Wigmore Series September 2010 - December 2010 by Wigmore Hall

Keith Saunders

WELCOME TO OUR 110TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

directions, attracting record audiences. I see this 110th anniversary season very much as a tribute to all of those who have helped us achieve so much over the past 10 years.

Welcome to Wigmore Hall’s 110th anniversary season. It has been a great pleasure and privilege for me to put the celebratory programme together – my fifth as Artistic Director and in my tenth year as a member of staff, as I joined the Hall (initially as Executive Director) in the run-up to our 2001 centenary celebrations. In the decade that has passed since then, with the vital help of our donors and patrons, we have been able to refurbish the building, acquire a long-term lease of 250 years, launch a critically acclaimed record label, Wigmore Hall Live, and expand our programming in both traditional and new

Our season-long celebrations reflect the great traditions of the Hall: presenting the cream of international artists and the leading composers of our time. We launch the season with a six-concert festival over five days, featuring Karita Mattila and Martin Katz, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake and the Artemis, Elias and Tokyo String Quartets. The celebrations continue across the season and we are very proud to welcome Martha Argerich and Stephen Kovacevich, Daniel Barenboim, Matthias Goerne, Dame Mitsuko Uchida, Cecilia Bartoli, Diana Damrau, Alfred Brendel (for a lecture recital series), Susan Graham, long-standing Wigmore favourite András Schiff, Jonas Kaufmann in Die schöne Müllerin with Helmut Deutsch, Jordi Savall, Philippe Jaroussky, Thomas Hampson, Andreas Scholl, the Takács Quartet and Sandrine Piau, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques in a programme of sacred songs. Two chamber music galas will be held on 31 May and 1 June 2011, the actual dates of the

Bechstein (now Wigmore) Hall inaugural concerts in 1901. Very appropriately, reflecting our commitment to both young artists and new music, the celebrations conclude on 30 July with the London debut of the superb New York-based Jack Quartet, whose energy and panache bowled me over when I first encountered them last year. In a major series to mark the bicentenary of Robert Schumann’s birth in 1810 we draw together a diverse range of artists to celebrate one of the most absorbing figures of German Romanticism. The series takes in the six major song-cycles (as well as many of his 250 or so other songs, with a special emphasis on songs composed during Schumann’s annus mirabilis 1840). We also feature the three string quartets and the three piano trios, plus other chamber music and major piano works. The series is brought to life by Julius Drake, Imogen Cooper, the Florestan Trio, the Vogler, Elias and Doric String Quartets (who perform one of Schumann’s quartets each in three of our autumn Sunday morning coffee concerts). Singers participating in the series include Mark Padmore, James Gilchrist, Christopher Maltman, Gerald Finley,

Ian Bostridge, Soile Isokoski, Wolfgang Holzmair and Kate Royal. Another major vocal project is with Malcolm Martineau and distinguished colleagues who take us on a 100 year journey through the German song repertoire, culminating in the period 1900 –1910, the Hall’s first decade. Clarinettist Michael Collins joins us for a threeconcert residency across the season, featuring him as both chamber musician and soloist in a wide variety of repertoire. To mark the 30th anniversary of the illustrious Hagen Quartet, we present a six-concert series over the season. I have invited the much-loved Steven Isserlis to return as Artist in Residence for a French series in which he draws together distinguished colleagues for a survey of the chamber music of Saint-Saëns, Fauré and Ravel. And we launch a four-concert guitar series spotlighting an instrument whose breathtaking versatility and range of musical expression thrive in the Hall’s intimate acoustic. We welcome John Williams, Manuel Barrueco (from Cuba), Álvaro Pierri (Uruguay) and Glasgow-born Galicia resident David Russell. Soloist, chamber musician and conductor Thomas Zehetmair, one of the most dynamic violinists around, joins us for a Bach recital,

and an appearance within his quartet, as well as a duo recital with violist Ruth Killius in music spanning from Mozart to Heinz Holliger. The distinguished Artemis Quartet continues with the Beethoven cycle which commenced last season, and we welcome back the Leopold String Trio with pianist Aleksandar Madzar (who greatly impressed our audience with his first evening solo recital last season) for a concert which includes Taneyev’s Piano Quartet in E Op. 20. A new quartet by Mark-Anthony Turnage, written for the Belcea Quartet and co-commissioned by Köln Philharmonie, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus and Wigmore Hall, will receive its world première on 7 December with the help of Fondation Hoffmann. We also co-commission several new works with the Britten Sinfonia, as part of their award-winning Lunchtime Series. Angela Hewitt returns for two concerts in which she pairs works by Bach with six new works commissioned by Wigmore Hall. Since 1991, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has been Artistic Director of the internationally renowned Risør Festival, alongside violist Lars Anders Tomter. Each year several of the world’s leading musicians convene there for an intensive period of rehearsals and performances, and, this year, the special atmosphere of these performances 2

comes to us in four concerts, also featuring the Festival’s string orchestra. These will be very memorable musical events taking place from 26 – 28 November. Other highlights of the autumn booking period include return visits from the world’s leading trumpet virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger, the Jerusalem Quartet, Ebène Quartet, and the Emerson String Quartet, who will have a trio of concerts. Christoph Prégardien and Andreas Staier join us on 1 December. The Early Opera Company soloists and chorus pack the Wigmore stage for Handel’s Messiah on 19 December, and the unconventional Patricia Petibon presents her own brand of song recital on 21 December, with a Christmas flavour. Later in the season we look forward to Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis in Schubert, and the London debut of pianist Marino Formenti, one of the most interesting interpreters of the present day, in a recital entitled ‘Kurtág’s Ghosts’. We also celebrate the music of Australian composer Brett Dean in the spring. As usual, there is far too much to mention. Please look through the brochure – we hope to enjoy our celebratory season in your company. John Gilhooly Director

AT A GLANCE SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2010 See pages 6 to 82 for full details of these concerts and pages 132 to 134 for subscription savings and how to book.

Festivals and Series to look out for ...

Song Recital Series

ANNIVERSARY SEASON OPENING CELEBRATIONS Page 6 SCHUMANN BICENTENARY SERIES 8 NASH ENSEMBLE: BEETHOVEN AND THE RUSSIANS 17 GUITAR SERIES 24 DECADE BY DECADE – 100 YEARS OF GERMAN SONG 30 MICHAEL COLLINS – CHAMBER MUSICIAN AND SOLOIST 36 HAGEN QUARTET 30TH ANNIVERSARY SERIES 39 STEVEN ISSERLIS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 48 FRENCH SERIES ALFRED BRENDEL LECTURE RECITALS 50 ANGELA HEWITT’S BACH BOOK 54 RISØR FESTIVAL OF CHAMBER MUSIC 58 AT WIGMORE HALL ARTEMIS QUARTET BEETHOVEN CYCLE 64 THOMAS ZEHETMAIR RESIDENCY 72

Fri 10 Sep Karita Mattila/Martin Katz Page 7 10 Sat 11 Sep Angelika Kirchschlager/Julius Drake 12 Mon 13 Sep Angelika Kirchschlager/Ian Bostridge Julius Drake Sat 18 Sep Matthias Goerne/Eric Schneider 13 14 Mon 20 Sep Matthias Goerne/Andreas Haefliger 15 Tue 21 Sep James Gilchrist/Christopher Maltman Julius Drake Tue 28 Sep Angelika Kirchschlager 18 Belcea Quartet/Simon Lepper Thu 14 Oct Kate Royal/Malcolm Martineau 26 29 Mon 18 Oct Christianne Stotijn/Imogen Cooper 32 Tue 19 Oct Michael Schade/Malcolm Martineau Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 39 Fri 29 Oct 41 Sun 31 Oct Jonas Kaufmann/Helmut Deutsch Christopher Maltman 42 Tue 2 Nov Malcolm Martineau Fri 5 Nov Angelika Kirchschlager 43 Malcolm Martineau Thu 11 Nov Matthew Rose/Jonathan Cohen 47 Malcolm Martineau Sat 13 Nov Kate Royal/Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 51 63 Wed 1 Dec Christoph Prégardien/Andreas Staier Samling Showcase 68 Fri 10 Dec 70 Mon 13 Dec Susan Bullock/Malcolm Martineau 70 Tue 14 Dec Wolfgang Holzmair/Imogen Cooper Dorothea Röschmann 73 Fri 17 Dec Malcolm Martineau Tue 21 Dec Patricia Petibon/Susan Manoff 75

Early Music and Baroque Series Academy of Ancient Music Retrospect Ensemble The English Concert Florilegium Academy of Ancient Music Apollo’s Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra/Jeannette Sorrell Sophie Daneman Sat 4 Dec Les Talens Lyriques/Sandrine Piau Christophe Rousset Sun 12 Dec The Brook Street Band Sun 19 Dec Early Opera Company Wed 22 Dec Rachel Podger/Brecon Baroque Retrospect Ensemble Fri 31 Dec Fri 24 Sep Wed 20 Oct Wed 27 Oct Wed 3 Nov Thu 25 Nov Tue 30 Nov

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Chamber Music Season Tokyo String Quartet Page 11 Artemis Quartet 12 Razumovsky Young Artist Recital 13 Razumovsky Ensemble 13 IMS Prussia Cove 18 Håkan Hardenberger/Roland Pöntinen 19 Florestan Trio 20 Britten Sinfonia 20 Leopold String Trio/Aleksandar Madzar 21 Brentano String Quartet 21 Florestan Trio 23 Endellion String Quartet 23 Alisa Weilerstein/Inon Barnatan 26 Scottish Ensemble/Pieter Wispelwey 27 Chilingirian Quartet 33 Sergey Khachatryan/Lusine Khachatryan 34 Nash Ensemble 34 Nash Ensemble 34 Michael Collins 37 Quatuor Ebène 38 Hagen Quartet 40 Nash Ensemble/Christine Rice 44 Aronowitz Ensemble 45 Emerson String Quartet 46 Emerson String Quartet 46 Steven Isserlis/Viviane Hagner 48 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Mon 15 Nov Steven Isserlis/Joshua Bell/Connie Shih 49 52 Wed 17 Nov Jerusalem Quartet/Chen Reiss Gavriel Livkind Thu 18 Nov Soloists of the LPO 53 Steven Isserlis/Joshua Bell/Dénes Várjon 49 Fri 19 Nov 56 Sun 21 Nov Nash Ensemble/Dame Felicity Lott Leif Ove Andsnes/Marc-André Hamelin 59 Fri 26 Nov Henning Kraggerud/Lars Anders Tomter Torleif Thedéen/Measha Brueggergosman Risør Festival Strings

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Leif Ove Andsnes/Marc-André Page 60 Hamelin/Henning Kraggerud Lars Anders Tomter/Torleif Thedéen Martin Fröst/Measha Brueggergosman Risør Festival Strings Leif Ove Andsnes/Marc-André Hamelin 61 Lars Anders Tomter/Martin Fröst Risør Festival Strings Artemis Quartet 64 Bernard Gregor-Smith 65th Birthday 63 Concert Belcea Quartet 67 Nash Ensemble/Matthew Rose 68 Britten Sinfonia 71 Razumovsky Young Artist Recital 71 Razumovsky Ensemble 71 Thomas Zehetmair 72 Kuss Quartet 73 Soloists of the LPO 75

London Pianoforte Series Wed 22 Sep Lly^r Williams Sun 17 Oct Stephen Kovacevich/Martha Argerich Khatia Buniatishvili/Belcea Quartet Colin Currie & Sam Walton Thu 4 Nov Imogen Cooper Melvyn Tan Sun 7 Nov Sat 13 Nov Alfred Brendel Lecture Recital Sun 14 Nov Alfred Brendel Lecture Recital Sat 20 Nov Angela Hewitt Tue 23 Nov Angela Hewitt Wed 8 Dec Elisabeth Leonskaja Thu 9 Dec Nelly Akopian-Tamarina Sat 18 Dec Alfred Brendel Lecture Recital Tue 28 Dec Lucy Parham Martin Jarvis & Joanna David Thu 30 Dec Bertrand Chamayou

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Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Sun 12 Sep Sun 19 Sep Sun 26 Sep Sun 3 Oct Sun 10 Oct Sun 17 Oct Sun 24 Oct Sun 31 Oct Sun 7 Nov Sun 14 Nov Sun 21 Nov Sun 28 Nov

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Guitar Series

Elias String Quartet Page 11 Anthony Marwood/Aleksandar Madzar 14 Nash Ensemble 17 Bennewitz Quartet 19 Julian Bliss/Robert Bottriell 22 Scottish Ensemble 27 Vogler Quartet 35 Hagen Quartet 40 Belcea Quartet/Julian Rachlin 44 Veronika Eberle/Lars Vogt 51 Atrium Quartet 56 Leif Ove Andsnes/Henning Kraggerud 61 Lars Anders Tomter/Torleif Thedéen Martin Fröst Adrian Brendel/Tim Horton 66 Doric String Quartet 69 Kuss Quartet 74

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Mon 13 Sep Mon 20 Sep Mon 27 Sep Mon 4 Oct Mon 11 Oct Mon 18 Oct Mon 25 Oct Mon 1 Nov Mon 8 Nov Mon 15 Nov Mon 22 Nov Mon 29 Nov Mon 6 Dec Mon 13 Dec Mon 20 Dec

Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien Ilya Gringolts/pianist to be announced ATOS Trio Jonathan Biss Soile Isokoski/Marita Viitasalo S˘kampa Quartet Diana Damrau/pianist to be announced Khatia Buniatishvili Emerson String Quartet Florian Boesch/Roger Vignoles Takács Quartet Malin Christensson/Simon Lepper Mark Padmore/Kristian Bezuidenhout Tokyo String Quartet/Sabine Meyer Francesco Piemontesi

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Wed 13 Oct John Williams Sun 24 Oct Manuel Barrueco Sun 27 Mar 2011 Álvaro Pierri Tue 3 May 2011 David Russell

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Wigmore Hall Learning Sat 18 Sep Sat 18 Sep Fri 24 Sep Sat 2 Oct Mon 4 Oct Fri 15 Oct Sat 16 Oct Tue 19 Oct Wed 20 Oct Fri 22 Oct Tue 26 Oct Wed 27 Oct Fri 29 Oct Sat 6 Nov Tue 9 Nov Thu 11 Nov Sat 13 Nov Sun 14 Nov Sat 20 Nov Thu 25 Nov Sat 27 Nov Thu 2 Dec Sat 4 Dec Tue 7 Dec Sat 18 Dec

Open House Day 80 Pre-Concert Talk 13 Pre-Concert Talk 16 Family Day: A Knight’s Quest 80 Study Course: The Nuts and Bolts of 20 Music Theory Schools Concert: Journey Through Song 81 Family Concert: Journey Through Song 27/81 Pre-Concert Talk 32 Wigmore Study Group 32 Wigmore Study Group 32 Half-Term Course: Bach to Jazz 81 Half-Term Course: Bach to Jazz 81 Wigmore Study Group 32 Family Day: Dirty Beasts 82 Imogen Cooper Masterclass 46 Steven Isserlis Masterclass 47 Alfred Brendel Lecture Recital 50 Alfred Brendel Lecture Recital 50 Artists in Conversation 55 Pre-Concert Talk 57 Artists in Conversation 59 Schools Concert: Chamber Domaine 82 Family Concert: Carducci String Quartet 65/82 Artists in Conversation 66 Alfred Brendel Lecture Recital 50

Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary.

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ANNIVERSARY SEASON OPENING CELEBRATIONS Wigmore Hall marks its 110th anniversary with a season-long celebration reflecting its long tradition of presenting both the cream of international artists and leading composers of the day. Audiences over the years have witnessed performances by Eugène Ysaÿe, Ferruccio Busoni, Enrico Caruso, Thomas Beecham, Arthur Rubinstein, Elisabeth Schumann and the Czech Quartet – a roll call of starry artists, the calibre of which we continue to bring before concert-goers today. John Gilhooly launches the season with six concerts over five days, featuring the front-rank of today’s artists, and the celebrations continue across the season, with performances from Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Cecilia Bartoli, Thomas Quasthoff, András Schiff, Diana Damrau, Susan Graham, Jonas Kaufmann, Thomas Hampson, Jordi Savall, the Takács Quartet, Les Talens Lyriques and many other artists who will join us in looking forward to the next 110 years of great music-making.

Friday 10 September 7.30 pm

KARITA MATTILA soprano MARTIN KATZ piano Saturday 11 September 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano

JULIUS DRAKE piano Sunday 12 September 11.30 am

ELIAS STRING QUARTET Sunday 12 September 7.30 pm

TOKYO STRING QUARTET Monday 13 September 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano Tuesday 14 September 7.30 pm

ARTEMIS QUARTET

Opening Concert of the 2010 – 11 Season Friday 10 September 7.30 pm

KARITA MATTILA soprano MARTIN KATZ piano WIGMORE MEMORIES Programme to include songs by SCHUBERT, BRAHMS, BERG, STRAUSS, SIBELIUS and MADETOJA To open Wigmore Hall’s 110th anniversary season we have a very special event. Hailed by Musical America in 2005 as ‘the most electrifying singing actress of our day’, Finnish soprano Karita Mattila traces almost a century of Austro-German song, and includes selections by Sibelius and by Leevi Madetoja (1887–1947), the composer she regards as ‘Finland’s hidden jewel’. £20 £30 £40 £50 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by the Anniversary Patrons who are providing vital support throughout the 2010 –11 season Song Recital Series / Anniversary Season Opening Celebrations Photo by Lauri Eriksson

SCHUMANN BICENTENARY SERIES In a major series to mark the bicentenary of Robert Schumann’s birth in 1810, we draw together a diverse range of artists to celebrate one of the most absorbing figures of German Romanticism. Schumann’s creative spirit was uniquely influenced by his strong literary instincts, his love for his wife Clara and his precarious mental state – the sudden decline of which cut his career tragically short. Taking in the six major song-cycles (as well as a broad selection of his 250 or so other songs), the series includes a special focus on Schumann’s song output during the year 1840. Presenting the three string quartets (performed across the Coffee Concert series by the Elias, Vogler and Doric Quartets) and three piano trios, plus other chamber music and major piano works, the series is brought to life by major interpreters, including Julius Drake (who oversees Schumann’s Songs of 1840 for us), Imogen Cooper, Gerald Finley, Christopher Maltman, Kate Royal, Ian Bostridge and the Florestan Trio.

Saturday 11 September 7.30 pm

Friday 29 October 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano

GERALD FINLEY baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano

Sunday 12 September 11.30 am

Thursday 4 November 7.30 pm

ELIAS STRING QUARTET

IMOGEN COOPER piano

Tuesday 21 September 7.30 pm

Saturday 13 November 7.30 pm

JAMES GILCHRIST tenor CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano

KATE ROYAL soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano

Tuesday 5 October 7.30 pm

Monday 6 December 1.00 pm

FLORESTAN TRIO

MARK PADMORE tenor KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT piano

Monday 11 October 1.00 pm

SOILE ISOKOSKI soprano MARITA VIITASALO piano

Wednesday 8 December 7.30 pm

Monday 11 October 7.30 pm

Sunday 12 December 11.30 am

FLORESTAN TRIO

DORIC STRING QUARTET

Monday 18 October 7.30 pm

Tuesday 14 December 7.30 pm

CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN mezzo-soprano IMOGEN COOPER piano

WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone IMOGEN COOPER piano

ELISABETH LEONSKAJA piano

Sunday 24 October 11.30 am

VOGLER QUARTET

Portrait of Robert Schumann by Gustav Zerner

WIGMORE SERIES SEPTEMBER– DECEMBER 10 Booking Opens to Friends on 29 April, to Mailing List Subscribers on 13 May and to the General Public/Online on 20 May. Saturday 11 September 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano ANNUS MIRABILIS: THE COMPLETE SONGS OF 1840 – FRAUENLIEBE UND -LEBEN AND OTHER CHAMISSO SETTINGS SCHUMANN Loreley; Die Nonne; Mädchen-Schwermut; Blondels Lied; Sag an, o lieber Vogel mein; Dem roten Röslein gleicht mein Lieb; Was soll ich sagen; Jasminenstrauch; Volksliedchen; Verratene Liebe; Die Löwenbraut; Die Kartenlegerin; Die rote Hanne; Frauenliebe und -leben Leading mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager and pianist Julius Drake launch this season’s Schumann Bicentenary series, opening with Schumann’s brief evocation of the song of a river siren and ending with Frauenliebe und -leben, an intimate account of a woman’s joy, rapture and pain along her journey through love and loss. The programme is devised by Julius Drake. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series/Schumann Bicentenary Series/ Anniversary Season Opening Celebrations ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER

Nikolaus Karlinsky

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Sunday 12 September 11.30 am

ELIAS STRING QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ SCHUMANN String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 Haydn was one of the composers whose string quartets Schumann studied before beginning his own first foray in the genre. The Classical influence of Schumann’s first quartet complements the most popular of Haydn’s 12 quartets dedicated to the violinist Johann Tost, nicknamed the ‘Lark’, after the first violin’s sweetly soaring opening melody. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

ELIAS STRING QUARTET

Benjamin Ealovega

Coffee Concert/Schumann Bicentenary Series/ Anniversary Season Opening Celebrations Monday 13 September 1.00 pm

Sunday 12 September 7.30 pm

TOKYO STRING QUARTET BERG String Quartet Op. 3 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’ BARTÓK String Quartet No. 1 Op. 7 Having recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, the Tokyo String Quartet returns to Wigmore Hall, boasting its remarkable complement of all-Stradivari instruments. ‘This was another expressively phrased musical conversation of burnished grace and vigour – one the enthusiastic audience seemed thrilled to have overheard’ New York Times

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA violin CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN piano BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 STRAUSS Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18 Still in her mid-twenties Alina Ibragimova is one of the leading violinists of her generation. The lush and unjustly neglected Violin Sonata of Richard Strauss – his last major chamber-music work, composed at the age of only 23 – follows Brahms’s richly lyrical Violin Sonata No. 1, written less than a decade earlier. £12 concs £10

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Chamber Music Season/Anniversary Season Opening Celebrations

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Monday 13 September 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano WOLF Spanisches Liederbuch As part of our opening Festival, two world-class singers perform a milestone of the Lieder repertoire. For this sequence of religious and secular songs Wolf turned to 16th- and 17th-century Spanish poems, whose exoticism was the vogue in late 19th-century Germany. Wolf’s ability to encapsulate the entire mood of a poem is strongly evident here. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

Song Recital Series/Anniversary Season Opening Celebrations

ARTEMIS QUARTET

Boris Streubel

Tuesday 14 September 7.30 pm

ARTEMIS QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ The distinguished Berlin-based Artemis Quartet, which recently celebrated its 20th birthday, brings our Anniversary Season Opening Celebrations to a close with the continuation of the complete Beethoven string-quartet cycle, charting Beethoven’s development across 30 years of composing in a form that demonstrates his great innovations in expressive development. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/Anniversary Season Opening Celebrations/Beethoven Cycle IAN BOSTRIDGE

David Thompson

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Friday 17 September 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT EVENT RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTIST RECITAL £6 (not part of subscription scheme) or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)

Chamber Music Season

Friday 17 September 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 2 in E b D929 Wigmore regulars the Razumovsky Ensemble comprise a constantly revolving and evolving selection of international artists hand-picked for each project, making for performances notable for their vitality and freshness.

MATTHIAS GOERNE

Marco Borggreve

Saturday 18 September 7.30 pm

‘Each Razumovsky member may be king of their chosen instrument, but they scale the heavens as a team’ The Times

MATTHIAS GOERNE baritone ERIC SCHNEIDER piano

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SCHUBERT Lieder to texts by Mayrhofer, Schober, Schütz, Claudius and Collin

Chamber Music Season

Saturday 18 September 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK RICHARD STOKES explores the Schubert songs featured in the evening concert in the last of a series of four talks linked with the Matthias Goerne Schubert Songs series.

One of today’s leading recitalists, Matthias Goerne reaches the final year of his large-scale Schubert project, performing 200 songs over 11 recitals across three seasons. ‘Few male singers, even Fischer-Dieskau, command such a rich palette of colours as Goerne does’ Sunday Times

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Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Song Recital Series/Schubert Songs

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Sunday 19 September 11.30 am

Monday 20 September 7.30 pm

ANTHONY MARWOOD violin ALEKSANDAR MADZAR piano

MATTHIAS GOERNE baritone ANDREAS HAEFLIGER piano

SCHUBERT Duo Sonata in A D574 SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105 BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78

SCHUBERT Im Abendrot; Der Wanderer; Nachtviolen; Im Walde; Normans Gesang; Der Abend; Der Geistertanz; Schatzgräbers Begehr; An den Mond (D296); Erlkönig; Am See; Alinde; Widerschein; Die Forelle; Der Fluss; Abendröte; Klage; Der Strom; Fischerweise; Auf der Brücke

Anthony Marwood is familiar to Wigmore Hall audiences as violinist of the Florestan Trio (see 5 & 11 October). This is the first of three Coffee Concerts he gives this season, each of which features one of the three effusively lyrical sonatas by Brahms. ‘Marwood’s violin tone is like spun gold’ The Scotsman £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

Monday 20 September 1.00 pm

ILYA GRINGOLTS violin

‘Matthias Goerne seems to own a different shade of baritonal colour for every syllable Schubert wrote. The voice is sweet and serene, even at fff, and the shifts that Goerne applies to the changing of seasons and the fickleness of love are done with enviable delicacy’ Evening Standard £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

Song Recital Series/Schubert Songs

pianist to be announced GRIEG Violin Sonata No. 1 in F Op. 8 SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 It was as a student at the Leipzig Conservatory that Grieg first came into contact with the music of Schumann, inspiring a life-long enthusiasm. The brilliant young Russian violinist Ilya Gringolts pairs Grieg’s Violin Sonata No. 1, which the composer characterised as ‘naive, rich in ideas’, with Schumann’s more turbulent D minor Sonata. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

ILYA GRINGOLTS

Tomasz Trzebiatowski

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Wednesday 22 September 7.30 pm ^

LLYR WILLIAMS piano BACH/BUSONI Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV1004 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ BRAHMS 3 Intermezzos Op. 117 BRAHMS Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op. 24

JULIUS DRAKE

Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 21 September 7.30 pm

JAMES GILCHRIST tenor CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano

Busoni’s towering piano realisation of Bach’s famous D minor Chaconne for solo violin and Beethoven’s rhythmically driven Waldstein Sonata contrast with Brahms’s more rhapsodic Intermezzos. In his Handel Variations, Brahms paid tribute not only to the composer whose theme he borrowed, but also to Beethoven, one of the greatest exponents of the piano variation. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series

ANNUS MIRABILIS: THE COMPLETE SONGS OF 1840 – EICHENDORFF, KERNER AND ANDERSON SCHUMANN Der frohe Wandersmann; Der Schatzgräber; Frühlingsfahrt; Sängers Trost; Trost im Gesang; Liederkreis Op. 39; Märzveilchen; Muttertraum; Der Soldat; Der Spielmann; Kernerlieder Christopher Maltman, James Gilchrist and Julius Drake continue our Schumann Bicentenary Series with a selection of Lieder from 1840, Schumann’s remarkable ‘year of song’, including the second set of Liederkreis – ‘my most Romantic music ever’, said the composer – which features the supernatural forest scene of Waldesgespräch (‘A forest dialogue’) and the rapturous moonlit half-lights of Mondnacht (‘Moonlit night’). £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series/Schumann Bicentenary Series

LLYR WILLIAMS

John Fero Simms

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Friday 24 September 6.30 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK RICHARD EGARR introduces the first performance in The Bach Dynasty, his year-long showcase of the music of history’s most important musical family. Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Friday 24 September 7.30 pm

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC CHOIR OF THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC RICHARD EGARR director, harpsichord THE BACH DYNASTY: JS BACH’S ANTECEDENTS HEINRICH BACH Ich danke dir, Gott JOHANN MICHAEL BACH Liebster Jesu, hör mein Flehen

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC

ANON Es ist g’nug HEINRICH BACH Sonata a 5 JOHANN CHRISTOPH BACH Die Furcht des Herren JOHANN CHRISTOPH BACH Ach, daß ich Wassers gnug hätte (Lamento) HEINRICH BACH Sonata a 5 JOHANN CHRISTOPH BACH Mein Freundin, du bist schön The Academy of Ancient Music begins its yearlong homage to history’s greatest musical dynasty with music by J. S. Bach’s antecedents. The concert begins with music by Heinrich Bach (1615–1692) – great-uncle of Johann Sebastian – before exploring the music of Heinrich’s sons Johann Christoph (1642–1703) and Johann Michael (1648–1694). £18 £24 £28 £32

Early Music and Baroque Series

Richard Haughton

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NASH ENSEMBLE: BEETHOVEN AND THE RUSSIANS

An all-Russian matinee, with Tchaikovsky’s own violin-and-piano transcription of his appealing Sérénade mélancolique for violin and orchestra, Prokofiev’s substantial and tuneful Flute Sonata, some attractive early Rachmaninov cello pieces, and Shostakovich’s powerful wartime piano trio – written in memory of his friend, the Russian musicologist and theatre critic Ivan Sollertinsky. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert/Beethoven and the Russians Beethoven and the Russians Series continues on 23 October, 6 November, 11 December, 15 January, 26 February and 5 March.

NASH ENSEMBLE

Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

Beethoven enjoyed the patronage of several Russian aristocrats, including Count Razumovsky, who commissioned three of his best-known string quartets (Op. 59). Beethoven was one of the principal models to Russian composers writing chamber music in the 19th century, and his influence was equally important to Russia’s greatest 20th-century composer, Shostakovich. This series combines some of Beethoven’s finest chamber works with music from the rich Russian tradition, including both familiar masterpieces and lesser known gems. Some illustrious singers bring their talents to the renowned expertise of the Nash Ensemble players in a varied and illuminating series. Sunday 26 September 11.30 am

Monday 27 September 1.00 pm

ATOS TRIO RACHMANINOV Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor Op. posth BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Having won four prizes at the 2007 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, the ATOS Trio is among the current roster of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme. While Rachmaninov’s first Trio élégiaque carries a doleful air, Beethoven’s noble ‘Archduke’ Trio erupts into a light-hearted, rustic finale.

NASH ENSEMBLE

£12 concs £10

MARIANNE THORSEN violin RICHARD LESTER cello PHILIPPA DAVIES flute IAN BROWN piano

The ATOS Trio is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

TCHAIKOVSKY Sérénade mélancolique in B minor Op. 26 PROKOFIEV Flute Sonata in D Op. 94 RACHMANINOV Prélude Op. 2 for cello and piano RACHMANINOV Danse orientale Op. 2 for cello and piano SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 17

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/New Generations

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Thursday 30 September 7.30 pm

IMS PRUSSIA COVE MARK PADMORE tenor LAURA LUTZKE violin LILY FRANCIS violin, viola ATAR ARAD viola PHILIP HIGHAM cello MATTHEW McDONALD double bass MATTHEW HUNT clarinet IEVA JOKUBAVICIUTE piano PRUSSIA COVE, CORNWALL

Tuesday 28 September 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano BELCEA QUARTET SIMON LEPPER piano RESPIGHI Il tramonto for voice and string quartet BEETHOVEN Grosse Fuge in B b Op. 133 MOZART String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ CHAUSSON Chanson perpétuelle Op. 37 Fêted mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager returns to join the Belcea Quartet for Respighi’s by turns dramatic and serene setting of Shelley’s The Sunset. She is partnered by pianist Simon Lepper in Chausson’s dreamlike Chanson perpétuelle. The Belcea Quartet will also perform Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge and Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’ Quartet.

ROSSINI Duetto in D for cello and double bass SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke Op. 73 ATAR ARAD New work VAUGHAN WILLIAMS On Wenlock Edge FAURÉ La bonne chanson Op. 61 This concert follows the IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music Seminar, in which established performers take part in chamber-music ensembles with young musicians to study and perform works from the chamber-music repertoire. The musicians have been invited to perform by IMS Prussia Cove’s Artistic Director Steven Isserlis. £12 £16 £22 £24

Chamber Music Season

£18 £25 £30 £35 Supported by the Anniversary Patrons who are providing vital support throughout the 2010 –11 Season

Song Recital Series 18

MARK PADMORE

Marco Borggreve

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Saturday 2 October 7.30 pm

HÅKAN HARDENBERGER trumpet ROLAND PÖNTINEN piano ENESCU Légende HINDEMITH Trumpet Sonata LIGETI Mysteries of the Macabre PIAZZOLLA Histoire du Tango (arr. Hardenberger/Pöntinen) CHABRIER Bourrée fantasque Film music by PIAZZOLLA, ROTA & CHAPLIN (arr. Hardenberger/ Pöntinen) A rare chance to hear the world’s leading trumpet virtuoso in recital. Håkan Hardenberger’s typically eclectic programme takes in Enescu’s elegiac Légende, arias from Ligeti’s absurdist opera Le grand macabre, Chabrier’s whirling Bourrée fantasque and Piazzolla’s musical story of the tango’s stylistic development, along with cinema music by Nino Rota and Charlie Chaplin. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

Sunday 3 October 11.30 am Wigmore Hall Debut

BENNEWITZ QUARTET SMETANA String Quartet No. 2 in D minor BRAHMS String Quartet in B b Op. 67 Named after the Czech violinist Antonín Bennewitz (1833–1926), this young quartet has won major competition prizes in Germany, Italy and Japan, including the prestigious Borciani Competition. According to Smetana, his String Quartet No. 2 ‘represents the turbulence of music in a person who had lost his hearing’, while Brahms’s final quartet shows a sunnier disposition. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

HÅKAN HARDENBERGER

Marco Borggreve

Monday 4 October 1.00 pm

JONATHAN BISS piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Op.10 No. 1 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101 BEETHOVEN Six Bagatelles Op. 126 American pianist Jonathan Biss – fast establishing himself as a young master – builds on the success of his Edison Award-winning Beethoven disc, and his highly praised Wigmore Hall Live recording, contrasting early and late sonatas, and including the last of the three sets of Bagatelles. ‘Not only is his playing expressively subtle and technically impeccable, he clearly has plenty to say about everything he touches’ BBC Music Magazine £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Coffee Concert

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STUDY COURSE: THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF MUSIC THEORY AN ACCESS COURSE FOR BEGINNERS 11- week study course commencing 4 October 2010 Over a series of weekly study sessions at a local venue, this course introduces music theory for those who would like to understand how melodies, chords, keys and rhythms are put together. Assuming no prior knowledge and using plenty of examples from classical music, students will gain skills which will provide a good basis for the Birkbeck Musical Techniques and Composition Certificate. Ticket price £225/£300* concs £115/£150* To book, contact Pam Hendon on 020 3073 8219 or music@bbk.ac.uk. *prices for participants who already hold a degree or equivalent In association with Birkbeck, University of London

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 6 October 1.00 pm

BRITTEN SINFONIA JACQUELINE SHAVE violin MIRANDA DALE violin MARTIN OUTRAM viola CAROLINE DEARNLEY cello HUW WATKINS piano MACMILLAN For Max; 25 May 1967; Walfrid, On His Arrival at the Gates of Paradise; For Sally MAXWELL DAVIES New work (London première)* SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 *co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia

Shostakovich’s Stalin Prize-winning Piano Quintet lies at the heart of this opening concert of Britten Sinfonia’s lunchtime series. The miniatures by James MacMillan are each dedicated to an important figure in his life, including composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sally Beamish. Maxwell Davies’s new piece in tribute to MacMillan receives its London première. £12 concs £10

Tuesday 5 October 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season

FLORESTAN TRIO SCHUMANN Phantasiestücke Op. 88 MOZART Piano Trio in B b K502 SCHUMANN Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor Op. 110 Marking the Schumann bicentenary, the Florestan Trio begins its two-concert piano-trio survey (see also 11 October) with the Phantasiestücke (1842) – described by one biographer as reflecting the full range of the Romantic spirit, ‘from roguish humour to intimate reverie’ – and the richly expressive final piano trio, written nine years later. £12 £16 £22 £26

JACQUELINE SHAVE

Chamber Music Season/Schumann Bicentenary Series

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Friday 8 October 7.30 pm

BRENTANO STRING QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2 HARTKE Night Songs for a Desert Flower (UK première) BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E b Op. 127 Named after Antonie Brentano – the woman believed to have been Beethoven’s ‘Immortal Beloved’ – this dazzling New York-based quartet includes a new work by Stephen Hartke – ‘at heart, a book of madrigals for string quartet’, says the composer – alongside Haydn’s final quartet and the first of Beethoven’s great late quartets. £12 £16 £22 £26 LEOPOLD STRING TRIO

Chamber Music Season Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 7 October 7.30 pm

LEOPOLD STRING TRIO ALEKSANDAR MADZAR piano BORODIN Variations on a Russian Theme SCHNITTKE String Trio TANEYEV Piano Quartet in E Op. 20 Recently joined by violinist Isabelle van Keulen, the awardwinning Leopold String Trio performs three rarely heard Russian works spanning 130 years, including Taneyev’s almost Straussian Piano Quartet (with Aleksandar Madzar) and Schnittke’s birthday tribute to Alban Berg. ‘It would be hard to over-praise the Leopold Trio’s performances’ Gramophone £12 £16 £22 £26

BRENTANO STRING QUARTET

Christian Steiner

Chamber Music Season

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Sunday 10 October 11.30 am

JULIAN BLISS clarinet ROBERT BOTTRIELL piano POULENC Sonata for clarinet and piano BERNSTEIN Clarinet Sonata DEBUSSY Première rapsodie BRAHMS Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Barely into his twenties, Julian Bliss has firmly established himself in the international arena. Among the delights in this Coffee Concert are Poulenc’s popular sprightly sonata, Debussy’s beguiling Rapsodie and Brahms’s broadly lyrical F minor Clarinet Sonata. ‘Sinuous, immaculate and unfussy … the subtlest powers … delivered so quietly that 6,000 people held their breath’ The Times £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

SOILE ISOKOSKI

Heikki Tuuli

Monday 11 October 1.00 pm

SOILE ISOKOSKI soprano MARITA VIITASALO piano SCHUMANN Liederkreis Op. 39 DUPARC Chanson triste; L’invitation au voyage; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Extase KUULA Paimenet (Wuokoski); Suutelo (Kouta)

Coffee Concert

Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski marks Schumann’s bicentenary with the yearningly beautiful Op. 39 Liederkreis. Henri Duparc produced only 13 songs before retiring at the age of 36. The similarly early end to Toivo Kuula’s career, at the age of 34, was more tragic – he was accidentally shot in the aftermath of the Finnish Civil War. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/ Schumann Bicentenary Series JULIAN BLISS

Victor Dezso Foto

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Tuesday 12 October 7.30 pm

ENDELLION STRING QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 BARTÓK String Quartet No. 5 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Following the Endellions’ Beethoven string-quartet cycle on CD, this season the ensemble gives a series of three mostly Beethoven concerts. ‘These superb musicians respond to the dark undertow so characteristic of Beethoven’s quartets as much as the gentle lyricism which invariably breaks through’ The Observer £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season FLORESTAN TRIO

Richard Lewisohn

Monday 11 October 7.30 pm

FLORESTAN TRIO SCHUMANN Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80 MOZART Piano Trio in E K542 SCHUMANN Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 One of Britain’s best-loved piano trios, the Florestans produced a Gramophone Award-winning release of Schumann’s first two piano trios over a decade ago, drawing the acclamation, ‘Music-making just doesn’t come much more sympathetic or stylish than this.’ Schumann followed his first trio with one he claimed ‘makes a friendlier and more immediate impression’. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/Schumann Bicentenary Series

ENDELLION STRING QUARTET

Eric Richmond

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GUITAR SERIES As Wigmore Hall celebrates its 110th anniversary, we launch a new Guitar Series, spotlighting an instrument whose breathtaking versatility and range of musical expression thrive in the Hall’s intimate acoustic. The series begins with perhaps the world’s leading exponent of the instrument, John Williams, and continues through the season with Manuel Barrueco from Cuba, Álvaro Pierri (Uruguay) and Glasgow-born, Galicia-resident David Russell. Although best known for bringing the harmonies, rhythms and festivities of Spain to vivid life, the guitar is equally suited to the music of the Baroque and can boast a huge range of repertoire, plus arrangements spanning from Bach to the Beatles.

Wednesday 13 October 7.30 pm

JOHN WILLIAMS guitar Programme to be announced John Williams’s distinguished career has embraced a range of musical styles and brought fruitful collaborations with Julian Bream, Paco Peña, Pete Townshend (of The Who) and Herbie Flowers, with whom he founded the group Sky. Williams’s association with Wigmore Hall goes back to his professional debut, which took place here in 1958. £15 £20 £25 £30

Photo by Kathy Panama

Stephen Spartana

MANUEL BARRUECO

ÁLVARO PIERRI

DAVID RUSSELL

Sunday 24 October 7.30 pm

Sunday 27 March 2011 7.30 pm

MANUEL BARRUECO guitar

ÁLVARO PIERRI guitar

ARDÉVOL Sonata for Guitar PIAZZOLLA Cinco piezas para guitarra YANOV-YANOVSKY New work ALBÉNIZ Prelude from España (arr. Barrueco) ALBÉNIZ Granata, serenata from Suite Española (arr. Barrueco) ALBÉNIZ Rumores de la Caleta from Malagueña (arr. Barrueco) MALATS Serenata Andaluza (arr. Tárrega) MALATS Serenata Española (arr. Tárrega)

ALBÉNIZ España Op. 165 LENNOX BERKELEY Sonatina Op. 52 No. 1 BOGDANOVIC Ricercare (ded. to Álvaro Pierri) BOGDANOVIC Jazz Sonatina PONCE Sonata III LLOBET Preludio; Variations on a theme by Fernando Sor GINASTERA Sonata for solo guitar Op. 47 £15 £20 £25 £30

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

Tuesday 3 May 2011 7.30 pm

£15 £20 £25 £30

Booking for all concerts in the Guitar Series opens to Friends on 29 April, to Mailing List Subscribers on 13 May and to the General Public on 20 May.

DAVID RUSSELL guitar Programme to be announced £15 £20 £25 £30

Friday 15 October 7.30 pm

ALISA WEILERSTEIN cello INON BARNATAN piano BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 BRITTEN Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 STRAVINSKY Suite italienne from Pulcinella arr. for cello & piano CHOPIN Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65

KATE ROYAL

Esther Haase/EMI Classics

Thursday 14 October 7.30 pm

KATE ROYAL soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE

American cellist Alisa Weilerstein has attracted widespread attention for combining a natural virtuosic command and technical precision with impassioned musicianship. One of the USA’s leading young cellists, she presents Beethoven’s early Classicism alongside Stravinsky’s first neo-Classical ballet, Pulcinella, and Chopin’s Romanticism against Britten’s more clean-cut modernism. £12 £16 £22 £24

Chamber Music Season

A love story told through song Programme to include SCHUBERT Gretchen am Spinnrade; Die Männer sind méchant BRITTEN O Waly, Waly BRAHMS Am Sonntag Morgen DEBUSSY Apparition WOLF Die Kleine and songs by SCHUBERT, SCHUMANN, BRAHMS, FAURÉ, DEBUSSY, BRIDGE and BRITTEN Winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2004, Kate Royal’s first disc for EMI was named Gramophone’s ‘Editor’s Choice’. Still in her early thirties, she has been tipped to become one of the country’s great lyric sopranos. ‘Artists like Royal don’t come along very often’ The Times £18 £25 £30 £35

ALISA WEILERSTEIN

Lucio Lecce

Song Recital Series 26

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Saturday 16 October 11.00 am

Sunday 17 October 11.30 am

JOURNEY THROUGH SONG

SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE JONATHAN MORTON violin, director

FAMILY CONCERT For age 6 plus Join pianist and presenter DOMINIC HARLAN and a cast of star singers for an exciting journey through song. Discover dramatic stories of love, laughter and adventure as you help stage a version of The Huntsman by Brahms, and even compose a song yourself. Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by The Lucille Graham Trust and Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

VIVALDI The Four Seasons PIAZZOLLA The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires One of the country’s most innovative ensembles contrasts the Baroque elegance and virtuosity of Vivaldi’s Italy with the edgier tango-tinged world of Astor Piazzolla’s Buenos Aires, presenting two sets of Four Seasons separated by the hemispheres and the centuries. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

Saturday 16 October 7.30 pm

SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE PIETER WISPELWEY cello VIVALDI Concerto for strings in G minor RV156 SIBELIUS Impromptu SALLINEN Chamber Music VIII Op. 94 for cello and strings (London première) VIVALDI Cello Concerto in B minor RV424 ENESCU Octet in C Op. 7 (arr. Morton) Cellist Pieter Wispelwey makes his debut with the Scottish Ensemble in a programme that ranges from the dark forests of Finland to the sparkling waters of Vivaldi’s Venice. Enescu’s rarely heard Octet completes the programme, in a version for full string ensemble arranged by Jonathan Morton. £12 £16 £22 £26

PIETER WISPELWEY

Benjamin Ealovega

Chamber Music Season

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STEPHEN KOVACEVICH AND MARTHA ARGERICH STEPHEN KOVACEVICH 70TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT Sunday 17 October 7.00 pm NB starting time

STEPHEN KOVACEVICH piano MARTHA ARGERICH piano KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI* piano BELCEA QUARTET COLIN CURRIE, SAM WALTON percussion LISZT Piano Sonata in B minor S. 178 * BARTÓK Sonata for two pianos and percussion BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 With a distinguished career that has spanned nearly five decades, Stephen Kovacevich is admired not only for his solo performances – especially for searching interpretations of the Classical and Romantic repertoire – but also as a chamber musician and conductor. His achievements show no signs of diminishing: in 2009 he won a Gramophone Award for his CD of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations – a work he included in his London debut here at Wigmore Hall in 1961, on which occasion The Times critic noted, ‘[He] may make a remarkable Beethoven pianist’. For his 70th-birthday concert Stephen Kovacevich is joined by a number of friends and colleagues, chief among them Martha Argerich. This concert is also a highlight of our 110th anniversary celebrations. £20 £30 £40 £55 (not part of subscription scheme)

London Pianoforte Series A donation from the proceeds of this concert will be made to the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.

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Monday 18 October 1.00 pm

˘KAMPA QUARTET S SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122 ˘ ÁK String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106 DVOR If Dvor˘ák’s 13th quartet was written while the composer was ‘inexpressibly happy’ after returning to his Czech homeland from the USA, Shostakovich’s elegiac 11th quartet is coloured by a sad departure, that of Vasily Shirinsky, second violinist of the Beethoven Quartet, which had premièred so many of the composer’s earlier quartets. £12 concs £10

CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN

Marco Borggreve

Monday 18 October 7.30 pm

CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN mezzo-soprano IMOGEN COOPER piano

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

FAURÉ Cinq mélodies de Venise SCHUMANN Intermezzo from Faschingsschwank aus Wien; Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 and Requiem; 3 Songs from Myrthen: Widmung; Der Nußbaum; Aus den hebräischen Gesängen; Der Sandmann; Die Kartenlegerin; Nachtlied DEBUSSY Chansons de Bilitis CHAUSSON Serres chaudes Award-winning Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn is joined by Imogen Cooper in a programme contrasting Schumann with highlights of French song. ‘Among young mezzo-sopranos, Christianne Stotijn is in a class apart; she stamps every note and word with character, and delivers her songs with a lyrical glow that considerably advances global warming’ The Times ˘KAMPA QUARTET S

Jakub Ludvik

£15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series/Schumann Bicentenary Series

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DECADE BY DECADE – 100 YEARS OF GERMAN SONG 1810 – 1910 The 110th anniversary of Wigmore Hall offers an ideal opportunity to celebrate the Hall’s unequalled role as an international converging point for the world’s great singers. This new series, overseen by Malcolm Martineau and Dr Susan Youens, featuring singers chosen by Malcolm Martineau together with John Gilhooly, explores the rich repertoire of German song, decade by decade, spanning from 1810 until 1910, thereby overlapping with the Hall’s first decade. This headline series evokes the glories of Wigmore Hall’s past – which has brought performances by artists such as Peter Pears, Alfred Deller, Elly Ameling, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Brigitte Fassbaender – in featuring the leading recitalists of today, among them Diana Damrau, Susan Graham, Angelika Kirchschlager and Christopher Maltman.

Tuesday 19 October 6.00 pm

Wednesday 2 March 7.30 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK

AMANDA ROOCROFT soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

RICHARD STOKES with MALCOLM MARTINEAU

1860 –1870 Tuesday 19 October 7.30 pm

MICHAEL SCHADE tenor MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1810 –1820

Wednesday 30 March 7.30 pm

FLORIAN BOESCH baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1870 –1880

Tuesday 2 November 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1820 –1830

Tuesday 28 June 7.30 pm

SIMON KEENLYSIDE baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1880 –1890

Friday 5 November 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano

MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

Wednesday 6 July 7.30 pm

DIANA DAMRAU soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

1830 –1840 1890 – 1900 Friday 17 December 7.30 pm

DOROTHEA RÖSCHMANN soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

Sunday 16 July 7.30 pm

SUSAN GRAHAM mezzo-soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

1840 –1850 1900 –1910 Tuesday 25 January 7.30 pm

BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1850 –1860 31

Tuesday 19 October 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK RICHARD STOKES with MALCOLM MARTINEAU £3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Tuesday 19 October 7.30 pm

MICHAEL SCHADE tenor MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1810 –1820 BEETHOVEN Wonne der Wehmut; Sehnsucht; Mit einem gemalten Band; An die Hoffnung; Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel WEBER Abschied vom Leben (Körner) TOMÁS˘EK Nähe des Geliebten; An die Entfernte; Schäfers Klagelied; Rastlose Liebe BEETHOVEN An die ferne Geliebte SCHUBERT Nachtgesang; An den Mond (D193); An den Mond (D259); Wandrers Nachtlied I; Nachtstück; Rastlose Liebe; Erster Verlust; Auf dem See; Der Fischer; Gott im Frühling; Am Bach im Frühlinge; Freude der Kinderjahre; Das Heimweh; Aus Diego Manazares (Ilmerine); Seligkeit One of the world’s great Mozart tenors is also a sought-after recitalist, having appeared for 16 consecutive seasons at the Salzburg Festival. Michael Schade launches our Decade by Decade – 100 Years of German Song series, featuring a selection of the Bohemian Václav Tomás˘ek’s 34 settings of Goethe, alongside more familiar settings by Schubert. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series/Decade by Decade – 100 Years of German Song 1810 –1910

MICHAEL SCHADE

Deanne McKee

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP Wednesday 20 October 3.00 – 6.00 pm Friday 22 October 3.00 – 6.00 pm Friday 29 October 3.00 – 6.00 pm

SCHUMANN SONG Tied to Gerald Finley’s recital on the 29 October, this Wigmore Study Group explores the songs of Robert Schumann and in particular his Heine Liederkreis Op. 24. Dating from Schumann’s extraordinary year of song (1840), this cycle marks a high point in the development of Schumann’s song style: the subtle interweaving of voice and piano, a highly sophisticated response to text and an exploration of shifting emotional textures. Hosted by composer JULIAN PHILIPS, the Study Group will offer three approaches: a song masterclass, a performance-analysis and an investigation of the historical context in which this cycle was completed. Series ticket price £53 including three study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 29 October

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Wednesday 20 October 7.30 pm

Thursday 21 October 7.30 pm

RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE SOLOISTS FROM RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE’S YOUNG ARTISTS PROGRAMME MATTHEW HALLS director

CHILINGIRIAN QUARTET

PURCELL Celestial music did the gods inspire PURCELL Suite from The Gordion Knot Unty’d BLOW Venus and Adonis Retrospect Ensemble is joined by talented vocal soloists from the group’s Young Artists Programme in a feast of English Baroque music. Blow’s opera Venus and Adonis stands out for its lively dance music and exquisite vocal writing. It is heard here alongside occasional and incidental music by Blow’s most famous protégé, Purcell. £12 £16 £22 £24

BARTÓK String Quartet No. 4 HAYDN String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C # minor Op. 131 Soon to celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Chilingirian Quartet presents the textural mastery of Haydn’s final completed quartet; Bartók’s innovative Fourth, with its fleeting pizzicato-only fourth movement; and Beethoven’s late Op. 131 quartet, highly regarded by the composer despite him quipping it was put together with ‘pilferings from this and that’. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

Early Music and Baroque Series

RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE

Stephen Page

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Saturday 23 October 6.00 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE BEETHOVEN Quintet in E b for piano and wind Op. 16 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Quintet in B b for piano and wind An early-evening recital of youthful quintets for piano and wind by Beethoven and RimskyKorsakov complements the main concert of music for strings (see below). £5 or £3 with evening ticket (separate ticket required)

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven and the Russians

Saturday 23 October 7.30 pm SERGEY KHACHATRYAN

Philippe Gontier/Naïve

Friday 22 October 7.30 pm

SERGEY KHACHATRYAN violin LUSINE KHACHATRYAN piano BACH Sonata No. 2 in A minor for solo violin BWV1003; Sonata No. 4 in C minor for violin and piano BWV1017 Armenian miniatures to include works by KHACHATURIAN and KOMITAS Almost 300 years after their composition, the Sonatas for solo violin – produced during Bach’s brief period in Cöthen – remain an ultimate test of technique, intellect and concentration. Winner of the Sibelius International Competition in 2000 and still in his mid-twenties, Sergey Khachatryan possesses these three qualities in abundance. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

NASH ENSEMBLE MARIANNE THORSEN violin DAVID ADAMS violin LAWRENCE POWER viola PHILIP DUKES viola PAUL WATKINS cello ALICE NEARY cello BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 BORODIN String Quartet No. 2 in D TCHAIKOVSKY String Sextet in D minor Op. 70 ‘Souvenir de Florence’ The main evening concert of music for strings features the work Beethoven proudly numbered as his first quartet, Borodin’s melodic String Quartet No. 2 and the opulently effervescent sextet which Tchaikovsky began to compose on an Italian holiday. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven and the Russians

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Monday 25 October 1.00 pm

DIANA DAMRAU soprano pianist to be announced Programme to be announced

VOGLER QUARTET

Kasskara

‘A scorcher of an evening’ was The Guardian’s verdict on Diana Damrau’s Wigmore Hall debut in 2008. Damrau was the first performer at the Metropolitan Opera to tackle the divergent Mozart roles of Pamina and the Queen of the Night within a single run of The Magic Flute. £12 concs £10

Sunday 24 October 11.30 am

VOGLER QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 SCHUMANN String Quartet in F Op. 41 No. 2

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

‘The Vogler Quartet belongs in the highest category of contemporary string quartets. They play with a wonderful expressive ease and warmth and possess the unteachable knack of being able to communicate everything they do directly and unaffectedly. Their performances are marvels of eloquent phrasing and subtle co-ordination, instinctive music-making of the very highest class’ The Guardian This concert is part of our ongoing celebration of Robert Schumann in his anniversary year. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert/Schumann Bicentenary Series

Sunday 24 October 7.30 pm

MANUEL BARRUECO guitar

DIANA DAMRAU

Tanja Niemann

See page 25 for details Guitar Series 35

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MICHAEL COLLINS – CHAMBER MUSICIAN AND SOLOIST Since becoming a finalist aged 16 in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition over 30 years ago, Michael Collins has built an international career as clarinettist – and, increasingly, conductor – that has recently reached another peak with his new role as Principal Conductor of the City of London Sinfonia. This season Wigmore Hall has invited Collins to take up a three-concert residency, featuring him as chamber musician and soloist in a wide range of repertoire spanning from Mozart to the present day. ‘Collins’ dexterity dazzled, fingers leaping, tossing off the decorative flourishes, impossibly nimble … But there was never a hint of the humdrum or mechanical’ The Times

Photo by Eric Richmond

Monday 25 October 7.30 pm

MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet LEILA JOSEFOWICZ violin violinist to be announced

MAXIM RYSANOV viola PAUL WATKINS cello STEVEN OSBORNE piano MOZART Clarinet Trio No. 2 in E b K498 ‘Kegelstatt’ MOZART Clarinet Quintet in A K581 MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time Michael Collins draws together a coterie of top-flight soloists, combining Mozart’s genial ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio with the masterful Clarinet Quintet. Messiaen, who believed that Mozart smiled through his hardships, triumphed over his own adversity in 1941 by composing the haunting Quartet for the End of Time while held as a prisoner of war in Silesia. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season

Thursday 27 January 2011 7.30 pm

MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet LONDON WINDS ENDELLION STRING QUARTET Thursday 5 May 2011 7.30 pm

MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet PIERS LANE piano

Thursday 28 October 7.30 pm

QUATUOR EBÈNE HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 74 No. 1 BARTÓK String Quartet No. 1 Op. 7 DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 This dynamic young French quartet won ‘Record of the Year’ at the 2009 Gramophone Awards for its Debussy and Ravel quartets. ALICE COOTE

Anne-Marie Le Blé

Wednesday 27 October 7.30 pm

THE ENGLISH CONCERT NADJA ZWIENER violin JONATHAN MANSON cello WILLIAM CARTER theorbo ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano HARRY BICKET director, harpsichord

‘Here is a gifted young string quartet with something urgent and individual to communicate. This is playing that combines refinement of shading and nuance with a sense of controlled danger’ Daily Telegraph £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

VIVALDI Trio Sonata in D minor Op. 1 No. 12 ‘La Follia’ MONTEVERDI Lamento d’Arianna: Lasciatemi morire VIVALDI Concerto in D ‘Il Grosso Mogul’ RV208 DOWLAND Come again! Sweet love doth now invite; Weepe you no more sad fountains; If my complaints could passions move; Lachrimae Pavan; In darkness let me dwell VIVALDI Cello Concerto in C minor RV401 HANDEL Cantata: O numi eterni (La Lucrezia) HWV145 Charismatic and richly timbred mezzo Alice Coote joins The English Concert and Harry Bicket in Monteverdi’s Lasciatemi morire, a selection of Dowland’s heart-rending love songs, and finally as Handel’s tragic heroine Lucrezia. Brilliant string concertos for violin and cello by Vivaldi complete this striking programme. £18 £24 £28 £32

QUATUOR EBÈNE

J. Mignot

Early Music and Baroque Series 38

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Friday 29 October 7.30 pm

HAGEN QUARTET 30TH ANNIVERSARY SERIES

GERALD FINLEY baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano ANNUS MIRABILIS: THE COMPLETE SONGS OF 1840 – THE HEINE SETTINGS SCHUMANN Liederkreis Op. 24; Tragödie I-III; Der arme Peter; Belsatzar; Die feindlichen Brüder; Abends am Strand; Die beiden Grenadiere; Dein Angesicht; Lehn deine Wang; Es leuchtet meine Liebe; Mein Wagen rollet langsam; Dichterliebe Op. 48 Gerald Finley continues our Schumann bicentenary series, lending his unmistakably rich baritone to the great Heine settings of the first Liederkreis and of Dichterliebe, written within a month of each other in 1840, while Schumann was briefly apart from his wife-to-be Clara, during his extraordinarily prodigious ‘year of song’. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series/Schumann Bicentenary Series

HAGEN QUARTET

Regina Recht

To mark the 30th anniversary of the illustrious Hagen Quartet, siblings Lukas, Veronika and Clemens Hagen – plus second violinist Rainer Schmidt – return this season for a six-concert residency over three weekends, including three Coffee Concerts. Coached early in its career by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the quartet has won numerous international competitions, secured a major-label recording contract, created an awardwinning discography, and nurtured collaborations with artists such as Sabine Meyer, Maurizio Pollini, Heinrich Schiff, Dame Mitsuko Uchida and Jörg Widmann. Saturday 30 October 7.30 pm Sunday 31 October 11.30 am Saturday 29 January 7.30 pm Sunday 30 January 11.30 am Saturday 26 March 7.30 pm

GERALD FINLEY

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Sunday 27 March 11.30 am

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Saturday 30 October 7.30 pm

HAGEN QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in B b Op. 50 No. 1 SCHUMANN String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135 ‘The control of colour and phrasing and the superb ensemble are all predictable Hagen qualities, but the way in which they characterise each work without emotional exaggeration or special pleading is also a model of its kind’ The Guardian £12 £16 £22 £26

KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI

Julia Wesley

Chamber Music Season/Hagen Quartet 30th Anniversary Series Monday 1 November 1.00 pm Wigmore Hall Debut Sunday 31 October 11.30 am

KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI piano

HAGEN QUARTET

SCHUMANN Fantasy in C Op. 17 LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1 STRAVINSKY 3 Movements from Petrushka

JANÁC˘ EK String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ SCHUBERT String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ ‘Their performance was filled with subtlety and wonder … the playing was breathtaking in its precision, dynamism and agility … a thrilling encounter’ The Independent £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert/Hagen Quartet 30th Anniversary Series

Young Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili is among the newest crop of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists. Her recent highlights have included appearances at Gidon Kremer’s Lockenhaus festival and at the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano. For her Wigmore Hall debut recital she performs Schumann’s turbulently romantic Fantasy and two virtuosic show-stoppers. £12 concs £10

Sunday 31 October 7.30 pm

JONAS KAUFMANN tenor HELMUT DEUTSCH piano

Khatia Buniatishvili is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

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Sunday 31 October 7.30 pm

JONAS KAUFMANN tenor HELMUT DEUTSCH piano SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin ‘… Kaufmann’s dark-timbred, beautiful, near-heroic and extrovert performance comes as something of a shock. I doubt that Schubert’s cycle [Die schöne Müllerin], purely in vocal terms, has been more thrillingly sung on disc since Fritz Wunderlich recorded it for Deutsche Grammophon’ Hugh Canning, Sunday Times With an impressive technique at the service of a questioning mind, Jonas Kaufmann is keenly sought after by opera companies around the world. For his first song-cycle at Wigmore Hall he chooses Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, following his new recording with Helmut Deutsch. As Kaufmann sees the emotional journey of the cycle’s young protagonist, ‘the fellow who sets off on his wanderings is in the first songs bursting with energy and self-confidence. The better you convey this mood, the greater the build-up of tension, and the harder the fall.’ £15 £25 £35 £40 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by the Kohn Foundation

Song Recital Series Photo by Luc Jennepin

Wednesday 3 November 7.30 pm

FLORILEGIUM ASHLEY SOLOMON director SIX MEMBERS OF THE BACH FAMILY

FLORILEGIUM

Amit Lennon

Tuesday 2 November 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1820 –1830 SCHUBERT Die Vögel; Der Knabe; Abendröte; Fülle der Liebe; Heliopolis I & II; Sehnsucht; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Gondelfahrer; Auflösung; Auf der Brücke; Der liebliche Stern; Im Frühling; Über Wildemann LOEWE Erlkönig; Herr Oluf FELIX MENDELSSOHN Minnelied im Mai FANNY MENDELSSOHN Das Heimweh FELIX MENDELSSOHN Erntelied; Wartend FANNY MENDELSSOHN Sehnsucht FELIX MENDELSSOHN Hexenlied SCHUBERT Im Freien; Das Lied im Grünen; Der Winterabend

JOHANN BERNHARD BACH Overture and Dances JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH BACH Sonata in C CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH Trio Sonata ‘Sanguineus and Melancholicus’ for two violins and continuo WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH Sinfonia in D minor F65 – Adagio and Fugue JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH Quintet in D Op. 11 No. 6 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 The Bach family has for many years been the focus of genealogical research. No other musical family of German origin has spanned so many generations and produced such highly talented performers as well as composers of the highest order. This programme highlights six members of this extraordinary family. £12 £16 £22 £24

Early Music and Baroque Series

Malcolm Martineau’s Decade by Decade series, surveying the century of German song prior to the foundation of Wigmore Hall in 1901, reaches the 1820s. In addition to a mix of familiar and less-well-known songs by Schubert, Christopher Maltman explores songs by Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny, as well as by their contemporary Carl Loewe. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series/Decade by Decade – 100 Years of German Song 1810 –1910

CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN

Levon Biss

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Friday 5 November 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano

MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1830 –1840

IMOGEN COOPER

Sussie Ahlburg

Thursday 4 November 7.30 pm

IMOGEN COOPER piano DEBUSSY 4 Préludes from Book II: Brouillards; Feuilles mortes; La puerta del vino; Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke Op. 12 DEBUSSY 4 Préludes from Book II: La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune; Canope; Les tierces alternées; Feux d’artifice SCHUMANN Humoreske in B b Op. 20 Imogen Cooper marks the Schumann anniversary with the eight Fantasiestücke, vividly conveying the composer’s introspective and extrovert characters, and the Humoreske, written as Schumann was ‘laughing and crying’ at the piano while his fiancée Clara was in Paris. The fleeting impressions from Book II of Debussy’s Préludes make a beguiling pairing.

FELIX MENDELSSOHN Im Frühling; Frühlingsglaube; Frühlingslied (Lichtenstein); Das erste Veilchen; Frühlingslied (Klingemann); Frühlingslied (Lenau) LACHNER Die badende Elfe; An den Mond; Die Bergstimme; Im Mai; Eine Liebe; Die einsame Träne; Wasserfahrt FANNY MENDELSSOHN Suleika; Die Mainacht; Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen; Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass; Schwanenlied; Wanderlied LOEWE Frauenliebe; Vier Fabellieder Angelika Kirchschlager continues the Decade by Decade series, opening with a spring sequence by Mendelssohn and returning to the other composers from our preceding Decade by Decade recital (see 2 November). She also includes a selection of the Heine settings by Franz Paul Lachner, 120 years after the composer’s death. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series/Decade by Decade – 100 Years of German Song 1810 –1910

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London Pianoforte Series/Schumann Bicentenary Series

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Sunday 7 November 11.30 am

BELCEA QUARTET JULIAN RACHLIN viola MOZART String Quintet in G minor K516 BRAHMS String Quintet in G Op. 111 While Brahms ostensibly went out on a high with his second String Quintet, intended to be his last work before retiring from composition, aged 57, Mozart’s String Quintet was written both as his fame in Vienna was diminishing and under the shadow of his father’s serious illness. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice CHRISTINE RICE

Rob Moore

Coffee Concert

Saturday 6 November 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE CHRISTINE RICE mezzo-soprano PAUL WATKINS cello ARENSKY String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 35 for violin, viola and 2 cellos Russian songs including BORODIN Songs with cello obbligato TCHAIKOVSKY Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 BEETHOVEN String Quintet in C Op. 29 Arensky’s string quartet with two cellos, written in memory of Tchaikovsky, is paired with Tchaikovsky’s own much-loved slow movement from his String Quartet No. 1; and Christine Rice sings a Russian group including songs with cello by Borodin. Beethoven’s String Quintet is a rarely heard masterpiece with a finale unlike anything else in his output. £12 £16 £22 £26

JULIAN RACHLIN

Lucas Beck

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven and the Russians

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Sunday 7 November 7.30 pm

MELVYN TAN piano SCHUBERT 3 Klavierstücke D946 SCHUBERT/LISZT Sei mir gegrüsst; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Du bist die Ruh; Liebesbotschaft; Ständchen (‘Horch, horch! die Lerch’) CHOPIN Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58 In the bicentenary of Chopin’s birth, Melvyn Tan includes the big-boned Piano Sonata No. 3, containing one of the composer’s most lyrical slow movements and a breathless finale, as well as Schubert’s Three Piano Pieces from the last year of his life. More Schubert – this time in elaborations by Liszt – completes the programme. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series

MELVYN TAN

Monday 8 November 1.00 pm

Monday 8 November 7.30 pm

EMERSON STRING QUARTET

ARONOWITZ ENSEMBLE

˘ ÁK Terzetto in C Op. 74 DVOR ˘ ÁK String Quartet No. 4 in C Op. 61 DVOR

CHAUSSON Concert in D Op. 21 for violin, piano and string quartet BRAHMS String Sextet in G Op. 36

Indisputably one of today’s foremost international quartets, the Emersons return to Wigmore Hall for an all-Dvor˘ák programme. ‘The performances were everything we have come to expect from this superb ensemble: technically resourceful, musically insightful, cohesive, full of character and always interesting’ New York Times £12 concs £10

Sheila Rock

In embedding a theme in his second string sextet spelling out the letters of his former love Agathe von Siebold, Brahms believed he would finally free himself from her. Cast more as a duet for violin and piano, with string accompaniment, Chausson’s Concert is a rarely heard gem of late French Romanticism. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Wednesday 10 November 7.30 pm

EMERSON STRING QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in D minor Op. 103 (unfinished) BERG String Quartet Op. 3 SCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887

IMOGEN COOPER MASTERCLASS

The Emerson String Quartet completes its trio of concerts with last contributions to the form by Haydn (the two middle movements of a planned 68th quartet) and by Schubert (his visionary D887), coupled with Berg’s early (and only) example in the genre, marking his graduation from studies with Schoenberg.

With selected pianists

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Benjamin Ealovega

Tuesday 9 November 1.00 pm

£7 concs £4

Chamber Music Season

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Tuesday 9 November 7.30 pm

EMERSON STRING QUARTET MENDELSSOHN Andante sostenuto and Variations Op. 81 No. 1 MENDELSSOHN Scherzo Op. 81 No. 2 WEBERN Langsamer Satz MOZART String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ BARTÓK String Quartet No. 6 The Emerson String Quartet continues its long association with Wigmore Hall in a concert featuring two works composed over 120 years apart linked to Vienna: Mozart’s popular ‘Dissonance’ Quartet, written aged 29 at the height of the composer’s fame, and Webern’s rapturous love music for his cousin Wilhelmine in his Langsamer Satz. £15 £20 £25 £30

EMERSON STRING QUARTET

Mitch Jenkins

Chamber Music Season

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Thursday 11 November 10.00 am

STEVEN ISSERLIS MASTERCLASS For details please see feature overleaf Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Thursday 11 November 7.30 pm

MATTHEW ROSE bass CHRISTIAN CURNYN director, organ MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano Other artists to be announced BACH Cantata BWV82 ‘Ich habe genug’ SCHUBERT Grenzen der Menschheit; Der Rattenfänger; Auf der Donau; Der Musensohn WOLF From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ihr seid die Allerschönste; Gesegnet sei, durch den die Welt; Der Mond hat eine schwere Klag’ erhoben; Geselle, woll’n wir uns in Kutten hüllen; Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen; Ein Ständchen euch zu bringen WOLF Grenzen der Menschheit; Der Rattenfänger IVES In the Alley; At the River; Grantchester; In Flanders Fields British bass Matthew Rose has in recent years been making waves on the opera stage. Recipient of the Wigmore Hall/ Independent Opera Voice Fellowship in 2007, he has been preparing for his Wigmore recital debut with some leading singers, including Thomas Quasthoff, Robert Holl and Brigitte Fassbaender.

MATTHEW ROSE

Clive Barda

Friday 12 November 7.30 pm

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello VIVIANE HAGNER violin JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET piano For details please see feature overleaf Chamber Music Season/Steven Isserlis Artist in Residence/French Series

Saturday 13 November 2.00 pm

£15 £20 £25 £30

ALFRED BRENDEL LECTURE RECITAL

Song Recital Series

ON CHARACTER IN MUSIC Please see feature on page 50 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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STEVEN ISSERLIS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE/FRENCH SERIES Steven Isserlis combines an international career of solo and chamber music performances with festival directing and writing children’s books. Artistic Director of the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove (see 30 September), he has also coached countless young musicians and overseen a series of children’s concerts in New York. He returns as Artist in Residence for a French series in which he draws together distinguished friends and colleagues for a survey of the chamber music of Saint-Saëns, Fauré and Ravel. Isserlis also returns on 1 June for one of the chamber music galas for our 110th anniversary celebrations. Thursday 11 November 10.00 am

STEVEN ISSERLIS MASTERCLASS With selected cellists £7 concs £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Friday 12 November 7.30 pm

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello VIVIANE HAGNER violin JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET piano SAINT-SAËNS Cello Sonata No. 1 in C minor Op. 32; Berceuse Op. 38 RAVEL Violin Sonata; Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré FAURÉ Berceuse Op. 16; Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120 ‘Even in a hall as famed for its intimacy as the Wigmore, I doubt we’ve ever heard quieter or more meaningful sounds than Steven Isserlis breathed into his cello … a cellist who invests so much in the music between the notes’ The Independent Photo by Kevin Davis

Saint-Saëns’s intimate, at times despairing Cello Sonata No. 1 was written following the death of his great aunt in 1872. This concert will include the original last movement of this work, as well as the one usually played. Ravel’s acerbic, jazzy sonata forms a contrast to Saint-Saëns’s serene Berceuse for violin and piano. Isserlis is joined by brilliant Munich-born violinist Viviane Hagner and recent Gramophone Award-winner, Frenchman Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season/Steven Isserlis Artist in Residence/French Series

Monday 15 November 7.30 pm

Forthcoming Events in the Series*

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello JOSHUA BELL violin CONNIE SHIH piano

Wednesday 26 January 7.30 pm

FAURÉ Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 RAVEL Sonata for violin and cello SAINT-SAËNS Romance in F Op. 36 FAURÉ Romance Op. 69 SAINT-SAËNS Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 92 Close collaborators for more than 20 years, Steven Isserlis and Joshua Bell join together for Ravel’s duo sonata. They are joined by Canadian pianist Connie Shih for the second of two piano trios by the child prodigy and, later, inveterate traveller, Saint-Saëns, one of his most ambitious and exciting works.

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC Friday 28 January 11.00 am

SCHOOLS CONCERT Saturday 29 January 11.00 am

FAMILY CONCERT

£15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Thursday 7 April 2.00 pm

Chamber Music Season/Steven Isserlis Artist in Residence/ French Series

LECTURE RECITAL Friday 8 April 7.30 pm

Friday 19 November 7.30 pm

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello JOSHUA BELL violin DÉNES VÁRJON piano FAURÉ Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 117 SAINT-SAËNS Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 75 SAINT-SAËNS Élégie in D Op. 143 FAURÉ Élégie Op. 24 RAVEL Piano Trio in A minor The final concert of Steven Isserlis’s French Series culminates in Ravel’s magical, sophisticated Piano Trio, completed soon after the First World War had begun, following which the composer volunteered for service. Steven Isserlis and Joshua Bell are joined by Hungarian pianist Dénes Várjon. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

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STEVEN ISSERLIS cello STEPHEN HOUGH piano Wednesday 1 June 7.00 pm NB Starting Time

JOSHUA BELL violin PAMELA FRANK violin TABEA ZIMMERMANN viola STEVEN ISSERLIS cello JEREMY DENK piano GALA CONCERT * Tickets not yet on sale

ALFRED BRENDEL LECTURE RECITALS One of the 20th century’s great pianists, Alfred Brendel may have retired from concert-giving, but he returns to Wigmore Hall to give a series of three lecture recitals for its 110th anniversary season. His unique combination of wit, eloquence and musical experience has for many years been evident not only in his superlative performances, but in his deftly argued essays and his humorous, sometimes irreverent, poems. With this series Alfred Brendel returns before the public, presenting his latest thoughts, in both words and music. ‘When you look at how [Schubert] develops the motifs in the late sonatas, you can see the direction in which he’s going. But like Mahler, he doesn’t give you a solid edifice, or a clear distance to the goal towards which he is steering’ Alfred Brendel Saturday 13 November 2.00 pm

ALFRED BRENDEL LECTURE RECITAL ON CHARACTER IN MUSIC All seats £15 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Sunday 14 November 3.00 pm

ALFRED BRENDEL LECTURE RECITAL DOES CLASSICAL MUSIC HAVE TO BE ENTIRELY SERIOUS? All seats £15 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Saturday 18 December 2.00 pm

ALFRED BRENDEL LECTURE RECITAL THE LIGHT AND SHADE OF INTERPRETATION All seats £15 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Photo by Benjamin Ealovega/Philips

Sunday 14 November 11.30 am Wigmore Hall Debut

VERONIKA EBERLE violin LARS VOGT piano BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 JANÁC˘EK Violin Sonata SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 VERONIKA EBERLE

Bernd Noelle

Saturday 13 November 7.30 pm

KATE ROYAL soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano ANNUS MIRABILIS: THE COMPLETE SONGS OF 1840 – MYRTHEN, SONGS AND DUETS SCHUMANN Myrthen Op. 25 SCHUMANN 6 Lieder Op. 36: Sonntags am Rhein; Ständchen; Nichts schöneres; An den Sonnenschein; Dichters Genesung; Liebesbotschaft; 4 Lieder: Der Knabe mit dem Wunderhorn; Der Page; Der Hidalgo; Sehnsucht; 2 Gedichte Op. 29: Ländliches Lied; Lied SCHUMANN Schlusslied des Narren; Nur ein lächelnder Blick; 3 Zweistimmige Lieder Op. 43: Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär; Herbstlied; Schön Blümelein; 4 Duets Op. 34: Liebesgarten; Liebhabers Ständchen; Unterm Fenster; Familien Gemälde Two of the UK’s leading recitalists return to Wigmore Hall to continue our Schumann bicentenary series, opening with the cycle of songs the composer wrote as a wedding gift to his wife Clara – a rich compendium in which each song lingers upon one of love’s facets.

Still in her early twenties, German violinist Veronika Eberle has already appeared with the Los Angeles and Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestras and the NDR and SWR Symphony orchestras. Partnered by one of today’s leading German pianists, she includes Janác˘ek’s taut and blistering Violin Sonata alongside the full-blooded Romanticism of Brahms and Schumann. £12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

Coffee Concert

Sunday 14 November 3.00 pm

ALFRED BRENDEL LECTURE RECITAL DOES CLASSICAL MUSIC HAVE TO BE ENTIRELY SERIOUS? Please see feature opposite Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series/Schumann Bicentenary Series 51

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Wednesday 17 November 7.30 pm

JERUSALEM QUARTET CHEN REISS soprano GAVRIEL LIVKIND cello BRAHMS String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 BOCCHERINI Stabat Mater FLORIAN BOESCH

Stephan von der Decken

Monday 15 November 1.00 pm

FLORIAN BOESCH baritone ROGER VIGNOLES piano Programme includes songs by CARL LOEWE Since making his recital debut at the Schubertiade festival in Schwarzenberg, Florian Boesch has appeared around the world, from Japan to the USA, as well as across Europe. Winner of the Golden Mask Award of Russia’s National Theatre Union, his career on the opera stage has been equally prestigious.

A rare chance to hear the Stabat Mater by Classical-period Italian master Boccherini, paired with the first of Brahms’s three quartets. ‘Superlatives are inadequate in describing just how fine this playing was from one of the young, yet great quartets of our time’ The Strad £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

£12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 15 November 7.30 pm

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello JOSHUA BELL violin CONNIE SHIH piano Please see page 49 for details Chamber Music Season/Steven Isserlis Artist in Residence/ French Series 52

JERUSALEM QUARTET

Marco Borggreve

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Thursday 18 November 7.30 pm

SOLOISTS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA PROKOFIEV Sonata in C for two violins Op. 56 MOZART String Quintet in D K593 BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s popular Chamber Contrasts series returns to Wigmore Hall with a typically mixed programme. Prokofiev’s innovative 1932 Sonata for two violins, is followed by one of Mozart’s late two-viola quintets. The second half comprises Brahms’s much-loved Clarinet Quintet – perhaps the finest of his late group of chamber works with clarinet. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

Friday 19 November 7.30 pm

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello JOSHUA BELL violin DÉNES VÁRJON piano Please see page 49 for details Chamber Music Season/Steven Isserlis Artist in Residence/French Series

JOSHUA BELL

Timothy White

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ANGELA HEWITT’S BACH BOOK A favourite of Wigmore Hall audiences, the tireless Angela Hewitt returns for two concerts in which she pairs works by Bach – perhaps the most deep-rooted of her many enthusiasms – with six new works commissioned by Wigmore Hall. Throughout its 110-year history, the Hall has witnessed the premières of new works by Elgar, Finzi, Stravinsky, Britten and Tippett, among others, and this tradition continues in this series, which features new works by Brett Dean, Elena Kats-Chernin, Robin Holloway, Kurt Schwertsik, Dominic Muldowney and Yehudi Wyner. Hewitt’s Bach selection presents church Chorales (arranged both by herself and others) as well as works designed for the domestic setting.

‘The paramount quality of Angela Hewitt’s piano playing is the joy it communicates. Underpinning it there is incontrovertible intellectual rigour; and there are great reserves of wisdom and technical finesse’ Daily Telegraph Photo by Peter Hundert

Saturday 20 November 6.00 pm

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION ANGELA HEWITT in conversation with ANNETTE MORREAU £3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 20 November 7.30 pm

ANGELA HEWITT piano BACH Toccata in C minor BWV911 DEAN Prelude and Chorale: Hommage à Bach (world première) WYNER New work (world première) BACH Three-part Inventions Nos. 1– 9 SCHWERTSIK New work (world première) BACH Chorale: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein BWV641 (arr. Hewitt) BACH Chorale: Das alte Jahr vergangen ist BWV614 (arr. Hewitt) BACH Chorale: Alle Menschen müssen sterben BWV643 (arr. Hewitt) BACH English Suite No. 4 in F BWV809

Tuesday 23 November 7.30 pm

ANGELA HEWITT piano

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BACH Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV944 KATS-CHERNIN New work (world première) MULDOWNEY Fantasia on B A C H (world première) BACH Three-part Inventions Nos. 10 – 15 HOLLOWAY Partita for solo piano on canons from J S Bach’s addendum to The Goldberg Variations (world première) BACH Herzlich tut mich verlangen BWV727 (arr. Walton) BACH O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross BWV622 (arr. Howells) BACH Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor BWV903

London Pianoforte Series

£15 £20 £25 £30

‘It is hard to think of another pianist so steeped in Bach – almost a quarter of a century has passed since she won the Toronto Bach competition that launched her international career – who has so consistently returned to the foundation stones of the modern piano repertoire’ Sunday Times

London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 21 November 7.00 pm NB starting time

NASH ENSEMBLE DAME FELICITY LOTT soprano plus surprise guests

A CONCERT TO CELEBRATE AMELIA FREEDMAN’S 70TH BIRTHDAY RAVEL Introduction and Allegro SCHUBERT The Shepherd on the Rock SPOHR Nonet in F Op. 31 A garland of birthday pieces for Amelia by composers associated with the Nash Ensemble over the years, including MICHAEL BERKELEY, SIR HARRISON BIRTWISTLE, SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES, SIMON HOLT, COLIN MATTHEWS, DAVID MATTHEWS and MARK- ANTHONY TURNAGE ˘ ÁK Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 DVOR DAME FELICITY LOTT

Trevor Leighton

Sunday 21 November 11.30 am

ATRIUM QUARTET MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in A minor Op. 13 SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 10 in A b Op. 118 Written in only 10 days, Shostakovich’s Tenth String Quartet reveals the composer’s new-found freedom during the cultural thaw that followed Stalin’s death in 1953. While the influence of Beethoven would become prominent in Shostakovich’s later quartets, the hallmarks of the former’s later style are clear in Mendelssohn’s A minor Quartet, written in the year of Beethoven’s death.

At John Gilhooly’s invitation, the world-renowned Nash Ensemble celebrates the 70th birthday of its founder and Artistic Director, Amelia Freedman CBE, with a programme she has chosen herself, placing miniatures by some of her many composer friends, and a guest appearance by a favourite soprano colleague, alongside classics of the chamber-music repertoire. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

£12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

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Monday 22 November 1.00 pm

Thursday 25 November 7.30 pm

TAKÁCS QUARTET

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC JUANITA LASCARRO soprano RODOLFO RICHTER director, violin

KELLOGG New work (UK première) SCHUBERT String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ One of the world’s foremost quartets performs Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet alongside a new work by young American composer Daniel Kellogg, whose works have been taken up by the Philadelphia Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington DC.

Works by TORREJÓN Y VELASCO, ZIPOLI, GARCIA, HEINICHEN, HASSE, RICHTER, HANDEL, HAYDN

‘Daniel Kellogg … is one of the most exciting composers around – technically assured, fascinated by unusual sonic textures, unfailingly easy to listen to, yet far from simplistic’ Washington Post

The Academy of Ancient Music, directed from the violin by its Brazilian leader Rodolfo Richter, presents a fascinating mix of South American music from the 18th century contrasted against European works of the same period. Colombian soprano Juanita Lascarro adds to the South American flavour.

£12 concs £10

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Early Music and Baroque Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 23 November 7.30 pm

ANGELA HEWITT piano Please see page 55 for full details London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 25 November 6.30 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK A pre-concert talk introducing the South American and European baroque music in the evening programme. Free (ticket required)

JUANITA LASCARRO

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RISØR FESTIVAL OF CHAMBER MUSIC AT WIGMORE HALL WITH LEIF OVE ANDSNES

RISØR HARBOUR

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Since 1991 Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has been Co-Artistic Director, with violist Lars Anders Tomter, of the internationally renowned chamber music festival based in the small fishing town of Risør on the southeastern coast of Norway. Each year some of the world’s leading musicians converge there for an intensive period of rehearsals and performances, and this year the special atmosphere of these performances comes to Wigmore Hall in a series of four concerts also featuring the festival’s resident string orchestra. Among the soloists are names familiar to Wigmore Hall audiences, including Martin Fröst, Henning Kraggerud and Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman, a prizewinner of the Wigmore Hall Song Competition in 2001.

Friday 26 November 7.30 pm

LEIF OVE ANDSNES piano MARC- ANDRÉ HAMELIN piano HENNING KRAGGERUD violin LARS ANDERS TOMTER viola TORLEIF THEDÉEN cello MEASHA BRUEGGERGOSMAN soprano RISØR FESTIVAL STRINGS GRIEG Violin Sonata No. 1 in F Op. 8 LISZT Oh! quand je dors DUPARC Au pays où se fait la guerre BRAHMS Ständchen WAGNER Im Treibhaus BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor ‘At a time when so much music comes packaged in cellophane – over-produced, remote and cool – Risør encourages a hands-on, intimate and generous directness. It’s a joy. And, more’s the pity, a one-off ’ The Independent £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by the Anniversary Patrons who are providing vital support throughout the 2010 –11 season

MEASHA BRUEGGERGOSMAN

Richard Lehun/Deutche Grammophon

Chamber Music Season Saturday 27 November 6.00 pm

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION LEIF OVE ANDSNES and LARS ANDERS TOMTER, joint Artistic Directors of the Risør Festival of Chamber Music, in conversation with music critic and broadcaster GEOFFREY NORRIS. £3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

LARS ANDERS TOMTER

Risør Festival with Leif Ove Andsnes continues overleaf

RISØR SUNSET

Saturday 27 November 7.30 pm

LEIF OVE ANDSNES piano MARC- ANDRÉ HAMELIN piano HENNING KRAGGERUD violin LARS ANDERS TOMTER viola TORLEIF THEDÉEN cello MARTIN FRÖST clarinet MEASHA BRUEGGERGOSMAN soprano RISØR FESTIVAL STRINGS

MARC- ANDRÉ HAMELIN

Fran Kaufman

STRAUSS Sextet from Capriccio Op. 85 MOZART Piano Concerto No. 14 in E b K449 (version for piano and string quartet) MAHLER/SCHOENBERG Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen LUTOSL ´ AWSKI Dance Preludes (for clarinet and ensemble) BARTÓK Divertimento for Strings ‘Discovering the Risør Festival of Chamber Music … is like stumbling upon a fabulous little out-of-the-way restaurant that you are almost reluctant to tell people about … The Festival has redefined what a chamber music festival can be’ New York Times £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by the Tertis Foundation

Chamber Music Season

HENNING KRAGGERUD

Observatoriet/Simax Classics

Sunday 28 November 11.30 am

LEIF OVE ANDSNES piano HENNING KRAGGERUD violin LARS ANDERS TOMTER viola TORLEIF THEDÉEN cello MARTIN FRÖST clarinet DEBUSSY Cello Sonata in D minor SØRENSEN Schattenlinie MOZART Clarinet Quintet in A K581

TORLEIF THEDÉEN

Debussy initially considered entitling his whimsical Cello Sonata ‘Pierrot angry with the moon’. After the tiny ‘Shadow Line’ by Danish composer Bent Sørensen comes the second of Mozart’s three major works featuring the clarinet, an instrument which he avidly championed, both in an orchestral and solo context. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

Sunday 28 November 7.30 pm

LEIF OVE ANDSNES piano MARC- ANDRÉ HAMELIN piano LARS ANDERS TOMTER viola MARTIN FRÖST clarinet RISØR FESTIVAL STRINGS WALLIN Under City Skin HONEGGER Symphony No. 2 BERG 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring (arr. Stravinsky for piano four hands) Honegger’s Second Symphony reflects the troubled spirit of the Second World War, which interrupted its composition. Norwegian Ralf Wallin’s piece for solo viola with strings, premièred last year at Risør, is inspired by sounds of the urban jungle. Hamelin and Andsnes form an indomitable duo for Stravinsky’s iconic The Rite of Spring. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season MARTIN FRÖST

Mats Bäcker

Tuesday 30 November 7.30 pm

APOLLO’S FIRE: THE CLEVELAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA JEANNETTE SORRELL harpsichord, direct0r SOPHIE DANEMAN soprano FIRE AND FOLLY: MYTHS OF LOVE AND BETRAYAL

JEANNETTE SORRELL & MEMBERS OF APOLLO’S FIRE

The Chautauquan Daily

Monday 29 November 1.00 pm

MALIN CHRISTENSSON soprano SIMON LEPPER piano BRAHMS Von ewiger Liebe; Wie Melodien zieht es mir; Lerchengesang; Meine Liebe ist grün; Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer; Wiegenlied; Vergebliches Ständchen STRAUSS Schlechtes Wetter; Du meines Herzens Krönelein; Das Rosenband; Wiegenlied WOLF Mausfallensprüchlein; Im Frühling; Das verlassene Mägdlein; Nimmersatte Liebe; Verborgenheit; Er ist’s

HANDEL Cantata: Dietro l’orme fuggaci (Armida abbandonata) TARTINI/SORRELL Didone abbandonata: Sinfonia drammatica (after the violin sonata) MONTÉCLAIR Cantata: La mort de Didon VIVALDI Concerto in B minor for 4 violins Op. 3 No. 10 from L’estro armonico VIVALDI/SORRELL La Folia: Concerto grosso (after Trio Sonata ‘La Folia’) The acclaimed American Baroque orchestra from Cleveland makes its long-awaited European debut. Sophie Daneman and Jeannette Sorrell bring feminine passion to works inspired by timeless myths – from the fire of the abandoned Armida to the vulnerability of the betrayed Dido. This is the final performance of a major European tour. £12 £16 £22 £24

With recent engagements at the Royal Opera, Glyndebourne and La Scala, Milan, young Swede Malin Christensson has also appeared at the Aix-en-Provence and Vienna festivals. Last year she stood in at short notice to replace indisposed fellow New Generation Artist Daniela Lehner in a Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert.

Early Music and Baroque Series

£12 concs £10 Malin Christensson is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/New Generations

MALIN CHRISTENSSON

Sussie Ahlburg

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Friday 3 December 7.00 pm NB starting time

BERNARD GREGOR-SMITH with special guests

DANTE QUARTET KRYSIA OSOSTOWICZ violin GILES FRANCIS violin JUDITH BUSBRIDGE viola

ECLECTICA! LIZZIE BALL violin PETE OXLEY guitar NICOLAS MEIER guitar and CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN

Rosa-Frank.com

Wednesday 1 December 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN tenor ANDREAS STAIER fortepiano SONGS BY SCHUBERT AND SCHUMANN SCHUBERT Lieder to texts by Ernst Schulze SCHUMANN Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 & Requiem; Liederkreis Op. 39 Renowned German lyric tenor Christoph Prégardien performs songs by two of the greatest Lieder composers, partnered by Andreas Staier, whose fortepiano brings refreshingly new colours to these much-loved keyboard parts. ‘[Prégardien] stops you in your tracks right away, and won’t let you get back to your life until well after silence returns’ The Toronto Star £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series

Thursday 2 December 7.30 pm

ARTEMIS QUARTET Please see page 64 overleaf for full details

RAPHAEL WALLFISCH cello BEN GREGOR-SMITH cello YOLANDE WRIGLEY piano RONNIE BIRKS violin ROBIN IRELAND viola BERNARD GREGOR-SMITH 65TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT VENABLES The Moon Sails Out (world première) DEBUSSY Cello Sonata in D minor SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D956 COREA Spain (arr. Pete Oxley) MITCHELL River (arr. Pete Oxley) PIAZZOLLA La Misma Pena (arr. Lizzie Ball) MONTI Czardas (arr. Nicolas Meier) MENDELSSOHN Octet in E b Op. 20 A celebration of the cellist’s remarkable career, which spans over 40 years of chamber-music performance at the highest level, with groups such as The Lindsays (of which he was a founder member), the Dante Quartet and, in recent years, with the jazz-based group Eclectica!. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Cycle 63

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ARTEMIS QUARTET BEETHOVEN CYCLE Spanning his entire composing career, Beethoven’s string quartets trace the full range of his development, beginning with his early efforts in the six Op. 18 quartets to mould the form as inherited from Haydn. Five years later came the three ‘Razumovsky’ quartets, Op. 59, beginning a period of expansion that marked his ‘heroic’ middle period. With the late quartets Beethoven, by now completely deaf, produced his greatest and most philosophical outpourings, turning to the string quartet as a laboratory for his innovative experiments in form, harmony and expression. The Berlin-based Artemis Quartet is currently engaged in a landmark project, performing the cycle across 10 European cities as well as in the USA. Tuesday 14 September 7.30 pm

ARTEMIS QUARTET See page 12 for details Thursday 2 December 7.30 pm

ARTEMIS QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Hess 34 (arr of Piano Sonata Op. 14 No. 1) String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’ String Quartet in C # minor Op. 131

ARTEMIS QUARTET

Boris Streubel

The current instalment of the Artemis Quartet’s Beethoven cycle begins with Beethoven’s arrangement of his spirited early Piano Sonata, Op. 14 No. 1. The middle-period ‘Harp’ Quartet is nicknamed after the delicate pizzicato passage in its first movement, while the large-scale Op. 131 is, for many, Beethoven’s greatest achievement in the form. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Cycle Thursday 20 January 7.30 pm (see page 87 for details) Saturday 22 January 7.30 pm (see page 88 for details) 64

Saturday 4 December 7.30 pm

LES TALENS LYRIQUES SANDRINE PIAU soprano CHRISTOPHE ROUSSET conductor, harpsichord

HARMONIA SACRA PURCELL Now that the sun hath veiled its light (An Evening Hymn); The earth trembled; Thou wakeful shepherd (A Morning Hymn); In the black, dismal dungeon of despair; Let the night perish; With sick and famish’d eyes; How long, great God; How have I stray’d, my God; Great God and just; We sing to him whose wisdom form’d the ear; My song shall be alway of the loving kindness of the Lord; Lord, what is man?; Tell me, some pitying angel (The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation); The Night is come; My op’ning eyes are purg’d MEMBERS OF LES TALENS LYRIQUES

Eric Larrayadieu

Saturday 4 December 11.00 am

CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET FAMILY CONCERT for age 5 plus The dynamic young Carducci String Quartet presents this inspiring, interactive concert of string quartet music, including a trip to South America with Astor Piazzolla’s Four for Tango. Come prepared to join in!

Under the direction of Christophe Rousset, leading European early-music ensemble Les Talens Lyriques and soprano Sandrine Piau explore Purcell’s contributions to the two volumes of sacred songs, Harmonia sacra (1688 & 1693), which draw on the style of the French ‘petit motet’ and church cantata, and include the well-known ‘Evening Hymn’ and the dramatic ‘Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation’. £18 £25 £30 £35

Early Music and Baroque Series

Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme) 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.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Sunday 5 December 11.30 am

ADRIAN BRENDEL cello TIM HORTON piano BACH Sonata No. 1 in G BWV1027 BRITTEN Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 CHOPIN Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65 A trio of works performed by Adrian Brendel, son of the pianist Alfred, fast becoming one of the UK’s leading cellists. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

Monday 6 December 1.00 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT piano LACHNER Im Mai; Das Fischermädchen; Die Meerfrau; Ein Traumbild; Die einsame Träne SCHUMANN Dichterliebe Op. 48 In the bicentenary year of Schumann’s birth, a second chance this season (see 29 October) to hear the composer’s celebrated Heine cycle Dichterliebe (‘A Poet’s Love’), this time introduced, aptly, by Heine settings from Franz Paul Lachner’s first Sängerfahrt (‘A Bard’s Journey’), marking 120 years since Lachner’s death in 1890. £12 concs £10

MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE

Philip Gatward

Tuesday 7 December 6.00 pm

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE in conversation with the writer and broadcaster CHRISTOPHER COOK £3

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/Schumann Bicentenary Series

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Tuesday 7 December 7.30 pm

Thursday 9 December 7.30 pm

BELCEA QUARTET

NELLY AKOPIAN-TAMARINA piano

Programme to include: TURNAGE Twisted Blues with Twisted Ballad (world première)*

SCHUMANN Arabeske in C Op. 18 SCHUMANN Kreisleriana Op. 16 SCHUMANN Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6

Already established as one of the foremost international ensembles, the Belcea Quartet includes the world première of a new work by Mark-Anthony Turnage, celebrating the composer’s 50th birthday, which they then take to audiences in Amsterdam, Cologne and Vienna. ‘Their sound is mellow and warm … and their unanimity is astounding’ Evening Standard *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation. Co-commissioned with Köln Musik, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Wiener Konzerthaus. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

The distinguished Russian pianist Nelly AkopianTamarina makes her own contribution to the Schumann bicentenary. Winner of the Gold Medal at the International Schumann Competition in Zwickau in 1963, she subsequently received the Robert Schumann Prize in 1974, succeeding Richter, Nikolayeva and Gilels. Her recording of Schumann’s Fantasie is included in the recently released Brilliant Classics CD set, ‘Legendary Russian Pianists’. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 8 December 7.30 pm

ELISABETH LEONSKAJA piano SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in G D894 SCHUMANN Études symphoniques Op. 13 ‘Elisabeth Leonskaja … is one of the last links to a grand school of Russian pianism where technique meant the marshalling of piano possibilities into a positively orchestral array of expressive means … a splendour and focus fervent in feeling, masterly in discipline, a serious line in beauty’ artsdesk.com £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series/Schumann Bicentenary Series ELISABETH LEONSKAJA

Jo Schwartz

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Saturday 11 December 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE MARIANNE THORSEN violin PAUL WATKINS cello IAN BROWN piano

MATTHEW ROSE bass SARAH-JANE BRANDON

Friday 10 December 7.30 pm

SIR THOMAS ALLEN baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano SARAH-JANE BRANDON soprano CECELIA HALL mezzo-soprano JAMES GEER tenor PHILIP SMITH baritone DANIEL WNUKOWSKI piano SAMLING SHOWCASE The programme will include RAVEL Don Quichotte, DEBUSSY Chansons de Bilitis, LISZT Comment, disaient-ils, Oh! quand je dors and Enfant, si j’étais roi and songs from SCHUBERT Schwanengesang D957, with opera arias and ensembles by HANDEL, MOZART and STRAUSS.

RACHMANINOV Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor Op. posth MUSORGSKY Songs and Dances of Death BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Musorgsky’s gripping song-cycle describing death in different guises, sung by Matthew Rose, is flanked by two piano trios: the earlier of Rachmaninov’s two Trios élégiaques, from his student years; and Beethoven’s last full-length trio, a magnificent work that he dedicated to his pupil the Archduke Rudolph. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven and the Russians

Showcasing the voices of the future, five outstanding young artists perform alongside Sir Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau. These young artists have all completed Samling’s prestigious international Masterclass Programme, which connects its Scholars to the world’s greatest artists to develop excellence in technique, professionalism and performance. £12 £16 £22 £26 There are a number of tickets which include a three-course dinner, wine and coffee with the artists after the concert in the Bechstein Room. These are priced £125 and are available only from Samling on 01434 602885.

NASH ENSEMBLE

Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

Song Recital Series 68

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Sunday 12 December 11.30 am

Monday 13 December 1.00 pm

DORIC STRING QUARTET

TOKYO STRING QUARTET SABINE MEYER clarinet

SCHUBERT String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ SCHUMANN String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 Schubert’s dark-toned ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet – borrowing a theme from his earlier incidental music to the play Rosamunde, Queen of Cyprus – prefaces the best-known of Schumann’s three string quartets in this recital given by the young Doric String Quartet, which has already made an acclaimed entry to the Wigmore Hall Live CD series. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert/Schumann Bicentenary Series

SCHUBERT String Quartet in E b D87 MOZART Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Recently turned 40, the Tokyo String Quartet is joined by one of the world’s foremost solo clarinettists. Their performance features Mozart’s mature Clarinet Quintet, inspired by the artistry of clarinettist Anton Stadler, and one of the great fruits of Schubert’s adolescence, composed aged 16 while still a student of Mozart’s earlier rival, Salieri. £12 concs £10

Sunday 12 December 7.30 pm

THE BROOK STREET BAND

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

FROM LEIPZIG TO LONDON, VIA LÜBECK! BACH Trio Sonata in G BWV530 BACH Trio Sonata in C minor BWV526 TELEMANN Trio Sonata in E b HANDEL Trio Sonata BUXTEHUDE Trio Sonata in G BuxWV271 PACHELBEL Partie VI in Bb from Musicalische Ergötzung Though he became an English citizen in 1727, Handel never quite shook off his German origins, and this programme explores these connections through exhilarating and sensual music. It was Telemann who sparked Handel’s passion for opera, and both Bach and Handel refused to marry Buxtehude’s daughter! £12 £16 £22 £24

Early Music and Baroque Series THE BROOK STREET BAND

Hayley Madden

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Tuesday 14 December 7.30 pm

WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone IMOGEN COOPER piano SCHUMANN Settings by Heine and Eichendorff REIMANN Nachtstück SCHUMANN Kernerlieder Op. 35 In a highlight of our Schumann bicentenary series, Wolfgang Holzmair is joined by one of the UK’s most sensitive and probing pianists for a recital placing Eichendorff settings by Aribert Reimann alongside those of Schumann. Also featured are Schumann settings of his beloved Heine as well as of Kerner, the ‘mysterious heavenly power’ whose poems the composer appreciated even as a teenager. £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series/Schumann Bicentenary Series

SUSAN BULLOCK

Sussie Ahlburg

Monday 13 December 7.30 pm

SUSAN BULLOCK soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano Programme to include songs by GRIEG, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, BRAHMS, DUPARC and English Songs Susan Bullock – who last year won a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for her performances in the gruelling role of Strauss’s Elektra for the Royal Opera – returns to Wigmore Hall for the first time in five years, for a programme representing the varied traditions within the song repertoire. £18 £25 £30 £35

WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR

Benjamin Ealovega

Song Recital Series

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Wednesday 15 December 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT EVENT RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTIST RECITAL £6 (not part of subscription scheme) or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)

Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 15 December 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE MIRANDA DALE

Wednesday 15 December 1.00 pm

BRITTEN SINFONIA THOMAS GOULD violin MIRANDA DALE violin MARTIN OUTRAM viola JOY FARRALL clarinet SARAH BURNETT bassoon STEPHEN BELL horn HUW WATKINS piano

SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D934 BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ ‘This kind of insight and commitment would be remarkable for an ensemble who played together every day; that the Razumovskys manage it on such an ad-hoc basis – all having successful solo careers alongside their chamber-music playing – is a minor miracle’ The Guardian £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

PHILIPS New work (London première)* JANÁC˘EK Concertino *co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia

Janác˘ek’s Concertino for seven instruments presents a softer side of the Czech composer, in depicting scenes from nature. This concert has been programmed by acclaimed composer Julian Philips – a regular host of Wigmore Study Group events – and features the London première of a new work by him that takes its influence from Janác˘ek’s Concertino. £12 concs £10

Chamber Music Season

THOMAS GOULD

Simon Weir

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THOMAS ZEHETMAIR

Soloist, chamber musician and conductor Thomas Zehetmair is one of the most dynamic and versatile violinists around. Having founded the Zehetmair Quartet in 1994, he became Music Director of the Northern Sinfonia in 2002, building its reputation as one of Europe’s leading chamber orchestras. This season Zehetmair also became an Artistic Partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minneapolis. John Gilhooly invited Zehetmair to have a special residency and this three-concert series opens a window on his range of talents, beginning with a solo Bach recital and continuing next year – when he appears within his quartet, as well as in a duo recital (with his wife, violist Ruth Killius), in music spanning from Mozart to Heinz Holliger. Thursday 16 December 7.30 pm

THOMAS ZEHETMAIR violin BACH Partita No. 3 in E for solo violin BWV1006 BACH Sonata No. 3 in C for solo violin BWV1005 BACH Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 Austrian violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair begins his three-concert residency this season with his selection from the works which reveal the true mettle of any violinist – Bach’s solo violin Sonatas and Partitas – including the D minor Partita, with its famously challenging Chaconne. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Sunday 13 February 7.30 pm

Tuesday 5 April 7.30 pm

ZEHETMAIR QUARTET

RUTH KILLIUS viola THOMAS ZEHETMAIR violin

Photo by Keith Pattison

Saturday 18 December 2.00 pm

ALFRED BRENDEL LECTURE RECITAL THE LIGHT AND SHADE OF INTERPRETATION Please see feature on page 50 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 18 December 7.30 pm

KUSS QUARTET

DOROTHEA RÖSCHMANN

Jim Rakete

Friday 17 December 7.30 pm

DOROTHEA RÖSCHMANN soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1840 –1850 Programme to include works by ROBERT AND CLARA SCHUMANN, LISZT and MENDELSSOHN German soprano Dorothea Röschmann joins Malcolm Martineau as our Decade by Decade Series – exploring a century of German song prior to Wigmore Hall’s opening in 1901 – reaches the 1840s. Röschmann also celebrates a decade since her British recital debut, here at Wigmore Hall. ‘Ms Röschmann’s seriousness is only a veil attractively covering and accentuating an underlying sensuality’ New York Times £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series/Decade by Decade – 100 Years of German Song 1810 –1910

MOZART String Quartet in D K575 TCHAIKOVSKY Chanson russe from Album pour enfants Op. 39 (arr. for string quartet) STRAVINSKY Three Pieces for string quartet TCHAIKOVSKY Mélodie antique française from Album pour enfants Op. 39 (arr. for string quartet) STRAVINSKY Concertino for string quartet TCHAIKOVSKY La poupée malade from Album pour enfants Op. 39 (arr. for string quartet) TCHAIKOVSKY Chanson populaire (Kamarinskaya) from Album pour enfants Op. 39 (arr. for string quartet) TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 The Berlin-based Kuss Quartet mixes Stravinsky’s early character pieces and arrangements from Tchaikovsky’s set of piano miniatures for children with the first of Mozart’s three ‘Prussian’ Quartets, whose cello parts were designed to please the cello-playing King Friedrich Wilhelm II who commissioned them. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

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Sunday 19 December 11.30 am

KUSS QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135 VERDI String Quartet in E minor ‘Every note, every phrase, every new motif appeared dusted down, questioned and joyfully restored’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert KUSS QUARTET

Boris Streubel

Sunday 19 December 7.00 pm NB starting time

Monday 20 December 1.00 pm

EARLY OPERA COMPANY SARAH FOX soprano IESTYN DAVIES countertenor THOMAS WALKER tenor DEREK WELTON baritone CHRISTIAN CURNYN director

FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI piano

HANDEL Messiah Handel’s Messiah stands as one of the pinnacles of musical history and remains his most popular work. Following its acclaimed sell-out performance at Wigmore Hall in 2008, Early Opera Company returns, with soloists, players and chorus packing the Wigmore stage, to again bring to life Handel and Jennens’s meditation on the life of Jesus. £18 £25 £30 £35

JANÁC˘EK Piano Sonata I.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101 STRAVINSKY/AGOSTI Danse infernale, Berceuse and Finale from The Firebird Young Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi is one of the most recent recruits to BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists. Born in 1983, he studied in Hanover and was a prize-winner at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2007. He recently appeared in the Martha Argerich Project, Lugano, and made his Carnegie Hall debut. £12 concs £10 Francesco Piemontesi is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Early Music and Baroque Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/New Generations

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Monday 20 December 7.30 pm

SOLOISTS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA DEBUSSY Sonata for flute, viola and harp BAX Elegiac Trio for flute, viola and harp VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Phantasy String Quintet PUCCINI Crisantemi PIAZZOLLA Five Tango Sensations The trios by Debussy and Bax for the unusual combination of flute, viola and harp appeared within a year of each other during the First World War. In addition to Vaughan Williams’s little-known Phantasy Quintet (with two violas), the LPO soloists contrast Puccini’s touching Crisantemi with Piazzolla’s bandoneón-tinged Five Tango Sensations. PATRICIA PETIBON

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Chamber Music Season

Felix Broede/Deutsche Grammophon

Tuesday 21 December 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Debut

PATRICIA PETIBON soprano SUSAN MANOFF piano Works by HANDEL, HAYDN, POULENC, HAHN, SATIE and BACRI Though a protégée of William Christie, French coloratura soprano Patricia Petibon is equally at home singing Baroque or Bernstein. Her quirky sense of curiosity and fantasy make for an unconventionally spontaneous, even eccentric, style of recital with a faint hint of the burlesque. Leave any preconceptions at home and enjoy a Christmas treat. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI

Marco Borggreve

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Tuesday 28 December 7.30 pm

LUCY PARHAM piano JOANNA DAVID narrator MARTIN JARVIS narrator BELOVED CLARA

JOANNA DAVID, LUCY PARHAM & MARTIN JARVIS

Marco Borggreve

Wednesday 22 December 7.30 pm

RACHEL PODGER violin BRECON BAROQUE BACH Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 BACH Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1052 BACH Concerto for violin in G minor BWV1056 TELEMANN Concerto in F for 3 violins, strings and continuo TWV53:F1 BACH Concerto in E for violin and strings BWV1042 Leading Bach specialist Rachel Podger presents a programme of violin concertos by Bach and Telemann in the intimate style of the Café Zimmermann concerts directed by Bach in Leipzig. This concert marks the release of Podger’s new CD of Bach concertos and the London debut of her own ensemble, Brecon Baroque.

SCHUMANN Des Abends from Fantasiestücke Op. 12 MENDELSSOHN Song without Words in A ‘Spring Song’ SCHUMANN Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6 Nos. 2 & 4 SCHUMANN Piano Sonata in G minor (first movement) CLARA SCHUMANN Nocturne from Soirées musicales BRAHMS Scherzo from Piano Sonata in F mino SCHUMANN In der Nacht from Fantasiestücke; Intermezzo from Faschingsschwank aus Wien BRAHMS Intermezzo in A minor SCHUMANN Romance in F #; Träumerei from Kinderscenen BRAHMS Capriccio in B minor; Intermezzo in B minor SCHUMANN/LISZT Widmung The story of the intense relationships between Schumann, his wife Clara and Brahms is brought to life in this programme of music and readings. Music by all three is performed by Lucy Parham, interspersed with extracts from their letters and diaries, read by celebrated actors Joanna David and Martin Jarvis. £12 £16 £22 £24

London Pianoforte Series

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Early Music and Baroque Series

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Thursday 30 December 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Debut

BERTRAND CHAMAYOU piano FRANCK Prélude, choral et fugue LISZT Au bord d’une source; Orage; Vallée d’Obermann and Les cloches de Genève LISZT Venezia e Napoli Young French pianist Bertrand Chamayou performs four evocative vignettes from Liszt’s Swiss travels, as well as the two songs and tarantella that make up Venezia e Napoli, a ‘supplement’ to the composer’s Italian sojourn. Franck’s grandly conceived Prélude, choral et fugue reflects his years of service as organist at St Clotilde in Paris. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series

MATTHEW HALLS

Friday 31 December 7.00 pm NB starting time

RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE JOANNE LUNN soprano ROBIN BLAZE countertenor CHARLES DANIELS tenor PETER HARVEY baritone MATTHEW HALLS director BACH Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben BWV248 (Christmas Oratorio, part 4) BACH Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen BWV248 (Christmas Oratorio, part 5) BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F BWV1046 A festive performance of Bach to herald the New Year. Two uplifting cantatas from Bach’s seasonal masterpiece performed by a stellar line-up of soloists and the instrumentalists of Retrospect Ensemble provide the backbone for a programme that also features the extraordinary instrumental virtuosity of the first Brandenburg Concerto. £12 £16 £22 £24

BERTRAND CHAMAYOU

Laure Vasconi/Naïve

Early Music and Baroque Series

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BRAD MEHLDAU AT WIGMORE HALL Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau is one of the most exciting musicians in his field today, touring and recording extensively with great success. Having been invited by John Gilhooly to curate Wigmore Hall’s Jazz Series from September 2009, Brad Mehldau brought his inimitable style to bear in a series of concerts over the 2009/10 season. This included a solo performance, appearances with Joshua Redman and the Brad Mehldau Trio, and a programme of both jazz and classical music with the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, including the UK première of new work co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall and KölnMusik. Brad Mehldau continues his curatorship this year, inviting friends from across the musical spectrum to participate in a variety of duo performances which will explore the limits of improvisatory and experimental contemporary composition, in addition to more conventional work in the jazz tradition. Italian vocalist Diana Torto joins renowned British pianist John Taylor on 6 May; whilst German reeds player Klaus Gesing joins forces with the ubiquitous British pianist Gwilym Simcock on 2 June. In the autumn, Brad Mehldau himself forms two all-American partnerships, with versatile mandolin player Chris Thile on 16 September, and acclaimed singer Joe Henry on 2 December, concluding what promises to be an extraordinary and thought-provoking series of collaborations. This brings Brad’s tenure as Jazz Series Curator to a close.

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Booking for the concerts in this series opens to Friends 0n 29 April, to Mailing List Subscribers on 13 May and to the General Public on 20 May. Friday 6 May 2011 7.30 pm

DIANA TORTO singer JOHN TAYLOR piano £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Jazz Series

Thursday 2 June 2011 7.30 pm

Eric Richmond

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JOHN TAYLOR

DIANA TORTO Rainer Rygalyk

KLAUS GESING reeds GWILYM SIMCOCK piano

Jazz Series

Friday 16 September 2011 7.30 pm

CHRIS THILE mandolin BRAD MEHLDAU piano

KLAUS GESING

GWILYM SIMCOCK

JOE HENRY

CHRIS THILE

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Jazz Series

Friday 2 December 2011 7.30 pm

JOE HENRY singer BRAD MEHLDAU piano £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Jazz Series

EVENTS FOR FAMILIES AND YOUNG PEOPLE All events listed on pages 80 to 82 will open for booking on 1 July, with the exception of the Family Concerts on 16 October and 4 December, which go on sale alongside the other concerts in the September – December Wigmore Series. Family Events are supported by The Lucille Graham Trust and Mayfield Valley Arts Trust.

Saturday 2 October 10.00 am – 4.00 pm

A KNIGHT’S QUEST FAMILY DAY For age 5 plus Join us as we prepare for a knight’s quest and go searching for treasure. Discover the medieval armour at the Wallace Collection, create your character’s puppet (are you a knight or a squire?) and compose some rhythmic travelling music for the journey. Finish the day by performing on the Wigmore Hall stage. Led by artist MARC WOODHEAD and composer DUNCAN CHAPMAN. Adults £10 Children £8 (not part of subscription scheme) In partnership with The Wallace Collection

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Saturday 18 September 11.30 am – 3.00 pm

OPEN HOUSE DAY Visit Wigmore Hall between 12 noon and 3.00 pm; join in with music workshops at 12 noon, 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm led by KATE NEWELL, and hear performances by IGNITE at 12.30 pm, 1.30 pm and 2.30 pm. Admission free

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Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 October 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

BACH TO JAZZ HALF -TERM COURSE For ages 11– 16 years Discover the genius of Bach and re-invent it as jazz with professional composers, chamber musicians and jazz artists. Perform and record your new works on stage at Wigmore Hall at the end of this half-term course. For instrumentalists grade 3 and above. £20 per ticket www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Friday 15 October 11.00 am

JOURNEY THROUGH SONG KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT Join pianist and presenter DOMINIC HARLAN and a cast of star singers for an exciting journey through song. Discover dramatic stories of love, laughter and adventure as you help stage a version of The Huntsman by Brahms, and even compose a song yourself. £2.50 per ticket (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by John Lyon’s Charity

Saturday 16 October 11.00 am

JOURNEY THROUGH SONG FAMILY CONCERT For age 6 plus A repeat of the concert on 15 October for families. Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme)

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Saturday 4 December 11.00 am

CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET FAMILY CONCERT For age 5 plus The dynamic young CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET presents this inspiring, interactive concert of string quartet music, including a trip to South America with Astor Piazzolla’s Four for Tango. Come prepared to join in! Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme) www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Saturday 6 November 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

DIRTY BEASTS

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.

FAMILY DAY For age 5 plus Explore Roald Dahl’s magical story of ‘The Toad and the Snail’ and follow the giant toad’s adventure trail from country to country. Draw your own image of the mysterious creatures you meet and create music to enhance their special powers. Share your creations on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day. Led by workshop leader, KATE NEWELL. Adults £10 Children £8 (not part of subscription scheme)

Thursday 2 December 11.00 am

CHAMBER DOMAINE KEY STAGE 3 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT Join musicians from vibrant ensemble CHAMBER DOMAINE for this engaging and interactive concert for Key Stage 3 students. £2.50 per ticket (not part of subscription scheme) www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Supported by John Lyon’s Charity

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Benjamin Ealovega

THE REST OF THE SEASON – A PREVIEW

Quartets, as well as the outstanding young Pacifica Quartet who made a firm impression here in Elliott Carter’s music last season.

The preview of our spring and summer series, on the following pages, outlines the continuation of our 110th birthday celebrations. Chamber music highlights include a new work for Michael Collins, London Winds and the Endellion String Quartet by Thea Musgrave, premièred here on 27 January, as well as a celebration of the music of Australian composer Brett Dean on 19 February. As always, we celebrate Schubert’s birthday on 31 January, and this year we welcome Alina Ibragimova, Alban Gerhardt and Steven Osborne for Schubert’s piano trios. The Fauré Quartet joins us for Mozart’s piano quartets, and we welcome back the Artemis, Belcea, Hagen and Zehetmair

Song Series highlights include return visits from Christine Brewer and Magdalena Koz˘ená, and we welcome back the excellent French baritone Stéphane Degout. Juliane Banse, together with violinist András Keller, perform Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments on 18 February, whilst András Schiff and Robert Holl join us for Winterreise. We continue our exploration of 100 years of German song with Malcolm Martineau, which culminates in a survey of songs from 1900 –1910, the Hall’s first decade. Two celebratory galas will be held on 31 May and 1 June 2011, the actual dates that the Hall opened in 1901. Daniel Barenboim, who made his debut here at the age of 15, joins us on 15 June for his much awaited return, after several decades. Please look through the brochure for yourself and pick out your own highlights. We look forward to your company as the season progresses. John Gilhooly Director

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2011 These concerts (except the concert on 27 March at 7.30 pm) are not bookable on this brochure. Booking dates and full details of artists and programmes will be published in a separate brochure available from late September 2010. Thursday 6 January 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

ECMA SHOWCASE

SZYMANOWSKI QUARTET

Sunday 2 January 11.30 am

SZYMANOWSKI QUARTET SCHUBERT Quartettsatz in C minor D703 SZYMANOWSKI String Quartet No. 2 Op. 56 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2 Coffee Concert

Thursday 6 January 6.00 pm

Friday 7 January 1.00 pm Saturday 8 January 11.00 am – Masterclass Saturday 8 January 4.00 pm Sunday 9 January 4.00 pm

ARCADIA QUARTET CUARTETO ARRIAGA QUATUOR ZAÏDE BOULANGER TRIO HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Emperor’ ARRIAGA String Quartet No. 3 in E b ZEMLINSKY String Quartet No. 4 (Suite) Op. 25 KAGEL Piano Trio Chamber Music Season

PRE-CONCERT EVENT RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTIST RECITAL Chamber Music Season 84

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Sunday 9 January 11.30 am

Wednesday 12 January 7.30 pm

ANTHONY MARWOOD violin ALEKSANDAR MADZAR piano

CLASSICAL OPERA COMPANY IAN PAGE conductor REBECCA BOTTONE soprano

SCHUBERT Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121

soprano to be announced

THOMAS HOBBS tenor

Coffee Concert

UNEXPECTED MEETINGS – THE OPERAS OF HAYDN

Monday 10 January 1.00 pm

Programme to include: HAYDN Non v’è chi mi aiuta from La canterina; Wenn am weiten Firmamente from Philemon und Baucis; È la pompa un grand’ imbroglio from L’infedeltà delusa; Deh! Se in ciel pietade avete from L’incontro improvviso; Wie wallet mein Herze from Die Feuersbrunst; Ho viaggiato in Francia from Orlando paladino; Odio, furor, dispetto, dolor from Armida; Del mio core il voto estremo from L’anima del filosofo

ELIAS STRING QUARTET BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3 SMETANA String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ The Elias String Quartet is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Early Music and Baroque Series Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/New Generations Thursday 13 January 7.30 pm

IESTYN DAVIES countertenor RICHARD EGARR fortepiano GAETANO GAUDAGNI AND THE AGE OF THE EARLY CONCERT Songs and arias from the time of Handel’s last castrato and the early Classical period music of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Mozart’s Mitridate, J C Bach’s Die Amerikanerin and works of Arne, Haydn and Beethoven. Song Recital Series/The Art of the Countertenor IESTYN DAVIES

Vince Barone

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Saturday 15 January 6.00 pm

Sunday 16 January 11.30 am

NASH ENSEMBLE IAN BROWN piano LAWRENCE POWER viola LUCY WAKEFORD harp

JUILLIARD QUARTET

PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes Op. 34 for clarinet, piano and string quartet TCHAIKOVSKY Songs (transcr. Vadim Borisovsky) for viola and piano: October (Autumn Song from The Seasons Op. 37 No. 10); None but the Lonely Heart; April (from The Seasons); Nocturne Op. 19 No. 4; Ardent Declaration GLINKA Nocturne for solo harp SHOSTAKOVICH Waltzes for flute, clarinet and piano

Programme to be announced Coffee Concert

Sunday 16 January 4.00 pm

CHRISTINE RICE mezzo-soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven and the Russians

Saturday 15 January 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE SUSAN GRITTON soprano BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ SHOSTAKOVICH Seven Romances on poems of Alexander Blok Op. 127 for soprano and piano trio TCHAIKOVSKY Student Pieces for piano, harp and strings (UK première) SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 Chamber Music Season/Beethoven and the Russians

SUSAN GRITTON

Tim Cantrell

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Sunday 16 January 7.30 pm

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS violin ENRICO PACE piano PROKOFIEV Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 AUERBACH Preludes ˘ ÁK Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 DVOR SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D934 Chamber Music Season

Monday 17 January 1.00 pm

HENK NEVEN baritone HANS EIJSACKERS piano Programme to be announced Henk Neven is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/New Generations

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS

Tuesday 18 January 7.30 pm

JULIAN RACHLIN violin, viola CHARLES OWEN piano Programme to include: BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1 BRAHMS Viola Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2 FAURÉ Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Chamber Music Season

Monday 17 January 7.30 pm

JAMES GILCHRIST tenor ANNA TILBROOK piano

Thursday 20 January 7.30 pm

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B b Op. 18 No. 6 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B b Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

Song Recital Series

ARTEMIS QUARTET

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Cycle

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Sunday 23 January 4.00 pm

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC SONG CIRCLE

SITKOVETSKY TRIO

Sussie Ahlburg

Friday 21 January 7.30 pm

LEOPOLD STRING TRIO BACH Goldberg Variations BWV988 (arr. D Sitkovetsky) Chamber Music Season

Programme to include: HAYDN Der Greis SCHUBERT Licht und Liebe SCHUMANN So wahr die Sonne scheinet BRAHMS Es rauschet das Wasser MENDELSSOHN Wasserfahrt BERLIOZ Le trébuchet DUPARC La fuite FAURÉ Tarentelle MASSENET Rêvons, c’est l’heure GOUNOD L’arithméthique CHAUSSON La nuit ROSSINI Duetto buffo di due gatti PURCELL Sound the trumpet BRITTEN Underneath the abject willow Song Recital Series

Saturday 22 January 7.30 pm

ARTEMIS QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Cycle

Monday 24 January 1.00 pm

CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN mezzo-soprano

JULIUS DRAKE piano Programme to include SHOSTAKOVICH 6 Verses (Tsvetayeva) Op. 143

Sunday 23 January 11.30 am

SITKOVETSKY TRIO

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87 SMETANA Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 Coffee Concert 88

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Monday 24 January 7.30 pm

Wednesday 26 January 6.30 pm

PIERS LANE piano

PRE-CONCERT TALK

SCHUBERT German Dances D783 (a selection); Ländler No. 3 in D from 12 Deutsche Ländler D790; German Dances D783 (a selection); Valses sentimentales D779 (a selection) BRAHMS 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110 CHOPIN 4 Ballades

With RICHARD EGARR

London Pianoforte Series

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC RICHARD EGARR director, harpsichord STEVEN ISSERLIS cello

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 26 January 7.30 pm

THE BACH DYNASTY J C BACH Keyboard Concerto from Op. 13 C P E BACH Cello Concerto in A minor Wq170 C P E BACH String Symphony J C F BACH Sonata in G for cello and continuo W F BACH Harpsichord Concerto in A minor Early Music and Baroque Series

Thursday 27 January 7.30 pm BERNARDA FINK

Tuesday 25 January 7.30 pm

BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

Klemen Breitfuss

MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet ENDELLION STRING QUARTET LONDON WINDS

1850 –1860

HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 JANÁC˘EK Mladi MUSGRAVE New commission (world première) BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115

Programme to include songs by SCHUMANN, LANG, LISZT and BRAHMS

Chamber Music Season/Michael Collins – Chamber Musician and Soloist

Song Recital Series/Decade by Decade: 100 years of German Song 1810 –1910

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Friday 28 January 11.00 am

Saturday 29 January 11.00 am

STEVEN ISSERLIS

SCHOOLS’ CONCERT

FAMILY CONCERT

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 29 January 7.30 pm Friday 28 January 7.30 pm

HAGEN QUARTET

CHRISTINE BREWER soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano

MOZART String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ HAAS New work (London première) SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season

Sunday 30 January 11.30 am

HAGEN QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in E b K428 SCHUBERT String Quartet in A minor D864 ‘Rosamunde’ Coffee Concert

Sunday 30 January 4.00 pm

ROBIN TRITSCHLER tenor JOSEPH MIDDLETON piano Programme to include songs by MOZART, HEAD, HAHN, DELIUS, POULENC, SCHUBERT, MENOTTI, ABSIL and MENDELSSOHN CHRISTINE BREWER

Christian Steiner

Song Recital Series

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Tuesday 1 February 7.30 pm

HEATH QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 BRITTEN String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 25 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E b Op. 127 Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 2 February 7.30 pm

HEATH QUARTET

Sussie Ahlburg

Monday 31 January 1.00 pm Artists and programme to be announced

MAGDALENA KOZ˘ENÁ mezzo-soprano PRIVATE MUSICKE Works by VITALI, D’INDIA, FOSCARINI, MARINI, RIBAYAZ, KAPSBERGER, BRICENO, STROZZI, CACCINI, MACQUE, MERULA, SANZ and MONTEVERDI Song Recital Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Thursday 3 February 7.30 pm

Monday 31 January 7.30 pm

ARDITTI QUARTET JAKE ARDITTI countertenor

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA violin ALBAN GERHARDT cello STEVEN OSBORNE piano SCHUBERT BIRTHDAY CONCERT

CLARKE String Quartet No. 2 (London première) FERNEYHOUGH String Quartet No. 6 (London première) FUJIKURA New work (world première) PAREDES Cantiones Lunaticas (UK première) Chamber Music Season

SCHUBERT Piano Trios No. 1 in B b D898 and No. 2 in E b D929 Chamber Music Season

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Friday 4 February 7.30 pm

˘ ENÁ mezzo-soprano MAGDALENA KOZ PRIVATE MUSICKE Repeat of concert on 2 February Song Recital Series

Saturday 5 February 7.30 pm

BORODIN QUARTET MYASKOVSKY String Quartet No. 13 in A minor Op. 86 STRAVINSKY Concertino for string quartet BORODIN String Quartet No. 1 in A Chamber Music Season

Sunday 6 February 11.30 am

ATOS TRIO BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in G Op. 1 No. 2 SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 Coffee Concert

RENAUD CAPUÇON

Marc Ribes

Sunday 6 February 7.30 pm

ALEXANDER JANICZEK violin ^ LLYR WILLIAMS piano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1 DEBUSSY Violin Sonata in G minor JANÁC˘EK Violin Sonata BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 Chamber Music Season

Monday 7 February 1.00 pm

RENAUD CAPUÇON violin FRANK BRALEY piano Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

ATOS TRIO

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Tuesday 8 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 13 February 11.30 am

BORIS GILTBURG piano

DANISH STRING QUARTET

CHOPIN Mazurka in A minor for Emile Gaillard CHOPIN Mazurka in A b CHOPIN Mazurka in C # minor Op. 50 No. 3 PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 82 RAVEL La valse

Winner of the London International String Quartet Competition 2009 ADÈS Arcadiana BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Coffee Concert

London Pianoforte Series Sunday 13 February 4.00 pm Wednesday 9 February 7.30 pm

MARINO FORMENTI piano KURTÁG’S GHOSTS Kurtág’s Ghosts interweaves works by György Kurtág with works by past and recent masters, ranging from Machaut to Beethoven and Bach to Bartók, Ligeti and Messiaen (among others). London Pianoforte Series

EMMA BELL soprano ANDREW WEST piano BERG Sieben frühe Lieder WALTER Tragödie I–III; Waltrauts Lied I & II MARX Hat dich die Liebe berührt; Traumgekrönt; Und gestern hat er mir Rosen gebracht WAGNER Wesendonck Lieder Song Recital Series

Thursday 10 February 7.30 pm

STÉPHANE DEGOUT baritone HÉLÈNE LUCAS piano Programme to include: DEBUSSY Trois mélodies POULENC Le bestiaire Songs by HAHN, SAINT-SAËNS, SCHUBERT, STRAUSS and BRAHMS Song Recital Series EMMA BELL

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Tuesday 15 February 7.30 pm

RETROSPECT TRIO JULIA DOYLE soprano PURCELL SONATAS AND THEATRICAL AIRS PURCELL Sonata in Four Parts No. 7 in C; Oh! Fair Cedaria; If Music be the food of love; Sonata in Three Parts No. 1 in G minor; Sweeter than Roses; Fairest Isle from King Arthur; Sonata in Three Parts No. 12 in D; Sonata in Three Parts No. 3 in D minor; Tell me, some pitying angel (The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation); Sonata in Three Parts No. 10 in A; O solitude, my sweetest choice; I attempt from Love’s Sickness to fly, from The Indian Queen; Sonata in Four Parts No. 6 in G minor; Now that the sun hath veiled its light (An Evening Hymn) ZEHETMAIR QUARTET

Keith Pattison

Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday 13 February 7.30 pm

ZEHETMAIR QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in B b K458 ‘Hunt’ SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 15 in E b minor Op. 144 Chamber Music Season

Monday 14 February 1.00 pm

CALEFAX reed quintet RAMEAU Nouvelle Suite (arr. Raaf Hekkema) RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin (arr. Raaf Hekkema)

JULIA DOYLE

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Friday 18 February 7.30 pm

JULIANE BANSE soprano ANDRÁS KELLER violin KURTÁG Kafka Fragments Op. 24 Song Recital Series

Saturday 19 February 11.30 am

ADAM WALKER flute BRETT DEAN viola DORIC STRING QUARTET MIAH PERSSON

Mina artistbilder

BRETT DEAN DAY

Wednesday 16 February 7.30 pm

DEAN Eclipse; Demons; Epitaphs

MIAH PERSSON soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano

Chamber Music Season/Brett Dean Day

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Thursday 17 February 7.30 pm

SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE ALISON BALSOM trumpet VIVALDI Concerto for trumpet and strings Variations on ‘Sellenger’s Round’ ( BRITTEN, BERKELEY, OLDHAM, SEARLE, TIPPETT, WALTON ) ALBINONI Concerto for trumpet and strings MACMILLAN New work for trumpet and strings TIPPETT Fantasia concertante on a Theme of Corelli Chamber Music Season

BRETT DEAN

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Saturday 19 February 3.00 pm

KAREN CARGILL mezzo-soprano JACK LIEBECK violin BRETT DEAN viola JOHN MYERSCOUGH cello DUNCAN McTIER double bass PIERS LANE piano BRETT DEAN DAY DEAN The Homage Etudes; Poems and Prayers; Voices of Angels Chamber Music Season/Brett Dean Day

Saturday 19 February 7.30 pm

JACK LIEBECK violin GARY POMEROY viola CHRISTOPHER MURRAY cello DUNCAN McTIER double bass MATTHEW HUNT clarinet RICHARD WATKINS horn percussion to be announced

PIERS LANE piano HEATH QUARTET BRETT DEAN conductor, viola BRETT DEAN DAY

ARCANTO QUARTET

Marco Borggreve

Sunday 20 February 11.30 am

ARCANTO QUARTET BRITTEN String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Coffee Concert

Sunday 20 February 7.30 pm

MIDORI violin pianist to be announced

CLARA SCHUMANN Four Romances DEAN Recollections; Intimate Decisions BRAHMS String Quintet in G Op. 111

Programme to include: DEAN New work for violin and piano (UK premiĂ¨re)

Chamber Music Season/Brett Dean Day

Chamber Music Season

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Monday 21 February 1.00 pm

Wednesday 23 February 7.30 pm

JAMES EHNES violin ANDREW ARMSTRONG piano

THE ENGLISH CONCERT KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT

DEBUSSY Violin Sonata in G minor BARTÓK Violin Sonata No. 1 Sz75

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

director, fortepiano MOZART Symphony No. 1 in E b K16 MOZART Fantasia in C minor K475 MOZART Quintet in E b for piano and winds K 452 MOZART Divertimento in F K138 MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414 Early Music and Baroque Series

Monday 21 February 7.30 pm

ARCANTO QUARTET WEBERN Six Bagatelles Op. 9 MOZART String Quartet in D minor K421 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Chamber Music Season

Thursday 24 February 7.30 pm

DORIC STRING QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in A Op. 20 No. 6 MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E b Op. 44 No. 3 BERG Lyric Suite Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 22 February 7.30 pm

ALASDAIR BEATSON piano MENDELSSOHN Fantasia (Sonate écossaise) in F # minor Op. 28 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ FAURÉ Thème et Variations in C # minor Op. 73 DUTILLEUX Sonata for piano London Pianoforte Series

DORIC STRING QUARTET

Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

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Sunday 27 February 11.30 am

VADIM GLUZMAN violin ANGELA YOFFE piano LECLAIR Violin Sonata in D Op. 9 No. 3 BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ RAVEL Kaddisch from Deux mélodies hébraïques (for violin and piano); Tzigane Coffee Concert RODERICK WILLIAMS

Keith Saunders

Sunday 27 February 4.00 pm Friday 25 February 7.30 pm

ANNA GREVELIUS mezzo-soprano

RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone HELMUT DEUTSCH piano

pianist to be announced

WOLF Songs from Italienisches Liederbuch KORNGOLD Abschiedslieder Op. 14 MAHLER Erinnerung MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Aus! Aus!; Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen; Ich ging mit Lust; Selbstgefühl SCHUMANN Kernerlieder Op. 35

Song Recital Series

Programme to be announced

Sunday 27 February 7.30 pm

FAURÉ QUARTET MOZART Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 MOZART Piano Quartet No. 2 in E b K493 Chamber Music Season

Saturday 26 February 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE MARIANNE THORSEN violin LAURA SAMUEL violin LAWRENCE POWER viola PAUL WATKINS cello ALICE NEARY cello SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 7 in F # minor Op. 108 GLAZUNOV String Quintet in A Op. 39 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ FAURÉ QUARTET

KASSKARA

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven and the Russians

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Monday 28 February 1.00 pm

SANDRINE PIAU soprano ANTOINE TAMESTIT viola MARKUS HADULLA piano Songs by SCHUBERT

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Wednesday 2 March 1.00 pm AMANDA ROOCROFT

BRITTEN SINFONIA STEVEN OSBORNE piano

Anthony Roocroft

Wednesday 2 March 7.30 pm

AMANDA ROOCROFT soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

HOLT New work (London première)* SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A D667 The Trout *co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia

1860 –1870

Chamber Music Season

Programme to include songs by LISZT, CORNELIUS, JENSEN, BRUCH and BRAHMS Song Recital Series/Decade by Decade: 100 years of German Song 1810 –1910

Thursday 3 March 7.30 pm

ENDELLION STRING QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Hess 34 (arr of Piano Sonata Op. 14 No. 1) BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E b Op. 127 Chamber Music Season STEVEN OSBORNE

Benjamin Ealovega

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Saturday 5 March 7.30 pm

Sunday 6 March 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE narrator*

ROYAL ACADEMY SOLOISTS CLIO GOULD director

*to be confirmed

BORODIN String Sextet in D minor SHOSTAKOVICH Two Pieces Op. 11 for string octet PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf (arr. David Matthews) for narrator and ensemble BEETHOVEN Septet in E b Op. 20 Chamber Music Season/Beethoven and the Russians

STURM UND DRANG BIBER Battalia MOZART Symphony No. 25 in G minor K183 HAYDN Symphony No. 26 in D minor ‘Lamentatione’ SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony Op. 110a Chamber Music Season

Sunday 6 March 11.30 am Monday 7 March 1.00 pm

WIHAN QUARTET

MARTIN HELMCHEN piano

JANÁC˘EK String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ ˘ ÁK String Quartet No. 4 in C Op. 61 DVOR

Programme to be announced

Coffee Concert BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 8 March 7.30 pm

WIHAN QUARTET MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2 JANÁC˘EK String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ ˘ ÁK String Quartet No. 14 in A b Op. 105 DVOR Chamber Music Season

WIHAN QUARTET

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Wolf Marloh

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Thursday 10 March 7.30 pm

TREVOR PINNOCK harpsichord LOCKE Suite in C from Melothesia TAKEMITSU Rain Dreaming BACH Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 COUPERIN Prelude in D minor JACQUET DE LA GUERRE Sarabande in D minor; Chaconne in D NAVICKAS El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan (world première) RAMEAU From Pièces de clavecin: Les tendres plaintes; Les niais de Sologne; L’entretien des Muses; Les cyclopes, rondeau Early Music and Baroque Series

Friday 11 March 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT EVENT RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL Chamber Music Season

TREVOR PINNOCK

Peer Lindgreen

Sunday 13 March 11.30 am

MARIANNE THORSEN violin Friday 11 March 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE

pianist to be announced Programme to be announced Coffee Concert

Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season Monday 14 March 1.00 pm Saturday 12 March 7.30 pm

PAVEL HAAS QUARTET DANJULO ISHIZAKA cello SCHULHOFF String Quartet No. 1 PROKOFIEV String Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 92 SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D956

FLORESTAN TRIO HAYDN Piano Trio in E b HXV:29 ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 DVOR

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Chamber Music Season 101

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Thursday 17 March 7.30 pm

VIVIANE HAGNER violin NICOLE HAGNER piano Programme to include: SCHUBERT Rondo in B minor LISZT La lugubre gondola (version for violin & piano); Grand Duo Concertante for violin & piano BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Chamber Music Season KALICHSTEIN/LAREDO/ROBINSON TRIO

Christian Steiner

Tuesday 15 March 7.30 pm

KALICHSTEIN/LAREDO/ROBINSON TRIO BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ RAVEL Piano Trio in A minor MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66

Saturday 19 March 2.00 pm

ÁLVARO PIERRI guitar FAMILY CONCERT Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 16 March 6.30 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 16 March 7.30 pm

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC BERNARD LABADIE conductor KARINA GAUVIN soprano HANDEL Arias; Instrumental music

KARINA GAUVIN

Michael Slobodian

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Saturday 19 March 7.30 pm

PACIFICA QUARTET MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E b Op. 12 SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 5 in B b Op. 92 SCHUBERT String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Chamber Music Season

ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN

Dario Acosta

Sunday 20 March 4.00 pm

ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN soprano pianist to be announced Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Sunday 20 March 7.30 pm

EMANUEL AX piano Programme to include: SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus D935; Piano Sonata in A D664; Piano Sonata in B b D960 Works by CHOPIN PACIFICA QUARTET

Sunday 20 March 11.30 am

KOPELMAN QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ SCHUBERT String Quartet in E b D87 STRAVINSKY Three Pieces for string quartet SHOSTAKOVICH Elegy; Polka Coffee Concert

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Robin Holland

London Pianoforte Series

Monday 21 March 1.00 pm

KOPELMAN QUARTET Programme to include: BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Tuesday 22 March 7.30 pm

PAUL LEWIS piano SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in C D840 ‘Reliquie’ SCHUBERT Drei Klavierstücke D946 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in D D850 London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 23 March 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK COMPOSERS IN FOCUS Anthony Burton in conversation with the composers of the evening concert Wigmore Hall Learning Event CLAIRE MARTIN

Wednesday 23 March 7.00 pm NB starting time

NASH ENSEMBLE MARK PADMORE tenor PHILIPPA DAVIES flute RICHARD WATKINS horn LIONEL FRIEND conductor

Wednesday 23 March 10.00 pm

RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT piano, arranger

CLAIRE MARTIN vocalist MEMBERS OF THE NASH ENSEMBLE

NASH INVENTIONS

LATE NIGHT JAZZ EVENT TO CELEBRATE RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT’S 75TH BIRTHDAY

DEBUSSY Syrinx for solo flute BENNETT Sonata after Syrinx for flute, viola and harp M BERKELEY Piano Quintet HOLT The Torturer’s Horse for string sextet (world première) D MATTHEWS Horn Quintet (world première) TURNAGE A Constant Obsession for tenor solo and eight players

Richard and Claire will join members of the Nash Ensemble in special arrangements from the Great American Songbook, which will include songs by GERSHWIN, JOHNNY MERCER, CY COLEMAN, HAROLD ARLEN and RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT

Chamber Music Season

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Thursday 24 March 7.30 pm

PAUL LEWIS piano Repeat of concert on 22 March London Pianoforte Series

Friday 25 March 7.30 pm

LUCY CROWE soprano CLARA MOURIZ mezzo-soprano ALLAN CLAYTON tenor RONAN COLLETT baritone JOSEPH MIDDLETON piano COLOURS OF SPAIN TURINA Poema en forma de canciones WALTON Through gilded trellises BRAHMS Spanisches Lied SCHUMANN Der Hidalgo WOLF From Spanisches Liederbuch: Auf dem grünen Balkon; Wenn du zu den Blumen gehst; Bedeckt mich mit Blumen POULENC Toréador RAVEL Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera SAINT-SAËNS Guitares et Mandolines RAVEL Chanson épique from Don Quichotte à Dulcinée CHABRIER España, rhapsody arr. for voice SCHUMANN From Spanisches Liederspiel: Erste Begegnung; Intermezzo; Liebesgram; In der Nacht; Es ist verraten; Melancholie; Geständnis; Der Kontrabandiste; Botschaft; Ich bin geliebt; Hoch, hoch sind die Berge; Flutenreicher Ebro Song Recital Series

PAUL LEWIS

Jack Liebeck

Saturday 26 March 7.30 pm

HAGEN QUARTET LUTOSL ´ AWSKI String Quartet BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C # minor Op. 131 Chamber Music Season

Sunday 27 March 11.30 am

HAGEN QUARTET SCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887 Coffee Concert

Sunday 27 March 7.30 pm

ÁLVARO PIERRI guitar Please see Guitar Series feature on pages 24–25 for programme and ticket details. Guitar Series

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Monday 28 March 1.00 pm Artists and programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS

Tuesday 29 March 7.30 pm Wednesday 30 March 7.30 pm

LAWRENCE ZAZZO countertenor JULIUS DRAKE piano Programme to include songs by GERLE, HOWELLS and IVES

FLORIAN BOESCH baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1870 –1880

Song Recital Series/The Art of the Countertenor

Programme to include songs by BRAHMS and LISZT Song Recital Series/Decade by Decade: 100 Years of German Song 1810 –1910

Thursday 31 March 7.30 pm

FLORILEGIUM ASHLEY SOLOMON director, flute, recorder ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS soprano JANE GOWER bassoon VIVALDI Sinfonia in G RV146; Laudate pueri; Trio Sonata in D minor Op. 1 No. 12 ‘La Follia’; Motet Nulla in mundo pax sincera TELEMANN Quartet in D minor from Tafelmusik I; Concerto in F for recorder, bassoon, strings and basso continuo; Conclusion in E minor from Tafelmusik II Early Music and Baroque Series FLORIAN BOESCH

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Stephan von der Decken

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PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2011 These concerts (except the concerts on 3 May, 6 May and 2 June at 7.30 pm) are not bookable on this brochure. Booking dates and full details of artists and programmes will be published in a separate brochure available from late December 2010. Saturday 2 April 7.30 pm

Monday 4 April 1.00 pm

QUATUOR MOSAÏQUES

HAN-NA CHANG cello FINGHIN COLLINS piano

HAYDN String Quartet in B b Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ MOZART String Quartet in D K575 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C Op. 119

Chamber Music Season

Sunday 3 April 11.30 am

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

SHARON KAM clarinet LARS VOGT piano DEBUSSY Première rapsodie SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke Op. 73 POULENC Sonata for clarinet and piano BRAHMS Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Coffee Concert

Sunday 3 April 7.30 pm

QUATUOR MOSAÏQUES HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 DAVID String Quartet in A BRAHMS String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 Chamber Music Season

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SHARON KAM

Maike Helbig

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Monday 4 April 7.30 pm

THE ENGLISH CONCERT LAURENCE CUMMINGS director, harpsichord MAURICE STEGER recorder CORBETT Alla Milanese from Le bizzarie universal Op. 8 CORELLI Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 4 SCARLATTI/AVISON Concerto Grosso No. 9 in C CORELLI/CASTRUCCI Sonata in E minor for voice flute Op. 5 No. 8 CORELLI/GEMINIANI Chaconne upon a Sarabanda Op. 5 No. 7 CORELLI/GEMINIANI Concerto Grosso (La Folia) Op. 5 No. 12 CORELLI/BABELL Concerto in F for soprano recorder Op. 5 No. 10

RENATA POKUPIC

Chris Gloag

Wednesday 6 April 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

RENATA POKUPIC mezzo-soprano ALEK SHRADER tenor ROGER VIGNOLES piano

Tuesday 5 April 7.30 pm

THOMAS ZEHETMAIR violin RUTH KILLIUS viola

SCHUMANN In der Fremde; Intermezzo; Waldesgespräch; Mondnacht; Schöne Fremde; Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart BARBER O Boundless, Boundless Evening; A Nun Takes the Veil; The Secrets of the Old; Sure on this Shining Night; Solitary Hotel; Nocturne DUPARC L’invitation au voyage; Chanson triste; Extase; Le manoir de Rosemonde FAURÉ Aurore; Automne; Le secret; Notre amour ROSSINI Les amants de Séville; La promessa; Il rimprovero; La danza; L’Invito

SKALKOTTAS Duo MOZART Duo in G K423; Duo in B b K424 HOLLIGER Drei Skizzen MARTINU ˚ Madrigals for violin and viola Chamber Music Season

Song Recital Series

Thursday 7 April 2.00 pm

STEVEN ISSERLIS LECTURE RECITAL Wigmore Hall Learning Event RUTH KILLIUS

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Keith Pattison

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Thursday 7 April 7.30 pm

Sunday 10 April 11.30 am

KATARINA KARNÉUS mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano

HEATH QUARTET

GRIEG Med en vandlilie; Spillemaend; En fuglevise; Haugtussa RANGSTRÖM Bön till natten; Pan; Flickan under nymånen SIBELIUS Den första kyssen; Lasse liten; Soluppgång; Var det en dröm?; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte; Bollspelet vid Trianon; Säv, säv, susa; Demanten på marssnön; Våren flyktar hastigt Song Recital Series

Friday 8 April 7.30 pm

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello STEPHEN HOUGH piano

HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 71 No. 2 ˘ ÁK String Quartet in E b Op. 51 DVOR Coffee Concert

Sunday 10 April 7.30 pm

LISA BATIASHVILI violin ADRIAN BRENDEL cello TILL FELLNER piano HAYDN Piano Trio in D HXV:24 BIRTWISTLE New Trio (UK première) BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Chamber Music Season

BACH/SILOTI Adagio from the Toccata in C BUSONI Kultaselle, variations on a Finnish folksong BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 LISZT Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth S. 382 GRIEG Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36 Chamber Music Season

Saturday 9 April 7.30 pm

STEVEN OSBORNE piano SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in C minor D958 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A D959 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B b D960 London Pianoforte Series LISA BATIASHVILI

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Tuesday 12 April 7.30 pm

QUARTETTO DI CREMONA ADRIAN ADLAM violin THOMAS HELL piano BARTﾃ適 Violin Sonata No. 2 Sz76 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B b Op. 18 No. 6 CHAUSSON Concert in D Op. 21 for violin, piano and string quartet Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 13 April 1.00 pm TRIO WANDERER

Monday 11 April 1.00 pm

TRIO WANDERER Programme to be announced

Franﾃｧois Marquet

BRITTEN SINFONIA THOMAS GOULD violin Programme to include: PIAZZOLLA The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Chamber Music Season

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 11 April 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano Programme to include songs by SCHUBERT and MAHLER Song Recital Series QUARTETTO DI CREMONA

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Saturday 16 April 7.30 pm

JOSHUA BELL violin pianist to be announced Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Sunday 17 April 11.30 am

MARIE-ELISABETH HECKER cello MARTIN HELMCHEN piano BACH Viola da gamba sonata JANÁC˘EK Pohádka MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58 Coffee Concert

MARIA JOÃO PIRES

Wednesday 13 April 7.30 pm

MARIA JOÃO PIRES piano Programme to be announced

Eduardo Gagiero/DG

Monday 18 April 1.00 pm

MIKLÓS PERÉNYI cello BACH Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012 BRITTEN Cello Suite No. 2 in D Op. 80

London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 14 April 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor DAME MITSUKO UCHIDA piano SCHUBERT Winterreise Song Recital Series

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Thursday 21 April 7.30 pm

ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER mezzo-soprano

CAPPELLA MEDITERRANEA LEONARDO GARCÍA ALARCÓN director, harpsichord A programme of French baroque music, to include works by CHARPENTIER, LULLY and RAMEAU Early Music and Baroque Series

Saturday 23 April 7.30 pm

PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY countertenor L’ARPEGGIATA

ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER

Tuesday 19 April 7.30 pm

ELIAS STRING QUARTET

Mats Bäcker

Programme to include: SANCES Stabat mater CAZZATI Salve Regina DONATI O gloriosa MONTEVERDI Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius Early Music and Baroque Series/The Art of the Countertenor

Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 20 April 7.30 pm

RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE MATTHEW HALLS director BUXTEHUDE Membra Jesu Nostri BUXWV75 Early Music and Baroque Series

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PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY

Simon Fowler/Virgin Classics

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Sunday 24 April 11.30 am

AVIV STRING QUARTET VLADIMIR MENDELSSOHN viola BARTÓK String Quartet No. 4 BRAHMS String Quintet in G Op. 111 Coffee Concert

Monday 25 April 1.00 pm

KONSTANTIN LIFSCHITZ

Charles Seton

NICHOLAS ANGELICH piano Programme to be announced

Thursday 28 April 7.30 pm

KONSTANTIN LIFSCHITZ piano BACH The Art of Fugue BWV1080 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 26 April 2.00 pm

KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARD 2011 SEMI-FINAL Song Recital Series

London Pianoforte Series

Friday 29 April 6.00 pm

KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARD 2011 FINAL Song Recital Series

Saturday 30 April 7.30 pm Wednesday 27 April 7.30 pm

ROBERT HOLL baritone ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano SCHUBERT Winterreise Song Recital Series

SOLOISTS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA MOZART Horn Quintet in E b K407 STRAUSS Sextet from Capriccio Op. 85 SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D956 Chamber Music Season

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Monday 2 May 1.00 pm Artists and programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 2 May 7.30 pm

MONTSERRAT FIGUERAS

HESPÈRION XXI MONTSERRAT FIGUERAS soprano JORDI SAVALL viola da gamba, director

Sunday 1 May 11.30 am

MARE NOSTRUM

DORIC STRING QUARTET

Programme to include Christian, Sepharadic, Turkish, Arabo-andalousian and Mediterranean music.

HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 SCHUBERT String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

Early Music and Baroque Series

Coffee Concert Tuesday 3 May 7.30 pm Sunday 1 May 7.30 pm

LONDON HANDEL ORCHESTRA ADRIAN BUTTERFIELD director, violin RACHEL BROWN flute LAURENCE CUMMINGS harpsichord

DAVID RUSSELL guitar Programme to be announced Please see page 25 for ticket details. Guitar Series

TELEMANN Flute Concerto in E minor with violin, strings and basso continuo C P E BACH Flute Concerto in D minor Wq22 LECLAIR Violin Concerto in F Op. 7 No. 4 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D BWV1050 Early Music and Baroque Series 114

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Friday 6 May 7.30 pm

DIANA TORTO singer JOHN TAYLOR piano

DIANA TORTO AND JOHN TAYLOR

R Cifarelli/Phocus

Born six years ago, the collaboration between Diana Torto and John Taylor has gradually developed to a perfect balance where the blend of both artists and music is beautifully defined. The repertoire is based mainly on their own compositions and other contemporary composers like Kenny Wheeler and Anders Jormin.

Wednesday 4 May 6.00 pm

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PRE-CONCERT EVENT

Jazz Series

RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL Chamber Music Season

Saturday 7 May 11.00 am

MICHAEL COLLINS Wednesday 4 May 7.30 pm

FAMILY CONCERT

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Thursday 5 May 7.30 pm

MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet PIERS LANE piano BRAHMS Clarinet Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2 WEBER Grand Duo Concertant in E b Op. 48 BENJAMIN Le tombeau de Ravel KATS-CHERNIN New work MILHAUD Scaramouche Op. 165b (arr. for clarinet and piano) POULENC Sonata for clarinet and piano

PIERS LANE

Clive Barda

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Saturday 7 May 7.30 pm

JERUSALEM QUARTET BRAHMS String Sextet in B b Op. 18 SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 Chamber Music Season

MIKHAIL RUDY

Monday 9 May 1.00 pm

Sunday 8 May 11.30 am

Artists and programme to be announced

CUARTETO CASALS MOZART String Quartet in E b K428 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Coffee Concert

Tuesday 10 May 7.30 pm

MIKHAIL RUDY piano SKRYABIN 8 Études from Op. 8, Op. 42 & Op. 65 RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit CHOPIN 2 Nocturnes Op. 27; Nocturne in C # minor Op. posth; Nocturne in C minor Op. 48 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B b minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 11 May 7.30 pm

ENDELLION STRING QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in C # minor Op. 131 MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 CUARTETO CASALS

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Felix Broede

Chamber Music Season

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Sunday 15 May 11.30 am

ANTHONY MARWOOD violin ALEKSANDAR MADZAR piano BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D934 Coffee Concert

GEROLD HUBER AND CHRISTIAN GERHAHER

Alexander Basta/Song BMG Classical

Thursday 12 May 7.30 pm

CHARLES OWEN piano BACH Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A minor D845

Monday 16 May 1.00 pm

JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor ROGER VIGNOLES piano Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

London Pianoforte Series Tuesday 17 May 7.30 pm Saturday 14 May 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER baritone GEROLD HUBER piano MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Der Schildwache Nachtlied; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht; Das irdische Leben; Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Lied des Verfolgten im Turm; Ablösung im Sommer; Rheinlegendchen; Ich ging mit Lust; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Frühlingsmorgen; Phantasie aus Don Juan; Kindertotenlieder

ELISABETH LEONSKAJA piano ARTEMIS QUARTET MOZART Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 Chamber Music Season

Song Recital Series

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Monday 23 May 7.30 pm

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano

META4

Antti Hannuniemi

Friday 20 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm

YCAT FINALS 2011

PURCELL/TIPPETT Music for a while BACH/BRITTEN Five Spiritual Songs HAYDN Content; Sailor’s song; She never told her love; The Wanderer; Fidelity PURCELL/BRITTEN The Queen’s Epicedium BRITTEN From Who are these Children Op. 84: Nightmare; Slaughter; Who are these Children?; The Children WEILL Beat! Beat! Drums!; O captain! My captain!; Come up from the fields, father; Dirge for two veterans Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season Thursday 26 May 7.30 pm Sunday 22 May 11.30 am

META4 Programme to include: HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Emperor’ Coffee Concert

Monday 23 May 1.00 pm

QUATUOR EBÈNE MOZART String Quartet in D minor K421 BORODIN String Quartet No. 2 in D

GENIA KÜHMEIER soprano BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano MICHAEL SCHADE tenor THOMAS QUASTHOFF baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano JUSTUS ZEYEN piano SCHUMANN Spanische Liebeslieder Op. 138 BRAHMS Liebeslieder, Waltzes Op. 52; An die Heimat; Der Abend; O schöne Nacht; Abendlied; Neue Liebeslieder, Waltzes Op. 65 Song Recital Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 118

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Friday 27 May 7.30 pm

Sunday 29 May 7.30 pm

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano

THOMAS QUASTHOFF baritone ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano

MOZART 12 Variations K500 MENDELSSOHN Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54 HAYDN Variations in F minor SCHUMANN Theme and Variations in E b ‘Geister Variations’ BEETHOVEN 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 London Pianoforte Series

Programme to include songs by MAHLER and STRAUSS András Schiff Series: Songs – With and Without Words

Monday 30 May 1.00 pm Artists and programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 31 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

ANDRÁS SCHIFF

Birgitta Kowsky, Leipzig

TAKÁCS QUARTET STEPHEN HOUGH piano ANNIVERSARY GALA 1

Sunday 29 May 11.30 am

ENSEMBLE PIERRE ROBERT DE VISÉE Tombeau de Francisque Corbet CHARPENTIER Seconde leçon de ténèbres du mercredi; Répons: ‘Amicus meus’; Seconde leçon de ténèbres du jeudi; Répons: ‘Seniores populi’; Seconde leçon de ténèbres du vendredi L COUPERIN Tombeau de Monsieur Blancrocher MARAIS Tombeau pour Sieur de Sainte-Colombe

HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 71 No. 2 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135 ˘ ÁK Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 DVOR Wigmore Hall opened with two inaugural concerts on 31 May and 1 June 1901. We present two Gala Concerts in honour of our 110th anniversary. Chamber Music Season

Coffee Concert

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Wednesday 1 June 7.00 pm NB starting time

Saturday 4 June 7.30 pm

JOSHUA BELL violin PAMELA FRANK violin TABEA ZIMMERMANN viola STEVEN ISSERLIS cello JEREMY DENK piano

VANBRUGH QUARTET PROKOFIEV String Quartet No. 1 in B minor Op. 50 AUERBACH String Quartet No. 3 ‘Cetera desunt’ SCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887 Chamber Music Season

ANNIVERSARY GALA 2 BEETHOVEN Duet in E b WoO32 ‘Augengläsern’ SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 2 in E b D929 ˘ ÁK Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 (arr. for 2 violins & viola) DVOR ELGAR Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84 Wigmore Hall opened on 31 May 1901 with a Gala Concert on that day and on 1 June we celebrate our 110th anniversary in the same way.

Sunday 5 June 11.30 am

EGGNER TRIO BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ RAVEL Piano Trio in A minor Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season

Thursday 2 June 5.00 pm

INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC SCHUBERT Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Thursday 2 June 7.30 pm

KLAUS GESING reeds GWILYM SIMCOCK piano Original material by Gwilym Simcock and Klaus Gesing mixed with jazz standards Please see page 79 for ticket details. Jazz Series

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VANBRUGH QUARTET

Keith Saunders

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Tuesday 7 June 7.30 pm

ANDREAS SCHOLL countertenor TAMAR HALPERIN harpsichord, piano Works by PURCELL, DOWLAND, CAMPION, HANDEL and HAYDN and selected folk songs Early Music and Baroque Series/The Art of the Countertenor

Wednesday 8 June 6.00 pm

RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTISTS Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 8 June 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE Programme to be announced ANDREAS SCHOLL

Eric Larrayadieu

Monday 6 June 1.00 pm

ANGELA HEWITT piano Works by BACH CHOPIN Nocturne in A b, Op. 32, No. 2; Waltz in G b Op. 70 No. 1; Mazurkas in D Op. 33 No. 2 and C Op. 67 No. 3; Prelude in A Op. 28 No. 7; Waltz in C# minor Op. 64 No. 2; Grande valse brillante in E b Op. 18

Chamber Music Season

Thursday 9 June 5.00 pm

INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC SCHUBERT Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Thursday 9 June 7.30 pm

VIENNA PIANO TRIO Programme to be announced BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Chamber Music Season

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Monday 13 June 1.00 pm

BELCEA QUARTET ˘ ÁK String Quartet in E b Op. 51 DVOR JANÁC˘EK String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert STEPHEN HOUGH

Christian Steiner

Friday 10 June 7.30 pm

Monday 13 June 7.30 pm

DANIIL SHTODA tenor LARISSA GERGIEVA piano

THOMAS HAMPSON baritone WOLFRAM RIEGER piano

Songs by GLINKA, CUI, DARGOMÏZHSKY, BALAKIREV, TCHAIKOVSKY, RACHMANINOV, GLIÈRE and SVIRIDOV

Songs by MAHLER Song Recital Series

Song Recital Series

Saturday 11 June 7.30 pm

STEPHEN HOUGH piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27 No. 2 HOUGH New work (world première) SKRYABIN Piano Sonata No. 4 in F # Op. 30 SKRYABIN Piano Sonata No. 5 in F # Op. 53 LISZT Piano Sonata in B minor S178 London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 12 June 11.30 am

KIT ARMSTRONG piano Programme to be announced

THOMAS HAMPSON

Sheila Rock

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Wednesday 15 June 7.30 pm

DANIEL BARENBOIM piano Works by LISZT London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 16 June 5.00 pm

INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC SCHUBERT Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Thursday 16 June 7.30 pm

PAUL LEWIS piano Repeat of concert on 14 June London Pianoforte Series

DANIEL BARENBOIM

Sheila Rock/EMI Classics

Friday 17 June 7.00 pm NB starting time

DANTE STRING QUARTET Tuesday 14 June 7.30 pm

PAUL LEWIS piano SCHUBERT 12 Waltzes D145 SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus D899 SCHUBERT Hungarian Melody in B minor D817 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in G D894

HAYDN String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 SCHUMANN String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 SIBELIUS String Quartet in D minor Op. 56 ‘Voces Intimae’ Chamber Music Season

London Pianoforte Series

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Monday 20 June 1.00 pm Artists and programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 20 June 7.30 pm

SOLOISTS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA BRAHMS Horn Trio in E b Op. 40; Clarinet Trio in A minor Op. 114 MARTINU ˚ Sextet BEETHOVEN Sextet in E b Op. 71 THE OTHER EBÈNE

J. Mignot

Chamber Music Season

Friday 17 June 10.00 pm

THE OTHER EBÈNE QUATUOR EBÈNE RICHARD HÉRY drums FABRICE PLANCHAT sound engineer A programme of arrangements and improvisations on jazz, film soundtracks and pop music.

Tuesday 21 June 7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor PAUL LEWIS piano SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season Wednesday 22 June 7.30 pm Sunday 19 June 11.30 am

QUARTETTO DI CREMONA BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ GRIEG String Quartet in G minor Op. 27

S˘KAMPA QUARTET SCHUBERT Quartettsatz in C minor D703 SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 ˘ ÁK String Quartet No. 14 in A b Op. 105 DVOR Chamber Music Season

Coffee Concert

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Saturday 25 June 7.30 pm

PHILIPPE GRAFFIN violin TRULS MØRK cello EMILY BEYNON flute CHEN HALEVI clarinet STEPHEN KOVACEVICH piano CLAIRE DÉSERT piano CONSONANCES IN MINIATURE BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101 BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 SCHOENBERG Phantasy Op. 47 SCHOENBERG/WEBERN Kammersymphonie No. 1 Op. 9 DEBUSSY/SCHOENBERG Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Chamber Music Season PHILIPPE GRAFFIN

Benjamin Ealovega

Sunday 26 June 11.30 am

FINGHIN COLLINS piano Thursday 23 June 5.00 pm

INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC SCHUBERT

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.18 in E b Op. 31 No. 3 DEBUSSY Images, Series 1 & 2; L’isle joyeuse Coffee Concert

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Thursday 23 June 7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor PAUL LEWIS piano Repeat of concert on 21 June Song Recital Series

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FINGHIN COLLINS

Lorcan Brereton

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Wednesday 29 June 7.30 pm

CECILIA BARTOLI mezzo-soprano ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano

THOMAS HAMPSON baritone ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano CHRISTOPHER RAEBURN MEMORIAL CONCERT Programme to include: SCHUBERT Heine Lieder from Schwanengesang Songs by BRAHMS, ROSSINI, and Arias and Duets by MOZART Song Recital Series CECILIA BARTOLI

Monday 27 June 1.00 pm Artists and programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Uli Weber/Decca

Thursday 30 June 7.30 pm

TREVOR PINNOCK harpsichord CAROLYN SAMPSON soprano Other artists to be announced PURCELL Airs and Dances from The Fairy Queen BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D BWV1050 BACH Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 HANDEL Arias from Alcina, Hercules and Semele Early Music and Baroque Series

Tuesday 28 June 7.30 pm

SIMON KEENLYSIDE baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1880 –1890 Programme to include songs by BRAHMS, PFITZNER, STRAUSS and WOLF Song Recital Series/Decade by Decade: 100 years of German Song 1810 –1910

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CAROLYN SAMPSON

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Friday 1 July 7.30 pm

RUTH ZIESAK soprano ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet SCHUMANN From Myrthen: Widmung; Der Nußbaum; Jemand; Lied der Braut I & II; Rätsel; Die Hochländer-Witwe; Hochländisches Wiegenlied SCHUMANN Kinderscenen Op. 15 SCHUMANN Liederkreis Op. 39 SCHUBERT Suleika I & II; Wonne der Wehmut; Geheimes; Wandrers Nachtlied II; The Shepherd on the Rock LISZT Der du von dem Himmel bist; Du bist wie eine Blume; Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Freudvoll und leidvoll; Die Loreley András Schiff Series: Songs – With and Without Words

Saturday 2 July 7.30 pm

FLORILEGIUM ASHLEY SOLOMON flute, recorder JULIAN PODGER tenor RACHEL PODGER violin, guest director JAMES JOHNSTONE harpsichord

RUTH ZIESAK

Steven Haberland/Edel Classics

Sunday 3 July 11.30 am

RICHARD HARWOOD cello CHRISTOPH BERNER piano Programme to include: BEETHOVEN 12 Variations in F on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen‘ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Op. 66 BRIDGE Cello Sonata in D minor Coffee Concert

FLORILEGIUM 20TH ANNIVERSARY BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV1068 BACH Arias from Cantata BWV55 ‘Ich armer Mensch’ BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D BWV1050 BACH Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D BWV1069 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B b BWV1051 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G BWV1049 Early Music and Baroque Series FLORILEGIUM

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Amit Lennon

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Sunday 3 July 7.30 pm

FLORILEGIUM DAME EMMA KIRKBY soprano ASHLEY SOLOMON flute, recorder ALEXANDRA BELLAMY oboe RACHEL PODGER violin, guest director RICHARD FOMISON trumpet FLORILEGIUM 20TH ANNIVERSARY BACH Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066 BACH Aria: Ei, wie schmeckt der Coffee susse from ‘Coffee Cantata’ BWV211 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV1048 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F BWV1047 BACH Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 BACH Aria: Ich habe genug from Cantata BWV82 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F BWV1046 Early Music and Baroque Series

DIANA DAMRAU

John Palmer

Wednesday 6 July 7.30 pm

DIANA DAMRAU soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1890 –1900 Programme to include songs by WOLF, ZEMLINSKY, HUMPERDINCK and STRAUSS

Monday 4 July 1.00 pm

Song Recital Series/Decade by Decade: 100 years of German Song 1810 –1910

IMOGEN COOPER piano Programme to be announced Thursday 7 July 7.30 pm

LARS VOGT piano BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

SCHOENBERG 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in G D894 BRAHMS 3 Intermezzi Op. 117; Variations on a Theme by Paganini (Book I) London Pianoforte Series

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Sunday 10 July 11.30 am

Wednesday 13 July 7.30 pm

JACK LIEBECK violin KATYA APEKISHEVA piano

JUPITER QUARTET

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 3 in E b Op. 12 No. 3 SZYMANOWSKI Three Myths Op. 30 SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105 Coffee Concert

WEBERN Langsamer Satz BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3 KURTÁG Hommage à Mihály András (12 Microludes) Op. 13 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B b Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133 Chamber Music Season

Monday 11 July 1.00 pm Artists and programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 12 July 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW piano MOZART Piano Sonata in F K533/494 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in C minor D958 SCHUMANN Fantasy in C Op. 17

JUPITER QUARTET

Merri Cyr

London Pianoforte Series Friday 15 July 7.30 pm

STILE ANTICO PASSION AND RESURRECTION Works by CORNYSH, GIBBONS, TALLIS, DE LASSUS, VICTORIA, MORALES, McCABE, TAVERNER, GOMBERT, LOBO, CRECQUILLON, LHÉRITIER and BYRD Early Music and Baroque Series STILE ANTICO

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Monday 18 July 6.30 pm

PRE-CONCERT EVENT RICHARD EGARR Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Monday 18 July 7.30 pm

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC RICHARD EGARR director SUSAN GRAHAM

Dario Acosta

Saturday 16 July 7.30 pm

SUSAN GRAHAM mezzo-soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

BACH Cantata ‘O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, chorale’ BWV20; Cantata ‘Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort, chorale’ BWV126; Cantata ‘Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal’ BWV146 Early Music and Baroque Series

1900 –1910 Programme to include songs by REGER, MAHLER, BERG, LEHÁR and SCHOENBERG Song Recital Series/Decade by Decade: 100 years of German Song 1810 –1910

Sunday 17 July 11.30 am

FRANÇOIS CHAPLIN piano CHOPIN Nocturne in B b minor Op. 9 No. 1; Ballade No. 3 in A b Op. 47; Nocturne in C # minor Op. posth; Waltz in A b Op. 34 No. 1; Waltz in A minor Op. 34 No. 2; Étude in A b Op. 25 No. 1 FAURÉ Nocturne No. 1 in E b minor Op. 33 No. 1 DEBUSSY Pour les arpèges composés No. 11 from Études Book II; From Préludes Book I: Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir; La cathédrale engloutie; Feux d’artifice from Préludes Book II

FRANÇOIS CHAPLIN

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Tuesday 19 July 7.30 pm

WALDSTEIN ENSEMBLE MOZART Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 20 July 7.30 pm

DAVID FRAY piano Programme to be announced London Pianoforte Series JACK QUARTET

Justin Bernhaut

Saturday 23 July 7.30 pm

ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano

Thursday 28 July 7.30 pm

pianist to be announced

YEVGENY SUDBIN piano

Programme to be announced

Song Recital Series

London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 24 July 11.30 am

Saturday 30 July 7.30 pm

MICHELANGELO QUARTET

JACK QUARTET

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ ˘ ÁK String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ DVOR

LIGETI String Quartet No. 2 PINTSCHER Study IV for Treatise on the Veil CAGE String Quartet in 4 Parts XENAKIS Tetras

Coffee Concert

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GROUP BOOKINGS Discounts of 10% are available for groups of 12 or more, subject to availability. WESTMINSTER RESCARD Westminster ResCard holders may obtain a 10% discount on ticket purchases of ÂŁ3 or above. Two tickets per card (not applicable to subscription bookings). TRANSPORT Tubes: Bond Street (Central, Jubilee lines), Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines). Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford Street. Car Parking: There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm Monday to Saturday 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. RESTAURANT/BAR For Restaurant/Bar opening hours please telephone 020 7258 8292 Email: catering@wigmore-hall.org.uk FACILITIES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE Full details from 020 7258 8210

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This brochure is available in alternative formats. Please contact the Box Office if this would be of assistance to you. Telephone: 020 7935 2141 Email: boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk 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 photos by Benjamin Ealovega Cover design by aka Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson

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Supporting Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall’s size brings an unparalleled sense of intimacy to every performance and is loved by audiences and musicians alike. However, the limitation that this places on audience numbers means that ticket sales alone cannot meet all our costs. Additional support from individuals, companies and charitable foundations is vital in order to ensure that the world’s finest musicians, together with promising young performers, continue to appear at Wigmore Hall. If you would like to support the Hall by becoming a Friend, or by sponsoring a concert or Learning event, 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, learning and community programmes this season: HONORARY PATRONS Aubrey Adams Donald Kahn OBE Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan

SUPPORTERS AND SPONSORS Eric Abraham* Aubrey Adams* Lady Alexander of Weedon* Tony and Marion Allen* American Friends of Wigmore Hall † The Andor Charitable Trust The Anniversary Patrons Arts Council England Anthony Austin Bequest from Dr Patricia Baker Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez Karl Otto Bonnier* David and Mary Bowerman* Alan Bradley* Nicolas and Hilary Browne-Wilkinson* Rainer and Doreen Burchett* Gwen and Stanley Burnton* Café de Colombia Clive Barda

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Mr E Clause* The late John Coblenz The John S Cohen Foundation Edwin C Cohen* Sonia and Harvey Cole Complete Coffee The Concertina Charitable Trust John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Decade by Decade Song Syndicate The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust The Dunard Fund Vernon and Hazel Ellis † The Elton Family The Equitable Charitable Trust The Ernest Cook Trust The Fidelio Charitable Trust † Peter and Sonia Field John and Amy Ford Foyle Foundation Friends of Wigmore Hall Jonathan Gaisman* John and Lauren Goldsmith* The Goldsmith’s Company Nicholas and Judith Goodison The Gordon Foundation The Great Britain Sasahawa Foundation

The Milton Grundy Foundation* Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* Hobs Reprographics André and Rosalie Hoffmann Gay Huey Evans* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Hutton Collins Partners LLP Hyde Park Place Estate Charity Simone Hyman* John Lyon’s Charity Marc Jourdren* Donald and Jeanne Kahn* Jerome Karet* David & Louise Kaye Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn* The Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Maryly La Follette* Lloyds TSB Private Banking The Lucille Graham Trust Simon and Pamela Majaro Stanley and Eithné Mann Martin Randall Travel Ltd The Robert Mayer Trust for Youth and Music Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Lionel and Lynn Persey* The Piano Fund The Porter Foundation Dr Clive Potter* Oliver Prenn Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Rayne Foundation David B Rockwell* † Charles Rose* Rosenblatt Recitals Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Hon RCM*

Roxanne and Leonard Rosoman Ruth Rothbarth* † N M Rothschild and Sons Limited The Rubinstein Circle S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Martin and Elise Smith* Victoria and Richard Sharp* The Sobell Foundation Cita and Irwin Stelzer* John Stephens OBE, Hon FTCL* The Stewart Family Trust The Swiss Global Artistic Foundation Harry Teacher* The Tertis Foundation Allen L Thomas and Jane Simpson ’Scilla and Tony Thornton*† John and Ann Tusa* Gordon VeneKlasen* Kathleen Verelst* Robin Vousden* Gerry Wakelin Marie-Luise Waldeck Howard de Walden Estates Limited Michael and Rosemary Warburg Anne and David Weizmann* City of Westminster David and Martha Winfield Tony Wingate † The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation The Wolfson Foundation Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Simon Yates and Kevin Roon* and several anonymous supporters *also Rubinstein Circle members † also Anniversary Patrons

The Wigmore Hall Trust, registered charity number 1024838