October Concerts Diary 2010 by Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall Concert Diary OCTOBER 2010

Jonas Kaufmann Inside: Martha Argerich • Gerald Finley Hagen Quartet • Håkan Hardenberger Soile Isokoski • Stephen Kovacevich Michael Schade • John Williams And many more

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HOW TO BOOK Wigmore Hall Box Office, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP In Person 7 days a week: 10 am – 8.30 pm. Days without an evening concert 10 am – 5 pm. No advance booking in the half hour prior to a concert. By Telephone 020 7935 2141 7 days a week: 10 am – 7 pm. Days without an evening concert 10 am – 5 pm. There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration fee for each transaction, which includes the return of your tickets if time permits. Online www.wigmore-hall.org.uk 7 days a week; 24 hours a day. There is a £1 administration charge online. You can now select your own seat and make subscription bookings online.

TICKETS Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into four prices ranges: Stalls C – M: Highest price Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd price Stalls AA, T – X: Lowest price

Subscription Discounts of up to 10% are available for a number of Wigmore Series concerts. Please ask the Box Office for details. Standby Tickets for students, senior citizens and the unemployed are available from one hour before the performance (subject to availability) with best available seats sold at the lowest price. NB standby tickets are not available for Lunchtime and Coffee Concerts. Group Discounts of 10% are available for groups of 12 or more, subject to availability. Westminster ResCard holders may obtain a 10% discount on up to two tickets per event for tickets of £3 or over.

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Cover: Jonas Kaufmann © Luc Jennepin

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FRIDAY 1 OCTOBER 7.30 PM

The King’s Consort Julie Cooper soprano Rebecca Outram soprano Robin Blaze countertenor David Gould countertenor Charles Daniels tenor Mark Dobell tenor Ben Davies bass Philip Tebb bass Robert King conductor

Keith Saunders

£12 £16 £22 £24

Festlicher Bach Bach Concerto to Cantata BWV35; Sanctus in D BWV241 (after Kerll); Sinfonia to Cantata BWV35; Lutheran Mass in G BWV236 Telemann Ouverture ‘Perpetuum mobile’ Bach Lutheran Mass in G minor BWV235 The King’s Consort

Bach’s glorious Lutheran Masses, dating from the late 1730s, are full of astonishing music, with joyous choruses and ravishing solos. With eight fine singers, and an unbeatable instrumental line-up, here is a sparkling musical celebration in The King’s Consort’s thirtieth anniversary season. ‘Bach performance does not come better than this’ The Times Vivat Music Foundation (Reg. Charity No. 1135251)

SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER 10.00 AM Wigmore Hall Learning Event For age 5 plus

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Family Day: A Knight’s Quest

Join us as we prepare for a knight’s quest and go searching for treasure. Discover the medieval armour at the Wallace Collection, create your character’s puppet (are you a knight or a squire?) and compose some rhythmic travelling music for the journey. Finish the day by performing on the Wigmore Hall stage. Led by composer Duncan Chapman.

£10 Adults £8 Children

In partnership with The Wallace Collection Family Events are supported by The Lucille Graham Trust, Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Charities Advisory Trust

SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Enescu Légende Hindemith Trumpet Sonata Ligeti Mysteries of the Macabre Piazzolla Histoire du Tango (arr. Hardenberger/Pöntinen) Chabrier Bourrée fantasque Film music by Piazzolla, Rota & Chaplin (arr. Hardenberger/Pöntinen) A rare chance to hear the world’s leading trumpet virtuoso in recital. Håkan Hardenberger’s typically eclectic programme takes in Enescu’s elegiac Légende, arias from Ligeti’s absurdist opera Le grand macabre, Chabrier’s whirling Bourrée fantasque and Piazzolla’s musical story of the tango’s stylistic development, along with cinema music by Nino Rota and Charlie Chaplin.

Marco Borggreve

Håkan Hardenberger trumpet Roland Pöntinen piano

£12 £16 £22 £26

Håkan Hardenberger

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SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

£12 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Wigmore Hall Debut

Bennewitz Quartet Smetana String Quartet No. 2 in D minor Brahms String Quartet in B b Op. 67 Named after the Czech violinist Antonín Bennewitz (1833–1926), this young quartet has won major competition prizes in Germany, Italy and Japan, including the prestigious Borciani Competition. According to Smetana, his String Quartet No. 2 ‘represents the turbulence of music in a person who had lost his hearing’, while Brahms’s final quartet shows a sunnier disposition.

Bennewitz Quartet

SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER 7.30 PM

Han Seul Lee piano Charlotte Cox bassoon Ori Epstein cello Octavi Martinez Bartolome violin Shizhe Shen piano

Helen Gayle

Purcell School Solo Recitals

£8 £9 £11 £13

Bartók Allegro barbaro Rachmaninov Étude-tableau in C minor Op. 39 No. 1 Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini Book II Tansman Sonatine Ligeti Solo Cello Sonata Chopin Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C Op. 3 Achron Hebrew melody Op. 33 Ysaÿe Sonata for solo violin in D minor Op. 27 No. 3 Cervelló 4 Capricci for solo violin Liszt Ballade No. 2 Ravel Toccata from Le Tombeau de Couperin Chopin Étude in A minor Op. 25 No. 11 ‘Winter Wind’

Pupils of the Purcell School

The Purcell School, Britain’s oldest specialist school for talented young musicians, presents the first of two instrumental recitals featuring its senior instrumentalists, selected by audition to present short recitals. The School holds the UNESCO Mozart Gold Medal in recognition of its unique contribution to music, education and international culture. The Purcell School (Reg. Charity No. 312855)

Study Course: The Nuts and Bolts of Music Theory An Access Course for Beginners Over a series of weekly study sessions at a local venue, this course introduces music theory for those who would like to understand how melodies, chords, keys and rhythms are put together. Assuming no prior knowledge and using plenty of examples from classical music, students will gain skills which will provide a good basis for the Birkbeck Musical Techniques and Composition Certificate. Ticket price £225 concessions £115 / £300* concessions /£150* To book, contact Pam Hendon on 020 3073 8219 or music@bbk.ac.uk. *prices for participants who already hold a degree or equivalent In association with Birkbeck, University of London

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COMMENCING MONDAY 4 OCTOBER FOR 11 WEEKS Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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MONDAY 4 OCTOBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£12 concessions £10 Benjamin Ealovega

Jonathan Biss piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Op.10 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101 Beethoven Six Bagatelles Op. 126 American pianist Jonathan Biss – fast establishing himself as a young master – builds on the success of his Edison Award-winning Beethoven disc, and his highly praised Wigmore Hall Live recording, contrasting early and late sonatas, and including the last of the three sets of Bagatelles. ‘Not only is his playing expressively subtle and technically impeccable, he clearly has plenty to say about everything he touches’ BBC Music Magazine

Jonathan Biss

MONDAY 4 OCTOBER 7.30 PM The Monday Platform

Britten Two Insect Pieces Dorati Duo Concertante Szymanowski Sonata for violin and piano Op. 9 Lutosl´awski Epitaph Bowen Sonata for oboe and piano Brahms Scherzo in C minor Latsabidze Cyber Moment (world première) Waxman Carmen Fantasie

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James Turnbull oboe Craig White piano Irmina Trynkos violin Giorgi Latsabidze piano

£8 £10 £13 £15

James Turnbull

Irmina Trynkos

Soloist and chamber musician, oboist James Turnbull has performed in the UK and internationally; he recently completed his first disc featuring 20th- and 21st-century British music. Polish violinist Irmina Trynkos has already made her mark on the international music scene with her captivating playing in both concerts and competitions. The Worshipful Company of Musicians (Reg. Charity)

TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER 1.00 PM YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series

Australian mezzo-soprano Helen Sherman was selected for representation by YCAT in 2009. During 2010 she gave debut recitals at the Purcell Room and Bridgewater Hall and appeared with Roger Vignoles at the Cambridge Festival. She is joined by James Baillieu, who was selected by YCAT in May 2010, and Gary Pomeroy from the Heath Quartet.

Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

Helen Sherman mezzo-soprano Gary Pomeroy viola James Baillieu piano Programme to include songs by Brahms, Bridge, Schumann and Duparc, including Brahms 2 Songs with viola Op. 91

£8 concessions £6

Helen Sherman

‘The Australian Helen Sherman, fresh from her storming victory the previous week in the Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Prize, was a convincing Sesto, looking masculine and singing Parto, parto with lustrous tone’ Opera Magazine YCAT (Reg. Charity) The YCAT Wigmore Lunchtime Series is supported by the Paul Woodhouse Fund and the Anthony Nesbitt Fund

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TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Schumann Phantasiestücke Op. 88 Mozart Piano Trio in B b K502 Schumann Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor Op. 110

Richard Lewisohn

Florestan Trio

£12 £16 £22 £26

Marking the Schumann bicentenary, the Florestan Trio begins its two-concert piano-trio survey (see also 11 October) with the Phantasiestücke (1842) – described by one biographer as reflecting the full range of the Romantic spirit, ‘from roguish humour to intimate reverie’ – and the richly expressive final piano trio, written nine years later.

Schumann Bicentenary Series CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Florestan Trio

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust supports free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER 12.15 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Free (ticket required)

Pre-Concert Talk Sir Peter Maxwell Davies introduces his new work, co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia. WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER 1.00 PM Chamber Music Season

Jacqueline Shave violin Miranda Dale violin Martin Outram viola Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano

CS-Neumüller

Britten Sinfonia

£12 concessions £10

MacMillan For Max; 25 May 1967; Walfrid, On His Arrival at the Gates of Paradise; For Sally Maxwell Davies New work (London première)* Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 *co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia

Shostakovich’s Stalin Prize-winning Piano Quintet lies at the heart of this opening concert of Britten Sinfonia’s lunchtime series. The miniatures by James MacMillan are each dedicated to an important figure in his life, including composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sally Beamish. Maxwell Davies’s new piece in tribute to MacMillan receives its London première. This concert is part of Chamber Zone; a free ticket scheme for young people age 8 –25. To book, please call the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

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WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER 7.30 PM

£10 £14 £18 £20

Members of Southbank Sinfonia Sacconi Quartet Programme to include Elgar Introduction and Allegro Op. 47 Southbank Sinfonia returns to Wigmore Hall for a varied programme of larger-scale chamber music. The climax of the concert will be Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro featuring, as soloists and directors, the acclaimed Sacconi Quartet.

‘My music sounds better than I’ve ever heard it before. Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it’ André Previn, on Southbank Sinfonia

Venetia Van Hoorn Alkema

‘In this performance by a fine young group with a beautiful blend of sound, the result was highly engaging’ The Times, on the Sacconi Quartet.

Members of Southbank Sinfonia

Southbank Sinfonia Sponsored by EFG Private Bank Sacconi Quartet

THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Borodin Variations on a Russian Theme Schnittke String Trio Taneyev Piano Quartet in E Op. 20 Recently joined by violinist Isabelle van Keulen, the award-winning Leopold String Trio performs three rarely heard Russian works spanning 130 years, including Taneyev’s almost Straussian Piano Quartet (with Aleksandar Madzar) and Schnittke’s birthday tribute to Alban Berg.

Benjamin Ealovega

Leopold String Trio Aleksandar Madzar piano

£12 £16 £22 £26

Leopold String Trio

Aleksandar Madzar

‘It would be hard to over-praise the Leopold Trio’s performances’ Gramophone Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

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FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

£12 £16 £22 £26 Peter Schaaf

Brentano String Quartet Haydn String Quartet In F Op. 77 No. 2 Hartke Night Songs for a Desert Flower (UK première) Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 127 Named after Antonie Brentano – the woman believed to have been Beethoven’s ‘Immortal Beloved’ – this dazzling New York-based quartet includes a new work by Stephen Hartke – ‘at heart, a book of madrigals for string quartet’, says the composer – alongside Haydn’s final quartet and the first of Beethoven’s great late quartets. CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Brentano String Quartet

SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER 7.30 PM

£10 £14 £17 £20

Dustin Gledhill piano Couperin 25th Ordre from Pièces de clavecin Book IV Barnson Shattered Lines/Points of Horizon (world première) Fauré Valse-caprice No. 1 in A Op. 30; Impromptu No. 5 in F # minor Op. 102; Nocturne No. 6 in D b Op. 63 Mozart Piano Sonata in B b K570 Prokofiev Ten Pieces from Cinderella Op. 97 (a selection); Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor Op. 29 Following his much-praised Wigmore Hall debut in 2006, American pianist Dustin Gledhill returns here as Gold Medal prize-winner of the New Orleans International Piano Competition. Acclaimed for his unique interpretation of French music, this unusual programme includes Couperin’s Pièces de clavecin, the world première of a work by the young American composer, Matthew Barnson, based entirely on the ornamentation of Couperin, a luscious set of Fauré pieces from the birth and twilight of his compositional output, and concludes with works by Mozart and Prokofiev.

Dustin Gledhill

Nigel Grant Rogers Musical Artists’ Management Sponsored by Musical Arts Society of New Orleans

£12 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Julian Bliss clarinet Robert Bottriell piano Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano Bernstein Clarinet Sonata Debussy Première rapsodie Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1

Victor Dezso Foto

SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Barely into his twenties, Julian Bliss has firmly established himself in the international arena. Among the delights in this Coffee Concert are Poulenc’s popular sprightly sonata, Debussy’s beguiling Rapsodie and Brahms’s broadly lyrical F minor Clarinet Sonata. Julian Bliss

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SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER 7.30 PM

Katherine Robb violin Tyler Hay piano Olga Jorgensen piano Jordan Black clarinet

Helen Gayle

Purcell School Solo Recitals

£8 £9 £11 £13

Schnittke Violin Sonata No. 1 Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 2 in B b minor Op. 36 Liszt Polonaise No. 2 in E Chopin Nocturne in C minor Op. 48 No. 1; Waltz in A b Op. 42; Polonaise in F # minor Op. 44 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Messager Solo de concours The Purcell School, Britain’s oldest specialist school for talented young musicians, Pupils of the Purcell School presents the second of two instrumental recitals featuring its senior instrumentalists, selected by audition to present short recitals. The School holds the UNESCO Mozart Gold Medal in recognition of its unique contribution to music, education and international culture. The Purcell School (Reg. Charity No. 312855)

MONDAY 11 OCTOBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Heikki Tuuli

Soile Isokoski soprano Marita Viitasalo piano Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Duparc Chanson triste; L’invitation au voyage; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Extase Kuula Paimenet (Wuokoski); Suutelo (Kouta)

£12 concessions £10

Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski marks Schumann’s bicentenary with the yearningly beautiful Op. 39 Liederkreis. Henri Duparc produced only 13 songs before retiring at the age of 36. The similarly early end to Toivo Kuula’s career, at the age of 34, was more tragic – he was accidentally shot in the aftermath of the Finnish Civil War. Schumann Bicentenary Series

Soile Isokoski

MONDAY 11 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80 Mozart Piano Trio in E K542 Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63

Richard Lewisohn

Florestan Trio

£12 £16 £22 £26

One of Britain’s best-loved piano trios, the Florestans produced a Gramophone Award-winning release of Schumann’s first two piano trios over a decade ago, drawing the acclamation, ‘Music-making just doesn’t come much more sympathetic or stylish than this.’ Schumann followed his first trio with one he claimed ‘makes a friendlier and more immediate impression’. Schumann Bicentenary Series

Florestan Trio

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TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER 11.00 AM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

For Crying Out Loud For parents and babies up to 1 year old We are delighted to be able to continue this exciting programme of concerts for new parents and their babies. Each lasting 45 minutes, the concerts provide an opportunity to enjoy a programme of beautiful chamber music in a calm and accommodating environment.

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£6 per adult – babies come for free

TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Bartók String Quartet No. 5 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’

Eric Richmond

The Endellion String Quartet

£12 £16 £22 £26

Following the Endellions’ Beethoven string-quartet cycle on CD, this season the ensemble gives a series of three mostly Beethoven concerts. ‘These superb musicians respond to the dark undertow so characteristic of Beethoven’s quartets as much as the gentle lyricism which invariably breaks through’ The Observer CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

The Endellion String Quartet

GUITAR SERIES As Wigmore Hall celebrates its 110th anniversary, we launch a new Guitar Series, spotlighting an instrument whose breathtaking versatility and range of musical expression thrive in the Hall’s intimate acoustic. The series begins with perhaps the world’s leading exponent of the instrument, John Williams (13 October) and continues through the season with Manuel Barrueco (24 October) from Cuba, Álvaro Pierri (27 March 2011) from Uruguay, and Glasgow-born, Galicia-resident David Russell (3 May 2011). WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Guitar Series

Villa-Lobos 5 Preludes Brouwer El Decameron negro for guitar Bebey O Bia Williams From a bird (Nos. 1, 2 and 3); Hello Francis Barrios Mangoré La Catedral; Julia Florida; Vals Op. 8 Nos. 3 & 4; Un Sueño en la Floresta

Kathy Panama

John Williams guitar

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John Williams’s distinguished career has embraced a range of musical styles and brought fruitful collaborations with Julian Bream, Paco Peña, Pete Townshend (of The Who) and Herbie Flowers, with whom he founded the group Sky. Williams’s association with Wigmore Hall goes back to his professional debut, which took place here in 1958. Booking now open for all four concerts in the Guitar Series

John Williams

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THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Sussie Ahlburg

The Truth About Love: A love story told through song Programme to include Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade; Die Männer sind méchant Britten O Waly, Waly Brahms Am Sonntag Morgen Debussy Apparition Wolf Die Kleine, and songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Fauré, Debussy, Bridge and Britten

Esther Haase/ EMI Classics

Kate Royal soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

Winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2004, Kate Royal’s first disc for EMI was named Gramophone’s ‘Editor’s Choice’. Still in her early thirties, she has been tipped to become one of the country’s great lyric sopranos. Kate Royal

‘Artists like Royal don’t come along very often’ The Times

Malcolm Martineau

Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall

FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER 11.00 AM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Key Stage 2 Schools’ Concert Journey Through Song Join pianist and presenter Dominic Harlan and a cast of star singers for an exciting journey through song. Discover dramatic stories of love, laughter and adventure as you help stage a version of The Huntsman by Brahms, and even compose a song yourself.

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£2.50 per ticket

The Schools’ programme is supported by John Lyon’s Charity and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Marco Borggreve

Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 Stravinsky Suite italienne from Pulcinella arr. for cello & piano Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65

Lucio Lecce

Alisa Weilerstein cello Inon Barnatan piano

£12 £16 £22 £24

American cellist Alisa Weilerstein has attracted widespread attention for Inon Barnatan Alisa Weilerstein combining a natural virtuosic command and technical precision with impassioned musicianship. One of the USA’s leading young cellists, she presents Beethoven’s early Classicism alongside Stravinsky’s first neo-Classical ballet, Pulcinella, and Chopin’s Romanticism against Britten’s more clean-cut modernism.

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SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER 11.00 AM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Family Concert: Journey Through Song For age 6 plus A repeat of the concert on 15 October for families Join pianist and presenter Dominic Harlan and a cast of star singers for an exciting journey through song. Discover dramatic stories of love, laughter and adventure as you help stage a version of The Huntsman by Brahms, and even compose a song yourself.

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£7 Adults £5 Children

Family Events are supported by The Lucille Graham Trust, Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Charities Advisory Trust

SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Hang-Jin Cho

£12 £16 £22 £26

Scottish Ensemble Pieter Wispelwey cello Vivaldi Concerto for strings in G minor RV156 Sibelius Impromptu Sallinen Chamber Music VIII Op. 94 for cello and strings (London première) Vivaldi Cello Concerto in B minor RV424 Enescu Octet in C Op. 7 (arr. Morton) Cellist Pieter Wispelwey makes his debut with the Scottish Ensemble in a programme that ranges from the dark forests of Finland to the sparkling waters of Vivaldi’s Venice. Enescu’s rarely heard Octet completes the programme, in a version for full string ensemble arranged by Jonathan Morton. This concert is part of Chamber Zone; a free ticket scheme for young people age 8–25. To book, please call the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

£12 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice Joanne Green

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton violin, director

Pieter Wispelwey

Vivaldi The Four Seasons Piazzolla The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires One of the country’s most innovative ensembles contrasts the Baroque elegance and virtuosity of Vivaldi’s Italy with the edgier tango-tinged world of Astor Piazzolla’s Buenos Aires, presenting two sets of Four Seasons separated by the hemispheres and the centuries.

Scottish Ensemble

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SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER 7.00 PM NB starting time London Pianoforte Series David Thompson/ EMI Classics

Stephen Kovacevich piano Martha Argerich piano Khatia Buniatishvili* piano Belcea Quartet Colin Currie percussion Sam Walton percussion

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Stephen Kovacevich 70th Birthday Concert Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S. 178 * Bartók Sonata for two pianos and percussion With a distinguished career that has spanned nearly Stephen Kovacevich Martha Argerich five decades, Stephen Kovacevich is admired not only for his solo performances – especially for searching interpretations of the Classical and Romantic repertoire – but also as a chamber musician and conductor. His achievements show no signs of diminishing: in 2009 he won a Gramophone Award for his CD of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations – a work he included in his London debut here at Wigmore Hall in 1961, on which occasion The Times critic noted, ‘[He] may make a remarkable Beethoven pianist’. For his 70th-birthday concert Stephen Kovacevich is joined by a number of friends and colleagues, chief among them Martha Argerich. This concert is also a highlight of our 110th anniversary celebrations. A donation from the proceeds of this concert will be made to the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture

MONDAY 18 OCTOBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122 Dvor˘ák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106

Jakub Ludvik

˘ kampa Quartet S

£12 concessions £10

If Dvor˘ák’s 13th quartet was written while the composer was ‘inexpressibly happy’ after returning to his Czech homeland from the USA, Shostakovich’s elegiac 11th quartet is coloured by a sad departure, that of Vasily Shirinsky, second violinist of the Beethoven Quartet, which had premièred so many of the composer’s earlier quartets.

S˘kampa Quartet

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MONDAY 18 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Fauré Cinq mélodies de Venise Schumann Intermezzo from Faschingsschwank aus Wien Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 and Requiem; 3 Songs from Myrthen: Widmung; Der Nußbaum; Aus den hebräischen Gesängen; Der Sandmann; Die Kartenlegerin; Nachtlied Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Chausson Serres chaudes

Sussie Ahlburg

Marco Borggreve

Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano Imogen Cooper piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Award-winning Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn is joined by Imogen Cooper in a programme contrasting Schumann with highlights of French song.

Christianne Stotijn

Imogen Cooper

‘Among young mezzo-sopranos, Christianne Stotijn is in a class apart; she stamps every note and word with character, and delivers her songs with a lyrical glow that considerably advances global warming’ The Times Schumann Bicentenary Series TUESDAY 19 OCTOBER 1.00 PM – 4.00 PM

£10 (Under 18s and Students £5)

The Jackdaws Vocal Award 2010 Young professional singers (aged 22 – 30) compete in the final of the 2010 Jackdaws Vocal Award for a First Prize of £2,000. Each will sing a programme that includes works by Handel and Peter Wishart and a piece of their own choice. This year’s panel of Judges are Ludmilla Andrew, Audrey Hyland and Rosa Mannion, chaired by Jackdaws’ Artistic Director, Saffron van Zwanenberg. A fantastic opportunity to hear some of the country’s up and coming new talent. Jackdaw Educational Trust Sponsored by Ludmilla Andrew Pictured right: Sarah-Jane Lewis, winner of the 2009 Jackdaws Great Elm Vocal Awards

TUESDAY 19 OCTOBER 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£3

Pre-Concert Talk Richard Stokes and Malcolm Martineau introduce the first concert of the ‘Decade by Decade: 100 Years of German Song’ series.

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TUESDAY 19 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Sussie Ahlburg

Deanne McKee

Michael Schade tenor Malcolm Martineau piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

1810 – 1820 Beethoven Wonne der Wehmut; Sehnsucht; Mit einem gemalten Band; An die Hoffnung; Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel Weber Abschied vom Leben (Körner) Tomás˘ek Nähe des Geliebten; An die Entfernte; Schäfers Klagelied; Rastlose Liebe Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Schubert Nachtgesang; An den Mond (D193); An den Mond (D259); Wandrers Nachtlied I; Nachtstück; Rastlose Liebe; Erster Verlust; Michael Schade Auf dem See; Der Fischer; Gott im Frühling; Am Bach im Frühlinge; Freude der Kinderjahre; Das Heimweh; Aus Diego Manazares (Ilmerine); Seligkeit

Malcolm Martineau

One of the world’s great Mozart tenors is also a sought-after recitalist, having appeared for 16 consecutive seasons at the Salzburg Festival. Michael Schade launches our Decade by Decade – 100 Years of German Song series, featuring a selection of the Bohemian Václav Tomás˘ek’s 34 settings of Goethe, alongside more familiar settings by Schubert. Supported by the Decade by Decade Song Syndicate

Decade by Decade – 100 Years of German Song 1810 –1910

Wigmore Study Group Schumann Song Tied to Gerald Finley’s Schumann recital on 29 October, the first Wigmore Study Group of the 2010 season turns its attention to the songs of Robert Schumann and in particular his Heine Liederkreis Op. 24. Dating from Schumann’s extraordinary year of song (1840), this remarkable cycle marks a high point in the development of Schumann’s song style: the subtle interweaving of voice and piano, a highly sophisticated response to text and a unique exploration of shifting emotional textures. Hosted by composer Julian Philips, the three afternoons (20, 22 & 29 October), will offer three approaches: a song masterclass with young recital artists, a performance-analysis and an investigation of the cultural and historical context in which this cycle was completed.

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WEDNESDAY 20 OCTOBER 3.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event Series price £53 inc. study sessions & concert ticket for 29 Oct 7.30 pm

Series ticket price £53 including three study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 29 October

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WEDNESDAY 20 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series Eric Richmond

Retrospect Ensemble Soloists From Retrospect Ensemble’s Young Artists Programme Matthew Halls director

£12 £16 £22 £24

Purcell Celestial music did the gods inspire; Suite from The Gordion Knot Unty’d Blow Venus and Adonis Retrospect Ensemble is joined by talented vocal soloists from the group’s Young Artists Programme in a feast of English Baroque music. Blow’s opera Venus and Adonis stands out for its lively dance music and exquisite vocal writing. It is heard here alongside occasional and incidental music by Blow’s most famous protégé, Purcell.

Matthew Halls

THURSDAY 21 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

£12 £16 £22 £26

Chilingirian Quartet Bartók String Quartet No. 4 Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 Beethoven String Quartet in C # minor Op. 131 Soon to celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Chilingirian Quartet presents the textural mastery of Haydn’s final completed quartet; Bartók’s innovative Fourth, with its fleeting pizzicato-only fourth movement; and Beethoven’s late Op. 131 quartet, highly regarded by the composer despite him quipping it was put together with ‘pilferings from this and that’. Chilingirian Quartet

FRIDAY 22 OCTOBER 3.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wigmore Study Group

Series price £53 inc. study sessions & concert ticket for 29 Oct 7.30 pm

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FRIDAY 22 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Almost 300 years after their composition, the Sonatas for solo violin – produced during Bach’s brief period in Cöthen – remain an ultimate test of technique, intellect and concentration. Winner of the Sibelius International Competition in 2000 and still in his mid-twenties, Sergey Khachatryan possesses these three qualities in abundance.

Philippe Gontier/ Naïve

Sergey Khachatryan violin Lusine Khachatryan piano Bach Sonata No. 2 in A minor for solo violin BWV1003 Bach Sonata No. 4 in C minor for violin and piano BWV1017 Armenian miniatures to include works by Khachaturian and Komitas

£15 £20 £25 £30

Sergey Khachatryan

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SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER 6.00 PM Chamber Music Season

Nash Ensemble Beethoven Quintet in E b for piano and wind Op. 16 Rimsky-Korsakov Quintet in B b for piano and wind An early-evening recital of youthful quintets for piano and wind by Beethoven and Rimsky-Korsakov complements the main concert of music for strings (see below).

Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

£5 or £3 with evening ticket (separate ticket required)

Beethoven and the Russians Members of the Nash Ensemble

SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Nash Ensemble Marianne Thorsen violin David Adams violin Lawrence Power viola Philip Dukes viola Paul Watkins cello Alice Neary cello Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Tchaikovsky String Sextet in D minor Op. 70 ‘Souvenir de Florence’

Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

£12 £16 £22 £26

The main evening concert of music for strings features the work Beethoven proudly numbered as his first quartet, Borodin’s melodic String Quartet No. 2 and the opulently effervescent sextet which Tchaikovsky began to compose on an Italian holiday. Members of the Nash Ensemble

Beethoven and the Russians

SUNDAY 24 OCTOBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

£12 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Vogler Quartet

Kasskara

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 Schumann String Quartet in F Op. 41 No. 2 ‘The Vogler Quartet belongs in the highest category of contemporary string quartets. They play with a wonderful expressive ease and warmth and possess the unteachable knack of being able to communicate everything they do directly and unaffectedly. Their performances are marvels of eloquent phrasing and subtle co-ordination, instinctive music-making of the very highest class’ The Guardian Schumann Bicentenary Series

Vogler Quartet

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SUNDAY 24 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Guitar Series

Ardévol Sonata for Guitar Piazzolla Cinco piezas para guitarra Yanov-Yanovsky Little Lute Music in Memory of John Dowland (UK première) Ponce Sonatina Meridional Tárrega Capricho Árabe Malats Serenata Andaluza and Serenata Española (arr. Tárrega)

Stephen Spartana

Manuel Barrueco guitar

£15 £20 £25 £30

Cuban guitarist Manuel Barrueco continues our new Guitar Series, featuring the sonata by his compatriot José Ardévol, whose charming middle movement is a set of variations on a guajira, a Cuban country dance. Other guitar favourites rub shoulders with arrangements of piano works by Albéniz’s Catalan contemporary Joaquín Malats.

Manuel Barrueco

MONDAY 25 OCTOBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£12 concessions £10

Markus Werba baritone Gary Matthewman piano Schubert Fischerweise; Der Sängers Habe; Der Einsame; Prometheus; Alinde; Über Wildemann; Im Abendrot; Normans Gesang; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus Brahms Vor dem Fenster; Ein Sonnett; Der Gang zum Liebchen; Murrays Ermordung; Alte Liebe; O kühler Wald; Unüberwindlich Markus Werba was a rousing success in David Alden’s production of Calisto at Covent Garden. Now becoming a regular visitor to Wigmore Hall, he presents a programme of Lieder by two of the 19th-century masters of song.

Markus Werba

MONDAY 25 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

£15 £20 £25 £30 Eric Richmond

Michael Collins clarinet Leila Josefowicz violin Laura Samuel violin Maxim Rysanov viola Paul Watkins cello Steven Osborne piano

Gary Matthewman

Mozart Clarinet Trio No. 2 in E b K498 ‘Kegelstatt’; Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time Michael Collins draws together a coterie of top-flight soloists, combining Mozart’s genial ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio with the masterful Clarinet Quintet. Messiaen, who believed that Mozart smiled through his hardships, triumphed over his own adversity in 1941 by composing the haunting Quartet for the End of Time while held as a prisoner of war in Silesia. Michael Collins Residency Michael Collins

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TUESDAY 26 & WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER 10.00 AM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

For ages 11 –16 years Discover the genius of Bach and re-invent it as jazz with professional composers, chamber musicians and jazz artists. Perform and record your new works on stage at Wigmore Hall at the end of this half-term course. For instrumentalists grade 3 and above.

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Half-Term Course: Bach To Jazz

£20 per ticket

Supported by Arts Council England, Mr and Mrs Rex and Susan Harbour and a bequest from Dr. Patricia L Baker

TUESDAY 26 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concert 2010

Francesco Piemontesi piano Bach Partita No. 1 in B b BWV825 Schubert Piano Sonata in A D664 Liszt Vallée d’Obermann from Années de pèlerinage Fabio Tognetti Hommage à Schumann (UK première) Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 17

Marco Borggreve

£12 inc. prog & glass of Swiss sparkling wine

The Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concert was established in the UK with the aim of presenting some of the most talented young Swiss musicians or ensembles in a Francesco Piemontesi concert at Wigmore Hall. The annual event is organised by the Embassy of Switzerland and the Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain, a charity promoting Swiss artistic excellence in the UK. Francesco Piemontesi, an acclaimed young pianist from Switzerland, has won many prestigious awards and has performed as a soloist with several distinguished orchestras. He has a special interest in chamber music and was recently named by the BBC as one of its New Generation Artists. Supported by the Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain, The Season Charitable Trust, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, Presence Switzerland PRS

WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series

Vivaldi Trio Sonata in D minor Op. 1 No. 12 ‘La Follia’ Monteverdi Lamento d’Arianna: Lasciatemi morire Vivaldi Concerto in D ‘Il Grosso Mogul’ RV208 Dowland Come again! Sweet love doth now invite; Weepe you no more sad fountains; If my complaints could passions move; Lachrimae Pavan; In darkness let me dwell Vivaldi Cello Concerto in C minor RV401 Handel Cantata: O numi eterni (La Lucrezia) HWV145

Richard Haughton

The English Concert; Nadja Zwiener violin Jonathan Manson cello William Carter theorbo Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Harry Bicket director, harpsichord

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The English Concert

Charismatic and richly timbred mezzo Alice Coote joins The English Concert and Harry Bicket in Monteverdi’s Lasciatemi morire, a selection of Dowland’s heart-rending love songs, and finally as Handel’s tragic heroine Lucrezia. Brilliant string concertos for violin and cello by Vivaldi complete this striking programme.

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THURSDAY 28 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 74 No. 1 Bartók String Quartet No. 1 Op. 7 Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

Julien Mignot

Quatuor Ebène

£12 £16 £22 £26

This dynamic young French quartet won ‘Record of the Year’ at the 2009 Gramophone Awards for its Debussy and Ravel quartets. ‘Here is a gifted young string quartet with something urgent and individual to communicate. This is playing that combines refinement of shading and nuance with a sense of controlled danger’ Daily Telegraph Quatuor Ebène

FRIDAY 29 OCTOBER 3.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Series price £53 inc. study sessions & concert ticket for 29 Oct 7.30pm

Wigmore Study Group See page 15 for full details FRIDAY 29 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Marco Borggreve

Annus Mirabilis: The Complete Songs of 1840 – The Heine Settings

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Gerald Finley baritone Julius Drake piano

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Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24; Tragödie I-III; Der arme Peter; Belsatzar; Die feindlichen Brüder; Abends am Strand; Die beiden Grenadiere; Dein Angesicht; Lehn deine Wang; Es leuchtet meine Liebe; Mein Wagen rollet langsam; Dichterliebe Op. 48 Gerald Finley continues our Schumann bicentenary series, lending his unmistakably rich baritone to the great Heine settings of the first Liederkreis and of Dichterliebe, written within a month of each other in 1840, while Schumann was briefly apart from his wife-to-be Clara, during his extraordinarily prodigious ‘year of song’. Schumann Bicentenary Series

Gerald Finley

Julius Drake

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SATURDAY 30 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

£12 £16 £22 £26 Regina Recht/ Deutsche Grammophon

Hagen Quartet Haydn String Quartet in B b Op. 50 No. 1 Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 ‘The control of colour and phrasing and the superb ensemble are all predictable Hagen qualities, but the way in which they characterise each work without emotional exaggeration or special pleading is also a model of its kind’ The Guardian Hagen Quartet 30th Anniversary Series CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Hagen Quartet

SUNDAY 31 OCTOBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

£12 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Hagen Quartet Janác˘ek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ ‘Their performance was filled with subtlety and wonder … the playing was breathtaking in its precision, dynamism and agility … a thrilling encounter’ The Independent Hagen Quartet 30th Anniversary Series

SUNDAY 31 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

Luc Jennepin

Jonas Kaufmann tenor Helmut Deutsch piano

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With an impressive technique at the service of a questioning mind, Jonas Kaufmann is keenly sought after by opera companies around the world. For his first song-cycle at Wigmore Hall he chooses Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, following his recent recording with Helmut Deutsch. ‘Kaufmann’s dark-timbred, beautiful, near-heroic and extrovert performance comes as something of a shock. I doubt that Schubert’s cycle [Die schöne Jonas Kaufmann Müllerin], purely in vocal terms, has been more thrillingly sung on disc since Fritz Wunderlich recorded it for Deutsche Grammophon’ Hugh Canning, Sunday Times

Helmut Deutsch

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Saturday 16 October 11.00 am â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 12 noon Charismatic presenter and pianist, Dominic Harlan, returns to Wigmore Hall to take families on an exciting Journey Through Song. Well known for his engaging and comic story telling, Dominic will work with two singers to bring the stories of song to life. Children can help stage a version of The Huntsman by Brahms and even help Dominic to compose a brand new song.

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