Wigmore Hall Concert Diary June 2014

Wigmore Hall Concert Diary JUNE 2014

Ingrid Fliter Inside: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group • Alice Coote Iestyn Davies • Stephen Hough • Milos˘ Karadaglic´ Alina Ibragimova & Steven Osborne • Dorothea Röschmann Tabea Zimmermann • And many more Box Office 020 7935 2141

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£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice Tomas Bican

SUNDAY 1 JUNE 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Zemlinsky Quartet Dvorˇák String Quartet in D minor Op. 34 Mendelssohn String Quartet in E b Op. 12 Since its foundation two decades ago, the Zemlinsky Quartet has absorbed and enhanced the admirable traditions of Czech string quartet playing. The ensemble celebrates its 20th anniversary with the second of Dvorˇák’s mature quartets and Mendelssohn’s effervescent String Quartet in E flat Op. 12, written following the composer’s first visit to Britain in 1829.

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Zemlinsky Quartet

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

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

SUNDAY 1 JUNE 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series

UCJ/ Universal Records

Amit Lennon

Florilegium; Ashley Solomon director, flute Elin Manahan Thomas soprano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Telemann Overture in F TWV55: F16 Vivaldi Motet: Nulla in mundo pax sincera; Concerto in C for 2 flutes RV533 Telemann Cantata: Ino

Florilegium returns to Wigmore Hall with the soprano Elin Manahan Thomas for a rare performance of Telemann’s bold dramatic cantata Ino, which Florilegium Elin Manahan Thomas recounts the desperate efforts of a mother to save her son from his insane father. They also present Vivaldi’s popular motet Nulla in mundo pax and two instrumental works by Vivaldi and Telemann.

Imogen Cooper piano Brahms Theme and Variations in D minor Clara Schumann Romance from Quatre pièces caractéristiques Op. 5 No. 3 Robert Schumann Romance in F# Op. 28 No. 2 Clara Schumann Scène fantastique: Ballet des revenants from Quatre pièces caractéristiques Op. 5 No. 4 Robert Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 in F# minor Op. 11 Imogen Cooper has been described wisely by the Daily Telegraph as ‘one of the finest pianists now playing’, a claim supported by the poetry and exquisite insights of her mature interpretations.

Her delightful lunchtime programme connects with the expressive contrasts and fleeting emotions of Robert Schumann’s Romance in F sharp and the classical nobility of the Theme and Variations which Brahms transcribed from his String Sextet.

£12.50 concessions £10 Sussie Ahlburg

MONDAY 2 JUNE 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Imogen Cooper

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MONDAY 2 JUNE 7.30 PM Royal Academy of Music Patrons Award Winner’s Recital

£8 £10 £13 £15

David Gray piano Notus Winds Alkan Concerto for solo piano Op. 39 Nos. 8 –10 Harrison Birtwistle Five Distances for Five Instruments Zemlinsky Humoreske for wind quintet Françaix Quintet No. 2 Piazzolla Libertango Thanks to the support of the Royal Academy of Music’s Patrons, this award provides a showcase opportunity for Academy students. The David Gray Notus Winds pianist David Gray and Notus Winds are the proud joint recipients of the Patrons’ Award for 2014, having competed with a whole host of Academy students for this highly-prized Wigmore recital.

Royal Academy of Music

TUESDAY 3 JUNE 2.00 PM – 3.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event Sussie Ahlburg

Sussie Ahlburg

Heath Quartet; Ailish Tynan soprano Living Music: A concert for people living with dementia and their friends, family and carers.

£2

The concert will include works by Schubert, Copland and Beethoven.

After the concert, the audience is invited to an informal reception with representatives from organisations that offer artistic projects for people living with dementia, including Wigmore Hall’s Music for Life.

Ailish Tynan

Heath Quartet

Music for Life is generously supported by The Rayne Foundation, The Sampimon Trust, The Shoresh Charitable Trust, The Milton Damerel Trust, Hyde Park Place Estate Charity, S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3, Valerie K.O’Connor and Jeanette McIntosh, George Meyer, Marie-Luise Waldeck and several anonymous donors

Musical Conversations A new study series which gives the opportunity for reflection and discussion around the repertoire from a featured concert. This first series (3, 10 & 17 June) is linked to Trio Jean Paul’s concert on 10 June that features Kirchner’s arrangement of Brahms’s String Sextet in B flat Op.18 and Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat D929. Group discussion is at the centre of these sessions, facilitated by Pauline Greene. Before the concert there is an opportunity to get inside the music, unpicking the different elements and examining each part in detail. Following the performance join in a lively group discussion to share your own perspectives. No prior musical knowledge is required.

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TUESDAY 3 JUNE 4.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event £45 for 3 sessions, ticket for 10 June (7.30 pm) & post-concert discussion

In Partnership with Morley College Morley College is a leading Adult Education college in London. www.morleycollege.ac.uk

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TUESDAY 3 JUNE 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

£15 £20 £25 £30

Lawrence Zazzo countertenor Simon Lepper piano Sacred and Profane Purcell/Britten Lord, what is Man?; We sing to Him; Job’s Curse; Evening Hymn Musorgsky The leaves rustled sadly; Tsar’ Saul; Softly the Spirit flew up to Heaven; The Seminarist Poulenc Chansons gaillardes Iain Bell These motley fools (world première)* William Bolcom Cabaret Songs (excerpts) *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Lawrence Zazzo

Romanticism and realism intertwine in many of the works in Lawrence Zazzo’s recital. The American countertenor moves from Britten’s realisations of songs from Purcell’s Harmonia Sacra to works by Musorgsky, including settings of Tsar’ Saul, based on Byron, and The Seminarist, a comic portrait of a would-be priest preoccupied with thoughts of his mentor’s daughter.

Contemporary Music Series WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£53 for 3 sessions & ticket for 4 June (7.30 pm)

Wigmore Study Group Chopin Preludes Linked to the 7.30 pm recital given by Ingrid Fliter, this Wigmore Study Group (28, 30 May & 4 June) explores Chopin’s musical world, his great love of Bach, his innovative re-interpretation of 18th-century formal procedures, his passion for Italian opera and his extraordinary insight into pianism (see page 20 of the May Diary for full details).

Watercolour of Chopin by Maria Wodzin´ska, 1836

WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959 Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28

Sussie Ahlburg

Ingrid Fliter piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Buenos Aires-born Ingrid Fliter made headline news in 2006 when she was presented with the Gilmore Artist Award, a major quadrennial prize discreetly judged on the strength of its winner’s performances and recordings. Her Chopin playing combines technical excellence with a spacious feeling for the composer’s spiritual depths, while her readings of Schubert’s late works have been praised for their poetic eloquence.

This concert is linked to the Wigmore Study Group commencing on 28 May

Ingrid Fliter

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THURSDAY 5 JUNE 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2 Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’

Valentin Georgiev

S˘kampa Quartet

£15 £20 £25 £30

Dvorˇák’s ‘American’ Quartet is so familiar that it can easily sound routine in performance.

The S˘kampa Quartet’s attention to every detail in the score and feeling for its cheerful optimism shine through whenever the Prague-based ensemble turns to the score. The piece is set here in company with two other tuneful masterworks by Haydn and Borodin.

S˘kampa Quartet

Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

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

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

FRIDAY 6 JUNE 7.00 PM

£8 £9 £11 £13

Young Musicians from The Purcell School Miki Marimba Spiritual Messiaen Le merle noir Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb D929 (First movement: Allegro) Arnold Divertimento for wind trio Op. 37 (First movement: Allegro energico) Mervyn Cooke Clock Work Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 (First movement: Allegro ma non tanto) Mathias Movements from Zodiac Trio Brahms Four Songs Op. 17 Martinu˚ Movements from Flute Sonata Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ (First movement: Allegro vivace) Poulenc Sextet for piano and wind (First movement: Allegro vivace)

Young Musicians from The Purcell School

Students from The Purcell School perform an eclectic programme of chamber music. The School holds the UNESCO Mozart Gold Medal in recognition of its unique contribution to music, education and international culture. ‘... it gives me great hope for the future of the music profession when I hear what these young people are capable of’ Sir Simon Rattle OM CBE The Purcell School (Registered Charity No. 312855) £12.50 concessions £10

Wu Man pipa Traditional Xi Yang Xiao Gu (Flute and Drum Music at Sunset); Shi Mian Mai Fu (Ambush Laid on Ten Sides); Wang Zhao Jun (arr. Wu Man) Liu Tianhua Xu Lai (Meditation) Traditional Küi (Kazakh Traditional arr.

Wu Man) Wang Hurian Dance of the Yi People Wu Man Night Thoughts; Leaves Flying in Autumn Grammy Award-nominated pipa virtuoso Wu Man comes to Wigmore Hall with a programme deeply rooted in the timeless traditions of Chinese classical music. Working closely with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Yuri Bashmet and David Zinman, Wu Man has propelled this lute-like instrument to worldwide prominence.

Wigmore Lates

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Stephen Kahn

FRIDAY 6 JUNE 10.00 PM Late Night Series

Wu Man

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FRIDAY 6 JUNE 11.15 PM Late Night Series in the Wigmore Hall Bar

Free (no ticket required)

Tom Green Septet Winner of the 2013 Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition, Tom Green’s playing and writing have gained numerous accolades from leading figures in the UK jazz scene. For his first appearance at Wigmore Lates, he is joined by his Septet, a group praised by Dame Cleo Laine for its ‘fantastic energy’.

Wigmore Lates SATURDAY 7 JUNE 10.00 AM – 3.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Ignition Young People’s Day For ages 11 – 16 Ignition is Wigmore Hall’s ensemble for young people, giving them the opportunity to write and perform their own music. Led by Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble Ignite, create music influenced by jazz, chamber and contemporary music, collaborate with other young performers and professional musicians, and perform on the Wigmore Hall stage. This course is open to all types of instruments from violins to bass guitars, snare drums to sitars.

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£20

Supported by The Monument Trust and Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

SATURDAY 7 JUNE 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£3

Pre-Concert Talk Classical music journalist Jessica Duchen introduces Alina Ibragimova and Steven Osborne’s evening concert.

SATURDAY 7 JUNE 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Benjamin Ealovega

Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Arvo Pärt Fratres for violin and piano Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis

Sussie Ahlburg

Alina Ibragimova violin Steven Osborne piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Two of the most thoughtful of artists join forces for a programme of 20th-century masterworks. Alina Ibragimova’s affinity for the music of Prokofiev and Pärt flows naturally from her striking blend of technical control and expressive spontaneity, certain to open fresh perspectives on the classical clarity of the former’s violin sonatas and the austere beauty of the latter’s Fratres.

The Spotlight on Steven Osborne Series is supported by Dunard Fund Alina Ibragimova

Steven Osborne

Spotlight on Steven Osborne

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£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice Steven Haberland

ATOS Trio Haydn Piano Trio in D HXV:24 Dvorˇák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ Since its foundation in 2003, the ATOS Trio has shown the paramount virtues of meticulous preparation in rehearsal and total commitment and courage in performance. The Berlin-based ensemble tackles the mighty demands of Haydn’s Piano Trio in D before turning to Dvorˇák’s ‘Dumky’ Trio, with its blend of captivating Slavic dance rhythms and dark emotions.

ATOS Trio

SUNDAY 8 JUNE 4.00 PM Song Recital Series Vincent Arbelet

Rachmaninov Oh thou, my field; The dream; They answered; The waterlily; A prayer; Fragment from Musset; Spring waters; No prophet, I; Melody; How painful for me; Twilight has fallen; What happiness!; Beloved, Let us fly; Again I am alone; The storm; The muse; Discord

Dima Tarasenko

Evelina Dobraceva soprano Sergey Romanovsky tenor Iain Burnside piano

£12.50 concessions £10 TallWall Media

SUNDAY 8 JUNE 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Evelina Dobraceva

Sergey Romanovsky

Iain Burnside

Wigmore Hall is delighted to host three concerts devoted to some of the finest of all Russian songs. Iain Burnside’s Rachmaninov Song Series ties in with the release of his complete recordings, made in company with outstanding young Russian-speaking artists, of the composer’s deeply moving works for voice and piano.

Rachmaninov Song Series SUNDAY 8 JUNE 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Russell Duncan

Fauré Clair de lune; Le secret; Au cimetière; Les berceaux; Fleur jetée Liszt Enfant, si j’étais roi; Comment, disaient-ils; Oh! quand je dors; Ich möchte hingehn; Der du von dem Himmel bist; Freudvoll und leidvoll; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh; Die Loreley Strauss Die Nacht; Morgen; Schlechtes Wetter; September; Befreit Wolf Heiss mich nicht reden; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land

Jim Rakete

Dorothea Röschmann soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

In demand at the world’s foremost opera houses and festivals, German soprano Dorothea Dorothea Röschmann Malcolm Martineau Röschmann made her international breakthrough almost two decades ago as Mozart’s Susanna at the Salzburg Festival. Her artistry in Lieder and song, often developed in partnership with Malcolm Martineau, has attracted widespread critical acclaim for its extraordinary emotional range and spine-tingling expressive nuance.

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

Supported by The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

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MONDAY 9 JUNE 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Pascal Rogé piano Debussy Suite bergamasque Ravel Sonatine Satie Gnossienne No. 3 Poulenc Les soirées de Nazelles

Mary Robert

£12.50 concessions £10

Pascal Rogé’s sensitivity to tonal shading and textural contrasts, exquisite chordal voicings and feeling for melodic shape combine to illuminate frequently hidden qualities of familiar works such as Satie’s Gnossiennes and the Suite bergamasque of Debussy. His lunchtime programme concludes with a work by Poulenc, based on a series of improvised musical portraits of the composer’s friends.

MONDAY 9 JUNE 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

Pascal Rogé

£15 £20 £25 £30

Cyprien Katsaris piano Cyprien Katsaris Spontaneous improvisation on various themes Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E b ‘Emperor’ Op. 73 (transcribed for solo piano by Katsaris) Keyboard Improvisation was part of everyday life for musicians in Beethoven’s time, an essential method for expressing ideas in the moment of their creation and developing them freely. Cyprien Katsaris has revived the tradition with spellbinding improvisations on themes from the past, which he presents here in company with Schubert’s sublime late Piano Sonata in B flat and a virtuoso transcription of Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto.

Supported by bureauexport

Cyprien Katsaris

TUESDAY 10 JUNE 4.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event £45 for 3 sessions, ticket for 10 June (7.30 pm) & post-concert discussion

Musical Conversations See page 4 for full details In Partnership with Morley College

Morley College is a leading Adult Education college in London. www.morleycollege.ac.uk

TUESDAY 10 JUNE 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Brahms String Sextet in Bb Op. 18 (arr. for piano trio by Kirchner) Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in E b D929

Irène Zandel

Trio Jean Paul

£15 £20 £25 £30

Trio Jean Paul, established almost a quartet of a century ago, offers a chance to hear Brahms’s B flat Sextet in its rarely performed piano trio arrangement. ‘Not I, and certainly no one else, can make arrangements of my works as well as Theodor Kirchner,’ commented Brahms.

This concert is linked to Musical Conversations commencing on 3 June

Trio Jean Paul

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WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series/ Chamber Music Season

Marco Borggreve

Dies Natalis

Keith Saunders

The King’s Consort; Robert King conductor Carolyn Sampson soprano

£18 £25 £30 £35

Corelli Concerto grosso in D Op. 6 No. 1 Britten Les Illuminations Op. 18 Geminiani Concerto grosso in E minor Op. 3 No. 3 Finzi Dies Natalis Op. 8 The world première of Dies Natalis in 1940 was given at Wigmore Hall by The King’s Consort Carolyn Sampson the soprano Elsie Suddaby in the same year as the first performance of Britten’s Les Illuminations. Carolyn Sampson and The King’s Consort, playing on gut strings, continue their exploration of 20th-century English music in a concert which promises to restore a forgotten soundworld.

THURSDAY 12 JUNE 1.00 PM – 2.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£7 concessions £5

Aurora Orchestra Loré Lixenberg soprano Melanie Pappenheim mezzo-soprano The Mind and Soul Choir Anxiety Fanfare Concert Jocelyn Pook Anxiety Fanfare and Variations for Voices (world première) Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4

Loré Lixenberg

Melanie Pappenheim

This concert features the world première of Anxiety Fanfare and Variations for Voices, a new work by acclaimed composer Jocelyn Pook commissioned by the Mental Health Foundation for Anxiety 2014. A unique collaboration between Wigmore Hall, Aurora Orchestra and the Mental Health Foundation, this new work extends Pook’s interest in the experience of mental illness, which she explored in her ground-breaking 2012 work Hearing Voices.

THURSDAY 12 JUNE 6.00 PM – 6.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Early Evening Concert Ignite, Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble, works primarily through improvisation to deliver both innovative community programmes and dynamic performances. Drop in after work to hear this vibrant ensemble perform a collection of brand new pieces from leading contemporary composers.

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Monument Trust and The Andor Charitable Trust

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Aperitif with Ignite

Free (ticket required)

Ignite

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THURSDAY 12 JUNE 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Tabea Zimmermann viola Bach Sonata No.1 in G minor for solo violin BWV1001 György Kurtág From Signs, Games and Messages: In Nomine – all’ongherese; ... eine Blume für Tabea ...; Kromatikus feleselös Reger Suite in G minor Op. 131d No. 1 Hindemith Sonata for solo viola Op. 25 No. 1 Bach Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009 An early reviewer of Hindemith’s First Viola Sonata commended its young composer for his work’s ‘remarkable melodic invention’ and ‘powerful impetus’. Tabea Zimmermann traces the score’s formal roots, together with those of Reger’s Suite in G minor, back to Bach, by way of György Kurtág’s reflections on memories of past times in three miniatures from his Signs, Games and Messages series.

FRIDAY 13 JUNE 7.00 PM Chamber Music Season

Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Schubert String Quartet in G D887

£15 £20 £25 £30

Three late masterworks by Haydn, Janácˇek and Schubert provide limitless possibilities for the deep exploration of music’s emotional range and self-transcending powers. The Doric String Quartet crowns a compelling combination of compositions with Schubert’s String Quartet in G D887, aptly described by one scholar as ‘an opera without words’.

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Tabea Zimmermann

George Garnier

Doric String Quartet

Marco Borggreve

£15 £20 £25 £30

Doric String Quartet

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Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

FRIDAY 13 JUNE 10.00 PM Late Night Series Olaf Heine/ DG

Milos˘ Karadaglic´ guitar Works by Bach, Rodrigo, and Falla

£12.50 concessions £10

Countless listeners have been introduced to classical guitar thanks to the work of Milos˘ Karadaglic´ , who has touched vast audiences with his stadium performances and best-selling recordings.

He returns with a programme guaranteed to delight guitar connoisseurs and newcomers alike.

Wigmore Lates FRIDAY 13 JUNE 11.15 PM Late Night Series in the Wigmore Hall Bar

Milos˘ Karadaglic´

Free (no ticket required)

Albert Ball’s Flying Aces Bringing their unique sound of ‘authentic and upbeat jazz and ragtime’ (Time Out ) to Wigmore Lates, Albert Ball’s Flying Aces embody the hedonism and abandon of the Roaring Twenties.

Wigmore Lates

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SATURDAY 14 JUNE 3.00 PM

£10 £14 £18 £22

Pro Corda Musical Encounters Performances of chamber works to include Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor Op. 108 and Beethoven’s String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’, given by students at Birmingham Conservatoire, Royal Northern College of Music and Royal Academy of Music. All studied at the Pro Corda Conservatoire Residency with the Wihan Quartet and this concert brings together selected stunning young artists from that residency.

Promoted by Pro Corda (Reg. Charity) This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, with an interval

Arnold Camerata

SATURDAY 14 JUNE 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Harald Hoffmann

£15 £20 £25 £30

Anna Prohaska soprano Eric Schneider piano Behind the lines 1914 –2014

Traditional Dunkle Wolken Beethoven Die Trommel gerühret Eisler Kriegslied eines Kindes Wolf Der Tambour; Der Soldat II Rachmaninov I have Grown Fond of Sorrow ( The Soldier’s Wife) Traill My Luve’s in Germanie Ives In Flanders Fields; ‘1, 2, 3’; Tom Sails Away Eisler From Hollywood Liederbook: Panzerschlacht; Die letzte Elegie; Die Heimkehr Cavendish Wandring in this place Schubert Kriegers Ahnung; Ellens Gesang I Wolfgang Rihm Untergang Liszt Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher Schumann Die beiden Grenadiere Poulenc Le retour du sergent from Chansons villageoises Anna Prohaska Fauré C’est la paix Quilter Fear no more the heat o’ the sun Schumann Der Soldat Mahler Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Weill Beat! Beat! Drums!; Dirge for two veterans Echoes of war and its aftermath resound throughout Anna Prohaska’s recital. The Austrian soprano reflects on the slaughter unleashed a century ago following the outbreak of the First World War, touching such diverse responses to armed conflict as Goethe’s idealistic celebration of the heroic in ‘Die Trommel gerühret’ and reaching the desolate heart of Michael Cavendish’s lute-song, ‘Wandring in this place’. £12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Marais Suite in D minor from Pièces de violes 3e livre Bach Sonata No. 3 in G minor BWV1029 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 There are strong serendipities at work in this programme. Johann Sebastian Bach studied Marin Marais’s works during his schooldays in Lüneburg and put their lessons to good use almost four decades later in his own Sonatas for viola da gamba and continuo. Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Tharaud conclude their recital with Brahms’s First Cello Sonata of 1862 – 5, which refers back to Bach’s The Art of Fugue.

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Marco Borggreve

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Alexandre Tharaud piano

Marco Borggreve

SUNDAY 15 JUNE 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Jean-Guihen Queyras

Alexandre Tharaud

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SUNDAY 15 JUNE 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Iestyn Davies countertenor Malcolm Martineau piano Evensong – English Cathedral Organists in song William Croft A Hymn on Divine Musick (real. by Britten) Jeremiah Clarke A Divine Hymn (real. by Britten) Byrd Ye sacred muses Purcell Full Fathom Five (realised by Thomas Adès) Howells When the dew is falling; The little boy lost; Full moon; King David Dunhill The Cloths of Heaven Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci Francis Jackson Tree at my window; From a railway carriage Gurney The Apple Orchard Rootham Everyone Sang; Songs by Arthur Wills, Michael Howard, Philip Moore, Walford Davies and Ivor Novello

Benjamin Ealovega

£18 £25 £30 £35

Iestyn Davies

Britain’s cathedral and collegiate choirs played a critical part in shaping the sensibilities of the composers in Iestyn Davies’s latest Wigmore Hall recital. The countertenor moves from music associated with the Restoration Chapel Royal to works by Herbert Howells and his close friend Ivor Gurney, who met during their youth at Gloucester Cathedral.

MONDAY 16 JUNE 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Alban Gerhardt cello Bach Cello Suite No. 4 in E b BWV1010 Kodály Sonata for solo cello Op. 8 Since making his concerto debut with members of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1987, Alban Gerhardt has flourished to become one of the premier cellists of his generation. The German artist’s pioneering performances of works by Bach in unusual venues, including railway stations, have nourished his interpretations in recent years, adding new insights to his readings of the composer’s mighty Cello Suites.

Sim Canetty-Clarke/ Hyperion Records

£12.50 concessions £10

Alban Gerhardt

MONDAY 16 JUNE 7.30 PM Rosenblatt Recitals 2013/14

Johan Persson

£12 £16 £22 £26

Dimitri Platanias baritone Gary Matthewman piano Tosti Malia; Non t’amo più; L’ultima canzone Samaras Mother and son Chatziapostolou The convict Offenbach Scintille diamant from Les contes d’Hoffmann Verdi Vanne... Credo in un dio crudel from Otello Bellini Dolente immagine di fille mia Donizetti Amore e morte Verdi Alzati! Eri tu from Un ballo in maschera Respighi Nebbie Gastaldon Musica proibita Giordano Nemico della patria? from Andrea Chénier

Dimitri Platanias

Gary Matthewman

Greek baritone Dimitri Platanias burst onto the UK scene in 2012 following a stunning Royal Opera House debut in the title role of Rigoletto. Lauded for his ‘gloriously sustained tone and line … thrilling power … [and] bags of character’ (The Times), here Rosenblatt Recitals welcome Platanias for his London recital debut.

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TUESDAY 17 JUNE 4.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event £45 for 3 sessions, ticket for 10 June (7.30 pm) & post-concert discussion

Musical Conversations See page 4 for full details In Partnership with Morley College

Morley College is a leading Adult Education college in London. www.morleycollege.ac.uk

TUESDAY 17 JUNE 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series

Sophie Junker

Zachary Wilder Benjamin Ealovega

Charpentier Sonate à huit in C H548; La descente d’Orphée aux enfers H488

Katherine Manley Paul Foster-Williams

Ed Lyon

Shannon Langman

Christina Raphaelle

Paul Foster-Williams

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Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn director, harpsichord Ed Lyon tenor (Orphée) Katherine Manley soprano (Euridice) Sophie Junker soprano (Proserpine) Zachary Wilder tenor (Ixion) William Berger baritone (Apollon) Callum Thorpe bass-baritone (Pluton)

£20 £30 £35 £40

Charpentier’s exquisite opera on the legend of Orpheus was the last and most substantial of his compositions under the patronage of William Berger Callum Thorpe Christian Curnyn Mademoiselle de Guise, lavish patron of the arts and last of her family’s line.

Early Opera Company performs this jewel of the French Baroque, in which Charpentier’s dark scoring for three bass viols evokes both the underworld and the searing pain of the hero’s bereavement.

Toddler Bop

For 1 – 2 year olds

Interactive music, movement and play workshops for young children and their parents/carers with Chamber Tots in the Community workshop leader Esther Sheridan and guest musicians.

Please note Toddler Bop workshops are now an hour in duration and will include a visit to the auditorium

WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE 10.15 AM – 11.15 AM rep. 11.45.AM – 12.45 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£10 concessions £6

Study Afternoon Performance Anxiety This afternoon will explore the roots and psychological context of performance anxiety, an issue that affects a great many musicians and other performers regardless of experience or proficiency. The subject will also be approached from a practical perspective and, in conversation with performers who have had to deal with performance anxiety, looks at ways in which it can be addressed. This study afternoon is suitable for musicians, students, or anyone who takes an interest in this area.

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WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£3

Pre-Concert Talk Pianist Malcolm Martineau introduces the evening’s all-Schubert programme, the final concert in his ‘Songlives’ series.

Songlives WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Christoph Prégardien tenor Malcolm Martineau piano Songlives: Schubert Schubert An Silvia; Im Abendrot; Der Einsame; Fischerweise; Totengräbers Heimweh; Wiegenlied (D867); Widerspruch; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Das Zügenglöcklein; Am Fenster; Sehnsucht (D879); Im Freien; Auf der Brücke; Der liebliche Stern; Im Walde (D834); Um Mitternacht; Lebensmut; Im Frühling; An mein Herz; Tiefes Leid (Im Jänner 1817); Über Wildemann

Marco Borggreve

£18 £25 £30 £35

Christoph Prégardien

Only the finest performers are able to communicate the profound spiritual qualities and related expressive gestures of Schubert’s songs. Christoph Prégardien and Malcolm Martineau have set benchmark standards with interpretations based on many decades of shared experience and mutual understanding of the musical and poetic essence of the composer’s Lieder.

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

Supported by The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

Songlives

For Crying Out Loud!

For parents and babies up to 1 year old

A highly popular programme for new parents and their babies, with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. With each concert lasting 45 minutes, parents can enjoy chamber music in an accommodating environment. Although the music will be appropriate for babies, these concerts are introduced for parents and are not interactive.

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THURSDAY 19 JUNE 11.00 AM repeated 12.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

THURSDAY 19 JUNE 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54 Brahms Klavierstücke Op. 76 Bartók Piano Sonata Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959 Charles Owen has been named among the finest British pianists of his generation by Gramophone and praised by reviewers elsewhere for the finely judged balance of sensuous spontaneity and technical precision about his playing. His programme includes the percussive intensity of Bartók’s Piano Sonata and the formal clarity and inventive fantasy of Schubert’s late Piano Sonata in A major.

Jack Liebeck

Charles Owen piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Charles Owen

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FRIDAY 20 JUNE 7.00 PM Chamber Music Season

Oliver Knussen Upon one note Gerald Barry Aeneas and Dido Peter Maxwell Davies Unbroken Circle Tansy Davies Undertow A Clementi Berceuse Philip Cashian Caprichos Hans Werner Henze Adagio adagio Carter Epigrams (London première) Colin Matthews Berceuse for Elliott John Woolrich In the mirrors of asleep Thomas Adès Court Studies

Clive Barda

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

£15 £20 £25 £30

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s Wigmore Hall programme includes chamber works by BCMG’s two Artists-in-Association, Oliver Knussen and John Woolrich, together with pieces by other composers central to contemporary Birmingham Contemporary Music Group classical music’s development. Elliott Carter’s piano trio Epigrams, first performed by BCMG at the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival, is introduced to London, framed by Colin Matthews’s Berceuse for Elliott, written after Carter’s death, and Hans Werner Henze’s hauntingly beautiful serenade for violin, cello and piano, Adagio adagio.

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Supported by The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

Contemporary Music Series

Marc-André Hamelin piano Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV1004 Mozart Piano Sonata in D K576 Debussy Images, Series 1 Marc-André Hamelin Chaconne; Variations on a theme by Paganini

£12.50 concessions £10 Sim Canetty-Clarke

FRIDAY 20 JUNE 10.00 PM Late Night Series

Marc-André Hamelin’s late night programme moves from Busoni’s dramatic transcription of Bach’s D minor Chaconne to Hamelin’s dazzling Variations on a theme by Paganini, with detours to include Mozart’s final piano sonata and the poetic world of Debussy’s first book of Images.

Supported by Peter and Sonia Field

Marc-André Hamelin Artist in Residence/Wigmore Lates FRIDAY 20 JUNE 11.15 PM Late Night Series in the Wigmore Hall Bar

Marc-André Hamelin

Free (no ticket required)

Trish Clowes’ Tangent Quartet BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Trish Clowes is at the apex of emerging jazz talent in the UK, and the unique artistry of her Tangent Quartet has been described by Jamie Cullum as ‘British Jazz at its best’.

Wigmore Lates

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SATURDAY 21 JUNE 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

Stephen Hough piano Schoenberg 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 Strauss Träumerei from Stimmungsbilder Op. 9 No. 4 Wagner Albumblatt Bruckner Erinnerung Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Schumann Carnaval Op. 9

Andrew Crowley

£15 £20 £25 £30

Stephen Hough’s inspired selection of works recalls the great debate between Wagnerians and Brahmsians, and reveals both composers’ debt to the imaginative worlds of ETA Hoffmann and Robert Schumann. Echoes of the latter’s Carnaval, with its evocative musical portraits of masqueraders, can be heard in the seven late Fantasien of Brahms, Wagner’s wistful Albumblatt and Bruckner’s Erinnerung of 1868. Hough’s programme includes Arnold Schoenberg’s highly concentrated Little Piano Pieces, five of which were written within one day.

SUNDAY 22 JUNE 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Stephen Hough

£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Ensemble Marsyas Josep Domènech, Molly Marsh oboe Peter Whelan bassoon Pamela Thorby recorder Sarah McMahon cello Thomas Dunford theorbo Philippe Grisvard harpsichord Fasch Sonata in Bb for 2 oboes, bassoon and basso continuo Handel Trio Sonata in G minor HWV393 Fasch Sonata in C for bassoon and basso continuo Handel Sonata in C for recorder and basso continuo HWV365 Zelenka Sonata No. 5 for 2 oboes, bassoon and basso continuo Named after the reed-playing satyr of Greek mythology, Ensemble Marsyas is devoted Ensemble Marsyas to the cause of reviving virtuoso woodwind music from the Baroque and Classical periods.

The group, which comprises leading period performers from Britain, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain, offers the chance to hear why Bach admired works by his contemporary Johann Friedrich Fasch, Chapel Master at the tiny German principality of Zerbst.

SUNDAY 22 JUNE 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben; Dichterliebe With new song commissions and a remarkably broad recital repertoire to her name, Alice Coote stands today among the leading interpreters of Lieder and art song. She is joined by leading British pianist Christian Blackshaw in repertoire which explores the many aspects of love.

Herbie Knott

Woman and Man: the human soul in love

Benjamin Ealovega

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Christian Blackshaw piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

Alice Coote

Christian Blackshaw

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MONDAY 23 JUNE 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Brahms Meine Liebe ist grün; Juchhe!; Liebestreu; Die Mainacht; Sonntag; Feldeinsamkeit; Von waldbekränzter Höhe Strauss Ständchen; Herr Lenz; Ich liebe dich; Freundliche Vision; Ruhe, meine Seele; Cäcilie; Heimliche Aufforderung; Morgen; Wozu noch, Mädchen, soll es Frommen; Breit über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar; Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten

Julian Laidig

Daniel Behle tenor Oliver Schnyder piano

£12.50 concessions £10

Daniel Behle, who made his UK debut with Die schöne Müllerin at Wigmore Hall in June 2013, turns his beautiful lyric tenor to the service of this delightful programme of Lieder by Brahms and Strauss.

Daniel Behle

MONDAY 23 JUNE 7.30 PM The Monday Platform

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Oscar Alabau cello Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano Marta Fontanals-Simmons mezzo-soprano Timothy End piano Anthony Brown saxophone Leo Nicholson piano Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Schumann Adagio & Allegro in Ab Op. 70 Granados Intermezzo from Goyescas The female psyche: Oscar Alabau Mozart Smanie Implacibili (Così fan tutte) Brahms Von ewiger Liebe; Vergebliches Ständchen Poulenc Métamorphoses Copland From Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson: The world feels dusty; I felt a funeral in my brain Ravel Oh! La pitoyable aventure (L’heure espagnole) James MacMillan After the Tryst Piazzolla La muerte del angel (arr. Nicholson) Ibert From Histoires (arr. Brown): La Cage de Cristal; Le petit âne blanc; Le Palais Abandonné; Bajo la Mesa Roger Boutry Divertimento

Marta Fontanals-Simmons

Anthony Brown

Featured in this 2013 Young Artists Platform showcase are Catalonian cellist Oscar Alabau, who won First Prize at the JM Vinaros International Competition and Second Prize at the Guilhermina Suggia Competition; Marta Fontanals-Simmons, final year student on the GSMD Opera Course; and Anthony Brown, First Prize winner in the RNCM Wind Soloists and 23rd Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist competitions, and Musicians’ Company’s silver medallist.

Presented by the Friends of Young Artists Platform Supported by the Tillett Trust & Milton Grundy Foundation

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TUESDAY 24 JUNE 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series Pynk Studios London

Marco Borggreve

Dunedin Consort; John Butt director Iestyn Davies countertenor Cecilia Bernardini violin

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Cantatas for the Soul Johann Christoph Bach Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte (Lamento) Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in Bb BWV1051; Cantata BWV54 ‘Widerstehe doch der Sünde’; Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041; Cantata BWV170 ‘Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust’

Iestyn Davies

Cecilia Bernardini

Iestyn Davies joins the Dunedin Consort to perform two of J S Bach’s finest cantatas for solo alto. This programme also includes a work by Bach’s second cousin, Johann Christoph, whose thrilling violin obbligatos undoubtedly inspired his young cousin’s writing for the strings, celebrated here in the glorious Sixth Brandenburg Concerto.

WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£10 concessions £6

Study Afternoon Anxiety and Modernism Writer and musicologist Gavin Plumley explores the theme of anxiety and modernism through key works from Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century, including Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony and his Second String Quartet.

This Study Event is linked to the following concerts: Britten Sinfonia Wednesday 7 May 1.00 pm London Conchord Ensemble Monday 12 May 1.00 pm (concert tickets to be purchased separately) WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Munich-born Carolin Widmann’s artistry spans the repertoire gamut from Bach to new works created for her. The violinist returns to Wigmore Hall with her regular duo partner, Alexander Lonquich, to perform a programme including Mozart’s remarkable Violin Sonata in A K526, which glances back to the counterpoint of Bach and foreshadows the striking emotional contrasts of Schubert’s music.

Francesco Fratto

Schubert Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in A minor D385 Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526 Webern Four Pieces Op. 7 Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121

Marco Borggreve

Carolin Widmann violin Alexander Lonquich piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Carolin Widmann

Alexander Lonquich

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THURSDAY 26 JUNE 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Michael Schade tenor Malcolm Martineau piano Mozart Das Veilchen; An Chloe; Komm, liebe Zither, komm; Das Lied der Trennung Schubert Adelaide; Täglich zu singen; An eine Quelle; Der Jüngling an der Quelle; Der Blumenbrief; Ganymed Mozart Cantata: Die ihr des unermeßlichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt Strauss Wozu noch, Mädchen, soll es Frommen; Breit über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar; Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten; Hoffen und wieder verzagen; Mein Herz ist stumm Brahms An eine Äolsharfe; Lerchengesang; Heimweh II; Auf dem See Strauss Allerseelen; Befreit; Morgen; Nichts; Zueignung

Harald Hoffmann

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Canadian-German tenor Michael Schade and Malcolm Martineau have devised a gripping programme for their recital, ranging through the story of German song from Mozart’s early ‘Komm, liebe Zither, komm’, originally conceived for voice and mandolin, to late-Romantic masterworks by Brahms and Strauss.

FRIDAY 27 JUNE 7.00 PM Song Recital Series

£18 £25 £30 £35 Pia Clodi

Sussie Ahlburg

Sophie Bevan soprano Christopher Maltman baritone Simon Lepper piano

Michael Schade

Marx Erinnerung Schoeck Nacht Pfitzner Lockung Marx Die Elfe Zemlinsky Waldesgespräch Korngold Nachtwanderer Marx Waldseligkeit Webern Tief von Fern; Nachtgebet der Braut Schoenberg Warnung Webern Aufblick Strauss Befreit; Mein Auge Marx Frage und Antwort Reger Der Himmel hat eine Träne Sophie Bevan geweint Mahler Liebst du um Schönheit Marx Regen Delius Il pleure dans mon cœur Debussy Il pleure dans mon cœur Marx Nocturne; Nachtgebet; Selige Nacht; Valse de Chopin; Pierrot Dandy

Christopher Maltman

Wigmore Hall’s revelatory ‘Joseph Marx Song Series’, overseen by Simon Lepper, reaches its conclusion with an expansive programme that presents Marx’s output in the context of works by ten of his contemporaries.

Joseph Marx Song Series

FRIDAY 27 JUNE 10.00 PM Late Night Series

Vitry Vos quid admiramini /Gratissima Virginis/Gaude gloriosa Plainchant Alma Redemptoris Mater Andrew Smith Flos regalis Anonymous Flos regalis (from the Worcester Fragments) Tallis Why fum’th in fight Andrew Smith To mock your reign Josquin des Prez Absalon fili mi Crecquillon Lamentations of Jeremiah for Maundy Thursday Bennett A Colloquy with God

Chris Owyoung

New York Polyphony

£12.50 concessions £10

New York Polyphony

Among the world’s most innovative vocal ensembles, New York Polyphony moves from the vibrant soundworld of Philippe de Vitry’s isorhythmic motet Vos quid admiramini, strikingly ‘modern’ in character, to Richard Rodney Bennett’s exquisite A Colloquy with God, written for New York Polyphony within the year of the composer’s death in 2012.

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FRIDAY 27 JUNE 11.15 PM Late Night Series in the Wigmore Hall Bar

Free (no ticket required)

Renato D’Aiello Quartet Renowned for commanding one of the most ‘attractive and affecting tenor sounds in contemporary jazz’ Evening Standard, Renato D’Aiello is fast becoming a favourite on the British jazz scene.

Wigmore Lates SATURDAY 28 JUNE 11.00 AM – 4.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

RNIB Family Day – A Day in the Life ...

For blind and partially sighted children aged 6 –12 years and their families Take a step back in time to experience a day in the life of an 18th-century aristocrat and explore the stories and characters hidden in the paintings at The Wallace Collection.

This family day is jam-packed with activities including exhibit handling, story writing, trying on costumes and composing your own music to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day.

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Free (application required)

For more information and to book please contact James Risdon, RNIB Music Officer on 020 7391 2273 or email mas@rnib.org.uk

SATURDAY 28 JUNE 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Marco Borggreve

Bernd Noelle

Veronika Eberle violin Shai Wosner piano

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Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23 Schoenberg Phantasy Op. 47 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Brahms and his approach to thematic development were close to Schoenberg’s thinking around the time he wrote the Phantasy Op. 47, a heart-on-sleeve example of twelve-note composition. Veronika Eberle, one of the most exciting violinists to emerge from Germany in recent years, projects the revolutionary spirit of Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata of 1803, written in defiance of the composer’s despair over his increasing deafness.

Veronika Eberle

Shai Wosner

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£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Melvyn Tan fortepiano Beethoven Piano Sonata in C Op. 2 No. 3 Müthel Sonata in F, published 1770 (from the Montagu Music Collection) Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 18 in E b Op. 31 No. 3

Sheila Rock

SUNDAY 29 JUNE 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Melvyn Tan’s Coffee Concert revolves around the Sonata in F by Johann Gottfried Müthel, perhaps the first composer ever to publish works specifically for the fashionable new fortepiano.

SUNDAY 29 JUNE 4.00 PM Song Recital Series

Melvyn Tan

£12.50 concessions £10

Ekaterina Siurina soprano Rodion Pogossov baritone Iain Burnside piano Rachmaninov Oh never sing to me again; For long there has been little consolation in love; Child, thou art as beautiful as a flower; In the silence of the secret night; Lilacs; How fair this spot; When yesterday we met; ’Tis time; In my garden at night; A dream; To her; Daisies; The rat-catcher; A-u!; Letter to K.S. Stanislavsky; He took all from me; Before my window; Two partings; The poet; Vocalise Ekaterina Siurina

Rodion Pogossov

Iain Burnside’s Rachmaninov Song Series ties in with the release of his complete recordings, made in company with outstanding young Russian-speaking artists, of the composer’s deeply moving works for voice and piano.

Rachmaninov Song Series £10 £14 £17 £20 (£5 for RCM students)

SUNDAY 29 JUNE 7.30 PM

Royal College of Music Virtuosi Cecilia Sultana de Maria harp Rodrigo Moro Martin & Jim Vanderspar double basses with Min Bae piano Trio Incendia Sean Riley violin & Cassandra Matthews guitar Son Quartet; Vasara Quartet

Cecilia Sultana de Maria

Son Quartet

Trio Incendia

Passione Amorosa Parish Alvars Introduction, cadenza et rondo Bottesini Passione Amorosa Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 Laura Snowden Five Impressions Mendelssohn Octet in Eb Op. 20 Vasara Quartet Rodrigo Moro Martin & Sean Riley Cassandra Matthews Jim Vanderspar Expect passionate, brilliant playing from the stars of the Royal College of Music at the annual string showcase. Featuring virtuoso double bass playing, magical soundscapes for guitar and strings, Shostakovich’s elemental second piano trio, and Mendelssohn’s effervescent string octet.

Royal College of Music

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MONDAY 30 JUNE 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£12.50 concessions £10

Kopelman Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83 Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 92 The second performance of Prokofiev’s Second String Quartet in Moscow in 1942 was temporarily delayed by a Nazi air-raid.

The work’s use of folk melodies from the autonomous Caucasian republic of Kabardino-Balkar rallied listeners to the patriotic cause for which the Soviet Union was fighting.

Mikhail Kopelman and his quartet colleagues Boris Kuschnir and Igor Sulyga, members of the post-war generation, learned direct lessons about Shostakovich’s music from the composer himself.

Kopelman Quartet

MONDAY 30 JUNE 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Malcolm Crowthers

Alvaro Yanez

Sophie Karthäuser soprano Eugene Asti piano

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Mozart Das Veilchen; Sei du mein Trost; Der Zauberer; Abendempfindung Clara Schumann Er ist gekommen; Liebst du um Schönheit; Warum willst du and’re fragen; Die gute Nacht Robert Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Poulenc Tel jour, telle nuit; Voyage à Paris; Montparnasse; Hôtel; La courte paille; A sa guitare; Les chemins de l’amour Renowned as a recitalist and in demand worldwide as an interpreter of Mozart’s operatic roles, the Belgian soprano Sophie Karthäuser returns with a programme of two contrasting halves, casting light on Schumann’s reflections on love and loss in Frauenliebe und -leben before exploring the emotional highs and lows of Poulenc’s songs.

Sophie Karthäuser

Eugene Asti

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

Supported by The Monument Trust and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

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HOW TO GET HERE Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s West End and is easily accessible by public transport or car.

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

Buses

OX F O R D CIRCUS

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

Car Parking

Nick Guttridge

BOND STREET

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.

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

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