Spring 2017 Wigmore Series Brochure by Wigmore Hall

JANUARY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MARCH 2017

©Frances Marshall Photography

Director’s Introduction

Receptive to life and death, and aware of the spiritual depths of both, Schubert probed the heart of the human condition in his unsurpassed, and almost certainly unsurpassable, output of 600-plus songs. Wigmore Hall’s Schubert: The Complete Songs series offers audiences the chance to experience the full range of this extraordinary creative achievement as it continues through 2017. Grammy-nominated pianist, bandleader and composer Vijay Iyer starts his Jazz Residency at Wigmore Hall. The American musician, born in 1971 in New York, has been described by Los Angeles Weekly as ‘a boundless and deeply important young star’ and by the Guardian as being ‘at a dizzying pinnacle of contemporary jazz multitasking’, verdicts reinforced by a string of awards and five-star reviews.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, our Artist in Residence, launches her Wigmore Hall series with the first of three concerts crafted to show the versatility, curiosity and wide musical passions of a true pioneer among today’s performers. The Moldovan-Austrian violinist is equally at home with period performance styles as she is when bringing contemporary compositions to life or casting fresh interpretative light on the most familiar of chamber works.

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Spread over the course of four seasons, Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey gathers momentum with a concert devoted to Bach’s six French Suites. Angela Hewitt’s affinity for Bach flows naturally from

her strong connection with the composer’s dance rhythms and from her exquisite feeling for lyrical phrasing, contrapuntal clarity and sensitive articulation. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a pianist with ‘unlimited capacity’ and widely regarded to be among the finest artists of his generation, Igor Levit continues his season-long exploration of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas at Wigmore Hall. The Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit series is set to reinforce the Russian-born pianist’s credentials as a Beethovenian of supreme perception and boundless imagination.

Janine Jansen, recently described by The Telegraph as ‘breathtakingly supreme’ and praised for her ‘dazzling dexterity’ by The Australian, is a frequent visitor to London this season. She continues her Perspectives programme at Wigmore Hall and also gives concerts as part of her LSO Artist Portrait series, underlining her star status among today’s finest musicians. Jörg Widmann’s passions include the works of Schubert and Schumann, composers with whom he shares an affinity for lyricism, poetic shading and dramatic contrasts. The German clarinettist and composer joins forces with Mitsuko Uchida for a programme rooted in their shared musical values, spanning everything from the expressive miniatures of Berg’s Op. 5 to the shifting moods of Schumann’s Fantasiestücke of 1849. Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov have developed an uncanny mutual understanding and empathy as duo partners, refined over the past decade in the recording studio and in recital. Their latest Wigmore Hall programme mines a deep vein of poetry in music, opening with a work written during the First World War’s initial phase. They explore the Sonata for violin, piano and drums by the self-styled ‘bad boy of music’, the American avant-gardist George Antheil. Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, composed in 1680, forms a cycle of seven cantatas addressed to different parts of the crucified Christ’s body. Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have lived with this unique work for many years, exploring its meditations on the saviour’s feet, knees, hands, side, breast, heart and face in concert and on disc. They are joined by Fretwork for their latest interpretation of music that casts light on the nature of suffering, devotion and spiritual transcendence. Comparisons and contrasts occupy Sir András Schiff in his series of concerts devoted to the music of four great composers. Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók unfolds with the second of three recitals and related evening masterclass sessions, connecting audiences with one of the most perceptive and inspirational musical minds of our time.

Paul Lewis’s pianism, eloquent and fully alive, is the result of a harmonious marriage between deep thinking about music and unrestrained physical expression in performance. His all-Beethoven programme at Wigmore Hall last season, repeated twice on the same evening, was hailed by the Guardian in a five-star review for its ‘display of pianistic depth’. Lewis turns to Beethoven again, pairing the composer’s bold Op. 7 with the lyrical grace of Bach’s Partita No. 1 before exploring a second half of heart-on-sleeve passions. Expect high-octane, inspirational music-making from the partnership of Ekaterina Semenchuk, one of the leading soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre, and Helmut Deutsch, a consummate artist with a profound feeling for the multiple shades, textures and expressive nuances of the human voice. The Minsk-born mezzo’s performances at the Royal Opera House in Eugene Onegin and most recently as Azucena in Il trovatore have garnered audience ovations, underlining her status among the foremost artists of her generation. Her arresting vocal richness and gravitas are matched by a compelling stage presence and total mastery of the art of beautiful singing. American mandolinist, singer and songwriter Chris Thile made his name with Grammy Award-winning progressive acoustic music group Nickel Creek before striking out with Punch Brothers and a series of fresh creative projects in the mid-2000s. Following many years as a guest on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, Chris succeeds Garrison Keillor as the popular radio show’s host in October 2016. Chris returns to Wigmore Hall with an eclectic programme drawing on his considerable repertoire of original compositions, as well as contemporary, traditional and classical works. Recognised by The New York Times as ‘one of the most accomplished and complete musicians of his generation’, Thomas Adès has created an entire universe of new music, spanning everything from large symphonic scores and sparklingly inventive operas to a great treasure-house of chamber works, ensemble pieces, songs and solo scores. Wigmore Hall’s Thomas Adès Day presents a representative showcase of his work set in a wider musical context. The legendary Alfred Brendel makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a series of lectures exploring the last sonatas of Schubert and Beethoven, as well as the life and works of Mozart. I hope you enjoy reading through the brochure yourself, and I look forward to welcoming you to Wigmore Hall during our Spring Series.

SERIES AT A GLANCE J A N U A R Y – M A R C H

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See pages 6 –72 for full details of these concerts and page 75 for booking information. Series and Events to look out for…

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts

Sun 12 Feb

Belcea Quartet

Tue 14 Feb

Razumovsky Ensemble

Sat 18 Feb

Scottish Ensemble/Alina Ibragimova

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Mon 9 Jan

Richard Egarr

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Mon 16 Jan

Beatrice Rana

Sun 19 Feb

Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov

Introduction to Music

Mon 23 Jan

Roderick Williams/Roger Vignoles

Thu 23 Feb

Arcangelo: Baroque Ensemble in Residence

Artemis Quartet/Maria João Pires

Mon 30 Jan

Peter Moore/James Baillieu

IMS Prussia Cove Celebration Concert

Sat 25 Feb

Xenakis Day: JACK Quartet

Mon 6 Feb

Isabelle Faust/Andreas Staier

Les Arts Florissants

Sat 25 Feb

Mon 13 Feb

Kathryn Rudge/James Baillieu Gary Pomeroy

Xenakis Day: JACK Quartet Pavel Kolesnikov

Wed 1 Mar

Carducci String Quartet

Mon 20 Feb

Van Kuijk Quartet

Fri 3 Mar

Mon 27 Feb

David Greilsammer

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 46 Huw Watkins/Oliver Knussen

Mon 6 Mar

Carolyn Sampson/Matthew Wadsworth 48

Tue 7 Mar

Alisa Weilerstein/Inon Barnatan

Mon 13 Mar

Kungsbacka Piano Trio

Wed 8 Mar

The Endellion String Quartet

Mon 20 Mar

Annelien Van Wauwe/Nino Gvetadze

Fri 10 Mar

Pacifica Quartet

Mon 27 Mar

Gallicantus

Thu 16 Mar

Hilary Hahn/Robert Levin

Tue 21 Mar

Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins Adrian Brendel/Roderick Williams

Fri 24 Mar

Chris Thile

Sat 25 Mar

Thomas Adès Day: Calder Quartet Thomas Adès/Nicolas Hodges

Sat 25 Mar

Thomas Adès Day: BCMG Timothy Redmond/Calder Quartet Thomas Adès

Mon 27 Mar

Patricia Kopatchinskaja Polina Leschenko

Fri 31 Mar

Eggner Trio

Vijay Iyer Jazz Residency

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Alfred Brendel Lectures

Schubert: The Complete Songs

16–17, 27, 35, 52

Julia Fischer: Ysaÿe Sonatas

Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

18–19 20, 29, 33, 57

European Chamber Music Academy Showcase

Focus on Nico Muhly

Stéphane Degout & Cédric Tiberghien Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle

25 26, 43, 54 28, 30

Takács Quartet Masterclass

Janine Jansen Perspectives

Chamber Music Season

Jörg Widmann & Mitsuko Uchida

Sat 7 Jan

Cuarteto Casals

Matthew Rose & Gary Matthewman

Sun 8 Jan

Cuarteto Casals

Mauro Peter & Helmut Deutsch

Mon 9 Jan

Danish String Quartet

Sat 14 Jan

Vienna Piano Trio

Sun 15 Jan

IMS Prussia Cove Celebration

Thu 19 Jan

Julia Fischer

Sat 21 Jan

Nash Ensemble/Lucy Crowe Martyn Brabbins

Mon 23 Jan

Philip Higham/Alasdair Beatson

Wed 25 Jan

Signum Quartet

Thu 26 Jan

Quatuor Akilone/Quatuor Hanson

Fri 27 Jan

Stratos Quartet/Trio Vitruvi

Sat 28 Jan

Pacific Quartet Vienna

Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov The Sixteen

12, 39, 68

Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók

Maria João Pires & Artemis Quartet

Matthias Goerne & Markus Hinterhäuser

Xenakis Day

44–45

Paul Lewis

Helen Grime World Première

Alisa Weilerstein & Inon Barnatan

The Tallis Scholars

Disabled Access Day: Relaxed Concert

49, 70

Tue 31 Jan

Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Bechstein Pianos

Ekaterina Semenchuk & Helmut Deutsch

Fri 3 Feb

Patricia Petibon & Susan Manoff

Sat 4 Feb

Wigmore Study Group: Haydn Piano Trios

Mon 6 Feb

Chris Thile Thomas Adès Day

59 60–61

Wed 8 Feb Wed 8 Feb

Gould Piano Trio Takács Quartet Takács Quartet Takács Quartet Britten Sinfonia Janine Jansen and Friends

6 9

27 28 28 30 31 31

Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Artist in Residence

Thu 9 Feb

Jörg Widmann/Mitsuko Uchida

Leif Ove Andsnes & Marc-André Hamelin

Sat 11 Feb

Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth Richard Hosford

Contemporary Music Series

66–67

Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Sun 8 Jan

Novus String Quartet

Sun 15 Jan

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky/Georgy Tchaidze 12

Sun 22 Jan

Elias String Quartet

Sun 29 Jan

Amaryllis Quartet

Sun 5 Feb

Nash Ensemble

Sun 12 Feb

Trio con Brio Copenhagen

Sun 19 Feb

Lara Melda

Sun 26 Feb

Quatuor Voce

Sun 5 Mar

Arcadia Quartet/Amit Peled

Sun 12 Mar

Simone Lamsma/Robert Kulek

Sun 19 Mar

Meccore Quartet

Sun 26 Mar

Tamar Beraia

Early Music and Baroque Series Fri 13 Jan

Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen Kristian Bezuidenhout

Mon 16 Jan

Soloists of Les Arts Florissants Paul Agnew

Classical Opera/Ian Page Gemma Summerfield/Stuart Jackson Ashley Riches

Karina Gauvin/Le Concert de la Loge Olympique

Tue 17 Jan

Sat 28 Jan

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Tue 7 Feb

The English Concert/Rachel Podger

Mon 20 Feb

The Sixteen/Fretwork Harry Christophers

Tue 28 Feb

Theatre of the Ayre/Elizabeth Kenny

Thu 9 Mar

The Tallis Scholars

Thu 23 Mar Wed 29 Mar

The King’s Consort Early Opera Company

Fri 27 Jan

Alice Coote/Julius Drake

Sat 11 Mar

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Sun 29 Jan

Tim Mead/James Baillieu

Thu 16 Mar

Hilary Hahn/Robert Levin

Sun 29 Jan

Stéphane Degout/Cédric Tiberghien Alexis Descharmes/Matteo Cesari

Tue 21 Mar

Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins Adrian Brendel/Roderick Williams

Thu 2 Feb

Elizabeth Watts/Malcolm Martineau

Sat 25 Mar

Sat 11 Feb

Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth Richard Hosford

Thomas Adès Day: Calder Quartet Thomas Adès/Nicolas Hodges

Sat 25 Mar

Matthew Rose/Gary Matthewman

Thomas Adès Day: BCMG Timothy Redmond/Calder Quartet Thomas Adès

Wed 15 Feb Fri 17 Feb

Mauro Peter/Helmut Deutsch

Sun 19 Feb

Louise Alder/Gary Matthewman

Fri 24 Feb

Matthias Goerne Markus Hinterhäuser

Sun 26 Feb

Nicholas Phan/Myra Huang

Wigmore Hall Learning

Sun 12 Mar

Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper

Fri 6 Jan

Artists in Conversation

Sun 12 Mar

Ekaterina Semenchuk Helmut Deutsch

Sat 7 Jan

Alfred Brendel Lecture

Tue 10 Jan

Chamber Tots

Tue 14 Mar

Christoph Prégardien/Julius Drake

Thu 12 Jan

Introduction to Music commences

Sat 18 Mar

Patricia Petibon/Susan Manoff

Sat 14 Jan

Family Concert: The Fairy Queen

Mon 20 Mar

David Daniels/Martin Katz

Tue 17 Jan

Pre-Concert Talk

Tue 21 Mar

Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins Adrian Brendel/Roderick Williams

Sat 21 Jan

Come and Sing: Dido and Aeneas

Sun 26 Mar

Manuel Walser/Anano Gokieli

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London Pianoforte Series Wed 11 Jan

Anna Tsybuleva

Fri 20 Jan

Angela Hewitt

Thu 26 Jan

Elisabeth Leonskaja

Mon 30 Jan

Igor Levit

Fri 10 Feb

Nikolai Demidenko

Thu 16 Feb

Llyˆr Williams

Tue 21 Feb

Sir András Schiff

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Sun 26 Feb

Igor Levit

Fri 6 Jan

Thu 2 Mar

Paul Lewis

Sat 4 Mar

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The Contemporary Music Series is supported by

7 8 68 11 12, 68 13 15, 69

Wed 25 Jan

Chamber Tots

Sat 28 Jan

ECMA Masterclass

Thu 2 Feb

For Crying Out Loud!

27, 69

Sat 4 Feb

Family Day: Handel and Hendrix

29, 69

Sun 5 Feb

Takács Quartet Masterclass

Wed 8 Feb

Pre-Concert Talk

Sat 11 Feb

Introductory Talk and Concert

Tue 14 Feb

Chamber Tots

Paul Lewis

Tue 14 Feb

Musical Portraits Band commences

Sat 11 Mar

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Sat 18 Feb

Chamber Tots

Wed 15 Mar

Christian Blackshaw

Fri 17 Mar Wed 22 Mar Thu 30 Mar

Igor Levit Steven Osborne Leif Ove Andsnes/Marc-André Hamelin

We are grateful to The Monument Trust for essential additional support for our expanded vocal series

Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith

Contemporary Music Series Philip Higham/Alasdair Beatson

Wed 22 Feb

Sir András Schiff Masterclass

Wed 25 Jan

Signum Quartet

Sat 25 Feb

Pre-Concert Talk

Fri 27 Jan

Alice Coote/Julius Drake

Wed 1 Mar

Pre-Concert Performance

Sun 29 Jan

Stéphane Degout/Cédric Tiberghien Alexis Descharmes/Matteo Cesari

Sat 11 Mar

Disabled Access Day: Relaxed Concert

Wed 8 Feb

Britten Sinfonia

Sat 11 Mar

Pre-Concert Talk

Thu 9 Feb

Jörg Widmann/Mitsuko Uchida

Wed 15 Mar

Chamber Tots

Sat 18 Feb

Scottish Ensemble/Alina Ibragimova

Sat 18 Mar

CAVATINA Family Concert: Piatti Quartet

Tue 21 Mar

Pre-Concert Talk

Fri 24 Mar

Schools Concert: Folk Up North

Fri 24 Mar

Wigmore Study Group commences

Sat 25 Mar

Artists in Conversation

Tue 28 Mar

For Crying Out Loud!

54 57 65

Tue 3 Jan

John Chest/Marcelo Amaral

Sun 8 Jan

Timothy Fallon/Ammiel Bushakevitz

Sun 19 Feb

Louise Alder/Gary Matthewman

Wed 18 Jan

Georg Nigl/Andreas Staier

Sat 25 Feb

Xenakis Day: JACK Quartet

Sat 21 Jan

Nash Ensemble/Lucy Crowe Martyn Brabbins

Sat 25 Feb

Xenakis Day: JACK Quartet Pavel Kolesnikov

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle

Mon 23 Jan

Song Recital Series

Sun 22 Jan

Fri 3 Mar

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 46 Huw Watkins/Oliver Knussen

46 49, 70 51 68 56, 71

61 64, 72

Wed 25 Jan

Calendar

Thu 26 Jan

Fri 27 Jan

January

Sat 28 Jan

Chamber Tots

2.00 pm

Chamber Tots

7.30 pm

Signum Quartet

1.00 pm

Quatuor Akilone/Quatuor Hanson

4.45 pm

Introduction to Music

7.30 pm

Elisabeth Leonskaja

1.00 pm

Stratos Quartet/Trio Vitruvi

7.30 pm

Alice Coote/Julius Drake

24 23

11.00 am

ECMA Masterclass

1.00 pm

Pacific Quartet Vienna

7.30 pm

Karina Gauvin/Le Concert de la Loge Olympique

Date

Start Time

Event

Tue 3 Jan

7.30 pm

John Chest/Marcelo Amaral

11.30 am

Amaryllis Quartet

Fri 6 Jan

6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation

3.00 pm

Tim Mead/James Baillieu

7.30 pm

Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith

7.30 pm

2.30 pm

Alfred Brendel Lecture

Stéphane Degout/Cédric Tiberghien/Alexis Descharmes Matteo Cesari

7.30 pm

Cuarteto Casals

11.30 am

Novus String Quartet

Sat 7 Jan

Sun 8 Jan

Mon 9 Jan

Page

12.30 pm

3.00 pm

Timothy Fallon/Ammiel Bushakevitz

7.30 pm

Cuarteto Casals

Sun 29 Jan

Mon 30 Jan

Tue 31 Jan

1.00 pm

Peter Moore/James Baillieu

7.30 pm

Igor Levit

7.30 pm

Gould Piano Trio

1.00 pm

Richard Egarr

7.30 pm

Danish String Quartet

10.15 am

Chamber Tots

11.45 am

Chamber Tots

Wed 11 Jan

7.30 pm

Anna Tsybuleva

Thu 12 Jan

4.45 pm

Introduction to Music

Fri 13 Jan

7.30 pm

Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen/Kristian Bezuidenhout

4.45 pm

Introduction to Music

7.30 pm

Elizabeth Watts/Malcolm Martineau

7.30 pm

Takács Quartet

Tue 10 Jan

Sat 14 Jan

Sun 15 Jan

Mon 16 Jan

Tue 17 Jan

Wed 18 Jan Thu 19 Jan

11.00 am

Family Concert: The Fairy Queen

7.30 pm

Vienna Piano Trio

12 13

1.00 pm

Beatrice Rana

7.30 pm

Soloists of Les Arts Florissants/Paul Agnew

6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

7.30 pm

Classical Opera/Ian Page/Gemma Summerfield Stuart Jackson/Ashley Riches

7.30 pm

Georg Nigl/Andreas Staier

Julia Fischer

7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt

Sat 21 Jan

10.00 am

Come and Sing: Dido and Aeneas

7.30 pm

Mon 23 Jan

Sat 4 Feb

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky/Georgy Tchaidze

Fri 20 Jan

Sun 22 Jan

Fri 3 Feb

IMS Prussia Cove Celebration

7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble/Lucy Crowe/Martyn Brabbins

Thu 2 Feb

11.30 am

Introduction to Music

Date

12, 68

6.45 pm

4.45 pm

February

Sun 5 Feb

Event

11.00 am

For Crying Out Loud!

27, 69

12.30 pm

For Crying Out Loud!

27, 69

10.30 am

Family Day: Handel and Hendrix

7.30 pm

Takács Quartet

Page

29, 69 28

11.30 am

Nash Ensemble

7.30 pm

Takács Quartet Masterclass

1.00 pm

Isabelle Faust/Andreas Staier

7.30 pm

Takács Quartet

Tue 7 Feb

7.30 pm

The English Concert/Rachel Podger

Wed 8 Feb

12.15 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia

7.30 pm

Janine Jansen and Friends

Thu 9 Feb

7.30 pm

Jörg Widmann/Mitsuko Uchida

Fri 10 Feb

7.30 pm

Nikolai Demidenko

Sat 11 Feb

5.30 pm

Nash Ensemble: Introductory Talk and Concert

7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth/Richard Hosford

11.30 am

Trio con Brio Copenhagen

7.30 pm

Belcea Quartet

Mon 6 Feb

Start Time

15 19 15, 69

11.30 am

Elias String Quartet

3.00 pm

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle

1.00 pm

Roderick Williams/Roger Vignoles

7.30 pm

Philip Higham/Alasdair Beatson

Sun 12 Feb

Mon 13 Feb

1.00 pm

Kathryn Rudge/James Baillieu/Gary Pomeroy

Thu 9 Mar

7.30 pm

The Tallis Scholars

Tue 14 Feb

10.15 am

Chamber Tots

Fri 10 Mar

7.30 pm

Pacifica Quartet

11.00 am

Musical Portraits Band

11.45 am

Chamber Tots

Sat 11 Mar

3.00 pm

Disabled Access Day: Relaxed Concert

6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Event

6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

7.30 pm

Razumovsky Ensemble

7.30 pm

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

11.30 am

Simone Lamsma/Robert Kulek

3.00 pm

Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper

7.30 pm

Ekaterina Semenchuk/Helmut Deutsch

Mon 13 Mar

1.00 pm

Kungsbacka Piano Trio

Tue 14 Mar

7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien/Julius Drake

Wed 15 Mar

10.15 am

Chamber Tots

Wed 15 Feb

Sun 12 Mar

49, 70

11.00 am

Musical Portraits Band

7.30 pm

Matthew Rose/Gary Matthewman

Thu 16 Feb

7.30 pm

Llyˆr Williams

Fri 17 Feb

7.30 pm

Mauro Peter/Helmut Deutsch

Sat 18 Feb

10.15 am

Chamber Tots

11.45 am

Chamber Tots

7.30 pm

Scottish Ensemble/Alina Ibragimova

11.45 am

Chamber Tots

11.30 am

Lara Melda

7.30 pm

Christian Blackshaw

Thu 16 Mar

7.30 pm

Hilary Hahn/Robert Levin

Fri 17 Mar

7.30 pm

Igor Levit

Sat 18 Mar

11.00 am

CAVATINA Family Concert: Piatti Quartet

7.30 pm

Patricia Petibon/Susan Manoff

Sun 19 Mar

11.30 am

Meccore Quartet

Mon 20 Mar

1.00 pm

Annelien Van Wauwe/Nino Gvetadze

7.30 pm

David Daniels/Martin Katz

6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins/Adrian Brendel Roderick Williams

Wed 22 Mar

7.30 pm

Steven Osborne

Thu 23 Mar

7.30 pm

The King’s Consort

Fri 24 Mar

11.00 am

Schools Concert: Folk Up North

3.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group

7.30 pm

Chris Thile

1.00 pm

Thomas Adès Day: Calder Quartet/Thomas Adès Nicolas Hodges

Sun 19 Feb

3.00 pm

Louise Alder/Gary Matthewman

7.30 pm

Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov

Mon 20 Feb

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers/Fretwork

Tue 21 Feb

7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff

Van Kuijk Quartet

Wed 22 Feb

7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff Masterclass

Thu 23 Feb

7.30 pm

Artemis Quartet/Maria João Pires

Fri 24 Feb

7.30 pm

Matthias Goerne/Markus Hinterhäuser

Sat 25 Feb

1.00 pm

Xenakis Day: JACK Quartet

6.00 pm

Xenakis Day: Pre-Concert Talk

7.30 pm

Xenakis Day: JACK Quartet/Pavel Kolesnikov

11.30 am

Quatuor Voce

3.00 pm

Nicholas Phan/Myra Huang

7.30 pm

Igor Levit

Mon 27 Feb

1.00 pm

David Greilsammer

Tue 28 Feb

7.30 pm

Theatre of the Ayre/Elizabeth Kenny

Sun 26 Feb

56, 71

42 Tue 21 Mar

Sat 25 Mar

March Date

Start Time

Event

Wed 1 Mar

5.45 pm

Pre-Concert Performance

7.30 pm

Carducci String Quartet

Thu 2 Mar

7.30 pm

Paul Lewis

Fri 3 Mar

7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Huw Watkins Oliver Knussen

6.00 pm

Thomas Adès Day: Artists in Conversation

7.30 pm

Thomas Adès Day: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Timothy Redmond/Calder Quartet/Thomas Adès

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Sat 4 Mar

7.30 pm

Paul Lewis

Sun 5 Mar

11.30 am

Arcadia Quartet/Amit Peled

Mon 6 Mar

1.00 pm

Carolyn Sampson/Matthew Wadsworth

Tue 7 Mar

7.30 pm

Alisa Weilerstein/Inon Barnatan

Wed 8 Mar

7.30 pm

The Endellion String Quartet

Mon 27 Mar

Tue 28 Mar

Wed 29 Mar

11.30 am

Tamar Beraia

3.00 pm

Manuel Walser/Anano Gokieli

1.00 pm

Gallicantus

7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Polina Leschenko

11.00 am

For Crying Out Loud!

64, 72

12.30 pm

For Crying Out Loud!

64, 72

3.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group

7.30 pm

Early Opera Company

Thu 30 Mar

7.30 pm

Leif Ove Andsnes/Marc-André Hamelin

Fri 31 Mar

3.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group

7.30 pm

Eggner Trio

WIGMORE SERIES S P R I N G S E A S O N J A N U A RY – M A R C H 2 0 1 7

Priority Booking opens on 27 September 2016. Requests should be submitted by 13 October 2016 (Friends), and 20 October 2016 (Mailing List Subscribers). Booking opens to the General Public on 8 November 2016.

January Tuesday 3 January 7.30 pm

Friday 6 January 6.00 pm

Saturday 7 January 7.30 pm

John Chest baritone Marcelo Amaral piano

Artists in Conversation

Cuarteto Casals

See page opposite for full details

Mozart String Quartet in G K387; String Quartet in D minor K421; String Quartet in Eb K428

WINTER JOURNEY

A COSMIC RHYTHM WITH EACH STROKE

Mozart’s string quartets, informed by close study of Haydn’s music, stand among his highest achievements. Cuarteto Casals performs the first of two programmes devoted to the six majestic works that Mozart dedicated to ‘my dear friend Haydn’, opening with the astonishingly inventive String Quartet in G K387 and encompassing the yearning lyricism of K421.

See page opposite for full details

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Finzi O mistress mine Schubert An mein Herz Wolf Verschwiegene Liebe Duparc Chanson triste Brahms Verzagen Roussel Le jardin mouillé Schubert Der Winterabend Finzi Childhood among the Ferns Wolf Im Frühling Duparc Soupir Schumann Wehmut Wolf Verborgenheit Britten Winter Words Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Duparc Extase Gurney Sleep

Friday 6 January 7.30 pm

American baritone John Chest, winner of the prestigious 2010 Stella Maris International Vocal Competition, surveys a wealth of emotions and states of mind across this compelling programme of probing settings of fine poetry. His recital embraces everything from the graceful charm of Finzi’s famous Shakespeare setting to one of Mahler’s greatest songs.

Saturday 7 January 2.30 pm

Vijay Iyer piano Wadada Leo Smith trumpet

Chamber Music Season

Alfred Brendel Lecture See page 8 for full details

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

John Chest

Andrey Stoycher

Cuarteto Casals

Molina Visuals

Vijay Iyer Jazz Residency Grammy-nominated pianist, bandleader and composer Vijay Iyer starts his Jazz Residency at Wigmore Hall. The American musician, born in 1971 in New York, has been described by Los Angeles Weekly as ‘a boundless and deeply important young star’ and by the Guardian as being ‘at a dizzying pinnacle of contemporary jazz multitasking’, verdicts reinforced by a string of awards and five-star reviews. Friday 6 January 6.00 pm

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Artists in Conversation

Thursday 20 July 7.30 pm

Vijay Iyer, Wigmore Hall’s Jazz Artist in Residence, discusses his residency and life as a performer with journalist and broadcaster Kevin LeGendre ahead of the evening concert. £4

The Vijay Iyer Trio Friday 6 October 7.30 pm

Vijay Iyer piano

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Guest artists to be announced Friday 6 January 7.30 pm Photo of Vijay Iyer by Barbara Rigon

Vijay Iyer piano Wadada Leo Smith trumpet A COSMIC RHYTHM WITH EACH STROKE Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer performs with his ‘hero, friend and teacher’, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, who belongs to the first generation of players to come out of Chicago’s hugely influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Wadada Leo Smith

Maarit Kytöharju

Alfred Brendel Lectures Saturday 7 January 2.30 pm

SCHUBERT’S LAST SONATAS There are, within the output of some composers, triads of compositions that bring certain classes of works to a conclusion. Schubert’s final three piano sonatas belong to the handful of such peak achievements. It took a long time until players and audiences discovered these pieces. What had kept them away from us until a few decades ago? What are their distinguishing features? What happens when great composers create a number of works next to one another? And are these works, conceived so close to Schubert’s death, documents of a musical farewell? This event will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval All seats £20

Saturday 3 June 2.30 pm

BEETHOVEN’S LAST SONATAS Beethoven’s late piano sonatas are the magnificent conclusion of a series of works that covered most of the composer’s lifetime. What happens when a composer creates three major works side by side? How can one define Beethoven’s late style? How do these works relate to Beethoven the man? How were these sonatas received, and what do they mean to us today? This event will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval All seats £20

Saturday 8 July 2.30 pm

ON PLAYING MOZART In his final lecture of the season, Alfred Brendel explores the life and works of Mozart. How was the composer perceived by his contemporaries? How literally does one need to take his notation? How do his few works in minor keys compare to the many in major, and his concertos to his sonatas? This event will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval All seats £20

Priority Booking for all events on this page opens on 27 September 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 13 October 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 20 October 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 8 November 2016.

Wigmore Hall Learning Events

Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

January Sunday 8 January 11.30 am

Sunday 8 January 3.00 pm

Sunday 8 January 7.30 pm

Novus String Quartet

Timothy Fallon tenor Ammiel Bushakevitz piano

Cuarteto Casals

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Profound reflections on life’s transience course through the works in the Novus String Quartet’s programme, projected by Schubert from the outset in his Quartettsatz in C minor, explored with romantic intensity by Beethoven in his aptly named ‘Serioso’ Quartet, and evoked throughout the String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80, Mendelssohn’s last substantial composition. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Prize winners of the 2013 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Schubert Nacht und Träume; Die Sternennächte; Liebesrausch II; Rastlose Liebe; Wiegenlied; Nachtstück; Willkommen und Abschied Beach Three Browning Songs Op. 44 Timothy Fallon offers a thoughtful mix of Schubert songs framed by settings of poetry concerned with romantic love and renewal. Amy Beach’s Three Browning Songs, a massive hit with audiences a century ago, stand here as fitting companions to Liszt’s Petrarch sonnets, written following the composer’s visit to Italy in 1838–9.

Mozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’; String Quartet in A K464; String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Cuarteto Casals turns once more to Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets, works described by their composer as ‘the fruit of a long and laborious effort’. His magnificent creative investment, mirrored in every phrase and nuance of expression, surges through the ‘Hunt’ Quartet and culminates in the exuberant energy and contrapuntal ingenuity of the ‘Dissonance’ Quartet. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

All seats £15

Song Recital Series

Ammiel Bushakevitz

Novus String Quartet

Ana Paganini

Jin-ho Park

Cuarteto Casals

Molina Visuals

Timothy Fallon

January Monday 9 January 1.00 pm

Monday 9 January 7.30 pm

Wednesday 11 January 7.30 pm

Richard Egarr harpsichord

Danish String Quartet

Leeds International Piano Competition Prize Winner’s Recital

Byrd Fantasia; Pavan and Galliard; The Bells Purcell Suite in G Z660; Ground in C minor ZD221 Blow Chaconne in FaUt Purcell Suite in G minor Z661; Suite in D Z667; Ground in D minor ZD222

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Schnittke String Quartet No. 3 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’

English keyboard composers in Tudor and Stuart times drew inspiration from the past, looking back to venerable contrapuntal forms to provide fecund models for new pieces. Richard Egarr charts the extraordinary breadth of invention at play in works by Byrd, Blow and Purcell. He crowns his programme with two of Purcell’s virtuosic suites and the mellifluous Ground in D minor.

Schnittke’s Third String Quartet has become an established fixture in the chamber music repertoire thanks not least to its bold allusions to works by Beethoven and tense juxtaposition of diverse styles and influences. The Danish String Quartet sets the Russian composer’s work in company with two landmarks of the Viennese Classical tradition. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

With grateful thanks to the Supporter, Benefactor and Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall

£15 concs £13

Chamber Music Season

Anna Tsybuleva piano CPE Bach Fantasia in F# minor Wq. 67 Schumann Études symphoniques Op. 13 (with posthumous Études) Medtner Piano Sonata in G minor Op. 22 Debussy Préludes (selection) Debussy L’isle joyeuse Born in 1990 and raised in Russia’s KarachayCherkess Republic, Anna Tsybuleva graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory in 2014. Her international breakthrough came the following year when she won first prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition. She makes her eagerly awaited Wigmore Hall debut with a typically bold and imaginative programme. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust In association with Leeds International Piano Competition With grateful thanks to Dame Fanny Waterman

London Pianoforte Series

Richard Egarr

Marco Borggreve

Danish String Quartet

Caroline Bittencourt

Anna Tsybuleva

Vera Greiner

January

INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC

ARCANGELO & JONATHAN COHEN BAROQUE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE

Arcangelo

Adam Swann

Jonathan Cohen

Marco Borggreve

Kristian Bezuidenhout

Marco Borggreve

Friday 13 January 7.30 pm

Johann Sebastian Bach Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday

12 January 19 January 26 January 2 February

Elias Gottlob Haussmann

4.45 pm – 6.00 pm 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm

THE 48 Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier The idea of two books of preludes and fugues, each moving through all the keys, both major and minor, may sound unpromising at first but begin to listen or play and you encounter a universe of wonders. Bach achieves in this music a wonderful synthesis of highly cultivated technique and direct emotional utterance, the variety of styles and expression is simply breathtaking.

Arcangelo* Jonathan Cohen director, cello Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord Bach Harpsichord Concerto in G minor BWV1058 (from Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041) Telemann Burlesque de Quixotte TWV55:G10 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D BWV1054 Telemann Suite in G TWV55:G4 ‘Les Nations anciens et modernes’ Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1052

Bach and Telemann were not only near contemporaries but also close friends. Arcangelo’s carefully curated programme presents the best of both composers, revealing the freshness, colour and dash of Telemann’s musical celebration of Don Quixote and rich imagination behind his Orchestral Suite ‘Les Nations anciens et modernes’. Kristian Bezuidenhout joins Arcangelo in three of Bach’s virtuosic harpsichord concertos. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Join Roy Stratford to explore the techniques of Bach’s extraordinary craft, from double and triple fugue to invertible counterpoint, and unlock this musical treasure that will never cease to delight.

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

Series ticket price £30

Friday 5 May 10.00 pm Friday 21 July 7.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Early Music and Baroque Series

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

January Saturday 14 January 11.00 am – 12 noon

Saturday 14 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 15 January 11.30 am

The Fairy Queen Katy Hill soprano Stuart Young bass David Miller archlute Noel Byrne actor Antonia Christophers actor

Vienna Piano Trio

Wigmore Series Debut*

FAMILY CONCERT For ages 6 plus

Deep in the forest, fairies await ... Join puppetry and physical theatre group, Box Tale Soup, and members of world-renowned choir The Sixteen to discover Shakespeare’s enchanting tale A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Be transported to a world of magic and mishap in which the story is brought to life through puppetry, theatre and music from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen.

Haydn Piano Trio in E HXV:28 (Bartolozzi trio) Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 Since its foundation in 1988 the Vienna Piano Trio has pursued the highest goals in performance, cultivating a rare openness of expression and warmth of sound to support the search for fresh insights into the compositions in its broad repertoire. The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall programme comprises three enduring masterworks for piano trio. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky* violin Georgy Tchaidze piano Grieg Violin Sonata No. 1 in F Op. 8 Shostakovich 10 Preludes Op. 34 (arr. Tsyganov) Stravinsky Divertimento Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, born in Russia in 1985, attracted worldwide attention in 2010 when he won both the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition and the International Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition. His Wigmore Series debut programme includes Stravinsky and Samuel Dushkin’s transcription of the heart-melting Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss and Dmitri Tsyganov’s sparkling arrangements of Shostakovich’s 10 Preludes Op. 34. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Children £8 Adults £10

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Oberon and Puck

Vienna Piano Trio

Box Tale Soup

Nancy Horowitz

Georgy Tchaidze

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky

Chad Johnston

Marco Borggreve

January

IMS PRUSSIA COVE

Monday 16 January 1.00 pm

Tuesday 17 January 6.00 pm

Beatrice Rana piano

Pre-Concert Talk

Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988

Leading Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen, Professor at King’s College, London, provides an overview of the year 1767 and introduces some of the music being performed in the concert.

Beatrice Rana’s perceptive and poetic interpretations stand as clear testament to the 23-year-old Italian pianist’s artistic maturity. The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist offers her vision of one of the great monuments of western art in this recital, comprising Bach’s sublime aria and 30 variations named after the harpsichordist and former Bach pupil Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. Steven Isserlis

Jean-Baptiste Millot

Erich Höbarth violin Gerhard Schulz violin Thomas Riebl viola Steven Isserlis cello Ralph Kirshbaum cello Ferenc Rados piano Sir András Schiff piano Dénes Várjon piano CELEBRATION CONCERT FOR HILARY TUNSTALL-BEHRENS’S 90TH BIRTHDAY

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Tuesday 17 January 7.30 pm

Classical Opera

£15 concs £13

Sunday 15 January 6.45 pm NB starting time

£4

Ian Page conductor Gemma Summerfield soprano Stuart Jackson tenor Ashley Riches bass-baritone

Beatrice Rana is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

1767 – A RETROSPECTIVE BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 16 January 7.30 pm

Soloists of Les Arts Florissants MONTEVERDI, MASTERS AND POETS – IMITATION AND EMULATION See page 14 for full details

Benefit concert for IMS Prussia Cove Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 2 in D BWV1028 Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526 Schubert Hungarian Melody in B minor D817; Divertissement à l'hongroise in G minor D818 Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25

Mozart Symphony No. 6 in F K43 Gassmann Aria: Bella in un vago viso from Amore e Psiche Gluck Aria: No, crudel, non posso vivere from Alceste JC Bach Aria: Sopra quell capo indegno from Carattaco Abel Aria: Frena le belle lagrime from Sifari Mozart Grabmusik K42 Haydn Vidit suum & Flammis orci from Stabat Mater Arne Symphony in C Mozart Duet: Natus cadit from Apollo et Hyacinthus Classical Opera presents this fascinating musical portrait of the year 1767 as part of its ground-breaking MOZART 250 project. The programme features a thrilling line-up of young soloists and Ian Page’s dynamic period-instrument orchestra. ‘Every aspect of this totally pleasurable evening confirmed that everything Classical Opera puts on will be worth seeking out.’ The Arts Desk £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

This special concert features International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove Artistic Director Steven Isserlis and other Maestri from the Seminar’s annual Masterclasses. The concert is to celebrate IMS Prussia Cove’s co-founder, Hilary Tunstall-Behrens, who started the seminars with the great Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh over 40 years ago, and who has been closely involved ever since. This concert will be approximately 2 hours 30 minutes in duration, including an interval £200 £50 £40 £30 £15

£200 tickets include a champagne reception during the interval. All other tickets include a glass of wine.

Chamber Music Season

Beatrice Rana

Marie Staggat

Ian Page

Sheila Rock

Soloists of Les Arts Florissants Monday 16 January 7.30 pm

Soloists of Les Arts Florissants Paul Agnew director, tenor Miriam Allan soprano Hannah Morrison soprano Lucile Richardot contralto Sean Clayton tenor Cyril Costanzo bass MONTEVERDI, MASTERS AND POETS – IMITATION AND EMULATION Vecchi Ardo sì, ma non t’amo Ingegneri Ardo sì, ma non t’amo Monteverdi Ardo sì, ma non t’amo; Baci soavi e cari; Dolcemente dormiva la mia Clori Marenzio Non vidi mai dopo notturna pioggia Monteverdi Non si levav’ancor l’alba novella; Se tu mi lasci, perfida, tuo danno Wert Vezzosi augelli Monteverdi Ecco mormorar l’onde; O primavera, gioventù dell’anno Wert Forsennata gridava Monteverdi Vattene pur crudel; Ch’io t’ami Wert Ah dolente partita Monteverdi Ah dolente partita; Piagne e sospira Pallavicino Cruda Amarilli Wert Cruda Amarilli Monteverdi Cruda Amarilli

Paul Agnew

Jean-Baptiste Millot

Imitation, all too readily confused with plagiarism today, was not only essential to the art of learning in the 1600s but also often a form of veneration toward admired masters. Monteverdi’s debt to many of the subtlest composers of his era can clearly be heard in his music, among them renowned masters such as Ingegneri and Wert, choir master at Mantua when Monteverdi was a young viola da gamba player in service of the Mantuan court. ‘This programme, which features works to poems by Guarini and Tasso, shows how imitation and emulation were the norm in court musical society, where fierce competition between artists was tempered by this form of admiration and reverence’, comments Paul Agnew. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

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

Claudio Monteverdi by Bernardo Strozzi, c. 1630

January

JULIA FISCHER

Wednesday 18 January 7.30 pm

Saturday 21 January 7.30 pm

Georg Nigl baritone Andreas Staier fortepiano

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

SCHUBERT: THE COMPLETE SONGS See page 16 for full details

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Ian Brown piano Lucy Crowe soprano NASH ENSEMBLE: VIENNA AND ITS EMPIRE

Friday 20 January 7.30 pm

See page 20 for full details

Angela Hewitt piano ANGELA HEWITT: THE BACH ODYSSEY

Sunday 22 January 11.30 am

See page 19 for full details

Elias String Quartet Saturday 21 January 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Come and Sing: Dido and Aeneas Julia Fischer

Felix Broede

Thursday 19 January 7.30 pm

Julia Fischer violin Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in G minor Op. 27 No. 1 (à Joseph Szigeti); Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 27 No. 2 (à Jacques Thibaud); Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 27 No. 3 (à Georges Enescu); Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 27 No. 4 (à Fritz Kreisler); Violin Sonata in G Op. 27 No. 5 (à Mathieu Crickboom); Violin Sonata in E Op. 27 No. 6 (à Manuel Quiroya).

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13

Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring Henry Purcell’s well-loved opera Dido and Aeneas. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.

Haydn and Mendelssohn have been constant companions to the Elias String Quartet since its foundation in 1998. Their works have informed the group’s artistic development, offering infinite possibilities of interpretation and for propagating the highest standards in performance. This programme unites the contemplative world of Haydn’s late Op. 76 No. 5 with the teenaged Mendelssohn’s impassioned A minor Quartet.

£25 concs £19

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

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

‘All the Ysaÿes played the fiddle as a matter of course’, wrote Eugène Ysaÿe’s son, ‘and as a matter of course [my father] would naturally follow the family tradition. How could he escape it? His destiny was already cast – straight from the atavistic crucible.’ Ysaÿe’s own father often beat musical sense into his prodigiously talented boy’s fingers and also passed on the gift of what Ysaÿe described as being able ‘to speak through the violin’. Julia Fischer here directs her spellbinding technical prowess and tremendous musicianship to Ysaÿe’s fiendishly difficult, sublimely romantic Violin Sonatas. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Come and Sing

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Elias String Quartet

Benjamin Ealovega

Schubert: Receptive to life and death, and aware of the spiritual depths of both, Schubert probed the heart of the human condition in his unsurpassed, and almost certainly unsurpassable, output of 600-plus songs. Wigmore Hall’s Schubert: The Complete Songs series offers audiences the chance to experience the full range of this extraordinary creative achievement. Schubert: The Complete Songs 2016/17 is made possible with additional support from the Voices at Wigmore syndicate and the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

Wednesday 18 January 7.30 pm

Georg Nigl baritone Andreas Staier fortepiano Schubert Die Schatten; Andenken; Geisternähe; Der Abend (D108); Lied der Liebe; Der Geistertanz (D116); Die Mainacht; Seufzer; Frühlingslied (D398); Die Knabenzeit; Klage an den Mond; Erntelied; Abschied (D475); Orest auf Tauris; Erlafsee; Beim Winde; Nachtstück; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Das Zügenglöcklein; Am Fenster; Irdisches Glück; Genügsamkeit; Schiffers Scheidelied Georg Nigl’s characterful performances arise from his unshakeable sense of period style allied to a truly poetic soul. The Austrian baritone, named as Singer of the Year 2015 by Opernwelt, is joined by another consummate Schubertian, the fortepianist Andreas Staier, in a programme complete with the folk-like lyricism of ‘Der Wanderer an den Mond’ and beguiling late settings of poetry by Franz von Schober. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series Portrait of Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder Background painting by Caspar David Friedrich

The Complete Songs Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Friday 19 May 7.30 pm

Thursday 2 February 7.30 pm

Julian Prégardien tenor Christoph Schnackertz piano

Elizabeth Watts soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Wednesday 15 February 7.30 pm

Matthew Rose bass Gary Matthewman piano Tuesday 14 March 7.30 pm

Georg Nigl

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Christoph Prégardien tenor Julius Drake piano

Sunday 11 June 7.30 pm

Ben Johnson tenor Graham Johnson piano Saturday 17 June 7.30 pm

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Henk Neven baritone Imogen Cooper piano

Sunday 2 July 7.30 pm

Wednesday 10 May 7.30 pm

Markus Schäfer tenor Piers Lane piano

Ian Bostridge tenor Lars Vogt piano

Sunday 9 July 7.30 pm

Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano Jan Philip Schulze piano Josep Molina

Anna Lucia Richter soprano Michael Gees piano

Tuesday 11 April 7.30 pm

Saturday 13 May 7.30 pm

Andreas Staier

Thursday 8 June 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Graham Johnson piano Wednesday 19 July 7.30 pm

Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano Eduard Kutrowatz piano

Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Spread over the course of four seasons, Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey gathers momentum with a concert devoted to Bach’s six French Suites. Angela Hewitt’s affinity for Bach flows naturally from her strong connection with the composer’s dance rhythms and from her exquisite feeling for lyrical phrasing, contrapuntal clarity and sensitive articulation.

Friday 20 January 7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt piano Bach French Suites: No. 1 in D minor BWV812 No. 2 in C minor BWV813 No. 4 in E b BWV815 No. 6 in E BWV817 No. 3 in B minor BWV814 No. 5 in G BWV816 Bach’s so-called French Suites were largely written between 1722 and 1725. They are in fact ruled by the manners of contemporary Italian music, albeit spiced by allusions to other national dance styles. Angela Hewitt’s recording of the French Suites was named as a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and hailed by The Sunday Times for making ‘Bach’s music live … in a way that even the greatest harpsichordists do not’. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Saturday 10 June 7.30 pm

This series will continue over the following three seasons

Portrait of J S Bach by Johann Jakob Ihle, c. 1720. Photo © akg-images

Angela Hewitt

James Cheadle

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Vienna and its Empire Saturday 21 January 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Ian Brown piano Lucy Crowe soprano Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘Emperor’ Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in E b K449 Mahler Symphony No. 4 (arr. for soprano and chamber ensemble by Erwin Stein) The Nash Ensemble’s renowned string players begin with Haydn’s Op. 76 No. 3 Quartet, with its variations on the composer’s ‘Emperor’s Hymn’. Long-serving Nash pianist Ian Brown is soloist in Mozart’s K449, while Lucy Crowe sings the child’s-eye view of heaven that closes Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, performed in the chamber arrangement made for Schoenberg’s Vienna-based Society for Private Musical Performances. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Sunday 5 February 11.30 am with

Ian Brown piano Philippa Davies flute

Dvorˇák & Smetana Saturday 11 February 5.30 pm Introductory talk followed by concert with

Tuesday 21 March 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Tuesday 21 March 7.30 pm

NASH INVENTIONS with Martyn Brabbins conductor

Claire Booth soprano

Adrian Brendel cello Roderick Williams

Berg, Webern & Schoenberg

baritone Saturday 11 February 7.30 pm with

Claire Booth soprano Richard Hosford clarinet

Huw Watkins, Colin Matthews, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Simon Holt & Julian Anderson

Berg, Mozart & Schubert

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt, Vienna 1907

January Sunday 22 January 3.00 pm

Monday 23 January 1.00 pm

Monday 23 January 7.30 pm

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle

Roderick Williams baritone Roger Vignoles piano

Philip Higham cello Alasdair Beatson piano

Nika Goricˇ soprano Katie Stevenson mezzo-soprano Nicholas Mogg baritone Michael Mofidian bass-baritone Yi-Shing Cheng piano Michael Pandya piano

Fauré Mirages Caplet Cinq ballades françaises de Paul Fort Honegger Petits cours de morale Poulenc Deux poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire; Parisiana

Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO.45 John Casken Stolen Airs (London première) Fauré Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 109 Lutosławski Metamorphoses (1981) Franck/Delsart Sonata in A for cello and piano

Stanford To the soul; The pibroch; La Belle Dame sans merci; The Clown’s Songs from Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ Herbert Renouncement; I think on thee in the night; Six children’s songs; Rose kissed me today; How beautiful is night; When Death to either shall come Quilter Autumn Evening; Now sleeps the crimson petal; Go, lovely Rose; Music, when soft voices die; Love’s philosophy Charles Villiers Stanford, acclaimed composer and teacher of generations of students in Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music, became a pillar of late Victorian and Edwardian society. His songs are performed here in company with works by his pupils Muriel Herbert and the man she loved, Roger Quilter. Herbert’s daughter, the author Claire Tomalin, introduces this recital.

Seismic change rocked Paris out of its belle époque complacency during the First World War, a process prefigured by the Symbolist imagery present in the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire and the long-lived Paul Fort. Roderick Williams and Roger Vignoles explore the febrile world of twentieth-century French art-song, from the sublime eroticism of the elderly Fauré’s Mirages to the boulevard style of Poulenc’s Parisiana. All seats £15

Two outstanding British artists offer a programme of imaginative contrasts and enormous emotional range, moving from Beethoven’s ebullient variations on one of Handel’s best-known tunes to John Casken’s Stolen Airs, inspired by a story central to his opera-in-progress, Sylvie and the Songman. Philip Higham and Alasdair Beatson conclude with Franck’s evergreen Violin Sonata in A, transcribed for cello and piano by Jules Delsart. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

All seats £15

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

Song Recital Series

RAM Richard Lewis Song Circle

Roderick Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

Alasdair Beatson

Giorgia Bertazzi

Philip Higham

Sussie Ahlburg

January Wednesday 25 January 7.30 pm

Thursday 26 January 7.30 pm

Saturday 28 January 7.30 pm

Signum Quartet

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Bruno Mantovani String Quartet No. 3* (UK première) Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Schubert Piano Sonata in D D850

Le Concert de la Loge Olympique Julien Chauvin director, violin Karina Gauvin soprano

*Co-commissioned by Philharmonie Luxembourg, Konzerthaus Vienna, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Bruno Mantovani’s latest string quartet, completed in 2015, was written for and dedicated to the Signum Quartet. The French composer’s fascination with narrative structures and the ebb and flow of drama is boldly stated in his new work, presented here in harness with one of Haydn’s groundbreaking Op. 20 quartets and Beethoven’s thrilling final ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Elisabeth Leonskaja’s artistry is nurtured by roots deeply embedded in the famous Russian-Soviet school of pianism and shaped by a personality free from the distractions of ego and self-serving mannerisms. She makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall to perform a programme of the richest musical substance, crowned by Schubert’s Piano Sonata in D D850, a work of irresistible momentum and constantly shifting emotional contrasts. £40 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Named after the famous orchestra that brought Haydn’s ‘Paris’ Symphonies to life, Le Concert de la Loge Olympique was founded in January 2015 by the violinist Julien Chauvin. Together with the distinguished Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin, a superlative performer of Baroque opera, they make their Wigmore Hall debut with a programme of Handel showpiece arias and other works.

Friday 27 January 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

ECMA Showcase

Handel Overture & Da tempeste from Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Suite No. 1 in F HWV348 ‘Water Music’ (excerpts); Ombre, piante, urne funeste from Rodelinda; Organ Concerto in Bb HWV290 (excerpts); Will the sun forget to streak from Solomon; Scherza in mar la navicella from Lotario; Tornami a vagheggiar & Ah, mio cor from Alcina; Suite No. 3 in G HWV350 ‘Water Music’ (excerpts); Concerto Grosso in G Op. 6 No. 1; Ah crudel! & Furie terribili from Rinaldo

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano FOCUS ON NICO MUHLY

Thursday 26 January 1.00 pm

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

See page 24 for full details Friday 27 January 1.00 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

Saturday 28 January 11.00 am – Masterclass Saturday 28 January 1.00 pm

See page opposite for full details

Signum Quartet

Irene Zandel

Elisabeth Leonskaja

Julia Wesely

Karina Gauvin

Michael Slobodian

European Chamber Music Academy Showcase Wigmore Hall’s annual European Chamber Music Academy Showcase has become a red-letter event for chamber music connoisseurs, the ideal opportunity to hear exceptional ensembles at the start of their careers and experience the intense energy of young artists at work. This year’s Showcase, under the care of ECMA founder and Artistic Director Hatto Beyerle, provides a platform for five groups from across Europe.

Quatuor Hanson

Denis Blackghost/Karol Miczka

Stratos Quartet

Trio Vitruvi

Tom McKenzie

Pacific Quartet Vienna

Thursday 26 January 1.00 pm

Friday 27 January 1.00 pm

Saturday 28 January 1.00 pm

Quatuor Akilone Quatuor Hanson

Stratos Quartet Trio Vitruvi

Pacific Quartet Vienna

Bartók String Quartet No. 6 BB119 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’

Walton Piano Quartet Chausson Piano Trio in G minor Op. 3

Towering monuments of the string quartet repertoire mark the opening of the 2017 ECMA Showcase at Wigmore Hall, performed by two fine young French ensembles: Quatuor Hanson, formed at the Paris Conservatoire in 2013, and Quatuor Akilone, another outstanding product of the Paris Conservatoire and winner of the prestigious 2016 Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition.

William Walton’s four-movement Piano Quartet, a strikingly assured product of his mid-teens, offers an ideal vehicle to demonstrate the formidable talents of the Stratos Quartet, the first piano quartet ever to join ECMA. Trio Vitruvi, established in 2013, explores the dark, intense Piano Trio in G minor, written in the early phase of Chausson’s studies with César Franck.

Julia Wesely

Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 Pacific Quartet Vienna, a multinational ensemble, was formed in 2006. It has a string of competition victories to its name, including first prize from the 6th International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna. The group closes Wigmore Hall’s ECMA Showcase weekend with the second of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets and Schumann’s exquisite String Quartet in A.

Saturday 28 January 11.00 am – 12 noon

ECMA Masterclass Hatto Beyerle’s influence as performer and teacher has spread worldwide, thanks not least to the work of his ECMA. The violist, born in Germany in 1933, was a founder member of the Alban Berg Quartet and has held professorial posts in Vienna, Hanover, Basel and Florence. He joins Quatuor Hanson for an ECMA Masterclass focusing on Schubert’s vibrant Quartettsatz. Quatuor Akilone

All tickets £5 each concert Free admission to masterclass (ticket required) The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton Chamber Music Season/ ECMA Showcase

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

January Sunday 29 January 11.30 am

FOCUS ON NICO MUHLY

Amaryllis Quartet Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 33 No. 3 ‘The Bird’ Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 127 High-profile engagements at leading festivals and concert halls, award-winning recordings and international competition success have marked the Amaryllis Quartet’s meteoric progress since its foundation in 2004. The German-based ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall to perform one of Haydn’s wittiest works, the ‘Bird’ Quartet, and plumb the profoundly spiritual depths of Beethoven’s late Op. 127 quartet. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Nico Muhly

Ana Cuba

Alice Coote

Benjamin Ealovega

Julius Drake

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Friday 27 January 7.30 pm

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano ‘I MYSELF AM THE ENEMY WHO MUST BE LOVED? WHAT THEN?’ Nico Muhly Strange Productions* (world première) Dominick Argento From the Diary of Virginia Woolf Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Firm Wigmore Hall favourites Alice Coote and Julius Drake present a special programme of works, complete with the world première of a new score from Nico Muhly. Muhly’s piece stands alongside Dominick Argento’s Pulitzer Prize-winning song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, written in 1974 for Janet Baker, and the twelve nostalgic songs of Schumann’s Kerner Lieder. This concert is entitled ‘I myself am the enemy who must be loved? What then?’, quoting Carl Jung, and explores the theme of mental health and the complexities of the human mind. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music Series/Focus on Nico Muhly Amaryllis Quartet

Tobias Wirth

January Sunday 29 January 3.00 pm

Monday 30 January 1.00 pm

STÉPHANE DEGOUT & CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN

Tim Mead countertenor James Baillieu piano Howells King David Vaughan Williams Linden Lea Purcell/Britten Lord, what is Man? Quilter It was a lover and his lass Vaughan Williams Silent Noon Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci Betty Roe To his sweet saviour Ireland If there were dreams to sell Joseph Phibbs The Moon’s Funeral Vaughan Williams Tired Howells A Madrigal Dankworth Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Warlock Love for Love Britten O Waly, Waly Quilter Hey, ho, the wind and the rain Tim Mead’s soulful expression, tonal warmth and jaw-dropping vocal technique have won a legion of admirers. The English countertenor, whose repertoire spans everything from Monteverdi to Birtwistle, explores the songs of his homeland with a programme spiced with such delights as John Dankworth’s languid Shakespeare sonnet setting and Betty Roe’s haunting ‘To his sweet saviour’. All seats £15

Song Recital Series

Peter Moore trombone James Baillieu piano Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Jørgensen Romance Op. 21 Duparc La vie antérieure Rachmaninov Vocalise Hindemith Sonata for trombone and piano Pryor Annie Laurie

Stéphane Degout

Cédric Tiberghien

Sunday 29 January 7.30 pm

Stéphane Degout baritone Matteo Cesari flute, alto flute Alexis Descharmes cello Cédric Tiberghien piano Poulenc Le bestiaire; Montparnasse; Hyde Park; Calligrammes; Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire; Banalités Kaija Saariaho Cendres for alto flute, cello and piano Ravel Chansons madécasses; Histoires naturelles

Peter Moore, winner of the 2008 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, made history in 2014 when he was appointed the youngest-ever member of the London Symphony Orchestra at the age of 18. He reveals every facet of his instrument’s character in this programme, from the enchanting melody of Rachmaninov’s Vocalise to the majestic power of Hindemith’s Sonata. £15 concs £13

Peter Moore is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Stéphane Degout and Cédric Tiberghien, in partnership with two fine instrumentalists, explore the urbanity and sheer playfulness of works by Poulenc in their programme’s first half before turning to the exotic imagery of two of Ravel’s finest artistic achievements, the Chansons madécasses and the Histoires naturelles, a cycle of five songs to poems by Jules Renard. Degout’s lyric baritone, sonorous and supremely flexible, ideally suits the soundworld of Poulenc and Ravel. Best known to British audiences for his acclaimed performances of Mozart and Rossini at the Royal Opera House, he has also attracted rave reviews for his recordings of French mélodies. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series / Contemporary Music Series Photo of Stéphane Degout by Julien Benhamou Photo of Cédric Tiberghien by Jean-Baptiste Millot

Tim Mead

Andy Staples

Peter Moore

Kaupo Kikkas

Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a pianist with ‘unlimited capacity’ and widely regarded to be among the finest artists of his generation, Igor Levit continues his season-long exploration of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas at Wigmore Hall. The Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit series is set to reinforce the Russian-born pianist’s credentials as a Beethovenian of supreme perception and boundless imagination. Monday 30 January 7.30 pm

Igor Levit piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Op. 10 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 18 in E b Op. 31 No. 3 Although Beethoven dedicated his Op. 2 piano sonatas to the venerable Haydn, its music set markers for the future by breaking with formal convention. Igor Levit presents the expansive Piano Sonata No. 2 in A in context with other pioneering works, including two strikingly contrasting pieces from Beethoven’s Op. 10 set and an experimental composition from his early maturity, the Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton London Pianoforte Series

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Sunday 26 February 7.30 pm Friday 17 March 7.30 pm Tuesday 13 June 7.30 pm

Photo by Felix Broede

January/February Tuesday 31 January 7.30 pm

Gould Piano Trio GOULD PIANO TRIO 25TH ANNIVERSARY Schubert Notturno in Eb D897; Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898; Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb D929 Among Schubert’s many late masterworks, the two piano trios rank with the finest. Each bears witness to the composer’s unfailing inventive powers and ability to create melodies of sublime beauty, including those of the B flat Trio’s opening movement and the E flat Trio’s transcendent slow movement. The Gould Piano Trio prefaces both works with the introspective Notturno of 1827.

Thursday 2 February 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

Thursday 2 February 7.30 pm

Elizabeth Watts soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

For Crying Out Loud! Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, presented in a relaxed environment for parents or carers and their babies under one to enjoy together. Adults £7.50 (babies come free)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Schubert Nähe des Geliebten; Vergebliche Liebe; Liebe schwärmt auf allen Wegen; Das Rosenband; Lambertine; Die verfehlte Stunde; Gott im Frühlinge; Aus Diego Manzanares (Almerine); Pflicht und Liebe; Der Sänger am Felsen; Die Blumensprache; La pastorella al prato; Heiß mich nicht reden (D726); So laßt mich scheinen (D727); Der Blumen Schmerz; Nachtviolen; Du bist die Ruh; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Im Frühling; Über Wildemann; Heimliches Lieben; Frühlingslied (D919) Aspects of love, nature imagery and the regenerative promise of spring run through Elizabeth Watts’s delightful programme. The soprano and her regular duo partner Malcolm Martineau close their recital with ‘Frühlingslied’, a remarkable song written in March 1826 in which springtime warmth and uplifting optimism clash with dark, disturbing mid-winter memories.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

For Crying Out Loud!

Gould Piano Trio

Benjamin Ealovega

Jake Morley

Elizabeth Watts

Marco Borggreve

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle Beethoven’s string quartets are deeply ingrained in the collective consciousness of Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists. The Takács Quartet continues its season-long Beethoven Cycle with programmes of works from the composer’s early, middle and late years, and also leads a masterclass evening devoted to the fine art of Beethoven interpretation. Friday 3 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 4 February 7.30 pm

Takács Quartet

Beethoven String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2; String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’; String Quartet in Bb Op. 130

Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quartet in Eb Op. 74 ‘Harp’; String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131

Beethoven originally created a fugal finale for the String Quartet in B flat Op. 130 before developing it separately as his ‘Great Fugue’. The revised quartet deals in what Vincent d’Indy famously described as ‘open war … between careless merriment and serious thought’. It is prefaced here by the intense concentration of Op. 95 and the graceful elegance of Op. 18 No. 2.

The Takács Quartet begins with the first of Beethoven’s Op. 18 pieces, a mighty four-movement work that contributed to the composer’s emergence as a master of the string quartet. Beethoven’s determination to explore and experiment is also present in the ‘Harp’ Quartet, while the meditative stillness and serenity of Op. 131 reflect the mature artist’s profound sense of wonder about the nature of existence.

£40 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season

Forthcoming Events in this Series Sunday 5 February 7.30 pm Masterclass Monday 6 February 7.30 pm Sunday 14 May 7.30 pm Monday 15 May 7.30 pm Wednesday 17 May 7.30 pm

Photo by Robert Torres

February Saturday 4 February 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Sunday 5 February 11.30 am

Handel and Hendrix

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

FAMILY DAY For ages 5 plus Explore the musical worlds of Handel and Jimi Hendrix with the help of Handel & Hendrix in London Composer in Residence Hunter Coblentz, and guitarist Jack Ross. Visit the former homes of these great musicians and discover what inspired them before creating your own music to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day. Children £10 Adults £15

In partnership with Handel & Hendrix in London

Nash Ensemble Ian Brown piano Philippa Davies flute Dvorˇák Sonatina in G Op. 100 (arr. for flute and piano) Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 Dvorˇák String Quintet in E b Op. 97 Two works from Dvorˇák’s fertile American period, the tuneful Sonatina originally written for violin and piano and the String Quintet with two violas, created during the idyllic summer the composer spent in Spillville, Iowa, surround the heartfelt Piano Trio that Smetana wrote in memory of his musically talented infant daughter following her death from scarlet fever.

TAKÁCS QUARTET MASTERCLASS

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 4 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet TAKÁCS QUARTET BEETHOVEN CYCLE See page opposite for full details

Sunday 5 February 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet MASTERCLASS In his book about Beethoven’s sixteen string quartets, the Takács Quartet’s first violinist Edward Dusinberre describes the exhilaration and spiritual rewards of performing these great works. He and his colleagues pass on their experience and insights into Beethoven’s art to two postgraduate student ensembles in a masterclass certain to enlighten and inspire. This event will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle

Family Day

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Nash Ensemble

K Leighton

February Monday 6 February 1.00 pm

Monday 6 February 7.30 pm

Tuesday 7 February 7.30 pm

Isabelle Faust violin Andreas Staier piano

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

The English Concert Rachel Podger guest director, violin

CPE Bach Fantasie in F# minor Wq. 80 (arr. of Fantasia for keyboard solo Wq. 67) Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 131 Brahms Violin Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2 (arr. of Viola Sonata)

Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5; String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4; String Quartet in A minor Op. 132

Takács Quartet

Against the scientific revolution’s backdrop, many eighteenth-century writers, artists and composers turned to fantasy as an antidote to the dictates of realism and rationality. CPE Bach’s influential fantasies helped establish a style of rhapsodic composition that was extensively developed in the following century. Isabelle Faust and Andreas Staier explore fantasy pieces by Bach and Schumann in company with the genial lyricism of Brahms’s late Sonata Op. 120 No. 2.

While shades of Mozart fleet over the surface of Beethoven’s Op. 18 No. 5, the work’s deep originality is never in doubt. Its companion piece, Op. 18 No. 4, inhabits emotional territory comparable to another contemporary C minor masterwork, the ‘Pathétique’ Sonata. The Takács Quartet also mines the infinite possibilities of the String Quartet in A minor Op. 132, complete with its prayer and thanksgiving for the recovery ‘by a convalescent’. £40 £30 £25 £20 £15

JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066 Telemann Sonata a 6 in F minor TWV44:32 CPE Bach Symphony in G Wq. 182 No. 1 JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 Telemann Concerto in Bb for 3 oboes, 3 violins and basso continuo TWV44:43 JS Bach Concerto in C minor BWV1060 for oboe and violin (reconst.) Distinguished violinist and director Rachel Podger leads The English Concert in a feast of suites and concertos by JS Bach and his lifelong friend Telemann. Adding spice to the banquet is Bach’s son (and Telemann’s godson) Carl Philipp Emanuel, whose extraordinary symphonies were to subvert the musical conventions of the early 1700s.

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle All seats £15

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle

Early Music and Baroque Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Andreas Staier

Isabelle Faust

Eric Larrayadieu/Harmonia Mundi

Molina Visuals

Takács Quartet

The English Concert

Keith Saunders

Rachel Podger

Jonas Sacks

Richard Haughton

February Wednesday 8 February 12.15 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage discusses the programme for the following lunchtime concert with Dr Kate Kennedy. Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Wednesday 8 February 1.00 pm

JANINE JANSEN PERSPECTIVES Wednesday 8 February 7.30 pm

Britten Sinfonia

Janine Jansen violin Boris Brovtsyn violin Torleif Thedéen cello Clara Andrada de la Calle flute Olivier Patey clarinet Eldar Nebolsin piano

Laura Lucas flute Nicholas Daniel oboe Joy Farrall clarinet Lucy Wakeford harp Jacqueline Shave & Miranda Dale violins Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet Mark-Anthony Turnage Prayer for a great man Oliver Knussen Cantata (Triptych Part 3) Op. 15 Ravel Introduction and Allegro Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet Mark-Anthony Turnage Col* (world première)

Berg Adagio from Chamber Concerto Schoenberg / Webern Chamber Symphony No. 1 Op. 9 Korngold Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand Op. 23

*Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Janine Jansen and friends step into the world of fin-de-siècle Vienna, evoking the creative milieu of compositions conceived under the influence of Late Romanticism, and Modernist explorations of the psyche. Their programme includes Webern’s first arrangement of Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Korngold’s Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand, first performed in 1930 by Paul Wittgenstein and the Rosé Quartet.

A composer of truly international stature, Mark-Anthony Turnage is among today’s most direct communicators and significant creators. Turnage has curated a programme of music by composers he respects and of music he admires, crowned by the world première of his new work, Col, a tribute to composer and friend Colin Matthews. £13 concs £11

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season Janine Jansen

Marco Borggreve

Forthcoming Events in this Series Friday 2 June 7.30 pm

Janine Jansen violin Torleif Thedéen cello Martin Fröst clarinet Lucas Debargue piano Friday 2 June 9.45 pm

Post-Concert Talk

Philip Gatward

Jörg Widmann & Mitsuko Uchida Thursday 9 February 7.30 pm

Jörg Widmann clarinet Mitsuko Uchida piano Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Jörg Widmann Fantasie for solo clarinet Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1 for solo piano Jörg Widmann Idyll und Abgrund – Six Schubert Reminiscences for piano Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73

Jörg Widmann’s passions include the works of Schubert and Schumann, composers with whom he shares an affinity for lyricism, poetic shading and dramatic contrasts. The German clarinettist and composer joins forces with Mitsuko Uchida for a programme rooted in their shared musical values, spanning everything from the expressive miniatures of Berg’s Op. 5 to the shifting moods of Schumann’s Fantasiestücke of 1849.

£60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series

Photo of Jörg Widmann by Marco Borggreve Photo of Mitsuko Uchida by Justin Pumfrey/Decca

February Friday 10 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 11 February 5.30 pm

Sunday 12 February 11.30 am

Nikolai Demidenko piano

Introductory Talk and Concert

Trio con Brio Copenhagen

Scarlatti 12 Sonatas Schubert 3 Moments Musicaux D780 Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano (transcription for solo piano by Alfred Cortot)

An introductory talk on the Second Viennese School by Gillian Moore MBE, Director of Music, Southbank Centre, writer and broadcaster.

Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Webern Piano Quintet in C Schoenberg Die eiserne Brigade; Ein Stelldichein; Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs); Nachtwandler

Founded in Vienna in 1999 and resident in Denmark, the Trio con Brio Copenhagen has inspired rave reviews with performances shot through with rich tonal warmth, refined textural contrasts and wise musicianship. This recital brings together a key work in Beethoven’s early artistic development with Mendelssohn’s Beethoven-inspired Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66.

London Pianoforte Series

All seats £5

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

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

A regular presence at Wigmore Hall for almost three decades, Nikolai Demidenko’s pianism combines power and passion, light and shade, and life’s emotional ebb and flow. His latest programme opens with a selection of Domenico Scarlatti’s quicksilver keyboard sonatas and includes Alfred Cortot’s virtuoso transcription of Franck’s A minor Violin Sonata.

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Claire Booth soprano

Saturday 11 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Claire Booth soprano Richard Hosford clarinet Berg Sieben frühe Lieder (arr. by de Leeuw for soprano, piano, harmonium, flute, clarinet, string quartet and bass) Beethoven Clarinet Trio in Bb Op. 11 Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock) Schubert Octet in F D803 Nikolai Demidenko

K Miura

The Nash Ensemble’s Vienna-based series ends with an introductory talk and a double bill concert. Berg’s epigrammatic clarinet pieces, Webern’s early Piano Quintet and an engaging selection of little-known miniatures by Schoenberg occupies the first programme. The main concert presents acclaimed soprano Claire Booth in Berg’s ravishing Seven Early Songs and Schubert’s late cantata ‘The Shepherd on the Rock’, together with two Nash favourites, Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio in B flat and Schubert’s monumental Octet.

Trio con Brio Copenhagen

Seren Svendsen

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Claire Booth

Sven Arnstein

Richard Hosford

Keith Saunders

February Sunday 12 February 7.30 pm

Monday 13 February 1.00 pm

Tuesday 14 February 6.00 pm

Belcea Quartet

Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano Gary Pomeroy viola

Pre-Concert Event

Howells Come sing and dance Quilter Go, lovely Rose; Now sleeps the crimson petal; Music, when soft voices die Denis Browne To Gratiana dancing and singing Howells Peacock Pie Gurney Sleep; Most Holy Night; The fields are full; By a Bierside Bridge Three songs with viola

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 of their careers.

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in E b minor Op. 144 Schubert String Quartet in G D887 Shostakovich’s final and longest string quartet, supremely introspective and fully reconciled to the inevitability of death, offers an intimate portrait of the Soviet composer during his last years. The Belcea Quartet has programmed it together with another fifteenth and final string quartet, Schubert’s profound reflection on impermanence and everchanging reality.

RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL

English song flourished in the last century’s opening decades, touched by the wealth of native poetry and the trauma of global warfare. Kathryn Rudge joins James Baillieu and Gary Pomeroy on a journey through a programme containing familiar pieces by Howells and Quilter and a rarity by Denis Browne.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

£15 concs £13

Free (ticket required)

Tuesday 14 February 7.30 pm

Razumovsky Ensemble Ana Chumachenco violin Oleg Kogan cello, artistic director Haydn String Trio in G Op. 53 No. 1 Mozart String Quintet in G minor K516 Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111

Kathryn Rudge is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Oleg Kogan’s acclaimed Razumovsky Ensemble is joined by the distinguished violinist Ana Chumachenco, for many years Professor of Violin at Munich’s University of Music, in a programme complete with late masterworks by Mozart and Brahms. The G minor String Quintet, created in 1787, contains some of Mozart’s most personal, tragic and tender music.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Belcea Quartet

Kathryn Rudge

Ronald Knapp

Sussie Ahlburg

James Baillieu

Kaupo Kikkas

Oleg Kogan

Robert Cassen

February Thursday 16 February 7.30 pm

MATTHEW ROSE GARY MATTHEWMAN

Llyˆr Williams piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4 in E b Op. 7; Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78; Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’; Piano Sonata No. 26 in E b Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’ For the past three seasons Llyˆr Williams has moved through the complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall, the latest milestone in his lifelong commitment to the composer’s music. The Welsh pianist’s penultimate programme includes the graceful Op. 78 and the ‘Farewell’ Sonata, written following the French siege of Vienna in 1809. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

‘The Shortest Day’

Wednesday 15 February 7.30 pm

Matthew Rose bass Gary Matthewman piano WINTERREISE: A PARALLEL WINTER JOURNEY Schubert Winterreise Early audiences, in thrall to the peace and prosperity that preceded the Matthew Rose Lena Kern Gary Matthewman Johan Persson European revolutions of 1848, rejected the melancholy worldview contained within Winterreise. Schubert’s late, great song cycle is now recognised as one of the most extraordinary creative achievements of the nineteenth century. The composer told a friend how his collection of ‘spine-chilling songs … have affected me more than has been the case with any other of my Lieder’, a feeling shared by millions since the work’s publication in 1828. Matthew Rose has collaborated with painter Victoria Crowe on this production in which projected images offer a contemplative, extended response to the words and music. This concert will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval £40 £30 £25 £20 £15

Visuals sponsored by the Royal Society of Arts

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Llyˆr Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

Mauro Peter & Helmut Deutsch Friday 17 February 7.30 pm

Mauro Peter tenor Helmut Deutsch piano Schumann Abends am Strand; Dein Angesicht; Lehn deine Wang; Es leuchtet meine Liebe; Mein Wagen rollet langsam; Belsazar Schumann Fünf Lieder Op. 40 Strauss Schlichte Weisen; Mädchenblumen Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Swiss tenor Mauro Peter studied Lieder singing with Helmut Deutsch at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, and over recent years their recital partnership has developed leading to international critical acclaim. Peter’s artistry, admired worldwide ever since his Lieder recital debut at the 2012 Schubertiade in Hohenems, is reflected in his rapidly growing catalogue of song recordings, including an acclaimed account of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin on the Wigmore Hall Live label. Schumann’s songs, his retelling of Belshazzar’s feast and late Heine settings among them, stand together in this programme with a selection of works by Strauss and Liszt’s heart-breakingly beautiful Petrarch sonnets. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

February Saturday 18 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 19 February 11.30 am

Sunday 19 February 3.00 pm

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton leader, artistic director Alina Ibragimova violin

Wigmore Hall Debut

Louise Alder soprano Gary Matthewman piano

Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 6 in E b for strings Arvo Pärt Silouan’s Song ‘My soul yearns after the Lord’ Hartmann Concerto funebre Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 10 in B minor for strings Pe¯teris Vasks Viatore Bach Concerto in E for violin BWV1042 One of the UK’s leading string orchestras is joined by Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova, among the brightest talents of the younger generation, for a varied programme of string pieces featuring Ibragimova as soloist in Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s lyrical Concerto funebre for solo violin and strings, composed in 1939, and Bach’s exuberant E major concerto.

Lara Melda piano Chopin Nocturne in B Op. 32 No. 1; Nocturne in C# minor Op. 27 No. 1; Nocturne in Db Op. 27 No. 2; Nocturne in C minor Op. 48 No. 1 Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D845 Lara Melda became BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2010 at the age of sixteen and currently studies with Ian Jones at the Royal College of Music. Her Wigmore Hall debut programme juxtaposes the gentle melancholy and flowing melodies of four Chopin Nocturnes with the complex emotional outpourings of Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A minor D845. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Sibelius Kyssens hopp (Kiss’s Hope); Vilse (Astray); Säv, säv, susa (Reed, reed, rustle); Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (The girl returned from meeting her lover) Huw Watkins Five Larkin Songs Debussy Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire Puccini A te; Morire? Verdi Stornello; Lo spazzacamino Following studies as the inaugural Kiri Te Kanawa Scholar at the Royal College of Music’s International Opera School, Louise Alder has received glowing reviews as a member of the Frankfurt Opera Ensemble and for her performances at the BBC Proms and Glyndebourne Festival. She is joined by Gary Matthewman to explore the rich variety of European Art Song, from the beauty of Scandinavia via England and France to Italy, in settings by Sibelius, Huw Watkins, Debussy, Puccini and Verdi. All seats £15

Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

Alina Ibragimova

Scottish Ensemble

Eva Vermandel

Lara Melda

Benjamin Harte

Peter Dibdin

Louise Alder

William Alder

Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov Sunday 19 February 7.30 pm

Isabelle Faust violin Alexander Melnikov piano Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Françaix Sonatine (1934) Fauré Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 108 Antheil Sonata for violin, piano and drums Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov have developed an uncanny mutual understanding and empathy as duo partners, refined over the past decade in the recording studio and in recital. The German violinist and Russian pianist offer interpretations that are faithful to the letter of the score while remaining open to inventive spontaneity and expressive freedom. Their latest Wigmore Hall programme mines a deep vein of poetry in music, opening with a work written during the First World War’s initial phase. They also explore the Sonata for violin, piano and drums by the self-styled ‘bad boy of music’, the American avant-gardist George Antheil. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season

Photo by Marco Borggreve

February Monday 20 February 1.00 pm

Van Kuijk Quartet Schubert String Quartet in E b D87 Ravel String Quartet in F Winner of The Harry M Weinrebe Prize (first prize at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition) and the HSBC 2014 laureate of the Aix-en-Provence Festival Academy, the Van Kuijk Quartet continues to harvest critical acclaim while boosting its reputation among the most exciting of young ensembles. Schubert and Ravel occupy the four Frenchmen’s lunchtime recital as BBC New Generation Artists.

THE SIXTEEN

£15 concs £13

Van Kuijk Quartet is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

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

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

The Sixteen

Molina Visuals

Monday 20 February 7.30 pm

The Sixteen Fretwork Harry Christophers

conductor

Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri BuxWV75 Scheidt Two dances from Ludi musici Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, composed in 1680, forms a cycle of seven cantatas addressed to different parts of the crucified Christ’s body. Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have lived with this unique work for many years, exploring its meditations on the saviour’s feet, knees, hands, side, breast, heart and face in concert and on disc. They are joined by Fretwork for their latest interpretation of music that casts light on the nature of suffering, devotion and spiritual transcendence.

Fretwork

Other Events in this Series Saturday 14 January 11.00 am

Family Concert: The Fairy Queen

£60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Friday 30 June 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

The Sixteen

Van Kuijk Quartet

Sir András Schiff

Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók Comparisons and contrasts occupy Sir András Schiff in his series of concerts devoted to the music of four great composers. Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók unfolds with the second of three recitals and related evening masterclass sessions, connecting audiences with one of the most perceptive and inspirational musical minds of our time. Tuesday 21 February 7.30 pm

Wednesday 22 February 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff piano

Sir András Schiff Masterclass

Bach 5 Sinfonias BWV787–791 Bartók Suite Op. 14 Bach 5 Sinfonias BWV792–796 Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) BB89 Bach 5 Sinfonias BWV797– 801 Janácˇek Piano Sonata I.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 in F # minor Op. 11

Sir András Schiff’s eloquence as a teacher and profound insights as a thinker about music make his masterclass sessions irresistible to participants and audiences alike. Through the course of this event an outstanding young musician, chosen by Sir András himself, will explore some of the repertoire featured in the previous evening’s concert.

Bach’s Sinfonias, known to generations of piano students as Three-part Inventions, provide the powerful platform for a programme of works bristling with rhythmic energy and songful melody. Janác ˇek’s Sonata ‘From the Street’ captures the outrage, defiance and despair provoked by the death in 1905 of a worker bayoneted by troops during a protest in favour of a Czech university in Brno.

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

Supported by an anonymous donor Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by an anonymous donor

Forthcoming Events in this Series

London Pianoforte Series

Tuesday 2 May 7.30 pm

Concert Wednesday 3 May 7.30 pm

Masterclass

Photo by Yutaka Suzuki

February

ARTEMIS QUARTET MARIA JOÃO PIRES

Friday 24 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 26 February 11.30 am

Matthias Goerne baritone Markus Hinterhäuser piano

Quatuor Voce

See page 42 for full details

Saturday 25 February

XENAKIS DAY 1.00 pm

JACK Quartet Artemis Quartet

Felix Broede

6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52 Praised by The Strad for its ‘refinement, beautiful tone, excellent ensemble, precise chording, fine rhythm and loads of character’, Quatuor Voce regularly appears at the world’s foremost concert halls and festivals. The French ensemble surveys Beethoven’s Op. 18 No. 6, with its visionary blend of classical poise and romantic contrasts, together with Bartók’s Beethoven-inspired first string quartet. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

7.30 pm

JACK Quartet Pavel Kolesnikov piano See page 45 for full details Maria João Pires

Felix Broede/DG

Thursday 23 February 7.30 pm

Artemis Quartet Maria João Pires piano Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 Bartók String Quartet No. 3 BB93 Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44 Partnerships with other performers have long been central to the Artemis Quartet’s artistic development. The Berlin-based ensemble, named after the Greek goddess of the hunt, returns to Wigmore Hall in its latest formation to perform Schumann’s fertile creative response to landmarks of the Classical chamber repertoire in company with one of today’s finest pianists, Maria João Pires, recently lauded by The New York Times for her ‘poetic way and lyrical grace’. The Artemis Quartet opens with the earliest of Beethoven’s string quartets, first sketched in January 1799, and Bartók’s folk-inspired, intensely focused third quartet, completed almost 90 years ago in Budapest. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

Chamber Music Season

Quatuor Voce

Sophie Pawlak

Matthias

Goerne Friday 24 February 7.30 pm

Matthias Goerne baritone Markus Hinterhäuser piano Programme to include: Eisler From Hollywood Liederbook : Hotelzimmer 1942; An der kleinen Radioapparat; In den Weiden; Frühling 1942; Auf der Flucht; Über den Selbstmord; Die Flucht; Ostersonntag; L’automne californien; Der Sohn I; Die Heimkehr Eisler Zwei Lieder nach Worten von Pascal; Fünf Elegien; In der Frühe from Anakreontische Fragmente Mahler Der Abschied from Das Lied von der Erde In constant demand at the world’s leading concert halls and as soloist with the finest orchestras and conductors, Matthias Goerne has inspired critics to dig deep for fresh superlatives and phrases to summarise the breadth and depth of his artistry. The German artist has secured a place among the all-time greats of song thanks to his rare combination of tonal variety, ability to convey multi-hued feelings and emotions, technical mastery and searching musicianship. Those qualities were recently encapsulated by The New York Times, which described Goerne as ‘a masterly singer endowed with an opulent baritone that includes a silky, cello-like high register and penetrating depths’. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Song Recital Series

Photo of Matthias Goerne by Marco Borggreve

Markus Hinterhaüser

Martina Siebenhandl

February Sunday 26 February 3.00 pm

Sunday 26 February 7.30 pm

Monday 27 February 1.00 pm

Nicholas Phan tenor Myra Huang piano

Igor Levit piano

David Greilsammer piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’; Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 13 in E b Op. 27 No. 1 ‘Quasi una fantasia’; Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’

Scarlatti Sonatas: in D minor Kk213; in D minor Kk141; in E Kk381; in B minor Kk87; in F minor Kk466; in E Kk531; in B minor Kk27; in D Kk492 Interspersed with Cage Sonatas: No. 14; No. 13; No. 12; No. 1; No. 16; No. 11; No. 5

MOUNT OLYMPUS Schubert An die Leier; Ganymed; Atys; Der Musensohn KNIGHTS AND KINGS Schubert Der Sänger Brahms Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein Mahler Rheinlegendchen & Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Beethoven Aus Goethes Faust: Es war einmal ein König THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT Schumann Der Sandmann Wolf Der Feuerreiter Schubert Der Zwerg Schumann Waldesgespräch Mendelssohn Hexenlied

Igor Levit inspired international acclaim in 2013 with his debut recording of Beethoven’s late piano sonatas, setting down enduring markers of artistic maturity and intelligence. He continues his Beethoven odyssey at Wigmore Hall with four essential works from the composer’s middle years, including the fantasy worlds of the Op. 27 sonatas and the genial warmth of the ‘Pastoral’ Sonata. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton

Pianist and conductor David Greilsammer is known not least for his refreshingly imaginative approach to programming and corresponding breadth of his repertoire. His choice of works by Domenico Scarlatti and John Cage highlights the fascination of both composers for tonal and textural contrasts, explored in the former’s keyboard sonatas and the latter’s sonatas for prepared piano. £15 concs £13

London Pianoforte Series/ Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

FAIRY TALES Brahms Sandmännchen Wolf Der Rattenfänger; Elfenlied; Storchenbotschaft ‘Des Schäfers sein Haus’

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Myth, according to the scholar Joseph Campbell, provides a bridge from the physical plane to ‘our own innermost being … so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive’. Nicholas Phan’s recital programme evokes ancient myth, heroic adventures, the awesome power of the supernatural, and the vitality of fairy tales, as imagined and reimagined in the hothouse environment of nineteenth-century German culture. All seats £15

Song Recital Series Igor Levit

Nicholas Phan

Balance Photography

Myra Huang

Simon Jay Price

Cortesía Cenart

David Greilsammer

Julien Mignot

Photo: akg-images/Marion Kalter

Xenakis Day Iconoclast, wartime resistance fighter, avant-garde radical and explorer of sound, Iannis Xenakis (1922– 2001) emerged as one of the most inventive and influential of all twentieth-century Modernists. The French composer of Greek parentage, largely self-taught in music, drew from his early experience as an architect in the studio of Le Corbusier to construct works of extraordinary complexity and dazzling conceptual breadth. Wigmore Hall’s Xenakis Day offers the chance to explore a thick slice of his thrilling chamber music for strings. Saturday 25 February 1.00 pm

6.00 pm

JACK Quartet

Pre-Concert Talk

Xenakis Ergma for string quartet; Embellie for solo viola; Mikka ‘S’ for solo violin; Kottos for solo cello; Hunem-Iduhey for violin and cello; ST/4 –1, 080262 for string quartet

Join Tom Service in an exploration of the unique sound world of Iannis Xenakis before hearing works for strings and piano in the evening concert.

The JACK Quartet launches Xenakis Day with Ergma, a typically uncompromising study in homophony, before its individual members perform a group of sonorous solo scores and the haunting Hunem-Iduhey, with its opening study in non-vibrato tones. The musical material of ST/4–1, 080262 was generated by a series of compositional algorithms and shaped by Xenakis into a work of intense drama.

All seats £4

All seats £15

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

7.30 pm

JACK Quartet Pavel Kolesnikov piano Xenakis Mikka for solo violin; Ikhoor for string trio; Tetora for string quartet; Akea for piano and string quartet; Tetras for string quartet Two of Xenakis’s finest chamber works crown this thrilling programme. The short and concise Akea is followed by Tetras, named after the ancient Greek word ‘four’. With its extreme technical challenges and bold originality, Tetras was hailed as a pioneering addition to the string quartet repertoire following its première in 1983. All seats £20

JACK Quartet

Pavel Kolesnikov

Colin Way

Shervin Lainez

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

February/March Tuesday 28 February 7.30 pm

Wednesday 1 March 5.45 pm – 6.45 pm

Theatre of the Ayre

Pre-Concert Performance

Sophie Daneman soprano William Purefoy countertenor Nicholas Mulroy tenor Giles Underwood baritone Rodolfo Richter violin Emilia Benjamin viol Reiko Ichise viol Jacob Heringman lute, cittern Siobhán Armstrong harp David Miller lute, theorbo

Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the National Young String Quartet Weekend with a performance given by quartets that took part this year.

Elizabeth Kenny director, lute, theorbo

Wednesday 1 March 7.30 pm

THE MASQUE OF MOMENTS

Carducci String Quartet

PART I MASQUE Anon The Earl of Essex’s Measure Lupo Shows and nightly revels Coprario While dancing rests Anon Steer Hither Campion Now hath Flora robb’d her bowers Ferrabosco Why stayes the bridegroome Anon Masque dance Campion Move now with measured sound Ferrabosco Galliarde Faraboscho Lanier I was not wearier when I lay Anon Les Manches Vertes

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122 Webern Langsamer Satz Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’

ANTIMASQUE Johnson From the famous Peak of Derby Anon The Bears’ Dance; Tho’ it may seem rude; Tom O’Bedlam; What is’t you lack?; To the old, long life and treasure; The maypole

HELEN GRIME

Free (ticket required) Wigmore Hall Learning Event

The Carducci String Quartet responds with quicksilver speed to musical drama and shifting emotions. Its programme offers the ideal canvas for bold expression, starting with the boisterous energy of Haydn’s Op. 20 No. 4 before turning to the sombre world of Shostakovich’s F minor Quartet and culminating in the striking expressive contrasts of Beethoven’s ‘Serioso’. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Carducci String Quartet

Tom Barnes

Friday 3 March 7.30 pm

Birmingham Contempoary Music Group Huw Watkins piano Oliver Knussen conductor

Helen Grime’s first commission as Wigmore Hall Composer in Residence, conceived as a vehicle for her husband Huw Watkins, occupies the heart of a programme hallmarked by musical interplay and dialogue. Oliver Knussen and BCMG gave the première of Grime’s A Cold Spring in 2009 and present its three movements in tandem with Elliott Carter’s Triple Duo, written in 1982 for three pairs of instruments. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence is supported by The Marchus Trust

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series/ Helen Grime Composer in Residence

With grateful thanks to the Supporter, Benefactor and Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall

Amy Barton

*Co-commissioned by BCMG’s Sound Investment scheme, and by Wigmore Hall with the generous support of The Marchus Trust

A company of standout vocalists and consort players joins Elizabeth Kenny and Theatre of the Ayre for a programme inspired by the Stuart courtly masque and its high-comic counterpart, the antimasque. Popular dances and ditties here rub shoulders with exquisite consort songs by the brothers Lawes, Alfonso Ferrabosco and Giovanni Coprario, alias John Cooper.

Early Music and Baroque Series

Helen Grime

Carter Canon for 4 – Homage to William Boulez Dérive 1 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Unbroken Circle Helen Grime Piano Concerto* (world première); A Cold Spring Carter Triple Duo

PART II ANTIMASQUE Anon Robin; Lord Zouche his Masque Coleman Did not you once, Lucinda, vow? MASQUE Coprario Cuperaree or Grayes inn Masque H Lawes From the Heav’ns now I fly W Lawes Instrumental work H Lawes Sweet Echo W Lawes Valediction; Hence, ye prophane, far hence away; Wherefore do my sisters stay?; Thinke not I could absent myself this night; In envye of the night W Lawes Instrumental work Locke Mercury and Nature in the Elysian Groves

WORLD PREMIÈRE

Elizabeth Kenny

Richard Haughton

Paul Lewis Thursday 2 March 7.30 pm (repeated Saturday 4 March 7.30 pm)

Paul Lewis piano Bach Partita No. 1 in B b BWV825 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4 in E b Op. 7 Chopin Waltzes: in A minor Op. 34 No. 2; in F minor Op. 70 No. 2; in A b Op. 42 Weber Piano Sonata No. 2 in A b Op. 39 Paul Lewis’s pianism, eloquent and fully alive, is the result of a harmonious marriage between deep thinking about music and unrestrained physical expression in performance. His all-Beethoven programme at Wigmore Hall last season, repeated twice on the same evening, was hailed by the Guardian in a five-star review for its ‘display of pianistic depth’. Lewis turns to Beethoven again, pairing the composer’s bold Op. 7 with the lyrical grace of Bach’s Partita No. 1 before exploring a second half of heart-on-sleeve passions. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle London Pianoforte Series Photo: Musica Viva Australia

March Sunday 5 March 11.30 am

Monday 6 March 1.00 pm

Arcadia Quartet Amit Peled cello

Carolyn Sampson soprano Matthew Wadsworth lute, theorbo

Mozart String Quartet in G K80 Schubert String Quintet in C D956

Dowland Shall I strive with words to move; Now, O now I needs must part; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; A Dream Anon Galliarda Britten The Shooting of his Dear; I will give my love an apple; The Soldier and the Sailor Stephen Goss The Miller’s Tale for solo theorbo (world première) Purcell Retir’d from any Mortal’s sight; O solitude, my sweetest choice; When first Amintas sued for a kiss

Winners of the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition and a host of other prestigious prizes, the members of the Arcadia Quartet play with an intensity that draws listeners deep into the matters of musical argument and thematic byplay. The quartet is joined by Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled in Schubert’s final chamber work, the sublime String Quintet in C. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

ALISA WEILERSTEIN INON BARNATAN

Carolyn Sampson and Matthew Wadsworth appear to share a sixth sense, connecting one to the other in performance to reach the deepest recesses of imagination and spiritual insight. Their lunchtime programme is fuelled by the vitality of English song, with its close relationship to folk art and poetry, and by the creative genius of Dowland, Purcell and Britten. All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Inon Barnatan and Alisa Weilerstein

Jamie Jung

Tuesday 7 March 7.30 pm

Alisa Weilerstein cello Inon Barnatan piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1 Barber Cello Sonata Op. 6 Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65

Amit Peled

Technical perfection offers Alisa Weilerstein the means to reach her ultimate goal of free-flowing, unfettered expression. The American cellist, born into a family of professional musicians in 1982, continues to develop one of today’s most compelling duo partnerships with Inon Barnatan, a kindred spirit blessed with ceaseless curiosity and passionate commitment as a music maker. Their recital programme opens with Beethoven’s Op. 102 No. 1, a work of great contrapuntal ingenuity, and includes two outstanding twentieth-century cello sonatas.

Matthew Wadsworth

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

Chamber Music Season

Arcadia Quartet

Carolyn Sampson

Marco Borggreve

March Wednesday 8 March 7.30 pm

Thursday 9 March 7.30 pm

The Endellion String Quartet

The Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips director

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 64 No. 4 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Sibelius String Quartet in D minor Op. 56 ‘Voces Intimae’ Mendelssohn’s compelling Op. 80, written shortly before his death, is arguably his most intense, troubled and impassioned composition. It is prefaced here by Haydn’s marvellously genial String Quartet in G and stands in contrast to Sibelius’s ‘Voces Intimae’, a work of symphonic sweep unlike any other in the quartet literature. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

DISABLED ACCESS DAY

See page 50 for full details

RELAXED CONCERT

Friday 10 March 7.30 pm

Pacifica Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 Ravel String Quartet in F The wreckage of lives lost to Stalin’s purges of the 1930s conditions the chilling atmosphere of Shostakovich’s Third String Quartet, written not long after the end of World War Two. The Pacifica Quartet presents this work of warning in company with the emotional restraint and calm lyricism of Ravel’s youthful String Quartet in F. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Wigmore Hall auditorium

Peter Dazeley

Saturday 11 March 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

DISABLED ACCESS DAY: RELAXED CONCERT The Endellion String Quartet

Eric Richmond

This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides a unique opportunity to explore music in an informal manner. Join us for performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, find out about our 115 years of history and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee after the concert. Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Pacifica Quartet

Saverio Truglia

The Tallis Scholars Thursday 9 March 7.30 pm

The Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips director Isaac Regina caeli laetare; Missa de apostolis; Angeli archangeli Mouton Quis dabit oculis? Isaac Quis dabit capiti meo aquam?; Virgo prudentissima The Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips have done much to revive interest in two of the greatest of all Renaissance composers. Their programme reveals the contemplative intensity of sacred works by Heinrich Isaac, who served the Medici court in Florence and also under Emperor Maximilian I, and Jean Mouton, a musician at the French court of Louis XII and Francis I. They open with Isaac’s uplifting Regina caeli laetare before entering the resonant soundworld of the Missa de apostolis, a work of mystic power written for six voices. The concert’s second half celebrates the sophistication and vast inventive range of the motet as cultivated by Isaac and Mouton. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music & Baroque Series

The Tallis Scholars Painting of The Virgin Mary by Jan van Eyck

Richard Haughton

March

PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD: MATTHEW ROSE & BECHSTEIN PIANOS

Sunday 12 March 11.30 am

Wigmore Series Debut*

Simone Lamsma* violin Robert Kulek piano Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Arvo Pärt Fratres Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18 Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma, praised by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for her ‘brilliant … polished, expressive and intense’ playing, focuses her captivating artistry on three distinctive and contrasting pieces. Shades of Mozart resound in Schubert’s Sonatina; Strauss, meanwhile, drew inspiration for his magnificent Violin Sonata from his love for his fiery future wife, the singer Pauline de Ahna. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Bechstein Hall and showroom (before it was renamed Wigmore Hall), 36 – 40 Wigmore Street, c. 1901 Gary Matthewman

Johan Persson

Saturday 11 March 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano technician Peter Salisbury and composer Julian Anderson discuss the ways in which a repertoire, an instrument and an acoustic are inextricably linked, as well as the relationship between Wigmore Hall and an old Bechstein concert grand in terms of history, aesthetics and artistry. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Robert Kulek

Saturday 11 March 7.30 pm

Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Marco Borggreve

Liszt Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (first version) S154 Skryabin Désir Op. 57 No. 1; Caresse dansée Op. 57 No. 2; Poème-nocturne Op. 61; Cinq préludes Op. 74 Debussy From Études Book I: No. 2 Pour les tierces; No. 3 Pour les quartes; No. 4 Pour les sixtes; No. 7 Pour les degrés chromatiques Julian Anderson Sensation (London première) Obouhow Création d’or; Invocations I & II; La Parabole du Seigneur; Révelation Julian Anderson created Sensation for Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who gave its first performance at the 2016 Aldeburgh Festival. The eighteen-minute score, set here in company with impressionistic keyboard pieces past and present, explores sense perceptions and their momentary changes. Aimard performs on a Bechstein instrument from the time of Wigmore Hall’s opening in 1901, recently refurbished by Peter Salisbury. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

‘Cairn in Snow’ London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series

Caspar David Friedrich

Simone Lamsma

Merlijn Doomernik

March Sunday 12 March 3.00 pm

Sunday 12 March 7.30 pm

Tuesday 14 March 7.30 pm

Ilker Arcayürek tenor Simon Lepper piano

Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo-soprano Helmut Deutsch piano

Christoph Prégardien tenor Julius Drake piano

Brahms Auf dem See (Op. 59 No. 2); Die Mainacht; Erlaube mir, feins Mädchen; Da unten im Tale Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Hahn D’une prison Fauré Ici-bas!; Nell Debussy Fleur des blés; Beau soir

See page opposite for full details

The French composers in this programme matched eloquent native poetry to exquisite melodies. Fauré, for instance, was able to enhance the verse of Prudhomme and Leconte de Lisle, while Reynaldo Hahn applied his considerable song-writing gifts to Verlaine’s ‘D’une prison’. Ilker Arcayürek, one of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists for 2015–17, also explores Lieder by Brahms and Schumann.

Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80 Ravel Piano Trio in A minor

Schubert Auf der Brücke; Der liebliche Stern; Im Walde (D834); Um Mitternacht; Lebensmut; Im Frühling; An mein Herz; Tiefes Leid (Im Jänner 1817); Über Wildemann; Daß sie hier gewesen; Greisengesang; Du bist die Ruh; Im Walde (D708); Nacht und Träume; Fischerweise; Totengräbers Heimweh; Der Winterabend

Monday 13 March 1.00 pm

Kungsbacka Piano Trio

All seats £15

Music is clearly a source of constant delight to the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, ever present in the unwavering focus shared by its members. The group, named after a small Swedish town, presents two masterworks of the piano trio repertoire, moving from the shrewdly blended tonal warmth of Schumann’s Op. 80 to the élan of Ravel’s Piano Trio.

Song Recital Series

£15 concs £13

Christoph Prégardien invariably gives life to metaphor, irony, pathos and the full span of rhetorical invention of poetic texts. The revered German lyric tenor is joined by Julius Drake for a programme of late Schubert songs, rich in emotional content and resonant in its depth of psychological reflections on the natural world. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Voices at Wigmore Supporting Schubert: The Complete Songs 2015/16 and 2016/17

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Simon Lepper

Ilker Arcayürek

Julius Drake

Josh Bryant

David Jerusalem

Kungsbacka Piano Trio

Hanya Chlala

Christoph Prégardien

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Hans Morren

Ekaterina Semenchuk Sunday 12 March 7.30 pm

Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo-soprano Helmut Deutsch piano Rimsky-Korsakov Of what I dream in the quiet night; On the hills of Georgia; Quietly evening falls; The clouds begin to scatter; The Rose and the Nightingale; The lark sings louder Cui I touched the flower; The statue at Tsarskoye Selo; Listening to the horrors of war; Desire Balakirev Embrace, Kiss; When I hear thy voice; Rapture; The Rock; I loved him Borodin My songs are filled with poison; Pride; The Sea Princess; At some folks’ houses Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death Expect high-octane, inspirational music-making from the partnership of Ekaterina Semenchuk, one of the leading soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre, and Helmut Deutsch, a consummate artist with a profound feeling for the multiple shades, textures and expressive nuances of the human voice. The Minsk-born mezzo’s performances at the Royal Opera House in Eugene Onegin and most recently as Azucena in Il trovatore have garnered audience ovations, underlining her status among the foremost artists of her generation. Her arresting vocal richness and gravitas are matched by a compelling stage presence and total mastery of the art of beautiful singing. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series Photo of Ekaterina Semenchuk by Sheila Rock

Helmut Deutsch

Shirley Suarez

March Wednesday 15 March 7.30 pm

Thursday 16 March 7.30 pm

Friday 17 March 7.30 pm

Christian Blackshaw piano

Hilary Hahn violin Robert Levin piano

Igor Levit piano

Mozart Piano Sonata in Bb K333 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 12 Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Christian Blackshaw has built a dedicated following at Wigmore Hall with interpretations of striking individuality and perceptive wisdom. He moves from the stormy virtuosity of Mozart’s so-called ‘Linz’ Sonata by way of Schumann’s character pieces of 1837 to the mighty structure of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, one of the great landmarks in the history of nineteenth-century music. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90; Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101; Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’

Bach Violin Sonata No. 6 in G BWV1019 Antón García Abril Solo Partita for violin (UK première) Mozart Violin Sonata in Eb K481 Hans Peter Türk Träume for solo piano (UK première) Schubert Rondo in B minor D895 In recent seasons Hilary Hahn, known for her flawless technique and phenomenal musicianship, has developed her highly successful duo partnership with the renowned performer and scholar Robert Levin. Their Wigmore Hall programme includes Mozart’s Sonata in E flat K481, widely considered to be among the composer’s most mature chamber works, and two contrasting new compositions by Antón García Abril and Hans Peter Türk. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

The full expressive, emotional and inventive range of the three late sonatas in Igor Levit’s programme, crowned by the monumental complexity and aesthetic weight of the ‘Hammerklavier’, encapsulate the composer’s late style. Just the first movement of Op. 90 alone charts an impassioned course through despair and contrasting feelings of vitality and sadness. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton

London Pianoforte Series / Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

Saturday 18 March 11.00 am – 12 noon

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

CAVATINA Family Concert Piatti Quartet See page 56 for full details

Robert Levin

Christian Blackshaw

Benjamin Ealovega

Hilary Hahn

Ascherman

Michael Patrick O’Leary

Igor Levit

Gregor Hohenberg

Patricia Petibon & Susan Manoff Saturday 18 March 7.30 pm

Patricia Petibon soprano Susan Manoff piano Programme to include: Songs by Poulenc and Canteloube Granados From Danzas españolas: No. 2 Orientale & No. 5 Andaluza for solo piano Granados El mirar de la maja; La maja dolorosa Bacri A la mar Obradors Chiquitita la novia; El vito Canteloube La delaïssádo; Pastouro, sé tu m’aymo Copland Excerpt from Appalachian Spring for solo piano Didier Lockwood Someday my prince will come

Patricia Petibon has enchanted audiences worldwide with her winning blend of technical agility, vocal versatility and irrepressible energy. The French soprano and Susan Manoff make a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a recital comprising mélodies françaises by Poulenc and Canteloube. They also include sultry songs by Obradors, the melancholic ‘A la mar’ by Bacri and the famous Jazz classic ‘Someday my prince will come’ arranged by Didier Lockwood. Photo by Bernard Martinez

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

March Saturday 18 March 11.00 am – 12 noon

Sunday 19 March 11.30 am

Monday 20 March 1.00 pm

CAVATINA Family Concert Piatti Quartet

Meccore Quartet

Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet Nino Gvetadze piano

For ages 5 plus Join the award-winning Piatti Quartet, one of the UK’s most exciting young string quartets, for an interactive family concert which explores the wonderful world of chamber music, featuring works by some of the best-loved composers of all time, including Haydn, Ravel and Beethoven.

Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27 One of Poland’s finest young ensembles, founded in 2007, returns to Wigmore Hall to perform two late nineteenth-century masterworks. Liszt greatly admired the adventurous spirit of Grieg’s String Quartet in G minor, a composition recognised as a bridge connecting the worlds of Beethoven’s late quartets and Debussy’s own G minor Quartet.

Children £8 Adults £10 £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringing chamber music to young people and young people to chamber music, is delighted to present this concert in association with Wigmore Hall.

Debussy Première rapsodie Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano Schumann Arabeske in C for solo piano Op. 18 Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Technical advances in the manufacture of wind instruments in the second half of the nineteenth century led to a rise in virtuoso performers and works written for them. BBC New Generation Artist Annelien Van Wauwe’s lunchtime programme spans the virtuosity and lyricism of three landmarks of the clarinet repertoire and is completed by a performance of Schumann’s light and tender Arabeske by pianist Nino Gvetadze. £15 concs £13

Annelien Van Wauwe is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Nino Gvetadze

Piatti Quartet

Malcolm Crowthers

Meccore Quartet

Sussie Ahlburg

Arkadiusz Berbecki

Annelien Van Wauwe

Christian Ruvolo

March Monday 20 March 7.30 pm

Tuesday 21 March 6.00 pm

David Daniels countertenor Martin Katz piano

Pre-Concert Talk

Steven Osborne piano

Broadcaster and journalist Tom Service in conversation with composers ahead of the evening concert.

Brahms Intermezzo in C minor Op. 117 No. 3 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Brahms Intermezzo in Bb minor Op. 117 No. 2 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110 Brahms Intermezzo in E b Op. 117 No. 1 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111

Beethoven Andenken; Mit einem gemalten Band; Adelaide Anchieta Con Amores, la mi madre (arr. Dørumsgaard) Mudarra Triste estaba el Rey David (arr. Dørumsgaard) Torre Pámpano Verde (arr. Dørumsgaard) Gabriel A la caza, sus a caza (arr. Dørumsgaard) Poulenc La grenouillère; Monsieur Sans Souci; La Souris; Fancy; Priez pour paix; La belle jeunesse Handel From Rodelinda: Pompe vane di morte! ... Dove sei, amato bene?; Si, l’infida consorte ... Confusa si miri Respighi Notte; Bella porta di rubini; Stornellatrice; Invito alla danza Traditional (arr. Steven Mark Kohn) Ten thousand miles away; On the other shore; Wanderin’; The Farmer’s Curst Wife American countertenor David Daniels, the son of professional singers, has played a decisive part in the restoration of Baroque music to the world’s leading opera houses. He has also helped transform perceptions of his voice type, not least with carefully programmed recitals drawn from a repertoire that spans four centuries of musical history and an equally vast range of musical styles.

Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Tuesday 21 March 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Adrian Brendel cello Roderick Williams baritone NASH INVENTIONS

Wednesday 22 March 7.30 pm

Brahms referred privately to his Three Intermezzi Op. 117 as ‘cradle-songs of my sorrows’. Steven Osborne, RPS Instrumentalist of the Year in 2013, presents Brahms’s lachrymose lullabies as reflective interludes between Beethoven’s last three sonatas. The Scottish pianist’s revelatory programme concludes with the Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, in which Beethoven pushes forward the limits of artistic creation. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Huw Watkins String Trio* Colin Matthews Fuga for ensemble Sir Peter Maxwell Davies A Sea of Cold Flame for baritone, solo cello and string quartet (London première) Colin Matthews It Rains for baritone and ensemble (world première) Simon Holt Bagatelarañas for wind quintet* (world première) Julian Anderson Van Gogh Blue for ensemble**

London Pianoforte Series

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 *Nash Commission **Co-commissioned by The Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Song Recital Series

The Nash Ensemble is joined by Martyn Brabbins and Roderick Williams for its annual survey of the best in British contemporary music. Their programme includes works by Huw Watkins and Julian Anderson recently premièred by the Nash. There’s a London première for Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s A Sea of Cold Flame, the last of his many settings of poems by Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown, two pieces by Colin Matthews, his virtuosic Fuga and a new work specially written for Roderick Williams, and another world première, Simon Holt’s wind quintet. The latter’s title, a hybrid of the Spanish words for ‘bagatelle’ and ‘cobwebs’, reflects its breathtaking lightness of touch.

Steven Osborne

Benjamin Ealovega

Roderick Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Contemporary Music Series

David Daniels

Robert Recker/Virgin Classics

March Thursday 23 March 7.30 pm

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

The King’s Consort Robert King conductor Julia Doyle soprano Rebecca Outram soprano Robin Blaze countertenor Charles Daniels tenor Matthew Brook bass ‘HENRY PURCELL, BY ROYAL COMMAND’ – MUSIC FOR THE CHAPEL ROYAL Purcell O sing unto the Lord; Thou wakeful shepherd (A Morning Hymn); Why do the heathen so furiously rage together; Close thine eyes and sleep secure (Upon a Quiet Conscience); Behold, now, praise the Lord; My beloved spake; Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest (Adam’s Sleep); Praise the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me; With sick and famish’d eyes; O praise God in his holiness Renowned worldwide for ground-breaking performances and recordings of Henry Purcell, The King’s Consort returns to the composer’s delicious music for the Chapel Royal. An unbeatable line-up of singers and instrumentalists perform some of the composer’s finest sacred jewels. ‘Some of the most stylish and exuberant Purcell performances of modern times’ The Times £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series Joseph Haydn

Portrait by Thomas Hardy

Friday 24 March 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Wednesday 29 March 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Friday 31 March 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

HAYDN PIANO TRIOS Explore some of Haydn’s unjustly neglected masterpieces in three afternoons devoted to his piano trios. Reflecting the composer’s mature genius, these works are full of his finest keyboard writing, improvisatory in style, both playful and profound. Haydn’s piano trios were dedicated to several of the most talented female pianists of his day, demanding exceptional artistry and skill. Composer Julian Philips investigates these unique works with pianist Laura Roberts, guest speakers and students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by the Eggner Trio on 31 March.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event The King’s Consort

Keith Saunders

Chris Thile Friday 24 March 7.30 pm

Chris Thile mandolin American mandolinist, singer and songwriter Chris Thile made his name with Grammy Award-winning progressive acoustic music group Nickel Creek before striking out with Punch Brothers and a series of fresh creative projects in the mid-2000s. Following many years as a guest on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, Chris succeeds Garrison Keillor as the popular radio show’s host in October 2016. Chris makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a programme drawing on his considerable repertoire of original compositions, as well as contemporary, traditional and classical works. This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season

Photo by Brantley Gutierrez

Thomas Adès Day ‘Arcadiana’ Recognised by The New York Times as ‘one of the most accomplished and complete musicians of his generation’, Thomas Adès has created an entire universe of new music, spanning everything from large symphonic scores and sparklingly inventive operas to a great treasure-house of chamber works, ensemble pieces, songs and solo scores. Wigmore Hall’s Thomas Adès Day presents a representative showcase of his work set in a wider musical context.

Saturday 25 March 1.00 pm

6.00 pm

Calder Quartet Thomas Adès piano Nicolas Hodges piano

Artists in Conversation As part of this special day, Thomas Adès is joined by Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly to discuss his inspiration and life as a composer.

Thomas Adès The Four Quarters Lutosławski Variations on a theme of Paganini Thomas Adès Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face Walton Selections from Façade Thomas Adès Piano Quintet Time and the mysterious nature of its passing occupy Thomas Adès’s string quartet The Four Quarters, just as the related process of change and flow occupied Lutosławski in his Variations on a theme of Paganini. Adès joins the Calder Quartet to perform the fiendishly difficult keyboard part in his Piano Quintet. This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval. All seats £20

£4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

7.30 pm

Photo of Thomas Adès by Brian Voce

Eric Richmond

Clive Barda

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Timothy Redmond conductor Calder Quartet Thomas Adès piano György Kurtág Officium breve Op. 28 Janácˇek Selections from On an overgrown path György Kurtág Selections from Játékok Gerald Barry Octet Thomas Adès Concerto Conciso Janácˇek In the Mists Thomas Adès Arcadiana György Kurtág’s Officium breve, written in 1989 in memory of fellow composer Endre Szervánszky, passes from one complex state of being to another within the space of fifteen short movements for string quartet. Concision and complexity are also central to Adès’s Concerto Conciso, inspired in part by the form of a medieval French round dance. The programme also features Adès’s Arcadiana, a work for string quartet consisting of seven movements that evokes various vanished or vanishing idylls.

Nicolas Hodges

BCMG

Timothy Redmond

Calder Quartet

Autumn de Wilde

£40 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

March Sunday 26 March 11.30 am

Sunday 26 March 3.00 pm

Monday 27 March 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Manuel Walser baritone Anano Gokieli piano

Gallicantus

Wolf From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ihr seid die Allerschönste; Daß doch gemalt; Ein Ständchen euch zu bringen; Hoffärtig seid Ihr, schönes Kind, und geht; Laß sie nur gehn, die so die Stolze spielt; Wie viele Zeit verlor ich Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Strauss Winternacht; Zueignung; Nichts; Die Nacht; Die Georgine; Geduld; Die Verschwiegenen; Die Zeitlose; Allerseelen; Heimliche Aufforderung; Cäcilie

PIETY AND PENITENCE Mundy Exurge Christe Tye Peccavimus cum patribus

Inspired by Paul Heyse’s imaginative translations of Italian folk poetry, Hugo Wolf produced some of his most heartfelt songs in the Italienisches Liederbuch. Swiss baritone Manuel Walser, who owns the true Lieder artist’s instincts for poetic expression and musical phrasing, sets six of the collection’s finest songs in company with Vaughan Williams’s Stevenson settings and Strauss’s sublime Op. 10 cycle.

FEAST DAYS IN SPRING 1555 Tallis Videte miraculum Sheppard Christi virgo dilectissima

Tamar Beraia piano Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition Schumann Carnaval Op. 9 Tamar Beraia’s prize-winning performance in the 2012 Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition underlined her status as one of the finest among young pianists. The Georgian artist, born into a family of distinguished musicians, has chosen two keyboard masterworks for her Wigmore Hall debut, pairing the elemental energy of Musorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition with the vibrant character pieces of Schumann’s Carnaval. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

BALLAD OF THE MARIGOLD

All seats £15

Song Recital Series

MARY AT COURT (FROM THE MULLINER BOOK) Anon Ballad of the Marigold (Forrest) Newman Fansy PRAYERS FOR THE QUICKENING – NOVEMBER 1554 Tallis Sarum Litany (abridged); O Sacrum convivium

LYING-IN AT HAMPTON COURT, APRIL 1555 Tallis Like as the doleful dove Sheppard Vain, vain, all our life we spend in vain With religious strife at home and uncertainty surrounding the succession, Mary Tudor’s marriage to Philip of Spain in 1554 and subsequent pregnancy prompted a rush of courtly tributes. Vocal ensemble Gallicantus recalls this euphoric moment in Mary’s reign, and her subsequent descent into depression as it became clear that no heir would be born. The programme includes music by Mary’s most important composers, including Tye, Mundy, Tallis and Sheppard, and a special reconstruction of the Sarum Litany by Tallis, originally sung on behalf of the pregnant queen. £15 concs £13

Tamar Beraia

Anano Gokieli

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Marco Borggreve

Manuel Walser

Thomas Walser

Gallicantus

Patricia Kopatchinskaja Artist in Residence Patricia Kopatchinskaja launches her Wigmore Hall residency with the first of three concerts crafted to show the versatility, curiosity and wide musical passions of a true pioneer among today’s performers. The Moldovan-Austrian violinist is equally at home with period performance styles as she is when bringing contemporary compositions to life or casting fresh interpretative light on the most familiar of chamber works. Monday 27 March 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Polina Leschenko piano Webern Four Pieces Op. 7 Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 BB85 Ravel Tzigane In company with her regular duo partner, Patricia Kopatchinskaja begins her Wigmore Hall residency Polina Leschenko by travelling through the vast range of styles, technical challenges and musical rewards of two pairs of works. The vibrant colours and textures of Webern’s Op. 7 miniatures, which at times sound hauntingly like the human voice, and of Ravel’s Tzigane respectively complement the songful nature of Schumann’s D minor Violin Sonata and Bartók’s contemplative Violin Sonata No. 2. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

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

Chamber Music Season

Forthcoming Events in this Series Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja Sol Gabetta cello

violin

Sunday 7 May 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano Photos by Marco Borggreve

March Tuesday 28 March 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 29 March 7.30 pm

Thursday 30 March 7.30 pm

Early Opera Company Mary Bevan soprano Benjamin Hulett tenor James Platt bass

Leif Ove Andsnes piano Marc-André Hamelin piano

Handel Alceste HWV45

Friday 31 March 7.30 pm

Originally written as incidental music for a lavish play to be performed at Covent Garden, Alceste is a ravishing score with exquisite choruses and arias. Christian Curnyn and Early Opera Company present this concert performance of their BBC Music Magazine Award-winning CD, which was described by the panel as ‘music by the composer at his most inventive and inspired’. The extraordinary ensemble of musicians return to Wigmore Hall following the triumphant success of Handel La Resurrezione last season.

Eggner Trio

See page opposite for full details

Haydn Piano Trio in D HXV:24; Piano Trio in C HXV:21 Dvorˇák Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

The Eggner Trio’s ongoing survey of works by Haydn and Dvorˇák continues with a delightful combination of works. Haydn’s D major Piano Trio includes a passage that evokes bagpipes and a fizzing finale, while Dvorˇák’s Op. 65, a work of powerful emotions cast on a grand scale, shows the Czech composer’s complete mastery of the Brahmsian style.

Early Music and Baroque Series

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Eggner Trio: Haydn and Dvorˇák

For Crying Out Loud!

Orchestra of Early Opera Company

Benjamin Ealovega

Charlotte Burke

Eggner Trio

Nancy Horowitz

Leif Ove Andsnes & Marc -André Hamelin Thursday 30 March 7.30 pm

Leif Ove Andsnes piano Marc-André Hamelin piano Mozart Larghetto and Allegro in E b (completed by Paul Badura-Skoda) Stravinsky Concerto for two pianos Debussy En blanc et noir Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (for piano duo)

Critical superlatives are soon exhausted when talking about the artistry of Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin. These two master pianists join forces for an evening of duets, complete with Stravinsky’s own duo arrangement of The Rite of Spring and Debussy’s three-movement suite En blanc et noir, dedicated in part to Stravinsky and to a friend killed during World War One.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Photo of Leif Ove Andsnes by Özgür Albayrak Photo of Marc-André Hamelin by Sim Canetty-Clarke

Contemporary Music Series Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, and as a commissioner of new works and a champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least through its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London premières. ‘Our commissioning scheme is already the most extensive in Europe for chamber music’, comments Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly, ‘and in recent years Wigmore Hall has become one of the world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’ Helen Grime, Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, is supported by The Marchus Trust Full details of these concerts are provided throughout the brochure in chronological order.

Monday 23 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 29 January 7.30 pm

Saturday 18 February 7.30 pm

Philip Higham cello Alasdair Beatson piano

Stéphane Degout baritone Matteo Cesari flute, alto flute Alexis Descharmes cello Cédric Tiberghien piano

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton

John Casken Wednesday 25 January 7.30 pm

Signum Quartet

Kaija Saariaho Wednesday 8 February 1.00 pm

Bruno Mantovani *

Britten Sinfonia Friday 27 January 7.30 pm

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano Nico Muhly* & Dominick Argento

Oliver Knussen & Mark-Anthony Turnage*

Alina Ibragimova violin Arvo Pärt & Pe¯teris Vasks Sunday 19 February 3.00 pm

Louise Alder soprano Gary Matthewman piano Huw Watkins

Thursday 9 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 25 February 1.00 pm

Jörg Widmann clarinet Mitsuko Uchida piano

JACK Quartet

Jörg Widmann

leader, artistic director

Xenakis

Saturday 25 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 25 March 1.00 pm

Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm

JACK Quartet Pavel Kolesnikov piano

Calder Quartet Thomas Adès piano Nicolas Hodges piano

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano

Xenakis

Thomas Adès

George Crumb, György Kurtág & Michel van der Aa

Friday 3 March 7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Huw Watkins piano Oliver Knussen conductor Carter, Boulez, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies & Helen Grime † Saturday 11 March 7.30 pm

Saturday 25 March 7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Timothy Redmond conductor Calder Quartet Thomas Adès piano Thomas Adès, György Kurtág & Gerald Barry

Thursday 11 May 7.30 pm

Elias String Quartet Paul Newland* Wednesday 14 June 7.30 pm

Arditti Quartet Eliot Fisk guitar Hugues Dufourt* & Wolfgang Rihm*

Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Julian Anderson Thursday 16 March 7.30 pm

Hilary Hahn violin Robert Levin piano Antón García Abril & Hans Peter Türk

Friday 7 April 7.30 pm

Friday 16 June 7.30 pm

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Chemirani Brothers zarb

Jasper String Quartet

Marco Stroppa, Ross Daly, Sokratis Sinopoulos, György Kurtág, Krzysztof Penderecki & Franck Leriche

Aaron Jay Kernis* Tuesday 20 June 7.30 pm

Ensemble intercontemporain Philippe Schoeller & Matteo Franceschini

Tuesday 21 March 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Adrian Brendel cello Roderick Williams baritone Huw Watkins, Colin Matthews, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Simon Holt & Julian Anderson*

Wednesday 19 April 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Nicholas Daniel oboe Brian Elias*

Monday 26 June 7.30 pm

Vienna Piano Trio Mark Padmore tenor Thomas Larcher *

Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Sol Gabetta cello Jörg Widmann, Ligeti & Xenakis

Saturday 1 July 7.30 pm

Doric String Quartet Alasdair Beatson piano Thomas Adès

*Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation by BCMG’s Sound Investment scheme, and by Wigmore Hall with the generous support of The Marchus Trust

† Co-commissioned

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by

EVENTS FOR FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS All events listed on pages 68 – 72 are included in Priority Booking for Friends and Mailing List Subscribers, with the exception of the Handel and Hendrix Family Day on 4 February, the Musical Portraits Band on 14 and 15 February, and the Folk Up North Schools Concert on 24 March, which open for booking on 8 November.

Chamber Tots

Saturday 14 January 11.00 am – 12 noon

IN SPACE

The Fairy Queen Katy Hill soprano Stuart Young bass David Miller archlute Noel Byrne actor Antonia Christophers actor

Tuesday 10 January 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds) Wednesday 15 March 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds)

ON THE FARM Wednesday 25 January 12.30 pm (1–2 year olds) & 2.00 pm (3–5 year olds)

FAMILY CONCERT

Tuesday 14 February 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds)

For ages 6 plus

IN THE FOREST

Join puppetry and physical theatre group, Box Tale Soup, and members of world-renowned choir The Sixteen to discover Shakespeare’s enchanting tale A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Be transported to a world of magic and mishap in which the story is brought to life through puppetry, theatre and music from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen.

Saturday 18 February 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds) Join us for these one-hour interactive music-making sessions for young children and their parents and carers, featuring songs, percussion playing and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging musicians.

Deep in the forest, fairies await ...

The Fairy Queen

Eleanor Kelly

The Fairy Queen

Box Tale Soup

Children £8 Adults £10

Children £5 Adults £3

Chamber Tots also takes place as a long-term project in schools across London.

Benjamin Ealovega

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Saturday 21 January 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Come and Sing: Dido and Aeneas Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring Henry Purcell’s well-loved opera Dido and Aeneas. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. £25 concs £19

Thursday 2 February 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

For Crying Out Loud! Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, presented in a relaxed environment for parents or carers and their babies under one to enjoy together.

Adults £7.50 (babies come free) www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Saturday 4 February 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Study Programme We have an extensive programme of study events including Masterclasses, Pre-Concert Talks and Study Days. For a list of all our events see Wigmore Hall Learning section of At a Glance on page 3.

Handel and Hendrix FAMILY DAY For ages 5 plus Explore the musical worlds of Handel and Jimi Hendrix with the help of Handel & Hendrix in London Composer in Residence Hunter Coblentz, and guitarist Jack Ross. Visit the former homes of these great musicians and discover what inspired them before creating your own music to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day. Children £10 Adults £15

In partnership with Handel & Hendrix in London

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Tuesday 14 February 11.00 am – 3.30 pm Wednesday 15 February 11.00 am – 3.30 pm

Musical Portraits Band FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS We invite young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders to create their own works of art and music alongside an inspiring visual artist and musicians from Ignite, Wigmore Hall Learning’s Associate Artists. Be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery and perform on the Wigmore Hall stage. For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email ruth@turtlekeyarts.org.uk. Free (application required)

Musical Portraits is supported by Stuart and Bianca Roden, and The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts

Benjamin Ealovega

Ignite

Saturday 11 March 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

In the Community

Disabled Access Day: Relaxed Concert This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides a unique opportunity to explore music in an informal manner. Join us for performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, find out about our 115 years of history and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee after the concert.

Our Learning projects reach out across London and further afield, including an extensive schools and early years programme, a community programme working with children, young people and adults in challenging circumstances, and Music for Life, in which we lead creative music workshops with people living with dementia.

Free (ticket required)

Benjamin Ealovega

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Wigmore Hall auditorium

Peter Dazeley

Saturday 18 March 11.00 am – 12 noon

CAVATINA Family Concert Piatti Quartet For ages 5 plus Join the award-winning Piatti Quartet, one of the UK’s most exciting young string quartets, for an interactive family concert which explores the wonderful world of chamber music, featuring works by some of the best-loved composers of all time, including Haydn, Ravel and Beethoven.

Early Years For Crying Out Loud!, our concert series for parents / carers and their babies under 1, and Chamber Tots, interactive workshops for children aged 1 to 5, take place across the season. See pages 68, 69 and 72 for details.

Children £8 Adults £10

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringing chamber music to young people and young people to chamber music, is delighted to present this concert in association with Wigmore Hall.

Benjamin Ealovega

Piatti Quartet

Malcolm Crowthers

www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

Chamber Zone FREE CONCERT TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOL GROUPS Over the last nine years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticket scheme Chamber Zone has reached over 7,000 young people aged 8 –25 years. CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity Simon Jay Price

For details on the concerts included in the Chamber Zone scheme and how to book visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk /chamberzone

Friday 24 March 11.00 am – 12 noon

Folk Up North KEY STAGE 1 SCHOOLS CONCERT Join the Donald Grant Quartet and presenter Lucy Drever for a concert exploring Scottish folk music. This concert will delve into the exciting and notorious stories behind the music and explore how the unique Scottish landscape influences folk music. Designed to support, complement and extend the Key Stage 1 curriculum, bookers also receive a teachers’ resource pack ahead of the concert. £3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

Tuesday 28 March 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

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WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T Wigmore Hall has provided a platform to outstanding young musicians since its early years. Today the process of identifying and nurturing talent is central to the Hall’s long-term artistic strategy, with Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent allowing us to create essential performance opportunities for some of these artists as they gain experience and broaden their knowledge of the repertoire. Artists supported by the Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent scheme in 2016/17 are:

Van Kuijk Quartet Founded in 2012 in Paris, the Van Kuijk Quartet won the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition (the Harry M Weinrebe Prize), along with the associated Best Beethoven and Best Haydn prizes. An established presence in major international venues, the Quartet has performed at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, and at festivals in Heidelberg, Verbier, Aix-en-Provence and Stavanger, and is currently supported by the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. Sunday 2 October 2016 Monday 20 February 2017

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle Every year, a small group of the Royal Academy of Music’s most accomplished performers of song repertoire are selected to form the Song Circle. Since its inception in 2004, the Song Circle has given more than 50 concerts, and its annual Schubertiade, on or around the anniversary of the composer’s birth, has become a much-anticipated feature of the Academy’s calendar. Sunday 22 January 2017

Jan Lisiecki piano Jan Lisiecki is a Polish-Canadian pianist who signed an exclusive recording agreement with Deutsche Grammophon in 2011, at the age of just 15. He has won acclaim for his extraordinary interpretative maturity, distinctive sound, and poetic sensibility, with The New York Times calling him ‘a pianist who makes every note count’. Since his Wigmore Hall debut, Jan has gone on to make his debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall in January 2016, as well as performing with the Bamberger Symphoniker in Lucerne and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, amongst others. Monday 3 October 2016

Arcangelo Formed in 2010, Arcangelo is one of the world’s leading ensembles, bringing together exceptional musicians who excel on both historical and modern instruments, under the direction of founder, artistic director and conductor Jonathan Cohen. Its players believe that the collaboration required in chamber music, whether working in duos or as a chamber orchestra, is the highest expression of what it means to make music. The ensemble began a Residency at Wigmore Hall in June 2016. Wednesday 14 December 2016 Friday 13 January 2017

Support for this scheme over the past three years has been extraordinary, enabling Wigmore Hall to forge unique relationships with the artists, and as such, offer them the guidance and performance opportunities they need to build a career. Other artists supported through this scheme since the beginning of the 2015/16 Season include: Behzod Abduraimov piano Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Escher String Quartet Benjamin Appl baritone Paul Appleby tenor Viviane Hagner violin Tim Horton piano

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

BOOKING INFORMATION Booking Dates Booking Period 2 Tuesday 3 January – Friday 31 March 2016 Priority Booking opens to Friends and Mailing List Subscribers on Tuesday 27 September 2016 Friends – Request to be submitted by Thursday 13 October 2016 Mailing List – Request to be submitted by Thursday 20 October 2016 General Public – By telephone/online from Tuesday 8 November 2016

Box Office Hours

Car Parking

7 days a week: 10.00am– 8.30pm. Days without an evening concert: 10.00am– 5.00pm. No advance booking during the half-hour prior to performance.

There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm (Mon– Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a five-minute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their parking when using the Cavendish Square (Q Park Oxford Street) car park. Please contact the Box Office for further details or visit our website.

Telephone Bookings 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm. Days without an evening concert: 10.00am – 5.00pm. There is a non-refundable £3.00 administration charge for each transaction. This includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits.

Postal Bookings

We strongly recommend early booking for Pre-Concert Talks, Artists in Conversation and Study Events.

Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Hall with the amount left open but stating an upper limit, and add an administration charge of £3.00. Tickets will then be sent by post.

Wigmore Hall Box Office

Online Bookings

36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Tel: 020 7935 2141

Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk to book seats. There is a non-refundable administration charge of £2.00.

Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Email (not for bookings): boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tickets Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into five price 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 highest price Stalls AA, T – V: 4th highest price Stalls W – X: Lowest price

BALCONY

T– V Q–S

N–P STA LL S C– M

Where a concession (concs) ticket price is listed these are available to students, senior citizens and the unemployed. For full details visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/concessions.

Under 35s Ticket Scheme Ticket buyers under the age of 35 are entitled to reduced price tickets for selected concerts. For full details visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/u35.

Group Bookings Discounts of 10% are available for groups of 12 or more, subject to availability.

Transport

A –B CC BB

PL ATFO RM

Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze Charter Mark from Attitude is Everything

Tickets for Concessions

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.

W–X

AAAA

Full details from 020 7935 2141 or access@wigmore-hall.org.uk

OXFORD CIRCUS BOND STREET

Restaurant/Bar

A–D

CC BB

Facilities for Disabled People

AAAA

Tubes: Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines), Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines). Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford Street.

This brochure is available in alternative formats. If this would be of assistance to you, please email access@wigmore-hall.org.uk or call 020 7935 2141. Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary. Cover designed at Process Studios. www.processstudios.net Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson

SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALL With £1.7 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend, joining a Circle of Giving, or by supporting a concert or the Learning programme, please call 020 7258 8230 or email friends@wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information. The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert and Learning programmes:

Honorary Patrons Aubrey Adams André and Rosalie Hoffmann Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan

Season Patrons 2016/17 Alexis Gregory Foundation and the Vendome Prize Aubrey Adams* Tony and Marion Allen* American Friends of Wigmore Hall Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne ‡ Karl Otto Bonnier* Henry and Suzanne Davis Dunard Fund† The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Pauline and Ian Howat Harry Lee and Clive Potter* Simon and Sophie Ludlam* The Marchus Trust ‡ The Monument Trust Valerie O’Connor Hamish Parker Victoria and Simon Robey* David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma*† Ian Rosenblatt Cita and Irwin Stelzer* William and Alex de Winton* and several anonymous donors

Chamber Music Circle Karl Otto Bonnier* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Margery Gray Pauline and Ian Howat Lord and Lady Lloyd The Tertis Foundation Marina Vaizey Kathleen Verelst* and several anonymous donors

Voices at Wigmore: The Schubert Song Project Tony and Marion Allen* Anthony Austin Geoffrey Barnett Karl Otto Bonnier* Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair Michael Brind Nicola Coldstream Pauline Del Mar J L Drewitt Alan and Joanna Gemes* Benjamin Hargreaves Julia MacRae*

Edith Randall Louise Scheuer Julia Schottlander* Gill and Keith Stella* In memory of Robert Streit John and Ann Tusa Gerry Wakelin* Susan Ward David and Frances Waters* Anne and David Weizmann David Evan Williams

Corporate Supporters Capital Group (corporate matched giving) Complete Coffee Ltd The Howard de Walden Estate John Lewis Partnership – Oxford Street London Stock Exchange Group Foundation Martin Randall Travel Ltd Rosenblatt Solicitors Rothschild & Co

Donors and Sponsors The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust L Mr Eric Abraham* Neville and Nicola Abraham Elaine Adair Ian Allan David and Jacqueline Ansell* Bernard and Ann Apter Arts Council England Ms J A Attias Mrs Arlene Beare Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez Mrs Arline Blass David and Mary Bowerman* Sir John and Lady Boyd Alan Bradley* Clive Butler A bequest from the late Peter Cain Donald Campbell CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust L Charities Advisory Trust L Mary and Robert Childs Colin Clark John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Michael and Felicia Crystal* Celia and Andrew Curran Anthony Davis* In memory of Margaret Dewhirst The Dorset Foundation – in memory of Harry M Weinrebe In memory of Robert Easton Douglas and Janette Eden Mr Martin and Dr Mina Edwards The Eldering/Goecke Family

Annette Ellis* The Elton Family The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation Dr C A Endersby and Prof D Cowan OBE Caroline Erskine Felicity Fairbairn L Mrs Susan Feakin Peter and Sonia Field L Deborah Finkler and Allan Murray-Jones John and Amy Ford The Foyle Foundation S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 L Neil and Deborah Franks* Friends of Wigmore Hall Jonathan Gaisman* The Garfield Weston Foundation John Gilhooly* John and Lauren Goldsmith* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Peter Goodwin Charles Green Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Elaine and Peter Hallgarten Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* Peter Hardy The Hargreaves and Ball Trust The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation L The Headley Trust L Malcolm Herring* Nicholas Hodgson André and Rosalie Hoffmann ‡ Peter and Carol Honey* Gay Huey Evans* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Hyde Park Place Estate Charity L Simone Hyman* J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Peter and Nikki Jeffcote John Lyon’s Charity L Marc Jourdren* In memory of Donald Kahn Su and Neil Kaplan* Jerome Karet* David and Louise Kaye* Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn* Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Maryly La Follette* Gabor Lacko Alan Leibowitz and Barbara Weiss L Rose and Dudley Leigh The Leverhulme Trust L Tim Llewellyn Dame Felicity Lott The Loveday Charitable Trust L Mr H Lucas David Lyons* Anne and Brian Mace The Estate of Pamela Majaro MBE

Simon Majaro MBE Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Michael and Lynne McGowan* George Meyer L Alison and Antony Milford L Milton Damerel Trust L The Monument Trust Amyas and Louise Morse* Mr and Mrs M J Munz-Jones A C and F A Myer Valerie O’Connor L Celia and Roy Palmer P Parkinson The Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity L The Piano Fund Oliver and Helen Prenn Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Rayne Foundation L Stuart and Bianca Roden L Charles Rose* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM* The Rubinstein Circle The Sampimon Trust L Julia Schottlander* Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Rhona Shaw Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Jo and Barry Slavin Sir Martin and Lady Smith*† Michael Smith and Nicholas Bartlett* Spencer Hart Charitable Trust Elijah Spies Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* John Stephens OBE, Hon FTCL* The Stewarts Law Foundation L Anne and Paul Swain* Alisa and Joshua Swidler* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* Professor Christopher Thompson Robin Vousden* Andrew and Hilary Walker* Professor Janet Walker CD and Professor Doug Jones AO* Dame Fanny Waterman* The Welton Foundation David and Martha Winfield* Tony Wingate Philip and Emeline Winston* The Wolfson Foundation Youth Music L and several anonymous donors * Rubinstein Circle members L Learning Programme supporters † Early Music and Baroque Series supporters ‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters

Details correct as of August 2016 THE WIGMORE HALL TRUST Registered Charity Number 1024838

36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

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