Wigmore Hall May Diary 2017

May 2017 Karita Mattila INSIDE: Alison Balsom Ian Bostridge Elias String Quartet Véronique Gens Pavel Kolesnikov Christopher Maltman Francesco Piemontesi Sir András Schiff Stile Antico Takács Quartet Violeta Urmana and many more

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Cover: Karita Mattila © Marica Rosengård

Monday 1 May 1.00 pm

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Justin Hyer

Lawrence Zazzo countertenor Daniele Caminiti archlute, baroque guitar Jonathan Rees bass viol, viola da gamba Julian Perkins harpsichord, organ WEEPING PHILOSOPHERS

Lawrence Zazzo

Daniele Caminiti Andrew Craggs

Verdelot Con l’angelico riso D’India Piangono al pianger mio Carissimi No, no mio core Caccini Dalla porta d’oriente; Sfogava con le stelle Frescobaldi Toccata decima (Libro Primo); Canzona quarta (Libro Secondo); Se l’aura spira; Così mi disprezzate Strozzi L’Eraclito amoroso Piccinini Toccata XIII Durante Seneca funato ossia la crudelta di Nerone Italy’s city-states and principalities proved a hotbed of creativity in the early 1600s, cultivating a vast repertoire of solo songs and encouraging virtuoso instrumentalists of the calibre of Piccinini and Frescobaldi. Lawrence Zazzo, hailed by The New York Times as ‘a countertenor of gorgeous tone’, leads a glorious lunchtime exploration of the Italian Baroque. £15 concs £13

Jonathan Rees

Julian Perkins

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Monday 1 May 7.30 pm

Maximilian Schmitt tenor Gerold Huber piano Brahms Vom verwundeten Knaben; Vergangen ist mir Glück und Heil; Sehnsucht (Op. 14 No. 8); Ich schell mein Horn ins Jammertal; Der Überläufer Hindemith Lustige Lieder in Aargauer Mundart Brahms O kühler Wald; Anklänge; Es schauen die Blumen; Schwermut; Ach, wende diesen Blick; Auf dem Kirchhofe Hindemith Image; Beauty touch me Schubert Bei dir allein!; Ständchen (D889); An Silvia; Sei mir gegrüßt; Adelaide; An die Laute; Dass sie hier gewesen; An den Mond (D193); Nachtviolen; Nachtstück Maximilian Schmitt and Gerold Huber explore the breadth of Brahms’s song-writing art in their recital’s first half, embracing everything from austere reflections on happiness lost to the tender lyricism of ‘Es schauen die Blumen’.

Two sublime songs by Hindemith preface a second half devoted to ten of Schubert’s best-known vocal works, including settings of Shakespeare, Rückert, Hölty and Mayrhofer. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Christian Kargl

Marion Koell/Avi-Service for music

Song Recital Series

Maximilian Schmitt

Gerold Huber

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Tuesday 2 May 7.30 pm

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Sir András Schiff piano Bach Capriccio in B b BWV992 (Capriccio on the Departure of his Most Beloved Brother) Bartók 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm from Mikrokosmos Book VI Bach 4 Duettos from Clavier-Übung (Book III) BWV802– 805 Bartók Piano Sonata Janácˇek In the Mists Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Sir András Schiff offers a programme of true character pieces, works nourished by their association with individuals close to their composers, events or particular performers. In the Mists, for instance, was influenced by memories of Janácˇ ek’s deceased daughter, while Bartók wrote his 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm for the English pianist Harriet Cohen.

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Supported by an anonymous donor

Yutaka Suzuki

London Pianoforte Series

Sir András Schiff

Sir András Schiff Masterclass Sir András Schiff leads a masterclass working with outstanding students chosen by Sir András himself on repertoire closely related to the previous evening’s concert.

Nadia Romanini

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Wednesday 3 May 7.30 pm

Participants and their audience can expect to discover profound interpretative insights from one of the world’s great musicians, recently hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his ‘impeccable technique’, ‘intense concentration’ and ‘acute sense of being’.

This event will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval All seats £20

Supported by an anonymous donor

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Sir András Schiff

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Francesco Piemontesi piano Mozart 9 Variations on a Minuet by Duport K573; Piano Sonata in Bb K570; Piano Sonata in C K309; Piano Sonata in C K330; Piano Sonata in A minor K310

Benjamin Ealovega

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Thursday 4 May 7.30 pm

Francesco Piemontesi launched his complete cycle of Mozart’s piano sonatas at the end of last season, introducing his series by neatly dovetailing with the close of Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odyssey. The Italian pianist, universally recognised among today’s finest Mozarteans, opens his latest programme with the splendid Variations on a Minuet by Frederick the Great’s court cellist and continues with the composer’s penultimate sonata, a work considered by Alfred Einstein to be ‘perhaps the most completely rounded of them all’. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in E b K493 Schubert Allegro in A minor D947 ‘Lebensstürme’ Dvorˇák Piano Quartet in E b Op. 87

Benjamin Beilman

Wu Han and Alessio Bax join a trio of string players for what promises to be a celebration of the best in chamber music-making. Their programme gets underway with Mozart’s K493, a gem fashioned in Vienna in 1786 soon after the completion of Le nozze di Figaro, and prefaces Dvorˇák’s inspired Op. 87 with the imposing presence of Schubert’s late piano duet in A minor.

Anna-Lena Ahlstrm

Yura Lee

Jakob Koranyi Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Benjamin Beilman violin Yura Lee viola Jakob Koranyi cello Wu Han piano Alessio Bax piano

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Friday 5 May 7.00 pm NB starting time Giorgia Bertazzi

All seats £15 Wu Han

Alessio Bax

This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval

Chamber Music Season

Biber Sonata No. 6 in C minor C143; Mystery Sonata No. 1 ‘The Annunciation’ Buxtehude Trio Sonata in A minor BuxWV272 Schmelzer Sonata No. 3 in G minor from Sonatae Unarum Fidium Kühnel Sonata No. 7 in G Schmelzer Sonata No. 4 in D from Sonatae Unarum Fidium Music by two outstanding Austrian composers, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, sets the mood for the first of this season’s Wigmore Lates. Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo’s programme explores the powerful rhetoric of their violin sonatas together with other thrilling instrumental works from the seventeenth century.

Jonathan Cohen

Sophie Gent Gerald Collett

Jonathan Cohen harpsichord, organ Sophie Gent violin Jonathan Manson viola da gamba Thomas Dunford lute

Marco Borggreve

Arcangelo*

Marco Borggreve

Friday 5 May 10.00 pm

Marco Borggreve

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Francesco Piemontesi

All seats £15

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

Jonathan Manson

Thomas Dunford

Wigmore Lates /Arcangelo Baroque Ensemble in Residence

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Clara Mouriz

Nicky Spence Sussie Ahlburg

Schubert Gott im Ungewitter; Gott der Weltschöpfer; Mary Bevan Hymne an den Unendlichen; Die Sterne (D313); Idens Schwanenlied; Schwanengesang (D318); Luisens Antwort; Licht und Liebe; Morgenlied (D381); Abendlied (D382); An die Sonne (D439); Die Liebe; Abschied (D578); Die Geselligkeit (Lebenslust); Singübungen für zwei Stimmen; Kantate zum Geburtstag des Sängers Johann Michael Vogl; Des Tages Weihe (Schicksalslenker); Gebet; Der Tanz (D826)

Raphaëlle Photography

Jose Manuel Bielsa

Mary Bevan soprano Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Nicky Spence tenor Marcus Farnsworth baritone Joseph Middleton piano

Benjamin Ealovega

The Myrthen Ensemble

Victoria Cadisch

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Saturday 6 May 1.00 pm

Echoes of Bach and Handel sound at the opening of The Myrthen Ensemble’s Schubert programme. There are traces, too, of Beethoven Marcus Farnsworth Joseph Middleton in the quartet ‘Hymne an den Unendlichen’, a rousing setting of words

by Schiller. The ‘Morgenlied’ and its companion ‘Abendlied’, both written on the same day, appear to have been composed in February 1816, while Schubert was still working as a schoolteacher.

All seats £15

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

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Antti Jussi Savolainen

Karita Mattila soprano Ville Matvejeff piano

Lauri Eriksson

Saturday 6 May 7.30 pm

Brahms Zigeunerlieder Op. 103 Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Berg Vier Lieder Op. 2 Strauss Der Stern; Wiegenlied; Meinem Kinde; Ach Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten; Allerseelen; Cäcilie

With her irresistible onstage presence, dramatic persona and voice of jaw-dropping flexibility and beauty, Karita Mattila belongs to the Karita Mattila Ville Matvejeff company of today’s finest singers. The Finnish lyric soprano, among the great interpreters of Richard Strauss, prefaces a selection of the composer’s impassioned songs with Alban Berg’s innovative Vier Lieder Op. 2, works which stretch the bounds of tonality in search of heightened emotional expression.

She opens her recital with Brahms’s high-spirited Zigeunerlieder and Wagner’s sublime Wesendonck Lieder. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Song Recital Series

Saleem Ashkar piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 26 in E b Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’

Luidmila Jermies

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Sunday 7 May 11.30 am

Saleem Ashkar’s interpretations of the core German repertoire have won critical plaudits and the admiration of piano connoisseurs, not least for their sense of risk allied to clear-sighted understanding of form and phrasing.

His all-Beethoven programme moves from the fecund invention of the early Op. 10 No. 2 to the revolutionary fire of the ‘Appassionata’ sonata. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Saleem Ashkar

Sunday 7 May 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, discusses her residency and life as a performer ahead of the evening concert, alongside journalist and presenter Tom Service. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano CPE Bach Fantasie in F# minor Wq. 80 (arr. of Fantasia for keyboard solo Wq. 67) George Crumb Four Nocturnes Ligeti Hungarian Rock György Kurtág Tre pezzi Op. 14e Biber Sonata representativa for solo violin and continuo Pandolfi Mealli Violin Sonata Op. 3 No. 3 ‘La Melana’ Salvatore Sciarrino Capriccio No. 2 for solo violin Beethoven Scherzo from Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’ Vanessa Lann Springs Eternal Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 with improvised accompaniment

Marco Borggreve

Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Anthony Romaniuk

Convention is unlikely ever to obstruct Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s path. The violinist’s term as Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence continues with a typically bold and utterly engaging choice of works, set in train by the fantasy of CPE Bach’s imagination and fuelled throughout by the twin spirits of improvisation and originality. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series /Early Music and Baroque Series / Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Artist in Residence

Véronique Gens soprano Susan Manoff piano

Franck Juery

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Monday 8 May 1.00 pm

Hahn Néère; Trois jours de vendange Duparc Chanson triste; Romance de Mignon Chausson Le Charme; Les papillons; Hébé Hahn Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Le rossignol des lilas; A Chloris Chausson La chanson bien douce; Le temps des lilas Hahn Lydé; Tyndaris; Pholoé; Phyllis; Le printemps Elegant and expressive by turn, Reynaldo Hahn’s songs reflect the sophistication of the Caracas-born French composer’s personality. Véronique Gens, winner of the 2016 Gramophone Solo Vocal Award, Véronique Gens Susan Manoff and Susan Manoff evoke the world of Belle Époque Paris with help from Hahn and a selection of chansons by his older contemporaries Ernest Chausson and Henri Duparc.

All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists Clio Gould director, violin Schubert/Mahler String Quartet in D minor ‘Death and the Maiden’ (for string ensemble) Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op. 70

Hana Zushi-Rhodes

Monday 8 May 7.30 pm

Directed by Clio Gould, distinguished soloist and leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists comprises the finest young string players from the Royal Academy of Music. Their programme pairs Mahler’s shrewdly judged arrangement of Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’, created in 1896, with the folk-like charm and energy of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Tuesday 9 May 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

For Crying Out Loud!

Fitzroy Quartet Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment.

Benjamin Ealovega

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Clio Gould

Adults £7.50 (babies come free)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Tuesday 9 May 7.30 pm Kaupo Kikkas

Rosenblatt Recitals 2016/17

Lise Davidsen soprano James Baillieu piano Songs by Grieg Cherubini Dei tuoi figli la madre from Médée Songs by Sibelius Verdi Morró, ma prima in grazia from Un ballo in maschera Giordano La mamma morta from Andrea Chénier Mascagni Voi lo sapete from Cavalleria rusticana Songs by Johann Strauss Weber Wie nahte mir der schlummer … leise, leise from Der Freischütz Wagner Gebet from Tannhäuser

Lise Davidsen

James Baillieu

Lise Davidsen was urged to develop her voice as an operatic soprano whilst studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, a recommendation fully justified in the wake of a string of prestigious award wins, including the Audience Prize at Operalia 2015. Davidsen’s 2016/17 season includes anticipated debuts at Glyndebourne and Opernhaus Zürich.

‘Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, aged 28, is the real deal … she sealed her win with singing that was strong and technically flawless, and put her name at the top of the list of young singers of her generation.’ Financial Times ‘She shows … with a phenomenal, dramatic voice how she can sing such a difficult aria. She took the public immediately.’ Plácido Domingo £30 £26 £22 £18 £16 Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 3 April (Ivan Magrì & Iain Burnside) and 5 June (Nahuel Di Pierro & Alphonse Cemin)

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Wednesday 10 May 7.30 pm Sim Canetty-Clarke

Ian Bostridge tenor Lars Vogt piano Schubert Schwanengesang Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte

Neda Navaee

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Beethoven established the song cycle as a serious genre with the creation of An die ferne Geliebte in 1816.

Ian Bostridge and Lars Vogt present the work’s diverse reflections on love in company with the dramatic contrasts of Schubert’s settings of poems by Heine, Rellstab and Seidl, complete with the composer’s final song, written a month before his death in November 1828. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Ian Bostridge

Lars Vogt

Song Recital Series /Schubert: The Complete Songs Thurdsday 11 May 7.30 pm

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Chris Stock

Elias String Quartet Benjamin Frith piano Dvor˘ák String Quartet in E b Op. 51 Paul Newland New commission* (world première) Schumann Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44 *Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, Carnegie Hall, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Wigmore Hall’s commitment to contemporary music is clear in its programme of special commissions and first performances. Bracing Change: New String Benjamin Frith Commissions, a co-commissioning partnership with The Radcliffe Trust and NMC Recordings, has produced a succession of fine works since its launch in 2014, including scores by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Anthony Gilbert and Donnacha Dennehy. The series continues with a new piece for the Elias String Quartet

by Paul Newland, Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Trinity Laban. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

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

Benjamin Ealovega

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Elias String Quartet

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Joanna MacGregor piano ‘CANONS BURIED IN FLOWERS’: THE COMPLETE CHOPIN MAZURKAS

Pal Hansen

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Friday 12 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

Chopin Mazurkas (complete) Schumann called Chopin’s fifty-eight mazurkas ‘canons buried in flowers’, a synthesis of Polish folk culture, nostalgia, poetry and political defiance. Performed chronologically they portray a subtle and confessional diary of a transcendent, innovative composer. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

This concert will be approximately 3 hours in duration, including 2 intervals

London Pianoforte Series Saturday 13 May

TANSY DAVIES STUDY DAY Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music Clark Rundell, Orr Guy conductors

Rikard Österlund

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Joanna MacGregor

Once self-described in three words as ‘mercurial, stoical and giggly’, Tansy Davies’s music jolts and pulses, with a rhythmical, almost mechanical, edge. She draws on inspiration from architecture, often using the orchestra to build her structures, and it is this way of thinking that creates new worlds, bridging contemporary idioms such as jazz and rock.

This study day will feature chamber music and songs personally selected by the composer for performance by the students from the RNCM. 10.30 am Tansy Davies Forgotten Game 2 for oboe and piano; Loopholes and Lynchpins for solo piano; Aquatic for saxophone and percussion; Dark Ground for solo percussion

12 noon In conversation: a glimpse into the life and works of Tansy Davies

2.00 pm Tansy Davies grind show (electric) for chamber ensemble and electronics; Troubairitz for soprano and percussion; Iris for soprano saxophone and ensemble All tickets £5 concs £3 (each event) or Day ticket £10 concs £7

In partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Tansy Davies

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Saturday 13 May 7.30 pm Please note change of artist and programme

Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano Helmut Deutsch piano Schubert Dem Unendlichen; Im Walde; Suleika I; Atys; Die Sternennächte; Der Zwerg; Die Allmacht Strauss Lob des Leidens; Nur Muth!; Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne; Mein Herz ist stumm; Wer hat’s getan?; Winternacht; Aus den Liedern der Trauer; Winterweihe; Ein Obdach gegen Sturm und Regen; Nachtgang; Liebeshymnus; Freundliche Vision; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten Violet Urmana, accompanied by Helmut Deutsch, makes a highly anticipated return visit to Wigmore Hall for one of the highlights of Schubert: The Complete Songs. The phenomenal range and richness of the Lithuanian artist’s voice are ideally suited to the dramatic contrasts at work in her programme of Schubert and Strauss. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Christian Schneider

Shirley Suarez

Song Recital Series /Schubert: The Complete Songs

Violeta Urmana

Sunday 14 May 11.30 am

Grieg Elsk Op. 67 No. 5; Vond dag Op. 67 No. 7; Ved gjaetle-bekken Op. 67 No. 8 Sibelius Malinconia Op. 20 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Swedish cellist Jakob Koranyi, an ECHO Rising Star in 2011/12, has earned critical plaudits for the visionary nature of his interpretations and the breadth of his repertoire. He and Juho Pohjonen probe the deceptive simplicity of three songs from Grieg’s Haugtussa cycle before plunging into the turbulent emotional world of Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in D minor.

J Henry Fair

Jakob Koranyi cello Juho Pohjonen piano

Anna-Lena Ahlstrm

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Helmut Deutsch

Jakob Koranyi

Juho Pohjonen

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Mendelssohn Frühlingslied; Das erste Veilchen; Winterlied; Neue Liebe; Gruß!; Reiselied Korngold Angedenken; Aussicht; Das Mädchen; Der Friedensbote; Reiselied; Sangesmut; Vesper; Vom Berge; Die Geniale Wolf Er ist’s; Fußreise; Zitronenfalter im April; Auf einer Wanderung; Gebet; Lied eines Verliebten; Der Feuerreiter

Gregor Hohenberg

Simon Bode tenor Igor Levit piano

Kroeger Photography

Sunday 14 May 3.00 pm

An inspired mix of songs from Simon Bode brings together Mendelssohn’s romantic Op. 19a collection from the early Simon Bode Igor Levit 1830s with a selection of Korngold’s Eichendorff settings and Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder. The German tenor, who refined his craft as a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble, returns to Wigmore Hall with his regular duo partner Igor Levit.

All seats £15

Song Recital Series

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet

Ellen Appel

Sunday 14 May 7.30 pm

Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in Eb Op. 127 Beethoven bought an expensive hardbound book of manuscript paper in which to draft his first string quartet, later published as his Op. 18 No. 3. The young composer’s serious investment in the medium, also measurable in terms of time and creativity, remained high throughout his lifetime, as the Takács Quartet’s gripping programme of early, middle and late works shows. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Monday 15 May 1.00 pm

Tasmin Little violin John Lenehan piano

Paul Mitchell

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Takáca Quartet

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 Strauss Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18 Brahms wrote one of his most lyrical and radiant chamber works during a summer break in Switzerland in 1886.

The Violin Sonata No. 2, although concise, calls for great virtuosity and empathy from both participants. Long-time duo partners Tasmin Little and John Lenehan also explore the unrestrained romanticism of Strauss’s no less demanding Violin Sonata Op. 18.

All seats £15 Tasmin Little

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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John Lenehan

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet

Keith Saunders

Monday 15 May 7.30 pm

Beethoven String Quartet in B b Op. 18 No. 6; String Quartet in F Op. 135; String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ ‘Despite the good nature that prevails, Beethoven’s genius is in the last analysis serious,’ wrote ETA Hoffmann in a perceptive review of the composer’s Op. 70 piano trios. The point applies equally to the three works in the Takács Quartet’s concert, which counterpoise playfulness with profound reflections on the usually dark and hidden depths of human psychology.

Takács Quartet

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Marco Borggreve

Classical Opera Ian Page conductor Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord Soraya Mafi soprano

Sheila Rock

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Tuesday 16 May 7.30 pm

MOZART 250

Award-winning keyboard virtuoso Kristian Bezuidenhout and acclaimed soprano Soraya Mafi join Ian Page and Classical Opera for a fascinating programme of Mozart works dating from 1767. This concert is part of the company’s ground-breaking MOZART 250 project, a survey presented in chronological order of the composer’s life, works and influences.

Kristian Bezuidenhout Christina Haldane

Mozart Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in F K37; Recitative & Aria: A Berenice ... Sol nascente in Ian Page questo giorno; Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in Bb K39; Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D K40; Aria: Ein ergrimmter Löwe brüllet from Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots; Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in G K41

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series Wednesday 17 May 10.30 am – 1.30 pm

Dementia Awareness Week: Come and Sing

Rob Stothard

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Soraya Mafi

Isabelle Adams leads a day to celebrate the launch of our new community choir for families living with dementia. If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for a session exploring and creating music together followed by tea and coffee.

Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Wednesday 17 May 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Große Fuge Op. 133 In his book Beethoven for a Later Age, the Takács Quartet’s first violinist Edward Dusinberre describes the power of the Große Fuge and its razor-edged themes to ‘threaten and chase me … eroding sanity’. The monumental composition is performed here as the finale to the String Quartet in B flat, for which it was originally written.

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Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2016 /17 Wigmore Series

Robert Torres

Chamber Music Season

Takács Quartet

Marco Borggreve

Alison Balsom trumpet Lucy Crowe soprano The Balsom Ensemble

Jason Joyce

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Thursday 18 May 7.30 pm

BAROQUE DUET Programme to include: Bach Cantata: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen BWV51 Handel Eternal source of light divine Ode for The Birthday of Queen Anne HWV74; Let the bright Seraphim from Samson HWV57 Purcell Duets from The Indian Queen Z630

Alison Balsom

Lucy Crowe

Alison Balsom’s Wigmore Hall residency continues with a joyful celebration of music for trumpet and voice. She is joined by the charismatic Lucy Crowe in Bach’s only cantata for solo soprano and trumpet, and Handel’s exquisite ‘Eternal source of light divine’, written in honour of Queen Anne, one of England’s greatest patrons of the arts. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season/Early Music and Baroque Series

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Side by Side The Prince Consort and Musicians from the Guildhall School

Richard Ecclestone

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Friday 19 May 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Programme to include: Schumann Spanische Liebeslieder Op. 138 Cheryl Frances-Hoad Invoke Now the Angels

The Prince Consort is renowned for its imaginative programming, world-class performances and its original approach to commissioning new works. The ensemble is also passionate about supporting the development of the next generation of singers and pianists.

The Prince Consort

For this project, members of the ensemble have worked with students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama towards this performance, in which the students and ensemble perform side by side.

All seats £5

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Schubert Am See (D124); Die Nacht (D358); Gott im Frühlinge; An Chloen (D363) (fragment); Der gute Hirt; Alte Liebe rostet nie; Geheimnis; Schlaflied; ehnsucht (D516); Atys; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren

Barbara Aumüller

Julian Prégardien tenor Christoph Schnackertz piano

Clärchen & Hermann Baus

Friday 19 May 7.30 pm

BILDER AUS OSTEN Schubert Mahomets Gesang (D549) (fragment); Versunken; Geheimes; Sei mir gegrüßt; Dass sie hier gewesen; Im gegenwärtigen Vergangenes; Auf dem Strom

Julian Prégardien

Christoph Schnackertz

Heightened emotional states erupt throughout the first half of Julian Prégardien’s recital, disturbing the peace of ‘Die Nacht’ and the gentle simplicity of ‘Gott im Frühlinge’. The German tenor turns to the exoticism of distant lands, as evoked by Schubert’s settings of Goethe and Rückert, before unlocking the titanic spirit of the composer’s Beethoven-inspired ‘Auf dem Strom’. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Family Concert SEARCH FOR THE STARLIGHT SQUID For ages 5 plus 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!

This underwater journey features music from works

by Sibelius to sea shanties, and even a stormy piece created by you, the audience.

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Saturday 20 May 11.00 am – 12 noon

Children £8 Adults £10

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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

Evy Ottermans

Saturday 20 May 7.30 pm

Llyˆr Williams launched his latest complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas and major keyboard works at Wigmore Hall in October 2014.

The Welsh pianist’s series reaches its zenith with the composer’s final three sonatas, moving from the introspection of Op. 109 to the formal ingenuity and jaw-dropping invention of Op. 110 and the cosmic emotional and intellectual span of Op. 111. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

This concert will be approximately 70 minutes in duration, without an interval

London Pianoforte Series Sunday 21 May 11.30 am

Armida Quartet Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 33 No. 6 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80

Felix Broede

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Llyˆr Williams

Classical poise, contrapuntal logic and emotional turbulence coalesce in Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 6, the centrepiece of the Armida Quartet’s programme. The Berlin-based ensemble, BBC New Generation Artists from 2014–16, begins with the striking contrasts of Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue, another masterwork of stylistic synthesis, and concludes with Mendelssohn’s final string quartet, an impassioned response to his sister’s death.

Armida Quartet

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Christoph Pohl baritone Marcelo Amaral piano

René Limbecker

Sunday 21 May 3.00 pm

BALLADEN Liszt Der Fischerknabe; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Die Loreley Schubert Der Jüngling am Bache (D638); Der Taucher Loewe Wandrers Nachtlied II; Erlkönig Wolf Ganymed; Der Rattenfänger Christoph Pohl began his singing career as a member of the Hanover Boys’ Choir. The German baritone has achieved international acclaim as a member of the Christoph Pohl Marcelo Amaral Semperoper Dresden ensemble in roles as diverse as Mozart’s Count Almaviva, Rossini’s Figaro and Wagner’s Wolfram. Following the success of his Royal Opera House debut in Georg Friedrich Haas’s Morgen und Abend in 2015, Pohl marks his first appearance at Wigmore Hall with a compelling programme of songs to poetry by Goethe, Heine and Schiller.

All seats £15

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Jerusalem Quartet Dvorˇák Terzetto in C Op. 74 Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1 in B minor Op. 50 Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106

Felix Broede

Sunday 21 May 7.30 pm

Dvorˇák’s Terzetto for two violins and viola, written within a week’s span in 1887, provides a novel opening for a string quartet concert.

The work’s folk-like tunes ideally complement the melodious classicism of Prokofiev’s First String Quartet, commissioned by the Washington Library of Congress in 1930. The Jerusalem Quartet concludes with Dvorˇák’s sonorous Op. 106, a work of dazzling inventive genius. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

Chamber Music Season

Jerusalem Quartet

Monday 22 May 1.00 pm

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

Elizabeth Kenny lute Lawes Royall Consort No. 10 in Bb Locke Consort of 4 Parts No. 5 in G minor Lawes Royall Consort No. 5 in D Locke The Flat Consort ‘for my cousin Kemble’ Lawes Royall Consort No. 6 in D William Lawes died in September 1645 fighting on the royalist side during the Siege of Chester. ‘Will Lawes was slain by those whose wills were laws’, wrote one anti-Puritan poet, and many other fine literary laments testify to the admiration in which the composer was held at court. Phantasm and Elizabeth Kenny garnered rave reviews with their recording of the cavalier composer’s Royal Consorts. Their lunchtime programme also includes works by Matthew Locke, England’s leading composer at the time of the Restoration. £15 concs £13

Marco Borggreve

Richard Haughton

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Phantasm

Elizabeth Kenny

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Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Schubert Gruppe aus dem Tartarus; An die Musik; An die Leier Loewe Erlkönig; Tom der Reimer Ibert Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte Quilter Three Shakespeare Songs Glazunov Chant du ménéstrel Edwin Hillier New work (world première) Chopin Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C

Kirill Bashkirov

Jamal Aliyev cello Maria Tarasewicz piano Nicholas Mogg baritone Jâms Coleman piano

Jamal Aliyev

Maria Tarasewicz

Nicholas Mogg

Jaˆms Coleman

Gilles Abegg

The Monday Platform

Graham Brandon

Monday 22 May 7.30 pm

Watch Azerbaijani cellist Jamal Aliyev perform classic works including Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in D minor. Jamal is a BBC Introducing Classical Artist.

‘He is already a highly accomplished cellist. I predict a bright future for him...’ Steven Isserlis, 2014 Baritone Nicholas Mogg, accompanied by Welsh pianist Jâms Coleman, will perform German Lieder, as well as several French and English songs. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10

Presented by The Musicians’ Company Concerts & Concordia Foundation Artists Fund

Voiceworks A CONCERT OF NEW WORKS FOR VOICE Now in its eleventh year, Voiceworks is a unique collaboration between writers, composers, singers and instrumentalists from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, brought together by Wigmore Hall Learning.

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Tuesday 23 May 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

The Endellion String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 Webern Fünf Sätze Op. 5 Mozart String Quartet in D K575 ‘Prussian’ Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2

Eric Richmond

Tuesday 23 May 7.30 pm

Haydn’s Op. 54 No. 2 contains a most extraordinary slow movement inspired by melismatic, improvised gypsy violin music. Webern’s extremely affecting short pieces, meanwhile, compress the emotions of a symphony into a few minutes, whereas Mozart’s K575 is hallmarked by its expansive melodious warmth and relaxation. Wistful, heartfelt beauty, perhaps inspired by Schubert, belongs to Brahms’s A minor String Quartet. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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The Endellion String Quartet

Nikolai Lugansky piano Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op. 37b Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in Ab Op. 61 Chopin Mazurkas: in B Op. 56 No. 1; in Db Op. 30 No. 3; in Ab Op. 41 No. 3; in C# minor Op. 50 No. 3 Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52

Jean-Baptiste Millot

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Wednesday 24 May 7.30 pm

Known for his fearless virtuosity, artistic refinement and strikingly individual musicianship, Nikolai Lugansky stands at the height of his powers. His interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons, hailed by The New York Times for its entrancing mix of ‘roomy expressive freedom’ and ‘textural clarity’, is presented in company with an equally rich selection of characterful Chopin. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Nikolai Lugansky

London Pianoforte Series

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Thursday 25 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm

YCAT Public Final Auditions 2017 YOUNG CLASSICAL ARTISTS TRUST (YCAT): THE DESTINATION POINT FOR EMERGING TALENT YCAT Artists are selected through a rigorous annual auditions process. In this third and final round, outstanding young soloists and chamber ensembles, selected from over 100 applicants in the preliminary rounds, audition before a panel of distinguished judges. Join YCAT in celebrating the very best emerging talent in the UK at this unique event.

Previous artists include Ian Bostridge, Alison Balsom, Joanna MacGregor and the Heath, Doric and Belcea quartets. £10 concs £8 per session or £16 for both sessions

YCAT is grateful for support from the Fresh Leaf Charitable Foundation, the International Music and Art Foundation, the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake for this series.

Escher String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 76 No. 6 Bartók String Quartet No. 3 BB93 Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27

Sophie Zhai

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Friday 26 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

Musical excellence and its pursuit drove Grieg as he composed his String Quartet in G minor, leading him to quote from one of his own most tuneful songs and emulate the energy of Norwegian folk music. The Escher String Quartet opens with two works touched by contrapuntal echoes of the past yet strikingly innovative in nature. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

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Escher String Quartet

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

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Friday 26 May 10.00 pm

Danish String Quartet NORDIC FOLK MUSIC Ancient ancestral spirits and the intoxicating sounds of Nordic folk music flow through this hour-long late date with the Danish String Quartet, based on material from the group’s latest album. The ensemble, winner of the eleventh London International String Quartet Competition in 2009, recently featured as BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists and concluded a three-year spell with Lincoln Center’s prestigious CMS Two Program.

All seats £15

Caroline Bittencourt

Wigmore Lates

Danish String Quartet

Pavel Kolesnikov piano

Colin Way

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Saturday 27 May 7.30 pm

CPE Bach Andante con tenerezza from Sonata in A Wq. 65/32 CPE Bach Sonata in A Wq. 55/4 Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D537 Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26; Nachtstücke Op. 23 Pavel Kolesnikov made his BBC Proms debut with a thrilling account of Tchaikovsky’s monumental Second Piano Concerto, and soon earned further rave reviews for his second recording for Hyperion, an album of Chopin’s complete Mazurkas. The Russian pianist explores the fantasy worlds of CPE Bach and Schumann together with the song-without-words that is Schubert’s A minor Sonata. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series Pavel Kolesnikov

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Sunday 28 May 11.30 am

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Schumann Quartet Mozart String Quartet in F K590 ‘Prussian’ Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1 The Schumann Quartet embraces the notion that uncertainty, life’s only certainty, supplies the ground on which every memorable performance stands. The attitude is open to the excitement and spontaneity of music made in the moment: ‘we really want to take things to extremes’, observes one of the quartet’s three Schumann brothers. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Kaupo Kikkas

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Schumann Quartet

Schumann Aufträge; Röselein, Röselein!; Lied der Suleika; Aus den östlichen Rosen; Liebeslied Ullmann 3 Sonnets Op. 29 Schumann Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land?

Ullmann 6 Sonnets Op. 34 Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 and Requiem

Marion Koell/Avi-Service for music

Christina Landshamer soprano Gerold Huber piano

Marco Borggreve

Sunday 28 May 7.30 pm

Poetry of rich expressivity conditions each song in Christina Landshamer’s Wigmore Hall recital. The Munich-born soprano made her international breakthrough in 2009 in Christina Landshamer Gerold Huber Haydn’s Il mondo della luna under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and has secured an enviable reputation since as an artist equally at home in opera, oratorio and song. Her programme includes Schumann’s settings of poems from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister and Victor Ullmann’s cycles of sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rilke and Louise Labé, an extraordinary figure of the French Renaissance. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

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Zemlinsky Quartet

Tomas Bican

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Monday 29 May 1.00 pm

Zemlinsky String Quartet No. 1 in A Op. 4 Janácˇek Mládi (arr. Kryštof Marˇatka) Prague-born, Paris-based composer Kryštof Marˇatka, who studied with Petr Eben at the Prague Conservatory, has made a high-spirited arrangement of Janácˇek’s wind sextet Mládí for string quartet.

The four-movement piece complements the rhythmic energy, folk-like boldness and passion of Zemlinsky’s First String Quartet of 1896, a ravishing masterwork of late Romantic music. £15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Zemlinsky Quartet

Monday 29 May 7.30 pm

Royal Academy of Music Patrons Award Winner’s Recital 2017

Silvija Šcˇerbavicˇiu¯te˙ flute Małgorzata Garstka piano Luke Hsu violin Bach Flute Sonata in A BWV1032 Biber Passacaglia ‘The Guardian Angel’ Bartók Sonata for solo violin BB124 Reinecke Sonata ‘Undine’ Op. 167 Dutilleux Sonatine for flute and piano Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004

Silvija Šcˇerbavicˇiu¯te˙

Małgorzata Garstka

Luke Hsu

Thanks to the support of the Royal Academy of Music’s Patrons, this award provides a showcase opportunity for Academy students. The flautist Silvija Šcˇerbavicˇiu¯te˙ and violinist Luke Hsu, are the proud joint recipients of the Patrons’ Award for 2017, having competed with a whole host of Academy students for this highly-prized Wigmore Hall recital.

All seats £15 £5 for staff and students of the Royal Academy of Music Friends of the Royal Academy of Music

Cavendish Winds FAMILY DAY: CHAMBER CHALLENGE For ages 5 plus Join music leader Julian West and the Wigmore Hall Learning/Open Academy Fellowship Ensemble, Cavendish Winds, on a marvellous music-making adventure. Take your seat within your very own chamber ensemble, create your own brand new pieces of music and perform together on the Wigmore Hall stage.

Children £10 Adults £15

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Tuesday 30 May 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Stile Antico ‘DIVINE CONSOLATIONS’: MUSIC OF REFLECTION AND HOPE BY BACH AND HIS PREDECESSORS

Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 30 May 7.30 pm

Lassus Justorum animae Schütz Musicalische Exequien Handl Ecce quomodo moritur justus Hassler Ego sum resurrectio Daser Media Vita Knöfel In te Domine speravi Bach Motet: Jesu, meine Freude BWV227 Stile Antico, among the world’s finest vocal ensembles, explores music of mourning and commemoration from Austria and Germany in its latest Wigmore Hall concert. The journey begins with a late motet by the remarkably prolific, consistently inventive Lassus, who finished his illustrious career as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Bavaria. It continues with Schütz’s sublime Musicalische Exequien, written during the Thirty Years War for the funeral of Prince Heinrich of Reuss, and finally arrives at Bach’s peerless funeral motet for the wife of Leipzig’s postmaster. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Christopher Maltman baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Russell Duncan

Wednesday 31 May 7.30 pm Pia Clodi

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Poulenc Le bestiaire Schumann Die Löwenbraut; Der Handschuh Ravel Histoires naturelles Reger 6 Lieder from Schlichte Weisen: Zwei Mäuschen; Die fünf Hühnerchen; Furchthäschen; Der Igel; Die Bienen; Mausefangen Chabrier Ballade des gros dindons; Villanelle des petits canards; Les cigales Wolf Storchenbotschaft; Der Schwalben Heimkehr; Der Knabe und das Immlein; Der Rattenfänger Flanders & Swann The Armadillo; The Warthog; The Gnu Christopher Maltman

Malcolm Martineau

In the two decades since winning the Lieder Prize at the 1997 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Christopher Maltman has risen to the top of his profession.

The British baritone, whose last Wigmore Hall recital inspired a five-star review from the Guardian, is joined by regular duo partner Malcolm Martineau for an exploration of the animal kingdom through song. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Sponsored by David Moldon in memory of his brother Peter L. Moldon Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.

To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

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How to get to Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM, HonFRIAM The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity No. 1024838 Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s West End and is easily accessible by public transport or car.

Tubes Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines) tube stations are both close by.

Buses A large number of buses travel along Oxford Street, which is approximately five minutes walk from Wigmore Hall.

Car Parking There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas.

Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a five-minute walk from the Hall.

Wigmore Hall par ticipates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their parking. Please contact the box office for further details or visit our website.

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

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Benjamin Ealovega

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