Wigmore Hall May 2015 Concert Diary

May 2015 Sir John Eliot Gardiner INSIDE: Alison Balsom Ian Bostridge James Ehnes Bernarda Fink Martin Frรถst Kirill Gerstein Angela Hewitt Gabrieli Consort & Players Sara Mingardo Dorothea Rรถschmann & Mitsuko Uchida and many more

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Benjamin Ealovega

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Mozart Clarinet Trio in E b K498 ‘Kegelstatt’ Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock); Romance from Der häusliche Krieg Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Kurtág Hommage à Robert Schumann Op. 15d Martin Fröst’s term as Wigmore Hall Artist in Residence continues with a programme rich in contrasts and correspondences. The clarinettist works with Miah Persson for the first time, joining fellow Swede Roland Pöntinen in Schubert’s enchanting ‘The Shepherd on the Rock’. Mozart’s lyrical ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio and György Kurtág’s epigrammatic Hommage à Robert Schumann add to their recital’s variety.

Irina and Pavel Kozhevnikov

Martin Fröst

£30 £25 £20 £15

Maxim Rysanov Mina Artistbilder

Martin Fröst clarinet Maxim Rysanov viola Roland Pöntinen piano Miah Persson soprano

Mats Bäcker

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Mats Bäcker

Friday 1 May 7.30 pm

Roland Pöntinen

Miah Persson

Chamber Music Season/Martin Fröst Artist in Residence Saturday 2 May 7.30 pm

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Dorothea Röschmann soprano Mitsuko Uchida piano Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Berg Sieben frühe Lieder Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Op. 42 Two visionary artists explore the expressive range and timeless human insights of two of Schumann’s greatest song cycles, landmarks of nineteenth-century music. Dorothea Röschmann’s artistry has deepened and matured since her sensational international breakthrough at the 1995 Salzburg Festival, securing her place among the best-loved performers of her generation. She is joined by Mitsuko Uchida, renowned worldwide for her penetrating interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven, and music by composers of the Second Viennese School, Alban Berg among them. £45 £40 £35 £25

Wilfried Hösl

Justin Pumfrey/Decca

Song Recital Series

Dorothea Röschmann

Mitsuko Uchida

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Sunday 3 May 11.30 am

Martin Fröst clarinet Roland Pöntinen piano Brahms Songs (arr. M Fröst & R Pöntinen): Die Mainacht; Wie Melodien zieht es mir; Mädchenlied Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 14, 19 & 21 (arr. M Fröst & R Pöntinen) Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2 Martin Fröst pays homage to the music of Brahms as his season as Wigmore Hall Artist in Residence draws to a close. He is joined by Roland Pöntinen, a friend and colleague since schooldays, to perform arrangements of well-known songs and Hungarian Dances in company with the glorious Clarinet Sonata in E flat, praised by the Brahms scholar Karl Geiringer for its ‘tender melancholy’ and ‘splendid perfection of form’. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice

Roland Pöntinen and Martin Fröst

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/Martin Fröst Artist in Residence

Martin Fröst clarinet FAMILY CONCERT For ages 5 plus Working alongside presenter Julian West and pianist Roland Pöntinen, the dynamic Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst features in a concert especially for families, which introduces the dramatic music of Brahms, including his thrilling Hungarian Dances.

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Sunday 3 May 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Adults £9 Children £7

Wigmore Hall’s Family Programme is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Martin Fröst Artist in Residence

Heath Quartet Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 76 No. 6 Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106

Sussie Ahlburg

Sunday 3 May 7.30 pm

Following a survey of Michael Tippett’s string quartets at Wigmore Hall last season, the Heath Quartet returns with a captivating programme of mature masterworks. Haydn’s Op. 76 No. 6, first published in London in 1799, balances popular melodies with profound reflections on the human condition, while Janácˇek’s First String Quartet projects an imaginary response to the life of ‘a poor woman, tormented and run down, just like the one … Tolstoy describes in his Kreutzer Sonata.’ £30 £25 £20 £15 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Heath Quartet

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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Monday 4 May 1.00 pm

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Elias String Quartet Simon Crawford-Phillips piano Emily Howard Afference Schumann Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44 Emily Howard’s Afference, inspired by the flow of signals between body and brain, provides the pulsating opening to the Elias String Quartet’s BBC Lunchtime recital. The ensemble is joined by Simon Crawford-Phillips in Schumann’s Piano Quintet, another work of great energy and vitality, among the finest pieces created during the composer’s year-long immersion in chamber music in 1842. £13 concs £11

Keith Saunders

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Elias String Quartet

Simon Crawford-Phillips

Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor

Chris Christodoulou

Monday 4 May 7.30 pm

Monteverdi Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace; Lamento della ninfa; Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Tirsi e Clori Schubert Gondelfahrer (D809); Ständchen (D920); Gebet Brahms Liebeslieder, Waltzes Op. 52 Awards and acclaim have followed the pioneering work of the Monteverdi Choir and its founder, Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

‘If there were a Nobel prize for choirs, the Monteverdi Choir should be its laureate’, noted Le Monde. Their interpretations of everything from medieval music and Monteverdi to the great choral works of Bach, Handel, Beethoven and Brahms have set benchmark standards in terms of style and substance, stripping away anachronistic performance traditions and keeping faith with the original intentions of composers for their music. The ensemble makes a long-awaited return to Wigmore Hall with a programme guaranteed to seduce the ear and gladden the heart.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner

This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes in duration, including an interval £60 £45 £30 £20

Early Music and Baroque Series /Song Recital Series

Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists

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Justin Pumfrey/Decca

Dorothea Röschmann soprano Mitsuko Uchida piano

Wilfried Hösl

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Tuesday 5 May 7.30 pm

Repeat of concert on 2 May

See page 3 for full details £45 £40 £35 £25

Song Recital Series

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Dorothea Röschmann

Mitsuko Uchida

Wednesday 6 May 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Classical Opera’s conductor and artistic director Ian Page introduces the life and career of the tenor John Beard, and discusses the music featured in the evening concert. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Classical Opera Allan Clayton tenor Ian Page conductor

Jack Liebeck

Wednesday 6 May 7.30 pm

‘WHERE’ER YOU WALK’: HANDEL’S FAVOURITE TENOR Programme to include: Handel Un momento di contento from Alcina; Vedi l’ape from Berenice; Where’er you walk from Semele; Waft her angels through the skies from Jephtha Boyce Softly rise, o southern breeze from Solomon Allan Clayton JC Smith Hark how the hounds and horn from The Fairies Arne From the dawn of early morning from Alfred; Thou like the glorious sun from Artaxerxes

Ian Page

Allan Clayton, former Classical Opera Associate Artist, joins the company to celebrate the 300th birthday of John Beard (1715–1791), the tenor who created more Handel roles than any other singer and caused a high society scandal by marrying into the English aristocracy. Classical Opera’s compelling concert explores Beard’s eventful life and career with a programme including rarities by Boyce, JC Smith and Arne, and a selection of Handel’s most celebrated airs. £35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Thursday 7 May 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm

Introduction to Music 4 BEETHOVEN Beethoven’s reputation as arguably the ‘greatest composer’ has remained relatively intact since his death in 1827. This series of talks (16, 23, and 30 April; 7 May) with Roy Stratford investigates the powerful and individual way he interpreted the classical musical language, and the extraordinary evolution of his style from the dynamic and individualistic early works to the transcendental utterances of the late quartets, piano sonatas and the Missa Solemnis.

Series ticket price £30

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler

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Olli Mustonen piano Beethoven 12 Variations on the Russian Dance from Wranitsky’s ballet Das Waldmädchen in A WoO71 Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 59; 3 Mazurkas Op. 56 Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 82

Outi Montosen

Thursday 7 May 7.30 pm

Olli Mustonen has been inspired by visits to the Karelia region, an area of mystery, natural beauty and imaginative folklore. His interpretations are touched by a corresponding spirit of openness to the moment. The Finnish pianist’s latest Wigmore Hall recital opens with a Beethoven rarity before moving to Schumann’s evocative childhood reminiscences in Kinderszenen and the engrossing complexities of Prokofiev’s Sixth Piano Sonata. £35 £30 £25 £18

Olli Mustonen

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’.

London Pianoforte Series

Friday 8 May 7.00 pm NB Starting time

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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Arnaud Sussmann violin Matthew Lipman viola David Finckel cello Wu Han piano Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Helen Grime String Trio* (world première) Brahms Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata (Sonatensatz) Schumann Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47 * Co-commissioned by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation.

Helen Grime

Wigmore Hall’s collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center continues to bear fruit with the co-commission of a string trio from Helen Grime. The Scottish composer’s new work is prefaced by Brahms’s impassioned First Cello Sonata. David Finckel and Wu Han are joined by two distinguished colleagues to close the concert with Schumann’s sublime Piano Quartet in E flat. £30 £25 £20 £15

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Harrison Linsey

Nyght Falcon

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Arnaud Sussmann

Matthew Lipman

Wu Han and David Finckel

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‘SOUND THE TRUMPET’

Alison Balsom

Marco Borggreve

Trevor Pinnock

Handel Eternal source of light divine; Overture from Atalanta Purcell Chacony in G minor; The Plaint Purcell From King Arthur: Chaconne; Symphony; Come if you dare Handel Chaconne in G HWV435 Purcell Sound the trumpet; Overture from the Duke of Gloucester’s Birthday Ode Purcell From The Fairy Queen: If Love’s a sweet passion; Prelude from Act V; Hark! The echoing air; Chaconne in C; They shall be as happy as they are fair

Lucy Crowe Benjamin Ealovega

Jason Bell/EMI

Alison Balsom trumpet Trevor Pinnock harpsichord, organ The English Concert Lucy Crowe soprano Tim Mead countertenor

Peer Lindgreen

Friday 8 May 10.00 pm

Alison Balsom’s partnership with Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert began in the recording studio and blossomed with their acclaimed performances together in Samuel Adamson’s Gabriel at the Globe Theatre in 2013. They return to the music of Purcell and Tim Mead Handel in this late-night concert, which opens with the haunting aria ‘Eternal source of light divine’ and digs deep into the instrumental music of Purcell’s spectacular works for the London stage.

All seats £20

Wigmore Lates/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective The evening continues in the Wigmore Hall Bar with music by the Tom Green Septet from 11.15 pm. This is a free event, with no ticket required.

Following the release of his highly acclaimed debut album ‘Skyline’, Tom Green and his septet return to Wigmore Lates. Winner of the 2013 Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition and heralded as Jazzwise magazine’s ‘One to Watch 2014’, Tom Green is one of the finest young jazz musicians currently operating in the UK. Wigmore Lates Saturday 9 May

JONATHAN HARVEY STUDY DAY Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music; Clark Rundell conductor

Maurice Foxall

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Tom Green Septet

Following the commemoration of his 75th birthday, the RNCM brings the sound of one of the UK’s most extraordinary composers to Wigmore Hall. Jonathan Harvey (1939–2012) possessed the ability to transform the transcendental and beyond into sound. The day culminates in his epic work Bhakti – a mystical exploration of the Sanskrit Hymns of Rig Veda for chamber ensemble and quadrophonic tape.

10.00 am – 11.00 am Jonathan Harvey ff for solo piano; Nataraja for flute and piano; The Riot for flute, bass clarinet and piano; Three Sketches for solo cello; Tombeau de Messiaen for solo piano; Death of Light, Light of Death for five players Jonathan Harvey

11.45 am – 12.45 pm In conversation: a glimpse into the life and works of Jonathan Harvey with his daughter Anna Harvey 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm Jonathan Harvey Bhakti for ensemble and electronics All tickets £5 concs £3 (each event) or Day Ticket £10 concs £7

In partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series

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Saturday 9 May 7.30 pm Studio fotografico Gielle

Belcea Quartet Nicolas Bone viola Antonio Meneses cello Beethoven String Trio in C minor Op. 9 No. 3 Brahms String Quartet in Bb Op. 67 Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4

Antonio Meneses

Ronald Knapp

Nicolas Bone

Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht arose under the influence of Wagner’s richly chromatic music and absorbed ideas about the human psyche and sexuality current in the Vienna of Sigmund Freud and Arthur Schnitzler. The sextet’s surging Romanticism is prefaced with Beethoven’s visionary C minor String Trio, truly a musical treasure of old Vienna, and Brahms’s String Quartet in B flat Op. 67, a work suggestive of summer days, folk music and the contemplation of nature. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season

Schumann Quartett Verdi String Quartet in E minor Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’

Kaupo Kikkas

Sunday 10 May 11.30 am

Formed in 2007 by the three Schumann brothers, Erik, Ken and Mark, and the violist Liisa Randalu, the Schumann Quartett has scored notable success in international competitions and with the critics. The ensemble’s Coffee Concert programme includes a work of inexhaustible invention, the Third ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, in which Beethoven reflects on feelings and emotions triggered by his deafness. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Schumann Quartett

Sunday 10 May 3.00 pm Joanna Bergin

Claire Booth soprano Christopher Glynn piano

Sven Arnstein

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Belcea Quartet

Schubert Die Blumensprache; Die Sterne; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Versunken Grieg Haugtussa (The Mountain Maid) Op. 67 Grainger Willow, Willow; Died for Love; Bold William Taylor; The Power of Love; The Sprig of Thyme Australian-born Percy Grainger was among the most original and free-thinking of twentieth-century composers, a multi-talented musician with outstanding gifts as creator, performer, writer and ethnographer.

Claire Booth’s programme sets his evocative works in the context of the song cycle Haugtussa by his friend Edvard Grieg and a group of exquisite Lieder by Schubert.

Claire Booth

Christopher Glynn

£15 concs £12.50

Song Recital Series

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Werner Güra tenor Christoph Berner piano Schubert An die Musik; Trost im Liede; Des Sängers Habe; Liedesend; Die gefangenen Sänger; Der Liedler; Die Sterne; Vor meiner Wiege; Drang in die Ferne; Das Weinen; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Der Fischer; Die Forelle; Widerschein; Fischerweise; Der Schiffer (D536)

Marco Borggreve

Sunday 10 May 7.30 pm

Schubert has been at the core of Werner Güra’s art for more than two decades. The German tenor owns the tonal variety, Werner Güra Christoph Berner technique and poetic imagination required to do justice to the composer’s often deceptively difficult Lieder. He is joined for this recital by regular duo partner Christoph Berner for a programme generously filled with evergreen songs such as ‘An die Musik’, ‘Die Forelle’ and ‘Der Schiffer’. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Sara Mingardo contralto Ivano Zanenghi theorbo Giorgio Dal Monte harpsichord

Carlo Coppitz

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Monday 11 May 1.00 pm

Monteverdi Quel sguardo sdegnosetto; Il lamento di Arianna; Voglio di vita uscir Falconieri Vezzosette e care pupillette; Non più d’amore Piccinini Toccata XX; Aria di Sarabanda in Varie Partite (for solo theorbo) Carissimi Deh memoria e che più chiedi?

Frescobaldi Work for solo harpsichord Strozzi L’Eraclito amoroso; La, sol, fa, mi, re, do Hailed as ‘one of a kind’ by The Independent following her most recent Wigmore Hall concert, the Venetian contralto Sara Mingardo is in great demand at the world’s leading opera houses and recital halls. She is joined by Ivano Zanenghi and Giorgio Dal Monte for a programme that illustrates the vivacity, colour and dash of the early Italian baroque. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sara Mingardo

Strauss Ständchen; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Freundliche Vision; Cäcilie Korngold Four Shakespeare Songs Op. 31 Strauss Schlechtes Wetter; Nachtgang; Befreit; Zueignung Eisler From Hollywood Liederbook: Erinnerung an Eichendorff und Schumann; Über den Selbstmord; An der kleinen Radioapparat; Hotelzimmer 1942; Diese Stadt hat mich belehrt; Vom Sprengen des Gartens; Der Kirschdieb Weill O captain! My captain!; Beat! Beat! Drums!; Dirge for two veterans; Come up from the fields, father

Joost van den Broek

Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano

Marco Borggreve

Monday 11 May 7.30 pm

Christianne Stotijn

Julius Drake

Nazi oppression in Austria and Germany forced Erich Korngold, Hanns Eisler and Kurt Weill into overseas exile in the 1930s and delivered them to work for Hollywood’s soundstages. Christianne Stotijn and Julius Drake evoke the musical energy generated by these three émigré composers, from the austere beauty of Korngold’s Four Shakespeare Songs to the powerful imagery of Weill’s Walt Whitman settings. £35 £30 £25 £18

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

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

Song Recital Series

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Tuesday 12 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Friday 15 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Wednesday 20 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group CZECH CHAMBER MUSIC Delve into the chamber music of Smetana, Dvorˇák, Suk and Janácˇek in three afternoon study sessions. We journey from the mid-nineteenth century into the twentieth, as a preoccupation with the notion of Czech musical identity develops from the simple adoption of dance rhythms to a profound engagement with the indigenous music of the region. Often these compositions are deeply personal, even autobiographical, and they show both the development of a national style and the emergence of some wonderful and highly individual musical voices within it. The Study Nelahozeves, Czech Republic (Dvorˇák’s place of birth) Group is hosted by composer Julian Philips with pianist Laura Roberts and visiting musicologists, and includes music performed by students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Returns only

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Czech Chamber Music

Gabrieli Consort & Players Paul McCreesh director

Ben Wright

Tuesday 12 May 7.30 pm

PURCELL ODES: I Purcell Now does the glorious day appear (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary, 1689); Arise, my muse (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary, 1690); Welcome, welcome glorious morn (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary, 1691) Paul McCreesh directs his Gabrieli Consort & Players in a programme of Purcell’s odes, part of a series of works written following the Restoration of Charles II to mark royal birthdays and other important occasions at court.

The three pieces in this programme reflect the strength of public affection for Queen Mary and the sheer quality of Purcell’s musical invention. £50 £40 £30 £20

Paul McCreesh

Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall

Early Music and Baroque Series /Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

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Wednesday 13 May 7.30 pm

Gabrieli Consort & Players Paul McCreesh director PURCELL ODES: II Purcell Love’s goddess sure was blind (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary, 1692); Celebrate this festival (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary, 1693); Come, ye sons of art away (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary, 1694) Purcell set benchmark standards in his works for royal occasions.

Paul McCreesh continues his survey of the composer’s birthday odes for Queen Mary with three exceptional compositions. The programme is capped by Come, ye sons of art away, an ideally blended mix of solo airs, ensemble songs and instrumental pieces.

Gabrieli Consort & Players

£50 £40 £30 £20

Early Music and Baroque Series/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

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Roger Vignoles Masterclass Roger Vignoles has developed a unique personal insight into the relationship between pianist and singer. His work was directly inspired by two legends of the recital world, Gerald Moore and Paul Hamburger, and has evolved to the highest refinement in collaboration with such world-class artists as Elisabeth Söderström, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Thomas Allen, Brigitte Fassbaender, Thomas Hampson, Dame Felicity Lott and Mark Padmore. In this masterclass he focuses on German Lieder with postgraduate students from UK music colleges.

Benjamin Ealovega

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Thursday 14 May 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

£7 concs £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Roger Vignoles

Thursday 14 May 7.30 pm Marco Borggreve

Kirill Gerstein piano Bartók Excerpts from Mikrokosmos Bach 15 Sinfonias (3 Part Inventions) BWV787– 801 Liszt Études d’exécution transcendante S139 Winner of the prestigious Gilmore Award, Kirill Gerstein’s musical curiosity, technical prowess and cultivated musicianship have led him to fathom the depths and explore the breadth of the piano repertoire. His latest Wigmore Hall programme presents a fascinating juxtaposition of works conceived by Bartók and Bach as student exercises, together with Liszt’s Transcendental Studies, a dozen fiendishly difficult elaborations of earlier keyboard studies. £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series

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Kirill Gerstein

Friday 15 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group CZECH CHAMBER MUSIC See 12 May at 3.00 pm for full details Returns only

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Czech Chamber Music

Atéa Wind Quintet Mozart Andante in F for mechanical organ K616 (arr. for wind quintet by Wolfgang Meyer) Poulenc Novelette in C (arr. for wind quintet by Geoffrey Emerson) Stravinsky Three Pieces for solo clarinet Taffanel Wind Quintet Nielsen Wind Quintet Op. 43 Debussy Syrinx Briccialdi Wind Quintet No.1 Op.124

Krystian Data

Friday 15 May 7.00 pm NB Starting time

The Atéa Quintet, Associate Ensemble in Residence at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Ensemble in Residence at the Purcell School and one of the recipients of the Tunnell Trust award for the 2015/16 season, will perform a dynamic programme of wind classics featuring contrasting works by several major composers. £13 £11 £9 £8 Kirckman Concert Society/Sarah Gordon Concert Management

Supported by LankellyChase Foundation

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Atéa Wind Quintet

Friday 15 May 10.00 pm

Mikhail Bulgakov’s mesmerising The Master and Margarita, among the last century’s greatest novels, has inspired young British saxophonist Trish Clowes to write some of her best music, thrilling and haunting by turns. She is joined for a late-night line up of original works new and old by fellow former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Gwilym Simcock and the ever adventurous Heath Quartet.

Trish Clowes

Gwilym Simcock

Sussie Ahlburg

Weill It never was you (arr. by Richard Rodney Bennett) Trish Clowes The Master and Margarita (dedicated to Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita); Under Your Wing Gwilym Simcock New work (world première) Trish Clowes A cat called Behemoth (for the cat in The Master and Margarita) Gershwin Lullaby John Taylor/Norma Winstone Enjoy this Day

Eric Richmond

Trish Clowes saxophone Gwilym Simcock piano Heath Quartet

All seats £15

Wigmore Lates Andy Richardson

The evening continues in the Wigmore Hall Bar with music by the Tomasz Zyrmont Trio from 11.15 pm.

This is a free event, with no ticket required.

Heath Quartet

Following performances at the London Jazz Festival, on Jazz FM and with the Fletch’s Brew Band at Ronnie Scott’s, Tomasz Zyrmont is one of the most exciting rising stars of the London jazz scene. He joins us with his trio for an evening of jazz standards and original compositions.

Wigmore Lates

Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano Schubert Wehmut; Der Zwerg; Nacht und Träume; Der Musensohn; An die Entfernte; Am Flusse; Willkommen und Abschied; Wandrers Nachtlied II; An die Leier; Am See; Im Haine; Erlkönig; An den Mond (D259); Nähe des Geliebten; Nachtgesang; Liebhaber in allen Gestalten; Meeres Stille; Auf dem See; An Mignon; Erster Verlust; Ganymed; An den Mond (D296)

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Saturday 16 May 7.30 pm Sim Canetty-Clarke

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Tomasz Zyrmont

Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake launched their critically acclaimed Schubert Lieder series at Wigmore Hall Ian Bostridge during the 2013/14 Season. Their ambitious journey through some of the greatest songs ever written concludes with works infinitely rich in poetic nuance, musical expression and dramatic power.

Julius Drake

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series /Ian Bostridge Schubert Lieder

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Philippa Davies flute Gareth Hulse oboe Richard Watkins horn Robin O'Neill bassoon Michael Collins clarinet, director

Leon Gerald

London Winds

Eric Richmond

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Sunday 17 May 11.30 am

Michael McHale piano Saint-Saëns Caprice sur des airs danois et russes Op. 79 Mozart Quintet in E b for piano and winds K452 Thuille Sextet in Bb for piano and winds Op. 6 Technological advances during the early 1900s London Winds Michael McHale delivered new versions of wind instruments that soon attracted interest from composers. The transformation was prompted by works such as Mozart’s Quintet for piano and winds, which demonstrated the enormous musical potential of instruments usually associated with outdoor performance.

Michael Collins and his ensemble London Winds also explore the vibrant colours and energy of Saint-Saëns’s Caprice, first performed in St Petersburg in 1887, and the heroic Sextet by Austrian composer Ludwig Thuille. £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’.

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 17 May 7.30 pm John Batten

Jack Liebeck violin Katya Apekisheva piano Messiaen Theme and Variations Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Stravinsky Divertimento Jack Liebeck’s fine artistry flows naturally from his innate gifts as a communicator. His Wigmore Hall debut in 2002 attracted a capacity audience and he has since become established among the most dynamic and intense performers of his generation.

Jack Liebeck This programme offers two contrasting violin sonatas together with Messiaen’s haunting Theme and Variations and Stravinsky’s romantic Divertimento.

Katya Apekisheva

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season

Christoph Prégardien tenor Daniel Heide piano Schubert An den Mond (D259); Schäfers Klagelied; Erster Verlust; Rastlose Liebe; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Willkommen und Abschied Schumann Dichterliebe

Marco Borggreve

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Monday 18 May 1.00 pm

At its best, music holds the power to enhance poetic imagery and focus the listener’s contemplation of things that lie beyond easy understanding. The works in Christoph Prégardien’s BBC Lunchtime recital, crowned by Schumann’s famous song Christoph Prégardien Daniel Heide cycle, transcend words and music to create imaginary worlds in which the human spirit can set aside everyday concerns to experience a heightened sense of reality. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Monday 18 May 7.30 pm

The Monday Platform

Andrey Lebedev guitar Keri Fuge soprano Matthew Fletcher piano Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula solo piano Sir Harrison Birtwistle Beyond the White Hand: Construction with Guitar Player Leo Brouwer Danzas Rituales y Festivas Vol. 2 (world première) Rachmaninov Six Songs Opus 38; Vocalise Janácˇek From On an overgrown path: Our evenings; They chattered like swallows Beethoven Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110

Andrey Lebedev

Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula

Keri Fuge

Matthew Fletcher

Australian guitarist Andrey Lebedev premièred the Birtwistle commission at St. John’s Smith Square in December 2014.

He won first prize at several competitions in Australia before coming to study at the Royal Academy of Music in 2013.

British soprano Keri Fuge trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio; this season she sings with ENO, Buxton Festival and in a performance of Messiah at the Royal Festival Hall. Swiss born pianist and composer Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula studied in Lausanne and at GSMD and in Autumn 2014 was visiting fellow at the Glen Gould School in Toronto. £18 £16 £12 £10 Presented by Young Artists Platform

Supported by The Tillett Trust

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Tuesday 19 May 7.30 pm

Rosenblatt Recital Series 2014/15

Jessica Pratt soprano Vincenzo Scalera piano Rossini La separazione; La fioraia fiorentina Donizetti Il barcaiolo; Una lagrima; La zingara Bellini Per pietà, bell’idol mio; Malinconia, ninfa gentile Bellini Qui la voce sua soave ... Vien diletto from I puritani Massenet Ouvre tes yeux bleus, ma mignonne Gounod Sérénade Bachelet Chère nuit Dell'Acqua Villanelle Delibes Les filles de Cadix Thomas A vos jeux, mes amis from Hamlet

Jessica Pratt

Vincenzo Scalera

Hailed for her ‘gleaming sound, free and easy high notes, agile coloratura runs and lyrical grace’ (New York Times), Jessica Pratt is one of today’s foremost interpreters of bel canto’s most challenging repertoire. She was recently awarded the ultimate stamp of approval from Italian music critics, La Siola d’Oro. ‘The glory of Pratt’s voice is in the upper octave. From the Act I [of Lucia di Lammermoor] love duet onwards, her fluid, silvery soprano shimmered and took flight’ Bachtrack £30 £25 £20 £15

Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 8 April (Ben Johnson) and 8 June (Marcello Giordani)

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Wednesday 20 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group CZECH CHAMBER MUSIC See 12 May at 3.00 pm for full details Returns only

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Czech Chamber Music

Suk Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 1 Janácˇek Violin Sonata Martinu° Cello Sonata No. 2 Dvorˇák Piano Quartet in E b Op. 87

Jack Liebeck

Joshua Bell Satoshi Aoyagi

Steven Isserlis is joined by three close friends and colleagues for this programme of Czech music, complete with Martinu˚’s radiant Second Cello Sonata.

Growing awareness of national identity, underpinned by the rediscovery of Bohemian and Moravian folk music, found its way into the fabric of works such as Dvorˇák’s Piano Quartet in E flat and the Piano Quartet in A minor by his pupil and future son-in-law, Josef Suk. Janácˇek’s Violin Sonata, meanwhile, was influenced by the song-like qualities of the Czech language.

Lawrence Power Michael Wilson

Joshua Bell violin Lawrence Power viola Steven Isserlis cello Jeremy Denk piano

Lisa Marie Mazzucco

Wednesday 20 May 7.30 pm

Steven Isserlis

Jeremy Denk

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Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

Chamber Music Season/Czech Chamber Music

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Thursday 21 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm

YCAT Public Final Auditions 2015 YOUNG CLASSICAL ARTISTS TRUST (YCAT): IDENTIFYING, NURTURING, PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING EXCEPTIONAL YOUNG ARTISTS YCAT artists are identified through a rigorous annual 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. At a critical time in their development YCAT offers guidance and advice alongside a full artist management service to selected artists for 3–5 years.

Previous artists include Ian Bostridge, Susan Gritton, Elizabeth Watts, Alison Balsom, Joanna MacGregor, Llyˆr Williams and the Belcea, Heath and Doric string quartets. £10 concs £8 per session (or £16 for both sessions) Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490)

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YCAT Public Final Auditions 2015

Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 Songs by Schumann, Guastavino, López Buchardo and Ginastera

Dorothee Falke

Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Anthony Spiri piano

Stefan Reichmann

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Friday 22 May 7.30 pm

Few artists today can hold an audience more spellbound than Bernarda Fink. The Buenos Aires-born mezzo’s personal warmth and openness nourish interpretations that convey the emotional life force of the songs in her extensive repertoire. She begins this recital with a survey of Schumann’s later songs before turning to music by three great Argentine composers.

Bernarda Fink

Anthony Spiri

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Dvorˇák Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 (arr. for 2 violins and viola) Janácˇek Pohádka Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 Dvorˇák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81

Nicolas Lieber

Joshua Bell violin Pamela Frank violin Lawrence Power viola Steven Isserlis cello Jeremy Denk piano

Eric Kabik

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Saturday 23 May 7.30 pm

Pamela Frank

Joshua Bell

Songs and dances marked every occasion of life in the Czech lands, from births, marriages and funerals to evenings in the local wine cellar and visits to country fairs. Steven Isserlis and friends gather once more to revive the spirit of works created by composers raised on free-flowing melody. Their recital includes Pohádka for cello and piano, rooted in its composer’s passion for Slavic culture, and Dvorˇák’s majestic Second Piano Quintet.

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Chamber Music Season/Czech Chamber Music

Aviv String Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1

Tashko Tasheff

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Sunday 24 May 11.30 am

Formed in Israel in 1997, the Aviv String Quartet received early coaching from some of the greatest names in chamber music-making, members of the Amadeus, Emerson and Juilliard string quartets among them.

The ensemble’s Coffee Concert explores the ironic nature of Shostakovich’s Second String Quartet, a wartime work rich in allusion to Jewish folk themes, and the tragic tone of Brahms’s First String Quartet. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Aviv String Quartet

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Inon Barnatan piano Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894 Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue Sebastian Currier Glow* (world première) Ravel Gaspard de la nuit

Marco Borggreve

Sunday 24 May 7.30 pm

* Co-commissioned by Aspen Music Festival, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Inon Barnatan was named as the New York Philharmonic’s first Artist in Association in January 2014, a position that reflects his growing international reputation. He has been a regular performer at Wigmore Hall over several seasons and returns to give an imaginatively conceived programme. His repertoire choice includes Schubert’s serene G major Piano Sonata and the world première of Glow by American composer Sebastian Currier, recipient of the 2007 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.

Inon Barnatan

£30 £25 £20 £15

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

London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78 Boulez Piano Sonata No. 1 Ohana From 12 Études d’interprétation: No. 2 Mouvements parallèles; No. 5 Quintes; No. 4 Main gauche seule Debussy From Études Book I: No. 2 Pour les tierces; No. 4 Pour les sixtes; No. 5 Pour les octaves

Benjamin Ealovega

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Monday 25 May 1.00 pm

Stylish pianism and profound musicianship are among the hallmarks of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s artistry. The French pianist here presents Beethoven’s two-movement Piano Sonata No. 24 in company with three Gallic masterworks, including Boulez’s gritty Piano Sonata No. 1 and a selection of Maurice Ohana’s Debussy-inspired Études d’interprétation.

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Quatuor Ebène Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Emperor’ Dutilleux Ainsi la nuit Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132

Julien Mignot

Monday 25 May 7.30 pm

Quatuor Ebène launches its latest Wigmore Hall programme with Haydn’s ‘Emperor’ Quartet, so called for its use of the Austrian emperor’s hymn, and explores the borderlands of sound and silence that course through Henri Dutilleux’s Ainsi la nuit of 1976. £35 £30 £25 £18 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Quatuor Ebène

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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Voiceworks A CONCERT OF NEW WORKS FOR VOICE Now in its ninth 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.

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Tuesday 26 May 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm

Details at www.voiceworks.org.uk Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Tuesday 26 May 7.30 pm

Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Respighi Violin Sonata in B minor Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82 Canadian violinist James Ehnes’s trademark eloquence arises from his jaw-dropping technical command, serene lyricism and unfaltering musicality. His programme includes works that resonate fully with his artistic soul, from the yearning lyricism of Debussy’s late Violin Sonata to the impassioned melancholy of Elgar’s Violin Sonata in E minor.

Olivier Wilkins

Benjamin Ealovega

James Ehnes violin Andrew Armstrong piano

James Ehnes

Andrew Armstrong

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season

Musical Fairy Tales HALF-TERM FAMILY DAY For ages 5 plus Experience famous fairy tales as you have never heard them before with presenter Julian West and wind quintet the Magnard Ensemble. Hear the quintet play musical arrangements of some well-known stories, then work alongside the musicians to create a brand new musical fairy tale of your own to perform together onstage at the end of the day.

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Wednesday 27 May 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Adults £15 Children £10

Wigmore Hall’s Family Programme is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Wednesday 27 May 7.30 pm

Royal Academy of Music Patrons Award Winner’s Recital

Daniel Lebhardt piano Bach Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825 Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960 Thanks to the support of the Royal Academy of Music’s Patrons, this award provides a showcase opportunity for Academy students.

The winner of this year’s Patrons’ Award performs in this concert, having competed with many of the Academy’s most talented students for this highly-coveted Wigmore recital. £15 £13 £10 £8 Royal Academy of Music

Stéphane Gallois

Philippe Cassard piano David Grimal violin Anne Gastinel cello

Benoît Linero

Thursday 28 May 7.30 pm Vincent Catala

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Daniel Lebhardt

Baptiste Trotignon Trio* (world première) Chausson Piano Trio in G minor Op. 3 Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb D929 *Co-commissioned by SACEM (Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de musique), and by Philippe Cassard Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

David Grimal

Anne Gastinel

Philippe Cassard and his long-time chamber music partners, David Grimal and Anne Gastinel, begin this recital with the world première of a new work by French composer Baptiste Trotignon, known to many for his work as jazz pianist. They devote the concert’s second half to one of the greatest of all chamber music compositions, Schubert’s all-encompassing Piano Trio in E flat. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Mendelssohn Gruß; Allnächtlich im Traume; Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Jagdlied; Venetianisches Gondellied; Der Mond; Nachtlied Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Der Tamboursg’sell; Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz; Nicht wiedersehen!; Trost im Unglück; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Revelge; Urlicht

Sussie Ahlburg

Henk Neven baritone Imogen Cooper piano

Marco Borggreve

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Friday 29 May 7.00 pm NB Starting time

Henk Neven’s charisma and distinctive timbre belong Henk Neven Imogen Cooper to a package of artistic attributes that have placed him among the most exciting young singers to emerge over the past decade. He continues his collaboration with Imogen Cooper with a programme tailored to inspire their shared empathy for Romantic music, including a second half devoted to songs from Mahler’s evocative Des Knaben Wunderhorn. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

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Simón Bolívar String Quartet Ginastera String Quartet No. 1 Op. 20 Ravel String Quartet in F Venezuela’s ‘El Sistema’ programme of music education has, among many fine things, helped create the Simón Bolívar String Quartet. The ensemble’s late-night programme opens with the colourful music of Alberto Ginastera’s First String Quartet, tinged with the Argentine composer’s ‘imagined folklore’, and continues with Ravel’s lyrical String Quartet in F.

Harald Hoffmann /Deutsche Grammophon

Friday 29 May 10.00 pm

All seats £15 Simón Bolívar String Quartet

Wigmore Lates The evening continues in the Wigmore Hall Bar with music by the Dave O’Higgins Quartet from 11.15 pm.

This is a free event, with no ticket required.

One of Britain’s most accomplished tenor saxophonists, Dave O’Higgins is influenced by Wayne Shorter and Dexter Gordon.

He and his quartet play polished fast-paced bop, classic standards and original compositions.

Wigmore Lates Dave O’Higgins

Pre-Concert Talk Pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris introduces the evening concert. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 30 May 7.30 pm

Llyˆr Williams piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’; Piano Sonata No. 18 in E b Op. 31 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101

Benjamin Ealovega

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Saturday 30 May 6.00 pm

Llyˆr Williams presented Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas in chronological order in 2010 and explored them within the space of a fortnight at the Edinburgh International Festival the following year. His first London cycle continues at Wigmore Hall with a programme carefully constructed to reveal the composer’s revolutionary keyboard invention in the Op. 31 sonatas of the early 1800s and the psychological and formal complexities of his Piano Sonata No. 28 in A.

The next concert in Llyˆr Williams’s Beethoven piano sonata cycle is on 3 October 2015. £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series Llyˆr Williams

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Jean-Marc Luisada piano Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 Schumann Arabeske in C Op. 18; Humoreske in Bb Op. 20

Catherine Cabrol

Sunday 31 May 11.30 am

Jean-Marc Luisada sets the scene in this recital for two Romantic masterworks by Schumann with the intense brilliance of Haydn’s Variations in F minor, which is among the composer’s most original and forward-looking keyboard pieces. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Jean-Marc Luisada

Angela Hewitt piano Cremona Quartet Kerson Leong violin Gerald Finley bass-baritone

Liszt From Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année S161: Sonetto del Petrarca No. 47; Sonetto del Petrarca No. 104; Angela Hewitt Sonetto del Petrarca No. 123 Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 27 No. 3 (à Georges Enescu) Michael Berkeley Three Cabaret Songs (on poems by Ian McEwan) (UK première) Franck Piano Quintet in F minor Ten years have passed since Angela Hewitt founded the Trasimeno Festival, a jewel in the cultural crown of the Umbrian town of Magione. She introduces the annual event’s special atmosphere to Wigmore Hall, partnering fellow Canadian Gerald Finley in Michael Berkeley’s Three Cabaret Songs, piquant settings of words by Ian McEwan, and joining the Cremona Quartet for Franck’s intensely expressive Piano Quintet in F minor.

Kerson Leong Sim Canetty-Clarke

10th Anniversary of the Trasimeno Music Festival

MAIWOLF

Sunday 31 May 7.30 pm

£50 £40 £30 £20

Miriam Reiche

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music Series

Cremona Quartet

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Gerald Finley

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.

OXFORD CIRCUS

Benjamin Ealovega

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