are delighted to present Brass Jaw, a jazz quartet unique in sound and direction. Find out more about this project at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/young-producers

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Wednesday 11 March 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm

Free (no ticket required)

In partnership with Tower Hamlets Arts and Music Education Service (THAMES) Supported by The Monument Trust, John Lyon’s Charity and The Loveday Charitable Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Modigliani Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Dohnányi String Quartet No. 3 Op. 33

Sylvie Lancrenon

Wednesday 11 March 7.30 pm

Described as one of ‘the best quartets in the world’ by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and as ‘a fab foursome’ by the Seattle Times, the Modigliani Quartet is globally admired for the symphonic intensity, refined balance, tonal beauty and panache of its performance style. This programme presents three contrasting works in minor keys, including a rare chance to hear Dohnányi’s emotionally charged Third String Quartet. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Thursday 12 March 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. Although the music will be appropriate for babies, these concerts are not interactive.

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Modigliani Quartet

£7.50 per adult – babies come free

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Thursday 12 March 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm

Introduction to Music 3 HOW MUSIC WORKS See 5 March at 5.00 pm for full details.

Returns only

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Alexander Melnikov piano Feldman Triadic Memories Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories, first performed at the ICA in London in 1981, offers a study in deep listening. This vast work barely rises above a whisper, gently drawing listeners into its kaleidoscopic soundworld of shifting Minimalist textures. The composer described his score as ‘probably the largest butterfly in captivity’, a wonderful metaphor for one of the most exquisite pieces in the contemporary piano repertoire.

Marco Borggreve

Thursday 12 March 7.30 pm

There will be no interval in this concert £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series Friday 13 March 7.30 pm

The King’s Consort Julie Cooper soprano Rebecca Outram soprano Daniel Auchincloss high tenor Christopher Watson high tenor James Gilchrist tenor Charles Daniels tenor Andrew Rupp bass Robert Macdonald bass Robert King conductor

Keith Saunders

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Alexander Melnikov

GENIUS OF VENICE: Sacred Music by Claudio Monteverdi Monteverdi Dixit Dominus (Primo); Currite, populi, psallite timpanis A Gabrieli Intonatione Settimo tono Monteverdi Gloria in excelsis Deo a 7; Venite siccientes; Beatus vir (Primo); Salve Regina; Letaniae della Beata Vergine a 6; O beatae viae; Christe Redemptor omnium A Gabrieli Intonatione Primo tono Monteverdi Magnificat (Primo)

The King’s Consort

Glorious sacred music from Monteverdi’s Venice, as would have been heard by visitors attending services at St Mark’s Basilica around 1610, provides the lifeblood of this concert. One such visitor, hearing music ‘to ravish and stupefy all those that never heard the like’, described the performers as ‘superexcellent’. The King’s Consort’s Monteverdi performances have been acclaimed worldwide. In this vivid programme they feature a world-class ensemble of singers and instrumentalists. £35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Nash Ensemble Ian Brown conductor Philippa Davies flute Claire Booth soprano

BBC

Clive Barda

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Hanya Chlala

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Saturday 14 March 6.00 pm

David Matthews

Huw Watkins

Michael Berkeley

NASH COMMISSIONS Huw Watkins New work David Matthews A Blackbird Sang for flute and string trio Michael Berkeley Three Rilke Sonnets for soprano and ensemble The works will be introduced by the composers in conversation from the stage.

Free (ticket required)

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series /Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series

Julia Wesely

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Suzan Felton

Saturday 14 March 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble Juanjo Mena conductor Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Juan Martín flamenco guitar

A programme centred around the ballet music of Falla, including The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife, which became Act I of The Three-Cornered Hat, and Love, the Magician. Bernarda Fink sings the part of the gypsy Candelas in the latter, and adds a group of folksong arrangements, while the programme is completed by a tone-poem for string quartet by Falla’s friend Turina, and a special appearance by the celebrated flamenco guitarist Juan Martín.

Bernarda Fink

Juan Martín

Hanya Chlala /Arena PAL

Turina La oración del torero Op. 34 (The Bullfighter’s Juanjo Mena Prayer) for string quartet Falla 7 canciones populares españolas (7 Spanish folk songs) for voice and piano; El corregidor y la molinera (The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife); El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician) for mezzo-soprano and ensemble Flamenco guitar music from Andalucía

Nash Ensemble

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series

Marco Borggreve

Daniel Müller-Schott cello Lauma Skride piano

Uwe Arens

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Sunday 15 March 11.30 am

Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Schumann Adagio and Allegro in Ab Op. 70 Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano Daniel Müller-Schott returns to Wigmore Hall to perform three landmark works of the cello repertoire, including Schumann’s heartfelt Adagio and Allegro. He is joined by the Latvian pianist Lauma Skride, recipient of the Bonn Beethoven Festival’s Beethoven-Ring award in 2008.

Daniel Müller-Schott

Lauma Skride

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Wigmore Hall Debut

Cyrille Dubois tenor Tristan Raës piano

Stéphane Grangier

Sunday 15 March 3.00 pm

Duparc Chanson triste; Soupir; Phidylé Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Rachmaninov These Summer Nights; The muse; Spring waters; Dreams Cyrille Dubois has made mighty career strides since graduating from the Paris Conservatoire. The young Cyrille Dubois Tristan Raës French tenor’s notable successes on the opera stage include appearances at La Scala and the Opéra de Paris. In 2010 he joined forces with pianist Tristan Raës to form a duo partnership. Their Wigmore Hall debut recital includes Britten’s Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, a work which received its world première at the Hall in 1942. £15 concs £12.50

Song Recital Series

Schubert Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk; Der Kreuzzug; Des Fräuleins Liebeslauschen; An die Laute; Alinde; Bei dir allein!; Augenlied; Abendlied für die Entfernte; Auf der Brücke; Normans Gesang; Romanze des Richard Löwenherz; Gebet während der Schlacht; Erlafsee; Der liebliche Stern; Um Mitternacht; Sehnsucht; Selige Welt; Todesmusik

Francesco Luciani

Markus Werba baritone Gary Matthewman piano

Johan Persson

Sunday 15 March 7.30 pm

Markus Werba looks at history as seen through the rear-view Markus Werba Gary Matthewman mirror of Romantic poetry in songs such as ‘Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk’, the ‘Romanze des Richard Löwenherz’ and the fearsome battle imagery of ‘Gebet während der Schlacht’. The Austrian baritone, accompanied by Gary Matthewman, also explores richly detailed miniatures by Schubert, ‘An die Laute’, ‘Alinde’ and ‘Sehnsucht’ among them. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Eric Odin

Paolo Pandolfo viola da gamba Markus Hunninger harpsichord

Evy Ottermans

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Monday 16 March 1.00 pm

Bach Viola da gamba Sonatas Works by Abel Paolo Pandolfo began his career as a jazz performer. He subsequently made his mark as a viola da gamba specialist in the late 1970s, co-founding the period-instrument ensemble La Stravaganza and swiftly establishing his position among the world’s finest gamba players. He joins his regular artistic collaborator Markus Hunninger for a programme complete with Bach’s intensely expressive sonatas. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Paolo Pandolfo

Markus Hunninger

Monday 16 March 7.30 pm Saverio Truglia

Pacifica Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Shulamit Ran Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory – String Quartet No. 3* (UK première) Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 *Co-commissioned by Music Accord, Suntory Hall, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Shulamit Ran’s musical language pulsates with complex rhythmic patterns and contrasting textures. The virtuosity of her music often pushes performers to explore the far limits of instrumental technique, an essential ingredient of her art’s dramatic power. The Pacifica Quartet presents the UK première of Ran’s latest chamber music score, co-commissioned for the ensemble by Wigmore Hall and presented alongside two works shot through with insights into the human psyche.

Pacifica Quartet

£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

Richard Haughton

Marco Borggreve

Carolyn Sampson soprano Elizabeth Kenny lute Jonathan Manson bass viol Laurence Cummings harpsichord COME ALL YE SONGSTERS

Carolyn Sampson

Elizabeth Kenny Robert Workman

Purcell From The Fairy Queen: Come all ye songsters; Sing while we trip it; Ye gentle spirits of the air Purcell The cares of lovers from Timon of Athens; Fly swift, ye hours; Not all my torments; From rosy bowers from Don Quixote; Let the dreadful engines from Don Quixote; I see she flies me; What a sad fate is mine; Pious Celinda goes to prayers; ’Tis nature’s voice; Lucinda is bewitching fair; Hark! The echoing air from The Fairy Queen Interspersed with solo instrumental music by Purcell

Marco Borggreve

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Tuesday 17 March 7.30 pm

Henry Purcell and John Blow refined the repertoire of ‘songs sung at court and at the public theatres’ in the years following Charles II’s return to the throne in 1660. Purcell went further than any of his contemporaries in terms of the eloquence, invention and expressive impact of his contributions to the Jonathan Manson Laurence Cummings great Restoration songbook. Wigmore Hall favourite Carolyn Sampson and a trio of period-instrument experts present their choice of Purcell songs and arias. £40 £35 £25 £15

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

Early Music and Baroque Series /Henry Purcell: A Retrospective /Celebrating Carolyn Sampson

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Wednesday 18 March 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk NASH INVENTIONS Composers discuss their works to be performed in the evening concert.

Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series /Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series

Lionel Friend

Tina Foster

Richard Hosford

Lucy Wakeford Sven Arnstein

Nash Ensemble Lionel Friend conductor Richard Hosford clarinet Lucy Wakeford harp Bjørg Lewis cello Claire Booth soprano

Keith Saunders

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Julie Kim

Wednesday 18 March 7.30 pm

NASH INVENTIONS Richard Causton Piano Quintet* (2015) (London première) Carter Poems of Louis Zukofsky for soprano and clarinet** (2010) Sir Peter Maxwell Davies String Quintet*** (2015) (world première) Simon Holt Shadow Realm for clarinet, cello and harp** (1983) Sir Harrison Birtwistle 9 Settings of Lorine Niedecker for soprano and cello** (1998 /2000) Julian Anderson Poetry Nearing Silence** (1997) Bjørg Lewis

* Commissioned by the BBC for the Nash Ensemble’s 50th anniversary ** Nash Ensemble commissions ** * Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with funds provided by Arts Council England and Wigmore Hall

Claire Booth

The Nash Ensemble’s 50th anniversary series ends with its annual ‘Nash Inventions’ concert, featuring two new quintets commissioned from major British composers of two generations, Richard Causton and the irrepressible octogenarian Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The programme also includes works written for the group by the eminent American composer Elliott Carter and by three leading British figures, Davies’s contemporary Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Simon Holt and Wigmore Hall’s current Composer in Residence, Julian Anderson. £25 £22 £18 £12

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series /Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series

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Thursday 19 March 1.00 pm

Lisa Peacock Presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases

Madeleine Mitchell violin Nigel Clayton piano Bridge Melodie Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82 James MacMillan Kiss on Wood (dedicated to Madeleine Mitchell) Bridge Morceau Caractéristique Madeleine Mitchell's recording of these romantic Bridge pieces was Classic FM’s CD of the Week and her many performances of Madeleine Mitchell Nigel Clayton Elgar's Violin Sonata have been broadcast by BBC Radio 3.

Morceau Caractéristique (premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1908) was lost before Mitchell discovered the manuscript a century later. MacMillan’s Kiss on Wood, written for Mitchell, features on her acclaimed album ‘In Sunlight: Pieces for Madeleine Mitchell’. Nigel Clayton’s career takes him around the world as soloist and chamber musician. £12.50 concs £10 20% discount when you book for 3 or more concerts in this series (see further dates below)

Tickets also on sale for Thursday Lunchtime Showcase Recitals on 5 February (Lisa Friend & Mark Kinkaid) and 16 April (Alexei Grynyuk ) Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd

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Thursday 19 March 5.00 pm – 6.15pm

Introduction to Music 4 HOW MUSIC WORKS See 5 March at 5.00 pm for full details.

Returns only

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Leila Josefowicz violin John Novacek piano

J Henry Fair

Thursday 19 March 7.30 pm

Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105 Magnus Lindberg New work* (world première) Erkki-Sven Tüür Conversio John Adams Road Movies *Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Linda and Stuart Nelson, and

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

Leila Josefowicz

John Novacek

Schumann’s subjective reflections and the personal psychological torments expressed in his Violin Sonata No.1 set the concentrated mood for this recital. Leila Josefowicz and John Novacek also bring Magnus Lindberg’s Wigmore Hall commission to life and explore the pulsating rhythms and shifting patterns of John Adams’s Road Movies.

Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür’s rip-roaring Conversio completes this irresistible programme mix. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Cédric Tiberghien piano

Benjamin Ealovega

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Friday 20 March 7.30 pm

Mozart Adagio in B minor K540 Schubert Piano Sonata in B D575 Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor K457 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ Cédric Tiberghien’s pianism spans the widest contrasts of expression, colour and touch to deliver performances that appear to make time stand still. His programme includes two masterly works by Mozart, both coloured by turbulent emotions, the late Romanticism of Alban Berg’s Op. 1 and the fiery passions and unbridled technical challenges of Beethoven’s ‘Waldstein’ Sonata. £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series Saturday 21 March 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

CAVATINA Family Concert: Carducci String Quartet For ages 5 plus

GETTING THE QUARTET BUG

Andy Holdsworth Photography

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Cédric Tiberghien

An exciting, interactive hour of fun with the Carducci String Quartet full of inspiration, audience participation and glorious music, including Haydn’s ‘Bird’ and ‘Frog’ quartets, and works by Beethoven, Piazzolla and Philip Glass. Learn the ‘forbidden rhythm’ and see how Shostakovich used it in the ‘wrong note’ Polka, and join the quartet in a performance of Arbeau’s ‘Sword Dance’.

Carducci String Quartet

Adults £9 Children £7 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’.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Mozart Cantata ‘Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt’ K619 Songs by Beethoven Brahms Four Serious Songs Op. 121 Vaughan Williams 3 Poems by Walt Whitman Ned Rorem War Scenes Song by Ives

Marco Borggreve

Gerald Finley bass-baritone Julius Drake piano

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Saturday 21 March 7.30 pm

Gerald Finley

Julius Drake

Matters of life and death course through this programme, powerfully treated by Brahms in his Four Serious Songs and touched upon with lightness by Mozart in his tuneful ‘little German cantata’ of July 1791. Gerald Finley and Julius Drake tackle Ned Rorem’s War Scenes in their recital’s second half, a haunting cycle of five songs dedicated to ‘those who died in Vietnam, both sides, during the composition: 20–30 June 1969’. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Song Recital Series

Tesla Quartet Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2

Arthur Moeller

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Sunday 22 March 11.30 am

Classical balance and Romantic intensity meld in Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2, drafted while the composer was on honeymoon in the Black Forest during the summer of 1837. This concert by the Tesla Quartet, Third Prize-winner at the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition, sets out with the noble sweep of Schubert’s Quartettsatz before turning to Haydn’s String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4, highly advanced in drawing its thematic material from tuneful melodies composed in a popular style.

Tesla Quartet

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

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Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Wigmore Hall Debut

Andrè Schuen baritone Daniel Heide piano

Angelika Schwarz

Sunday 22 March 3.00 pm

Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Wolf Harfenspieler I – III: Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; An die Türen will ich schleichen; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass Martin Six Monologues from Hofmannsthal’s Jedermann Andrè Schuen

Daniel Heide

Born in Italy’s South Tyrol, Andrè Schuen studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum and refined his innate feeling for song under Wolfgang Holzmair’s care. He opens his Wigmore Hall debut with Schumann’s setting of nine Heine poems, the Liederkreis Op. 24, and journeys towards Frank Martin’s redemptive monologues from Hofmannsthal’s Jedermann by way of the three Harfenspieler songs from Wolf’s Goethe-Lieder. £15 concs £12.50

Song Recital Series

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Sunday 22 March 7.30 pm Peter Miller

Hilary Hahn violin Cory Smythe piano Programme to include: Bach Partita No. 3 in E for solo violin BWV1006 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Interspersed with a selection of encore pieces by contemporary composers

Soon after making her professional debut 21 years ago, Hilary Hahn Hilary Hahn Cory Smythe seized international attention with a series of high profile concerto debuts and recordings. Her commitment to the evolution of her instrument’s repertoire is reflected not least in the 27 Hilary Hahn Encores, which she and Cory Smythe have introduced to their recital programmes in recent seasons. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season

Colin Wey

Danish String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in Eb Op. 117 Within a month of starting piano lessons, Dmitry Shostakovich was playing easy pieces by Mozart and Haydn. The Russian composer’s Ninth String Quartet also looks back to music of the past, alluding to the famous fanfare theme from Rossini’s ‘William Tell’ Overture.

The dynamic Danish String Quartet, First Prize-winner at the 2009 London International String Quartet Competition, pairs Shostakovich’s often experimental work with the bold rhetoric and virtuosity of Haydn’s String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2.

Danish String Quartet

£13 concs £11

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The Danish String Quartet is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

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International

String Quartet Competition

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Monday 23 March 7.30 pm

The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration

Dmitri Gutjahr

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Monday 23 March 1.00 pm

CHRIST THE KING Sub-plot: Henry VIII Fayrfax Gloria from Missa ‘Regali ex progenie’ Turges From stormy wyndis Sampson Psallite felices Fayrfax Benedicite: What dremyd I?; Magnificat ‘O bone Jesu’ Ludford Domine Jesu Christe Fayrfax I love, loved Taverner Christe Jesu, pastor bone Henry VIII Helas madame Fayrfax That was my woo; Lauda vivi alpha

The Cardinall’s Musick

Robert Fayrfax, incorporated as a Doctor of Music in Oxford in 1511, was among the musicians who travelled with Henry VIII to France in 1520 to demonstrate England’s prowess at the Field of Cloth of Gold. The King’s considerable skills as a composer are recognised in this concert, which also displays the technical brilliance of Fayrfax’s Missa ‘Regali ex progenie’ and the forward-looking choral textures of his motet Lauda vivi alpha. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

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

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At the Royal Academy of Music

Mark-Anthony Turnage discusses Contusion

Philip Gatward

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Tuesday 24 March 10.00 am

Mark-Anthony Turnage talks to Petroc Trelawney about Contusion, his new work for string quartet, which is the compulsory piece for the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Contusion was commissoned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation, and was premièred by the Wigmore Hall Belcea Quartet at Wigmore Hall in December 2014.

2015

International

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Free (no ticket required)

Competition

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Mark-Anthony Turnage

Tuesday 24 March 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Violist, teacher, and editor of the new Peters Edition of Haydn’s String Quartets, Simon Rowland-Jones talks about the composer’s output for the genre, illustrated with excerpts Wigmore Hall played by the Arcadia Quartet.

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Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Arcadia Quartet Meccorre Quartet

Marion Gravrand

Tuesday 24 March 7.30 pm

Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 Mendelssohn Octet in E b Op. 20 First and Second Prize-winners at the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition, the Arcadia and Meccorre quartets join forces in Arcadia Quartet Meccorre Quartet Mendelssohn’s peerless Octet. The wit of Haydn’s String Quartet in E flat Op. 33 No. 2, nicknamed for the ‘has-it-finished-yet?’ repetitions of its rondo theme, and Beethoven’s Shakespeare-inspired String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 complete this programme. £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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Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet Competition

Wednesday 25 March 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm Repeated 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm

At the Royal Academy of Music

Come and Play: String Quartets An unmissable opportunity for inspiration and professional coaching for adult amateur string quartets. Work on a piece of repertoire of your choice with expert guidance from the Carducci String Quartet and perform it in the Royal Academy of Music’s David Josefowitz Recital Hall at the end of the workshop. £60 per quartet (Tickets can only be booked as a complete quartet)

Supported by The Idlewild Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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International

String Quartet Competition

Wednesday 25 March 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Performance Performance by quartets that took part in Wigmore Hall Learning’s National Young String Quartet Weekend earlier in the year at Chetham’s School of Music.

Free (ticket required)

2015

Supported by The Leverhulme Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet Competition

Wednesday 25 March 7.30 pm Elias

Louis Lortie piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Louis Lortie’s acclaimed artistry arises from the combination of his uncanny technical command and the visionary insights into the works in his repertoire. Two mighty pillars of the piano literature occupy his attention in this recital, both inexhaustible in the variety of their ideas and what they have to say about the human condition. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Benefactor Friends of Wigmore Hall

London Pianoforte Series Thursday 26 March 10.00 am – 5.00 pm Friday 27 March 10.00 am – 5.00 pm

At the Royal Academy of Music

Masterclasses with Christoph Richter and Miguel da Silva String Quartets wishing to take part should contact quartetcompetition@wigmore-hall.org.uk for information.

The sessions will be open to the public.

Miguel da Silva

Christoph Richter

Free (no ticket required)

2015

Supported by The Ernest Cook Trust and The Idlewild Trust

Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet Competition

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Thursday 26 March 7.00 pm NB Starting time

Atrium Quartet Borodin String Quartet No. 1 in A Shostakovich String Quartet No. 12 in Db Op. 133 Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132

Maria Budtova

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Louis Lortie

Founded in St Petersburg in 2000, the Atrium Quartet confirmed its exceptional promise three years later as winner of the London International String Quartet Competition. The ensemble’s close association with the music of Shostakovich is reflected in this programme, which sets the composer’s ground-breaking Twelfth String Quartet in company with the contrapuntal complexities of Borodin’s First String Quartet and transcendent spiritual qualities of Beethoven’s late String Quartet in A minor. £35 £30 £25 £18

This concert will be approximately 2 hours 30 minutes in duration, with an interval

Chamber Music Season

Atrium Quartet

2015

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International

String Quartet Competition

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Clive Barda

Benjamin Appl baritone Graham Johnson piano

David Jerusalem

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Friday 27 March 7.30 pm

Schubert Am Bach im Frühling; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Im Freien; Geheimes; Wandrers Nachtlied II; An den Mond (D259); Das Lied im Grünen; Fischerweise; Verklärung; An den Tod; Der Zwerg; An die Leier; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Memnon; Alinde; Der Kampf; Prometheus; Die Gebüsche; Nachtstück; Im Abendrot Benjamin Appl

Graham Johnson

German baritone Benjamin Appl has established a close artistic rapport with Graham Johnson since joining the latter’s Young Songmakers’ Almanac project in 2012. Their recital highlights Appl’s affinity for Schubert, devoted here to a selection of songs that span everything from the radiant joy of ‘Am Bach im Frühling’ and conflicting emotions of ‘An den Mond’ to the contemplation of death and renewal in ‘Nachtstück’. £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2015

Benjamin Ealovega

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Saturday 28 March 2.00 pm & 7.30 pm

SEMI-FINALS After giving two different recital programmes during the Preliminary Round, at least six quartets selected by the International Jury will perform their choice of one of Beethoven’s quartets. At the end of the evening, the Jury will select at least three quartets for the Final.

Each session: £35 £30 £25 £18

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International

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Book for both Semi-Final sessions and receive a 20% discount

Competition

Chamber Music Season/Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition

Beethoven Masterclass Mark Messenger gives a masterclass on one of Beethoven’s string quartets, with a big screen projection of the score Wigmore Hall behind the performing ensemble.

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International

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String Quartet Competition

Portrait of Beethoven by J.K. Stieler

Saturday 28 March 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm

Sunday 29 March 11.30 am

Dover Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 11 in C Op. 61 The Dover Quartet emerged victorious from the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, capturing the event’s Grand Prize and securing three additional prizes, including that for the best Haydn performance. The ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall following its Semi-Final performance at the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition, pairing one of Haydn’s most inventive string quartets with the classical refinement and romantic Wigmore Hall harmonies of Dvorˇák’s String Quartet No. 11.

2015 £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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International

String Quartet Competition

Dover Quartet

Sunday 29 March 11.30 am – 4.30 pm www.benjaminharte.co.uk

At the Royal Academy of Music

String Quartet Discovery Day FREE FAMILY DAY For ages 5 plus Drop in to the Royal Academy of Music to listen to a concert, write your own music, try out a violin or even build your own paper cello. Discover and explore interesting instruments and spectacular string sounds with activities taking place throughout the day.

Free (no ticket required)

2015

Supported by The Ernest Cook Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet Competition

Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2015 FINAL

Benjamin Ealovega

Sunday 29 March 6.00 pm

The selected finalists will each play their chosen work from the Romantic repertoire, which could include works by Brahms, Debussy, Dvorˇák, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Schumann, Schubert and Smetana. The concert will be followed by the Awards Ceremony at about 9.00 pm. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by The Dorset Foundation

Chamber Music Season/Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition

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Wigmore Hall

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Monday 30 March 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Zhang Zuo piano Bach Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26 Zhang Zuo, a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, has inspired audiences and critics alike with the technical accomplishment and captivating spontaneity of her performances. With a busy international schedule, including a date in the 2014 BBC Proms, she makes her Wigmore Hall debut with a choice of works guaranteed to bring out the emotional fire and precision of her pianism. £13 concs £11

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’.

Zhang Zuo is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme Zhang Zuo

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Monday 30 March 7.30 pm

The Monday Platform

Joanna Maria Skillett soprano Melanie Jones piano Max Welford clarinet Katherine Tinker piano Joanna Maria Skillett

Melanie Jones

Max Welford

Katherine Tinker

Paul Wilkinson

Dvorˇák Gypsy Songs Op. 55 (Sung in Czech) Grieg 3 Songs from Op. 48: Gruss; Zur Rosenzeit; Ein Traum Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Debussy Première rapsodie Strauss Wiegenlied; Schlagende Herzen; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten; Befreit Poulenc Métamorphoses; Les chemins de l’amour Joanna Marie Skillett has sung wonderfully in her last three PLG performances. The Times: ‘... fresh voice ...’; Bach Track: ‘... brilliant ...’. Max Welford is another skilled performer from the PLG Young Artists New Year Series. The Guardian: ‘... excellent, oozing class ...’; The Times: ‘... real dynamism ...’; Classical Source: ‘... supremely confident ...’ £18 £16 £12 £10 PLG Young Artists Concerts The Park Lane Group (Reg. Charity No. 252205)

Los Músicos de Su Alteza Olalla Alemán soprano Pedro Reula viola da gamba Josep María Martí chitarrone Luis Antonio González director, harpsichord Monteverdi Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius Grandi O quam tu pulchra es Correa de Arauxo Tiento de cuarto tono Berges Oh santísima Cruz Kapsberger Canzone prima Ferrari Cantata spirituale Bruna Tiento de falsas de segundo tono Monteverdi Pianto della Madonna Correa de Arauxo Tiento y discurso de segundo tono Sances Stabat Mater

Michal Novak

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Tuesday 31 March 7.30 pm

Los Músicos de Su Alteza

Los Músicos de Su Alteza, named after the accomplished band of musicians maintained by the Vicar General of Aragón in the late 1600s, has made waves in the Early Music world with the sheer vitality and affective power of its performances. The thrilling Spanish ensemble, founded by Luis Antonio González in 1992, explores the multi-hued colours of sacred works from the Iberian Peninsula and Venice. £35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series

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2015

Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet Competition

24 – 29 March 2015

Events at the Royal Academy of Music Preliminary Round

Tuesday 24 March 10.00 am

Tuesday 24 – Friday 27 March

Mark-Anthony Turnage discusses Contusion

Tuesday 24 March 11.00 am – 1.00 pm and 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm Wednesday 25 March 10.00 am – 1.00 pm, 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm and 7.00 pm – 9.00pm Thursday 26 and Friday 27 March 10.00 am – 1.00 pm and 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm Free (no ticket required)

To open the 2015 Competition, MarkAnthony Turnage talks to Petroc Trelawney about Contusion, his new work for string quartet, which is the compulsory piece for the Competition. Contusion was 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, and was premièred by the Belcea Quartet at Wigmore Hall in December 2014.

Thursday 26 March 10.00 am – 5.00 pm Friday 27 March 10.00 am – 5.00 pm

Masterclasses with Christoph Richter and Miguel da Silva String Quartets wishing to take part should contact quartetcompetition@wigmore-hall.org.uk for information. The sessions will be open to the public.

Free (no ticket required) Supported by The Ernest Cook Trust and The Idlewild Trust Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Free (no ticket required) Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 25 March 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm Repeated 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm

Come and Play: String Quartets An unmissable opportunity for inspiration and professional coaching for adult amateur string quartets. Work on a piece of repertoire of your choice with expert guidance from the Carducci String Quartet, and perform it in the Royal Academy of Music’s David Josefowitz Recital Hall at the end of the workshop.

Sunday 29 March 11.30 am – 4.30 pm

String Quartet Discovery Day FREE FAMILY DAY For ages 5 plus

Drop in to the Royal Academy of Music to listen to a concert, write your own music, try out a violin or even build your own paper cello.

Discover and explore interesting instruments and spectacular string sounds with activities taking place throughout the day.

Free (no ticket required) Supported by The Ernest Cook Trust

£60 per quartet (Tickets can only be booked as a complete quartet)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Supported by The Idlewild Trust Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Tickets and information from 020 7935 2141 or www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Photography: Benjamin Ealovega

Wigmore Hall is extremely grateful to The Dorset Foundation, The Ernest Cook Trust, The Idlewild Trust, American Friends of Wigmore Hall and our Competition Ambassadors for their unstinting support and generosity.

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.

Restaurant and Bars Full information on pre-concert and interval refreshments can be found at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or by calling 020 7258 8292. Table reservations can be made by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.

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Benjamin Ealovega

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