Wigmore Hall Concert Diary NOVEMBER 2013
Julia Fischer Inside: Natalie Clein • EXAUDI Werner Güra • Marc-André Hamelin Wolfgang Holzmair • Dame Felicity Lott Nash Ensemble • András Schiff Takács Quartet • Fabio Zanon And many more
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FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
£3
Pre-Concert Talk David Nice explores the connections between Britten and Shostakovich. FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
£15 £20 £25 £30 Roland Knapp
Belcea Quartet Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 64 No. 6 Britten String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 25 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 Three extraordinary works form the Belcea Quartet’s programme. The heart-breaking intensity of Shostakovich’s third string quartet stems from the tragedy of Stalin’s Great Terror and the horrors of the Second World War. It stands in company here with the last of Haydn’s Op. 64 quartets, first performed in London in 1791, and one of the Belcea’s signature works, Britten’s eloquent first string quartet.
Belcea Quartet
SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Season
Julian Anderson Composer in Residence See page 4 for full details £12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice
2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition Winners’ Concert
Arcadia Quartet
Marion Gravrand
SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert
Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Formed in 2006 at the Music Academy in the Romanian city of Cluj, the Arcadia Quartet captured hearts and minds as winners of the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition. They return for a Coffee Concert built around two mature masterworks, dazzlingly inventive compositions sure to reveal the artistry of these captivating performers. CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net
Arcadia Quartet
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Julian Anderson, Wigmore Hall’s second ever Composer in Residence, began composing at the age of eleven, at first as a way of avoiding playing football. He was soon able to imagine complete works and write them down. ‘The major influences on my musical development,’ he notes, ‘include Olivier Messiaen, Gregorian chant, the Blues and the sound of bells.’
Maurice Foxall
SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER – JULIAN ANDERSON COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE
He has been described by The Times as ‘a composer to cherish’ and by the Evening Standard as ‘one of the finest composers of his generation’. Students come from all corners of the world to study with him at the Guildhall School of Music; his list of forthcoming performances and commissions, meanwhile, underlines the international profile and significance of his work. Julian Anderson’s strikingly inventive music is the latest focus of a Wigmore Hall Composer Day, presented complete with a world première, a talk from the composer himself and performances by, among others, Cédric Tiberghien, the Aurora Orchestra, Adam Walker and Claire Booth. 1.00 pm
6.00 pm
Claire Booth soprano Thomas Gould violin Paul Silverthorne viola Adam Walker flute Mark Simpson clarinet Cédric Tiberghien piano Nicholas Collon conductor
Pre-Concert Talk
Julian Anderson Prayer for solo viola Oliver Knussen 4 Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke Op. 23 Julian Anderson Four Piano Studies; Sea Drift; The Colour of Pomegranates Grisey Anubis-nout George Benjamin Three Miniatures for solo violin Julian Anderson The Bearded Lady
Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor András Keller violin
£12.50 concessions £10 This concert will be approximately 1 hour 45 minutes in duration, with an interval
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
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Julian Anderson
Julian Anderson introduces the evening concert which includes the world première of his work Another Prayer. £3
Wigmore Hall Learning Event 7.30 pm
Julian Anderson Another Prayer (world première) Hans Abrahamsen Walden Julian Anderson Tiramisu Salvatore Sciarrino ... da un divertimento Julian Anderson The Comedy of Change £15 £20 £25 £30
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
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SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
£15 £20 £25 £30 Neil Muir
Xuefei Yang guitar Britten Courtly Dances from Gloriana (arr. Xuefei Yang) Schubert Songs (arr. J K Mertz) Debussy La fille aux cheveux de lin (arr. X Yang) Falla Homenaje: pièce de guitare écrite pour ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’; Spanish Dance No. 1 (arr. Xuefei Yang) Chen Yi New work (world première)* Walton 5 Bagatelles Henze Drei Tentos Ginastera Sonata for solo guitar Op. 47 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Over the past decade, Xuefei Yang has established her place among the world’s finest instrumentalists. Xuefei Yang Her interpretations combine technical excellence with compelling spontaneity and deep spiritual immersion in the soundworld of each composition. This programme ranges from subtle arrangements of familiar piano pieces and songs to such outstanding original guitar works as Walton’s flamboyant Five Bagatelles and Ginastera’s sonata. Contemporary Music Series MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER 1.00 PM BBC Lunchtime Concert
Haydn Piano Trio in E b HXV:10 Dvorˇák Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 Described by Classical Source as ‘storytellers and musical conversationalists in the finest tradition of elevated musicianship and ensemble playing’, the ATOS Trio marks its tenth anniversary with a delightful choice of music. This BBC Lunchtime Concert includes Haydn’s Piano Trio in E flat of 1785, a paragon of thematic invention and development, and Dvorˇák’s expressively vivid and dramatic F minor piano trio.
Steven Haberland
ATOS Trio
£12.50 concessions £10
ATOS Trio
MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series
Marc-André Hamelin marks his return to Wigmore Hall with the London première of one of his own compositions, presenting it as companion piece to Medtner’s Sonata in E minor ‘Night Wind’, an epic attempt to touch the primeval order behind the chaos of existence. Hamelin’s musical passions and personal interests are reflected in his decision to twin excerpts from Janác˘ek’s On an overgrown path with the phantasmagorical twists and turns of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit.
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Marc -André Hamelin piano Marc-André Hamelin Barcarolle (London première) Medtner Piano Sonata in E minor Op. 25 No. 2 ‘Night Wind’ Janácˇek On an overgrown path (excerpts) Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
£15 £20 £25 £30
Marc-André Hamelin
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TUESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 1.00 PM YCAT Lunchtime Series 2013/ 14
Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Debussy Chansons de Bilitis English Songs In 2011 Anna Huntley won the Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Voice Fellowship at the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition and Third Prize at the Das Lied Competition in Berlin. This year she appears at the Spitalfields, Brighton and Bath Festivals and Leeds Lieder with Graham Johnson and James Baillieu, and makes her debut with Welsh National Opera.
Benjamin Harte
Benjamin Harte
£8 concessions £6
Anna Huntley
James Baillieu
Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490) YCAT is grateful for support from the Paul Woodhouse Fund and the Anthony Nesbitt Fund for this series
TUESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Benjamin Harte
Kate Valentine soprano Helen Sherman mezzo-soprano Luis Gomes tenor Ben McAteer baritone John Reid piano
Sussie Ahlburg
Samling Scholars
£15 £20 £25 £30
Sir Thomas Allen baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Samling Showcase Kate Valentine
Luis Gomes
Helen Sherman Benjamin Harte
Programme to include: Copland 12 poems of Emily Dickinson (a selection) Mahler Das irdische Leben and Urlicht from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Ginastera Cinco canciones populares argentinas (a selection) Vaughan Williams Silent Noon; The Water Mill; Linden Lea
Samling connects the best young professional singers and pianists with some of the world’s greatest classical artists through its international masterclass programme, developing excellence in technique, artistry and performance. This concert trains the spotlight on some of classical music’s rising stars and also features Samling Patrons Sir Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau, who have been closely involved in Samling’s work since its creation.
Ben McAteer
John Reid
‘Samling ... long may it continue. It’s just exactly what young singers need. A terrific thing’ Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3 In Tune, December 2011 Dine with the artists There are a limited number of tickets for a special post-concert dinner with the artists. This includes a three-course dinner, wine and coffee in the Bechstein Room. Tickets are priced £125 each and are available exclusively from Samling on 01434 602885 or by email to enquiries@samling.org.uk
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WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 11.00 AM – 12 NOON Wigmore Hall Learning Event
£2.50
Arcadia Quartet GCSE and A-Levels Schools Concert Dynamic winners of the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition, the Arcadia Quartet performs a diverse programme which includes works by Haydn (featured on the AQA GCSE syllabus) and Debussy (AQA A-Level Music in Context). Presenter Rachel Leach takes you behind the music in this interactive concert, offering new insights into the structure and context of the pieces. Supported by a teachers’ resource pack linked to the GCSE and A-Level curriculum. Wigmore Hall’s Schools Programme is supported by The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust and The Monument Trust
Arcadia Quartet
WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
£3
Pre-Concert Talk EXAUDI director James Weeks introduces the evening programme. WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series
EXAUDI; James Weeks
£15 £20 £25 £30
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O tenebroso giorno – Gesualdo then and now Gesualdo Madrigals: Itene, o miei sospiri; Se piange, ohime; Moro, lasso; Dolcissima mia vita; O dolorosa gioia; Tu piangi, o Filli mia; Deh, come un invan sospiro; O tenebroso giorno New works by Michael Finnissy *, Christopher Fox* and Stefano Gervasoni * * Co-commissioned by EXAUDI and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
EXAUDI
Pinpoint accuracy and emotional engagement were among the qualities that hooked critics and audience alike when EXAUDI celebrated its tenth anniversary in style at Wigmore Hall last October. The vocal ensemble’s mighty powers of persuasion extend back to the world of early music and inhabit the most complex and inventive of contemporary works, many of the latter written for the group and its director James Weeks. EXAUDI’s artistry, founded on an unshakeable commitment to excellence and musical adventure, owes its unforgettable force to the individual brilliance of its members. Contemporary Music Series
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THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Rosenblatt Recitals
£12 £16 £22 £26
Giorgio Berrugi tenor Eytan Pessen piano Donizetti Quanto è bella quanto è cara (L’elisir d’amore) Bellini Dolente immagine di Fille mia; Malinconia ninfa Respighi O falce di luna calante; Nevicata; Nebbie Henze Aggio saputo ca la morte vene Verdi A toi que j’ai chérie (Les vêpres siciliennes) Gounod Le soir Fauré Après un rêve Duparc Phidylé Cilea È la solita storia del pastore (L’arlesiana) Anon. Quarto Canciones en Ladino (Four Spanish-Hebrew Songs) Puccini E lucevan le stele (Tosca)
Giorgio Berrugi
Eytan Pessen
‘Berrugi sang with real tenderness and splendid diction revealing real personality in his voice.’ Seen and Heard International Tenor Giorgio Berrugi is renowned on the international opera scene for his refined interpretations of Italian repertoire. Rosenblatt Recitals welcomes him for his London recital debut where he presents a programme of songs and arias by compatriots Donizetti, Bellini, Respighi, Verdi, Cilea, Puccini and others. Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 16 September (Celso Albelo), 21 October (Angel Blue) and 9 January (Rosa Feola). See Wigmore Hall website for more details. All seats £10
FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER 1.00 PM – 4.00 PM
Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards 2013 Young singers aged 22–30 compete for prizes totalling in excess of £5,000 in the final of this year’s Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards presented by Jackdaws Music Education Trust. Each finalist will sing a programme including works by Handel and Peter Wishart as well as a piece of their own choice. This year’s judging panel is Dame Felicity Lott, Ian Partridge CBE and Malcolm Martineau, chaired by Jackdaws Artistic Director, Saffron van Zwanenberg. Promoted by Jackdaws Music Education Trust Sponsored by Penelope Davies and The Mercers’ Company Maureen Lehane
FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
Since making her debut in the early 1970s, Grammy Award-winning viola player Kim Kashkashian has worked tirelessly to expand and deepen her instrument’s repertoire, commissioning many new scores. Joined by her long-standing duo partner, the Kim Kashkashian renowned keyboard player and scholar Robert Levin, this recital pairs two great sonatas with seductive arrangements of music by the Argentine composers Ginastera and López Buchardo.
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Ascherman
Steve Riskind
Kim Kashkashian viola Robert Levin piano Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 Ginastera Lieder (arr. for viola and piano) López Buchardo Lieder (arr. for viola and piano) Brahms Viola Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1
£15 £20 £25 £30
Robert Levin
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SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
£3
Pre-Concert Talk Michael Berkeley in conversation with Edward Seckerson introducing the Nash Ensemble’s American Series. Nash Ensemble American Series SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
Sussie Ahlburg
Clive Barda
Nash Ensemble Ian Brown piano Simon Crawford-Phillips piano
Hanya Chlala/ ArenaPAL
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
£15 £20 £25 £30
European Composers in the USA Bartók Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Op. 45 for two pianos Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’
Nash Ensemble
Ian Brown
Simon Crawford-Phillips
This intriguing programme begins with two works written by distinguished immigrants to the USA within a couple of years: Bartók’s vivid Contrasts of 1938, and Rachmaninov’s masterly Symphonic Dances of 1940 in its original two-piano version. Then come two works by earlier visitors: a prophetic student piece by Mahler, and the popular quartet Dvorˇák wrote during his stay. Nash Ensemble American Series
Julian Bliss clarinet Robert Bottriell piano Françaix Tema con variazioni Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Brahms Wie Melodien zieht es mir Op. 105 No. 1 (arr. J Bliss) Chopin Nocturne in E b Op. 9 No. 2 (arr. J Bliss) Prokofiev Sonata in D Op. 94 (arr. J Bliss)
£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice Thomas Rabsch
SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert
Armed with an exceptional imagination, divine technical abilities and a true artist’s Julian Bliss Robert Bottriell devotion to beauty and truth, Julian Bliss stands among the finest performers of his generation. The British clarinettist, born in 1989, returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme crowned by his arrangement of Prokofiev’s wartime Sonata Op. 94, originally written for flute in 1942 and refashioned for violin the following year.
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SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Peter Smith
Takács Quartet; Lawrence Power viola
Jack Liebeck
Wigmore Hall Associate Artists
£15 £20 £25 £30
Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my Life’ Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Dvorˇák String Quintet in E b Op. 97 Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists direct their deep knowledge of Czech music to a trio of essential classics, works fashioned by their composers with insights gathered from Lawrence Power Takács Quartet intense personal experience. Janácˇek’s second string quartet, completed seven months before his death in 1928, reflects its 74-year-old creator’s genuine love for Kamila Stösslová, a married woman half his age. CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net
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MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Takács Quartet
Keith Saunders
Wigmore Hall Associate Artists
£12.50 concessions £10
Mozart String Quartet in E b K428 Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Beethoven produced six extraordinary new quartets, the String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 among them, between October 1798 and the autumn of 1800. The Takács Quartet here sets Beethoven’s complex score alongside the Mozart quartet composed in 18th-century Vienna. Takács Quartet
MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM The Monday Platform
£10 £12 £16 £18
Joo Yeon Sir violin Irina Andrievsky piano Ella Rundle cello Richard Uttley piano Jubilee String Quartet Ysaÿe Poème élégiaque Op. 12 Milhaud Cinéma-Fantaisie d’après ‘Le Bœuf sur le toit’ Op. 58b Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Fauré Romance Op. 69 Chopin Introduction et polonaise brillante in C Op. 3 Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94
Joo Yeon Sir
Ella Rundle
The artists appearing in this concert were chosen by audition earlier in 2013 to join the Tillett Trust’s Young Artists Platform, a scheme which seeks to introduce outstanding young performers to concert promoters and audiences of music lovers in London and around the UK. Friends of Young Artists Platform Supported by the Tillett Trust & Milton Grundy Foundation Jubilee String Quartet
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TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
The Jerusalem Quartet begins a Season-long exploration of the Russian composer’s fifteen string quartets, intimate works in which Shostakovich felt free to reveal aspects of his personality, autobiographical ruminations and musical ideas that would have fallen foul of Soviet dogma if paraded in compositions of a more ‘public’ nature (see also 14 & 17 November).
Jo Schwartz
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49; Two pieces for string quartet: Elegy and Polka; Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57
Felix Broede
Jerusalem Quartet; Elisabeth Leonskaja piano
£15 £20 £25 £30
Jerusalem Quartet
Elisabeth Leonskaja
The Jerusalem Quartet’s Shostakovich Cycle is sponsored by the Shostakovich Syndicate: Gwen and Stanley Burnton, Michael and Licia Crystal, David and Louise Kaye and Joe and Lucy Smouha
Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich Cycle WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 11.00 AM – 11.45 AM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
For Crying Out Loud! For parents and babies up to 1 year old A highly popular programme for new parents and their babies, with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. Each lasting 45 minutes, parents can enjoy a programme of beautiful chamber music in a calm and accommodating environment. Although the music will be appropriate for babies, these concerts are introduced for parents and are not interactive. WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
Tartini Sonata in G minor ‘The Devil’s Trill’ Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F (1838) Sarasate Malagueña y Habanera Op. 21; Romanza andaluza y jota navarra Op. 22; Playera y zapateado Op. 23; Caprice basque Op. 24 Ravel Tzigane
£15 £20 £25 £30 Decca/ Uwe Arens
Julia Fischer violin Milana Chernyavska piano
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
£6 per adult – babies come for free
Virtuosity and lyricism share centre stage in Julia Fischer’s imaginatively conceived programme. She begins with Tartini’s fiendishly difficult Sonata in G minor, reportedly inspired by a dream in which the Devil invited the composer to become Julia Fischer Milana Chernyavska his servant. There’s more demonic energy at play in works by Sarasate and Ravel’s Tzigane, counterbalanced by the soulful beauty of the slow movement of Mendelssohn’s F major violin sonata. Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2013/14 Wigmore Series
Julia Fischer ‘Perspectives’
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THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER 11.00 AM – 5.00 PM
Final of the Jaques Samuel Pianos Intercollegiate Piano Competition Four finalists, one from each of the London music colleges – Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance – will each perform a 30 –35 minute programme including the compulsory work: Bach’s Aria from Goldberg Variations BWV988. The remainder of the programme is of the candidate’s own choice. Sponsored by Fazioli and S.W. Mitchell Capital LLP
THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68; String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 The Jerusalem Quartet’s players are connected body and soul to the spirit of Shostakovich’s music. Their empathy for the composer’s troubled life and times and the cathartic nature of his quartets guide interpretations that reach deep beneath the surface of each piece.
Marco Borggreve
£15 £20 £25 £30
The Jerusalem Quartet’s Shostakovich Cycle is sponsored by the Shostakovich Syndicate: Gwen and Stanley Burnton, Michael and Licia Crystal, David and Louise Kaye and Joe and Lucy Smouha
Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich Cycle
£15 £25 £35 £45 including a glass of champagne at the interval
Dame Felicity Lott Farewell Recital
Dame Felicity Lott soprano Graham Johnson piano Schumann Widmung; Liebeslied; Meine Rose; Singet nicht in Trauertönen Wolf 4 Lieder from Italienisches Liederbuch; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land Strauss Das Rosenband; Ruhe, meine Seele; Ach, was Kummer, Qual und Schmerzen; Morgen Bridge Go not happy day; When you are old Britten Fish in the unruffled lakes; O Waly, Waly; Quand j’étais chez mon père Bizet Guitare Bernard Ça fait peur aux oiseaux Yvain Je chante la nuit Mireille Tant pis pour la rime Offenbach Dites-lui; Ah, que j’aime les militaires!
Trevor Leighton
FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series
Jerusalem Quartet
Dame Felicity Lott
Connoisseurs of fine singing took note when a young soprano made her Wigmore Hall debut in 1975. Felicity Lott, accompanied by her friend Graham Johnson, immediately connected with the Hall’s audience. Over the past four decades, Dame Felicity’s glittering career has included many exceptional performances at the Hall, recognised in 2010 with the award of the prestigious Wigmore Hall Medal. This programme reflects the warmth, charm, humour and humanity of one of Britain’s best-loved artists. This will be Dame Felicity’s final solo recital but not necessarily her last appearance on the Wigmore Hall stage. Proceeds to the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund All monies raised will be matched by Arts Council England
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SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER 3.00 PM – 4.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event Stuart Dreghorn
Brass Jaw
£7 Adults £5 Children
Jazz Unravelled
Family Concert For age 5 plus Brass Jaw brings its trademark energy, drive and humour to a family audience in this interactive concert, which unravels and explains how jazz is put together, using a unique mixture of jazz tradition and exciting new music. In partnership with London Jazz Festival Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust
Brass Jaw
SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Wolfgang Holzmair Farewell Recital
Wolfgang Holzmair baritone Imogen Cooper piano Schubert Heliopolis II; Philoktet; Der entsühnte Orest; Atys; Fahrt zum Hades; Freiwilliges Versinken; Der zürnenden Diana; Am Strome; Wie Ulfru fischt; Auf der Donau; Der Schiffer (D536); Einsamkeit; Die Sternennächte; Trost; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Auflösung
Ernest W. Gruber
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Since making his Wigmore Hall debut and effectively launching his international career in 1989, Wolfgang Holzmair has become a cherished member of the Hall’s great family of artists. The Austrian Wolfgang Holzmair baritone returns with one of his closest artistic collaborators, Imogen Cooper, to reflect on an artistic lifetime’s association with the songs of Franz Schubert. Always alive to expressive nuance and shades of emotion, their partnership offers an unmissable opportunity to experience the mature interpretative thoughts of two peerless musicians. £12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice
Natalie Clein cello Tamara Stefanovich piano Kodály Sonatina György Kurtág A selection from Signs, Games and Messages for solo cello Janácˇek Pohádka Bartók Elle est morte (Lento funèbre) from Fourteen Bagatelles Op. 6 for solo piano Lutosl´awski Grave (Metamorphoses) Schoenberg 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 (a selection) Webern Drei kleine Stücke Op. 11 Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor
Frank Alexander Rümmele
SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert
Natalie Clein, who captivated the nation almost twenty years ago as winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, directs unwavering Natalie Clein Tamara Stefanovich concentration and commitment into every performance. Her ‘mesmerising’ artistry has been praised by The Times, while the Guardian has written of the ‘profound sensuality’ and ‘pervasive sense of transience’ present in her recent recording of works by Bloch and Bruch.
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SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 4.00 PM Song Recital Series
Ibert Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci Duparc La vague et la cloche; Le manoir de Rosemonde; L’invitation au voyage Stanford From 6 Songs of Faith: To the soul; Tears; Joy, Shipmate, Joy! Stephen McNeff 3 Chansons de Laforgue (world première) Keel Three Salt Water Ballads
Jaqui McSweeney
A Journey – Songs of Passage in French and English
Paul Foster-Williams
Andrew Foster-Williams bass-baritone Simon Lepper piano
£12.50 concessions £10
Andrew Foster-Williams
Simon Lepper
A banquet of delights for song connoisseurs opens with the Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte, written in 1933 for Feodor Chaliapin as part of the soundtrack to GW Pabst’s film version of Cervantes’s novel. Andrew Foster-Williams and Simon Lepper preface three of Stanford’s rarely heard Op. 97 songs with his famous setting of Keats’s ‘La Belle Dame sans merci’. Their recital also includes the world première of Stephen McNeff’s cycle of songs to texts by French Symbolist poet Jules Laforgue. SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83; String Quartet No. 5 in B b Op 92; String Quartet No. 6 in G Op. 101
Marco Borggreve
Jerusalem Quartet
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Shostakovich’s songful and melancholy fourth string quartet, completed in 1949, was effectively banned from public performance until after Stalin’s death five years later. The Jerusalem Quartet couples this quartet with the composer’s meditative fifth quartet and the Quartet No. 6, composed in 1956. The Jerusalem Quartet’s Shostakovich Cycle is sponsored by the Shostakovich Syndicate: Gwen and Stanley Burnton, Michael and Licia Crystal, David and Louise Kaye and Joe and Lucy Smouha
Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich Cycle
Jerusalem Quartet
MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 Many listeners discovered the refined qualities of the Pavel Haas Quartet following the release of its debut album, which went on to win the Chamber Music prize at the 2007 Gramophone Awards. These Czech musicians are always popular with audiences at Wigmore Hall, not least for their determination to take bold risks in performance and reveal fresh views of the string quartet repertoire.
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Marco Borggreve
Pavel Haas Quartet
£12.50 concessions £10
Pavel Haas Quartet
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MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER 6.00 PM Chamber Music Season
£6 or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)
Pre-Concert Event Razumovsky Academy Young Artists Recital The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment in which exceptionally gifted young musicians collaborate closely with some of the world’s finest artists and teachers. This concert offers the chance to hear potential future stars at an early stage in their careers. Supported by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848) Pictured right: Ida Haendel with students from the Razumovsky Academy
MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
Brahms String Sextet in G Op. 36 Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4
Robert Cassen
Razumovsky Ensemble
£15 £20 £25 £30
Schoenberg considered Brahms to be one of music’s great progressives, a visionary who inspired the direction of the Viennese composer’s own revolutionary compositions. The Razumovsky Ensemble’s programme explores points of comparison and contrasts between early masterworks by both men. Brahms’s Sextet Op. 36 enshrines his infatuation for the voluptuous Agathe von Siebold, while Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht reflects on the emotional turmoil and reconciliation of two lovers. Promoted by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848) Pictured right: Oleg Kogan, artistic director, Razumovsky Ensemble
TUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Monika Rittershaus
Werner Güra tenor Christoph Berner piano Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Beethoven An die Hoffnung; Lied aus der Ferne; Resignation; Adelaide; Wonne der Wehmut; Der Kuss Duparc Phidylé; Chanson triste; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Extase Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24
£18 £25 £30 £35
Like Richard Tauber a century ago, Werner Güra developed his career as a company member of the Dresden Staastoper. The Munich-born tenor’s acclaimed Lieder interpretations arise from the strong foundations of his seasoned sensibility for song, an innate feeling for dramatic timing and the entrancing tonal variety of his voice. Werner Güra and Christoph Berner
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£18 £25 £30 £35 Johan Persson
The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Sally Matthews soprano Alberto Grazzi bassoon
Richard Haughton
WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series
Mozart Divertimento in D K136; 2 Concert arias: Voi avete un cor fedele K217; Bella mia fiamma ... Resta, o cara K528; Lungi da te, mio bene from Mitridate, re di Ponto; Bassoon Concerto in Bb K191; Concert aria: Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle K538 Sally Matthews ranks among the world’s leading Mozart sopranos, her status reinforced The English Concert Sally Matthews by acclaimed appearances as Donna Anna, the Countess and Pamina at the Vienna Staatsoper, the Bavarian Staatsoper and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In this programme of Mozart’s operatic and concert arias she joins The English Concert and its Artistic Director Harry Bicket, internationally renowned for his opera interpretations. The English Concert 40th Anniversary Celebration THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Julian Bream Trust Concert
£10 £14 £18 £20
Jonathan Leathwood guitar José Guitar Sonata Bach Suite in E minor BWV996 Harrison Birtwistle Construction with Guitar Player (world première) Gerhard Fantasia Falla Homenaje: pièce de guitare écrite pour ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’ Roussel Ségovia Op. 29 Leo Brouwer Sonata No. 5: Ars Combinatoria (world première) Magnus Lindberg Mano a mano Disregarding the more traditional guitar programmes that have been in currency for many years, The Julian Bream Trust, which has been set up to support young musicians, seeks to explore a largely different repertoire. This particular concert has the unusual inclusion of two distinguished world premières by Harrison Birtwistle and Leo Brouwer. The Julian Bream Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1130890)
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Jonathan Leathwood
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7.30 pm
The Prince Consort Anna Leese soprano Jennifer Johnston
Richard Ecclestone
FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER BENJAMIN BRITTEN CENTENARY DAY
mezzo-soprano Tim Mead countertenor Andrew Staples tenor Jacques Imbrailo baritone
Alisdair Hogarth artistic director, piano
Benjamin Britten Osmar Motta
1.00 pm
Fabio Zanon guitar
Philips Chromatica Pavana; Galliard Bach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E b BWV998 (for solo guitar) Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland Op. 70 Granados Spanish Dance No. 10 Fabio Zanon Granados La maja de Goya from Tonadillas en un estilo antiguo Sergio Assad Aquarelle Hailed by Classical Guitar as ‘one of the true stars of the 21st century’, the renowned Brazilian guitarist Fabio Zanon returns to Wigmore Hall to play Benjamin Britten’s seminal Nocturnal, written fifty years ago. His programme includes favourite works by Bach and Granados, and Sergio Assad’s virtuosic depiction of watercolour technique, Aquarelle. £12.50 concessions £10 Chamber Music Season
6.00 pm
Pre-Concert Talk Director Alisdair Hogarth and members of The Prince Consort in conversation with Sara Mohr-Pietsch. £3
Wigmore Hall Learning Event CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net
Tanya Houghton harp Nicolas Fleury horn
The Prince Consort
Britten The Canticles interspersed with new commissions, including works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad * and Gwilym Simcock* * Co-commissioned by The Prince Consort and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Wigmore Hall played host to the world première of Benjamin Britten’s Canticle III: Still falls the rain in 1955, one of thirteen of the composer’s works first performed at the Hall during his lifetime. On what would have been Britten’s hundredth birthday, The Prince Consort presents his five Canticles in company with three freshly written ‘responses’ to these profoundly spiritual works. It will be fascinating to hear how Britten’s themes of divine and individual love, God’s relationship to man and the meaning of Christ’s suffering are reflected in the new pieces in this programme and interpreted by The Prince Consort’s company of outstanding young singers. £15 £20 £25 £30
Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series
CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust supports free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for the 7.30 pm concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
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SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER 7.00 PM NB starting time London Pianoforte Series
Returns only Birgitta Kowsky
András Schiff piano Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book I BWV846–869
András Schiff follows his sold-out cycle of the Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall in 2012/13 with five all-Bach recitals this Season, including both books of The Well-tempered Clavier and the Partitas. Schiff is set to crown his achievement when he celebrates his sixtieth birthday on 21 December by performing Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and Bach’s Goldberg Variations in one extraordinary Wigmore Hall evening. This concert will be approximately 2 hours 10 minutes in duration, with an interval
András Schiff Bach Series
Clive Barda
Keith Saunders
Nash Ensemble; Marianne Thorsen violin Richard Hosford clarinet Ian Brown piano
£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice Bea Levine-Humm
SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
András Schiff
Dvorˇák in America Stravinsky Suite from The Soldier’s Tale for violin, clarinet and piano Dvorˇák Sonatina in G Op. 100; String Quintet in Eb Op. 97 Marianne Thorsen
Richard Hosford
Ian Brown
The Nash Ensemble continues its American Series with two works written by Dvorˇák during his three-year stay in the USA: the tuneful violin sonatina and the fine quintet with two violas. These follow the trio Suite that Igor Stravinsky (who spent the last 30 years of his life in California), drew from the original Soldier’s Tale which was written as an ‘Entertainment to be read, played and danced’. Nash Ensemble American Series SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM EFG London Jazz Festival
Of all the colourful characters that feature in the story of jazz, pianist Carla Bley is one of the most deliciously fantastical. This accomplished musician, composer, conductor and arranger has, since the 60s, been producing singular work, never lacking in humour, with an aesthetic that swings between majesty and comedy. This performance is by Carla Bley’s Trio featuring Carla Bley on piano, Steve Swallow on bass and Andy Sheppard on saxophones. Presented by EFG London Jazz Festival
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Bill Strode
Carla Bley piano Steve Swallow bass Andy Sheppard saxophones
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Andy Sheppard, Carla Bley & Steve Swallow
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MONDAY 25 NOVEMBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Two charismatic artists join forces for this BBC Lunchtime Concert, creating a partnership with the vitality required to travel deep into works rich in expressive variety and creative contrasts. Expect to draw close to the edge of your seat as Tabea Zimmermann and Igor Levit probe Hindemith’s viola sonata, drafted while the composer was serving with the German Army in 1918. Sitt’s Album Leaves completes the programme.
MONDAY 25 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM The Monday Platform
Felix Broede
Hindemith Viola Sonata Op. 11 No. 4 Bach Sonata No. 2 in D BWV1028 Sitt Album Leaves Op. 39
Marco Borggreve
Tabea Zimmermann viola Igor Levit piano
£12.50 concessions £10
Tabea Zimmermann
Igor Levit
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Gildas Quartet; Joseph Houston solo piano Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Debussy Images, Series 1 Thomas Simaku Deux Esquisses (world première) Ravel String Quartet in F Both the Gildas Quartet and Joseph Houston gave memorable performances in the PLG New Year Series 2013 which led to outstanding press reviews: Gildas Quartet Joseph Houston ‘The gifted Gildas Quartet’ (The Times). ‘… liquid beauty … vividly projected.’ (Daily Telegraph on Joseph Houston). Together, they present an exquisitely-balanced programme of 19th-century classical and 20th-century romantic music, gently set off by the world première of Thomas Simaku’s latest set of piano miniatures. Park Lane Group Young Artists Park Lane Group (Reg. Charity No. 252205)
TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
£53 for 3 sessions & ticket for 3 Dec (7.30 pm)
Wigmore Study Group The Songs and Chamber Music of Sir Michael Tippett Marking fifteen years since the death of Sir Michael Tippett, the first Wigmore Study Group of the season turns its attention to his songs and chamber works, tied to Mark Padmore and the Heath Quartet’s recital on 3 December which programmes Tippett’s first and third string quartets either side of the two remarkable song cycles for tenor and piano. Each of the study group’s three afternoons (26, 28 Nov & 3 Dec) will focus on Sir Michael Tippett the three main strands of Tippett’s chamber music – song, sonata and quartet – with visiting Tippett scholars, eminent performers and post-graduate musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. A number of British composers will join the Study Group to evaluate Tippett’s enduring legacy and appeal, and the series is hosted by composer Julian Philips, who spent time with Tippett in his final years, an experience that strongly influenced his own creative and educational work. Tippett: A Retrospective
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TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 7.00 PM NB starting time London Pianoforte Series
András Schiff piano Bach Partita No. 5 in G BWV829; Partita No. 3 in A minor BWV827; Partita No. 1 in B b BWV825; Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826; Partita No. 4 in D BWV828; Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830
Yutaka Suzuki
Returns only
In the second concert of his Bach Series, András Schiff performs the 6 Partitas. This concert will be approximately 2 hours 45 minutes in duration, with an interval
András Schiff Bach Series
András Schiff
WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series
Early Opera Company returns to Wigmore Hall with a performance of the work with which it made its debut in 2000: Handel’s masterpiece Acis and Galatea. An outstanding cast joins the EOC orchestra in the ever popular tale of the shepherd Acis and the sea nymph Galatea, whose idyllic life is destroyed by the cyclops Polyphemus.
Derek Welton
Ivana Gavric´ piano Launch of Grieg CD (Champs Hill label)
Christian Curnyn
£12.50 concessions £10 Sussie Ahlburg
THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 1.00 PM Lisa Peacock Presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases
Samuel Boden Benjamin Ealovega
Handel Acis and Galatea
Sophie Bevan Melbourne Headshot Company
Robert Murray
Robert Bridgens
Sussie Ahlburg
Sussie Ahlburg
Early Opera Company Robert Murray tenor (as Acis) Sophie Bevan soprano (as Galatea) Samuel Boden tenor (as Damon) Derek Welton baritone (as Polyphemus) Christian Curnyn director, harpsichord
£18 £25 £30 £35
Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales Janác˘ek Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the street’ Cheryl Frances-Hoad 2 Lyric Pieces: Homage to Janác˘ek; Homage to Grieg Grieg 2 Lyric Pieces; Piano Sonata in E minor Op. 7 Ivana Gavric´, awarded BBC Music Magazine Newcomer of the Year 2011 for ‘playing of an altogether Ivana Gavric´ extraordinary calibre’, returns to Wigmore Hall to launch her third album for Champs Hill Records, with a programme including Grieg and a première of works written for her by RPS Award-winning composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad. ‘there’s a quality to her sound, something peppery, dark and candid’ Independent Lisa Peacock Concert Management Limited
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THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Jane Bown
Wigmore Study Group
£53 for 3 sessions & ticket for 3 Dec (7.30pm)
The Songs and Chamber Music of Sir Michael Tippett See page 19 for full details Tippett: A Retrospective
Sir Michael Tippett
THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season
30th Anniversary Concert
Rob Brimson
The Schubert Ensemble
£15 £20 £25 £30
Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet in C minor Colin Matthews Piano Trio (London première) Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 26 The Schubert Ensemble celebrates its thirtieth birthday by bringing together three strands of its repertoire. Vaughan Williams’s rich and sonorous quintet remained unpublished until 1999 and has since been championed by the Schubert Ensemble. Colin Matthews wrote the Ensemble’s first commission in 1984 and, with neat symmetry, has written a thirtieth anniversary commission, which here receives its London première. The concert concludes with one of the great masterpieces of the repertoire, Brahms’s radiant A major Piano Quartet.
The Schubert Ensemble
FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER 7.00 PM NB starting time London Pianoforte Series
Bach French Suite No. 1 in D minor BWV812; French Suite No. 2 in C minor BWV813; French Suite No. 3 in B minor BWV814; French Suite No. 4 in E b BWV815; French Suite No. 5 in G BWV816; French Suite No. 6 in E BWV817; Ouvertüre nach französischer Art BWV831
Priska Ketterer, Luzern
András Schiff piano
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András Schiff continues his Bach Series with the French Suites and the Ouvertüre nach französischer Art. This concert will be approximately 2 hours 25 minutes in duration, with an interval
András Schiff Bach Series András Schiff
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SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER 10.00 AM – 3.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults with the chance to sing some of Tippett’s beautiful music for voices. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. Everyone welcome, no need to read music.
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
Come and Sing: Tippett
£18 concessions £10
Tippett: A Retrospective
SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Richard Ecclestone
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Stephen Hough Herbstlieder Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca S270/1 Butterworth A Shropshire Lad
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Jacques Imbrailo baritone Alisdair Hogarth piano
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Jacques Imbrailo worked his magic at Wigmore Hall last Christmas in Handel’s Messiah. The South African artist, recently described by The Times as ‘the hottest young baritone on the block’, engages with the music of four sublime song-cycles. Physical and spiritual journeys supply a common thread connecting Stephen Hough’s reflections on autumnal change and Butterworth’s on the passage of time to Liszt’s Tre sonetti di Petrarca and Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel. Jacques Imbrailo
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Alisdair Hogarth
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BOND STREET
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