Wigmore Hall Concert Diary MAY 2014
Angela Hewitt Inside: Arditti Quartet • Britten Sinfonia Sarah Connolly • Gerald Finley Nelson Goerner • Hilary Hahn Elisabeth Leonskaja • Henk Neven Stile Antico • Takács Quartet And many more
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THURSDAY 1 MAY 5.00 PM – 6.15 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Series ticket price £24
Introduction to 20th-Century British Music 1 Elgar is perhaps the musician most responsible for reversing England’s unfortunate label of ‘the land without music’, referring to the mysterious void in our musical history between the death of Purcell and the birth of Elgar. Following the birth of the most significant English composer of the 20th century, Benjamin Britten in 1913, we have seen a blossoming of this country’s output with a rich and diverse musical heritage from composers including Delius, Bax, Walton and Tippett, and from Thomas Adès to Harrison Birtwistle. Roy Stratford explores the questions ‘what makes British music distinctive?’ and ‘what is its relationship to its past?’. THURSDAY 1 MAY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Felix Broede
£15 £20 £25 £30
Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 10 in A b Op. 118; String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122; String Quartet No. 12 in D b Op. 133 Shostakovich’s string quartets stand as potent metaphors for the futility of utopian dreams and as memorials to those who suffered the extremes of Stalin’s state-imposed terror, wartime horrors or the hopelessness that came with decades of Panglossian political delusion and harsh social realities. The Jerusalem Quartet continues its cycle of the composer’s deeply personal yet universal works (see also 30 April and 3 May). The Jerusalem Quartet’s Shostakovich Cycle is sponsored by the Shostakovich Syndicate: Gwen and Stanley Burnton, Michael and Licia Crystal, David and Louise Kaye and Joe and Lucy Smouha
Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich Cycle
Jerusalem Quartet
FRIDAY 2 MAY 7.00 PM NB starting time Song Recital Series
PGB Portraits
Julien Benhamou
Stéphane Degout baritone Simon Lepper piano Schubert Der Zwerg Loewe Edward Schumann Belsazar Liszt Die drei Zigeuner Weill Die Ballade vom ertrunkenen Mädchen Wolf Der Feuerreiter Fauré Automne; L’horizon chimérique Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca
£15 £20 £25 £30
Stéphane Degout learned his craft as a member of the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Lyon. His impressive career on the opera stage, including acclaimed performances at the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House and Glyndebourne, is matched by his high achievements as a searching interpreter of French song and German Lieder. Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’. Supported by The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Trust
Stéphane Degout
Simon Lepper
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FRIDAY 2 MAY 10.00 PM Late Night Series
Ljova Culai Bartók String Quartet No. 2 Op. 17 Colin Jacobsen Three Miniatures
Sarah Small
Brooklyn Rider
£12.50 concessions £10
Mould breaking comes naturally to New York’s Brooklyn Rider, the iconoclastic, risk-taking string quartet acclaimed for its adventurous programming and collaborations with indie rock, jazz and world musicians. The ensemble’s late night concert catches the full force of Ljova’s Culai, named after the elder violinist and vocalist of the wild Romanian Gypsy band Taraf de Haïdouks, and explores the folk flavour of Bartók’s Second String Quartet of 1917.
Brooklyn Rider
The evening continues in the Wigmore Hall Bar with music by the Leon Greening Trio from 11.15 pm. This is a free event, with no ticket required. Leon Greening is an award-winning jazz pianist, who was voted runner-up in the 1999 Sun Alliance Musician of the Year awards. He is a regular at Ronnie Scott’s, performing with the Damon Brown Quartet, and he tours with pop band Incognito. To open the 2014 series of Wigmore Lates, Leon is joined by his trio for a hard swinging gig, which celebrates the style and panache that has made him a firm favourite on the UK Jazz circuit for over a decade. Wigmore Lates
SATURDAY 3 MAY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 13 in B b minor Op. 138; String Quartet No. 14 in F # Op. 142; String Quartet No. 15 in E b minor Op. 144
Felix Broede
Jerusalem Quartet
£15 £20 £25 £30
The haunting melancholy of Shostakovich’s final string quartet, completed in a Moscow hospital little more than a year before his death, brings to its conclusion the Jerusalem Quartet’s complete cycle of the composer’s string quartets (see also 30 April & 1 May). The Jerusalem Quartet’s Shostakovich Cycle is sponsored by the Shostakovich Syndicate: Gwen and Stanley Burnton, Michael and Licia Crystal, David and Louise Kaye and Joe and Lucy Smouha
Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich Cycle Jerusalem Quartet
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David Trio Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1 Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8
Alessandro Di Meo
SUNDAY 4 MAY 11.30 AM Coffee Concert
Two youthful works, brimming with high confidence, imaginative harmonic twists and delightful melodic turns, occupy the David Trio’s attention in this programme. The ensemble made its professional debut a decade ago and has since earned critical plaudits for its daring yet refined interpretations of the piano trio’s core repertoire. David Trio
SUNDAY 4 MAY 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series Jonas Sacks
Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists Rachel Podger director, violin
£15 £20 £25 £30
A Bohemian Bazaar Schmelzer Balletto for strings and continuo ‘Die Fechtschule’ Muffat Sonata No. 2 in G minor for strings and continuo from Armonico tributo Biber Sonata die pauern Kirchfartt genandt; Sonata No. 7 in C for 2 trumpets and strings from Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes; Battalia; Sonata No. 8 in B b for violin, 2 violas and continuo from Fidicinium sacro-profanum; Sonata No. 12 in C for 2 trumpets and strings from Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes Muffat Sonata No. 5 in G for strings and continuo from Armonico tributo
Rachel Podger
Baroque violinist Rachel Podger is known for her uncanny ability to uncover expressive nuances and shadings to be found beyond the technical demands of the works in her repertoire. This programme with the Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists, complete with Heinrich Biber’s descriptive Battalia and works from Georg Muffat’s Armonico tributo, offers a window into the emotionally intense world of violin music created north of the Alps in the late 1600s. MONDAY 5 MAY 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Following the success of his Residency in 2012–13, Jonathan Biss returns to Wigmore Hall with another carefully conceived programme. The American pianist, whose recent five-week course on Beethoven’s piano sonatas set benchmark standards for online music education, provides fresh perspectives on two contrasting sonatas in the context of elusive pieces from Janácˇek’s folksong-inspired On an overgrown path.
Jamie jung
Jonathan Biss piano Beethoven Piano Sonata in F Op. 10 No. 2 Janácˇek On an overgrown path (excerpts) Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’
£12.50 concessions £10
Jonathan Biss
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MONDAY 5 MAY 7.30 PM Rosenblatt Recitals 2013/14
£12 £16 £22 £26
Dennis O’Neill tenor Jane Samuel piano Pergolesi Se tu m’ami Gluck O del mio dolce ardor from Paride ed Elena Scarlatti Gia il sole dal Gange Paisiello Nel cor più non mi sento Donizetti È morta; Le crépuscule; Me voglio fa’na casa; La lontananza Verdi More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta; Il poveretto; Stornello Puccini Sole e amore; Morire?; Mentìa l’avviso Tosti Tormento; Ideale; A vucchella; Malia; Chanson de l’adieu; L’ultima canzone
Dennis O’Neill
Jane Samuel
A near-permanent fixture at the Royal Opera House, legendary Welsh tenor Dennis O’Neill has given over 200 performances at Covent Garden alone, encompassing all of the great Verdian tenor roles. Here in his third Rosenblatt Recital Dennis showcases his tenor in another light with a wonderful programme of romantic songs. ‘Welsh tenor Dennis O’Neill can truly be called one of the operatic all-time greats’ Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 11 March (Giuseppe Filianoti), 2 April (Antonio Poli) and 16 June (Dimitri Platanias). See Wigmore Hall website for more details. TUESDAY 6 MAY 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series
Bach The Art of Fugue BWV1080 For Bach, the expression of passions and the delivery of rhetorical argument in music were served by his remarkable use of counterpoint. The Art of Fugue, an anthology of fourteen fugues and four canons, is arguably the greatest of his late contrapuntal masterworks. Angela Hewitt brings her profound feeling for the rhythmic life and matchless experience of performing Bach’s music to this captivating composition’s interpretation.
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Richard Termine
Angela Hewitt piano
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Angela Hewitt
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WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 12.15 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Free (ticket required)
Pre-Concert Talk An introduction to the lunchtime concert, with Brett Dean. WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 1.00 PM Chamber Music Season
Mark Coulsen
£12.50 concessions £10
Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin Miranda Dale violin Caroline Dearnley cello
Allison Bell soprano Brett Dean viola Georg Tintner The Ellipse Brett Dean New work (London première)* Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 in F# minor Op. 10 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Brett Dean began his career as a violist and played with the Berlin Philharmonic Allison Bell Brett Dean for more than a decade. Britten Sinfonia’s final At Lunch concert this Season includes the London première of his latest chamber work, with Dean among the performers. The Ellipse by another composerperformer, the Austrian-born Georg Tintner, and Schoenberg’s revolutionary Second String Quartet complete the programme. Contemporary Music Series This concert is linked to the Study Afternoon on 25 June
WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Michael Patrick O’Leary
Hilary Hahn violin Cory Smythe piano Schoenberg Phantasy Op. 47 Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Telemann Fantaisie in E minor for solo violin TWV40:19 Richard Barrett Shade Antón García Abril Three Sighs Mozart Violin Sonata in A K305
£15 £20 £25 £30
A major presence on the international music scene since her mid-teens, Hilary Hahn has worked tirelessly to introduce new and neglected older compositions to the violin repertoire. Her latest Wigmore Hall programme explores different approaches to the notion of fantasy in music, from Telemann’s dazzling contrapuntal Fantaisie in E minor and Richard Barrett’s wild Shade to Antón García Abril’s affecting ‘Sighs’. Hilary Hahn
THURSDAY 8 MAY 5.00 PM – 6.15 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Series ticket price £24
Introduction to 20th-Century British Music 2 See page 3 for full details
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THURSDAY 8 MAY 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series Graham Mallanby
Classical Opera Sarah Fox soprano Roger Montgomery horn Ian Page conductor
£18 £25 £30 £35
Mozart Symphony in D K81; Lungi da te, mio bene (original version) from Mitridate, re di Ponto; Horn Concerto No. 2 in E b K417; Aer tranquillo e dì sereni from Il re pastore; Padre, germani, addio from Idomeneo; Allegro in E K494a for horn and orchestra (completed Montgomery); Voi avete un cor fedele; Lungi da te, mio bene (final version) from Mitridate, re di Ponto
Sarah Fox
Roger Montgomery
Thrilling performances and fascinating repertoire combinations regularly turn Classical Opera concerts into events that last long in the memory. This all-Mozart programme explores the composer’s rise to maturity through opera, the lyrical qualities of his instrumental music and the comic verve of his concert aria Voi avete un cor fedele. FRIDAY 9 MAY 7.00 PM NB starting time Chamber Music Season
Quatuor Ebène Richard Héry drums Stacey Kent voice Jim Tomlinson saxophone Fabrice Planchat sound engineer
Julien Mignot
The Other Ebène
£15 £20 £25 £30
A jazz concert to include songs by Charlie Chaplin, Astor Piazzolla, Antonia Carlos Jobim and Michael Jackson This is the second jazz and genre crossover project for The Other Ebène. The ensemble commented ‘when meeting for the first time (to record one song for the Ebène ‘Fiction’ CD) all of us realised the fruitfulness of our collaboration right away. That’s why we had to do a second project together, and here it is!’ A South American theme runs throughout, and the concert will include songs by, among others, Astor Piazzolla, Charlie Chaplin, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Michael Jackson. The Other Ebène
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’. Supported by The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Trust
This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval
Contemporary Music Series
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FRIDAY 9 MAY 10.00 PM Late Night Series Pal Hansen
£12.50 concessions £10
Joanna MacGregor piano Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 Joanna MacGregor performs one of the great monuments of western classical music, written in the early 1740s for Count Von Keyserlingk, a victim of insomnia who required a ‘soothing and cheerful’ work to be played by his harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg late at night. The evening continues in the Wigmore Hall Bar with music by the Julian Bliss Quintet from 11.15 pm. This is a free event, with no ticket required.
Joanna MacGregor
Ahead of his 10 pm Benny Goodman swing concert in the auditorium on Friday 18 July, join virtuoso clarinettist Julian Bliss and his band for a journey through Latin jazz, exploring classic Samba, Salsa and Bossa tunes. Wigmore Lates SATURDAY 10 MAY 10.30 AM – 3.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Adults £12 Children £8
Family Day Making Waves For age 5 plus Wigmore Hall Learning has teamed up with the Science Museum for a day exploring the wonderful world of waves. Discover and be inspired by the Science Museum’s incredible exhibits, experiment to create some weird waves of your own and then take your ideas back to Wigmore Hall to transform sound into music. Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Monument Trust and The Andor Charitable Trust
SATURDAY 10 MAY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Webern Five Movements Op. 5 Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132
Keith Saunders
Takács Quartet
£15 £20 £25 £30
Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet, continue their exploration of music from the old Habsburg Empire and beyond in works etched with captivating contrasts of sound and silence. Supported by the Friends of Wigmore Hall
The Takács Quartet will be presented with the Wigmore Hall Medal following the concert. CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net
Takács Quartet
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Trust
Takács Quartet: Associate Artists
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Doric String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Emperor’ Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
George Garnier
SUNDAY 11 MAY 11.30 AM Coffee Concert
Ingenious dialogue and inventive thematic transformations flourish in Haydn’s ‘Emperor’ quartet. The Doric String Quartet, described by Gramophone as a group of ‘musicians with fascinating things to say’, presents the wit and verve of the composer’s eloquent late work in company with the dramatic intensity and emotional turmoil of Janácˇek’s Tolstoy-inspired First String Quartet. Doric String Quartet
SUNDAY 11 MAY 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series
Treasures of the Renaissance – Masterpieces from the Golden Age of Choral Music Gombert Magnificat primi toni Clemens non papa Ego flos campi Lassus Veni dilecte mi Byrd Vigilate Tallis In pace in idipsum Huw Watkins New work (world première)* Tomkins O praise the Lord Sheppard The Lord’s Prayer Gibbons O clap your hands Palestrina Exsultate Deo Victoria O magnum mysterium Vivanco Veni, dilecti mi Ceballos Hortus conclusus Praetorius Tota pulchra es * Commissioned by Nicholas and Judith Goodison
Marco Borggreve
Stile Antico
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Stile Antico’s latest Wigmore Hall concert, complete with a new work by Huw Watkins, illuminates the fertile ground of 16th-century sacred music and its value to the Reformation and Catholic Stile Antico Counter-Reformation. Byrd’s Vigilate projects Jesus’s command to his disciples and all nations to watch for Christ’s second coming, an apt text for the composer’s fellow Catholics in a Protestant land. Earlier works by Gombert, Clemens non papa, Lassus and Victoria underline polyphony’s power to enhance contemplation of matters spiritual. Supported by Nicholas and Judith Goodison
Contemporary Music Series MONDAY 12 MAY 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
£12.50 concessions £10
London Conchord Ensemble Mozart Oboe Quartet in F K370 Prokofiev Quintet in G minor Op. 39 Schoenberg/Webern Kammersymphonie No.1 Op. 9 Anton Webern’s strikingly brilliant arrangement of Schoenberg’s Kammersymphonie No. 1 Op. 9 highlights the work’s radical nature and offers a supreme test to its performers. The London Conchord Ensemble prefaces the piece with Mozart’s delightful Oboe Quartet of 1781 and Prokofiev’s Quintet in G minor Op. 39, assembled in 1924 using piquant music from the composer’s ballet Trapeze. This concert is linked to the Study Afternoon on 25 June.
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MONDAY 12 MAY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Peter Smith
Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 127 Webern Six Bagatelles Op. 9 Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Takács Quartet; Marc-André Hamelin piano
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Each composition in this programme touches deep emotions and creative tensions. The Takács Quartet pairs Beethoven’s late Op. 127 score, with its vast set of variations and radiant spirituality, with Webern’s equally original miniatures, the aphoristic Six Bagatelles of 1911–13. Marc-André Marc-André Hamelin Takács Quartet Hamelin joins the Takács for a second half devoted to Shostakovich’s G minor Piano Quintet, which evokes the spiritual isolation of artists under Stalin’s rule in its sombre slow movement. Supported by the Chamber Music Circle
Takács Quartet: Associate Artists/Marc-André Hamelin Artist in Residence TUESDAY 13 MAY 7.30 PM Dublin International Piano Competition Prizewinner’s Recital
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Nikolay Khozyainov piano Chopin Barcarolle in F # Op. 60; Berceuse in Db Op. 57; 12 Études Op. 10 Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 28 Nikolay Khozyainov made his debut at the age of seven in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. He has since garnered numerous prizes, including top prizes at the Dublin and Sydney International Piano competitions and the Moscow International Frederick Chopin Competition for Young Pianists. He was the youngest finalist to compete in the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition. Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd Sponsored by the Dublin International Piano Competition
Nikolay Khozyainov
WEDNESDAY 14 MAY 1.00 PM – 4.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Budapest-born violinist György Pauk, among the finest artists of his generation, moved to London in 1961 and made his Wigmore Hall debut the following year. His influence on the development of British string playing has been immense, exercised for almost five decades as Professor at the Royal Academy of Music and in masterclass sessions around the country. He is presently Ede Zathureczky Professor of Violin at the Academy and remains in demand worldwide as soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. Pauk’s pedigree as performer and teacher draws on childhood lessons learned at the Liszt Academy of Music from Ede Zathureczky, in turn a pupil of Jeno˝ Hubay, founder of the great Hungarian school of violin playing.
Garas Kálmán
György Pauk Masterclass
£7 concessions £4
György Pauk
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WEDNESDAY 14 MAY 7.30 PM Song Recital Series
Purcell Lord, what is man?; We sing to him whose wisdom form’d the ear; Evening Hymn Dowland Come, heavy sleep (arr. Paul Edlin) Gurney Sleep; In Flanders; By a Bier-Side; Most Holy Night; Desire in spring; Lights out Tippett Songs for Ariel Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci Elgar Sea Pictures Britten Lemady; Tom Bowling; O Waly, Waly; Sweet Polly Oliver Bennett A History of the Thé Dansant
Peter Warren
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano
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Sarah Connolly and Julius Drake pay tribute to the glories of English poetry and song with a programme rooted in language, landscape and love. The great British sense of humour Sarah Connolly receives its due in Richard Rodney Bennett’s touching reflections on his family in A History of the Thé Dansant, while Elgar’s five Sea Pictures evoke unforgettable images, tranquil shores and tempestuous voyages.
THURSDAY 15 MAY 5.00 PM – 6.15 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Series ticket price £24
Introduction to 20th-Century British Music 3 See page 3 for full details THURSDAY 15 MAY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
Scelsi String Quartet No. 4 Helmut Lachenmann String Quartet No. 2 ‘Reigen seliger Geister’ György Kurtág Officium breve Op. 28 Julian Anderson String Quartet No. 2 (world première)*
Philippe Gontier
Arditti Quartet
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The Arditti Quartet celebrates its fortieth anniversary, catching the diversity and expressive range of works created over the past half century. Giacinto Scelsi’s music, with its highly original soundworld and mystical qualities, has been championed worldwide by the Ardittis since the 1970s. They open the programme with the Italian composer’s Fourth String Quartet of 1964, a ten-minute study in microtonality and formal symmetry, before exploring Helmut Lachenmann’s white-hot deconstruction of Gluck’s ‘Dance of the Blessed Spirits’. The second Arditti Quartet half includes the world première of a major new work by Julian Anderson, Wigmore Hall’s second Composer in Residence, distinguished by its luminous textural and tonal contrasts and irresistible rhythmic energy. * Co-commissioned by Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Berliner Philharmonie and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Trust
Contemporary Music Series/Julian Anderson Composer in Residence
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FRIDAY 16 MAY 3.00 PM & 7.00 PM
£10 per session (or £16 for both sessions) concessions £8 per session
YCAT Public Final Auditions 2014 Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT ): Identifying, nurturing, promoting and supporting exceptional young artists Since its foundation in 1984, YCAT has identified exceptional young musicians through a rigorous audition process. In this third and final round, outstanding young soloists and ensembles, selected from over 100 applicants in the preliminary and semi-final rounds, audition before a distinguished panel of judges.YCAT offers its artists guidance at a critical stage in their development and management representation for up to five years. Past and present artists include Adam Walker, Philip Higham, Ian Bostridge, Alison Balsom, the Belcea and Doric Quartets and Elizabeth Watts.
YCAT Public Final Auditions 2014
Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490)
SATURDAY 17 MAY 10.00 AM – 3.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Come and Sing: Contemporary Music Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring an exciting and diverse range of contemporary choral music. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. Everyone is welcome, and there is no need to read music. SATURDAY 17 MAY 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series
Brahms Variations on an Original Theme Op. 21 No. 1; 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’
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Nelson Goerner piano
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£18 concessions £10
Argentinean pianist Nelson Goerner presents a mighty trio of works for his third and final visit to Wigmore Hall this Season, exploring the contrasts between Brahms’s extrovert Variations on an Original Theme Op. 21 No. 1 and the intimate expression of his late Fantasien Op. 116. Goerner turns to Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ in his recital’s second half, addressing the intellectual and emotional challenges of what is arguably the greatest of all piano sonatas. Nelson Goerner Portrait Series
Nelson Goerner
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Allegri String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11
Benjamin Ealovega
SUNDAY 18 MAY 11.30 AM Coffee Concert
Renowned for graceful, elegant and intense performances, the Allegri String Quartet returns to Wigmore Hall as part of the group’s 60th anniversary season. The ensemble presents a rich and colourful programme, contrasting the first string quartets ever written by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. Allegri String Quartet
SUNDAY 18 MAY 7.30 PM Song Recital Series
Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Songs from the Same Earth, breathtaking settings of David Harsent’s verse, were premièred by Mark Padmore at the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival. The cycle has been described by the Guardian as ‘a powerful reminder’ of ‘how art song, at its best, can provide both poet and composer with their highest calling’. The tenor sets Birtwistle’s work in company with the multi-hued emotions of Schumann’s Dichterliebe.
Ronald Brautigam’s artistry marries virtuosity and open-minded musicianship to a wide awareness of historical performance practices. The Dutch musician is blessed with the intellectual and technical tools required to present fresh interpretations of three works written between 1775 and 1798, the year in which Beethoven wrote his ‘Sonata Pathétique’ and Haydn’s Piano Sonata in E flat first appeared in print.
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£12.50 concessions £10 Marco Borggreve
Ronald Brautigam fortepiano
Till Fellner
Mark Padmore
MONDAY 19 MAY 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Mozart Piano Sonata in G K283 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ Haydn Piano Sonata in E b HXVI:52
Benjamin Ealovega
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Harrison Birtwistle Songs from the Same Earth (London première) Schumann Dichterliebe
Marco Borggreve
Mark Padmore tenor Till Fellner piano
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Ronald Brautigam
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MONDAY 19 MAY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
Mikael Wiberg
Beethoven String Quartet Cycle
Keith Saunders
Elias String Quartet; Malin Broman viola
£15 £20 £25 £30
Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quintet in C Op. 29; String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Robert Simpson, the composer and critic, praised Beethoven’s String Quintet in C major for its ‘breadth and economy of line’, while imploring performers to programme the piece more often. The Elias String Quartet and Malin Broman, leader of the Swedish Radio Orchestra, offer a chance to hear why Simpson was so strongly supportive of this fine work.
Elias String Quartet
Malin Broman
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TUESDAY 20 MAY 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series
Schubert Piano Sonata in E D459; Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’; Piano Sonata in A minor D845
Julia Wesely
Elisabeth Leonskaja piano
£15 £20 £25 £30
As one of the last representatives of the great Russian school of piano playing, Elisabeth Leonskaja channels every fibre of her being into the art of performance. Her interpretations, whether of late romantic repertoire or the mercurial emotions of Schubert’s mature keyboard works, arise from the legacy of lessons at the Moscow Conservatory fifty years ago and vast reserves of experience since. Elisabeth Leonskaja
WEDNESDAY 21 MAY 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series
Handel Cantata: Dietro l’orme fuggaci (Armida abbandonata) HWV105; Cantata: Alpestre monte HWV81; Arias from Agrippina HWV6 Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Marco Borggreve
The English Concert; Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Simon Standage violin Lucy Crowe soprano
£18 £25 £30 £35
Lucy Crowe enthrals audiences around the world in Handel operatic roles, and in this welcome return to Wigmore Hall she joins regular partners Harry Bicket and The English Concert in arias from Agrippina, and two of the young composer’s Italian cantatas. For the Vivaldi, the orchestra has invited back Simon Standage, the ensemble’s legendary former leader, whose 1982 recording of The Four Seasons with The English Concert is still regarded as a benchmark. The English Concert 40th Anniversary Celebration
Lucy Crowe
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THURSDAY 22 MAY 11.00 AM – 12.00 NOON Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Search for the Starlight Squid Dive down into the deep blue sea and join the Lawson Piano Trio and presenter Jessie Maryon Davies for an aquatic adventure to find the Starlight Squid! With music from Sibelius to sea shanties, this underwater journey even features a stormy piece created by you, the audience, alongside the musicians.
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Key Stage 1 Schools Concert
£2.50
Supported by The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust, The Monument Trust, The Andor Charitable Trust and The Loveday Charitable Trust
THURSDAY 22 MAY 5.00 PM – 6.15 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Series ticket price £24
Introduction to 20th-Century British Music 4 See page 3 for full details THURSDAY 22 MAY 7.30 PM Song Recital Series
Schubert Im Frühling; Über Wildemann; Der liebliche Stern; Tiefes Leid (Im Jänner 1817); Auf der Brücke; Heliopolis I & II; Abendbilder; Lied (Ins stille Land); Totengräbers Heimweh; Auf der Riesenkoppe; Sei mir gegrüsst; Dass sie hier gewesen; Die Forelle; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Fischerweise; Atys; Nachtviolen; Geheimnis; Im Walde For the second of their four-part series of Schubert concerts at Wigmore Hall, Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake contemplate the natural world and its essential part in human life. Their programme opens with two songs composed on the same day and opens out into the heroic illusions of his Mayrhofer settings, Heliopolis I and II. Adventurous settings of the poet’s ‘Nachtviolen’ and enigmatic ‘Geheimnis’ and of Schlegel’s ‘Im Walde’ crown this unmissable recital.
Sussie Ahlburg/ EMI Classics
Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano
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Ian Bostridge
Ian Bostridge: Schubert Lieder £15 £20 £25 £30
Borodin Quartet; Kun Woo Paik piano Haydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 33 No. 1 Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 92 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 The Borodin Quartet follows its Wigmore Hall survey of the string quartets of Tchaikovsky and Brahms with a compelling programme crowned by Brahms’s four-movement Piano Quintet, complete with central reflections on romantic Borodin Quartet yearning and patriotic pride. The concert’s first half pairs the first of Haydn’s so-called ‘Russian’ quartets with the folk-inspired work Prokofiev created as a wartime evacuee in the Caucasus.
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Yun Jung-hee
FRIDAY 23 MAY 7.00 PM NB starting time Chamber Music Season
Kun Woo Paik
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FRIDAY 23 MAY 10.00 PM Late Night Series
£12.50 concessions £10
Dublin Guitar Quartet Philip Glass String Quartet No. 4 ‘Buczak’ (3rd mvt) Leo Brouwer Paisaje Cubano con lluvia Arvo Pärt Cantate Domino; Summa Philip Glass String Quartet No. 2 ‘Company’ David Flynn Chimmurenga Ligeti Six Bagatelles The Dublin Guitar Quartet’s eclectic repertoire is rich in arrangements of works by Philip Glass and Arvo Pärt, and original compositions by, among others, Leo Brouwer and former member David Flynn. The ensemble’s transcriptions of Glass’s string quartets received the composer’s approval and were recently issued on his own record label, Orange Mountain Music.
Dublin Guitar Quartet
The evening continues in the Wigmore Hall Bar with music by the Phil Meadows Group from 11.15 pm. This is a free event, with no ticket required. Hailed by Jez Nelson (BBC Jazz on 3) as ‘a collection of rising stars’ the Phil Meadows Group represents the forefront of the new British jazz generation. Wigmore Lates SATURDAY 24 MAY 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Free (ticket required)
Pre-Concert Performance Pre-concert performance by quartets that took part in the National Youth String Quartet Weekend earlier in the year at Watford School of Music. SATURDAY 24 MAY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
£15 £20 £25 £30
Julia Fischer Quartet Julia Fischer violin Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Nils Mönkemeyer viola Benjamin Nyffenegger cello Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2 Julia Fischer’s ‘Perspectives’ Series reaches its conclusion with an evening of string quartets, opening with the creative confidence and charm of Beethoven’s Op. 18 No. 4 before fathoming Julia Fischer Quartet the emotional depths of Schumann’s Op. 41 No. 3. The German violinist is joined by three close friends, each soloists in their own right as well as dedicated chamber musicians. The concert ends with Mendelssohn’s majestic String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2, completed during the composer’s honeymoon visit to the Black Forest in 1837. CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Trust
Chamber Music Season/Julia Fischer ‘Perspectives’
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£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice
Shai Wosner piano Schubert Drei Klavierstücke D946 Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959
Marco Borggreve
SUNDAY 25 MAY 11.30 AM Coffee Concert
Israeli pianist Shai Wosner is known for his perceptive musicianship, virtuosity and the unshakeable integrity of his approach to each work in his large repertoire. He returns to Wigmore Hall with a delectable all-Schubert programme, including the rarely performed Three Piano Pieces written by the composer six months before his death. Shai Wosner
SUNDAY 25 MAY 7.30 PM Kirckman Concert Society Series
£8 £9 £11 £13
Y-Squared: Yelian He cello Yasmin Rowe piano Poulenc Cello Sonata Beethoven 12 Variations on a Theme from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO. 45 Kapustin Burlesque Op. 97 Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58 Martinu˚ Variations on a theme by Rossini Noted for its exceptionally creative programming and electric partnership, Y-Squared performs a wide variety of repertoire ranging from Boccherini to Kapustin. Since its conception, the duo has performed all over Europe and Australasia, generating a worldwide following. Forthcoming recitals in 2014 include performances at Bridgewater Hall and St Martin-in-the-Fields, as well as tours in Wales, Scotland and Australia. Kirckman Concert Society/Sarah Gordon Concert Management Supported by LankellyChase Foundation (Reg. Charity)
Y-Squared
MONDAY 26 MAY 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
d’Anglebert Prelude & Chaconne Rondeau from Suite No. 1 in G Bach From The Art of Fugue: Contrapuncti 5 & 6 BWV1080 Couperin Septième prélude in Bb from L’art de toucher le clavecin Couperin From Second livre de pièces de clavecin, 6e ordre: Les moissoneurs; Le gazoüillement; La Bersan; Les bergeries, rondeau; Les baricades mistérieuses Bach Partita No. 4 in D BWV828
Josep Molina
Andreas Staier harpsichord
£12.50 concessions £10
Andreas Staier
Andreas Staier’s imaginative approach to programme building arises from the artist’s deep knowledge of the ways in which Baroque composers created and projected strong individual emotional states into every work. His lunchtime harpsichord recital brings to life the affective world of Jean-Henri d’Anglebert’s music and traces the French composer’s direct influence on the keyboard works of Couperin and Bach.
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Joshua Owen Mills tenor Rodrigo de Vera piano Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize Mozart Cantata ‘Die ihr des unermeßlichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt’ K619 Beethoven Der Kuss; Resignation; Lied aus der Ferne Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Britten Winter Words: Lyrics and Ballads of Thomas Hardy Quilter It was a lover and his lass; Come away, Death; O Mistress Mine; Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Larklight Photography
MONDAY 26 MAY 7.30 PM
The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards a talented Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Welsh tenor Joshua Owen Mills, currently studying on the Guildhall School’s Opera Course, is this year’s recipient, and his recital promises to be a special occasion.
Joshua Owen Mills
TUESDAY 27 MAY 10.30 AM – 3.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Musical Mysteries For age 5 plus Be a musical detective for the day and solve the mysterious case of the disappearing drums. Follow a trail around Wigmore Hall, collect clues and piece your evidence together with the help of workshop leader Hermione Jones and musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. Present your solved mystery in the form of a musical performance on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day.
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Half-Term Family Day
Adults £12 Children £8
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Monument Trust and The Andor Charitable Trust
TUESDAY 27 MAY 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Marco Borggreve
Henk Neven baritone Hans Eijsackers piano Ibert Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte Trad/Dørumsgaard Triste estaba el rey David; Con Amores, a mi madre; Por unos puertos arriba; A la Caza, sus, a casa; Pámpano verde; De antequera sale el moro; Alma, Sintamos! Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Schubert An den Mond; Geheimes; An die Entfernte; Ganymed; Erster Verlust; Gesänge des Harfners; Der Musensohn; Wandrers Nachtlied I & II; Erlkönig
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‘Rarely do you hear a baritone who sings with such subtlety in shading of dynamic and tone as … Henk Neven,’ observed Gramophone following the release of the Dutch baritone’s latest album, made in partnership with Hans Eijsackers, of songs by Fauré, Schubert and Debussy. Henk Neven Neven’s ability to catch the tonal essence of poetic imagery and express profound emotions have earned rave reviews and a deserved reputation as one of the finest song interpreters of his generation. The intimate beauty of his voice and readiness to explore unfairly neglected repertoire have likewise won many admirers. Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall
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WEDNESDAY 28 MAY 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
£53 for 3 sessions & ticket for 4 June (7.30 pm)
Wigmore Study Group Chopin Preludes ‘Chopin is the greatest of them all’ wrote Debussy, ‘for through the piano alone he discovered everything’. Linked to a recital given by Ingrid Fliter on 4 June, this Wigmore Study Group explores Chopin’s musical world, his great love of Bach, his innovative re-interpretation of 18th-century formal procedures, his passion for Italian opera and his extraordinary insight into pianism. Hosted by composer Julian Philips and pianist Laura Roberts, this Wigmore Study Group will look in detail at a selection of Chopin’s compositions over three afternoons (28, 30 May, 4 June) with contributions not only from visiting musicologists but also outstanding performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Watercolour of Chopin by Maria Wodzin´ska, 1836
WEDNESDAY 28 MAY 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
The Endellion String Quartet
Eric Richmond
The Endellion String Quartet 35th Anniversary Series
£15 £20 £25 £30
Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 50 No. 3 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Haydn’s delightful Op. 50 No. 3 is surprisingly little-known, unlike Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’, perhaps the most popular of all string quartets. The latter catches the imagination with greater intensity at each hearing. Beethoven’s last major piece is a timeless treasure, and perhaps suggests the new directions his work might have taken had he lived. The Endellion String Quartet
THURSDAY 29 MAY 5.30 PM – 6.15 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
A Concert of New Works for Voice Now in its eighth year, Voiceworks is a unique collaboration between poets from the Contemporary Poetics research centre at Birkbeck, University of London and composers, singers and instrumentalists from Guildhall School of Music & Drama, brought together by Wigmore Hall Learning. Details at www.voiceworks.org.uk
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Voiceworks
Free (ticket required)
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THURSDAY 29 MAY 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series
Mozart Piano Sonata in F K533/494 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Ligeti Etude No. 2 ‘Cordes vides’; Etude No. 12 ‘Entrelacs’ Debussy From Préludes Book I: Des pas sur la neige; La danse de Puck Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958
Marco Borggreve
Francesco Piemontesi piano
£15 £20 £25 £30
Former BBC New Generation Artist Francesco Piemontesi, a prize winner at the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, brings a rare blend of intellectual clarity and poetic imagination to his performances. Connoisseurs of refined music-making should be richly rewarded by the young Swiss-Italian pianist’s readings of his stimulating choice of repertoire. Supported by the Benefactor Friends of Wigmore Hall Francesco Piemontesi
Menahem Pressler Masterclass Teaching has been part of Menahem Pressler’s artistic mission for most of his long and distinguished life. In 1955, the year he helped found the Beaux Arts Trio, he joined the piano faculty at Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University and has taught there without interruption for almost sixty years. The legendary musician’s artistry, humanity, honesty and wisdom inform his tireless work as masterclass leader, invariably enriching the experience of participants and audience members alike.
£7 per session concessions £4
Marco Borggreve
FRIDAY 30 & SATURDAY 31 MAY 10.30 AM – 1.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Menahem Pressler
FRIDAY 30 MAY 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
£53 for 3 sessions & ticket for 4 June ( 7.30 pm)
Wigmore Study Group Chopin Preludes The Wigmore Study Group takes place over three afternoons: 28, 30 May and 4 June from 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Linked to a recital given by Ingrid Fliter on 4 June See page opposite for full details
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FRIDAY 30 MAY 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series
The Golden Age of French Sacred Music
J P Campion
Le Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet director
£15 £20 £25 £30
Anon. (12th century) Beata viscera mariae virginis Charpentier Ouverture pour le sacre d’un évêque; Gaudete fideles Le Prince Missa macula non est in te Charpentier Gratiarum actiones pro restituta regis christianissimi sanitate; Offertoire sur les instruments Lully O dulcissime Domine Charpentier O pretiosum; Domine salvum fac regem; Magnificat In the late 1980s Hervé Niquet and his superb ensemble took their first Le Concert Spirituel steps in the historically informed revival of works written for Louis XIV and his court at Versailles. They have developed since into indispensable interpreters of Baroque music of all kinds, always adventurous and consistently thrilling in their full-blooded artistry. This programme of French sacred music is built around the exquisite Missa macula non est in te for women’s voices, written in 1663 by Louis Le Prince, chapel master of Lisieux Cathedral, and works in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Sun King. Gratiarum actiones pro restituta regis christianissimi sanitate offers a gentle prayer to celebrate Louis XIV’s recovery from an excruciatingly painful operation. This concert will be approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in duration, without an interval
SATURDAY 31 MAY 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Sim Canetty-Clarke
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Gerald Finley baritone Julius Drake piano Schubert Schwanengesang Einojuhani Rautavaara Rubáiyát (version for voice and piano) (world première)*
£18 £25 £30 £35
*commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Gerald Finley has essayed many landmark successes in the opera house and concert hall over the past two decades. The Canadian baritone’s appearances at Wigmore Hall rank in company with his finest achievements, recognised and reinforced this season with a Residency comprising works drawn from the heart Gerald Finley Julius Drake of his repertoire. For the final concert in his series, Gerald Finley performs Schwanengesang alongside the world première of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s song-cycle Rubáiyát, which was written specially for him. Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’. Supported by The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Trust
Gerald Finley Residency
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Monday 26 May • 7.30pm
Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s Recital The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Welsh tenor Joshua Owen Mills is the recipient of this year’s award, and his recital promises to be a special occasion. Joshua Owen Mills tenor Rodrigo de Vera piano Mozart Beethoven Liszt Britten Quilter
Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt Der Kuss, Resignation, Lied aus der Ferne Tre Sonetti di Petrarca Winter Words It was a lover and his lass Three Shakespeare Songs Tickets: £12.50 (£10 concessions) available from the Wigmore Hall Box Office 020 7935 2141
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HOW TO GET HERE Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 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
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BOND STREET
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 participates 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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