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Benjamin Ealovega

WELCOME TO OUR 2011 – 2012 SEASON

delighted to host the first Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in 2012, a highly regarded competition for which we are now the custodians, and originally launched as the Portsmouth Competition in 1979.

One of the most daunting (and eventually most fulfilling) things to face as an artistic director is the moment when you sit down to begin planning a new season. You are faced with a blank canvas, an empty diary and you momentarily wonder where your inspiration for that particular season will come from and, more pertinently, when inspiration actually arrives, you scratch your head and wonder how on earth are you going to pay for it? A new programme needs to be vibrant, fresh and creative with a good balance of the traditional and the new. It is very important that no two seasons look alike! An artistic season must be different from the one that went before and from what will follow it in the year after. It must resonate with the public and bring audiences established and new to us. It must retain a core ethos, a sense of the familiar, but it must also introduce bold projects, new artists, new repertoire, and approach more familiar themes in exciting ways. Through this, we keep our audiences engaged, adding a special energy to all that we do here. All of this is made possible by the ongoing support of the Friends of Wigmore Hall for which we are most grateful. The 2011–12 season offers so much that is new and dynamic, whilst remaining true to our traditions. Opened by the renowned Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski, it is preceded by the 7th Biennial Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition, one of two competitions in our 11–12 calendar. We are also

Having made his highly acclaimed Royal Opera House debut in late 2010 as Wolfram in Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Christian Gerhaher (with Gerold Huber) joins us for the three Schubert song cycles. Other highlights of our song series throughout the season include Natalie Dessay (with Philippe Cassard) for her Wigmore Hall debut recital, and return visits for Jonas Kaufmann, Joyce DiDonato and Magdalena Koz˘ená (with Mitsuko Uchida). Since first appearing at Wigmore Hall in the mid1990s, Ian Bostridge has built up an extraordinary career. I have invited him to present a series entitled ‘Ancient and Modern’, which allows us to hear him in some very beautiful music, alongside many of his distinguished colleagues. Other highlights of the vocal series include Mark Padmore (in recital and with the Chamber Orchestra of Basel), Simon Keenlyside, John Mark Ainsley, Wolfgang Holzmair, Thomas Quasthoff, Gerald Finley, Christine Brewer, Robert Holl, Elizabeth Watts, Iestyn Davies, Karen Cargill and Sally Matthews. In its Echoes of Romanticism series, our Chamber Ensemble in Residence, the Nash Ensemble, traces the Romantic spirit from Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert by way of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms, to Schoenberg and Richard Strauss. Leading singers join the ensemble in song cycles by Mahler, to mark the centenary of his death. Stephen Hough is our Artist in Residence throughout 2011–12 (see page 64). Widely regarded as one of the most distinctive pianists of his generation, his residency has a special emphasis on piano quintets, ˘ kampa, Juilliard, Heath and and he joins the S Endellion String Quartets in quintets by Elgar, Brahms, Liebermann and Dvor˘ák. Other highlights of our piano series include the continuation of Paul Lewis’s Schubert cycle, and recitals and concerts from Christian Zacharias, Khatia Buniatishvili, Louis Lortie, Richard Goode, Simon Trpc˘eski, Steven Osborne, Ingrid Fliter, András Schiff,

Marc-André Hamelin, Stephen Kovacevich, Alexandre Tharaud and Garrick Ohlsson. Admirers of Angela Hewitt will rejoice in her celebration of French masterworks throughout the season. Garlanded by awards and admired for the range of its repertoire, the Pacifica Quartet brings us a Shostakovich string quartet cycle, and they will be joined by that redoubtable octogenarian Menahem Pressler for the quintet. A great body of Beethoven’s remarkable canon of chamber and instrumental music is a particular highlight of the season, including a galaxy of today’s performers, among them the Belcea Quartet, violinist Leonidas Kavakos, and pianist Emanuel Ax, and the Florestan Trio who will retire (as a Trio) from the concert platform with Beethoven’s piano trios here at Wigmore Hall in January of 2012. Pieter Wispelwey and Kristian Bezuidenhout perform Beethoven’s cello sonatas. To commemorate 75 years (in 2012) since the death of Maurice Ravel, we present a series of concerts of his songs and piano music, as well as his only string quartet, so please join the Artemis Quartet, Bernarda Fink, Christopher Maltman, Ailish Tynan, Christopher Glynn and Steven Osborne throughout the season. Described by Songlines Magazine as one of the 20th century’s greatest masters of the sarod and acclaimed by the Dalai Lama as a performer with a deep human spirit, Amjad Ali Khan, who has taken the unique sound of Indian classical music throughout the world, joins us for a four concert residency. Steven Isserlis is celebrated for his imaginative exploration of the chamber music repertoire to uncover neglected masterpieces for all possible combinations of instruments. For his series of three concerts he draws on the singing voice to create a varied and wide-ranging programme. Alongside vocal works with cello obbligato from the Baroque and Romantic periods, we will hear a Russian canzona accompanied by piano trio, settings for the magical combination of soprano, flute and piano, as well as music of our time by Sir John Tavener, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and James Francis Brown. Please join the sopranos Isabel Bayrakdarian and

Lucy Crowe, tenor Mark Padmore, violinist Anthony Marwood, flautist Emily Beynon and pianists Dénes Várjon and Connie Shih for this series. Antonín Dvor˘ák was born near Prague on 8 September 1841, so to mark his 170th anniversary we present a series of eight concerts celebrating his life and music, in company with music by other composers who were important to him. Two of the ˘ kampa and the leading Czech string quartets – the S Pavel Haas Quartets – and the Gould Piano Trio explore his chamber music, while mezzo Bernarda Fink is joined by pianist Roger Vignoles. We launch a unique series exploring the music of William Byrd – the largest ever celebration of the English Renaissance master’s music in London. In six concerts over two seasons, The Cardinall’s Musick and Stile Antico present a range of music by England’s first truly great composer, who found himself caught between his own beliefs and a continually changing religious landscape. Ranging from the Latin sacred music of the recusant Catholic composer to his vernacular works, composed as the Tudors gave way to the Stuarts, the dark intensity of this music is perfectly suited to the vivid choral colours which Andrew Carwood will draw from his specialist singers during the 2011–12 season, and Stile Antico continue our survey the following season. We celebrate Liszt’s bicentenary with piano and song recitals throughout the autumn, and as we approach the actual date of his birth (22 October) we present a Liszt Discovery Day on Saturday 8 October. Debuts and return visits to watch out for include singers Sophie Karthäuser, Anthony Dean Griffey, Thomas Oliemans and Henk Neven, harpist Xavier de Maistre and the iconic percussionist Evelyn Glennie who will visit us in June of next year. Cellist Colin Carr brings us Bach’s Cello Suites and we also welcome Daniel Müller-Schott, Alban Gerhardt and Sol Gabetta. I look forward to welcoming you to the Hall during this exciting season. John Gilhooly Director

AT A GLANCE SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2011 See pages 5 to 69 for full details of these concerts and pages 111 to 112 for subscription savings and how to book.

Series and Events to look out for ...

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WIGMORE HALL/KOHN FOUNDATION Page 5 INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION ˘ ÁK PLUS SERIES DVOR 7, 8, 34, 64 CHRISTIAN GERHAHER SCHUBERT SONG CYCLES 11, 12, 13 ANDREAS STAIER ‘PERSPECTIVES’ 13, 63 NASH ENSEMBLE: ECHOES OF 14–15, 30, 45, 59 ROMANTICISM THE BOSTRIDGE PROJECT: ‘ANCIENT AND MODERN’ 16–17, 65 LISZT ANNIVERSARY SERIES 18, 26, 29, 40, 54, 58 BEETHOVEN CHAMBER AND 20 –21, 34, 46, 53 INSTRUMENTAL SERIES AMJAD ALI KHAN: INDIAN MUSIC SERIES 22 WILLIAM BYRD SACRED MUSIC SERIES 24–25 LISZT DISCOVERY DAY 26 PACIFICA QUARTET SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE 28 JANINE JANSEN RESIDENCY 32 TAVENER CELEBRATION 33 STEVEN ISSERLIS: VOICE AND CELLO SERIES 37, 38, 41 VIENNA PIANO TRIO SERIES 40 COMPOSER FOCUS ON THOMAS LARCHER 42 PAUL LEWIS – SCHUBERT SERIES 44, 45 THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER 48– 49 ANGELA HEWITT: FRENCH SERIES 50 RAVEL 75TH ANNIVERSARY 53, 56 – 57 STEPHEN HOUGH: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 64

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Jazz Series Fri 16 Sep Fri 2 Dec

Chris Thile/Brad Mehldau Joe Henry/Brad Mehldau

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Early Music and Baroque Series Mon 19 Sep Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr Wed 21 Sep Classical Opera Company/Ian Page Lawrence Zazzo Mon 26 Sep The English Concert/Harry Bicket Katharina Spreckelsen/Ian Bostridge Wed 28 Sep The English Concert/Harry Bicket Katharina Spreckelsen/Ian Bostridge Fri 7 Oct The Cardinall’s Musick/Andrew Carwood Wed 2 Nov Academy of Ancient Music Rebecca Bottone/Pavlo Beznosiuk Wed 16 Nov Retrospect Ensemble/Matthew Halls Tue 22 Nov Stile Antico: Victoria Anniversary Thu 24 Nov Florilegium/Dame Emma Kirkby Elin Manahan Thomas/Ashley Solomon Wed 30 Nov The English Concert/Laurence Cummings Elizabeth Watts Sat 31 Dec Retrospect Ensemble/Matthew Halls

Andreas Staier Nelson Goerner Cédric Tiberghien John O’Conor Christian Zacharias Andreas Haefliger Paul Lewis Paul Lewis Angela Hewitt Garrick Ohlsson Louis Lortie Khatia Buniatishvili Andreas Staier

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BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Mon 12 Sep Mon 19 Sep Mon 26 Sep Mon 3 Oct Mon 10 Oct Mon 17 Oct Mon 24 Oct Mon 31 Oct Mon 7 Nov Mon 14 Nov Mon 21 Nov Mon 28 Nov Mon 5 Dec Mon 12 Dec Mon 19 Dec

Lise de la Salle Till Fellner Daniel Hope/Sebastian Knauer Ben Johnson/James Baillieu Nicola Benedetti/Alexei Grynyuk Renata Pokupic´/Roger Vignoles Veronika Eberle/Shai Wosner Melanie Diener/Marcelo Amaral Vienna Piano Trio Emerson String Quartet Jerusalem Quartet Colin Carr/Thomas Sauer Anna Caterina Antonacci/Donald Sulzen Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff Nicolas Altstaedt/José Gallardo

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Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts 10 12 17 19 25 38 45 47 50 53 66

Sun 11 Sep Sun 18 Sep Sun 25 Sep Sun 2 Oct Sun 9 Oct Sun 16 Oct Sun 23 Oct Sun 30 Oct Sun 6 Nov Sun 13 Nov Sun 20 Nov Sun 27 Nov Sun 4 Dec Sun 11 Dec Sun 18 Dec

Fauré Quartet Elias String Quartet Nash Ensemble Kungsbacka Piano Trio Dante Quartet Guy Johnston/Melvyn Tan Modigliani Quartet Pavel Haas Quartet Quatuor Diotima Parker Quartet Thomas Carroll/Lly^r Williams Kuss Quartet Finzi Quartet Philip Moore & Simon Crawford-Phillips Guarneri Trio Prague

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Song Recital Series Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation Page 5 International Song Competition Preliminary Stage 1 5 5 Mon 5 Sep Song Competition: Preliminary Stage 2 Song Competition: Semi-Final Stage 5 Tue 6 Sep Song Competition: Final Stage and 5 Thu 8 Sep Prize-Giving Sat 10 Sep Soile Isokoski/Marita Viitasalo 4 6 Sun 11 Sep Thomas Quasthoff/Justus Zeyen 7 Tue 13 Sep Michael Schade/Thomas Quasthoff Justus Zeyen Tue 20 Sep Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 11 12 Thu 22 Sep Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 13 Sat 24 Sep Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 19 Thu 29 Sep Gerald Finley/Julius Drake Ailish Tynan/Karen Cargill/Mark Padmore 23 Wed 5 Oct Jacques Imbrailo/András Schiff Wed 12 Oct Rebecca Evans/Andrew Kennedy 29 Matthew Rose/Iain Burnside Fri 28 Oct Christianne Stotijn/Mark Padmore 35 Julius Drake Tue 1 Nov Isabel Bayrakdarian/Anthony Marwood 37 Steven Isserlis/Connie Shih Thu 3 Nov Lucy Crowe/Emily Beynon 38 Steven Isserlis/Dénes Várjon Sat 5 Nov Simon Keenlyside/Malcolm Martineau 39 Mark Padmore/Steven Isserlis 41 Fri 11 Nov Dénes Várjon/Maggie Cole Thu 8 Dec Anne Schwanewilms/Charles Spencer 58 Samling Showcase 59 Fri 9 Dec Wed 14 Dec Bernarda Fink/Christopher Glynn 57 Adam Walker/Marie Bitlloch Thu 15 Dec Sally Matthews/Karen Cargill 62 Simon Lepper Wed 21 Dec Sophie Daneman, Madeleine Shaw 65 Ian Bostridge, Neal Davies, Adam Walker Nicholas Daniel, Heath Quartet, Elizabeth Kenny, Julius Drake Sun 4 Sep

Chamber Music Season Mon 12 Sep Thu 15 Sep Sat 17 Sep Fri 23 Sep Mon 3 Oct Tue 4 Oct Thu 6 Oct Sat 8 Oct Mon 10 Oct Thu 13 Oct Fri 14 Oct Sat 15 Oct Thu 20 Oct Sat 22 Oct Sun 23 Oct Tue 25 Oct Wed 26 Oct Thu 27 Oct Sat 29 Oct Sun 30 Oct

Fauré Quartet ˘ kampa Quartet/Nobuko Imai S Daniel Müller-Schott/Simon Trpc˘eski Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien Belcea Quartet Amjad Ali Khan: Indian Music Series IMS Prussia Cove Liszt Day curated by Leslie Howard Pacifica Quartet Pacifica Quartet Pacifica Quartet/Menahem Pressler Nash Ensemble/Bernarda Fink Janine Jansen/Itamar Golan Carolin Widmann/Simon Lepper Tavener Celebration Pavel Haas Quartet Leonidas Kavakos/Emanuel Ax The Endellion String Quartet Ralph Kirshbaum/Shai Wosner Scottish Ensemble/Morton/Beatson

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Thu 3 Nov Tue 8 Nov Thu 10 Nov Fri 11 Nov Sat 12 Nov Sun 13 Nov Mon 14 Nov Wed 16 Nov Sat 19 Nov Sat 19 Nov Sun 20 Nov Wed 23 Nov Sat 26 Nov Sun 27 Nov Thu 1 Dec Sat 3 Dec Wed 7 Dec Sat 10 Dec Sun 11 Dec Mon 12 Dec Tue 13 Dec Tue 13 Dec Fri 16 Dec Tue 20 Dec Thu 29 Dec Fri 30 Dec

Isabel Bayrakdarian Page 37 Anthony Marwood/Steven Isserlis Connie Shih Lucy Crowe/Emily Beynon 38 Steven Isserlis/Dénes Várjon Vienna Piano Trio 40 Martin Fröst/Roland Pöntinen 41 Mark Padmore/Steven Isserlis 41 Dénes Várjon/Maggie Cole Composer Focus on Thomas Larcher 42 Emerson String Quartet 43 Minetti Quartet/Till Fellner 44 Britten Sinfonia 44 Nash Ensemble 45 Nash Ensemble/Wolfgang Holzmair 45 Renaud Capuçon/Gautier Capuçon 46 Frank Braley CMS of Lincoln Center 49 CMS of Lincoln Center 49 CMS of Lincoln Center 49 Belcea Quartet 53 Artemis Quartet 57 Arcanto Quartet 58 Nash Ensemble 59 Emmanuel Pahud/Yefim Bronfman 60 Quatuor Ebène 61 Razumovsky Young Artists Recital 61 Razumovsky Ensemble 61 Elias String Quartet 62 Stephen Hough/S˘ kampa Quartet 64 Baiba Skride/Lauma Skride 65 Heath Quartet 66

Wigmore Hall Learning Open House Day 67 Pre-Concert Talk 10 Come and Sing: Byrd 67 Pre-Concert Talk 17 Family Day: Giants, Lyrics and Lions 67 Pre-Concert Talks (10 am, 1 pm, 6 pm) 26 Artists in Conversation 28 Abracadabra Schools’ Concert 29, 68 Abracadabra Family Concert 29, 68 Half-Term Course: Art as Music 68 Half-Term Course: Art as Music 68 Pre-Concert Talk 38 Family Day: A Tempestuous Voyage 69 Pre-Concert Talk 42 Pre-Concert Talk 44 Stile Antico Schools’ Concert 50, 69 Sacconi String Quartet: 51, 69 CAVATINA Family Concert Fri 2 Dec Wigmore Study Group 53 Wigmore Study Group 53 Thu 8 Dec 53 Wed 14 Dec Wigmore Study Group 63 Sat 17 Dec Steven Isserlis Legends Interview Series 65 Wed 21 Dec Pre-Concert Talk Sat 17 Sep Mon 19 Sep Sat 24 Sep Mon 26 Sep Sat 1 Oct Sat 8 Oct Mon 10 Oct Fri 14 Oct Sat 15 Oct Wed 26 Oct Thu 27 Oct Wed 2 Nov Sat 5 Nov Sat 12 Nov Wed 16 Nov Thu 24 Nov Sat 26 Nov

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Sunday 11 September 11.30 am

2011 WIGMORE HALL/KOHN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION

FAURÉ QUARTET

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MENDELSSOHN Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor Op. 3 SAINT-SAËNS Piano Quartet in B b Op. 41 Taking its name from the composer of some of the greatest piano quartets ever written, the Fauré Quartet presents a pair of concerts exploring some other masterworks of the genre. (See 12 September for the second concert.) Both concerts feature early examples of the form by the teenage Mendelssohn, and their Coffee Concert also offers a delicious work by Fauré’s mentor, Saint-Saëns, whose chamber music is one of the best-kept secrets of the repertoire. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

SOILE ISOKOSKI

Heikki Tuuli

Coffee Concert

Saturday 10 September 7.30 pm

SOILE ISOKOSKI soprano MARITA VIITASALO piano WOLF From Italienisches Liederbuch: Auch kleine Dinge; Man sagt mir, deine Mutter; O wär dein Haus durchsichtig; Mein Liebster singt am Haus; Wenn du, mein Liebster BERLIOZ Les nuits d’été STRAUSS Drei Lieder der Ophelia IVES On the counter; The side show; Berceuse; Memories: a. Very pleasant, b. Rather sad SALLINEN Neljä laulua unesta (4 Dream Songs) The season opens with a recital by internationally renowned Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski, who takes Berlioz’s great song-cycle Les nuits d’été as the centrepiece of a programme which also explores repertoire from the fin-de-siècle in Austria and America. Wolf ’s Italian Songbook is a treasure trove of the piquant and the passionate, while Charles Ives touches upon an equally wide range of emotions. Veteran Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen is represented by his Dream Songs. £18 £25 £30 £35

FAURÉ QUARTET

KASSKARA

Supported by the Season Patrons – who have made a major contribution to the 2011/ 12 Season

Song Recital Series/Opening Concert of the 2011/12 Season 4

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2011 WIGMORE HALL/KOHN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION The 7th Biennial Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition will take place in Wigmore Hall from 4 – 8 September 2011. This competition recognises the song tradition as a whole and requires contestants to sing in at least three languages. At the same time it honours the Lied’s place at the heart of the song repertoire and celebrates the Shakespearean stature of Schubert in the genre. Audiences are invited to attend the Preliminary and Semi-Final rounds, as well as the grand finale and Prize-giving on Thursday 8 September which will include an interval supper.

JURY John Gilhooly Chair; Bernarda Fink, Jeremy Geffen, Matthew Gurewitsch, Soile Isokoski, Graham Johnson, Sir Ralph Kohn (non-voting), William Lyne, Malcolm Martineau, Thomas Quasthoff, Richard Stokes, Sarah Walker Sunday 4 September 11.00 am & 3.00 pm

PRELIMINARY STAGE – DAY 1 Candidates will each perform a 15-minute programme All day £12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme) Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List Subscribers

Monday 5 September 11.00 am & 3.00 pm

PRELIMINARY STAGE – DAY 2 Candidates will each perform a 15-minute programme All day £12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme) Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List Subscribers

Tuesday 6 September 3.00 pm & 7.30 pm

SEMI-FINAL STAGE 10 semi-finalists will each perform a 20-minute programme All day £15 concs £12 (not part of subscription scheme) Please note that there will be an Interval Supper from 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm. Please contact the Wigmore Restaurant to make your supper reservation.

Book for the first three stages at the same time for £30 concs £25 Thursday 8 September 6.00 pm

FINAL STAGE AND PRIZE-GIVING Four singers will each give a recital of 30 minutes £12 £14 £18 £22 Please note that there will be an Interval Supper from approx. 8.20 pm to 9.30 pm. Please contact the Wigmore Restaurant to make your supper reservation..

Song Recital Series 5

Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

Monday 12 September 1.00 pm

LISE DE LA SALLE piano CHOPIN 4 Ballades LISZT Dante Sonata Still only in her early twenties, Lise de la Salle has an enviable reputation in concert and on disc. For this recital she performs two peaks of the Romantic virtuoso repertoire. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 12 September 7.30 pm

FAURÉ QUARTET MAHLER Piano Quartet in A minor MENDELSSOHN Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor Op. 2 BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 26

THOMAS QUASTHOFF

Jim Rakete/Deutsche Grammophon

Sunday 11 September 7.30 pm

THOMAS QUASTHOFF baritone JUSTUS ZEYEN piano LOEWE Der Nöck; Prinz Eugen, der edle Ritter; Edward; Tom der Reimer STRAUSS Vom künftigen Alter; Erschaffen und Beleben; Und dann nicht mehr; Im Sonnenschein; Allerseelen; Die Nacht; Morgen; Heimliche Aufforderung WOLF Der Genesene an die Hoffnung; Gebet; Fußreise; Storchenbotschaft

The Fauré Quartet’s second concert (see 11 September for first concert) moves to Vienna with the largest of Brahms’s three piano quartets, a work overflowing with melodic generosity, and the solitary early chamber work by Mahler, written by the student composer during his period at the Austrian capital’s conservatoire. This concert is given in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Parkhouse Award, founded in memory of the renowned chamber musician David Parkhouse, and of which the Fauré Quartet was a popular winner in 2003. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

Thomas Quasthoff has established an enviable reputation as one of the finest baritones in the world. His voice has been described as being ‘like honey and steel’, while his intense musicality and his charisma both on and off stage have won him armies of followers on all continents. Tickets for his pair of Wigmore Hall concerts are sure to be snapped up eagerly! (Please see 13 September for the second concert.) £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series

LISE DE LA SALLE

Stéphane Gallois

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Thursday 15 September 7.30 pm

˘KAMPA QUARTET S NOBUKO IMAI viola HAYDN String Quartet in D minor Op. 103 (unfinished) BRAHMS String Quintet in G Op. 111 ˘ ÁK String Quintet in E b Op. 97 DVOR

MICHAEL SCHADE

Dvor˘ák’s early fame was greatly helped by the advocacy of Brahms, who sensed in the younger composer a kindred spirit. The G major String Quintet was announced as Brahms’s retirement from composition in 1890 (but that’s another story!), while Dvor˘ák’s E b Quintet was one of the late harvest of works produced during his pioneering sojourn in America. Joining the S˘kampas for the quintets is distinguished viola player Nobuko Imai – and Haydn actually did retire with his two-movement Quartet, Op. 103, announcing that he was too weak to write any more. Deanne McKee

£12 £16 £22 £26

Tuesday 13 September 7.30 pm

Supported by the Friends of Wigmore Hall

MICHAEL SCHADE tenor THOMAS QUASTHOFF baritone JUSTUS ZEYEN piano

Chamber Music Season/Dvor˘ák Plus Series

MENDELSSOHN Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergöße sich; Abschiedslied der Zugvögel; Herbstlied MOZART Das Veilchen; An Chloe; Komm, liebe Zither, komm; Abendempfindung SCHUBERT Heidenröslein; Im Frühling; Auf der Brücke; Normans Gesang SCHUMANN Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär; Schön Blümelein; Herbstlied; Intermezzo from Spanisches Liederspiel; Blaue Augen hat das Mädchen MOZART Secondate aurette amiche and Al fatto dal legge from Così fan tutte SCHUMANN Mein schöner Stern!; Dein Angesicht; Waldesgespräch; Mondnacht BRAHMS Wie rafft ich mich auf; Sapphische Ode; Wie bist du, meine Königin; Unüberwindlich SIECZYNSKI Wien, Wien nur du allein PICK Fiakerlied STOLZ Im Prater blüh’n wieder die Bäume KREUTZER Hobellied (from Der Verschwender)

See Dvor˘ák Plus Series page overleaf

˘KAMPA QUARTET S

Jakub Ludvik

For the second of his two concerts (see 11 September for the first concert) Thomas Quasthoff is joined by the distinguished tenor Michael Schade, whose lyrical tone and intelligence of focus will illuminate a treasury of German Lied. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series NOBUKO IMAI

Marco Borggreve

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˘ ÁK PLUS SERIES DVOR Antonín Dvor˘ák was born near Prague on 8 September 1841, so September 2011 marks his 170th anniversary. Starting this month, Wigmore Hall presents a series of eight concerts celebrating the life and music of this still-underrated 19th-century master in company with music by other composers who were important to him. Two of the leading Czech string quartets – the S˘kampa and the Pavel Haas quartets – and the Gould Piano Trio explore his chamber music, while mezzo Bernarda Fink is joined by pianist Roger Vignoles in song recitals. With other artists including pianist Stephen Hough and viola player Nobuko Imai, why not join us for this feast of melodic richness, rhythmic energy and sheer joie de vivre? Thursday 15 September 7.30 pm

˘KAMPA QUARTET S NOBUKO IMAI viola See page 7 for full details Tuesday 25 October 7.30 pm

PAVEL HAAS QUARTET See page 34 for full details Tuesday 20 December 7.30 pm

˘KAMPA QUARTET S STEPHEN HOUGH piano See page 64 for full details Forthcoming concerts in this series Thursday 2 February 7.30 pm Soprano to be announced

BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano Friday 23 March 7.30 pm Tuesday 3 April 7.30 pm

GOULD PIANO TRIO Friday 13 April 7.30 pm

BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano Wednesday 18 July 7.30 pm Anonymous chalk drawing of Dvor˘ák © akg–images

˘KAMPA QUARTET S

Friday 16 September 7.30 pm

CHRIS THILE mandolin BRAD MEHLDAU piano Acclaimed jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile (Punch Brothers) perform as a duo in a very special engagement for Wigmore Hall. Mutual admirers of music ranging from Bach to Radiohead, as a duo, the musicians plan to display their admiration of form and the wonderment of improvisation. 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, he continues this project, 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. This concert will see him in partnership with the versatile American mandolin player Chris Thile.

DANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT

Christine Schneider

Saturday 17 September 7.30 pm

DANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT cello SIMON TRPC˘ESKI piano BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1 BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19

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Jazz Series

Sparks should fly as dynamic cellist Daniel Müller-Schott joins forces with exceptional virtuoso pianist Simon Trpc˘eski. While their combined resources will predictably set Rachmaninov’s romantic masterpiece aflame, they are sure to bring complementary insight to the spare and gnomic utterances of Beethoven’s penultimate cello sonata and the autumnal fire of Brahms’s Second. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Sunday 18 September 11.30 am

ELIAS STRING QUARTET JANÁC˘EK String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135 Fresh from its recording triumphs on the Wigmore Hall Live label and a highly acclaimed disc of Britten quartets, the Elias turns its attention to the visceral passion of Janác˘ek’s Tolstoy-inspired First Quartet, and then tackles the enigma which is Beethoven’s last quartet and one of his very last musical statements of all. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust BRAD MEHLDAU

Michael Wilson

Coffee Concert

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ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC

Marco Borggreve

Monday 19 September 1.00 pm

Monday 19 September 6.30 pm

TILL FELLNER piano

PRE-CONCERT TALK

HAYDN Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50 SCHUMANN Kinderscenen Op. 15 LISZT Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année, Italie S161 (excerpts)

With RICHARD EGARR

Renowned for his interpretations of the masterpieces of the central European repertoire, Viennese pianist Till Fellner opens his lunchtime recital with one of the sonatas Haydn composed during his second visit to London, and continues with works by two of the 19th-century’s greatest piano composers. Schumann’s reminiscences of childhood will set the scene for the vividness and sense of wonder of Liszt’s portraits of his ‘pilgrimage’ to Italy. £12 concs £10

Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Monday 19 September 7.30 pm

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC RICHARD EGARR director, harpsichord MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS: BIRTH OF THE SYMPHONY HANDEL Sinfonia from Saul RICHTER Symphony No. 4 in C MOZART Symphony No. 1 in E b K16 BACH Sinfonia from Cantata BWV42 ‘Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats’ STAMITZ Sinfonia à 4 in D HAYDN Symphony No. 49 in F minor ‘La passione’

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

From Handel’s Sinfonias to Haydn’s Symphonies, the AAM kickstarts its Musical Revolutions series with an exploration of a 50-year period of extraordinary musical development. The influences, adaptations and innovations of six composers, including the eight-year-old Mozart and the neglected Franz Richter, gave birth to one of the most significant of all musical forms — as well as producing some of the genre’s finest works. £18 £24 £28 £32

Early Music and Baroque Series TILL FELLNER

Benjamin Ealovega

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CHRISTIAN GERHAHER SCHUBERT SONG CYCLES Having made his well-received Royal Opera House debut in late 2010 as Wolfram in Tim Albery’s new production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Christian Gerhaher is consolidating a reputation as one of the finest baritones of his generation. There could be no better showcase for his mellifluous and lyrical timbre, coupled with rare poetic insight, than the two great song-cycles Schubert wrote to poems by Wilhelm Müller and, as a rich final evening, the collection of Schwanengesang, which was compiled just after his death and which poignantly became his literal swansong. Joining Gerhaher is German pianist Gerold Huber, among the most in-demand piano accompanists on the concert circuit today, who is sure to bring a similar sensitivity and sensibility to his crucially important role. Tuesday 20 September 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER baritone GEROLD HUBER piano SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin is now so familiar a landmark in the song repertoire that it is all too easy to forget how groundbreaking it was in 1824 when it was the first hour-long song narrative to have been presented to the public in any form. Müller himself had constructed the cycle of poems as if with a view to musical presentation and the simplicity of poetic utterance was matched to music of divine transparency yet endearing human love and loss. £18 £25 £30 £35

Tuesday 22 September 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER baritone GEROLD HUBER piano SCHUBERT Winterreise See page 12 for details Saturday 24 September 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER baritone GEROLD HUBER piano SCHUBERT Schwanengesang See page 13 for details Supported by the Christian Gerhaher/ Gerold Huber Schubert Song Cycle Syndicate

Song Recital Series/Christian Gerhaher Schubert Song Cycles Photo by Hiromichi Yamamoto

Friday 23 September 7.30 pm

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA violin CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN piano DEBUSSY Violin Sonata in G minor LEKEU Violin Sonata in G SZYMANOWSKI Myths Op. 30 RAVEL Violin Sonata in G

LAWRENCE ZAZZO

Wednesday 21 September 7.30 pm

CLASSICAL OPERA COMPANY IAN PAGE conductor LAWRENCE ZAZZO countertenor OMBRA FELICE – MOZART’S ARIAS FOR COUNTERTENOR MOZART Intrada and ‘Jam pastor Apollo custodio greges’ from Apollo et Hyacinthus; ‘Ombra felice ... Io ti lascio’; Symphony No. 10 in G K74; ‘Venga pur, minacci e frema’ from Mitridate, re di Ponto; ‘Perchè tacer degg’io and ‘Al mio ben mi veggio avanti’ from Ascanio in Alba; Symphony in D K81; ‘Vadasi ... Già dagli occhi il velo è tolto’ from Mitridate, re di Ponto

Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien have formed one of the most exciting musical partnerships of recent years. Having successfully completed a Beethoven violin sonata cycle, this Wigmore programme whets the appetite with a refreshing combination of late works by Debussy and Ravel, together with the exotically perfumed Myths by Szymanowski and the sonata which Guillaume Lekeu wrote for the great Eugène Ysaÿe before the composer died at the tragically early age of 24. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Ian Page and his Classical Opera Company return to Wigmore Hall with the exciting American countertenor Lawrence Zazzo, recently acclaimed for his performance in the title-role in Handel’s Radamisto at ENO, in an intriguing programme of Mozart opera and concert arias from the 1770s. The concert also features two of the composer’s most delightful and vivacious early symphonies. £16 £22 £26 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series

Thursday 22 September 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER baritone GEROLD HUBER piano SCHUBERT Winterreise Following the great success of Die schöne Müllerin in 1824, it was perhaps hardly surprising that Schubert should have followed in Wilhelm Müller’s footsteps by setting his Winterreise to music of heartfelt pathos and passion. Even though countless composers have sought to emulate Schubert’s example, it can surely be said that none has matched the relentless vision and tortured expression of this unique masterpiece. £18 £25 £30 £35 Supported by the Christian Gerhaher/ Gerold Huber Schubert Song Cycle Syndicate

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA

Eva Vermandel

Song Recital Series/Christian Gerhaher Schubert Song Cycles

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Saturday 24 September 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER baritone GEROLD HUBER piano SCHUBERT Schwanengesang SCHUBERT Drang in die Ferne; Der Winterabend; Des Fischers Liebesglück When we look back at the mystery of Schubert’s last year it takes on a quite mythical significance. How on earth could an ailing 30-year-old complete three magisterial piano sonatas, the kaleidoscopic String Quintet, the monumental Mass in E b, Auf dem Strom (voice with horn) and Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (voice with clarinet), not to mention the immortal F minor piano-duet Fantasy and the great C major violin Fantasy … the list is literally mind-boggling. Add to this a collection of 14 songs, unblemished in their lyrical richness and poetic imagination. These were gathered together after the composer’s death on 19 November 1828 and published posthumously as his Schwanengesang. For us today they are an inexpressibly poignant reminder not so much of what might have been but of the marvels that actually were. £18 £25 £30 £35

ANDREAS STAIER ‘PERSPECTIVES’ Sunday 25 September 7.30 pm

ANDREAS STAIER fortepiano SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus D899; Piano Sonata in G D894; Piano Sonata in B b D960 Andreas Staier has brought the fortepiano out of the shadows into the forefront of the international concert platform. He has established new parameters of appreciation when it comes to performing the masterpieces of what we would tend to take as the modern piano repertoire. This concert is a perfect case in point, blending as it does some of Schubert’s most popular piano pieces, the four Impromptus D899, with two of his most lyrically memorable sonatas. Schubert’s ‘heavenly length’ will here be experienced in a dimension close to one with which he might have been familiar himself.

Supported by the Christian Gerhaher/ Gerold Huber Schubert Song Cycle Syndicate

£15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series/Christian Gerhaher Schubert Song Cycles

London Pianoforte Series/Andreas Staier ‘Perspectives’ Forthcoming concerts in this series

Sunday 25 September 11.30 am

Sunday 18 December 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Thursday 21 June 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE See page overleaf for full detals

Monday 26 September 1.00 pm

DANIEL HOPE violin SEBASTIAN KNAUER piano CELEBRATION OF JOSEPH JOACHIM GRIEG Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45 JOACHIM Hebrew Melody Op. 9 No. 1 (arr. violin and piano) BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 BRAHMS/JOACHIM Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor Daniel Hope has recently been exploring the milieu of Joseph Joachim and his friends and colleagues. Alongside Joachim’s own music, Hope presents Brahms’s lyrical A major Violin Sonata and Grieg’s troubled Third Sonata. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert ANDREAS STAIER

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Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE ECHOES OF ROMANTICISM The Romantic period in German and Austrian music is usually defined as the later 19th century. But the formal freedom of Romanticism, its love of nature, its indebtedness to literature and above all its emphasis on intense self-expression, are prefigured in the Viennese Classical period, and echoes of Romanticism resound throughout the first half of the 20th century. In its 2011/12 series, the Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’s acclaimed chamber ensemble in residence, traces the Romantic spirit from Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert by way of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms to Schoenberg and Richard Strauss. Leading singers join the Ensemble in song-cycles by Mahler, to mark the centenary of his death.

Sunday 25 September 11.30 am

NASH ENSEMBLE RICHARD HOSFORD clarinet MARIANNE THORSEN violin LAURA SAMUEL violin LAWRENCE POWER viola PAUL WATKINS cello IAN BROWN piano MAHLER Piano Quartet movement in A minor BRUCH String Quintet in E b BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 The Nash Ensemble launches its 2011/12 series ‘Echoes of Romanticism’ with a prophetic student piece by Mahler, a recently rediscovered string quintet from Max Bruch’s last years and Brahms’s late, much-loved Quintet for clarinet and strings. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert/Echoes of Romanticism 14

Saturday 15 October 7.30 pm

Sunday 22 January 11.30 am

NASH ENSEMBLE BERNARDA FINK mezz0-soprano MARTYN BRABBINS conductor MOZART, ZEMLINSKY, BRUCKNER, MAHLER

NASH ENSEMBLE STEPHANIE GONLEY violin SIMON CRAWFORD PHILLIPS piano RICHARD WATKINS horn

See page 30 for details

MOZART, MENDELSSOHN, BRAHMS See page 74 for details

Saturday 19 November 6.00 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE CLARA & ROBERT SCHUMANN, FANNY MENDELSSOHN See page 45 for details

Saturday 11 February 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE DAME FELICITY LOTT soprano PAUL WATKINS conductor WAGNER, MOZART, RICHARD STRAUSS

Saturday 19 November 7.30 pm

See page 79 for details

NASH ENSEMBLE WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone

Saturday 3 March 6.00 pm

SCHUBERT, WEBERN, MAHLER, BRAHMS

NASH ENSEMBLE

See page 45 for details

SCHUBERT, BERG, ZEMLINSKY See page 83 for details

Saturday 10 December 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE

Saturday 3 March 7.30 pm

MENDELSSOHN, SCHOENBERG, SCHUBERT

NASH ENSEMBLE

See page 59 for details

SCHUMANN, KORNGOLD JOHANN STRAUSS II SCHUBERT

Forthcoming concerts in this series

See page 83 for details Saturday 14 January 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano MARTYN BRABBINS conductor BEETHOVEN, MAHLER, SCHUBERT See page 72 for details

Gustav Klimt ‘Die Musik’ 1895 © akg–images

THE BOSTRIDGE PROJECT: ‘ANCIENT AND MODERN’ Since first appearing at Wigmore Hall in the mid 1990s, Ian Bostridge has pursued an extraordinary and varied career in recital, opera and concert all over the world. Whether singing Britten’s Aschenbach at the ENO, Schubert songs in Vienna or Monteverdi’s Nero in Munich, he has brought his trademark qualities of fierce intelligence and passionate commitment to the singing of the music of four centuries. Now John Gilhooly has invited him to return home to the Wigmore and plan a special season-long residency, which includes notable colleagues from a singing career of almost two decades.

‘When I was a choirboy in deepest South London (St Leonard’s, Streatham) we alternated two hymnbooks, one green (the English Hymnal), one red (Hymns Ancient and Modern). That last phrase, Ancient and Modern, part of the bric-a-brac of childhood, forced its way to the front of my mind when asked to plan a series for Wigmore Hall, a cherished musical home to me for the past fifteen years. The idea has been to gather together period instruments and modern instruments in a single concert; to show voices operating in both modes (the better to demonstrate that there’s really no difference); to take a look at musical visions of the past (the historian in me dies hard); and, occasionally to show the influence that old music had upon modern composers. The rubric covers a multitude of pieces, and in the end it is as broad as it is long. It allows us to play and sing a lot of very beautiful music, to have the pieces reflect upon each other, and have the performers and audiences in turn reflect upon the ways in which we all colonise and remodel the past in our own image.’ Ian Bostridge

Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

Monday 26 September 6.00 pm

Wednesday 21 December 6.00 pm

PRE- CONCERT TALK

Talk by the author JONATHAN KEATES

Yeats and the Celtic Revival with PROFESSOR ROY FOSTER Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£3 (not part of subscription scheme)

See page 65 for details

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 21 December 7.30 pm Monday 26 September 7.30 pm (repeated Wednesday 28 September 7.30 pm)

THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET director, harpsichord KATHARINA SPRECKELSEN oboe IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor SCARLATTI Sinfonia ‘Clori, Dorino e Amore’ SCARLATTI Sinfonia in C VIVALDI Concerto in D minor for oboe RV454 SCARLATTI Cantata: Dall’oscura magion dell’arsa Dite (L’Orfeo) VENTURINI Sonata No. 9 in G minor HANDEL Silete venti HWV242 The English Concert teams up with Ian Bostridge for what will be the first concert in his 2011–12 series, with an exquisite programme of Italian cantatas, sinfonias and concertos. Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Vivaldi provide the real Italian components, while two Germans, Handel and the improbably-named Venturini, show how ubiquitous the Italian style had become in the early years of the 18th century. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

SOPHIE DANEMAN soprano MADELEINE SHAW mezzo-soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor NEAL DAVIES bass baritone ADAM WALKER flute NICHOLAS DANIEL cor anglais HEATH QUARTET ELIZABETH KENNY lute JULIUS DRAKE piano Programme to include DOWLAND lute songs and consorts, and WARLOCK The Curlew Song Recital Series/The Bostridge Project: ‘Ancient and Modern’ See page 65 for details Forthcoming concerts in this series Monday 20 February 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor AURORA ORCHESTRA NICHOLAS COLLON conductor THE ENGLISH CONCERT LAURENCE CUMMINGS director, harpsichord Programme to include BRITTEN Phaedra and HANDEL Cantata: O numi eterni (La Lucrezia) Friday 11 May 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series/The Bostridge Project: ‘Ancient and Modern’

SOPHIE DANEMAN soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor ELIZABETH KENNY lute GRAHAM JOHNSON piano Programme to include French Airs de Cour, and Melodiés by DEBUSSY and FAURÉ Saturday 7 July 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET director, harpsichord Programme to include MONTEVERDI duets and STRAVINSKY Cantata Saturday 28 July 7.30 pm

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor XUEFEI YANG guitar JULIUS DRAKE piano Programme to include songs by BRITTEN, HENZE and KNUSSEN THE ENGLISH CONCERT

Richard Haughton

LISZT ANNIVERSARY SERIES The music of Liszt has always been a cornerstone of the pianist’s Romantic repertoire and, as we celebrate the bicentenary of his birth, Wigmore Hall offers the opportunity to explore his prolific œuvre in depth. Five concerts concentrating on his output not only of piano music but also of songs, alongside a special Liszt Discovery Day (see page 26) curated by Leslie Howard (the pianist who has arguably done more than any other to reveal the full breadth of this prolific and versatile master’s music for the instrument), will place the justly famous monuments of his work-list alongside some hidden gems and show how Liszt, arguably among music’s earliest megastars, is so much more than merely the purveyor of virtuoso keyboard showpieces he is so often mistaken for.

Tuesday 27 September 7.30 pm

NELSON GOERNER piano LISZT Ballade No. 2 S171; Nos. 1 & 2 from Quatre valses oubliées S215; Bagatelle sans tonalité S216a; Mephisto Waltz No. 1; Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Following the huge acclaim accorded his Wigmore Hall Live Chopin recital, tickets are sure to be scarce for Nelson Goerner’s exciting Liszt programme. Alongside such undisputed masterpieces as the B minor Sonata and First Mephisto Waltz, Goerner will explore some of the more mysterious and linguistically experimental works of Liszt’s late period. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series/Liszt Anniversary Series Saturday 8 October

LISZT DISCOVERY DAY See page 26 for details Wednesday 12 October 7.30 pm

REBECCA EVANS soprano ANDREW KENNEDY tenor MATTHEW ROSE bass baritone IAIN BURNSIDE piano See page 29 for details Wednesday 9 November 7.30 pm

ANDREAS HAEFLIGER piano See page 40 for details Sunday 4 December 7.30 pm

LOUIS LORTIE piano See page 54 for details Thursday 8 December 7.30 pm

ANNE SCHWANEWILMS soprano CHARLES SPENCER piano Portrait of Liszt by Henri Lehmann

See page 58 for details

Wednesday 28 September 7.30 pm

Sunday 2 October 11.30 am

THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET director, harpsichord KATHARINA SPRECKELSEN oboe IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor

KUNGSBACKA PIANO TRIO BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 New Work to be announced BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2

Repeat of concert on 26 September See page 17 for full details £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

Early Music and Baroque Series/The Bostridge Project: ‘Ancient and Modern’

Thursday 29 September 7.30 pm

The Kungsbacka Trio has developed an enviable reputation for exploring a wide-ranging repertoire, which will be exemplified in this Coffee Concert in coupling a brand-new work with two of Beethoven’s most impressive in the piano trio genre. Beethoven’s Op. 1 lifted the form for the first time into a four-movement pattern, thus giving it greater heft and stature, while the E b Trio, Op. 70 No. 2, is the gentler lyrical foil to the rather more famous ‘Ghost’ Trio. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

GERALD FINLEY baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano

Coffee Concert

SCHUMANN Zwei Balladen, declamations; Der Schatzgräber; Die Löwenbraut; Liederkreis Op. 39 HUW WATKINS Lunar cycle; Three English Ballads STANFORD La Belle Dame sans merci SCOTT Lord Randall SULLIVAN The lost Chord Gerald Finley is one of the most sought-after baritones of our time and this evening contrasts Schumann’s Eichendorff Liederkreis with a trio of British ballads, providing a rich framework for a recent work by Huw Watkins, one of the most exciting of the young generation of composers to have emerged from these isles in recent years. £18 £25 £30 £35 BEN JOHNSON

Song Recital Series

Chris Gloag

Monday 3 October 1.00 pm

BEN JOHNSON tenor JAMES BAILLIEU piano SCHUBERT Schwanengesang Now a BBC New Generation Artist, in 2008 tenor Ben Johnson was the first male singer for 13 years to win the Kathleen Ferrier Prize outright, and has since been making a splash on the opera, oratorio and recital stage. £12 concs £10 Ben Johnson is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

GERALD FINLEY

Sim Canetty-Clarke

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/ New Generation Artist

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BEETHOVEN CHAMBER AND INSTRUMENTAL SERIES Beethoven is arguably the most Janus-faced of all great composers, looking back to the Classicism of the 18th century and on into the Romanticism of the 19th. His own music is often mistakenly taken to be a revolutionary upheaval, whereas in fact his most far-reaching changes to the musical landscape evolved organically from within a deep and practical understanding of the parameters of Classicism. These tendencies are nowhere better found than in his protean contribution to the chamber music repertoire and this special Wigmore Hall focus will enable listeners to trace his enriching of forms as diverse as the string quartet, piano trio and sonatas for violin and cello with piano. To match this remarkable canon of works, Wigmore Hall has assembled a veritable galaxy of today’s chamber performers, who will include the Belcea Quartet, the Capuçon brothers with Frank Braley, Leonidas Kavakos with Emanuel Ax, the Florestan Trio, and Pieter Wispelwey with Kristian Bezuidenhout.

Monday 3 October 7.30 pm

BELCEA QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’; String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in B b Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133 As part of Wigmore Hall’s Beethoven focus, the Belcea Quartet presents the complete string quartet cycle across the season. This opening concert reveals the many facets of Beethoven’s string quartet output, from the Haydnesque fun and games of the early D major work, Op. 18 No. 3, through the lyrical effulgence of the ‘Harp’, Op. 74, to the work often regarded as the greatest of all, the B b, Op. 130, here played with the astonishing Grosse Fuge as the finale Beethoven originally intended. £12 £16 £22 £26 Chamber Music Season/ Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series

Wednesday 26 October 7.30 pm

Forthcoming concerts in this series

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS violin EMANUEL AX piano See page 34 for details

Saturday 7 January 7.30 pm Wednesday 11 January 7.30 pm Friday 13 January 7.30 pm

FLORESTAN TRIO Sunday 20 November 7.30 pm

RENAUD CAPUÇON violin GAUTIER CAPUÇON cello FRANK BRALEY piano

Thursday 19 January 7.30 pm Friday 20 January 7.30 pm

PIETER WISPELWEY cello KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT piano

See page 46 for details Thursday 1 December 7.30 pm

Saturday 21 January 7.30 pm Thursday 22 March 7.30 pm Monday 14 May 7.30 pm Wednesday 13 June 7.30 pm

BELCEA QUARTET See page 53 for details

BELCEA QUARTET Wednesday 1 February 7.30 pm Tuesday 24 April 7.30 pm

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS violin EMANUEL AX piano LEONIDAS KAVAKOS

EMANUEL AX

RENAUD CAPUÇON

GAUTIER CAPUÇON

FRANK BRALEY

PIETER WISPELWEY

BELCEA QUARTET

FLORESTAN TRIO

KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT

AMJAD ALI KHAN: INDIAN MUSIC SERIES Tuesday 4 October 7.30 pm

YAMINI REDDY Kuchipudi dancer AMJAD ALI KHAN sarod AMAAN ALI KHAN sarod AYAAN ALI KHAN sarod With tabla accompaniment

INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC IMPROVISATIONS Described by Songlines magazine as ‘one of the 20th-century’s greatest masters of the sarod’ and acclaimed by the Dalai Lama as a performer with ‘a deep human spirit, a warm feeling and a sense of caring’, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has brought the unique sound of Indian classical music to concert halls throughout the world, collaborating with leading musicians across all the disciplines. Performing with his sons Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan, both sarod virtuosos in their own right, this concert of Indian classical music improvisations promises to transport listeners to a world in which time is measured differently and can simultaneously seem to stand still while in fact whizzing past with élan and exuberance. This concert launches a major residency for Amjad Ali Khan throughout the season at Wigmore Hall. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/Amjad Ali Khan: Indian Music Series

Forthcoming concerts in this series Friday 9 March 7.30 pm

SUDHA RAGHUNATHAN South Indian (Carnatic) vocalist AMJAD ALI KHAN sarod With tabla accompaniment Friday 15 June 7.00 pm

SUNIL SAXENA, SMITA NAGDEV sitar duo SUNANDA SHARMA North Indian (Hindustani) vocalist Friday 15 June 10.00 pm

AMJAD ALI KHAN sarod Ensemble to be announced Photo by Dilip Bhatia

Thursday 6 October 7.30 pm

IMS PRUSSIA COVE WILLIAM BENNETT flute ESTHER HOPPE violin BOGDAN BOZ˘ OVIC´ violin MARIKO HARA viola Viola to be announced

GUY JOHNSTON cello ALASDAIR BEATSON piano HAYDN Trio No. 31 for flute, cello and piano RIES Flute Quintet in B minor Op. 107 MOZART String Quintet in D K593 BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

ESTHER HOPPE

IMS Prussia Cove returns to Wigmore Hall with a highly distinguished ensemble, specially invited by its artistic director Steven Isserlis. The group will have been preparing at Open Chamber Music, a seminar with a famously unique atmosphere set up in a remote part of Cornwall by Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh. £10 £14 £18 £22

Wednesday 5 October 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season

AILISH TYNAN soprano KAREN CARGILL mezzo-soprano MARK PADMORE tenor JACQUES IMBRAILO baritone ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano HAYDN The Mermaid’s song; Recollection; A Pastoral Song; An die Frauen; Der Augenblick; Alles hat seine Zeit; Despair; Pleasing Pain; Fidelity; An den Vetter; Die Harmonie in der Ehe; Daphnens einziger Fehler; Der Greis; Sailor’s song; The Wanderer; Sympathy; Betrachtung des Todes; Die Beredsamkeit; Die Warnung; She never told her love; Piercing Eyes; Content; Danklied zu Gott; Abendlied zu Gott; Wider den Übermut Haydn specialist András Schiff will preside at the piano with a quartet of today’s finest singers. Haydn is not often credited as a major composer of songs but during his two visits to London in the 1790s he found himself moved to set several English poems and poets, and these canzonettas immediately established themselves in the domestic repertoire, where they have remained for centuries. Nevertheless, their subtle blend of memorable tunes and often quite dramatic emotion amply deserves this luxury treatment. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series ANDRÁS SCHIFF

Yutaka Suzuki

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WILLIAM BYRD SACRED MUSIC SERIES Wigmore Hall launches a unique series exploring the music of William Byrd – the largest ever celebration of the English Renaissance master’s music in London. In six concerts over two seasons, The Cardinall’s Musick and Stile Antico present a range of music by England’s first truly great composer, who found himself caught between his own beliefs and a continually changing religious landscape. Ranging from the Latin sacred music of this recusant Catholic composer to his vernacular works, composed as the Tudors gave way to the Stuarts, the dark intensity of this music is perfectly suited to the vivid choral colours which Andrew Carwood draws from his specialist singers during the 2011–12 season, with Stile Antico continuing our survey the following season.

THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK

STILE ANTICO

Booking for this series (excluding the Pre-Concert Talk and Wigmore Study Group) opens to Friends on 28 April, to Mailing List Subscribers on 12 May and to the General Public on 19 May. Friday 7 October 7.30 pm

Thursday 17 May 7.30 pm

THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK ANDREW CARWOOD director

BYRD: THE POPISH ORGANIST

BYRD: THE HIDDEN CATHOLIC

BYRD Christe qui lux es et dies TALLIS O salutaris hostia BYRD O salutaris hostia TALLIS Lamentations I BYRD Lamentations MONTE Super flumina Babylonis BYRD Quomodo cantabimus? PARSONS Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna BYRD Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna SHEPPARD In exitu Israel BYRD Similes illis fiant MUNDY Benedixit omnibus BYRD Tribue, Domine

BYRD Mass for Five Voices with Propers for the Feast of Corpus Christi; Venite, exultemus Domino; Haec dicit Dominus; Visita quaesumus, Domine; Cantate Domino; Infelix ego

In 2010 The Cardinall’s Musick became only the second early music ensemble to win Gramophone magazine’s coveted Disc of the Year award for the culmination of its Byrd Latin church music series. The Byrd series begins with a typically inventive concert from The Cardinall’s Musick, fascinatingly presenting a series of penitential works by Byrd alongside settings of the same texts by English contemporaries Tallis and Parsons. The programme also extends its scope to works by Sheppard, Mundy and Philippe de Monte.

£15 £20 £25 £30 Thursday 10 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Tuesday 15 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 17 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP Hosted by composer JULIAN PHILIPS with contributions from distinguished musicologists and visiting musicians, this series of three study sessions explores the breadth of music by William Byrd and the context in which it was written. £53 including three study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 17 May

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£15 £20 £25 £30 Supported by the Season Patrons – who have made a major contribution to the 2011/ 12 Season

Thursday 20 December 2012

STILE ANTICO

Monday 5 March 6.00 pm

PUER NATUS EST – MUSIC BY BYRD AND TALLIS FOR ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS

PRE-CONCERT TALK

£15 £20 £25 £30

with ANDREW CARWOOD Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Tuesday 26 March 2013

STILE ANTICO Monday 5 March 7.30 pm

THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK ANDREW CARWOOD director

MISERERE – PENITENTIAL MUSIC BY BYRD AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES £15 £20 £25 £30

BYRD: THE ENGLISHMAN

Thursday 30 May 2013

BYRD Venite from The Great Service; O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen; Te Deum from The Great Service; Prevent us, O Lord; Benedictus from The Great Service; Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles; Magnificat from The Great Service; Turn our captivity, O Lord; Sing ye to our Lord; Come, let us rejoice unto our Lord; Nunc dimittis from The Great Service

STILE ANTICO

£15 £20 £25 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series/William Byrd Sacred Music Series

O SACRED BANQUET – WILLIAM BYRD AND THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI Programme to include BYRD Mass in Four Parts £15 £20 £25 £30

Coloured engraving of William Byrd by Nicholas Haym. © akg-images

Saturday 8 October

LISZT DISCOVERY DAY As we approach the actual day of the bicentenary of Liszt’s birth on 22 October 1811, so we reach the climax of Wigmore Hall’s celebration of this multifaceted Romantic master. During his lifetime, Liszt was arguably the most famous musician in the world and yet his fame rested almost as much upon myth and legend as it did upon reality. What is not in doubt is his unrivalled fame as a pianist – if Chopin was envious of Liszt’s pianistic prowess, that about says it all! As a composer himself, Liszt was remarkably selfless in devoting so much of his time to the promotion of works by such friends as Wagner and Berlioz, whose music he frequently conducted at Weimar. Even today his output is but sparsely appreciated and this special Liszt Discovery Day at Wigmore Hall will do much to open our eyes and ears to surprising aspects of this astonishing master-musician. Leslie Howard has done more than any living pianist to explore the quite breathtaking totality of Liszt’s output for the instrument, which encompasses all of 99+ CDs. Together with several equally enthusiastic friends, Leslie will curate this day of pianistic delight, punctuated with a special appearance by the versatile BBC Singers and their Chief Conductor David Hill, in a rare exploration of Liszt’s sacred choral music. But then he was, after all, the Abbé Liszt as much as he was Mephistopheles! 10.00 am

2.30 pm

TALK

BBC SINGERS DAVID HILL conductor COADY GREEN piano

DR LESLIE HOWARD on Liszt the man and musician £3 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event 11.30 am

EVA THORARINSDOTTIR violin JORIS VAN DEN BERG cello TRISTAN LEE piano LISZT Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth S382; La lugubre gondola S134; Die drei Zigeuner S383; La notte S377a; Tristia from Vallée d’Obermann; Le carnaval de Pesth (Rhapsodie hongroise No. 9) S379

LISZT Pax vobiscum! S64; Cinq Choeurs; Salve Regina S66; Psalm; Das deutsche Vaterland II (Was ist das deutsche Vaterland?) S74; Es war einmal ein König S73; Magyar király-dal S93; Weimar’s Volkslied S87/5 £12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season/Liszt Discovery Day 6.00 pm

TALK MICHAEL SHORT on Liszt’s heritage £3 (not part of subscription scheme)

£12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Chamber Music Season/ Liszt Discovery Day

7.30 pm

1.00 pm

TALK DR MEIRON HUGHES on Liszt the public introvert, the secular priest, the nationalist cosmopolitan £3 (not part of subscription scheme)

LESLIE HOWARD piano BOBBY CHEN piano LISZT Hungarian Rhapsodies; Zwei Episoden aus Lenaus Faust S599; Hungarian Rhapsodies; Rákóczi-Marsch S608 £12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season/Liszt Discovery Day

Wigmore Hall Learning Event ALL DAY CONCERT TICKET £20 (not part of subscription scheme) (tickets for the talks to be purchased separately)

Sunday 9 October 11.30 am

Monday 10 October 6.00 pm

DANTE STRING QUARTET

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION

FAURÉ String Quartet in E minor Op. 121 RAVEL String Quartet in F

See page overleaf for full details

The Dante Quartet has been winning awards and accolades for its exploration of French repertoire on disc and in the concert hall, and in this concert pairs one of the best-loved French string quartets with one of the most enigmatic. Ravel’s early work was dedicated to his teacher and friend, Fauré, whose elusive, rarefied Quartet was to be his last work.

Monday 10 October 7.30 pm

PACIFICA QUARTET See page overleaf for full details

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

Coffee Concert

Monday 10 October 1.00 pm

NICOLA BENEDETTI violin ALEXEI GRYNYUK piano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Nicola Benedetti has been one of the most recognisable and successful of young violinists since her victory at the BBC Young Musician competition in 2004. For this lunchtime recital she pairs the two ‘big beasts’ of the 19th century, coupling Brahms’s songful First Sonata with music by Beethoven, whose ten violin sonatas form the basis of the violin virtuoso’s chamber repertoire. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN

Benjamin Ealovega

Tuesday 11 October 7.30 pm

CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN piano DEBUSSY Préludes Books I & II Alongside his appearances as a concerto soloist and chamber musician, Cédric Tiberghien maintains a busy schedule as a soloist. He returns to Wigmore Hall for a recital consisting of the two books of Debussy’s Préludes, his pictorial but poetically ambiguous explorations of piano technique and timbre ranging from the calm of the sunken cathedral of Ys to the Bastille Day fireworks of the cycle’s finale. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series NICOLA BENEDETTI

Kevin Westenberg

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PACIFICA QUARTET SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE Garlanded with awards and admired for the range of its repertoire, the Pacifica Quartet is renowned in concert halls throughout the world for its exuberant performance style in music ranging from Mendelssohn and Janác˘ek to its recorded cycle of the quartets of Elliott Carter. On 10 October the quartet launches its survey of Shostakovich’s string quartets at Wigmore Hall with the first of three concerts this month, to be complemented by a further three next March.

Monday 10 October 6.00 pm

Shostakovich’s cycle of 15 symphonies has increasingly been recognised as the natural 20th-century successor to the epic symphonies of Mahler; he also completed 15 string quartets but these were only begun towards the middle of his career, after he had endured humiliation at the hands of Stalin and experienced the horrors of war and siege, during which he managed the extraordinary feat of emerging as popular hero and musical spokesman.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

The quartets retrospectively cast a light on many of these turbulent events and they inexorably move into a shadowy world of nightmare and desolation. In this sense they mirror the 20th-century’s decline with uncanny realism.

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION The PACIFICA QUARTET in conversation with the writer and broadcaster DAVID NICE £3 (not part of subscription scheme)

Monday 10 October 7.30 pm

PACIFICA QUARTET SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets No. 1 in C Op. 49; No. 2 in A Op. 68; No. 3 in F Op. 73 £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/ Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle Thursday 13 October 7.30 pm

PACIFICA QUARTET SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets No. 4 in D Op. 83; No. 5 in B b Op. 92; No. 6 in G Op. 101 £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/ Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle Friday 14 October 7.30 pm

PACIFICA QUARTET MENAHEM PRESSLER piano SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets No. 7 in F# minor Op. 108; No. 8 in C minor Op. 110; Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/ Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle

Forthcoming concerts in this series Monday 26 March 7.30 pm Wednesday 28 March 7.30 pm Thursday 29 March 7.30 pm Photo of Pacifica Quartet by Robin Holland

Thursday 13 October 7.30 pm

PACIFICA QUARTET See opposite page for full details

Friday 14 October 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

ABRACADABRA: KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT Join musicians from the fabulous AURORA ORCHESTRA and special guests for this magical concert of live music, illusion and trickery. You won’t believe your eyes! Tickets £2.50 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by John Lyon’s Charity and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event IAIN BURNSIDE

Andrew Mellor

Friday 14 October 7.30 pm Wednesday 12 October 7.30 pm

REBECCA EVANS soprano ANDREW KENNEDY tenor MATTHEW ROSE bass baritone IAIN BURNSIDE piano LISZT Enfant, si j’étais roi GOUNOD Sérénade SAINT-SAËNS La cloche BIZET La Coccinelle LISZT Oh! quand je dors; Die Loreley SCHUMANN Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome LISZT Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Du bist wie eine Blume SCHUMANN Morgens steh’ ich auf und frage LISZT Morgens steh’ ich auf und frage; Die Vätergruft; 3 Petrarch Sonnets; Gastibelza BIZET Guitare LISZT Comment, disaient-ils RACHMANINOV They answered LISZT Blume und Duft WOLF Zitronenfalter im April LISZT Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Wie singt die Lerche schön MAHLER Frühlingsmorgen LISZT Ihr Glocken von Marling BERG Schließe mir die Augen beide LISZT Und wir dachten der Toten; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh Amid all his acclaim as a composer of some of the 19th-century’s most challenging piano music and his creation of the symphonic poem, Liszt’s output as a song composer is often overlooked. Recreating their much-admired ‘Liszt Abroad’ CD, pianist Iain Burnside and singers Rebecca Evans, Andrew Kennedy and Matthew Rose present a vivid exploration of Liszt’s attraction to the 19th-century literature and poetry of the countries he visited as a touring virtuoso.

PACIFICA QUARTET See opposite page for full details

AURORA ORCHESTRA

Saturday 15 October 2.30 – 3.30 pm

ABRACADABRA: FAMILY CONCERT For age 5 plus A repeat of the concert on 14 October for families. Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme)

£15 £20 £25 £30

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Andor Charitable Trust

Song Recital Series/Liszt Anniversary Series

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Monday 17 October 1.00 pm

RENATA POKUPIC´ mezzo-soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano SCHUBERT An Silvia; Suleika I; Im Frühling; Im Abendrot; Die junge Nonne ENESCU Sept chansons de Clément Marot Op. 15 ˘ ÁK Gypsy Songs DVOR

NASH ENSEMBLE

Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

Saturday 15 October 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano MARTYN BRABBINS conductor MOZART Piano Quartet in G minor K478 ZEMLINSKY Two Songs from the Maeterlinck cycle (arr. Stein) BRUCKNER String Quintet in F (Adagio) MAHLER Kindertotenlieder (arr. de Leeuw)

Croatian mezzo-soprano Renata Pokupic´ is known internationally through her notable performances of Baroque, Classical and coloratura repertoire. Well known to London audiences following acclaimed appearances on the operatic and concert stage, she returns to Wigmore Hall to give a programme that is sure to be enhanced by her velvety timbre and intense musicianship. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

The Nash Ensemble welcomes back the Argentinean mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink for a programme which displays the dawn of Romanticism in a Mozart piano quartet, its zenith in the profound Adagio of Bruckner’s String Quintet, and its sunset in song-cycles by Mahler and his younger contemporary Zemlinsky. £18 £24 £28 £32

Chamber Music Season/Echoes of Romanticism

Sunday 16 October 11.30 am

GUY JOHNSTON cello MELVYN TAN piano MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58 RUBINSTEIN Cello Sonata No. 1 in D Op. 18 A former BBC Young Musician of the Year, cellist Guy Johnston teams up with pianist Melvyn Tan for a Coffee Concert coupling two Romantic sonatas. Anton Rubinstein’s youthful First Sonata marries the poise of Mendelssohn with the bravura Russian virtuoso school, while Mendelssohn’s own Second Sonata reflects his profound involvement with the music of Bach. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

GUY JOHNSTON

Olivia Shaw

Coffee Concert

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Tuesday 18 October 7.30 pm

JOHN O’CONOR piano HAYDN Piano Sonata in F HXVI:23 FIELD 3 Nocturnes: No. 5 in B b; No. 6 in F; No. 18 in E ‘Le Midi’ BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in C minor D958 John O’Conor’s programme offers a rare opportunity to hear a selection of nocturnes by John Field, who first developed the form which became such an influence on Chopin. The pathos of the F minor slow movement of Haydn’s F major Sonata from the 1770s finds its foil in a pair of C minor works from the next century, the Sturm und Drang of Beethoven’s much-loved ‘Pathétique’ Sonata being reflected in the anguished Totentanz that closes the first of Schubert’s three final sonatas. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series

MODIGLIANI QUARTET

Andrew French

Sunday 23 October 11.30 am

MODIGLIANI QUARTET Thursday 20 October 7.30 pm

JANINE JANSEN violin ITAMAR GOLAN piano See page overleaf for full details

Saturday 22 October 7.30 pm

CAROLIN WIDMANN violin SIMON LEPPER piano XENAKIS Dikhthas BACH Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 CHRISTIAN MASON Sonata for violin and piano STRAVINSKY Divertimento

HAYDN String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 Founded as recently as 2003, the Modigliani Quartet has enjoyed a rapid rise and this season has been selected for the ECHO Rising Star tour of Europe’s most prestigious halls. For its Coffee Concert the ensemble pairs a late quartet by Haydn with an early one by the teenage Mendelssohn. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

Bach’s D minor Partita, which contains the Chaconne, the greatest of all works for solo violin, forms the centrepiece of this recital by Carolin Widmann. With pianist Simon Lepper, she finds contemporary and 20th-century complements to Bach’s austere masterpiece, opening with the avant-garde processes of Iannis Xenakis and closing with the Divertimento Stravinsky fashioned for Samuel Dushkin from his ballet The Fairy’s Kiss. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

CAROLIN WIDMANN

Marco Borggreve

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JANINE JANSEN RESIDENCY Janine Jansen has rapidly become one of the most compelling presences on the international violin scene, renowned for her penetrating interpretations, both in concert and on disc, of music ranging from the Baroque right up to the present day. Alongside her career as a much-in-demand concerto soloist, she ranks chamber music as one of her first loves, working with a stellar array of the finest musicians of our time and curating her own annual chamber festival in Utrecht. She embarks on a three-concert residency here at Wigmore Hall, opening with a duo programme for which she is joined by pianist Itamar Golan. Successive concerts will feature Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale (also to be performed in a family concert) and Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht coupled with Schubert’s evergreen Quintet.

Thursday 20 October 7.30 pm

JANINE JANSEN violin ITAMAR GOLAN piano GRIEG Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45 MESSIAEN Theme and Variations RAVEL Violin Sonata in G £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Residency

Forthcoming concerts in this series Friday 3 February 7.30 pm

JANINE JANSEN violin STACEY WATTON double bass LARS WOUTERS VAN DEN OUDENWEIJER clarinet FREDERIK EKDAHL bassoon REINHOLD FRIEDRICH trumpet JÖRGEN VAN RIJEN trombone GUSTAVO GIMENO percussion Narrator to be announced STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Residency Saturday 4 February 11.00 am

JANINE JANSEN FAMILY CONCERT Wigmore Hall Learning Event Wednesday 16 May 7.30 pm

JANINE JANSEN violin BORIS BROVTSYN violin AMIHAI GROSZ viola MAXIM RYSANOV viola TORLEIF THEDÉEN cello JENS PETER MAINTZ cello SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D956 Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Residency

Photo by Felix Broede

Monday 24 October 1.00 pm

VERONIKA EBERLE violin SHAI WOSNER piano DEBUSSY Violin Sonata in G minor BARTÓK Violin Sonata No. 1 Sz75 German violinist Veronika Eberle was still a teenager when her international career was launched by Simon Rattle at the 2006 Salzburg Festival. She returns to Wigmore Hall as a BBC New Generation Artist with pianist Shai Wosner, himself a graduate of the scheme, to perform Debussy’s tantalising final work and the rhapsodic first of Bartók’s sonatas composed for Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi. £12 concs £10 Veronika Eberle is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/ New Generation Artist

SIR JOHN TAVENER

Richard Haughton

Sunday 23 October 7.30 pm

CLOTHS OF HEAVEN – THE CHAMBER MUSIC OF JOHN TAVENER

PATRICIA ROZARIO soprano NICK CARTLEDGE flute IEUAN JONES harp JULIUS DRAKE piano SUZIE MÉSZÁROS viola ROBERT COHEN cello Choir to be announced TAVENER The Lamb; The Tiger; Svyati; Akhmatova Songs; Ypakoë; Schuon Lieder; Thrinos; To a Child Dancing in the Wind A recital celebrating the music of Sir John Tavener, given by Patricia Rozario and friends – Julius Drake, Robert Cohen and Ieuan Jones. This chamber music retrospective, the first at Wigmore Hall, includes vocal music with piano, cello and harp. We are delighted that the composer, having recovered from a serious illness, will be present. £12 £16 £22 £26

VERONIKA EBERLE

Bernd Noelle

Chamber Music Season/Tavener Celebration

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Thursday 27 October 7.30 pm

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’ TIPPETT String Quartet No. 2 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A minor Op. 132

PAVEL HAAS QUARTET

Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 25 October 7.30 pm

PAVEL HAAS QUARTET TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 7 in F # minor Op. 108 ˘ ÁK String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ DVOR The Czech Republic’s brilliant young Pavel Haas Quartet makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall in a programme that richly reflects its musical origins. Tchaikovsky’s First Quartet is arguably the first Russian chamber work of significance and its famous Andante cantabile was said to have reduced Tolstoy to tears. Dvor˘ák’s ‘American’ Quartet is easily the most famous of his many essays in the genre, partly because it is imbued with the singable melodies he picked up during his sojourn in the States. Shostakovich’s Seventh Quartet is one of the most tautly integrated scores.

The Endellions’ series of three concerts this year each centre round an English 20th-century masterpiece. Tippett’s Second Quartet owes its highly inventive rhythmic textures to Madrigal style, whilst its profound slow movement was written in sorrowful anticipation of war. This piece is set between Haydn’s thrilling ‘Rider’ Quartet (written for a London audience) and Beethoven’s sublime Op. 132 – written when the genius and spirituality of his late period were in full flower. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

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Chamber Music Season/Dvor˘ák Plus Series

Wednesday 26 October 7.30 pm

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET

Eric Richmond

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS violin EMANUEL AX piano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23; Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’; Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96 British audiences have warmed over the past decade to the charismatic violin playing of Leonidas Kavakos, who first leapt to fame with his recording of the original version of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. In partnership with leading American pianist Emanuel Ax, they combine the two sides of Beethoven’s early maturity – the pithy A minor Sonata and the evergreen ‘Spring’ – and then turn to the richly philosophical G major Sonata which was sadly to be his last. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series LEONIDAS KAVAKOS

Yannis Bournias

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Saturday 29 October 7.30 pm

RALPH KIRSHBAUM cello SHAI WOSNER piano BEETHOVEN 12 Variations on a Theme from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO45 JANÁC˘EK Pohádka BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 SCHUMANN 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2

SHAI WOSNER

Marco Borggreve

Friday 28 October 7.30 pm

CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN mezzo-soprano MARK PADMORE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano

Framing their recital with masterworks by Beethoven, Ralph Kirshbaum and pianist Shai Wosner otherwise inhabit a world of folksongs and fairy tales. At the centre of their programme is a work of high German Romanticism by Brahms, the natural successor to Beethoven and Schumann, whose idioms he metamorphosed to create his own unique sound-world. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

SCHUMANN Myrthen Op. 25 JANÁC˘EK Diary of one who disappeared Mark Padmore is among the UK’s most sought-after Lieder singers, while Dutch mezzo Christianne Stotijn is renowned for the dramatic urgency she brings to all her performances. While Janác˘ek’s seductive song-cycle is a work of an almost operatic intensity, Schumann’s Myrtles come from his magnificent ‘Liederjahr’ of 1840, when the emotions of his long-yearned-for and hard-won marriage to Clara Wieck spilled over in a delirious outpouring of song. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series

RALPH KIRSHBAUM

J Henry Fair

Sunday 30 October 11.30 am

PAVEL HAAS QUARTET HAAS String Quartet No. 1 Op. 3 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B b Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133 The Pavel Haas Quartet returns with the First String Quartet by its namesake and Beethoven’s great B b Quartet, which they play according to the composer’s original intention. The Grosse Fuge frightened its original players and audiences but it can be argued that when given its proper place as the finale, this quartet achieves a loftiness of purpose unique before and since. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert MARK PADMORE

Marco Borggreve

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Monday 31 October 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN ZACHARIAS piano CPE BACH Sonata in A minor Wq. 57; Rondo in C minor Wq. 59 BRAHMS 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110 BRAHMS Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5

CHRISTIAN ZACHARIAS

Nicole Chuard

A highlight of the season’s London Pianoforte Series is sure to be this appearance by Christian Zacharias. His characteristically thoughtful programme has a historical thread running from two groundbreaking pieces by C PE Bach, through one of Beethoven’s last three fantasy-like sonatas, on to Brahms’s youthful, Beethovenian Third Sonata and thence to his final collection, Op. 119, a concentrated sonata in all but name.

Sunday 30 October 7.30 pm

£15 £20 £25 £30

SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE JONATHAN MORTON violin, director ALASDAIR BEATSON piano

London Pianoforte Series

STRAVINSKY Concerto in D MENDELSSOHN Capriccio in E minor Op. 81 No. 3 (arr. Morton) MENDELSSOHN Fugue in E b Op. 81 No. 4 (arr. Morton) STRAVINSKY Concertino (arr. Morton) MENDELSSOHN Concerto for violin, piano and strings in D minor One of the country’s most innovative and ambitious groups, the Scottish Ensemble under its director Jonathan Morton launches its new season at Wigmore Hall with the distinguished young Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson, in a contrasting programme of works by Stravinsky and Mendelssohn. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Monday 31 October 1.00 pm

MELANIE DIENER soprano MARCELO AMARAL piano Songs by MAHLER and LISZT Highly regarded for her interpretations of the soprano opera roles of Mozart and Strauss, in this lunchtime recital Melanie Diener pays tribute to two of this year’s anniversary composers, travelling further into central Europe to couple songs by Hungarian Liszt and Bohemian-born Mahler. £12 concs £10 JONATHAN MORTON

Joanne Green

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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STEVEN ISSERLIS VOICE & CELLO SERIES Steven Isserlis is renowned for his imaginative exploration of the chamber music repertoire to uncover neglected masterpieces for all possible combinations of instruments. For this series of three concerts he adds the singing voice to create a group of programmes as varied and wide-ranging as they are infinitely fascinating. Alongside vocal works with cello obbligato from the Baroque and Romantic periods, we will hear a Russian canzona accompanied by piano trio, settings for the magical combination of soprano, flute and piano, as well as music of our time by Sir John Tavener, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and James Francis Brown. Steven Isserlis is joined by the sopranos Isabel Bayrakdarian and Lucy Crowe and tenor Mark Padmore, and he will welcome as his instrumental guests the Florestan Trio’s violinist Anthony Marwood, Concertgebouw Orchestra flautist Emily Beynon, and pianists Dénes Várjon and Connie Shih.

Tuesday 1 November 7.30 pm

ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN soprano ANTHONY MARWOOD violin STEVEN ISSERLIS cello CONNIE SHIH piano BORODIN Songs with cello obbligato and piano TAVENER Akhmatova Songs PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C Op. 119 TANEYEV Canzone for voice and piano trio SHOSTAKOVICH Seven Poems of Alexander Blok Op. 127 The first programme in this mini-series is Russian and will lead naturally from a set of Borodin songs with cello obbligato to a canzone by Taneyev and Shostakovich’s late masterpiece setting poems by Alexander Blok. In such a context, Sir John Tavener’s Akhmatova Songs will fit in perfectly, while the centrepiece of the programme is the Cello Sonata Prokofiev composed for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Steven Isserlis: Voice and Cello Series Photo by Kevin Davis

Thursday 3 November 7.30 pm

LUCY CROWE soprano EMILY BEYNON flute STEVEN ISSERLIS cello DÉNES VÁRJON piano FRENCH PROGRAMME See page 38 for details Friday 11 November 7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor STEVEN ISSERLIS cello DÉNES VÁRJON piano MAGGIE COLE harpsichord PURCELL, HANDEL, BOCCHERINI, BENNETT, SCHUBERT See page 41 for details

Thursday 3 November 7.30 pm

LUCY CROWE soprano EMILY BEYNON flute STEVEN ISSERLIS cello DÉNES VÁRJON piano Songs by FAURÉ SAINT-SAËNS Une flûte invisible CAPLET Viens! Une flûte invisible soupire ... POULENC Cello Sonata JAMES FRANCIS BROWN New Work* (world première) BERLIOZ, FRANCK, MASSENET Songs with cello obbligato RAVEL Chansons madécasses * Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant making foundation.

PRE-CONCERT TALK

Isserlis’s French programme centres upon Poulenc’s neglected masterpiece of 1948 dedicated to Pierre Fournier. On this occasion the programmatic connection stretches back to Berlioz and subsequent French masters including Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Massenet, Caplet and Ravel – a sensuous vein of erotic lyricism, sure to captivate and entrance.

with PAVLO BEZNOSIUK

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

Free (ticket required)

Supported by the Season Patrons – who have made a major contribution to the 2011/ 12 Season

PAVLO BEZNOSIUK

Marco Borggreve

Wednesday 2 November 6.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Steven Isserlis: Voice and Cello Series Wednesday 2 November 7.30 pm

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC PAVLO BEZNOSIUK director, violin REBECCA BOTTONE soprano WITCHES AND DEVILS TELEMANN Concerto in A ‘The Frogs’ HANDEL Vocal and instrumental excerpts from Alcina TARTINI Sonata in G minor ‘The Devil’s Trill’ for violin and basso continuo CHARPENTIER Scenes from Act 3 of Médée ‘One night in the year 1713, I dreamt I had made a pact with the devil for my soul.’ So begins Tartini’s account of the composition of his Devil’s Trill Sonata, one of four musical depictions of the occult in the Academy of Ancient Music’s Halloween concert. The sorceress Alcina and the crazed Medea are conjured up by soprano Rebecca Bottone, while violins evoke croaking frogs in Telemann’s extraordinary concerto. £18 £24 £28 £32

Early Music and Baroque Series

EMILY BEYNON

Jonas Sacks

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Sunday 6 November 11.30 am

QUATUOR DIOTIMA SCHUBERT String Quartet in G minor D173 SMETANA String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ The up-and-coming young French Quatuor Diotima is no stranger to London, having won the Contemporary Award during the London Quartet Festival of 2000 (see also the quartet’s involvement in Wigmore Hall’s Thomas Larcher Day on 12 November). For this Coffee Concert they couple an early but passionate quartet of Schubert’s with the tragic First Quartet of Smetana. Entitled ‘From my life’, this searing work concludes with an unbearable portrait in sound of his encroaching deafness, which he nevertheless integrates into a work of astonishing mastery. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

QUATUOR DIOTIMA

Thibault Stipal

Saturday 5 November 7.30 pm

SIMON KEENLYSIDE baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano MAHLER Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Songs by DEBUSSY POULENC Tel jour, telle nuit Admired equally for his work on the recital stage as for his penetrating portrayal onstage of characters ranging from Don Giovanni to Wozzeck, Simon Keenlyside presents a concert pairing the exquisite songs of Debussy and Poulenc with a selection of Wunderhorn songs by Mahler, along with the early Songs of a wayfaring lad, on which they exerted such a telling influence. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series

SIMON KEENLYSIDE

Uwe Arens

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VIENNA PIANO TRIO SERIES

Wednesday 9 November 7.30 pm

ANDREAS HAEFLIGER piano LISZT Années de pèlerinage, première année, Suisse S160 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in G D894 As his contribution to the Liszt bicentenary, sensitive virtuoso Andreas Haefliger takes us on the famous first Year of Pilgrimage, which concentrated upon Switzerland – a kaleidoscopic survey of landscape and legend which will surely dazzle as much as it delights. It is fitting that the second half moves back to Schubert, whose output Liszt did so much to rehabilitate. The G major Sonata is perhaps the most intimate and rarefied of Schubert’s later masterpieces.

VIENNA PIANO TRIO

Nancy Horowitz

The Vienna Piano Trio has established a regular Wigmore Hall following and is familiar to Radio 3 audiences from broadcasts and festival appearances throughout the UK. Its special blend of tone colour seems especially suited to the intimacy of the chamber repertoire. Both programmes in this visit open with works by the founding father of the piano trio: Haydn still astonishes with his dazzling combination of high comedy and tragedy, and these two examples of his mature art will not disappoint. Dvor˘ák in many ways shares Haydn’s wide-ranging expression, while both Ravel and Shostakovich expand the genre to its natural limits in terms of imaginative textures and emotional drama.

£15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series/ Liszt Anniversary Series

Monday 7 November 1.00 pm

VIENNA PIANO TRIO HAYDN Piano Trio in E b HXV:29 SCHUBERT Notturno in E b D897 SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/Vienna Piano Trio Series Tuesday 8 November 7.30 pm

VIENNA PIANO TRIO HAYDN Piano Trio in E minor HXV:12 RAVEL Piano Trio in A minor ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 DVOR

ANDREAS HAEFLIGER

Marco Borggreve

£12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/Vienna Piano Trio Series Forthcoming concerts in this series Saturday 10 March 7.30 pm Thursday 31 May 7.30 pm

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Friday 11 November 7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor STEVEN ISSERLIS cello DÉNES VÁRJON piano MAGGIE COLE harpsichord HANDEL Cantata BOCCHERINI Sonata for cello and harpsichord BENNETT Tom O’Bedlam’s Song (for tenor and cello) SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821; Auf dem Strom D943 Songs by PURCELL and SCHUBERT A third concert from Steven Isserlis during his mini-residency has a dual focus in the presence of celebrated tenor Mark Padmore and the musical genius of Schubert. To jump from the Baroque to Richard Rodney Bennett is no problem for Padmore, whose sensitivity to word and line is now legendary. Similarly, Isserlis will range from a sonata by Boccherini to Schubert’s once-problematic sonata for the arpeggione, and will substitute cello for horn in the extended song Schubert composed as a tribute to Beethoven in 1828. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season/ Song Recital Series/ Steven Isserlis: Voice and Cello Series ROLAND PÖNTINEN AND MARTIN FRÖST

Mats Bäcker

Thursday 10 November 7.30 pm

MARTIN FRÖST clarinet ROLAND PÖNTINEN piano CHAUSSON Andante and Allegro HILLBORG Tampere Raw WEBER Grand Duo Concertant in E b Op. 48 BERG 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 BARTÓK The Night’s Music and The Chase from Out of Doors Suite BRAHMS Clarinet Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2 Aficionados of great wind-playing will need no inducement to enjoy an evening of essential clarinet repertoire from one of the instrument’s finest young exponents, Martin Fröst. Alongside standard works by Weber, Brahms and Berg, he will introduce less familiar pieces and there are bound to be surprises aplenty along the way. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season MARK PADMORE

Marco Borggreve

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Saturday 12 November

COMPOSER FOCUS ON THOMAS LARCHER Thomas Larcher, whose ‘extraordinary, arresting, communicative’ music has been hailed by The Times as ‘one of this century’s wonders’, is the focal point of this special Wigmore Hall event at which he appears as pianist in two concerts. Hitherto largely unknown in the UK, the Austrian composer has leapt to international prominence thanks to the success of his recent CD recording of ‘Madhares’ for string quartet. To open Thomas Larcher Day, Quatuor Diotima will present the UK première not only of this score but also of ‘IXXU’, while in the evening concert the Belcea Quartet is joined by Mihaela Ursuleasa for the world première of his Piano Quintet. Appearances from Pekka Kuusisto, Thomas Demenga, Christina Landshamer and Mark Padmore complete a starry line-up which should make this special day an unmissable event for any devotees of contemporary music.

11.30 am

5.30 pm

QUATUOR DIOTIMA

PRE-CONCERT TALK

LARCHER IXXU (UK première) JANÁC˘ EK String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ LARCHER Madhares (UK première)

with THOMAS LARCHER £3 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season/Composer Focus on Thomas Larcher 2.00 pm

CHRISTINA LANDSHAMER soprano PEKKA KUUSISTO violin THOMAS DEMENGA cello THOMAS LARCHER piano LARCHER Mumien; Sonata for cello; Kraken; My illness is the medicine I need

7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor BELCEA QUARTET THOMAS LARCHER piano MIHAELA URSULEASA piano LARCHER Antennen – Requiem for H Piano Quintet ( world première) What Becomes; Song cycle £12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme

£12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season/Composer Focus on Thomas Larcher

ALL DAY CONCERT TICKET £20 (not part of subscription scheme) (not including the Pre-Concert Talk)

Photo by Richard Haughton

Monday 14 November 1.00 pm

EMERSON STRING QUARTET BACH/MOZART Fugue in E from The Well-tempered Clavier K405 MOZART Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 The Emerson Quartet’s lunchtime concert demonstrates the influence of the Baroque on Mozart, coupling the young Salzburger’s arrangement of one of Bach’s fugues with his own personal response to the style, and concludes with Beethoven’s great C sharp minor Quartet, in which he pushed the boundaries of the genre further than ever before. £12 concs £10 PARKER QUARTET

Janette Beckman

Sunday 13 November 11.30 am

PARKER QUARTET

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 74 No. 1 DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Now in the tenth year of its professional touring career, the Boston-based Parker Quartet couples one of Haydn’s ‘Apponyi’ Quartets, works in which he was beginning to bring a concert-hall dimension to this essentially intimate genre, with Debussy’s sole quartet, a heady, allusive work from near the beginning of his composing career. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

Sunday 13 November 7.30 pm

EMERSON STRING QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in D K575 MOZART String Quartet in B b K589 ‘Prussian’ MOZART String Quartet in F K590 Over a career lasting three and a half decades, the Emerson Quartet has risen to become one of the most recorded, certainly one of the most recognisable and even one of the most garlanded of all string quartets, with a cabinet bursting with awards for their performances and recordings. In a pair of concerts at Wigmore Hall they present music from two of the early masters of the quartet, Mozart and Beethoven. EMERSON STRING QUARTET

Lisa Mazzucco

£15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

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Wednesday 16 November 12.15 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK CHARLIE PIPER introduces his new work Free to lunchtime concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 16 November 1.00 pm MINETTI QUARTET

Monday 14 November 7.30 pm

MINETTI QUARTET TILL FELLNER piano SZYMANOWSKI String Quartet No. 2 Op. 56 MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414 (for piano quintet) ˘ ÁK Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 DVOR An imaginative chamber programme brings to the intimacy of Wigmore Hall the quintet version of Mozart’s ‘little’ A major Piano Concerto, which he arranged himself, followed by the rumbustious energy of Dvor˘ák’s Piano Quintet in the same key. The chamber music of Karol Szymanowski is currently enjoying something of a rehabilitation, which has revealed its combination of passionate rhetoric and a rich synthesis of styles blending the folk-like and the exotically impressionistic. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 15 November 7.30 pm (repeated on 17 November 7.30 pm)

PAUL LEWIS piano SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus D935; 6 Moments Musicaux D780; Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’

BRITTEN SINFONIA THOMAS GOULD violin MIRANDA DALE violin CAROLINE DEARNLEY cello STEPHEN WILLIAMS double bass JOY FARRALL clarinet SARAH BURNETT bassoon STEPHEN BELL horn STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders (arr. Hasenöhrl) CHARLIE PIPER New Work (London première)* BRUCH Septet in E b Op. posth. *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall

Each concert in the Britten Sinfonia’s acclaimed ‘At Lunch’ series features a new work co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall. This time it is the turn of Royal College of Music graduate Charlie Piper, winner of the 2006 Royal Philharmonic Society composition prize. The centrepiece of the programme is Bruch’s Septet. Although the composer is best known for his First Violin Concerto, his Septet also includes powerful melodies and wonderful string writing, and with the addition of clarinet, bassoon and horn, Bruch creates an intensity of timbre that rivals the concerto in richness. £12 concs £10

Chamber Music Season

In recent years, the glories of Schubert’s piano sonatas have been steadily revealed, and so far from being the rarities they once were, are now fully established in the repertoire. Somewhat ironically, therefore, his long-established reputation as a composer of miniatures for piano has almost been reversed. Continuing his two-year Wigmore Hall residency focusing upon the music of Schubert, Paul Lewis’s solo recital provides the perfect rebalancing act, with a concentration on the late set of Impromptus, followed by the irresistible ‘Moments musicaux’. The recital culminates in the coruscating virtuosity of the Fantasy based on the song ‘Der Wanderer’. £18 £25 £30 £35

London Pianoforte Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series CHARLIE PIPER

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Wednesday 16 November 7.30 pm

RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE MATTHEW HALLS director, harpsichord BACH Trio Sonata in C BWV1037; Viola da gamba Sonata No. 1 in G BWV1027; Trio Sonata in D (arr. BWV1028); English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV808; Trio Sonata in G (arr. BWV530) An evening of intimate chamber music by the great Johann Sebastian Bach featuring a distinguished array of soloists from Retrospect Ensemble. Included alongside timeless favourites are several new arrangements of well-known pieces. This concert also marks the release of Retrospect Trio’s new CD of Purcell sonatas on the Linn label.

WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR

Ernest W Gruber

Saturday 19 November 6.00 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

£12 £16 £22 £24

NASH ENSEMBLE

Early Music and Baroque Series

RICHARD HOSFORD clarinet MARIANNE THORSEN violin RICHARD LESTER cello IAN BROWN piano CLARA SCHUMANN 3 Romances for violin and piano Op. 22 ROBERT SCHUMANN 3 Fantasiestücke for clarinet and piano Op. 73 FANNY MENDELSSOHN Movements from Piano Trio in D Op. 11 £6 or £3 with evening concert (separate ticket required) (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season/Echoes of Romanticism

Saturday 19 November 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone SCHUBERT Quartettsatz in C minor D703 WEBERN Piano Quintet in C MAHLER/SCHOENBERG Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (for baritone and ensemble) MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen; Revelge; Urlicht BRAHMS Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 60 PAUL LEWIS

Thursday 17 November 7.30 pm

PAUL LEWIS piano Repeat of concert on 15 November £18 £25 £30 £35

London Pianoforte Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series

Jack Liebeck

This two-tier instalment of the Nash Ensemble’s series Echoes of Romanticism begins with smallscale pieces by Schumann and his wife Clara and by Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny. The main concert ranges chronologically from Schubert to early Webern, includes Mahler’s Songs of a wayfaring lad sung by Wolfgang Holzmair, and ends with Brahms’s stormy C minor Piano Quartet. £18 £24 £28 £32

Chamber Music Season/Echoes of Romanticism

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Sunday 20 November 7.30 pm

RENAUD CAPUÇON violin GAUTIER CAPUÇON cello FRANK BRALEY piano BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1; Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2; Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

RENAUD AND GAUTIER CAPUÇON

Marc Ribes

As part of Wigmore Hall’s focus on Beethoven’s chamber music, brilliant French brothers Gautier and Renaud Capuçon team up with their regular pianist Frank Braley to explore a rich range of music, from the early F major Cello Sonata, through the tempestuous C minor Violin Sonata, to the sublime and serene lyricism of the last piano trio, which was dedicated to the composer’s friend, pupil and patron Archduke Rudolph. £15 £20 £25 £30

Sunday 20 November 11.30 am

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series

THOMAS CARROLL cello ^ LLYR WILLIAMS piano BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 FRANCK Sonata in A for cello and piano Two young Welsh artists who have enjoyed remarkable success join forces to give a Wigmore Hall Coffee Concert. Thomas Carroll and Lly^r Williams were both YCAT artists and have subsequently enjoyed varied careers. It is easy to forget that Beethoven brought the cello sonata to prominence, and his G minor Sonata is a favourite with both pianists and cellists alike. Nobody needs an introduction to César Franck’s famous A major Sonata – almost as popular now in its transcription for cello as in its original version for violin. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

LLYR WILLIAMS

John Ferro Simms

THOMAS CARROLL

Hanya Chlala

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Tuesday 22 November 7.30 pm St Cecilia’s Day Concert Victoria Anniversary Concert

STILE ANTICO THE IMMORTAL GLORY OF SPAIN VICTORIA O Quam gloriosam MORALES Jubilate Deo VICTORIA Missa Gaudeamus: Kyrie; Missa Gaudeamus: Gloria JANEQUIN La guerre VICTORIA Missa Pro Victoria: Credo; Ascendens Christus; O magnum mysterium PALESTRINA Surge Propera VICTORIA Missa Surge Propera: Sanctus; Missa Surge Propera: Benedictus GUERRERO Simile Est Regnum VICTORIA Missa Simile Est Regnum: Agnus Dei; Laetatus Sum

STILE ANTICO

Marco Borggreve

In this programme, devised to mark the 400th anniversary of his death in 1611, Stile Antico offers a fascinating portrait of Tomás Luis de Victoria, the pre-eminent composer of the Spanish Renaissance. Victoria’s dazzling technique and imagination are nowhere clearer than in his ‘parody’ masses based on the music of other composers; Stile Antico performs movements from four of his most celebrated settings, side-by-side with their parent works – motets by Morales, Guerrero and Palestrina and an energetic chanson by Janequin. Framing these are some of Victoria’s finest motets. £15 £20 £25 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series Monday 21 November 1.00 pm

JERUSALEM QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in D minor K421 DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 One of the most exciting of the younger generation of string quartets and with a string of recording awards to its name, the Jerusalem Quartet goes from strength to strength and from continent to continent, performing at the world’s leading chamber music venues. Wigmore Hall is pleased to welcome the ensemble back for a lunchtime concert that is sure to demonstrate what makes this young quartet so exciting. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert JERUSALEM QUARTET

Vera Reider

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THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER @ WIGMORE HALL Wigmore Hall and New York’s Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) embark on a new cultural partnership with a series of evening recitals taking place over the period of a week. The programmes are examples of the Society’s thematically organised presentations. The first combines classic and modern German repertoire, with works by Beethoven, Schumann and the young composer Jörg Widmann (b. 1973), while the second presents a range of music by Russian-born composers, from the Romantic music of Arensky and Rachmaninov to Shostakovich and a work by Lera Auerbach (b. 1973), written for and dedicated to David Finckel and Wu Han, CMS’s prime movers. The final programme has a woodwind focus, with classics for clarinet surrounding the world première of the Clarinet Trio, co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and CMS from the young American composer Pierre Jalbert (b. 1967) especially for this residency. About this new relationship, Wigmore Hall’s director John Gilhooly stated, ‘We are delighted to establish a cross-Atlantic partnership with one of the leading venues in the United States, and a Chamber Music Society whose mission is so directly aligned to that of Wigmore Hall. We hope in the future to be able to continue to collaborate creatively with CMS on the performance, composition and championing of chamber music at the very highest level.’

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF This important cultural partnership is made possible by the generous support of American Friends of Wigmore Hall

Wednesday 23 November 7.30 pm

Sunday 27 November 7.30 pm

ANI KAVAFIAN violin ARNAUD SUSSMANN violin PAUL NEUBAUER viola NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT cello WU HAN piano

DAVID SHIFRIN clarinet ANI KAVAFIAN violin ARNAUD SUSSMANN violin PAUL NEUBAUER viola DAVID FINCKEL cello WU HAN piano ANNE-MARIE McDERMOTT piano

BEETHOVEN String Trio in G Op. 9 No. 1 JÖRG WIDMANN String Quartet No. 3 ‘Jagdquartett’ SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44 £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/ The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

BRUCH Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano Op. 83 (selection) PIERRE JALBERT Trio for violin, clarinet and piano (co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall) BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 £15 £20 £25 £30

Saturday 26 November 7.30 pm

ARNAUD SUSSMANN violin PAUL NEUBAUER viola DAVID FINCKEL cello NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT cello ANNE-MARIE McDERMOTT piano WU HAN piano ARENSKY String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 35 for violin, viola and 2 cellos LERA AUERBACH Sonata for cello and piano Op. 69 SHOSTAKOVICH Concertino Op. 94 RACHMANINOV Suite No. 2 Op. 17

Chamber Music Season/The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

ANI KAVAFIAN

ARNAUD SUSSMANN

PAUL NEUBAUER

NICOLAS ALSTAEDT

WU HAN

DAVID FINCKEL

ANNE-MARIE McDERMOTT

DAVID SHIFRIN

£15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Manhattan Skyline photo by Francisco Diez

Thursday 24 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

ANGELA HEWITT: FRENCH SERIES

STILE ANTICO KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT Join dynamic presenter ISABELLE ADAMS and the exciting vocal group STILE ANTICO for this concert of inspiring music from the Tudor period. Accompanied by a teachers’ pack full of related Tudor music activities. Tickets £2.50 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by John Lyon’s Charity and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

ANGELA HEWITT

Eric Richmond

Friday 25 November 7.30 pm

ANGELA HEWITT piano

FLORILEGIUM

Amit Lennon

Thursday 24 November 7.30 pm

FLORILEGIUM DAME EMMA KIRKBY soprano ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS soprano ASHLEY SOLOMON director COUPERIN Sonata from Premier Ordre: La Françoise ‘Les Nations’; Première Leçon de ténèbres pour le mercredi Saint; Deuxième Leçon de ténèbres pour le mercredi Saint; Suite from Premier Ordre: La Françoise ‘Les Nations’; Sonata from Premier Ordre: L’impériale ‘Les Nations’; Troisième Leçons de tenébres pour le Mercredi Saint; Suite from Premier Ordre: L’impériale ‘Les Nations’ In this programme of music by French Baroque master François Couperin, Florilegium presents two of Les Nations, the earliest of the ordres composed for chamber consort – La Françoise and the last in the collection, L’Impériale. They will also be joined by sopranos Dame Emma Kirkby and Elin Manahan Thomas in Couperin’s captivating and delicately scored Leçons de Ténèbres. £16 £22 £26 £30

DEBUSSY Children’s Corner FAURÉ Ballade in F # Op. 19 DEBUSSY Pour le piano; Suite bergamasque ROUSSEL L’accueil des muses (in memoriam Debussy) DUKAS La plainte, au loin, du faune (hommage à Debussy) DEBUSSY Masques; L’isle joyeuse Admirers of Angela Hewitt’s carefully carved niche within the piano world will rejoice in this programme largely devoted to the early masterworks of Claude Debussy. It is refreshing to find the three early suites given such prominence and for this concert they are placed alongside a contemporaneous masterpiece by Fauré – the great Ballade Op. 19 in its solo piano version – and two later Debussy showpieces, which will in turn be heard after rarely performed works written in tribute to him by Roussel and Dukas. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series/Angela Hewitt: French Series Forthcoming concerts in this series Sunday 12 February 7.30 pm Thursday 7 June 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Sunday 27 November 11.30 am

KUSS QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ SCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887 The Kuss Quartet has received numerous plaudits and is a regular guest at the most renowned international concert halls. For this Coffee concert the quartet brings its fresh approach to works by Mozart and Schubert. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

Sunday 27 November 7.30 pm FAMILY CONCERT

Benjamin Harte

Saturday 26 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

SACCONI STRING QUARTET CAVATINA FAMILY CONCERT For age 5 plus Join the Sacconi Quartet as it plays music from across the centuries including pieces by Beethoven, Haydn and Janác˘ek. Be inspired, take part in musical games and meet the musicians in this interactive concert full of family fun.

DAVID SHIFRIN clarinet ANI KAVAFIAN violin ARNAUD SUSSMANN violin PAUL NEUBAUER viola DAVID FINCKEL cello WU HAN piano ANNE-MARIE McDERMOTT piano See pages 48– 49 for full details

Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme) CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

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

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 26 November 7.30 pm

ARNAUD SUSSMANN violin PAUL NEUBAUER viola DAVID FINCKEL cello NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT cello ANNE-MARIE McDERMOTT piano WU HAN piano See pages 48 – 49 for full details KUSS QUARTET

Boris Streubel

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Tuesday 29 November 7.30 pm

GARRICK OHLSSON piano HANDEL Suite No. 2 in F HWV:427 BRAHMS Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op. 24 LISZT Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude SKRYABIN Trois études Op. 65 and other works to be announced American virtuoso Garrick Ohlsson has recently enjoyed critical acclaim for his recording of the complete piano variations by Brahms. His welcome return to Wigmore Hall features the most celebrated of these works, the ‘Handel’ Variations Op. 24, which were so admired by Wagner. For the second half he turns to Wagner’s son-in-law Liszt, with the glorious Bénédiction, and will then make audible the link between Lisztian virtuosity and the keyboard wizardry of Russian pianist-composer Skryabin. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series

COLIN CARR

Jo Schofield

Monday 28 November 1.00 pm

COLIN CARR cello THOMAS SAUER piano BEETHOVEN Variations in E b WoO46 on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 For their BBC Lunchtime Concert, British cellist Colin Carr and pianist Thomas Sauer begin with Beethoven’s affectionate set of variations on a well-known tune from Mozart’s The Magic Flute and then couple the single middle-period A major Sonata Op. 69 with the last of all, the second sonata from Op. 102. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert GARRICK OHLSSON

Paul Body

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Thursday 1 December 7.30 pm

BELCEA QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’; String Quartet in B b Op. 18 No. 6; String Quartet in E b Op. 127 The Belcea Quartet returns with its second contribution of the season to the Beethoven Chamber Music Focus. As before, they span the three broad groups of Beethoven’s quartets, with the serendipity of the early B flat work of Op. 18 acting as a foil to the terse tragedy of Op. 95. The Belceas then focus on the first of the late quartets, Op. 127, the work with which Beethoven embarked upon one of the greatest artistic achievements of Western civilisation. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

ELIZABETH WATTS

Friday 2 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 8 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Wednesday 14 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Dylan Thomas/SONY Classics

THE MUSIC OF MAURICE RAVEL Wednesday 30 November 7.30 pm

THE ENGLISH CONCERT LAURENCE CUMMINGS director, harpsichord ELIZABETH WATTS soprano VIVALDI Concerto in G minor for strings RV156 SCARLATTI Arias VIVALDI Concerto all’inglese in A for violin and cello RV546 VIVALDI Concerto in D minor for viola d’amore RV394 SCARLATTI Arias VIVALDI Concerto in B minor for 4 violins Op. 3 No. 10 from L’estro armonico RV580 The English Concert is joined by Laurence Cummings and Elizabeth Watts for the second Italian programme of their season. Arias from Alessandro Scarlatti’s numerous but largely neglected operas reveal a vast array of emotion, from exuberance to introspection, demanding a technical range from virtuosity to lyrical calm. The English Concert shows off its own virtuosity with a selection of Vivaldi concerti ranging from the rarity of the viola d’amore to the fireworks of the L’estro armonico concerto for four violins.

Shadowing the themes of the Ravel 75th Anniversary concert series, this first Wigmore Study Group of the season explores the music of Maurice Ravel. Hosted by composer JULIAN PHILIPS, the three afternoons will offer three approaches: a masterclass on Ravel’s string quartet, a performance-analysis of his piano music and, finally, an exploration of his song settings and the historical context in which they were written. With contributions from distinguished musicologists and postgraduate musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Linked to the evening concert Une Rare Émotion with Bernarda Fink on 14 December. Series ticket price £53 including three study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 14 December (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£15 £20 £25 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Sunday 4 December 11.30 am

FINZI QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in B b Op. 50 No. 1 BRAHMS String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1

FINZI QUARTET

Sussie Ahlburg

The Finzi Quartet came together at the Royal Northern College of Music and made its London debut only two years ago. They pair the first of Haydn’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets, composed for the cello-playing King Frederick William II, with the orchestral breadth of the first of Brahms’s three quartets. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Friday 2 December 7.30 pm

Coffee Concert

JOE HENRY singer BRAD MEHLDAU piano American singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer, Joe Henry’s distinctive ability to weave characters and narratives in song, coloured by renowned pianist Brad Mehldau’s penchant for jazz improvisation and classical counterpoint, will be on display in the most intimate of settings. Renditions of the contemporary songbook and some of Henry’s own catalogue will be reworked for a special evening of piano, guitar, and voice. This concert represents the culmination of Brad Mehldau’s two-year jazz series at Wigmore Hall, in which he has demonstrated what a remarkable confluence of inspiration and originality is to be found when jazz musicians come together. On this occasion, he teams up with American singer Joe Henry for what is sure to be a scintillating send off to the series. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Jazz Series LOUIS LORTIE

Elias

Sunday 4 December 7.30 pm

LOUIS LORTIE piano LISZT Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année, Italie S161; La lugubre gondola; R.W. – Venezia S201; Venezia e Napoli S162

JOE HENRY

Saturday 3 December 7.30 pm

ARTEMIS QUARTET

Fresh from his much-admired recordings of Beethoven and Chopin, Lisztians will relish this opportunity to hear Canadian pianist Louis Lortie in a carefully chosen compendium of Liszt’s Italian masterworks, culminating in his memorial tribute to son-in-law Richard Wagner, whose death in Venice in 1883 was a severe blow to his slightly older colleague, friend and champion. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series/Liszt Anniversary Series

See pages 56 – 57 for full details

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Tuesday 6 December 7.30 pm

KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI piano BACH/LISZT Prelude and Fugue LISZT Liebesträume S541; Lieder von Schubert S558 CHOPIN Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B b minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 7 in B b Op. 83 Khatia Buniatishvili is quickly establishing a runaway reputation as one of the most exciting pianistic talents of the younger generation. Mentored by Martha Argerich and Stephen Kovacevich, she appeared at the latter’s 70th birthday concert at Wigmore Hall in 2010, performing Liszt’s Piano Sonata to enormous acclaim. This recital opens with Liszt in popular vein before she turns to two of Chopin’s most darkly coloured and dramatic works. She then puts the piano through its paces in Prokofiev’s wartime Seventh Sonata, premièred by the great Sviatoslav Richter. ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI

Serge Derossi/Naïve

Monday 5 December 1.00 pm

ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI soprano DONALD SULZEN piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

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London Pianoforte Series

VIVALDI Sposa son disprezzata GLUCK O del mio dolce ardor from Paride ed Elena CESTI Intorno all’idol mio MARCELLO Quella fiamma che m’accende RESPIGHI Sopra un’ aria antica DONAUDY Freschi luoghi, prati aulenti; Vaghissima sembianza; Or che le rèdole; O del mio amato bene CILEA Serenata; Nel ridestarmi; Non ti voglio amar CATALANI Senza baci MASCAGNI La tua stella; Serenata REFICE Ombra di nube The unique voice of Anna Caterina Antonacci has a darkness and flexibility that she has put to thrilling use in the operas of Rossini and his Italian followers. Her lunchtime recital also covers Italian repertoire, ranging from the Baroque figurations of Vivaldi to the Romantic richness of later composers such as Mascagni, Cilea and Respighi. ‘Anna Caterina Antonacci: the name itself is almost a song. Antonacci may be a soprano but her rich vibrato allows her into mezzo-soprano repertoire … The voice is big and operatic, with a hint of wildness’ Evening Standard £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI

Julia Wesely

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RAVEL 75TH ANNIVERSARY To commemorate 75 years in 2012 since the death of Maurice Ravel, Wigmore Hall presents a series of concerts of his songs and piano music, as well as his only string quartet. The enigmatic, dandyish composer was at the same time a consummate craftsman, described by Stravinsky as ‘the Swiss watchmaker’ of music for his fastidious attention to detail, and many of his works breathe an exotic, impressionistic air. For Wigmore Hall, pianist Christopher Glynn curates three recitals exploring Ravel’s songs alongside music by his friends and contemporaries, while Steven Osborne performs works from Ravel’s small but perfectly formed output for the piano.

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Friday 2 December 3.00 pm Thursday 8 December 3.00 pm Wednesday 14 December 3.00 pm

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP See page 53 for details

Wednesday 14 December 7.30 pm

BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano CHRISTOPHER GLYNN piano ADAM WALKER flute MARIE BITLLOCH cello UNE RARE ÉMOTION – THE SONGS OF MAURICE RAVEL AND HIS CIRCLE

Saturday 3 December 7.30 pm

ARTEMIS QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 BARTÓK String Quartet No. 1 Op. 7 RAVEL String Quartet in F The Berlin-based Artemis Quartet has recently been focusing on the music of Beethoven but for this concert turns to three richly contrasting contributions to the string quartet literature. In Haydn’s hands the quartet developed from lightweight pieces to take on a symphonic breadth in later works such as this from his last completed set of six, while Bartók rose to the challenge as he embarked on what would become the pre-eminent cycle of quartets of the last century. Ravel’s sole String Quartet was rejected by its dedicatee, Gabriel Fauré, but admired by Debussy and soon became one of Ravel’s most popular works. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/Ravel 75th Anniversary

RAVEL Cinq mélodies populaires grecques RAVEL Tripatos SAINT-SAËNS Tournoiement from Mélodies persanes SAINT-SAËNS Une flûte invisible FAURÉ Les roses d’Ispahan FAURÉ Arpège; Le parfum impérissable FAURÉ Fleur jetée RAVEL Shéhérazade MASSENET Elégie RAVEL Chansons madécasses DEBUSSY Trois mélodies RAVEL Trois chansons The celebrated mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink, in the first of a series of three concerts devised by Christopher Glynn, presents songs by Ravel alongside music by composers he knew and admired. This concert opens the series in style, featuring the evocative song-cycle Shéhérazade, with which Bernarda Fink is closely associated, next to songs by Ravel’s teacher Fauré, and his older friend Debussy. £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series/Ravel 75th Anniversary

Forthcoming concerts in this series Sunday 15 January 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone CHRISTOPHER GLYNN piano Thursday 23 February 7.30 pm ARTEMIS QUARTET

STEVEN OSBORNE piano Saturday 16 June 7.30 pm

STEVEN OSBORNE piano Tuesday 26 June 7.30 pm

AILISH TYNAN soprano CHRISTOPHER GLYNN piano BERNARDA FINK

CHRISTOPHER GLYNN

Thursday 8 December 7.30 pm

ANNE SCHWANEWILMS soprano CHARLES SPENCER piano MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen; Verlorne Müh; Ablösung im Sommer; Ich ging mit Lust LISZT Oh! quand je dors; Lieder aus Schillers ‘Wilhelm Tell’; Die Loreley MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Das himmlische Leben; Scheiden und Meiden; Lob des hohen Verstandes; Rheinlegendchen; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen MAHLER Five Rückert Lieder The electrifying soprano voice of Anne Schwanewilms has made her one of the leading Strauss singers of our time. In this recital she turns to Mahler, presenting a sequence of his timeless Wunderhorn songs along with the intimate Rückert Lieder, framing a selection of songs by Liszt, as his bicentenary year draws to a close. £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series/Liszt Anniversary Series

ARCANTO QUARTET

Marco Borggreve

Wednesday 7 December 7.30 pm

ARCANTO QUARTET BERG Lyric Suite SCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887 The Arcanto Quartet, comprising a stellar array of soloists – Antje Weithaas, Daniel Sepec, Tabea Zimmermann and JeanGuihen Queyras – makes this return to Wigmore Hall a night to remember with two classics of Viennese chamber music. Alban Berg is arguably the greatest of the Second Viennese School of composers, a group triggered by teacher Arnold Schoenberg and completed by fellow pupil Webern. Despite its renown as a work of intricate technical complexity, the Lyric Suite remains an emotionally fervent highlight of early20th-century music. Schubert’s last string quartet was written in 1826 and has a breadth of inspiration which went on to influence composers as different in outlook as Bruckner and Brahms, thus providing a natural link from First to Second Viennese Schools.

ANNE SCHWANEWILMS

Johanna Peine

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Chamber Music Season

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Friday 9 December 7.30 pm

SIR THOMAS ALLEN baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano and SAMLING SCHOLARS LISA MILNE soprano KITTY WHATELY mezzo-soprano NJABULO MADLALA baritone WILLIAM VANN piano SAMLING SHOWCASE Programme to include: STRAUSS Drei Lieder der Ophelia MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Songs by DUPARC Duets by MENDELSSOHN Opera arias and ensembles by BEETHOVEN, ROSSINI and MOZART This annual Showcase will celebrate fifteen years of Samling’s work with outstanding young singers and pianists through its internationally recognised Masterclass Programme. Led by Sir Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau, who have been involved from the beginning, the concert will feature Samling’s Scholars from the earliest days to its most recent graduates.

LISA MILNE

Clive Barda

‘These young singers ... represent the bright hopes of our opera houses and recital halls, and I can’t be alone in feeling comforted that Allen’s legacy is already securing their future’ The Arts Desk 11.12.2010

Saturday 10 December 7.30 pm

£15 £20 £25 £30

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

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NASH ENSEMBLE

Song Recital Series

MARIANNE THORSEN violin LAURA SAMUEL violin LAWRENCE POWER viola PHILIP DUKES viola PAUL WATKINS cello TIM HUGH cello MENDELSSOHN Theme and Variations in E and Scherzo in A minor for string quartet Op. 81 Nos. 1 and 2 SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht for string sextet Op. 4 SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D956 The Nash Ensemble’s renowned string players present a pair of quartet movements by Mendelssohn, Schoenberg’s early, ultraRomantic tone poem for sextet, Transfigured Night, and one of the all-time masterpieces of chamber music, the String Quintet written by Schubert in the last months of his short life. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/Echoes of Romanticism MALCOLM MARTINEAU

Russell Duncan

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Monday 12 December 1.00 pm

VÉRONIQUE GENS soprano SUSAN MANOFF piano Songs by MASSENET, GOUNOD and HAHN

EMMANUEL PAHUD

Sheila Rock

Sunday 11 December 11.30 am

PHILIP MOORE piano SIMON CRAWFORD-PHILLIPS piano

Véronique Gens has built a strong reputation as a Baroque specialist but has made successful forays into later music, scoring notable successes not only in the operas of Mozart but especially as an interpreter of the French Romantic vocal masterpieces of Berlioz, Debussy and Canteloube. This lunchtime concert offers an opportunity to hear her unique voice in a selection of the repertoire she loves. £12 concs £10

RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances Op. 45 STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring (for piano duo) It would be difficult to imagine a greater Christmas treat than this feast of Russian dance-inspired music. It used to be thought that Rachmaninov and Stravinsky were poles apart but, as the two leading Russian exiles who refused to embrace the Soviet Union as residents, they had far more in common than might be apparent. The Rite of Spring and the Symphonic Dances are familiar in their inimitable orchestral colours but these versions for two pianists have astonishing visceral power and propulsive rhythmic energy.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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

Coffee Concert

Sunday 11 December 7.30 pm

EMMANUEL PAHUD flute YEFIM BRONFMAN piano SCHUMANN 3 Romances Op. 94 BRAHMS Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2 (arr. for flute and piano) MOZART Flute Sonata in E minor PROKOFIEV Flute Sonata in D Op. 94 Emmanuel Pahud is today’s celebrity flautist, occupying, like his great predecessor James Galway, the principal chair in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. His partnership with Yefim Bronfman is emphatically one of equals. Original repertoire for flute and piano is rather thin on the ground, however, so on this occasion Pahud will lend his virtuosity to works by Mozart, Schumann and Brahms originally conceived for violin, oboe and clarinet respectively. The tables were turned, however, when Prokofiev’s Flute Sonata Op. 94 was transcribed for violin by the great David Oistrakh!

VÉRONIQUE GENS

M. Ribes & A. Vo Van Tao

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Chamber Music Season

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Tuesday 13 December 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio in A minor Op. 50 ‘... they open a world of music-making fabulously rich in tone colours, ensemble precision, and lyrical sweep of a kind rarely met this side of paradise ... Each Razumovsky member may be king of their chosen instrument, but they scale the heavens as a team. England’s sport teams could learn a great deal’ The Times £15 £20 £25 £30 QUATUOR EBÈNE

Julien Mignot

Chamber Music Season

Monday 12 December 7.30 pm

QUATUOR EBÈNE PROKOFIEV String Quartet No. 1 in B minor Op. 50 DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 British audiences can’t get enough of Quatuor Ebène following its triumph at the 2009 Gramophone Awards! That winning disc featured Debussy’s sadly single G minor Quartet, which will also form the centrepiece of this Wigmore Hall programme. Prokofiev’s quartets are still too little known and so the welcome airing of his First will be nicely complemented by the second of Brahms’s three essays in the form. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 13 December 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT EVENT RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment where exceptionally gifted young musicians work with some of the world’s finest artists and teachers. This concert is an opportunity to hear potential stars of the future at an early stage in their careers. £6 (not part of subscription scheme) or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)

Chamber Music Season

BERNARDA FINK

Klemen Breitfuss

Wednesday 14 December 7.30 pm

BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano CHRISTOPHER GLYNN piano ADAM WALKER flute MARIE BITLLOCH cello See pages 56 – 57 for full details

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Friday 16 December 7.30 pm

ELIAS STRING QUARTET BACH 3 Fugues from The Art of Fugue HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B b Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133 Making a welcome second appearance this season, the brilliant young Elias Quartet conjures a programme connected by the intimacy and magic of the fugue. Bach’s Art of Fugue was on his desk when he died and, although not specified as such, is admirably suited to the string quartet as definitively established some decades later by Joseph Haydn. His Op. 20 ‘Sun’ Quartets are a compendium of contrapuntal dexterity and it would be difficult to imagine a greater fugal Everest than Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, with which he always intended to conclude his B b Quartet Op. 130. £12 £16 £22 £26 SALLY MATTHEWS

Johan Persson

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Thursday 15 December 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season

SALLY MATTHEWS soprano KAREN CARGILL mezzo-soprano SIMON LEPPER piano PURCELL/BRITTEN Sound the trumpet; Fairest isle; Lost is my quiet; Music for a while; What can we poor females do? MENDELSSOHN Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergöße sich; Abschiedslied der Zugvögel; Gruß; Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Nachtlied; Herbstlied; Neue Liebe; Volkslied; Maiglöckchen und die Blümelein BRAHMS Es träumte mir, ich sei dir teuer; Klosterfräulein; Die Schwestern; Phänomen; Dein blaues Auge hält so still; Die Boten der Liebe GOUNOD D’un cœur qui t’aime CHAUSSON La nuit SAINT-SAËNS El Desdichado MASSENET Rêvons, c’est l’heure FAURÉ Tarentelle

ELIAS STRING QUARTET

Benjamin Ealovega

Young British singers Sally Matthews and Karen Cargill join forces with one of the leading accompanists of the younger generation, Simon Lepper, for a programme that will cover three languages and as many centuries. Without Benjamin Britten, the songs of Purcell would have remained in relative obscurity. Mendelssohn is still less celebrated as a Lieder composer than he deserves and a rich selection from the repertoire of French mélodie and chanson will bring a smile to the coldest of winter faces. £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series

KAREN CARGILL

Ken Dundas

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Saturday 17 December 11.00 am

Sunday 18 December 7.30 pm

STEVEN ISSERLIS LEGENDS INTERVIEW SERIES

ANDREAS STAIER fortepiano

STEVEN ISSERLIS IN CONVERSATION WITH IVRY GITLIS

All seats £15 (not part of subscription scheme)

For his second appearance this season at Wigmore Hall, Andreas Staier returns with a fortepiano on which he will essay one of the greatest works ever written for keyboard. Even if its origins as an attempted cure for aristocratic insomnia are apocryphal, there is no denying the sheer ingenuity with which Bach weaves 30 astonishingly contrasted variations from an aria of deceptively simple countenance. For a work which is most frequently heard on the harpsichord or the modern piano – let alone by string trio or even harp! – it should be equally fascinating to hear how it fares on the fortepiano, an instrument with which Bach was just about familiar.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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BACH Goldberg Variations BWV988

In this ‘Artists in Conversation’ series, the prodigious Steven Isserlis talks to three legendary musicians who have had a major influence on him, about their lives and artistry. The first of these conversations is with the legendary violinist Ivry Gitlis, who has a long association with Wigmore Hall having made a triumphant return to the London stage in 1996, after a long absence, to mark the 50th anniversary of his Wigmore Hall debut. More recently he has performed here as a chamber musician with IMS Prussia Cove and Steven Isserlis. For the other two conversations in the series, Steven Isserlis will be joined by Ida Haendel and Marta Casals Istomin.

London Pianoforte Series/Andreas Staier ‘Perspectives’

Sunday 18 December 11.30 am

GUARNERI TRIO PRAGUE Monday 19 December 1.00 pm

BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87 SMETANA Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 Guarneri Trio Prague comes to Wigmore Hall with the only piano trio by its celebrated compatriot Bedr˘ich Smetana. This early work is brimful with folk-like melody and enchanting textures. Brahms’s Second Trio, on the other hand, is a work of his rich maturity and a peak of the 19th-century chamber repertoire. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT cello JOSÉ GALLARDO piano BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata to be announced PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C Op. 119 BOULANGER Trois pièces PIAZZOLLA Le Grand Tango (for cello and piano) BBC New Generation Artist Nicolas Altstaedt was one of the last pupils of Boris Pergamenschikow and creates something of a splash wherever he performs. He demonstrates his unassailable technique in an eclectic programme ranging from the Classicism of Beethoven to the cool tango of Piazzolla, via the French poise of Boulanger and the paradoxically melodious sonata of Prokofiev, composed for Rostropovich during one of the Soviet composer’s darkest and most challenging times.

Coffee Concert

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

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/ New Generation Artist NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT

Marco Borggreve

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STEPHEN HOUGH: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE ‘The most perfect piano playing conceivable’ The Guardian With an artistic vision that transcends fashions and trends, Stephen Hough is widely regarded as one of the most important and distinctive pianists of his generation. In recognition of his achievements, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, joining prominent scientists, writers and others who have made unique contributions to contemporary life. Hough has appeared with most of the major European and American orchestras and plays recitals regularly in the major halls and concert series around the world. John Gilhooly has invited him for a special season-long residency, with an emphasis on piano quintets. ‘String quartets and solo pianists have by far the greatest repertoire, both in terms of size and quality. It is no surprise then that when they join forces they form the grandest of chamber music groups – truly an orchestra in miniature. Each concert has a national theme, and the series as a whole shares a common structure: before the interval, solo piano pieces and a string quartet; after the interval, the five players united in four contrasting masterpieces’ Stephen Hough Tuesday 20 December 7.30 pm

STEPHEN HOUGH piano ˘ KAMPA QUARTET S JANÁC˘EK Piano Sonata I.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ SMETANA String ˘ ÁK Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 Quartet No. 2 in D minor DVOR Wigmore Hall’s Dvor˘ák Plus series continues with this concert in which pianist Stephen Hough is joined by the enterprising S˘kampa Quartet for that ever-popular party piece, Dvor˘ák’s Piano Quintet in A. Less bucolic and benign are Janác˘ek’s solitary Piano Sonata celebrating gruesome events in 1905, while Smetana’s late last string quartet is a portrait in sound of his crumbling mental stability. £15 £20 £25 £30 Supported by the Season Patrons – who have made a major contribution to the 2011/12 Season

Chamber Music Season/Stephen Hough: Artist in Residence/ Dvor˘ák Plus Series

Forthcoming concerts in this series Tuesday 24 January 7.30 pm

STEPHEN HOUGH piano & JUILLIARD QUARTET Wednesday 7 March 10.00 am

STEPHEN HOUGH MASTERCLASS Thursday 8 March 7.30 pm

STEPHEN HOUGH piano & HEATH QUARTET Tuesday 5 June 7.30 pm

STEPHEN HOUGH piano & ENDELLION QUARTET 64

Photo by Grant Hiroshima

Wednesday 21 December 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK Talk on Yeats and the Celtic Revival with PROFESSOR ROY FOSTER £3 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 21 December 7.30 pm

SOPHIE DANEMAN soprano MADELEINE SHAW mezzo-soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor NEAL DAVIES bass baritone ADAM WALKER flute NICHOLAS DANIEL cor anglais HEATH QUARTET ELIZABETH KENNY lute JULIUS DRAKE piano OLD AND NEW ELIZABETHANS DOWLAND Lute songs and consorts WARLOCK Elizabethan songs; The curlew; Songs with piano £20 £30 £35 £40 (not part of subscription scheme)

Song Recital Series/The Bostridge Project: ‘Ancient and Modern’

BAIBA AND LAUMA SKRIDE

Marco Borggreve

Thursday 29 December 7.30 pm

BAIBA SKRIDE violin LAUMA SKRIDE piano MOZART Violin Sonata in B b K454 MENDELSSOHN Violin Sonata in F VĪTOLS Romance PROKOFIEV Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Latvian sisters Baiba and Lauma Skride bring to London the music of their compatriot Ja¯zeps Vītols, and couple it with violin sonatas from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Mozart’s and Mendelssohn’s sonatas remain among their least-known works but demonstrate all the mastery of their finest. Prokofiev’s sonata, his only major work conceived for violin and piano, was composed for the great David Oistrakh. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

SOPHIE DANEMAN

Sandra Lousada

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RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE

Stephen Page

Friday 30 December 7.30 pm

HEATH QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’ LUKE BEDFORD String Quartet (world première)* SCHUBERT String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant making foundation.

The Heath Quartet is one of Britain’s boldest young chamber ensembles, with a reputation for diverse and challenging programming, exemplified here by the world première of a new string quartet by Wigmore Hall composer in residence Luke Bedford. Beethoven’s ‘Harp’ Quartet is so-called because a proliferation of pizzicato writing suggested to many the ethereal sounds of the eponymous instrument. Schubert’s A minor Quartet is one of his most lyrical chamber works and one of its movements elaborates upon his incidental music for Rosamunde in a manner inimitably his own. £12 £16 £22 £26

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

JOANNE LUNN

Andrew Redpath

Saturday 31 December 7.00 pm

RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE MATTHEW HALLS director, harpsichord JOANNE LUNN soprano CHRISTOPHER AINSLIE countertenor CHARLES DANIELS tenor PETER HARVEY bass BACH Cantata BWV110 ‘Unser Mund sei voll Lachens’; Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D BWV1050; Magnificat BWV243

Chamber Music Season

An evening of Baroque musical fireworks to round off the year in fitting style. The singers and players of Retrospect Ensemble will be raising the roof in this explosive programme of Bach’s greatest hits. With a line up of international vocal superstars and a battery of trumpets and drums, this is a New Year’s Eve concert not to be missed! £12 £18 £22 £25

Early Music and Baroque Series HEATH QUARTET

Sussie Ahlburg

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EVENTS FOR FAMILIES, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS Events on pages 67 – 69 will open for booking on 1 July, with the exception of the events on 24 September, 15 October and 26 November, which will go on sale alongside the other concerts in the September – December Wigmore series. Family Events are supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Andor Charitable Trust Saturday 17 September 11.30 am – 3.00 pm

OPEN HOUSE DAY Visit Wigmore Hall between 11.30 am and 3.00 pm; join in with creative music workshops at 12.00 noon, 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm led by RUS PEARSON, and hear performances by IGNITE at 12.30 pm, 1.30 pm and 2.30 pm. Admission free (no booking required)

Saturday 24 September 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

COME AND SING: BYRD For adults – no singing experience required ISABELLE ADAMS leads a day of singing workshops for adults, inspired by the William Byrd Festival at Wigmore Hall. Learn some new songs, join in with fun vocal warm-ups and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. Open to everyone – all activities will be inclusive and music will be taught by ear.

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Saturday 1 October 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

£18 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

GIANTS, LYRICS AND LIONS

Linked to the The Cardinall’s Musick concert on 7 October, concert tickets to be purchased separately

FAMILY DAY For age 7 plus Discover the story of Hercules and his battles with lions, giants and bulls found in sculptures and armour at the Wallace Collection. Use this as your inspiration to write songs with a published author and professional musician, and perform these on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day. Adults £12 Children £8 (not part of subscription scheme) In partnership with the Wallace Collection

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Saturday 15 October 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm

ABRACADABRA FAMILY CONCERT For age 5 plus A repeat of the concert on 14 October for families. Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 October 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

ART AS MUSIC HALF TERM COURSE For ages 11 – 16 years www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Friday 14 October 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

ABRACADABRA KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT Join musicians from the fabulous AURORA ORCHESTRA and special guests for this magical concert of live music, illusion and trickery. You won’t believe your eyes! Tickets £2.50 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by John Lyon’s Charity and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

Join creative ensemble IGNITE to explore a new sound world inspired by art. Find out how composers such as Björk, John Cage and Morton Feldman have used abstract art in exciting new ways; design your own graphic scores and discover the music of chance! You will even get to perform your new pieces on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of this half-term course. For instrumentalists grade 3 and up. £40 per ticket Supported by Arts Council England and Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

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Saturday 5 November 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE FAMILY DAY For age 5 plus Join composer JAMES REDWOOD and director HAZEL GOULD for a stormy voyage and discover the music and madness of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Explore the shipwrecks and magic in the story, be inspired by songs by Vaughan Williams and even write your own music to bring the story to life. Adults £12 Children £8 (not part of subscription scheme)

Thursday 24 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

STILE ANTICO KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT Join dynamic presenter ISABELLE ADAMS and exciting vocal group STILE ANTICO for this concert of inspiring music from the Tudor period. Accompanied by a teachers’ pack full of related Tudor music activities. Tickets £2.50 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by John Lyon’s Charity and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

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Saturday 26 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

CAVATINA FAMILY CONCERT For age 5 plus Join the SACCONI QUARTET as it plays music from across the centuries including pieces by Beethoven, Haydn and Janac˘ék – be inspired, take part in musical games and meet the musicians in this interactive concert full of family fun. Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme) CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

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

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PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

These concerts (except the 7.30 pm concert on 5 March) 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 2011. Thursday 5 January 7.30 pm

CHRISTIANE IVEN mezzo-soprano HARIOLF SCHLICHTIG viola ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano SCHUBERT Der Fischer; Meeres Stille; Der Zwerg; Die Liebe hat gelogen; Du liebst mich nicht; Atys; Rastlose Liebe BRAHMS Meine Liebe ist grün; Die Mainacht; Unbewegte laue Luft; Auf dem Kirchhofe; Von ewiger Liebe BRAHMS 2 Songs with viola Op. 91 SCHUMANN Fünf Lieder Op. 40 SCHUMANN Märchenbilder Op. 113 SCHUMANN Frauenliebe und -leben Song Recital Series

Friday 6 January 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW piano CAROLYN SAMPSON

Wednesday 4 January 7.30 pm

Annelies van der Vegt

MOZART Piano Sonata in C K279; Piano Sonata in F K280; Piano Sonata in D K311; Piano Sonata in B b K570; Piano Sonata in A minor K310 London Pianoforte Series

CAROLYN SAMPSON soprano MATTHEW WADSWORTH theorbo ECHOES OF VENICE Programme to include: STROZZI Udite, amanti CACCINI Lasciatemi morire MONTEVERDI Lamento d’Arianna from Arianna Early Music and Baroque Series

CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW

Herbie Knott

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Saturday 7 January 7.30 pm

FLORESTAN TRIO BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3; Variations in E b on an Original Theme Op. 44; Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series

LONDON CONCHORD ENSEMBLE

Patrick Allen, Opera Omnia

Monday 9 January 1.00 pm

LONDON CONCHORD ENSEMBLE POULENC Sextet for piano and wind MOZART Adagio and Rondo in C minor K617 BEETHOVEN Quintet in E b for piano and wind Op. 16

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 9 January 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT EVENT RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL Chamber Music Season

AVIV STRING QUARTET

Sunday 8 January 11.30 am

AVIV STRING QUARTET

Monday 9 January 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

MOZART String Quartet in D K499 ‘Hoffmeister’ TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 3 in E b minor Op. 30 Coffee Concert

Sunday 8 January 4.00 pm

RAPHAEL WALLFISCH cello JOHN YORK piano Programme to include: DELIUS Romance; Caprice and Elegy; Cello Sonata GRIEG Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36 Chamber Music Season

RAPHAEL WALLFISCH

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Friday 13 January 7.30 pm

FLORESTAN TRIO BEETHOVEN Variations in G Op. 121a ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’; Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1; Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series

Saturday 14 January 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence JULIA KLEITER

Tuesday 10 January 7.30 pm

JULIA KLEITER soprano CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano THE HUGO WOLF SONGBOOKS

NASH ENSEMBLE ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano MARTYN BRABBINS conductor BEETHOVEN Piano Quintet in E b Op. 16 MAHLER Rückert Lieder (arr. D Matthews) SCHUBERT Octet in F D803 Chamber Music Season/Echoes of Romanticism

WOLF Mörike: Der Knabe und das Immlein; Nixe Binsefuss; Elfenlied; Begegnung; Der Gärtner; An die Geliebte; Der Feuerreiter WOLF Goethe: Ganymed; Die Spröde; Gleich und gleich; Die Bekehrte; Ritter Kurts Brautfahrt; Der neue Amadis; Genialisch Treiben; St Nepomuks Vorabend WOLF Mörike Geistliche Lieder: Neue Liebe; Zum neuen Jahr; Karwoche; Auf ein altes Bild; Gebet; Seufzer; Wo find ich Trost?; Denk’ es, o Seele!; Schlafendes Jesuskind Song Recital Series

Wednesday 11 January 7.30 pm

FLORESTAN TRIO BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B b Op. 11; Piano Trio in G Op. 1 No. 2; Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2

ALICE COOTE

Anne Marie Le Blé

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series Sunday 15 January 11.30 am Thursday 12 January 7.30 pm

EARLY OPERA COMPANY CHRISTIAN CURNYN director CHARPENTIER Actéon PURCELL Dido and Aeneas

BORCIANI STRING QUARTET COMPETITION PRIZEWINNER’S CONCERT Artists and programme to be announced Coffee Concert

Early Music and Baroque Series

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Sunday 15 January 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone CHRISTOPHER GLYNN piano UNE RARE ÉMOTION – THE SONGS OF MAURICE RAVEL AND HIS CIRCLE RAVEL D’Anne qui me jecta de la neige; D’Anne jouant de l’espinette; Ronsard à son âme; Manteau de fleurs; Sainte CHABRIER Lied; L’île heureuse; Chanson pour Jeanne; Villanelle des petits canards RAVEL Histoires naturelles; Deux mélodies hébraïques; Chanson hébraïque from Chants populaires VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Let beauty awake from Songs of Travel; The water mill; Silent noon from The House of Life RAVEL Si morne!; Un grand sommeil noir; Les grands vents venus d’outremer; Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Song Recital Series/Ravel 75th Anniversary

ZEHETMAIR QUARTET

Keith Pattison

Tuesday 17 January 7.30 pm

ZEHETMAIR QUARTET HINDEMITH String Quartet No. 5 SCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887 Chamber Music Season

Monday 16 January 1.00 pm

HANNO MÜLLER-BRACHMANN bass baritone HENDRIK HEILMANN piano Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF BASEL

Wednesday 18 January 7.30 pm

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF BASEL JULIA SCHRÖDER conductor MARK PADMORE tenor OLIVIER DARBELLAY horn PURCELL Thou wakeful shepherd (A Morning Hymn); Now that the sun hath veiled its light (An Evening Hymn); Let the night perish ( Job’s Curse) BRITTEN Serenade Op. 31 for tenor, horn and strings MOZART Symphony No. 29 in A HANNO MÜLLER-BRACHMANN

Song Recital Series Monika Rittershaus

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Friday 20 January 7.30 pm

PIETER WISPELWEY cello KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT fortepiano BEETHOVEN 7 Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte WoO46; Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2; 12 Variations in F on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Op. 66; Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series

Saturday 21 January 7.30 pm

BELCEA QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in C # minor Op. 131 Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series

Sunday 22 January 11.30 am PIETER WISPELWEY

Hang-Jin Cho

Thursday 19 January 7.30 pm

PIETER WISPELWEY cello KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT fortepiano BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1; 12 Variations on a Theme from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO45; Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE STEPHANIE GONLEY violin SIMON CRAWFORD-PHILLIPS piano RICHARD WATKINS horn MOZART Serenade in C minor K388 (arr. Rechtman for wind quintet) MENDELSSOHN Concert Piece in F Op. 113 BRAHMS Horn Trio in E b Op. 40 Coffee Concert/Echoes of Romanticism

ECMA SHOWCASE Friday 20 January 1.00 pm Saturday 21 January 11.00 am – Masterclass Saturday 21 January 4.00 pm Sunday 22 January 4.00 pm

TRIO ATANASSOV QUATUOR ZAÏDE TRIO GASPARD Programme to include: SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Chamber Music Season NASH ENSEMBLE

Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Wednesday 25 January 1.00 pm

BRITTEN SINFONIA NICHOLAS DANIEL oboe SARAH BURNETT bassoon HUW WATKINS piano

TAKÁCS QUARTET

Ellen Appel

HANDEL Trio Sonata ANDRÉ PREVIN Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon ELSPETH BROOKE New Work (London première) POULENC Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano Chamber Music Season

Monday 23 January 1.00 pm

TAKÁCS QUARTET Wednesday 25 January 7.30 pm

HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ ˘ ÁK String Quartet in E b Op. 51 DVOR

JAMES EHNES violin ANDREW ARMSTRONG piano TARTINI/KREISLER Violin Sonata in G minor ‘Devil’s Trill’ BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’ PAGANINI 4 Caprices from 24 Caprices Op. 1 FRANCK Sonata in A for violin and piano

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Chamber Music Season

Thursday 26 January 3.00 – 6.00 pm Tuesday 31 January 3.00 – 6.00 pm Thursday 2 February 3.00 – 6.00 pm

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP THE SOLDIER’S TALE

NIKOLAI DEMIDENKO

Kirill Bachkirov

Monday 23 January 7.30 pm

This second Wigmore Study Group of the season explores the story of The Soldier’s Tale and Stravinsky’s setting of the text, linked to the evening concert performance of the work on 3 February with Janine Jansen. Wigmore Hall Learning Event

NIKOLAI DEMIDENKO piano SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus D899; Drei Klavierstücke D946; Piano Sonata in C minor D958 London Pianoforte Series

Tuesday 24 January 7.30 pm

STEPHEN HOUGH piano JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET FELDMAN Variations CARTER String Quartet No. 5 (1995) LIEBERMANN Quintet Chamber Music Season/Stephen Hough: Artist in Residence

JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET

Steve J Sherman

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Thursday 26 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 29 January 11.30 am

ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano

ZEMLINSKY QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B b Op. 18 No. 6 SUK Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale (St Wenceslas) Op. 35a MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2

SCHUBERT Winterreise Song Recital Series

Coffee Concert

Sunday 29 January 4.00 pm

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC SONG CIRCLE A Schubertiade devoted to songs inspired by the poetry of his friends. The recital will contain settings of Bruchmann, Collin, Mayrhofer, Schlechta, Schober, Seidl, Senn, von Spaun and Schubert himself. Song Recital Series

Sunday 29 January 7.30 pm

SOL GABETTA cello BERTRAND CHAMAYOU piano SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke Op. 73 BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58 SERVAIS Fantaisie sur deux Airs Russes Op. 13 Chamber Music Season MICHAEL COLLINS

Eric Richmond

Friday 27 January 7.30 pm

MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet LONDON WINDS MICHAEL COLLINS BIRTHDAY CONCERT MOZART Parto, parto from La clemenza di Tito; Clarinet Concerto in A K622; Serenade in B b for 13 wind instruments K361 ‘Gran Partita’ Chamber Music Season

Saturday 28 January 7.30 pm

ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano Repeat of concert on 26 January Song Recital Series SOL GABETTA

Marco Borggreve

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Wednesday 1 February 7.30 pm

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS violin EMANUEL AX piano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2; Violin Sonata No. 3 in E b Op. 12 No. 3; Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1; Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series

Thursday 2 February 7.30 pm Soprano to be announced

BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano ˘ ÁK Duets DVOR LEONIDAS KAVAKOS

Yannis Bournias

Song Recital Series/Dvor˘ák Plus Series

Monday 30 January 1.00 pm

Friday 3 February 7.30 pm

ELIAS STRING QUARTET

JANINE JANSEN violin STACEY WATTON double bass LARS WOUTERS VAN DEN OUDENWEIJER clarinet FREDERIK EKDAHL bassoon REINHOLD FRIEDRICH trumpet JÖRGEN VAN RIJEN trombone GUSTAVO GIMENO percussion

Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 30 January 7.30 pm

CLASSICAL OPERA COMPANY IAN PAGE conductor

Narrator to be announced

Programme to include: MOZART Ah, lo previdi ... Ah, t’invola agl’occhi miei; E Susanna non vien ... Dove sono i bei momenti from Le nozze di Figaro; Bella mia fiamma ... Resta, o cara; Symphony No. 40 in G minor K550

Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Residency

STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale

Early Music and Baroque Series

Tuesday 31 January 7.30 pm

WERNER GÜRA tenor ROGER VIGNOLES piano SCHUBERT Schwanengesang Songs by SCHUBERT Song Recital Series WERNER GÜRA

Monika Rittershaus

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Monday 6 February 1.00 pm

ALEXANDER MELNIKOV piano BRAHMS Piano Sonata No. 2 in F # minor Op. 2; Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F # minor Op. 9

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 6 February 7.30 pm

MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN piano MALIN CHRISTENSSON

Sussie Ahlburg

Saturday 4 February 11.00 am

HAYDN Piano Sonata in E minor HXVI:34 STOCKHAUSEN Klavierstücke IX VILLA-LOBOS Rudepoema LISZT Piano Sonata in B minor S178 London Pianoforte Series

JANINE JANSEN FAMILY CONCERT STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 4 February 7.30 pm

BENNEWITZ QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in E b Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ SCHNITTKE String Quartet No. 3 ˘ ÁK String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106 DVOR Chamber Music Season

Sunday 5 February 11.30 am

ANTHONY HEWITT piano SCHUBERT Impromptu in E b D899 No. 2; Impromptu No. 2 in A b D935 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 SKRYABIN Piano Sonata No. 4 in F # Op. 30 CHOPIN Barcarolle in F # Op. 60; Polonaise-fantaisie in A b Op. 61; Polonaise in A b Op. 53 ‘Heroic’ Coffee Concert

MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN

Fran Kaufman

Tuesday 7 February 7.30 pm

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET Sunday 5 February 4.00 pm

MALIN CHRISTENSSON soprano SIMON LEPPER piano

HAYDN String Quartet in E b Op. 71 No. 3 WALTON String Quartet in A minor BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’

Programme to be announced

Chamber Music Season

Song Recital Series

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Sunday 12 February 11.30 am

PRAZAK QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in D K575 BRAHMS String Quartet in Bb Op. 67 Coffee Concert

Sunday 12 February 4.00 pm

PRAZAK QUARTET

BEN JOHNSON tenor GRAHAM JOHNSON piano

Friday 10 February 7.30 pm

Programme to include: POULENC Tel jour, telle nuit

JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor ROGER VIGNOLES piano

Song Recital Series

MENDELSSOHN Neue Liebe; Gruß; Allnächtlich im Traume; Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Reiselied BRAHMS Sommerabend; Mondenschein; Es schauen die Blumen; Meerfahrt; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht; Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze SCHUMANN Dichterliebe Song Recital Series

Saturday 11 February 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE DAME FELICITY LOTT soprano PAUL WATKINS conductor WAGNER Siegfried Idyll (original version) MOZART String Quintet in C K515 R STRAUSS Sextet from Capriccio Op. 85; Last scene from Capriccio for voice and ensemble (arr. D Matthews) KARINA GAUVIN

Chamber Music Season/Echoes of Romanticism

Michael Slobodian

Sunday 12 February 7.30 pm

KARINA GAUVIN soprano ANDREA OLIVA flute ANGELA HEWITT piano HAHN Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Si mes vers avaient des ailes; A Chloris; Le printemps DEBUSSY Chansons de Bilitis JOLIVET Chant de Linos POULENC Sonata for flute and piano FAURÉ Sérénade toscane; Automne; Après un rêve; Nell; En sourdine; Notre amour RAVEL La flûte enchantée from Shéhérazade BIZET Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe; Guitare; La coccinelle; Ouvre ton cœur DAME FELICITY LOTT

Trevor Leighton

Song Recital Series/Angela Hewitt: French Series

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Thursday 16 February 7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor PAUL LEWIS piano Repeat of concert on 14 February Song Recital Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series

Sunday 19 February 11.30 am ESCHER QUARTET

J. Henry Fair

CECILIA QUARTET WINNER OF THE 2010 BANFF INTERNATIONAL STRING QUARTET COMPETITION

Monday 13 February 1.00 pm

ESCHER QUARTET

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135 BERG Lyric Suite

HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 BARTÓK String Quartet No. 5

Coffee Concert

The Escher Quartet is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/New Generation Artist

Tuesday 14 February 7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor PAUL LEWIS piano SCHUBERT Winterreise

CECILIA QUARTET

Meilssa Sung/The Banff Centre

Song Recital Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series Sunday 19 February 4.00 pm Wednesday 15 February 7.30 pm

ALEXANDRE THARAUD piano

SOPHIE KARTHÄUSER soprano CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN piano

SCARLATTI Sonatas LISZT Funérailles S173 No. 7 CHOPIN Piano Sonata No. 2 in B b minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’

Songs by FAURÉ, MERNIER, DEBUSSY, FOCCROULLE and HAHN

London Pianoforte Series

Song Recital Series

Monday 20 February 1.00 pm

ALEXANDRA SOUMM violin PLAMENA MANGOVA piano Programme to be announced Alexandra Soumm is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/ New Generation Artist ALEXANDRE THARAUD

Marco Borggreve

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Thursday 23 February 7.30 pm

STEVEN OSBORNE piano RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit; Pavane pour un infante défunte; Minuet on the name of Haydn; A la manière de … Chabrier; A la manière de … Borodine; Sérénade grotesque; Menuet in C # minor; Jeux d’eau; Prélude; La valse London Pianoforte Series/ Ravel 75th Anniversary

Friday 24 February 7.30 pm

SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE LAWRENCE POWER viola HAYDN Symphony No. 44 in E minor ‘Trauer’ LUKE BEDFORD New Work ALWYN Pastorial Fantasia MOZART Sinfonia concertante in E b K364 Chamber Music Season ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER

Nikolaus Karlinsky

Monday 20 February 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor AURORA ORCHESTRA NICHOLAS COLLON conductor THE ENGLISH CONCERT LAURENCE CUMMINGS director, harpsichord

Saturday 25 February 11.00 am

STEVEN ISSERLIS LEGENDS INTERVIEW SERIES STEVEN ISSERLIS in conversation with IDA HAENDEL Wigmore Hall Learning Event

FIGURES FROM THE ANCIENT BRITTEN Phaedra Op. 93 SATIE The Death of Socrates from Socrate HANDEL Cantata: O numi eterni (La Lucrezia) HWV145 SCARLATTI Cantata: Io son Neron, l’imperator del mondo Song Recital Series/The Bostridge Project: ‘Ancient and Modern’

Tuesday 21 February 7.30 pm

LUCY CROWE soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano BERG Sieben frühe Lieder WALTON A Song for the Lord Mayor’s Table Songs by PURCELL, SCHUBERT, STRAUSS and DEBUSSY TRAD. Folksongs Song Recital Series STEVEN OSBORNE

Benjamin Ealovega

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Sunday 26 February 7.30 pm

CHILINGIRIAN QUARTET 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 RAVEL String Quartet in F BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Chamber Music Season

RONALD BRAUTIGAM

Marco Borggreve

Saturday 25 February 7.30 pm

RONALD BRAUTIGAM fortepiano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’; 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme in E b ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35; Piano Sonata No. 14 in C # minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ London Pianoforte Series

NIKOLAÏ LUGANSKY

James McMillan/Onyx

Monday 27 February 1.00 pm Sunday 26 February 11.30 am

PANOCHA QUARTET

NIKOLAÏ LUGANSKY piano Programme to be announced

MOZART String Quartet in D minor K421 ˘ ÁK String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ DVOR Coffee Concert

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday 26 February 4.00 pm

EKATERINA SEMENCHUK mezzo-soprano Pianist to be announced TCHAIKOVSKY My genius, my angel, my friend TCHAIKOVSKY Six mélodies Op. 65 TCHAIKOVSKY Do not believe, my friend; Why?; A Tear Trembles; None but the lonely heart; The Fearful Moment; It was in the early spring; Amid the din of the ball; On the golden cornfields; The mild stars shone for us; Frenzied nights; The first meeting; The fires in the room were already out; Does the day reign? Song Recital Series

EKATERINA SEMENCHUK

Sheila Rock

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Thursday 1 March 7.30 pm

ELIAS STRING QUARTET JONATHAN BISS piano HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 SIBELIUS String Quartet in D minor Op. 56 ‘Voces Intimae’ ˘ ÁK Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 DVOR Chamber Music Season

Friday 2 March 7.30 pm ^

LLYR WILLIAMS piano JONATHAN BISS

Benjamin Ealovega

Tuesday 28 February 7.30 pm

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in C D840 ‘Reliquie’ BRAHMS 7 Fantasien Op. 116 WEBERN Variations Op. 27 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A minor D845

ROBERT HOLL baritone ROGER VIGNOLES piano

London Pianoforte Series

SCHUMANN From Myrthen: Freisinn; Dein Angesicht; Du bist wie eine Blume; Aus den östlichen Rosen; Was will die einsame Träne? Zum Schluß SCHUBERT Totengräbers Heimweh; Der Jüngling und der Tod; Der Tod und das Mädchen; Die Mutter Erde; Auflösung SCHUMANN Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß; Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; An die Türen will ich schleichen; Nachtlied MUSORGSKY Songs and Dances of Death

Saturday 3 March 6.00 pm

Song Recital Series

SCHUBERT String Trio in B b D471 BERG Adagio from Chamber Concerto ZEMLINSKY Clarinet Trio in D minor Op. 3 (Andante and Allegro)

Wednesday 29 February 6.30 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE RICHARD HOSFORD clarinet MARIANNE THORSEN violin LAWRENCE POWER viola PAUL WATKINS cello IAN BROWN piano

Chamber Music Season/Echoes of Romanticism

With ALINA IBRAGIMOVA Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 3 March 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Wednesday 29 February 7.30 pm

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC ALINA IBRAGIMOVA director, violin MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS: RISE OF THE CONCERTO BIBER Passacaglia from the ‘Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas’ BACH Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016; Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041 VIVALDI Concerto in D for violin RV234 ‘L’inquietudine’; Concerto in D minor for 2 violins and cello Op. 3 No. 11 from L’estro armonico RV565 BIBER Battalia BACH Concerto in E for violin BWV1042

NASH ENSEMBLE SCHUMANN Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales) Op. 132 KORNGOLD Piano Quintet in E Op. 15 JOHANN STRAUSS II Schatzwalzer (Treasure Waltz) (arr. Webern) for piano, harmonium and string quartet SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘Trout’ Chamber Music Season/Echoes of Romanticism

Early Music and Baroque Series

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Sunday 4 March 11.30 am

TRIO DI PARMA BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 Coffee Concert

Sunday 4 March 4.00 pm

ANNA PROHASKA soprano ERIC SCHNEIDER piano DEBUSSY La mer est plus belle HAYDN The Mermaid’s song H LAWES Slide soft you silver floods SCHUBERT Der Fischer; Am See SZYMANOWSKI Three Songs from Songs of a Fairy Princess MAHLER Phantasie aus Don Juan WOLF Nixe Binsefuss SCHUMANN Die Meerfee MENDELSSOHN Schliflied SCHUBERT Des Fischers Liebesglück FAURÉ La fleur qui va sur l’eau HONEGGER Chanson des Sirènes; Berceuse de la Sirène DOWLAND Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears ˘ ÁK Song to the Moon from Rusalka DVOR

NATALIE DESSAY

Sunday 4 March 7.30 pm

NATALIE DESSAY soprano PHILIPPE CASSARD piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Song Recital Series

TRULS MØRK

Stéphane de Bourgies/Virgin Classics

Monday 5 March 1.00 pm

TRULS MØRK cello KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI piano BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1 RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19

ANNA PROHASKA

Monika Rittershaus

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Monday 5 March 6.00 pm

Friday 9 March 7.30 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK

SUDHA RAGHUNATHAN South Indian

For details see William Byrd Sacred Music Series on pages 24–25

(Carnatic) vocalist

AMJAD ALI KHAN sarod with tabla accompaniment

Monday 5 March 7.30 pm

INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC

THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK ANDREW CARWOOD director

Chamber Music Season/Amjad Ali Khan: Indian Music Series

For details see William Byrd Sacred Music Series on pages 24–25 Saturday 10 March 11.00 am Wednesday 7 March 10.00 am

SING A STORY

STEPHEN HOUGH MASTERCLASS

FAMILY CONCERT

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 10 March 7.30 pm

VIENNA PIANO TRIO HAYDN Piano Trio to be announced SCHOENBERG/STEUERMANN Verklärte Nacht arr. for piano trio BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Chamber Music Season/Vienna Piano Trio Series

Sunday 11 March 11.30 am

˘ KARADAGLIC´ guitar MILOS Programme to be announced Coffee Concert HEATH QUARTET

Sussie Ahlburg

Wednesday 7 March 7.30 pm

RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE HANDEL Amadigi Early Music and Baroque Series

Thursday 8 March 7.30 pm

STEPHEN HOUGH piano HEATH QUARTET KIRCHNER Selected pieces SCHUMANN String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 Chamber Music Season/Stephen Hough: Artist in Residence

˘ KARADAGLIC´ MILOS

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Tuesday 13 March 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK COMPOSERS IN FOCUS Composers in discussion about the works to be performed in the evening concert. Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Tuesday 13 March 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE CLAIRE BOOTH soprano LIONEL FRIEND conductor NASH INVENTIONS

SYLVIA SCHWARTZ

Enrico Nawrath

Sunday 11 March 4.00 pm

SYLVIA SCHWARTZ soprano WOLFRAM RIEGER piano SCHUBERT Die Sterne; Du bist die Ruh; Heimliches Lieben; Versunken; Sei mir gegrüßt; Auf dem Wasser zu singen WOLF From Spanisches Liederbuch: Wer tat deinem Füsslein weh?; In dem Schatten meiner Locken; Köpfchen, Köpfchen, nicht gewimmert; Bedeckt mich mit Blumen; Mögen alle bösen Zungen RODRIGO 4 Madrigales amatorios FALLA 7 Canciones populares españolas Song Recital Series

TURNAGE Returning for string sextet HARVEY New Work for piano, flute, clarinet and string quartet GOEHR Clarinet Quintet MAXWELL DAVIES The Last Island for string sextet BIRTWISTLE New Work for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp (world première) MATTHEWS The Island for soprano, flute, clarinet, horn, piano, viola and cello Chamber Music Season

Thursday 15 March 7.30 pm

KUSS QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in D K575 TCHAIKOVSKY From Album pour enfants Op. 39 (arr. for string quartet): Chanson russe; Mélodie antique française; La poupée malade; Chanson populaire (Kamarinskaya) TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 STRAVINSKY Three Pieces for string quartet; Concertino for string quartet Chamber Music Season

Monday 12 March 1.00 pm

BORIS GILTBURG piano RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No. 2 in B b minor Op. 36 SCHUMANN Papillons Op. 2 PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor Op. 29

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

KUSS QUARTET

Neda Navaee

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Friday 16 March 6.00 pm

Sunday 18 March 11.30 am

PRE-CONCERT EVENT

BELCEA QUARTET MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet

RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL

MOZART Clarinet Quintet in A K581 BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115

Chamber Music Season

Coffee Concert Friday 16 March 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE

Sunday 18 March 7.30 pm

Programme to be announced

SIMON TRPC˘ESKI piano

Chamber Music Season

BACH/LISZT Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV543 LISZT Sonetto del Petrarca No. 104 from Années de pèlerinage S161; Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este from Années de pèlerinage S163; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 in A minor S244; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C # minor S244 SCHUBERT 16 German Dances D783; Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ London Pianoforte Series

Monday 19 March 1.00 pm

META4 FAURÉ String Quartet in E minor Op. 121 SCHUMANN String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3

ANDREW KENNEDY

Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 17 March 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

AILISH TYNAN soprano ANDREW KENNEDY tenor IAIN BURNSIDE piano ST PATRICK’S DAY CONCERT QUILTER Believe me, if all those endearing young charms MENDELSSOHN Der Blumenkranz SCHUMANN Zwei Venetianische Lieder from Myrthen BERLIOZ Le coucher du soleil IVES A Night Thought MENDELSSOHN Venetianisches Gondellied HUGHES Oh breathe not his name DUPARC Elégie JENSEN Wenn durch die Piazzetta BRITTEN The last rose of summer BARBER Hermit Songs SZYMANOWSKI Four songs to poems by James Joyce IRELAND Tutto è sciolto HOWELLS Flood ORR Bahnhofstrasse BARBER I hear an army; Nuvoletta CAGE The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs MARTIN This is just to say BELL New Work WALSHE G.L.O.R.I. BARRY The Importance of Being Earnest Song Recital Series

META4

Antti Hannuniemi

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Thursday 22 March 7.30 pm

BELCEA QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series

Friday 23 March 7.30 pm

GOULD PIANO TRIO

THE PRINCE CONSORT

Richard Ecclestone

˘ ÁK Piano Trio in B b Op. 21 DVOR MARTINU ˚ Piano Trio No. 1 ‘5 pièces brèves’ ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 DVOR Chamber Music Season/Dvor˘ák Plus Series

Tuesday 20 March 7.30 pm

MARTIN HELMCHEN piano

Sunday 25 March 11.30 am

BACH Partita No. 5 in G BWV829 SCHOENBERG 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 LISZT Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen ‘Präludium nach JS Bach’ S179; Au bord d’une source from Années de pèlerinage S160; Transcendental Study No. 2 in A minor S139; Nuages gris S199; Bagatelle sans tonalité S216a; Vexilla regis prodeunt S185 SCHUMANN Études symphoniques Op. 13 (with posthumous Études)

HEATH QUARTET

London Pianoforte Series

THE PRINCE CONSORT PHILIP FOWKE piano ALISDAIR HOGARTH piano

Wednesday 21 March 1.00 pm

BRITTEN SINFONIA THOMAS GOULD violin MIRANDA DALE violin MARTIN OUTRAM viola CAROLINE DEARNLEY cello HUW WATKINS piano

MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E b Op. 12 JANÁC˘EK String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Coffee Concert

Sunday 25 March 4.00 pm

BRAHMS Liebeslieder, Waltzes Op. 52 STEPHEN HOUGH Other Love Songs BRAHMS Neue Liebeslieder, Waltzes Op. 65 Song Recital Series

LUKE BEDFORD New Work (London première) FRANCK Piano Quintet in F minor Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 21 March 7.30 pm

FLORIAN BOESCH baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin Song Recital Series FLORIAN BOESCH

Stephan von der Decken

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

Monday 26 March 1.00 pm Artists and programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 26 March 7.30 pm

PACIFICA QUARTET SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 9 in E b Op. 117 SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 10 in A b Op. 118 Chamber Music Season/Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle

PACIFICA QUARTET

Robin Holland

Wednesday 28 March 7.30 pm

PACIFICA QUARTET SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets No. 11 in F minor Op. 122; No. 12 in Db Op. 133; No. 13 in Bb minor Op. 138 Chamber Music Season/Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle

Thursday 29 March 7.30 pm

PACIFICA QUARTET SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets No. 14 in F# Op. 142; No. 15 in E b minor Op. 144 Chamber Music Season/Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle ALBAN GERHARDT

Tuesday 27 March 7.30 pm

ALBAN GERHARDT cello THOMAS LARCHER piano SCHUMANN 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 DEBUSSY Cello Sonata in D minor SCHUMANN Adagio and Allegro in A b Op. 70 (for cello and piano) THOMAS LARCHER New Work for cello and piano SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 Chamber Music Season

Saturday 31 March 2:00 pm & 7.00 pm

LONDON INTERNATIONAL STRING QUARTET COMPETITION 2012 SEMI-FINALS Finals will be held on Sunday 1 April – see page 90 Chamber Music Season

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2012

These concerts (except the 7.30 pm concert on 17 May) 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 2011. Monday 2 April 7.30 pm

JOAN RODGERS soprano RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone ROGER VIGNOLES piano SCHUMANN Er ist’s; Lied der Suleika; Das verlassne Mägdelein; Die Kartenlegerin BRAHMS Geheimnis; Nachtigall; Feldeinsamkeit; Botschaft MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen; Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz; Das irdische Leben; Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Lob des hohen Verstandes WOLF Songs from Italienisches Liederbuch DORIC STRING QUARTET

George Garnier

Song Recital Series

Sunday 1 April 11.30 am

DORIC STRING QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5 BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Coffee Concert

Sunday 1 April 6.00 pm

LONDON INTERNATIONAL STRING QUARTET COMPETITION 2012 FINALS Chamber Music Season

RODERICK WILLIAMS

Benjamin Ealovega

Monday 2 April 1.00 pm Artists and programme to be announced Tuesday 3 April 7.30 pm

GOULD PIANO TRIO BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

˘ ÁK Piano Trio in G minor Op. 26 DVOR JANÁC˘EK String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ (arr. Korber) ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ DVOR Chamber Music Season/Dvor˘ák Plus Series

PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2012

Tuesday 10 April 7.30 pm

TOKYO STRING QUARTET ANDREAS HAEFLIGER piano Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 11 April 7.30 pm

SANDRINE PIAU soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano TOKYO STRING QUARTET

Wednesday 4 April 7.30 pm

HENK NEVEN baritone HANS EIJSACKERS piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Sunday 8 April 11.30 am

Christian Ducasse

FAURÉ Le papillon et la fleur; Au bord de l’eau; Après un rêve; Le secret; Les berceaux LISZT Der Fischerknabe; Oh! quand je dors; Die Loreley CHAUSSON Amour d’antan; Dans la forêt du charme et de l’enchantement; Les heures; Les papillons DEBUSSY Ariettes oubliées ZEMLINSKY Liebe und Frühling; Das Rosenband; Frühlingslied; Wandl’ ich in dem Wald des Abends STRAUSS Mädchenblumen POULENC Deux poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire; Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon Song Recital Series

STILE ANTICO GIBBONS Hosanna to the son of David TALLIS O Sacrum convivium SHEPPARD I give you a new commandment BROWNE Jesu, mercy, how may this be? VICTORIA O vos omnes TALLIS Salvator mundi DE LASSUS Vide homo TAVERNER Dum transisset sabbatum BYRD In resurrectione tua GIBBONS I am the resurrection LHÉRITIER Surrexit pastor bonus WEELKES Gloria in excelsis Deo Coffee Concert

Monday 9 April 1.00 pm

TOKYO STRING QUARTET Programme to include BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A minor Op. 132

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

SANDRINE PIAU

Antoine Le Grand/Naïve

PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2012

Thursday 12 April 7.30 pm

HONG XU piano Programme to include: ROCHBERG Nach Bach BACH Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 LISZT Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude London Pianoforte Series

Friday 13 April 7.30 pm

BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano ˘ ÁK Songs from the Dvu˚ r Králové Manuscript Op. 7 DVOR BRAHMS Deutsche Volkslieder ˘ ÁK Biblical Songs Op. 99 (a selection) DVOR Songs by Slovenian composers ˘ ÁK Folk Songs Op. 73 DVOR

KELLER QUARTET

Peter Miller

Sunday 15 April 11.30 am

Song Recital Series/Dvor˘ák Plus Series

KELLER QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ BRAHMS String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1

Saturday 14 April 7.30 pm

SOLOISTS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Coffee Concert

RAVEL Introduction and Allegro BLISS Clarinet Quintet TCHAIKOVSKY String Sextet in D minor Op. 70 ‘Souvenir de Florence’ Chamber Music Season

Monday 16 April 1.00 pm

MARTIN FRÖST clarinet ROLAND PÖNTINEN piano SKRYABIN Prelude in B (arr. for clarinet and piano) BRAHMS Hungarian Dance (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst) TRADITIONAL Klezmer medley (arr. Pöntinen/ Fröst) FALLA Nana from 7 canciones populares españolas (arr. Fröst/Pöntinen) BRAHMS Wie Melodien zieht es mir (arr. for clarinet and piano) HILLBORG Påfågelsögonblick (The Peacock Moment) RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Flight of the Bumble-Bee (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst) TRADITIONAL Catalan Folksong FRÖST Cadenza MESSAGER Solo de concours BACH/GOUNOD Ave Maria AHBEZ Nature Boy (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst) MONTI Csárdás (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst)

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert HONG XU

Chad Johnston

PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2012

Tuesday 17 April 7.30 pm

PAUL LEWIS piano SCHUBERT 16 German Dances D783; Piano Sonata in A minor D784; Allegretto in C minor D915; Piano Sonata in A minor D845 London Pianoforte Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series

Wednesday 18 April 7.30 pm

CALEFAX ABRAHAMSEN Walden SHLOMOWITZ Line and length BACH Die Kunst der Fuge BWV1080 MUHLY New Work (UK première) REICH New York Counterpoint Chamber Music Season

Thursday 19 April 7.30 pm

PAUL LEWIS piano

HILARY HAHN

Peter Miller

Repeat of concert on 17 April London Pianoforte Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series

Sunday 22 April 11.30 am

FORMOSA QUARTET Saturday 21 April 7.30 pm

Programme to be announced

LONDON HANDEL ORCHESTRA

Coffee Concert

Programme to include works by HANDEL, GEMINIANI, STANLEY, CORELLI Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday 22 April 7.30 pm

HILARY HAHN violin Pianist to be announced BACH Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violin BWV1001 BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2 BRAHMS Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata (Sonatensatz) Interspersed with selected new short pieces by contemporary composers Chamber Music Season

Monday 23 April 1.00 pm

SALLY MATTHEWS soprano SIMON LEPPER piano Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert CALEFAX

PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2012

Monday 23 April 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT EVENT RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL Chamber Music Season

Monday 23 April 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 24 April 7.30 pm

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS violin EMANUEL AX piano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Op. 12 No. 1; Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Op. 30 No. 3; Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series JONATHAN COHEN

KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARD 2012 CENTENARY YEAR

Pascal Gély

Thursday 26 April 6.30 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK With JONATHAN COHEN Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 25 April 2.00 pm

SEMI-FINAL Thursday 26 April 7.30 pm Friday 27 April 6.00 pm

FINAL

Wednesday 25 April 7.30 pm

ANTHONY DEAN GRIFFEY tenor WARREN JONES piano An evening of American and English Song Song Recital Series

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC JONATHAN COHEN director, keyboards ANNA PROHASKA soprano JAMES GILCHRIST tenor ROBERT MURRAY tenor MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS: DAWN OF THE CANTATA Programme to include: MONTEVERDI Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and works by FALCONIERI, CASTELLO, ZANETTI and MARINI. Early Music and Baroque Series

PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2012

Saturday 28 April 7.30 pm

HAN-NA CHANG cello FINGHIN COLLINS piano RACHMANINOV Vocalise RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 FALLA 7 canciones populares españolas (for cello and piano) PIAZZOLLA Le Grand Tango (for cello and piano) Chamber Music Season

Sunday 29 April 11.30 am

SUNWOOK KIM piano SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A D959 LISZT Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Coffee Concert

Monday 30 April 1.00 pm

CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN tenor Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced

HAN-NA CHANG

Sheila Rock

Tuesday 1 May 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

QUATUOR EBÈNE MOZART String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ SCHUBERT String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 2 May 1.00 pm

BRITTEN SINFONIA JACQUELINE SHAVE violin MIRANDA DALE violin CLARE FINNIMORE viola CAROLINE DEARNLEY cello EMER MCDONOUGH flute NICHOLAS DANIEL oboe

MARK PADMORE tenor VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 10 Blake Songs New Work to be announced WARLOCK The Curlew Chamber Music Season CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN

Marco Borggreve

PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2012

Thursday 3 May 7.30 pm

GIL SHAHAM violin AKIRA EGUCHI piano WALTON Sonata for violin and piano BACH Sonata No. 3 in C for solo violin BWV1005 MILONE New Work (world première) SARASATE Zortzico Op. 39; Adiós montañas mias Op. 37; Malagueña from Spanish Dances Op. 21 RODRIGO Sonata pimpante Chamber Music Season

EKATERINA SCHERBACHENKO

Sunday 6 May 4.00 pm

Saturday 5 May

EKATERINA SCHERBACHENKO

COLIN CARR cello

soprano

ANNA TILBROOK piano

BACH SUITES FOR SOLO CELLO 1.00 pm

Programme to be announced

BACH Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007; Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009; Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011

Song Recital Series

7.30 pm BACH Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008; Cello Suite No. 4 in E b BWV1010; Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012 Chamber Music Season

Sunday 6 May 11.30 am

CUARTETO CASALS HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 SCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887 Coffee Concert

JANINA FIALKOWSKA

Michael Schilhansl

Monday 7 May 1.00 pm

JANINA FIALKOWSKA piano CHOPIN Polonaise in E b minor Op. 26 No. 2; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54; Waltz in A b Op. 64 No. 3; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Nocturne in E b Op. 55 No. 2; Mazurka in B b Op. 7 No. 1; Mazurka in C minor Op. 30 No. 1; Mazurka in C # minor Op. 50 No. 3; Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert CUARTETO CASALS

Felix Broede

PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2012

Monday 7 May 7.30 pm

Thursday 10 May 7.30 pm

IESTYN DAVIES countertenor Other artists to be announced

VÉRONIQUE GENS soprano SUSAN MANOFF piano

Programme to be announced

FAURÉ Le papillon et la fleur; Au bord de l’eau; Après un rêve; Les berceaux; Lydia; Mandoline DUPARC L’invitation au voyage; Romance de Mignon; Chanson triste DEBUSSY Fleur des blés; Nuit d’étoiles CHAUSSON Les papillons; Le colibri; Le temps de lilas; La chanson bien douce HAHN Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Trois jours de vendange; Lydé; Tyndaris; Pholoé; A Chloris; Le printemps

Song Recital Series

Friday 11 May 7.30 pm

SOPHIE DANEMAN soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor ELIZABETH KENNY lute GRAHAM JOHNSON piano IESTYN DAVIES

Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 8 May 7.30 pm

ALASDAIR BEATSON piano MOZART Piano Sonata in F K332 FAURÉ 9 Préludes Op. 103 RAVEL Sonatine SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 9 May 7.30 pm

JERUSALEM QUARTET ALEXANDER MELNIKOV piano SCHUMANN Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47 SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44

FÊTES GALANTES LE CAMUS Fuyons cette rive charmante MOULINIÉ Objét le plus beau DE VISÉE Prélude LAMBERT Ombre de mon amant; Par mes chants DE VISÉE Chaconne LAMBERT Vos mespris chaque jour me causent des alarmes from Livre d’Airs de cour CHARPENTIER Tristes déserts, sombre retraite; Sans frayeur dans ce bois CORBETTA Chaconne CHARPENTIER Charmantes fleurs naissez LULLY Scene of Atys and Sangaride from Act IV of Atys DEBUSSY Fêtes galantes Books I & II FAURÉ Clair de lune; Tristesse; Au bord de l’eau; Lydia; Prison; Notre amour; Les berceaux; Mandoline; Nell; Le parfum impérissable; Fleur jetée; Le papillon et la fleur; Puisqu’ici-bas Song Recital Series/Ian Bostridge Project: ‘Ancient and Modern’

Chamber Music Season

Thursday 10 May 3.00 – 6.00 pm Tuesday 15 May 3.00 – 6.00 pm Thursday 17 May 3.00 – 6.00 pm

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP BYRD FESTIVAL This final Wigmore Study Group of the season explores the music of William Byrd, linked to the William Byrd Sacred Music Series. Wigmore Hall Learning Event

ELIZABETH KENNY

PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2012

Benjamin Ealovega

Monday 14 May 7.30 pm

BELCEA QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4; String Quartet in F Op. 135 Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series

Wednesday 16 May 7.30 pm

STEPHEN BEUS

Christian Steiner

JANINE JANSEN violin BORIS BROVTSYN violin AMIHAI GROSZ viola MAXIM RYSANOV viola TORLEIF THEDÉEN viola JENS PETER MAINTZ cello

Saturday 12 May 7.30 pm

SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D956

STEPHEN BEUS piano

Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Residency

BACH/BUSONI Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV1004 GRIFFES The Fountain of the Acqua Paola Op. 7 No. 3; The Lake at Evening Op. 5 No. 1; Scherzo Op. 6 No. 3 from Fantasy Pieces MEDTNER Fairy Tale Op. 51 No. 6; Fairy Tale Op. 20 No. 2 MOZART Variations on Gluck’s ‘Unser dummer Pöbel meint’ K455 STEVENS Fantasia on Giles Farnaby’s Dreame Op. 22 LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C # minor London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 13 May 11.30 am

GAUTIER CAPUÇON cello JÉRÔME DUCROS piano BRIDGE Cello Sonata in D minor SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Coffee Concert

Monday 14 May 1.00 pm

ALLAN CLAYTON tenor Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

ALLAN CLAYTON

PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2012

Jack Liebeck

Thursday 17 May 7.30 pm

THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK ANDREW CARWOOD director For details see William Byrd Sacred Music Series on pages 24–25

Friday 18 May 7.30 pm

MAGDALENA KOZ˘ENÁ mezzo-soprano MITSUKO UCHIDA piano Programme to include: DEBUSSY Chansons de Bilitis; Ariettes oubliées MESSIAEN Poèmes pour Mi (a selection from Book II)

MAGDALENA KOZ˘ENÁ

Song Recital Series

Sunday 20 May 7.30 pm

Mathias Bothor/Deutsche Grammophon

MAGDALENA KOZ˘ENÁ mezzo-soprano MITSUKO UCHIDA piano Repeat of concert on 18 May Song Recital Series

Monday 21 May 1.00 pm

JOHANNES MOSER cello Pianist to be announced BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 BRITTEN Cello Sonata in C Op. 65

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert MITSUKO UCHIDA

Roger Mastroianni

Saturday 19 May 7.30 pm

JERUSALEM QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2 KOPYTMAN String Quartet No. 4 BRAHMS String Quartet in B b Op. 67 Chamber Music Season

Sunday 20 May 11.30 am

CHLOË HANSLIP violin CHARLES OWEN piano PÄRT Fratres for violin and piano SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D934 STRAUSS Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18 Coffee Concert

CHLOË HANSLIP

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Benjamin Ealovega

Friday 25 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm

YCAT FINALS 2012 Chamber Music Season

Sunday 27 May 11.30 am

THE SITKOVETSKY TRIO HAYDN Piano Trio in G HXV:25 ‘Gypsy Rondo’ ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 DVOR Coffee Concert

Monday 28 May 1.00 pm RACHEL PODGER

Jonas Sacks

Monday 21 May 7.30 pm

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC BAROQUE ORCHESTRA RACHEL PODGER director, violin EXOTIC BAROQUE

JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET piano DEBUSSY Images oubliées; Images, Series 1 LISZT La Notte; Grosses Konzertsolo S176

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

VIVALDI Concerto in E minor for 4 violins Op. 3 No. 4 CPE BACH Concerto in D minor for harpsichord Wq. 23 VIVALDI Concerto in D ‘Il Grosso Mogul’ RV208 LOCATELLI Concerto Grosso in E b ‘Il Pianto d’Arianna’ VIVALDI Concerto in D minor for 2 violins Op. 3 No. 11 LOCATELLI Concerto in F for 4 violins Op. 4 No. 12 Early Music and Baroque Series

Wednesday 23 May 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW piano MOZART Piano Sonata in B b K281; Piano Sonata in E b K282; Piano Sonata in G K283; Piano Sonata in C K330; Piano Sonata in B b K333 London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 24 May 7.30 pm

FLORILEGIUM A CELEBRATION OF FREDERICK THE GREAT CPE BACH Trio Sonata in C for flute, violin and continuo FREDERICK THE GREAT Sonata in C for flute and continuo BACH Ricercar a 3 from The Musical Offering BWV1079 QUANTZ Trio Sonata in C minor for flute, viola d’amore and continuo BENDA Sonata in A for violin and continuo BACH Trio Sonata in C minor from The Musical Offering Early Music and Baroque Series

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JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET

Paul Mitchell

Tuesday 29 May 7.30 pm

ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET director, harpsichord Other artists to be announced HANDEL Arias from Ariodante, Alcina and Giulio Cesare Early Music and Baroque Series

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Wednesday 30 May 7.30 pm

ELIAS STRING QUARTET PASCAL MORAGUÈS clarinet MOZART String Quartet in A K464 KURTÁG Officium breve Op. 28 BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 Chamber Music Season LONDON HAYDN QUARTET

Benjamin Harte

Thursday 31 May 7.30 pm Saturday 2 June 7.30 pm

VIENNA PIANO TRIO

LONDON HAYDN QUARTET STEVEN DANN viola

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in G Op. 1 No. 2 FUCHS New Work (UK première) SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 in B b D898

HAYDN String Quartet in A Op. 20 No. 6 HAYDN String Quartet in Eb Op. 20 No. 1 MOZART String Quintet in D K593

Chamber Music Season/Vienna Piano Trio Series

Chamber Music Season Friday 1 June 7.30 pm

RICHARD GOODE piano MOZART Piano Sonata in B b K281; Fantasia in C minor K475 BRAHMS 7 Fantasien Op. 116 CHOPIN Ballade No. 3 in A b Op. 47 CHOPIN Piano Sonata No. 2 in B b minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 3 June 11.30 am

EUGENE UGORSKI violin KONSTANTIN LIFSCHITZ piano BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 BARTÓK Rhapsody No. 2 FRANCK Violin Sonata in A Coffee Concert

Saturday 2 June 1.00 pm

LONDON HAYDN QUARTET STEVEN DANN viola

Sunday 3 June 4.00 pm

LONDON HAYDN QUARTET STEVEN DANN viola

HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 MOZART String Quintet in B b K174 MOZART String Quintet in E b K614

HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4; String Quartet in G minor Op. 20 No. 3 MOZART String Quintet in G minor K516

Chamber Music Season

Sunday 3 June 7.30 pm

LONDON HAYDN QUARTET STEVEN DANN viola MOZART String Quintet in C minor K406 HAYDN String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 MOZART String Quintet in C K515 Chamber Music Season

RICHARD GOODE

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Sasha Gusov

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Monday 4 June 1.00 pm

LOUIS LORTIE piano Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 4 June 7.30 pm

KIRILL GERSTEIN piano BACH English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV811 MOZART/BUSONI Gigue, Bolero and Variations KNUSSEN Ophelia’s Last Dance (UK première) WEBER Invitation to the Dance: Rondo brillant in Db SCHUMANN Carnaval Op. 9 SCHUBERT/LISZT Soirées de Vienna No. 6 from Valses caprices d’après Schubert S427

DAVID DANIELS

London Pianoforte Series

Robert Recker/Virgin Classics

Wednesday 6 June 7.30 pm

THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET director, harpsichord DAVID DANIELS countertenor NADJA ZWIENER violin KATHARINA SPRECKELSEN oboe VIVALDI Sinfonia in G RV149; Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro RV169 BACH Concerto in D minor for oboe and strings BWV1059 SCARLATTI Cantata: Perche tacete BACH Concerto in C minor BWV1060 for oboe and violin VIVALDI Stabat Mater RV621 Early Music and Baroque Series

KIRILL GERSTEIN

Marco Borggreve

Thursday 7 June 7.30 pm

ANGELA HEWITT piano Tuesday 5 June 7.30 pm

STEPHEN HOUGH piano THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET BYRD The Galliard Jig; Callino casturame; Hugh Aston’s Ground BRITTEN String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 ELGAR Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84 Chamber Music Season/Stephen Hough: Artist in Residence

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COUPERIN Pièces de clavecin (extracts) FAURÉ Thème et Variations in C # minor Op. 73; Nocturne No. 5 in B b Op. 37; Nocturne No. 6 in D b Op. 63; Nocturne No. 13 in B minor Op. 119 RAMEAU Suite in A minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin London Pianoforte Series/Angela Hewitt: French Series

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Saturday 9 June 7.30 pm

Tuesday 12 June 7.30 pm

CHRISTINE BREWER soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano

MARK PADMORE tenor PAUL LEWIS piano

Programme to be announced

BEETHOVEN Mailied; Neue Liebe, neues Leben; Adelaide; An die ferne Geliebte SCHUBERT Schwanengesang

Song Recital Series

Song Recital Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series Sunday 10 June 11.30 am

KUNGSBACKA PIANO TRIO

Wednesday 13 June 7.30 pm

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1 New Work to be announced BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

BELCEA QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5; String Quartet in B b Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Music

Thursday 14 June 7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor PAUL LEWIS piano Repeat of concert on 12 June Song Recital Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series

KUNGSBACKA PIANO TRIO

Birgitta Tingdal

Sunday 10 June 7.30 pm

JONAS KAUFMANN tenor HELMUT DEUTSCH piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Monday 11 June 1.00 pm

FRANÇOIS LELEUX oboe EMMANUEL STROSSE piano Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert JONAS KAUFMANN

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Sunday 17 June 11.30 am

NATALIE CLEIN cello Programme to include: KODÁLY Sonata for solo cello Op. 8 Coffee Concert

Sunday 17 June 4.00 pm

RENATA POKUPIC´ mezzo-soprano ANTOINE TAMESTIT viola ROGER VIGNOLES piano SCHUMANN Myrthen (excerpts) BRAHMS Viola Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2 BRIDGE Three songs with viola BRIDGE/BRITTEN There is a willow grows aslant a brook BRAHMS 2 Songs with viola Op. 91 NATALIE CLEIN

Sussie Ahlburg

Song Recital Series

Friday 15 June 7.00 pm

SUNIL SAXENA, SMITA NAGDEV sitar duo SUNANDA SHARMA North Indian (Hindustani) vocalist Chamber Music Season/Amjad Ali Khan: Indian Music Series

Friday 15 June 10.00 pm

AMJAD ALI KHAN sarod Ensemble to be announced Programme to include new work for sarod and string ensemble. Chamber Music Season/Amjad Ali Khan: Indian Music Series

Saturday 16 June 11.00 am

STEVEN ISSERLIS LEGENDS INTERVIEW SERIES

RENATA POKUPIC´

STEVEN ISSERLIS in conversation with MARTA CASALS ISTOMIN Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Monday 18 June 1.00 pm

FLORIAN BOESCH baritone Saturday 16 June 7.30 pm

Pianist to be announced

STEVEN OSBORNE piano

Programme to be announced

RAVEL Menuet antique; Miroirs; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Le tombeau de Couperin London Pianoforte Series/Ravel 75th Anniversary

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BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2012

Chris Gloag

Monday 18 June 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT EVENT RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL Chamber Music Season

Monday 18 June 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 19 June 7.30 pm

MIAH PERSSON soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano Programme to include: Songs by TCHAIKOVSKY, RACHMANINOV, POULENC and HAHN Song Recital Series EVELYN GLENNIE

Jim Callaghan

Wednesday 20 June 7.30 pm

MARTIN ROSCOE piano Other artists to be announced Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Thursday 21 June 7.30 pm

ANDREAS STAIER fortepiano A Selection of Diabelli Variations from the Vaterländischer Künstlerverein BEETHOVEN 6 Bagatelles Op. 126; 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 London Pianoforte Series/Andreas Staier ‘Perspectives’

Friday 22 June 7.30 pm

EVELYN GLENNIE percussion Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season MIAH PERSSON

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Mina artistbilder

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Tuesday 26 June 7.30 pm

AILISH TYNAN soprano CHRISTOPHER GLYNN piano UNE RARE ÉMOTION – THE SONGS OF MAURICE RAVEL AND HIS CIRCLE RAVEL Chanson du rouet; Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera RAVEL From Chants populaires: Chanson française; Chanson italienne; Chanson écossaise; Chanson espagnole FALLA From 7 Canciones populares españolas: El paño moruno; Asturiana; Jota; Canción RAVEL Ballade de la reine morte d’aimer STRAVINSKY Three little songs (Recollections of my childhood) RAVEL Rêves; Noël des jouets DEBUSSY Apparition RAVEL Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé STRAUSS Nichts; Ständchen; Die Nacht; Morgen GERSHWIN The man I love; Nice work if you can get it; Summertime RAVEL Sur l’herbe MARCHETTI Fascination Song Recital Series/Ravel 75th Anniversary

TRIO WANDERER

Marco Borggreve

Sunday 24 June 11.30 am

TRIO WANDERER BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2 Coffee Concert

Monday 25 June 1.00 pm

TRIO WANDERER Programme to include: TURINA Círculo Op. 91 SCHUBERT Notturno in E b D897

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

AILISH TYNAN

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Sussie Ahlburg

Saturday 30 June 7.30 pm

SOLOISTS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 Chamber Music Season

Sunday 1 July 11.30 am

LEIPZIG STRING QUARTET

SUSAN GRAHAM

Dario Acosta

MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E b Op. 127 Coffee Concert

Wednesday 27 June 6.30 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK With RICHARD EGARR Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 27 June 7.30 pm

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC CHOIR OF THE AAM RICHARD EGARR director, keyboards MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS: AGE OF THE FRENCH BAROQUE LULLY De profundis CHARPENTIER Sonate à huit LULLY Regina coeli; Salve regina MARAIS Suite from Sonatas pour le Coucher du Roy LULLY Dies irae

LEIPZIG STRING QUARTET

Monday 2 July 1.00 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

STEPHEN KOVACEVICH piano KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI piano

Friday 29 June 7.30 pm

Programme to include: FIRSOVA Three Georgian Dances

SUSAN GRAHAM mezzo-soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano Programme to include: SCHUBERT Vedi quanto adoro BERLIOZ La mort d’Ophélie Mignon’s songs by SCHUBERT, SCHUMANN, LISZT, TCHAIKOVSKY, DUPARC and WOLF HOROVITZ Lady Macbeth – a Scena POULENC Fiançailles pour rire Songs by SONDHEIM and COWARD

Programme to be announced

Song Recital Series

London Pianoforte Series

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BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 2 July 7.30 pm

BERTRAND CHAMAYOU piano

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Sunday 8 July 11.30 am

AURORA ORCHESTRA Programme to be announced Coffee Concert

Sunday 8 July 7.30 pm

LEOPOLD STRING TRIO STEVEN OSBORNE piano FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15; Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 JOYCE DIDONATO

Sheila Rock

Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 4 July 7.30 pm

JOYCE DIDONATO mezzo-soprano DAVID ZOBEL piano Songs by ROSSINI, VIVALDI, FAURÉ, HAHN and HEAD

Monday 9 July 1.00 pm

PAVEL HAAS QUARTET Programme to be announced

Song Recital Series

Thursday 5 July 7.30 pm

INGRID FLITER piano KALEIDO ENSEMBLE

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 10 July 7.30 pm

XAVIER DE MAISTRE harp

RAVEL Piano Concerto in G CHOPIN Piano Concerto in F minor No. 2 Op. 21

Programme to be announced

London Pianoforte Series

Chamber Music Season

Friday 6 July 7.30 pm

JOYCE DIDONATO mezzo-soprano DAVID ZOBEL piano Repeat of concert on 4 July Song Recital Series

Saturday 7 July 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET director, harpsichord MONTEVERDI Tempro la cetra; Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Pur ti miro from L’incoronazione di Poppea GESUALDO 3 madrigals from Book 5 STRAVINSKY Cantata Song Recital Series/The Bostridge Project: ‘Ancient and Modern’

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XAVIER DE MAISTRE

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Marco Borggreve

Wednesday 11 July 7.30 pm

THOMAS OLIEMANS baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano MAHLER Frühlingsmorgen; Hans und Grethe; Erinnerung; Scheiden und Meiden STRAUSS Nachtgang; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Befreit DUPARC Chanson triste; L’invitation au voyage; Extase; Le galop DEBUSSY Trois ballades de Villon MAHLER Five Rückert Lieder Song Recital Series

Thursday 12 July 7.30 pm

WIHAN QUARTET

THOMAS OLIEMANS

WOLF Italian Serenade in G MOZART String Quartet in G K387 ˘ ÁK String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106 DVOR

Monday 16 July 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season

STEPHEN KOVACEVICH piano

Marco Borggreve

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata in C minor Op. 10 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B b D960 London Pianoforte Series

Tuesday 17 July 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

WIHAN QUARTET

Sussie Ahlburg

Wednesday 18 July 7.30 pm

˘KAMPA QUARTET S Saturday 14 July 7.30 pm

JULIANE BANSE soprano ALEKSANDAR MADZ˘AR piano Songs by BRAHMS, FAURÉ, and STRAUSS SCHUMANN Liederkreis Op. 39

SUK Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale (St Wenceslas) Op. 35a ˘ ÁK String Quartet in D minor Op. 34 DVOR SMETANA String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Chamber Music Season/Dvor˘ák Plus Series

Song Recital Series Sunday 22 July 11.30 am Sunday 15 July 11.30 am

ARTIS QUARTET OF VIENNA

ENDYMION

Programme to include: SCHUBERT String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

BRAHMS Clarinet Trio in A minor Op. 114; Horn Trio in E b Op. 40 Coffee Concert

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Coffee Concert

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Saturday 28 July 7.30 pm

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor XUEFEI YANG guitar JULIUS DRAKE piano BRITTEN Songs from the Chinese HENZE Three Auden Songs KNUSSEN Auden Haiku (world première) HENZE 6 Songs from the Arabian Song Recital Series/Ian Bostridge Project: ‘Ancient and Modern’

JULIUS DRAKE

Marco Borggreve

Wednesday 25 July 7.30 pm

CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN mezzo-soprano MARK PADMORE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano THE HUGO WOLF SONGBOOKS WOLF Mörike: Gesang Weylas; Der Schäfer; An den Schlaf; Die Geister am Mummelsee; Der Tambour; Auftrag; Peregrina I & II; Auf eine Christblume I & II; Um Mitternacht WOLF Goethe: Phänomen; Erschaffen und Beleben; So lang man nüchtern ist; Was in der Schenke waren heute; Ob der Koran von Ewigkeit; Trunken müssen wir allen sein!; Sie haben wegen der Trunkenheit; Nicht Gelegenheit macht Diebe; Hochbeglückt in deiner Liebe; Erschaffen und Beleben; Als ich auf dem Euphrat schiffte; Dies zu deuten, bin erbötig; Hätt ich irgend wohl Bedenken; Komm, Liebchen, komm!; Wie sollt ich heiter bleiben; Wenn ich dein gedenke; Locken, haltet mich gefangen; Nimmer will ich dich verlieren

HAYDN String Quartet in B b Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’

Song Recital Series

Coffee Concert

XUEFEI YANG

Neil Muir

Sunday 29 July 11.30 am

CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET

Thursday 26 July 7.30 pm

NOBUKO IMAI viola YUKO INOUE viola FRANÇOIS KILLIAN piano BAX Sonata for viola and piano BRITTEN Cello Suite No. 1 Op. 72 (arr. for viola by Nobuko Imai) BRIDGE Lament for two violas PROKOFIEV/BORISOVSKY 7 Pieces from the ballet Romeo and Juliet Chamber Music Season

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CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET

Andy Holdsworth Photography

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Booking Information

BOOKING DATES BOOKING PERIOD 1 Sunday 4 September – Saturday 31 December 2011 Friends Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by 28 April Mailing List Benjamin Ealovega

Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by 12 May

WIGMORE HALL BOX OFFICE

General Public

36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

By telephone/online from 19 May

Tel: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

SUBSCRIPTION BOOKINGS WIGMORE SERIES SUBSCRIPTIONS (excludes Coffee Concerts, BBC Lunchtime Concerts and other events where stated) Subscription I: Book 9 – 11 concerts at a 5% discount Subscription II: Book 12 or more concerts at a 10% discount

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

BBC LUNCHTIME CONCERT SUBSCRIPTIONS Book 10 or more concerts at a 5% discount Book all concerts in any one booking period at a 10% discount

A-D BALCONY

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Q -S

To qualify for a subscription, the same number of tickets need to be booked for each event.

STA LLS C-M

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N-P

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BOOKING INFORMATION 4 September – 31 December 2011

BOX OFFICE HOURS 7 days a week: 10.00am–8.30pm. Days without an evening concert 10.00am–5.00pm. No advance booking during the half-hour prior to performance. TELEPHONE BOOKINGS 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm. Days without an evening concert 10.00am–5.00pm. There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration charge for each transaction. This includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits.

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 Wigmore Hall has its own restaurant and bars serving pre-concert and interval refreshments. Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or call 020 7258 8292 for further information. FACILITIES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE

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Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Hall with the amount left open but stating an upper limit, and add an administration charge of £2.00. Tickets will then be sent by post. ONLINE BOOKINGS Online booking is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There is a £1.00 administration charge online. You can select your own seat and make subscription bookings online. TICKETS FOR CONCESSIONS Where a concession (concs) ticket price is listed these are available to students, senior citizens and the unemployed. 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 £3 or above. Two tickets per card (not applicable to subscription bookings).

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

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BOOKING INFORMATION 4 September – 31 December 2011

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, can 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* Mr Eric Abraham and Miss Natasha Abraham* Aubrey Adams* † Tony and Marion Allen* American Friends of Wigmore Hall David and Jacqueline Ansell* Arts Council England Anthony Austin Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez In memory of Martin Paul Blake Mrs Arline Blass Karl Otto Bonnier*† David and Mary Bowerman* Alan Bradley* Nicolas and Hilary Browne-Wilkinson* Rainer and Doreen Burchett* Gwen and Stanley Burnton* Clive Butler The Charities Advisory Trust Café de Colombia Cavatina Music Trust Edwin C Cohen* Sonia and Harvey Cole Complete Coffee John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Anthony Davis* Pauline Del Mar The Dunard Fund The Ellerdale Trust Annette Ellis* Vernon and Hazel Ellis The Elton Family

The Equitable Charitable Trust The Fidelio Charitable Trust Peter and Sonia Field John and Amy Ford Foyle Foundation S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 Friends of Wigmore Hall Jonathan Gaisman* John and Lauren Goldsmith* The Gordon Foundation The Lucille Graham Trust CHG Green The Milton Grundy Foundation* Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* The Hobson Charity André and Rosalie Hoffmann Gay Huey Evans* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Hutton Collins Partners LLP Hyde Park Place Estate Charity Simone Hyman* Peter Jervis John Lyon’s Charity Marc Jourdren* Donald and Jeanne Kahn* Jerome Karet* David and Louise Kaye* Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn* The Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Joy and Geoffrey Lawrence Maryly La Follette* Lloyds TSB Private Banking Simon and Pamela Majaro Stanley and Eithné Mann Martin Randall Travel Ltd Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Milton Damerell Trust Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Amyas and Louise Morse* Valerie O’Connor and Jeannette McIntosh Lionel and Lynn Persey* The Piano Fund

The Wigmore Hall Trust, registered charity number 1024838

Dr Clive Potter* Oliver Prenn Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Rayne Foundation David B Rockwell* † Conchita Romero* Charles Rose* Rosenblatt Recitals Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, Hon. RCM* Ruth Rothbarth* N M Rothschild and Sons Limited The Rubinstein Circle The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Victoria and Richard Sharp* Lois Sieff OBE Martin and Elise Smith* Cita and Irwin Stelzer John Stephens OBE, Hon. FTCL* Joshua Swidler* The Tertis Foundation Allen L Thomas and Jane Simpson ’Scilla and Tony Thornton* † John and Ann Tusa* Marina Vaizey* Kathleen Verelst* Robin Vousden* Marie-Luise Waldeck David and Frances Waters* Michael Watson Anne and David Weizmann* City of Westminster Charitable Trust Mrs Mary Weston 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 Season Patron

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