Wigmore Series 2012/13 Brochure by Wigmore Hall

WIGMORE SERIES

2012-2013 SEPTEMBER 12 – JULY 13 Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Box Office: 020 7935 2141

EUROPE’S LEADING VENUE FOR CHAMBER MUSIC AND SONG

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WELCOME TO OUR 2012 – 2013 SEASON

Benjamin Britten’s genius in chamber music, together with his lasting legacy as a composer and educator, are celebrated on the eve of his centenary year. The series begins on 22 November 2012, St Cecilia’s Day and what would have been the composer’s 99th birthday, when the Britten Sinfonia and Alice Coote explore the wider context of Britten’s creative world. His beautiful vocal works will be performed by favourite artists, including Ann Murray, Mark Padmore, Robin Tritschler, Christine Rice, Gerald Finley, Julius Drake and Malcolm Martineau. A collection of Britten’s works for cello will be presented by Steven Isserlis and we are very pleased to welcome our Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet, for Britten’s three string quartets.

Few composers have expressed greater truths and insights about the human condition than Franz Schubert. Wigmore Hall championed his art from the Hall’s earliest years: Die schöne Müllerin, for example, was introduced to British audiences here in 1903. The tradition continues in 2012/13 with an extensive exploration of the composer’s spiritually rewarding work. Independence of mind and searching musicianship are part of Imogen Cooper’s artistic DNA and her deep immersion in Schubert’s piano sonatas recently delivered a series of acclaimed recordings and will inform a substantial part of our focus on the Viennese composer’s work. Imogen also joins forces with Paul Lewis for a programme of Schubert (including the ‘Grand Duo’ Sonata in C major) and Dvor˘ák. Our Schubert celebration unfolds across the 2012/13 season, with contributions from Christian Gerhaher, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ian Bostridge, Christopher Maltman, Wolfgang Holzmair, Christoph Prégardien and Florian Boesch. In addition to late masterworks for piano, string quartet and voice, the Hall’s season-wide Schubert programme also embraces such rarities as his Vocal Exercises for two voices D619 and the Kantate zum Geburtstag des Sängers Johann Michael Vogl. We’re very happy to welcome the Casals Quartet to perform Schubert’s complete string quartets and to see the return of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien with the composer’s violin sonatas.

The Nash Ensemble, Sandrine Piau and John Mark Ainsley explore two of the composer’s orchestral song cycles: the Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, first introduced to the world at Wigmore Hall in 1943, and Les Illuminations. Britten’s essential choral output draws the spotlight when The Cardinall’s Musick brings us works such as the Hymn to St Cecilia, Five Flower Songs and the remarkable cycle Sacred and Profane. Each of the Hall’s Britten concerts will include at least one composition that received its première here. The Takács Quartet directs its irresistible artistry to works from the Viennese classical school throughout the season, whilst the Borodin Quartet surveys Tchaikovsky’s works for string quartet and the quartets of Brahms. The rise in our roster of outstanding string quartets continues to deliver critically acclaimed performances. In addition to the Takács and Borodin concerts, the quartet series also includes performances by Christian Tetzlaff (our Artist in Residence) with his new Tetzlaff Quartet, and the Belcea, Hagen, Doric, Ebène, ˘ kampa and Elias, Heath, Jerusalem, Pavel Haas, S Tokyo string quartets. Our three-concert Fauré Focus promises to draw listeners deep into the quintessential French composer’s soundworld, offering a conspectus of his finest chamber pieces. The Capuçon brothers – violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier – and the Quatuor Ebène are among the distinguished artists set to animate their countryman’s music. Graham Johnson will also explore the rich and colourful

world of French song during the season. His fiveconcert French Song Series, with contributions from Ailish Tynan, Christopher Maltman, Lucy Crowe, Sarah Connolly and Yann Beuron, contains some of the most exquisite songs ever written. Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky makes a welcome return to the Hall to open the season with a captivating programme of songs by Shostakovich and Rachmaninov. Our Vocal Series includes a landmark four-concert residency for countertenor Iestyn Davies, recently acknowledged by the New York Times as a ‘singer with the potential to be one of the truly special artists of his generation’. The Argentinean mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink also joins us for three recitals, and other vocal highlights include performances by Alice Coote in a Kathleen Ferrier centenary concert, Diana Damrau, Christian Gerhaher, Andreas Scholl, Marlis Petersen, Christiane Oelze with PierreLaurent Aimard, Matthew Polenzani, Sonia Prina and Sara Mingardo. Fascinating artists from the younger generation are also present including Dutch baritone Henk Neven and German soprano Christiane Karg who returns with Wolfgang Holzmair (her teacher) in a programme of songs by Cornelius and Liszt. We turn to the United States for an American Series led by the critically acclaimed vocal ensemble The Prince Consort. Julius Drake features in a series of song recitals, as part of the venue’s new Perspectives programming strand. He will also be joined by Ian Bostridge, Sophie Daneman, Dietrich Henschel and Angelika Kirchschlager for two concerts devoted to the songbooks of Hugo Wolf. Wigmore Hall today presents more solo piano music than any other classical concert venue in Europe. In the year leading up to his 60th birthday, András Schiff will play Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas and selected works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Christian Blackshaw’s Mozart Series, praised by the critics, continues, while Leif Ove Andsnes, Nelson Goerner, Richard Goode, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Louis Lortie and Christian Zacharias are among other performers in the Hall’s London Pianoforte Series. American pianist Jonathan Biss will be the subject of a Schumann Residency Series and will give a solo recital, complete with Berg’s

sensuous Piano Sonata Op. 1 and Janác˘ek’s enigmatic On an overgrown path. The 2012/13 artistic programme offers audiences the chance to hear compositions crafted in the 16th-century’s turbulent central decades, courtesy of vocal ensemble Stile Antico with works by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd. Sacred polyphony is on the bill again when The Sixteen and Harry Christophers return to Wigmore Hall for the first time since 1997. Early music has played a major part in the expansion and broadening of Wigmore Hall’s audience. The forthcoming season’s Early Music Series is set to further this trend, strongly underpinned by performances from Le Poème Harmonique, The English Concert, Academy of Ancient Music, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Les Talens Lyriques, La Serenissima, Florilegium, Paul O’Dette, Fretwork, La Sfera Armoniosa, Le Concert Spirituel, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jordi Savall and Andrew Lawrence-King. The younger generation of early music interpreters is also well represented by artists and ensembles such as harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, Exaudi, Classical Opera and the Early Opera Company. More recent music will be comprehensively celebrated at the Hall next season. Our much admired series of composer profiles includes a day dedicated to George Benjamin, with the latter’s beguiling chamber opera Into the Little Hill becoming the first modern opera to be performed here. Our 2011/12 season included 20 world première performances and its successor will contain a high number of new works. Our Jazz Series continues under saxophonist Joshua Redman, one of the most distinctive voices in the world of modern jazz, whose influences range from John Coltrane to The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. Thomas Demenga’s ‘Building on Bach’ Project boldly highlights our commitment to innovative programming. The Swiss cellist interweaves Bach’s six cello suites with magnificently diverse modern works by himself, as well as those of Thomas Larcher, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Witold Lutosl´awski among them. I look forward once again to welcoming you to Wigmore Hall throughout the season. John Gilhooly Director

AT A GLANCE SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2012 See pages 5 to 79 for full details of these concerts and pages 122 to 123 for subscription savings and how to book.

Series and Events to look out for ...

London Pianoforte Series

DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY 6 JULIUS DRAKE: ‘PERSPECTIVES’ 10, 11, 41, 45, 46, 55, 59 SCHUBERT: A CELEBRATION 12–13, 28, 50, 51, 55, 65, 68, 70 CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 14 NASH ENSEMBLE BRITISH SERIES: 16–17, 39, 52, 53, 65 DREAMERS OF DREAMS FRANK BRIDGE SONG FOCUS 20, 34 JENNIFER VYVYAN STUDY DAY AND 22–23 TRIBUTE CONCERT JONATHAN BISS – SCHUMANN: 29, 34 UNDER THE INFLUENCE BORODIN QUARTET: TCHAIKOVSKY AND BRAHMS 30 THOMAS DEMENGA: ‘BUILDING ON BACH’ 33 WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR RETROSPECTIVE SERIES 40 ARDITTI QUARTET/JACK QUARTET: PREMIÈRES 42 JOSHUA REDMAN JAZZ SERIES 44 SONIA PRINA 47 A CELEBRATION OF MENDELSSOHN SONG 49 ANDRÁS SCHIFF: BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS 54 BRITTEN BIRTHDAY CENTENARY 56–57, 62, 63, 64, 65, 70 58, 59 MIDORI: CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH 60, 62 IESTYN DAVIES RESIDENCY: ‘A SINGULARITY OF VOICE’ JOSHUA BELL 69 WILLIAM BYRD SACRED MUSIC SERIES 73

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Joshua Redman Jazz Series Fri 2 Nov

Axis Saxophone Quartet

Alice Sara Ott Elisabeth Leonskaja Christian Blackshaw Jeremy Denk Nelson Freire Paul Lewis Paul Lewis András Schiff András Schiff András Schiff Piers Lane Imogen Cooper/Paul Lewis Lucy Parham/Dominic West

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BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts ˘ kampa Quartet S Henk Neven/Hans Eijsackers Julian Lloyd Webber/John Lenehan Noriko Ogawa Jennifer Johnston/Joseph Middleton Christoph Denoth Signum Quartet Trio Melnikov/Faust/Queyras Angelika Kirchschlager/Julius Drake Gautier Capuçon/Gabriela Montero ATOS Trio Clara Mouriz/Julius Drake Christine Rice/Mark Padmore Malcolm Martineau Mon 10 Dec Barry Douglas Mon 17 Dec Kristian Bezuidenhout

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Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Early Music and Baroque Series Sun 16 Sep Fri 21 Sep Thu 27 Sep Tue 2 Oct Wed 3 Oct Sun 14 Oct Mon 15 Oct Sun 21 Oct Thu 25 Oct Thu 1 Nov Tue 6 Nov Tue 27 Nov Fri 7 Dec Thu 20 Dec Sun 23 Dec Mon 31 Dec

The Catherine Wheel Academy of Ancient Music Sara Mingardo/Accademia degli Astrusi The Hilliard Ensemble/Fretwork The English Concert/Carolyn Sampson Le Poème Harmonique Classical Opera/Sandrine Piau Exaudi Florilegium The English Concert/Mark Padmore Sonia Prina/La Sfera Armoniosa Iestyn Davies/Ensemble Matheus The Brook Street Band Stile Antico Classical Opera La Serenissima

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Trio Wanderer Masques Charlie Siem/Igor Tchetuev Richard Hosford/Roger Tapping Simon Crawford-Phillips Eggner Trio Escher Quartet Gary Hoffman/David Selig Dante Quartet Swiss Piano Trio Dénes Várjon Nash Ensemble Sharon Kam/Matan Porat Steven Isserlis/Connie Shih Szymanowski Quartet Oleg Marshev Heath Quartet Aviv String Quartet

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky/Ivari Ilja Page 6 Helena Juntunen/Eveliina Kytömäki 7 Roderick Williams/Gary Matthewman 8 Dorothea Röschmann/Julius Drake 10 Alice Coote/Graham Johnson 15 Ailish Tynan/Robert Murray 20 Iain Burnside Sat 29 Sep Jennifer Vyvyan Tribute Concert: 23 Elizabeth Watts/James Southall Thu 11 Oct Camilla Tilling/Mark Padmore 29 Jonathan Biss Thu 18 Oct Susan Bickley/Roderick Williams 34 Iain Burnside Fri 19 Oct Mark Padmore/Jonathan Biss 34 Sun 28 Oct Wolfgang Holzmair/Imogen Cooper 40 Mon 29 Oct Christianne Stotijn/Julius Drake 41 45 Diana Damrau/Julius Drake Sun 4 Nov 49 Sat 10 Nov Katherine Broderick/Anna Grevelius Andrew Kennedy/Stephan Loges Eugene Asti 49 Sat 10 Nov Susan Gritton/Sarah Connolly Eugene Asti 51 Fri 16 Nov Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber Sun 18 Nov Andreas Scholl/Tamar Halperin 53 Tue 20 Nov Birgid Steinberger/Angelika Kirchschlager 55 Ian Bostridge/Christopher Maltman Julius Drake 57 Thu 22 Nov Alice Coote/Britten Sinfonia 60 Tue 27 Nov Iestyn Davies/Ensemble Matheus Wed 28 Nov Christine Brewer/Felicity Lott 61 John Mark Ainsley/Christopher Maltman Malcolm Martineau/Roger Vignoles Fri 30 Nov Iestyn Davies/Mark Padmore 62 Marcus Farnsworth/Julius Drake Sat 1 Dec Ann Murray/John Mark Ainsley 63 Robin Tritschler/Marcus Farnsworth Malcolm Martineau Sun 2 Dec Joan Rodgers/Elizabeth Watts 63 Allan Clayton/Gerald Finley Julius Drake/Malcolm Martineau Tue 4 Dec Sandrine Piau/John Mark Ainsley 65 Nash Ensemble Thu 6 Dec Samling Showcase 66 Wed 12 Dec Florian Boesch/Roger Vignoles 68 Fri 14 Dec The Cardinall’s Musick 70

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Chamber Music Season Sun 9 Sep Wed 19 Sep Sat 22 Sep Sat 22 Sep Sun 30 Sep Thu 4 Oct Fri 5 Oct Tue 9 Oct Wed 10 Oct Sat 13 Oct Wed 17 Oct

Artemis Quartet Christian Tetzlaff Nash Ensemble Nash Ensemble/Sally Matthews Susan Tomes/Erich Höbarth IMS Prussia Cove Julia Fischer Cuarteto Casals Cuarteto Casals Borodin Quartet Thomas Demenga

Romie de Guise-Langlois Page Kim Kashkashian/Jonathan Biss Sat 20 Oct London Conchord Ensemble Tue 23 Oct Endymion Wed 24 Oct Alina Ibragimova/Stephen Kovacevich Fri 26 Oct The Endellion String Quartet Sat 27 Oct Nash Ensemble/John Mark Ainsley Tue 30 Oct Scottish Ensemble Wed 31 Oct Arditti Quartet/JACK Quartet Sat 3 Nov Michelangelo Quartet Wed 14 Nov Elias String Quartet/Michael Collins Sat 17 Nov Nash Ensemble Sat 17 Nov Nash Ensemble/Susan Gritton Roderick Williams Thu 22 Nov Britten Sinfonia/Alice Coote Sat 24 Nov Tokyo String Quartet Sun 25 Nov Midori/Özgür Aydin Thu 29 Nov Razumovsky Ensemble Mon 3 Dec Takács Quartet Nash Ensemble/Sandrine Piau Tue 4 Dec John Mark Ainsley/Lawrence Power Wed 5 Dec Britten Sinfonia Sat 8 Dec Belcea Quartet/Katya Apekisheva Tue 11 Dec Joshua Bell/Sam Haywood Sat 15 Dec Wihan Quartet Wed 19 Dec Gérard Caussé/Michel Dalberto Fri 28 Dec Doric String Quartet Sat 29 Dec Isabelle van Keulen/Ronald Brautigam Fri 19 Oct

Song Recital Series

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Pre-Concert Talk 15 Open House Day 2012 77 Pre-Concert Talk 20 Jennifer Vyvyan Study Day 22–23 Pre-Concert Talk 24 Wallace Collection Family Day: 77 Soundscapes and Landscapes Ann Murray Masterclass 27 Come and Sing: Lute songs and partsongs 77 Half-Term Course: Jazz Junction 78 Half-Term Course: Jazz Junction 78 Artists in Conversation 42 Family Day: And The Kitchen Sink! 78 Family Concert: Julian Lloyd Webber 43, 78 Thomas Quasthoff Masterclass 46 Thomas Quasthoff Masterclass 46 49 Pre-Concert Talk Midori: Masterclass 58 58 Midori: In Conversation Schools’ Concert: Elias String Quartet 78 Britten Study Day 62 Wigmore Study Group 65 Pre-Concert Talk 66 79 Schools’ Concert: The Prince Consort Cavatina Family Concert 67, 79 Wigmore Study Group 65 Wigmore Study Group 65

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WIGMORE SERIES

10 FOR 10 10 CONCERTS THIS AUTUMN FOR JUST £ 10 EACH To celebrate our highest ever audience numbers, and ticket sales last year in excess of 190,000 (marking a 60% increase in concert attendance since 2005), we are delighted to announce a 10 for 10 scheme. Wigmore Hall’s unbeatable autumn offer opens access to ten outstanding recitals this season. The £10 ticket deal covers everything from Christianne Stotijn’s delicious programme of Rachmaninov Romances to Midori’s Beethoven evening. Monday 10 September 7.30 pm

HELENA JUNTUNEN soprano EVELIINA KYTÖMÄKI piano Wednesday 17 October 7.30 pm

THOMAS DEMENGA cello Monday 29 October 7.30 pm

CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano Wednesday 31 October 7.30 pm

ARDITTI QUARTET & JACK QUARTET Wednesday 7 November 7.30 pm

JEREMY DENK piano Wednesday 14 November 7.30 pm

ELIAS STRING QUARTET & MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet Sunday 25 November 7.30 pm

MIDORI violin ÖZGÜR AYDIN piano Saturday 15 December 7.30 pm

WIHAN QUARTET Wednesday 19 December 7.30 pm

GÉRARD CAUSSÉ viola MICHEL DALBERTO piano Saturday 29 December 7.30 pm

ISABELLE VAN KEULEN violin RONALD BRAUTIGAM piano Please see main listing pages for full details NB These concerts are not part of the subscription scheme 4

WIGMORE SERIES SEPTEMBER– DECEMBER 12 Booking Opens to Friends on 25 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 8 June, and to the General Public/Online on 21 June. Saturday 8 September 7.30 pm

DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY baritone IVARI ILJA piano See page overleaf for full details

Sunday 9 September 11.30 am

TRIO WANDERER BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ DVOR Trio Wanderer’s latest Wigmore Hall programme presents two essential masterworks. The French ensemble explores the third of Beethoven’s ‘Lichnowsky’ trios, the strikingly individual, exquisitely crafted Piano Trio Op. 1 in C minor. The work occupied a lasting place in Beethoven’s affections and must have astonished its first aristocratic audience with its daring and engrossing tonal contrasts. Dvor˘ák’s ‘Dumky’ Trio likewise captures hearts and minds through its glorious volatility and vivid changes of mood. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

ARTEMIS QUARTET

Boris Streubel

Sunday 9 September 7.30 pm

ARTEMIS QUARTET MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1 BEETHOVEN Grosse Fuge in Bb Op. 133 MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Schumann famously described Mendelssohn as ‘the Mozart of the 19th century’, a line that still informs views of the prodigiously gifted composer. His multi-faceted genius has been unveiled in recent years to reveal a creative artist of deep psychological complexity, self-doubt and fascinating contradictions. The Artemis Quartet offers the chance to hear the mature composer’s inner life as preserved in his String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, written shortly after his sister’s death, set in company with the emotional conflicts of Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge. £12 £18 £24 £28 Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Chamber Music Season TRIO WANDERER

Marco Borggreve

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DMITRI

HVOROSTOVSKY Saturday 8 September 7.30 pm

DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY baritone

IVARI ILJA piano Programme includes songs by SHOSTAKOVICH and RACHMANINOV Few can match Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s charisma and electrifying intensity in recital. The Russian baritone, born in Siberia in October 1962, returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme sure to burn with the impassioned fire of the singer’s captivating imagination. Hvorostovsky’s recent recording of Rachmaninov songs, accompanied by his close collaborator Ivari Ilja, revealed the extraordinary expressive powers and soul of a true bel canto performer. He brings special qualities of insight and artistry also to the songs of Shostakovich, offered here in what promises to be an unforgettable opening to Wigmore Hall’s 112th season. £20 £30 £40 £50 Booking limited to two tickets only per person

Song Recital Series/Opening Concert of the 2012–13 Season

Photo by Pavel Antonov

Monday 10 September 1.00 pm

˘KAMPA QUARTET S MOZART String Quartet in D K575 SCHUBERT String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’

HELENA JUNTUNEN DEBUT

Lunchtime with the S˘kampas includes a menu of repertoire delights. The Czech quartet, which made its international mark nearly two decades ago with an outstanding Wigmore Hall debut, presents Schubert’s songful ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet together with Mozart’s first ‘Prussian’ Quartet K575, packed with elegant themes and constructed with dazzling brilliance. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

HELENA JUNTUNEN

Heikki Tuuli

Monday 10 September 7.30 pm

HELENA JUNTUNEN soprano EVELIINA KYTÖMÄKI piano SCHUMANN Liebeslied; Heiss mich nicht reden; Herzeleid; Er ist’s; Aus den hebräischen Gesängen; Singet nicht in Trauertönen STRAUSS Ach Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden; Ein Obdach gegen Sturm und Regen; Mein Herz ist stumm; Schlechtes Wetter; Malven; Cäcilie THOMAS ADÈS Life Story SIBELIUS Kaiutar; Den första kyssen; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte; Bollspelet vid Trianon; Var det en dröm?

˘KAMPA QUARTET S

Jakub Ludvik

Programming craft and the art of storytelling lie at the heart of Helena Juntunen’s recital. The young Finnish lyric soprano makes her Wigmore Hall debut with works ideally suited to her intense, thrillingly wholehearted engagement with words and music. Schumann’s reflections on love, joy and despair stand here with the sensuality of a mighty handful of Sibelius songs, with their abundant emotional worlds connected by the jazz-infused sounds and dramatic twists of Thomas Adès’s Life Story. £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

10 FOR 10 Song Recital Series

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Saturday 15 September 7.30 pm

ALICE SARA OTT piano MOZART Duport Variations K573 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in D D850 MUSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition When Alice Sara Ott replaced Lang Lang at short notice in Liszt’s First Piano Concerto at the end of 2010, critics reached for the special reserve dictionary of superlatives. She produced what the Guardian described as ‘the kind of gawp-inducing bravura performance of which legends are made’. The German-Japanese pianist, a graduate of Salzburg’s Mozarteum, has also generated rave reviews with her Deutsche Grammophon recordings of Chopin’s Waltzes and Liszt’s Transcendental Studies. Her Wigmore Hall debut programme is certain to inspire with its bold blend of works from old Vienna and Tsarist Russia. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series RODERICK WILLIAMS

Benjamin Ealovega

Wednesday 12 September 7.30 pm

RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone GARY MATTHEWMAN piano SCHUBERT Der Wanderer; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Wandrers Nachtlied I; Rastlose Liebe MENDELSSOHN Im Frühling SCHUMANN Wanderung BRAHMS Feldeinsamkeit MAHLER Ging heut’ Morgen from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen WOLF Der Musikant FINZI Summer Schemes IRELAND The Vagabond MOERAN The Merry Green Wood; The Pleasant Valley GURNEY Severn Meadows HEAD Tewkesbury Road VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Songs of Travel ‘It is good to be out on the road’, runs the opening line of Michael Head’s Tewkesbury Road. The theme of travel also runs through Roderick Williams’s choice of wayfaring songs, from the atmospheric tranquillity of Schubert’s Wandrers Nachtlied I and boundless joy of Mahler’s Ging heut’ Morgen to the meditation of Ivor Gurney’s Severn Meadows, a heartbreaking setting of words written during 1917 by the composer in the battlefield trenches of Flanders. £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series

ALICE SARA OTT

Kiyotaka Saito/Deutsche Grammophon

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Sunday 16 September 7.30 pm

THE CATHERINE WHEEL CATHERINE MACKINTOSH director, violin, viola d’amore

KATHARINE FUGE soprano KATY BIRCHER flute KATHARINA SPRECKELSEN oboe d’amore

CATHERINE LATHAM recorder KATI DEBRETZENI violin CATHERINE MARTIN violin TELEMANN Concerto in E minor for flute, recorder and strings TWV52:e1; Concerto in G for 4 violins TWV40:201 PURCELL Instrumental music and songs from The Fairy Queen VIVALDI Concerto in A minor for 2 violins Op. 3 No. 8 from L’estro armonico TELEMANN Concerto in E for flute, oboe d’amore and viola d’amore TWV53:e1 BACH Cantata BWV209 ‘Non sa che sia dolore’

CATHERINE MACKINTOSH

MASQUES

Philip van Ootegem

Sunday 16 September 11.30 am

MASQUES STYLUS FANTASTICUS BIBER Sonata a 5 in D minor ROSENMÜLLER Sonata a 5 in F SCHMELZER Sonata a 5 in A from Sacro-profanus concentus musicus MUFFAT Sonata No. 5 in G SCHMELZER Balletto a 4 ‘Fechtschule’ BIBER Pars in A minor from Mensa sonora; Sonata a 5 in Bb from Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes

Wigmore Hall’s acclaimed Early Music and Baroque Series commences with a fascinating combination of works. Violinist Catherine Mackintosh and her ensemble train their revelatory programming spotlight on concertos by Telemann and Vivaldi and Bach’s Cantata Non sa che sia dolore (‘He does not know how to grieve’). The latter’s text perhaps refers to the departure of a young naval officer from Hamburg; its music, meanwhile, projects the virtuosity and dash of Bach at his finest. Telemann’s fertile mind and unbridled melodic invention add to the programme’s irresistible appeal. This concert is in aid of Voluntary Service Overseas £15 £20 £25 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series

Six young period-instrument performers from Montreal, collectively known as Masques, have held North American and European audiences spellbound with their pulsating interpretations of Baroque music. They make their UK debut in this concert with works rooted in the stylus fantasticus, described by the 17th-century polymath Athanasius Kircher as ‘the most free and unrestrained method of composing’. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

KATHARINE FUGE

Marco Borggreve

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert 9

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Monday 17 September 7.30 pm

DOROTHEA RÖSCHMANN soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano SCHUMANN Liederkreis Op. 39 WOLF Mignon Lieder; Mörike Lieder (selection) Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39, observed the composer Hans Pfitzner, ‘first made the necessity evident to me of not allowing the threads connecting the songs ever to break.’ Dorothea Röschmann’s innate feeling for poetry, graceful phrasing and profound dramatic instincts are ideally suited to the art of preserving unbroken lines of thought and contemplation. The German soprano, who made her Wigmore Hall debut a dozen years ago, returns to perform this great song-cycle by Schumann, crowned by a selection of Wolf’s matchless Lieder. £18 £25 £30 £35 Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Song Recital Series/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

HENK NEVEN

Marco Borggreve

Monday 17 September 1.00 pm

HENK NEVEN baritone HANS EIJSACKERS piano BRAHMS Wie rafft ich mich auf; Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen; Ich schleich’ umher; Feldeinsamkeit; Meerfahrt; Auf dem Kirchhofe; Ständchen; Da unten im Tale; Ach Gott, wie weh tut Scheiden LISZT Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Es muss ein Wunderbares sein; Freudvoll und leidvoll; Der traurige Mönch; Die Vätergruft Dutch baritone Henk Neven, chosen as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist two years ago, ranks among the most dynamic all-round talents to emerge in recent years. His debut album of songs by Loewe and Schumann earned a glowing review in the Sunday Times, not least for the singer’s ‘astonishing technical finesse, verbal acuity and … sense of wonder’. Gramophone, meanwhile, suggested that Neven is ‘a successor to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’. Small wonder, then, that audiences and critics worldwide are so eager to follow his progress.

DOROTHEA RÖSCHMANN

Jim Rakete

£12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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JULIUS DRAKE: ‘PERSPECTIVES’ More than 30 years have passed since Julius Drake made his professional debut in London. The pianist’s mature thoughts on the art of accompaniment and feeling for the song recital’s unique alchemy lie at the heart of Wigmore Hall’s Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’, a season-long series of concerts exploring everything from the overt emotions of Musorgsky and expressive chiaroscuro of Wolf’s Lieder to the towering achievement of Hanns Eisler’s Hollywood Songbook. Monday 17 September 7.30 pm

Forthcoming concerts in this series

DOROTHEA RÖSCHMANN soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano

Sunday 6 January 7.30 pm

See page opposite for details Monday 29 October 7.30 pm

CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN mezzo-soprano

JULIUS DRAKE piano

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano

DIETRICH HENSCHEL baritone

JULIUS DRAKE piano THE HUGO WOLF SONGBOOKS

See page 41 for details Tuesday 15 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 4 November 7.30 pm

DIANA DAMRAU soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano See page 45 for details Monday 5 November 1.00 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano

GERALD FINLEY baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano Friday 15 February 7.30 pm

SOPHIE DANEMAN soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano

JULIUS DRAKE piano

THE HUGO WOLF SONGBOOKS

See page 46 for details

Tuesday 19 February 7.30 pm

Tuesday 20 November 7.30 pm

BIRGID STEINBERGER soprano ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano

NICHOLAS DANIEL oboe JULIUS DRAKE piano Thursday 7 March 7.30 pm

MATTHEW POLENZANI tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano Sunday 7 April 7.30 pm

DOROTHEA RÖSCHMANN soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano

See page 55 for details Saturday 1 June 7.30 pm

Monday 26 November 1.00 pm

CLARA MOURIZ mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano See page 59 for details Song Recital Series/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano Saturday 20 July 7.30 pm

SARAH CONNOLLY mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano Photo by Marco Borggreve

‘AN DIE MUSIK’ S C H U B E RT: A C E L E B R AT I O N Franz Schubert’s art penetrates and illuminates aspects of the human condition that speak instantly to listeners. ‘A man is not taken away before he has said all he has to say,’ reflected Hugo Wolf on Schubert’s death at the age of 31. The observation is fully supported by the evidence of the Viennese composer’s work, its enduring power to transcend mundane cares and touch the souls of listeners with its unique poetic eloquence. Wigmore Hall’s association with Schubert dates from its earliest years. Die schöne Müllerin was introduced to British audiences here in 1903 and the Hall has since hosted performances by a voluminous ‘Who’s Who’ of the greatest Schubert interpreters. The long tradition continues to develop this season with an extensive exploration of the composer’s songs, keyboard works and chamber music, including a complete cycle of the piano sonatas performed by Imogen Cooper and a rare chance to hear all fifteen of Schubert’s string quartets from the Cuarteto Casals.

Tuesday 18 September 7.30 pm

ELISABETH LEONSKAJA piano SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B D575; Piano Sonata in E minor D566; Piano Sonata in C D840 ‘Reliquie’; Piano Sonata in C minor D958 Admired universally for the mature insight and acute empathy of her Schubert interpretations, Georgian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja returns to Wigmore Hall with a quintessential survey of the Viennese composer’s piano sonatas. The strikingly lyrical Sonata in B major D575 dates from a time of professional frustration in its young composer’s career, while the Sonata in C minor D958 belongs to the closing months of Schubert’s life. Formal poise contrasts with underlying anxiety, demonic despair with unrestrained joy in the latter work. ‘Behind its classical façade,’ notes Alfred Brendel, the C minor composition ‘is the most neurotic sonata Schubert wrote.’ £18 £25 £30 £35

London Pianoforte Series/Schubert: A Celebration

Tuesday 9 October 7.30 pm Wednesday 10 October 7.30 pm *

Forthcoming concerts in this series

CUARTETO CASALS

Wednesday 23 January 7.30 pm Thursday 24 January 7.30 pm Wednesday 17 April 7.30 pm

See page 28 for details

CUARTETO CASALS

Tuesday 13 November 7.30 pm, repeated on Thursday 15 November 7.30 pm*

Monday 7 January 1.00 pm Thursday 31 January 7.30 pm*

PAUL LEWIS piano See pages 50 & 51 for details

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA violin CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN piano

Friday 16 November 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER baritone GEROLD HUBER piano

Thursday 7 February 7.30 pm Wednesday 27 March 7.30 pm* Tuesday 2 July 7.30 pm

See page 51 for details

IMOGEN COOPER piano

Tuesday 20 November 7.30 pm

BIRGID STEINBERGER soprano ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano See page 55 for details

Thursday 25 July 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN tenor MICHAEL GEES piano * Selected concerts in the Schubert Celebration Series have been made possible by the generous support of the Schubert Syndicate

Tuesday 4 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Tuesday 11 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 13 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP THE PIANO DUETS OF FRANZ SCHUBERT See page 65 for details Wednesday 12 December 7.30 pm*

FLORIAN BOESCH baritone ROGER VIGNOLES piano

ELISABETH LEONSKAJA

CUARTETO CASALS

See page 68 for details Thursday 13 December 7.30 pm

IMOGEN COOPER piano PAUL LEWIS piano See page 70 for details

BIRGID STEINBERGER

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER

PAUL LEWIS

IMOGEN COOPER

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER

IAN BOSTRIDGE

CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN

FLORIAN BOESCH

CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF ARTIST IN RE SIDENCE Wednesday 19 September 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF violin BACH Sonata No. 2 in A minor for solo violin BWV1003; Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004; Sonata No. 3 in C for solo violin BWV1005; Partita No. 3 in E for solo violin BWV1006 Bach’s three sonatas and three partitas for solo violin occupy the summit of Baroque music for a string instrument. Each piece calls the violinist to overcome supreme technical challenges, requiring sustained polyphonic passages to be negotiated by the fingers of one hand and the bow strokes of the other. Christian Tetzlaff opens his term as Wigmore Hall Artist in Residence with four of Bach’s eternal masterworks. The Second Partita in D minor closes with a monumental Ciaccona, in which a short, impassioned chord sequence is repeated and progressively elaborated 64 times! £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/Christian Tetzlaff: Artist in Residence Forthcoming concerts in this series Monday 21 January 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF violin LARS VOGT piano Saturday 2 March 7.30 pm

TETZLAFF QUARTET Wednesday 15 May 6.00 pm

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION Wednesday 15 May 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF violin ANTJE WEITHAAS violin

Photo by Giorgia Bertazzi

Friday 21 September 6.30 pm

FERRIER CENTENARY CELEBRATION CONCERT

PRE-CONCERT TALK RICHARD EGARR shares his thoughts on the evening’s programme and invites audience discussion. Free (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Friday 21 September 7.30 pm

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC RICHARD EGARR director, harpsichord A MUSICAL FEAST: FROM SCHEIN TO TELEMANN BIBER Mensa Sonora Suite III in A minor SCHEIN Suites from Banchetto musicale SIMPSON Taffel-Consort TELEMANN Tafelmusik II Schein’s ‘Musical banquet’ (1617) inspired a wealth of meal-time entertainment across Europe. Freed from the stylistic confines of the church and the private chamber, a whole new musical genre arose to accompany dining. This programme surveys the astonishing variety of this deliciously fresh form, from Telemann’s lavish French Suites to the Englishman Thomas Simpson’s ‘string quartets’ and Biber’s Italianate dances. KATHLEEN FERRIER

Angus MacBean

£18 £24 £28 £32

Early Music and Baroque Series Thursday 20 September 7.30 pm

ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano GRAHAM JOHNSON piano FERRIER CENTENARY CELEBRATION CONCERT Programme to include SCHUMANN Frauenliebe und -leben and songs and Lieder associated with Kathleen. In the centenary year of her birth and almost six decades after her tragically early death, Kathleen Ferrier remains an inspiration to countless music-lovers. The Lancastrian contralto’s unmistakeable voice and personality were part of life at Wigmore Hall in the 1940s and early 1950s. For this centenary concert Alice Coote and Graham Johnson pay tribute to the legacy of one of Britain’s greatest singers in a programme drawn from the core of Ferrier’s repertoire. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC

Marco Borggreve

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Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE BRITISH SERIES

Dreamers of Dreams No group plays British music more memorably than the Nash. Their illuminating new series, Dreamers of Dreams, brings together masterworks such as Elgar’s String Quartet and Piano Quintet, Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge and Five Mystical Songs, and Britten’s Les Illuminations and Serenade for tenor, horn and strings. Other unmissable delights include Peter Warlock’s heart-rending The Curlew, Percy Grainger’s unique folk-song arrangements, Finzi’s masterpiece Dies Natalis, and Bliss’s enchanting songs piquant with ensemble. The series culminates with film and radio music scores by Britten and Walton, including Night Mail, The Way to the Sea and Henry V, performed in the company of leading actors.

Saturday 22 September 6.00 pm

Saturday 22 September 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE

NASH ENSEMBLE SALLY MATTHEWS soprano IAN BROWN conductor

PHILIPPA DAVIES flute MARIANNE THORSEN violin LAURA SAMUEL violin LAWRENCE POWER viola PAUL WATKINS cello LUCY WAKEFORD harp IAN BROWN piano BAX Elegiac Trio for flute, viola and harp BRITTEN Suite for harp Op. 83 BRIDGE Three Idylls for string quartet £6 or £3 with evening ticket (separate ticket required) (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season/ British Series: Dreamers of Dreams

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Phantasy String Quintet GRAINGER A selection from: Mock Morris; My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone; Shepherd’s Hey; Handel in the Strand for piano trio BLISS Songs for voice and ensemble: Rout; Madame Noy; The Women of Yueh QUILTER Three Pastoral Songs for soprano and piano trio ELGAR String Quartet in E minor Op. 83 £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/ British Series: Dreamers of Dreams

The two-concert format allows the Nash to herald the unique and varied riches of their series with the harp-soaked sounds of Bax’s Elegiac Trio, Britten’s Suite for harp and Frank Bridge’s Idylls. The main concert contains such substantial and familiar delights as Vaughan Williams’s impressionistic Phantasy Quintet and Elgar’s String Quartet, which frame Sally Matthews’s performance of Bliss’s enchanting songs piquant with their telling instrumental accompaniment. Works by two of the celebrated ‘Frankfurt Gang’ – Grainger and Quilter – complete the programme. 16

Saturday 27 October 7.30 pm

Forthcoming concerts in this series

NASH ENSEMBLE JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor

Saturday 12 January 6.00 pm

BRITTEN, BRIDGE, WARLOCK, ELGAR, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS See page 39 for full details

NASH ENSEMBLE MARK PADMORE tenor CRAIG OGDEN guitar VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, ARNOLD, FINZI, BRITTEN

Saturday 17 November 6.00 pm

See page 82 for details

NASH ENSEMBLE BRIDGE, BRITTEN, IRELAND, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Saturday 12 January 7.30 pm

See page 52 for details

NASH ENSEMBLE MARK PADMORE tenor CRAIG OGDEN guitar

Saturday 17 November 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE SUSAN GRITTON soprano RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone LAWRENCE POWER viola PAUL WATKINS conductor BRITTEN, BRIDGE, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, ALWYN, FINZI See page 52 for full details

BAX, ELGAR, WARLOCK, WALTON, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS See page 82 for full details

Saturday 23 February 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone BRIDGE, DELIUS, FINZI, BUTTERWORTH, ELGAR See page 92 for full details

Sunday 18 November 11.30 am

NASH ENSEMBLE GRAINGER, BRIDGE, MENDELSSOHN See page 53 for full details

Saturday 16 March 3.00 pm

TALK AND FILM SHOWINGS BRITTEN’S NIGHT MAIL AND WALTON’S HENRY V See page 96 for full details

Tuesday 4 December 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE SANDRINE PIAU soprano JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor LAWRENCE POWER viola RICHARD WATKINS horn MARTYN BRABBINS conductor

Saturday 16 March 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE RECITERS to be confirmed MARTYN BRABBINS conductor BRITTEN AND WALTON FILM AND RADIO MUSIC See page 96 for full details

BRITTEN SONG CYCLES AND CHAMBER MUSIC See page 65 for full details

Sunday 17 March 11.30 am

This concert forms part of Wigmore Hall’s Britten Birthday Centenary

NASH ENSEMBLE ˘ ÁK VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, DVOR See page 96 for full details

Sleeping Shepherd by Samuel Palmer. © Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge / The Bridgeman Art Library

Monday 24 September 1.00 pm

JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER cello JOHN LENEHAN piano IRELAND Cello Sonata in G minor DELIUS Caprice and Elegy; Romance; Cello Sonata Julian Lloyd Webber and John Lenehan have been lifelong champions of the best in British music. Their BBC Radio 3 lunchtime recital explores three works by Delius in his 150th anniversary year and John Ireland’s Cello Sonata in G minor. ‘I feel as if I have known Delius’s music forever,’ notes Lloyd Webber. ‘I always felt instinctively attuned to [his] unique musical language.’ The cellist made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1971 with a performance of the composer’s Cello Sonata and included the work on his first recording the following year. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

CHARLIE SIEM

James White

Sunday 23 September 11.30 am

CHARLIE SIEM violin IGOR TCHETUEV piano ˘ ÁK Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 DVOR STRAUSS Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18 BAZZINI La ronde des lutins Op. 25 Charlie Siem’s debut album of violin showpieces, complete with a dazzling account of Antonio Bazzini’s La ronde des lutins, helped establish his reputation for virtuosity, élan and flamboyance. The young British-born musician’s Coffee Concert programme contains ample scope for display and also for lyrical sensitivity, not least in the course of Richard Strauss’s youthful Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER

Simon Fowler/EMI Classics

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Wednesday 26 September 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK FRANK BRIDGE SONG FOCUS See page overleaf for details

Wednesday 26 September 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW

Herbie Knott

Tuesday 25 September 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW piano

AILISH TYNAN soprano ROBERT MURRAY tenor IAIN BURNSIDE piano FRANK BRIDGE SONG FOCUS See page overleaf for details

MOZART Sonata No. 6 in D K284; Sonata No. 12 in F K332; Sonata No. 16 in C K545; Fantasia in C minor K475; Sonata No. 14 in C minor K457 Christian Blackshaw’s complete survey of Mozart’s piano sonatas, launched to five-star reviews last January, continues this season with a brightly coloured snapshot of works from the 1770s and 1780s. The programme includes the composer’s Piano Sonata in C minor, written for one of his most talented Viennese keyboard pupils, and its companion piece, the multi-hued Fantasia in C minor. ‘There are plenty of good concerts at any time of year in London, but by definition the exceptional happens as rarely here as in any other city,’ observed the Financial Times. ‘And Christian Blackshaw’s recital … was exceptional – both for the quality and integrity of his playing and for the amount he revealed about Mozart’s often underestimated music for solo piano.’ £15 £20 £25 £30 Booking is now open for the final concert in this series on Saturday 5 January 2013 at 7.30 pm

London Pianoforte Series/Christian Blackshaw Mozart Series

Thursday 27 September 7.30 pm

SARA MINGARDO contralto ACCADEMIA DEGLI ASTRUSI LORENZO COLITTO violin LUCA GIARDINI violin GIANNI MARALDI viola FEDERICO FERRI cello, conductor GIOVANNI VALGIMIGLI violone STEFANO ROCCO archlute DANIELE PRONI harpsichord PERGOLESI Salve Regina in F minor GALUPPI Concerto a quattro No. 1 in G minor; Cantata: La Scusa MARTINI Concerto a 4 pieno HH27 No. 10 HANDEL La Crudele Lontananza VIVALDI Concerto in D minor for strings ‘Madrigalesco’ RV129; Nisi Dominus RV608 In recent seasons Wigmore Hall has extended the reach and variety of its programme to become an international centre of excellence for the performance of early music. Federico Ferri and his Accademia degli Astrusi scored a palpable hit two years ago with their Hall debut, a thrilling lunchtime recital bill of Handel, Martini and Vivaldi given in company with Sara Mingardo. They return with another imaginative repertoire mix, complete with Pergolesi’s Salve Regina in F minor and Baldassare Galuppi’s cantata La Scusa of 1780, the Venetian composer’s exquisite setting of words by Pietro Metastasio. £18 £25 £30 £35

Early Music and Baroque Series ACCADEMIA DEGLI ASTRUSI

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FRANK BRIDGE SONG FOCUS Wednesday 26 September 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK Pre-concert talk on FRANK BRIDGE with STEPHEN BANFIELD £3 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Frank Bridge Song Focus Wednesday 26 September 7.30 pm

AILISH TYNAN soprano ROBERT MURRAY tenor IAIN BURNSIDE piano ENGLISH ROMANTICS BRIDGE Go not happy day; Adoration PARRY Bright Star BRIDGE The Devon Maid STANFORD La Belle Dame sans merci HEINE BRIDGE E’en as a lovely flower IVES Ich grolle nicht BRIDGE The Violets Blue WHITE Hör’ ich das Liedchen klingen BRIDGE All things that we clasp THE FEMALE MUSE BRIDGE Thy hand in mine; Where she lies asleep; Love went a-riding THE ORANGE AND THE GREEN BRIDGE Golden Hair; Mantle of blue; So early in the morning; When you are old THE LAST INVOCATION BRITTEN The trees they grow so high BRIDGE What shall I your true love tell?; ’Tis but a week BRITTEN The last rose of summer BRIDGE Into her keeping; Blow out you bugles; The last invocation

We know him chiefly today as Benjamin Britten’s teacher. But Frank Bridge was much more than a gifted pedagogue. Born in Brighton in 1879, his all-round musical gifts found expression as a performer and in his compositions. Iain Burnside’s choice of Bridge songs opens a window on the creative development of a true artist.

Photo: Lewis Foreman Collection

Frank Bridge was able to negotiate and develop conservative and radical ideas, eventually leading to his unique assimilation of ideas associated with the Second Viennese School and the music of Bartók. Iain Burnside’s programme charts the composer’s journey from pupil of Stanford to teacher of Britten, embracing such magnificent works as The last invocation (1918), a punchy Whitman setting, and the heart-melting melancholy of ’Tis but a week. £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series/Frank Bridge Song Focus Thursday 18 October 7.30 pm

SUSAN BICKLEY mezzo-soprano RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone MARK BRAITHWAITE viola IAIN BURNSIDE piano See page 34 for full details

Saturday 29 September

JENNIFER VYVYAN STUDY DAY AND TRIBUTE CONCERT WITH ELIZABETH WATTS JENNIFER VYVYAN AND THE WORLD OF ENGLISH SINGING IN THE MID-20TH CENTURY See page overleaf for details

Sunday 30 September 11.30 am

RICHARD HOSFORD clarinet ROGER TAPPING viola SIMON CRAWFORD-PHILLIPS piano MOZART Clarinet Trio No. 2 in Eb K498 ‘Kegelstatt’ PHILIPPE HERSANT Six Bagatelles REINECKE Trio in A Op. 264 BRUCH Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano Op. 83 (selection) Technical innovations and receptive composers gave the infant clarinet a head start following its invention in the early 18th century. The instrument’s future was secured after Mozart fell in love with its warm tone. The composer chose his favourite keyboard, string and wind instruments for his Trio in Eb major and supposedly coined its nickname – ‘Kegelstatt’ roughly translated as ‘bowling alley’ – after writing the work during a game of skittles! £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

SUSAN TOMES

R Hartley-Sharpe

Sunday 30 September 7.30 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

SUSAN TOMES piano ERICH HÖBARTH violin MOZART Violin Sonata in A K305; Rondo in D K485 (for solo piano); Violin Sonata in G K379; Violin Sonata in E minor K304; Rondo in A minor K511 (for solo piano); Violin Sonata in Bb K454 Mozart the virtuoso pianist took particular delight in the combination of piano and violin. Susan Tomes and Erich Höbarth present four masterpieces from this fascinating repertoire of sonatas, together with works for solo piano. ‘Some of the most intuitive, candid and affectionate ensemble playing I’ve heard’ Guardian This concert is the first of a pair; the second concert will be on 23 June 2013. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season SIMON CRAWFORD-PHILLIPS

Sussie Ahlburg

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JENNIFER VYVYAN STUDY DAY AND TRIBUTE CONCERT Saturday 29 September

JENNIFER VYVYAN AND THE WORLD OF ENGLISH SINGING IN THE MID-20TH CENTURY

When Jennifer Vyvyan died in 1974, aged 49, a remarkable career was cut short. With a sure technique, a brilliant, blazing coloratura, and a fiery stage presence, she was a key member of the English Opera Group from its earliest days and – for a while – Benjamin Britten’s soprano of choice. Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lady Rich in Gloriana, Mrs Julian in Owen Wingrave and, most significantly, the Governess in The Turn of the Screw were all written for her. But she also played an important role in the music of other contemporary composers, from Poulenc and Milhaud to Malcolm Williamson. And she was a leading light in the revival of baroque repertoire: a celebrated Bach and Purcell singer, and a star of landmark 1950s/60s reappraisals of the Handel operas.

STUDY DAY Led by critic and broadcaster MICHAEL WHITE who is the chief authority on Vyvyan, this study day will examine her career, her relationship with Britten, her complicated life – born into the landed gentry with an ancient family seat, riddled with secrets – and look broadly at the world of English singing to which she belonged. There will also be an exhibition based on a recently discovered cache of Vyvyan’s personal effects, with a chance to view original letters, diaries, scores and other memorabilia relating to this extraordinary singer. 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm

JENNIFER VYVYAN: A LIFE REDISCOVERED Illustrated talk by music critic MICHAEL WHITE 3.30 pm – 4.00 pm

REMEMBERING MY MOTHER Jennifer Vyvyan’s son JONATHAN CROWN in conversation with MICHAEL WHITE

TRIBUTE CONCERT 7.30 pm

ELIZABETH WATTS soprano JAMES SOUTHALL piano HANDEL Oh! Had I Jubal’s Lyre from Joshua; Art thou troubled from Rodelinda PURCELL/BRITTEN Fairest isle; The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation; Take not a woman’s anger ill BRITTEN The Tower Scene from The Turn of the Screw WOLF Er ist’s; Verborgenheit; Das verlassene Mägdlein; Auf ein altes Bild; Elfenlied DEBUSSY Ariettes oubliées POULENC Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon; Non, Monsieur mon mari from Les mamelles de Tirésias HOWELLS Come sing and dance GURNEY Sleep BRITTEN O Waly, Waly from Folk Song Arrangements HOPKINS A Melancholy Song DYSON The Wife of Bath QUILTER Love’s philosophy Elizabeth Watts pays tribute to a great artist in works closely associated with Jennifer Vyvyan. £15 £20 £25 £30

4.00 pm – 4.45 pm

THE BRITTEN CONNECTION

Song Recital Series/Jennifer Vyvyan Study Day and Tribute Concert

A panel discussion presented by MICHAEL WHITE, with JAMES BOWMAN and JOHN COPLEY 5.15 pm – 6.00 pm

ENGLISH SINGING IN THE 1950s/60s Round table chaired by MICHAEL WHITE, with JAMES BOWMAN, NOELLE BARKER and JOHN COPLEY 6.00 pm – 6.45 pm

THE RECORDED LEGACY MICHAEL WHITE explores Jennifer Vyvyan on disc STUDY DAY TICKET £15 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Jennifer Vyvyan as Donna Anna, Sadler’s Wells 1952. Photo by Angus MacBean

ELIZABETH WATTS

Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 2 October 7.30 pm

THE HILLIARD ENSEMBLE FRETWORK GIBBONS The silver swanne; O that the learned poets of this time; In Nomine a 5; Faire is the rose; In Nomine a 5; I waigh not fortunes frowne; I tremble not at noyse of warre; I see ambition never pleased; I faine not friendship; In Nomine a 5; How art thou thrald; Farewell all joyes; Fantasy a 4; Daintie fine bird; Faire ladies that to love captived are; Mongst thousands good NICO MUHLY New work for voices and 5 viols (world première)* GIBBONS Now each flowery bank of May; Fantasy a 3; Lais now old; What is our life; Ah! Dear heart; Fantasy a 4; Nay let me weep (elegy for Prince Henry); Nere let the sun; Yet if that age had frosted ore his head; Trust not too much, faire youth * Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant making foundation. NORIKO OGAWA

Satoru Mitsuta

Monday 1 October 1.00 pm

NORIKO OGAWA piano TAKEMITSU Rain Tree Sketch II DEBUSSY Études Books I & II Whether on disc or in the concert hall, Noriko Ogawa has achieved international distinction with her Debussy interpretations. The Japanese pianist’s recent Reflections on Debussy festival in Manchester cast fresh light on the composer’s music. Ogawa suggests that ‘[the Études contain] Debussy’s most “honest” writing. They are the last set of piano pieces that he wrote. There’s something sad, dark, deep.’

Two of the most accomplished of all early music ensembles join forces to celebrate the art of Orlando Gibbons. Fretwork and The Hilliard Ensemble draw on decades of collective experience in their interpretations of the contrapuntal music of one of Jacobean and early Stuart England’s greatest composers. The concert also includes the world première of a new work by Nico Muhly, inspired by Gibbons’s haunting soundworld. £15 £20 £25 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series

£12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 2 October 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK RICHARD BOOTHBY on Gibbons £3 (not part of the subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

FRETWORK

Chris Dawes

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THE ENGLISH CONCERT

Richard Haughton

Thursday 4 October 7.30 pm

IMS PRUSSIA COVE DANIEL PHILLIPS violin LESLEY HATFIELD violin HYE-JIN KIM violin LOUISE WILLIAMS viola CAROLYN BLACKWELL viola ALICE NEARY cello RAFAEL ROSENFELD cello SARAH TYSMAN piano BEETHOVEN String Trio in C minor Op. 9 No. 3 SCHUMANN Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47 ˘ ÁK String Sextet in A Op. 48 DVOR CAROLYN SAMPSON

Marco Borggreve

Wednesday 3 October 7.30 pm

THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET director, harpsichord KATHARINA SPRECKELSEN oboe NADJA ZWIENER violin CAROLYN SAMPSON soprano

Now in its 40th year, IMS Prussia Cove presents some of the world’s finest chamber musicians, specially invited by Artistic Director Steven Isserlis. The group will have been preparing at Open Chamber Music, a seminar with a famously unique atmosphere, established in a remote corner of Cornwall by the Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh. £12 £18 £24 £28

Chamber Music Season

BACH Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066 HANDEL Silete venti HWV242 BACH Concerto in C minor BWV1060 for oboe and violin (reconst.) HANDEL Arias from Giulio Cesare Carolyn Sampson’s Handel singing should carry a warning to allow the unwary to prepare for the scale of its seductive power and captivating energy. She’s partnered here by The English Concert and its artistic director Harry Bicket in the motet Silete venti, probably written around 1724 in London, and three arias from Handel’s operatic masterpiece Giulio Cesare, first produced at the King’s Theatre, Haymarket, in February 1724. £18 £25 £30 £35

HYE-JIN KIM

Balazs Borocz

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Sunday 7 October 11.30 am

EGGNER TRIO BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1 BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87 Founded in 1997, the Eggner Trio captured worldwide attention six years later by winning the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. The ensemble’s stock has since risen with acclaimed performances everywhere from Carnegie Hall and the Vienna Musikverein to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Salzburg’s Mozarteum. The Eggners return to Wigmore Hall to perform youthful Beethoven and mature Brahms. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

JULIA FISCHER

KASSKARA

Friday 5 October 7.30 pm

JULIA FISCHER violin BACH Partita No. 3 in E for solo violin BWV1006 YSAŸE Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 27 No. 2 BACH Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violin BWV1001 HINDEMITH Violin Sonata in G minor Op. 11 No. 6 Astonishing melodic invention and triumph over perceived technical limits belong to the violin sonatas of Bach and Ysaÿe. Julia Fischer’s interpretations have attracted international praise since she took first prize at the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition at the age of twelve. Her programme also includes Hindemith’s Sonata in G minor, completed in 1917 around the time the composer became leader of the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season EGGNER TRIO

N. Horowitz

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Monday 8 October 1.00 pm

JENNIFER JOHNSTON mezzo-soprano JOSEPH MIDDLETON piano

ANN MURRAY MASTERCLASS

WOLF Heiss mich nicht reden; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land MAHLER Five Rückert Lieder BRITTEN At the mid hour of night; Ca’ the yowes; Sweet Polly Oliver Historical accident timed the outpouring of Germany’s romantic poets to coincide with the global spread of the domestic piano. The combination of lyric verse and an affordable new instrument inspired the creation of songs for consumption in intimate settings. Liverpool-born mezzo Jennifer Johnston offers a lunchtime recital rich in expressive nuance, haunting imagery and emotional contrasts. £12 concs £10 Jennifer Johnston is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

ANN MURRAY

Sian Trenberth

Tuesday 9 October 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

ANN MURRAY MASTERCLASS Postgraduate singing students from Britain’s music colleges are set to gain from Ann Murray’s interpretative vision and the fruits of an illustrious career that began in the early 1970s. Her masterclasses are famed for their heady blend of wit, charm, vital energy and total engagement with the hearts and minds of young singers. £7 concs £4 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

JENNIFER JOHNSTON

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CUARTETO CASALS

Felix Broede

Tuesday 9 October 7.30 pm

Wednesday 10 October 7.30 pm

CUARTETO CASALS

SCHUBERT String Quartet in C D46; String Quartet D18; String Quartet in G minor D173

SCHUBERT String Quartet in C D32; String Quartet in B b D112; String Quartet in E b D87

Wigmore Hall’s Schubert Focus continues with the launch of a complete survey of the composer’s string quartets from Cuarteto Casals. The Barcelona-based ensemble, formed 15 years ago, has developed a close affinity for the Viennese classics and the works of Schubert in particular. They open their cycle with the String Quartet in C major D46, completed by its 16-year-old composer in March 1813 for performance by members of his family. Schubert’s fecund melodic gift can already be heard in the astonishingly accomplished String Quartet D18, believed to date from 1810 or 1811. It also permeates every bar of the teenage composer’s String Quartet in G minor D173, complete with resonant echoes of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 and appealing traces of Haydn’s influence.

Schubert’s delightful String Quartet in C major, written in the autumn of 1812, was not published in complete form until the early 1950s. The work’s radiant themes, simply crafted and imaginatively developed, presaged mighty things to come from its boy composer. Although the note ‘completed in 4 and a half hours’, attached by Schubert to his String Quartet in B b major D112, should probably be taken with a pinch of salt, it bears witness to the young composer’s ease of invention and the joy with which he wrote chamber music for his family. The impressive String Quartet in E b major D87 dates from the autumn of 1813, when the adolescent Schubert returned to his father’s school house from boarding school in Vienna.

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Chamber Music Season/Schubert: A Celebration

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Chamber Music Season/Schubert: A Celebration

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JONATHAN BISS SCHUMANN: UNDER THE INFLUENCE At the invitation of Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly, young American pianist Jonathan Biss has devised a concert series that pays tribute to Robert Schumann, his music and his legacy. Schumann’s music is often regarded as a happy accident of history: so individual and idiosyncratic that it must surely be unprecedented and inimitable. But Schumann is, in fact, a crucial link in a chain of composers across centuries. This series examines that progression, reaching as far back as Purcell, and featuring the works of four composers who, in their various ways, could not have existed without Schumann. The Jonathan Biss Schumann Series is supported by Dunard Fund

Thursday 11 October 7.30 pm

CAMILLA TILLING soprano MARK PADMORE tenor JONATHAN BISS piano SCHUMANN Gesänge der Frühe BERG Sieben frühe Lieder SCHUBERT Heine Lieder from Schwanengesang SCHUMANN Dichterliebe Heinrich Heine’s poems inspired Schumann throughout 1840 and provided the text of Dichterliebe (‘Poet’s Love’). The song-cycle charts its composer’s response to a period of extreme personal emotions, expressed in music of spine-tingling honesty and nobility. Mark Padmore and Jonathan Biss preface their interpretation with Schubert’s equally rich late Heine settings and the Gesänge der Frühe, completed shortly before Schumann’s desperate mental collapse in 1853.

Forthcoming concerts and events in this series

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Tuesday 14 May 6.00 pm

Song Recital Series/Jonathan Biss – Schumann: Under the Influence

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION

Friday 19 October 7.30 pm

ROMIE DE GUISE-LANGLOIS clarinet KIM KASHKASHIAN viola MARK PADMORE tenor JONATHAN BISS piano See page 34 for details

Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

Tuesday 14 May 7.30 pm

JONATHAN BISS piano ELIAS STRING QUARTET Wednesday 22 May 7.30 pm

JONATHAN BISS piano

BORODIN QUARTET TCHAIKOVSKY AND BRAHMS No history of Russian music in the post-war period would be complete without a significant discussion of the Borodin Quartet. The original ensemble formed in 1945 and subsequently developed an enduring culture of the most refined and eloquent quartet playing imaginable. The group’s legendary reputation rests on its interpretations of great monuments of the chamber music repertoire, notably the string quartets of Beethoven, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Brahms. The Borodins return to Wigmore Hall this season for a three-concert survey of the complete string quartets of Tchaikovsky and Brahms, opening proceedings with the former composer’s enigmatic single-movement String Quartet in B b. Saturday 13 October 7.30 pm

BORODIN QUARTET TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet in B b (one movement); String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 BRAHMS String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 £12 £18 £24 £28

Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: Tchaikovsky and Brahms

Forthcoming concerts in this series

Friday 8 February 7.30 pm

BORODIN QUARTET BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 22 Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: Tchaikovsky and Brahms

Saturday 18 May 7.30 pm

BORODIN QUARTET BRAHMS String Quartet in B b Op. 67 TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 3 in E b minor Op. 30 Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: Tchaikovsky and Brahms

Sunday 14 October 11.30 am

LE POÈME HARMONIQUE

ESCHER QUARTET DUTILLEUX Ainsi la nuit GESUALDO Illumina faciem tuam (arr. Pierre Lapointe) BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Evolutionary change, encouraged in recent years by venues such as Wigmore Hall, has given fresh life to chamber music programming. The Escher Quartet stands at the vanguard of the younger generation of ensembles thanks to the quality of its tonal blend, artistic cohesion and imaginative repertoire juxtapositions. Join the Eschers for their bold and persuasive Coffee Concert programme, which includes the strikingly individual sound worlds of Henri Dutilleux and Carlo Gesualdo. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

VINCENT DUMESTRE

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 14 October 7.30 pm

LE POÈME HARMONIQUE THE HUMAN COMEDY – French airs de cour, Spanish, Italian and Occitanian songs of the seventeenth century, popular songs and instrumental ballets Works by MOULINIÉ and TESSIER Founded by the French lutenist Vincent Dumestre in the late 1990s, Le Poème Harmonique views the legacy of Baroque music from the perspective of its intrinsic relationship to the art of poetry. The ensemble also draws inspiration from its deep immersion in surviving folksong traditions and operatic works. Join Le Poème Harmonique’s members to hear their intensely focused readings of the airs de cour of Charles Tessier and Etienne Moulinié. ESCHER QUARTET

Henry Fair

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Early Music and Baroque Series

LE POÈME HARMONIQUE

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Monday 15 October 7.30 pm

CLASSICAL OPERA IAN PAGE conductor SANDRINE PIAU soprano ‘RUHE SANFT’: A MOZART KALEIDOSCOPE MOZART Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546; Leidenschaften stillt und weckt Musik from Handel, Ode for St Cecilia’s Day; Symphony in F K19a; Ein ergrimmter Löwe brüllet from Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots; Nel grave tormento from Mitridate, re di Ponto; Geme la tortorella and Crudeli, fermate ... Ah dal pianto from La finta giardiniera; Symphony No. 27 in G K199; Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben and Tiger! wetze nur die Klauen from Zaide

SANDRINE PIAU

Sandrine Expilly/Naïve

Monday 15 October 1.00 pm

Over the past decade, Ian Page and Classical Opera have delighted Wigmore Hall audiences with everything from a Mozart season to retrospective surveys of works by Gluck and Haydn. They are joined for the first time this evening by the vivacious French soprano Sandrine Piau, among the finest exponents of Baroque and early Classical opera. Their programme interleaves instrumental works such as the early Symphony in F major K19a, believed to have been written in London around 1765, with a vibrant anthology of arias, the sublime ‘Ruhe sanft’ from Zaide among them. £18 £25 £30 £35

CHRISTOPH DENOTH guitar

Early Music and Baroque Series

DOWLAND My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home; The Shoemaker’s Wife; The frogg Galliard; Fantasia SOR Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart Op. 9 VILLA-LOBOS 3 Preludes: Nos. 1, 4 & 2 FALLA Homenaje: pièce de guitare écrite pour ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’ TURINA Sevillana ALBÉNIZ Torre Bermeja (arr. for guitar); Asturias from ‘Suite española’ (arr. for guitar) Christoph Denoth’s artistic outlook was transformed by his studies with the mercurial conductor Sergiu Celibidache. The Swiss guitarist, Musician in Residence at Oxford’s Balliol College, absorbed Celibidache’s musical philosophy and has since applied it in practice. The music for this lunchtime recital spans almost three and a half centuries of solo guitar literature, in keeping with Denoth’s mission to connect listeners with the broadest range of composers and musical styles. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

CHRISTOPH DENOTH

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THOMAS DEMENGA ‘BUILDING ON BACH’ Music’s past, present and future have for long occupied Thomas Demenga’s creative choices and repertoire liaisons. The Swiss cellist and composer, born to a family of musicians in 1954, has blazed programming trails throughout his career, presenting familiar works in unfamiliar repertoire contexts. Demenga’s ‘Building on Bach’ project unfolds this season at Wigmore Hall with three boldly innovative concerts built around Bach’s Six Cello Suites and modern works for solo cello. He will play period and modern instruments in this ear-opening, mind-expanding series.

Wednesday 17 October 7.30 pm

THOMAS DEMENGA cello BACH Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007 ZIMMERMANN Sonate für Cello solo THOMAS DEMENGA EFEU BACH Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012 Thomas Demenga’s interpretations of Bach’s Cello Suites have been informed by his experience as a composer. They also bear witness to his ceaseless desire to explore the variety of Bach’s writing through clear articulation and imaginative responses to the variety of his melodic ideas. Demenga’s programme includes Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Cello Sonata, a twelve-note ‘Homage à Bach’, and Demenga’s EFEU (‘Ivy’), written for contestants in the 2010 Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann. £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

10 FOR 10 Chamber Music Season/Thomas Demenga ‘Building on Bach’ Forthcoming concerts in this series Thursday 28 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 19 May 7.30 pm

THOMAS DEMENGA cello

LUTOSL ´ AWSKI Sacher Variation BERIO Les mots sont allés BACH Cello Suite No. 4 in E b BWV1010 KLAUS HUBER Transpositio ad infinitum BACH Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009

BACH Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008 THOMAS LARCHER Sonata for cello BACH Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 THOMAS DEMENGA Aus den Fugen

Chamber Music Season/Thomas Demenga ‘Building on Bach’

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Chamber Music Season/Thomas Demenga ‘Building on Bach’

Friday 19 October 7.30 pm

ROMIE DE GUISE-LANGLOIS clarinet

KIM KASHKASHIAN viola MARK PADMORE tenor JONATHAN BISS piano SCHUMANN Märchenerzählungen Op. 132 KURTÁG Hommage à Robert Schumann Op. 15d BEETHOVEN An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98 SCHUMANN Fantasy in C Op. 17 Schumann’s lasting legacy and the influences that helped shape his work are central to the second of Jonathan Biss’s beguiling Schumann Series programmes. The power of Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte (‘To the distant beloved’) left its mark on Schumann’s Fantasy in C major Op. 17, written in 1836 in response to separation from his own beloved, Clara Wieck, and as part of a work fashioned to raise money for a birthplace monument to Beethoven. SUSAN BICKLEY

Julie Kim

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Thursday 18 October 7.30 pm

SUSAN BICKLEY mezzo-soprano RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone MARK BRAITHWAITE viola IAIN BURNSIDE piano

The Jonathan Biss Schumann Series is supported by Dunard Fund

Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season/ Jonathan Biss – Schumann: Under the Influence

BRIDGE Blow, blow, thou winter wind QUILTER Music, when soft voices die BRIDGE When most I wink QUILTER Blow, blow, thou winter wind BRIDGE Three songs with viola: Far, far from each other; Where is it that our soul doth go?; Music when soft voices die BRIDGE Pensiero; Allegro appassionato (for viola and piano) HOLST From Hymns from the Rig Veda: Ushas (Dawn); Varuna I (Sky); Faith; Indra (God of Storm and Battle) SIMON ROWLAND-JONES Whirling (for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano) HOLST Journey’s End BRIDGE Day after day; Dweller in my deathless dreams HOLST Now in these fairylands BRIDGE Speak to me, my love HOLST Betelgeuse BRIDGE Journey’s End Wigmore Hall’s Frank Bridge Song Focus digs deep into the treasure house of English art-song with a programme exceptional in breadth and poetic beauty. Bridge’s ‘Music when soft voices die’, rich and mysterious in romantic harmonies, dates from 1903 and reflects its young composer’s early development. Iain Burnside’s revelatory choice of works also includes three seductive Tagore settings, the exquisite ‘Speak to me, my love’ among them. £15 £20 £25 £30

ROMIE DE GUISE-LANGLOIS

Peter Wang

Song Recital Series/Frank Bridge Song Focus

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LONDON CONCHORD ENSEMBLE

Patrick Allen

Saturday 20 October 7.30 pm

LONDON CONCHORD ENSEMBLE JANÁC˘EK Mládi ˘ ÁK Piano Quartet in E b Op. 87 DVOR BRAHMS Clarinet Trio in A minor Op. 114 The London Conchord Ensemble celebrates its tenth birthday with a concert of great central European chamber works, opening with Janác˘ek’s vivacious wind sextet Mládi (‘Youth’), in which he recalls childhood scenes from the perspective of the composer’s spirited old age. The jubilant mood continues in the fiery first movement of Dvor˘ák’s Second Piano Quartet in E b, among the composer’s finest chamber music scores. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Sunday 21 October 11.30 am

GARY HOFFMAN cello DAVID SELIG piano CHOPIN Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65 MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58 American cellist Gary Hoffman, who made his UK recital debut at Wigmore Hall in 1971 at the age of 15, is universally known for the subtlety and freshness of his interpretations. He and David Selig explore the expressive light and shade of two works created in the 1840s, complete with the Bach-inspired Adagio of Mendelssohn’s four-movement work and the supreme lyricism of Chopin’s G minor sonata. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

GARY HOFFMAN

Gerard Proust

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Sunday 21 October 7.30 pm

EXAUDI JAMES WEEKS director THE EXAUDI ITALIAN MADRIGAL BOOK – A TENTH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION A GABRIELI Vieni, vieni Himeneo SALVATORE SCIARRINO Tre madrigali MONTEVERDI Sovra tenere erbette MONTEVERDI O Mirtillo, Mirtillo anima mia MONTEVERDI Vattene pur crudel GESUALDO Mercè grido piangendo GESUALDO Asciugate i begli occhi MORGAN HAYES E Vesuvio monte GESUALDO Ardita Zanzaretta; Languisce al fin MONTEVERDI Rimanti in pace Interspersed with new commissions by CHRISTIAN WOLFF, MICHAEL FINNISSY, STEFANO GERVASONI, EVAN JOHNSON and LARRY GOVES Jaw-dropping musicianship, dazzling virtuosity and passionate communication belong to the almost superhuman attributes of EXAUDI, applied to a repertoire that spans everything from 15th-century Flemish polyphony to the Everest-like challenges of Brian Ferneyhough’s Missa Brevis. The great British vocal ensemble marks its tenth anniversary with a celebratory programme showcasing contrasting sides of its musical personality: the cutting-edge of contemporary music and the astonishing avant-garde of the Italian baroque.

SIGNUM QUARTET

Irene Zandel

Monday 22 October 1.00 pm

SIGNUM QUARTET BRAHMS String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 SCHUMANN String Quartet in F Op. 41 No. 2 Since receiving the London International String Quartet Competition Audience Prize in 2009, the Signum Quartet’s name has rapidly ascended the global list of outstanding young chamber groups. The German-based ensemble, among the current crop of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, returns to Wigmore Hall with two works drawn from the core of the Romantic repertoire. £12 concs £10 The Signum Quartet is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

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Early Music and Baroque Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

EXAUDI

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Wednesday 24 October 7.30 pm

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA violin STEPHEN KOVACEVICH piano BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 TAKEMITSU Hika BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 TAKEMITSU Distance de fée BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Imagination and adventure hallmark Alina Ibragimova’s recital with Stephen Kovacevich. Their programme presents Brahms’s aweinspiring mature violin sonatas in company with distilled miniatures by the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. The latter’s Hika (‘Elegy’) was written in 1966 as a sorrowful lament. His Distance de fée dates from the composer’s early 20s, its intensely lyrical nature complementing the songful style of the Brahms sonatas. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA

Sussie Ahlburg

Tuesday 23 October 7.30 pm

ENDYMION VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Quintet in D PHILIP VENABLES Sextet (commissioned by Wigmore Hall) (world première) DOHNÁNYI Sextet in C Op. 37 Wigmore Hall’s mighty tally of world premières grows with the appearance of a specially commissioned work by Endymion’s artistic director, Philip Venables. The Chester-born composer’s music, praised for its ‘delicately spun melodies’ and ‘gritty, soulful’ character, has been championed worldwide by Endymion. His Sextet takes its place in an absorbing programme, complete with Vaughan Williams’s early Quintet for clarinet, horn, violin, cello and piano, written in 1898 and first performed three years later.

STEPHEN KOVACEVICH

David Thompson/EMI Classics

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Chamber Music Season

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FLORILEGIUM

Amit Lennon

Thursday 25 October 7.30 pm

FLORILEGIUM ASHLEY SOLOMON director, flute ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS soprano 300TH ANNIVERSARY OF FREDERICK THE GREAT BENDA Symphony in G QUANTZ Concerto in D for flute and violin CPE BACH Flute Concerto in D minor Wq. 22 Interspersed with GRAUN Arias from Cesare e Cleopatra Continuing Florilegium’s celebration of the tercentenary of the birth of Frederick the Great, the music-loving King of Prussia, this programme includes works by the monarch’s flute teacher, Johann Joachim Quantz, his court harpsichordist, CPE Bach, and the principal violinist of his court orchestra, Franz Benda. Florilegium is joined by Elin Manahan Thomas in arias from Carl Heinrich Graun’s Cesare e Cleopatra, a thrilling three-act ‘dramma per musica’, commissioned by Frederick to celebrate the opening of his new Royal Berlin Opera House in 1742. £12 £18 £24 £28

Early Music and Baroque Series

ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS

UCJ/Universal Records Ltd

Friday 26 October 7.30 pm

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5 MOZART String Quartet in B b K589 ‘Prussian’ MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2 The Endellions launch the first of three Wigmore Hall concerts this season with Beethoven’s animated and wonderfully genial Quartet in A major, among the sunniest pieces in his Op. 18 collection. The programme closes with an effervescent Mendelssohn masterpiece, completed during his honeymoon stay in the Black Forest in 1837. Mozart’s String Quartet in B b K589, dedicated to King Frederick William of Prussia, includes a series of flowing cello tunes, conceived no doubt with the cello-playing talents of the musical monarch securely in mind. £12 £18 £24 £28

Chamber Music Season THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET

Eric Richmond

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Saturday 27 October 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor MARIANNE THORSEN violin IAN BROWN piano BRITTEN Three Divertimenti for string quartet BRIDGE Romanze, Cradle Song and Serenade (for violin and piano) WARLOCK Songs for tenor and string quartet ELGAR La Capricieuse; Canto popolare; Sospiri (for violin and piano) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS On Wenlock Edge (for tenor, string quartet and piano) Vaughan Williams’s haunting song-cycle On Wenlock Edge, to words by A E Housman, inevitably makes a special impression in the ideal acoustics of Wigmore Hall, especially when sung by John Mark Ainsley with the Nash. The work is prefaced here by a selection of Warlock songs for tenor and string quartet, delightful violin solos by Bridge and Elgar, and Britten’s Three Divertimenti for string quartet. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/British Series: Dreamers of Dreams

JOHN MARK AINSLEY

Sunday 28 October 11.30 am

DANTE QUARTET ˘ ÁK String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ DVOR MOZART String Quartet in F K590 Spillville, a tiny hamlet in Iowa, provided Dvor˘ák with welcome respite from his duties as director of New York’s National Conservatory of Music. Its sights and sounds also inspired the String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’. The Dante Quartet, winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for best chamber ensemble in 2007, pairs Dvor˘ák’s score with another late masterpiece, the third of Mozart’s so-called ‘Prussian’ quartets. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

DANTE QUARTET

Benjamin Harte

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Forthcoming concerts in this series

WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR RETROSPECTIVE SERIES

Sunday 3 February 7.30 pm

WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone RUSSELL RYAN piano Tuesday 23 July 7.30 pm

CHRISTIANE KARG soprano WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone GRAHAM JOHNSON piano Saturday 16 November 2013 7.30 pm

WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone IMOGEN COOPER piano Monday 29 October 1.00 pm WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR

Ernest W. Gruber

Vienna’s Academy of Music and Dramatic Art supplied the initial cornerstones of Wolfgang Holzmair’s artistry, strengthened and deepened over the many decades of his career by profound thought about communication through song. The Austrian baritone, born 60 years ago near the lakes and mountains of the Salzkammergut, brings a remarkable sensibility and technical refinement to his searching interpretations. His long association with Wigmore Hall and deep connection to its audience are celebrated this season and next in a Retrospective Series. Sunday 28 October 7.30 pm

WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone IMOGEN COOPER piano MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Ablösung im Sommer; Revelge; Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz; Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Trost im Unglück; Der Tamboursg’sell; Das irdische Leben; Rheinlegendchen; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen MAHLER Winterlied; Frühlingsmorgen; Erinnerung; Hans und Grethe; Serenade aus Don Juan; Phantasie aus Don Juan; Urlicht MAHLER From Five Rückert Lieder: Liebst du um Schönheit; Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder; Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

ISABELLE FAUST violin JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS cello ALEXANDER MELNIKOV piano HAYDN Piano Trio in D HXV:24 ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 DVOR Three artists of striking individuality and imagination supply Trio Melnikov’s essential spirit. Alexander Melnikov and his regular duo partner Isabelle Faust are joined by the Canadian-born French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, recently hailed by the Daily Telegraph for the ‘captivatingly wistful quality’ and ‘expressive freedom’ of his playing. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Gustav Mahler’s early years were steeped in song. The experience, reinforced by later study of Schubert’s Lieder, informed the composer’s artistic development and frequently guided his choice of folk and popular verse. Wolfgang Holzmair and Imogen Cooper direct their great partnership to the interpretation of songs that span the gamut of Mahler’s creative life, from the youthful ‘Hans und Grethe’ and early Wunderhorn Lieder to the sublime art of the composer’s Rückert Lieder. £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series/Wolfgang Holzmair Retrospective Series

ISABELLE FAUST

Marco Borggreve

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Tuesday 30 October 7.30 pm

SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE JONATHAN MORTON director, violin MOZART Divertimento in D K136 PURCELL Fantasias (a selection); Dance of Furies from Dioclesian BACH Concerto in E for violin BWV1042 BRITTEN Three Divertimenti (arr. for ensemble by J Morton) SCHUMANN String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 (arr. for ensemble by J Morton) ‘This is one set of musicians you really need to see live to fully appreciate’ The Scotsman The UK’s only professional string orchestra, led by Artistic Director Jonathan Morton, returns to Wigmore Hall with a concert to celebrate Benjamin Britten’s approaching centenary year. The programme casts light on music by composers close to Britten’s heart and builds on his legacy of arranging chamber works for larger ensembles. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN AND JULIUS DRAKE

Marco Borggreve

Monday 29 October 7.30 pm

CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano FROM RUSSIA AND NORWAY WITH LOVE RACHMANINOV Lilacs; How fair this spot; He took all from me; Night is mournful; The ring; The migrant wind; Music; The rat-catcher MUSORGSKY Detskaya (The Nursery) GRIEG Haugtussa (The Mountain Maid) Expressive joy and the ineffable qualities of human communication stand among the philosophical forces behind Christianne Stotijn’s song interpretations. Her recital partnership with Julius Drake has secured worldwide critical acclaim and won the BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award in 2010. Their latest Wigmore Hall venture embraces the yearning nostalgia and quicksilver mood changes of Rachmaninov Romances and songs by Musorgsky. £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

10 FOR 10

JONATHAN MORTON

Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Song Recital Series/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

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ARDITTI QUARTET/ JACK QUARTET P R E M I È R E S Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly’s commitment to the creation of new works of chamber music is ideally served by this spectacular recital of UK premières, a clear jewel in the 2012/13 season’s crown. The Arditti Quartet’s worldwide reputation rests secure on almost 40 years of excellence in the performance and development of contemporary music. The JACK Quartet can likewise cite a glorious record of achievement in bringing new work to life, underpinned by its players’ close association with composers such as Matthias Pintscher, Helmut Lachenmann and Julia Wolfe. This showcase concert, part of a landmark Arditti and JACK Quartet project, offers audiences the thrilling prospect of hearing the birth of two string quartets and two string octets by Hans Abrahamsen (b.1952), Mauro Lanza (b.1975) and the English composers Rebecca Saunders (b.1967) and James Clarke (b.1957).

Wednesday 31 October 6.00 pm

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION Composer REBECCA SAUNDERS in conversation with TOM SERVICE £3 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 31 October 7.30 pm

ARDITTI QUARTET JACK QUARTET † HANS ABRAHAMSEN New work for string quartet (UK première)* REBECCA SAUNDERS New work for string quartet (UK première)** JAMES CLARKE New work for string octet (UK première)*** MAURO LANZA New work for string octet (UK première)*** * Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk with support from Siemens Musikstiftung and Wigmore Hall ** Commissioned by ORF-Musikprotokoll Graz, Wigmore Hall and the Arditti Quartet (with the kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for Music). *** Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk with support from Kunststiftung NRW and Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall is grateful for the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant making foundation, for all these commissions.

£10 (not part of subscription scheme)

10 FOR 10 † WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Chamber Music Season

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Saturday 3 November 11.00 am – 12 noon

JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER FAMILY CONCERT For age 5 plus Cellist JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER has entertained audiences around the world and collaborated with a huge range of musicians including Elton John and Yehudi Menuhin. Hear him play in an interactive concert as he shares some of his favourite cello pieces, including The Swan by Saint-Saëns. Presented by RACHEL LEACH. Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 3 November 7.30 pm MARK PADMORE

Marco Borggreve

Thursday 1 November 7.30 pm

THE ENGLISH CONCERT MARK PADMORE tenor NADJA ZWIENER violin, director BACH Ich armer Mensch, Ich Sündenknecht BUXTEHUDE Contrapunctus I BACH Bist du bei mir BUXTEHUDE Contrapunctus II BACH Aria: Komm, du süsse Todesstunde from Cantata BWV161 BUXTEHUDE Klagelied BuxWV76 No. 2 BACH Aria: Ich habe genug from Cantata BWV82 In November 1705 Johann Sebastian Bach walked from his home in Arnstadt to Lübeck, a distance of some 250 miles. The 20-year-old musician was determined to meet and learn from Dietrich Buxtehude, the venerable organist of Lübeck’s mighty Marienkirche. The English Concert’s latest Wigmore Hall programme celebrates Bach’s epic journey by bringing together exceptional works by the two greatest German composers of their respective generations.

MICHELANGELO QUARTET CHERUBINI String Quartet No. 3 in D minor TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 22 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135 The Michelangelo Quartet has forged an international reputation with the strong personality and courage of its interpretations. The ensemble’s members also enjoy high profile chamber music partnerships with, among others, Gidon Kremer, András Schiff, Martha Argerich and Leon Fleisher. Their programme is crowned by Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Op. 135, the composer’s last substantial work and a timeless exploration of the human condition. £12 £18 £24 £28

Chamber Music Season

£18 £25 £30 £35

Early Music and Baroque Series

Friday 2 November 7.30 pm

AXIS SAXOPHONE QUARTET JOSHUA REDMAN JAZZ SERIES See page overleaf for full details

MICHELANGELO QUARTET

Marco Borggreve

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JOSHUA REDMAN J A Z Z

S E R I E S

Jazz at Wigmore Hall is set to trail-blaze thrilling creative ideas under Joshua Redman’s direction. The American saxophonist and composer, invited by John Gilhooly to succeed Brad Mehldau as the Hall’s Jazz Series curator, has gathered a stellar line-up of artists to shape his first season, ranging from the Argentine pianist, vocalist and bandleader Guillermo Klein – a vital presence at New York’s jazz scene over the past two decades – to the St Louis-born sax player Chris Cheek, an iconic figure in the saxophone world, pioneer of new sounds and explorer of subtle improvisational concepts. Joshua Redman is among the most charismatic performers of his generation. He stormed the jazz scene in 1991 as winner of the Thelonius Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition. His work since has embraced breathtaking partnerships with, among others, Brad Mehldau, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden and Christian McBride. Friday 2 November 7.30 pm

AXIS SAXOPHONE QUARTET JOSHUA REDMAN CHRIS CHEEK CHRIS POTTER MARK TURNER Wigmore Hall’s Jazz Series welcomes a thrilling new project. The Axis Saxophone Quartet unites Joshua Redman with Chris Cheek, Chris Potter and Mark Turner to create an all-star sax team. Jazz standards and original compositions, arranged and created by members of the group, make this a must-hear event. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Joshua Redman Jazz Series Forthcoming concerts in this series Friday 1 February 7.30 pm

GUILLERMO KLEIN piano, voice AARON GOLDBERG piano CHRIS CHEEK saxophone MIGUEL ZENON saxophone Saturday 11 May 7.30 pm

JOSHUA REDMAN saxophone CHRISTIAN McBRIDE double bass

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Sunday 4 November 11.30 am

DIANA DAMRAU

SWISS PIANO TRIO MOZART Piano Trio in C K548 SCHUMANN Phantasiestücke Op. 88 MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 ‘We are accustomed to judge a thing from the name it bears,’ wrote Schumann in 1835. ‘We make certain demands upon a fantasy, others upon a sonata.’ The distinction clearly mattered to the composer, whose instrumental fantasies demolished the boundaries of convention. The Swiss Piano Trio, winners of the 2005 International Johannes Brahms Competition, surrounds the four febrile miniatures of Schumann’s Phantasiestücke Op. 88 with Mozart’s joyful Piano Trio in C major and the noble lyricism of Mendelssohn’s First Piano Trio. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

DIANA DAMRAU

Tanja Niemann

Sunday 4 November 7.30 pm

DIANA DAMRAU soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano Songs by LISZT, RACHMANINOV and STRAUSS Julius Drake’s ‘Perspectives’ series unfolds with a typically imaginative survey of works by Liszt, Rachmaninov and Strauss. Diana Damrau captured the affections of Wigmore Hall’s audience in 2008 with an unforgettable debut recital. The coloratura soprano, partnered then as today by Julius Drake, complemented her success on the world’s leading opera stages with a performance greeted by five-star reviews and a standing ovation. ‘A scorcher of an evening, every second of it,’ noted the Guardian. The newspaper’s analysis augurs well for Damrau’s latest Wigmore Hall concert, which prefaces her eagerly anticipated appearance at the Royal Opera House in Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable. £18 £25 £30 £35 SWISS PIANO TRIO

Uwe Arens

Song Recital Series/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

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Tuesday 6 November 7.30 pm

SONIA PRINA contralto LA SFERA ARMONIOSA See page opposite for full details

Wednesday 7 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Thursday 8 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

THOMAS QUASTHOFF MASTERCLASSES With post-graduate singers from UK music colleges and other selected singers.

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER

Thomas Quasthoff, who retired from concert performance at the beginning of 2012, continues his essential work as teacher and inspiration to the next generation of singers. Revelatory insights and wise words about the art of song interpretation are sure to flow through the great German bass-baritone’s Wigmore Hall masterclass sessions. Nikolaus Karlinsky

Monday 5 November 1.00 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano

£7 concs £4 per session (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

SCHUMANN Six Songs: Sag an, o lieber Vogel mein; Dem roten Röslein gleicht mein Lieb; Was soll ich sagen; Jasminenstrauch; Volksliedchen; Verratene Liebe SCHUMANN Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op. 135 SCHUMANN Mignon Lieder Op. 98a: Kennst du das Land?; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiss mich nicht reden; So lasst mich scheinen SCHUMANN ‘Five heroines’: Die Löwenbraut; Die Nonne; Loreley; Die Soldatenbraut; Die Kartenlegerin Angelika Kirchschlager has been a regular and much-admired presence at Wigmore Hall since making her debut well over a decade ago. The Austrian mezzo-soprano is blessed with compelling natural skills of communication and the vocal qualities required to illuminate the most subtle expressive nuances. She was made a Kammersängerin of the Vienna State Opera by the Austrian Government in 2007. In addition to her work as a performer, Kirchschlager is a guest professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Royal Academy of Music, where she is also an Honorary Fellow. £12 concs £10

THOMAS QUASTHOFF

Jim Rakete/Deutsche Grammophon

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

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SONIA PRINA Tuesday 6 November 7.30 pm

SONIA PRINA contralto LA SFERA ARMONIOSA MIKE FENTROSS director, lute ANTOINETTE LOHMANN violin FRANCES THE violin

ARJEN DE GRAAF viola SARAH WALDER cello YOSHI KAZAMA harpsichord VIVALDI Cantata: Perfidissimo cor! RV674; Concerto in D for lute and strings RV93; Cantata: Cessate, omai cessate RV684; Concerto in G minor for strings RV156; Aria: Cosi potessi anch’io from Orlando furioso; Aria: Se in ogni guardo from Orlando finto pazzo; Concerto in D minor for strings ‘Madrigalesco’ RV129; Cantata: Amor, hai vinto RV651 A graduate of the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory and Milan’s La Scala Academy, Sonia Prina rose to prominence in the late 1990s with impassioned performances of Rossini and works by earlier Italian composers. Her instantly recognisable contralto voice, affinity for Baroque style and spellbinding command of bel canto technique led swiftly to a series of prestigious engagements worldwide. The music of Vivaldi is central to Sonia Prina’s artistic world, crisply reflected in her Wigmore Hall debut programme. She shares the Wigmore Hall platform with the life-enhancing Dutch period instrument ensemble La Sfera Armoniosa and its founder and Artistic Director, Mike Fentross. £18 £25 £30 £35

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Wednesday 7 November 7.30 pm

NELSON FREIRE

JEREMY DENK piano LISZT 3 Petrarch Sonnets S158; Fantasie and Fugue on the name B-A-C-H; Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata from Années de pèlerinage S161 WAGNER/LISZT Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde BRAHMS Klavierstücke Op. 118; Variations on a Theme by Paganini Op. 35 Critics and musical opinion formers once did battle as implacably opposed supporters of either Brahms or Wagner. Jeremy Denk’s programme locates Liszt as a pivotal figure in a musical landscape marked by warring ‘Brahmsians’ and ‘Wagnerians’, whose own compositions often bridged the gap between classical restraint and romantic indulgence. In addition to the arresting contrasts of Liszt’s Three Petrarch Sonnets and transcription of Wagner’s Liebestod, Denk’s recital also offers a complete account of Brahms’s technically and emotionally complex Paganini Variations Op. 35. £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

10 FOR 10 London Pianoforte Series

NELSON FREIRE

Mat Hennek

Thursday 8 November 7.30 pm

NELSON FREIRE piano Works by BACH, SCHUMANN, VILLA-LOBOS, GRANADOS and LISZT

Thursday 8 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

For the New York Times, Nelson Freire offers ‘a gentle reminder that decorous piano playing and interpretive depth have an irresistible power all their own.’ The observation, inspired by the Brazilian pianist’s recording of Chopin’s complete Nocturnes, could stand in general for the artistry of a man who commands a place today among the greatest of all keyboard performers. Nelson Freire was appointed a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and has been honoured with many prizes for his extensive discography, Gramophone’s Recording of the Year Award and Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros prominent among them. He makes a rare Wigmore Hall appearance as part of the London Pianoforte Series.

THOMAS QUASTHOFF MASTERCLASSES

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London Pianoforte Series

JEREMY DENK

Samantha West

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A CELEBRATION OF MENDELSSOHN SONG Saturday 10 November 1.00 pm

KATHERINE BRODERICK soprano ANNA GREVELIUS mezzo-soprano ANDREW KENNEDY tenor STEPHAN LOGES baritone EUGENE ASTI piano MENDELSSOHN Lied zum Geburtstag meines guten Vaters; Ave Maria; Der Verlassene; Frage; And’res Maienlied; Der Tag; Reiterlied; Abschied; Der Bettler; Die Liebende schreibt; Reiselied; Gruß; Pagenlied; Das Waldschloss; Venetianisches Gondellied; So schlaf in Ruh; Hüt du dich!; Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergöße sich; Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Erinnerung; Neue Liebe; Im Kahn; Wasserfahrt Wigmore Hall’s Mendelssohn Day takes wing with a lunchtime song recital to gladden hearts and evoke seductive images of nature, places, people and states of being. The concert’s distinguished artists share rich collective experience in the interpretation of Mendelssohn’s Lieder, gained not least through their critically acclaimed contributions to the Hyperion label’s recording of the composer’s complete songs and duets. £12 concs £10

Song Recital Series/A Celebration of Mendelssohn Song Saturday 10 November 5.45 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK RICHARD STOKES on MENDELSSOHN £3 (not part of the subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/A Celebration of Mendelssohn Song Saturday 10 November 7.30 pm

SUSAN GRITTON soprano SARAH CONNOLLY mezzo-soprano EUGENE ASTI piano FELIX MENDELSSOHN Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergöße sich FANNY MENDELSSOHN Wenn ich in deine Augen sehe FELIX MENDELSSOHN Wasserfahrt FANNY MENDELSSOHN 5 Lieder Op. 10: Nach Süden; Vorwurf; Abendbild; Im Herbste; Bergeslust FELIX MENDELSSOHN Tröstung; Frühlingslied; An die Entfernte; Schilflied; Auf der Wanderschaft; Nachtlied ROBERT SCHUMANN From Spanisches Liederspiel: Erste Begegnung; Liebesgram; Botschaft CLARA SCHUMANN Mein Stern; Die gute Nacht; Volkslied; Sie liebten sich beide; Lorelei ROBERT SCHUMANN Sechs Gedichte and Requiem Op. 90 £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series/A Celebration of Mendelssohn Song Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny was forbidden by her father to perform in public or publish her compositions. In fact, Fanny’s work was published during her lifetime, both before and after her marriage to the Prussian painter Wilhelm Hensel. The best of her songs, like those of her brother Felix, combine virtues of formal clarity, melodic ingenuity, expressive beauty and romantic tension. Eugene Asti’s Mendelssohn Day programme follows the emotional ebb and flow of everything from Felix Mendelssohn’s eternally delightful ‘Frühlingslied’ (‘Spring song’) to Schumann’s sorrowful Requiem Op. 90.

Tuesday 13 November 7.30 pm

PAUL LEWIS piano SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in C minor D958; Piano Sonata in A D959; Piano Sonata in Bb D960

DÉNES VÁRJON

Pilvax Studio

Sunday 11 November 11.30 am

DÉNES VÁRJON piano SCHUMANN Papillons Op. 2 JANÁC˘EK In the Mists LISZT Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Dénes Várjon, recipient of the Hungarian government’s Ferenc Liszt Prize and a graduate of the Liszt Academy of Music, has a strong affinity for the contrasting aesthetics of the works in this programme. ‘It is always highly interesting to find connections between composers, and bridges between epochs in musical history,’ he comments. ‘In the mirror of other composers and periods, I begin to see new dimensions of works which I have performed, and this is especially the case when I play pieces by Liszt.’ £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Artistic integrity lies behind every note of Paul Lewis’s Schubert playing. His Wigmore Hall Schubert Series reaches its unmissable conclusion with the composer’s late sonatas. Lewis’s deep immersion in Schubert’s music has scarcely been broken for more than a year. The pianist’s singular approach places him among the rarest of artists with the determination and devotion required to live with the output of a single composer over time. It also drives his desire to dig deep beneath the surface of works as complex in emotional expression, poetic nuance and formal integration as the often unorthodox, free-spirited Piano Sonata in C minor D958 and the Piano Sonata in A D959. He brings his Wigmore Hall Schubert sonata cycle to a close with the Piano Sonata in B b D960, a work of farewell completed weeks before its composer’s death in November 1828. £18 £25 £30 £35 Supported by Oliver Prenn

London Pianoforte Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series/Schubert: A Celebration

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Monday 12 November 1.00 pm

GAUTIER CAPUÇON cello GABRIELA MONTERO piano BEETHOVEN 12 Variations in F on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Op. 66 SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke Op. 73 GRIEG Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36 One of the most dynamic of musical partnerships arrives at Wigmore Hall with an enticing lunchtime programme hallmarked by wit, romantic reverie and lyrical beauty. Gabriela Montero’s visionary interpretations perfectly match the spirit of Gautier Capuçon’s music-making. The Venezuelan pianist and French cellist first met as part of the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano. ‘Gabriela and I have the same instincts and passions in the way we see music,’ notes Capuçon. ‘It’s instinctive, but also analytical.’ Montero underlines his judgement. ‘Our approach is emotional, but with a brain behind it,’ she says. ‘There’s a natural, organic integration.’

PAUL LEWIS

Josep Molina

£12 concs £10

GABRIELA MONTERO & GAUTIER CAPUÇON

Michael Tammaro

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 50

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Friday 16 November 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER baritone GEROLD HUBER piano SCHUBERT An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht; Hoffnung (Schaff’ das Tagwerk meiner Hände); Tiefes Leid (Im Jänner 1817); Abschied; Herbst; Über Wildemann; Der Wanderer; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Der Zwerg; Abendstern; Im Walde; Nach einem Gewitter; Der Schiffer; An die Nachtigall; Totengräber-Weise; Frühlingsglaube; Nachtviolen; Abendlied für die Entfernte; Wehmut; Der Strom; Der Hirt; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Nachtgesang; Der Sänger am Felsen

ELIAS STRING QUARTET

Benjamin Ealovega

Wednesday 14 November 7.30 pm

ELIAS STRING QUARTET MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet COLIN MATTHEWS New commission* (world première) SCHUMANN String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 MOZART Clarinet Quintet in A K581 * Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant making foundation.

Mozart fashioned his Clarinet Quintet for Anton Stadler, a great Viennese wind player and fellow Freemason. The score periodically places the clarinet centre stage while generally treating the instrument as an equal chamber music partner. This concert opens with the world première of a new work, specially written by Colin Matthews for the Elias Quartet. In creating string quartets, Schumann observed, ‘the composer must possess an intimate knowledge of the genre’s history, but should strive to produce more than mere imitations of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.’ He followed his advice to brilliant effect in the third of his Op. 41 quartets, displaying inventive ingenuity throughout.

Words and their meaningful expression in song govern the art of Christian Gerhaher, hailed by critics for the depth of his attachment to song texts and his innate ability to unlock essential images in the minds of rapt audiences. Five-star reviews and standing ovations followed Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber’s Wigmore Hall performance of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin in September 2011. ‘The miracle of [his] singing lies in its utter naturalness – his is the art that conceals art,’ concluded the Daily Telegraph’s Rupert Christiansen. ‘He just seems to open his mouth and the music pours forth.’ This all-Schubert programme offers another chance to experience Gerhaher’s transcendental powers of communication. £18 £25 £30 £35 Supported by an anonymous donor

Song Recital Series/Schubert: A Celebration

£10 (not part of subscription scheme)

10 FOR 10 Chamber Music Season

Thursday 15 November 7.30 pm

PAUL LEWIS piano Repeat of concert on 13 November £18 £25 £30 £35 Supported by the Schubert Syndicate

GEROLD HUBER & CHRISTIAN GERHAHER

Alexander Basta

London Pianoforte Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series/ Schubert: A Celebration

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Saturday 17 November 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE SUSAN GRITTON soprano RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone LAWRENCE POWER viola IAN BROWN piano PAUL WATKINS conductor BRITTEN Simple Symphony Op. 4 (for string ensemble) BRIDGE Three songs for voice, viola and piano VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 5 Mystical Songs (version for baritone, string quartet and piano) ALWYN Pastoral Fantasia (for solo viola and strings) FINZI Dies Natalis Op. 8 (for soprano and strings)

SUSAN GRITTON

Tim Cantrell

Saturday 17 November 6.00 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE GARETH HULSE oboe RICHARD HOSFORD clarinet MARIANNE THORSEN violin PAUL WATKINS cello IAN BROWN piano

Two outstanding British singers join the Nash for this concert. Roderick Williams turns the spotlight on Frank Bridge’s Three songs for voice, viola and piano, elegant settings of words by Matthew Arnold, Heine and Shelley, collectively described by Stephen Banfield as ‘fertile textural essays in playing off two interacting melodic lines against a slowly unravelling harmonic framework’. Susan Gritton explores Finzi’s sublime Dies Natalis, once again connecting with a work she brought so successfully to disc. A sublime rarity, William Alwyn’s lyrical Pastoral Fantasia for viola and strings, completes the programme. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/British Series: Dreamers of Dreams

BRIDGE Miniatures (for piano trio) BRITTEN Temporal Variations (for oboe and piano) IRELAND Fantasy-Sonata (for clarinet and piano) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Six Studies in English Folksong (for cello and piano) The Nash Ensemble’s early evening concert deserves to be cherished not only for presenting music by Frank Bridge with his pupil Benjamin Britten but also for including John Ireland’s glorious Fantasy-Sonata, chosen to mark the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death. Vaughan Williams’s lyrical Six Studies in English Folksong for cello and piano delightfully evoke folk music’s spirit without ever quoting the letter of existing tunes. £6 or £3 with evening ticket (separate ticket required) (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season/British Series: Dreamers of Dreams

NASH ENSEMBLE

Keith Saunders

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Sunday 18 November 11.30 am Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE GRAINGER Molly on the Shore; Londonderry Air for strings BRIDGE String Sextet in E b MENDELSSOHN Octet in E b Op. 20 A Coffee Concert programme for all lovers of fine chamber music connects Percy Grainger’s sparkling Irish folksong arrangements with two effervescent scores for multiple string instruments. Frank Bridge completed his String Sextet exactly one hundred years ago, the crowning achievement of his first phase of artistic development. Mendelssohn’s Octet, written in 1825, likewise marked a transitional step for its composer from youth to maturity. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/British Series: Dreamers of Dreams

Sunday 18 November 7.30 pm

ANDREAS SCHOLL countertenor TAMAR HALPERIN piano MOZART Ridente la calma; Abendempfindung MOZART Rondo in F K494 (solo piano) HAYDN The wanderer; Despair; Recollection HAYDN Piano Sonata in A HXVI:12 SCHUBERT Der Jüngling auf dem Hügel; Im Haine; Abendstern; Pax vobiscum; An Mignon SCHUBERT Waltz in B minor D145 (solo piano) BRAHMS All mein Gedanken; Guten Abend; In stiller Nacht; Es ging ein Maidlein zarte; Da unten im Tale BRAHMS Intermezzo in A Op. 118 No. 2 (solo piano)

ATOS TRIO

Steven Haberland

Monday 19 November 1.00 pm

ATOS TRIO HAYDN Piano Trio in C HXV:27 ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in Bb Op. 21 DVOR Germany’s ATOS Trio, winner of the 2007 Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award, has scored global critical acclaim. ‘Following the retirement of the Beaux Arts Trio,’ notes classicalsource.com, ‘the ATOS Trio may well be positioned to take over as the première piano trio of today.’ The trio’s upwardly mobile status was propelled by their selection in 2009 as BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists and tours of Australia, Europe and the United States. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

In the two decades since making his professional recital debut, Andreas Scholl has introduced countless new listeners to the delights of the countertenor voice. He returns to Wigmore Hall with Tamar Halperin to perform a programme of Classical and Romantic song, interleaved with solo keyboard works and graced by its repertoire breadth. The irresistible beauty of Scholl’s voice and charismatic power of his stage presence will doubtless deliver yet another unforgettable audience experience. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series

ANDREAS SCHOLL

James McMillan/DECCA

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ANDRÁS SCHIFF B E E T H OV E N PI A NO S O N ATA S András Schiff here begins a personal journey of artistic revelation and rediscovery, one destined to enter British music history as a landmark series. The master pianist is set to perform Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas over the coming year, followed by Bach’s keyboard works next season, closing on his 60th birthday in December 2013 with a marathon performance of the Diabelli Variations and Goldberg Variations! His last Beethoven sonata cycle at Wigmore Hall received rave reviews in 2006. The Guardian’s Editor, Alan Rusbridger, described one performance then as ‘a riveting mixture of erudition, analysis, passion, wit and memory’. Be sure to join the audience to hear the pianist’s evolving thoughts on these inexhaustible masterworks.

Monday 19 November 7.30 pm

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS Sonata in F minor Op. 2 No. 1; Sonata in A Op. 2 No. 2; Sonata in C Op. 2 No. 3; Sonata No. 4 in E b Op. 7 £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2012–13 Wigmore Series

Friday 23 November 7.30 pm

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS Sonata in C minor Op. 10 No. 1; Sonata in F Op. 10 No. 2; Sonata in D Op. 10 No. 3; Sonata in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’; Sonata in E Op. 14 No. 1; Sonata in G Op. 14 No. 2 £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

Monday 26 November 7.30 pm

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano Forthcoming concerts in this series Monday 4 March 7.30 pm Friday 8 March 7.30 pm Monday 11 March 7.30 pm Friday 15 March 7.30 pm

Photo by Birgitta Kowsky

BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS Sonata in G minor Op. 49 No. 1; Sonata in G Op. 49 No. 2; Sonata in B b Op. 22; Sonata in A b Op. 26; Sonata in E b Op. 27 No. 1 ‘Quasi una fantasia’; Sonata in C # minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’; Sonata in D Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’ £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

London Pianoforte Series/András Schiff Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Thursday 22 November 7.30 pm

BRITTEN SINFONIA JACQUELINE SHAVE director, violin ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano BRITTEN BIRTHDAY CENTENARY See overleaf for full details Friday 23 November 7.30 pm

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano See page opposite for full details Saturday 24 November 10.30 am

MIDORI CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH See page 58 for full details Saturday 24 November 7.30 pm

TOKYO STRING QUARTET BIRGID STEINBERGER

Werner Mokesch

Tuesday 20 November 7.30 pm

BIRGID STEINBERGER soprano ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano SCHUBERT Hymne an den Unendlichen; Singübungen für zwei Stimmen; Das Abendrot; Gott im Ungewitter; Gott der Weltschöpfer; Kantate zum Geburtstag des Sängers Johann Michael Vogl; An die Sonne; Die Geselligkeit; Licht und Liebe; Des Tages Weihe; Der Hochzeitsbraten; Der Tanz; Mignon und der Harfner; Gebet

BARTÓK String Quartet No. 4 HAYDN String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’ BARTÓK String Quartet No. 6 Ever since its formation at New York’s Juilliard School of Music in 1969, the Tokyo String Quartet has espoused technical excellence, immaculate ensemble and stylistic command. The ensemble performs over a hundred concerts worldwide each season on the so-called ‘Paganini Quartet’, a group of renowned Stradivarius instruments named for legendary virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, who acquired and played them during the 19th century. £12 £18 £24 £28

Chamber Music Season

Schubert’s prominence at Wigmore Hall this season is boldly underlined by every facet of this standout event in Julius Drake’s ‘Perspectives’ series. Angelika Kirchschlager and Ian Bostridge train their artistic antennae on Schubert’s duets, trios and partsongs. They are joined by Christopher Maltman and Birgid Steinberger for ensemble works such as the comic trio ‘Der Hochzeitsbraten’, the vocal exercises for soprano and alto, the birthday cantata for Johann Michael Vogl and the quartet ‘An die Sonne’. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series/Schubert: A Celebration/ Julius Drake ‘Perspectives’

TOKYO STRING QUARTET

Marco Borggreve

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BRITTEN BIRTHDAY CENTENARY ‘B E F O R E

LIFE AND

A F T E R’

‘We are delighted to launch the worldwide celebration of the composer’s centenary over the coming year with our festival of Britten,’ comments Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly. The series, which opens on St. Cecilia’s Day and also Britten’s birthday, takes its title from the last of the Thomas Hardy poems which Britten set to music in his Winter Words song cycle. We will examine Britten’s extraordinary legacy by inviting audiences to explore the composer’s signal contributions to the repertoire of song, chamber and choral music performed by a host of Wigmore Hall favourites, and the accompanying study day will look at his impact on the history of 20th-century music. The Hall’s connections to Britten were forged in the 1930s and strengthened thereafter with a glittering series of first performances. This series includes many works that were introduced to the world at Wigmore Hall, from the Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo to Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain.

BRITTEN EXHIBITION From 22 November, a special exhibition in the foyer will illustrate Britten’s long and close association with the Hall.

Thursday 22 November 7.30 pm

Sunday 2 December 11.30 am

BRITTEN SINFONIA JACQUELINE SHAVE director, violin ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello CONNIE SHIH piano

PURCELL Rondeau from Abdelazar Suite PURCELL/MUHLY Let the night perish (Job’s Curse) PURCELL/STOKOWSKI Dido’s Lament TIPPETT A Lament from ‘Divertimento on Sellinger’s Round’ HANDEL Arias from Alcina BRITTEN Prelude and Fugue Op. 29 PURCELL/BRITTEN Chacony in G minor TIPPETT Little Music for Strings BRITTEN Phaedra Op. 93

See page 63 for full details

Wigmore Hall’s Britten centenary celebration receives massive initial momentum with this imaginative programme, given on what would have been the composer’s 99th birthday. Alice Coote presents Britten’s dramatic cantata Phaedra, a late masterwork written for Dame Janet Baker, and Leopold Stokowski’s sonorous version of ‘Dido’s Lament’. Echoes of London past also resound in Michael Tippett’s ‘A Lament’ and Nico Muhly’s spine-tingling treatment of Purcell’s ‘Job’s Curse’. Britten’s Prelude and Fugue Op. 29 received its world première at Wigmore Hall on 23 June 1943. £18 £25 £30 £35

Friday 30 November 7.30 pm

WORKS FOR CELLO

Sunday 2 December 7.30 pm

JOAN RODGERS soprano ELIZABETH WATTS soprano ALLAN CLAYTON tenor GERALD FINLEY baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano SONG CYCLES II See page 63 for full details Monday 3 December 1.00 pm

CHRISTINE RICE mezzo-soprano MARK PADMORE tenor MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano SONG CYCLES III See page 64 for full details

IESTYN DAVIES countertenor MARK PADMORE tenor MARCUS FARNSWORTH baritone RICHARD WATKINS horn LUCY WAKEFORD harp JULIUS DRAKE piano

Monday 3 December 7.30 pm

THE CANTICLES

Tuesday 4 December 7.30 pm

See page 62 for full details

NASH ENSEMBLE RICHARD WATKINS horn LAWRENCE POWER viola SANDRINE PIAU soprano JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor

Saturday 1 December 10.30 am

BRITTEN STUDY DAY See page 62 for full details Saturday 1 December 7.30 pm

ANN MURRAY DBE mezzo-soprano JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor ROBIN TRITSCHLER tenor MARCUS FARNSWORTH baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

TAKÁCS QUARTET SAMUEL WEST narrator THE STRING QUARTETS See page 64 for full details

ORCHESTRAL SONG CYCLES See page 65 for full details Friday 14 December 7.30 pm

THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK ANDREW CARWOOD director ALISDAIR HOGARTH piano

SONG CYCLES I

CHORAL WORKS

See page 63 for full details

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Photo: Benjamin Britten at Snape Maltings © Clive Strutt

MIDORI Celebrating 20 Years of Community Outreach In 1992 Midori established an organisation to bring music education to deprived areas of New York. Over the past two decades, Midori & Friends has reached out to thousands of underprivileged children and others routinely excluded from making music. The violinist’s inspirational outreach initiative harmonises with the aims and objectives of Wigmore Hall Learning, which has arranged a series of informal performances for Midori to give to local schools and community centres and related concerts at Wigmore Hall. Midori also marks 20 years of community projects with a morning of masterclasses and a frank discussion of her outreach work.

Saturday 24 November 10.30 am – 1.00 pm

MASTERCLASS With LONDON MUSIC COLLEGE STUDENTS Adults £7 concs £4 (not part of subscription scheme)

2.00 pm – 3.30 pm

IN CONVERSATION WITH MIDORI Join Midori for a discussion on her community programmes and why this work continues to be of vital importance both in the UK and internationally. Ticket price £3 (not part of subscription scheme) Full day ticket £8 concs £6 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Midori: Celebrating 20 Years of Community Outreach Sunday 25 November 7.30 pm

MIDORI violin ÖZGÜR AYDIN piano See page opposite for full details Forthcoming events in this series Friday 22 February 1.30 pm – 2.30 pm

MIDORI SCHOOLS’ CONCERT Saturday 23 February 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

MIDORI CONCERT FOR LOCAL CARERS Sunday 24 February 7.30 pm

MIDORI violin ÖZGÜR AYDIN piano Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Monday 26 November 1.00 pm

CLARA MOURIZ mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano

SHARON KAM

LITERES Confiado Jilguerillo LASERNA El Trípili OBRADORS Tres Morillas; Del cabello más sutil; El vito GRANADOS Elegia eternal; La maja dolorosa I, II & III BIZET Ouvre ton cœur; Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe; Guitare CHAMINADE Sombrero MASSENET Nuit d’Espagne TURINA Poema en forma de canciones Op. 19 Maike Helbig

Sunday 25 November 11.30 am

SHARON KAM clarinet MATAN PORAT piano BRAHMS Clarinet Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2 HINDEMITH Clarinet Sonata HOROVITZ Sonatina MASSENET Méditation from Thaïs Sharon Kam’s affinity with her instrument allows her to unlock tonal possibilities available to few other players. Her Coffee Concert programme provides the platform for infinite timbral shades, from the burnished warm tones suited to Brahms’s late Clarinet Sonata in E b to the sparkling jazz-inflected finale of Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina.

Spanish born, Clara Mouriz is fast establishing her place among the most exciting mezzosopranos of her generation. In 2009 she was distinguished with the award of a Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Fellowship; more recently she joined the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists programme. This lunchtime recital offers followers of fine singing the chance to discover more about a genuinely exciting and distinctive young performer. £12 concs £10 Clara Mouriz is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

£12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Supported by an anonymous donor

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/ Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

Sunday 25 November 7.30 pm

MIDORI violin ÖZGÜR AYDIN piano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2 WEBERN Four Pieces Op. 7 BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1 KURTÁG Tre pezzi Op. 14e BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Since making her debut at the age of eleven with the New York Philharmonic almost 30 years ago, the violinist Midori has established a record of achievement which sets her apart as a musician and innovator. Midori’s devotion to thought-provoking programmes is reflected in her recital’s combination of three Beethoven violin sonatas with the aphoristic music of Webern’s Four Pieces Op. 7 and the time-bending, sound-altering world of György Kurtág’s Tre pezzi for violin and piano Op. 14e. £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

10 FOR 10 Chamber Music Season/Midori: Celebrating 20 Years of Community Outreach

CLARA MOURIZ

José Manuel Bielsa

Monday 26 November 7.30 pm

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano See page 54 for full details

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IESTYN DAVIES RESIDENCY: ‘A SINGULARITY OF VOICE’ When Iestyn Davies’s debut recording was released on the Wigmore Hall Live label, critics were astonished both by the crystalline beauty of his voice and the breathtaking daring of his artistry. Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly invited the Welsh countertenor to give a recital to mark his decade in charge at the venue and subsequently created a Wigmore Hall residency for Davies, the first ever for a countertenor. ‘A Singularity of Voice’ bears the magnetic attraction required to draw capacity audiences to the work of this remarkable young singer’s art. The Iestyn Davies Residency has been made possible by the generous support of the Iestyn Davies Syndicate

Tuesday 27 November 7.30 pm

IESTYN DAVIES countertenor ENSEMBLE MATHEUS JEAN-CHRISTOPHE SPINOSI director HANDEL’S ALTOS – MUSIC FOR COUNTERTENOR AND CASTRATO HANDEL Eternal source of light divine; Their land brought forth frogs from Israel in Egypt; The peasant tastes the sweets of life from Joseph and his Brethren; Overture from Xerxes; Up the dreadful steep ascending from Jephtha; Your tuneful voice from Semele; Sinfonia from Xerxes; Despair no more shall wound me from Semele; Cantata: Splenda l’alba in oriente TELEMANN Concerto in E minor for flute and recorder HANDEL Arias from Partenope: Sento amor; Ch’io partal; Furibondo spira il vento

Forthcoming concerts in this series

Brittany’s Ensemble Matheus and its artistic leader, the violinist Jean-Christophe Spinosi, made a fine impression with their late-night appearance at the BBC Proms two years ago. They join forces with Iestyn Davies for a scintillating Handel programme, offering a thick slice of the composer’s works for the London stage and the cantata Splenda l’alba in oriente. £20 £30 £35 £40

Wednesday 27 February 7.30 pm

IESTYN DAVIES countertenor RICHARD EGARR harpsichord Other artists to be announced Friday 5 July 7.30 pm

IESTYN DAVIES countertenor THOMAS DUNFORD lute

Photo by Marco Borggreve

Friday 30 November 7.30 pm

IESTYN DAVIES countertenor MARK PADMORE tenor MARCUS FARNSWORTH baritone RICHARD WATKINS horn LUCY WAKEFORD harp JULIUS DRAKE piano BRITTEN CANTICLES See page 62 for full details Iestyn Davies Residency: ‘A Singularity of Voice’

Thursday 29 November 6.00 pm

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

Christian Steiner

Wednesday 28 November 7.00 pm NB starting time

Thursday 29 November 7.30 pm

CHRISTINE BREWER soprano* DAME FELICITY LOTT soprano JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone ALASDAIR BEATSON solo piano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano ROGER VIGNOLES piano

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE

FAURÉ Valse-caprice No. 1 in A Op. 30 SCHUBERT Sei mir gegrüsst; Wandrers Nachtlied I; Das Zügenglöcklein; Drang in die Ferne SCHUMANN Hochländisches Wiegenlied from Myrten SCHUBERT Die Taubenpost; Licht und Liebe (duet) STRAUSS Four Last Songs* FAURÉ Nocturne No. 6 in D b Op. 63 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Orpheus with his lute POULENC Fancy FAURÉ Mandoline; Les roses d’Ispahan; Poème d’un jour HAHN A Chloris; Tyndaris; D’une prison DELIBES Bonjour Suzon! MESSAGER Rossignol from Monsieur Beaucaire AUDRAN J’aim’ bien mes dindons from La mascotte (duet) WILLIAM BOLCOM The Jersey Side* (world première, written especially for Christine Brewer and this Gala) (commissioned by Wigmore Hall)

SERGEI KRYLOV violin OLEG KOGAN cello KONSTANTIN LIFSCHITZ piano SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 2 in E b D929 Formed from members of a team of outstanding chamber musicians, the Razumovsky Ensemble brings rare creative freedom to its interpretations. Its latest Wigmore Hall programme engages with the profound sadness of Shostakovich’s Second Piano Trio, a work completed in 1944 as a memorial to its composer’s closest friend. Schubert’s Second Piano Trio, dramatic and unpredictable in character, could be described as a study in sudden contrasts. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

This special gala concert celebrates the 80th birthday of William Lyne, who served as Wigmore Hall’s Director from 1966 to 2003 (and deputy director from 1957). He supported the careers and contributed to the artistic development of countless performers, including some of those taking part in this programme. Contemplative Schubert, the noble valediction of Strauss’s Four Last Songs, bonbons by Delibes and Messager, and the wistful beauty of Reynaldo Hahn’s ‘A Chloris’ belong to a programme guaranteed to delight and move. £20 £30 £35 £40

Song Recital Series

SERGEI KRYLOV

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Friday 30 November 7.30 pm

BRITTEN STUDY DAY

IESTYN DAVIES countertenor MARK PADMORE tenor MARCUS FARNSWORTH baritone RICHARD WATKINS horn LUCY WAKEFORD harp JULIUS DRAKE piano BRITTEN Canticle I: My beloved is mine; Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac; Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain – the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn; Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi; Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus Spiritual rather than ‘religious’, intensely personal rather than grand, Britten’s Canticles stand among his greatest achievements. This concert presents the complete series, performed by outstanding interpreters of the composer’s work. Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain, written following the suicide of Britten’s close friend Noel Mewton-Wood, was first performed at Wigmore Hall in January 1955 by the composer, Peter Pears and Dennis Brain. This concert will be approximately 70 minutes in duration with no interval.

Wigmore Hall was something of a second home to Benjamin Britten during his early career. The venue hosted the first performance of the student composer’s Holiday Diary in November 1934 and went on to present a succession of landmark premières. Britten often appeared in recital at Wigmore Hall, playing celesta in a concert of new French music during the Second World War and regularly performing thereafter with his partner Peter Pears. The composer also led a ‘concert-introduction’ to Peter Grimes at Wigmore Hall in May 1945. Wigmore Hall’s Benjamin Britten Study Day, curated by the composer Julian Philips, offers personal recollections, expert analysis and critical insights into the composer’s unique position in 20th-century British music and his enduring influence on today’s composers, performers and audiences. Saturday 1 December

£12 concs £10

Song Recital Series/Britten Birthday Centenary/Iestyn Davies Residency: ‘A Singularity of Voice’

10.30 am – 11.15 am PAULA BEST, Head of Archive at Wigmore Hall, and PAUL BANKS, from the Royal College of Music’s Centre for Performance History, talk about Britten as a performer and his association with Wigmore Hall. 11.45 am – 12.45 pm COLIN MATTHEWS explores his own lifelong association with Britten in conversation with JULIAN PHILIPS, and assesses Britten’s impact on composers working today. 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm Masterclass with MARK PADMORE with performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. 4.15 pm – 5.15 pm Panel discussion on Britten’s Legacy, with JULIAN PHILIPS, COLIN MATTHEWS and the Opera Group’s new director, FREDERIC WAKE-WALKER. Tickets £3 concs £2 (each event) Or Day Ticket £10 concs £5 (not part of subscription scheme)

MARCUS FARNSWORTH

Benjamin Ealovega

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Britten Birthday Centenary

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Saturday 1 December 7.30 pm

ANN MURRAY DBE mezzo-soprano JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor ROBIN TRITSCHLER tenor MARCUS FARNSWORTH baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano BRITTEN Tit for Tat; The Holy Sonnets of John Donne; A Charm of Lullabies; Winter Words: Lyrics and Ballads of Thomas Hardy ‘I do not think in words, because words are not my medium,’ commented Britten on receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Hull in 1962. The composer’s creative imagination, however, certainly responded to words, so much so that he became one of the last century’s greatest writers of song and vocal music. Britten’s song-writing genius is celebrated in the first of three concerts devoted to his song-cycles, launched with a programme including the composer’s complete Winter Words and The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, first performed at Wigmore Hall by Britten and Pears in November 1945. £15 £20 £25 £30

JOAN RODGERS

Rose Daniel

Song Recital Series/Britten Birthday Centenary Sunday 2 December 7.30 pm

JOAN RODGERS soprano ELIZABETH WATTS soprano ALLAN CLAYTON tenor GERALD FINLEY baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano BRITTEN Folksongs; Songs and Proverbs of William Blake; On this Island; The Poet’s Echo; Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo STEVEN ISSERLIS

Eisuke Miyoshi

Sunday 2 December 11.30 am

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello CONNIE SHIH piano BRITTEN Cello Sonata in A; Cello Suite No. 3 Op. 87; Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 Britten’s Second Suite for Cello’s dedicatee and first performer, Mstislav Rostropovich, later reflected on his friend’s work: ‘So much heart – such Russianness!’ The composer’s blend of passionate melodic invention and consummate musical craft delivered an uncanny spirit of spontaneity and musical substance to his cello writing, powerfully expressed in the ‘Dialogo’ and ‘Declamato’ movements of the C major Cello Sonata and Cello Suite No. 2. Steven Isserlis here inhabits the emotionally charged world of Britten’s cello works.

Britten and Pears gave the first public performance of Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo at Wigmore Hall in September 1943. The work includes one of the composer’s finest songs, his coruscating setting of Michelangelo’s metaphysical poem ‘Veggio co’ bei vostri occhi un dolce lume’. This programme spans the creative course of Britten’s song-writing career, opening with a sequence drawn from his many fabulous folksong arrangements and including The Poet’s Echo, a cycle of Pushkin settings written during a holiday visit to the Soviet Union in 1965. £15 £20 £25 £30 Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Song Recital Series/Britten Birthday Centenary

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/Britten Birthday Centenary 63

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Monday 3 December 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

TAKÁCS QUARTET SAMUEL WEST narrator BRITTEN String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 25; String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36; String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 Wigmore Hall’s newly appointed Associate Artists explore Britten’s three numbered string quartets, compositions shaped by intellectual complexity and profound compassion. The Takács Quartet has lived with these works for many years, crafting interpretations that seize listeners with their insight, captivating honesty and sense of awe. Wigmore Hall played host to the first UK performance of the composer’s String Quartet No. 1 in April 1943 and provided the platform for the November 1945 world première of String Quartet No. 2, complete with its mighty ‘Chacony’, a tribute to Henry Purcell. Samuel West will read excerpts from Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice before the performance of String Quartet No. 3, which finds echoes in the novella. £15 £20 £25 £30 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2012 –13 Wigmore Series

Chamber Music Season/Britten Birthday Centenary CHRISTINE RICE

Rob Moore

Monday 3 December 1.00 pm

CHRISTINE RICE mezzo-soprano MARK PADMORE tenor MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano BRITTEN Who are these Children?; Cabaret Songs; Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente Malcolm Martineau’s central role in Wigmore Hall’s Britten song-cycle series continues in this lunchtime concert when he accompanies Mark Padmore and Christine Rice in three fascinating works. Who are these Children? explores childhood innocence through the poetry, riddles and rhymes of William Souter. Britten’s uncanny ear for the sound quality of words governed the tonal beauty and eloquence of his only songcycle in German, the Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/Britten Birthday Centenary

TAKÁCS QUARTET

Peter Smith

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WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

Tuesday 4 December 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE SANDRINE PIAU soprano JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor RICHARD WATKINS horn LAWRENCE POWER viola MARTYN BRABBINS conductor BRITTEN Les Illuminations; Lachrymae Op. 48a for solo viola and strings; Serenade Op. 31 for tenor, horn and strings This concert, held on the date of Britten’s death, resonates with the sensibility, sophistication and fertile creative genius of a composer wedded to the expression of human emotion. Music, he once observed, ‘doesn’t mean anything, but it can convey to us the whole drama of human life in a very few notes if you are clever enough to find the right notes.’ Britten’s ability to ‘find the right notes’ registers instantly in Les Illuminations, performed in this concert by the French lyric soprano Sandrine Piau. It certainly pervades every bar of the Serenade, which received its world première at Wigmore Hall in October 1943. £18 £25 £30 £35 FRANZ SCHUBERT

Portrait by Wilhelm August Rieder

Chamber Music Season/British Series: Dreamers of Dreams/Britten Birthday Centenary

Tuesday 4 December 3.00 – 6.00 pm Tuesday 11 December 3.00 – 6.00 pm Thursday 13 December 3.00 – 6.00 pm

THE PIANO DUETS OF FRANZ SCHUBERT The first Wigmore Study Group of the season is devoted to Schubert’s remarkable output of marches and dances, fantasies and sonatas for piano duet, a genre that preoccupied the composer throughout his short life. Hosted by composer JULIAN PHILIPS, participants will explore this unique repertoire over three afternoons, with live illustrations in Wigmore Hall performed by postgraduate pianists from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, together with lively contributions from distinguished visiting Schubertians. The study group culminates with Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis’s piano duet recital on Thursday 13 December, a programme which features Schubert’s ‘Grand Duo’ D812 of 1824 – a work which will provide a particular focus for this study group. Series ticket price £53 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 13 December. (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Schubert: A Celebration LAWRENCE POWER

Jack Liebeck

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Wednesday 5 December 7.30 pm

PIERS LANE piano CHOPIN Nocturnes (complete) ‘Piers Lane has given us some memorable Wigmore Hall recitals,’ noted classicalsource.com in 2011, and ‘… [has] once again demonstrated that he is a Chopin pianist of very particular distinction.’ Chopin’s complete Nocturnes cover almost the entire breadth of his composing career. They reveal a kaleidoscopic range of colours and moods, at times a touching frailty, at others a magisterial depth. Heard together, the Nocturnes provide an unforgettable journey of artistic and emotional discovery. £15 £20 £25 £30 PIERS LANE

Eric Richmond

London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 5 December 12.15 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK An introduction to the lunchtime concert Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Thursday 6 December 7.30 pm

SAMLING SCHOLARS SIR THOMAS ALLEN baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano SAMLING SHOWCASE

Wednesday 5 December 1.00 pm

BRITTEN SINFONIA EMER MCDONOUGH flute NICHOLAS DANIEL oboe JOY FARRALL clarinet SARAH BURNETT bassoon STEPHEN BELL horn JACQUELINE SHAVE violin MIRANDA DALE violin CLARE FINNIMORE viola CAROLINE DEARNLEY cello STEPHEN WILLIAMS double bass BRITTEN Phantasy for oboe and string trio Op. 2 LUTOSL ´ AWSKI Dance Preludes (for clarinet and ensemble) DOBRINKA TABAKOVA New Work (London première)* BRITTEN Sinfonietta Op. 1 *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia

Britten Sinfonia’s celebrated lunchtime series here sets Britten’s chamber music in context with his influences and contemporaries. Acclaimed oboist and Britten Sinfonia principal Nicholas Daniel performs the Phantasy quartet, written in 1932 and premièred the following year. Phantasy and the Sinfonietta Op. 1 served notice of their young composer’s extraordinary talent. Witold Lutol´awski was born eleven months before Britten. His fizzing Dance Preludes were premièred in their orchestral version at the 1963 Aldeburgh Festival under Britten’s direction. A new work by Dobrinka Tabakova will draw together the concert’s musical themes.

Samling connects the best young professional singers and pianists with some of the world’s greatest classical artists through its international masterclass programme, developing excellence in technique, artistry and performance. Showcasing five of classical music’s rising stars, this concert also features the educational foundation’s patron Sir Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau, who have been involved in Samling’s work since its beginning in 1996. ‘Samling ... long may it continue! It’s just exactly what young singers need ... A terrific thing’ Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3 In Tune, December 2011 £15 £20 £25 £30 There are a limited number of tickets which include a three-course dinner, wine and coffee with the artists after the concert in the Bechstein Room. These are priced £125 and are available exclusively from Samling on 01434 602885 or by email to enquiries@samling.org.uk

Song Recital Series

£12 concs £10

Chamber Music Season

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Saturday 8 December 7.30 pm

BELCEA QUARTET KATYA APEKISHEVA piano HAYDN String Quartet in D minor Op. 103 (unfinished) SMETANA String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 THE BROOK STREET BAND

Hayley Madden

Friday 7 December 7.30 pm

THE BROOK STREET BAND NICKI KENNEDY soprano LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES reader LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES’ MR HANDEL Highlights of The Brook Street Band’s programme include HANDEL’s sparkling motet Coelestis dum spirat aura HWV231, his Sinfonia in B b HWV339 and the trio sonata from BACH’s Musical Offering BVW1079. There are also guest ‘appearances’ by Handel’s mentors, friends and rivals, with CORELLI trio sonatas, music from TELEMANN’s Tafelmusik, and vocal fireworks from Handel’s adversary, PORPORA.

Autobiography played a crucial role in shaping Smetana’s String Quartet No. 1 ‘From my life’. ‘I tried to represent [the onset of my deafness] with the high E of the first violin in the finale,’ he noted. ‘Before I became deaf I was haunted every evening by the shrill whistle of a chord … in the highest register of the piccolo.’ The Belceas are joined by Leeds Piano Competition prizewinner Katya Apekisheva for Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet, written in 1940 for the composer to play with his friends in the Beethoven Quartet. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Renowned author and inveterate Handel-lover LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES joins The Brook Street Band to weave a magical tale through the course of this concert. His freshlycommissioned prose brings Handel to life in a story of music, passion, rivalry, friendship, struggle, and above all, success. £12 £18 £24 £28

Early Music and Baroque Series

Saturday 8 December 11.00 am – 12 noon

CAVATINA FAMILY CONCERT For age 5 plus Be inspired by the LAWSON TRIO as they’re joined by soprano SOPHIE DANEMAN, double bassist ADAM WYNTER and violist JON THORNE. Discover some beautiful chamber music, including Schubert’s Trout Quintet, and join in with singing and music-making games in this interactive one hour concert. Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme) CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

BELCEA QUARTET

Ronald Knapp

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

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Tuesday 11 December 7.30 pm

JOSHUA BELL violin SAM HAYWOOD piano See page opposite for details

Wednesday 12 December 7.30 pm

FLORIAN BOESCH baritone ROGER VIGNOLES piano SCHUBERT Winterreise

SZYMANOWSKI QUARTET

Marco Borggreve

Sunday 9 December 11.30 am

SZYMANOWSKI QUARTET BACH The Art of Fugue (a selection) HAYDN String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 The Szymanowski Quartet began life in Warsaw in 1995 and is recognised today among the finest of all Polish chamber ensembles. Early Haydn and the heartbreaking eloquence of Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in F minor, one of his last and greatest compositions, furnish the repertoire for this delightful Coffee Concert.

Critics showered praises on Florian Boesch’s recent recording of songs and Ballads by Carl Loewe, made in company with his frequent recital partner Roger Vignoles. They turn to Schubert’s late song-cycle Winterreise (‘Winter Journey’), among the composer’s greatest achievements, an iconic work in the history of western classical music and a supreme test of its performers’ artistry. £18 £25 £30 £35 Supported by the Schubert Syndicate

Song Recital Series/Schubert: A Celebration

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Monday 10 December 1.00 pm

BARRY DOUGLAS piano Works by BRAHMS and SCHUMANN ‘... Douglas, with a wonderful variety of tone and touch, with going for truth rather than superficial beauty, with a spellbinding inwardness in the adagio con molta espressione, showed that emotional profundity and relative conventionality are not incompatible’ Financial Times £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert FLORIAN BOESCH

Wiener Konzerthaus/Lukas Beck

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Joshua Bell Tuesday 11 December 7.30 pm

JOSHUA BELL violin SAM HAYWOOD piano SCHUBERT Rondo in B minor D895 STRAUSS Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18 ˘ ÁK Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 DVOR PROKOFIEV Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis A glance at Joshua Bell’s collection of prestigious honours – from Grammy and Gramophone Awards to the Avery Fisher Prize – instantly spotlights the importance of his contribution to classical music. The American musician, who made his solo debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Riccardo Muti at the age of 14, has been hailed for the impassioned power and eloquence of his playing and ranks among the greatest violinists of our age. ‘Joshua Bell will be the one remembered in 50 years’ time,’ declared The Strad, an assessment sure to resonate with those who have followed his many recital appearances at Wigmore Hall. £20 £30 £35 £40

Chamber Music Season Photo by Eric Kabik

THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK

Dimitri Gutjahr

Friday 14 December 7.30 pm

THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK ANDREW CARWOOD director ALISDAIR HOGARTH piano BRITTEN Five Flower Songs; The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard; Hymn to St Cecilia; Choral Dances from Gloriana; Advance Democracy; The Sycamore Tree; A Hymn to the Virgin; Sacred and Profane (8 medieval lyrics)

IMOGEN COOPER

Sussie Ahlburg

Thursday 13 December 7.30 pm

IMOGEN COOPER piano PAUL LEWIS piano SCHUBERT Allegro in A minor D947 ‘Lebensstürme’ ˘ ÁK Slavonic Dances for piano duet DVOR SCHUBERT Andantino varié D823 No. 2 ˘ ÁK Slavonic Dances for piano duet DVOR SCHUBERT Sonata in C D812 ‘Grand Duo’

Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall’s Musick, fresh from the success of their Wigmore Hall Byrd Series, travel forward in time to reach Britten’s choral works. Their programme includes the beguiling Hymn to St Cecilia, which received its first concert performance at Wigmore Hall in 1942. In Advance Democracy, written in 1937, Britten turned alchemist to convert a leaden poem into a bold choral rallying call against the rise of European fascism. The virtuosic Sacred and Profane, eight settings of medieval English lyrics, dates from the penultimate year of Britten’s life. Despite ill health, the composer invested vital energy and élan in what proved to be one of his finest choral scores. £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series/Britten Birthday Centenary

Two great Schubertians share the Wigmore Hall stage for a concert marking the transition between two equally great Schubert projects. Paul Lewis, having completed his survey of Schubert’s piano sonatas in November, is joined by Imogen Cooper, who presents her own Wigmore Hall Schubert cycle later this season. Their programme marries the composer’s works for piano four-hands, his posthumously published ‘Grand Duo’ among them, with Dvor˘ák’s jubilant Slavonic Dances for piano duet. £18 £25 £30 £35 Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

London Pianoforte Series/Schubert: A Celebration

PAUL LEWIS

Jack Liebeck

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Saturday 15 December 7.30 pm

WIHAN QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ BEETHOVEN String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 RAVEL String Quartet in F Four years ago, the Wihan Quartet made an important mark in music history when it presented the first complete cycle of Beethoven’s string quartets in Prague. The group is steeped in the great traditions of Czech chamber music playing. Its players came together at the Prague Academy of Musical Arts in 1985, under the care of the legendary Smetana Quartet’s cellist, Antonín Kohout. They offer a programme designed to project the full expressive range and gloriously refined tonal blend, crowned by Ravel’s perfectly formed String Quartet in F. £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT

Marco Borggreve

Monday 17 December 1.00 pm

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KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT

Chamber Music Season

fortepiano MOZART Prelude and Fugue in C K394; Piano Sonata in Bb K333; Variations on Gluck’s ‘Unser dummer Pöbel meint’ K455 Early keyboard instruments come to life under Kristian Bezuidenhout’s agile and deft fingers. The South African musician made his debut with The English Concert at Wigmore Hall in 2011, directing an all-Mozart programme from the fortepiano. He returns for a solo lunchtime recital to present a selection of the composer’s keyboard works. £12 concs £10

WIHAN QUARTET

Sussie Ahlburg

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sunday 16 December 11.30 am

OLEG MARSHEV piano BACH/SILOTI Prelude in G minor PROKOFIEV Visions fugitives Op. 22 SKRYABIN Vers la flamme, poème Op. 72 MUSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition The grand Russian piano tradition, with its emphasis on fullfrontal communication, technical excellence and artistic spontaneity, is personified in the work of Oleg Marshev. Gramophone ranked his recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition among the finest in the catalogue and described his album of Prokofiev’s complete solo piano works as ‘one of the most authoritative and impassioned, romantic performances on disc so far’. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

OLEG MARSHEV

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Sunday 23 December 11.30 am

HEATH QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in Eb K428 TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 3 in E b minor Op. 30

HEATH QUARTET

Stefano Scheggi

Wednesday 19 December 7.30 pm

GÉRARD CAUSSÉ viola MICHEL DALBERTO piano WEBER Andante und Rondo ungarese BRAHMS Viola Sonata in Eb Op. 120 No. 2 BERLIOZ/LISZT Harold in Italy for viola and piano

‘Focused, skilled, and ready for anything,’ observed The Times following the Heath Quartet’s world première performance of Luke Bedford’s Nine Little Boxes, All Carefully Packed at Wigmore Hall in December 2011. The young British group, founded a decade ago, has forged ahead since it was chosen for representation by YCAT four years ago, its formidable artistic development recently recognised by a prestigious BorlettiBuitoni Special Ensemble Scholarship award. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Do not miss this rare chance to hear Liszt’s piano transcription of the orchestral score of Harold in Italy and Gérard Caussé’s heroic interpretation of Berlioz’s solo viola part. Michel Dalberto and Gérard Caussé share a passion for bringing music to full-blooded life, their partnership praised for its neartelepathic rapport. Brahms’s Second Viola Sonata Op. 120 provides a rich platform for the tonal warmth of Caussé’s instrument, made by Gasparo da Salo in 1560. £10 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by The Tertis Foundation

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SOPHIE BEVAN

Chamber Music Season

Sunday 23 December 7.00 pm (NB starting time)

CLASSICAL OPERA SOPHIE BEVAN soprano CHRISTOPHER AINSLIE countertenor ALLAN CLAYTON tenor JACQUES IMBRAILO baritone IAN PAGE conductor HANDEL Messiah

GÉRARD CAUSSÉ

Thursday 20 December 7.30 pm

Handel’s Messiah, first performed 270 years ago in a Dublin music hall, remains one of the most popular and iconic works in the classical repertoire. Classical Opera bring their trademark freshness, vitality and dramatic flair to this timeless masterpiece, preparing listeners for Christmas by filling the Wigmore Hall stage with an outstanding ensemble of singers and instrumentalists.

STILE ANTICO

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Early Music and Baroque Series

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WILLIAM BYRD SACRED MUSIC SERIES William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, standing firm against considerable pressure to conform, maintained their Roman Catholic faith in the England of Protestant reformers and ‘popish’ plots against the crown. The two friends wrote Latin sacred works that can bear close comparison with the finest religious music of the 16th century’s second half, their excellence recognised by contemporaries and backed by the patronage of Elizabeth I. In addition to Latin church music, Byrd wrote pioneering compositions for the Anglican liturgy and fine contrapuntal pieces and dances for keyboard. Wigmore Hall’s revealing survey of the composer’s work is the largest staged in London since the quatercentenary of his death in 1923. Thursday 20 December 7.30 pm

Tuesday 26 March 7.30 pm

STILE ANTICO

PUER NATUS EST

MISERERE – PENITENTIAL MUSIC BY BYRD AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

BYRD Vigilate; Tollite portas TALLIS Gloria from Mass Puer natus est nobis BYRD Ne irascaris, Domine; Ave Maria TALLIS Sanctus and Benedictus from Mass Puer natus est nobis BYRD Exsurge, Domine TALLIS Videte miraculum BYRD Laetentur coeli; Rorate coeli TALLIS Agnus Dei from Mass Puer natus est nobis BYRD Ecce virgo concipiet; Domine, praestolamur PLAINCHANT Puer natus est nobis BYRD Apparebit in finem Stile Antico launches the second half of Wigmore Hall’s William Byrd Sacred Music Series with a concert devoted to the music Tallis and Byrd crafted for Advent and Christmas. The programme unites around Tallis’s Mass ‘Puer natus est nobis’, believed by some to have been written for Mary Tudor’s new husband Philip II in 1554, and includes such treasures of Tudor polyphony as Byrd’s Rorate coeli and Ne irascaris, Domine and Tallis’s monumental Videte miraculum.

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Thursday 30 May 7.30 pm

STILE ANTICO FRETWORK O SACRED BANQUET – WILLIAM BYRD AND THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI £15 £20 £25 £30

Booking is now open for all concerts in this series

£15 £20 £25 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series/ William Byrd Sacred Music Series

STILE ANTICO

Marco Borggreve

Saturday 29 December 7.30 pm

ISABELLE VAN KEULEN violin RONALD BRAUTIGAM piano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’ POULENC Violin Sonata PROKOFIEV 5 Melodies Op. 35bis; Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80

DORIC STRING QUARTET

George Garnier

Friday 28 December 7.30 pm

DORIC STRING QUARTET

Beethoven marked the dawn of a new century with his ‘Spring’ Sonata, published in Vienna in 1801. A contemporary critic heralded its arrival as one of its young composer’s best creations, ‘… and that really means [it is] among the best [of works] being written now’. Isabelle van Keulen’s recital moves from the sunny optimism of Beethoven’s score to the dark despair and impassioned anguish of Prokofiev’s First Violin Sonata, the first and third movements of which were played at the composer’s funeral in 1953. £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

HAYDN String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 BARTÓK String Quartet No. 2 Op. 17 SCHUBERT String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

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Prize-winning success in the Osaka and Premio Paolo Borciani competitions confirmed the Doric String Quartet’s status among the world’s finest young quartets. Gramophone declared that its members are ‘musicians with fascinating things to say’, a verdict backed by shrewd reviews elsewhere of the young British ensemble’s collective finesse, technical accomplishments, refined tonal blend and artistic insights. Their 2007 Wigmore Hall reading of Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ was described as ‘newly minted’ and distinguished by its ‘zest and dedication’ by Musical Opinion. ISABELLE VAN KEULEN

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Marco Borggreve

Chamber Music Season Sunday 30 December 11.30 am

AVIV STRING QUARTET BORODIN String Quartet No. 2 in D DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Aviv means ‘spring’ in Hebrew, a signifier of new beginnings, the season of birth and fresh thinking. The eponymous Aviv Quartet’s artistic philosophy is concerned with stripping away artificial coverings ‘to reveal true nature, sharper definition and heightened awareness’. Its recordings for Naxos, including works by Schulhoff and Erno´´ Dohnányi, have been acclaimed for their freshness of spirit and vivacity. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice AVIV STRING QUARTET

Roman Malamant

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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LA SERENISSIMA

Benjamin Harte

Monday 31 December 7.00 pm (NB starting time) Sunday 30 December 7.30 pm

LUCY PARHAM piano DOMINIC WEST narrator (subject to availability) RÊVERIE – THE LIFE AND LOVES OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY DEBUSSY Estampes: Pagodes, La soirée dans Grenade, Jardins sous la pluie; Poissons d’or from Images Series 2; Reflets dans l’eau from Trois Images; Arabesque No. 1; Rêverie; Danse Bohémienne; Pour les huit doigts No. 6 from Études Book I; Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque; Golliwogg’s Cake-Walk from Children’s Corner; Des pas sur la neige from Préludes Book I; La fille aux cheveux de lin from Préludes Book I; L’isle joyeuse Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy, Rêverie is the fourth biographical programme of composers’ words and music to be scripted by pianist Lucy Parham. Debussy’s complex intellectual and emotional world was an entangled love life that brought illicit trysts in Jersey, a brush with a revolver and even a suicide attempt. Punctuated with many of his finest piano compositions, the narrative of Rêverie, which takes the form of a personal journal, follows him from his initial success with the Prix de Rome in 1885 to his untimely death in 1918. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series

LA SERENISSIMA ADRIAN CHANDLER director, violin SIMON MUNDAY trumpet PETER WHELAN bassoon MHAIRI LAWSON soprano VENICE BY NIGHT ANON Si la gondola avere for soprano and theorbo POLLAROLO Sinfonia to La vendetta d’amore for trumpet, strings and continuo ALBINONI Sinfonia for strings and continuo in G minor VIVALDI Concerto in C for bassoon, strings and continuo RV477 VERACINI Fuga, o capriccio con quattro soggetti in D minor for strings and continuo LOTTI Motet: Alma ride exulta mortalis for soprano, strings and continuo ALBINONI Sinfonia to Il nome glorioso in terra, santificato in cielo for trumpet, strings and continuo VIVALDI No stè a condanarme for soprano and continuo; Concerto in E minor for violin, strings and continuo RV278 PORTA Sinfonia for trumpet, strings and continuo in D VIVALDI Il fidarsi alla spene from L’Olimpiade; D’ira e furor armato from Motezuma The twists and turns, ornaments and extravagances of the Italian Baroque deliver a splendid concert, one fit to celebrate the riches of Wigmore Hall’s Early Music Series and herald the arrival of the New Year. La Serenissima, in company with Mhairi Lawson, explores the musical soundscapes of 18th-century Venice. Their programme includes Carlo Francesco Pollarolo’s uplifting Sinfonia to La vendetta d’amore – the manuscript for this opera was thought to have been lost, but a copy survives in the library of the Royal Academy of Music. £15 £20 £25 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series LUCY PARHAM

Sven Arnstein

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WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T It remains of the utmost importance for Wigmore Hall to nurture the finest young artists in order to ensure that the demanding standards and values set deep within today’s musical practices live long into the next generation and beyond. Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent allows us to create essential performance opportunities for some of these artists as they gain experience and broaden their knowledge of the repertoire. Young artists supported by the Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent scheme in 2012/13 are:

EGGNER TRIO

HEATH QUARTET

Winner of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2003, the Eggner Trio was founded in 1997 by the three brothers Christoph, Georg and Florian Eggner. During the 2005/6 season the Trio appeared in the Rising Stars series at concert halls across the world. 7 October 2012, 21 April 2013, 12 May 2013

The Heath Quartet is rapidly emerging as an exciting and original voice on the international chamber music scene. Selected by YCAT in 2008, they immediately went on to win First Prize at the Tromp International Competition in Eindhoven and Second Prize at the Haydn International Competition in Vienna. In 2011 they were awarded a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Special Ensemble Scholarship. 23 December 2012, 4 June 2013

JACK QUARTET The JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with ‘explosive virtuosity’ (Boston Globe) and ‘viscerally exciting performances’ (New York Times). The Washington Post commented, ‘The string quartet may be a 250-yearold contraption, but young, brilliant groups like the JACK Quartet are keeping it thrillingly vital.’ Having studied with the Arditti, Kronos and Muir String Quartets, and members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the JACK Quartet is focused on the commissioning and performance of new works. 31 October 2012

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC SONG CIRCLE Each year a small group of the Royal Academy of Music’s most accomplished performers of art song are selected to be part of the Song Circle. Since its inception in 2004, the Song Circle has given more than twenty concerts, and its annual Schubertiade has become a much-anticipated feature of the Academy’s calendar. 10 March 2013

CHRISTIANE KARG Since her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2000, soprano Christiane Karg has become an important Lieder singer. Her recital career includes the Wiener Musikverein and the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg as well as the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Philharmonie Essen. 23 July 2013

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

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EVENTS FOR FAMILIES, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS All events listed on pages 77 – 79 will open for booking on 21 June, with the exception of the Family Concerts on 3 November and 8 December, and Come and Sing on 13 October, which go on sale to Friends on 25 May, and to Mailing List Subscribers on 8 June. Family Events are supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust Saturday 6 October 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

SOUNDSCAPES AND LANDSCAPES FAMILY DAY For age 6 plus Join visual artist MARC WOODHEAD and musician LUKE CROOKES to collect musical and visual ingredients from the galleries of the Wallace Collection, before mixing them together at Wigmore Hall in the afternoon to create your own original work of musical art! Adults £12 Children £8 (not part of subscription scheme) In partnership with the Wallace Collection

Saturday 13 October 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

COME AND SING: LUTE SONGS AND PARTSONGS www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Saturday 22 September 11.00 am – 3.00 pm

OPEN HOUSE DAY A unique opportunity to visit Wigmore Hall and experience the rehearsal process in an open rehearsal with the NASH ENSEMBLE. You can also take part in a creative workshop in the Bechstein Room with NEIL VALENTINE. All ages welcome.

ISABELLE ADAMS leads a day of singing workshops for adults inspired by John Dowland and the English renaissance. Learn some new songs, join in with fun vocal warm-ups and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. Adults £18 Concessions £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

Open rehearsal entrance times: 11.00 am; 12 noon; 1.00 pm Workshop times: 11.20 am – 11.50 am; 12.20 pm – 12.50 pm; 1.20 pm – 1.50 pm Admission Free (no booking required)

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Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 October 10.00 am – 3.30 pm both days

JAZZ JUNCTION HALF-TERM COURSE For ages 11–16 Calling all budding young musicians! Join professional musicians from IGNITE as they collaborate with contemporary jazz artists to create and perform brand new music inspired by jazz. Join a creative ensemble, meet other young musicians and take your new music to the Wigmore Hall stage! £40 for the two-day course (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

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Saturday 3 November 11.00 am – 12 noon

Friday 30 November 11.00 am – 12 noon

ELIAS STRING QUARTET KEY STAGE 3 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Friday 2 November 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

AND THE KITCHEN SINK! HALF-TERM FAMILY DAY For age 5 plus Spend the day making homemade instruments from junk and household items! Join musician RUS PEARSON for this rhythmic day of family fun. Adults £12 Children £8 (not part of subscription scheme)

Presented by POLLY IVES, this concert will be an introduction to Chamber Music through the ages. From Baroque, through Classical and Romantic repertoire, musicians from the ELIAS STRING QUARTET will highlight the differing styles and traditions. The concert will contextualise the repertoire with stories from history, reading from Literature and through interactive activities. Supported by a teachers’ resource pack and linked to KS3 curriculums. £2.50 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by The Monument Trust

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Friday 7 December 11.00 am – 12 noon

THE PRINCE CONSORT KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT Young people from Key Stage 2 are invited to join the vocal ensemble THE PRINCE CONSORT for an interactive introduction to choral music, showcasing different combinations of voice and piano, from solos to small ensemble. Presented by vocalist and educator ISABELLE ADAMS, young people will be invited to warm-up and sing some songs, conduct the singers and ask them questions. Supported by a teachers’ resource pack. £2.50 (not part of subscription scheme)

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Supported by The Monument Trust

Saturday 8 December 11.00 am – 12 noon

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

CHAMBER ZONE TICKET SCHEME Over the last five years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticket scheme Chamber Zone has reached 4000 young people aged 8 –25 years. Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, the scheme aims to provide access to high quality chamber music and to raise musical aspirations through accompanying workshops with professional musicians and composers. For details on the concerts included in the Chamber Zone scheme and how to book, visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/chamber-zone CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net Photo: www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

These concerts (except the 7.30 pm concerts on 5 January and 26 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 2012. Saturday 5 January 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW piano MOZART Sonata No. 7 in C K309; Sonata No. 11 in A K331; Sonata No. 15 in F K533/494; Sonata No. 18 in D K576 London Pianoforte Series/Christian Blackshaw Mozart Series Tickets £15 £20 £25 £30 now on sale

Sunday 6 January 11.30 am

BENNEWITZ QUARTET ˘ ÁK Selection from Cypresses DVOR SCHUMANN String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 LUCY CROWE

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Marco Borggreve

Thursday 3 January 7.30 pm

CAROLYN SAMPSON soprano MATTHEW WADSWORTH lute ECHOES OF VENICE MERULA Folle è ben che si crede MONTEVERDI Ohimé ch’io cado, ohimé; Sí dolce è’l tormento PICCININI Toccata VI; Partite variate sopra quest’ aria francese detta l’Alemana; Corrente terza STROZZI Rissolvetevi pensieri; L’Eraclito amoroso FERRARI Son ruinato, appasionato STROZZI Che si può fare PICCININI Toccata X; Ciaccona in Partite Variate CACCINI Lasciatemi morire KAPSBERGER Toccata No. 9; Passacaglia STROZZI L’amante segreto Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday 6 January 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano

DIETRICH HENSCHEL baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano THE HUGO WOLF SONGBOOKS The Mörike and Goethe Songbooks, two of the great masterpieces of the Lieder repertoire, were written over an inspired twelve months between 1888 and 1889. This is the third concert in the series presenting the complete Songbooks at Wigmore Hall. Song Recital Series/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

Friday 4 January 7.30 pm

LUCY CROWE soprano CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone GRAHAM JOHNSON piano FRENCH SONG SERIES: IN THE SHADOW OF THE OPÉRA Songs by BIZET, GOUNOD, SAINT-SAËNS and HAHN Song Recital Series

DIETRICH HENSCHEL

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Noelle

Wednesday 9 January 7.30 pm

LEON MCCAWLEY piano BACH Italian Concerto in F BWV971 BRAHMS Waltzes Op. 39 CHOPIN Scherzo No. 3 in C # minor Op. 39 LISZT Les cloches de Genève from Années de pèlerinage Book I DEBUSSY Cloches à travers les Feuilles from Images II RACHMANINOV Étude-tableau in C minor Op. 39 No. 7 BEETHOVEN 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme in E b ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35 London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 10 January 7.30 pm

PAUL O’DETTE lute Programme to be announced LEON MCCAWLEY

Sheila Rock

Early Music and Baroque Series

Monday 7 January 1.00 pm

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA violin CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN piano Works by SCHUBERT

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/Schubert: A Celebration

Monday 7 January 7.30 pm

ALEXANDER CHAUSHIAN cello ASHLEY WASS piano Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 8 January 7.30 pm

FLORILEGIUM A CELEBRATION OF HANDEL HANDEL Trio Sonata in B minor Op. 2 No. 1; Two German Arias; Suite No. 5 in E HWV430; Cantata: Un alma innamorata HWV173; Trio Sonata in E minor Op. 5 No. 3; Sonata for flute and continuo in E minor; Three German Arias Early Music and Baroque Series

PAUL O’DETTE

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Saturday 12 January 6.00 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE MARK PADMORE tenor IAN BROWN piano PHILIPPA DAVIES flute GARETH HULSE oboe RICHARD HOSFORD clarinet CRAIG OGDEN guitar VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Suite de Ballet for flute and piano ARNOLD Divertimento for wind trio Op. 37 FINZI Five Bagatelles for clarinet and piano Op. 23 BRITTEN Folksongs for tenor and guitar Chamber Music Season/British Series: Dreamers of Dreams

MARLIS PETERSEN

Y. Mavropoulos

Friday 11 January 7.30 pm

MARLIS PETERSEN soprano JENDRICK SPRINGER piano GOETHE AND THE ETERNAL FEMININE: SULEIKA, KLÄRCHEN, GRETCHEN, HELENA, STELLA, MIGNON AND PHILINE SCHUBERT Suleika I FELIX MENDELSSOHN Die Liebende schreibt FANNY MENDELSSOHN Suleika WAGNER Gretchen am Spinnrade BEETHOVEN Wonne der Wehmut SOMMER Ach neige, du Schmerzensreiche MEDTNER Vor Gericht SOMMER Wanderers Nachtlied EISLER Von Wolken streifenhaft befangen BRUCH Morgenlied KRENEK Monolog der Stella DIEPENBROCK Mignon TCHAIKOVSKY Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt WOLF Philine; Heiss mich nicht reden SCHUMANN So lasst mich scheinen BRAUNFELS Die Trommel gerühret LISZT Freudvoll und leidvoll MEDTNER Wanderers Nachtlied REUTTER Es ist gut TROJAHN Bewundert viel und viel gescholten BRAUNFELS Rastlose Liebe Song Recital Series

CRAIG OGDEN

Saturday 12 January 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE MARK PADMORE tenor MARIANNE THORSEN violin IAN BROWN piano CRAIG OGDEN guitar BAX Oboe Quintet ELGAR Salut d’amour; Chanson de matin; Chanson de nuit WARLOCK The Curlew WALTON Anon in love VAUGHAN WILLIAMS String Quartet No. 1 in G minor Chamber Music Season/British Series: Dreamers of Dreams

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Sunday 13 January 11.30 am

CASSARD/GRIMAL/GASTINEL TRIO FAURÉ Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120 RAVEL Piano Trio in A minor Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 13 January 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN ZACHARIAS piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 12 in A b Op. 26 SCHUBERT 6 Moments Musicaux D780 SCHUMANN Kreisleriana Op. 16 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2 London Pianoforte Series

Monday 14 January 1.00 pm GERALD FINLEY

RUBY HUGHES soprano Pianist to be announced

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Tuesday 15 January 7.30 pm

Programme to be announced

GERALD FINLEY baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano

Ruby Hughes is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

SCHUBERT Grenzen der Menschheit; Der Zwerg; Der Schiffer; Der Kreuzzug; Der Einsame; Erlkönig MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Der Tamboursg’sell; Das irdische Leben; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Lob des hohen Verstandes

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Song Recital Series/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

Wednesday 16 January 7.30 pm

ANNA PROHASKA soprano ARCANGELO JONATHAN COHEN director Programme to include works by HANDEL, PURCELL and VIVALDI Early Music and Baroque Series

Thursday 17 January 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season RUBY HUGHES

Camilo Echeverri

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Saturday 19 January 7.30 pm

SAINSBURY ROYAL ACADEMY SOLOISTS CLIO GOULD director HANDEL Concerto Grosso in B b Op. 6 No. 7 STRAUSS Metamorphosen for string septet BARTÓK Divertimento for Strings Chamber Music Season

Sunday 20 January 11.30 am

CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’ DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 20 January 7.30 pm QUATUOR ZAÏDE

Alix Laveau

ECMA SHOWCASE Friday 18 January 1.00 pm Saturday 19 January 11.00 am – Masterclass Saturday 19 January 4.00 pm Sunday 20 January 4.00 pm

TRIO KARÉNINE GIOCOSO STRING QUARTET QUATUOR ZAÏDE PAUL KLEE TRIO

ASHLEY WASS piano SCHUMANN Piano Sonata in G minor Op. 22 MENDELSSOHN Songs without Words BARBER Piano Sonata in E b minor Op. 26 BEETHOVEN/LISZT Symphony No. 6 in F Op. 68 ‘Pastoral’ London Pianoforte Series

Monday 21 January 1.00 pm

YEVGENY SUDBIN piano Programme to be announced

Programme to include works by MOZART and LIGETI Chamber Music Season BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Friday 18 January 7.30 pm

THE MYRTHEN ENSEMBLE SOPHIE BEVAN soprano CLARA MOURIZ mezzo-soprano ALLAN CLAYTON tenor MARCUS FARNSWORTH baritone JOSEPH MIDDLETON piano

SONGS TO THE MOON Songs, duets and quartets by BRAHMS and SCHUMANN Songs and duets by SZULC, DEBUSSY, CHAUSSON, HAHN, DUPARC, MOMPOU and FAURÉ Song Recital Series

YEVGENY SUDBIN

Mark Harrison

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Wednesday 23 January 1.00 pm

BRITTEN SINFONIA MARK PADMORE tenor STEPHEN BELL horn HUW WATKINS piano RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT Tom O’Bedlam’s Song POULENC Elégie GERALD BARRY New work (London première)* WALTON 3 Sitwell Songs BRITTEN Three Songs from The Heart of the Matter * Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia

Chamber Music Season CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF

Alexandra Vosding

Wednesday 23 January 7.30 pm Monday 21 January 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF violin LARS VOGT piano BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100; Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108

CUARTETO CASALS SCHUBERT String Quartet in D D94; String Quartet in B b D68; String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Chamber Music Season/Schubert: A Celebration

Chamber Music Season/Christian Tetzlaff: Artist in Residence Thursday 24 January 7.30 pm Tuesday 22 January 3.00 – 6.00 pm Friday 25 January 3.00 – 6.00 pm Tuesday 29 January 3.00 – 6.00 pm

CUARTETO CASALS

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

SCHUBERT String Quartet in B b D36; String Quartet in D D74; String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’

BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTETS

Chamber Music Season/Schubert: A Celebration

Linked to the Hagen Quartet concerts on 29 & 30 January 2013 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Tuesday 22 January 7.30 pm

CLASSICAL OPERA SARAH FOX soprano RENATA POKUPIC´ mezzo-soprano IAN PAGE conductor MOZART’S CASTRATI Programme to include: MOZART Se il rigor d’ingrata sorte from Mitridate, re di Ponto K87; Ah se a morir mi chiama from Lucio Silla K135; Exsultate, Jubilate K165; Il padre adorato from Idomeneo K366; Deh per questo istante solo from La clemenza di Tito K621 Early Music and Baroque Series RENATA POKUPIC´

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Chris Gloag

Monday 28 January 1.00 pm

CHRISTIAN IHLE HADLAND piano Programme to be announced Christian Ihle Hadland is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 28 January 7.30 pm

ELIZABETH WATTS soprano ROGER VIGNOLES piano SOILE ISOKOSKI

Heikki Tuuli

GOETHE HEROINES Friday 25 January 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 Op. 7 STRAUSS Drei Lieder der Ophelia Op. 67 IVES On the Counter; The Side Show; Berceuse; Memories: a. Very Pleasant, b. Rather Sad SALLINEN Neljä laulua unesta (4 Dream Songs) Song Recital Series

Saturday 26 January 7.30 pm

HILARY HAHN violin Pianist to be announced IN 27 PIECES: THE HILARY HAHN ENCORES (PART II)

SCHUBERT Gretchen am Spinnrade; Gretchens Bitte; Der König in Thule WOLF Kennst du das Land SCHUBERT Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt from Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister; Heiss mich nicht reden (D726); So lasst mich scheinen from Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister SCHUMANN Singet nicht in Trauertönen SCHUBERT Suleika I & II MEYERBEER Wie mit innigstem Behagen WOLF Hochbeglückt in deiner Liebe GLINKA Gretchen’s Song VERDI Deh, pietoso, oh Addolorata LISZT Es war ein König in Thule DUPARC Romance de Mignon TCHAIKOVSKY Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt WOLF Heiss mich nicht reden; So lasst mich scheinen; Singet nicht in Trauertönen FELIX MENDELSSOHN Was bedeutet die Bewegung; Ach, um deine feuchten Schwingen FANNY MENDELSSOHN An Suleika WOLF Nimmer will ich dich verlieren Song Recital Series

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23 BACH Sonata No. 2 in A minor for solo violin BWV1003 Interspersed with new commissions Chamber Music Season

Sunday 27 January 11.30 am

COLIN CARR cello THOMAS SAUER piano BEETHOVEN 12 Variations on a Theme from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO45 SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

HILARY HAHN

Peter Miller

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Tuesday 29 January 7.30 pm

HAGEN QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quartet in F Op. 135; String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 30 January 7.30 pm

HAGEN QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A minor Op. 132; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Chamber Music Season

LORENZO GATTO

J N Doumont

Sunday 3 February 11.30 am

LORENZO GATTO violin BEATRICE BERRUT piano Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 3 February 4.00 pm

JOHN CHEST baritone MARCELO AMARAL piano

HAGEN QUARTET

Harald Hoffmann

Thursday 31 January 7.30 pm

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA violin CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN piano SCHUBERT BIRTHDAY CONCERT SCHUBERT Rondo in B minor D895; Violin Sonata (Duo) in A D574; Sei mir gegrüsst D741; Nacht und Träume D827; Fantasy in C D934 Chamber Music Season/Schubert: A Celebration

Friday 1 February 7.30 pm

GUILLERMO KLEIN acoustic piano, voice AARON GOLDBERG piano CHRIS CHEEK saxophone MIGUEL ZENON saxophone Further details to be announced Joshua Redman Jazz Series

BARBER 3 Songs Op. 10; Mélodies passagères Op. 27 POULENC Métamorphoses SCHUMANN Liederkreis Op. 24 WOLF Sie haben heut’ Abend Gesellschaft; Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen; Das ist ein Brausen und Heulen; Aus meinen grossen Schmerzen; Mir träumte von einem Königskind; Mein Liebchen, wir sassen beisammen; Es blasen die blauen Husaren Song Recital Series

Sunday 3 February 7.30 pm

WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone RUSSELL RYAN piano KRENEK From Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen Op. 62: Motiv; Verkehr; Kloster in den Alpen; Wetter; Friedhof im Gebirgsdorf; Regentag; Unser Wein; Auf und ab; Gewitter; Heimweh; Heißer Tag am See; Ausblick nach Süden; Heimkehr SCHUBERT Über Wildemann; Der Kreuzzug; Schäfers Klagelied; Der Alpenjäger (Schiller); Trinklied; Der Alpenjäger (Mayrhofer); Nach einem Gewitter; Das Heimweh; Auf der Riesenkoppe; Im Walde Song Recital Series/Wolfgang Holzmair Retrospective Series

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Friday 8 February 7.30 pm

BORODIN QUARTET BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 22 Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: Tchaikovsky and Brahms

Saturday 9 February

HUW WATKINS DAY 11.30 am

EMILY BEYNON flute MATTHEW HUNT clarinet HUW WATKINS piano LUCY WAKEFORD harp ARONOWITZ ENSEMBLE CALEFAX

Rob Marinissen

HUW WATKINS Sad Steps HUW WATKINS Four Spencer Pieces HUW WATKINS Gig for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp

Monday 4 February 1.00 pm

CALEFAX reed quintet BRUMEL Motets (arr. Raaf Hekkema) DEBUSSY Suite bergamasque (arr. Oliver Boekhoorn) RAMEAU Suite La triomphante (arr. Raaf Hekkema)

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

3.00 pm

CAROLYN SAMPSON soprano ALINA IBRAGIMOVA violin MAGNUS JOHNSTON violin GUY JOHNSTON cello HUW WATKINS piano HUW WATKINS Partita for solo violin HUW WATKINS Five Larkin Songs HUW WATKINS Piano Trio

Wednesday 6 February 7.30 pm

BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano HUGO WOLF QUARTETT SCHUMANN String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 RESPIGHI Il tramonto for voice and string quartet WOLF Songs from Italienisches Liederbuch WOLF Intermezzo Song Recital Series

Thursday 7 February 7.30 pm

IMOGEN COOPER piano SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus D899; Sonata in A minor D784; Ecossaises D781; Sonata in D D850 London Pianoforte Series/Schubert: A Celebration

7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor LAURA SAMUEL violin MATTHEW HUNT clarinet RICHARD WATKINS horn HUW WATKINS piano ELIAS STRING QUARTET HUW WATKINS In my craft or sullen art (Goodison Quartet No. 4) STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale Suite (arr. violin, clarinet and piano) HUW WATKINS Trio for horn, violin and piano FAURÉ Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor Op. 115 Chamber Music Season

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Monday 11 February 1.00 pm

KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI piano Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 11 February 7.30 pm

THE SIXTEEN HARRY CHRISTOPHERS director MONTEVERDI – SELVA MORALE E SPIRITUALE

FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI

Marco Borggreve

MONTEVERDI Gloria; Iste confessor (Secondo); Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Primo); Salve Regina (Terzo); Dixit Dominus (Secondo); Dixit Dominus (Primo); Deus tuorum militum (Primo); Beatus vir (Primo); Salve Regina (Secondo); Magnificat (Primo) Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday 10 February 11.30 am

FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI piano BACH English Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV807 BACH/LISZT Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV542 LISZT Années de pèlerinage (a selection) Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 10 February 4.00 pm

THE PRINCE CONSORT BARBER Hermit Songs Op. 29 (excerpts); Sure on this Shining Night; Nocturne LOWELL LIEBERMANN 6 Songs on poems of H. W. Longfellow WILLIAM BOLCOM Cabaret Songs (excerpts) Song Recital Series

Sunday 10 February 7.30 pm

PAUL WATKINS cello HUW WATKINS piano BEETHOVEN 7 Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte WoO46 SCHUMANN Adagio and Allegro in A b Op. 70 (for cello and piano) HUW WATKINS New work WEBERN Drei kleine Stücke Op. 11 MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58

HARRY CHRISTOPHERS

Marco Borggreve

Chamber Music Season

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Tuesday 12 February 7.30 pm

Thursday 14 February 7.30 pm

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET

JÖRG WIDMANN clarinet ANTOINE TAMESTIT viola FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI piano

HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 50 No. 6 ‘The Frog’ BARTÓK String Quartet No. 2 Op. 17 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’

BRUCH Eight pieces for clarinet, viola and piano Op. 83 JÖRG WIDMANN Fantasie for solo clarinet KURTÁG Hommage à Robert Schumann Op. 15d MOZART Fantasia in D minor K397 KURTÁG 3 pieces from Signs, Games and Messages for solo viola MOZART Clarinet Trio No. 2 in E b K498 ‘Kegelstatt’

Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 13 February 1.00 pm

BRITTEN SINFONIA THOMAS GOULD violin MIRANDA DALE violin CLARE FINNIMORE viola CAROLINE DEARNLEY cello HUW WATKINS piano

Chamber Music Season

COPLAND Vitebsk, Study on a Jewish Theme SHOSTAKOVICH Two pieces for string quartet: Elegy and Polka BRITTEN Reflection for viola and piano JAY GREENBERG New work (London première)* BRITTEN Three Divertimenti for String Quartet *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia

Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 13 February 7.30 pm

TRIO JEAN PAUL BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1 WOLFGANG RIHM Fremde Szene III SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 in B b D898 Chamber Music Season JÖRG WIDMANN

Klaus Rudolph

Friday 15 February 7.30 pm

SOPHIE DANEMAN soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano THE HUGO WOLF SONGBOOKS The Mörike and Goethe Songbooks, two of the great masterpieces of the Lieder repertoire, were written over an inspired twelve months between 1888 and 1889. This is the final concert in the series presenting the complete Songbooks at Wigmore Hall. Song Recital Series/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’ TRIO JEAN PAUL

Irene Zandel

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Sunday 17 February 7.30 pm

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello CONNIE SHIH piano HAHN Variations chantantes FAURÉ Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 109 THOMAS ADÈS Lieux retrouvés SAINT-SAËNS Romanza from Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 51 FRANCK Sonata in A for cello and piano Chamber Music Season

Monday 18 February 1.00 pm

ANDREAS HAEFLIGER piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 BERIO Erdenklavier; Wasserklavier SCHUMANN Fantasy in C Op. 17 JERUSALEM QUARTET

Felix Broede

Saturday 16 February 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

JERUSALEM QUARTET WOLF Italian Serenade in G MOZART String Quartet in B b K589 ‘Prussian’ SMETANA String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Chamber Music Season

Monday 18 February 7.30 pm

AILISH TYNAN soprano YANN BEURON tenor GRAHAM JOHNSON piano FRENCH SONG SERIES: MASQUES ET BERGAMASQUES

Sunday 17 February 11.30 am

KUSS QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in D K575 JANÁC˘EK String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’

Verlaine settings by FAURÉ, BORDES, DEBUSSY, DUPONT and KOECHLIN Song Recital Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 17 February 4.00 pm

MARKUS SCHÄFER tenor PIERS LANE piano SCHUBERT Wiedersehn; Abendlied für die Entfernte; Sprache der Liebe; Die gefangenen Sänger; Widerspruch; Am Fenster; Irdisches Glück; Im Freien; Bei dir allein!; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Wiegenlied; Sehnsucht; Das Zügenglöcklein Song Recital Series

AILISH TYNAN

Sussie Ahlburg

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Friday 22 February 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

TAKÁCS QUARTET CHARLES OWEN piano BRAHMS String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 Chamber Music Season

Saturday 23 February 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone MARIANNE THORSEN violin IAN BROWN piano NICHOLAS DANIEL

Benjamin Harte

Tuesday 19 February 7.30 pm

NICHOLAS DANIEL oboe JULIUS DRAKE piano

BRIDGE Phantasy Piano Quartet in F # minor DELIUS Violin Sonata No. 2 FINZI By Footpath and Stile Op. 2 BUTTERWORTH Love Blows as the Wind Blows ELGAR Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84 Chamber Music Season/British Series: Dreamers of Dreams

Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

Wednesday 20 February 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

TAKÁCS QUARTET LAWRENCE POWER viola BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 HAYDN String Quartet in B b Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ BRAHMS String Quintet in G Op. 111 Chamber Music Season

Thursday 21 February 7.30 pm

SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE GEMINIANI Concerto Grosso ‘La Folia’ GÓRECKI Harpsichord Concerto Op. 40 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Violin Concerto (Concerto accademico) HOLST St Paul’s Suite GÓRECKI 3 Pieces in Old Style VIVALDI Concerto Grosso in B minor Op. 3 No. 10 BRITTEN Simple Symphony Op. 4

CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN

Sunday 24 February 11.30 am

MODIGLIANI QUARTET Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Pia Clodi

Sunday 24 February 7.30 pm

MIDORI violin ÖZGÜR AYDIN piano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Op. 30 No. 3 BACH Violin Sonata No. 1 in B minor BWV1014 BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’ BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Op. 12 No. 1 BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Chamber Music Season/Midori: Celebrating 20 Years of Community Outreach

Monday 25 February 1.00 pm

MARKUS WERBA baritone ANDREAS HAEFLIGER piano SCHUBERT Gesänge des Harfners WOLF Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo SCHUMANN Dichterliebe Op. 48 PAVEL HAAS QUARTET

Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 26 February 7.30 pm BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

PAVEL HAAS QUARTET SCHNITTKE String Quartet No. 3 SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B b Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

Monday 25 February 7.30 pm

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano RODOLFO RICHTER director, violin

Chamber Music Season

ITALIAN PASSIONS VERACINI Overture in G minor MERULA Aria: Hor ch’è tempo di dormire VIVALDI Concerto in E for violin RV271 ‘L’amoroso’ VIVALDI Aria: Sovvente il sole from Andromeda liberata VIVALDI Concerto in D for violin RV234 ‘L’inquietudine’ ALBINONI Concerto in C Op. 9 No. 9 FERRANDINI Cantata: Il pianto di Maria Early Music and Baroque Series

Wednesday 27 February 7.30 pm

IESTYN DAVIES countertenor RICHARD EGARR harpsichord Other artists to be announced Music by PURCELL and BLOW Song Recital Series/Iestyn Davies: ‘A Singularity of Voice’

Thursday 28 February 7.30 pm

THOMAS DEMENGA cello LUTOSL´ AWSKI Sacher Variation BERIO Les mots sont allés BACH Cello Suite No. 4 in E b BWV1010 KLAUS HUBER Transpositio ad infinitum BACH Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009 Chamber Music Season/Thomas Demenga ‘Building on Bach’ BERNARDA FINK

Klemen Breitfuss

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Sunday 3 March 4.00 pm

BENEDICT NELSON baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Monday 4 March 1.00 pm

IGOR LEVIT piano SCHUBERT/LISZT Sei mir gegrüsst S558 No. 1 SCHUBERT 6 Moments Musicaux D780 Liszt Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata from Années de pèlerinage S161 Igor Levit is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 4 March 7.30 pm

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano CHRISTIANE OELZE

Natalie Bothur

Friday 1 March 7.30 pm

CHRISTIANE OELZE soprano PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD piano Programme to be announced

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’; Piano Sonata No. 18 in E b Op. 31 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ London Pianoforte Series/András Schiff: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Song Recital Series

Saturday 2 March 7.30 pm

TETZLAFF QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 BERG Lyric Suite BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Chamber Music Season/Christian Tetzlaff: Artist in Residence

Sunday 3 March 11.30 am

KUNGSBACKA PIANO TRIO BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’; Piano Trio in G Op. 1 No. 2

TETZLAFF QUARTET

Alexandra Vosding

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Wednesday 6 March 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Thursday 7 March 7.30 pm

MATTHEW POLENZANI tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

Friday 8 March 7.30 pm

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’; Piano Sonata No. 24 in F # Op. 78; Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Op. 79; Piano Sonata No. 26 in E b Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’ London Pianoforte Series/András Schiff: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

ARCANTO QUARTET

Marco Borggreve

Sunday 10 March 11.30 am

ARCANTO QUARTET HAYDN Seven Last Words from the Cross Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 10 March 4.00 pm

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC SONG CIRCLE The Royal Academy of Music Song Circle returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme of songs by BENJAMIN BRITTEN. Britten the Linguist – a recital of his songs in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Scottish. WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Song Recital Series

SIMON KEENLYSIDE

Saturday 9 March 7.30 pm

SIMON KEENLYSIDE baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

Uwe Arens

Monday 11 March 1.00 pm

ARCANTO QUARTET BRAHMS String Quartet in B b Op. 67 HAYDN String Quartet in B minor Op. 64 No. 2

Songs by WOLF, FAURÉ, RAVEL and POULENC Song Recital Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2013

Thursday 14 March 7.30 pm

BELCEA QUARTET THOMAS QUASTHOFF narrator HAYDN Seven Last Words from the Cross Chamber Music Season

Friday 15 March 7.30 pm

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 London Pianoforte Series/András Schiff: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

ANDRÁS SCHIFF

Saturday 16 March 3.00 pm Yutaka Suzuki

TALK AND FILM SHOWINGS Monday 11 March 7.30 pm

BRITTEN’s Night Mail and WALTON’s Henry V

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/British Series: Dreamers of Dreams

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90; Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101; Piano Sonata No. 29 in B b Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ London Pianoforte Series/András Schiff: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Saturday 16 March 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Tuesday 12 March 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE MARTYN BRABBINS conductor

TRIO ZIMMERMANN

Reciters to be announced

BEETHOVEN Serenade for String Trio in D Op. 8 HINDEMITH String Trio No. 2 BEETHOVEN String Trio in Eb Op. 3

BRITTEN AND WALTON FILM AND RADIO MUSIC

Chamber Music Season

BRITTEN Sinfonietta Op. 1; Night Mail; The Way to the Sea; The Sword in the Stone WALTON Henry V – A Musical Scenario

Wednesday 13 March 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season/British Series: Dreamers of Dreams

SARAH WALKER 70TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT LAURA MITCHELL soprano KITTY WHATELY mezzo-soprano JONATHAN LEMALU bass-baritone GRAHAM JOHNSON piano

Sunday 17 March 11.30 am Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE

LET US GARLANDS BRING: SHAKESPEARE CELEBRATION

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Quintet in D for piano, clarinet, horn, violin and cello ˘ ÁK Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 DVOR

Programme to include songs by SCHUBERT, WOLF, BRAHMS, and BERLIOZ

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/British Series: Dreamers of Dreams

Narrator to be announced

Song Recital Series

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Sunday 17 March 4.00 pm

SOPHIE BEVAN soprano SEBASTIAN WYBREW piano PURCELL O solitude, my sweetest choice SCHUBERT Das Marienbild; Die Einsiedelei SCHUMANN Der Einsiedler SCHUBERT Die junge Nonne WOLF From Spanisches Liederbuch: Herr, was trägt der Boden hier; Die ihr schwebet SCHUBERT Das Zügenglöcklein; Seligkeit BARBER Nocturne Op. 13 No. 4 LENNOX BERKELEY Lay your sleeping head, my love BARBER Hermit Songs Op. 29 Song Recital Series SOPHIE BEVAN

Robert Workman

Tuesday 19 March 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK COMPOSERS IN FOCUS ANTHONY BURTON in conversation with the composers of the evening concert. Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Tuesday 19 March 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLE NASH INVENTIONS ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET

Marco Borggreve

Sunday 17 March 7.30 pm

ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B b Op. 18 No. 6 OSVALDO GOLIJOV New work (UK première) ˘ ÁK String Quartet No. 14 in A b Op. 105 DVOR Chamber Music Season

Monday 18 March 1.00 pm

ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 71 No. 2 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’

The Nash Ensemble presents its annual selection of Nash Inventions, to include new commissions. Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 20 March 7.30 pm

FRETWORK SUSAN BICKLEY mezzo-soprano TABEA ZIMMERMANN viola ANTOINE TAMESTIT viola GEORGE BENJAMIN piano GEORGE BENJAMIN Piano Figures; Viola, Viola; Upon Silence ALEXANDER GOEHR Three sonnets and two fantasias; from Shadow of Night; Sur terre, en l’air Chamber Music Season

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Sunday 24 March 7.30 pm

VIKTORIA MULLOVA violin KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT fortepiano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2; Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’; Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 Chamber Music Season

Monday 25 March 1.00 pm

VILDE FRANG violin MICHAIL LIFITS piano MENDELSSOHN Violin Sonata in F LUTOSL ´ AWSKI Partita for violin and piano BRAHMS 3 Hungarian Dances: No. 11 in A minor, No. 17 in F # minor, No. 2 in D minor

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

SUSAN BULLOCK

Anne-Marie Le Blé

Friday 22 March 7.30 pm

SUSAN BULLOCK soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Saturday 23 March 7.30 pm

QUATUOR EBÈNE FANNY MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E b FELIX MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 FELIX MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80

VILDE FRANG

Marco Borggreve

Chamber Music Season Monday 25 March 7.30 pm Sunday 24 March 11.30 am

QUATUOR EBÈNE HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Emperor’ BARTÓK String Quartet No. 4

BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano ANTHONY SPIRI piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Tuesday 26 March 7.30 pm

STILE ANTICO MISERERE: PENITENTIAL MUSIC BY BYRD AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES BYRD Miserere mei TALLIS Salvator mundi I MORLEY Nolo mortem peccatoris TALLIS Absterge Domine BYRD Memento, homo TALLIS Purge me, O Lord WHITE Lamentations BYRD Emendemus in melius TALLIS In jejunio et fletu BYRD Attend mine humble prayer TALLIS Miserere nostri BYRD Miserere mihi SHEPPARD Haste thee O God BYRD Infelix ego Early Music and Baroque Series/William Byrd Sacred Music Series

FRANZ SCHUBERT

Copper print by H Varges after a drawing by W Rieder

Tickets £15 £20 £25 £30 now on sale

Saturday 30 March 7.30 pm

FLORILEGIUM Wednesday 27 March 7.30 pm

IMOGEN COOPER piano SCHUBERT Drei Klavierstücke D946; Piano Sonata in G D894; 16 German Dances D783; 6 Moments Musicaux D780

TELEMANN Overture and conclusion from Tafelmusik in E minor BACH Cantata BWV158 ‘Der Friede sei mit dir’; Easter Oratorio BWV249 ‘Kommt eilet und laufet’ Early Music and Baroque Series

London Pianoforte Series/Schubert: A Celebration

Sunday 31 March 11.30 am Thursday 28 March 7.30 pm

THE ENGLISH CONCERT LAURENCE CUMMINGS director, organ BACH Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV4 BIBER Missa Christi resurgentis Early Music and Baroque Series

IMANI WINDS MENDELSSOHN Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (arr. Gabler) RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin (arr. Mason Jones) ELLIOTT CARTER Woodwind Quintet BARBER Summer Music Op. 31 VALERIE COLEMAN Tzigane Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

IMANI WINDS

Chris Carroll

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These concerts (except the 7.30 pm concert on 30 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 2012. Wednesday 3 April 1.00 pm

BRITTEN SINFONIA NICHOLAS DANIEL oboe JACQUELINE SHAVE violin MIRANDA DALE violin CLARE FINNIMORE viola CAROLINE DEARNLEY cello LUCY WAKEFORD harp BRITTEN Six Metamorphoses after Ovid; Tema ‘Sacher’ BRIDGE Two Old English Songs New work by Opus 2013 winner (London première)* BRITTEN Suite for harp Op. 83 BRIDGE Sir Roger de Coverley *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia

Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 3 April 7.30 pm

TINE THING HELSETH trumpet KATHRYN STOTT piano LONDON HANDEL ORCHESTRA

Programme to include works by HINDEMITH, ENESCU, SIBELIUS and FALLA Chris Christodoulou

Chamber Music Season Monday 1 April 1.00 pm

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

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 1 April 7.30 pm

LONDON HANDEL ORCHESTRA ADRIAN BUTTERFIELD conductor HANDEL La Resurrezione HWV47 Early Music and Baroque Series TINE THING HELSETH

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Observertoriet

Sunday 7 April 11.30 am

ROLAND PÖNTINEN piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 26 in E b Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’ CHOPIN Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49 DEBUSSY Images, Series 1 FAURÉ Nocturne No. 7 in C # minor Op. 74 KREISLER/RACHMANINOV Liebesfreud Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 7 April 4.00 pm KARITA MATTILA

Lauri Eriksson

Thursday 4 April 7.30 pm

KARITA MATTILA soprano VILLE MATVEJEFF piano

THE PRINCE CONSORT JOHN MUSTO piano JOHN MUSTO Litany (for mezzo and piano); The Old Gray Couple; Book of Uncommon Prayer Song Recital Series

Songs by POULENC, DEBUSSY, SALLINEN and MARX Song Recital Series

Sunday 7 April 7.30 pm

Saturday 6 April

DOROTHEA RÖSCHMANN soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano

GEORGE BENJAMIN DAY 11.30 am

CAROLIN WIDMANN violin JACQUES ZOON flute MARINO FORMENTI piano

MAHLER Des Knaben Wunderhorn Song Recital Series/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

GEORGE BENJAMIN Sonata for violin and piano; Flight; Shadowlines CHRISTIAN MASON Heaven’s Chimes Are Slow GEORGE BENJAMIN Three Miniatures for solo violin; Three Studies 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK GEORGE BENJAMIN and JOHN GILHOOLY 7.30 pm

BIRMINGHAM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC GROUP REBECCA BOTTONE soprano HILARY SUMMERS contralto FRANCESCO ANTONIONI Ballata DAVID SAWER Rumpelstiltskin Suite (co-commissioned by BCMG and Wigmore Hall) (world première) GEORGE BENJAMIN Into the Little Hill

IAN BOSTRIDGE

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Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 11 April 7.30 pm

PEKKA KUUSISTO violin OLLI MUSTONEN piano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1 OLLI MUSTONEN Violin Sonata STRAVINSKY Duo Concertante RAVEL Violin Sonata in G Chamber Music Season

Friday 12 April 7.30 pm

SARAH CONNOLLY mezzo-soprano JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor GRAHAM JOHNSON piano FRENCH SONG SERIES: THE LURE OF BAYREUTH JANINA FIALKOWSKA

Michael Schilhansl

Monday 8 April 1.00 pm

JANINA FIALKOWSKA piano

Songs by FRANCK, DUPARC, CHABRIER, CHAUSSON and DEBUSSY Song Recital Series

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 No. 50 in A minor ‘Notre Temps’ Op. posth.; Mazurka in C# minor Op. 50 No. 3; Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 9 April 7.30 pm

LEIF OVE ANDSNES piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54 BARTÓK Suite Op. 14 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101 LISZT Pensée des morts S173 No. 4 CHOPIN Nocturne in C minor Op. 48 No. 1; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 10 April 7.30 pm

LEIF OVE ANDSNES piano Repeat of concert on 9 April

LEIF OVE ANDSNES

London Pianoforte Series

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Özgür Albayrak

Saturday 13 April 7.30 pm

GRAHAM JOHNSON GALA CONCERT Gala concert to mark the launch of Graham Johnson’s new book ‘Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs’ Song Recital Series

Sunday 14 April 11.30 am

CHRISTOPH RICHTER cello ALASDAIR BEATSON piano BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 WEBERN Drei kleine Stücke Op. 11 BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2

CAMILLA TILLING

Monday 15 April 1.00 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

CAMILLA TILLING soprano PAUL RIVINIUS piano Songs by SCHUBERT and BERG

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 15 April 7.30 pm

ALLAN CLAYTON tenor Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Tuesday 16 April 7.30 pm LE CONCERT SPIRITUEL

Sunday 14 April 7.30 pm

LE CONCERT SPIRITUEL HERVÉ NIQUET director CHARPENTIER De profundis; Stabat Mater Motets by FRÉMART, HUGARD and LE PRINCE BROSSARD Stabat Mater BOUTEILLER Requiem Early Music and Baroque Series

Satochi Aoyagi

CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN piano SCHUBERT 6 Moments Musicaux D780 BERG Piano Sonata Op. 1 SCHUBERT German Dances (a selection) SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in C minor D958 London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 17 April 7.30 pm

CUARTETO CASALS SCHUBERT Quartettsatz in C minor D703; String Quartet in E D353; String Quartet in G D887 Chamber Music Season/Schubert: A Celebration

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Sunday 21 April 11.30 am

ADAM WALKER flute MORGAN SZYMANSKI guitar FALLA From 7 canciones populares españolas: El paño moruno; Asturiana; Canción; Nana; Jota (arr. flute and guitar) BARTÓK Romanian Folk Dances Sz68 (arr. flute and guitar) PIAZZOLLA Histoire du Tango Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 21 April 4.00 pm 2009 Recipient of the Wigmore Hall/ Independent Opera Voice Fellowship

GAËLLE ARQUEZ mezzo-soprano JAMES BAILLIEU piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

NICHOLAS COLLON

Maximillian Baillie

Thursday 18 April 7.30 pm

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC NICHOLAS COLLON conductor NACHTMUSIK MOZART Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 MOZART Serenata notturna K239 HAYDN Symphony No. 8 in G ‘Le Soir’; Notturno No. 1 MOZART Symphony No. 27 in G K199 Early Music and Baroque Series

Friday 19 April 7.30 pm

HAGEN QUARTET

GAËLLE ARQUEZ

Dominique Desrue

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in B b Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133 Chamber Music Season

Sunday 21 April 7.30 pm

EGGNER TRIO Saturday 20 April 7.30 pm

HAGEN QUARTET

BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101 SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor Op. 8 BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’; String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’; String Quartet in B b Op. 18 No. 6

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Monday 22 April 1.00 pm

ELISABETH LEONSKAJA piano Programme to include: TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Sonata Op. 37 ‘Grand Sonata’

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 22 April 7.30 pm

GERALDINE MCGREEVY soprano HENK NEVEN baritone GRAHAM JOHNSON piano FRENCH SONG SERIES: NEW DIRECTIONS WITH THE NEW CENTURY Songs by DEBUSSY, CAPLET, FAURÉ, SATIE and ROUSSEL Song Recital Series

ELISABETH LEONSKAJA

Jo Schwartz

KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARD 2013 Saturday 27 April 7.30 pm Tuesday 23 April 2.00 pm

YEFIM BRONFMAN piano

SEMI-FINAL

Programme to be announced

Friday 26 April 6.00 pm

London Pianoforte Series

FINAL Sunday 28 April 11.30 am

DORIC STRING QUARTET Wednesday 24 April 7.30 pm

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in B b Op. 50 No. 1 BRITTEN String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 Chamber Music Season

Thursday 25 April 3.00 – 6.00 pm Tuesday 30 April 3.00 – 6.00 pm Thursday 2 May 3.00 – 6.00 pm

˘ ÁK String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106 DVOR HAYDN String Quartet in E b Op. 20 No. 1 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 28 April 7.30 pm

SOLOISTS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

FAURÉ CHAMBER MUSIC

MILHAUD Wind Quintet Op. 443 FRANÇAIX Wind Quintet ˚ Sextet for piano and wind MARTINU BEETHOVEN Quintet in E b for piano and wind Op. 16

Linked to the Fauré concerts on 30 April, 2 and 4 May.

Chamber Music Season

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Wednesday 1 May 7.30 pm

SARAH CONNOLLY mezzo-soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Thursday 2 May 7.30 pm

RENAUD CAPUÇON violin GÉRARD CAUSSÉ viola GAUTIER CAPUÇON cello NICHOLAS ANGELICH piano MICHEL DALBERTO piano FAURÉ Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 117; Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13; Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 Chamber Music Season

Friday 3 May 7.30 pm

MAHAN ESFAHANI harpsichord SARAH CONNOLLY

Peter Warren

Monday 29 April 1.00 pm

CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN piano SCHUBERT 3 Klavierstücke D946 SCHOENBERG Klavierstücke Op. 19 SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’

BYRD Clarifica me, Pater (I, II, III); Ut re mi fa sol la; John come kiss me now; The Fifte Pavian and The Galliarde to the Fifte Pavian; The March before the Battle; Fancie; The Firste Pavian and The Galliarde to the Firste Pavian; Callino casturame; Fantasia in A minor; Have with Yow to Walsingame BACH Ricercar a 3 and Ricercar a 6, Canon a 2 per Tonos (Ascendenteque Modulatione ascendat Gloria Regis) from The Musical Offering BWV1079 LIGETI Passacaglia ungherese; Continuum; Hungarian Rock Early Music and Baroque Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 30 April 7.30 pm

RENAUD CAPUÇON violin GÉRARD CAUSSÉ viola GAUTIER CAPUÇON cello NICHOLAS ANGELICH piano MICHEL DALBERTO piano FAURÉ Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 108; Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120; Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 109; Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15 Chamber Music Season

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Marco Borggreve

QUATUOR EBÈNE

Julien Mignot

Saturday 4 May 7.30 pm

QUATUOR EBÈNE NICHOLAS ANGELICH piano MICHEL DALBERTO piano

Sunday 5 May 7.30 pm

NIKOLAÏ LUGANSKY piano

FAURÉ String Quartet in E minor Op. 121; Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor Op. 89; Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor Op. 115 Chamber Music Season

JANÁC˘EK In the Mists SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus D935 RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No. 2 in B b minor Op. 36 London Pianoforte Series

Monday 6 May 1.00 pm Artists and programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 6 May 7.30 pm

LONDON BRIDGE ENSEMBLE

Sunday 5 May 11.30 am

LONDON BRIDGE ENSEMBLE

ISABELLE FAUST violin ALEXANDER MELNIKOV piano Sara Lipowitz

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 3 in Eb Op. 12 No. 3 BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 BARTÓK Violin Sonata No. 1 Sz75 Chamber Music Season

BRAHMS Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 60 ˘ ÁK Piano Quartet in E b Op. 87 DVOR Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Friday 10 May 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

TAKÁCS QUARTET RALPH KIRSHBAUM cello Repeat of concert on 8 May Chamber Music Season

Saturday 11 May 7.30 pm

JOSHUA REDMAN saxophone CHRISTIAN McBRIDE double bass Further details to be announced Joshua Redman Jazz Series

Sunday 12 May 11.30 am

EGGNER TRIO ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI

Serge Derossi/Naïve

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2 ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ DVOR Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Tuesday 7 May 7.30 pm

THE ENGLISH CONCERT FABIO BIONDI director, violin

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

HAYDN Divertimento in D MOZART Symphony in A K134 PUGNANI Symphony in B VIOTTI Violin Concerto No. 23 in G Early Music and Baroque Series

Wednesday 8 May 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

TAKÁCS QUARTET RALPH KIRSHBAUM cello BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C # minor Op. 131 SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D956 Chamber Music Season

Thursday 9 May 7.30 pm

ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI soprano ACCADEMIA DEGLI ASTRUSI Programme to be announced

TAKÁCS QUARTET

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Peter Smith

Monday 13 May 1.00 pm

NATALIE CLEIN cello ALASDAIR BEATSON piano Programme to be announced Friday 17 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm

YCAT Public Final Auditions 2013

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Saturday 18 May 7.30 pm

BORODIN QUARTET BRAHMS String Quartet in B b Op. 67 TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 3 in E b minor Op. 30 Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: Tchaikovsky and Brahms

Sunday 19 May 11.30 am

MOZART PIANO QUARTET MOZART Piano Quartet No. 2 in E b K493 SCHUMANN Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

NATALIE CLEIN

Sussie Ahlburg

Tuesday 14 May 7.30 pm

ELIAS STRING QUARTET JONATHAN BISS piano PURCELL Fantasias (a selection) SCHUMANN String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 TIMOTHY ANDRES New work SCHUMANN Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47 Chamber Music Season/Jonathan Biss – Schumann: Under the Influence

Wednesday 15 May 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF violin ANTJE WEITHAAS violin Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season/Christian Tetzlaff: Artist in Residence

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Josep Molina

Tuesday 21 May 7.30 pm

JULIANE BANSE soprano MARTIN HELMCHEN piano WOLF Begegnung; Nimmersatte Liebe; Lied vom Winde; Nixe Binsefuss; Im Frühling; Er ist’s SCHUBERT Geheimnis; An Mignon; Mignons Gesang ‘Kennst du das Land’; From Gesänge aus ‘Wilhelm Meister’: Heiss mich nicht reden; So lasst mich scheinen; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt SCHUBERT Sehnsucht; Der Einsame; Der König in Thule; Auf dem See; Bei dir allein! WOLF 4 Mignon Lieder Song Recital Series

Wednesday 22 May 7.30 pm

JONATHAN BISS piano JULIANE BANSE

Susi Knoll

Sunday 19 May 7.30 pm

SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke Op. 12, interspersed with excerpts from JANÁC˘EK On an overgrown path BERG Piano Sonata Op. 1 SCHUMANN Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6

THOMAS DEMENGA cello

London Pianoforte Series/Jonathan Biss – Schumann: Under the Influence

BACH Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008 THOMAS LARCHER Sonata for cello BACH Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 THOMAS DEMENGA Aus den Fugen

Friday 24 May 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season/Thomas Demenga: ‘Building on Bach’

BASEL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ANGELA HEWITT piano Programme to be announced

Monday 20 May 1.00 pm

Chamber Music Season

KALICHSTEIN/LAREDO/ROBINSON TRIO Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 20 May 7.30 pm

CLASSICAL OPERA IAN PAGE conductor TALES FROM OVID DITTERSDORF Symphony in F ‘The Rescue of Andromeda by Perseus’ GLUCK Scene from Orfeo ed Euridice HAYDN Scene from Philemon und Baucis MOZART Scene from Apollo et Hyacinthus K38 Early Music and Baroque Series

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Fred Collins

Saturday 25 May 7.30 pm

Monday 27 May 7.30 pm

PACIFICA QUARTET

ADAM WALKER flute JAMES BAILLIEU piano

HAYDN String Quartet in B b Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ BARTÓK String Quartet No. 6 RAVEL String Quartet in F

Programme to include: SCHUBERT Introduction and Variations on ‘Trock’ne Blumen’ from Die schöne Müllerin D802 ˚ Flute Sonata MARTINU POULENC Sonata for flute and piano

Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 28 May 7.30 pm

HAGEN QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2; String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4; String Quartet in C # minor Op. 131 Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 29 May 7.30 pm

HAGEN QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5; String Quartet in E b Op. 127 PACIFICA QUARTET

Anthony Parmelee

Chamber Music Season

Sunday 26 May 11.30 am

PACIFICA QUARTET BOCCHERINI String Quartet No. 2 SMETANA String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 26 May 4.00 pm

GEORG NIGL baritone GÉRARD WYSS piano WOLF Mörike Lieder (a selection) Song Recital Series

Monday 27 May 1.00 pm

PACIFICA QUARTET Programme to be announced

ADAM WALKER

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Inga Lisa Middleton

Sunday 2 June 11.30 am

FITZWILLIAM QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135 SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 9 in E b Op. 117 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 2 June 7.30 pm

RICHARD GOODE piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110; 11 Bagatelles Op. 119; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 London Pianoforte Series

FITZWILLIAM QUARTET

Matthew Redding

Thursday 30 May 7.30 pm

STILE ANTICO FRETWORK O SACRED BANQUET – WILLIAM BYRD AND THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI

Monday 3 June 1.00 pm

WERNER GÜRA tenor CHRISTOPH BERNER piano Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

BYRD Mass for Four Parts; ‘In nomine’ settings for viols; Corpus Christi Propers and five Eucharistic motets from the Gradualia volumes Early Music and Baroque Series/William Byrd Sacred Music Series Tickets £15 £20 £25 £30 now on sale

Friday 31 May 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPHE ROUSSET harpsichord Programme to include works by DUPHLY, FORQUERAY, BALBASTRE, RAMEAU and ROYER Early Music and Baroque Series

Saturday 1 June 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone JULIUS DRAKE piano EISLER The Hollywood Songbook RICHARD GOODE

Song Recital Series/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

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Sasha Gusov

Tuesday 4 June 7.30 pm

Saturday 8 June 7.30 pm

HEATH QUARTET

AKADEMIE FÜR ALTE MUSIK BERLIN

HAYDN String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 BERG String Quartet Op. 3 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ Chamber Music Season WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

CORELLI Concerto Grosso in D Op. 6 No. 4 VIVALDI Concerto in F for 2 horns and strings RV538 PLATTI Concerto Grosso in G minor (after Corelli Op. 5) BABELL Concerto for recorder in E minor (after Corelli Op. 5) PLATTI/V. LUKS Concerto Grosso No. 4 in F (after Corelli Op. 5) CORELLI Sonata in A Op. 5 No. 6 GEMINIANI Concerto Grosso in D minor (after Corelli’s ‘La Follia’ Op. 5 No. 12) Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday 9 June 11.30 am

AFIARA STRING QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in F Op. 74 No. 2 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

AFIARA STRING QUARTET

Rory Earnshaw

Wednesday 5 June 7.30 pm

LOUIS LORTIE piano Programme to be announced London Pianoforte Series

Friday 7 June 7.30 pm

CAROLIN WIDMANN violin ALEXANDER LONQUICH piano SCHUBERT Violin Sonata (Duo) in A D574 POULENC Violin Sonata IVES Violin Sonata No. 4 SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D934 Chamber Music Season

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CAROLIN WIDMANN

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Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 11 June 7.30 pm

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC LUCY CROWE soprano SOPHIE JUNKER soprano RICHARD EGARR director, harpsichord HANDEL IN ITALY HANDEL Diana cacciatrice HWV79 D. SCARLATTI Sinfonia à 3 in G minor CORELLI Concerto Grosso in F Op. 6 No. 9 A. SCARLATTI Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D minor HANDEL Clori, Tirsi e Fileno HWV96 Early Music and Baroque Series

Wednesday 12 June 7.30 pm

TRULS MØRK cello CHRISTIAN IHLE HADLAND piano Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Thursday 13 June 7.30 pm

SOLOISTS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

JORDI SAVALL

Toni Penarroya

Sunday 9 June 7.30 pm

MOZART String Quintet in B b K174 IRELAND Sextet for clarinet, horn and string quartet BRAHMS String Sextet in G Op. 36 Chamber Music Season

JORDI SAVALL viola da gamba ANDREW LAWRENCE-KING Irish harp, psaltery FRANK MCGUIRE bodhrán THE CELTIC VIOL Early Music and Baroque Series

Monday 10 June 1.00 pm

BRODSKY QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ PURCELL Chaconne BRITTEN String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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BRODSKY QUARTET

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Friday 14 June 7.30 pm

Monday 17 June 1.00 pm

FINGHIN COLLINS piano

BENJAMIN GROSVENOR piano

HAYDN Piano Sonata in E b HXVI:49 CHOPIN 3 Mazurkas from Op. 17: No. 1 in B b; No. 2 in E minor; No. 4 in A minor CHOPIN Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 BRAHMS 2 Rhapsodies Op. 79 SCHUBERT Drei Klavierstücke D946

Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

London Pianoforte Series Tuesday 18 June 7.30 pm

KOPELMAN QUARTET SCHUBERT String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 13 in B b minor Op. 138 TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 22 Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 19 June 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

RAPHAEL WALLFISCH

Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 15 June 7.30 pm

RAPHAEL WALLFISCH cello ELIZABETH WALLFISCH viola TRIO SHAHAM EREZ WALLFISCH RAPHAEL WALLFISCH BIRTHDAY CONCERT GRIEG Andante con moto SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 in B b D898 BRAHMS Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 60 Chamber Music Season

Sunday 16 June 11.30 am

PHILIP HIGHAM cello KATHRYN STOTT piano Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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BENJAMIN GROSVENOR

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Sussie Ahlburg

Sunday 23 June 7.30 pm

SUSAN TOMES piano ERIC HÖBARTH violin MOZART Violin Sonata in D K306; Violin Sonata in F K376; 6 Variations in G minor ‘Hélas, j’ai perdu mon amant’ K360; Piano Sonata in B b K570; Violin Sonata in E b K481 Chamber Music Season

Monday 24 June 1.00 pm

BELCEA QUARTET Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

PAUL MEYER

Thursday 20 June 7.30 pm

BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano MARCOS FINK bass-baritone ANTHONY SPIRI piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Saturday 22 June 7.30 pm

FRETWORK CAROLYN SAMPSON soprano Programme to include music by BYRD Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday 23 June 11.30 am

PAUL MEYER clarinet FRANÇOIS SALQUE cello ERIC LE SAGE piano Programme to be announced

François Salque

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Nicolas Tavernier

Monday 24 June 7.30 pm

Sunday 30 June 11.30 am

TILL FELLNER piano

ELIAS STRING QUARTET

HAYDN Piano Sonata in B minor HXVI:32 MOZART Piano Sonata in F K533/494 BACH 4 Preludes and Fugues from The Well-tempered Clavier Book II: in C BWV870; in C minor BWV871; in C # BWV872; in C # minor BWV873 SCHUMANN Études symphoniques Op. 13

MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E b Op. 12 BRITTEN String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94

London Pianoforte Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Monday 1 July 1.00 pm

ROYAL STRING QUARTET DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 2 July 7.30 pm

IMOGEN COOPER piano SCHUBERT Allegretto in C minor D915; Piano Sonata in C D840 ‘Reliquie’; 4 Impromptus D935; 12 Deutsche (Ländler) D790; Piano Sonata in A minor D845 London Pianoforte Series/Schubert: A Celebration

TILL FELLNER

Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 27 June 7.30 pm

MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN piano Programme to be announced London Pianoforte Series

Saturday 29 June 7.30 pm

SARAH FOX soprano Tenor to be announced

GRAHAM JOHNSON piano FRENCH SONG SERIES: THE LAST MASTERS? The Songs of MAURICE RAVEL and FRANCIS POULENC Song Recital Series

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ROYAL STRING QUARTET

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Matthias Stutte

Wednesday 3 July 7.30 pm

ATOS TRIO RACHMANINOV Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor Op. posth. BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2 BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 (revised version) Chamber Music Season

Thursday 4 July 7.30 pm

BELCEA QUARTET TILL FELLNER piano SCHUBERT String Trio in B b D581 MOZART String Quartet in B b K589 ‘Prussian’ ˘ ÁK Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 DVOR Chamber Music Season

SERGEY KHACHATRYAN

Marco Borggreve

Saturday 6 July 7.30 pm Friday 5 July 7.30 pm

IESTYN DAVIES countertenor THOMAS DUNFORD lute

SERGEY KHACHATRYAN violin LUSINE KHACHATRYAN piano Programme to be announced

Programme to include works by DOWLAND and a new work by NICO MUHLY

Chamber Music Season

Song Recital Series/Iestyn Davies Residency: ‘A Singularity of Voice’

Sunday 7 July 11.30 am

THE SCHUBERT ENSEMBLE MARTINU ˚ Piano Quartet FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

THE SCHUBERT ENSEMBLE

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John Clarke

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Sunday 7 July 7.30 pm

B’ROCK Programme to be announced Early Music and Baroque Series

Monday 8 July 1.00 pm

TAI MURRAY violin Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced NELSON GOERNER

Benjamin Ealovega

Wednesday 10 July 7.30 pm BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

NELSON GOERNER piano CHOPIN Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49 DEBUSSY Images, Series 1; L’isle joyeuse GUASTAVINO Bailecito; Tierra linda GRANADOS From Goyescas: Quejas, o La maja y el ruiseñor; El Amor y la muerte LISZT Rhapsodie espagnole S254 London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 11 July 7.30 pm

PIETER WISPELWEY cello CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN piano DEBUSSY Cello Sonata in D minor PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C Op. 119 POULENC Cello Sonata STRAVINSKY Suite italienne from Pulcinella arr. for cello & piano Chamber Music Season

ANNETTE DASCH

Manfred Baumann

Tuesday 9 July 7.30 pm

ANNETTE DASCH soprano HELMUT DEUTSCH piano Songs by MAHLER, ZEMLINSKY, SCHOENBERG and KORNGOLD Song Recital Series

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PIETER WISPELWEY

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Hang-Jin Cho

Thursday 18 July 7.30 pm

YEVGENY SUDBIN piano Programme to be announced London Pianoforte Series

Saturday 20 July 7.30 pm

SARAH CONNOLLY mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano Reciter to be announced DOMINICK ARGENTO From the Diary of Virginia Woolf Song Recital Series/Julius Drake: ‘Perspectives’

Sunday 21 July 11.30 am

CHRISTIAN POLTÉRA cello KATHRYN STOTT piano

MARINO FORMENTI

Gyula Fodor

Saturday 13 July 7.30 pm

˘ ÁK Sonatina in G Op. 100 (arr. cello and DVOR piano); Klid (Silent Woods) Op. 68 No. 5; Lasst mich allein Op. 82 No. 1 (arr. cello and piano) MENDELSSOHN Variations concertantes in D Op. 17; Song without Words Op. 109 BARBER Cello Sonata Op. 6 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

MARINO FORMENTI piano Programme to be announced London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 14 July 11.30 am

NAVARRA STRING QUARTET SCHUBERT String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Tuesday 16 July 7.30 pm

RAY CHEN violin Pianist to be announced MOZART Violin Sonata in B b K454 BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 YSAŸE Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 27 No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS Havanaise in E Op. 83; Introduction and Rondo; Capriccioso in A minor Op. 28 Chamber Music Season

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NAVARRA STRING QUARTET

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Sussie Ahlburg

Thursday 25 July 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN tenor MICHAEL GEES piano SONGS OF FAREWELL AND TRAVEL SCHUBERT Willkommen und Abschied; Die Sterne; Nachtstück; Das Zügenglöcklein; Der Wanderer (D489); Wandrers Nachtlied I; Über Wildemann; Der Geistertanz; Erlkönig; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Sehnsucht; Der Musensohn; Auf der Brücke; Im Abendrot; Rastlose Liebe; Lied des gefangenen Jagers; An die Türen will ich schleichen; Der Wanderer (D649); Der Wanderer an den Mond; Der Einsame; Der Schiffer; An Schwager Kronos; Der Doppelgänger; Nacht und Träume Song Recital Series/Schubert: A Celebration

Sunday 28 July 11.30 am

ARONOWITZ ENSEMBLE CHRISTIANE KARG

Stephen Haberland

Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Tuesday 23 July 7.30 pm

CHRISTIANE KARG soprano* WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone GRAHAM JOHNSON piano CORNELIUS Brennende Liebe; Am Meer; Komm herbei, Tod!; Verratene Liebe; Trauer und Trost LISZT Der du von dem Himmel bist; Freudvoll und leidvoll; Es muss ein Wunderbares sein; Ihr Glocken von Marling CORNELIUS 4 Rheinische Lieder; 3 Lieder Op. 4 LISZT Morgens steh’ ich auf und frage; Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome Song Recital Series/Wolfgang Holzmair Retrospective Series WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T * Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Wednesday 24 July 7.30 pm

THEATRE OF THE AYRE NICHOLAS MULROY tenor MATTHEW BROOK bass ELIZABETH KENNY lute, orpharion, theorbo JACOB HERINGMAN lute, orpharion Ayres and dialogues – songs and lute duets by JOHN DOWLAND and his contemporaries

ELIZABETH KENNY

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Benjamin Ealovega

Booking Information

BOOKING DATES BOOKING PERIOD 1 Saturday 8 September – Monday 31 December 2012 Friends Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by 25 May Mailing List Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by 8 June

Benjamin Ealovega

WIGMORE HALL BOX OFFICE 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

General Public

Tel: 020 7935 2141

By telephone/online from 21 June

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

SUBSCRIPTION BOOKINGS TICKETS

WIGMORE SERIES SUBSCRIPTION (excludes Coffee Concerts, BBC Lunchtime Concerts and other events where stated) Book 12 or more concerts at a 5% discount

BBC LUNCHTIME CONCERT SUBSCRIPTIONS

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

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

A-D BALCONY

COFFEE CONCERT SUBSCRIPTIONS

T- X

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

Q -S N-P

To qualify for a subscription, the same number of tickets need to be booked for each event. Any tickets bought in addition to a subscription series must be paid for at the full rate.

STA LLS C-M A -B CC BB AA

CC BB

PL ATFO RM

Discounts cannot be combined.

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BOOKING INFORMATION 8 September – 31 December 2012

BOX OFFICE HOURS

CAR PARKING

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

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

TELEPHONE BOOKINGS 7 days a week: 10.00 am–7.00 pm. 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.

FACILITIES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE Full details from 020 7258 8210

POSTAL BOOKINGS 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.

OXFORD CIRCUS BOND STREET

GROUP BOOKINGS Discounts of 10% are available for groups of 12 or more, subject to availability. 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. 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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This brochure is available in alternative formats. Please contact the Box Office if this would be of assistance to you. Telephone: 020 7935 2141 Email: boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary. Cover photos by Benjamin Ealovega Cover design by WLP Ltd. www.whitelabelproductions.co.uk Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson

BOOKING INFORMATION 8 September – 31 December 2012

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

SEASON PATRONS 2012/13 Aubrey Adams* American Friends of Wigmore Hall Karl Otto Bonnier* William and Alex de Winton* The Fidelio Charitable Trust David B Rockwell* Cita and Irwin Stelzer* ’Scilla and Tony Thornton* and several anonymous donors

CORPORATE PARTNERS Café de Colombia Capital International Limited (corporate matched giving) Clifford Chance LLP Complete Coffee Ltd Duncan Lawrie Private Banking Hutton Collins Partners LLP Lloyds TSB Private Banking Martin Randall Travel Ltd Oracle Capital Group Rosenblatt Recitals Rothschild

DONORS AND SPONSORS Mr Eric Abraham and Miss Natasha Abraham* Neville and Nicola Abraham Tony and Marion Allen* The Andor Charitable Trust David and Jacqueline Ansell* Mr and Mrs Stephen Arthur Arts Council England Anthony Austin David and Margaret Beaton Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez Mrs Arline Blass* Blue Door Foundation Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust David and Mary Bowerman* Alan Bradley* Nicolas and Hilary Browne-Wilkinson* Rainer and Doreen Burchett*

Gwen and Stanley Burnton* Clive Butler A bequest from the late Peter Canter Cavatina Chamber Music Trust Charities Advisory Trust City of Westminster Eric Clause* Edwin C Cohen* The John S Cohen Foundation Sonia and Harvey Cole John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Anthony Davis* Henry and Suzanne Davis The Dorset Foundation J L Drewitt Dunard Fund Annette Ellis* The Elton Family Dr C A Endersby and Prof D Cowan The Equitable Charitable Trust Mrs Susan Feakin Peter and Sonia Field John and Amy Ford S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 Friends of Wigmore Hall Jonathan Gaisman* J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust John Gilhooly John and Lauren Goldsmith* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* The Gordon Foundation Charles Green Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* The Hargreaves and Ball Trust André and Rosalie Hoffmann Gay Huey Evans* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Simone Hyman* 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* Maryly La Follette* Su Lesser and Neil Kaplan* Dame Felicity Lott*

The Wigmore Hall Trust, registered charity number 1024838

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Simon and Pamela Majaro Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Milton Damerel Trust The Monument Trust Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Amyas and Louise Morse* Valerie O’Connor and Jeannette McIntosh A bequest from the late Richard Oake The Geoffrey Parsons Memorial Trust Lionel and Lynn Persey* The Piano Fund Dr Clive Potter* Oliver Prenn Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Rayne Foundation Charles Rose* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, Hon. RCM* Ruth Rothbarth* The Rubinstein Circle The Sampimon Trust The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Victoria Sharp* Martin and Elise Smith* Sound Connections John Stephens OBE, Hon. FTCL* Alisa and Joshua Swidler* The Tertis Foundation Allen Thomas and Jane Simpson* Tower Hamlets Arts Music and Education Service John and Ann Tusa* Marina Vaizey* Kathleen Verelst* Robin Vousden* Gerry Wakelin Marie-Luise Waldeck Michael and Rosemary Warburg David and Frances Waters* Anne and David Weizmann* Mrs Mary Weston The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Philip and Emeline Winston The Wolfson Foundation Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Simon Yates and Kevin Roon* The Zochonis Charitable Trust and several anonymous supporters * also Rubinstein Circle members

Anthony Marwood violin Aleksandar Madz˘ar piano Brahms Violin Sonatas No. 1 in G major Op. 78 No. 2 in A major Op. 100 No. 3 in D minor Op. 108

Elias String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in E flat Op. 64 No. 6 Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1

Miah Persson soprano Roger Vignoles piano Songs by Schubert, Grieg & Sibelius (Available from June 2012)

JACK Quartet Ligeti String Quartet No. 2 Matthias Pintscher Study IV for Treatise on the Veil Cage String Quartet in Four Parts Xenakis Tetras (Available from June 2012)

Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano Donald Sulzen piano Songs by Respighi, Tosti, Ciléa, Hahn & Refice (Available from September 2012)

CDs Priced £9.99 available from www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/live, 020 7935 2141 and stores nationwide

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Director: John Gilhooly 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141