Summer 2017 Wigmore Series brochure by Wigmore Hall

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©Frances Marshall Photography

Director’s Introduction

Vienna occupied the heart of a vast empire during the years in which the works in Bernarda Fink and Ensemble Prisma Wien’s programme were conceived. The Habsburg Empire, for all its faults, provided ideal conditions for a remarkable flourishing of music and musicians. Prisma Wien, founded in 2006 as a flexible ensemble, makes its Wigmore Hall debut under the direction of violinist Thomas Fheodoroff. Their programme is cut from rich material, complete with Haydn’s dramatic scena Arianna a Naxos and Dvorˇák’s Biblical Songs. Wigmore Hall continues to play host to Schubert’s songs, presenting all 600-plus of the composer’s timeless contributions to the art form. Over sixty of the world’s finest interpreters have taken part in Schubert: The Complete Songs, a major landmark in the Hall’s history, which is set to conclude 31 January 2018, Schubert’s birthday. Leading composers and conductors are among those in the queue hoping to collaborate with Patricia Kopatchinskaja. The iconoclastic Moldovan-Austrian violinist’s artistry erupts from the uncompromising courage of her breath-taking interpretations. Her season as Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence concludes with two compelling concert programmes, both rich in repertoire range, and an enlightening pre-concert talk.

Four composers central to Sir András Schiff’s artistic DNA provide the focus for the pianist’s unfolding Wigmore Hall concerts this season. His careful selection of works offers the chance to hear each piece from a fresh perspective, while his related masterclass series provides further insights into Schiff’s creative process. The exceptional encounter at Wigmore Hall between two stars of bel canto, Cecilia Bartoli and Philippe Jaroussky, is enhanced by their enduring friendship and strong musical bond. Following an acclaimed

Giulio Cesare in Salzburg and mutual guest appearances on several of their recording projects, they finally share a concert in company with the virtuoso Ensemble Artaserse, founded by Jaroussky in 2003. Once self-described in three words as ‘mercurial, stoical and giggly’, Tansy Davies’s music jolts and pulses, with a rhythmical, almost mechanical, edge. She draws on inspiration from architecture, often using the orchestra to build her structures, and it is this way of thinking that creates new worlds, bridging contemporary idioms such as jazz and rock.

Violeta Urmana makes a highly anticipated return visit to us. The phenomenal range and richness of the Lithuanian artist’s voice are ideally suited to the dramatic contrasts at work in her Schubert programme. She and regular duo partner Jan Philip Schulze open with Schubert’s first complete vocal work and embrace everything from the romantic reflections of ‘Himmelsfunken’ to the operatic excesses of ‘Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz’.

sets the creative benchmark for a programme that includes one of Purcell’s earliest Odes for St Cecilia’s Day, complete with the haunting countertenor aria, ‘Here the deities approve’, and the wonderful verse anthem ‘In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust’. The Sixteen also explores the intense chromatic harmonies of ‘Plung’d in the confines of despair’, an inspired setting of a psalm paraphrase by the clergyman and religious controversialist, John Patrick.

Christoph Pohl began his singing career as a member of the Hanover Boys’ Choir. The German baritone has achieved international acclaim as a member of the Semperoper Dresden ensemble in roles as diverse as Mozart’s Count Almaviva, Rossini’s Figaro and Wagner’s Wolfram. Following the success of his Royal Opera House debut in Georg Friedrich Haas’s Morgen und Abend in 2015, Pohl marks his first appearance at Wigmore Hall with a compelling programme of songs to poetry by Goethe, Heine and Schiller.

Five-star reviews and a clutch of international prizes, a GRAMMY and Gramophone Award among them, underline the towering achievement of the Takács Quartet’s recordings of Beethoven’s complete string quartets. Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists present their latest thoughts on these timeless artworks.

Wigmore Lates make the ideal start to the weekend. This season’s run opens with virtuoso Baroque sonatas from Arcangelo, and includes a trumpet double bill from Alison Balsom and Guy Barker, mesmeric original cabaret numbers from Miss Hope Springs, and a genre-crossing evening with classical mandolinist Avi Avital and jazz bassist and oud player Omer Avital.

Pavel Kolesnikov made his BBC Proms debut with a thrilling account of Tchaikovsky’s monumental Second Piano Concerto, and soon earned further rave reviews for his second recording for Hyperion, an album of Chopin’s complete Mazurkas. The Russian pianist explores the fantasy worlds of CPE Bach and Schumann together with the songwithout-words that is Schubert’s A minor Sonata.

Bach’s Partitas, issued in separate editions between 1726 and 1730, formed the composer’s first major publication, offered to ‘music-lovers, to delight their spirits’. Angela Hewitt explores the diverse delights of three of Bach’s suites together with the Sonata BWV964, the composer’s virtuoso transcription for keyboard of his Sonata for solo violin in A minor.

Poetry of rich expressivity conditions each song in Christina Landshamer’s Wigmore Hall recital. The Munich-born soprano made her international breakthrough in 2009 in Haydn’s Il mondo della luna under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and has secured an enviable reputation since as an artist equally at home in opera, oratorio and song. Her programme includes Schumann’s settings of poems from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister and Victor Ullmann’s cycles of sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rilke and Louise Labé, an extraordinary figure of the French Renaissance.

Stile Antico, among the world’s finest vocal ensembles, explores music of mourning and commemoration from Austria and Germany in its latest Wigmore Hall concert. The journey begins with a late motet by the remarkably prolific, consistently inventive Lassus, who finished his illustrious career as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Bavaria. It continues with Schütz’s sublime Musicalische Exequien, written during the Thirty Years War for the funeral of Prince Heinrich of Reuss, and finally arrives at Bach’s peerless funeral motet for the wife of Leipzig’s postmaster. Harry Christophers directs an ace ensemble of singers and instrumentalists in a concert of masterworks from Restoration London. Hear my prayer, O Lord, memorably described by one scholar as a ‘noble fragment’,

Igor Levit concludes his intense season-long Beethoven Cycle with the composer’s final piano sonatas. ‘Beethoven’s pianistic imagination is stamped on every page of these three [works]’, observes the veteran American scholar Lewis Lockwood. Each sonata reveals fresh facets of invention, with jaw-dropping pianistic effects allied to formal structures of extraordinary ingenuity. For over 20 years Wigmore Hall’s renowned Learning programme has been giving people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities opportunities to take part in creative music making, engaging a broad and diverse audience through innovative creative projects, concerts, events and online resources. All of this is celebrated in two gala concerts on 24 and 25 July featuring Joshua Bell, Amihai Grosz, Rachel Roberts, Arisa Fujita, Steven Isserlis and Dénes Várjon. Please enjoy reading through the brochure yourself, and I hope to see you at Wigmore Hall during our Summer Series.

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See pages 6 – 82 for full details of these concerts and page 83 for booking information. Series and Events to look out for…

Chamber Music Season

EXAUDI

Janine Jansen Perspectives

Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey

Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

Cecilia Bartoli & Philippe Jaroussky

Edgar Moreau & Pierre-Yves Hodique

The Sixteen

Vijay Iyer Jazz Residence

Arcangelo Baroque Ensemble in Residence

Wigmore Hall Learning Gala Celebrations

Nikolaj Znaider/Piotr Anderszewski Page 6 Jean-Guihen Queyras/Sokratis Sinopoulos 8 Fri 7 Apr Bijan Chemirani/Keyvan Chemirani Thu 13 Apr Sergey Khachatryan/Lusine Khachatryan 15 Steven Isserlis/Dénes Várjon 15 Sat 15 Apr Basel Chamber Orchestra/Daniel Hope 16 Tue 18 Apr 17 Wed 19 Apr Britten Sinfonia Soloists of the London Philharmonic 18 Sat 22 Apr Orchestra Wed 26 Apr Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Sol Gabetta 21 Hagen Quartet 22 Sat 29 Apr 23 Sun 30 Apr Hagen Quartet Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 24 Fri 5 May Patricia Kopatchinskaja 29 Sun 7 May Anthony Romaniuk Mon 8 May Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists 29 Clio Gould Thu 11 May Elias String Quartet/Benjamin Frith 30 31 Sat 13 May RNCM Study Day: Tansy Davies 34 Sun 14 May Takács Quartet 34 Mon 15 May Takács Quartet 35 Wed 17 May Takács Quartet 36 Thu 18 May Alison Balsom/Lucy Crowe The Balsom Ensemble Sun 21 May Jerusalem Quartet 38 Tue 23 May The Endellion String Quartet 39 Fri 26 May Escher String Quartet 40 Borodin Quartet 44 Thu 1 Jun Fri 2 Jun Janine Jansen/Martin Fröst 45 Torleif Thedéen/Lucas Debargue Sat 3 Jun Borodin Quartet 46 Tue 6 Jun Razumovsky Ensemble 47 Mon 12 Jun Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: 51 Michael Petrov/Erdem Misirliogˇlu Wed 14 Jun Arditti Quartet/Eliot Fisk 52 Thu 15 Jun Nicolas Altstaedt/Alexander Lonquich 52 Fri 16 Jun Jasper String Quartet 53 Sun 18 Jun Quatuor Ebène 54 55 Tue 20 Jun Ensemble intercontemporain 58 Mon 26 Jun Vienna Piano Trio/Mark Padmore 59 Wed 28 Jun Edgar Moreau/Pierre-Yves Hodique Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson 60 Sat 1 Jul

A Serenade to Music

Thu 6 Jul

Andreas Ottensamer/José Gallardo

Contemporary Music Series

Mon 10 Jul

Gould Piano Trio

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Nikolaj Znaider & Piotr Anderszewski

Alexander Melnikov

Bernarda Fink & Ensemble Prisma Wien

Jean-Guihen Queyras, Chemirani Brothers & Sokratis Sinopoulos

Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset

Schubert: The Complete Songs

12–13, 28, 30, 32, 36, 49, 50, 53, 62, 64, 65, 66, 70, 74, 75

Le Concert Spirituel

Thomas Dunford

Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Artist in Residence

21, 29

Milan Siljanov & Nino Chokhonelidze

Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók

Francesco Piemontesi Mozart Cycle

Wigmore Lates

26–27, 40, 49, 53, 56, 68, 70

Karita Mattila & Ville Matvejeff

Bracing Change: New String Commissions

Tansy Davies Study Day

Violeta Urmana & Jan Philip Schulze

Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle

34, 35

Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’

36, 49

Christoph Pohl & Marcelo Amaral

Phantasm & Elizabeth Kenny

Pavel Kolesnikov

Christina Landshamer & Gerold Huber

Stile Antico Borodin Quartet: Beethoven & Shostakovich Cycle

42 44, 46

Sun 16 Jul

Quatuor Mosaïques

Sun 23 Jul

Tai Murray/Elena Urioste Jennifer Stumm/Laura van der Heijden Tom Poster

Mon 24 Jul

Joshua Bell/Arisa Fujita/Amihai Grosz Rachel Roberts/Steven Isserlis Dénes Várjon

Tue 25 Jul

Joshua Bell/Arisa Fujita/Amihai Grosz Rachel Roberts/Steven Isserlis Dénes Várjon

Sun 2 Apr

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London Pianoforte Series Alexander Melnikov Piers Lane Sun 23 Apr Andreas Haefliger Janina Fialkowska Tue 25 Apr Tue 2 May Sir András Schiff Thu 4 May Francesco Piemontesi Fri 12 May Joanna MacGregor Sat 20 May Llyˆr Williams Wed 24 May Nikolai Lugansky Sat 27 May Pavel Kolesnikov Sun 4 Jun Christian Ihle Hadland Yevgeny Sudbin Fri 9 Jun Sat 10 Jun Angela Hewitt Tue 13 Jun Igor Levit Tue 27 Jun Inon Barnatan Tue 4 Jul Håvard Gimse Sat 8 Jul Martin Roscoe Thu 27 Jul Cédric Tiberghien Wed 5 Apr

Wed 19 Apr

17 19 20 25 24 30 37 39 41 47 49 50 52 59 63 65 74

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Thu 20 Jul

Vijay Iyer Trio

Wigmore Lates 27

Fri 14 Jul

Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen Danish String Quartet Alison Balsom/Guy Barker Ross Stanley/Chris Hill Miss Hope Springs Avi Avital/Omer Avital Yonathan Avishai/Itamar Doari Laura Jurd/Dinosaur

Fri 21 Jul

Edicson Ruiz/Yu Kosuge

Fri 5 May Fri 26 May Fri 9 Jun Fri 16 Jun Fri 23 Jun

40 49 53 56 68

Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Sun 2 Apr Sun 9 Apr Sun 16 Apr Sun 23 Apr Sun 30 Apr Sun 7 May Sun 14 May Sun 21 May Sun 28 May Sun 4 Jun Sun 11 Jun Sun 18 Jun Sun 25 Jun Sun 2 Jul Sun 9 Jul Sun 16 Jul Sun 23 Jul Sun 30 Jul

Dante Quartet Page 6 Colin Carr/Thomas Sauer 10 Castalian String Quartet 15 Ivana Gavric´ 19 Caroline Goulding/Danae Dörken 23 Saleem Ashkar 28 Jakob Koranyi/Juho Pohjonen 33 Armida Quartet 37 Schumann Quartet 42 Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch 46 Natalia Prischepenko/Thomas Hoppe 50 Michelangelo Quartet 54 Vienna Piano Trio 56 Doric String Quartet 60 Navarra String Quartet 65 Quatuor Zaïde 68 Chloë Hanslip/Danny Driver 72 Gemma Rosefield/Tim Horton 74

Mahan Esfahani

Antoine Tamestit/Cédric Tiberghien

Mon 19 Jun

Carducci String Quartet

Sat 1 Apr

Mon 26 Jun

Clara Mouriz/Joseph Middleton

Fri 7 Apr

Mon 3 Jul

Maurice Steger/Jean Rondeau

Mon 10 Jul

Hanno Müller-Brachmann Hendrik Heilmann

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Sat 1 Apr Sun 9 Apr Mon 10 Apr Wed 12 Apr Mon 17 Apr Thu 20 Apr Tue 16 May Tue 30 May Wed 7 Jun Wed 21 Jun Fri 23 Jun Sat 24 Jun Sun 25 Jun Thu 29 Jun Fri 30 Jun Tue 18 Jul Fri 21 Jul

EXAUDI Les Talens Lyriques Ensemble Plus Ultra Le Concert Spirituel London Handel Players/Rowan Pierce Thomas Dunford Classical Opera/Ian Page Kristian Bezuidenhout/Soraya Mafi Stile Antico The English Concert The King’s Consort Fretwork/Simon Callow Cecilia Bartoli/Philippe Jaroussky Ensemble Artaserse Florilegium Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Isabelle Faust The Sixteen/Harry Christophers The Cardinall’s Musick Arcangelo/Sophie Junker

7 11 11 14 16

Thu 11 May Thu 6 Apr

Bernarda Fink/Ensemble Prisma Wien

Apollon Musagète Quartet Mon 10 Apr Sarah Connolly/Joseph Middleton Mon 17 Apr Alessio Bax Mon 24 Apr Louis Lortie Mon 1 May Lawrence Zazzo/Daniele Caminiti Julian Perkins/Jonathan Rees Mon 8 May Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff Mon 15 May Tasmin Little/John Lenehan Mon 22 May Phantasm Mon 29 May Zemlinsky Quartet

Sat 13 May

Sat 8 Apr

Toby Spence/Julian Milford

Wed 14 Jun

Henk Neven/Imogen Cooper

Fri 16 Jun

Fri 21 Apr

Benjamin Appl/James Baillieu

Tue 20 Jun

Fri 21 Apr

Michael Fabiano/Julius Drake

Fri 23 Jun

Thu 27 Apr

Milan Siljanov/Nino Chokhonelidze

Mon 26 Jun

Mon 1 May

Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Huber

Sat 1 Jul

Sat 6 May

The Myrthen Ensemble

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by

Sat 6 May

Karita Mattila/Ville Matvejeff

28 30

Sat 13 May

Violeta Urmana/Jan Philip Schulze

Sun 14 May

Simon Bode/Igor Levit

Fri 19 May

Julian Prégardien/Christoph Schnackertz 36

Sun 21 May

Christoph Pohl/Marcelo Amaral

Sun 28 May

Christina Landshamer/Gerold Huber

Wed 31 May Christopher Maltman/Malcolm Martineau 44

Jongmin Park/Simon Lepper

Anna Lucia Richter/Michael Gees

Sun 11 Jun

Ben Johnson/Graham Johnson

Sat 17 Jun

Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau

Mon 19 Jun

Andrè Schuen/Daniel Heide

Sun 2 Jul

Markus Schäfer/Piers Lane

Wed 5 Jul

Simon Keenlyside/Malcolm Martineau

Fri 7 Jul

Louise Alder/Ruby Hughes Katie Bray/Anna Huntley Clara Mouriz/Sholto Kynoch

Ben Johnson/Nicky Spence Benjamin Appl/Gavan Ring Sholto Kynoch

58 60

Sun 9 Jul

61 69

Sun 9 Jul

Ian Bostridge/Graham Johnson

Wed 12 Jul

Aida Garifullina/Lech Napierala

Thu 13 Jul

Sophie Bevan/Allan Clayton Christopher Glynn

Fri 14 Jul

Ailish Tynan/Adam Walker Alasdair Tait/James Baillieu

Sat 15 Jul

Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber Ulrich Tukur

Wed 19 Jul

Elizabeth Watts/Simon Lepper

Sat 22 Jul

Andrei Bondarenko/Gary Matthewman

Wed 26 Jul

Carolyn Sampson/Joseph Middleton

Fri 28 Jul

Robin Tritschler/Graham Johnson

Sat 29 Jul

A Serenade to Music

We are grateful to The Monument Trust for essential additional support for our expanded vocal series

6 10 16 19 23

EXAUDI Page 7 Jean-Guihen Queyras 8 Sokratis Sinopoulos/Bijan Chemirani Keyvan Chemirani Britten Sinfonia 17 Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Sol Gabetta 21 Patricia Kopatchinskaja 29 Anthony Romaniuk Elias String Quartet/Benjamin Frith 30 Tansy Davies Study Day 31 Arditti Quartet/Eliot Fisk 52 Jasper String Quartet 53 Ensemble intercontemporain 55 Fretwork 56 Vienna Piano Trio/Mark Padmore 58 Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson 60

Tue 11 Apr

Thu 8 Jun

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Mon 3 Apr

Sun 7 May

Song Recital Series

Sun 4 Jun

Wed 19 Apr Wed 26 Apr

Wed 10 May Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt

Early Music and Baroque Series

Contemporary Music Series

Mon 5 Jun Mon 12 Jun

Wigmore Hall Learning Music for the Moment RNIB Study Day Tue 25 Apr SEN Schools Concert: Juice Thu 27 Apr Young Producers Present ... Sat 29 Apr Come and Sing Wed 3 May Sir András Schiff Masterclass Sun 7 May Artists in Conversation Tue 9 May For Crying Out Loud! Fri 12 May Chamber Tots Wed 17 May Dementia Awareness Week: Come and Sing Fri 19 May Side by Side Sat 20 May Family Concert: Search for the Starlight Squid Tue 23 May Voiceworks Tue 30 May Family Day: Cavendish Winds RNIB Family Day Thu 1 Jun Artists in Conversation Fri 2 Jun Alfred Brendel Lecture Sat 3 Jun Chamber Tots Wed 7 Jun Introduction to Music commences Thu 8 Jun Mon 12 Jun Wigmore Study Group commences Wed 14 Jun Carers’ Week: Relaxed Concert Thu 15 Jun For Crying Out Loud! Wed 28 Jun Chamber Tots Sat 1 Jul Royal Academy of Music Family Day Tue 4 Jul Chamber Tots Fri 7 Jul Music for the Moment Sat 8 Jul Alfred Brendel Lecture Wed 12 Jul KS2 Schools Concert: My Iris Mon 17 Jul Chamber Tots Mon 24 Jul Musical Portraits commences Fri 7 Apr

Thu 20 Apr

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May

Calendar April Date

Start Time

Event

Sat 1 Apr

7.30 pm

EXAUDI

Page 7

Sun 2 Apr

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Dante Quartet Nikolaj Znaider/Piotr Anderszewski

6 6

Mon 3 Apr

1.00 pm

Apollon Musagète Quartet

Wed 5 Apr

7.30 pm

Alexander Melnikov

Thu 6 Apr

7.30 pm

Bernarda Fink/Ensemble Prisma Wien

Fri 7 Apr

3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Music for the Moment Jean-Guihen Queyras/Sokratis Sinopoulos/Bijan Chemirani Keyvan Chemirani

9 8, 77 8

Date

Start Time

Event

Mon 1 May

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Lawrence Zazzo/Daniele Caminiti/Julian Perkins/Jonathan Rees Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Huber

Page 23 24

Tue 2 May

7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff

Wed 3 May

7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff Masterclass

Thu 4 May

7.30 pm

Francesco Piemontesi

Fri 5 May

7.00 pm 10.00 pm

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen

24 27

Sat 6 May

1.00p m 7.30 pm

The Myrthen Ensemble Karita Mattila/Ville Matvejeff

28 28

Sun 7 May

11.30 am 6.00 pm 7.30 pm

Saleem Ashkar Artists in Conversation Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Anthony Romaniuk

28 29 29

Mon 8 May

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists/Clio Gould

29 29

Tue 9 May

11.00 am 12.30 pm

For Crying Out Loud! For Crying Out Loud!

Wed 10 May

7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt

Thu 11 May

7.30 pm

Elias String Quartet/Benjamin Frith

Fri 12 May

10.15 am 11.45 am 7.00 pm

Chamber Tots Chamber Tots Joanna MacGregor

Sat 13 May

10.30 am 12 noon 2.00 pm 7.30 pm

RNCM Study Day: Tansy Davies RNCM Study Day: Tansy Davies RNCM Study Day: Tansy Davies Violeta Urmana/Jan Philip Schulze

31 31 31 32

Sun 14 May

11.30 am 3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Jakob Koranyi/Juho Pohjonen Simon Bode/Igor Levit Takács Quartet

33 33 34

Mon 15 May

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Tasmin Little/John Lenehan Takács Quartet

33 34

Tue 16 May

7.30 pm

Classical Opera/Ian Page/Kristian Bezuidenhout/Soraya Mafi

Wed 17 May

10.00 am 7.30 pm

Dementia Awareness Week: Come and Sing Takács Quartet

79 35

29, 78 29, 78 30 30

Sat 8 Apr

7.30 pm

Toby Spence/Julian Milford

Sun 9 Apr

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Colin Carr/Thomas Sauer Les Talens Lyriques

10 11

Mon 10 Apr

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Sarah Connolly/Joseph Middleton Ensemble Plus Ultra

10 11

Tue 11 Apr

7.30 pm

Henk Neven/Imogen Cooper

Wed 12 Apr

7.30 pm

Le Concert Spirituel

Thu 13 Apr

7.30 pm

Sergey Khachatryan/Lusine Khachatryan

Sat 15 Apr

7.30 pm

Steven Isserlis/Dénes Várjon

Sun 16 Apr

11.30 am

Castalian String Quartet

Mon 17 Apr

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Alessio Bax London Handel Players/Rowan Pierce

16 16

Tue 18 Apr

7.30 pm

Basel Chamber Orchestra/Daniel Hope

Wed 19 Apr

12.15 pm 1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Britten Sinfonia Piers Lane

17 17 17

Thu 18 May

7.30 pm

Alison Balsom/Lucy Crowe/The Balsom Ensemble

Fri 19 May

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Side by Side Julian Prégardien/Christoph Schnackertz

35, 79 36

Thu 20 Apr

10.00 am 7.30 pm

RNIB Study Day Thomas Dunford

77 17

Sat 20 May

11.00 am 7.30 pm

Family Concert: Search for the Starlight Squid Llyˆr Williams

37, 79 37

Fri 21 Apr

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Benjamin Appl/James Baillieu Michael Fabiano/Julius Drake

18 18

Sun 21 May

Sat 22 Apr

7.30 pm

Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

11.30 am 3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Armida Quartet Christoph Pohl/Marcelo Amaral Jerusalem Quartet

Sun 23 Apr

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Ivana Gavric´ Andreas Haefliger

19 19

Mon 22 May

1.00 pm

Phantasm

Tue 23 May

Mon 24 Apr

1.00 pm

Louis Lortie

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Voiceworks The Endellion String Quartet

Tue 25 Apr

11.00 am 7.30 pm

SEN Schools Concert: Juice Janina Fialkowska

77 20

Wed 24 May

7.30 pm

Nikolai Lugansky

Thu 25 May

3.00 pm

YCAT Finals 2017

Wed 26 Apr

1.30 pm 7.30 pm

Kathleen Ferrier Awards Semi-Final Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Sol Gabetta

20 21

Fri 26 May

7.00 pm 10.00 pm

Escher String Quartet Danish String Quartet

40 40

Thu 27 Apr

5.30 pm 7.30 pm

Young Producers Present ... Milan Siljanov/Nino Chokhonelidze

20, 78 22

Sat 27 May

7.30 pm

Pavel Kolesnikov

Sun 28 May

Fri 28 Apr

6.00 pm

Kathleen Ferrier Awards Final

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Schumann Quartet Christina Landshamer/Gerold Huber

42 43

Sat 29 Apr

10.00 am 7.30 pm

Come and Sing Hagen Quartet

Mon 29 May

1.00 pm

Zemlinsky Quartet

Tue 30 May

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Caroline Goulding/Danae Dörken Hagen Quartet

10.30 am 7.30 pm

Family Day: Cavendish Winds Stile Antico

Wed 31 May

7.30 pm

Christopher Maltman/Malcolm Martineau

Sun 30 Apr

20 22, 78 22 23 23

30, 79 30, 79 30

37 38 38 38 39, 80 39

42 42, 80 42 44

June

July

Date

Start Time

Event

Date

Start Time

Event

Thu 1 Jun

11.00 am 7.30 pm

RNIB Family Day Borodin Quartet

80 44

Sat 1 Jul

10.30 am 7.30 pm

Royal Academy of Music Family Day Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson

Fri 2 Jun

7.30 pm 9.45 pm

Janine Jansen/Martin Fröst/Torleif Thedéen/Lucas Debargue Artists in Conversation

45 45

Sun 2 Jul

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Doric String Quartet Markus Schäfer/Piers Lane

Sat 3 Jun

2.30 pm 7.30 pm

Alfred Brendel Lecture Borodin Quartet

44 46

Mon 3 Jul

1.00 pm

Maurice Steger/Jean Rondeau

Sun 4 Jun

11.30 am 3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Jongmin Park/Simon Lepper Christian Ihle Hadland

46 46 47

Tue 4 Jul

10.15 am 11.45 am 7.30 pm

Chamber Tots Chamber Tots Håvard Gimse

Mon 5 Jun

1.00 pm

Mahan Esfahani

Wed 5 Jul

7.30 pm

Simon Keenlyside/Malcolm Martineau

Tue 6 Jun

7.30 pm

Razumovsky Ensemble

Thu 6 Jul

7.30 pm

Andreas Ottensamer/José Gallardo

Wed 7 Jun

10.15 am 11.45 am 7.30 pm

Chamber Tots Chamber Tots The English Concert

48, 79 48, 79 48

Fri 7 Jul

3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Music for the Moment Louise Alder/Ruby Hughes/Katie Bray/Anna Huntley Clara Mouriz/Sholto Kynoch

Thu 8 Jun

4.45 pm 7.30 pm

Introduction to Music Anna Lucia Richter/Michael Gees

48 49

Sat 8 Jul

2.30 pm 7.30 pm

Alfred Brendel Lecture Martin Roscoe

64 65

Fri 9 Jun

7.00 pm 10.00 pm

Yevgeny Sudbin Alison Balsom/Guy Barker/Ross Stanley/Chris Hill

49 49

Sun 9 Jul

11.30 am 3.00 pm

7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt

Sun 11 Jun

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Natalia Prischepenko/Thomas Hoppe Ben Johnson/Graham Johnson

50 50

7.30 pm

Navarra String Quartet Ben Johnson/Nicky Spence/Benjamin Appl/ Gavan Ring/Sholto Kynoch Ian Bostridge/Graham Johnson

65 65

Sat 10 Jun

Mon 10 Jul

1.00 pm 3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Antoine Tamestit/Cédric Tiberghien Wigmore Study Group Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Michael Petrov/Erdem Misirliogˇlu

51 51 51

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Hanno Müller-Brachmann/Hendrik Heilmann Gould Piano Trio

66 66

Wed 12 Jul

11.00 am 7.30 pm

KS2 Schools Concert: My Iris Aida Garifullina/Lech Napierala

82 67

Tue 13 Jun

7.30 pm

Igor Levit

Thu 13 Jul

7.30 pm

Sophie Bevan/Allan Clayton/Christopher Glynn

Wed 14 Jun

11.00 am 3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Carers’ Week: Relaxed Concert Wigmore Study Group Arditti Quartet/Eliot Fisk

81 51 52

Fri 14 Jul

7.00 pm 10.00 pm

Ailish Tynan/Adam Walker/Alasdair Tait/James Baillieu Laura Jurd/Dinosaur

67 68

Sat 15 Jul

7.30 pm

Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber/Ulrich Tukur

Thu 15 Jun

11.00 am 12.30 pm 4.45 pm 7.30 pm

For Crying Out Loud! For Crying Out Loud! Introduction to Music Nicolas Altstaedt/Alexander Lonquich

Sun 16 Jul

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Quatuor Zaïde Quatuor Mosaïques

68 69

Mon 17 Jul

Fri 16 Jun

7.00 pm 10.00 pm

Jasper String Quartet Miss Hope Springs

53 53

12.30 pm 2.00 pm

Chamber Tots Chamber Tots

Tue 18 Jul

7.30 pm

The Cardinall’s Musick

Sat 17 Jun

7.30 pm

Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau

Wed 19 Jul

7.30 pm

Elizabeth Watts/Simon Lepper

Sun 18 Jun

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Michelangelo Quartet Quatuor Ebène

54 54

Thu 20 Jul

7.30 pm

Vijay Iyer Trio

7.00 pm 10.00 pm

Arcangelo/Sophie Junker Edicson Ruiz/Yu Kosuge

71 70

Mon 12 Jun

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Mon 19 Jun

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Carducci String Quartet Andrè Schuen/Daniel Heide

54 55

Fri 21 Jul

Tue 20 Jun

3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Wigmore Study Group Ensemble intercontemporain

51 55

Sat 22 Jul

7.30 pm

Andrei Bondarenko/Gary Matthewman

Sun 23 Jul

7.30 pm

The King’s Consort

11.30 am 7.30 pm

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Thu 22 Jun

4.45 pm

Introduction to Music

Chloë Hanslip/Danny Driver Tai Murray/Elena Urioste/Jennifer Stumm Laura van der Heijden/Tom Poster

Fri 23 Jun

6.30 pm 10.00 pm

Fretwork/Simon Callow Avi Avital/Omer Avital/Yonathan Avishai/Itamar Doari

56 56

Mon 24 Jul

11.00 am 7.30 pm

Musical Portraits Joshua Bell/Arisa Fujita/Amihai Grosz/Rachel Roberts Steven Isserlis/Dénes Várjon

82 73

Sat 24 Jun

7.30 pm

Cecilia Bartoli/Philippe Jaroussky/Ensemble Artaserse

Sun 25 Jun

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Vienna Piano Trio Florilegium

56 58

Tue 25 Jul

11.00 am 7.30 pm

Musical Portraits Joshua Bell/Arisa Fujita/Amihai Grosz/Rachel Roberts Steven Isserlis/Dénes Várjon

82 73

Mon 26 Jun

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Clara Mouriz/Joseph Middleton Vienna Piano Trio/Mark Padmore

58 58

Wed 26 Jul

11.00 am 7.30 pm

Musical Portratis Carolyn Sampson/Joseph Middleton

82 74

Tue 27 Jun

7.30 pm

Inon Barnatan

Thu 27 Jul

Wed 28 Jun

10.15 am 11.45 am 7.30 pm

Chamber Tots Chamber Tots Edgar Moreau/Pierre-Yves Hodique

11.00 am 7.30 pm

Musical Portraits Cédric Tiberghien

82 74

Fri 28 Jul

7.30 pm

Robin Tritschler/Graham Johnson

Thu 29 Jun

4.45 pm 7.30 pm

Introduction to Music Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Isabelle Faust

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Sat 29 Jul

7.00 pm

A Serenade to Music

Sun 30 Jul

11.30 am

Gemma Rosefield/Tim Horton

7.30 pm

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers

Wed 21 Jun

Fri 30 Jun

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WIGMORE SERIES SUMMER SEASON

A P R I L – J U LY 2 0 1 7

Priority Booking opens on 20 December 2016. Requests should be submitted by 12 January 2017 (Friends), and 19 January 2017 (Mailing List Subscribers). Booking opens to the General Public on 7 February 2017.

April Monday 3 April 1.00 pm

Saturday 1 April 7.30 pm

NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI

EXAUDI James Weeks director See page opposite for full details

Dante Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Arensky String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 35 Anton Arensky, best known today for his D minor Piano Trio, dedicated the second of his two string quartets to the memory of Tchaikovsky and built one of its movements around his late friend’s ‘Legend’ from Children’s Songs. The Apollon Musagète Quartet prefaces Arensky’s impassioned composition with Haydn’s evergreen ‘Lark’ Quartet.

Sunday 2 April 11.30 am

Emotional intensity and shrewd programming belong to the Dante Quartet’s checklist of qualities. The group, winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Chamber Music Award 2007, sets Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 2, with its famous stop-start ending, in company with the inexhaustible invention and creative refinement of Beethoven’s late String Quartet in B flat.

Apollon Musagète Quartet

£15 concs £13

Nikolaj Znaider

Piotr Anderszewski

Sunday 2 April 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Nikolaj Znaider violin Piotr Anderszewski piano Janácˇek Violin Sonata Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96 Two outstanding artists perform a programme of compelling contrasts and rich invention, moving from the turbulent energy of Janácˇek’s Violin Sonata of 1914 to Beethoven’s radiant Op. 96 by way of the intense passions of Schumann’s Second Violin Sonata. Nikolaj Znaider was recently hailed by The Arts Desk as ‘a fine thinker among musicians’, while his recital partner Piotr Anderszewski scored a rave review in the Guardian for his Wigmore Hall 25th anniversary recital in February 2016. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season Photo of Nikolaj Znaider by Lars Gundersen Photo of Piotr Anderszewski by Ari Rossner

Dante Quartet

Phillip Pratt

Apollon Musagète Quartet

Marco Borggreve

EXAUDI Saturday 1 April 7.30 pm

EXAUDI James Weeks director Arcadelt Il primo libro di madrigali (a selection) James Weeks New work (world première) Monteverdi Ecco mormorar l’onde; Quell’augellin che canta Wert Vezzosi augelli Salvatore Sciarrino 12 Madrigali (a selection) £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series

Since its formation 15 years ago, EXAUDI has expanded the boundaries of repertoire for vocal ensemble and explored compelling combinations of contemporary and early repertoire. The clarity and focus of the ensemble’s sound, produced by outstanding individual singers performing as chamber musicians, ideally suits its immersion here in two of Monteverdi’s most expressive madrigals and works by two Franco-Flemish composers who made their reputations in Italy. The madrigal form’s vivacity is also present in EXAUDI’s selections from Salvatore Sciarrino’s 12 Madrigali, settings of nature-themed Japanese haiku created for the 2007 Salzburg Festival, and in James Weeks’s new work for EXAUDI. Photo by Matthew Andrews

April Thursday 6 April 7.30 pm

ALEXANDER

MELNIKOV

Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Ensemble Prisma Wien Thomas Fheodoroff director, violin See page opposite for full details

JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS SOKRATIS SINOPOULOS BIJAN CHEMIRANI KEYVAN CHEMIRANI

Friday 7 April 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Music for the Moment A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for this informal afternoon concert with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm. Free (ticket required)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts

Marco Borggreve

Wednesday 5 April 7.30 pm

Alexander Melnikov piano Debussy Préludes Books I & II

Friday 7 April 7.30 pm

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Bijan Chemirani zarb, percussion Keyvan Chemirani zarb, percussion

Repertoire adventures are key to Jean-Guihen Queyras’s work. The French cellist, who spent part of his childhood in Algeria, has developed a close partnership with the genre-crossing Greek musician Sokratis Sinopoulos, master of the Byzantine lyra, and percussionists Bijan and Keyvan Chemirani. Together they evoke the distinctive sounds, traditional and freshly imagined, of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean region. Their rich programme is woven together with works for solo cello by Stroppa, Penderecki, Lutosławski and Kurtág.

Debussy rose from a humble family to become one of the greatest of all French composers, dubbed by the writer and poet Gabriele D’Annunzio as ‘Claude de France’. His two books of Préludes for piano reflect their creator’s openness to visual and literary imagery, and his uncanny ability to conjure soundscapes from the keyboard. Alexander Melnikov’s interpretations of these sublime miniatures have developed over many years and have been informed by his deep study of the period.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series

London Pianoforte Series

Music for the Moment

François Sechet

Marco Stroppa Ay, there’s the rub Ross Daly Karsilamas Sokratis Sinopoulos Nihavent Saz Semai György Kurtág 3 pieces from Signs, Games and Messages Bijan & Keyvan Chemirani Percussion improvisation: ‘7 beat’ Lutosławski Sacher Variation Traditional Homayoun Krzysztof Penderecki Capriccio per Siegfried Palm Franck Leriche 5 beat Traditional Sunday Morning (arr. Sokratis Sinopoulos); Hasapiko

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Alexander Melnikov

Jean-Guihen Queyras

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Bernarda Fink Ensemble Prisma Wien Thursday 6 April 7.30 pm

Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Ensemble Prisma Wien Thomas Fheodoroff director, violin Schubert 5 Minuets D89 Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1 (arranged for strings by Thomas Fheodoroff ) Haydn Arianna a Naxos Dvorˇák String Quintet in G Op. 77 (mvts 2 & 3) Dvorˇák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs) Op. 99 (arranged for voice, oboe and strings by Christian Mondrup) Vienna occupied the heart of a vast empire during the years in which the works in this programme were conceived, one held together by a curious mix of repression, incompetence and time-honoured traditions. The Habsburg Empire, for all its faults, provided ideal conditions for a remarkable flourishing of music and musicians. Prisma Wien, founded in 2006 as a flexible ensemble dedicated to playfulness, truth and vision, makes its Wigmore Hall debut under the direction of violinist Thomas Fheodoroff. Their programme is cut from rich material, complete with Haydn’s dramatic scena Arianna a Naxos and Dvorˇák’s Biblical Songs performed by Wigmore Hall favourite Bernarda Fink. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall This concert will be followed by the annual Patron Friends dinner. To book for the dinner please contact the Friends Office on 020 7258 8230.

Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season

Ensemble Prisma Wien

Stefan Schweiger

Photo of Bernarda Fink by Julia Wesely

April Saturday 8 April 7.30 pm

Sunday 9 April 11.30 am

Monday 10 April 1.00 pm

Toby Spence tenor Julian Milford piano

Colin Carr cello Thomas Sauer piano

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Britten On this Island Tippett Boyhood’s End Poulenc Tel jour, telle nuit Finzi Till Earth Outwears Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo

Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 1 in G BWV1027 Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99

Torsten Rasch A Welsh Night (London première) James MacMillan The Children Douglas Wilkie Three Elizabethan Songs Vaughan Williams Four Last Songs Ireland Earth’s call; If there were dreams to sell; My true love hath my heart

Toby Spence has secured his place on the international stage as an artist of great refinement, blessed with deep feeling for poetic nuance and a voice capable of projecting bold dramatic contrasts. His programme explores five major vocal works, including Poulenc’s crystalline settings of Eluard and Britten’s heartfelt response to the sonnets of Michelangelo.

Colin Carr’s Wigmore Hall recitals invariably draw a loyal following, such is the power of his artistry. He is joined by Thomas Sauer in a programme of works by the Three Bs, opening with Bach’s lyrical Sonata in G before embracing Beethoven’s Handel-inspired Op. 5 No. 2 and the radiant tonal beauty of Brahms’s late Cello Sonata No. 2. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Sarah Connolly’s artistry arises from her feeling for words and their meaning, allied to deep reserves of emotion and vocal colour. The mezzo-soprano joins forces with regular duo partner Joseph Middleton for a fascinating lunchtime programme, complete with the London première of Torsten Rasch’s commission for the 2016 Three Choirs Festival, and James MacMillan’s haunting The Children. £15 concs £13

Sunday 9 April 7.30 pm

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset director, harpsichord Jocelyn Daubigney flute

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

BACH ET LA FRANCE See page opposite for full details

Toby Spence

Mitch Jenkins

Colin Carr

Jo Schofield

Sarah Connolly

Peter Warren

April Monday 10 April 7.30 pm

Ensemble Plus Ultra Victoria O Domine Jesu Christe; Lamentations for Maundy Thursday; Vere languores nostros; Lamentations for Good Friday; O vos omnes Lobo O quam suavis est, Domine; Lamentations for Holy Saturday Tejeda Miserere mei Deus; Rex autem David Lobo Ave Regina caelorum; Versa est in luctum

LES TALENS LYRIQUES CHRISTOPHE ROUSSET

There’s a mystical quality about Tomás Luis de Victoria’s sacred music, conditioned not least by the composer’s deep commitment to the spiritual life. Ensemble Plus Ultra enters Holy Week with a programme coloured by the Easter season’s heightened emotions, powerfully present in Tejeda’s spellbinding Miserere, Victoria’s Lamentations and the works of his younger contemporary, Alonso Lobo, the 400th anniversary of whose death we mark this year. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Les Talens Lyriques

Eric Larrayadieu

Sunday 9 April 7.30 pm

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset director, harpsichord Jocelyn Daubigney flute BACH ET LA FRANCE Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1059 Leclair Flute Concerto in C Op. 7 No. 3 Rameau Orchestral Suite from Castor et Pollux

Christophe Rousset

Jocelyn Daubigney

Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques have opened countless ears to the rich expressive possibilities and dashing musical vitality of Baroque music over the past quarter of a century. Named after the subtitle of one of Rameau’s operas, Les fêtes d’Hébé, Rousset’s band is famed worldwide for its entrancing interpretations and profound understanding of early French repertoire. The group here turns its acclaimed collective expertise to the French dance rhythms of Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 1 and the Orchestral Suite from Rameau’s opera Castor et Pollux, presenting each work in company with instrumental concertos of terrific virtuosity and spirit. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by Dunard Fund Early Music and Baroque Series Photo of Christophe Rousset by Eric Larrayadieu; photo of Jocelyn Daubigney by Caroline Doutre

Ensemble Plus Ultra

Schubert: Wigmore Hall has played host to Schubert’s songs over the past two seasons, presenting all 600-plus of the composer’s timeless contributions to the art form. Over sixty of the world’s finest interpreters have taken part in Schubert: The Complete Songs, a bold joint project with the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Hohenems Festival, and a major landmark in the Hall’s history, which is set to conclude on 31 January 2018, Schubert's birthday. Schubert: The Complete Songs 2016/17 is made possible with additional support from the Voices at Wigmore syndicate and the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

Tuesday 11 April 7.30 pm

Henk Neven baritone Imogen Cooper piano Schubert Die schöne Müllerin Since its first performance at Wigmore Hall in 1903, Die schöne Müllerin has been recognised as one of the great treasures of western music. Henk Neven, among the most imaginative of the younger generation of song recitalists, joins forces with Imogen Cooper, a truly great Schubertian, to offer fresh insights into this enduring masterwork. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle This concert will be aproximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval Song Recital Series

Portrait of Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder Background painting by Caspar David Friedrich

The Complete Songs Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Sunday 2 July 7.30 pm

Saturday 6 May 1.00 pm

Markus SchĂ¤fer tenor Piers Lane piano

The Myrthen Ensemble Mary Bevan soprano Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Nicky Spence tenor Marcus Farnsworth baritone Joseph Middleton piano Wednesday 10 May 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Lars Vogt piano Saturday 13 May 7.30 pm

Henk Neven

Marco Borggreve

Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano Jan Philip Schulze piano Friday 19 May 7.30 pm

Julian PrĂŠgardien tenor Christoph Schnackertz piano Thursday 8 June 7.30 pm

Anna Lucia Richter soprano Michael Gees piano Sunday 11 June 7.30 pm

Ben Johnson tenor Graham Johnson piano Saturday 17 June 7.30 pm Imogen Cooper

Sussie Ahlburg

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Friday 7 July 7.30 pm

Louise Alder soprano Ruby Hughes soprano Katie Bray mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Sholto Kynoch piano Sunday 9 July 3.00 pm

Ben Johnson tenor Nicky Spence tenor Benjamin Appl baritone Gavan Ring baritone Sholto Kynoch piano Sunday 9 July 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Graham Johnson piano Wednesday 19 July 7.30 pm

Elizabeth Watts soprano Simon Lepper piano Friday 28 July 7.30 pm

Robin Tritschler tenor Graham Johnson piano Saturday 29 July 7.00 pm

A Serenade to Music 13

Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet Wednesday 12 April 7.30 pm

Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet director LEÇONS DE TÉNÈBRES Couperin Première Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint Charpentier Répons: Unus ex discipulis meis H114 Lochon Tuere nos mortales (instrumental) Couperin Seconde Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint Charpentier Répons: Eram quasi agnus innocens H115 Chein Introït from Missa pro defunctis (Requiem) Couperin Troisième Leçon de Tenébres pour le Mercredi Saint Charpentier Répons: Una hora non potuistis H116 Delalande Miserere mei Deus Secumdum S27 £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in duration, without an interval Early Music and Baroque Series

Holy Week was a time for profound reflection and sacred ritual at the court of Louis XIV. Le Concert Spirituel, in its 30th anniversary year, evokes the intense atmosphere of musical worship in the era of the Sun King with a programme built around François Couperin’s three Leçons de Ténèbres, written in 1714 for the Abbaye Royale de Longchamp near Paris, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Tenebrae Responses. The concert also offers a rare chance to hear part of the Requiem setting by Louis Chein, a chaplain and chorister at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, and an instrumental version of Lochon’s Marian motet Tuere nos mortales. Lamentation over the Dead Christ (detail) by Sandro Botticelli

April Thursday 13 April 7.30 pm

Saturday 15 April 7.30 pm

Sunday 16 April 11.30 am

Sergey Khachatryan violin Lusine Khachatryan piano

Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon pianoforte

Castalian String Quartet

Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121

Hummel Variations alla Monferrina Op. 54 Liszt Romance oubliée (for cello and piano) S132 Onslow Cello Sonata in C minor Op. 16 No. 2 Chopin Introduction and polonaise brillante in C Op. 3 Merk Variations on an Original Theme in F ‘Aux Amateurs No. 3’ Op. 14 Franchomme Nocturne Op. 15 No. 1 Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65

Regular duo partners Sergey and Lusine Khachatryan are in demand at the world’s leading concert halls, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Carnegie Hall among them. Their latest recording of Armenian music, ‘My Armenia’, released to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian genocide, received a coveted prize at the 2016 ECHO Klassik Awards. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Steven Isserlis and Dénes Várjon catch the buoyant spirit of the mid-1800s with a delightful programme of works, which reveals the inventive brilliance of Auguste Franchomme’s Nocturne, Liszt’s Romance oubliée and one of Joseph Merk’s many tuneful pieces ‘For Amateurs’. To explore the repertoire in this recital, Várjon has specially chosen an 1847 Streicher pianoforte.

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Thomas Adès The Four Quarters Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Although only performed for the first time in 2011, Thomas Adès’s The Four Quarters is already firmly established in the chamber music repertoire. The work, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, occupies the centre of a fascinating programme from the Castalian String Quartet, winner of the 2015 Lyon International Chamber Music Competition. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season

Lusine Khachatryan

Marco Borggreve

Dénes Várjon

Sergey Khachatryan

Marco Borggreve

Steven Isserlis

Pilvax Studio

Jean-Baptiste Millot

Castalian String Quartet

Kaupo Kikkas

April Monday 17 April 1.00 pm

Monday 17 April 7.30 pm

Tuesday 18 April 7.30 pm

Alessio Bax piano

London Handel Players Adrian Butterfield director, violin Juan Manuel Quintana viola da gamba Rachel Brown flute, recorder Laurence Cummings harpsichord Rowan Pierce soprano

Basel Chamber Orchestra Daniel Hope violin

Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D784 Skryabin Piano Sonata No. 3 in F# minor Op. 23 Ravel La valse Alessio Bax, described by The New Yorker as ‘perhaps the most elegant of today’s young pianists’, places Skryabin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 at the heart of his lunchtime recital. He frames the Russian composer’s dramatic vision of ‘States of the Soul’ with Schubert’s majestic Piano Sonata in A minor D784 and Ravel’s virtuoso transcription for solo piano of La valse. £15 concs £13

HANDEL AND TELEMANN: LONG-DISTANCE MUSICAL FRIENDS Telemann Sonata à 4 TWV43:A1 ‘Paris’ Handel Cantata: Un alma innamorata HWV173 Telemann Cantata: Wandelt in der Liebe TWV1:1498 Telemann Quartet in E minor TWV43:e4 ‘Paris’ Handel Cantata: Tra le fiamme HWV170 Rising-star soprano Rowan Pierce, a Samling Artist, joins the London Handel Players for a programme of exquisite cantatas and chamber music by Handel and Telemann, friends and colleagues who corresponded frequently and borrowed extensively from each other in a long-distance friendship that lasted for more than half a century.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Bach Concerto in A minor for violin, strings and continuo BWV1041 Mendelssohn Concerto in D minor for violin and strings Martin Pavane Couleur du Temps Bartók Divertimento for Strings Contrasts and coincidences abound in the Basel Chamber Orchestra’s programme. Daniel Hope play-directs the ensemble in Mendelssohn’s youthful D minor Violin Concerto, written for the composer’s childhood friend, Ferdinand David, who also led the orchestra in his famous revival of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Bartók’s Divertimento, written for the BCO in 1939, is prefaced by Frank Martin’s lyrical Pavane in its version for strings. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Alessio Bax

London Handel Players

Daniel Hope

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Chris Christodoulou

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Harald Hoffmann

Christian Flierl

April Wednesday 19 April 12.15 pm

Wednesday 19 April 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Piers Lane piano

Brian Elias discusses his new work with Dr Kate Kennedy.

Chopin Impromptu No. 1 in Ab Op. 29; Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Étude in E Op. 10 No. 3; Ballade No. 3 in Ab Op. 47; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54; Polonaise in F# minor Op. 44; Mazurka in A minor Op. 17 No. 4; Nocturne in B Op. 62 No. 1; Nocturne in E Op. 62 No. 2; Barcarolle in F# Op. 60

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wednesday 19 April 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Nicholas Daniel oboe Finzi Interlude for oboe and string quartet Op. 21 Brian Elias Oboe Quintet* (world première) Mozart String Quintet in C minor K406 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

THOMAS DUNFORD

Technical bravura, poetic reflection and heart-melting lyricism are just some of the many qualities present in Piers Lane’s all-Chopin programme, a feast of pianism comprising such exquisite miniatures as the two Op. 62 Nocturnes and the spectacular Barcarolle in F# Op. 60, among the composer’s final and finest compositions. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Thomas Dunford

This programme, centred on the artistry of renowned oboist Nicholas Daniel, features a new work by Brian Elias, commissioned by Wigmore Hall, together with Finzi’s intimate yet cinematic Interlude and Mozart’s String Quintet in C minor, in which the oboe takes the role of first violin.

Charles Plumey

Thursday 20 April 7.30 pm

Thomas Dunford lute LACHRIMAE Dowland Preludium; Fortune; A fancy; Semper Dowland semper dolens; Mrs Winter’s Jump; A Dream; The King of Denmark’s Galliard Kapsberger Toccatas Nos. 6 & 1 from Libro primo d’intavolatura di lauto Dalza Calate ala spagnola Dowland Melancholy Galliard; Round Battle Galliard; La mia Barbara; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; Farewell; Frog Galliard; Lachrimae

£13 concs £11

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

A wealth of critical superlatives bear witness to Thomas Dunford’s star status. His debut disc prompted BBC Music Magazine to describe him as ‘the Eric Clapton of the lute’. Following studies at the Paris Conservatoire and Schola Cantorum in Basel, his career has gathered momentum in company with many of the world’s leading Early Music ensembles and soloists. Dunford’s Wigmore Hall solo debut places Dowland’s highly charged works at the core of a captivating programme of Renaissance showpieces. All seats £20

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Early Music and Baroque Series

Nicholas Daniel

Eric Richmond

Piers Lane

Eric Richmond

April Friday 21 April 1.00 pm

Friday 21 April 7.30 pm

Saturday 22 April 7.30 pm

Benjamin Appl baritone James Baillieu piano

Michael Fabiano tenor Julius Drake piano

Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

HEIMAT

Programme to include songs by Duparc, Liszt, Toscanini, Puccini, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Beach

Brahms Trio in Eb Op. 40 Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’

Programme to include Lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf, and selected English songs by Britten, Ireland, Warlock and Vaughan Williams. Images of home and of belonging run as themes through Benjamin Appl’s latest recital. The German baritone, named Gramophone 2016 Young Artist of the Year, launches Heimat, his latest recording on the Sony label, with a programme shot through with nostalgia, yearning and joy inspired by those places or surroundings that make us feel at home.

Michael Fabiano captivated audiences at the Royal Opera House with his debut as Lensky in Eugene Onegin in 2015. ‘I can’t think of a Lensky at Covent Garden who has held the audience so spellbound in forty years of Onegin-going’, observed The Sunday Times. The American tenor is joined by Julius Drake for his first Wigmore Hall recital. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Brahms composed his Horn Trio in the aftermath of his mother's death, making it one of his most profoundly personal works. Its moving blend of tenderness and sorrow is the ideal foil for the sunlit melodies of Schubert’s evergreen ‘Trout’ Quintet, the music of friends performed here by five colleagues from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Song Recital Series

£15 concs £13

Song Recital Series

Benjamin Appl

Falk Kastell

Michael Fabiano

Arielle Doneson

Soloists of the LPO

Benjamin Ealovega

April Sunday 23 April 11.30 am

Sunday 23 April 7.30 pm

Monday 24 April 1.00 pm

Ivana Gavric´ piano

Andreas Haefliger piano

Louis Lortie piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’ Chopin 4 Mazurkas Liszt 3 Petrarch Sonnets S158; Rhapsodie espagnole S254

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2 Berio Erdenklavier; Wasserklavier Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Berio Luftklavier; Feuerklavier Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17

George Benjamin Shadowlines: 6 Canonic Preludes Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28

Ivana Gavric´ secured the BBC Music Magazine Newcomer Award in 2011 with revelatory readings of works by, among others, Janácˇek and Liszt. The Sarajevo-born British musician’s soulful artistry has matured since, drawing rave reviews and keen interest from piano connoisseurs. She returns to Wigmore Hall with a recital programme infused with striking expressive contrasts and poetic imagery.

For the latest in his acclaimed Perspectives programmes at Wigmore Hall, Andreas Haefliger offers landmarks of the keyboard repertoire – Beethoven’s intimate Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 and Schumann’s Beethoven tribute, the Fantasie in C Op. 17 – together with vibrant, virtuoso miniatures by Berio inspired by the four elements, earth, water, air and fire.

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

London Pianoforte Series

Ivana Gavric´

Sussie Ahlburg

Andreas Haefliger

Louis Lortie recently succeeded Maria João Pires as Master in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels, further underlining his status among the world’s leading pianists. The French-Canadian musician’s lunchtime programme comprises works sure to reveal every facet of his acclaimed artistry and the limitless scope of his aesthetic imagination. £15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Marco Borggreve

Louis Lortie

ELIAS

April Tuesday 25 April 7.30 pm

Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm

Janina Fialkowska piano Chopin Polonaise in Eb minor Op. 26 No. 2; Nocturne in B Op. 9 No. 3; Impromptu No. 3 in Gb Op. 51; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Waltz in B minor Op. 69 No. 2; Waltz in Ab Op. 42; Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54; Prelude in Eb minor Op. 28 No. 14; Prelude in Db Op. 28 No. 15 ‘Raindrop’; 3 Mazurkas Op. 50; Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20 Widely acknowledged as one of today’s foremost interpreters of Chopin, Janina Fialkowska appears to be reborn every time she performs the composer’s music. The natural spontaneity and immediacy of her playing rests on almost five decades of experience and deep foundations of impeccable musicianship, unshakeable focus and intense musical creativity. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARD 2017 Wednesday 26 April 1.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Sol Gabetta cello See page opposite for full details

SEMI-FINAL

Friday 28 April 6.00 pm FINAL

The annual auditions for this famous singing competition, founded in memory of one of the UK’s best loved contraltos, attract capacity houses from both devoted lovers of vocal art and students of singing.

Thursday 27 April 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm

Young Producers Present… What happens when a group of young people from London secondary schools programme their own concert at Wigmore Hall? What theme will inspire them? What music will they choose? Find out more about this unique project at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/young-producers. Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning is a proud supporter of Arts Award, and as part of this project our Young Producers work towards achieving their Silver Arts Award.

26 April All seats £15 students £10 28 April £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Supported by the London Stock Exchange Group Foundation

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Janine Fialkowska

Julien Faugère

Young Producers

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Patricia Kopatchinskaja Artist in Residence Leading composers and conductors are among those in the queue hoping to collaborate with Patricia Kopatchinskaja. The iconoclastic Moldovan-Austrian violinist’s artistry erupts from the uncompromising courage of her breath-taking interpretations. Her season as Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence concludes with two compelling concert programmes, both rich in repertoire range, and an enlightening pre-concert talk. Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Sol Gabetta cello Xenakis Dhipli zyia Jörg Widmann 24 Duos for violin and cello (a selection) Sol Gabetta Marco Borggreve Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Ligeti Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg Peter Eötvös ‘Now, Miss!’* (world première of arrangement for violin and cello) Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 Interspersed with works by CPE Bach, JS Bach and Scarlatti * Commissioned by Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Two kindred spirits join forces for a programme packed with high energy, dramatic twists and turns, and lyrical beauty. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta offer fresh perspectives on modernity and post-modernity, complete with a new version of Peter Eötvös’s Beckett-inspired ‘Now, Miss!’, a selection of Jörg Widmann’s coruscating Duos and Kodály’s Duo for violin and cello. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Forthcoming Events in this Series Sunday 7 May 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano Photo of Patricia Kopatchinskaja by Marco Borggreve

April

MILAN SILJANOV NINO CHOKHONELIDZE

Saturday 29 April 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Saturday 29 April 7.30 pm

Come and Sing: World Folk Music

Hagen Quartet

Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring folk music, popular music, and other forms from around the world. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. £25 concs £19

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73; String Quartet No. 14 in F# Op. 142; String Quartet No. 15 in Eb minor Op. 144 Any list of the world’s leading chamber ensembles would be incomplete without the Hagen Quartet, decisive in its contributions to the modern history of string quartet playing. The group turns to Shostakovich for its latest Wigmore Hall concert, opening with the composer’s post-war reflections on the victims of tyranny and embracing his elegiac final quartets. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season Milan Siljanov

Nino Chokhonelidze

Thursday 27 April 7.30 pm

Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Nino Chokhonelidze piano WIGMORE HALL / KOHN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION WINNER’S RECITAL Schubert Der Einsame; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Aufenthalt; Der Doppelgänger; Schäfers Klagelied; Auf der Brücke Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Rheinlegendchen; Lob des hohen Verstandes Schumann Tragödie I (Entflieh mit mir); Tragödie II (Es fiel ein Reif); Der Schatzgräber; Mein Wagen rollet langsam; Der Nussbaum; Die Löwenbraut Schoenberg Warum bist du aufgewacht (Nachtblumen); Warnung; Dank

Come and Sing

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Around 140 fine young singers entered the 2015 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition. Milan Siljanov emerged as the biennial event’s winner, whilst his wife Nino took the Pianist’s Prize, thanks to their final performance of great wit and panache. The duo makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a full recital programme sure to project an innate artistry and delight in bringing words and poetic phrases to life. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Hagen Quartet

Harald Hoffmann

April/May Sunday 30 April 11.30 am

Sunday 30 April 7.30 pm

Monday 1 May 1.00 pm

Caroline Goulding violin Danae Dörken piano

Hagen Quartet

Lawrence Zazzo countertenor Daniele Caminiti archlute, baroque guitar Jonathan Rees bass viol, viola da gamba Julian Perkins harpsichord, organ

Schubert Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Enescu Impressions d’enfance Op. 28 Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Each of the pieces in Caroline Goulding’s Wigmore Hall debut programme seduces the ear with melodic beauty. The young American violinist, joined by regular duo partner Danae Dörken, moves from Schubert’s charming ‘Sonatina’ by way of Enescu’s delightful suite of childhood impressions to the impassioned romanticism of Schumann’s Violin Sonata in D minor of 1853. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ By the time young Schubert created his String Quartet in E flat in 1813, the teenager had already completed nine other works for string quartet. The Hagen Quartet presents the composer’s tuneful early piece in company with Beethoven’s final complete quartet and Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’, a shattering confrontation with despair and human suffering. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

WEEPING PHILOSOPHERS Verdelot Con l’angelico riso D’India Piangono al pianger mio Carissimi No, no mio core Caccini Dalla porta d’oriente; Sfogava con le stelle Frescobaldi Toccata decima (Libro Primo); Canzona quarta (Libro Secondo); Se l’aura spira; Così mi disprezzate Strozzi L’Eraclito amoroso Piccinini Toccata XIII Durante Seneca funato ossia la crudelta di Nerone Italy’s city-states and principalities proved a hotbed of creativity in the early 1600s, cultivating a vast repertoire of solo songs and encouraging virtuoso instrumentalists of the calibre of Piccinini and Frescobaldi. Lawrence Zazzo, hailed by The New York Times as ‘a countertenor of gorgeous tone’, leads a glorious lunchtime exploration of the Italian Baroque. £15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Danae Dörken

Caroline Goulding

Martin Teschner

Hagen Quartet

Jamie Jung

Lawrence Zazzo

Justin Hyer

May Monday 1 May 7.30 pm

Friday 5 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

Maximilian Schmitt tenor Gerold Huber piano Brahms Vom verwundeten Knaben; Vergangen ist mir Glück und Heil; Sehnsucht (Op. 14 No. 8); Ich schell mein Horn ins Jammertal; Der Überläufer Hindemith Lustige Lieder in Aargauer Mundart Brahms O kühler Wald; Anklänge; Es schauen die Blumen; Schwermut; Ach, wende diesen Blick; Auf dem Kirchhofe Hindemith Image; Beauty touch me Schubert Bei dir allein!; Ständchen (D889); An Silvia; Sei mir gegrüßt; Adelaide; An die Laute; Dass sie hier gewesen; An den Mond (D193); Nachtviolen; Nachtstück

FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Benjamin Beilman violin Yura Lee viola Jakob Koranyi cello Wu Han piano Alessio Bax piano Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in E b K493 Schubert Allegro in A minor D947 ‘Lebensstürme’ Dvorˇák Piano Quartet in E b Op. 87 Wu Han and Alessio Bax join a trio of string players for what promises to be a celebration of the best in chamber music-making. Their programme gets underway with Mozart’s K493, a gem fashioned in Vienna in 1786 soon after the completion of Le nozze di Figaro, and prefaces Dvorˇák’s inspired Op. 87 with the imposing presence of Schubert’s late piano duet in A minor.

Maximilian Schmitt and Gerold Huber explore the breadth of Brahms’s song-writing art in their recital’s first half, embracing everything from austere reflections on happiness lost to the tender lyricism of ‘Es schauen die Blumen’. Two sublime songs by Hindemith preface a second half devoted to ten of Schubert’s best-known vocal works, including settings of Shakespeare, Rückert, Hölty and Mayrhofer.

All seats £15

This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season Francesco Piemontesi

Tuesday 2 May 7.30 pm

Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 4 May 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff piano

Francesco Piemontesi piano

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Mozart 9 Variations on a Minuet by Duport K573; Piano Sonata in Bb K570; Piano Sonata in C K309; Piano Sonata in C K330; Piano Sonata in A minor K310

Wednesday 3 May 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff Masterclass See page opposite for full details

Francesco Piemontesi launched his complete cycle of Mozart’s piano sonatas at the end of last season, introducing his series by neatly dovetailing with the close of Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odyssey. The Italian pianist, universally recognised among today’s finest Mozarteans, opens his latest programme with the splendid Variations on a Minuet by Frederick the Great’s court cellist and continues with the composer’s penultimate sonata, a work considered by Alfred Einstein to be ‘perhaps the most completely rounded of them all’.

Benjamin Beilman & Alessio Bax

Tristan Cook

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Monday 23 October 7.30 pm Maximilian Schmitt

Christian Kargl

Wu Han

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Sir András Schiff

Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók

Sir András Schiff piano Bach Capriccio in B b BWV992 (Capriccio on the Departure of his Most Beloved Brother) Bartók 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm from Mikrokosmos Book VI Bach 4 Duettos from Clavier-Ubung (Book III) BWV802–805 Bartók Piano Sonata Janácˇek In the Mists Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Sir András Schiff offers a programme of true character pieces, works nourished by their association with individuals close to their composers, events or particular performers. In the Mists, for instance, was influenced by memories of Janácˇek’s deceased daughter, while Bartók wrote his 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm for the English pianist Harriet Cohen. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by an anonymous donor London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 3 May 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff Masterclass Sir András Schiff leads a masterclass working with outstanding students chosen by Sir András himself on repertoire closely related to the previous evening’s concert. Participants and their audience can expect to discover profound interpretative insights from one of the world’s great musicians, recently hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his ‘impeccable technique’, ‘intense concentration’ and ‘acute sense of being’. This event will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval All seats £20

Supported by an anonymous donor Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Photo by Nadia F. Romanini/ECM Records

Wigmore

Lates Wigmore Lates, firm fixtures in the Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summer calendar, make the ideal start to the weekend. This seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s run opens with virtuoso Baroque sonatas from Arcangelo, and includes a trumpet double bill from Alison Balsom and Guy Barker, mesmeric original cabaret numbers from Miss Hope Springs, and a genre-crossing evening with classical mandolinist Avi Avital and jazz bassist and oud player Omer Avital. Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/lates for full details.

Friday 5 May 10.00 pm

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Arcangelo*

Friday 26 May 10.00 pm

Jonathan Cohen harpsichord, organ Sophie Gent violin Jonathan Manson viola da gamba Thomas Dunford lute

Danish String Quartet Friday 9 June 10.00 pm

Biber Sonata No. 6 in C minor C143; Mystery Sonata No. 1 ‘The Annunciation’ Buxtehude Trio Sonata in A minor BuxWV272 Schmelzer Sonata No. 3 in G minor from Sonatae Unarum Fidium Kühnel Sonata No. 7 in G Schmelzer Sonata No. 4 in D from Sonatae Unarum Fidium Music by two outstanding Austrian composers, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, sets the mood for the first of this season’s Wigmore Lates. Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo’s programme explores the powerful rhetoric of their violin sonatas together with other thrilling instrumental works from the seventeenth century.

Alison Balsom trumpet Guy Barker trumpet Ross Stanley piano Chris Hill double bass Friday 16 June 10.00 pm

Miss Hope Springs

All seats £15

Friday 23 June 10.00 pm

* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Wigmore Lates /Arcangelo Baroque Ensemble in Residence

Avi Avital mandolin Omer Avital oud Yonathan Avishai piano Itamar Doari percussion Friday 14 July 10.00 pm

Dinosaur Jonathan Cohen

Marco Borggreve

Sophie Gent

Marco Borggreve

Laura Jurd trumpet Elliot Galvin piano Conor Chaplin acoustic bass Corrie Dick drums, percussion Friday 21 July 10.00 pm

Edicson Ruiz double bass Yu Kosuge piano Photo of Wigmore Hall by Benjamin Ealovega

Jonathan Manson

Marco Borggreve

Thomas Dunford

Gerard-Collett

May Saturday 6 May 1.00 pm

Sunday 7 May 11.30 am

KARITA MATTILA

The Myrthen Ensemble Mary Bevan soprano Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Nicky Spence tenor Marcus Farnsworth baritone Joseph Middleton piano

Saleem Ashkar piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 26 in E b Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Saleem Ashkar’s interpretations of the core German repertoire have won critical plaudits and the admiration of piano connoisseurs, not least for their sense of risk allied to clear-sighted understanding of form and phrasing. His all-Beethoven programme moves from the fecund invention of the early Op. 10 No. 2 to the revolutionary fire of the ‘Appassionata’ sonata.

Schubert Gott im Ungewitter; Gott der Weltschöpfer; Hymne an den Unendlichen; Die Sterne (D313); Idens Schwanenlied; Schwanengesang (D318); Luisens Antwort; Licht und Liebe; Morgenlied (D381); Abendlied (D382); An die Sonne (D439); Die Liebe; Abschied (D578); Die Geselligkeit (Lebenslust); Singübungen für zwei Stimmen; Kantate zum Geburtstag des Sängers Johann Michael Vogl; Des Tages Weihe (Schicksalslenker); Gebet; Der Tanz (D826) Echoes of Bach and Handel sound at the opening of The Myrthen Ensemble’s Schubert programme. There are traces, too, of Beethoven in the quartet ‘Hymne an den Unendlichen’, a rousing setting of words by Schiller. The ‘Morgenlied’ and its companion ‘Abendlied’, both written on the same day, appear to have been composed in February 1816, while Schubert was still working as a schoolteacher.

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Karita Mattila

All seats £15

Saturday 6 May 7.30 pm

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Karita Mattila soprano Ville Matvejeff piano

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Marica Rosengard

Brahms Zigeunerlieder Op. 103 Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Berg Vier Lieder Op. 2 Strauss Der Stern; Wiegenlied; Meinem Kinde; Ach Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten; Allerseelen; Cäcilie With her irresistible onstage presence, dramatic persona and voice of jaw-dropping flexibility and beauty, Karita Mattila belongs to the company of today’s finest singers. The Finnish lyric soprano, among the great interpreters of Richard Strauss, prefaces a selection of the composer’s impassioned songs with Alban Berg’s innovative Vier Lieder Op. 2, works which stretch the bounds of tonality in search of heightened emotional expression. She opens her recital with Brahms’s high-spirited Zigeunerlieder and Wagner’s sublime Wesendonck Lieder. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Song Recital Series

The Myrthen Ensemble

John Alexander

Saleem Ashkar

Luidmila Jermies

May Sunday 7 May 6.00 pm

Monday 8 May 1.00 pm

Monday 8 May 7.30 pm

Artists in Conversation

Véronique Gens soprano Susan Manoff piano

Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists Clio Gould director, violin

Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, discusses her residency and life as a performer ahead of the evening concert. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano CPE Bach Fantasie in F# minor Wq. 80 (arr. of Fantasia for keyboard solo Wq. 67) George Crumb Four Nocturnes Ligeti Hungarian Rock György Kurtág Tre pezzi Op. 14e Biber Sonata representativa for solo violin and continuo Pandolfi Mealli Violin Sonata Op. 3 No. 3 ‘La Melana’ Salvatore Sciarrino Capriccio No. 2 for solo violin Beethoven Scherzo from Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’ Vanessa Lann Springs Eternal Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 with improvised accompaniment

Hahn Néère; Trois jours de vendange Duparc Chanson triste; Romance de Mignon Chausson Le Charme; Les papillons; Hébé Hahn Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Le rossignol des lilas; A Chloris Chausson La chanson bien douce; Le temps des lilas Hahn Lydé; Tyndaris; Pholoé; Phyllis; Le printemps Elegant and expressive by turn, Reynaldo Hahn’s songs reflect the sophistication of the Caracas-born French composer’s personality. Véronique Gens, winner of the 2016 Gramophone Solo Vocal Award, and Susan Manoff evoke the world of Belle Époque Paris with help from Hahn and a selection of chansons by his older contemporaries Ernest Chausson and Henri Duparc.

Schubert/Mahler String Quartet in D minor ‘Death and the Maiden’ (for string ensemble) Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op. 70 Directed by Clio Gould, distinguished soloist and leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists comprises the finest young string players from the Royal Academy of Music. Their programme pairs Mahler’s shrewdly judged arrangement of Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’, created in 1896, with the folk-like charm and energy of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

All seats £15

Tuesday 9 May 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm) BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

For Crying Out Loud! Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment.

Convention is unlikely ever to obstruct Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s path. The violinist’s term as Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence continues with a typically bold and utterly engaging choice of works, set in train by the fantasy of CPE Bach’s imagination and fuelled throughout by the twin spirits of improvisation and originality.

Adults £7.50 (babies come free)

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Early Music and Baroque Series/ Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Artist in Residence

P. Kopatchinskaja & A. Romaniuk

Marco Borggreve

Wigmore Hall Learning Event For Crying Out Loud!

Véronique Gens

Benjamin Ealovega

Franck Juery

Clio Gould

Hana Zushi-Rhodes

May Wednesday 10 May 7.30 pm

Friday 12 May

BRACING CHANGE

Ian Bostridge tenor Lars Vogt piano

NEW STRING COMMISSIONS

Schubert Schwanengesang Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte

10.15 am – 11.15 am (for 1 – 2 year olds) 11.45 am – 12.45 pm (for 3 – 5 year olds)

Chamber Tots BEAR HUNT

Beethoven established the song cycle as a serious genre with the creation of An die ferne Geliebte in 1816. Ian Bostridge and Lars Vogt present the work’s diverse reflections on love in company with the dramatic contrasts of Schubert’s settings of poems by Heine, Rellstab and Seidl, complete with the composer’s final song, written a month before his death in November 1828.

Join us for these one-hour interactive music-making sessions for young children and their parents and carers, featuring songs, percussion playing and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging musicians. Elias String Quartet

Benjamin Ealovega

Children £5 Adults £3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Friday 12 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

Joanna MacGregor piano Benjamin Frith

Chris Stock

Thursday 11 May 7.30 pm

Elias String Quartet Benjamin Frith piano Dvorˇák String Quartet in E b Op. 51 Paul Newland New commission* (world première) Schumann Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44

Lars Vogt

Neda Navaee

*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

‘CANONS BURIED IN FLOWERS’: THE COMPLETE CHOPIN MAZURKAS Chopin Mazurkas (complete) Schumann called Chopin’s fifty-eight mazurkas ‘canons buried in flowers’, a synthesis of Polish folk culture, nostalgia, poetry and political defiance. Performed chronologically they portray a subtle and confessional diary of a transcendent, innovative composer. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

This concert will be approximately 3 hours in duration, including 2 intervals

London Pianoforte Series

Wigmore Hall’s commitment to contemporary music is clear in its programme of special commissions and first performances. Bracing Change: New String Commissions, a co-commissioning partnership with The Radcliffe Trust and NMC Recordings, has produced a succession of fine works since its launch in 2014, including scores by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Anthony Gilbert and Donnacha Dennehy. The series continues with a new piece for the Elias String Quartet by Paul Newland, Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Trinity Laban. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series Ian Bostridge

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Joanna MacGregor

Pal Hansen

Tansy Davies Study Day Saturday 13 May

Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music Clark Rundell, Orr Guy conductors Once self-described in three words as ‘mercurial, stoical and giggly’, Tansy Davies’s music jolts and pulses, with a rhythmical, almost mechanical, edge. She draws on inspiration from architecture, often using the orchestra to build her structures, and it is this way of thinking that creates new worlds, bridging contemporary idioms such as jazz and rock. This study day will feature chamber music and songs personally selected by the composer for performance by the students from the RNCM. 10.30 am Tansy Davies Forgotten Game 2 for oboe and piano; Loopholes and Lynchpins for solo piano; Aquatic for saxophone and percussion; Dark Ground for solo percussion 12 noon In conversation: a glimpse into the life and works of Tansy Davies 2.00 pm Tansy Davies grind show (electric) for chamber ensemble and electronics; Troubairitz for soprano and percussion; Iris for soprano saxophone and ensemble All tickets £5 concs £3 (each event) or Day ticket £10 concs £7

In partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Photo by Rikard Österlund

Violeta Urmana Saturday 13 May 7.30 pm

Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano Jan Philip Schulze piano Schubert Hagars Klage; Atys; Das war ich; Die Gestirne; Himmelsfunken; Die Sternennächte; Dem Unendlichen; Im Walde; Geheimes; Suleika I; Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz; Der Zwerg; Wehmut; Die Allmacht Violeta Urmana makes a highly anticipated return visit to Wigmore Hall for one of the highlights of Schubert: The Complete Songs. The phenomenal range and richness of the Lithuanian artist’s voice are ideally suited to the dramatic contrasts at work in her Schubert programme. She and regular duo partner Jan Philip Schulze open with Schubert’s first complete vocal work and embrace everything from the romantic reflections of ‘Himmelsfunken’ to the operatic excesses of ‘Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz’. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Jan Philip Schulze

Photo of Violeta Urmana by Christian Schneider

Schulze

May Sunday 14 May 11.30 am

Sunday 14 May 3.00 pm

Sunday 14 May 7.30 pm

Jakob Koranyi cello Juho Pohjonen piano

Simon Bode tenor Igor Levit piano

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Grieg Elsk Op. 67 No. 5; Vond dag Op. 67 No. 7; Ved gjaetle-bekken Op. 67 No. 8 Sibelius Malinconia Op. 20 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40

Mendelssohn Frühlingslied; Das erste Veilchen; Winterlied; Neue Liebe; Gruß!; Reiselied Korngold Angedenken; Aussicht; Das Mädchen; Der Friedensbote; Reiselied; Sangesmut; Vesper; Vom Berge; Die Geniale Wolf Er ist’s; Fußreise; Zitronenfalter im April; Auf einer Wanderung; Gebet; Lied eines Verliebten; Der Feuerreiter

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Swedish cellist Jakob Koranyi, an ECHO Rising Star in 2011/12, has earned critical plaudits for the visionary nature of his interpretations and the breadth of his repertoire. He and Juho Pohjonen probe the deceptive simplicity of three songs from Grieg’s Haugtussa cycle before plunging into the turbulent emotional world of Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in D minor. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Takács Quartet

An inspired mix of songs from Simon Bode brings together Mendelssohn’s romantic Op. 19a collection from the early 1830s with a selection of Korngold’s Eichendorff settings and Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder. The German tenor, who refined his craft as a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble, returns to Wigmore Hall with his regular duo partner Igor Levit. All seats £15

Song Recital Series

Monday 15 May 1.00 pm

Tasmin Little violin John Lenehan piano Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 Strauss Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18 Brahms wrote one of his most lyrical and radiant chamber works during a summer break in Switzerland in 1886. The Violin Sonata No. 2, although concise, calls for great virtuosity and empathy from both participants. Long-time duo partners Tasmin Little and John Lenehan also explore the unrestrained romanticism of Strauss’s no less demanding Violin Sonata Op. 18. All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Juho Pohjonen

Jakob Koranyi

Marco Borggreve

Anna-Lena Ahlström

Igor Levit

Simon Bode

Felix Broede

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John Lenehan

Tasmin Little

Benjamin Ealovega

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle Five-star reviews and a clutch of international prizes, a GRAMMY and Gramophone Award among them, underline the towering achievement of the Takács Quartet’s recordings of Beethoven’s complete string quartets. Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists present their latest thoughts on these timeless artworks. Sunday 14 May 7.30 pm

Takács Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in Eb Op. 127 Beethoven bought an expensive hardbound book of manuscript paper in which to draft his first string quartet, later published as his Op. 18 No. 3. The young composer’s serious investment in the medium, also measurable in terms of time and creativity, remained high throughout his lifetime, as the Takács Quartet’s gripping programme of early, middle and late works shows. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season

Monday 15 May 7.30 pm

Takács Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in B b Op. 18 No. 6; String Quartet in F Op. 135; String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ ‘Despite the good nature that prevails, Beethoven’s genius is in the last analysis serious,’ wrote ETA Hoffmann in a perceptive review of the composer’s Op. 70 piano trios. The point applies equally to the three works in the Takács Quartet’s concert, which counterpoise playfulness with profound reflections on the usually dark and hidden depths of human psychology. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Wednesday 17 May 7.30 pm

Portrait of Beethoven by Christian Horneman, 1803

May Tuesday 16 May 7.30 pm

Wednesday 17 May 7.30 pm

Friday 19 May 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Classical Opera Ian Page conductor Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord Soraya Mafi soprano

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Side by Side The Prince Consort and Musicians from the Guildhall School

MOZART 250 Mozart Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in F K37; Recitative & Aria: A Berenice ... Sol nascente in questo giorno; Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in Bb K39; Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D K40; Aria: Ein ergrimmter Löwe brüllet from Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots; Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in G K41 Award-winning keyboard virtuoso Kristian Bezuidenhout and acclaimed soprano Soraya Mafi join Ian Page and Classical Opera for a fascinating programme of Mozart works dating from 1767. This concert is part of the company’s ground-breaking MOZART 250 project, a survey presented in chronological order of the composer’s life, works and influences.

Takács Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Große Fuge Op. 133 In his book Beethoven for a Later Age, the Takács Quartet’s first violinist Edward Dusinberre describes the power of the Große Fugue and its razor-edged themes to ‘threaten and chase me … eroding sanity’. The monumental composition is performed here as the finale to the String Quartet in B flat, for which it was originally written. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2016 /17 Wigmore Series

Programme to include: Schumann Spanische Liebeslieder Op. 138 Cheryl Frances-Hoad Invoke Now the Angels

Chamber Music Season

For this project, members of the ensemble have worked with students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama towards this performance, in which the students and ensemble perform side by side.

Thursday 18 May 7.30 pm

All seats £5

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Alison Balsom trumpet Lucy Crowe soprano The Balsom Ensemble

Early Music and Baroque Series

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

BAROQUE DUET See page overleaf for full details

Kristian Bezuidenhout

Ian Page

Marco Borggreve

Sheila Rock

Takács Quartet

Keith Saunders

The Prince Consort

Richard Ecclestone

May Friday 19 May 7.30 pm

ALISON BALSOM ‘THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND’

Julian Prégardien tenor Christoph Schnackertz piano Schubert Am See (D124); Die Nacht (D358); Gott im Frühlinge; An Chloen (D363) (fragment); Der gute Hirt; Alte Liebe rostet nie; Geheimnis; Schlaflied; Sehnsucht (D516); Atys; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren BILDER AUS OSTEN Schubert Mahomets Gesang (D549) (fragment); Versunken; Geheimes; Sei mir gegrüßt; Dass sie hier gewesen; Im gegenwärtigen Vergangenes; Auf dem Strom Heightened emotional states erupt throughout the first half of Julian Prégardien’s recital, disturbing the peace of ‘Die Nacht’ and the gentle simplicity of ‘Gott im Frühlinge’. The German tenor turns to the exoticism of distant lands, as evoked by Schubert’s settings of Goethe and Rückert, before unlocking the titanic spirit of the composer’s Beethoven-inspired ‘Auf dem Strom’. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Alison Balsom

Jason Joyce

Thursday 18 May 7.30 pm

Alison Balsom trumpet Lucy Crowe soprano The Balsom Ensemble BAROQUE DUET Programme to include: Bach Cantata: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen BWV51 Handel Eternal source of light divine Ode for The Birthday of Queen Anne HWV74; Let the bright Seraphim from Samson HWV57 Purcell Duets from The Indian Queen Z630 Alison Balsom’s Wigmore Hall residency continues with a joyful celebration of music for trumpet and voice. She is joined by the charismatic Lucy Crowe in Bach’s only cantata for solo soprano and trumpet, and Handel’s exquisite ‘Eternal source of light divine’, written in honour of Queen Anne, one of England’s greatest patrons of the arts. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season/Early Music and Baroque Series

Lucy Crowe

Marco Borggreve

Forthcoming Concert in this Series

Friday 9 June 10.00 pm

Alison Balsom trumpet Guy Barker trumpet Ross Stanley piano Chris Hill double bass Julian Prégardien

Marco Borggreve

May Saturday 20 May 11.00 am – 12 noon

Saturday 20 May 7.30 pm

Sunday 21 May 11.30 am

Family Concert

Llyˆr Williams piano

Armida Quartet

SEARCH FOR THE STARLIGHT SQUID

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111

Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 33 No. 6 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80

For ages 5 plus Dive down into the deep blue sea and join the Lawson Piano Trio and presenter Jessie Maryon Davies for an aquatic adventure to find the starlight squid! This underwater journey features music from works by Sibelius to sea shanties, and even a stormy piece created by you, the audience. Children £8 Adults £10

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Llyˆr Williams launched his latest complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas and major keyboard works at Wigmore Hall in October 2014. The Welsh pianist’s series reaches its zenith with the composer’s final three sonatas, moving from the introspection of Op. 109 to the formal ingenuity and jaw-dropping invention of Op. 110 and the cosmic emotional and intellectual span of Op. 111. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

This concert will be approximately 70 minutes in duration, without an interval

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

London Pianoforte Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Llyˆr Williams

Family Concert

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Classical poise, contrapuntal logic and emotional turbulence coalesce in Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 6, the centrepiece of the Armida Quartet’s programme. The Berlin-based ensemble, BBC New Generation Artists from 2014–16, begins with the striking contrasts of Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue, another masterwork of stylistic synthesis, and concludes with Mendelssohn’s final string quartet, an impassioned response to his sister’s death.

Armida Quartet

Evy Ottermans

Felix Broede

May Sunday 21 May 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPH POHL

Jerusalem Quartet Dvorˇák Terzetto in C Op. 74 Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1 in B minor Op. 50 Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106 Dvorˇák’s Terzetto for two violins and viola, written within a week’s span in 1887, provides a novel opening for a string quartet concert. The work’s folk-like tunes ideally complement the melodious classicism of Prokofiev’s First String Quartet, commissioned by the Washington Library of Congress in 1930. The Jerusalem Quartet concludes with Dvorˇák’s sonorous Op. 106, a work of dazzling inventive genius.

PHANTASM ELIZABETH KENNY

Phantasm

Marco Borggreve

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

Elizabeth Kenny

Chamber Music Season

Benjamin Ealovega

Monday 22 May 1.00 pm Christoph Pohl

René Limbecker

Phantasm

Sunday 21 May 3.00 pm

Christoph Pohl baritone Marcelo Amaral piano

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

BALLADEN

Elizabeth Kenny lute

Liszt Der Fischerknabe; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Die Loreley Schubert Der Jüngling am Bache (D638); Der Taucher Loewe Wandrers Nachtlied II; Erlkönig Wolf Ganymed; Der Rattenfänger

Lawes Royall Consort No. 10 in Bb Locke Consort of 4 Parts No. 5 in G minor Lawes Royall Consort No. 5 in D Locke The Flat Consort ‘for my cousin Kemble’ Lawes Royall Consort No. 6 in D William Lawes died in September 1645 fighting on the royalist side during the Siege of Chester. ‘Will Lawes was slain by those whose wills were laws’, wrote one anti-Puritan poet, and many other fine literary laments testify to the admiration in which the composer was held at court. Phantasm and Elizabeth Kenny garnered rave reviews with their recording of the cavalier composer’s Royal Consorts. Their lunchtime programme also includes works by Matthew Locke, England’s leading composer at the time of the Restoration.

£15 concs £13

All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Song Recital Series

Jerusalem Quartet

Felix Broede

May Tuesday 23 May 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Tuesday 23 May 7.30 pm

Voiceworks

The Endellion String Quartet

Nikolai Lugansky piano

A CONCERT OF NEW WORKS FOR VOICE

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 Webern Fünf Sätze Op. 5 Mozart String Quartet in D K575 ‘Prussian’ Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2

Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op. 37b Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in Ab Op. 61 Chopin Mazurkas: in B Op. 56 No. 1; in Db Op. 30 No. 3; in Ab Op. 41 No. 3; in C# minor Op. 50 No. 3 Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52

Now in its eleventh year, Voiceworks is a unique collaboration between writers, composers, singers and instrumentalists from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, brought together by Wigmore Hall Learning. Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 24 May 7.30 pm

Haydn’s Op. 54 No. 2 contains a most extraordinary slow movement inspired by melismatic, improvised gypsy violin music. Webern’s extremely affecting short pieces, meanwhile, compress the emotions of a symphony into a few minutes, whereas Mozart’s K575 is hallmarked by its expansive melodious warmth and relaxation. Wistful, heartfelt beauty, perhaps inspired by Schubert, belongs to Brahms’s A minor String Quartet. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Known for his fearless virtuosity, artistic refinement and strikingly individual musicianship, Nikolai Lugansky stands at the height of his powers. His interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons, hailed by The New York Times for its entrancing mix of ‘roomy expressive freedom’ and ‘textural clarity’, is presented in company with an equally rich selection of characterful Chopin. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

London Pianoforte Series

The Endellion String Quartet

Eric Richmond

Nikolai Lugansky

Jean-Baptiste Millot

May

YCAT Public Final Auditions 2017 Thursday 25 May 3.00pm & 7.00pm

Friday 26 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

Friday 26 May 10.00 pm

Escher String Quartet

Danish String Quartet

Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 76 No. 6 Bartók String Quartet No. 3 BB93 Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27

NORDIC FOLK MUSIC

Musical excellence and its pursuit drove Grieg as he composed his String Quartet in G minor, leading him to quote from one of his own most tuneful songs and emulate the energy of Norwegian folk music. The Escher String Quartet opens with two works touched by contrapuntal echoes of the past yet strikingly innovative in nature.

Ancient ancestral spirits and the intoxicating sounds of Nordic folk music flow through this hour-long late date with the Danish String Quartet, based on material from the group’s latest album. The ensemble, winner of the eleventh London International String Quartet Competition in 2009, recently featured as BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists and concluded a three-year spell with Lincoln Center’s prestigious CMS Two Program.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

All seats £15

Chamber Music Season

Wigmore Lates

Young Classical Artists Trust: the destination point for emerging talent YCAT Artists are selected through a rigorous annual auditions process. In this third and final round, outstanding young soloists and chamber ensembles, selected from over 100 applicants in the preliminary rounds, audition before a panel of distinguished judges. Join YCAT in celebrating the very best emerging talent in the UK at this unique event. Escher String Quartet

Sophie Zhai

Previous artists include Ian Bostridge, Alison Balsom, Joanna MacGregor and the Heath, Doric and Belcea Quartets. £16 for both sessions or £10/£8 (concs) for individual sessions YCAT Registered Charity No. 326490

Danish String Quartet

Caroline Bittencourt

Pavel Kolesnikov Saturday 27 May 7.30 pm

Pavel Kolesnikov piano CPE Bach Andante con tenerezza from Sonata in A Wq. 65/32 CPE Bach Sonata in A Wq. 55/4 Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D537 Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26; Nachtstücke Op. 23 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

May Sunday 28 May 11.30 am

Monday 29 May 1.00 pm

Schumann Quartet

Zemlinsky Quartet

Mozart String Quartet in F K590 ‘Prussian’ Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1

Zemlinsky String Quartet No. 1 in A Op. 4 Janácˇek Mládi (arr. Kryštof Marˇatka)

The Schumann Quartet embraces the notion that uncertainty, life’s only certainty, supplies the ground on which every memorable performance stands. The attitude is open to the excitement and spontaneity of music made in the moment: ‘we really want to take things to extremes’, observes one of the quartet’s three Schumann brothers.

Prague-born, Paris-based composer Kryštof Marˇatka, who studied with Petr Eben at the Prague Conservatory, has made a high-spirited arrangement of Janácˇek’s wind sextet Mládí for string quartet. The four-movement piece complements the rhythmic energy, folk-like boldness and passion of Zemlinsky’s First String Quartet of 1896, a ravishing masterwork of late Romantic music.

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£15 concs £13

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 28 May 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Christina Landshamer soprano Gerold Huber piano

Tuesday 30 May 10.30 am – 3.30 pm Stile Antico

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Cavendish Winds

Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 30 May 7.30 pm

FAMILY DAY

Stile Antico

For ages 5 plus Join music leader Julian West and the Wigmore Hall Learning/Open Academy Fellowship Ensemble, Cavendish Winds, on a marvellous music-making adventure. Take your seat within your very own chamber ensemble, create your own brand new pieces of music and perform together on the Wigmore Hall stage. Children £10 Adults £15

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Schumann Quartet

STILE ANTICO

‘DIVINE CONSOLATIONS’: MUSIC OF REFLECTION AND HOPE BY BACH AND HIS PREDECESSORS Lassus Justorum animae Schütz Musicalische Exequien Handl Ecce quomodo moritur justus Hassler Ego sum resurrectio Daser Media Vita Knöfel In te Domine speravi Bach Motet: Jesu, meine Freude BWV227 Stile Antico, among the world’s finest vocal ensembles, explores music of mourning and commemoration from Austria and Germany in its latest Wigmore Hall concert. The journey begins with a late motet by the remarkably prolific, consistently inventive Lassus, who finished his illustrious career as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Bavaria. It continues with Schütz’s sublime Musicalische Exequien, written during the Thirty Years War for the funeral of Prince Heinrich of Reuss, and finally arrives at Bach’s peerless funeral motet for the wife of Leipzig’s postmaster.

Kaupo Kikkas

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Zemlinsky Quartet

Family Day

Benjamin Ealovega

Christina Landshamer Sunday 28 May 7.30 pm

Christina Landshamer soprano Gerold Huber piano Schumann Aufträge; Röselein, Röselein!; Lied der Suleika; Aus den östlichen Rosen; Liebeslied Ullmann 3 Sonnets Op. 29 Schumann Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land? Ullmann 6 Sonnets Op. 34 Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 and Requiem Poetry of rich expressivity conditions each song in Christina Landshamer’s Wigmore Hall recital. The Munich-born soprano made her international breakthrough in 2009 in Haydn’s Il mondo della luna under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and has secured an enviable reputation since as an artist equally at home in opera, oratorio and song. Her programme includes Schumann’s settings of poems from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister and Victor Ullmann’s cycles of sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rilke and Louise Labé, an extraordinary figure of the French Renaissance. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Gerold Huber

Gunar Streu

Photo of Christina Landshamer by Marco Borggreve

May/June Wednesday 31 May 7.30 pm

Friday 2 June 7.30 pm

Christopher Maltman baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Ravel Histoires naturelles Poulenc Le bestiaire Songs by Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Brahms and Korngold In the two decades since winning the Lieder Prize at the 1997 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Christopher Maltman has risen to the top of his profession. The British baritone, whose last Wigmore Hall recital inspired a five-star review from the Guardian, is joined by regular duo partner Malcolm Martineau for an exploration of the animal kingdom through song.

BORODIN QUARTET

Janine Jansen violin Torleif Thedéen cello Martin Fröst clarinet Lucas Debargue piano

BEETHOVEN AND SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE

Friday 2 June 9.45 pm

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Artists in Conversation See page opposite for full details Saturday 3 June 2.30 pm

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Alfred Brendel Lecture

Song Recital Series

BEETHOVEN’S LAST SONATAS Beethoven’s late piano sonatas are the magnificent conclusion of a series of works that covered most of the composer’s lifetime. What happens when a composer creates three major works side by side? How can one define Beethoven’s late style? How do these works relate to Beethoven the man? How were these sonatas received, and what do they mean to us today? Borodin Quartet

Keith Saunders

Thursday 1 June 7.30 pm

Borodin Quartet

This event will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval All seats £20

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 12 in D b Op. 133 The Borodins continue their survey of the complete quartets of Beethoven and Shostakovich, composers essential to the ensemble’s artistic identity since its formation in 1945. They open with the most innovative and introspective of Beethoven’s Op. 18 quartets, placing it in company with Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 12, another work of visionary imagination and originality. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Saturday 3 June 7.30 pm Christopher Maltman

Pia Clodi

Alfred Brendel

Pascal Saez

Janine Jansen

Perspectives

Janine Jansen concludes her Perspectives series at Wigmore Hall, underlining her passion for chamber music in works by Schubert and Messiaen. The Dutch violinist can also be heard in post-concert conversation, when she will reflect on her life and career as a performer as well as the repertoire in her programme. Friday 2 June 7.30 pm

Janine Jansen violin Torleif Thedéen cello Martin Fröst clarinet Lucas Debargue piano Messiaen Theme and Variations Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time (Quatuor pour la fin du temps) Janine Jansen closes her Perspectives series with a recital programme of deep emotion and virtuosity. The evening begins with Messiaen’s Theme and Variations, originally written as a wedding present for his first wife, the violinist Claire Delbos. Schubert’s Fantasy for violin and piano was inspired by Josef Slavík, hailed as ‘a second Paganini’ by Chopin. Jansen welcomes three close musical friends in Messiaen’s haunting Quartet for the End of Time, written and first performed in a German prisoner-of-war camp. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Chamber Music Season

Friday 2 June 9.45 pm

Artists in Conversation Following her recital, Janine Jansen discusses the evening programme and her life as a performer. Free to concert ticket holders (no separate ticket required) Wigmore Hall Learning Event

In partnership with the LSO Janine Jansen’s Wigmore Hall recitals are interspersed with concerts at the Barbican with the LSO as its Artist Portrait this season. www.lso.co.uk Sunday 5 February 7.00 pm – Barbican

Sunday 12 March 7.00 pm – Barbican

Thursday 6 April 7.30 pm – Barbican

London Symphony Orchestra Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Janine Jansen violin

London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev conductor Janine Jansen violin

London Symphony Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda conductor Janine Jansen violin

Bernstein Serenade

Brahms Violin Concerto

Berg Violin Concerto

Photo of Janine Jansen by Marco Borggreve

June Saturday 3 June 7.30 pm

Sunday 4 June 11.30 am

Sunday 4 June 3.00 pm

Borodin Quartet

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch

Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in E b minor Op. 144

Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 Dvorˇák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’

Jongmin Park bass Simon Lepper piano

Shostakovich’s intimate final string quartet, completed in a hospital bed little over a year before his death in 1975, addresses the end of life and the nature of existence in music of profound reflection and melancholy. The Borodin Quartet also reveals Beethoven’s contemplation of mortality in his Op. 132, completed in 1825 on recovery from serious illness. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

‘I should like to compose a couple of good trios’, Mendelssohn wrote to his sister in 1832, an ambition partly fulfilled seven years later with the creation of his Op. 49. Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch, known for its subtle artistry and refined musicianship, follows the composer’s exhilarating work with Dvorˇák’s fifth and final piano trio, the ebullient, folk-inspired ‘Dumky’. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

Schumann Dichterliebe (original version) F Mendelssohn Song without words Op. 8 No. 3 Hyo Gun Kim Nun (Snow) Soon Ae Kim Geudae iteume (Because you are here) Du Nam Cho Baetnorae (Boat song) Jongmin Park, winner of the Song Prize at Cardiff Singer of the World 2015, makes his Wigmore Hall debut with works ideally matched to the power and richness of his sonorous bass voice. The South Korean artist charts the turbulent emotional course of Schumann’s Dichterliebe, in its original version of 20 songs, before exploring other vibrant musical destinations. All seats £15

Song Recital Series

Borodin Quartet

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch

Ny Che Goyang /Aram Nuri Arts Center

Simon Lepper

Hagai Shaham

Jongmin Park

Robert Workman

June Sunday 4 June 7.30 pm

Monday 5 June 1.00 pm

Tuesday 6 June 6.00 pm

Christian Ihle Hadland piano

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

Pre-Concert Event

Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor K310 Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Webern Variations Op. 27 Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958

Tomkins Pavan in A minor Farnaby Woody-Cock Cowell Set of Four WF Bach Sonata in E b Steve Reich Piano Phase (arr. Esfahani)

RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL

Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland, born in Stavanger in 1983, is among the most interesting and insightful artists of his generation, known not least for the depth of his repertoire and breadth of his artistic collaborations. His programme pairs minor-key sonatas by Mozart and Schubert with Brahms’s gnomic Fantasien and Webern’s meditative Variations. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Mahan Esfahani’s programme explores multiple approaches to creative fantasy, from the imposing Pavan by Thomas Tomkins to Henry Cowell’s virtuosic Set of Four, written in 1960 for Ralph Kirkpatrick and complete with a left-hand trill in octaves. There’s wit, too, in the form of WF Bach’s Sonata and unstoppable rhythmic energy in Reich’s pulsating Piano Phase. £15 concs £13

London Pianoforte Series

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)

Tuesday 6 June 7.30 pm

Razumovsky Ensemble Oleg Kogan artistic director, cello Kolja Blacher violin Bach Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violin BWV1001 Beethoven String Trio in C minor Op. 9 No. 3 Schubert String Quintet in C D956

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

One of the great landmarks of western classical music, Schubert’s String Quintet in C stands at the heart of the Razumovsky Ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall programme. The work’s first movement, inspired by the poem ‘Hymn to the Holy Spirit’, sets the intense tone for its sublime Adagio, among the most requested of all Desert Island Discs. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Christian Ihle Hadland

Mahan Esfahani

Anders Bergersen

Bernhard Musil/DG

Oleg Kogan

Robert Cassen

June Wednesday 7 June

Wednesday 7 June 7.30 pm

10.15 am – 11.15 am (for 1 – 2 year olds) 11.45 am – 12.45 pm (for 3 – 5 year olds)

The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Nadja Zwiener violin Joseph Crouch cello James Hall countertenor

Chamber Tots MINIBEASTS Join us for these one-hour interactive music-making sessions for young children and their parents and carers, featuring songs, percussion playing and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging musicians. Children £5 Adults £3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC

JA ZZ

ESNOGA: JERUSALEM OF THE NORTH Programme to include: Cervetto Cello Concerto in G (world première) Uccellini Violin Sonata ‘La ebrea marinata’ Op. 4 No. 3 Marcello Psalm 21 ‘Volgi mio Dio, deh volgi’ Inspired by the diasporic communities of Amsterdam, known as the ‘Jerusalem of the North’ not least because of its vast Sephardic synagogue, the ‘Esnoga’, The English Concert sets out to explore the fusion of cultures and the haunting beauty of Jewish musical life and creativity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Chamber Tots

8 June 15 June 22 June 29 June

4.45 pm – 4.45 pm – 4.45 pm – 4.45 pm –

6.00 pm 6.00 pm 6.00 pm 6.00 pm

Led by Roy Stratford alongside saxophonist Katie Brown, this series explores the language of the music of jazz, its history, ethics and influence on twentieth-century symphonic music. Tackling questions such as ‘is jazz instinctive or learned?’, ‘what is improvisation and how do jazz musicians think about it?’, and ‘is all music really jazz?’, this series of talks unravels and explores this fascinating genre of music.

Benjamin Ealovega

Louis Armstrong said ‘if you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know …’ let’s put that remark aside and do some digging! Series ticket price £30 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

The English Concert

Richard Haughton

June Thursday 8 June 7.30 pm

Anna Lucia Richter soprano Michael Gees piano Schubert Hoffnung (D637); Suleika II Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen Schubert Romanze zum Drama Rosamunde; Nachtviolen; Viola; Erster Verlust; An mein Herz; An den Mond (D259); Der Zwerg; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Das Heimweh (D456); Totengräbers Heimweh; Ellens Gesänge I, II & III; Abschied von der Erde Anna Lucia Richter, winner of the 2012 Internationaler Robert Schumann Wettbewerb, brings a refreshing lightness of spirit to her Schubert interpretations. The young German soprano directs her passionate affection for the composer’s songs to a programme complete with radiant settings of poems by Schiller and Goethe, and the exquisite ‘Romanze’ from Helmina von Chézy’s play Rosamunde.

Friday 9 June 7.00 pm NB starting time

Friday 9 June 10.00 pm

Yevgeny Sudbin piano

Alison Balsom trumpet Guy Barker trumpet Chris Hill double bass Ross Stanley piano

Skryabin Vers la flamme ‘Poème’ Op. 72 Tchaikovsky Nocturne in F Op. 10 No. 1 Tchaikovsky From The Seasons: June & November Liszt Transcendental Study No. 11 in Db S138 ‘Harmonies du soir’ Scarlatti 6 Sonatas Medtner Sonata tragica Op. 39 No. 5 Melodic simplicity and harmonic complexity combine in Skryabin’s late Vers la flamme to create a metaphysical meditation on the purifying power of fire. Yevgeny Sudbin’s scintillating programme embraces other works of transcendent eloquence, from Tchaikovsky’s rhapsodic little Nocturne, written in Nice in the winter of 1871/72, to Medtner’s dramatic Sonata tragica Op. 39 No. 5.

A programme of arrangements by Guy Barker and Alison Balsom: Chano Pozo/Dizzy Tin Tin Deo Bonfá Manhã de Carnaval Piaf La Vie en Rose Beiderbecke Davenport Blues Brown Joy Spring Johnson Since I Fell For You Wheeler Everybody’s Song But My Own Davis If I were a Bell Kern The way you look tonight Two great names in trumpet playing join forces for a red-letter Wigmore Lates date. Alison Balsom, described as ‘simply divine’ by The Sunday Telegraph, and Guy Barker, a legend of the British jazz scene, continue a collaboration that began with a trip to Uganda for the Brass for Africa charity and flourished with Barker’s 2015 Proms concerto for Balsom.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

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

All seats £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Wigmore Lates/ Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’

Yevgeny Sudbin

Anna Lucia Richter

Jessy Lee

Alison Balsom

Peter Rigaud

Maker

Guy Barker

June

ANGELA HEWITT THE BACH ODYSSEY

Sunday 11 June 11.30 am

Sunday 11 June 7.30 pm

Natalia Prischepenko violin Thomas Hoppe piano

Ben Johnson tenor Graham Johnson piano

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Scharwenka Suite in G minor for violin and piano Op. 99 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80

Schubert Trost: An Elisa; Erinnerungen; Andenken; Lied der Liebe; Der Mondabend; Das Bild (D155); Die Sterne (D176); Alles um Liebe; An den Frühling (D283); Entzückung an Laura I; Entzückung an Laura II (fragment); An den Frühling (D587); Sonette I, II & III; Der 13. Psalm (fragment); Die Allmacht; Fröhliches Scheiden; Vor meiner Wiege; Der Winterabend; Die Sterne (D939)

Natalia Prischepenko has firm roots in the great Russian tradition of violin playing, schooled from an early age by her mother, Tamara Prischepenko, among the leading teachers of the Soviet music education system. She crowns her recital with Prokofiev’s First Violin Sonata, conceived in the late 1930s to the harrowing background noise of Stalin’s Great Terror. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Ben Johnson and Graham Johnson open this recital with four early songs, including the recitative-like ‘Trost: An Elisa’ and lilting ‘Lied der Liebe’. Their programme reveals Schubert’s genius for projecting expressive light and shade into everything from simple strophic songs to the complex rhyme schemes of translations by Schlegel and Gries of three Petrach sonnets. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Angela Hewitt

Bernd Eberle

Saturday 10 June 7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt piano Bach Partita No. 1 in B b BWV825; Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826; Sonata in D minor BWV964; Partita No. 4 in D BWV828

Thomas Hoppe

Frank Jerke

Graham Johnson

Clive Barda

Ben Johnson

Chris Gloag

London Pianoforte Series

This series will continue over the following three seasons Natalia Prischepenko

June Monday 12 June 1.00 pm

Antoine Tamestit viola Cédric Tiberghien piano Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Brahms Nachtigall Op. 97 No. 1 Berg Die Nachtigall from Seven Early Songs Vieuxtemps Elégie Op. 30 Brahms Viola Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP FRENCH CHAMBER MUSIC

Monday 12 June 7.30 pm

Michael Petrov cello Erdem Misirliogˇlu piano

GUILDHALL WIGMORE RECITAL PRIZE

Late Romanticism’s red-hot passion fuels Berg’s single-movement Piano Sonata No. 1, inspired by its composer’s studies with Schoenberg. Antoine Tamestit joins Cédric Tiberghien for wordless performances of Brahms’s ‘Nachtigall’ and Berg’s lyrical ‘Die Nachtigall’. Their lunchtime programme closes with Brahms’s contemplative F minor Sonata, originally written in 1894 for clarinet and piano.

Stravinsky Suite italienne for cello and piano Dutilleux Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher Debussy Cello Sonata

£15 concs £13

Carter Figment for solo cello Poulenc Cello Sonata

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

‘The Water-Lily Pond’

Claude Monet, 1899

Monday 12 June 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Wednesday 14 June 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Tuesday 20 June 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Come and immerse yourself in the immensely rich world of French chamber music. From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, French composers produced a vast array of masterpieces within this genre, ranging in style from the Wagnerism of César Franck’s Piano Quintet, the Viennese inspiration of piano trios by Saint-Saëns, the modal harmonies of Fauré’s chamber music, the neo-classical elegance of works by Debussy and Ravel, and the wit and pathos of late woodwind sonatas by Poulenc, to the unique musical language of Olivier Messiaen in his Quatuor pour la fin du temps. These afternoons are hosted by composer Julian Philips with pianist Laura Roberts, alongside invited guest speakers and students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Rising star cellist Michael Petrov, described by The Telegraph as playing ‘with the bravura and calm assurance of a long-established maestro’, is this year’s recipient, accompanied by pianist Erdem Misirliog ˇ lu. £15 concs £13 Photo by Kaupo Kikkas

Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by Ensemble intercontemporain on 20 June.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Antoine Tamestit

Eric Larrayadieu

Cédric Tiberghien

Jean-Baptiste Millot

June Wednesday 14 June 7.30 pm

BEETHOVEN CYCLE

IGOR LEVIT

Thursday 15 June 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

Arditti Quartet Eliot Fisk guitar

For Crying Out Loud!

Hugues Dufourt String Quartet No. 3* (UK première) Berio Sequenza XI for solo guitar Wolfgang Rihm Quintet for guitar and string quartet** (UK première)

Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment.

* Co-commissioned by Konzerthaus Wien, Philharmonie de Paris, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation ** Co-commissioned by Library of Congress, musica viva des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Two new works for the legendary Arditti Quartet, co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, receive their first UK outings in a programme interleaved with Luciano Berio’s Sequenza XI, written in 1986–87 for Eliot Fisk. The American classical guitarist joins the Ardittis in Wolfgang Rihm’s Quintet, while the quartet takes centre stage in the Third String Quartet by French composer and philosopher Hugues Dufourt. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Igor Levit

Gregor Hohenberg

Tuesday 13 June 7.30 pm

Adults £7.50 (babies come free)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Thursday 15 June 7.30 pm

Nicolas Altstaedt cello Alexander Lonquich piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1; Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2; Cello Sonata in A Op. 69; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1; Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 In tune with social and political changes sweeping through Europe during his youth, Beethoven invested his compositions with revolutionary energy and ground-breaking originality. His two Op. 5 pieces, widely considered to be among his finest early works, launch Nicolas Altstaedt and Alexander Lonquich’s survey of the composer’s complete sonatas for cello and piano. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Igor Levit piano

Chamber Music Season

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Igor Levit concludes his intense season-long Beethoven Cycle with the composer’s final piano sonatas. ‘Beethoven’s pianistic imagination is stamped on every page of these three [works]’, observes the veteran American scholar Lewis Lockwood. Each sonata reveals fresh facets of invention, with jaw-dropping pianistic effects allied to formal structures of extraordinary ingenuity. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by Simon Ludlam, William de Winton and the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2016 /17 Wigmore Series London Pianoforte Series

Arditti Quartet

Astrid Karger

Nicolas Altstaedt

Marco Borggreve

June Friday 16 June 7.00 pm NB starting time

Friday 16 June 10.00 pm

Saturday 17 June 7.30 pm

Jasper String Quartet

Miss Hope Springs

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Aaron Jay Kernis String Quartet No. 3 ‘River’* (UK première) Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

London cabaret sensation, lounge-tastic ex-Vegas nightclub chanteuse Miss Hope Springs – the towering blonde alter ego of composer, lyricist, pianist and comic actor Ty Jeffries – presents her ‘laugh-out-loud-move-you-to-tears’ one-woman show. Featuring her award-winning repertoire of catchy original songs, the show has been described by Julian Clary as ‘Tragic-comic genius’.

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

*Co-commissioned by Caramoor, Carnegie Hall, Classic Chamber Concerts (Naples, FL), Chamber Music Monterey Bay (CA), Chamber Music Northwest (OR), Chamber Music America, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation.

Winners of the Cleveland Quartet Award, the Jasper String Quartet marks its Wigmore Hall debut with the UK première of ‘River’ by Aaron Jay Kernis, specially written for the group in 2015. The programme also includes Debussy’s pioneering String Quartet in G minor, a work of the early 1890s influenced by recent developments in Impressionist art and Symbolist literature.

All seats £15

Wigmore Lates

Schubert Prometheus; Grenzen der Menschheit; Der Weiberfreund; Bundeslied; Lachen und Weinen; Pilgerweise; An den Mond (D296); An den Mond (D468); Grablied für die Mutter; Der Zufriedene; An die Natur; An den Schlaf; Abendstern; Die Mutter Erde; Der Wanderer (D493); Der Wanderer (D649); Der Wanderer an den Mond; Im Frühling; Der Sieg; Frühlingsglaube Florian Boesch launched Wigmore Hall’s grand survey of Schubert’s complete songs in September 2015, earning a five-star review in the Guardian. He returns in company with Malcolm Martineau for a programme chiefly comprising songs to poems by Goethe, the majestic ‘Grenzen der Menschheit’ and ‘Prometheus’ among them, together with such little-known gems as the rousing ‘Bundeslied’ and ‘Der Weiberfreund’.

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Miss Hope Springs

Jasper String Quartet

Richard Truscott

Vanessa Brinceno

Florian Boesch

Wiener Konzerthaus/Lukas Beck

June Sunday 18 June 11.30 am

Sunday 18 June 7.30 pm

Monday 19 June 1.00 pm

Michelangelo Quartet

Quatuor Ebène

Carducci String Quartet

Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’

Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Ravel String Quartet in F

Philip Glass String Quartet No. 3 ‘Mishima’ Arvo Pärt Summa Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’

Formed by four distinguished soloists and chamber musicians in 2002, the Michelangelo Quartet returns to Wigmore Hall to perform the sixth of Mozart’s so-called ‘Haydn’ Quartets, with its daring, dissonant slow introduction, and Smetana’s semi-autobiographical String Quartet No. 1. ‘My intention’, noted Smetana, ‘was to paint a tone picture of my life’.

Slovenly traditions are swept aside by Quatuor Ebène in its life-enhancing performances. The French ensemble’s approach to Mozart and Beethoven challenges, stimulates and inspires, while its profound interpretation of Ravel’s String Quartet confirms why Debussy told its young composer to ignore critics and change not a single note of it.

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Philip Glass originally wrote the music of his Third String Quartet for Paul Schrader’s film Mishima, a cinematic treatment of the life and literature of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The Carducci String Quartet moves from an American composer’s creative response to Japanese culture to a Czech composer’s decidedly European take on his years in America.

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle

£15 concs £13

Chamber Music Season BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Michelangelo Quartet

Quatuor Ebène

Marco Borggreve

Julien Mignot

Carducci String Quartet

Tom Barnes

June Monday 19 June 7.30 pm

Tuesday 20 June 7.30 pm

Wednesday 21 June 7.30 pm

Andrè Schuen baritone Daniel Heide piano

Ensemble intercontemporain

The King’s Consort Robert King conductor

Schubert Auf der Brücke; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Nachtstück; Die Sterne (D939) Dapoz Ben danter mile steres Frontull Nos salvans Dapoz Alalt al ci Schubert Der Wanderer (D649); Wandrers Nachtlied II; Auf der Donau; Willkommen und Abschied Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca S270/1 Tosti Quattro canzoni d’Amaranta; L’ultima canzone Flowing melodies run throughout Andrè Schuen’s recital, spanning everything from the headlong dash of Schubert’s ‘Auf der Brücke’ to the charming folksongs of Felix Dapoz and Jepele Frontull. The baritone, winner of Young Artist of the Year at the 2016 ECHO Klassik awards, was raised in Italy’s South Tyrol. He performs here in his three native languages – Italian, German and Ladin.

Sophie Cherrier flute Jérôme Comte clarinet Hidéki Nagano piano Jeanne-Marie Conquer violin Odile Auboin viola Éric-Maria Couturier cello Debussy Première rapsodie for clarinet and piano Maderna Viola Messiaen Le merle noir for flute and piano Philippe Schoeller Madrigal for piano quintet Berio Sequenza I for solo flute Ravel Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Matteo Franceschini ‘Les Excentriques’ Traité physionomique à l’usage (UK première)* *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

BACH: THE FOUR ORCHESTRAL SUITES Bach Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D BWV1069; Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066; Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067; Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV1068 Bach’s four orchestral suites create a programme filled with vivid instrumental colours and timbres, embracing everything from the grand fourth suite and oboe-dominated first suite to the pure chamber music of the second ‘flute’ suite – complete with famous Badinerie – and the exultant trumpets and timpani that command the third suite. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Ensemble intercontemporain’s stellar line-up of contemporary music specialists returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme of great virtuosity and variety, highlighting contrasts and correspondences between the musical cultures of France and Italy. The ensemble’s concert includes the UK première of ‘Les Excentriques’ by the young Italian composer Matteo Franceschini, co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Ensemble intercontemporain.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Daniel Heide

Andrè Schuen

The King’s Consort

Alexander Busch

Guido Werner

Ensemble intercontemporain

Keith Saunders

Franck Ferville

June Friday 23 June 6.30 pm NB starting time

Friday 23 June 10.00 pm

Saturday 24 June 7.30 pm

Fretwork

Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano Philippe Jaroussky countertenor Ensemble Artaserse

Simon Callow narrator (subject to availability)

Avi Avital mandolin Omer Avital oud Yonathan Avishai piano Itamar Doari percussion

THE WORLD ENCOMPASSED

AVITAL MEETS AVITAL

Emily Ashton viol Richard Boothby viol David Hatcher viol Reiko Ichise viol Asako Morikawa viol Sam Stadlen viol

Orlando Gough Leaving Plymouth Parsons The Song Called Trumpets Anon Preserve us Lord Orlando Gough Mogador Taverner In Nomine Orlando Gough Maio Santiago Fogo; Fortune my Foe; Port Desire White In Nomine Orlando Gough Terra Incognita Anon The Humble Suit of a Sinner Parsons De la Court Anon Preserve us Lord Orlando Gough The Spanish Main; Albion; 180 degrees; Ternate Alberti Pavin of Albarti Picforth In Nomine Orlando Gough Java; Fortune my Foe Anon Psalm 100 Parsons The Song Called Trumpets ‘Fretwork came to me with a proposition which I considered for about half a second before accepting – to create a piece for them about Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the world in 1577–80’, recalls Orlando Gough. Terra Incognita, or The World Encompassed, the composer’s rich response to Fretwork’s call, combines original composition and existing repertoire of the period, as part of a dramatic reflection on Drake, the music of his time and the eternal spirit of musical adventure.

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Wigmore Lates presents a dialogue between two artists from different worlds who share a rich musical heritage. Grammy-nominated classical mandolinist Avi Avital and award-winning jazz bassist, composer and oud player Omer Avital draw from Moroccan and North African sounds, folk and classical traditions, Israeli harmonies and Mediterranean rhythms to create a musical melting pot filled with the finesse of chamber music and raw emotional energy of jazz. All seats £15

Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

Sunday 25 June 11.30 am

Vienna Piano Trio Schubert Sonatensatz in Bb D28; Notturno in E b D897; Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898 Schubert’s late piano trios, the Notturno in E flat and Piano Trio No. 1 among them, contain some of the composer’s most profound and tender reflections on existence. The Vienna Piano Trio has lived with these works for almost 30 years, bringing penetrating insight and a wealth of experience to every performance. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Wigmore Lates Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Early Music and Baroque Series/ Contemporary Music Series Omer Avital and Avi Avital

Fretwork

Christie Goodwin/DG

Wendy Gillespie

Vienna Piano Trio

Simon Callow

Nancy Horowitz

Cecilia Bartoli Philippe Jaroussky Saturday 24 June 7.30 pm

Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano Philippe Jaroussky countertenor Ensemble Artaserse IDOLO MIO This exceptional encounter between two stars of bel canto is enhanced by the enduring friendship and strong musical bond between Cecilia Bartoli and Philippe Jaroussky. Following an acclaimed Giulio Cesare in Salzburg and mutual guest appearances on several of their recording projects, they finally share a concert in company with the virtuoso Ensemble Artaserse, founded by Jaroussky in 2003. £100 £75 £50 £30 £15 Early Music & Baroque Series Photos: Cecilia Bartoli by Decca/Uli Weber; Phiippe Jaroussky by Simon Fowler

June Sunday 25 June 7.30 pm

Monday 26 June 1.00 pm

Monday 26 June 7.30 pm

Florilegium Ashley Solomon director Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano

Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Vienna Piano Trio Mark Padmore tenor

SONGS OF THE ANTIQUE

TELEMANN 250TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Purcell/Britten Alleluia Scarlatti Son tutta duolo Anchieta Con Amores, la mi madre (arr. Dørumsgaard) Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Duparc La vie anterieure Hahn Tyndaris Ravel Kaddisch from Deux mélodies hébraïques Falla 7 canciones populares españolas

Bennett Tom O’Bedlam’s Song Schubert Gesänge des Harfners I–III Thomas Larcher Scenes from the Hunting Gun* (UK première) Schubert Herbst; Auf dem Strom Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb D929

Telemann Ouverture in E minor from Tafelmusik I; Solo fantasie; Cantata: Ihr Volker, hört; Quartet in E minor from the Paris Quartets (1738 collection); Trio Sonata in A TWV 42:A5; Trio Sonata in Bb TWV 42:B4; Conclusion in E minor from Tafelmusik I To mark the 250th anniversary of Telemann’s death, Florilegium showcases the exceptional variety of his compositions, from an intimate solo fantasie to the extraordinary collections of chamber music from his Tafelmusik, Essercizii Musici and Paris Quartets. Mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson joins Florilegium in one of the virtuosic cantatas from his Harmonischer Gottesdienst cycle of 1725–6.

Clara Mouriz and her regular duo partner, Joseph Middleton, offer a programme guaranteed to project the mezzo-soprano’s rich register of expression and powerful stage presence. They open with Britten’s realisation of a Purcell masterwork before venturing into the titanic realm of Liszt’s Tre sonetti di Petrarca, virtuosic works of impassioned emotions. £15 concs £13

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Florilegium

Compassion runs as a theme throughout this concert, present in Schubert’s visionary response to Goethe’s Gesänge des Harfners and in Richard Rodney Bennett’s Tom O’Bedlam’s Song, works of searing expressive power written for and dedicated to Peter Pears. Schubert’s Second Piano Trio offers a gentle summation of the composer’s compassionate engagement with life. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Clare Wilkinson

*Co-commissioned by Wiener Konzerthaus, supported by the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Stefan Schweiger

Clara Mouriz

Jose Manuel Bielsa

John Yip Brandies

Mark Padmore

Vienna Piano Trio

Marco Borggreve

Nancy Horowitz

June Tuesday 27 June 7.30 pm

Wednesday 28 June

Inon Barnatan piano

10.15 am – 11.15 am (for 1 – 2 year olds) 11.45 am – 12.45 pm (for 3 – 5 year olds)

VARIATIONS ON A SUITE

Chamber Tots

Handel Chaconne in G HWV435 Bach Allemande from Partita No. 4 in D BWV828 Rameau Courante from Premier livre de pièces de clavecin Couperin L’Atalante from Second livre de pièces de clavecin 12e ordre Ravel Rigaudon from Le tombeau de Couperin Thomas Adès Blanca Variations (UK première) Ligeti Musica Ricercata Nos. 11 & 10 Barber Piano Sonata in E b minor Op. 26 (fourth movement) Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op. 24

EDGAR MOREAU PIERRE-YVES HODIQUE

MINIBEASTS Join us for these one-hour interactive music-making sessions for young children and their parents and carers, featuring songs, percussion playing and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging musicians. Children £5 Adults £3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Edgar Moreau

Inon Barnatan’s formidable musicianship is matched by his intellectual curiosity and determination to demolish conventional boundaries between works from different periods. The pianist’s programme explores multiple approaches to the idea of variations in music, opening with Handel’s Chaconne, built around an eight-bar theme, and including the UK première of Thomas Adès graceful Blanca Variations, written for the 2015 Clara Haskil International Piano Competition.

Pierre-Yves Hodique

Wednesday 28 June 7.30 pm

Edgar Moreau cello Pierre-Yves Hodique

piano

Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Poulenc Cello Sonata Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A b Op. 70 Saint-Saëns Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix from Samson et Dalila Paganini Variation on a theme by Rossini

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Inon Barnatan

Marco Borggreve

The four-year-old Edgar Moreau fell in love with the cello when he heard a girl playing the instrument in an antique shop he was visiting with his father. The young Parisian, born in 1994, received his first lessons soon after and made prodigious progress, entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 13 and winning the prestigious Rostropovich Cello Competition two years later. He makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a programme that includes three contrasting cello sonatas and a trio of exquisite salon pieces for cello and piano. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall Chamber Music Season Photo of Edgar Moreau by Matt Dine Photo of Pierre-Yves Hodique by Caroline Doutre

Chamber Tots

Benjamin Ealovega

June/July Thursday 29 June 7.30 pm

Friday 30 June 7.30 pm

Saturday 1 July 7.30 pm

Isabelle Faust violin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Bernhard Forck leader, violin

The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor

Doric String Quartet Alasdair Beatson piano

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Thomas Adès Piano Quintet Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84

JS Bach Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV1067a; Concerto in E for violin BWV1042; Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041 CPE Bach String Symphony in B minor Wq. 182/5 JS Bach Concerto for 2 violins in D minor BWV1043 Isabelle Faust’s long association with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin continues to deepen in company with members of the Bach dynasty. The German violinist, who received five-star reviews for her survey of JS Bach’s six sonatas at Wigmore Hall last year, joins the period-instrument ensemble’s leader, Bernhard Forck, in the Double Concerto in D minor, and also explores the composer’s two concertos for solo violin.

Saturday 1 July 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Royal Academy of Music Family Day For ages 5 plus

Alasdair Beatson joins the Doric String Quartet in Thomas Adès’s single-movement Piano Quintet, a virtuosic modern take on classical sonata form, and Elgar’s dramatically intense Piano Quintet in A minor. Peter Pears described Britten’s late Third String Quartet as being ‘of a profound beauty more touching than anything else, radiant, wise, new, mysterious – overwhelming’.

Discover the hidden gems at the Royal Academy of Music Museum with Academy students and workshop leader Hannah Opstad. Blow away the dust, get up close to the museum’s treasures, and write your very own music to perform at Wigmore Hall at the end of the day.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Children £10 Adults £15

Sunday 2 July 11.30 am

Early Music and Baroque Series

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Doric String Quartet Mozart String Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’ Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 Brahms, conscious of comparisons with Beethoven, pushed his creativity to new heights with his Op. 51 string quartets. He began Op. 51 No. 1 in the early 1850s but did not complete the work until 1873. The Doric String Quartet prefaces the composer’s heroic score with the second of Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ quartets, a judicious blend of flowing lyricism and rhythmic high spirits. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Isabelle Faust

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Felix Broede

Family Day

Benjamin Ealovega

Kristof Fischer

Doric String Quartet

George Garnier

The Sixteen Friday 30 June 7.30 pm

The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor Purcell Hear my prayer, O Lord; O solitude, my sweetest choice; Plung’d in the confines of despair; Pavan a4 in G minor; Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day); In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; From silent shades; Of all the instruments that are; From hardy climes (Welcome song for the Wedding of Prince George and Princess Anne 1683) Harry Christophers directs an ace ensemble of singers and instrumentalists in a concert of masterworks from Restoration London. Hear my prayer, O Lord, memorably described by one scholar as a ‘noble fragment’, sets the creative benchmark for a programme that includes one of Purcell’s earliest Odes for St Cecilia’s Day, complete with the haunting countertenor aria, ‘Here the deities approve’, and the wonderful verse anthem ‘In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust’. The Sixteen also explores the intense chromatic harmonies of ‘Plung’d in the confines of despair’, an inspired setting of a psalm paraphrase by the clergyman and religious controversialist, John Patrick. £60 £50 £40 £30 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

July Sunday 2 July 7.30 pm

Monday 3 July 1.00 pm

Tuesday 4 July

Markus Schäfer tenor Piers Lane piano

Maurice Steger recorder Jean Rondeau harpsichord

10.15 am – 11.15 am (for 1 – 2 year olds) 11.45 am – 12.45 pm (for 3 – 5 year olds)

SETTINGS OF THEODOR KÖRNER Schubert Sängers Morgenlied I; Liebesrausch I (fragment); Sängers Morgenlied II; Liebesrausch II; Sehnsucht der Liebe; Liebeständelei; Das gestörte Glück

Hasse Cantata in D for flute and basso continuo Falconieri La suave melodia Storace Ciaccona Castrucci Sonata for recorder and basso continuo (after the Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 8 by Corelli) Scarlatti Sonata in D minor Kk213; Sonata in D Kk119 Sammartini Sonata in G for recorder and basso continuo Op. 2 No. 4

SETTINGS OF FRIEDRICH VON MATTHISSON Schubert Entzückung; Stimme der Liebe (D418); Lebenslied; Skolie (D507); Vollendung; Die Erde SETTINGS OF THE BROTHERS FRIEDRICH AND AUGUST VON SCHLEGEL Schubert Abendröte; Die Berge; Der Knabe; Der Fluß; Der Schmetterling; Die Sterne (D684); Die Gebüsche; Lob der Tränen; Die gefangenen Sänger; Wiedersehn; Abendlied für die Entfernte; Ständchen (D889) Young Schubert idolised Theodor Körner, the dashing scion of a Dresden literary family. The poet inspired the teenager to exchange life as a school teacher for that of a composer. Markus Schäfer’s programme casts light on writers who influenced Schubert at decisive moments in his artistic development, including August Wilhelm von Schlegel, best known today for his German translations of Shakespeare.

Maurice Steger has worked as soloist and director with many of the world’s leading period-instrument ensembles. He leads a whistle-stop tour to major landmarks of the recorder repertoire, including Hasse’s joyful Cantata and the Sonata in G by Giuseppe Sammartini, oboist to the Prince of Wales and music master to his wife and children. Award-winning young harpsichordist Jean Rondeau completes the programme with jewels of the keyboard repertoire.

Chamber Tots DINOSAURS Join us for these one-hour interactive music-making sessions for young children and their parents and carers, featuring songs, percussion playing and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging musicians. Children £5 Adults £3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Chamber Tots

Markus Schäfer

Werner Kmetitsch

Maurice Steger

Benjamin Ealovega

Molina Visuals

July Tuesday 4 July 7.30 pm

Wednesday 5 July 7.30 pm

Thursday 6 July 7.30 pm

Håvard Gimse piano

Simon Keenlyside baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Andreas Ottensamer clarinet José Gallardo piano

Vaughan Williams 5 Mystical Songs Finzi Fear no more the heat o’ the sun from Let us Garlands bring Sibelius Romeo; Illalle (To Evening); Kaiutar (The Echo Nymph); Svarta rosor (Black Roses); Im Feld ein Mädchen singt; Die stille Stadt Poulenc From Chansons Gaillardes: La maîtresse volage; Chanson à boire; Madrigal; Invocation aux Parques; L’offrande; La belle jeunesse; Sérénade Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Verlorne Müh; Ablösung im Sommer; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?; Das irdische Leben; Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Der Tamboursg’sell; Revelge

Weber Grand Duo Concertant in E b Op. 48 Baermann Adagio in D b Danzi Fantasy on ‘Là ci darem la mano’ Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen; Rheinlegendchen Cimarosa Oboe Concerto (arr. for clarinet by A Benjamin) Brahms Wie Melodien zieht es mir Bassi Concert Fantasia on themes from Verdi’s Rigoletto

Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 54 Debussy Images oubliées Janácˇek In the Mists Rachmaninov Morceaux de fantaisie Op. 3 Sibelius Impromptu in B minor Op. 5 No. 5; Impromptu in E Op. 5 No. 6; Björken (The Birch) Op. 75 No. 4; Granen (The Spruce) Op. 75 No. 5; Pièce enfantine Op. 76 No. 8; Elegiaco Op. 76 No. 10; Arabesque Op. 76 No. 9 Among his many honours, Norwegian pianist Håvard Gimse has received the Grieg and Sibelius Prizes in recognition of his deep feeling and affinity for the music of both composers. He presents a colourful selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and virtuoso pieces by Sibelius together with evocative works by Debussy, Janácˇek and Rachmaninov. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Simon Keenlyside made his career breakthrough thirty years ago while a student at the Royal Northern College of Music and has subsequently established his place among Britain’s finest singers, equally at home on the opera stage and in the concert hall. His recital partnership with Malcolm Martineau is hallmarked by breathtaking insight and daring artistry.

Austrian clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer’s sumptuous tone and thrilling virtuosity have won admirers worldwide. He is joined by José Gallardo in a programme that explores some of the most celebrated Romantic works in his instrument’s repertoire, alongside an indulgent collection of Lieder transcriptions. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Håvard Gimse

Simon Keenlyside

José Gallardo

John Andresen

Uwe Arens

Malcolm Martineau

Alessandro Moggi

Andreas Ottensamer

Lars Borges

July Friday 7 July 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Friday 7 July 7.30 pm

Saturday 8 July 2.30 pm

Music for the Moment

Louise Alder soprano Ruby Hughes soprano Katie Bray mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Sholto Kynoch piano

Alfred Brendel Lecture

A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for this informal afternoon concert with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm.

ON PLAYING MOZART In his final lecture of the season, Alfred Brendel explores the life and works of Mozart. How was the composer perceived by his contemporaries? How literally does one need to take his notation? How do his few works in minor keys compare to the many in major, and his concertos to his sonatas?

SCHUBERT AND WOMEN’S VOICES Schubert Quell’innocente figlio; Misero pargoletto; Thekla: eine Geisterstimme (D73); Gott! Höre meine Stimme; Das Abendrot (D236); Das Leben; Lilla an die Morgenröte; Lied (D284); Vaterlandslied; Lambertine; Lorma I; Lied ‘Mutter geht durch ihre Kammer’; Lorma II; Daphne am Bach; Aus Diego Manzanares (Almerine); Wiegenlied (D498); Phidile; Vedi quanto adoro; Blanka (Das Mädchen); Das Mädchen (D652); Psalm 23 (D706); Johanna Sebus; Gott in der Natur; Lied der Anne Lyle; Coronach; Ständchen (D920b)

Free (ticket required)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

This event will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval All seats £20

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Schubert’s songs for female vocal ensemble contain some of his most inspired invention, spanning everything from the ethereal harmonies of Psalm 23 to the sublime part-writing of ‘Gott in der Natur’. Sholto Kynoch, founder and director of the Oxford Lieder Festival, is joined by an outstanding team of young singers in a programme guaranteed to deliver musical surprises and delights. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Music for the Moment

Louise Alder

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Will Alder

Anna Huntley

Kaupo Kikkas

Alfred Brendel

Benjamin Ealovega

Sholto Kynoch

Raphaëlle Photography

July Saturday 8 July 7.30 pm

Sunday 9 July 11.30 am

Sunday 9 July 3.00 pm

Martin Roscoe piano

Navarra String Quartet

MARTIN ROSCOE 65TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’

Ben Johnson tenor Nicky Spence tenor Benjamin Appl baritone Gavan Ring baritone Sholto Kynoch piano

Schubert 2 Scherzos D593; Piano Sonata in G D894 ‘Fantasie’; Piano Sonata in Bb D960 ‘What better way to celebrate one’s 65th birthday’, asks Martin Roscoe, ‘than by playing two of the most sublime piano sonatas ever written at London’s top recital venue?’ With the delicious aperitif of the two Scherzi this all-Schubert programme amounts to what the acclaimed British pianist calls his ‘idea of heaven’.

Beethoven applied the subtitle ‘Serioso’ to his Op. 95, a mark of its specific gravity and a reflection of the composer’s increasingly difficult personal circumstances. The Navarra String Quartet prefaces Beethoven’s concise masterwork with two compositions of contrasting emotions, opening with Haydn’s sonorous Op. 20 No. 2 before plunging into the highly dramatic flow of Schubert’s Quartettsatz. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

London Pianoforte Series

SCHUBERT: PARTSONGS FOR MALE VOICES Schubert Die Advokaten; Trinklied (D75); Trinklied (D267); Naturgenuss (D422); Mailied; Leiden der Trennung; La pastorella al prato (D513); Das Lied vom Reifen; Hänflings Liebeswerbung; Das Dörfchen; Widerschein; Die Nachtigall; Geist der Liebe (Der Abend schleiert Flur und Hain); Gondelfahrer (D809) The songs in this recital catch the fervour and joy of Schubert’s works for male-voice ensemble. Four fabulous young artists join Sholto Kynoch to explore a selection complete with two rousing drinking songs and the irresistible ‘Geist der Liebe’. The programme also includes rich solo songs, ‘Leiden der Trennung’ and the carol-like ‘Das Lied vom Reifen’ among them. All seats £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Martin Roscoe

Navarra String Quartet

Eric Richmond

Nicky Spence

Raphaëlle Photography

Sussie Ahlburg

Benjamin Appl

Falk Kastell

July Sunday 9 July 7.30 pm

Monday 10 July 1.00 pm

Monday 10 July 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Graham Johnson piano

Hanno Müller-Brachmann

Gould Piano Trio

bass-baritone

SONGS 1815–1816 Schubert Der Geistertanz; Als ich sie erröten sah; Die Mainacht; Seufzer; Die Fröhlichkeit; Der Jüngling an der Quelle; An mein Klavier; Am Tage aller Seelen (Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen); Pflügerlied; Die Knabenzeit; Winterlied; Stimme der Liebe THE SPIRITUAL QUEST, 1819 Schubert Abendbilder; Hymne I ‘Wenige wissen das Geheimnis’; Hymne II ‘Wenn ich ihn nur habe’; Hymne III ‘Wenn alle untreu werden’; Hymne IV ‘Ich sag’ es jedem’; Nachthymne SONGS 1822–1823 (In the shadow of the Müllerin) Schubert Schwestergruß; Drang in die Ferne; Der zürnende Barde; Das Geheimnis; Auf dem Wasser zu singen Schubert’s creative quest drew energy and inspiration from poetry’s potential to unlock fresh ways of being. Ian Bostridge and Graham Johnson begin by exploring the diverse styles present in the young composer’s songs of 1815–16 before fathoming his striking experiments with the spiritual poetry of Novalis’s Hymnen and closing with five sublime masterworks from the early 1820s.

Beethoven Piano Trio in Eb Op. 1 No. 1; Variations in G Op. 121a ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’; Piano Trio in Eb Op. 70 No. 2

Hendrik Heilmann piano Mahler Kindertotenlieder Mahler Rückert Lieder Hanno Müller-Brachmann and Hendrik Heilmann venture into the complex emotional territories of Mahler’s song cycles to poems by Friedrich Rückert. Kindertotenlieder, first performed in 1905, deals with the grief unlocked by the death of two of the poet’s children, while the five Rückert Lieder reveal the psychological insight and captivating beauty of Mahler’s intensely romantic music.

In 1795 Beethoven concluded his formal studies in Vienna, made his debut in his new home city as a pianist and saw the publication of his Op. 1 piano trios. The Gould Piano Trio conjures up the brilliance of the Op. 1 set’s first piece and the popular ‘Kakadu’ Variations of 1794, together with the genial E flat trio from the summer of 1808. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

£15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Hanno Müller-Brachmann

Ian Bostridge

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Gould Piano Trio

Monika Rittershaus

Hendrik Heilmann

Monika Rittershaus

Jake Morley

July Wednesday 12 July 7.30 pm

Thursday 13 July 7.30 pm

Friday 14 July 7.00 pm NB starting time

Aida Garifullina soprano Lech Napierala piano

Sophie Bevan soprano Allan Clayton tenor Christopher Glynn piano

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

Rimsky-Korsakov Not the wind, blowing from the heights; Hymn to the Sun; The Rose and the Nightingale Tchaikovsky Maria’s lullaby; Was I not a little blade of grass?; Serenada Dvorˇák Songs my mother taught me; Song to the Moon from Rusalka Leoncavallo Mattinata Donizetti Quel guardo il cavaliere from Don Pasquale; Prendi, per me sei libero from L’elisir d’amore Verdi Sul fil d’un soffio etesio from Falstaff Caccini Ave Maria Lehár Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden from Paganini; Dein ist mein ganzes Herz from Das Land des Lächelns Russian soprano Aida Garifullina was raised in the Republic of Tatarstan. She studied with Siegfried Jerusalem and at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts before making her debut at the Mariinsky Theatre and winning Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition in 2013. Her Wigmore Series debut spans the broad range of this acclaimed young artist’s repertoire. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

A SHAKESPEARE SONGBOOK Morley It was a lover and his lass Arne When daisies pied Haydn She never told her love Schubert An Silvia Ireland When daffodils begin to peer Coleridge-Taylor The Willow Song Warlock Sigh no more, Ladies Harrison I know a bank; Philomel Britten Tell me where is Fancy bred Head How sweet the moonlight sleeps Foster Under the greenwood tree Quilter Blow, blow, thou winter wind Handel As steals the morn Tippett Songs for Ariel Dankworth Our revels now are ended Finzi Come away, come away, death; O mistress mine Korngold Adieu, Good Man Devil; Hey, Robin; For the rain, it raineth every day Vaughan Williams Orpheus with his lute Bridge When most I wink Vaughan Williams Fear no more the heat o’ the sun Quilter It was a lover and his lass Sophie Bevan and Allan Clayton open their Shakespeare Songbook to reveal 25 delightful settings of the Bard. Their recital includes everything from Morley’s ‘It was a lover and his lass’, written during Shakespeare’s lifetime, and the high Victoriana of Myles Birket Foster to John Dankworth’s hauntingly beautiful ‘Our revels now are ended’.

Caplet Viens! Une flûte invisible soupire ... Ravel Chansons madécasses Caplet 2 petites pièces: Rêverie & Petite valse Saint-Saëns Une flûte invisible Martin Ballade for flute and piano Judith Weir Nuits d’Afrique for soprano, piano, flute and cello* (world première) Berlioz La captive, orientale Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ Gaubert Soir Païen; Nocturne et allegro scherzando *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Judith Weir’s Nuits d’Afrique, specially commissioned by Wigmore Hall, offers a contemporary take on the great legacy of French song. Adam Walker and Alasdair Tait join Ailish Tynan and James Baillieu for the work’s world première, part of a programme that includes the shimmering Ballade by the Francophone Swiss composer Frank Martin and Philippe Gaubert’s languid ‘Soir Païen’. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Aida Garifullina

Decca/Simon Fowler

Sophie Bevan

Sussie Ahlburg

Ailish Tynan

Benjamin Ealovega

July Friday 14 July 10.00 pm

Saturday 15 July 7.30 pm

Sunday 16 July 11.30 am

Dinosaur

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Ulrich Tukur actor

Quatuor Zaïde

Laura Jurd* trumpet Elliot Galvin piano Conor Chaplin acoustic bass Corrie Dick drums, percussion

Wolf Italian Serenade in G Schubert String Quartet in G D887

Brahms Die schöne Magelone

Award-winning trumpeter, composer and bandleader Laura Jurd and her recently rechristened band Dinosaur scored rave reviews with their debut album, Together, As One. Laura, winner of the 2015 Parliamentary Jazz Award for ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ and a current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, gives the full Dinosaur treatment to Wigmore Lates. All seats £15

Christian Gerhaher and his regular duo partner, Gerold Huber, return to Wigmore Hall to survey Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone, a cycle of 15 songs rooted in themes from medieval legend to poetry taken from Ludwig Tieck’s Romantic novella about the beautiful Magelone, a Neapolitan princess, and her love for Count Peter of Provence. The songs are interwoven with descriptive prose, read in English translation by actor Ulrich Tukur.

Quatuor Zaïde makes a very welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a quartet movement by Hugo Wolf drenched in Italian sunshine. The stellar ensemble completes its coffee concert programme with the expansive lyricism and drama of Schubert’s String Quartet in G, a masterwork in four movements. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

* Laura Jurd is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Song Recital Series

Wigmore Lates

Christian Gerhaher

Laura Jurd and Dinosaur

Dave Stapleton

Quatuor Zaïde

Thomas Egli

Gerold Huber

Marion Koell /Avi-Service for music

Marco Borggreve

July Sunday 16 July 7.30 pm

Monday 17 July

Tuesday 18 July 7.30 pm

Quatuor Mosaïques

12.30 pm – 1.30 pm (for 1 – 2 year olds) 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm (for 3 – 5 year olds)

Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 Mozart String Quartet in G K387 Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D

Chamber Tots

The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director

Performing with gut strings since its foundation in 1985, Quatuor Mosaïques has matured into one of the world’s finest period-instrument quartets. The ensemble explores Mozart’s debt to Haydn before closing with Borodin’s popular Second String Quartet, an inspired attempt by its composer ‘to conjure up an impression of a light-hearted evening in one of the suburban pleasure gardens of St Petersburg’.

OUT OF THE DEEP

BEAR HUNT

Children £5 Adults £3

Morales Missa pro defunctis Tallis Incipit lamentatio Plainsong Ego sum resurrectio et vita; Benedictus Tye Nunc dimittis Byrd Tristitia et anxietas Plainsong Si iniquitatis observaveris; Psalm 129 Morley Nunc dimittis Tallis De lamentatione The destinies of Spain and England were closely intertwined in the 1500s, brought together by dynastic marriages and forced apart by religious strife, colonial rivalry and ruinous wars. The Cardinall’s Musick and Andrew Carwood give voice to the austere beauty of Morales’s Requiem mass, written after the Spanish composer’s homecoming following more than a decade as a member of the papal chapel in Rome.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Chamber Tots

Quatuor Mosaïques

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Wolfgang Krautzer

The Cardinall’s Musick

Dmitri Gutjahr

July Wednesday 19 July 7.30 pm

Friday 21 July 7.00 pm

VIJAY IYER

Elizabeth Watts soprano Simon Lepper piano Schubert Des Mädchens Klage (D6); Thekla: eine Geisterstimme (D73); Das Mädchen aus der Fremde (D117); Des Mädchens Klage (D191); An den Frühling (D283); Klage der Ceres; Der König in Thule; Des Mädchens Klage (D389); Auf dem See (D543); An den Frühling (D587); Liebhaber in allen Gestalten; Gretchen im Zwinger (Gretchens Bitte); Thekla: eine Geisterstimme (D595); An den Mond (D296); Der Jüngling am Bache (D638); Suleika I & II Schubert discovered Schiller’s poetry in his early teens and was moved to create his first setting of ‘Des Mädchens Klage’ soon after. Elizabeth Watts surveys a selection of the composer’s Schiller songs before exploring works to poems by another titan of the Romantic era, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and concluding with Schubert’s passionate evocations of love and desire in his settings of Suleika. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

JAZZ RESIDENCY

Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord Sophie Gent violin Bojan Cˇ icˇic´ violin Jonathan Manson viola da gamba Thomas Dunford theorbo Georgia Browne flute Sophie Junker soprano See page opposite for full details Friday 21 July 10.00 pm

Edicson Ruiz double bass Yu Kosuge piano Vijay Iyer

Barbara Rigon

GRAMMY-nominated jazz pianist, bandleader, composer and writer Vijay Iyer became curator of Wigmore Hall’s Jazz Series in January 2017. Iyer, who studied maths and physics at Yale University, made his name as a performer in the 1990s while studying for a doctorate in music cognition at the University of California, Berkeley. His endlessly inventive music, described by The New Yorker as ‘jubilant and dramatic’, covers a vast creative landscape.

Thursday 20 July 7.30 pm

The Vijay Iyer Trio Vijay Iyer piano Stephen Crump double bass Tyshawn Sorey drums

Dittersdorf Concerto No. 2 in Eb with cadenza by J M Sperger Efrain Oscher Soledad Roland Moser ... sehr mit Bassstimme sanft ... (Hommage à Friederike Mayröcker) Sperger Concerto No. 15 with cadenza by Anner Bylsma Caracas-born Edicson Ruiz began playing double bass at the age of 11 and was nurtured by Venezuela’s ‘El Sistema’ music education programme. He launches this Wigmore Late with the thrusting energy of Dittersdorf’s Concerto before presenting the mind-bending sonorities of Roland Moser’s ... sehr mit Bassstimme sanft ... and heart-melting melody of Efrain Oscher’s Soledad. All seats £15

Wigmore Lates

For the second instalment of his Jazz Residency, Vijay Iyer brings his critically acclaimed piano trio to Wigmore Hall. Renowned for pushing boundaries, exploring radiating grooves and innovative polyrhythms, the trio’s music is pioneering yet firmly rooted in tradition. Influential albums, along with countless glowing reviews, have helped boost its reputation as one of the pivotal jazz bands of the twenty-first century. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Friday 13 October 7.30 pm Elizabeth Watts

Marco Borggreve

Edicson Ruiz

Nohely Oliveros

Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen Baroque Ensemble in Residence Friday 21 July 7.00 pm NB starting time

Arcangelo* Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord Sophie Gent violin Bojan Cˇicˇic´ violin Jonathan Manson viola da gamba Thomas Dunford theorbo Georgia Browne flute Sophie Junker soprano

Arcangelo’s final concert as Wigmore Hall’s Baroque Ensemble in Residence closes with a dramatic invocation of post-war peace by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, the musician who introduced the double bass to the Paris Opéra orchestra. Two sonatas from François Couperin’s ambitious portrait of four Catholic nations underline the inventive wealth of French music during the early 1700s.

Clérambault Cantata: Léandre et Héro Couperin La Françoise & L’impériale from Les Nations Montéclair Le retour de la paix £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 * WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Sophie Junker

Christina Raphaelle

Jonathan Cohen

Marco Borggreve

Early Music and Baroque Series

Other Concert in this Series Friday 5 May 10.00 pm Photo of Arcangelo by Simon Jay Price

July Saturday 22 July 7.30 pm

Sunday 23 July 11.30 am

Sunday 23 July 7.30 pm

Andrei Bondarenko baritone Gary Matthewman piano

Chloë Hanslip violin Danny Driver piano

Ibert Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte Fauré Les berceaux; Après un rêve; Fleur jetée Massenet Elégie Ravel Sainte Saint-Saëns Si vous n’avez rien à me dire Duparc Le manoir de Rosemonde Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Tchaikovsky Amid the din of the ball; I should like in a single word; The nightingale; My genius, my angel, my friend; Why?; We sat together; I bless you, forests; Reconciliation; A tear trembles; Not a word, O my friend; Again, as before, alone; Don Juan’s serenade

Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’

Tai Murray violin Elena Urioste violin Jennifer Stumm viola Laura van der Heijden cello Tom Poster piano

Andrei Bondarenko, born in 1987, has forged a stellar international career in the decade since he joined the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. The Ukrainian baritone, Song Prize-winner at the 2011 Cardiff Singer of the World, revels in French mélodies in his recital’s first half before mining the vital emotions of Tchaikovsky’s Russian romances and songs.

Although written for George Bridgetower, the exceptionally gifted Polish-born son of a West Indian father, Beethoven dedicated his Op. 47 to the French composer and violinist Rudolphe Kreutzer following what Bridgetower recalled as ‘a silly quarrel about a girl’. Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver preface the ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata’s virtuoso fire and dramatic momentum with Schubert’s tuneful Sonatina. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

CHARITY CONCERT FOR PARKINSON’S UK Janácˇek Na památku VIII/9 Bartók Duos for 2 violins BB104 (a selection, transcribed for violin and viola) Borodin String Trio in G minor (Variations on a Russian theme) Suk Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 1 Dvorˇák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 This programme, with its Eastern European, folkish flavour, follows an unusual format by opening with a solo, moving through a duo, trio and quartet, and finishing with an acknowledged masterpiece, Dvorˇák’s glorious Piano Quintet in A. Five world-class musicians have chosen to perform without fee and donate the proceeds from their concert to Parkinson’s UK.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season

Tai Murray

Andrei Bondarenko

Juriy Sheftsoff

Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver

Marco Borggreve

Raphael Mouterde

Wigmore Hall Learning Gala Celebrations CONNECTING PEOPLE THROUGH MUSIC

Monday 24 July 7.30 pm

Tuesday 25 July 7.30 pm

For over 20 years Wigmore Hall’s renowned Learning programme has been giving people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities opportunities to take part in creative music making, engaging a broad and diverse audience through innovative creative projects, concerts, events and online resources. The spirit of chamber music lies at the heart of all that we do: making music together as an ensemble, with every voice heard and equally valued.

Joshua Bell violin Arisa Fujita violin Amihai Grosz viola Rachel Roberts viola Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon piano

Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58; Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66; String Quintet No. 1 in A Op. 18

Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F (1838); Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49; String Quintet No. 2 in B b Op. 87

Mendelssohn projected his youthful genius into the String Quintet in A Op. 18, a work influenced by the form and instrumentation of Mozart’s string quintets. Steven Isserlis and friends also perform the composer’s C minor Piano Trio and impassioned Second Cello Sonata, the brilliant product of a year of personal upheaval.

A world-class roster of artists assembles for a second successive summer evening of Mendelssohn. Joshua Bell and Dénes Várjon launch proceedings with the Violin Sonata in F, a work lost until it was revived in the 1950s by Yehudi Menuhin, and are joined by Steven Isserlis in Op. 49, which Schumann described as ‘the master trio of the age’.

We collaborate with a range of community, health, social care and education organisations, working together to engage people who might not otherwise have the opportunity to take part. In the 2015/16 Season we led 539 Learning events, and engaged 11,532 people with 22,364 visits to the programme. All proceeds from these concerts will go towards Wigmore Hall Learning

£60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Chamber Music Season

Joshua Bell

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Steven Isserlis

£60 £50 £40 £30 £15 Chamber Music Season

Jean-Baptiste Millot

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July Wednesday 26 July 7.30 pm

Carolyn Sampson soprano Joseph Middleton piano REASON IN MADNESS Schumann Herzeleid Brahms Ophelia-Lieder Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia Wolf Mignon Lieder Duparc Romance de Mignon Fauré Mélisande’s Song Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Saint-Saëns La mort d’Ophélie Chausson Chanson d’Ophélie from ‘Chansons de Shakespeare’ Op. 28 Duparc Au pays où se fait la guerre Poulenc La dame de Monte Carlo Strikingly individual musical responses to the androgynous Mignon and tormented Ophelia, respective creations of Goethe and Shakespeare, occupy the heart of Carolyn Sampson’s programme of German and French songs. She and Joseph Middleton include Strauss’s breath-taking mad songs and close with Poulenc’s monologue on the theme of suicidal despair played out at the gaming tables of Monte Carlo.

Thursday 27 July 7.30 pm

Friday 28 July 7.30 pm

Cédric Tiberghien piano

Robin Tritschler tenor Graham Johnson piano

Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ Liszt Csárdás macabre S224; Bagatelle sans tonalité S216a; Mephisto Waltz No. 4 S696; La lugubre gondola; Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Cédric Tiberghien’s pianism rests on foundations set as a prodigious teenager and developed since over a career spanning the past quarter century. His recital contains two of the most influential and enduring of nineteenth-century piano sonatas and a quartet of late Liszt masterworks, the fourth Mephisto Waltz and hypnotic Bagatelle sans tonalité among them. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Erinnerung; Die Betende; Der Geistertanz (D116); Nachtgesang (D119); Nähe des Geliebten; Wandrers Nachtlied I; Morgenlied (D266); Abendlied (D276); Auf den Tod einer Nachtigall (D399); An die Nachtigall (D497); Ganymed; Entzückung an Laura II (fragment); Elysium; Evangelium Johannis VI; Einsamkeit; Über allen Zauber Liebe; Nachtstück; Der Musensohn; Am Fluße; Willkommen und Abschied Robin Tritschler and Graham Johnson begin with an evocation of heightened sensual experience in settings of poems by Matthison and Goethe before moving through a series of hymns to nature and the realms of myth. Their programme also includes Schubert’s churchly setting of words from St John’s Gospel and beguiling ‘Über allen Zauber Liebe’, a little-known masterwork. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Song Recital Series

Saturday 29 July 7.00 pm

A Serenade to Music See page opposite for full details

Sunday 30 July 11.30 am

Gemma Rosefield cello Tim Horton piano Carolyn Sampson

Marco Borggreve

Cédric Tiberghien

Jean-Baptiste Millot

Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO. 45 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Martin Variations on a theme by Rossini Gemma Rosefield, whose Wigmore Hall debut was described by The Strad as ‘a mesmerising musical treasure’, returns in partnership with Tim Horton. The sumptuous textures and serious dialogue of Brahms’s First Cello Sonata provide contrast with Beethoven’s ebullient Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ and Martin’s Rossini Variations, written in 1942 for Gregor Piatigorsky. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Robin Tritschler

Garreth Wong

Gemma Rosefield

Marco Borggreve

A Serenade to Music Final Song Recital of the Season Saturday 29 July 7.00 pm NB starting time

Elizabeth Watts soprano Mary Bevan soprano Eleanor Dennis soprano Ruby Hughes soprano Gemma Summerfield soprano Tara Erraught mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano Benjamin Hulett tenor Nick Pritchard tenor Nicky Spence tenor Robin Tritschler tenor Benjamin Appl baritone Marcus Farnsworth baritone Gavan Ring baritone Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Graham Johnson piano Eugene Asti piano

Schubert Viel tausend Sterne prangen; Klaglied; Trost in Tränen; Nun laßt uns den Leib begraben (Begräbnislied); Jesus Christus unser Heiland (Osterlied); Das Mädchen von Inistore; Am ersten Maimorgen; Der Entfernten; Klage (D371); Lied in der Abwesenheit; Lied ‘Ferne von der großen Stadt’; Nur wer die Liebe kennt (fragment); Trost (D523); Der Kreuzzug; Das große Halleluja; Mirjams Siegesgesang; Kantate für Irene Kiesewetter Purcell Music for a while (arr. Tippett/Bergmann) Croft A Hymn on Divine Musick (realised by Britten) Purcell If music be the food of love (realised by Britten) Schubert An die Musik D547 Chabrier Ode à la musique Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music Wigmore Hall crowns its acclaimed Schubert: The Complete Songs series, among the most ambitious projects in the venue’s history, with a gala concert featuring performances by stars of the younger generation and overseen by Graham Johnson, one of the truly great Schubertians. Chabrier’s Ode and Vaughan Williams’s Serenade pay tribute to Music for her role in Schubert’s peerless achievement. This concert will be approximately 2 hours 15 minutes in duration, including an interval £60 £50 £40 £30 £15 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

‘Woman before the Rising Sun’ by Caspar David Friedrich c. 1818

Contemporary Music Series Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, and as a commissioner of new works and a 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, ‘and in recent years Wigmore Hall has become one of the world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’

Helen Grime, Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, is supported by The Marchus Trust Full details of these concerts are provided throughout the brochure in chronological order. Saturday 1 April 7.30 pm

Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm

Friday 16 June 7.00 pm

EXAUDI

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Jasper String Quartet

violin

Aaron Jay Kernis*

James Weeks & Salvatore Sciarrino Friday 7 April 7.30 pm

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Chemirani Brothers zarb Marco Stroppa, Ross Daly, Sokratis Sinopoulos, György Kurtág, Krzysztof Penderecki & Franck Leriche Wednesday 19 April 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Nicholas Daniel oboe

Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano

Tuesday 20 June 7.30 pm

George Crumb, Ligeti, György Kurtág, Salvatore Sciarrino & Vanessa Lann

Ensemble intercontemporain Philippe Schoeller, Maderna, Berio & Matteo Franceschini

Thursday 11 May 7.30 pm Friday 23 June 7.30 pm

Elias String Quartet Paul Newland*

Fretwork Orlando Gough

Saturday 13 May Monday 26 June 7.30 pm

Tansy Davies Study Day Tansy Davies

Vienna Piano Trio Mark Padmore tenor

Wednesday 14 June 7.30 pm

Thomas Larcher *

Brian Elias* Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Sol Gabetta cello Xenakis, Jörg Widmann, Ligeti & Peter Eötvös*

Arditti Quartet Eliot Fisk guitar Hugues Dufourt *, Berio & Wolfgang Rihm*

Saturday 1 July 7.30 pm

Doric String Quartet Alasdair Beatson piano Thomas Adès

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

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by

EVENTS FOR FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS All events listed on pages 77 – 81 are included in Priority Booking for Friends and Mailing List Subscribers, with the exception of the RNIB Study Day on 20 April, the RNIB Family Day on 1 June, and Musical Portraits on 24 – 27 July, which open for booking on 7 February. The Schools Concerts on 25 April and 12 July are already open for booking.

Friday 7 April 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts

Juice Thursday 20 April 10.00 am – 4.30 pm

Tuesday 25 April 11.00 am – 12 noon

RNIB Study Day

Juice

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED MUSICIANS

SEN SCHOOLS CONCERT

This practical study day is an opportunity for blind and partially sighted musicians to explore pathways into the classical music industry and career development, including how to make the most out of opportunities for sponsorship. The day will include discussion, talks and the opportunity to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage. Free (application required) www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Morag Galloway

Explore the voice alongside vocal ensemble Juice and presenter Sam Glazer in a dynamic and engaging concert. Expect a wide range of classical, contemporary and folk music, with lots of audience participation in both singing and body percussion. This concert is ideal for SEN students of all ages and bookers will receive a teachers’ resource pack in advance of the concert. £3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

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

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Study Programme We have an extensive programme of study events including Masterclasses, Pre-Concert Talks and Study Days. For a list of all our events see Wigmore Hall Learning section of At a Glance on page 3.

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Thursday 27 April 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm

Wigmore Hall Learning is a proud supporter of Arts Award, and as part of this project our Young Producers work towards achieving their Silver Arts Award.

Tuesday 9 May 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm) Thursday 15 June 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

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Adults £7.50 (babies come free)

Supported by the London Stock Exchange Group Foundation

Saturday 29 April 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Come and Sing: World Folk Music Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring folk music, popular music, and other forms from around the world. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. £25 concs £19

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Friday 19 May 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Side by Side The Prince Consort and Musicians from the Guildhall School Programme to include: Schumann Spanische Liebeslieder Op. 138 Cheryl Frances-Hoad Invoke Now the Angels

The Prince Consort is renowned for its imaginative programming, world-class performances and its original approach to commissioning new works. The ensemble is also passionate about supporting the development of the next generation of singers and pianists. For this project, members of the ensemble have worked with students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama towards this performance, in which the students and ensemble perform side by side. All seats £5 Benjamin Ealovega

Chamber Tots

Wednesday 17 May 10.00 am – 2.00 pm

BEAR HUNT

Dementia Awareness Week: Come and Sing

Friday 12 May 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds) Monday 17 July 12.30 pm (1–2 year olds) & 2.00 pm (3–5 year olds)

MINIBEASTS Wednesday 7 June 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds)

Isabelle Adams leads a day to celebrate the launch of our new community choir for families living with dementia. If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for a session exploring and creating music together followed by some lunch, tea and coffee. Free (ticket required)

Wednesday 28 June 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds)

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DINOSAURS

Saturday 20 May 11.00 am – 12 noon

Tuesday 4 July 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds)

Search for the Starlight Squid FAMILY CONCERT

Children £5 Adults £3

Chamber Tots also takes place as a six-month project in schools across London.

Children £8 Adults £10 Rob Stothard

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Tuesday 23 May 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Voiceworks A CONCERT OF NEW WORKS FOR VOICE Now in its eleventh year, Voiceworks is a unique collaboration between writers, composers, singers and instrumentalists from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, brought together by Wigmore Hall Learning. Free (ticket required)

In the Community Our Learning projects reach out across London and further afield, including an extensive schools and early years programme, a community programme working with children, young people and adults in challenging circumstances, and Music for Life, in which we lead creative music workshops with people living with dementia.

Tuesday 30 May 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Cavendish Winds FAMILY DAY For ages 5 plus Join music leader Julian West and the Wigmore Hall Learning/Open Academy Fellowship Ensemble, Cavendish Winds, on a marvellous music-making adventure. Take your seat within your very own chamber ensemble, create your own brand new pieces of music and perform together on the Wigmore Hall stage. Children £10 Adults £15 Rob Stothard

Thursday 1 June 11.00 am – 4.00 pm

RNIB Family Day FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED CHILDREN AGED 6 –12 YEARS AND THEIR FAMILIES Be inspired by art and music at The Wallace Collection and Wigmore Hall, and create your own masterpieces in this interactive multi-sensory workshop for blind and partially sighted children and their families. Free (application required)

For more information and to book, contact James Risdon, RNIB Music Officer on 020 7391 2273 or mas@rnib.org.uk. In partnership with RNIB and The Wallace Collection

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Wednesday 14 June 11.00 am – 12 noon

Saturday 1 July 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Carers’ Week: Relaxed Concert Marcus Farnsworth baritone James Baillieu piano

Royal Academy of Music Family Day For ages 5 plus Discover the hidden gems at the Royal Academy of Music Museum with Academy students and workshop leader Hannah Opstad. Blow away the dust, get up close to the museum’s treasures, and write your very own music to perform at Wigmore Hall at the end of the day.

This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides a special opportunity to explore music in an informal setting. We invite carers, and anyone who would benefit from a more relaxed performance environment, to join award-winning musicians Marcus Farnsworth and James Baillieu for a diverse range of song, and to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee after the concert.

Children £10 Adults £15

£5

Celebrating Carers’ Week www.carersweek.org

Marcus Farnsworth

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Partner Schools Programme The Partner Schools Programme is a new approach to working with schools; in partnership with our four partner music hubs we are collaborating with four primary schools keen to develop their cultural offer, co-creating a programme of opportunities which meets their needs and places music at the heart of their ethos, empowering them to become culturally engaged, proactive schools.

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Friday 7 July 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts

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Chamber Zone FREE CONCERT TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOL GROUPS Benjamin Ealovega

Wednesday 12 July 11.00 am – 12 noon

My Iris

Over the last nine years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticket scheme Chamber Zone has reached over 7,000 young people aged 8 –25 years.

KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT This is Trish Clowes’s jazz organ quartet with a twist! Come and experience music that conjures vivid colour and imagery, with links to literature and history, in this concert presented by Pete Letanka. Trish’s pieces juxtapose startling melodies and ethereal whispers with intricate textures and earthy grooves. This concert is the perfect way to celebrate the end of the school year. £3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity For details on the concerts included in the Chamber Zone scheme and how to book visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk /chamberzone

Monday 24 – Thursday 27 July 11.00 am – 3.30 pm

Musical Portraits SUMMER COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS We invite young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders to be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, and to create their own works of art and music with inspiring visual artists alongside Wigmore Hall Learning Associate Artists Ignite. For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Ceri Black at Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or ceri@turtlekeyarts.org.uk. Free (application required)

In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts

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BOOKING INFORMATION Booking Dates Booking Period 3 Saturday 1 April – Sunday 30 July 2017 Priority Booking opens to Friends and Mailing List Subscribers on Tuesday 20 December 2016 Friends – Request to be submitted by Thursday 12 January 2017 Mailing List – Request to be submitted by Thursday 19 January 2017 General Public – By telephone/online from Tuesday 7 February 2017

Telephone Bookings

Car Parking

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.

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 when using the Cavendish Square (Q Park Oxford Street) car park. Please contact the Box Office for further details or visit our website.

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.

Online Bookings

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

Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk to book seats. There is a non-refundable administration charge of £2.00.

Wigmore Hall Box Office

Tickets for Concessions

36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Tel: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Where a concession (concs) ticket price is listed these are available to students, senior citizens and the unemployed. For full details visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/concessions.

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

Under 35s Ticket Scheme

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 – X: Lowest price

W–X T– V Q–S

N–P STA LL S C– M

AAAA

CC BB

PL ATFO RM

Wigmore Hall is proud to meet the Family Arts Standards reflecting its commitment to offering family-friendly events and spaces. OXFORD CIRCUS

Transport

A –B CC BB

AAAA

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

Facilities for Families

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.

BALCONY

Full details from 020 7935 2141 or access@wigmore-hall.org.uk

Ticket buyers under the age of 35 are entitled to reduced price tickets for selected concerts. For full details visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/u35.

Restaurant/Bar

A–D

Disabled Access and Facilities

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

BOND STREET

This brochure is available in alternative formats. If this would be of assistance to you, please email access@wigmore-hall.org.uk or call 020 7935 2141. Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary. Cover designed at Process Studios. www.processstudios.net Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson

SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALL With £1.7 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, joining a Circle of Giving, or by supporting a concert or the Learning programme, 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 and Learning programmes:

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

Season Patrons 2016/17 Aubrey Adams* Tony and Marion Allen* American Friends of Wigmore Hall Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne ‡ Karl Otto Bonnier* Henry and Suzanne Davis Dunard Fund† Alexis Gregory Foundation and the Vendome Prize The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Pauline and Ian Howat Harry Lee and Clive Potter* Simon and Sophie Ludlam* The Marchus Trust ‡ The Monument Trust Valerie O’Connor Hamish Parker Victoria and Simon Robey* David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma*† Cita and Irwin Stelzer* William and Alex de Winton* and several anonymous donors

Chamber Music Circle Karl Otto Bonnier* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Margery Gray Pauline and Ian Howat Lord and Lady Lloyd The Tertis Foundation Marina Vaizey Kathleen Verelst*

Voices at Wigmore: The Schubert Song Project Tony and Marion Allen* Anthony Austin Geoffrey Barnett Karl Otto Bonnier* Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair Michael Brind Nicola Coldstream Pauline Del Mar J L Drewitt Alan and Joanna Gemes* Benjamin Hargreaves Julia MacRae* Edith Randall Louise Scheuer

Julia Schottlander* Gill and Keith Stella* In memory of Robert Streit John and Ann Tusa Gerry Wakelin* Susan Ward David and Frances Waters* Anne and David Weizmann David Evan Williams

Corporate Supporters Capital Group (corporate matched giving) Complete Coffee Ltd The Howard de Walden Estate John Lewis Partnership – Oxford Street London Stock Exchange Group Foundation Martin Randall Travel Ltd Rothschild & Co

Donors and Sponsors The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust L Mr Eric Abraham* Neville and Nicola Abraham Elaine Adair Ian Allan David and Jacqueline Ansell* Arts Council England Ms J A Attias Mrs Arlene Beare Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez Mrs Arline Blass David and Mary Bowerman* Sir John and Lady Boyd* Alan Bradley* Clive Butler A bequest from the late Peter Cain Donald Campbell CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust L Charities Advisory Trust L Mary and Robert Childs Colin Clark John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Michael and Felicia Crystal* Celia and Andrew Curran Anthony Davis* In memory of Margaret Dewhirst James Dooley The Dorset Foundation – in memory of Harry M Weinrebe Nina Drucker In memory of Robert Easton Douglas and Janette Eden Mr Martin and Dr Mina Edwards The Eldering/Goecke Family Annette Ellis* The Elton Family

The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation Dr C Endersby and Prof D Cowan OBE Caroline Erskine Felicity Fairbairn L Philip and Susan Feakin Peter and Sonia Field L Deborah Finkler and Allan Murray-Jones John and Amy Ford The Foyle Foundation S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 L Neil and Deborah Franks* Michael Freegard Friends of Wigmore Hall Jonathan Gaisman* The Garfield Weston Foundation John Gilhooly* John and Lauren Goldsmith* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Peter Goodwin Charles Green Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Elaine and Peter Hallgarten Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* The Hargreaves and Ball Trust The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation L The Headley Trust L Malcolm Herring* André and Rosalie Hoffmann ‡ Peter and Carol Honey* Gay Huey Evans* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Hyde Park Place Estate Charity L Simone Hyman* J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Peter and Nikki Jeffcote John Lyon’s Charity L Marc Jourdren* In memory of Donald Kahn Su and Neil Kaplan* Jerome Karet* David and Louise Kaye* Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn* Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Maryly La Follette* Gabor Lacko Alan Leibowitz and Barbara Weiss L Rose and Dudley Leigh The Leverhulme Trust L Tim Llewellyn Dame Felicity Lott The Loveday Charitable Trust L Mr H Lucas David Lyons* Anne and Brian Mace The Estate of Pamela Majaro MBE Simon Majaro MBE Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Michael and Lynne McGowan*

George Meyer L Milton Damerel Trust L The Monument Trust Amyas and Louise Morse* A C and F A Myer Valerie O’Connor L Celia and Roy Palmer P Parkinson The Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity L The Piano Fund The du Plessis Family Foundation Isabel and Jonathan Popper Oliver and Helen Prenn Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Radcliffe Trust Stuart and Bianca Roden L Charles Rose* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM* The Rubinstein Circle The Sampimon Trust L Julia Schottlander* Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Rhona Shaw Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Jo and Barry Slavin Sir Martin and Lady Smith*† Michael Smith and Nicholas Bartlett* Spencer Hart Charitable Trust Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* John Stephens OBE, Hon FTCL* The Stewarts Law Foundation L Anne and Paul Swain* Alisa and Joshua Swidler* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* Professor Christopher Thompson The Three Monkies Trust L Robin Vousden* Andrew and Hilary Walker* Professor Janet Walker CD and Professor Doug Jones AO* Dame Fanny Waterman* Michael Watson Charitable Trust The Welton Foundation David and Martha Winfield* Tony Wingate Philip and Emeline Winston* The Wolfson Foundation Youth Music L and several anonymous donors * Rubinstein Circle members L Learning Programme supporters † Early Music and Baroque Series supporters ‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters

Details correct as of October 2016 THE WIGMORE HALL TRUST Registered Charity Number 1024838

Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM, HonFRIAM 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Box OfďŹ ce Tel: 020 7935 2141 The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity Number 1024838