Wigmore Hall 2015/16 Season brochure

Wigmore Series

2015--2016 September 2015--July 2016

Europe’s leading venue for Chamber Music, Early Music and Song

Simon Jay Price

Welcome

Iestyn Davies invariably sets creative sparks flying. His second recital album for Wigmore Hall Live won Gramophone’s coveted Recital Award in 2014, recognising the British countertenor’s captivating artistry and star status. He opens Wigmore Hall’s season in the company of The English Concert, with a programme that invites listeners on a journey into a world of rare and fleeting beauty, fortified with the dramatic energy of arias written by Handel.

Since its foundation in 1945, the Borodin Quartet has cultivated the highest qualities of artistic expression and technical command. The present group’s collective understanding of Shostakovich’s quartets is informed by the members’ total immersion in the music and the great legacy of their predecessors’ close work with the composer. Beethoven’s string quartets have likewise nourished the Borodins’ musical soul for seventy years. The ensemble joins us throughout the season.

Benjamin Ealovega

Béla Bartók’s creative mind was open to an extraordinary range of cultural influences and generated a torrent of fresh and lasting ideas. The Hungarian composer’s chamber music opens doors into his most personal nature, expressed in intimate fashion in his six string quartets and works such as the violin sonatas and the sonata for two pianos and percussion. The Bartók Chamber Music series this season celebrates his powerful art, which was championed at Wigmore Hall during his lifetime.

In performance Jean-Guihen Queyras fully embodies the works in his broad repertoire, absorbing every nuance and shade of meaning and allowing them to strike vital sparks in heart and soul. The French cellist’s captivating musicianship and compelling expressive integrity will be at the forefront of his season as Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence.

Schubert’s songs belong to the stock of mankind’s highest achievements, potent examples of the best in human creation and a vast reserve of solace and joy for performers and listeners alike. This season and next we present the chance to hear the complete songs of Schubert performed by truly outstanding artists. Every recital in the Hall’s series will unfold in chronological order, moving from little-known early pieces to sublime late masterworks and exploring their infinite universe of musical and poetic expression. We are delighted to be working on this great project with the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Hohenems.

Sweeping historical change coincided with Magdalena Kožená’s formative years. The Czech mezzo-soprano was a student in 1989 when her homeland broke free from Soviet control to regain its independence. Within a decade, she had established a glittering international career, won critical plaudits for her profound musicianship and beguiling artistry, and secured an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Tickets for our Celebrating Magdalena Kožená series, with Sir Simon Rattle and Mitsuko Uchida among the singer’s musical partners, are guaranteed to be some of this season’s hottest properties.

We celebrate the imminent ninetieth birthday of one of Austria’s greatest living composers with a day devoted to the often serene and elegiac work of Friedrich Cerha. The Viennese musician made his mark in the late 1950s as co-founder with Kurt Schwertsik of the pioneering new music ensemble ‘die reihe’. Our Friedrich Cerha Day presents a major retrospective of the composer’s chamber works performed by close colleagues and musicians steeped in his multi-faceted art.

Following the colossal success of its first season, our Henry Purcell: A Retrospective continues with an enhanced programme of concerts. The series explores all areas of Purcell’s inspired output, from his music for intimate royal chambers and chapels to works conceived for Westminster Abbey, the king’s court and the London stage. Once again the stellar list of artists reads like a Who’s Who of Purcell performance, comprising everyone from Trevor Pinnock, Andreas Scholl and Iestyn Davies to Vox Luminis, The Sixteen and Harry Christophers.

The Mozart Odyssey, launched in September 2014, continues with seven further concerts this season, each exploring the composer’s chamber music. Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien conclude their beguiling survey of Mozart’s works for violin and piano, while Francesco Piemontesi begins his complete cycle of the piano sonatas. Michael Collins and the City of London Sinfonia, meanwhile, celebrate Mozart’s birthday on 27 January.

News about Stile Antico spread like wildfire across the Early Music grapevine following the group’s success at the 2005 Early Music Network Young Artists’ Competition. The conductorless vocal ensemble’s uncanny sense of the contemplative power of sacred polyphony from the Renaissance has drawn an international following, and we celebrate the group’s tenth anniversary with a programme of sublime Tudor motets and the world première of Nico Muhly’s Gentle sleep.

Stephen Kovacevich moved to London in his late teens to study with the legendary Dame Myra Hess, and soon established his reputation as an interpreter of tremendous integrity and vision. He joins us to mark his 75th birthday, crowning his recital with Schubert’s inexhaustible final sonata and joining forces with Martha Argerich in two beguiling works for piano duo.

For more than 35 years Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have set benchmark standards in the performance of early and contemporary music for vocal ensemble, acclaimed by critics and recognised with a dazzling array of international awards and honours. Their first residency at the Hall embraces two programmes of Purcell’s royal welcome songs and in-depth explorations of Monteverdi’s sublime sacred music.

Christian Gerhaher is one of the great song recitalists of our time, always ready to pursue expressive and vocal risks in the search for deeper artistic meaning.

He returns this season for five appearances, complete with a masterclass and with song cycles by Beethoven and Schoenberg and other landmarks of the First and Second Viennese Schools.

Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians sees the Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Ensemble in Residence, and some favourite guest singers explore fine repertoire stretching from Rossini and Donizetti to Verdi and Puccini.

They also carry the story into the twentieth century with haunting vocal pieces

by Respighi and Berio’s imaginative arrangements of Folk Songs (preceded here by some authentic folk music). The Italian strand is complemented with works by Mozart and Mendelssohn, with a special emphasis on the richly coloured medium of the string quintet.

Lyric mezzo-soprano Elīna Garancˇa stormed to international prominence in 2003 at the Salzburg Festival. In demand at the world’s leading opera houses, she has also flourished as a song recitalist and forged a strong artistic partnership with Malcolm Martineau. Their recital at the Hall will span a vast range of emotions, moods and expressive contrasts, opening doors into the inner worlds of three exceptional song composers.

Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI have probably done more than any other ensemble to show the correspondences and cross-fertilisation that occurred when musicians absorbed new fashions from abroad and exported their knowledge to other lands. They join us for a programme which shows how simple dance forms were transformed into works of irresistible elegance for the ears of Renaissance Europe’s powerbrokers and leaders.

The great jazz pianist, composer and arranger Brad Mehldau returns to the Hall in December to perform a selection of his own material, including a première of a specially commissioned work.

There is so much more I could mention but space does not allow me, so please enjoy reading the brochure yourself. I look forward to welcoming you to Wigmore Hall during the year ahead.

John Gilhooly Director

SERIES AT A GLANCE SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2015

See pages 4 – 115 for full details of these concerts and page 119 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for…

Chamber Music Season

Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation Page 4–5 International Song Competition 7 Iestyn Davies and The English Concert Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle 8, 9, 100 Bartók Chamber Music 10–11, 53, 79, 93, 103, 105, 108 Jean-Guihen Queyras Artist in Residence 12, 69, 92, 104 Schubert: 13, 14–15, 17, 26, 33, 37, 50, 55, 79, 84, 86, 90, The Complete Songs 97, 99, 104, 106, 108, 109, 112, 115 Eggner Trio: Haydn and Dvor˘ák 13, 107 Michael Collins Series 16, 83, 106 Introducing 17, 57, 78, 79, 92, 93, James Baillieu 95, 98, 99, 107, 114 Celebrating Magdalena Kožená 20–21, 83, 91, 113 Llyˆr Williams Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle 19, 80, 99 Friedrich Cerha Day 24 Henry Purcell: 28–29, 33, 36, 51, 86, 88, A Retrospective 90, 91, 108, 111 Nash Ensemble: 30–31, 40, 62, Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians 80, 85, 90, 94 Thomas Hampson 32 Bertrand Chamayou 34 Vox Luminis 36 The Mozart Odyssey 38–39, 83, 100, 109, 114 Jan Lisiecki 37 Stephen Kovacevich 75th Birthday Concert 41 with Martha Argerich 42, 90, 108 The Sixteen Residency Igor Levit Perspectives 44, 102, 112 Julian Anderson Composer in Residence 43 Christian Gerhaher Singer in Residence 46, 84, 85, 95 Gil Shaham 45 Christiane Karg & Basel Chamber Orchestra 49 Christian Zacharias 48 Nikolaj Znaider 53 Stile Antico 10th Anniversary 54 ATOS Trio: Beethoven Piano Trios 57, 91 BCMG and Roderick Williams 58 Elīna Garancˇa Debut 61 Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI 63 La Nuova Musica 64 Waltraud Meier 65 Patricia Petibon Debut 65 Brad Mehldau 66 EXAUDI 67 L’Arpeggiata 68 Ensemble Correspondances 69 Contemporary Music Series 72–73

Tue 15 Sep

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Sat 19 Dec Tue 22 Dec

Sat 10 Oct

Borodin Quartet Page 8 Borodin Quartet 9 James Ehnes/Andrew Armstrong 11 Emmanuel Pahud/Jean-Guihen Queyras 12 Eric Le Sage Eggner Trio 13 Cuarteto Casals 13 Michael Collins/Michael McHale 16 IMS Prussia Cove 18 Belcea Quartet 22 Vadim Repin/Andrei Korobeinikov 22 Steven Isserlis/Ian Bostridge 23 Julius Drake Škampa Quartet 23 Friedrich Cerha Day 24

Sun 11 Oct

Belcea Quartet/Valentin Erben

25

Thu 15 Oct

Razumovsky Ensemble

27

Mon 9 Nov

Fri 16 Oct

Michelangelo Quartet

27

Mon 16 Nov

Sat 17 Oct

Nash Ensemble/Renata Pokupic´

31

Mon 23 Nov

Sun 18 Oct

Escher String Quartet

32

Mon 30 Nov

Tue 20 Oct

The Endellion String Quartet

33

Mon 7 Dec

Sat 24 Oct

Scottish Ensemble/Maxim Rysanov

35

Mon 14 Dec

Mon 26 Oct

Ehnes Quartet

36

Tue 27 Oct

Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien

39

Fri 6 Nov

Arditti Quartet

43

Sat 7 Nov

Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth

43

Mon 9 Nov

Gil Shaham/Sejong Soloists

45

Sat 14 Nov

Alisa Weilerstein/Inon Barnatan

47

Sun 15 Nov

Basel Chamber Orchestra Christiane Karg

49

Tue 17 Nov

Emerson String Quartet

50

Sun 4 Oct

Sun 22 Nov

Elisabeth Leonskaja 70th Birthday Concert

52

Sun 11 Oct

Mon 23 Nov

quartet-lab

52

Sun 25 Oct

Thu 26 Nov

Nikolaj Znaider/Robert Kulek

53

Sun 1 Nov

Sun 29 Nov

The Schubert Ensemble

55

Sun 8 Nov

Wed 2 Dec

Britten Sinfonia

56

Sun 15 Nov

Wed 2 Dec

ATOS Trio

57

Sun 22 Nov

Sat 5 Dec

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 58 Roderick Williams

Sun 29 Nov

Sun 6 Dec

Quatuor Ebène/Mitsuko Uchida

59

Sun 13 Dec

Tue 8 Dec

Christian Poltéra/Kathryn Stott

60

Sun 20 Dec

Sat 12 Dec

Nash Ensemble/John Mark Ainsley

62

Sun 27 Dec

Thu 17 Sep Fri 18 Sep Sat 19 Sep Wed 23 Sep Fri 25 Sep Sat 26 Sep Thu 1 Oct Sun 4 Oct Tue 6 Oct Wed 7 Oct Thu 8 Oct

Wed 30 Dec

Belcea Quartet/Till Fellner Page 65 Isabelle Faust/Jean-Guihen Queyras 69 Alexander Melnikov Modigliani Quartet/Beatrice Rana 71

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Mon 14 Sep Mon 21 Sep Mon 28 Sep Mon 5 Oct Mon 12 Oct Mon 19 Oct Mon 26 Oct Mon 2 Nov

Anna Caterina Antonacci/Donald Sulzen Tine Thing Helseth/Kathryn Stott Anthony Marwood/Lawrence Power Simon Crawford-Phillips Sandrine Piau/Susan Manoff Sol Gabetta/Polina Leschenko Alexei Ogrintchouk/Boris Brovtsyn Maxim Rysanov/Kristina Blaumane Elizabeth Watts/Julius Drake Daniel Hope/Sabine Meyer Alexandre Tharaud Barnabás Kelemen Emerson String Quartet Narek Hakhnazaryan/Pavel Kolesnikov Artemis Quartet Adrian Brendel/Aleksandar Madžar Rachel Podger/Marcin S´wia¸tkiewicz David Miller

6 9 16 22 25 32 35 40 45 48 52 56 59 62

Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Sun 13 Sep Sun 20 Sep Sun 27 Sep

Sun 18 Oct

Sun 6 Dec

Kelemen Quartet/Vilde Frang Nicolas Altstaedt Tamsin Waley-Cohen/Huw Watkins Pavel Haas Quartet Vertavo String Quartet Carducci String Quartet Steven Isserlis/Richard Egarr Clio Gould/Jonathan Morton Nash Ensemble Eeden Quartet Trio Gaspard Nicolas Altstaedt Wolfgang Redik/Christoph Berner Aquinas Piano Trio Hugo Wolf Quartett Doric String Quartet Michael Barenboim/Denis Kozhukhin

6 9 16 19 25 27 35 40 45 48 51 55 59 62 67 70

Song Recital Series Sun 6 Sep to Thu 10 Sep Sun 13 Sep Tue 22 Sep Thu 24 Sep Sun 27 Sep Wed 30 Sep Fri 2 Oct Mon 5 Oct Wed 7 Oct Wed 14 Oct Sat 17 Oct Mon 19 Oct Thu 29 Oct Sat 31 Oct Wed 4 Nov Sat 7 Nov Sun 8 Nov Sun 8 Nov Sun 15 Nov Wed 18 Nov Sat 28 Nov Fri 4 Dec Sat 5 Dec Thu 10 Dec Fri 11 Dec Sat 12 Dec Tue 15 Dec Wed 16 Dec Thu 31 Dec

Early Music and Baroque Series

Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation Page 4–5 International Song Competition Alice Coote/Julius Drake 6 Florian Boesch/Graham Johnson 14 Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau 13 Henk Neven/James Baillieu 17 Mark Padmore/Kristian Bezuidenhout 18 Magdalena Kožená/Mitsuko Uchida 21 Magdalena Kožená/Mitsuko Uchida 21 Ian Bostridge/Steven Isserlis 23 Julius Drake Sarah Connolly/Graham Johnson 26 Renata Pokupic´/Nash Ensemble 31 Thomas Hampson/Wolfram Rieger 32 Christoph Prégardien 37 Christoph Schnackertz Lucy Crowe/Malcolm Martineau 37 Samling Artists/Joan Rodgers 40 Malcolm Martineau Claire Booth/Nash Ensemble 43 Tara Erraught/James Baillieu 45 Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 46 Christiane Karg 49 Basel Chamber Orchestra Christianne Stotijn/Joseph Breinl 50 Christiane Karg/Graham Johnson 55 Iestyn Davies/Allan Clayton 57 James Baillieu Roderick Williams/Birmingham 58 Contemporary Music Group I Fagiolini/Anna Crookes/Matthew Long 60 Elīna Garancˇa/Malcolm Martineau 61 John Mark Ainsley/Nash Ensemble 62 Waltraud Meier/Joseph Breinl 65 Patricia Petibon/Susan Manoff 65 The Cardinall’s Musick 71

London Pianoforte Series Wed 16 Sep Mon 28 Sep Sat 3 Oct Fri 9 Oct Mon 12 Oct Fri 23 Oct Fri 30 Oct Mon 2 Nov Thu 5 Nov Thu 12 Nov Mon 16 Nov Sun 22 Nov Tue 24 Nov Thu 3 Dec Wed 9 Dec Sun 27 Dec Tue 29 Dec

Behzod Abduraimov Nelson Goerner Llyˆr Williams Robert Levin GrauSchumacher Piano Duo Bertrand Chamayou Jan Lisiecki Stephen Kovacevich/Martha Argerich Igor Levit Richard Goode Christian Zacharias Elisabeth Leonskaja 70th Birthday Concert Cédric Tiberghien Andreas Haefliger Jonathan Biss Philippe Cassard Christian Blackshaw

8 18 19 23 26 34 37 41 44 47 48 52 53 57 60 70 71

Mon 4 Jan 2016

Sat 12 Sep

Iestyn Davies/The English Concert Page 7 Harry Bicket

Tue 13 Oct

Trevor Pinnock & Friends

29

Wed 21 Oct

The King’s Consort

33

Sun 25 Oct

Vox Luminis

36

Tue 3 Nov

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers

42

Fri 13 Nov

Franco Fagioli/Riccardo Minasi

47

Thu 19 Nov

Iestyn Davies/Andreas Scholl The English Concert/Harry Bicket

51

Wed 25 Nov

Florilegium/Roderick Williams

53

Fri 27 Nov

Stile Antico

54

Mon 30 Nov

Bejun Mehta/La Nuova Musica David Bates

56

Sun 13 Dec

Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall

63

Mon 14 Dec

La Nuova Musica

64

Sun 20 Dec

EXAUDI/James Weeks

67

Mon 21 Dec

L’Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar Núria Rial

68

Wed 23 Dec

Ensemble Correspondances Sébastien Daucé

69

Mon 28 Dec

Max Emanuel Cencic/Armonia Atenea George Petrou/Theodoros Kitsos

70

Wed 20 Jan 2016 Wed 3 Feb 2016 Sat 13 Feb 2016 Fri 19 Feb 2016 Mon 22 Feb 2016 Wed 24 Feb 2016 Sat 27 Feb 2016 Thu 17 Mar 2016 Thu 7 Apr 2016 Wed 13 Apr 2016 Wed 20 Apr 2016 Wed 27 Apr 2016 Thu 12 May 2016

Sat 21 May 2016 Thu 2 Jun 2016 Wed 22 Jun 2016 Fri 15 Jul 2016

Christian Tetzlaff Page 78 Tanja Tetzlaff Britten Sinfonia 81 Takács Quartet 84 Aleksandar Madžar Scharoun Ensemble 86 Carolin Widmann 87 Ensemble intercontemporain 88 Britten Sinfonia 88 Apartment House 89 Ensemble Modern 93 Kuss Quartet 97 Britten Sinfonia 98 Anssi Karttunen 100 Nicolas Hodges Rolf Hind 101 Mark Padmore 103 Pamela Helen Stephen Ryan Wigglesworth Augustin Hadelich 105 Charles Owen JACK Quartet 107 James Gilchrist/Anna Tilbrook 110 Doric String Quartet 114

Wigmore Hall Learning Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Thu 17 Dec

Brad Mehldau

66

Fri 18 Dec

Brad Mehldau

66

Sun 6 Sep Mon 7 Sep Tue 8 Sep Wed 9 Sep

Contemporary Music Series

Wed 9 Sep Thu 10 Sep

Friedrich Cerha Day: Ensemble Modern/Boulanger Trio Andreas Schablas/HK Gruber

24

Mon 12 Oct

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

26

Sat 24 Oct

Scottish Ensemble/Jonathan Morton Maxim Rysanov

35

Fri 6 Nov

Arditti Quartet

43

Sat 10 Oct

Sat 7 Nov

Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth

43

Tue 13 Oct

Mon 9 Nov

Gil Shaham/Sejong Soloists

45

Fri 27 Nov

Stile Antico

54

Wed 2 Dec

Britten Sinfonia

56

Thu 3 Dec

Andreas Haefliger

57

Fri 4 Dec

Iestyn Davies/Allan Clayton James Baillieu

57

Sat 5 Dec

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Dominic Muldowney Roderick Williams

58

Thu 10 Dec

I Fagiolini/Anna Crookes Matthew Long

60

Sat 19 Dec

Belcea Quartet/Till Fellner

65

Sun 20 Dec

EXAUDI/James Weeks

67

Tue 22 Dec

Isabelle Faust/Jean-Guihen Queyras Alexander Melnikov

69

Sat 10 Oct

Fri 18 Sep Sat 19 Sep Sat 26 Sep Sat 3 Oct Thu 8 Oct

Wed 21 Oct Thu 29 Oct Fri 30 Oct Sat 7 Nov Tue 10 Nov Sat 14 Nov Tue 17 Nov Fri 20 Nov Sat 21 Nov Fri 27 Nov Wed 2 Dec Fri 4 Dec

Aspects of Schubert 5 Introduction to Song 5 Graham Johnson OBE and 5 Sir Ralph Kohn Interview Masterclass with Angelika 5 Kirchschlager and Thomas Quasthoff Come and Sing in German 5, 74 Song Study Events 5 Pre-Concert Talk 11 Open House Day 74 Family Day: Wallace Collection 74 Family Concert: Stile Antico 19, 74 Schools Concert: Stile Antico 74 Artists in Conversation 24 Pre-Concert Talk 29 Wigmore Study Group commences 33 Musical Portraits Half Term Course 75 Musical Portraits Half Term Course 75 Artists in Conversation 43 Voiceworks Alumni Concert 75 Family Concert and Workshop 75 András Keller Masterclass 50 Schools Concert: Crazy Creatures 76 Family Concert: Crazy Creatures 51,76 Artists in Conversation 54 Pre-Concert Talk 56 Relaxed Concert with 76 Members of Aurora Orchestra

Fri 11 Dec

Early Years: A Winter Dream

77

Sat 12 Dec

Early Years: A Winter Dream

77

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Wigmore Hall/ 2015 Kohn Foundation

International

Song

Competition

Kindly supported by the Kohn Foundation since 1997

JURY John Gilhooly OBE Chair Iain Burnside Wolfgang Holzmair Graham Johnson OBE Angelika Kirchschlager Sir Ralph Kohn non-voting Christoph PrĂŠgardien Thomas Quasthoff Maxine Robertson Asadour Santourian David Stern Ailish Tynan

This Competition recognises the song tradition as a whole and requires contestants to perform in at least three languages. At the same time it honours the Lied’s place at the heart of the song repertoire and celebrates the Shakespearean stature of Schubert in the genre.

Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

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Competition

Related Events

Sunday 6 September 11.00 am and 2.30 pm

Sunday 6 September 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm

Preliminary Stage – Day 1

Aspects of Schubert

Masterclass with Angelika Kirchschlager and Thomas Quasthoff

Candidates will each perform a 15-minute programme

Graham Johnson OBE, rightly regarded among the world’s greatest Schubertians and an inspiration to generations of singers and accompanists alike, discusses Schubert’s Lieder, cornerstones of the recital repertoire and a major feature of Wigmore Hall’s seasons from 2015 – 2017.

Leading artists Angelika Kirchschlager and Thomas Quasthoff pass on some of the wisdom they have acquired throughout their careers and use their vast experience as internationally acclaimed singers to provide encouragement and inspiration to eight Semi-Finalists.

£4

£8 concs £6

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Monday 7 September 6.30 pm – 8.00 pm

Wednesday 9 September 5.30 pm – 9.00 pm

Introduction to Song

Come and Sing in German

For those who ‘don’t like song’ but might be persuaded to find out more ...

Isabelle Adams leads a workshop for adults exploring a range of German music and song, including some of Schubert’s choral music.

Spend the evening getting to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.

All day £13 concs £11 Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List Subscribers

Monday 7 September 11.00 am and 2.30 pm

Wednesday 9 September 2.00 pm – 6.15 pm

Preliminary Stage – Day 2 Candidates will each perform a 15-minute programme All day £13 concs £11 Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List Subscribers

Tuesday 8 September 3.00 pm and 7.30 pm

Semi-Final 12 semi-finalists will each perform a 20-minute programme All day £15 concs £12

Please note there will be an interval from 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm. If you would like to reserve a table for dinner in the Wigmore Hall Restaurant, please contact the Box Office.

Charismatic presenter and pianist Dominic Harlan shares insights and enthusiasm for this rich musical world, complete with live examples from the Wigmore Hall stage. Delve into the words and stories which lie at the heart of French, English and German Song, learn how musical notes can paint vivid pictures, and discover why so many people are passionate about this multi-faceted art form.

£30 concs £25

Thursday 10 September 6.00 pm

Final and Prize-Giving Four singers will each give a recital of 30 minutes £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Please note there will be an interval from 8.20 pm to 9.30 pm. If you would like to reserve a table for dinner in the Wigmore Hall Restaurant, please contact the Box Office.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£12 concs £10

Thursday 10 September 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Song Study Events

Tuesday 8 September 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm BOOK FOR THE FIRST THREE STAGES AT THE SAME TIME

£18 concs £13

Graham Johnson OBE and Sir Ralph Kohn Interview Sir Ralph Kohn has sponsored the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition through his Foundation since 1997. He recently wrote his autobiography, aided and abetted by Graham Johnson OBE, and this interview offers a fascinating insight into Sir Ralph’s extraordinary career in music, science and philanthropy. £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

WHO CALLS THE TUNE?

Iain Burnside, member of the Competition Jury, pianist, accompanist and composer, talks to fellow Jury member Ailish Tynan, one of the most colourful and entertaining sopranos singing today. They will discuss the very special relationship between singer and pianist with particular reference to the classic song recital, and with illustrations from their vast repertoire.

IS SINGING AN OLYMPIC SPORT?

Iain Burnside chairs a panel including baritone Marcus Farnsworth to discuss the highs and lows of song competitions, and how they can shape a young artist’s career. £12 concs £10 (one ticket covers both sessions) Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Song Recital Series

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WIGMORE SERIES AUTUMN SEASON SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2015

Booking opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May, and to the General Public/Online on 29 May

September Opening Concert of the 2015/16 Season Saturday 12 September 7.30 pm

The English Concert Iestyn Davies countertenor See page opposite for full details Sunday 13 September 11.30 am

Kelemen Quartet Vilde Frang violin Nicolas Altstaedt cello Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Brahms String Sextet in G Op. 36 The Kelemen Quartet, founded in Budapest in 2010, made its mark as winner of the prestigious Premio Borciani International String Quartet Competition. The ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall with ‘Death and the Maiden’ and is joined by two outstanding colleagues for Brahms’s G major String Sextet, a rich, complex work highly influenced by Schubert’s chamber music.

Sunday 13 September 7.30 pm

Monday 14 September 1.00 pm

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano

Anna Caterina Antonacci Donald Sulzen piano

Strauss Songs from Vier Lieder Op. 27 Strauss Songs from Acht Gedichte aus ‘Letzte Blätter’ Wagner Wesendonck Lieder

Poulenc La voix humaine

For over a decade Alice Coote and Julius Drake have directed their mutual empathy and understanding to the interpretation of everything from Schubert and Brahms Lieder to English and American song. Their artistic partnership, cherished

by Wigmore Hall’s regular audience, flows from a shared passion for the heightened expression of poetry through music. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

soprano

Poulenc’s intense one-act opera La voix humaine, based on Jean Cocteau’s eponymous play, conveys the pain and torment of a woman rejected by her lover as we hear her side of their final phone call.

Anna Caterina Antonacci and her regular recital partner Donald Sulzen are sure to convey the work’s heart-breaking emotional power in this recital. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Song Recital Series

This concert will be approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes in duration, without an interval £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Kelemen Quartet

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Zsolt Lafferton

Alice Coote

Benjamin Ealovega

Anna Caterina Antonacci

Benjamin Ealovega

The English Concert & Iestyn Davies Opening Concert of the 2015 /16 Season

Saturday 12 September 7.30 pm

The English Concert Iestyn Davies countertenor Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Handel From Partenope: Overture; Sento amor; Ch’io parta; Furibondo spira il vento Veracini Overture No. 6 in B b Handel From Rinaldo: Cara sposa; Venti turbini Handel Pompe vane ... Dove sei from Rodelinda Porpora Sinfonia di camera in G Op. 2 No. 1 Handel From Orlando: Ah Stigie larve; Già latra Cerbero; Ma la furia; Vaghe pupille Handel Passacaglia from Radamisto Handel From Orlando: Fammi combattere; Già per la man d’Orlando ... Già l’ebro mio ciglio £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Photo of Iestyn Davies by Marco Borggreve

Iestyn Davies invariably sets creative sparks flying. His second recital album for Wigmore Hall Live won Gramophone’s coveted Recital Award in 2014, recognising the British countertenor’s captivating artistry and star status. He opens Wigmore Hall’s season in company with The English Concert. Their close partnership stands for the highest values in performance, free-flowing and generous in spirit, daring, and always ready to touch the sharp edges of emotional expression. This programme invites listeners on a journey into a world of rare and fleeting beauty, fortified with the dramatic energy of arias written by Handel.

The English Concert

Richard Haughton

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September Wednesday 16 September 7.30 pm

BORODIN QUARTET BEETHOVEN AND SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE

Behzod Abduraimov piano Schubert 4 Impromptus D935 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C# minor S244 Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition Behzod Abduraimov beguiled his Wigmore Hall audience last year with a typically daring and imaginative programme. The thrilling young Uzbek pianist’s recital includes one of the abiding landmarks of the piano literature, Musorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition, a work inspired by the fertile visual imagination of the Russian artist and architect, Viktor Hartmann. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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

London Pianoforte Series

Borodin Quartet

Keith Saunders

Since its foundation in 1945, the Borodin Quartet has cultivated the highest qualities of artistic expression and technical command. The present group’s collective understanding of Shostakovich’s quartets is informed by the members’ total immersion in the music and the great legacy of their predecessors’ close work with the composer. Beethoven’s string quartets have likewise nourished the Borodins’ musical soul for seventy years.

Tuesday 15 September 7.30 pm

Borodin Quartet 70th Anniversary Series

Borodin Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2; String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 5 in B b Op. 92 Written soon after the death of Josef Stalin, Shostakovich’s Fifth String Quartet explores complex emotions and profound reflections on the nature of melancholy. The composition, central to the Borodins’ repertoire for six decades, is prefaced here by two early Beethoven masterworks, the witty and exuberant G major String Quartet and the expansive String Quartet in C minor, both created around 1800. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series Thursday 17 September 7.30 pm Friday 22 April 2016 7.30 pm Sunday 24 April 2016 7.30 pm

Further concerts to be announced in 2016 /17 Behzod Abduraimov

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Benjamin Ealovega/Decca

September Thursday 17 September 7.30 pm

Saturday 19 September 7.30 pm

Monday 21 September 1.00 pm

Borodin Quartet 70th Anniversary Series

Emmanuel Pahud flute Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Eric Le Sage piano

Tine Thing Helseth trumpet Kathryn Stott piano

Borodin Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49; String Quartet No. 13 in Bb minor Op. 138 Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 ‘In him’, the author Mikhail Zoshchenko observed of his friend and fellow poker-player, Shostakovich, ‘there are great contradictions’. The multiple strands of the composer’s personality surface in his String Quartet No. 13, an eerie and disturbing single-movement work. Its often bleak take on the human condition is offset by the Borodin Quartet’s choice of the composer’s lyrical First String Quartet and Beethoven’s all-encompassing Op. 130. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle

Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle Friday 18 September 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk See pages 10 & 11 for full details Friday 18 September 7.30 pm

James Ehnes violin Andrew Armstrong piano

Nordheim Den Første Sommerfugl Shostakovich Regeneration; A Jealous Maiden, Sobbing Bitterly; Premonition Glazunov Albumblatt Puccini Storiella d’amore; Sole e amore; E l’uccellino; Canto d’anime; Avante Urania! Piazzolla From History of the Tango: Café 1930; Nightclub 1960 Kreisler Miniature Viennese March; Toy Soldiers March

JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE See page 12 for full details

Sunday 20 September 11.30 am

Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Huw Watkins piano Schubert Duo Sonata in A D574 Clara Schumann Drei Romanzen Op. 22 Szymanowski Sonata for violin and piano Op. 9 Tamsin Waley-Cohen’s programme spans almost a century of Romantic art, from Schubert’s Duo Sonata of 1817 to Szymanowski’s youthful Violin Sonata Op. 9. Clara Schumann created eloquent, atmospheric emotional landscapes within the concise space of her Drei Romanzen, works championed by the great virtuoso Joseph Joachim following their publication in 1855.

Following their acclaimed recital in 2013, Tine Thing Helseth and Kathryn Stott make a much-anticipated return to Wigmore Hall. The Norwegian trumpeter’s lyrical phrasing, dazzling virtuosity and adventurous repertoire have placed her among an elite group of young brass players. Her approach to programming, she explains, is driven by a desire ‘to create a blend that is interesting for an audience and displays different aspects of the trumpet’. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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

Tuesday 22 September 7.30 pm

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Florian Boesch baritone Graham Johnson piano

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

SCHUBERT: THE COMPLETE SONGS

BARTÓK CHAMBER MUSIC

See pages 14 & 15 for full details

See pages 10 & 11 for full details

Emmanuel Pahud

Josef Fischnaller/EMI Classics

Tamsin Waley-Cohen

Patrick Allen

Tine Thing Helseth

Paul Mitchell

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Bartók Béla Bartók’s creative mind was open to an extraordinary range of cultural influences and generated a torrent of fresh and lasting ideas.

The Hungarian composer’s chamber music opens doors into his most personal nature, expressed in intimate fashion in his six string quartets and works such as the violin sonatas and the sonata for two pianos and percussion. Bartók’s art, championed at Wigmore Hall during his lifetime, has the power to reveal clear truths about the nature of existence.

Chamber Music 10

Friday 18 September 6.00 pm

Tuesday 24 November 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Cédric Tiberghien piano

Music critic and writer Paul Griffiths introduces the first concert in our major Bartók series.

WORKS FOR SOLO PIANO

£4

Forthcoming Events in the Series

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Bartók Chamber Music

Sunday 10 January 2016 7.30 pm

James Ehnes violin Andrew Armstrong piano

Friday 18 September 7.30 pm

James Ehnes violin Andrew Armstrong piano

WORKS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO

Saturday 19 March 2016 7.00 pm

Bartók Rhapsody No. 1; Sonata in E minor for violin and piano BB28; Hungarian Folk Tunes from For Children (transcr. for violin and piano by J. Szigeti & Bartók); Violin Sonata No. 2 Sz. 76 Bartók’s earliest attempts at composition, set down during his school days, include a sonata for violin and piano.

James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong join forces to survey a selection of the composer’s chamber works, crowned by the fiendishly difficult second violin sonata. The Grammy Award-winning Canadian violinist also explores the folk influences at work in Bartók’s Hungarian Folk Tunes and the Rhapsody No. 1, written for Joseph Szigeti in 1928.

Alina Ibragimova violin Antoine Tamestit viola Matthew Hunt clarinet Colin Currie percussion Sam Walton percussion Cédric Tiberghien piano François-Frédéric Guy piano CHAMBER WORKS, INCLUDING SONATA FOR TWO PIANOS AND PERCUSSION

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/Bartók Chamber Music

Friday 6 May 2016 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Wednesday 11 May 2016 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Friday 13 May 2016 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group Wednesday 11 May 2016 7.30 pm Friday 13 May 2016 7.30 pm

Heath Quartet STRING QUARTETS

Tuesday 24 May 2016 7.30 pm

Cédric Tiberghien

piano

WORKS FOR SOLO PIANO

Saturday 11 June 2016 7.30 pm

Barnabás Kelemen violin José Gallardo piano VIOLIN SONATAS James Ehnes

Benjamin Ealovega

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Jean-Guihen Queyras Artist in Residence In performance Jean-Guihen Queyras fully embodies the works in his broad repertoire, absorbing every nuance and shade of meaning and allowing them to strike vital sparks in heart and soul. The French cellist’s captivating musicianship and compelling expressive integrity will be at the forefront of his season as Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence.

Forthcoming Events in the Series Saturday 12 March 2016 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Masterclass

Saturday 19 September 7.30 pm Sunday 13 March 2016 7.30 pm

Emmanuel Pahud flute Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Eric Le Sage piano Haydn Trio in G for flute, cello and piano HXV:15 Weber Trio in G minor for flute, cello and piano Op. 63 Haydn Trio in D for flute, cello and piano HXV:16 Martinu˚ Trio for flute, cello and piano Haydn, Weber and Martinu˚ invested great creative energy into their trios for flute, cello and piano.

The instrumental combination, strikingly rich if small in repertoire, has rarely been treated with such imagination and insight. Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence, Jean-Guihen Queyras, and two distinguished colleagues are set to cast revealing light on four of the genre’s masterworks. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Jean-Guihen Queyras Artist in Residence

Tuesday 22 December 7.30 pm

Isabelle Faust violin Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Alexander Melnikov piano

Photo by Marco Borggreve

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Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Alexandre Tharaud piano Tuesday 17 May 2016 7.30 pm

Lisa Batiashvili violin Antoine Tamestit viola Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Jonathan Biss piano

September

EGGNER TRIO: HAYDN AND DVORˇÁK

Eggner Trio

Mischa Nawrata

Family ties bind the Eggner Trio’s dedication to making music. The ensemble, founded in Vienna in 1997, comprises three brothers who are each active as solo performers.

Their loyal Wigmore Hall following is regularly drawn to hear interpretations that crackle with exhilarating energy. Over the next three seasons they explore the magnificent piano trios of Haydn and Dvorˇák.

Thursday 24 September 7.30 pm

Friday 25 September 7.30 pm

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Cuarteto Casals

Schubert Quell’innocente figlio; Pensa, che questo istante; Amphiaraos; Gebet während der Schlacht; Das war ich; Liebeständelei; Die drei Sänger (fragment); Lebensmelodien; Das Heimweh (D456); Der Wanderer (D489); Der Wanderer (D649); Die Vögel; Der Schiffer (D694); Im Walde (D708); Widerspruch; L’incanto degli occhi; Il traditor deluso; Il modo di prender moglie; Bei dir allein!; Irdisches Glück As part of his education at Vienna’s Stadtkonvikt, young Schubert received lessons from Antonio Salieri. The veteran court composer directed his pupil to study Italian opera, an instruction that led Schubert to set Pietro Metastasio’s ‘Quell’innocente figlio’. Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau trace the lyrical lines that connect Schubert’s early work to his mature Italian songs of 1827 and the comic Lieder ‘Bei dir allein!’ and ‘Irdisches Glück’ of 1828.

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 33 No. 3 ‘The Bird’ Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Since its foundation in 1997, Cuarteto Casals has risen to international prominence thanks to its tonal richness and devoted pursuit of expressive variety.

The quartet returns to Wigmore Hall to perform a trio of Viennese masterworks, from the magical opening and bird-calls of Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 3 to the genial warmth of Schubert’s ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Wednesday 23 September 7.30 pm

Eggner Trio Haydn Piano Trio in Bb HXV:20; Piano Trio in G HXV:25 'Gypsy Rondo' Dvorˇák Piano Trio in Bb Op. 21

Florian Boesch

Lukas Beck

Haydn’s piano trios delivered great works to a buoyant market, one supported by accomplished amateur players and aristocratic consumers. The composer, as ever, developed the genre, notably through the keyboard virtuosity present in the Piano Trio in B flat and the irresistible Hungarian melodies that give the ‘Gypsy Rondo’ its name. Dvorˇák’s lyrical Piano Trio in B flat, with its contemplative slow movement, completes the Eggner Trio’s seductive programme. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Eggner Trio: Haydn and Dvorˇák

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series Sunday 5 June 2016 7.30 pm Friday 31 March 2017 7.30 pm Friday 29 September 2017 7.30 pm Cuarteto Casals

Molina Visuals

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Schubert: Schubert’s songs belong to the stock of mankind’s highest achievements, potent examples of the best in human creation and a vast reserve of solace and joy for performers and listeners alike. Over the following two seasons Wigmore Hall presents the chance to hear the complete songs of Schubert performed by truly outstanding artists. Every recital in the Hall’s series will unfold in chronological order, moving from little-known early pieces to sublime late masterworks and exploring their infinite universe of musical and poetic expression.

We are delighted to be working on this mammoth project with the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Hohenems, with singers and pianists chosen by John Gilhooly and programmes devised by him in close collaboration with Graham Johnson, rightly regarded as one of the world’s leading Schubertians.

Tuesday 22 September 7.30 pm

Florian Boesch baritone Graham Johnson piano Schubert Lebenstraum (D1a); Der Fischer; Erster Verlust; Der Gott und die Bajadere; An Chloen; Hochzeit-Lied; In der Mitternacht; Trauer der Liebe; Die Perle; Lied des Orpheus, als er in die Hölle ging; An die Nachtigall (D497); Der Tod und das Mädchen; Täglich zu singen; Der Schiffer (D536); Memnon; Auf der Donau; Heliopolis I & II; Der Sieg; Der blinde Knabe; Totengräbers Heimweh; Das Lied im Grünen Schubert’s passion for poetry drew him to set verse by well over 100 different poets. Florian Boesch launches Wigmore Hall’s landmark Schubert: The Complete Songs series with a selection of Lieder that reflects the composer’s inspired response to words. The programme stretches from ‘Lebenstraum’, likely to have been written when Schubert was aged just 12 or 13, to such majestic Goethe settings as ‘Der Fischer’ and ‘Erster Verlust’, and the springtime radiance of ‘Das Lied im Grünen’. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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

Song Recital Series / Schubert: The Complete Songs

Portrait of Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder

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The Complete Songs Thursday 24 September 7.30 pm

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Wednesday 6 January 2016 7.30 pm

Sunday 27 September 7.30 pm

Henk Neven baritone James Baillieu piano

Christopher Maltman baritone Graham Johnson piano Monday 11 January 2016 7.30 pm

Sunday 15 May 2016 7.30 pm

Sophie Bevan soprano Graham Johnson piano Wednesday 18 May 2016 7.30 pm

Florian Boesch baritone Pianist to be announced

Wednesday 14 October 7.30 pm

Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone Wolfram Rieger piano

Friday 27 May 2016 7.00 pm

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Graham Johnson piano

Sunday 31 January 2016 7.30 pm

Miah Persson soprano Joseph Breinl piano

Simon Keenlyside baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Friday 10 June 2016 7.00 pm

Wednesday 21 October 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Tuesday 27 October 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 29 October 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Tuesday 16 February 2016 7.30 pm

Wigmore Study Group Thursday 29 October 7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Christoph Schnackertz piano Saturday 31 October 7.30 pm

Lucy Crowe soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Wednesday 18 November 7.30 pm

Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano Joseph Breinl piano Saturday 28 November 7.30 pm

Christiane Karg soprano Graham Johnson piano

Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano

Ian Bostridge tenor Graham Johnson piano

Julius Drake piano

Sunday 6 March 2016 3.00 pm

Robin Tritschler tenor Graham Johnson piano

Benjamin Appl baritone Graham Johnson piano Friday 8 April 2016 7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Michael Gees piano Sunday 17 April 2016 7.30 pm

Julian Prégardien tenor James Baillieu piano

Wednesday 15 June 2016 7.30 pm

Thursday 7 July 2016 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Lars Vogt piano Saturday 23 July 2016 7.30 pm

Roderick Williams baritone Gary Matthewman piano Further concerts to be announced for the 2016 /17 Season Painting by Caspar David Friedrich

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September

MICHAEL COLLINS SERIES

Sunday 27 September 11.30 am

Monday 28 September 1.00 pm

Pavel Haas Quartet

Anthony Marwood violin Lawrence Power viola Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Following the success of its Bohemia series last season, the Pavel Haas Quartet returns to Wigmore Hall to perform the compelling coupling of two Viennese masterworks. Schubert’s ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet, written at a time of personal despair, reflects its composer’s creative resilience against adversity, while Beethoven’s ‘Serioso’ Quartet projects and ultimately transcends tragedy and despair. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Rebecca Clarke Dumka (Duo Concertante for violin and viola with piano) Martinu˚ Three Madrigals for violin and viola Brahms Piano Trio in E b Op. 40 Three exceptional artists, seasoned chamber musicians and close friends, join forces for this lunchtime recital. Lawrence Power’s rich tone, agile technique and individual artistry have won admirers worldwide, often for his recitals and recordings with Simon Crawford-Phillips. The trio is completed by Anthony Marwood, recently praised by the Washington Post for his ‘golden tone and surefire musicianship’. £13 concs £11

Sunday 27 September 7.30 pm

Michael Collins

Benjamin Ealovega

Henk Neven baritone James Baillieu piano

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

INTRODUCING JAMES BAILLIEU Saturday 26 September 7.30 pm

See page opposite for full details

Michael Collins clarinet Michael McHale piano Howells Clarinet Sonata Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2 Debussy Première rapsodie Saint-Saëns Clarinet Sonata in E b Op. 167 Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano Few players have done more to raise their instrument’s profile than Michael Collins, who joins us at Wigmore Hall for a three-concert series this season. His consummate musicianship and artistic eloquence are directed in this recital to some of the clarinet’s finest chamber compositions, including the delicious pairing of Brahms’s amiable Clarinet Sonata in E flat and the Clarinet Sonata by Herbert Howells. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Michael Collins Series

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series Wednesday 27 January 2016 7.30 pm Saturday 28 May 2016 7.30 pm Pavel Haas Quartet

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Marco Borggreve

Lawrence Power

Jack Liebeck

Introducing James Baillieu Wigmore Hall continues to nurture outstanding song accompanists as part of its commitment to the art form’s long-term future. James Baillieu, winner of the Pianist’s Prize of the 2009 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition, has been described by the Daily Telegraph as being ‘in a class of his own’, a verdict supported time and again by the quality and insight of his performances with a host of duo partners. Introducing James Baillieu offers a season-long survey of this superb young musician’s artistry.

Sunday 27 September 7.30 pm

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Henk Neven baritone James Baillieu piano

Tuesday 5 January 2016 7.30 pm

Schubert Der Jüngling am Bache (D30); Sehnsucht (D52); Der Taucher; Klage; An den Tod; Augenlied; Frohsinn; Fahrt zum Hades; Am Strome; Ganymed; Der Goldschmiedsgesell; Erlafsee; Über allen Zauber Liebe; Des Fräuleins Liebeslauschen; Des Sängers Habe; Totengräber-Weise; Fischerweise Two exceptional artists of the younger generation travel through fourteen years of Schubert’s song-writing career, from his first setting of Schiller’s ‘Der Jüngling am Bache’ – one of the first songs Schubert ever wrote – to the delightful, strikingly inventive ‘Fischerweise’ of 1826. Along the way Henk Neven and James Baillieu survey the mythical landscapes of Goethe’s ‘Ganymed’ and Mayrhofer’s ‘Fahrt zum Hades’. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Song Recital Series/ Schubert: The Complete Songs/ Introducing James Baillieu

with

Heath Quartet

Sunday 10 January 2016 3.00 pm with

Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano

Sunday 13 March 2016 3.00 pm with

Sarah-Jane Brandon soprano

Sunday 20 March 2016 3.00 pm with

Jonathan McGovern baritone

Tuesday 29 March 2016 7.30 pm with

Ailish Tynan soprano Adam Walker flute Alasdair Tait cello

Sunday 10 April 2016 3.00 pm with

Johnny Herford baritone

Sunday 17 April 2016 7.30 pm with

Julian Prégardien tenor

Tuesday 31 May 2016 7.30 pm

Friday 4 December 7.30 pm with

Iestyn Davies countertenor Allan Clayton tenor

Wigmore Hall Anniversary Gala Concert Monday 18 July 2016 7.30 pm with

Photo by Kaupo Kikkas

Ailish Tynan soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Robin Tritschler tenor Benjamin Appl baritone 17

September/October Monday 28 September 7.30 pm

Wednesday 30 September 7.30 pm

Thursday 1 October 7.30 pm

Nelson Goerner piano

Mark Padmore tenor Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano

IMS Prussia Cove

Handel Chaconne in G HWV435 Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Chopin Ballade No. 3 in Ab Op. 47; Nocturne in F minor Op. 55 No. 1; Nocturne in Eb Op. 55 No. 2; Scherzo No. 3 in C# minor Op. 39 Skryabin Deux poèmes Op. 32; Piano Sonata No. 5 in F# Op. 53 Since making his debut as a prodigiously talented youngster thirty-five years ago, Nelson Goerner has developed to become one of the most gifted all-round pianists of his generation. The Argentine artist’s tonal richness and expressive invention are sure to reveal fresh perspectives on the works in this programme, complete with Schumann’s monumental Fantasie in C and Chopin’s ravishing Ballade in A flat. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Haydn She never told her love; The Spirit’s Song; Antwort auf die Frage eines Mädchens Mozart Das Veilchen; Abendempfindung Beethoven Adelaide Schubert Viola Beethoven Mailied; Neue Liebe, neues Leben; Aus Goethes Faust: Es war einmal ein König; Selbstgespräch; Resignation; Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel Schubert An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Am Fenster; Im Freien Radical developments in German poetry, especially those created by Goethe’s boundless imagination, soon found expression in song and attracted great champions in the form of Beethoven and Schubert.

Mark Padmore and Kristian Bezuidenhout recreate the soundworld and spirit of the age in their recital, exploring the sensibility of Lieder inspired by the poetry of powerful emotions, individual psychological states, dramatic irony and wit.

Erich Höbarth violin Maia Cabeza violin Jonian Ilias Kadesha violin Thomas Riebl viola Andrea Burger viola Chiara Enderle cello Vashti Hunter cello Susan Tomes piano Mozart Piano Trio in Bb K502 Brahms String Quintet in F Op. 88 Schubert String Trio in Bb D471 Dvorˇák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 This year’s annual IMS Prussia Cove autumn tour brings together Susan Tomes and Erich Höbarth with young musicians who have progressed through the IMS seminars. Founded over 40 years ago by the great Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh, IMS is now under the artistic directorship of cellist Steven Isserlis and continues to nurture outstanding performers of chamber music. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Nelson Goerner

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Jean-Baptiste Millot

Mark Padmore

Marco Borggreve

Susan Tomes

Robert Philip

October Friday 2 October 7.30 pm Repeated Monday 5 October 7.30 pm

Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano Mitsuko Uchida piano CELEBRATING MAGDALENA KOZˇENÁ

LLYˆR WILLIAMS BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATA CYCLE

See pages 20 & 21 for full details Saturday 3 October 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Stile Antico FAMILY CONCERT For ages 5 plus

Sunday 4 October 11.30 am

Vertavo String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 103 (unfinished) Dvorˇák Selection from Cypresses Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Brahms completed his Op. 51 string quartets during a productive summer stay in Tutzing, Bavaria in 1873, effectively breaking his duck as a string quartet composer with two works of extraordinary invention. The Vertavo String Quartet, founded in Norway in 1984, prefaces the A minor quartet’s performance with the two movements of Haydn’s last adventure in string quartet writing and pieces from Dvorˇák’s lyrical Cypresses. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Join us for this interactive performance for families with outstanding vocal ensemble Stile Antico.

Hear some magical music, most of which is over 400 years old, and join in together with some activities alongside presenter Isabelle Adams.

Supported by Oliver and Helen Prenn

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Adults £10 Children £8

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Llyˆr Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 3 October 7.30 pm

Llyˆr Williams piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 11 in Bb Op. 22; Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54; Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’; Andante favori WoO. 57 Llyˆr Williams’s acclaimed Wigmore Hall Beethoven exploration resumes. The Guardian praised the Welsh pianist’s ‘commanding technique, cool grasp of the vast intellectual span of the music and sense of wisdom beyond his years’ during his first survey of Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas, a view reinforced since by the evolving insights of his interpretations. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series/Llyˆr Williams Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series Wednesday 13 January 2016 7.30 pm Tuesday 19 April 2016 7.30 pm Further dates to be announced in 2016/17 Stile Antico

Eric Richmond

Vertavo String Quartet

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Celebrating

Magdalena Kozˇená Sweeping historical change coincided with Magdalena Kožená’s formative years. The Czech mezzo-soprano was a student in 1989 when her homeland broke free from Soviet control to regain its independence. Within a decade, she had established a glittering international career, won critical plaudits for her profound musicianship and beguiling artistry, and secured an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Tickets for Wigmore Hall’s Celebrating Magdalena Kožená series, with Sir Simon Rattle and Mitsuko Uchida among the singer’s musical partners, are guaranteed to be some of this season’s hottest properties.

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series Friday 29 January 2016 7.30 pm

Magdalena Kozˇená mezzo-soprano Sir Simon Rattle piano Further artists to be announced WORKS BY CHAUSSON, RAVEL, ˇ ÁK BRAHMS AND DVOR

Friday 2 October 7.30 pm Repeated Monday 5 October 7.30 pm

Tuesday 8 March 2016 7.30 pm

Magdalena Kozˇená mezzo-soprano Mitsuko Uchida piano

Magdalena Kozˇená mezzo-soprano La Cetra Andrea Marcon conductor

Schumann Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Wolf Mörike Lieder: Begegnung; Neue Liebe; Nimmersatte Liebe; Das verlassene Mägdlein; Elfenlied; Verborgenheit; Wo find ich Trost?; Auf ein altes Bild; Nixe Binsefuss; Lebe wohl; Abschied Dvorˇák Love Songs Op. 83 Schoenberg Brettl-Lieder Central Europe and the cultural concerns of Romanticism served as the crucibles for the creation of the works in this unmissable recital. Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida launch their programme with Schumann’s compassionate response to poems attributed to Mary Queen of Scots before probing the psychological depths of Wolf’s Lieder. They also explore the lyrical delights of Dvorˇák’s Czech Love Songs and high-octane vitality of Schoenberg’s eight cabaret songs of 1901.

WORKS BY MONTEVERDI

Friday 8 July 2016 7.30 pm Repeated Saturday 9 July 2016 7.30 pm at Wilton’s Music Hall

Magdalena Kozˇená mezzo-soprano The Melody Makers

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

A BIG BAND PROGRAMME FEATURING MUSIC FROM THE 1920s AND 1930s

Song Recital Series/ Celebrating Magdalena Kozˇená

Wigmore Hall has partnered with Wilton’s Music Hall for this extraordinary Wigmore Series programme featuring a Big Band.

Photo by Harald Hoffmann/Deutsche Grammophon

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October Sunday 4 October 7.30 pm

Monday 5 October 1.00 pm

Monday 5 October 7.30 pm

Belcea Quartet 20th Anniversary Concert Series

Sandrine Piau soprano Susan Manoff piano

Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano Mitsuko Uchida piano

Belcea Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 Bartók String Quartet No. 1 Op. 7 Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 Wigmore Hall has played a central part in the Belcea Quartet’s artistic world since the group’s foundation two decades ago. Its twentieth anniversary concert series begins with an essential Belcea programme, comprising the uplifting ingenuity of Haydn’s late String Quartet in G Op. 77 and Bartók’s First String Quartet. The latter’s contrapuntal writing echoes aspects of Beethoven’s Op. 131, among the greatest of all chamber music works. The Belcea Quartet returns to Wigmore Hall on 11 October and 19 December with two further concerts in its twentieth anniversary series.

Mendelssohn Neue Liebe; Nachtlied; Hexenlied Bouchot Galgenlieder Strauss Die Nacht; Morgen; Ständchen Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Britten The Salley Gardens; There’s none to soothe; I wonder as I wander Sandrine Piau’s crystalline tone, extraordinary attention to detail and ability to respond in an instant to the emotional demands of the music in her repertoire belong to her richly stocked portfolio of artistic attributes. Her programme explores everything from the nocturnal imagery of songs

by Mendelssohn and Strauss to the highly charged eroticism of Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis.

All seats £15

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Repeat of concert on 2 October £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Song Recital Series/Celebrating Magdalena Kožená

Tuesday 6 October 7.30 pm

Vadim Repin violin Andrei Korobeinikov piano Schnittke Violin Sonata No. 1 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis Bartók Rhapsody No. 1 Brahms Capriccio in F# minor Op. 76 No. 1; Capriccio in B minor Op. 76 No. 2; Capriccio in C Op. 76 No. 8; Capriccio in C# minor Op. 76 No. 5 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 With total command of his instrument and a limitless supply of intensely focused passion in performance, Vadim Repin ranks in company with the great names in violin playing. The Russian-born musician’s interpretations, acclaimed for their subtlety of expression and sheer vitality, are sure to project the strength and depth of his artistic personality in this recital.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Belcea Quartet

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Ronald Knapp

Sandrine Piau

Sandrine Expilly/Naïve

Vadim Repin

Harald Hoffmann

October Wednesday 7 October 7.30 pm

Thursday 8 October 7.30 pm

Friday 9 October 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Steven Isserlis cello Julius Drake piano

Škampa Quartet

Robert Levin fortepiano

Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73

Mozart Piano Piece in C (fragment, completed by Robert Levin); Four Preludes K284a: No. 1 in C, modulating to Bb; Piano Sonata in Bb K333; Four Preludes K284a: No. 2 in Bb, modulating to Eb; Piano Sonata in Eb K282; Four Preludes K284a: No. 3 in Eb, modulating to C minor; Overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail K384 (piano reduction by Mozart); Four Preludes K284a: No. 4 in C; Piano Sonata in C K330

Bach Aria: Es dünket mich, ich seh dich kommen from Cantata BWV175; Aria: Geliebter Jesu from Cantata BWV16; Aria: Woferne du den edlen Frieden from Cantata BWV41 Britten Cello Suite No. 3 Op. 87 Bach/Britten Five Spiritual Songs Lachner In die Ferne; Waldvöglein; Nachts in der Kajüte Bennett Tom O’Bedlam's Song Schubert Auf dem Strom An artistic partnership both inspired and inspiring arrives at Wigmore Hall for this recital. Steven Isserlis, Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake evoke the remarkable performing legacy of Mstislav Rostropovich, Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten in their choice of repertoire, complete with Schubert’s ‘Auf dem Strom’ and Britten’s exquisite arrangements of Five Spiritual Songs by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Life’s end and intimations of mortality flow through both works in the Škampa Quartet’s programme.

Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ confronts the composer’s dark mood and depression following a stay in Vienna’s General Hospital in 1824, while Shostakovich’s Third Quartet appears to speak for the victims of Stalin’s Great Terror and, in its sublime final Adagio, presents death as a welcome escape from earthly suffering. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Robert Levin’s distinguished work as fortepianist, scholar and conductor has done much to influence modern approaches to the interpretation of Mozart’s compositions. His deep knowledge of the composer’s music and the context in which it was created can be heard in this recital with the inclusion of Mozart’s modulating preludes, carefully connecting one key to the next. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

£40 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season

Ian Bostridge

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Škampa Quartet

Ivan Pinkava

Robert Levin

Ascherman

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Friedrich Cerha Day Wigmore Hall celebrates the imminent ninetieth birthday of one of Austria’s greatest living composers with a day devoted to the often serene and elegiac work of Friedrich Cerha. The Viennese musician made his mark in the late 1950s as co-founder with Kurt Schwertsik of the pioneering new music ensemble ‘die reihe’. Friedrich Cerha Day presents a major retrospective of the composer’s chamber works performed by close colleagues and musicians steeped in his multi-faceted art.

Saturday 10 October 11.30 am

Saturday 10 October 6.00 pm

Ensemble Modern

Artists in Conversation

Friedrich Cerha Musik for trombone and string quartet; Gedankensplitter for solo oboe (a selection) (UK première); Bagatellen for string trio

Friedrich Cerha discusses his life and work. (This interview will be conducted with a translator.)

Ensemble Modern’s association with Friedrich Cerha as composer and conductor dates to the group’s formative years in the early 1980s.

The ensemble launches Wigmore Hall’s Friedrich Cerha Day with Musik, completed a decade ago, and explores his miniature Bagatellen, studies in what Cerha calls the ‘togetherness and separateness’ of the string trio’s individual parts.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

All seats £10

Saturday 10 October 3.00 pm

Boulanger Trio Andreas Schablas

clarinet

Andreas Schablas and members of the Boulanger Trio perform Friedrich Cerha’s Fünf Stücke for clarinet, cello and piano, created in 2000 as a fiftieth birthday tribute to Heinrich Schiff. The Boulanger Trio, praised by the Süddeutscher Zeitung for its tonal blend and balance, opens with the composer’s Fünf Sätze, in which Cerha explores the contrasts and textural combinations available to the piano trio.

Photo by Manu Theobald

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Saturday 10 October 7.30 pm

Ensemble Modern HK Gruber chansonnier Friedrich Cerha Konzertante Tafelmusik for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and trumpet; Piccola comedia for bassoon, oboe, trumpet, viola and percussion* (world première); Keintate for medium voice (chansonnier) and instruments *Co-commissioned by Ensemble Modern,

Friedrich Cerha Fünf Sätze for piano trio; Drei Stücke for cello and piano (world première); Fünf Stücke for clarinet, cello and piano

All seats £10

£4

and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

With HK ‘Nali’ Gruber taking his customary role as chansonnier, this concert tribute to the work of Friedrich Cerha celebrates the creative energy, diverse historical allusions and originality of contemporary Austrian music. Keintate, first performed in 1983, recalls Cerha’s early days playing second fiddle in Viennese folk bands, supplied by a stream of popular tunes and intensified by the hyper-real dialect verse of Ernst Kein. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 ALL DAY CONCERT TICKET: £30

Tickets to the Artists in Conversation sold separately.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Friedrich Cerha Day

October Sunday 11 October 11.30 am

Sunday 11 October 7.30 pm

Monday 12 October 1.00 pm

Carducci String Quartet

Belcea Quartet 20th Anniversary Concert Series

Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73

Belcea Quartet Valentin Erben cello

Sol Gabetta cello Polina Leschenko piano

The Carducci String Quartet will perform several complete cycles of Shostakovich’s string quartets in 2015, bringing experiences and discoveries gained during the journey to its interpretation of the Russian composer’s Third Quartet at Wigmore Hall. The ensemble presents his deeply moving work in company with Beethoven’s evergreen String Quartet in C minor, a piece of great charm and confidence. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Webern Five Movements Op. 5 Schubert String Quintet in C D956 Webern’s Five Movements Op. 5, with their kaleidoscopic range of tone colours, nuanced dynamic shadings and brief breathing spaces, invite listeners to meditate on the nature of sound and silence. The Belcea Quartet surrounds these intense miniatures with Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’ Quartet and Schubert’s String Quintet, two great masterworks of the First Viennese School.

Chopin Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C Op. 3 Tchaikovsky Lensky's Aria from Eugene Onegin Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 Sol Gabetta’s charismatic artistry arises from her quicksilver imagination and winning emotional honesty. Music, she says, ‘provides an opportunity for us to describe life as we feel it’. The Argentine cellist is joined by young pianist Polina Leschenko, renowned for her deep sensitivity and abundant imagination. £13 concs £11

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Carducci String Quartet

Belcea Quartet

Andy Holdsworth

Valentin Erben

Karo Strassnik

Polina Leschenko

Marco Borggreve

Evy Ottermans

Sol Gabetta

Marco Borggreve

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October Monday 12 October 7.30 pm

Tuesday 13 October 7.30 pm

Wednesday 14 October 7.30 pm

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

Trevor Pinnock director, harpsichord Matthew Truscott violin Sophie Gent violin Alfonso Leal viola Jonathan Byers cello Pippa Macmillan violone Thomas Dunford theorbo

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Graham Johnson piano

Bach/Kurtág Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit BWV106; Alle Menschen müssen sterben BWV643; Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir BWV687 Busoni Fantasia contrappuntistica Philippe Manoury Le temps, mode d’emploi (for two pianos and live electronics)* (UK première) *Co-commissioned by Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2014, SWR Experimentalstudio, and Wiener Konzerthaus, with the support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and Impuls neue Musik, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

German pianists Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher formed their piano duo in the early 1980s. They were subsequently encouraged by, among others, composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Wolfgang Rihm. The GrauSchumacher Piano Duo presents the UK première of Philippe Manoury’s Le temps, mode d’emploi, a fifty-minute score direct in expression and filled with big, bold musical gestures. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series / Contemporary Music Series Tuesday 13 October 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk See pages 28 & 29 for full details

THEATRE MUSIC:

Julia Doyle soprano Stuart Jackson tenor Jonathan McGovern baritone DIDO AND AENEAS:

Rowan Hellier mezzo-soprano (Dido) Jonathan McGovern baritone (Aeneas) Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano (Sorceress)

Julia Doyle soprano (Belinda and First Woman) Stuart Jackson tenor (Sailor) Michael Chance countertenor (Spirit) Tenebrae Consort (Semi Chorus)

Schubert Verklärung; Ammenlied; Die Sterbende; Abendlied der Fürstin; Bertas Lied in der Nacht; Die junge Nonne; Ellens Gesänge I, II & III; Die Unterscheidung; Die Männer sind méchant Brahms Ständchen; Da unten im Tale; Feldeinsamkeit; Alte Liebe; Die Mainacht; Von ewiger Liebe Songs by Wolf Schubert arguably set the mark against which all other Lieder composers have since been measured.

Sarah Connolly’s delectable programme offers the chance to trace the arc of development of Schubert’s songs, from the remarkably eloquent ‘Verklärung’, written at the age of sixteen, to two of his Four Refrain Lieder of 1828. She also offers a selection of equally fine songs by Brahms and Wolf. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2015/16 Wigmore Series

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

HENRY PURCELL: A RETROSPECTIVE See pages 28 & 29 for full details

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

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Susanne Diesner

Sarah Connolly

Peter Warren

October Thursday 15 October 6.00 pm

Friday 16 October 7.30 pm

Sunday 18 October 11.30 am

Pre-Concert Event

Michelangelo Quartet

RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’

Steven Isserlis cello Richard Egarr harpsichord

The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment in which exceptionally gifted young musicians collaborate closely with some of the world’s finest artists and teachers. This concert offers the chance to hear potential future stars at an early stage of their careers.

Free (ticket required)

Thursday 15 October 7.30 pm

Passionate commitment, jaw-dropping virtuosity and exquisite tonal refinement belong to the long list of the Michelangelo Quartet’s qualities. The ensemble’s programme includes the second of Beethoven’s ‘Razumovsky’ Quartets, a work of ground-breaking vision and tempestuous emotions.

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Razumovsky Ensemble

Chamber Music Season

Sergei Krylov violin Oleg Kogan cello Michail Lifits piano

Saturday 17 October 7.30 pm

Three fine musicians join forces for a rich all-Russian programme which opens with Stravinsky’s colourful Suite italienne, derived from the score for the ballet Pulcinella, before moving to Shostakovich’s powerful and haunting Piano Trio No. 2, infused with Russian and Jewish folk themes. The first half is complemented by the rich invention and brooding lyricism of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor.

Two artists devoted to the art of unveiling deep truths in performance join forces. Steven Isserlis and Richard Egarr share a mutual sense of adventure and a strong desire to give fresh and meaningful life to even the most familiar of works.

All seats £15 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Stravinsky Suite italienne for violin and piano Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor Op. 50

Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 1 in G BWV1027; Viola da gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor BWV1029; Viola da gamba Sonata No. 2 in D BWV1028

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Renata Pokupic´

mezzo-soprano

MOZART, MENDELSSOHN AND THE ITALIANS See pages 30 & 31 for full details

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Oleg Kogan

Steven Isserlis

Robert Cassen

Michelangelo Quartet

Jean-Baptiste Millot

Marco Borggreve

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Henry Purcell: Following the colossal success of its first season, Wigmore Hall’s Henry Purcell: A Retrospective continues with an enhanced and extended programme of concerts. The series explores all areas of Purcell’s inspired output, from his music for intimate royal chambers and chapels to works conceived for Westminster Abbey, the king’s court and the London stage. Once again the stellar list of artists reads like a Who’s Who of Purcell performance, comprising everyone from Trevor Pinnock, Andreas Scholl and Iestyn Davies to Vox Luminis, The Sixteen and Harry Christophers.

Henry Purcell: A Retrospective is made possible thanks to all our contributors to the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to help fund important artistic projects.

Portrait of Henry Purcell after John Closterman

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A Retrospective Tuesday 13 October 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock joins Purcell expert Andrew Pinnock to discuss Dido and Aeneas, one of Purcell’s best-loved operas. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Tuesday 13 October 7.30 pm

Purcell Theatre Music Overture from The Double Dealer; As soon as the chaos from The Marriage-Hater Match’d; Hornpipe from The Double Dealer; Man is for the woman made from The Mock Marriage; Scocca pur (for solo harpsichord); From rosy bowers from Don Quixote; Scotch tune, Minuet and Hornpipe from Amphitryon; Let the dreadful engines from Don Quixote (Purcell version in F, edited by Timothy Roberts); Chaconne from The Gordion Knot Unty’d; Songs from A Fool’s Preferment (I sigh’d, and I pin’d; ’Tis death alone; I’ll mount to yon blue Coelum; I’ll sail upon the dog-star); Lute solo; Nymphs and Shepherds from The Libertine Purcell Dido and Aeneas

Trevor Pinnock director, harpsichord

Matthew Truscott violin Sophie Gent violin Alfonso Leal viola Jonathan Byers cello Pippa Macmillan violone Thomas Dunford theorbo THEATRE MUSIC:

Julia Doyle soprano Stuart Jackson tenor Jonathan McGovern baritone

The politics of national identity, the royal succession and parliamentary faction, all hot topics in the late 1600s, found their way into the plots of plays and semi-operas intended to delight and entertain London’s theatre-goers. Purcell’s fine incidental music to pieces such as Shadwell’s The Libertine and D’Urfey’s A Fool’s Preferment set the scene for Dido and Aeneas, one of the most celebrated of all English operas. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series/ Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Wednesday 21 October 7.30 pm

Sunday 25 October 7.30 pm

mezzo-soprano (Dido)

Jonathan McGovern

Vox Luminis

baritone (Aeneas)

SACRED SONGS AND ANTHEMS

mezzo-soprano (Sorceress)

Julia Doyle soprano (Belinda and First Woman)

Stuart Jackson tenor (Sailor) Michael Chance countertenor (Spirit)

Tenebrae Consort (Semi Chorus)

Wigmore Study Group Tuesday 23 February 2016 7.30 pm

Theatre of the Ayre Elizabeth Kenny director, lute SACRED THEATRE: SOLO SONGS, DIALOGUES AND SCENES

Thursday 3 March 2016 7.30 pm

The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor ROYAL WELCOME SONGS FOR KING CHARLES II

Monday 7 March 2016 7.30 pm

Phantasm FANTASIAS

SACRED MUSIC FOR THE CHAPEL ROYAL

Pamela Helen Stephen

Wednesday 17 February 2016 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Friday 19 February 2016 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Tuesday 23 February 2016 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

The King’s Consort

DIDO AND AENEAS:

Rowan Hellier

Forthcoming Events in the Series

Tuesday 7 June 2016 7.30 pm

The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor ROYAL WELCOME SONGS FOR KING JAMES II

Friday 1 July 2016 7.30 pm Thursday 19 November 7.30 pm

The English Concert Harry Bicket director Iestyn Davies countertenor Andreas Scholl countertenor SOLOS AND DUETS FOR COUNTERTENOR

Trevor Pinnock harpsichord Sophie Gent violin Matthew Truscott violin Jonathan Manson viola da gamba TRIO SONATAS AND SOLO HARPSICHORD WORKS

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Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians

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While Italian composers since the eighteenth century have been renowned in the field of opera, they have also written much attractive chamber music, as well as vocal music for the concert hall or salon rather than the theatre. In this series the Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Ensemble in Residence, and some favourite guest singers explore fine repertoire stretching from Rossini and Donizetti to Verdi and Puccini. They also carry the story into the twentieth century, with haunting vocal pieces by Respighi and Berio’s imaginative arrangements of Folk Songs (preceded here by some authentic folk music). The Italian strand is complemented with works by Mozart and Mendelssohn, both enthusiastic tourists south of the Alps, with a special emphasis on the richly coloured medium of the string quintet.

Saturday 17 October 7.30 pm

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Tuesday 22 March 2016 6.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Saturday 16 January 2016 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Nash Ensemble Roderick Williams baritone Roger Vignoles piano

Berio Sequenzas

Boccherini, Wolf, Mendelssohn & Mozart

Nash Ensemble Philippa Davies flute Gareth Hulse oboe Lawrence Power viola Lucy Wakeford harp Ian Brown piano Chris Brannick percussion

Nash Ensemble Renata Pokupic´

mezzo-soprano

Mozart String Quintet in D K593 Respighi Il tramonto for voice and string quartet Songs by Bellini and Verdi Mendelssohn String Quintet in A Op. 18 In the opening concert of the Nash Ensemble’s 2015/16 Season, Mozart is represented by a masterly late string quintet, and Mendelssohn by his First Quintet, fresh and youthful in spirit.

Renata Pokupic´ sings Respighi’s Il tramonto, a gorgeous setting of a translated poem by Shelley, and songs by Bellini and Verdi which reveal that their composers were as at home writing for the private salon as for the public stage.

Saturday 6 February 2016 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble Richard Hosford clarinet Donizetti, Verdi & Mozart

Tuesday 22 March 2016 7.00 pm

Berio Sequenzas

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Saturday 5 March 2016 5.30 pm

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series / Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians

Pre-Concert Performance

Tuesday 22 March 2016 8.30 pm

Sunday 1 November 11.30 am

Traditional music by the Sardinian vocal quartet Tenores di Bitti and Kurdish music by the Shaho Andalibi Trio complement the Folk Songs of Luciano Berio in the evening concert.

Nash Ensemble Lawrence Power viola Craig Ogden guitar

Nash Ensemble Rossini, Ponchielli & Mendelssohn

Saturday 5 March 2016 7.30 pm Saturday 12 December 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble John Mark Ainsley tenor

Puccini, Paganini & Mendelssohn

Nash Ensemble Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Mendelssohn, Rossini, Dallapiccola & Berio

Mozart, Respighi, Rossini & Mendelssohn

Painting: View of Amalfi, Italy, in May 1831 by Felix Mendelssohn. Photo © akg-images/De Agostini Picture Lib

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October Sunday 18 October 7.30 pm

Monday 19 October 1.00 pm

Escher String Quartet

Alexei Ogrintchouk oboe Boris Brovtsyn violin Maxim Rysanov viola Kristina Blaumane cello

Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2 Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Brahms emerged from the experience of writing his String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 ready to tackle the demands of composing symphonic works, thanks not least to his score’s shrewdly balanced blend of warm lyricism, striking thematic contrasts and formal coherence. The Escher String Quartet, formerly of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme, prefaces the piece with masterworks by Mendelssohn and Janácˇek. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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

Chamber Music Season

THOMAS HAMPSON

Haydn Divertissement in Bb HII:B4 Britten Phantasy Quartet for oboe and string trio Op. 2 Schubert String Trio in Bb D471 Mozart Oboe Quartet in F K370 Four distinguished artists offer a delightful programme including Mozart’s deeply expressive Oboe Quartet and Britten’s early Phantasy Quartet, written for and dedicated to Léon Goossens.

Schubert’s incomplete String Trio, composed in 1816, and Haydn’s high-spirited Divertissement complete a fascinating collection of works. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Thomas Hampson

Dario Acosta

Monday 19 October 7.30 pm Escher String Quartet

Thomas Hampson baritone Wolfram Rieger piano

Laura Rose

Opera composers in song, including works

by Chausson, Bizet, Massenet, Meyerbeer, Weber and Kienzl.

Over the course of his long and distinguished career, Thomas Hampson has allied the tonal beauty and flexibility of his baritone voice to the imaginative expression of poetic texts.

The American artist’s linguistic skills, innate curiosity and feeling for the specific emotional gravity of words and imagery have guaranteed his place among the greatest recitalists of our time, at home in everything from lyrical opera arias and German Romantic song to the music of his native land. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Song Recital Series

Kristina Blaumane

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Alexei Ogrintchouk

Marco Borggreve

October Tuesday 20 October 7.30 pm

Wednesday 21 October 7.30 pm

The Endellion String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 76 No. 6 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

The Endellion String Quartet ends the first concert in its Wigmore Hall series with Beethoven's Op. 130, a towering masterwork given here with its original finale, the endlessly rewarding Grosse Fuge. Haydn’s utterly delightful late Op. 76 No. 6 and Shostakovich’s intense and autobiographical Eighth String Quartet form the programme’s rich first half.

The King’s Consort Robert King conductor Julie Cooper soprano Rebecca Outram soprano Robin Blaze countertenor Charles Daniels tenor Matthew Brook bass-baritone PURCELL AT THE CHAPEL ROYAL Purcell Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; How long, great God; It is a good thing to give thanks; Let mine eyes run down with tears; Rejoice in the Lord alway; Hosanna to the highest; Remember not, Lord, our offences; Full of wrath; I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Franz Schubert

Painting by Wilhelm August Rieder

Wednesday 21 October 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Tuesday 27 October 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 29 October 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

SCHUBERT’S SONGS As Wigmore Hall embarks on a major series offering the chance to hear the complete songs of Schubert, Wigmore Study Group invites you to immerse yourself with three afternoons devoted to his Lieder. Summarising his friend’s towering achievement in this sphere Joseph Spaun wrote: ‘Every one of his songs is in reality a poem on the poem he set to music’. Schubert turned to a variety of poets at different times in his life and for specific musical purposes, some great, some lesser-known writers and some his own personal friends. These sessions examine the complex layers of meaning in his writing, the many stylistic references, the innovative integration of voice and piano and the harmonic language which at times anticipates Wagner.

These sessions are hosted by composer Julian Philips with pianist Laura Roberts and contributing musicologists and musicians.

They include live performances by students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

The King’s Consort turns to a programme of Purcell’s delectable anthems for the Chapel Royal, including his deeply moving setting of lachrymose words from the Book of Jeremiah, Let mine eyes run down with tears. A stellar line-up of singers and instrumentalists perform some of the composer’s finest sacred compositions. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series/ Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Series ticket price £60 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 29 October.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Schubert: The Complete Songs

The Endellion String Quartet

Eric Richmond

Robin Blaze

Dorothea Heise

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Bertrand Chamayou Friday 23 October 7.30 pm

Bertrand Chamayou piano Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte; Jeux d’eau; Sonatine; Gaspard de la nuit; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Le tombeau de Couperin Rave reviews followed Bertrand Chamayou’s Wigmore Hall debut recital, praising his technical wizardry, superb musicianship and bravura pianism. In the five years since, he has established a major international career and is widely regarded to be among the finest pianists of his generation.

He returns to Wigmore Hall with a recital sure to probe the full range of his artistic imagination, not least in the three fantasy pieces of Ravel’s fiendishly difficult Gaspard de la nuit.

Chamayou is blessed with the rare ability to cast fresh light on even the most familiar works in this unmissable programme. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 London Pianoforte Series

Photo by Marco Borggreve

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October Saturday 24 October 7.30 pm

Sunday 25 October 11.30 am

Sunday 25 October 7.30 pm

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton leader, artistic director Maxim Rysanov viola

Clio Gould violin Jonathan Morton violin, viola

Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier artistic director

MOZART, MADRIGALS AND MAVERICKS

HENRY PURCELL: A RETROSPECTIVE

Sergey Akhunov 6:36 in Schubert’s company for viola and strings; Erlkönig for viola and strings Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 (arr. for viola and strings by Dobrinka Tabakova) Dobrinka Tabakova Fantasy Homage to Schubert Schubert/Mahler String Quartet in D minor ‘Death and the Maiden’ (for string ensemble)

Martinu˚ Three madrigals for violin and viola Selections from Léonin Organum from Viderunt Omnes (transcr. Morton), Lassus Textless Bicinia (transcr. Morton), Bach 15 Inventions BWV772–786 (arr. Ferdinand David) and Bartók Duos for two violins Mozart Duo in G K423

See page 36 for full details

Ukrainian violist Maxim Rysanov joins the Scottish Ensemble and Jonathan Morton for a programme informed by Schubert’s lasting influence on composers past and present. The sublime sounds of British-Bulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova’s Fantasy Homage to Schubert and two strikingly inventive pieces by Sergey Akhunov mark the way to Mahler’s rich-toned arrangement of ‘Death and the Maiden’. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Husband and wife, Scottish Ensemble’s Artistic Director Jonathan Morton and Director Emeritus Clio Gould present a rich programme of string duos full of contrasts. Bookended by Martinu˚ ’s Three Madrigals, written for the brother and sister duo Joseph and Lilian Fuchs, and Mozart’s Duo in G composed over a century and a half earlier, the recital is completed with a series of short works by Léonin, Lassus, Bach and Bartók. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Monday 26 October 1.00 pm

Elizabeth Watts soprano Julius Drake piano Liszt 6 Hugo settings Debussy Ariettes oubliées Hahn Rêverie; Si mes vers avaient des ailes; L’incrédule; Fêtes galantes Elizabeth Watts has forged an outstanding artistic partnership with Julius Drake over the past decade.

Their lunchtime recital explores three distinctive responses to the poetry of Paul Verlaine and Victor Hugo, complementing the seductive soundworld of Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées with an exquisite selection of songs by Hahn, and Liszt’s impassioned Hugo settings. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Scottish Ensemble

Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Elizabeth Watts

Marco Borggreve

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October Monday 26 October 7.30 pm

VOX LUMINIS

Ehnes Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Sibelius String Quartet in D minor Op. 56 ‘Voces intimae’ Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Canadian violinist James Ehnes and his eponymous string quartet present a programme of works underpinned by the highest values in chamber music composition, strikingly refined in craft and rich in invention. In honour of Sibelius’s 150th anniversary year, the quartet includes ‘Voces intimae’, a major landmark in the composer’s artistic development. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 27 October 7.30 pm

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano THE MOZART ODYSSEY See pages 38 & 39 for full details Vox Luminis

Sunday 25 October 7.30 pm

Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier artistic director EVENING AND MORNING Blow My God, my God, look upon me Purcell An Evening Hymn; In Guilty Night (Saul and the Witch of Endor) Purcell Sonata in Three Parts No. 8 in G Purcell Close thine eyes and sleep secure; No stars again shall hurt you from The Tempest Blow God spake sometime in visions Purcell Thou wakeful shepherd (A Morning Hymn) Blow God is our hope and strength Locke Curtain Tune from The Tempest Purcell Rejoice in the Lord alway; Sound the trumpet; My heart is inditing Lionel Meunier’s Vox Luminis brings a wealth of fresh ideas and insights to its Purcell interpretations, informed by extensive experience of performing works by the composer’s Central European contemporaries and deep immersion in his music. The ensemble presents a programme of sacred songs and anthems by Henry Purcell and his teacher John Blow, concluding with the majestic verse anthem My heart is inditing, written for and first performed at the Coronation of James II in 1685. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

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Jerry Davis

October Thursday 29 October 7.30 pm

Saturday 31 October 7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Christoph Schnackertz piano

JAN LISIECKI

Schubert An Emma; Der Jüngling am Bache (D192); Der Liebende; Der Traum; Die Laube; Hoffnung (D251); Ritter Toggenburg; Edone; Die Liebesgötter; Der Hirt; Bei dem Grabe meines Vaters; Der Alpenjäger (D524); Nach einem Gewitter; Trost; Nachtstück; Nachtviolen; Auflösung

Lucy Crowe soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Lucy Wakeford harp Schubert An den Mond (D193); Heidenröslein; An die Sonne (D439); Iphigenia; Lob der Tränen; Marie; Der Fluss; Nachtviolen; Du bist die Ruh; Ellens Gesang III (Ave Maria); Die Männer sind méchant Debussy Rondel chinois; Jane; La fille aux cheveux de lin; Rondeau; Flots, palmes et sables; Les papillons; Séguidille; Coquetterie posthume; Tragédie; Mandoline; En sourdine; Fantoches; Clair de lune; Pantomime

Schubert has occupied the centre ground of Christoph Prégardien’s recital repertoire for over three decades. The German tenor’s penetrating interpretations flow from his sophisticated engagement with words and music. He and Christoph Schnackertz present such familiar songs as ‘Der Hirt’ and ‘Nachtviolen’ in company with rarely performed early treasures, ‘An Emma’ and ‘Der Liebende’ outstanding among them.

Lucy Crowe’s charismatic stage presence, dazzling musicianship and pristine vocal clarity have won admirers worldwide and made her a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall’s audience. The lyric soprano, recently described as ‘astonishing’ by The New York Times, joins Malcolm Martineau for a recital in the Hall’s Schubert song series.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series /Schubert: The Complete Songs

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Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Jan Lisiecki

Mathias Bothor/Deutsche Grammophon

Friday 30 October 7.30 pm

Jan Lisiecki piano Mozart Piano Sonata in A K331 Liszt Trois études de concert S144 Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54 Chopin 12 Études Op. 25 Born in Canada in 1995 to Polish parents, Jan Lisiecki has been described by The New York Times as ‘a pianist who makes every note count’. He returns to Wigmore Hall to perform Mozart’s famous Piano Sonata in A K331, best known for its concluding Rondo ‘Alla Turca’, and crowns his programme with the work he recently recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Chopin’s Études Op. 25. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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

London Pianoforte Series

Christoph Prégardien

Marco Borggreve

Lucy Crowe

Marco Borggreve

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The Mozart The Mozart Odyssey, launched in September 2014, rolls on with seven further concerts this season, each exploring the composer’s chamber music. Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien conclude their beguiling survey of Mozart’s works for violin and piano, while Francesco Piemontesi begins his complete cycle of the piano sonatas. Michael Collins and the City of London Sinfonia, meanwhile, celebrate Mozart’s birthday on 27 January.

The Mozart Odyssey is made possible thanks to all our contributors to the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to help fund important artistic projects.

Portrait of Mozart by Barbara Kraft (1764 –1825)

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Odyssey Tuesday 27 October 7.30 pm

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano

Monday 25 January 2016 7.30 pm

Sunday 24 April 2016 11.30 am

Aurora Orchestra

Mozart Violin Sonata in F K377; Violin Sonata in Bb K8; 6 Variations in G minor ‘Hélas, j’ai perdu mon amant’ K360; Violin Sonata in C K303 (K293c); Violin Sonata in F K13; Violin Sonata in C K28; Violin Sonata in E b K26; Violin Sonata in Bb K378

Francesco Piemontesi piano

Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien return to Mozart’s complete violin sonatas as part of Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odyssey. Their programme includes two of the so-called Auernhammer Sonatas, K377 and K378, published in Vienna in 1781 and dedicated to an exceptionally gifted amateur violinist, and the delightful variations on the popular French aria ‘Hélas, j’ai perdu mon amant’.

Michael Collins clarinet, director City of London Sinfonia

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano

Chamber Music Season / The Mozart Odyssey

PIANO SONATA CYCLE

DIVERTIMENTO FOR STRING TRIO

Friday 17 June 2016 10.00 pm

Aurora Orchestra Wednesday 27 January 2016 7.30 pm

MOZART BIRTHDAY CONCERT

CHAMBER WORKS FOR WIND ENSEMBLE

Wednesday 13 July 2016 7.30 pm

Francesco Piemontesi piano Saturday 30 January 2016 7.30 pm

PIANO SONATA CYCLE

SONATAS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO

Cédric Tiberghien & Alina Ibragimova

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November Sunday 1 November 11.30 am

Monday 2 November 1.00 pm

Tuesday 3 November 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Daniel Hope violin Sabine Meyer clarinet Alexandre Tharaud piano

The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor

Stravinsky Suite from The Soldier’s Tale (for violin, clarinet and piano) Milhaud Scaramouche Op. 165b (arr. for clarinet and piano) Satie Gnossiennes Nos. 1 & 4 Bartók Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano Sz. 111

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Nash Ensemble Rossini Quartet No. 3 (arr. for flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon by Friedrich Berr) Ponchielli Quartet for flute, oboe, Eb clarinet and Bb clarinet with piano Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 One of Rossini’s early string sonatas, in a wind arrangement made in the composer’s lifetime, and a delightful divertimento by Ponchielli, the creator of the famous Dance of the Hours, precede Mendelssohn’s brilliant D minor Trio in this concert. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians

THE SIXTEEN RESIDENCY

Innovative and fresh-sounding works from the last century provide the substance of this recital, given by three superb chamber musicians. Stravinsky arranged a suite of movements from his theatrical piece The Soldier’s Tale for the Swiss philanthropist and fine amateur clarinettist Werner Reinhart who supported the original work’s composition. The programme also includes Bartók’s Contrasts, strongly flavoured by Hungarian and Romanian folk melodies.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 2 November 7.30 pm

Stephen Kovacevich piano Martha Argerich piano K Leighton

Joan Rodgers soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Samling Artists Susanna Hurrell soprano Nick Pritchard tenor Morgan Pearse baritone Arshak Kuzikyan bass-baritone Jonathan Ware piano SAMLING SHOWCASE Purcell An Evening Hymn Mendelssohn Die Liebende schreibt; Hexenlied Schumann Sehnsucht nach der Waldgegend; Wanderung; Stille Liebe Tchaikovsky It was in the early spring; None but the lonely heart; Behind the window in the shadow Mozart Bravo, signor padrone ... Se vuol ballare from Le nozze di Figaro Schubert From Die schöne Müllerin: Die liebe Farbe; Die böse Farbe; Trockne Blumen Mozart Soll ich dich,Teurer, nicht mehr sehn? from Die Zauberflöte; Secondate aurette amiche from Così fan tutte Massenet Adieu, notre petite table from Manon Rachmaninov Sing not to me, beautiful maiden Musorgsky Song of the Flea Britten Rome is now ruled from The Rape of Lucretia Mozart Bei Männern from Die Zauberflöte Schumann So wahr die Sonne scheinet Gounod Avant de quitter ces lieux from Faust Mozart La mia Dorabella capace non è from Così fan tutte

All seats £15

Nash Ensemble

Wednesday 4 November 7.30 pm

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Samling presents its annual Wigmore Hall Showcase.

In this recital of song and opera, led by Joan Rodgers and Malcolm Martineau, you will hear what Radio 3 presenter Sean Rafferty has elegantly described as ‘the bright, emerging talent of the future, touched with genius’. www.samling.org.uk £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

DINE WITH THE ARTISTS There are a limited number of tickets for a special post-concert reception and supper with the artists. priced at £95. Available exclusively from Samling on 01434 602885 or by email to enquiries@samling.org.uk Daniel Hope

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Harald Hoffmann

Joan Rodgers

Rose Daniel

Song Recital Series

Stephen Kovacevich 75th Birthday Concert with

Martha Argerich Monday 2 November 7.30 pm

Stephen Kovacevich piano Martha Argerich piano Debussy En blanc et noir Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Op. 45 Schubert Piano Sonata in B b D960 Stephen Kovacevich made his sensational European debut at Wigmore Hall in 1961, setting standards of musicianship that have since driven his artistic development and sustained a performing career that has delighted and inspired a vast international audience. The American-born, British-based pianist moved to London in his late teens to study with the legendary Dame Myra Hess, and soon established his reputation as an interpreter of tremendous integrity and vision. He joins us to mark his 75th birthday, celebrated on 17 October, crowning his recital with Schubert’s inexhaustible final sonata and joining forces with Martha Argerich in two beguiling works for piano duo. £60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Proceeds from this concert will go to the charities SANE (a leading UK mental health charity) and CLIC Sargent (the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, and their families) London Pianoforte Series

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The Sixteen Residency Tuesday 3 November 7.30 pm

The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor MONTEVERDI 1651 MESSA A QUATTRO VOCI ET SALMI Monteverdi Dixit Dominus (Primo) from Selva morale e spirituale; Confitebor tibi Domine (Primo); Laetatus sum a 6; Nisi Dominus a 3 Cavalli Magnificat Monteverdi Nisi Dominus a 6; Laudate Dominum omnes gentes for solo bass; Lauda Jerusalem a 3; Confitebor tibi Dominum (Secondo); Dixit Dominus (Primo) a 8 Monteverdi’s sacred vocal compositions introduced the expression of powerful and personal emotions to the world of church music, provoking controversy while opening minds to life-filled songs of praise. Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, seasoned interpreters of the composer’s liturgical pieces, present a programme comprising some of the finest works from Monteverdi’s years as Director of Music at St Mark’s in Venice. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

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For more than 35 years Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have set benchmark standards in the performance of early and contemporary music for vocal ensemble, acclaimed by critics and recognised with a dazzling array of international awards and honours. Their first Residency at Wigmore Hall embraces two programmes of Purcell’s royal welcome songs and in-depth explorations of Monteverdi’s sublime sacred music.

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series Thursday 3 March 2016 7.30 pm Tuesday 7 June 2016 7.30 pm Early Music and Baroque Series/ The Sixteen Residency

November Thursday 5 November 7.30 pm

JULIAN ANDERSON

Igor Levit piano See page 44 for full details

COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE

Friday 6 November 7.30 pm

Arditti Quartet

Saturday 7 November 7.30 pm

Berio Sincronie Michael Jarrell ... in verästelten Gedanken ...

(Nachlese VIIb)* (UK première) Morton Feldman Structures Sir Harrison Birtwistle New work** (world première)

Nash Ensemble Claire Booth soprano Ian Brown piano Philippa Davies flute

*Co-commissioned by Festival Aspects des Musiques d’Aujourd’hui Caen, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation **Co-commissioned by Cité de la Musique, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2017, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet John Woolrich Pluck from the Air for piano quintet* (London première) Julian Anderson The Colour of Pomegranates for alto flute and piano Julian Anderson Sea Drift for soprano, flute, clarinet and piano Julian Anderson Ring Dance for two violins (world première) Ravel Chansons madécasses Julian Anderson New work** (UK première)

Since its foundation in 1974 the Arditti Quartet has championed the cause of contemporary chamber music and given the first performances of hundreds of new compositions. The quartet returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme filled with vivid contrasts, opening with the formidable technical demands of Berio’s Sincronie and embracing fresh scores by Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Michael Jarrell.

*Co-commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival with funds provided by the Britten–Pears Foundation, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation ** Co-commissioned by The Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Julian Anderson

John Batten

Saturday 7 November 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Julian Anderson in conversation ahead of the evening concert £4

Two world premières and other works by Julian Anderson, Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, supply the potent substance of a programme that also includes Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for string quartet, one of which was inspired by the English music hall comedian Little Tich, and also the London première of John Woolrich’s Pluck from the Air. Claire Booth joins the Nash Ensemble in Sea Drift, Anderson’s evocative setting of Walt Whitman, and Ravel’s Chansons madécasses. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Contemporary Music Series/ Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Contemporary Music Series/ Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

Arditti Quartet

Lukas Beck

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Igor Levit Perspectives Admired by fellow pianists and hailed by critics as one of the most talented musicians of his generation, Igor Levit has rapidly secured a loyal following at Wigmore Hall. The Igor Levit Perspectives series offers existing admirers, and those yet to discover Levit, the chance to encounter a musical mind of the greatest depth and insight, and the gift of a brilliant young artist recently described by the Daily Telegraph as being ‘in a class of his own’.

Thursday 5 November 7.30 pm

Igor Levit piano Muffat Passacaglia in G minor Shostakovich Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor Op. 61 Beethoven 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 Igor Levit launches his Wigmore Hall Perspectives series with a gripping programme, opening with the majestic Passacaglia in G minor from Georg Muffat’s 1690 anthology Apparatus musico-organisticus, and spanning the vast creative soundscapes of Shostakovich’s Second Piano Sonata and Beethoven’s ‘Diabelli’ Variations. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Photo by Simon Jay Price

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Forthcoming Concerts in the Series Thursday 5 May 2016 7.30 pm

Igor Levit

piano

WORKS BY BACH AND BUSONI

Monday 4 July 2016 7.30 pm Tuesday 5 July 2016 7.30 pm Wednesday 6 July 2016 7.30 pm

Julia Fischer violin Igor Levit piano BEETHOVEN VIOLIN SONATAS London Pianoforte Series/Igor Levit Perspectives

November Sunday 8 November 11.30 am

Sunday 8 November 7.30 pm

Eeden Quartet

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano

Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 50 No. 5 ‘The Dream’ Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Since winning the V. E. Rimbotti International String Quartet Competition in 2012, the Eeden Quartet (formerly the Wu Quartet) has caught critical attention thanks, not least, to a complete recording of Mendelssohn’s early fugues for string quartet.

The exciting young ensemble makes an eagerly awaited appearance at Wigmore Hall.

GIL SHAHAM & SEJONG SOLOISTS

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Monday 9 November 1.00 pm

Barnabás Kelemen violin Bach Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 Piazzolla Tango-Études (a selection)

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 8 November 3.00 pm

Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition Showcase

Tara Erraught mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano

Barnabás Kelemen has been praised by the Guardian for his ‘innate musicality’ and is widely admired for his exceptional technical command and expressive playing. The Hungarian violinist’s natural curiosity and open-minded approach to programme building is reflected in this concert, which includes Bach’s monumental Second Partita and a selection of Astor Piazzolla’s Tango-Études.

Gil Shaham

Luke Ratray

£13 concs £11

Songs by Strauss and Mahler Previous prize winners of the prestigious Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition include Pumeza Matshikiza, Sarah-Jane Brandon, Tara Erraught and Nadine Sierra. Named after its Artistic Director, Dr. Veronica Dunne, its mission is to find and nurture operatic talent, and help young singers climb the ladder to an international career. The next Competition takes place from 22–28 January 2016.

Sejong Soloists

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 9 November 7.30 pm

Gil Shaham violin Sejong Soloists Bach Concerto in E for violin BWV1042 Penderecki Sinfonietta for strings Vivaldi The Four Seasons

£15 concs £12.50

Song Recital Series The New-York based Sejong Soloists, founded in 1994, comprise outstanding solo and chamber music players from Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Their artistic mission is driven by Artistic Director Hyo Kang’s determination that they should serve as global cultural ambassadors, a strategy reflected in their international make-up and worldwide programme of concerts, education initiatives and philanthropic work. They make a long-awaited return to Wigmore Hall in company with Grammy Award-winning violinist Gil Shaham. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series

Tara Erraught

Christian Kaufmann

Barnabás Kelemen

Emmer Rovid

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Christian Gerhaher Singer in Residence

Insatiable Box Office demand for Christian Gerhaher’s Wigmore Hall concerts reflects his status among the great song recitalists of our time, always ready to pursue expressive and vocal risks in the search for deeper artistic truths. He returns this season for five appearances, complete with a masterclass and with song cycles by Beethoven and Schoenberg and other landmarks of the First and Second Viennese Schools.

Sunday 8 November 7.30 pm

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Schoenberg Das Buch der hängenden Gärten Haydn The Spirit’s Song; Content; The Wanderer; Sailor’s Song; She never told her love Berg Fünf Lieder nach Ansichtkartentexten von Peter Altenberg Beethoven Adelaide Christian Gerhaher’s Wigmore Hall recitals invariably attract capacity audiences eager to experience the artistry of one of the world’s finest Lieder singers. The German baritone presents the inspired coupling of Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, among the first ever song-cycles, and Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, Schoenberg’s ground-breaking setting of Stefan George’s expressionist poems about a doomed adolescent love affair. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Song Recital Series/Christian Gerhaher: Singer in Residence

Forthcoming Events in the Series

Monday 8 February 2016 7.30 pm

Thursday 4 February 2016 7.30 pm

Christiane Karg soprano Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Friday 5 February 2016 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Christian Gerhaher Masterclass Photo by Alexander Basta/Sony

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Thursday 31 March 2016 7.30 pm

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano

November Thursday 12 November 7.30 pm

Friday 13 November 7.30 pm

Saturday 14 November 7.30 pm

Richard Goode piano

Franco Fagioli countertenor Riccardo Minasi director, violin

Alisa Weilerstein cello Inon Barnatan piano

Further musicians to be announced

Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 Poulenc Cello Sonata Janácˇek Pohádka Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65

Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor K310 Brahms 6 Klavierstücke Op. 118 Mozart Piano Sonata in F K533/494 Brahms 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119

ARIAS FOR CAFFARELLI

Mozart’s influence on the music of Brahms is present in so many of the latter’s works, from his orchestra Serenades and Piano Quintet to his keyboard compositions. Richard Goode’s lifelong immersion in the art of both composers underpins his compelling choice of works for this programme, which pairs two of Mozart’s finest piano sonatas with the exquisite, introverted miniatures of Brahms’s two late collections of piano pieces. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Ragazzi Sonata for strings in G Op. 1 No. 8 Porpora Passaggier che sulla sponda from Semiramide riconosciuta Hasse Ebbi da te la vita from Siroe re di Persia Fiorenza Concerto in A for 3 violins and continuo Leo Misero pargoletto from Demofoonte Hasse Fra l’orror della tempesta from Siroe re di Persia Cafaro Rendimi più sereno from Ipermestra Handel Crude furie from Serse Ragazzi Sonata for strings in F minor Op. 1 No. 4 Pergolesi Lieto così talvolta from Adriano in Siria Avitrano Sonata in D for 3 violins and continuo Op. 3 No. 2 ‘L’Aragona’ Handel Se bramate d’amar chi vi sdegna from Serse

Duo partners Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan are blessed with the power to hold audiences spellbound. They offer a rich slice of the cello and piano repertoire, pairing Beethoven’s characterful Cello Sonata Op. 69 with Poulenc’s charming Cello Sonata of 1949, and uniting the fairy-tale imagery of Janácˇek’s Pohádka with the romantic outpourings of Chopin’s G minor Cello Sonata. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Franco Fagioli won the hearts of Wigmore Hall’s audience at his debut recital last season, for which he received a rapturous standing ovation and a clutch of 5 star reviews. Making an eagerly anticipated return visit the young Argentinean countertenor presents a recital which promises great displays of vocal artistry and charismatic stage presence with a programme focusing on music performed by the eighteenth century castrato Caffarelli. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Richard Goode

Michael Wilson

Franco Fagioli

Julian Laidig

Alisa Weilerstein

Harald Hoffmann/Decca

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November Sunday 15 November 11.30 am

Monday 16 November 1.00 pm

Trio Gaspard

Emerson String Quartet

Haydn Piano Trio in Eb HXV:10 Beethoven Variations in G Op. 121a ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’ Liszt/Saint-Saëns Orphée Fauré Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120

Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Bartók String Quartet No. 4

Trio Gaspard’s eloquence and tonal beauty arises from the ensemble’s attention to every detail of a score and shared understanding of musical architecture. This programme includes Saint-Saëns’ rarely performed arrangement of Liszt’s magnificent tone poem Orphée and Fauré’s Piano Trio in D minor, a late masterwork completed little more than a year before the composer’s death.

The Emerson String Quartet, among the great names in the history of chamber music-making, has accrued an extraordinary record of achievement since its professional debut almost forty years ago.

The ensemble opened a new chapter in 2013 when British cellist Paul Watkins joined the line-up, introducing a new warmth to the Emerson sound and fresh perspectives to the quartet’s interpretations.

CHRISTIAN ZACHARIAS

£13 concs £11

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday 15 November 7.30 pm Christian Zacharias

Christiane Karg soprano Basel Chamber Orchestra

Klaus Rudolph

Monday 16 November 7.30 pm

Christian Zacharias piano

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Scarlatti Sonata in E Kk162; Sonata in C minor Kk226; Sonata in E b Kk193; Sonata in F minor Kk183; Sonata in F minor Kk386 Ravel Sonatine Soler Sonata No. 87 in G minor; Sonata No. 84 in D; Sonata No. 24 in D minor; Sonata No. 88 in D b Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20; Mazurka in C# minor Op. 41 No. 4; Mazurka in A minor Op. 17 No. 4; Mazurka in A minor Op. posth.; Mazurka in C# minor Op. 30 No. 4; Scherzo No. 2 in B b minor Op. 31 Trio Gaspard

Irene Zandel

In cultivating his acclaimed interpretations of the keyboard canon, Christian Zacharias allows ideas to grow naturally and develop over time. Critics have long recognised the authenticity of the German artist’s musical voice as pianist and conductor, praising his generous, open-hearted communication and ability to connect directly with the spirit of the works in his broad repertoire. His latest Wigmore Hall recital includes a selection of Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and Soler, and a riveting second half of pieces by Chopin. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

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Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Christiane Karg & Basel Chamber Orchestra Sunday 15 November 7.30 pm

Christiane Karg soprano Basel Chamber Orchestra Yuki Kasai leader Isabelle Schnöller Hildebrandt flute Matthias Arter oboe Olivier Darbellay horn Matthias Bühlmann bassoon Britten Sinfonietta Op. 1 Mozart Exsultate, jubilate K165 Britten Les Illuminations Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E b for flute, oboe, horn, bassoon and orchestra K297b (reconstructed version by Robert Levin) With her distinctive soprano voice, electrifying stage presence and beguiling way with words and their emotional shading, Christiane Karg always casts fresh light over the songs in her strikingly wide repertoire.

She appears with the Basel Chamber Orchestra for an enticing programme that presents Britten’s Les Illuminations, a work that resonates with sensibility, sophistication and fertile creative genius, and Mozart’s evergreen, vivacious Exsultate, jubilate. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

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Basel Chamber Orchestra

Christian Flierl

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November

ANDRÁS KELLER MASTERCLASS

Tuesday 17 November 7.30 pm

Wednesday 18 November 7.30 pm

Emerson String Quartet

Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano Joseph Breinl piano

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 Schubert String Quartet in G D887 Three Viennese classics occupy the Emerson String Quartet. The programme opens with the first of Haydn’s Op. 76 quartets, marked by the composer’s most popular melodic style. Beethoven’s String Quartet in F major and Schubert’s String Quartet in G D887, two late masterworks, express everything from gentle comedy to high tragedy. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Schubert Die Liebe (Klärchens Lied); Kolmas Klage; Blanka (Das Mädchen); Die Liebende schreibt; Wehmut; Der Zwerg; Im Abendrot; An mein Herz Berg Vier Lieder Op. 2 Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen; Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz; Das irdische Leben; Nicht wiedersehen!; Scheiden und Meiden; Urlicht Echoes of the glorious yet terrifying uncertainty of life sound in many of the works in Christianne Stotijn’s recital, strongly present in the sustained intensity of Schubert’s ‘Im Abendrot’ and poignant settings of ‘Der Zwerg’ and ‘Wehmut’, and never far from the surface of Mahler’s folk-inspired Des Knaben Wunderhorn. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

András Keller

Hegedu Nagy

Tuesday 17 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

András Keller Masterclass Classical music, and the art of chamber music-making in particular, offer timeless models for the education of future generations. András Keller, founder of the Keller Quartet, began playing violin at the age of seven and subsequently studied with, among others, Sándor Végh and György Kurtág. He won the prestigious Hubay Violin Competition in 1983 and has since pursued a distinguished career as orchestral leader, soloist and chamber musician. Keller comes to Wigmore Hall to pass on his knowledge and experience to selected string quartets from UK music colleges. £8 concs £6

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Christianne Stotijn

Marco Borggreve

November Thursday 19 November 7.30 pm

Saturday 21 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon Repeated 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Iestyn Davies countertenor Andreas Scholl countertenor Purcell From Love’s goddess sure was blind: Many such days may she behold & Sweetness of Nature and true wit Purcell By beauteous softness from Now does the glorious day appear Blow Sonata in A Purcell From Come, ye sons of art away: Strike the viol & Sound the trumpet Jenkins Fantasia a 3 Blow No, no, no Lisbia (The Queen’s Epicedium) Purcell Odes on the death of Queen Mary: Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas; O dive custos Auriacae domus Purcell From Sound the trumpet: Symphony; Let Caesar and Urania live; Chaconne Purcell From King Arthur: What power art thou (Cold Genius aria); Fairest Isle Purcell Let the fifes, and the Clarions from The Fairy Queen; Purcell Sonata in G minor; Evening Hymn

Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives: Crazy Creatures FAMILY CONCERT for ages 4 plus Musicians from Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives return to Wigmore Hall to bring to life children's books The Duck With No Luck and A Cat Called Scratch, written by Jonathan Long, illustrated by Korky Paul and published by Oxford University Press.

With lots of audience participation and image projections from the book, these concerts are an ideal introduction to classical music.

Sunday 22 November 11.30 am

Nicolas Altstaedt cello Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 Dutilleux Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher Britten Cello Suite No. 3 Op. 87 Nicolas Altstaedt, who recently succeeded Ádám Fischer as Artistic Director of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, is equally at home performing on a modern or period cello and is steeped in the performance practices from the full range of his instrument’s history. The German-French artist’s Coffee Concert programme includes mighty cello suites by Bach and Britten. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Adults £10 Children £8

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Rousing airs, laments, theatre tunes and bold songs of welcome and farewell provide exceptional material for Iestyn Davies and Andreas Scholl to explore.

The two great countertenors, consummate experts in the interpretation of the works of Purcell and his contemporaries, share the stage with The English Concert in a programme guaranteed to move the spirit and stir strong passions. £60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2015 /16 Wigmore Series

Early Music and Baroque Series/ Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Iestyn Davies

Ensemble 360

Marco Borggreve

Andreas Scholl

Benjamin Ealovega

James McMillan/Decca

Nicolas Altstaedt

Marco Borggreve

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November Sunday 22 November 7.00 pm NB starting time

Monday 23 November 1.00 pm

Monday 23 November 7.30 pm

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Alex Redington violin Hélène Clément viola John Myerscough cello Alois Posch double bass Jörg Widmann clarinet

Narek Hakhnazaryan cello Pavel Kolesnikov piano

quartet-lab

Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58 Stravinsky Suite italienne for cello and piano

ELISABETH LEONSKAJA 70TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 Brahms Waltzes Op. 39 (a selection) Jörg Widmann Eleven Humoresques Mendelssohn Clarinet Sonata in E b Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ On the eve of her seventieth birthday Elisabeth Leonskaja joins members of the Doric String Quartet and Alois Posch in Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet, introduced to Britain in 1867 and a popular favourite with audiences ever since. Their concert opens with Mozart’s wonderful three-movement G minor Piano Quartet, among the earliest and finest works created for the combination of piano, violin, viola and cello.

Two exceptional young artists, both tipped for long-term career success, perform works of great colour and vitality. Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan made his mark in 2011 as winner of the Cello First Prize and Gold Medal at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition, while his Russian-born, London-based contemporary Pavel Kolesnikov achieved his international breakthrough as Laureate of the 2012 Honens Prize for Piano. £13 concs £11

Narek Hakhnazaryan is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Isabelle van Keulen violin Lilli Maijala viola Pieter Wispelwey cello György Kurtág String Quartet Op. 1 Bartók String Quartet No. 4 Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 127 The musicians of quartet-lab will perform additional works, to be announced from the stage Each of quartet-lab’s members are superb soloists in their own right. Together they explore the alchemy of ensemble playing, challenging conventions and developing bold musical ideas in the moment of performance. ‘In a single evening, quartet-lab created a framework within which anything was possible, permissible, and comprehensible: a “framework” without any of the ossified frames of classical-concert convention’, noted the Guardian following the ensemble’s sensational Wigmore Hall concert in October 2014. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

This concert will be approximately 3 hours in duration, including two intervals £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

London Pianoforte Series/Chamber Music Season

Elisabeth Leonskaja

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Jo Schwartz

Narek Hakhnazaryan

Ruth-Crafer

quartet-lab

Ida Nisonen/Marco Borggreve/Merlijn Doomernik

November Tuesday 24 November 7.30 pm

Wednesday 25 November 7.30 pm

Cédric Tiberghien piano

Florilegium Ashley Solomon director Roderick Williams baritone

Pierre Boulez Notations Bartók Fourteen Bagatelles Op. 6; Three Burlesques for solo piano Op. 8c; Allegro Barbaro; Mikrokosmos Vol. 6; Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) Sz. 81 Béla Bartók’s piano music charts a vast expressive range, from the folksong-inspired Bagatelles and vigorous Burlesques of the early 1900s to the percussive energy of Szabadban and Allegro Barbaro.

Cédric Tiberghien’s homage to the Hungarian composer, interspersed with Pierre Boulez’s dozen Notations, also embraces the technical twists and turns of Bartók’s final Mikrokosmos volume. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series/Bartók Chamber Music

NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER

Buxtehude Sonata in C BuxWV266 Tunder Da mihi, Domine Biber Serenada a 5 ‘Der Nachtwächter’ Tunder O Jesu dulcissime Bach Trio Sonata in G BWV1038 Telemann Concerto in E minor for flute, violin and strings Bach Cantata BWV82 ‘Ich habe genug’ Florilegium is joined by the baritone Roderick Williams in a programme of music by JS Bach and three much older contemporaries, Buxtehude, Tunder and Biber. Bach’s inspiring solo cantata ‘Ich habe genug’ crowns a programme that also includes Biber’s evocative instrumental work ‘The Night Watchman’ and a rarely performed Telemann concerto.

Nikolaj Znaider

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

George Lange

Thursday 26 November 7.30 pm

Nikolaj Znaider violin Robert Kulek piano

Cédric Tiberghien

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Shostakovich Preludes Op. 34 transcribed for violin and piano by Dmitri Tsyganov (a selection) Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108

Jean-Baptiste Millot

Completed in the summer of 1946, Prokofiev’s First Violin Sonata was seen by one early critic as a hymn to the Russian ‘people’s freedom and strength’. Its tragic tone certainly reflects the fate of the millions of Soviet citizens destroyed during the Second World War. Part of the work’s first movement, suggested its composer, should sound ‘like the wind in a graveyard’. Nikolaj Znaider, one of today’s foremost violinists and a musician of jaw-dropping versatility, prefaces Prokofiev’s complex score with Beethoven’s vivacious, uplifting Violin Sonata No. 2. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Florilegium

Amit Lennon

Roderick Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

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Stile Antico 10th Anniversary Friday 27 November 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Members of Stile Antico in conversation before their 10th anniversary concert. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Friday 27 November 7.30 pm

Stile Antico IN PACE: MUSIC FOR COMPLINE Byrd I laid me down to rest Sheppard Libera nos, salva nos I & II Plainsong Veni, Domine Sheppard The Lord’s Prayer White Christe qui Lux es et Dies IV Tallis In pace in idipsum Byrd Nunc dimittis from The Great Service Mundy O Lord, the maker of all things Nico Muhly Gentle sleep* (world première) Sheppard Jesu salvator seculi, verbum Plainsong Miserere mihi Tallis Miserere nostri Byrd Miserere mihi Plainsong Salva nos Tye Nunc dimittis Sheppard In manus tuas Domine I Tallis Te lucis ante terminum Taverner Ave Dei Patris filia *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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News about Stile Antico spread like wildfire across the Early Music grapevine following the group’s success at the 2005 Early Music Network Young Artists’ Competition. The conductorless vocal ensemble’s uncanny sense of the contemplative power of sacred polyphony from the Renaissance has drawn an international following to its award-winning recordings for Harmonia Mundi, critically acclaimed touring projects and regular concert series at Wigmore Hall. This programme, complete with sublime Tudor motets and the première of Nico Muhly’s Gentle sleep, celebrates the group’s tenth anniversary in style.

Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series/Focus on Nico Muhly

Photo by Eric Richmond

November Saturday 28 November 7.30 pm

Sunday 29 November 11.30 am

Sunday 29 November 7.30 pm

Christiane Karg soprano Graham Johnson piano

Wolfgang Redik violin Christoph Berner piano

The Schubert Ensemble

Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade; Nachtgesang (D119); Das Geheimnis (D250); Das Mädchen aus der Fremde; Entzückung an Laura; Elysium; Thekla; Der Blumenbrief; Hoffnung

Mozart Sonata for piano and violin in E minor K304 Schubert Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in A minor D385 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2

BEFORE AND AFTER THE CATASTROPHE ...

1822 AND 1823 Schubert Ihr Grab; Der Wachtelschlag; Die Rose; Die Liebe hat gelogen; Du liebst mich nicht; Die Mutter Erde; Vergissmeinnicht

Alfred Einstein described the early Sonata for piano and violin in E minor as ‘one of the miracles among Mozart’s works; it springs from the most profound depths of emotion, and goes beyond the alternating dialogue style to knock at those gates of the great world of drama which Beethoven was to fling wide open’. Wolfgang Redik and Christoph Berner set this evergreen composition alongside two inspired minor-key works by Schubert and Beethoven.

Christiane Karg and Graham Johnson confront the polarities of hope and despair, pleasure and pain, love and loss in this programme, opening with Schubert’s haunting setting of Gretchen’s spinning-song from the first part of Goethe’s Faust.

Their programme explores Schubert’s heightened creativity around the time of his serious illness in 1823, framed by songs such as ‘Die Liebe hat gelogen’ and ‘Vergissmeinnicht’.

Fauré Andante in Bb Op. 75 Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47 Fauré Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor Op. 115 Fauré was in his mid-seventies when he began work on his Second Piano Quintet. The work reconnects with the energy and brio of its veteran composer’s youth, recalled against the background of the debilitating distractions of Fauré’s deafness.

The Schubert Ensemble opens its recital with his Andante in B flat for violin and piano and Schumann’s Piano Quartet Op. 47, a great landmark of the chamber music repertoire. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Christiane Karg

Gisela Schenker

Wolfgang Redik

The Schubert Ensemble

Jack Liebeck

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November/December Monday 30 November 1.00 pm

Monday 30 November 7.30 pm

Wednesday 2 December 12.15 pm

Artemis Quartet

Bejun Mehta countertenor La Nuova Musica David Bates director

Pre-Concert Talk

Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 Named after the Greek goddess of the hunt, the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet has snared a bag of five-star reviews and captured the affections of audiences worldwide. The ensemble’s recent recording of Mendelssohn string quartets was described as ‘supreme’ by Gramophone, reflecting the intensity, vision and energy of the Artemis Quartet’s approach to music-making. £13 concs £11

An introduction to the lunchtime concert with Edward Nesbit, winner of OPUS2015.

YET, CAN I HEAR THAT DULCET LAY Programme to include: Handel Aria: Siete rose rugiadose from Cantata HWV162; Mi palpita il cor HWV132c A Scarlatti Perchè tacete, regolati concenti?

Hoffmann Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde JC Bach Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte (Lamento) Vivaldi Pianti, sospiri e dimandar mercede Handel Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay from The Choice of Hercules Under the inspirational leadership of David Bates, La Nuova Musica has risen rapidly to prominence in the early music world. The ensemble is joined by the American countertenor Bejun Mehta, critically acclaimed for his ‘heartbreakingly beautiful’ tone and ‘overwhelming’ expression, qualities sure to complement the musical demands set by this programme of Baroque cantatas and arias.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Wednesday 2 December 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin Richard Watkins horn Huw Watkins piano Huw Watkins Trio for horn, violin and piano Edward Nesbit New work* (London première) Brahms Albumblatt; Horn Trio in Eb Op. 40 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

When Brahms wrote his Horn Trio, the combination of horn, violin and piano was considered an innovation.

His evergreen score has since inspired several works for the same forces, two of which feature in this programme. Huw Watkins’s trio alternates driving rhythmic passages with slower contemplative music, presented here alongside the London première of a new Horn Trio written by Edward Nesbit, winner of OPUS2015, Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall’s competition for unpublished composers. £13 concs £11

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Artemis Quartet

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Molina Visuals

Bejun Mehta

Josep Molina

Jacqueline Shave

Harry Rankin

December

ATOS TRIO BEETHOVEN PIANO TRIOS

Thursday 3 December 7.30 pm

Friday 4 December 7.30 pm

Andreas Haefliger piano

Iestyn Davies countertenor Allan Clayton tenor James Baillieu piano

Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D537 Thomas Adès Darknesse visible Mozart Piano Sonata in Bb K570 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Andreas Haefliger’s Perspectives project, in which he explores the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven alongside works by other composers to create fascinating musical juxtapositions, has formed the focus of his solo recital appearances and recordings in recent years. He returns to Wigmore Hall to present an instalment of his series, when he prepares the way for the vast spiritual and expressive depths of Beethoven’s final piano sonata with an exploration of the bold tonal contrasts and thematic invention of works by Schubert, Thomas Adès and Mozart. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series/ Contemporary Music Series

ATOS Trio

Purcell/Tippett Music for a while Purcell/Britten Sweeter than Roses Purcell/Adès Full Fathom Five Britten Canticle I: My beloved is mine Op. 40 Thomas Adès The Lover in Winter Britten Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac Op. 51 Nico Muhly New work for countertenor, tenor and piano* (world première) Barber Rain has fallen; Sleep now; I hear an army Nico Muhly Four Traditional Songs Britten Sally in our Alley; The Plough Boy; I wonder as I wander; Oliver Cromwell Purcell/Britten Lost is my quiet; Sound the trumpet *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation, by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, and anonymous donors

American composer Nico Muhly’s feeling for the sounds and clarity of pre-Classical music has proved a strong influence on his acclaimed work.

His new score crowns an ear-catching programme shrewdly devised by James Baillieu to spotlight the highest levels of invention and sophistication of English and American song.

Steven Haberland

Wednesday 2 December 7.30 pm

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

ATOS Trio

Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music Series/ Introducing James Baillieu/Focus on Nico Muhly

Beethoven Piano Trio in G Op. 1 No. 2; Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’; Piano Trio in Bb Op. 11; Piano Trio in Eb Op. 70 No. 2 Beethoven, already in demand in Vienna’s musical circles, reinforced his position in the imperial city with the publication of his three Op. 1 Piano Trios in 1795. He regularly returned to the piano trio medium over the next fifteen years, outlining a chilling vision of the supernatural in his ‘Ghost’ Trio and emulating the warmth and charm of folk music in its companion piece, the Piano Trio in E flat. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ ATOS Trio: Beethoven Piano Trios

Forthcoming Concert in the Series Sunday 6 March 2016 7.30 pm Andreas Haefliger

Marco Borggreve

Nico Muhly

Matthew Murphy

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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & Roderick Williams Saturday 5 December 7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Dominic Muldowney conductor Roderick Williams baritone Dominic Muldowney Six Cabaret Songs*: Adlestrop; At Last the Secret is Out; Foxtrot (from a play); Funeral Blues; Uffington; Underneath the abject willow Dominic Muldowney Two Shakespeare Settings: Winter; Fear No More Dominic Muldowney New song setting** (world première tour) Howard Skempton The Rime of the Ancient Mariner *** (world première tour) * BCMG Sound Investment commission 2011 **BCMG commission ***Commissioned by Maurice and Sheila Millward

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, acclaimed worldwide for the brilliance of its playing and innovative work in the concert hall and in the wider community, emerged from within the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 1987. The ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall to perform works by two outstanding British composers. Howard Skempton created his recent setting of Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for Roderick Williams and BCMG, forming another part of the composer’s long-term relationship with the ensemble. The group’s enduring commitment to the art of Dominic Muldowney, former music director of the Royal National Theatre, is reflected in a selection of songs setting poetry by, among others, Auden, Shakespeare and Housman. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Song Recital Series

Painting by Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1707

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December Sunday 6 December 11.30 am

Sunday 6 December 7.30 pm

Monday 7 December 1.00 pm

Aquinas Piano Trio

Quatuor Ebène Mitsuko Uchida piano

Adrian Brendel cello Aleksandar Madžar piano

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Ravel String Quartet in F Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44

Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Sir Harrison Birtwistle Variations for cello and piano Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65

Exquisite contrasts of colour and lyrical invention hallmark the two works in this programme’s first half, richly projected by the warmth of Haydn’s Op. 20 No. 2 and impassioned spirit of Ravel’s String Quartet in F. Mitsuko Uchida, who has taken a close interest in Quatuor Ebène since the group’s early years, joins the thrilling French quartet in Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat, a work of near-symphonic scale and intensity.

Known as one of the most thoughtful and versatile cellists of his generation, Adrian Brendel draws inspiration from a rich field of music. His deep experience of contemporary music and passion for jazz and world music inform his approach to works from his instrument’s classical mainstream. He is joined by Serbian pianist Aleksandar Madžar, another musician of striking imagination and individuality.

Saint-Saëns Piano Trio No. 1 in F Op. 18 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66

Gramophone noted how the Aquinas Piano Trio was ‘spot-on in interpretative instinct’ in its recent recording of Saint-Saëns’s Piano Trios. The acclaimed British ensemble opens this recital with the composer’s Piano Trio No. 1 of 1863, his first big success, and continues with Mendelssohn’s magnificent Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£13 concs £11

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2015/16 Wigmore Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Chamber Music Season

Aquinas Piano Trio

Mitsuko Uchida

Decca/Justin Pumfrey

Quatuor Ebène

Julien Mignot

Adrian Brendel

Jack Liebeck

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December Tuesday 8 December 7.30 pm

Wednesday 9 December 7.30 pm

Thursday 10 December 7.30 pm

Christian Poltéra cello Kathryn Stott piano

Jonathan Biss piano

I Fagiolini Anna Crookes piano Matthew Long tenor

Dvorˇák Sonatina in G Op. 100 (arr. for cello and piano by Christian Poltéra) Barber Cello Sonata Op. 6 Brahms Scherzo in C minor (arr. for cello and piano

by Christian Poltéra) Brahms Sonata in D minor Op. 108 Brahms admired and championed the music of Dvorˇák, introducing the young Czech artist’s music to his publisher and to influential German critics. Christian Poltéra’s programme includes arrangements of the Sonatina Dvorˇák created for his two children at the end of his stay in New York in 1893, and the Scherzo Brahms wrote as part of a composite work with Robert Schumann and Albert Dietrich.

Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor K457 Schoenberg 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 Mozart Piano Sonata in F K533/494 Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16 Jonathan Biss presents two great works from the final decade of Mozart’s life, travelling through the emotionally turbulent world of the composer’s Piano Sonata in C minor and exploring the harmonic daring and contrapuntal invention of the late Piano Sonata in F. The American pianist also offers his latest thoughts on Schumann’s Kreisleriana, a work central to his repertoire, and includes Schoenberg’s iconoclastic Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season

Poulenc Sept Chansons Fauré Poème d’un jour Op. 21 Françaix Ode à la gastronomie Milhaud Deux poémes Ravel Concerto in G (arr. for piano and voices

by Roderick Williams) Roderick Williams Is 5 I Fagiolini, founded by Robert Hollingworth almost thirty years ago, remains at the forefront of exploration and adventure in the performance of music for vocal ensemble. To mark the 50th birthday of Roderick Williams, whose solo singing career arose from his years with I Fagiolini, this programme includes his jaw-dropping arrangement of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G and an original composition for vocal ensemble. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

Christian Poltéra

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Nikolaj Lund

Jonathan Biss

Benjamin Ealovega

I Fagiolini

Eric Richmond

Elīna Garancˇa Friday 11 December 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Elīna Garancˇa mezzo-soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Songs by Brahms, Duparc and Rachmaninov Lyric mezzo-soprano Elīna Garancˇa made her professional debut soon after she commenced singing studies in her native Latvia, and stormed to international prominence in 2003 at the Salzburg Festival. In demand at the world’s leading opera houses, she has also flourished as a song recitalist and forged a strong artistic partnership with Malcolm Martineau. Their Wigmore Hall programme spans a vast range of emotions, moods and expressive contrasts, opening doors into the inner worlds of three exceptional song composers. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Song Recital Series

Photo by Karina Schwartz/Deutsche Grammophon

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December Saturday 12 December 7.30 pm

Sunday 13 December 11.30 am

Monday 14 December 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Hugo Wolf Quartett

Rachel Podger violin Marcin S´ wia¸tkiewicz

Nash Ensemble John Mark Ainsley tenor Mozart String Quintet in Bb K174 Respighi Deità silvane (arr. D Matthews for tenor and ensemble) Rossini Songs from Les soirées musicales Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 in B b Op. 87 Mozart’s earliest string quintet and Mendelssohn’s late Second Quintet, with its impassioned slow movement, frame this fascinating programme.

John Mark Ainsley joins the Nash for the concert’s Italian element, Respighi’s magical portraits of the ‘woodland deities’ of antiquity, and songs written during Rossini’s long retirement as an opera composer. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season /Song Recital Series/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 33 No. 5 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

harpsichord, organ

David Miller lute

Founded in Vienna in 1993, the Hugo Wolf Quartett combines curiosity with compassion in its dynamic approach to making music. The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall concert opens with Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 5, popularly known as the ‘How-do-you-do?’ for its genial introduction, and touches the anxious heart of Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 13 December 7.30 pm

Hespèrion XXI Jordi Savall director, treble viol

Biber Mystery Sonatas: No. 1 ‘The Annunciation’; No. 2 ‘The Visitation’; No. 3 ‘The Nativity’; No. 9 ‘Jesus Carries the Cross’; No. 10 ‘The Crucifixion’; No. 11 ‘The Resurrection’; Passacaglia German composers of the seventeenth century cultivated extraordinary works for violin, hallmarked by their virtuosity and invention. Heinrich Biber’s so-called Mystery Sonatas, completed in the mid-1670s, rank among the genre’s finest achievements. Rachel Podger presents a selection of pieces from the set, exploring their spiritual relationship to the ancient Rosary devotion and revealing their transcendent beauty.

All seats £15

MUSICAL EUROPE: 1550 –1650 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

See page opposite for full details

John Mark Ainsley

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Hugo Wolf Quartett

Nancy Horowitz

Rachel Podger

Jonas Sacks

Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XXI Sunday 13 December 7.30 pm

Hespèrion XXI Jordi Savall director, treble viol MUSICAL EUROPE: 1550 –1650 ITALIAN DANCES OF THE VENETIAN RENAISSANCE

Anonymous Pavana del Re; Galliarda la Traditora; El Todescho; Saltarello ELIZABETHAN CONSORT MUSIC

Dowland Lacrimae Pavan; The King of Denmark, His galliard Orlando Gibbons In Nomine a 4 William Brade Ein Schottisch Tanz SPANISH DANCES AND VARIATIONS

Luys del Milà Pavana & Gallarda Antonio de Cabezón Diferencias sobre la Dama le demanda Diego Ortiz Romanesca & Passamezzo moderno Anonymous (improvisation) Canarios MUSIC FOR KING LOUIS XIII

Anonymous (Philidor) Pavane de la petitte Guerre & Gaillarde; Sarabanda a l’italien; Courante de la Reine d’Angleterre; Bourrée d’Avignonez GERMAN MUSIC

Samuel Scheidt Paduan V; Courant Dolorosa IX; Galliard Battaglia XXI EUROPEAN BAROQUE MUSIC Joan Cabanilles Corrente Italiana Henry Purcell Fantasia XII Guillaume Dumanoir Libertas Antonio Valente Gallarda Napolitana For all the difficulties of travel four centuries ago, fresh ideas flowed freely between major European centres of trade and commerce. Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI have probably done more than any other ensemble to show the correspondences and cross-fertilisation that occurred when musicians absorbed new fashions from abroad and exported their knowledge to other lands. Their programme shows how simple dance forms were transformed into works of irresistible elegance for the ears of Renaissance Europe’s powerbrokers and leaders. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

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Cesti: Orontea La Nuova Musica Monday 14 December 7.30 pm

La Nuova Musica David Bates director Anna Stéphany mezzo-soprano (Orontea) Jonathan McGovern baritone (Alidoro) Mary Bevan soprano (Silandra) Michal Czerniawski countertenor (Corindo) Anat Edri soprano (Giacinta) Sam Furness tenor (Aristea) Timothy Dickinson bass (Creonte) Christopher Turner tenor (Tibrino) Callum Thorpe bass-baritone (Gelone) Cesti Orontea In the mere eight years since La Nuova Musica’s foundation, the ensemble has surged to prominence, hailed by BBC Radio 3 as ‘one of the most exciting consorts in the Early Music field’, and acclaimed by reviewers worldwide for the expressive freedom, deep intelligence and coruscating beauty of its performances. Arguably one of the most popular operas of the seventeenth century, La Nuova Musica and its stellar line-up of singers bring to life this work in the intimate setting of Wigmore Hall.

This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes in duration, including an interval £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

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Graeme Robertson

December Thursday 17 December 7.30 pm

WALTRAUD MEIER

PATRICIA PETIBON

Brad Mehldau piano See page 66 for full details Friday 18 December 7.30 pm

Brad Mehldau piano See page 66 for full details Saturday 19 December 7.30 pm

Belcea Quartet Till Fellner piano Patricia Petibon

Bernard Martinez

Wednesday 16 December 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Debut

Waltraud Meier

Nomi Baumgartl

Tuesday 15 December 7.30 pm

Waltraud Meier mezzo-soprano Joseph Breinl piano Mahler Kindertotenlieder Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt Mahler Five Rückert Lieder One of the world’s finest Wagnerians, a singer of remarkable expressive power and radiant vocal richness, Waltraud Meier explores the heightened emotional states of songs by Mahler and Wagner. She moves from the grief-stricken energy of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder to Wagner’s intensely Romantic Wesendonck Lieder in her programme’s first half. Her recital concludes with Mahler’s ‘Five Rückert Lieder’, first published in 1910, a year before the composer’s death, in company with songs from his ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’ settings.

Patricia Petibon soprano Susan Manoff piano LA BELLE EXCENTRIQUE Hahn A Chloris; Pholoé; Quand je fus pris au pavillon Fauré Spleen Rosenthal Rêverie; Pêcheur de lune Fauré Les berceaux Rosenthal Fido, Fido & L’éléphant du jardin des plantes from Chansons du Monsieur Bleu Poulenc Hôtel; Voyage à Paris; Hier; Les gars qui vont à la fête; Les chemins de l’amour Collet A vida dos arreiros Obradors El vito Falla Asturiana Turina Cantares Canteloube Pastouro, sé tu m’aymo; La delaïssádo Satie Sur un vaisseau (for solo piano); La statue de bronze; Daphénéo Bernstein La Bonne Cuisine Gershwin Prelude (for solo piano) Lara Granada

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Thomas Larcher New work for string quartet* (UK première) Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

The Belcea Quartet’s collaboration with Thomas Larcher, securely established three years ago with his Piano Quintet, continues with the UK première of his latest Wigmore Hall commission. Austrian pianist Till Fellner joins the Belceas for Brahms’s expansive Piano Quintet in F minor, a work of wholehearted lyricism and free-flowing thematic variation. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

The sounds and artistic concerns of Belle Époque Paris echo throughout Patricia Petibon’s glorious programme, complete with chansons by Poulenc and Fauré. The French coloratura soprano, in company with her regular duo partner Susan Manoff, also explores the exquisitely eccentric musical inventions of Erik Satie and songs from the long-lived Manuel Rosenthal’s Chansons du Monsieur Bleu.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Song Recital Series

Till Fellner

Benjamin Ealovega

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Brad Mehldau Thursday 17 December 7.30 pm

Brad Mehldau piano Bach Preludes and Fugues from The Well-tempered Clavier Brad Mehldau Three Pieces after Bach* (UK première) Improvisations on Bach *Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, The Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto, The National Concert Hall Dublin, and Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Even the most densely stocked thesaurus would run short of the superlatives needed to describe American composer, arranger and pianist Brad Mehldau’s creative contribution to the development of contemporary jazz. He returns to Wigmore Hall to perform a selection of his own material, including a première of a specially commissioned work.

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Friday 18 December 7.30 pm

Brad Mehldau piano A programme of improvised jazz

For many years Brad Mehldau has been fascinated with the art of improvisation and how other composers and their soundworlds influence the ear of a jazz musician. Brad joins us for an evening of improvisation sure to be a sparkling highlight of this season’s Jazz Series at Wigmore Hall.

This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Photo by Michael Wilson

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December Sunday 20 December 11.30 am

Doric String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 64 No. 4 Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 Schumann’s String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 arose from his close study of Beethoven’s late string quartets and the contributions to the genre by Haydn and Mozart. The Doric String Quartet sets the scene with Haydn’s astonishingly individual, wonderfully subversive response to Classical conventions of composition.

EXAUDI

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

EXAUDI

Matthew Andrews

Sunday 20 December 7.30 pm

EXAUDI James Weeks director EIN KIND IST UNS GEBOREN Schütz From Geistliche Chormusic (1648): Ein Kind ist uns geboren; Das Wort ward Fleisch; Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock; Selig sind die Toten; Ich weiss, dass mein Erlöser lebt; O lieber Herre Gott; Die mit Tränen säen; So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ; Es ist erschienen die heilsame Gnade Gottes; Unser keiner lebet ihm selber; Viel werden kommen; Herr, auf dich traue ich Christopher Fox Trostlieder (in Widerwärtigkeit des Kriegs)* (world première) * Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation; additional commissioning partners to be announced

Following formative training in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli, Heinrich Schütz devoted his long creative life to his duties as Kapellmeister to the electors of Saxony in Dresden. EXAUDI explores treasures from the composer’s great anthology of sacred pieces, the Geistliche Chormusic, published in the closing months of the bloody Thirty Years War. Christopher Fox’s new work, written specially for this concert in his 60th birthday year, is a companion piece to Schütz’s great masterpiece, and sets texts from Martin Opitz’s ‘Poems of Comfort’ (1633), which Schütz would have known well. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series

Doric String Quartet

George Garnier

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L’Arpeggiata Monday 21 December 7.30 pm

L’Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Núria Rial soprano LA DAMA D’ARAGO Traditional (Catalan) La dama d’Aragó; La Filadora; La Margarideta; Mareta, no’m faces plorar; La gata i en belitre; La presó de Lleida; La ploma de perdiu; La Mare de Déu; El Cant dels aucells; Eixa nit és nit de vetlla; El Mariner Improvisation Canario (instrumental) Anonymous Bella, de vós som amorós from Cançoner del Duc de Calabria (pub. 1556); Ciaccona (instrumental) Soler Fandango (instrumental) Traditional (Ladino) Durme, durme (Canción Sefardí) Traditional (Mallorcan) Jota Marineira (instrumental); Bolero de s’escandalari This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

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Edgy and exciting, impassioned and profoundly moving, every performance by Christina Pluhar’s L’Arpeggiata opens up for the listener the chance to connect with the visceral power of music being made as if for the first time.

Traditional Catalan and Mallorcan songs and dances provide the departure point for this programme, one guaranteed to resonate long in heart and mind.

Early Music and Baroque Series Photo by Reiner Pfisterer

December Tuesday 22 December 7.30 pm

Isabelle Faust violin Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Alexander Melnikov piano Schumann Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor Op. 110 Salvatore Sciarrino Piano Trio No. 2 Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898

ENSEMBLE CORRESPONDANCES

Three outstanding soloists and deep-thinking chamber musicians join forces to perform a captivating collection of piano trios. Salvatore Sciarrino’s Second Piano Trio dates from the late 1980s and reflects the composer’s long-standing fascination with sound and silence, and the margins between them. Jean-Guihen Queyras and his close friends and colleagues conclude with Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1, famously praised by Schumann for its ‘lyrical and feminine’ grace. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series/ Jean-Guihen Queyras Artist in Residence

Ensemble Correspondances

Molina Visuals

Wednesday 23 December 7.30 pm

Ensemble Correspondances Sébastien Daucé director, organ, harpsichord A LA VENUE DE NOËL French sacred music of the seventeenth century for the Christmas season Traditional (17th century) A la venue de Noël Bouzignac Visitat Maria Elisabeth Boesset Magnificat Charpentier Pastorale sur la naissance de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ H483 Traditional (17th century) Or nous dites Marie Charpentier Or nous dites Marie from Noëls sur les instruments H534 Moulinié Magi Videntes Charpentier Annunciate superi H333; Litanies de la vierge H83 Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s music for Christmas encapsulates the tenderness and loving-kindness surrounding the birth of Jesus and the celebration of his arrival in the world. Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances have earned a deserved reputation as perceptive and characterful interpreters of the French composer’s work, attracting rave reviews to a recent recording of his Litanies de la vierge. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Isabelle Faust

Felix Broede

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December Sunday 27 December 11.30 am

Sunday 27 December 7.30 pm

Monday 28 December 7.30 pm

Michael Barenboim violin Denis Kozhukhin piano

Philippe Cassard piano

Max Emanuel Cencic countertenor Armonia Atenea George Petrou director, harpsichord Theodoros Kitsos mandolin

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 Brahms wrote his first violin sonata, a work of extraordinary lyrical beauty, in 1878 in the resort town of Pörtschach. He returned to the genre almost a decade later, embarking on two further works by the shore of Lake Thun in Switzerland. Michael Barenboim and Denis Kozhukhin survey the three compositions, exploring the composer’s spellbinding economy of expression and gorgeous melodic invention.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes in duration, without an interval £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

DEBUSSY PERSPECTIVES I: DEBUSSY’S TRAVELS ASIE, ASIE! Debussy Pagodes from Estampes; Pour les quartes No. 3 from Études Book I MÉDITERRANÉE Debussy La puerta del vino from Préludes Book II; La sérénade interrompue from Préludes Book I; La soirée dans Grenade from Estampes; Les collines d’Anacapri from Préludes Book I PAYSAGES ET POÈTES FRANÇAIS Debussy Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir from Préludes Book I; Apparition; Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (transcribed by Philippe Cassard) MYTHOLOGIES Debussy Danseuses de Delphes from Préludes Book I; Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut from Images, Series II; La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune from Préludes Book II; Pour la danseuse aux crotales & Pour l’égyptienne from Six épigraphes antiques

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Debussy La danse de Puck from Préludes Book I; Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. from Préludes Book II; Golliwogg’s Cake-Walk from Children’s Corner; General Lavine – eccentric from Préludes Book II

Michael Barenboim

Janine Escher

Philippe Cassard’s lucid pianism regularly attracts critical praise, thanks, above all, to its blend of refined musicianship, poetic tonal shadings and infinite subtlety. He trains his focus on the piano works of Claude Debussy over the next three seasons at Wigmore Hall. This recital marks the first date of the Debussy Perspectives three-concert series, with forthcoming dates on Saturday 29 October 2016 and Monday 20 November 2017.

ROKOKO Hasse Sinfonia a quattro in G minor Op. 5 No. 6 Hasse Saper ti basti o cara from Il trionfo di Clelia; Ch’io parto reo lo vedi from Tito Vespasiano Haydn Keyboard Concerto in C HXVIII:1 Hasse Se mai senti from Tito Vespasiano; Scherza il nocchier talora from Demetrio; Per pietà, bell’idol mio from Artaserse; Solca il mar e nel periglio from Tigrane Hasse Mandolin Concerto in G Op. 3 No. 11 Hasse Se volete eterni dei from Arminio; Si, di ferri mi cingete from Viriate Max Emanuel Cencic, acclaimed worldwide for his artistic distinction and programming enterprise, continues his partnership with George Petrou’s Armonia Atenea with a programme of operatic arias and other works by Johann Adolf Hasse, among the eighteenth century’s most successful composers. Petrou also directs his award-winning period instrument ensemble in Haydn’s genial Keyboard Concerto in C of 1756, written during its young composer’s formative years in Vienna. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

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Vincent Catala

Max Emanuel Cencic

Julian Laidig

December Tuesday 29 December 7.30 pm

Wednesday 30 December 7.30 pm

Thursday 31 December 7.00 pm NB starting time

Christian Blackshaw piano

Modigliani Quartet Beatrice Rana piano

The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director

Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3; Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47; Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44

Britten A Hymn to the Virgin; The Sycamore Tree; A Shepherd’s Carol Howells A Spotless Rose; Sing Lullaby; Here is the little door Warlock Benedicamus Domino; As Dewe in Aprylle; Bethlehem Down; Cornish Christmas Carol Holst This have I done for my true love Finzi All this night Elgar Four Choral Songs Op. 53 Moeran Songs of Springtime Vaughan Williams Five English Folksongs

Schubert 6 Moments Musicaux D780 Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26 Schubert Piano Sonata in D D850 Schumann’s fizzing evocation of Vienna’s Carnival complements the melodic invention of works by Schubert, one of the Austrian imperial capital’s finest creative artists. Christian Blackshaw’s programme includes the Piano Sonata in D D850, written at Gastein in the Austrian Alps in 1825, hallmarked by the virtuosity and concision of its first movement and the symphonic scope of its scherzo. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Formed by four close friends a dozen years ago, the Modigliani Quartet makes regular appearances at the world’s leading concert halls. The ensemble is joined for this recital by Beatrice Rana, the sensational young winner of the Audience Award and Second Prize at the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition, for an all-Schumann programme capped by the composer’s Piano Quintet in E flat, a towering landmark of the nineteenth-century chamber repertoire.

London Pianoforte Series

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Andrew Carwood’s passion for twentieth-century British sacred choral music took hold during his time as a boy chorister at St John’s College, Cambridge, and has deepened over the intervening four decades.

He leads The Cardinall’s Musick into the New Year with a programme of timeless Christmas compositions and a choice selection of part-songs, including Elgar’s ambitious Four Choral Songs, written over Christmas 1907, and Moeran’s Songs of Springtime. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Christian Blackshaw

Modigliani Quartet

Herbie Knott

Sylvie Lancrenon

Beatrice Rana

The Cardinall’s Musick

Neda Navaee

Dmitri Gutjahr

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Contemporary Music Series Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, as commissioner of new works and champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least through its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London premières. ‘Our commissioning scheme is already the most extensive in Europe for chamber music’, comments Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly. ‘We plan to present up to 40 commissions per season and make Wigmore Hall one of the world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’

Full details of these concerts are provided throughout the brochure in chronological order. Booking for all concerts in this series opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May and to the General Public on 29 May.

Saturday 10 October 11.30 am

Saturday 24 October 7.30 pm

Monday 9 November 7.30 pm

Ensemble Modern

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton artistic director, leader Maxim Rysanov viola

Gil Shaham violin Sejong Soloists

Friedrich Cerha Saturday 10 October 3.00 pm

Krzysztof Penderecki

Sergey Akhunov & Dobrinka Tabakova

Boulanger Trio Andreas Schablas clarinet

Friday 6 November 7.30 pm

Stile Antico

Friedrich Cerha

Arditti Quartet

Nico Muhly*

Saturday 10 October 7.30 pm

Berio, Michael Jarrell*, Morton Feldman & Sir Harrison Birtwistle*

Wednesday 2 December 1.00 pm

Saturday 7 November 7.30 pm

Britten Sinfonia

Ensemble Modern HK Gruber chansonnier

Friday 27 November 7.30 pm

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

Nash Ensemble Claire Booth soprano Ian Brown piano Philippa Davies flute

György Kurtág & Philippe Manoury*

John Woolrich* & Julian Anderson*

Friedrich Cerha* Monday 12 October 7.30 pm

Jacqueline Shave violin Richard Watkins horn Huw Watkins piano Huw Watkins & Edward Nesbit* Thursday 3 December 7.30 pm

Andreas Haefliger piano Thomas Adès

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Friday 4 December 7.30 pm

Wednesday 20 January 2016 1.00 pm

Wednesday 13 April 2016 1.00 pm

Iestyn Davies countertenor Allan Clayton tenor James Baillieu piano

Britten Sinfonia

Britten Sinfonia

Anna Clyne * & Salvatore Sciarrino

Bryce Dessner*

Wednesday 3 February 2016 7.30 pm

Wednesday 20 April 2016 7.30 pm

Takács Quartet Aleksandar Madžar piano

Anssi Karttunen cello Nicolas Hodges piano

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Dominic Muldowney conductor Roderick Williams baritone

Timo Andres

Sir Harrison Birtwistle & Sean Shepherd*

Saturday 13 February 2016 7.30 pm

Wednesday 27 April 2016 7.30 pm

Scharoun Ensemble

Rolf Hind piano

Dominic Muldowney & Howard Skempton

Mark Andre, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Henze & Jörg Widmann

Rolf Hind, Hans Abrahamsen, Simon SteenAndersen & Sir Peter Maxwell Davies*

Friday 19 February 2016 7.30 pm

Thursday 12 May 2016 7.30 pm

Carolin Widmann violin

Mark Padmore tenor Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano Ryan Wigglesworth piano

Thomas Adès & Nico Muhly* Saturday 5 December 7.30 pm

Thursday 10 December 7.30 pm

I Fagiolini Anna Crookes piano Matthew Long tenor

Pascal Dusapin*

Roderick Williams

Monday 22 February 2016 7.30 pm

Saturday 19 December 7.30 pm

Ensemble intercontemporain

Belcea Quartet Till Fellner piano

George Crumb & Aurélio Edler-Copes* Wednesday 24 February 2016 1.00 pm

Ryan Wigglesworth* Saturday 21 May 2016 7.30 pm

Augustin Hadelich violin Charles Owen piano

Thomas Larcher*

Britten Sinfonia

David Lang & André Previn

Sunday 20 December 7.30 pm

Donatoni & Daníel Bjarnason*

Thursday 2 June 2016 7.30 pm

EXAUDI James Weeks director

Saturday 27 February 2016 7.30 pm

JACK Quartet

Apartment House

John Zorn, Caroline Shaw & Helmut Lachenmann

Egidija Medeksˇaite˙ *, Leo Chadburn*, Luiz Henrique Yudo, Henning Christiansen, Martin Arnold & John White

Wednesday 22 June 2016 7.30 pm

Thursday 17 March 2016 7.30 pm

James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano

Ensemble Modern

Sally Beamish*

Christopher Fox* Tuesday 22 December 7.30 pm

Isabelle Faust violin Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Alexander Melnikov piano Salvatore Sciarrino Monday 4 January 2016 7.30 pm

Christian Tetzlaff violin Tanja Tetzlaff piano Jörg Widmann

Hannes Seidl* & Michael Quell*

Friday 15 July 2016 7.30 pm

Thursday 7 April 2016 7.30 pm

Doric String Quartet

Kuss Quartet

Donnacha Dennehy*

Sir Harrison Birtwistle

* Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

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EVENTS FOR FAMILIES,YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS All events listed on pages 74 – 77 will open for booking on 29 May, with the exception of Come and Sing on 9 September, and the Family Concerts on 3 October and 21 November, which go on sale to Friends on 8 May and to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May.

We are grateful to John Lyon’s Charity and Nigel Higgins for their support of our Schools Programme

September/October Wednesday 9 September 5.30 pm – 9.00 pm

Saturday 3 October 1.00 pm – 2 .00 pm

Come and Sing in German

Stile Antico

As part of a series of events linked to the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition, Isabelle Adams leads a workshop for adults exploring a range of German music and song, including some of Schubert’s choral music. Spend the evening getting to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.

FAMILY CONCERT An interactive performance for families with outstanding vocal ensemble Stile Antico. Hear some magical music, most of which is over 400 years old, and join in together with some activities alongside presenter Isabelle Adams.

£18 concs £13

Adults £10 Children £8

For ages 5 plus

Thursday 8 October 11.00 am – 12 noon www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Saturday 26 September 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Stile Antico KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT

Behind Closed Doors FAMILY DAY For ages 6 plus

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Saturday 19 September 10.30 am – 3.00 pm

Open House Day Join us for an opportunity to look behind the scenes and behind the music at Wigmore Hall with free performances and family workshops taking place throughout the day.

A repeat of the Family Concert on 3 October, for schools. £3.50

When the doors are locked and the visitors have gone home, what mischief do lords and ladies of The Wallace Collection get up to? Come and meet the quirky characters in the paintings, make up some spooky stories and compose your own music to perform onstage at Wigmore Hall at the end of the day.

Adults £15 Children £12

In partnership with The Wallace Collection

Free (no ticket required)

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October/November Saturday 14 November 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Emilia Mårtensson FAMILY CONCERT WITH EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL For ages 6 plus Join singer Emilia Mårtensson for a journey to some magical places created entirely by the power of words, music and your imagination.

Emilia blends influences from folk and jazz music to create her unique sound, exploring stories and songs from around the world.

Adults £10 Children £8

Emilia Mårtensson

Thursday 29 October 11.00 am – 4.00 pm Friday 30 October 11.00 am – 4.00 pm

Saturday 14 November 10.00 am – 12.00 noon Repeated 2.30 pm – 4.30 pm

Musical Portraits HALF TERM COURSE

Family Sing with Emilia Mårtensson

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS

FAMILY WORKSHOP WITH EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL

Following the success of our long-running summer course, we have introduced more opportunities for young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders to be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, and create art works and music with Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble Ignite.

For ages 6 plus

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For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email ruth@turtlekeyarts.org.uk

Tuesday 10 November 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm

Free (application required)

Voiceworks Alumni Concert

In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts

Linked to the Family Concert, this accessible workshop is a chance for families to come and sing together. Work with the inspirational singer Emlia Mårtensson to learn some jazz and folk songs and create some magical musical worlds of your own.

Adults £15 Children £12, including workshop and a ticket to the concert at 1.00 pm

A showcase of new music for voice by composers, poets, instrumentalists and singers who have previously taken part in the Voiceworks programme.

Voiceworks is a unique collaboration between poets from the Contemporary Poetics research centre at Birkbeck, University of London and students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, brought together by Wigmore Hall Learning.

Details at www.voiceworks.org.uk Free (ticket required)

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November/December Saturday 21 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon Repeated 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives: Crazy Creatures FAMILY CONCERT For ages 4 plus A repeat of the Schools Concert on 20 November, for families.

Adults £10 Children £8

Friday 4 December 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Relaxed Concert with Members of Aurora Orchestra Musicians from the renowned Aurora Orchestra present a diverse programme of music in a relaxed and informal environment. This concert is open to everyone, and is especially welcoming to people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders or learning disabilities. £5

Illustration by Korky Paul, published by Oxford University Press

Friday 20 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon Repeated 1.30 pm – 2.30 pm

Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives: Crazy Creatures RECEPTION AND KEY STAGE 1 SCHOOLS CONCERT Musicians from Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives return to Wigmore Hall to bring to life children’s books The Duck With No Luck and A Cat Called Scratch, written by Jonathan Long, illustrated by Korky Paul and published by Oxford University Press. With lots of audience participation and image projections from the book, this concert is an ideal introduction to classical music. £3.50

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Aurora Orchestra

Simon Weir

December Friday 11 December and Saturday 12 December 10.00 am – 10.45 am 11.00 am – 11.45 am 12.45 pm – 1.30 pm 1.45 pm – 2.30 pm

A Winter Dream INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE For ages 1– 5 years

Aurora Orchestra musicians guide little feet on an immersive journey through magical worlds.

Featuring works by Debussy, this multi-sensory performance will enable families to step inside this wonderful music and come face to face with the characters it creates. Enter into our enchanted winter to listen and explore together.

Adults £10 Children £8

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Chamber Zone FREE CONCERT TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOLS Over the last eight years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticket scheme Chamber Zone has reached over 5,000 young people aged 8 –25 years.

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust For details on the concerts included in the Chamber Zone scheme and how to book visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk /chamberzone www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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SPRING PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2016

These concerts (except where stated) 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 2015.

January 2016 Saturday 2 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 3 January 3.00 pm

Monday 4 January 7.30 pm

Christian Ihle Hadland piano

Maximilian Schmitt tenor Gerold Huber piano

Christian Tetzlaff violin Tanja Tetzlaff cello

Songs by Beethoven, Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann

Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Jörg Widmann 24 Duos for violin and cello Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7

Bach Italian Concerto in F BWV971 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A Op. 2 No. 2 Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54 Brahms 2 Rhapsodies Op. 79 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 14

Song Recital Series

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

London Pianoforte Series Monday 4 January 1.00 pm

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Sunday 3 January 11.30 am

Benjamin Appl baritone

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Johannes Moser cello Benjamin Moser piano

Pianist to be announced

Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C Op. 119 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19

Programme to be announced

Tuesday 5 January 7.30 pm

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Heath Quartet James Baillieu piano

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Benjamin Appl is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546; Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414 Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84 Chamber Music Season/Introducing James Baillieu

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Christian Ihle Hadland

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Anders Bergersen

Benjamin Appl

David Jerusalem

Christian Tetzlaff

Giorgia Bertazzi

January 2016 Wednesday 6 January 7.30 pm

Friday 8 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 10 January 3.00 pm

Christopher Maltman baritone Graham Johnson piano

The English Concert Kristian Bezuidenhout

Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano

Schubert Szene aus Goethes ‘Faust’; An den Mond (D193); An die Nachtigall (D196); An die Apfelbäume, wo ich Julien erblickte; Auf den Tod einer Nachtigall; Die Nonne; Die Bürgschaft; Liane; Fragment aus dem Aeschylus; Liedesend; Rückweg; Alte Liebe rostet nie; Zum Punsche FROM THE BATTLEFIELD Schubert An die Leier; Normans Gesang; Das Heimweh (D851); Romanze des Richard Löwenherz; Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

guest director, fortepiano

Brahms Ständchen Op. 106 No. 1; Spanisches Lied; O kühler Wald; Von ewiger Liebe Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Bridge Love went a-riding Gibbs Five Eyes Vaughan Williams The Water Mill Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci O’Connor The Old House Weill The Saga of Jenny Porter The Tale of the Oyster Bolcom Amor from 12 Cabaret Songs

JC Bach Symphony in Eb Op. 6 No. 3 CPE Bach Concerto in C for fortepiano and strings Wq. 20 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 in E b K271 Mozart Symphony No. 15 in G K124 Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday 10 January 11.30 am

Daniel-Ben Pienaar piano

Song Recital Series/Introducing James Baillieu

Chopin 3 Nouvelles Études; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 Schubert Moments Musicaux D780: No. 3 in F minor; Impromptu in Ab D935 No. 2; Piano Sonata in A D959

Thursday 7 January 7.30 pm

Michael Roll piano

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Beethoven 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 Brahms Klavierstücke Op. 76 Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960

Sunday 10 January 7.30 pm

James Ehnes violin Andrew Armstrong piano Bartók Rhapsody No. 2; Sonata for solo violin Sz. 117; Sonatina for violin and piano (arr. E. Gertler with Bartók); Violin Sonata No. 1 Sz. 75

London Pianoforte Series

Chamber Music Season/Bartók Chamber Music

Christopher Maltman

Levon Biss

Daniel-Ben Pienaar

Ondrej Bires

Anna Huntley

Kaupo Kikkas

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January 2016 Monday 11 January 1.00 pm

Wednesday 13 January 7.30 pm

Friday 15 January 7.30 pm

Pavel Kolesnikov piano

Llyˆr Williams piano

Programme to be announced

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’; 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme in Eb ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35; Piano Sonata No. 12 in Ab Op. 26; Piano Sonata in G minor Op. 49 No. 1; Piano Sonata in G Op. 49 No. 2

La Serenissima Adrian Chandler director, violin Peter Whelan bassoon

Pavel Kolesnikov is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

London Pianoforte Series/ Llyˆr Williams Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle

Monday 11 January 7.30 pm Thursday 14 January 7.30 pm

Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone Wolfram Rieger piano Schubert Pensa, che questo istante; Schäfers Klagelied; Erlkönig; An Schwager Kronos; Wie Ulfru fischt; Fahrt zum Hades; Der Schiffer (D536); Auf dem See; Auf der Donau; Das Abendrot (D627); Grenzen der Menschheit; Heliopolis I & II; L’incanto degli occhi; Il modo di prender moglie; Il traditor deluso Schubert From Schwanengesang: Der Atlas; Ihr Bild; Das Fischermädchen; Die Stadt; Am Meer; Der Doppelgänger

Renaud Capuçon violin Alina Ibragimova violin Gérard Caussé viola Gautier Capuçon cello Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 Schubert String Quartet in G D887 Chamber Music Season

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Vivaldi Concerto in D for violin ‘in tromba marina’, strings and continuo RV221; Concerto in G minor for bassoon, strings and continuo RV496; Concerto in G for violin ‘in tromba marina’, strings and continuo RV313; Concerto in Bb for bassoon, strings and continuo RV501 ‘La notte’ Vivaldi The Four Seasons (Manchester version): Concerto in E for violin Op. 8 No. 1 ‘La Primavera’ RV269; Concerto in G minor for violin Op. 8 No. 2 ‘L’Estate’ RV315; Concerto in F for violin Op. 8 No. 3 ‘L’Autumno’ RV293; Concerto in F minor for violin Op. 8 No. 4 ‘L’Inverno’ RV297 Early Music and Baroque Series

Saturday 16 January 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Roderick Williams baritone Roger Vignoles piano Boccherini String Quintet in C Op. 28 No. 4 Wolf Italian Serenade in G Songs by Mendelssohn Mozart String Quintet in G minor K516 Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians

Luca Pisaroni

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Marco Borggreve

La Serenissima

Benjamin Harte

January 2016 Sunday 17 January 11.30 am

Monday 18 January 1.00 pm

Wednesday 20 January 12.15 pm

Endymion

Dejan Lazic´ piano

Pre-Concert Talk

Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581

Haydn Piano Sonata in E b HXVI:52 Shostakovich Three Fantastic Dances Op. 5 Schumann Waldscenen Op. 82 Dejan Lazic´ 3 Istrian Dances Op. 15a

An introduction to the lunchtime concert with composer Anna Clyne.

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Sunday 17 January 3.00 pm

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Contemporary Music Series

Emily Garland soprano Claire Barnett-Jones mezzo-soprano Henry Neill baritone Božidar Smiljanic´ bass-baritone Jâms Coleman piano Jonathan Lakeland piano

Monday 18 January 7.30 pm

Wednesday 20 January 1.00 pm

The Endellion String Quartet

Britten Sinfonia

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Haydn String Quartet in A Op. 20 No. 6 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

Julia Doyle soprano Nicholas Daniel oboe Jacqueline Shave violin

The ballads of Loewe and Liszt Chamber Music Season

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

Tuesday 19 January 7.30 pm

Song Recital Series

Classical Opera Ian Page conductor

Sunday 17 January 7.30 pm

Renaud Capuçon violin Nicholas Angelich piano

‘MOZART 250’: 1766 – A RETROSPECTIVE

Busoni Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 36a Mozart Violin Sonata in G K379 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2

Programme to include: Mozart Symphony in Bb K22; Or che il dover ... Tali e cotanti sono; Per pietà, bell’ idol mio; O temerario Arbace ... Per quel paterno amplesso Haydn Non v’è chi mi aiuta from La canterina; Et incarnatus est from Missa Cellensis

Chamber Music Season

Early Music and Baroque Series

Renaud Capuçon

François Darmigny

Dejan Lazic´

Susie Knoll

Bach Aria: Gott versorget alles Leben from Cantata BWV187; Aria: Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not from Cantata BWV21 Ligeti Continuum Anna Clyne New work* (London première) Salvatore Sciarrino Due arie notturne dal campo (arr. of two arias by A Scarlatti) *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £13 concs £11

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Anna Clyne

Javier Oddo

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January 2016 Wednesday 20 January 7.30 pm

Friday 22 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 24 January 7.30 pm

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch

Mark Padmore tenor Paul Lewis piano

Lisa Batiashvili violin Valeriy Sokolov violin Gérard Caussé viola Gautier Capuçon cello Frank Braley piano

Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Arensky Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 32 Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor Op. posth Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87 Chamber Music Season

Thursday 21 January 7.30 pm

Lawrence Power viola Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Brahms Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze; Sommerabend; Mondenschein; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht; Es schauen die Blumen; Meerfahrt Schubert An den Mond (D296); Meeres Stille (D216); Gesänge des Harfners; An Schwager Kronos Wolf Der Rattenfänger; Spottlied aus Wilhelm Meister; Blumengruss; Gleich und gleich; Phänomen; Anakreons Grab; Ob der Koran von Ewigkeit; Trunken müssen wir allen sein!; So lang man nüchtern ist; Sie haben wegen der Trunkenheit; Was in der Schenke waren heute Song Recital Series

DUTILLEUX 100TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Dutilleux Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher Dutilleux 3 Préludes: D’ombre et de silence; Sur un même accord; Le jeu des contraires Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Dutilleux String Quartet ‘Ainsi la nuit’ Chamber Music Season

ECMA Showcase

Saturday 23 January 7.30 pm

Friday 22 January 1.00 pm

Alexander Melnikov piano

Monday 25 January 1.00 pm

Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 Skryabin Fantasie Op. 28; Deux Poèmes Op. 32; Piano Sonata No. 3 in F# minor Op. 23; Cinq Préludes Op. 74

Armida Quartet

Saturday 23 January 11.00 am – Masterclass Saturday 23 January 3.00 pm Sunday 24 January 3.00 pm

Mettis String Quartet Stratos Quartet piano quartet Arcis Saxophone Quartet Meta4 string quartet

London Pianoforte Series

Programmes to include works by Bartók, Schumann, Ligeti, Strauss, Webern and Beethoven

Mozart String Quartet in F K590 ‘Prussian’ Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2

Chamber Music Season

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch

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Mozart String Quartet in G K80 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ The Armida Quartet is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Sunday 24 January 11.30 am

Cecilia Quartet

Hagai Shaham

Cecilia Quartet

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Lisa Batiashvili

Anja Frers/Deutsche Grammophon

January 2016 Monday 25 January 7.30 pm

Wednesday 27 January 7.30 pm

Saturday 30 January 7.30 pm

Francesco Piemontesi piano

City of London Sinfonia Michael Collins clarinet, director

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano

MOZART BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Mozart Violin Sonata in Eb K380; Violin Sonata in G K11; Sonata in Bb K570 (version for violin and piano); Violin Sonata in Eb K302; 6 Variations in G K359 ‘La bergère Célimène’; Violin Sonata in A K526

Mozart Fantasia in D minor K397; Piano Sonata in D K284; Rondo in A minor K511; Piano Sonata in A K331

Mozart Serenade in Bb for 13 wind instruments K361 ‘Gran Partita’; Parto, parto from La clemenza di Tito; Clarinet Concerto in A K622

London Pianoforte Series/ The Mozart Odyssey

Chamber Music Season/Michael Collins Series/The Mozart Odyssey

Tuesday 26 January 7.30 pm

Simon Keenlyside baritone Howard McGill

Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

Friday 29 January 7.30 pm

saxophone, clarinet, flute, piccolo

Sunday 31 January 11.30 am

Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano Sir Simon Rattle piano

Mike Smith drums, percussion Matthew Regan piano

Further artists to be announced

Other artists to be announced Songs by Emmerich Kalman, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Jerome Kern and George Gershwin Song Recital Series

Chausson Chanson perpétuelle Stravinsky Three Songs from William Shakespeare Ravel Chansons madécasses Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia Brahms Ophelia-Lieder; 2 Songs with viola Op. 91 Janácˇek Rikadla (Nursery Rhymes) Songs by Dvorˇák

Alexandra Dariescu piano Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54 Fauré Prélude in C # minor Op. 103 No. 2; Prélude in G minor Op. 103 No. 3; Prélude in F Op. 103 No. 4 Chopin Prelude in C# minor Op. 45 Szymanowski Nine Preludes Op. 1 Chopin Scherzo No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 31 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season/ Celebrating Magdalena Kožená

Francesco Piemontesi

Julien Mignot

Sir Simon Rattle

Jim Rakete

Alexandra Dariescu

London Studios

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January/February 2016 Sunday 31 January 7.30 pm

Monday 1 February 7.30 pm

Thursday 4 February 7.30 pm

Simon Keenlyside baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano

SCHUBERT BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 74 No. 1 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 Haydn String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’

Takács Quartet

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

Grieg Violin Sonatas Chamber Music Season

Schubert Sehnsucht (D123); Hoffnung (Schaff’ das Tagwerk meiner Hände) (D295); Wonne der Wehmut; An den Mond (D296); Geheimes (D719); Rastlose Liebe; Nachtgesang (D119); Schäfers Klagelied Wolfgang Rihm Willst du dir ein gut Leben zimmern; Worte sind der Seele Bild; Heut und ewig; Höchste Gunst; Parabase; Aus ‘Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren’ Schubert Gesänge des Harfners; Prometheus; Mahomets Gesang (fragment) (D549); Ganymed; An Schwager Kronos Wolfgang Rihm Harzreise im Winter Schubert Willkommen und Abschied

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Wednesday 3 February 7.30 pm

Song Recital Series / Christian Gerhaher Singer in Residence

Schubert Alinde; Geheimes; Seligkeit; Bei dir allein!; Nachtstück; Der Wanderer (D649); An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht; Herbstlied; Im Haine; Im Walde; L’incanto degli occhi; Pensa, che questo istante; Der Jüngling und der Tod; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Des Fischers Liebesglück (2 verses only); Die Sterne; Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz; Fischerlied; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Abschied from Schwanengesang

Chamber Music Season Tuesday 2 February 7.30 pm

Henning Kraggerud violin Kathryn Stott piano

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Monday 1 February 1.00 pm

Takács Quartet Aleksandar Madžar piano

Alec Frank-Gemmill horn Alasdair Beatson piano John Casken New work (world première) Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A b Op. 70 Volker David Kirchner Tre Poemi

Friday 5 February 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Christian Gerhaher Masterclass

Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 Timo Andres New work for string quartet* (UK première) Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84

Christian Gerhaher works with duos from UK music colleges on settings of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Christian Gerhaher Singer in Residence

*Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall

Alec Frank-Gemmill is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Simon Keenlyside

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Benjamin Ealovega

Takács Quartet

Ellen Appel

Gil Shaham

Luke Ratray

February 2016 Friday 5 February 7.00 pm

Sunday 7 February 7.30 pm

Monday 8 February 7.30 pm

Gil Shaham violin

La Compagnia del Madrigale

Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin BWV1001– 1006

IO MORIRÒ D’AMORE

Christiane Karg soprano Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano

Chamber Music Season

Saturday 6 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Richard Hosford clarinet Donizetti String Quartet No. 13 in A Verdi String Quartet in E minor Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians

Marenzio Io morirò d’amore Monteverdi Anima mia, perdona Gesualdo T’amo mia vita Marenzio Cruda Amarilli Monteverdi Ecco mormorar l’onde Marenzio Filli volgendo i lumi Gesualdo O dolorosa gioia Marenzio Dura legge d’amor Gesualdo O dolce mio tesoro Monteverdi Ecco Silvio colei Gesualdo Al mio gioir il ciel si fa sereno Monteverdi Dolcemente dormiva la mia Clori Marenzio Vivrò dunque lontano Gesualdo Chiaro risplender suole Monteverdi Cruda Amarilli Gesualdo Moro, lasso Early Music and Baroque Series

Schumann Songs from Myrthen Schumann Songs from Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister Song Recital Series/ Christian Gerhaher Singer in Residence

Tuesday 9 February 7.30 pm

Piotr Anderszewski piano Programme to include: Bartók Fourteen Bagatelles Op. 6 Bach Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830; Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825 London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 7 February 11.30 am

Quartetto di Cremona

Monday 8 February 1.00 pm

Mozart String Quartet in G K80 Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132

Escher String Quartet

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Wednesday 10 February 7.30 pm

Mendelssohn Andante sostenuto and Variations Op. 81 No. 1; Scherzo Op. 81 No. 2 Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 127 WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Tasmin Little violin Martin Roscoe piano Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23; Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’; Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Chamber Music Season

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

La Compagnia del Madrigale

Simone Bartoli

Tasmin Little

Benjamin Ealovega

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February 2016 Thursday 11 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 14 February 11.30 am

Tuesday 16 February 7.30 pm

Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists Rachel Podger director, violin

Jeremy Denk piano Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988

Ian Bostridge tenor Graham Johnson piano

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Schubert Meeres Stille (D215a); Wandrers Nachtlied I; An den Mond (D259); Wonne der Wehmut; Jägers Abendlied; An Schwager Kronos; Geheimnis; Wie Ulfru fischt; Atys; Einsamkeit; An die Freunde; Freiwilliges Versinken; Der zürnenden Diana; Abendstern; Auflösung; Gondelfahrer (D808); Im Walde (D834); Der liebliche Stern; Auf der Brücke; Im Jänner 1817 (Tiefes Leid); Lebensmut; Im Frühling; Über Wildemann

FIT FOR A KING’S TABLE Telemann Tafelmusik II

Sunday 14 February 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

Daniil Trifonov piano Sergei Babayan piano

Friday 12 February 7.30 pm

Gidon Kremer violin Daniil Trifonov piano Brahms Chaconne by JS Bach for piano left hand (arr. of Chaconne in D minor for solo violin BWV1004) Weinberg Sonata No. 5 for violin and piano Op. 53; Sonata No. 3 for solo violin Op. 126 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Chamber Music Season

Programme to be announced London Pianoforte Series

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Monday 15 February 1.00 pm Wednesday 17 February 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Behzod Abduraimov piano

Friday 19 February 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Programme to be announced

Tuesday 23 February 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Wigmore Study Group

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Saturday 13 February 7.30 pm

Scharoun Ensemble

PURCELL Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Mark Andre E2 (UK première) Mark-Anthony Turnage An Invention on ‘Solitude’ Henze Quattro Fantasie Jörg Widmann Octet Mark-Anthony Turnage This Silence £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Scharoun Ensemble

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CAMI

Daniil Trifonov

Dario Acosta

February 2016 Wednesday 17 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 20 February 2.00 pm

Sunday 21 February 11.30 am

Steven Isserlis cello

Viv McLean piano Jessica Duchen narrator

Anthony Marwood violin Aleksandar Madžar piano

ALICIA’S GIFT: THE CONCERT OF THE NOVEL

Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526 Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13

Bach Cello Suites Nos. 1, 5 & 4 György Kurtág Signs, Games and Messages for solo cello (a selection)

Author Jessica Duchen and pianist Viv McLean unite to tell the story of a child prodigy pianist trying to grow up, exploring her talent’s effect on her family and her family’s effect on her talent. Jessica’s readings from her novel Alicia’s Gift alternate with Viv’s performances of the relevant music to create a compelling joint narrative in words and music.

Chamber Music Season

Friday 19 February 7.30 pm

Carolin Widmann violin Telemann Fantaisie Zimmermann Sonata for solo violin Pascal Dusapin New work* (UK première) Bach Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 *Co-commissioned by WDR Witten, Wiener Konzerthaus with the support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 21 February 7.30 pm

Doric String Quartet

Chopin Ballade No. 3 in Ab Op. 47 Debussy Jardins sous la pluie from Estampes Chopin Étude in C minor Op. 25 No. 12 Granados Quejas, o La maja y el ruiseñor from Goyescas Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Ravel Sonatine (3rd mvt); Le jardin féerique from Ma mère l’oye

Chamber Music Season

London Pianoforte Series

Denis Kozhukhin piano

Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 76 No. 6

Monday 22 February 1.00 pm

Programme to be announced Saturday 20 February 7.30 pm

Doric String Quartet

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 ‘Fifths’ Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Emperor’ Chamber Music Season

Carolin Widmann

Marco Borggreve

Jessica Duchen

Anthony Marwood

Felix van Dijk

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February 2016 Monday 22 February 7.30 pm

Wednesday 24 February 12.15 pm

Ensemble intercontemporain

Pre-Concert Talk

Steven Isserlis cello

Gilles Durot percussion Samuel Favre percussion Hidéki Nagano piano Dimitri Vassilakis piano

An introduction to the lunchtime concert with composer Daníel Bjarnason.

Bach Cello Suites Nos. 3, 2 & 6 György Kurtág Signs, Games and Messages for solo cello (a selection)

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

George Crumb Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) for two amplified pianos and percussion Aurélio Edler-Copes New work for piano and percussion* (world première) Bartók Sonata for two pianos and percussion *Co-commissioned by Ensemble intercontemporain and

by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Tuesday 23 February 7.30 pm

Theatre of the Ayre Elizabeth Kenny director, lute SACRED THEATRE Solo songs, dialogues and scenes by Purcell and his contemporaries

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Wednesday 24 February 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Contemporary Music Series

Friday 26 February 7.30 pm

Wednesday 24 February 1.00 pm

Dunedin Consort John Butt director Sophie Bevan soprano

Britten Sinfonia Emer McDonough flute Clare Finnimore viola Lucy Wakeford harp

Works by Bach and Handel Early Music and Baroque Series

Donatoni Small II Daníel Bjarnason New work* (London première) Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £13 concs £11

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Elizabeth Kenny

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Benjamin Ealovega

Daníel Bjarnason

John Butt

February/March 2016 Saturday 27 February 7.30 pm

Monday 29 February 1.00 pm

Tuesday 1 March 7.30 pm

Apartment House

Nicola Benedetti violin Alexei Grynyuk piano

Leon McCawley piano

Egidija Medekšaite· New work* (world première) Leo Chadburn New work* (world première) Luiz Henrique Yudo A QUARTET FOR FRANÇOIS MORELLET (UK première) Henning Christiansen Modeller: First Series Op. 33 Martin Arnold Stain Ballad (world première) Luiz Henrique Yudo A QUARTET FOR CLAUDE MOLLET (UK première) John White Newspaper Reading Machine

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96 Works by Szymanowski Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100

Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50 Rachmaninov Prelude in D minor Op. 23 No. 3; Prelude in D Op. 23 No. 4; Prelude in G minor Op. 23 No. 5 Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54 Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

London Pianoforte Series

Monday 29 February 7.30 pm

Wednesday 2 March 7.30 pm

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Ralph Kirshbaum 70th Birthday Concert

Ralph Kirshbaum 70th Birthday Concert

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Ralph Kirshbaum cello Shai Wosner piano

Ralph Kirshbaum cello Shai Wosner piano

Beethoven 7 Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Wo0. 46; Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2; 12 Variations in F on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Op. 66; Cello Sonata in A Op. 69

Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1; 12 Variations on a Theme from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO. 45; Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2

*Co-commissioned by Apartment House and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Sunday 28 February 11.30 am

Signum Quartet Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 Schubert String Quartet in G D887

Chamber Music Season

Chamber Music Season

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Apartment House

Nicola Benedetti

Decca/Simon Fowler

Ralph Kirshbaum

J. Henry Fair

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March 2016 Thursday 3 March 7.30 pm

Saturday 5 March 5.30 pm

Sunday 6 March 11.30 am

The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor

Pre-Concert Performance

Matthew Trusler violin Martin Roscoe piano

PURCELL – ROYAL WELCOME SONGS FOR KING CHARLES II Purcell Let mine eyes run down with tears; Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest (Adam’s Sleep); Beati omnes qui timent Dominum; Since the duke is return’d; Welcome, Vicegerent of the mighty King (Welcome Song for King Charles 1680); O sing unto the Lord; Great God and just; Fly, bold rebellion (Welcome Song performed to his Majesty in 1683)

Traditional music by the Sardinian vocal quartet Tenores di Bitti and Kurdish music by the Shaho Andalibi Trio complement the Folk Songs of Luciano Berio in the evening concert.

Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians Saturday 5 March 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Christine Rice mezzo-soprano

Early Music and Baroque Series/ Henry Purcell: A Retrospective/ The Sixteen Residency

Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (arr. D Matthews for ensemble); Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66 Rossini Overture to Italian Girl in Algiers (arr. Graham Sheen for wind quintet) Dallapiccola Piccola Musica Notturna Berio Folk Songs for mezzo-soprano and ensemble

Friday 4 March 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Paul Appleby tenor Malcolm Martineau piano Lachner Das Fischermädchen Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Wolf Das Ständchen; Heimweh; In der Fremde VI; Seemanns Abschied Bridge Go not happy day; Golden Hair; When you are old; Love went a-riding Berlioz From Les nuits d’été: Villanelle; Sur les lagunes; L’île inconnue Villa-Lobos Canção do poeta do século XVIII; Nhapôpé; Evocação; Samba clássico

Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 6 March 3.00 pm

Benjamin Appl baritone Graham Johnson piano Schubert Adelaide; Lied aus der Ferne; An Emma; Abschied (D475); Der entsühnte Orest; Freiwilliges Versinken; Die Mutter Erde; Der Einsame; Lied des gefangenen Jägers; Fülle der Liebe; Sehnsucht (D879); Trinklied (D888); An Silvia; An die Laute; Jägers Liebeslied; Herbst WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians

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

Song Recital Series

Paul Appleby

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Ken Howard

Tenores di Bitti

Matthew Trusler

Sheila Rock

March 2016 Sunday 6 March 7.30 pm

Monday 7 March 7.30 pm

Thursday 10 March 7.30 pm

ATOS Trio

Phantasm

Beethoven Piano Trio in Eb Op. 1 No. 1; Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3; Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

Laurence Dreyfus director, treble viol Emilia Benjamin treble viol Jonathan Manson tenor viol Mikko Perkola tenor viol Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol

Homayun Sakhi Afghan rubab Rahul Sharma santoor Salar Nader tabla, zerbaghali Sirojiddin Juraev dutar, tambur Mukhtor Muborakqadomov

Chamber Music Season/ ATOS Trio: Beethoven Piano Trios

Elizabeth Kenny theorbo Monday 7 March 1.00 pm

Purcell Fantasias (a selection)

Brentano String Quartet

Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Badakhshani setar

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BABUR: MUSICAL ENCOUNTERS FROM THE LANDS OF THE MUGHALS World Music Series

Mico Fancies (a selection) Haydn String Quartet in F# minor Op. 50 No. 4 Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94

Tuesday 8 March 7.30 pm Friday 11 March 7.30 pm

Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano La Cetra Andrea Marcon conductor

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Midori violin Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Programme to include: Monteverdi Arias from L’incoronazione di Poppea Berio Sequenza III Vit Zouhar New work, directed by Ondrej Havelka Monteverdi Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Early Music and Baroque Series/ Celebrating Magdalena Kožená

Phantasm

Marco Borggreve

Magdalena Kozˇená

Mathias Bothorand/Deutsche Grammophon

Midori

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

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March 2016 Saturday 12 March 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Sunday 13 March 11.30 am

Monday 14 March 1.00 pm

Jean-Guihen Queyras Masterclass

Leipzig String Quartet

Maxim Rysanov viola Ashley Wass piano

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Jean-Guihen Queyras Artist in Residence

Wagner Siegfried Idyll Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1

Programme to be announced

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Saturday 12 March 7.30 pm

Sunday 13 March 3.00 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Benjamin Moser piano

Sarah-Jane Brandon soprano James Baillieu piano

Monday 14 March 7.30 pm

Songs by Brahms, Schubert and Strauss

Razumovsky Ensemble

Song Recital Series/Introducing James Baillieu

Works by Mozart Tchaikovsky String Sextet in D minor Op. 70 ‘Souvenir de Florence’

Debussy Children’s Corner Ravel Gaspard de la nuit Grieg Lyric Pieces: Til våren (To spring) Op. 43 No. 6; Melodi (Melody) Op. 38 No. 3; Sommerfugl (Butterfly) Op. 43 No. 1; Svundne dager (Vanished days) Op. 57 No. 1; Bryllupsdag på Troldhaugen (Wedding Day at Troldhaugen) Op. 65 No. 6 Skryabin Fantasie Op. 28 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in Bb Op. 83 London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 13 March 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Alexandre Tharaud piano

Tuesday 15 March 7.30 pm

Poulenc Suite française Falla Suite populaire espagnole (extracts) Stravinsky Suite italienne for cello and piano Schumann Adagio and Allegro in Ab Op. 70 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton leader, artistic director Gabriela Montero piano

Chamber Music Season/ Jean-Guihen Queyras Artist in Residence

Programme to include: Piazzolla 3 pieces for piano and string orchestra Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in Eb K449 Chamber Music Season

Benjamin Moser

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Leipzig String Quartet

Michael Bader

Gabriela Montero

M Flange

March 2016 Thursday 17 March 7.30 pm

Saturday 19 March 7.00 pm

Sunday 20 March 3.00 pm

Ensemble Modern

Alina Ibragimova violin Antoine Tamestit viola Matthew Hunt clarinet Cédric Tiberghien piano François-Frédéric Guy piano Colin Currie percussion Sam Walton percussion

Jonathan McGovern baritone James Baillieu piano

Brahms Serenade in D Op. 11 (reconstruction of the original instrumentation by Jorge Rotter: nonet of wind and strings) Hannes Seidl New work* (UK première) Michael Quell New work* (UK première) *Co-commissioned by Ensemble Modern, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Friday 18 March 7.30 pm

SONGS OF NIGHT

Bartók Sonata for solo violin Sz. 117 György Kurtág Hommage à Robert Schumann Op. 15d Ligeti Sonata for solo viola Bartók Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano Sz. 111 Bartók Sonata for two pianos and percussion Chamber Music Season/Bartók Chamber Music

Christian McBride double bass Further artists to be announced

Sunday 20 March 11.30 am

Programme to be announced

Callum Smart violin Gordon Back piano

Britten A Song of Enchantment from Tit for Tat Schubert Der Einsame Tchaikovsky At the ball Debussy La grotte Hahn L’heure exquise Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung Schoenberg Erwartung Griffes Mein Herz ist wie die dunkle Nacht Schubert An den Mond (D259) Strauss Ständchen Brahms Wie rafft ich mich auf Schoenberg Warnung Roussel Le bachelier de Salamanque Gurney Sleep Wolf An den Schlaf Rachmaninov In the silence of the secret night Song Recital Series/Introducing James Baillieu

Christian McBride Jazz Series

Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K378 James MacMillan After the Tryst Strauss Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Christian McBride

R R Jones

Callum Smart

Patrick Allen

Jonathan McGovern

Benjamin Ealovega

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March 2016 Sunday 20 March 7.30 pm

Tuesday 22 March 6.00 pm

Wednesday 23 March 7.30 pm

The Myrthen Ensemble

Pre-Concert Talk

Mary Bevan soprano Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Allan Clayton tenor Marcus Farnsworth baritone Joseph Middleton piano

An introduction to Berio’s Sequenzas

The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano Nadja Zwiener violin Katharina Spreckelsen oboe

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians

SONGS TO THE MOON Brahms Der Gang zum Liebchen; Walpurgisnacht; Nächtens; Vor der Tür; Unbewegte laue Luft; Ständchen; Der Abend; Vergebliches Ständchen Schumann Unterm Fenster; Mondnacht; Zwei Venetianische Lieder & Die Lotosblume from Myrthen; In der Nacht from Spanisches Liederspiel Warlock The night Maconchy Sun, Moon and Stars Barber Nocturne Szulc Clair de lune Mompou Damunt de tu només les flors Saint-Saëns Guitares et Mandolines Debussy De rêve Chausson La nuit Hahn L’heure exquise Duparc La fuite Massenet Rêvons, c’est l’heure Fauré Clair de lune; Pleurs d’or; Tarentelle Song Recital Series

Tuesday 22 March 7.00 pm NB starting time

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Philippa Davies flute Gareth Hulse oboe Lucy Wakeford harp Lawrence Power viola Ian Brown piano Chris Brannick percussion Berio Sequenza I for solo flute; Sequenza II for solo harp; Sequenza IV for solo piano; Sequenza VII for solo oboe; Naturale for viola, percussion and tape Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians Tuesday 22 March 8.30 pm NB starting time

Monday 21 March 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Esther Yoo violin Pianist to be announced Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F Ravel Tzigane Esther Yoo is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Nash Ensemble Lawrence Power viola Craig Ogden guitar

Scarlatti Sinfonia from I dolori di Maria sempre vergine Vivaldi Violin Concerto in C ‘Per la santissima Assunzione di Maria Vergine’ RV581 Albinoni Oboe Concerto in D minor Op. 9 No. 2 Vivaldi Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro RV169 Ferrandini Cantata ‘Il pianto di Maria’ Early Music and Baroque Series

Thursday 24 March 7.30 pm

Susan Graham mezzo-soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Songs by Schumann, Fauré, Strauss, Grieg, Debussy, Poulenc, Tchaikovsky, Granados and Berlioz Song Recital Series

Puccini Crisantemi Paganini Quartet No. 15 in A minor for viola with violin, cello and guitar Mendelssohn Octet in E b Op. 20 Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Esther Yoo

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Marco Borggreve

Lawrence Power

Jack Liebeck

Susan Graham

Benjamin Ealovega

March 2016 Saturday 26 March 7.30 pm

Monday 28 March 1.00 pm

Wednesday 30 March 7.30 pm

Le Poème Harmonique

Lucy Crowe soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Viviane Hagner violin Nicole Hagner piano

Programme to be announced

Bartók Rhapsody No. 1 Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Saint-Saëns Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 75

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Vincent Dumestre director, baroque guitar, theorbo Kaori Uemura treble and bass viol Joël Grare bass drum, castanets Claire Lefilliâtre soprano ESPERAR, SENTIR, MORIR: STREET DANCES AND COURTLY SONGS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN AND ITALY

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Rossi Un ferito cavaliero Monteverdi Si dolce il tormento Marin Recibe adorado ausente Anonymous (Spanish) Canario Moulinié Ay Ay Ay Kapsberger Toccata secunda arpeggiata Merula Hor che tempo di dormire; Folle ben che si crede Sanz Clarin del mosqueteros del Rey de Francia; Rujero; Paradetas; Jacaras Martín y Coll Differencias sobra la Folia Hidalgo Esperar, sentir, morir

Monday 28 March 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season

Pinchas Zukerman violin Angela Cheng piano

Thursday 31 March 7.30 pm

Mozart Violin Sonata in G K301 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 3 in E b Op. 12 No. 3 Brahms Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata (Sonatensatz); Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series/ Christian Gerhaher Singer in Residence

Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 29 March 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

Ailish Tynan soprano Adam Walker flute Alasdair Tait cello James Baillieu piano

Sunday 27 March 11.30 am

Quatuor Zaïde Programme to be announced

Works by Caplet, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Martin, Judith Weir, Berlioz, Fauré and Gaubert

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Song Recital Series/Introducing James Baillieu

Le Poème Harmonique

Guy Vivien

Pinchas Zukerman

Cheryl Mazak

Viviane Hagner

Timm Kölln

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SUMMER PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2016

These concerts (except where stated) 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 2015.

April 2016 Friday 1 April 7.30 pm

Sunday 3 April 11.30 am

Monday 4 April 1.00 pm

Vadim Gluzman violin Angela Yoffe piano

Adrian Brendel cello Alasdair Beatson piano

John Mark Ainsley tenor

Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 (transcr. Schumann) Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Lera Auerbach Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano ‘September 11’ Op. 63 Tchaikovsky Sérénade mélancolique in B minor Op. 26; Valse-scherzo Op. 34

Programme to be announced

Programme to be announced

Chamber Music Season

Pianist to be announced

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital Sunday 3 April 7.30 pm

Artemis Quartet Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87 Awardee Composition of the Artemis Quartet Composition Competition 2015 Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27

Saturday 2 April 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff piano

Chamber Music Season

Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Mozart Piano Sonata in C K545 Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958 London Pianoforte Series

Vadim Gluzman

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Marco Borggreve

Sir András Schiff

Nadia F. Romanini

Adrian Brendel

Jack Liebeck

April 2016 Monday 4 April 7.30 pm

Wednesday 6 April 7.30 pm

Friday 8 April 7.30 pm

Les Arts Florissants William Christie director, harpsichord Emmanuelle de Negri soprano Anna Reinhold mezzo-soprano Reinoud Van Mechelen high tenor Cyril Auvity high tenor Lisandro Abadie bass

Sir András Schiff piano

Christoph Prégardien tenor Michael Gees piano

AIRS SÉRIEUX ET A BOIRE – VOLUME 2 Works by Charpentier, Moulinié, Le Camus and Lully Early Music and Baroque Series

Tuesday 5 April 7.30 pm

Mozart Piano Sonata in Bb K570 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110 Haydn Piano Sonata in D HXVI:51 Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959 London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 7 April 7.30 pm

Schubert Sehnsucht (D123); Geistes-Gruss; An Mignon; Nähe des Geliebten; Rastlose Liebe; Der Liedler; Zufriedenheit (D362); Abendlied (D382); Geist der Liebe; Julius an Theone; Der Leidende; Seligkeit; Gesänge des Harfners I–III; An die Entfernte; Am Flusse (D766); Willkommen und Abschied Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Kuss Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Sir Harrison Birtwistle From 9 Movements for String Quartet: Fantasia 1; Fantasia 3; Frieze 2; Fantasia 4; Fantasia 5; Frieze 3 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

London Handel Orchestra Adrian Butterfield director, violin

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

HANDEL THE EUROPEAN

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Saturday 9 April 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff piano Haydn Piano Sonata in E b HXVI:52 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Mozart Piano Sonata in D K576 Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960 London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 10 April 11.30 am

To celebrate 35 years dedicated to the performance of his music, the London Handel Orchestra performs a programme of works by Handel and his illustrious European contemporaries.

Cédric Pescia piano Couperin 25e ordre from Quatrième livre de pièces de clavecin Messiaen Le courlis cendré from Catalogue d’oiseaux Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6

Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Les Arts Florissants (Airs sérieux et à boire)

Philippe Grollier

Kuss Quartet

Molina Visuals

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April 2016 Sunday 10 April 3.00 pm

Wednesday 13 April 12.15 pm

Wednesday 13 April 7.30 pm

Johnny Herford baritone James Baillieu piano

Pre-Concert Talk

Kate Royal soprano Roger Vignoles piano

An introduction to the lunchtime concert with composer Bryce Dessner.

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series /Introducing James Baillieu

Monday 11 April 1.00 pm

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Friday 15 April 7.30 pm

Wednesday 13 April 1.00 pm

Alexander Gavrylyuk piano

I Fagiolini Programme to be announced

Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Tuesday 12 April 7.30 pm

Isabelle Faust violin Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Bach Violin Sonata in G BWV1021; Sonata No. 2 in A minor for solo violin BWV1003; Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016; Violin Sonata No. 5 in F minor BWV1018; Toccata in D minor BWV913 (for solo keyboard); Violin Sonata No. 2 in A BWV1015 Chamber Music Season/ Early Music and Baroque Series

Johnny Herford

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Programme to include: Mahler Rückert Lieder

Britten Sinfonia

London Pianoforte Series

Thomas Gould violin Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano

Saturday 16 April 7.30 pm

Bartók Duos (a selection) Bryce Dessner New work* (London première) Schumann Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Elias String Quartet Simon Crawford-Phillips piano Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 Britten String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 25 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 Chamber Music Season

£13 concs £11

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Maximilian Van London

Bryce Dessner

Annie Mie Dreves/Deustche Grammaphon

Kate Royal

Esther Haase/EMI Classics

April 2016 Sunday 17 April 11.30 am

Sunday 17 April 7.30 pm

Monday 18 April 7.30 pm

Elias String Quartet Malin Broman viola Jesper Svedberg cello

Julian Prégardien tenor James Baillieu piano

Hagen Quartet

Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101; String Sextet in G Op. 36 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 17 April 3.00 pm

Ruby Hughes soprano Julius Drake piano Programme to include: Ravel Deux mélodies hébraïques Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Song Recital Series

Schubert Romanze (D114); An Laura, als sie Klopstocks Auferstehungslied sang; Der Geistertanz; Stimme der Liebe; Naturgenuss; Totenkranz für ein Kind; An mein Klavier; Grablied auf einen Soldaten; An den Tod; Die Forelle; Morgenlied (D685); Frühlingsglaube; Der Jüngling auf dem Hügel; Der Blumen Schmerz; Der Wachtelschlag; Schwanengesang (D744); Selige Welt; Todesmusik; Schatzgräbers Begehr; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Der Musensohn

Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 György Kurtág Hommage à Mihály András (12 Microludes) Op. 13 Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 19 April 7.30 pm

Llyˆr Williams piano

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs/ Introducing James Baillieu

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Op. 79; Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90; 6 Bagatelles Op. 126; Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’

Monday 18 April 1.00 pm

London Pianoforte Series/ Llyˆr Williams Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle

Hagen Quartet Programme to include: Schubert String Quartet in G D887

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Ruby Hughes

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Julian Prégardien

Marco Borggreve

Hagen Quartet

Harald Hoffmann

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April 2016 Wednesday 20 April 7.30 pm

Saturday 23 April 7.30 pm

Monday 25 April 1.00 pm

Anssi Karttunen cello Nicolas Hodges piano

Angela Hewitt piano

Borodin Quartet

Haydn Piano Sonata in A b HXVI:46 Schubert Impromptus Haydn Piano Sonata in G HXVI:40 Haydn Piano Sonata in B minor HXVI:32 Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D784 Haydn Fantasia in C HXVII:4

Programme to be announced

Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Sir Harrison Birtwistle Bogenstrich – Lied ohne Worte; Bogenstrich – Wie eine Fuge; Bogenstrich – Variationen Sean Shepherd Cello Sonata* (world première) Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

London Pianoforte Series

Monday 25 April 7.30 pm

Werner Güra tenor Christoph Berner piano

Sunday 24 April 11.30 am

Aurora Orchestra

Programme to be announced

Programme to include: Mozart Divertimento in E b K563

Song Recital Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/ The Mozart Odyssey

Tuesday 26 April 7.30 pm

Friday 22 April 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Angela Hewitt Masterclass

Sunday 24 April 7.30 pm

The English Concert Christian Curnyn

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Borodin Quartet

guest director, harpsichord

Friday 22 April 7.30 pm

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F# minor Op. 108; String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122 Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 127

Marais Suite from Alcyone Haydn Symphony No. 44 in E minor ‘Trauer’ Rameau Suite from Les Boréades Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A K201

Borodin Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83 Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; Grosse Fuge in Bb Op. 133

Chamber Music Season/ Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

Early Music and Baroque Series

Chamber Music Season/ Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

Anssi Karttunen

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Irmeli Jung

Angela Hewitt

Richard Termine

Werner Güra

Monika Rittershaus

April/May 2016 Thursday 28 April 7.30 pm

Kathleen Ferrier Award 2016

Sunday 1 May 7.30 pm

Quatuor Ebène Gautier Capuçon cello

Wednesday 27 April 1.30 pm

Konstantin Lifschitz piano

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133 Schubert String Quintet in C D956

SEMI-FINAL Friday 29 April 6.00 pm

Chamber Music Season

FINAL

London Pianoforte Series

Saturday 30 April 7.30 pm Wednesday 27 April 7.30 pm

Rolf Hind piano

Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op. 24 Brahms Chaconne by J S Bach for piano left hand (arr. of Chaconne in D minor for solo violin BWV1004) Couperin 7e ordre from Second livre de pièces de clavecin Schumann Carnaval Op. 9

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset director Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano

Monday 2 May 1.00 pm

Baiba Skride violin Lauma Skride piano

Rolf Hind Thus Have I Heard Hans Abrahamsen Ten Studies Simon Steen-Andersen Rerendered (for piano and two assistants) Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Piano Sonata No. 2* (world première)

Arcadian cantatas from Rome to Venice by Vivaldi, Handel and Scarlatti Sonatas by Corelli and Handel

* Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Sunday 1 May 11.30 am

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

London Haydn Quartet

Monday 2 May 7.30 pm

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 55 No. 3 Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 74 ‘Harp’

Alexander Janiczek violin Llyˆr Williams piano

London Pianoforte Series/ Contemporary Music Series

Programme to be announced

Early Music and Baroque Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 Sz. 76 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Chamber Music Season

Rolf Hind

Alexander Banck-Petersen

Ann Hallenberg & Christophe Rousset

Eric Larrayadieu

Alexander Janiczek

Colin Jackson

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May 2016 Tuesday 3 May 7.30 pm

Friday 6 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Saturday 7 May 7.30 pm

The King’s Consort Julia Doyle soprano (La Virtù) Hilary Summers contralto (L’Età dell’Oro) David Wilson-Johnson bass (La Senna) Robert King conductor

Wednesday 11 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Quatuor Mosaïques Robert Levin piano

Friday 13 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Beethoven Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 16 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in E b K449

BARTÓK Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Bartók Chamber Music

Chamber Music Season

Vivaldi La Senna festeggiante RV693 Early Music and Baroque Series

Friday 6 May 7.00 pm

Wednesday 4 May 7.30 pm

Marlis Petersen soprano Jendrik Springer piano

The Endellion String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 ‘Fifths’ Mozart String Quartet in A K464 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 22 Chamber Music Season

Sunday 8 May 11.30 am

Jennifer Koh violin

Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Strauss Die Georgine; Weisser Jasmin; Die Verschwiegenen; Die Zeitlose; Frühlingsgedränge Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia Strauss Mädchenblumen Wolfgang Rihm Das Rot

Bach Partita No. 3 in E for solo violin BWV1006 Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 27 No. 2 (à Jacques Thibaud) Bach Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 8 May 7.30 pm

Song Recital Series Thursday 5 May 7.30 pm

Quatuor Mosaïques

Igor Levit piano

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 33 No. 5 David String Quartet in A minor Op. 32 Mendelssohn String Quartet in Eb Op. 12

Busoni Fantasia after JS Bach BV253; Elegien BV249 Bach From The Art of Fugue BWV1080: Contrapunctus 1; Contrapunctus 4; Contrapunctus 11 Busoni Fantasia contrappuntistica BV256

Chamber Music Season

London Pianoforte Series/Igor Levit Perspectives

The King’s Consort

102

Keith Saunders

Marlis Petersen

Yiorgos Mavropoulos

Quatuor Mosaïques

Wolfgang Krautzer

May 2016 Monday 9 May 1.00 pm

Wednesday 11 May 7.30 pm

Friday 13 May 7.00 pm

Angelika Kirchschlager

Heath Quartet

Heath Quartet

James Sherlock piano

Bartók String Quartet No. 1; String Quartet No. 3; String Quartet No. 5

Bartók String Quartet No. 2; String Quartet No. 4; String Quartet No. 6

Programme to be announced

Chamber Music Season/Bartók Chamber Music

Chamber Music Season/Bartók Chamber Music

mezzo-soprano

Thursday 12 May 7.30 pm BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Saturday 14 May 7.30 pm

Mark Padmore tenor Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano Ryan Wigglesworth piano

Tuesday 10 May 7.30 pm

Joshua Bell violin

Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Ryan Wigglesworth Echo and Narcissus* (London première) Janácˇek Diary of one who disappeared

Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

*Co-commissioned by Aldeburgh Music, Musik im Reisen, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet Lawrence Power viola Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 14 in Ab Op. 105 Webern Langsamer Satz Dvorˇák String Quintet in Eb Op. 97 Chamber Music Season

Sunday 15 May 11.30 am

Modigliani Quartet

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1; String Quartet in F Op. 41 No. 2

Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Angelika Kirchschlager

Nikolaus Karlinsky

Mark Padmore

Marco Borggreve

Heath Quartet

Sussie Ahlburg

103

May 2016 Sunday 15 May 7.30 pm

Tuesday 17 May 7.30 pm

Sophie Bevan soprano Graham Johnson piano

Lisa Batiashvili violin Antoine Tamestit viola Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Jonathan Biss piano

Schubert Cora an die Sonne; Der Morgenkuss; Abendständchen: An Lina; An die Sonne THE EARLY MIGNON SONGS 1815–16 Schubert Sehnsucht (D310a); Sehnsucht (D310b); Mignon (D321); Sehnsucht (D359); Mignon (D469) (2 fragments); Sehnsucht (D481); Vedi quanto adoro; Pax vobiscum; Das Marienbild; Vom Mitleiden Mariä; Marie; Suleika I & II; Der Hirt auf dem Felsen Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Monday 16 May 1.00 pm

Jerusalem Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2 Bartók String Quartet No. 6

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 16 May 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Thursday 19 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm

Dvorˇák Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 87 Schumann Märchenbilder Op. 113 Martinu˚ Duos for violin and cello Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47

YCAT Public Final Auditions 2016

Chamber Music Season/ Jean-Guihen Queyras Artist in Residence

Wednesday 18 May 7.30 pm

Friday 20 May 7.00 pm

Florian Boesch baritone

Louis Lortie piano

Pianist to be announced

Programme to be announced

Schubert Leichenfantasie; Meeres Stille (D216); Der Rattenfänger; Der Schatzgräber; Heidenröslein; Bundeslied; Wer kauft Liebesgötter?; Punschlied: im Norden zu singen; An den Frühling; Die vier Weltalter; Der Flüchtling; Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt (D325); Gesänge des Harfners; Hoffnung (Schaff’ das Tagwerk meiner Hände); Auf dem See; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus; Am Flusse (D766); Wandrers Nachtlied II; Der Pilgrim; Dithyrambe

London Pianoforte Series

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Takács Quartet Lawrence Power viola Repeat of concert on 14 May Chamber Music Season

Sophie Bevan

104

Sussie Ahlburg

Jean-Guihen Queyras

Marco Borggreve

Louis Lortie

ELIAS

May 2016 Saturday 21 May 7.30 pm

Sunday 22 May 7.30 pm

Monday 23 May 7.30 pm

Augustin Hadelich violin Charles Owen piano

Anna Prohaska soprano Veronika Eberle violin Malin Broman violin Danusha Waskiewicz viola Quirine Viersen cello Rick Stotijn double bass Pascal Moraguès clarinet Marco Postinghel bassoon Radovan Vlatkovic´ horn

Classical Opera Ian Page conductor Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano

Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105 David Lang Mystery Sonatas (excerpts) Janácˇek Violin Sonata André Previn Tango Song and Dance £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Schubert Salve Regina in A D676 Webern Schmerz immer, Blick nach oben Pergolesi Salve Regina in C minor Schubert Octet in F D803

Sunday 22 May 11.30 am

Antonio Meneses cello Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008 Piatti 12 Caprices Op. 25 (Nos. 1, 2, 4 & 5) Cassadó Suite for solo cello

Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Monday 23 May 1.00 pm

Programme to be announced Early Music and Baroque Series

Tuesday 24 May 7.30 pm

Cédric Tiberghien piano Bartók Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs Op. 20; 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs; Sonatina; Piano Sonata; 6 Romanian Folk Dances; Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík; Mikrokosmos Vol. 5 György Kurtág Játékok (a selection) London Pianoforte Series/Bartók Chamber Music

Pekka Kuusisto violin Nicolas Altstaedt cello Bach Two-part inventions for violin and cello (a selection) Jörg Widmann 24 Duos for violin and cello (a selection) Ravel Sonata for violin and cello

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Augustin Hadelich

Rosalie O’Connor

Anna Prohaska

Harald Hoffmann/Deutsche Grammophon

Ann Hallenberg

Nancy Glor

105

May 2016 Wednesday 25 May 7.30 pm

Saturday 28 May 7.30 pm

Sunday 29 May 7.30 pm

Jack Liebeck violin Katya Apekisheva piano

Michael Collins clarinet Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Leonard Elschenbroich cello Lynda Houghton double bass Richard Watkins horn Robin O’Neill bassoon

Louis Schwizgebel piano

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 Bridge Violin Sonata Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor; Clair de lune Corigliano Violin Sonata Chamber Music Season

Soprano, violin and viola to be announced

Thursday 26 May 7.30 pm

Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock) Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Schubert Octet in F D803

Pavel Haas Quartet Denis Kozhukhin piano

Programme to be announced London Pianoforte Series

Monday 30 May 1.00 pm

Till Fellner piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 13 in Eb Op. 27 No. 1 ‘Quasi una fantasia’ Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17

Chamber Music Season/Michael Collins Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Martinu˚ String Quartet No. 3 Dvorˇák String Quartet in D minor Op. 34 Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44

Sunday 29 May 11.30 am

Kopelman Quartet

Chamber Music Season

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Friday 27 May 7.00 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Miah Persson soprano Joseph Breinl piano Programme to include: Schubert Die abgeblühte Linde; Der Flug der Zeit; Vier Canzonen; Am See; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Lied der Delphine; Wiegenlied (D867); Im Freien Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Miah Persson

106

Mina Artistbilder

Michael Collins

Benjamin Ealovega

Louis Schwizgebel

Marco Borggreve

May/June 2016 Tuesday 31 May 7.30 pm

Thursday 2 June 7.30 pm

Sunday 5 June 11.30 am

Wigmore Hall Anniversary Gala Concert

Wigmore Hall Anniversary Gala Concert

Sophie Bevan soprano Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Allan Clayton tenor Henk Neven baritone James Baillieu piano Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Cuarteto Casals

JACK Quartet

Maurice Steger recorders Ensemble Marsyas

Chamber music and songs by Schubert

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Introducing James Baillieu

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Wednesday 1 June 7.30 pm

Friday 3 June 7.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Anniversary Gala Concert

Florilegium

Monday 6 June 1.00 pm

FLORILEGIUM 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Lars Vogt piano

Machaut Three pieces (arr. Ari Streisfeld) John Zorn The Remedy of Fortune (UK première) Gesualdo Three Madrigals (arr. Ari Streisfeld) Caroline Shaw Ritornello 2.sq.2.j (UK première) Rodericus Angelorum psalat (arr. Christopher Otto) Helmut Lachenmann String Quartet No. 2 ‘Reigen seliger Geister’ £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord Rachel Brown flute Isabelle Faust violin Anna Lucia Richter soprano

Works by Vivaldi, Telemann, Fasch and Veracini Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 5 June 7.30 pm

Eggner Trio Haydn Piano Trio in C HXV:27; Piano Trio in E HXV:28 (Bartolozzi trio) Dvorˇák Piano Trio in G minor Op. 26 Chamber Music Season/ Eggner Trio: Haydn and Dvorˇák

Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 (a selection)

Bach The Brandenburg Concertos BWV1046 – BWV1051 Early Music and Baroque Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

JS Bach Concerto in E for violin BWV1042; Non sa che sia dolore in G BWV209; Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041; Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 JC Bach Mein Freund ist mein, und ich bin sein from ‘Wedding Cantata’ JS Bach Violin Concerto in A (arrangement by Brian Clarke of Harpsichord Concerto in A BWV1055) Early Music and Baroque Series

Arcangelo

Adam Swann

JACK Quartet

Henrik Olund

Lars Vogt

Neda Navaee

107

June 2016 Tuesday 7 June 7.30 pm

Thursday 9 June 7.30 pm

Saturday 11 June 7.30 pm

The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor

Daniil Trifonov piano

Barnabás Kelemen violin José Gallardo piano

PURCELL – ROYAL WELCOME SONGS FOR KING JAMES II

London Pianoforte Series

Purcell Chacony in G minor; When on my sick bed I languish; True Englishmen drink a good health; Ye tuneful muses, raise your heads; A New Irish Tune in G; God is gone up with a merry noise (Canon a 7); A New Scotch Tune; Save me, O God, for thy name’s sake; Sound the trumpet

Friday 10 June 7.00 pm

Julius Drake piano

Zemlinsky Quartet

Early Music and Baroque Series/ Henry Purcell: A Retrospective/ The Sixteen Residency

SONGS FROM THE PLAYS AND NOVELS

Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Matthias Goerne baritone Daniil Trifonov piano

Schubert Thekla: eine Geisterstimme; Des Mädchens Klage (D191); Amalia; Erlkönig; Der König in Thule; Gretchen im Zwinger (Gretchens Bitte); Bertas Lied in der Nacht; Morgenlied; Der Unglückliche; Heiss mich nicht reden; So lasst mich scheinen; Romanze zum Drama Rosamunde; Abschied von der Erde; Lied der Anne Lyle; Gesang der Norna; Lied der Delphine; Hippolits Lied; An Silvia

Programme to be announced

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Wednesday 8 June 7.30 pm

Programme to be announced

Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 Sz. 76; Sonata for solo violin Sz. 117; Violin Sonata No. 1 Sz. 75 Chamber Music Season/Bartók Chamber Music

Angelika Kirchschlager

Sunday 12 June 11.30 am

mezzo-soprano

Song Recital Series

Sunday 12 June 7.30 pm

Natalie Clein cello Christian Ihle Hadland piano Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Ligeti Sonata for solo cello Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano Chamber Music Season

The Sixteen

108

James Berry

Natalie Clein

Sussie Ahlburg

June 2016 Monday 13 June 1.00 pm

Thursday 16 June 7.30 pm

Saturday 18 June 7.30 pm

Gli Incogniti

Yevgeny Sudbin piano

Jerusalem Quartet

Programme to be announced

Scarlatti Sonatas (a selection) Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition

Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Bartók String Quartet No. 4 Ravel String Quartet in F

London Pianoforte Series

Chamber Music Season

Friday 17 June 7.00 pm

Sunday 19 June 11.30 am

Jerusalem Quartet Sharon Kam clarinet

Alina Ibragimova violin James Boyd viola Jonathan Cohen cello

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Wednesday 15 June 7.30 pm

Robin Tritschler tenor Graham Johnson piano Schubert Der Sänger; Am Flusse (D160); Heidenröslein; Schäfers Klagelied; Das Rosenband; Furcht der Geliebten; An Sie; Die Sommernacht; Die frühen Gräber; Cronnan; Minnelied; Die frühe Liebe; Blumenlied; Erntelied PARENTS AND CHILDREN Schubert Freude der Kinderjahre; Der Knabe in der Wiege; Der Alpenjäger (D588); Namenstagslied; Der Vater mit dem Kind; Vor meiner Wiege Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Bartók String Quartet No. 3 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115

Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season

Sunday 19 June 7.30 pm

Friday 17 June 10.00 pm

Marc-André Hamelin piano

Aurora Orchestra Mozart Serenade in Eb K375; Serenade in C minor K388; Don Giovanni (arr. for wind ensemble by Triebensee) (excerpts) Wigmore Lates/ The Mozart Odyssey

Liszt Apparition No. 1 S155 No. 1; Waldesrauschen S145 No. 1; Un sospiro S144 No. 3; Ernani: [Deuxième] Paraphrase de Concert S432; Réminiscences de Norma S394 Feinberg Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 2; Piano Sonata No. 1 Op. 1 Liapunov 12 études d’exécution transcendante Op. 11 (a selection) London Pianoforte Series

Robin Tritschler

Garreth Wong

Jerusalem Quartet

Felix Broede

Marc-André Hamelin

Fran Kaufman

109

June 2016 Monday 20 June 1.00 pm

Tuesday 21 June 7.30 pm

Thursday 23 June 7.30 pm

Les Ambassadeurs Programme to be announced

Pekka Kuusisto violin Alec Frank-Gemmill horn Tamara Stefanovich piano

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Bartók Sonata for solo violin Sz. 117 Brahms Horn Trio in Eb Op. 40; Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Ligeti Trio for violin, horn and piano

Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn director Mhairi Lawson soprano (Angelo) Claire Booth soprano (Maddalena) Hilary Summers contralto (Cleofe) Tenor to be announced (San Giovanni)

Chamber Music Season

Callum Thorpe bass-baritone (Lucifero)

Monday 20 June 7.30 pm

Handel La Resurrezione HWV47

Jerusalem Quartet Sir András Schiff piano

Wednesday 22 June 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Weinberg Piano Quintet Op. 18 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34

James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano

Friday 24 June 7.00 pm

Chamber Music Season

Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Mendelssohn Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Schlafloser Augen Leuchte; Keiner von der Erde Schönen; Nachtlied; Neue Liebe Liszt Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Du bist wie eine Blume; Die Loreley; Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Es war ein König in Thule Sally Beamish New work* (world première)

Mendelssohn Two Preludes and Fugues Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Liszt Venezia e Napoli S162

Benjamin Grosvenor piano

London Pianoforte Series

*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

Les Ambassadeurs

110

Sanja Harris

Anna Tilbrook and James Gilchrist

Benjamin Grosvenor

operaomnia.co.uk

June/July 2016 Saturday 25 June 7.30 pm

Tuesday 28 June 7.30 pm

Friday 1 July 7.30 pm

Miloš Karadaglic´ guitar Programme to be announced

laBarocca Sonia Prina contralto

Chamber Music Season

Arias by Gluck

Sophie Gent violin Matthew Truscott violin Jonathan Manson viola da gamba, cello Trevor Pinnock harpsichord, organ

Early Music and Baroque Series Sunday 26 June 11.30 am

Danish String Quartet

Wednesday 29 June 7.30 pm

Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’

Razumovsky Ensemble

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Monday 27 June 1.00 pm

Purcell Sonata in Four Parts No. 9 in F; Suite in A minor; Sonata in Three Parts No. 10 in A; Sonata in Three Parts No. 6 in C Croft Ground for harpsichord Purcell Sonata in Three Parts No. 9 in C minor; Sonata in Four Parts No. 6 in G minor Corelli Trio Sonata in G Op. 2 No. 12 ‘Ciaccona’; Trio Sonata in C Op. 3 No. 8 Handel Suite in D minor HWV436; Trio Sonata in F HWV392

Beethoven String Trio to be announced; Septet in Eb Op. 20 Chamber Music Season

Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Thursday 30 June 7.30 pm

Martin Fröst clarinet Roland Pöntinen piano

Andreas Scholl countertenor

Programme to be announced

Programme to be announced

Further artists to be announced

Saturday 2 July 7.30 pm

Nathalie Stutzmann director, contralto Orfeo 55

Song Recital Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

ARIE ANTICHE Arias by Durante, Carissimi, Caldara, Bononcini, Caccini, Marcello, Legrenzi, Scarlatti, Paisiello, Stradella and Parisotti Early Music and Baroque Series

Milosˇ Karadaglic´

Lars Borges/Mercury Classics

Sonia Prina

Ribaltaluce Studio

Sophie Gent

Marco Borggreve

111

July 2016 Sunday 3 July 11.30 am

Monday 4 July 7.30 pm

Wednesday 6 July 7.30 pm

Philippe Cassard piano Cédric Pescia piano

Julia Fischer violin Igor Levit piano

Julia Fischer violin Igor Levit piano

Mozart Sonata in F for piano duet K497 Debussy Six épigraphes antiques Schubert Fantasie in F minor D940

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Op. 12 No. 1; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2; Violin Sonata No. 3 in Eb Op. 12 No. 3; Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23; Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’; Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96

Chamber Music Season/Igor Levit Perspectives

Thursday 7 July 7.30 pm

Tuesday 5 July 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Lars Vogt piano

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season/Igor Levit Perspectives

Monday 4 July 1.00 pm

Florian Boesch baritone Pianist to be announced

Julia Fischer violin Igor Levit piano

Programme to be announced

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1; Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2; Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Op. 30 No. 3

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Schubert Hymne I – 4; Marie; Nachthymne; Einsamkeit; Sängers Morgenlied I & II; Das war ich; Auf der Riesenkoppe; Der Tod und das Mädchen; Ihr Grab; Schwestergruss; Im Haine; An die Leier; Am See Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Chamber Music Season/Igor Levit Perspectives

Florian Boesch

112

Lukas Beck

Julia Fischer

Felix Broede

Ian Bostridge

Sim Canetty-Clarke

July 2016 Friday 8 July 7.30 pm

Saturday 9 July 7.30 pm

Sunday 10 July 7.30 pm

Christian McBride double bass

Jonathan Plowright piano

Further artists to be announced

Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV1004; Chorale Prelude ‘Nun komm der Heiden Heiland’ BWV659; Chorale Prelude in F minor ‘Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’ BWV639 Brahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 Paderewski From Humoresques de Concert: Menuet célèbre Op. 14 No. 1; Sarabande Op. 14 No. 2; Caprice (genre Scarlatti) Op. 14 No. 3 Schumann Carnaval Op. 9

Tine Thing Helseth trumpet Kathryn Stott piano

Programme to be announced Christian McBride Jazz Series

Friday 8 July 7.30 pm Repeated Saturday 9 July 7.30 pm

at Wilton’s Music Hall

Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano The Melody Makers

Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Monday 11 July 1.00 pm

Ensemble Marsyas Programme to be announced

London Pianoforte Series

Programme to include songs by Cole Porter, with band interludes

Sunday 10 July 11.30 am

Wigmore Hall has partnered with Wilton’s Music Hall for this extraordinary Wigmore Series programme featuring a Big Band.

Benjamin Beilman violin Andrew Tyson piano

Song Recital Series/Celebrating Magdalena Kožená

Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454 Janácˇek Violin Sonata Schubert Rondo in B minor D895

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Christian McBride

Jonathan Plowright

Diane Shaw

Tine Thing Helseth

Colin Bell/EMI Classics

113

July 2016 Wednesday 13 July 7.30 pm

Friday 15 July 7.30 pm

Sunday 17 July 11.30 am

Francesco Piemontesi piano

Doric String Quartet

Quatuor Van Kuijk

Mozart Piano Sonata in C K279; Piano Sonata in F K280; Piano Sonata in Bb K281; Fantasia in C minor K475; Piano Sonata in C minor K457

Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 64 No. 6 Donnacha Dennehy New commission* (world première) Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’

Programme to be announced

London Pianoforte Series/ The Mozart Odyssey

Thursday 14 July 7.30 pm

*Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, Carnegie Hall, and by Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Nodira Pirmatova

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

voice, dutar (Uzbekistan)

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 29 May.

Sirojiddin Juraev dutar, tambur (Tajikistan)

Abbos Kosimov doyra (Uzbekistan) Abduvali Abdurashidov

Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series/ Bracing Change: New String Commissions

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Monday 18 July 7.30 pm

Ailish Tynan soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Robin Tritschler tenor Benjamin Appl baritone James Baillieu piano SONGS OF SEDUCTION Programme to be announced Song Recital Series/Introducing James Baillieu

sato, tanbur (Tajikistan) Saturday 16 July 7.30 pm

Alim Qasimov Ensemble Alim Qasimov voice, daf Fargana Qasimova voice, daf Rauf Islamov kamancha Zaki Valiyev tar

Alexander Kniazev cello Nikolaï Lugansky piano

Classical music from Central Asia and Azerbaijan.

Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19

World Music Series

Chamber Music Season

Alim Qasimov Ensemble

Doric String Quartet

114

George Garnier

Quatuor Van Kuijk

July 2016 Tuesday 19 July 7.30 pm

Thursday 21 July 7.30 pm

Sunday 24 July 11.30 am

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

Elizabeth Watts soprano Roger Vignoles piano

Armida Quartet

Bull Chromatic (Queen Elizabeth’s) Pavan and Galliard K87; The Duchess of Brunswick’s Toy (Most sweet and fair) K97; The Duke of Brunswick’s Alman K93; Fantasia XII Farnaby Nobodyes Gigge D’Anglebert Pièces de clavecin (a selection) Kalabis Sei invenzioni canonici Op. 20; Aquarelles Op. 53 Martinu˚ 2 Pièces pour clavecin Scarlatti Sonatas (a selection) Early Music and Baroque Series

Wednesday 20 July 7.30 pm

Tim Horton piano Brahms 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119 Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 in F# minor Op. 11 Schoenberg Drei Klavierstücke Op. 11; 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ London Pianoforte Series

THOSE SUMMER NIGHTS: THE POEMS OF THÉOPHILE GAUTIER

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Vierne Beaux papillons blancs Lalo L’esclave Gounod La chanson du pêcheur Bizet Absence Duparc Lamento Hahn Infidélité Chausson La caravane Debussy Les papillons; Coquetterie posthume; Séguidille Falla 3 mélodies de Théophile Gautier Berlioz Les nuits d’été Op. 7 Song Recital Series

Saturday 23 July 7.30 pm

Roderick Williams baritone Gary Matthewman piano Schubert An die Freude; Laura am Klavier; Die Erwartung; Klage um Ali Bey; Bei dem Grabe meines Vaters; Abendlied (D499); Am Grabe Anselmos; An eine Quelle; Täglich zu singen; Am Bach im Frühling; Trost im Liede; An die Musik; Der Kampf; Sehnsucht (D636); Pax vobiscum; Todesmusik; Schatzgräbers Begehr; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Der Pilgrim; Dithyrambe Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Tim Horton

Mozart String Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’ Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 14 in Ab Op. 105

Armida Quartet

Roderick Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

Felix Broede

115

October

Calendar

Date

September Event

Page

Start Time

Event

Page

Thu 1 Oct

7.30 pm

IMS Prussia Cove

18

Fri 2 Oct

7.30 pm

Magdalena Kožená/Mitsuko Uchida

21

Sat 3 Oct

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Family Concert: Stile Antico Llyˆr Williams

19 19

Sun 4 Oct

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Vertavo String Quartet Belcea Quartet

19 22

Mon 5 Oct

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Sandrine Piau/Susan Manoff Magdalena Kožená/Mitsuko Uchida

22 21

Date

Start Time

Sun 6 Sep

11.00 am & Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition Preliminary Stage – Day 1 2.30 pm 6.00 pm Aspects of Schubert

4–5 Tue 6 Oct

7.30 pm

Vadim Repin/Andrei Korobeinikov

22

5

Wed 7 Oct

7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge/Steven Isserlis/Julius Drake

23

Mon 7 Sep

11.00 am & Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition 2.30 pm Preliminary Stage – Day 2 6.30 pm Introduction to Song

4–5

Thu 8 Oct

11.00 am 7.30 pm

Schools Concert: Stile Antico Škampa Quartet

74 23

Tue 8 Sep

1.00 pm 3.00 pm & 7.30 pm

Graham Johnson OBE and Sir Ralph Kohn Interview Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition Semi-Final Stage

5 4–5

Wed 9 Sep

2.00 pm 5.30 pm

Masterclass with Angelika Kirchschlager and Thomas Quasthoff 5 Come and Sing in German 5, 74

Thu 10 Sep

3.00 pm 6.00 pm

Song Study Events Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition Final Stage and Prize-giving

Sat 12 Sep

7.30 pm

The English Concert/Iestyn Davies

Sun 13 Sep

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Kelemen Quartet/Vilde Frang/Nicolas Altstaedt Alice Coote/Julius Drake

Mon 14 Sep

1.00 pm

Tue 15 Sep

5

Fri 9 Oct

7.30 pm

Robert Levin

23

Sat 10 Oct

11.30 am 3.00 pm 6.00 pm 7.30 pm

Friedrich Cerha Day: Ensemble Modern Friedrich Cerha Day: Boulanger Trio/Andreas Schablas Friedrich Cerha Day: Artists in Conversation Friedrich Cerha Day: Ensemble Modern/HK Gruber

24 24 24 24

Sun 11 Oct

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Carducci String Quartet Belcea Quartet/Valentin Erben

25 25

Mon 12 Oct

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Sol Gabetta/Polina Leschenko GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

25 26

7

Tue 13 Oct

6 6

6.00 pm 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Trevor Pinnock & Friends

29 29

Wed 14 Oct

7.30 pm

Sarah Connolly/Graham Johnson

26

Anna Caterina Antonacci/Donald Sulzen

6

Thu 15 Oct

7.30 pm

Razumovsky Ensemble

27

7.30 pm

Borodin Quartet

8

Fri 16 Oct

7.30 pm

Michelangelo Quartet

27

Wed 16 Sep

7.30 pm

Behzod Abduraimov

8

Sat 17 Oct

7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble/Renata Pokupic´

31

Thu 17 Sep

7.30 pm

Borodin Quartet

9

Sun 18 Oct

Fri 18 Sep

6.00 pm 7.30 pm

Steven Isserlis/Richard Egarr Escher String Quartet

27 32

Pre-Concert Talk James Ehnes/Andrew Armstrong

11 11

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Mon 19 Oct

1.00 pm

32

10.30 am 7.30 pm

Open House Day Emmanuel Pahud/Jean-Guihen Queyras/Eric Le Sage

74 12

7.30 pm

Alexei Orgrintchouk/Boris Brovtsyn/Maxim Rysanov Kristina Blaumane Thomas Hampson/Wolfram Rieger

32

Tue 20 Oct

7.30 pm

The Endellion String Quartet

33

Sun 20 Sep

11.30 am

Tamsin Waley-Cohen/Huw Watkins

9

Wed 21 Oct

Mon 21 Sep

1.00 pm

Tine Thing Helseth/Kathryn Stott

9

3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Wigmore Study Group commences The King’s Consort

33 33

Tue 22 Sep

7.30 pm

Florian Boesch/Graham Johnson

14

Fri 23 Oct

7.30 pm

Bertrand Chamayou

34

13

Sat 24 Oct

7.30 pm

Scottish Ensemble/Jonathan Morton/Maxim Rysanov

35

Sun 25 Oct

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Clio Gould/Jonathan Morton Vox Luminis/Lionel Meunier

35 36

Mon 26 Oct

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Elizabeth Watts/Julius Drake Ehnes Quartet

35 36

Sat 19 Sep

Wed 23 Sep

7.30 pm

Eggner Trio

5 4–5

Thu 24 Sep

7.30 pm

Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau

13

Fri 25 Sep

7.30 pm

Cuarteto Casals

13

Sat 26 Sep

10.30 am 7.30 pm

Family Day: Wallace Collection Michael Collins/Michael McHale

74 16

Tue 27 Oct

7.30 pm

Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien

39

Sun 27 Sep

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Pavel Haas Quartet Henk Neven/James Baillieu

16 17

Thu 29 Oct

11.00 am 7.30 pm

Musical Portraits Half Term Course Christoph Prégardien/Christoph Schnackertz

75 37

Mon 28 Sep

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Anthony Marwood/Lawrence Power/Simon Crawford-Phillips Nelson Goerner

16 18

Fri 30 Oct

11.00 am 7.30 pm

Musical Portraits Half Term Course Jan Lisiecki

75 37

Wed 30 Sep

7.30 pm

Mark Padmore/Kristian Bezuidenhout

18

Sat 31 Oct

7.30 pm

Lucy Crowe/Malcolm Martineau

37

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November Date

December

Start Time

Event

Page

Sun 1 Nov

11.30 am

Nash Ensemble

40

Mon 2 Nov

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Daniel Hope/Sabine Meyer/Alexandre Tharaud Stephen Kovacevich/Martha Argerich

40 41

Tue 3 Nov

7.30 pm

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers

42

Wed 4 Nov

Date

Start Time

Event

Wed 2 Dec

12.15 pm 1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Britten Sinfonia ATOS Trio

56 56 57

Page

Thu 3 Dec

7.30 pm

Andreas Haefliger

57

Fri 4 Dec

11.00 am 7.30 pm

Relaxed Concert with Members of Aurora Orchestra Iestyn Davies/Allan Clayton/James Baillieu

76 57

Sat 5 Dec

7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Dominic Muldowney Roderick Williams

58

7.30 pm

Samling Artists/Joan Rodgers/Malcolm Martineau

40

Thu 5 Nov

7.30 pm

Igor Levit

44

Fri 6 Nov

7.30 pm

Arditti Quartet

43

Sat 7 Nov

6.00 pm 7.30 pm

Artists in Conversation Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth

43 43

Sun 6 Dec

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Aquinas Piano Trio Quatuor Ebène/Mitsuko Uchida

59 59

Sun 8 Nov

11.30 am 3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Eeden Quartet Tara Erraught/James Baillieu Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber

45 45 46

Mon 7 Dec

1.00 pm

Adrian Brendel/Aleksandar Madžar

59

Tue 8 Dec

7.30 pm

Christian Poltéra/Kathryn Stott

60

Wed 9 Dec

7.30 pm

Jonathan Biss

60

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Barnabás Kelemen Gil Shaham/Sejong Soloists

45 45

Thu 10 Dec

7.30 pm

I Fagiolini/Anna Crookes/Matthew Long

60

Fri 11 Dec

10.00 am 11.00 am 12.45 pm 1.45 pm 7.30 pm

Early Years: A Winter Dream Early Years: A Winter Dream Early Years: A Winter Dream Early Years: A Winter Dream Elīna Garancˇa/Malcolm Martineau

77 77 77 77 61

Sat 12 Dec

10.00 am 11.00 am 12.45 pm 1.45 pm 7.30 pm

Early Years: A Winter Dream Early Years: A Winter Dream Early Years: A Winter Dream Early Years: A Winter Dream Nash Ensemble/John Mark Ainsley

77 77 77 77 62

Sun 13 Dec

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Hugo Wolf Quartett Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall

62 63

Mon 14 Dec

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Rachel Podger/Marcin S´wia¸tkiewicz/David Miller La Nuova Musica/David Bates

62 64

Mon 9 Nov Tue 10 Nov

5.30 pm

Voiceworks Alumni Concert

75

Thu 12 Nov

7.30 pm

Richard Goode

47

Fri 13 Nov

7.30 pm

Franco Fagioli/Riccardo Minasi

47

Sat 14 Nov

10.00 am 1.00 pm 2.30 pm 7.30 pm

Family Sing: EFG London Jazz Festival Family Concert: EFG London Jazz Festival Family Sing: EFG London Jazz Festival Alisa Weilerstein/Inon Barnatan

75 75 75 47

Sun 15 Nov

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Trio Gaspard Christiane Karg/Basel Chamber Orchestra

48 49

Mon 16 Nov

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Emerson String Quartet Christian Zacharias

48 48

Tue 17 Nov

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

András Keller Masterclass Emerson String Quartet

50 50

Tue 15 Dec

7.30pm

Waltraud Meier/Joseph Breinl

65

Wed 18 Nov

7.30 pm

Christianne Stotijn/Joseph Breinl

50

Wed 16 Dec

7.30 pm

Patricia Petibon/Susan Manoff

65

Thu 19 Nov

7.30 pm

The English Concert/Iestyn Davies/Andreas Scholl

51

Thu 17 Dec

7.30 pm

Brad Mehldau

66

Fri 20 Nov

11.00 am 1.30 pm

Schools Concert: Crazy Creatures Schools Concert: Crazy Creatures

76 76

Fri 18 Dec

7.30 pm

Brad Mehldau

66

Sat 19 Dec

7.30 pm

Belcea Quartet/Till Fellner

65

Sat 21 Nov

11.00 am 1.00 pm

Family Concert: Crazy Creatures Family Concert: Crazy Creatures

51, 76 51, 76

Sun 20 Dec

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Doric String Quartet EXAUDI/James Weeks

67 67

Sun 22 Nov

11.30 am 7.00 pm

Nicolas Altstaedt Elisabeth Leonskaja 70th Birthday Concert

51 52

Mon 21 Dec

7.30 pm

L’Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar/Núria Rial

68

Tue 22 Dec

7.30 pm

Isabelle Faust/Jean-Guihen Queyras/Alexander Melnikov

69

Wed 23 Dec

7.30 pm

Ensemble Correspondances/Sébastien Daucé

69

Sun 27 Dec

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Michael Barenboim/Denis Kozhukhin Philippe Cassard

70 70

Mon 28 Dec

7.30 pm

Max Emanuel Cencic/Armonia Atenea/George Petrou Theodoros Kitsos

70

Mon 23 Nov

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Narek Hakhnazaryan/Pavel Kolesnikov quartet-lab

52 52

Tue 24 Nov

7.30 pm

Cédric Tiberghien

53

Wed 25 Nov

7.30 pm

Florilegium/Ashley Solomon/Roderick Williams

53

Thu 26 Nov

7.30 pm

Nikolaj Znaider/Robert Kulek

53

Fri 27 Nov

6.00 pm 7.30 pm

Artists in Conversation Stile Antico

54 54

Tue 29 Dec

7.30 pm

Christian Blackshaw

71

Wed 30 Dec

7.30 pm

Modigliani Quartet/Beatrice Rana

71

Sat 28 Nov

7.30 pm

Christiane Karg/Graham Johnson

55

Thu 31 Dec

7.00 pm

The Cardinall’s Musick/Andrew Carwood

71

Sun 29 Nov

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Wolfgang Redik/Christoph Berner The Schubert Ensemble

55 55

Mon 30 Nov

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Artemis Quartet Bejun Mehta/La Nuova Musica/David Bates

56 56

Booking for all events in the Contemporary Music Series opens to Friends on 8 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May and to the General Public on 29 May. See pages 72–73 for event dates – full details are given in chronological order throughout the brochure.

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FOCUS ON

Nico Muhly Nico Muhly, whilst rooted in the classical tradition of composition, relishes the opportunity to work across many musical genres and to collaborate with a diverse range of performers. From ballet, opera, chamber music and song to indie-pop, his influences are far and wide, and the sound-worlds he conjures in his compositions are captivating.

Wigmore Hall’s Focus on Nico Muhly spans two seasons, beginning in 2015/16 with new works for Stile Antico, and Iestyn Davies, Allan Clayton and James Baillieu.

Friday 27 November 7.30 pm

Stile Antico IN PACE: MUSIC FOR COMPLINE Programme to include: Nico Muhly Gentle Sleep* (world première) *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series/ Contemporary Music Series

Friday 4 December 7.30 pm

Iestyn Davies countertenor Allan Clayton tenor James Baillieu piano Programme to include: Nico Muhly New work for countertenor, tenor and piano* (world première) Nico Muhly Four Traditional Songs *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation, and by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, and anonymous donors £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series/ Introducing James Baillieu Photo by Peter Ross

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BOOKING INFORMATION Booking Dates Booking Period 1 Sunday 6 September – Thursday 31 December 2015

Friends – Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by Friday 8 May 2015 Mailing List – Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by Friday 15 May 2015 General Public – By telephone/online from Friday 29 May 2015

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

Wigmore Hall Box Office 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Tel: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Email: (not for bookings) boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk

Box Office Hours

Car Parking

7 days a week: 10.00am– 8.30pm.

Days without an evening concert 10.00am– 5.00pm. No advance booking during the half-hour prior to performance.

There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas.

Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a five minute walk from the Hall.

Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their parking. Please contact the Box Office for further details or visit our website.

Telephone Bookings 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm.

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

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

Facilities for Disabled People Full details from 020 7935 2141 or access@wigmore-hall.org.uk

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

Online Bookings Online booking is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration charge.

Tickets for Concessions

Tickets Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into five price ranges Stalls C – M: Highest price Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd highest price Stalls AA, T – V: 4th highest price Stalls W – Y: Lowest price

A–D

T– V Q– S

N–P STA LL S C– M A –B CC BB

PL ATFO RM

Ticket buyers under the age of 35 are entitled to reduced price tickets for selected concerts.

Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/u35 for full details.

Group Bookings

OXFORD CIRCUS BOND STREET

Restaurant/Bar

W–Y

A AA A

Under 35s Ticket Scheme

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

BALCONY

CC BB

Where a concession (concs) ticket price is listed these are available to students, senior citizens and the unemployed.

A AA A

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

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

Transport

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

Tubes: Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines), Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines).

Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford Street.

Cover photos by Benjamin Ealovega Cover design by Hutton Design Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson

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SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALL With £1.5 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend, 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: Honorary Patrons

Donors and Sponsors

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

Mr Eric Abraham* Neville and Nicola Abraham Elaine Adair Tony and Marion Allen* Andor Charitable Trust David and Jacqueline Ansell* Arts Council England The Austin & Hope Pilkington Trust Ben Baglio and Richard Wilson Geoffrey Barnett BBC Children in Need David and Margaret Beaton Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez Mrs Arline Blass David and Mary Bowerman* Alan Bradley* Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair Nicolas and Hilary Browne-Wilkinson bureauexport A bequest from the late Peter Cain Clive Butler CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust Charities Advisory Trust City Bridge Trust Colin Clark Eric Clause* Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation ‡ Edwin C Cohen Nicola Coldstream Sonia and Harvey Cole John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Anthony Davis* Pauline Del Mar Diaphonique The Dorset Foundation Kate Dugdale In memory of Robert Easton Douglas and Janette Eden Mr Martin R Edwards Annette Ellis* The Elton Family Dr C A Endersby and Prof D Cowan The Ernest Cook Trust Caroline Erskine Mrs Susan Feakin The Fidelio Charitable Trust Peter and Sonia Field John and Amy Ford S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3

Season Patrons Aubrey Adams* American Friends of Wigmore Hall Karl Otto Bonnier* Cockayne ‡ Henry and Suzanne Davis Dunard Fund† The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Graham and Amanda Hutton*† Valerie O’Connor David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma† Ian Rosenblatt Victoria and Simon Robey* Cita and Irwin Stelzer* Alisa and Joshua Swidler* William and Alex de Winton* and an anonymous donor

Chamber Music Circle Karl Otto Bonnier* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Pauline and Ian Howat The Marchus Trust ‡ Oliver and Helen Prenn Jo and Barry Slavin The Tertis Foundation Marina Vaizey Kathleen Verelst* Tony Wingate and several anonymous donors

Corporate Supporters Capital Group (corporate matched giving) Clifford Chance LLP Complete Coffee Ltd Duncan Lawrie Private Banking Lloyds Banking Group Martin Randall Travel Ltd Rosenblatt Solicitors Rothschild

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Friends of Wigmore Hall Jonathan Gaisman* The Garrick Charitable Trust The J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust John and Lauren Goldsmith* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Charles Green Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* Haringey Music Service Havering Music School The Headley Trust The Henry C Hoare Charitable Trust Nicholas Hodgson André and Rosalie Hoffmann‡ Peter and Carol Honey* Gay Huey Evans* Hyde Park Place Estate Charity Simone Hyman* The Idlewild Trust Peter and Nikki Jeffcote John Lyon’s Charity Marc Jourdren* In memory of Donald Kahn Su and Neil Kaplan* Jerome Karet* David and Louise Kaye* Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Zahava Kohn* The Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Maryly La Follette* The Leverhulme Trust Tim Llewellyn Dame Felicity Lott The Loveday Charitable Trust Simon and Sophie Ludlam* A bequest from the late John Lunn Julia MacRae* Simon Majaro MBE and Pamela Majaro MBE Mayfield Valley Arts Trust George Meyer Milton Damerel Trust Michael and Lynne McGowan* The Monument Trust Amyas and Louise Morse* Deborah Finkler and Allan Murray-Jones A C and F A Myer Valerie O’Connor and Jeanette McIntosh The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust Hamish Parker The Piano Fund Dr Clive Potter*

Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Radcliffe Trust Edith Randall The Rayne Foundation Gifts to honour Rick Rogers from Beryl McAlhone and friends Charles Rose* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM* Rothschild The Rubinstein Circle The Sainer Charity The Sampimon Trust Louise Scheuer Julia Schottlander* Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* The Shoresh Charitable Trust Sir Martin and Lady Smith* Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* Gill and Keith Stella* Cita and Irwin Stelzer* The Stewarts Law Foundation Derek Sugden Anne and Paul Swain* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* The Tertis Foundation The Garfield Weston Foundation Allen L Thomas and Jane Simpson* Tower Hamlets Arts & Music Education Service Professor Christopher Thompson Tri-borough Music Hub John and Ann Tusa* Robin Vousden* Gerry Wakelin* Andrew and Hilary Walker* Professor Janet Walker CD and Professor Doug Jones AO* Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement David and Frances Waters* City of Westminster David Evan Williams The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Philip and Emeline Winston* The Wolfson Foundation Simon Yates and Kevin Roon Youth Music and several anonymous donors * Rubinstein Circle members † Early Music and Baroque Series supporters ‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters

Details correct as of February 2015

Latest releases on Wigmore Hall Live

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Available on CD and as digital downloads directly from wigmore-hall.org.uk/live or 020 7935 2141

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