Wigmore 2014/15 Season Brochure

2014 –2015

S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 4 – J U LY 2 0 1 5 W I G M O R E S E R I E S

Keith Saunders

Welcome

Cultural and linguistic diversity flourished in the ancient kingdom of Bohemia under Habsburg rule, clearly displayed in the winding alleys and grand squares of its capital city, Prague. Musicians from a rich variety of backgrounds brought colour and life to the Bohemian scene, one in which composers such as Smetana, Dvorˇák, Janácˇek and their successors created works that spoke for the national identity and historical independence of the Czech lands. The Pavel Haas Quartet, an outstanding champion of its homeland’s music, connects with the folk-tinged flavours, vivid invention and dazzling individuality of Czech compositions in this celebratory Bohemia series.

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Mozart’s chamber music takes centre stage over the next two seasons at Wigmore Hall. The Mozart Odyssey launches in September 2014 with Kristian Bezuidenhout’s survey of the piano sonatas on fortepiano. It unfolds over the coming months with the composer’s limpid Clarinet Quintet presented by Martin Fröst and the Apollon Musagète Quartet, an evening with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra comprising works drawn mostly from Mozart’s formative Salzburg years, recitals by the Hagen Quartet, and the first part of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien’s five-concert account of the sonatas for violin and piano.

Also spread over two seasons, our magnificent Henry Purcell: A Retrospective celebrates the genius of Henry Purcell and the enduring power of his music to move and inspire. The native Londoner, born near Westminster Abbey in 1659, cut his teeth as a Chapel Royal chorister and went on to excel as composer of everything from music for Charles II, James II and William and Mary to popular hits for the London stage, King Arthur and The Fairy Queen exquisite among them. The Sixteen, The English Concert, the Gabrieli Consort & Players, Early Opera Company, Carolyn Sampson and Trevor Pinnock are among the glittering line-up of performers set to explore Purcell’s art in the course of these landmark concerts.

A glance at Florian Boesch’s biography soon reveals the stratospheric achievements of his early career. The Austrian baritone has worked with such conductors as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Roger Norrington, Ádám Fischer and Philippe Herreweghe and has already made his mark on the opera stage at the Salzburg Festival and the Bolshoi Theatre. Boesch, above all, stands among the ranks of today’s finest Lieder singers. A special series from him will include works by composers born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The infinite subtlety of Martin Fröst’s musicianship arises from his tireless sense of curiosity and determination to create deeply personal interpretations of everything from Mozart and Brahms to Bartók and Kurtág. The Swedish clarinettist’s season as Wigmore Hall Artist in Residence includes opportunities to hear him as chamber musician, recital soloist, Family Concert artist and masterclass leader.

A long list of prestigious prizes, awards and honours reflects the esteem in which Paul Lewis’s artistry is held worldwide. The English pianist’s fruitful association with Wigmore Hall continues this Season with Paul Lewis: A Celebration, offering a broad look at his artistry as chamber musician, song accompanist and solo recitalist. Lewis’s intellectual vision, emotional spontaneity and ability to remain present in the moment in every bar of a composition are the products of deep study, frequently involving total immersion in the works of his chosen composers.

With its unique collective approach to everything from repertoire choice to project organisation, Ensemble Modern is known as one of the world’s leading champions of contemporary music. The group, founded in 1980 and based for almost three decades in Frankfurt, comprises extraordinary musicians with the artistry, virtuosity and curiosity required to explore and perform around 70 new pieces every season, from opera and music theatre to orchestral and chamber music scores. Ensemble Modern’s tally of prestigious world premières rises each year on average by 20 pieces, which are brought to life in close collaboration with their composers.

Every performance by Vox Luminis blends meticulous preparation and enlightened scholarship with spine-tingling spontaneity and excellence. The Belgian ensemble and its inspirational Artistic Director, Lionel Meunier, return to Wigmore Hall with a programme rooted in the vibrant sacred choral tradition cultivated in northern Germany in the late 1600s and early 1700s.

Cantatas by Pachelbel and Buxtehude provide the colourful context for Bach’s Actus Tragicus, a moving meditation on the impermanence of earthly life most likely written during its young composer’s year as organist in the Thuringian town of Mühlhausen, and its near contemporary, the church cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir.

Maria João Pires’s levels of compassion and empathy are rare even among the greatest of artists. The Portuguese pianist’s acclaimed interpretations – eloquent, expressive and strikingly spontaneous – transcend elements of personal display to draw listeners into the spiritual dimension of the works in

her repertoire. Wigmore Hall marks her 70th birthday year in October with a Portrait Series in which Pires is joined by two kindred spirits, Augustin Dumay and Antonio Meneses, to perform a selection of Beethoven’s piano trios. She returns to the Hall in February to give a solo recital, adding yet another vital date to London’s 2014/15 concert calendar.

Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet, are able to encompass the widest imaginable span of expression in performance, touching listeners by turns with vivid expressive outbursts and tender-hearted lyricism. The ensemble’s programmes this Season are shaped by the great Viennese Classical tradition.

Since its origins in the early 1500s, the viola has played a crucial role in the development of chamber music. Wigmore Hall’s series, entitled The Viola: A Survey from the Baroque to the present day, offers a chance to journey through five centuries of the instrument’s development in company with four remarkable virtuosi: internationally celebrated recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist Tabea Zimmermann, former pupil of Zimmermann and now world renowned Antoine Tamestit, former violist of the Arditti Quartet Garth Knox, and winner of the EUCO Prize at the 2006 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition Rosalind Ventris.

Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov present a two-concert survey of Beethoven’s complete sonatas and variations for cello and piano. The composer made a strikingly assured venture into a genre that was still in its infancy when he penned his two cello sonatas Op. 5 during a triumphant visit to Berlin in 1796, one of the happiest periods in a life all too often marked by suffering and setbacks.

The Bracing Change series recognises the need to refresh the chamber music repertoire with the launch of a co-commissioning partnership between Wigmore Hall, The Radcliffe Trust and NMC Recordings, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation. The series opens with Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new work for the Belcea Quartet, which will be performed alongside Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, when Jonathan Biss joins the ensemble. The series unfolds over the coming seasons with the premières of scores by fellow British composers Simon Holt, Anthony Gilbert, Helen Grime, Donnacha Dennehy and Paul Newland.

This Season the Nash Ensemble celebrates a remarkable 50 years since giving its first concert in October 1964. It is currently Chamber Ensemble in Residence at Wigmore Hall and is regarded as a standard-bearer of British music-making around the world.

I look forward to welcoming you to Wigmore Hall throughout the season ahead.

John Gilhooly Director

SERIES AT A GLANCE SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2014

See pages 4 – 122 for full details of these concerts and page 123 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for…

Song Recital Series

Joyce DiDonato & Sir Antonio Pappano Page 5 Bohemia 6–7, 68 Sir Thomas Allen 70th Birthday Celebration 8 Alban Gerhardt Focus 9 The Mozart Odyssey 10–11, 14, 22, 51, 52, 59 Ian Bostridge Schubert Lieder 13 Martin Fröst Artist in Residence 14 Henry Purcell: A Retrospective 16 –17 Paul Lewis: A Celebration 18–19, 73 Franco Fagioli 20 The English Concert 23 Nash Ensemble 24–25, 35, 54,56, 63, 87, 90, 50th Anniversary Season 92, 93, 100, 101 Rameau Anniversary Concert 27 Augustin Hadelich 28 Anthony Marwood and Friends 30 Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle 31, 44 Ensemble Modern 32 Vox Luminis 34 Nathalie Stutzmann & Orfeo 55 36 Simon Keenlyside & Emanuel Ax 38 Maria João Pires Portrait Series 41 Florian Boesch Residency 42 Widmann Trio 43 Celebrating Carolyn Sampson 45, 118 Takács Quartet Associate Artists 49 Ensemble intercontemporain 50 Freiburg Baroque Orchestra 52 Wolfgang Holzmair Masterclasses and 53 Showcase Concert 54 Christian Blackshaw Joshua Bell 55 Dmitri Hvorostovsky 57 The Viola: A Survey from the Baroque to 60–61 the present day Jean-Guihen Queyras & Alexander Melnikov 62 Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI 64 & Tembembe Ensamble Continuo Bracing Change: New British String Commissions 66 The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration 67 Max Emanuel Cencic/Il Pomo d’Oro 69 Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber 71 The Hilliard Ensemble Farewell Concert 72 Introducing Igor Levit 75 Julian Anderson Composer in Residence 77, 91, 119 Contemporary Music Series 82–83

Sat 6 Sep

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Mon 8 Sep Tue 9 Sep Sat 13 Sep Mon 15 Sep Wed 24 Sep Wed 8 Oct Sun 12 Oct Sat 18 Oct Wed 22 Oct Fri 24 Oct Sun 26 Oct Wed 29 Oct Sun 2 Nov Sat 8 Nov Wed 12 Nov Mon 17 Nov Tue 18 Nov Sun 23 Nov Thu 27 Nov Sun 14 Dec Wed 17 Dec Thu 18 Dec Fri 19 Dec

Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts

Joyce DiDonato/Sir Antonio Pappano Page 5 Joyce DiDonato/Sir Antonio Pappano 5 Sir Thomas Allen/Malcolm Martineau 8 Renata Pokupic´/Roger Vignoles 8 Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 13 Anna Caterina Antonacci/Donald Sulzen 21 Choir of The King’s Consort 29 Katarina Karnéus/Joseph Middleton 33 Kate Royal/Nash Ensemble 35 Simon Keenlyside/Emanuel Ax 38 Simon Keenlyside/Emanuel Ax 38 Benjamin Hulett/Christopher Glynn 40 Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau 42 Carolyn Sampson/Julius Drake 45 Roderick Williams/Iain Burnside 47 Samling Showcase 48 The Prince Consort 53 Christiane Karg/Malcolm Martineau 54 Dmitri Hvorostovsky/Ivari Ilja 57 Christoph Prégardien 58 Julian Prégardien/Michael Gees Sophie Bevan/Sebastian Wybrew 70 Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 71 John Mark Ainsley/Malcolm Martineau 71 Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 71

Sun 7 Sep Sun 14 Sep Sun 21 Sep Sun 28 Sep Sun 5 Oct Sun 12 Oct Sun 19 Oct Sun 26 Oct Sun 2 Nov Sun 9 Nov Sun 16 Nov Sun 23 Nov Sun 30 Nov Sun 7 Dec Sun 14 Dec Sun 21 Dec Sun 28 Dec

London Pianoforte Series Wed 10 Sep Sun 14 Sep Sat 20 Sep Sun 28 Sep Tue 30 Sep Fri 3 Oct Sun 5 Oct

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Mon 15 Sep Mon 22 Sep Mon 29 Sep Mon 6 Oct Mon 13 Oct Mon 20 Oct Mon 27 Oct Mon 3 Nov Mon 10 Nov Mon 17 Nov Mon 24 Nov Mon 1 Dec Mon 8 Dec Mon 15 Dec

Marc-André Hamelin Calefax/Cora Burggraaf Robert Levin Henk Neven/Hans Eijsackers Cremona Quartet Lise Berthaud /Adam Laloum Elisabeth Leonskaja Alexander Gavrylyuk Garrick Ohlsson Andreas Scholl/Tamar Halperin Bennewitz Quartet Janina Fialkowska Philippe Jaroussky/Ensemble Artaserse Badke Quartet/Maximiliano Martin

Wed 15 Oct 12 15 22 29 33 37 41 44 48

Doric String Quartet Page 4 Fauré Quartet 12 Cuarteto Casals 15 Nash Ensemble 24 Frith Piano Quartet 28 Vertavo String Quartet 31 Joseph Moog 35 Kelemen Quartet 40 Antje Weithaas/Silke Avenhaus 44 Parker Quartet 48 Orion String Quartet 51 Škampa Quartet 56 Heath Quartet 59 Grace Francis 63 Adrian Brendel/Aleksandar Madžar 70 Lise de la Salle 73 London Haydn Quartet 74

Sun 19 Oct Thu 23 Oct Wed 5 Nov Fri 7 Nov Wed 19 Nov Tue 2 Dec Tue 16 Dec Sat 27 Dec Tue 30 Dec

Kristian Bezuidenhout Nicolas Hodges Pierre-Laurent Aimard Leslie Howard Behzod Abduraimov Llyˆr Williams Melvyn Tan Danny Driver Angela Hewitt Andreas Staier Barry Douglas François-Frédéric Guy Christian Blackshaw Yevgeny Sudbin Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Igor Levit Piers Lane

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53 56 59 65 70

Joshua Redman Jazz Series Thu 11 Sep

Joshua Redman/Wolfgang Muthspiel Gwilym Simcock

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Early Music and Baroque Series Wed 17 Sep Sun 21 Sep Mon 29 Sep Wed 1 Oct Thu 16 Oct Fri 17 Oct Mon 3 Nov Thu 13 Nov Wed 26 Nov Fri 5 Dec Mon 8 Dec Fri 12 Dec Sat 20 Dec Tue 23 Dec Wed 31 Dec

The Sixteen Page Franco Fagioli/Academia Montis Regalis The English Concert Sandrine Piau/Les Paladins Vox Luminis Nathalie Stutzmann/Orfeo 55 Florilegium/James Gilchrist Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Kristian Bezuidenhout/Javier Zafra Classical Opera/Miah Persson Jordi Savall/Hespèrion XXI Tembembe Ensamble Continuo The Cardinall’s Musick Max Emanuel Cencic/Il Pomo d’Oro The Hilliard Ensemble Early Opera Company Stile Antico

Tue 11 Nov 16

Fri 14 Nov

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Sat 15 Nov

23

Fri 21 Nov

27

Sat 22 Nov

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Sat 22 Nov

36

Tue 25 Nov

46

Fri 28 Nov

52 58 64

Sat 29 Nov Sun 30 Nov Mon 1 Dec

67 69 72 74 76

Wed 3 Dec Thu 4 Dec Sat 6 Dec Sun 7 Dec Tue 9 Dec Wed 10 Dec Thu 11 Dec

Chamber Music Season Sun 7 Sep Fri 12 Sep Tue 16 Sep Thu 18 Sep Mon 22 Sep Thu 25 Sep Sat 27 Sep Sat 27 Sep Thu 2 Oct Sat 4 Oct Tue 7 Oct

Thu 9 Oct Fri 10 Oct Sat 11 Oct Sat 18 Oct Tue 21 Oct Sat 25 Oct Sun 26 Oct Mon 27 Oct Tue 28 Oct Thu 30 Oct Fri 31 Oct Sat 1 Nov Tue 4 Nov Sun 9 Nov Mon 10 Nov

Pavel Haas Quartet/Bernarda Fink Anthony Spiri Alban Gerhardt/Cecile Licad Martin Fröst/Apollon Musagète Quartet Paul Lewis/ Vertavo String Quartet Cuarteto Casals Tetzlaff Quartet Sitkovetsky Trio Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien IMS Prussia Cove Augustin Hadelich/Charles Owen Anthony Marwood/Isabelle van Keulen Lawrence Power/Richard Lester Heath Quartet Elias String Quartet Ensemble Modern Colin Carr/Thomas Sauer Nash Ensemble quartet-lab Steven Isserlis/Kirill Gerstein Gautier Capuçon/Frank Braley Maria João Pires/Augustin Dumay Antonio Meneses Maria João Pires/Augustin Dumay Antonio Meneses Scottish Ensemble/Alasdair Beatson Jörg Widmann/Tabea Zimmermann Dénes Várjon Elias String Quartet Belcea Quartet Takács Quartet/Louise Williams Takács Quartet/Louise Williams

Sat 13 Dec Sun 21 Dec 7 9 14

Mon 22 Dec Sun 28 Dec Mon 29 Dec

Ensemble intercontemporain Page 50 Salomé Haller Daniel Müller-Schott/Simon Trpc˘eski 51 The Endellion String Quartet 51 Joshua Bell/Alessio Bax 55 Nash Ensemble 54 Nash Ensemble/Wolfgang Holzmair 56 Vilde Frang/Michail Lifits 58 Elena Urioste/Michael Brown 59 Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra Carducci String Quartet The Viola: A Survey from the 60–61 Baroque to the present day Jean-Guihen Queyras/Alexander Melnikov 62 Jean-Guihen Queyras/Alexander Melnikov 62 Britten Sinfonia 63 Nash Ensemble 63 Belcea Quartet/Jonathan Biss 66 Fauré Quartet 65 Artemis Quartet 67 Razumovsky Ensemble 68 Les Vents Français/Eric Le Sage 68 Pavel Haas Quartet/Nicholas Angelich 68 Philip Higham/Alasdair Beatson 73 Paul Lewis & Friends 73 Zemlinsky Quartet 74 Sharon Kam/Stephan Kiefer 76

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31 32 30 35 37 39 40 41 41 43 43 44 46 49 49

Contemporary Music Series Nicolas Hodges Tetzlaff Quartet Ensemble Modern Fri 10 Oct Sat 11 Oct Colin Carr/Thomas Sauer Wed 15 Oct Danny Driver Sat 18 Oct Nash Ensemble Tue 21 Oct quartet-lab Tue 11 Nov Ensemble intercontemporain Nash Ensemble Sat 22 Nov Wed 3 Dec Britten Sinfonia Nash Ensemble Thu 4 Dec Sat 6 Dec Belcea Quartet/Jonathan Biss Tue 9 Dec Artemis Quartet Sat 20 Dec The Hilliard Ensemble Wed 14 Jan 2015 Britten Sinfonia Wed 14 Jan 2015 Gould Piano Trio Sat 17 Jan 2015 Nash Ensemble Mon 19 Jan 2015 JACK Quartet Tue 3 Feb 2015 EXAUDI Britten Sinfonia Wed 4 Feb 2015 Sat 7 Feb 2015 Nash Ensemble Tue 17 Feb 2015 Michala Petri/Mahan Esfahani Tue 24 Feb 2015 Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Sun 14 Sep

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Thu 25 Sep

21 32 30 33 35 37 50 54 63 63 66 67 72 86 87 87 88 91 91 92 95 96

Sat 28 Feb 2015

Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day

Wed 4 Mar 2015

Britten Sinfonia

Sun 8 Mar 2015

Marino Formenti

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Sat 14 Mar 2015

Nash Ensemble

100

Mon 16 Mar 2015

Pacifica Quartet

100

Wed 18 Mar 2015

Nash Ensemble

101

Thu 19 Mar 2015

Leila Josefowicz/John Novacek

101

Fri 8 May 2015

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

109

Sun 24 May 2015

Inon Barnatan

112

Sat 6 Jun 2015

Aurora Orchestra/Alice Coote

114

Sun 14 Jun 2015

Carducci String Quartet Guy Johnston

115

Fri 19 Jun 2015

Baiba Skride/Gergana Gergova Brett Dean/Nils Mönkemeyer/ Alban Gerhardt

116

Wed 1 Jul 2015

Carolyn Sampson/Heath Quartet 118

Tue 7 Jul 2015

Aurora Orchestra/Claire Booth

119

Mon 20 Jul 2015

Igor Levit

122

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Wigmore Hall Learning Pre-Concert Talk 16 Pre-Concert Talk 27 Sat 4 Oct Lecture-Recital: Wagner and Debussy 28 Sat 11 Oct Family Day: Ba’ROCK Opera 78 Sat 11 Oct Artists in Conversation 30 Sat 18 Oct Family Sing 78 Sat 25 Oct Study Day: Capturing a Moment 39 Tue 28 Oct Half Term Course: Ignition 78 Wed 29 Oct Half Term Course: Ignition 78 Thu 30 Oct Half Term Family Concert 43, 79 Wed 5 Nov Voiceworks Alumni Concert 46 Fri 7 Nov Schools Concert: Stan and Mabel 79 Sat 8 Nov Family Concert: Stan and Mabel 47, 80 Sat 15 Nov Come and Sing: Mozart 51, 80 Tue 18 Nov Wolfgang Holzmair Masterclass 53 Wed 19 Nov Wolfgang Holzmair Masterclass 53 Thu 20 Nov Wolfgang Holzmair Showcase Concert 53 Fri 21 Nov Schools Concert: Sound Travels 80 Sat 29 Nov Pre-Concert Talk 61 Wed 3 Dec Pre-Concert Talk 63 Thu 4 Dec Peter and the Wolf 81 Tue 9 Dec Wigmore Study Group Commences 65 Sat 20 Dec Artists in Conversation 72 Wed 14 Jan 2015 Pre-Concert Talk 86 Mon 19 Jan 2015 Artists in Conversation 88 Wed 4 Feb 2015 Pre-Concert Talk 91 Tue 24 Feb 2015 Artists in Conversation 96 Sat 28 Feb 2015 Artists in Conversation 97 Wed 4 Mar 2015 Pre-Concert Talk 98 Wed 18 Mar 2015 Pre-Concert Talk 101 Tue 7 Jul 2015 Pre-Concert Talk 119

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WIGMORE SERIES AUTUMN SEASON SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2014

Booking opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May, and to the General Public / Online on 30 May

September Saturday 6 September 7.30 pm Repeated Monday 8 September 7.30 pm

Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano Sir Antonio Pappano piano

Sunday 7 September 7.30 pm

JOSHUA REDMAN JAZZ SERIES

Pavel Haas Quartet BOHEMIA See pages 6 – 7 for full details

See page opposite for full details Tuesday 9 September 7.30 pm Sunday 7 September 11.30 am

Doric String Quartet

Sir Thomas Allen baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Dvorˇák Cypresses Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 127

70TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

The Doric String Quartet’s pursuit of excellence and determination to penetrate deep beneath the surface of the works in their repertoire are allied to two richly expressive scores in this recital. Their programme opens with Dvorˇák’s lyrical Cypresses before entering the spiritually rich terrain of the Beethoven quartet. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

See page 8 for full details Wednesday 10 September 7.30 pm

Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano THE MOZART ODYSSEY Joshua Redman

See pages 10 – 11 for full details

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Thursday 11 September 7.30 pm

Joshua Redman saxophone Wolfgang Muthspiel guitar, vocals Gwilym Simcock piano Joshua Redman’s Jazz Series concludes with a special one-off performance that unites the visionary saxophonist and composer with Gwilym Simcock and Wolfgang Muthspiel, artists acclaimed for the daring and imagination of their musical invention. This concert offers an unmissable showcase presentation of the talents of three of the most innovative jazz musicians of our time. Echoes of classical and jazz traditions and traces of contemporary composition are certain to inspire their work. £30 £25 £20 £15

Joshua Redman Jazz Series

Doric String Quartet

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George Garnier

Joyce DiDonato & Sir Antonio Pappano £40 £35 £25 £15

Described by Gramophone as a ‘great, brave and inspiring artist’ and hailed as a ‘transformative presence in the arts’, Joyce DiDonato belongs to the pantheon of today’s finest singers. Her ability to connect with audiences and communicate every shade of emotion – from joyful ecstasy to profound sadness – arises from an extraordinary openness to shared human experiences. She launches Wigmore Hall’s 2014/15 Season with a programme rich in expressive and musical contrasts. The choice of repertoire, which includes elegant bel canto songs, showstoppers by Jerome Kern and exquisite new pieces by John Musto, reflects upon the love that Antonio and Joyce both have for the Italian and American sides of their lives, the music, and how both cultures have formed them as artists and people.

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2014/15 Wigmore Series

Photo of Joyce DiDonato by Josef Fischnaller

Saturday 6 September 7.30 pm Repeated Monday 8 September 7.30 pm

Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano Sir Antonio Pappano piano Italian songs by Haydn, Bellini, Donizetti and Santoliquido American songs by John Musto, Kern and others

Song Recital Series

Photo of Sir Antonio Pappano by Musacchio & Ianniello/EMI Classics

Opening Concert of the 2014 /15 Season

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Pavel Haas Quartet

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Bohemia Cultural and linguistic diversity flourished in the ancient kingdom of Bohemia under Habsburg rule, clearly displayed in the winding alleys and grand squares of its capital city, Prague. Musicians from a rich variety of backgrounds brought colour and life to the Bohemian scene, one in which composers such as Smetana, Dvorˇák, Janácˇek and their successors created works that spoke for the national identity and historical independence of the Czech lands. The Pavel Haas Quartet, an outstanding champion of its homeland’s music, connects with the folk-tinged flavours, vivid invention and dazzling individuality of Czech compositions in this celebratory Bohemia series.

Sunday 7 September 7.30 pm

Pavel Haas Quartet Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Anthony Spiri piano Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Songs by Martinu˚ and Dvorˇák Janácˇek Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs (a selection) Folksong and the unifying power of traditional culture flowed naturally into the creative lives of the three composers in this concert. The Pavel Haas Quartet launches its Bohemia series at Wigmore Hall in company with Bernarda Fink, among the world’s finest interpreters of Czech song, and her regular duo partner Anthony Spiri. £30 £25 £20 £15

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 13 December 7.30 pm with

Nicholas Angelich piano

See page 68 for full details Wednesday 18 February 2015 7.30 pm with

Colin Currie percussion

Saturday 21 February 2015 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season/ Bohemia

Photo of the Pavel Haas Quartet by Marco Borggreve View of the old town of Prague with the church of Our Lady before Tyn, 1866, by Ferdinand Lepick. © akg-images/De Agostini Picture Lib./A. Dagli Orti

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September Friday 12 September 7.30 pm

SIR THOMAS ALLEN

70TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

Alban Gerhardt cello Cecile Licad piano See page opposite for full details

Saturday 13 September 7.30 pm

Renata Pokupic´ mezzo-soprano Roger Vignoles piano Wolf Gebet; Begegnung; Das verlassene Mägdlein; Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens; Lebe wohl; Er ist’s Mahler Five Rückert Lieder Finzi Let us garlands bring Hahn A Chloris; Mai; Quand je fus pris au pavillon; D’une prison; L’heure exquise; Fêtes galantes Croatian mezzo-soprano Renata Pokupic´’s perceptive artistry and expressive voice have delighted audiences at many of the world’s leading opera houses and festivals. She received critical praise for her interpretation of Cherubino in the Royal Opera’s recent revival of Le nozze di Figaro and won countless admirers with her recitals at Wigmore Hall over the past few seasons. £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Sir Thomas Allen

Sussie Ahlburg

Tuesday 9 September 7.30 pm

Sir Thomas Allen baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Haydn Content; Sympathy; She never told her love; Piercing Eyes Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Wolf Der Gärtner; Nimmersatte Liebe; Bei einer Trauung; Auf ein altes Bild; Gebet; Abschied Ravel Histoires naturelles Quilter Take, O take those lips away; O Mistress Mine; Brown is my love; My Life's Delight; Damask Roses; Fair House of Joy Thomas Allen moved from his native County Durham to London half a century ago to study at the Royal College of Music. The young baritone’s remarkable talent soon flourished on the opera stage, where he swiftly secured international fame as one of the leading artists of his generation.

In addition to his long list of operatic roles, Sir Thomas has cultivated a remarkably diverse recital repertoire over the course of his distinguished career and appeared many times at Wigmore Hall.

He returns on the eve of his 70th birthday to perform an irresistible programme of works close to his heart. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Renata Pokupic´

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Chris Gloag

Alban Gerhardt Focus Whether performing at the world’s leading concert halls or introducing Bach’s Cello Suites to commuters at one of Berlin’s suburban railway stations, Alban Gerhardt devotes his entire spirit and energy to the creation of impassioned, eloquent interpretations. He launches his residency with an all-French recital, joins Steven Osborne later in the season for a typically thought-provoking programme, and caps the series with an evening in partnership with four fine chamber music companions.

Friday 12 September 7.30 pm

Alban Gerhardt cello Cecile Licad piano Fauré Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 109 Saint-Saëns Cello Sonata No. 1 in C minor Op. 32 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 The works in Alban Gerhardt’s programme display contrasting creative paths taken by three composers, beginning with the impassioned drama of Fauré’s D minor Cello Sonata of 1917 and unfolding with the expressive turbulence of Saint-Saëns’s first essay in the genre. Rachmaninov’s ground-breaking Sonata for cello and piano treats both instruments as equals in pursuit of musical beauty and emotional truths. £30 £25 £20 £15

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Thursday 5 March 2015 7.30 pm

Alban Gerhardt cello Steven Osborne piano Friday 19 June 2015 7.00 pm

Alban Gerhardt cello Baiba Skride violin Gergana Gergova violin Brett Dean viola Nils Mönkemeyer viola See page 116 for full details Chamber Music Season /Alban Gerhardt Focus

Photo by Sim Canetty-Clarke / Hyperion Records

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The Mozart Mozart’s chamber music takes centre stage over the next two seasons at Wigmore Hall.

The Mozart Odyssey launches in September 2014 with Kristian Bezuidenhout’s survey of solo keyboard works, performed on fortepiano.

It unfolds over the coming months with the composer’s Clarinet Quintet presented by Martin Fröst and the Apollon Musagète Quartet, an evening with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra comprising works drawn mostly from Mozart’s formative Salzburg years, recitals by the Hagen Quartet, and the first part of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien’s five-concert account of the sonatas for violin and piano.

Wednesday 10 September 7.30 pm

Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Mozart Piano Sonata in B b K570 Mozart Rondo in A minor K511 Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:48 Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor K457 Kristian Bezuidenhout’s extraordinary sensitivity of touch and understanding of the range of colours available on the fortepiano have become hallmarks of his sublime interpretations of late 18th-century keyboard works. He launches Wigmore Hall’s Mozart series with a programme of works conceived with the characteristic sounds of the early fortepiano in mind. £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series /The Mozart Odyssey

Portrait of Mozart by Barbara Kraft (1764 –1825)

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Odyssey Tuesday 16 September 7.30 pm

Forthcoming Events in this Series

Sunday 8 February 2015 7.30 pm

Martin Fröst clarinet Apollon Musagète Quartet

Wednesday 21 January 2015 3.00 pm

Eggner Trio

Friday 23 January 2015 3.00 pm

PIANO TRIOS

CLARINET QUINTET

Tuesday 27 January 2015 3.00 pm

See page 14 for full details

Wigmore Study Group: Mozart Saturday 27 September 7.30 pm Sunday 25 January 2015 11.30 am

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano

Monday 13 April 2015 1.00 pm

SONATAS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO

Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano

See page 22 for full details

SOLO KEYBOARD WORKS

Thursday 13 November 7.30 pm

Sunday 25 January 2015 7.30 pm

Friday 10 April 2015 7.30 pm

Kari Kriikku clarinet Nils Mönkemeyer viola Tim Horton piano Heath Quartet CHAMBER MUSIC Sunday 26 April 2015 7.30 pm

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Petra Müllejans director, violin Javier Zafra bassoon Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano WORKS FOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA See page 52 for full details

Monday 26 January 2015 6.00 pm Pre-Concert Talk

Michael Collins clarinet Belcea Quartet

Monday 26 January 2015 7.30 pm

CLARINET QUINTET

Wednesday 28 January 2015 7.30 pm Wednesday 27 January 2016 7.30 pm Thursday 29 January 2015 1.00 pm

Hagen Quartet STRING QUARTET CYCLE

Saturday 15 November 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Michael Collins clarinet City of London Sinfonia MOZART BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Tuesday 27 January 2015 7.30 pm

Come and Sing: Mozart See page 51 for full details

Thursday 30 April 2015 7.30 pm

Further concerts to be announced with the 2015/16 Season

Tuesday 27 October 2015 7.30 pm

Friday 28 November 7.30 pm

Saturday 30 January 2016 7.30 pm

Elena Urioste violin Michael Brown piano Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra Carducci String Quartet

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano SONATAS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO

CHAMBER MUSIC See page 59 for full details

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September Sunday 14 September 11.30 am

Sunday 14 September 7.30 pm

Monday 15 September 1.00 pm

Fauré Quartet

Nicolas Hodges piano

Marc-André Hamelin piano

Volker David Kirchner Piano Quartet No. 3 ‘Der grosse Tango’ Strauss Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 13

SIR HARRISON BIRTWISTLE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE CONCERT

Schubert 4 Impromptus D935 Godowsky Study No. 44a after Chopin Nouvelle Étude No. 1 (completed by Marc-André Hamelin) (UK première) Godowsky Studies after Chopin études for the left hand alone (Nos. 2, 13, 44 & 22)

Volker David Kirchner’s association with the Fauré Quartet has delivered several new compositions, his third piano quartet Der grosse Tango (2012) outstanding among them. The work, with its intense mix of dance energy and lyrical lines, makes the ideal companion for the youthful exuberance of Richard Strauss’s early Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 13. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Debussy Études Book I Sir Harrison Birtwistle New work* (world première) Mozart/Busoni Gigue, Bolero and Variations Sir Harrison Birtwistle Gigue Machine Debussy Études Book II * Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Wigmore Hall has commissioned a major new work from Sir Harrison Birtwistle to mark his 80th birthday year. Nicolas Hodges, described by Tempo as ‘a refreshing artist’ who ‘plays the classics as if they were written yesterday, and what was written yesterday as if it were already a classic’, presents the first performance of Birtwistle’s score in company with Debussy’s sublime late collection of Études.

Marc-André Hamelin’s latest Wigmore Hall recital reflects the French-Canadian pianist’s famous sense of musical adventure and ability to create engrossing imaginary landscapes. His programme contrasts the reflective moods of Schubert’s Impromptus D935 with the febrile atmosphere, emotional intensity and technical wizardry of Leopold Godowsky’s Chopin transcriptions for left hand alone. £12.50 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series /Contemporary Music Series

Fauré Quartet

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Mat Hennek

Nicolas Hodges

Marco Borggreve

Marc-André Hamelin

Sim Canetty-Clarke

September

IAN BOSTRIDGE

SCHUBERT LIEDER

Tuesday 16 September 7.30 pm

Thursday 18 September 7.30 pm

Martin Fröst clarinet Apollon Musagète Quartet

Paul Lewis piano Vertavo String Quartet

MARTIN FRÖST ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

PAUL LEWIS: A CELEBRATION

See page 14 for full details

See page 19 for full details

Wednesday 17 September 6.00 pm

Saturday 20 September 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano

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Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book I Nos. 1–24 BWV846–869

Wednesday 17 September 7.30 pm

The first book of The Well-tempered Clavier probably began life during Bach’s time as a musician serving the Weimar court. It contains two dozen preludes and fugues in all the keys, major and minor, and stands today as one of the great monuments of western classical music, a supreme combination of tradition and innovation. Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s interpretation flows from his recent total immersion in the music during a prolonged study residency at Berlin’s Wissenschaftskolleg.

The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra Harry Christophers conductor PURCELL: THE INDIAN QUEEN Ian Bostridge

Simon Fowler

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Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake continue their ambitious Schubert Lieder series at Wigmore Hall, launched to critical acclaim last season. They offer two concerts in 2014/15, comprising familiar masterworks and rarely heard miniatures that span the vast expressive scope and touching humanity of Schubert’s songs.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 50 minutes in duration, without an interval £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Monday 15 September 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano Schubert Das Heimweh; Sehnsucht; Im Freien; Bei dir allein!; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Das Zügenglöcklein; Die Perle; Freiwilliges Versinken; Der zürnenden Diana; Lied des gefangenen Jägers; Normans Gesang; Der Wanderer; Hippolits Lied; An die Laute; An mein Klavier; Der Jüngling an der Quelle; Wie Ulfru fischt; Schlaflied; An die Freunde; Das Lied im Grünen; Der Einsame; Im Abendrot £35 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Saturday 16 May 2015 7.30 pm Song Recital Series / Ian Bostridge Schubert Lieder

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Marco Borggreve

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Martin Fröst Artist in Residence The infinite subtlety of Martin Fröst’s musicianship arises from his tireless sense of curiosity and determination to create deeply personal interpretations of everything from Mozart and Brahms to Bartók and Kurtág. The Swedish clarinettist’s season as Wigmore Hall Artist in Residence includes opportunities to hear him as chamber musician, recital soloist, Family Concert artist and masterclass leader.

Tuesday 16 September 7.30 pm

Martin Fröst clarinet Apollon Musagète Quartet* Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 Mozart’s fellow freemason, the clarinettist Anton Stadler, inspired the composer to create a series of late masterworks. The Clarinet Quintet in A K581 evokes a delightful celebration of lyrical melody throughout its four movements. Martin Fröst and the Apollon Musagète Quartet also explore another enduring landmark of the chamber music repertoire, Brahms’s elegiac Clarinet Quintet of 1891. £30 £25 £20 £15

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

Chamber Music Season/ Martin Fröst Artist in Residence / The Mozart Odyssey

Forthcoming Events in this Series Friday 13 February 2015 2.30 pm

Martin Fröst Masterclass Sunday 15 Feb 2015 7.30 pm

Martin Fröst clarinet Academy of St Martin in the Fields Friday 1 May 2015 7.30 pm

Martin Fröst clarinet Miah Persson soprano Maxim Rysanov viola Roland Pöntinen piano Sunday 3 May 2015 11.30 am

Martin Fröst clarinet Roland Pöntinen piano Sunday 3 May 2015 3.00 pm

Martin Fröst Family Concert Photo by Mats Bäcker

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September Sunday 21 September 11.30 am

Monday 22 September 1.00 pm

Monday 22 September 7.30 pm

Cuarteto Casals

Calefax reed quintet Cora Burggraaf mezzo-soprano

Cuarteto Casals

Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 74 ‘Harp’ Cuarteto Casals opens its programme with the extreme contrasts of Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C minor, a work that has lost none of its power to trigger vivid emotions. The acclaimed Spanish musicians, regular guests at Wigmore Hall, also examine the intense expression of Haydn’s Op. 20 No. 5 and the restrained beauty of Beethoven’s ‘Harp’ Quartet, perhaps written as a memorial work following Haydn’s death in 1809. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Copland Sentimental Melody (arr. J Althuis) Britten Cabaret Songs (arr. J Althuis) Gershwin An American in Paris (arr. R Hekkema) Weill (arr. R Hekkema): Youkali; Die Ballade vom ertrunkenen Mädchen; Surabaya Johnny Repertoire diversity, tonal variety and sheer virtuosity belong to the special qualities cultivated by Calefax.

The Dutch reed ensemble, established in the late 1980s, joins forces for this BBC Lunchtime recital with Cora Burggraaf, recipient of the prestigious 2009 /10 ECHO Rising Star Award. The mezzosoprano’s career has expanded in recent years to embrace acting roles and works that explore the exciting boundary spaces between music theatre, cabaret and drama.

Mozart String Quartet in G K387 Schubert String Quartet in Bb D112 Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ The last of Mozart’s so-called ‘Haydn’ Quartets is commonly known as the ‘Dissonance’, thanks to the daring harmonic clashes present in its slow introduction. The work, composed in Vienna in 1785, includes a slow movement graced by one of the most poignant of all Mozart’s melodies.

Cuarteto Casals prefaces its interpretation with Mozart’s first ‘Haydn’ Quartet and Schubert’s early String Quartet in B flat. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

£12.50 concs £10

Sunday 21 September 7.30 pm

Franco Fagioli countertenor Academia Montis Regalis

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

See page 20 for full details

Cuarteto Casals

Molina Visuals

Calefax

Rob Marinissen

Cora Burggraaf

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Henry Purcell: Spread over two seasons, Wigmore Hall’s magnificent Henry Purcell: A Retrospective celebrates the genius of Henry Purcell and the enduring power of his music to move and inspire. The native Londoner, born near Westminster Abbey in 1659, cut his teeth as a Chapel Royal chorister and went on to excel as composer of everything from music for Charles II, James II and William and Mary to popular hits for the London stage, King Arthur and The Fairy Queen exquisite among them. The Sixteen, The English Concert, the Gabrieli Consort & Players, Early Opera Company, Carolyn Sampson and Trevor Pinnock are among the glittering line-up of performers set to explore Purcell’s art in the course of these landmark concerts.

Wednesday 17 September 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Renowned Purcell scholar Andrew Pinnock introduces the first concert in our major Purcell series. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Wednesday 17 September 7.30 pm

The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra Harry Christophers conductor THE INDIAN QUEEN Purcell God save our sov’reign Charles; Swifter, Isis, swifter flow (Welcome Song for King Charles II); O dive custos Auriacae domus (Ode on the death of Queen Mary) Daniel Purcell The Masque of Hymen from The Indian Queen Purcell The Indian Queen (Music for Acts 1– 5) Londoners gave Charles II a fond welcome following his return to the capital from overseas exile. The Restoration period, although marked by state repression and fears of foreign invasion, gave rise to spectacular theatrical entertainments and patriotic royal celebrations. Henry Purcell played his part in supplying thrilling compositions for the Stuart court and London stage, not least in the form of the works brought to vivid life in this concert by The Sixteen and Harry Christophers. £50 £40 £30 £20

This concert is supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2014/15 Wigmore Series Portrait of Henry Purcell after John Closterman

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Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

A Retrospective Forthcoming Events in this Series Saturday 7 February 2015 10.00 am

Come and Sing

Friday 8 May 2015 10.00 pm

Tuesday 13 October 2015 7.30 pm

Alison Balsom trumpet Trevor Pinnock harpsichord The English Concert

Trevor Pinnock & Friends

‘SOUND THE TRUMPET’

DIDO AND AENEAS Wednesday 21 October 2015 7.30 pm

The King’s Consort

Wednesday 11 February 2015 7.30 pm

Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn director, harpsichord

Tuesday 12 May 2015 7.30 pm

KING ARTHUR

Gabrieli Consort & Players Paul McCreesh director

Saturday 14 February 2015 3.00 pm

ODES

SACRED MUSIC FOR THE CHAPEL ROYAL

Wednesday 13 May 2015 7.30 pm Thursday 19 November 2015 7.30 pm

Tuesday 9 June 2015 7.30 pm

The English Concert Harry Bicket director Andreas Scholl countertenor Iestyn Davies countertenor

Saturday 21 February 2015 11.00 am

Phantasm

SOLOS AND DUETS FOR COUNTERTENORS

Early Opera Company

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

Study Afternoon

FAMILY CONCERT: KING ARTHUR Tuesday 10 March 2015 7.30 pm

The English Concert Harry Bicket director Rosemary Joshua soprano Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano SONGS AND DUETS Tuesday 17 March 2015 7.30 pm

Carolyn Sampson soprano Elizabeth Kenny lute Anne-Marie Lasla bass viol Laurence Cummings harpsichord VICTORIOUS LOVE: SONGS AND ARIAS

Elizabeth Kenny theorbo

Tuesday 23 February 2016

7.30 pm

Theatre of the Ayre Elizabeth Kenny director, lute

FANTASIAS I

SACRED THEATRE: SOLO SONGS, DIALOGUES AND SCENES

Thursday 16 July 2015 2.00 pm & 6.30 pm

Monday 7 March 2016 7.30 pm

Community Chamber Opera

Phantasm

Early Opera Company and Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble Ignite are joined by a community cast of all ages from across Westminster for a unique reworking of Purcell’s opera King Arthur.

FANTASIAS II Friday 1 July 2016 7.30 pm

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

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Photo by Josep Molina / Harmonia Mundi

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Paul Lewis

A Celebration

A long list of prestigious prizes, awards and honours reflects the esteem in which Paul Lewis’s artistry is held worldwide. The English pianist’s fruitful association with Wigmore Hall continues this Season with Paul Lewis: A Celebration, offering a broad look at his artistry as chamber musician, song accompanist and solo recitalist. Lewis’s intellectual vision, emotional spontaneity and ability to remain present in the moment in every bar of a composition are the products of deep study, frequently involving total immersion in the works of his chosen composers. He crowns his season-long series with two performances of the late Beethoven piano sonatas within the space of a single evening, a clear Wigmore Hall highlight of the 2014/15 Season.

Thursday 18 September 7.30 pm

Monday 22 December 7.30 pm

Paul Lewis piano Vertavo String Quartet

Paul Lewis piano Lisa Batiashvili violin Lawrence Power viola Bjørg Lewis cello Alois Posch double bass

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414 Bartók String Quartet No. 6 Dvorˇák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 Bartók’s Sixth String Quartet, begun shortly before Hitler’s forces invaded Poland in 1939, conveys a heartfelt elegy for its composer’s mother and an overriding sense of sadness at mankind’s inhumanity.

Paul Lewis and the Vertavo String Quartet turn towards the better angels of human nature in Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A K414, a work of irresistible optimism, and Dvorˇák’s folksong-infused Piano Quintet. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle

See page 73 for full details

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Monday 23 February 2015 7.30 pm

Paul Lewis piano Lisa Batiashvili violin

Chamber Music Season / Paul Lewis: A Celebration

Wednesday 29 April 2015 7.30 pm

Paul Lewis piano Allan Clayton tenor Thursday 11 June 2015 6.00 pm & 9.00 pm

Paul Lewis piano

Vertavo String Quartet

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Franco

Fagioli Sunday 21 September 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Franco Fagioli countertenor Academia Montis Regalis Porpora Overture from Germanico in Germania; Se tu la reggi al volo from Ezio; Overture from Agrippina; Vorrei spiegar l’affanno from Semiramide; Overture from Meride e Selinunte; Già si desta la tempesta from Didone Abbandonata; Torbido intorno al core from Meride e Selinunte Corelli Trio Sonata in E minor Op. 3 No. 7 – Grave Porpora Il pastor se torna aprile from Semiramide; Overture from Il Trionfo di Camilla; Nell’attendere il mio bene from Polifemo Born in San Miguel de Tucumán in Argentina, Franco Fagioli developed his exquisite countertenor voice at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Buenos Aires.

He made his international breakthrough in 2003 as winner of the Bertelsmann NEUE STIMMEN Competition and underlined his status as one of the most exciting singers of his generation with a succession of critically acclaimed operatic debuts.

Fagioli’s vocal artistry and charismatic stage presence have been ideally matched to lead roles in everything from Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Ariodante to rarely heard Baroque operas. He makes his Wigmore Hall debut in works by the Neapolitan composer and singing teacher Nicola Porpora, whose pupils included Haydn and the legendary castrato Farinelli. £40 £35 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Photo by Julian Laidig

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September Wednesday 24 September 7.30 pm

Thursday 25 September 7.30 pm

Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano Donald Sulzen piano

Tetzlaff Quartet

Sitkovetsky Trio

Jörg Widmann String Quartet No. 3 ‘Jagdquartett’ Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Schubert String Quartet in G D887

WIGMORE HALL LIVE CD LAUNCH CONCERT

Orff Klage der Ariadne after Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna Respighi O falce di luna; Van li effluvi de le rose; Au milieu du jardin; Acqua; Crepuscolo; Stornellatrice; Pioggia Tosti Quattro canzoni d’Amaranta Poulenc La fraîcheur et le feu Ravel Cinq mélodies populaires grecques; Deux mélodies hebraïques Falla From 7 canciones populares españolas: Seguidilla murciana; Asturiana; Jota; Nana; Canción; Polo Anna Caterina Antonacci and Donald Sulzen return to Wigmore Hall with a programme rooted in ancient myth, dream-states and folk archetypes. The simplicity of many of these songs, Ravel’s settings of Greek and Hebrew melodies and Respighi’s sublime liriche among them, belie their power to focus minds on thoughts of transcendence and extraordinary beauty.

With its pervasive echoes of Schumann’s Papillons, sparky humour and wild conclusion, Jörg Widmann’s ‘Jagdquartett’ has secured a lasting place in the contemporary chamber music repertoire since its first performance in 2003. The Tetzlaff Quartet’s programme also includes the second of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets and Schubert’s mighty G major String Quartet, a work that spans the gamut of human emotions. £30 £25 £20 £15

Saturday 27 September 1.00 pm

Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in E b D929 The members of the Sitkovetsky Trio discovered their mutual passion for chamber music during their formative years at the Yehudi Menuhin School and have cultivated it with conspicuous success since the ensemble’s foundation in 2007. Their perceptive musicianship has beguiled Wigmore Hall audiences in recent seasons and inspired critics to praise the vision and maturity of their interpretations.

All seats £15, including a free copy of the CD

Chamber Music Season

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Anna Caterina Antonacci

Benjamin Ealovega

Tetzlaff Quartet

Giorgia Bertazzi

Sitkovetsky Trio

Benjamin Ealovega

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September Saturday 27 September 7.30 pm

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano Mozart Violin Sonata in G K301; Violin Sonata in Bb K10; Violin Sonata in Eb K481; Violin Sonata in G K379; Violin Sonata in F K30; Violin Sonata in C K14; Violin Sonata in E minor K304 Mozart’s output as a child prodigy included over a dozen short sonatas for keyboard, ‘which can be played with violin accompaniment’. The composer went on to create a remarkable group of sonatas in which the violin and piano form an equal alliance.

Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien explore the creative brilliance of his violin sonatas as part of Wigmore Hall’s The Mozart Odyssey. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

Sunday 28 September 4.00 pm

Monday 29 September 1.00 pm

Leslie Howard piano

Robert Levin fortepiano

Sibelius Piano Sonata in F Op. 12 Glazunov Piano Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 75 Liszt Quatre valses oubliées S215; Petite Valse ‘Nachspiel zu den drei vergessenen Walzer’ S695e; Grande fantaisie sur des thèmes de l’opéra Les Huguenots (Réminiscences des Huguenots) S412iii

Mozart Piano Sonata in F K533/494 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90 Mozart Piano Sonata in D K576

Leslie Howard has devised another fascinating programme from the less-trammelled reaches of the Romantic piano repertoire, including marvellous sonatas by Sibelius and Glazunov – exact contemporaries (and great drinking buddies!), wistful and prophetic waltzes from Liszt’s final years, and a powerful operatic fantasy from Liszt’s time as a travelling virtuoso and musical missionary.

Robert Levin’s insightful interpretations are supported by tireless scholarship and long experience. His BBC Lunchtime recital offers the chance to hear his latest thoughts on three Viennese masterworks. The harmonic daring of Mozart’s Piano Sonata in F and contrapuntal ingenuity of his final work in the genre, the Piano Sonata in D, are presented in company with Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 27, known for its dialogue between cool logic and unrestrained emotion. £12.50 concs £10

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, with an interval £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 28 September 11.30 am

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble NASH ENSEMBLE 50TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON See page 24 for full details

Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien

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Sussie Ahlburg

Leslie Howard

Robert Levin

Ascherman

The English Concert Monday 29 September 7.30 pm

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

The English Concert Rachel Podger director, violin

Tuesday 10 March 2015 7.30 pm

Bach Sinfonia from Cantata BWV42 ‘Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats’ Vivaldi Violin Concerto in B minor Op. 9 No. 12 Telemann Sonata in E minor Vivaldi Concerto in D minor RV566 Bach Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041 Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for violin, oboe, recorder, bassoon and continuo RV105 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G BWV1049 Following its 40th Anniversary Season, when illustrious founding members Trevor Pinnock and Simon Standage were welcomed back, The English Concert continues its series of reunions by inviting former leader Rachel Podger to direct the orchestra.

Podger’s joyful virtuosity ideally suits this programme, combining solo concertos by Bach and Vivaldi with ensemble pieces that offer principal players of The English Concert the chance to shine. £35 £30 £25 £18

The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Rosemary Joshua soprano Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano PURCELL SONGS AND DUETS Thursday 2 April 2015 7.30 pm

The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Photo by Richard Haughton

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season This Season the Nash Ensemble celebrates a remarkable 50 years since giving its first concert in October 1964. It is currently Chamber Ensemble in Residence at Wigmore Hall and is regarded as a standard-bearer of British music-making around the world. To mark this achievement, its founding artistic director, Amelia Freedman, has devised a 50th Anniversary Series consisting of programmes the group has performed to great acclaim over the last half century. The ensemble will be reunited with some of the outstanding singers with whom it has collaborated throughout the years, whilst the series will be complemented by free early evening events which will include some of the 300 works (190 of them Nash commissions) premièred during the last five decades. The ensemble will also characteristically present new commissions in its annual Nash Inventions concert.

Sunday 28 September 11.30 am

Saturday 18 October 6.00 pm

Saturday 22 November 6.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Philippa Davies flute Richard Hosford clarinet Richard Watkins horn

Nash Ensemble Ian Brown conductor Marianne Thorsen violin Richard Hosford clarinet

An early evening concert of Nash commissions

An early evening concert of Nash commissions

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See page 54 for full details

Saturday 18 October 7.30 pm

Saturday 22 November 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble Paul Watkins conductor Kate Royal soprano

Nash Ensemble Wolfgang Holzmair baritone

Debussy, Fauré, Ravel & Berlioz

See page 56 for full details

Nash Ensemble Martinu˚ La Revue de Cuisine (The Kitchen Revue) Dvorˇák Piano Quartet in E b Op. 87 The Nash Ensemble’s 50th Anniversary Series begins with a programme reflecting the group’s expertise in Czech music: the Suite from Martinu˚’s 1927 ‘jazz ballet’ La Revue de Cuisine, with its Tango and Charleston, followed by Dvorˇák’s Second Quartet for piano and strings, with its variegated colours and warm melodies. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert / Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

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Mozart, Mahler, Weber & Schubert

Thursday 4 December 6.00 pm

Sunday 1 February 2015 11.30 am

Saturday 14 March 2015 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor

Nash Ensemble Richard Hosford clarinet

An early evening concert of Nash commissions

Nash Ensemble Juan MartĂ­n flamenco guitar Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano

See page 90 for full details

Haydn & Brahms

See page 63 for full details

A Manuel de Falla evening

See page 100 for full details

Saturday 7 February 2015 6.00 pm Thursday 4 December 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Eleanor Bron narrator Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev & Beethoven

See page 63 for full details

Nash Ensemble Philippa Davies flute Lawrence Power viola Lucy Wakeford harp Roderick Williams baritone

Wednesday 18 March 2015 6.00 pm

An early evening concert of Nash commissions

Nash Ensemble Lionel Friend conductor Richard Hosford clarinet Lucy Wakeford harp Claire Booth soprano

See page 92 for full details

Forthcoming Events in this Series Saturday 7 February 2015 7.30 pm Saturday 17 January 2015 6.00 pm

Nash Ensemble Ian Brown conductor

Nash Ensemble Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Lawrence Power viola

Pre-Concert Talk See page 101 for full details

Wednesday 18 March 2015 7.30 pm

NASH INVENTIONS

Mozart, Mahler & Brahms

Mark-Anthony Turnage, Elliott Carter, Julian Anderson, Richard Causton, Simon Holt & Sir Harrison Birtwistle

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See page 93 for full details

See page 101 for full details

Saturday 17 January 2015 7.30 pm

Saturday 14 March 2015 6.00 pm

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Sally Matthews soprano

Nash Ensemble Claire Booth soprano

Booking for all events in this series opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May and to the General Public on 30 May.

An early evening concert of Nash commissions

Wagner, Mozart & Strauss

See page 87 for full details

An early evening concert of Nash commissions

See page 100 for full details

Photo of Nash Ensemble by Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

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September/October Wednesday 1 October 6.00 pm

BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV

Friday 3 October 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Llyˆr Williams piano

See page opposite for full details

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 2 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Op. 2 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’

Wednesday 1 October 7.30 pm

Les Paladins Jérôme Correas director Sandrine Piau soprano

Llyˆr Williams’s affinity for Beethoven continues to deepen thanks to his prolonged immersion in the composer’s music in recent seasons. In the first concert of his complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas, he traces the evolution of Beethoven’s early Op. 2 piano sonatas, works of youthful brilliance dedicated to Joseph Haydn, before crowning his recital with the tempestuous emotions and volcanic musical invention of the ‘Appassionata’.

LES SURPRISES DE L’AMOUR See page opposite for full details Thursday 2 October 7.30 pm

The next concert in Llyˆr’s Williams’s Beethoven piano sonata cycle is on 25 February 2015.

IMS Prussia Cove Pekka Kuusisto violin Yura Lee violin, viola David McCarroll violin Hannah Dawson violin Rachel Roberts viola Amy Norrington cello David Waterman cello

£30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Beethoven String Quintet in C Op. 29 Martinu˚ String Quartet No. 5 Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 in Bb Op. 87 Behzod Abduraimov

Benjamin Ealovega/Decca Classics

Tuesday 30 September 7.30 pm

Wigmore Series Debut

Behzod Abduraimov piano Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Ballade No. 3 in A b Op. 47; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 Debussy Children’s Corner Ravel Gaspard de la nuit

This year’s annual IMS Prussia Cove autumn tour brings together the violinist Pekka Kuusisto and the Endellion String Quartet’s David Waterman with younger musicians who have progressed through the IMS seminars. IMS was founded over 40 years ago by the great Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh, and is now under the artistic directorship of cellist Steven Isserlis. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Behzod Abduraimov’s jaw-dropping technical brilliance is complemented by the subtle eloquence of his musicianship. The Uzbek artist, born in 1990, stormed to spectacular success as winner of the 2009 London International Piano Competition. Behzod’s programme contains some of the most demanding works in the keyboard repertoire, crowned by the mysterious poetic soundworld of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. £30 £25 £20 £15

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

London Pianoforte Series

Pekka Kuusisto

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Kaapo Kamu

Llyˆr Williams

John Farro Sims

Rameau Anniversary Concert Wednesday 1 October 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk French Baroque Music expert Graham Sadler introduces the evening concert. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 1 October 7.30 pm

Les Paladins Jérôme Correas director Sandrine Piau soprano LES SURPRISES DE L’AMOUR Rameau Ouverture from Les Indes galantes; Règne Amour from Les surprises de l’Amour; Ouverture from Les fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour; Tristes apprêts from Castor et Pollux; Chaconne from Platée; Brillez, astres nouveaux from Castor et Pollux; Loure, menuet, tambourin, contredanse from Les surprises de l’Amour; Je vole, amour from Les Paladins; Air pour des fous gais et des fous tristes from Platée; Formons les plus brillants ... Aux langueurs d’Apollon from Platée

Sandrine Piau

Sandrine Expilly

Rameau, in addition to creating many operatic masterworks, made standout contributions to the new form of vocal music that emerged in France in the early 1700s. Sandrine Piau’s feeling for the composer’s art runs deep. To mark the 250 th anniversary of Rameau’s death, the French soprano joins Les Paladins and the ensemble’s charismatic Director Jérôme Correas for a concert designed to reveal the close harmony between the composer’s music and his choice of texts. £40 £35 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series Jean-Philippe Rameau bust by Jean-Jacques Caffieri

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October Saturday 4 October 2.00 pm

Sunday 5 October 11.30 am

AUGUSTIN HADELICH

Lecture-Recital

Frith Piano Quartet

WAGNER AND DEBUSSY: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

Lekeu Piano Quartet in B minor Mendelssohn Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor Op. 3

Duo Tal & Groethuysen

In the year 2000, pianist Benjamin Frith formed the piano quartet that bears his name, in company with violinist Robert Heard, violist Louise Williams and cellist Richard Jenkinson. Their partnership has always been open to works that deserve wider exposure, Guillaume Lekeu’s darkly romantic Piano Quartet in B minor of 1893 not least among them.

Yaara Tal piano Andreas Groethuysen piano While the topic of Wagner and France has been frequently explored, the impact of his music on Debussy and fellow French contemporaries is less well-known.

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

This unique lecture-recital programme explores Wagnérisme (Wagnerism) which existed in France at the end of the 19th century, and presents rarely performed, nevertheless exciting arrangements of Wagner’s music, transcribed for two pianos by Debussy, Dukas and Alfred Pringsheim (the fatherin-law of the great writer Thomas Mann).

This event will be approximately 2 hours in duration

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Augustin Hadelich

Rosalie O’Connor

£12 concs £8

Saturday 4 October 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wigmore Hall Debut

Augustin Hadelich Charles Owen piano

violin

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Op. 30 No. 3 Schnittke Violin Sonata No. 1 Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 27 No. 3 (à Georges Enescu) Stravinsky Divertimento Sarasate Carmen Fantasy Op. 25 Acclaimed for the coruscating beauty of his tone and subtle phrasing, Augustin Hadelich makes his eagerly awaited Wigmore Hall debut. The young German violinist, who plays on the 1723 ‘ex-Kiesewetter’ Stradivarius, presents a programme teeming with contrasts and allusions. He and regular duo partner Charles Owen open with Beethoven’s serene Violin Sonata No. 8 in G before fathoming the myriad ideas of Schnittke’s Shostakovich-influenced First Violin Sonata.

Hadelich’s technical wizardry will also be on display in Ysaÿe’s fiendishly difficult Violin Sonata in D minor and Sarasate’s evergreen Carmen Fantasy. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Andreas Groethuysen & Yaara Tal

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Michael Leis

Frith Piano Quartet

John Farro Sims

October Sunday 5 October 7.30 pm

Monday 6 October 1.00 pm

Tuesday 7 October 7.30 pm

Melvyn Tan piano

Henk Neven baritone Hans Eijsackers piano

Anthony Marwood and Friends

Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 Field Nocturnes: No. 4 in A, No. 9 in Eb ‘Romance’, No. 6 in F Chopin Nocturnes Op. 9: No. 1 in Bb minor; No. 2 in Eb; No. 3 in B Liszt Trois études de concert S144 Chopin Scherzo No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 31 Melvyn Tan’s sensibility for keyboard nuance, tonal shadings and the singing line are ideally matched to the works in this recital. He begins by devoting his insightful artistry to the poetic qualities of Chopin’s 24 Preludes Op. 28. The programme’s second half ventures into the evocative Nocturnes of Field and Chopin.

See page 30 for full details

Wolf From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ihr seid die Allerschönste; Gesegnet sei, durch den die Welt; Der Mond hat eine schwere Klag’ erhoben; Geselle, woll’n wir uns in Kutten hüllen; Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen; Hoffärtig seid Ihr, schönes Kind, und geht; Schon streckt’ ich aus im Bett; Und steht Ihr früh am Morgen auf; Benedeit die sel’ge Mutter; Wie viele Zeit verlor ich; Nicht länger kann ich singen, denn der Wind; Sterb’ ich, so hüllt in Blumen Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Der Tamboursg’sell; Trost im Unglück; Nicht wiedersehen!; Urlicht Critics have praised all aspects of Henk Neven’s work, from the tonal warmth and flexibility of his voice to the imagination he brings to poetic texts.

The Dutch baritone joins his regular duo partner for a BBC Lunchtime programme woven from the songs of Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch and Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, works that transcend mundane cares to touch the sublime.

£30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

£12.50 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Wednesday 8 October 7.30 pm

Choir of The King’s Consort Robert King conductor FAIRE IS THE HEAVEN Masterpieces of the English Romantics Naylor Vox dicentis: Clama Stanford Three Latin Motets Bairstow Let all mortal flesh keep silence Walton Set me as a seal upon thine heart; Where does the uttered music go? Harris Faire is the heaven Britten Hymn to St Cecilia Leighton Drop, drop, slow tears Bairstow I sat down under his shadow Walton A Litany: Drop, drop slow tears Stanford I heard a voice from heaven Harris Bring us O Lord God Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing A sumptuous choral programme from the acclaimed Choir of The King’s Consort presents some of the finest of all English Romantic music, including masterworks

by Stanford, Walton and Britten, two glorious double-choir settings by William Harris, a handful of hidden jewels, and Herbert Howells’s desolately poignant motet on the death of President Kennedy. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Melvyn Tan

Elizabeth Novick

Henk Neven

Marco Borggreve

Isabelle van Keulen

Daniel J. Ashes

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October Thursday 9 October 7.30 pm

ANTHONY MARWOOD AND FRIENDS Tuesday 7 October 7.30 pm

Anthony Marwood violin Isabelle van Keulen violin Lawrence Power viola Richard Lester cello Heath Quartet

Elias String Quartet See page opposite for full details Friday 10 October 7.30 pm

Ensemble Modern See page 32 for full details Saturday 11 October 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Colin Carr in conversation ahead of the evening concert. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Mendelssohn Octet in Eb Op. 20 Enescu String Octet in C Op. 7 Fizzing energy and entrancing lyricism belong to these two works, both created by prodigiously talented composers in their teens. Anthony Marwood and friends are certain to realise Mendelssohn’s desire for a ‘symphonic orchestral style’ of playing in his Octet. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season / Anthony Marwood and Friends

Forthcoming Events in this Series

Saturday 11 October 7.30 pm

Colin Carr cello Thomas Sauer piano Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58 Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Thomas Adès Lieux retrouvés Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 Colin Carr’s contemplative interpretations rest on exhaustive studies of every work in his repertoire and an unshakeable desire to connect with music at the deepest spiritual level. His latest recital includes Lieux retrouvés, Thomas Adès’s visionary score for cello and piano, and Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in A Op. 69, a radiant celebration of melody. £30 £25 £20 £15

Thursday 5 February 2015 7.30 pm

Anthony Marwood

Sussie Ahlburg

Hailed by the Washington Post for his ‘golden tone and surefire musicianship’, Anthony Marwood’s interpretations are informed by an open curiosity that travels far beyond the boundaries of convention.

Anthony Marwood & Friends presents a fascinating overview of the violinist’s musical outlook and interests, explored in company with like-minded colleagues.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Anthony Marwood violin Aleksandar Madžar piano Friday 10 July 2015 10.00 pm

Anthony Marwood violin James Crabb accordion

Colin Carr

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Benjamin Ealovega

October Sunday 12 October 11.30 am

ELIAS STRING QUARTET BEETHOVEN QUARTET CYCLE

Vertavo String Quartet Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Founded three decades ago in Norway, the Vertavo String Quartet’s dynamic performances and searching artistry have attracted admirers worldwide.

The ensemble’s Coffee Concert programme places Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’ Quartet alongside the autobiographical String Quartet No. 1 ‘From my life,’ in which Smetana requests performers to ‘converse together in an intimate circle about the things which so deeply trouble me’. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Elias String Quartet

Benjamin Ealovega

Fascinating blog posts and a flurry of five-star reviews have accompanied the Elias String Quartet’s Beethoven Project. To find out more about the project, please visit http://thebeethovenproject.com. At Wigmore Hall this Season the visionary young ensemble continues its survey of Beethoven’s complete string quartets in programmes that explore works from the composer’s early, middle and late periods of creativity.

Thursday 9 October 7.30 pm

Elias String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 'Serioso'; String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 The Elias String Quartet’s Beethoven Cycle at Wigmore Hall continues with works that span more than a quarter of a century of creative development. Beethoven made the first sketches for his introspective String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 in January 1799. His String Quartet in B flat Op. 130, completed at the end of 1825, reflects what one contemporary described as the composer’s ‘inexhaustible fantasy’. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season / Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 1 November 7.30 pm See page 44 for full details Saturday 10 January 2015 7.30 pm Saturday 7 March 2015 7.30 pm Vertavo String Quartet

Andrew Redpath

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Ensemble Modern Friday 10 October 7.30 pm Wigmore Series Debut

Ensemble Modern Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 Johannes Schöllhorn New work for string sextet* (world première) Janis Petraskevics New work for string octet* (world première) Friedrich Cerha Acht Sätze nach Hölderlin-Fragmenten *Co-commissioned by Ensemble Modern, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series

Photo by Manu Theobald

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With its unique collective approach to everything from repertoire choice to project organisation, Ensemble Modern is known as one of the world’s leading champions of contemporary music.

The group, founded in 1980 and based for almost three decades in Frankfurt, comprises extraordinary musicians with the artistry, virtuosity and curiosity required to explore and perform around 70 new pieces every season, from opera and music theatre to orchestral and chamber music scores. Ensemble Modern’s tally of prestigious world premières rises each year on average by 20 pieces, which are brought to life in close collaboration with their composers.

October Sunday 12 October 7.30 pm

Monday 13 October 1.00 pm

Katarina Karnéus mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Cremona Quartet

Danny Driver piano

Webern Langsamer Satz Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131

Handel Suite No. 5 in E HWV430 CPE Bach Fantasia in F# minor Wq. 67 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101 Thomas Adès Mazurkas Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 17

NORTHERN LIGHTS Peterson-Berger Marits visor: Kom bukken; Solen skinner; Holder du av mej Peterson-Berger Intet är som väntanstider; När jag för mig själv; Som stjärnorna på himmelen; Aspåkers-polska Brahms Ophelia-Lieder Chausson Chanson d’Ophélie from Chansons de Shakespeare Berlioz La mort d’Ophélie Schumann Herzeleid Saint-Saëns La mort d’Ophélie Delius In the Seraglio Garden; Young Venevil; Summer Nights; The Bird’s Story; Twilight Fancies Nystroem Själ och landskap (Soul and Landscape) Koch Af lotusdoft och månens sken; I månaden Tjaitra; De vilda svanarna

The String Quartet in C sharp minor conveys what the critic Martin Cooper memorably described as ‘a kind of awe, that sense of wonder that [Beethoven] shares with the great poets and mystics and never lost at the end of his life’. The Cremona Quartet, hailed by The Strad for its ‘extremely mature and lyrical sound’, prefaces this lunchtime performance with Webern’s Brahmsian Langsamer Satz. £12.50 concs £10

Wednesday 15 October 7.30 pm

Danny Driver’s virtuosity, vibrant imagination and élan have helped position him among the leading British pianists of his generation. He presents a characteristically broad programme, including Thomas Adès’s Chopin-inspired Mazurkas and Beethoven’s intimate Piano Sonata No. 28 in A, in which lyrical fantasy and introspection are balanced by flashes of fiery temperament. £30 £25 £20 £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series

Love, death and scenes from the natural world occupy Katarina Karnéus and Joseph Middleton in this delightfully diverse recital programme. The Swedish mezzo-soprano begins with seven charming songs by her countryman, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, before exploring heart-breaking responses by Brahms, Chausson, Berlioz, Schumann and Saint-Saëns to the death of Shakespeare’s Ophelia. £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series Danny Driver

Katarina Karnéus

Mats Bäcker

Cremona Quartet

Elisa Caldana

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Vox Luminis Thursday 16 October 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

Every performance by Vox Luminis blends meticulous preparation and enlightened scholarship with spine-tingling spontaneity and excellence. The Belgian ensemble and its inspirational Artistic Director, Lionel Meunier, return to Wigmore Hall with a programme rooted in the vibrant sacred choral tradition cultivated in northern Germany in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Cantatas by Pachelbel and Buxtehude provide the colourful context for Bach’s Actus Tragicus, a moving meditation on the impermanence of earthly life most likely written during its young composer’s year as organist in the Thuringian town of Mühlhausen, and its near contemporary, the church cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir.

Supported by donors to Voices at Wigmore: champions of vocal music in all its forms throughout the 2014/15 Season

Photo by Ola Renska

Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier artistic director Programme to include: Pachelbel Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan; Christ lag in Todesbanden Buxtehude Jesu, meines Lebens Leben BuxWV62 Bach Cantata BWV106 ‘Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit’ (Actus Tragicus); Cantata BWV131 ‘Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir’ £35 £30 £25 £18

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October Friday 17 October 7.30 pm

Saturday 18 October 7.30 pm

Sunday 19 October 11.30 am

Nathalie Stutzmann director, contralto Orfeo 55

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Wigmore Hall Debut

See page 36 for full details

Saturday 18 October 6.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Philippa Davies flute Richard Hosford clarinet Richard Watkins horn NASH COMMISSIONS David Matthews Horn Quintet Gordon Crosse Three Inventions for flute and clarinet Mark-Anthony Turnage Slide Stride

Nash Ensemble Paul Watkins conductor Kate Royal soprano

Joseph Moog piano

Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (arr.

David Walter) Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15 Ravel Introduction and Allegro Berlioz Les nuits d’été Op. 7 for voice and ensemble (arr. David Matthews) The Nash Ensemble, renowned for its performances of French music, celebrates the month of its 50th anniversary with a delectable all-French programme, in which favourite works by Fauré and Ravel are framed by chamber-scale arrangements of a Debussy classic and Berlioz’s nocturnal song cycle, sung by Kate Royal. £35 £30 £25 £18

The works will be introduced by the composers in conversation from the stage.

Chamber Music Season / Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Free (ticket required)

Described by Pianist magazine as a young artist ‘who in every respect is in a class above his colleagues’, Joseph Moog has won critical plaudits for the dazzling virtuosity, formidable musicianship and rich imagination of his performances. He makes his Wigmore Hall debut with a programme crowned by his own scintillating arrangement of Anton Rubinstein’s Fantasy on Hungarian melodies. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Nash Ensemble

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ Liszt Valse-impromptu S213; Valse mélancolique S210; Ballade No. 2 S171 Rachmaninov Etude-tableau in G minor Op. 33 No. 8; Etude-tableau in A minor Op. 39 No. 6; Etude-tableau in C minor Op. 33 No. 3; Etude-tableau in C minor Op. 39 No. 1 Rubinstein Fantasy on Hungarian melodies (arr. Joseph Moog)

Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

Joseph Moog

Paul Marc Mitchell

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Nathalie Stutzmann & Orfeo 55 Friday 17 October 7.30 pm

Nathalie Stutzmann director, contralto Orfeo 55 Vivaldi Sinfonia; Gemo in un punto e fremo from L’Olimpiade; Concerto for strings; Sento in seno from Giustino; Vedro con mio diletto from Giustino Handel Overture; Se fiera belva ha cinto from Rodelinda; Concerto Grosso; Scherza infida from Ariodante; Non so, se sia la speme from Serse Words and shades of meaning invariably shape Nathalie Stutzmann’s emotionally intense interpretations of everything from grand opera to arias by Bach and Handel. She returns to Wigmore Hall as soloist with and director of Orfeo 55, the chamber orchestra she founded in 2009. The group’s versatility extends from using period instruments to performing contemporary scores on modern instruments. Under Stutzmann’s charismatic leadership, Orfeo 55 seeks to extract the greatest range of tone colours and expression in pursuit of revelatory music-making. £40 £35 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series Photo by Simon Fowler

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October Sunday 19 October 7.30 pm

Monday 20 October 1.00 pm

Tuesday 21 October 7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt piano

Lise Berthaud viola Adam Laloum piano

quartet-lab

Scarlatti Sonatas Granados Danzas españolas Nos. 4, 5 & 6 Granados From Goyescas: Quejas, o La maja y el ruiseñor Op. 11 No. 4; El Pelele Op. 11 No. 7 Scarlatti Sonatas Albéniz From Suite española: Asturias; Sevilla; Castilla Falla Fantasia Baetica The spirit of the dance is never far from Angela Hewitt’s interpretations of everything from Bach to the works in her latest recital. She turns to the vibrant art of Spain, evoking strong images of the Iberian Peninsula with Domenico Scarlatti’s effervescent keyboard pieces and later compositions by three great names in the story of Spanish music.

Philippe Hersant Pavane pour alto seul Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A b Op. 70 Shostakovich Viola Sonata Op. 147 Lise Berthaud, named as a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist scheme in September 2013, joins forces with her regular duo partner for this BBC Lunchtime concert. Their programme includes Shostakovich’s final composition, the viola sonata, completed shortly before his death and recognised among his finest late masterworks. £12.50 concs £10

Lise Berthaud is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Pekka Kuusisto violin Patricia Kopatchinskaja Lilli Maijala viola Pieter Wispelwey cello

violin

Mozart Musikalisches Würfelspiel (arr. for string quartet) Biber Battalia (arr. for string quartet) Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Cage Living Room Music Nico Muhly Keep in touch George Crumb Black Angels: 13 Images from the Dark Land The musicians of quartet-lab will perform additional works, to be announced from the stage Four outstanding soloists formed quartet-lab to explore the string quartet repertoire and develop innovative approaches to musical communication. This concert plays Mozart’s ‘musical dice game’, employs the household instruments required for John Cage’s Living Room Music, unlocks the keening lament of Nico Muhly’s Keep in touch and delves into the mystical soundworld of George Crumb’s Black Angels.

£35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Angela Hewitt

Bernd Eberle

Lise Berthaud

Neda Navaee

quartet-lab

Chris Dodd

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Wednesday 22 October 7.30 pm Repeated Friday 24 October 7.30 pm

Simon Keenlyside Emanuel Ax

baritone

piano

Schubert Winterreise Two towering musical figures come together to perform Schubert’s late song cycle. Simon Keenlyside and Emanuel Ax share a profound love for the composer’s music. They embark here on the haunting spiritual and emotional journey of Winterreise, settings of two dozen poems by Wilhelm Müller that contemplate a solitary wanderer’s yearning for death and final reconciliation to his eternal loneliness. Schubert spoke of these ‘spine-chilling songs’ and told his friend Josef von Spaun that they ‘have affected me more than has been the case with any other of my Lieder’. These performers are blessed with the artistic insights and life experience required to create an unforgettable interpretation of Schubert’s masterwork.

These concerts will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval £35 £30 £25 £18

The concert on 22 October is supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2014/15 Wigmore Series Song Recital Series ‘Tree of Crows’ by Caspar David Friedrich, 1822

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October Thursday 23 October 7.30 pm

Saturday 25 October 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Saturday 25 October 7.30 pm

Andreas Staier fortepiano

Study Day

Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1; Moment musical in F minor D780 No. 3; Impromptu in Ab D935 No. 2 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 12 Beethoven 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 Schumann 3 Fantasiestücke Op. 111

CAPTURING A MOMENT: THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHING MUSIC WITH CLIVE BARDA

Steven Isserlis cello Kirill Gerstein piano

Since launching his solo career in 1986, Andreas Staier has helped define benchmark levels of quality, refinement and taste in fortepiano and harpsichord performance. His latest recital surveys a group of works influenced by the practice of improvisation at the keyboard, Romantic evocations of fantasy and the contest between head and heart. £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Friday 24 October 7.30 pm

Over the course of his extraordinary 40-year career, Clive Barda has photographed the world’s greatest classical musicians, and his ability to capture not only the spirit of the performer but also a moment in the music has been celebrated in exhibitions of his work around the world, including the permanent exhibition in the Bechstein Room at Wigmore Hall.

Clive will be joined by chamber ensemble Mobius to offer an insight into his approach, and filmmaker Philippe Monnet will present his 2012 documentary about the photographer’s life and work. The day will be hosted by Graeme Kay, former editor of Classical Music, Opera Now and BBC Music Magazine, and currently Multiplatform Producer for BBC Radio 3. £24 concs £16

Simon Keenlyside baritone Emanuel Ax piano

BRAHMS AND FRIENDS Dvorˇák Klid (Silent Woods) Op. 68 No. 5 Zemlinsky Sonata for cello and piano Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Bargiel Adagio Op. 38 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Steven Isserlis and Kirill Gerstein build their beguiling programme around Brahms’s two cello sonatas, the first directly inspired by Bach’s The Art of Fugue, the second striking in its terse thematic development. They also include the rarely heard yet exquisite Adagio by Clara Schumann’s half-brother, Woldemar Bargiel, and works by Dvorˇák and Zemlinsky, two composers supported and encouraged by Brahms. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Repeat of concert on 22 October £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Andreas Staier

Josep Molina

Clive Barda

Sylvain Guenot

Steven Isserlis

Satoshi Aoyagi

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October Sunday 26 October 11.30 am

Sunday 26 October 3.00 pm

Sunday 26 October 7.30 pm

Kelemen Quartet

Benjamin Hulett tenor Christopher Glynn piano

Gautier Capuçon cello Frank Braley piano

AN DIE FRAUEN

Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65

Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Within a year of its foundation in 2010, the Kelemen Quartet won three prizes at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and went on to take first place at the International Sándor Végh String Quartet Competition in the ensemble’s native Budapest. The quartet performs a programme of Haydn’s ‘Fifths’ Quartet, so called for the intervals heard at its opening, and Brahms’s Hungarian-influenced String Quartet in A minor. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Clara Schumann Sechs Lieder Op. 13: Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen; Sie liebten sich beide; Liebeszauber; Der Mond kommt still gegangen; Ich hab’ in deinem Auge; Die stille Lotosblume Emilie Zumsteeg Sängers Trost; Schilflied; Der Abend Ethel Smyth Lieder Op. 4: Tanzlied; Schlummerlied; Mittagsruh; Nachtreiter; Nachtgedanken Fanny Mendelssohn Sechs Lieder Op. 7: Nachtwanderer; Erwin; Frühling; Du bist die Ruh; Bitte; Dein ist mein Herz Clara Schumann Der Abendstern; Beim Abschied Young British tenor Benjamin Hulett’s musicianship and artistry were developed during his time as a choral scholar at Oxford’s New College and refined on the opera course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. His commitment to song runs deep, while his recitals have attracted critical superlatives and audience ovations. He joins fellow New College alumnus Christopher Glynn for this afternoon recital.

Wit, verve, tonal refinement and eloquent expression are essential ingredients in the performance styles of Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley. Their chamber music partnership, forged over the course of many years, is blessed with near-telepathic powers of communication and the rarest degree of empathy.

For this recital they turn to four cornerstone works of the repertoire for cello and piano, including mature masterworks by Schubert and Debussy. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

£12.50 concs £10

Song Recital Series

Gautier Capuçon

Kelemen Quartet

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Tamas Dobos

Benjamin Hulett

Michael Tammaro/Virgin Classics

Hans Lebbe

October Monday 27 October 1.00 pm

MARIA JOÃO PIRES PORTRAIT SERIES

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Beethoven Fantasia in G minor Op. 77 Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’ A true pianists’ pianist, admired by audiences and fellow performers alike, Elisabeth Leonskaja is heir to the great legacy of the Russian school of pianism.

Her interpretations, driven by the search for musical perfection, invariably reach far beneath the surface of each piece to reveal profound truths about the compassionate nature of reality. £12.50 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Maria João Pires

Felix Broede/DG

Maria João Pires’s levels of compassion and empathy are rare even among the greatest of artists. The Portuguese pianist’s acclaimed interpretations – eloquent, expressive and strikingly spontaneous – transcend elements of personal display to draw listeners into the spiritual dimension of the works in her repertoire. Wigmore Hall marks her 70th birthday year in October with a Portrait Series in which Pires is joined by two kindred spirits, Augustin Dumay and Antonio Meneses, to perform a selection of Beethoven’s piano trios. She returns to the Hall in February to give a solo recital, adding yet another vital date to London’s 2014/15 concert calendar.

Monday 27 October 7.30 pm Repeated Tuesday 28 October 7.30 pm

Maria João Pires piano Augustin Dumay violin Antonio Meneses cello Programme to include: Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 'Ghost'; Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ £35 £30 £25 £18

The concert on 28 October is supported by the Chamber Music Circle

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Friday 20 February 2015 7.30 pm

Maria João Pires piano Chamber Music Season / Maria João Pires Portrait Series

Elisabeth Leonskaja

Jo Schwartz

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Florian Boesch Residency A glance at Florian Boesch’s biography soon reveals the stratospheric achievements of his early career. The Austrian baritone has worked with such conductors as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Roger Norrington, Ádám Fischer and Philippe Herreweghe and has already made his mark on the opera stage at the Salzburg Festival and the Bolshoi Theatre. Boesch, above all, stands among the ranks of today’s finest Lieder singers. His interpretation of Schubert’s Winterreise at Wigmore Hall in 2012 remains a talking point for its emotional honesty, expressive insights and haunting intensity. The Florian Boesch Residency includes more Schubert and works by other composers born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Krenek, Mahler and Schoenberg among them.

Wednesday 29 October 7.30 pm

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Strauss Breit über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar; All' mein Gedanken; Die Nacht; Ruhe, meine Seele; Allerseelen Songs by Mahler Schubert Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Abschied; Nachtviolen; An die Musik Song played a vital part in the creative development of each of the composers in Florian Boesch’s recital. Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss explored poetic and expressive ideas in their songs that set lasting models for the modern German Lied, shot through with descriptive writing for voice and piano that induces performers and audiences to share vivid journeys of the imagination. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series/ Florian Boesch Residency

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Thursday 29 January 2015 7.30 pm

Friday 5 June 2015 10.00 pm

Sunday 7 June 2015 7.30 pm

Florian Boesch baritone Roger Vignoles piano

baritone Further artists to be announced

Florian Boesch

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Photo by Lukas Beck

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October Thursday 30 October 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Thursday 30 October 7.30 pm

Dominic Harlan: Solitary Hotel

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton artistic director, violin Alasdair Beatson piano

HALF TERM FAMILY CONCERT For ages 7 plus Pianist and presenter Dominic Harlan returns to the Hall to take you on a thrilling journey into the world of song. Convicts, smugglers, young violinists, hotel guests and a nine-year-old boy share their stories in this interactive concert that includes music by Schumann, Britten, Sibelius and Barber. Featuring performances by singers, including Sarah Gabriel, Dominic invites audiences young and old to go behind the music using his unique mix of live theatre and audience participation.

For footage from Dominic’s last concert, filmed live at Wigmore Hall, visit www.dominicharlan.com.

Adults £9 Children £7

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Mozart Divertimento in D K136 Arvo Pärt Mozart-Adagio Haydn Concerto for violin and piano with string orchestra in F HXVIII:6 Schnittke Moz-Art à la Haydn Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414 The UK’s only professional string orchestra returns to Wigmore Hall with regular collaborator, pianist Alasdair Beatson. The programme features Viennese classics and two contemporary twists on classical forms. The concert ends with an early Mozart piano concerto, a work of intricate and exhilarating piano writing strikingly mature for its young composer’s years.

WIDMANN TRIO

Jörg Widmann

Marco Borggreve

Tabea Zimmermann

Marco Borggreve

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Dénes Várjon

Pilvax Studio

Friday 31 October 7.30 pm

Jörg Widmann clarinet Tabea Zimmermann viola Dénes Várjon piano Schumann Märchenerzählungen Op. 132 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 György Kurtág Hommage à Robert Schumann Op. 15d Schumann Märchenbilder Op. 113 Mozart Clarinet Trio No. 2 in Eb K498 ‘Kegelstatt’ Tradition and innovation are keywords to each of the Widmann Trio’s members. Their shared passion for chamber music is nourished by deep roots of experience and an unfailing sense of the creative energy that lies at the heart of great works from past and present.

Jörg Widmann’s all-round artistry as composer, clarinet soloist and conductor is richly complemented by the virtuosity and vision of Tabea Zimmermann, one of the world’s leading violists, and by the life-enhancing beauty of Dénes Várjon’s pianism. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Scottish Ensemble

Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

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November Saturday 1 November 7.30 pm

Sunday 2 November 11.30 am

Monday 3 November 1.00 pm

Elias String Quartet

Antje Weithaas violin Silke Avenhaus piano

Alexander Gavrylyuk piano

Beethoven String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2; String Quartet in Eb Op. 127; String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Thanks to a tempting commission from Prince Franz Joseph Lobkowitz, Beethoven finally wrote his first collection of string quartets in the late 1790s. The Elias String Quartet places the Op. 18 set’s high-spirited G major quartet in company with the contemplative introspection of his late String Quartet in Eb Op. 127 and the rhythmic vitality and emotional depths of the composer’s first ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle

Dvorˇák Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 Suk Four pieces for violin and piano Op. 17 Antje Weithaas and Silke Avenhaus, long-established duo partners, mine the intense emotions, heroic outbursts and elegiac lyricism of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor. Their Coffee Concert includes Dvorˇák’s four contrasting Op. 75 miniatures and the exquisite quartet of pieces by his friend and son-in-law, Josef Suk.

Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15 Brahms 28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini Op. 35 Alexander Gavrylyuk, born in Russia in 1984, underlined the strength of his prodigious talents when he won the 1999 Horowitz International Piano Competition. He has emerged in recent years as one of the finest artists of his generation, noted for his poetic, insightful interpretations of Mozart and fiery, impassioned responses to virtuoso Romantic repertoire. £12.50 concs £10

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday 2 November 7.30 pm

Carolyn Sampson soprano Julius Drake piano See page opposite for full details

Elias String Quartet

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Benjamin Ealovega

Antje Weithaas

Marco Borggreve

Alexander Gavrylyuk

Mika Bovan

Celebrating

Carolyn Sampson Wigmore Hall’s audiences have taken Carolyn Sampson to heart thanks to her sensuous vocal beauty and ability to unlock the expressive energy of poetic texts. The British soprano, who recently made her Carnegie Hall debut, owns an extraordinary feeling for style in the performance of everything from Monteverdi, Bach and Handel to works written for her. She is the subject of a three-concert series this Season, designed in close consultation with Wigmore Hall’s Director, John Gilhooly. Sampson’s compelling artistry can be heard this November in a programme of German and French song, and enjoyed again in 2015 with evenings devoted to Purcell songs and the première of a new work by American composer John Musto.

Sunday 2 November 7.30 pm

Carolyn Sampson soprano Julius Drake piano Grieg 6 Songs Op. 48: Gruss; Dereinst, Gedanke mein; Lauf der Welt; Die verschwiegene Nachtigall; Zur Rosenzeit; Ein Traum Brahms Versunken; Todessehnen; Geheimnis; Sommerabend; Mondenschein; Bei dir sind meine Gedanken; Die Mainacht; Salome; Des Liebsten Schwur Debussy From Fêtes galantes Book I: En sourdine; Fantoches; Clair de lune Fauré Nell; Lydia; La fée aux chansons; Automne; Fleur jetée Poulenc Fiançailles pour rire Grieg drew inspiration for many of his songs from verse by outstanding German poets, Heine and Goethe among them. Carolyn Sampson opens her recital with the Norwegian composer’s Op. 48 collection, distinguished by their folk-like charm and elegance. She also turns to Debussy, Fauré and Poulenc for a compelling survey of French song from the late 1870s to the cycle Fiançailles pour rire of 1939. £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series /Celebrating Carolyn Sampson

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Tuesday 17 March 2015 7.30 pm

Wednesday 1 July 2015 7.30 pm

Carolyn Sampson soprano Elizabeth Kenny lute Anne-Marie Lasla bass viol Laurence Cummings

Carolyn Sampson soprano Heath Quartet

harpsichord

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JOHN MUSTO PREMIÈRE (WIGMORE HALL COMMISSION)

PURCELL SONGS AND ARIAS Photo by Marco Borggreve

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November Monday 3 November 7.30 pm

Tuesday 4 November 7.30 pm

Florilegium Ashley Solomon director James Gilchrist tenor

Belcea Quartet

Barry Douglas piano

Mozart String Quartet in F K590 Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 Berg Lyric Suite

Brahms Theme and Variations in D minor Schubert/Liszt Ave Maria; Ungeduld Schubert Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Bach Sinfonia from Cantata BWV152 ‘Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn’ Buxtehude Quemadmodum desiderat cervus BuxWV92 Zelenka Psalm 112 in F ‘Laudate pueri Dominum’ ZWV82 Telemann Concerto in A minor for 4 instruments Zelenka Concerto a 8 in G ZWV186 Buxtehude Toccata in G BuxWV165 Bach Cantata BWV55 ‘Ich armer Mensch’ Florilegium and James Gilchrist present a programme of works by Bach and composers who strongly influenced his compositional style.

Instrumental works include the Sinfonia from Cantata BWV152 and chamber concertos by Telemann and Zelenka, respectively for four and eight instruments. These are performed alongside sacred vocal works by Bach, Buxtehude and Zelenka. £35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series

Wednesday 5 November 7.30 pm

The works in this programme fully complement the artistry, musicianship and temperament of the Belcea Quartet. The first half opens with the extrovert brilliance of Mozart’s third ‘Prussian’ Quartet before moving to Brahms’s tightly structured String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1. Berg’s impassioned Lyric Suite, written in response to the composer’s extramarital affair with Hanna Fuchs, was aptly described by his former pupil Theodor W. Adorno as ‘a latent opera’. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Barry Douglas returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme rich in contrasts and musical imagery.

The celebrated Irish pianist’s ongoing immersion in the works of Brahms and Schubert is reflected in his choice of a first half crowned by the latter’s ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy. He also delivers his latest thoughts on Musorgsky’s inexhaustibly fascinating Pictures at an Exhibition, a suite of vivid pieces inspired by the work of the architect and artist, Viktor Hartmann. £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 5 November 5.30 pm

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

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

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

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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John Yip

Barry Douglas

Katya Kraynova

Belcea Quartet

Ronald Knapp

November Friday 7 November 7.30 pm

Saturday 8 November 11.00 am – 12 noon Repeated 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

François-Frédéric Guy piano Debussy Préludes Book II Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111

Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives: Stan and Mabel

Saturday 8 November 7.30 pm

Roderick Williams baritone Iain Burnside piano Purcell/Britten Let the dreadful engines Gurney Desire in spring; On the downs; Reconciliation; Lights out Britten Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Schubert Rellstab settings from Schwanengesang: Liebesbotschaft; Kriegers Ahnung; Frühlingssehnsucht; Ständchen; Aufenthalt; In der Ferne; Abschied

François-Frédéric Guy’s affinity for Beethoven, underscored by his critically acclaimed recordings of the composer’s complete piano sonatas, arises naturally from his sense of spontaneity and inventive imagination. The French pianist is also admired worldwide for his mercurial interpretations of Debussy, directed in this recital to his countryman’s impressionistic second book of Préludes.

FAMILY CONCERT

£30 £25 £20 £15

Following the huge success of Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants, Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives return with another irresistible piece by BASCA award-winning composer Paul Rissmann, based on the book by Jason Chapman and published by Templar. With companion pieces by Rossini, Mozart and Delibes, this is a perfect introduction to classical music.

Ancient wisdom makes no distinction between heart and mind, a view clearly shared by Roderick Williams in his approach to singing. The warm-toned baritone’s profound connection to words and music can be heard in this programme of songs rooted in poetry of haunting eloquence, including Ivor Gurney’s sublime setting of ‘Lights Out’ by Edward Thomas, killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917.

Adults £9 Children £7

£30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Song Recital Series

London Pianoforte Series

For ages 4 plus Music-loving dog and cat, Stan and Mabel, set off to find their neighbour who’s gone to judge The Best Orchestra in the World competition. Little do they know, they’ll be forming an amazing animal orchestra of their own!

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

François-Frédéric Guy

Ensemble 360

AMR

Benjamin Ealovega

Roderick Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

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November Sunday 9 November 11.30 am

Monday 10 November 1.00 pm

Wednesday 12 November 7.30 pm

Parker Quartet

Garrick Ohlsson piano

Samling Scholars

Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 14 in Ab Op. 105

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Chopin Mazurka in A minor Op. 7 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58

Lucy Hall soprano Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano Joshua Owen Mills tenor Ross Ramgobin baritone James Sherlock piano

The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet, current Blodgett Artists in Residence at Harvard University’s Department of Music, are known for music-making of uncanny precision and high daring. The ensemble comes to Wigmore Hall to explore the pathos of Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor K421 and Dvorˇák’s expressive final string quartet, completed soon after his return to Prague from the United States in 1895. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Garrick Ohlsson seized the moment at the final of the 1970 International Chopin Piano Competition.

His winning performance launched a career that has since flourished on the concert platform and in the recording studio, sustained by his visionary musicianship and jaw-dropping technical prowess.

He returns to Wigmore Hall for a programme of works central to his repertoire, capped by Chopin’s majestic Third Piano Sonata. £12.50 concs £10

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Monday 10 November 7.30 pm

Takács Quartet Louise Williams viola

Takács Quartet Louise Williams viola

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DINE WITH THE ARTISTS

Ensemble intercontemporain Salomé Haller soprano

There are a limited number of tickets for a special post-concert dinner with the artists. This includes a three-course dinner, wine and coffee in the Bechstein Room. Tickets are priced £95 each and are available exclusively from Samling on 01434 602885 or by email to enquiries@samling.org.uk.

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Song Recital Series

Tuesday 11 November 7.30 pm

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Jamie Jung

Schubert Wandrers Nachtlied (D224); Am Strome; Sehnsucht (D879) Strauss Ruhe, meine Seele; Heimliche Aufforderung Liszt From Tre sonetti di Petrarca: Benedetto sia’l giorno; I’vidi in terra angelici costume Songs by Debussy, Duparc and Poulenc

£30 £25 £20 £15

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Parker Quartet

SAMLING SHOWCASE

Samling’s annual Showcase never fails to demonstrate why it has established an international reputation for nurturing outstanding singers and pianists and bringing them to public attention. In this recital of song and opera you will see why Patron Sir Thomas Allen can say ‘What we do at Samling is unique and it is the best you can get’. www.samling.org.uk

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday 9 November 7.30 pm Repeated Monday 10 November 7.30 pm

Sir Thomas Allen baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Garrick Ohlsson

Pier Andrea Morolli

Malcolm Martineau

Russell Duncan

Takács Quartet Associate Artists Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists are able to encompass the widest imaginable span of expression in performance, touching listeners by turns with vivid expressive outbursts and tender-hearted lyricism. The Takács Quartet’s programmes this Season are shaped by the great Viennese Classical tradition. They include such totemic works as Beethoven’s String Quartet in B flat Op. 130, Schubert’s ‘Rosamunde’ and ‘Death and the Maiden’ quartets, and Mozart’s String Quintet in G minor, universally admired for its combination of dramatic power and lyrical tenderness.

Sunday 9 November 7.30 pm Repeated Monday 10 November 7.30 pm

Takács Quartet; Louise Williams viola Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 Mozart String Quintet in G minor K516 It appears that Mozart created his String Quintet in G minor in 1787 as part of a speculative self-publishing venture to tempt amateur subscribers. Out of favour with Vienna’s public, he was forced to sell the piece to another publisher for a poor profit. The innovative work, now regarded among the greatest of its kind, is paired here with another timeless monument of western classical music, Beethoven’s pioneering String Quartet in B flat Op. 130.

The concert on 10 November is supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2014/15 Wigmore Series £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season / Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

Forthcoming Events in this Series Saturday 31 January 2015 7.30 pm

Takács Quartet SCHUBERT BIRTHDAY CONCERT Monday 2 February 2015 7.30 pm

Takács Quartet LECTURE-RECITAL

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Ensemble intercontemporain Tuesday 11 November 7.30 pm

Ensemble intercontemporain Salomé Haller soprano Dallapiccola Due studi Bruno Mantovani New work for clarinet, piano and violin* (world première) Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire * Co-commissioned by Ensemble intercontemporain, Opéra national de Paris, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Schoenberg’s melodrama Pierrot Lunaire caused a sensation at its première in Berlin in 1912. The piece, a setting of ‘three times seven poems’ by the Belgian Symbolist Albert Giraud, shocked conservatives and inspired a new generation of composers and performers to subvert convention. Ensemble intercontemporain, founded in Paris by Pierre Boulez in 1976, remains true to Pierrot’s pioneering spirit. Members of the ensemble are joined by soprano Salomé Haller, an expert in early and contemporary music, who takes on the role of narrator in Schoenberg’s expressionist work in a programme that also includes the world première of a new score by Bruno Mantovani, director of the Paris Conservatoire. £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by Diaphonique Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series

Ensemble intercontemporain

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Franck Ferville

Salomé Haller

Valérie Gabail

November Thursday 13 November 7.30 pm

Saturday 15 November 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Sunday 16 November 11.30 am

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Petra Müllejans director, violin Javier Zafra bassoon Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano

Come and Sing: Mozart

Orion String Quartet

As part of Wigmore Hall’s series The Mozart Odyssey, Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults with the chance to sing some of the composer’s varied vocal repertoire. Join in with vocal warm-ups, learn some new songs, and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

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£24 concs £16

Friday 14 November 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ The Mozart Odyssey

Daniel Müller-Schott cello Simon Trpcˇeski piano

Saturday 15 November 7.30 pm

Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Daniel Müller-Schott, star of Anne Schiltz’s critically acclaimed documentary Cello Tales, and Simon Trpc˘eski form a duo partnership distinguished by its energy, intensity and passion. Three great cello sonatas supply their programme, including Shostakovich’s emotionally charged Cello Sonata in D minor, composed shortly before his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District drew withering Stalinist criticism. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season

The Endellion String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 64 No. 6 Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1

Individuality and imagination rank high on the list of the Orion String Quartet’s attributes. The ensemble’s artistry has matured over more than a quarter century, during which time it has introduced audiences to many new works and developed searching interpretations of such landmark chamber music compositions as Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ and Haydn’s incomparable late string quartets. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

The Endellion String Quartet opens its new Wigmore season with one of Haydn’s most genial and warm-hearted works, complete with a jewel of a slow movement. Schubert’s ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet, deeply searching and introspective, is full of soulstirring melodies which lodge in the memory, while Mendelssohn’s D major masterwork begins and ends with explosions of joyous high spirits which frame two deeply touching and wistful movements. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Daniel Müller-Schott

Uwe Arens

The Endellion String Quartet

Eric Richmond

Orion String Quartet

Andreas Hafenscher

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Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Thursday 13 November 7.30 pm

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Petra Müllejans director, violin Javier Zafra bassoon Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Mozart Serenata notturna in D K239; Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414; Divertimento in F K138; Bassoon Concerto in B b K191; Symphony No. 33 in Bb K319 Widely regarded to be among the finest and most adventurous of early music ensembles, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra has consistently expanded the range of sounds and tonal contrasts produced by period instruments.

Its players aim to match this striking variety of textures and timbres to musical expression, creating performances acclaimed for their freshness and emotional power. The orchestra is directed from the violin by Petra Müllejans in an exploration of Mozart’s diverse soundworld. The Serenata notturna was written for the Salzburg carnival season in 1776 and reflects the local taste for burlesque and beautiful melodies. £35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series /The Mozart Odyssey

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November Monday 17 November 1.00 pm

Monday 17 November 7.30 pm

Andreas Scholl countertenor Tamar Halperin piano

The Prince Consort

Programme of folksongs from across the centuries and cultures – English, French, Korean and Hebrew German countertenor Andreas Scholl’s spiritual connection to folksong has informed his acclaimed interpretations of everything from Bach arias to Jacobean lute songs and operatic roles by Handel.

His compelling BBC Lunchtime programme shows the interconnections and common relationships between folk melodies from different cultures and periods.

WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR MASTERCLASSES & SHOWCASE CONCERT

Anna Leese soprano Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano Andrew Staples tenor Philip Smith baritone

Alisdair Hogarth artistic director, piano Malcolm Martineau piano Schumann Spanisches Liederspiel Schumann Songs from Myrthen Schumann Songs from Lieder-Album für die Jugend Schumann Spanische Liebeslieder The Prince Consort, founded and directed by Alisdair Hogarth, holds a special affection for Schumann. The composer’s songs featured in the ensemble’s acclaimed debut recital in 2003 and remain at the heart of its increasingly broad repertoire. This concert offers a chance to hear Schumann’s Spanish love songs of 1849, which he styled as ‘a cycle for one and more voices’.

All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series Wolfgang Holzmair

Ernest W. Gruber

Tuesday 18 November 12.30 pm – 4.00 pm – Masterclass Wednesday 19 November 12.30 pm – 4.00 pm – Masterclass Thursday 20 November 11.00 am – 12.30 pm – Showcase Concert Wigmore Hall’s investment in nurturing the next generation of song recitalists continues as Wolfgang Holzmair passes on the wisdom of his long experience to talented postgraduate students from London’s four conservatoires. The Austrian baritone, who studied with Erik Werba and Hilde Rössel-Majdan, has taught at the Salzburg Mozarteum since 1998 and is a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. His approach as performer and teacher is devoted to the art of expressive communication. Wolfgang will return to Wigmore Hall to sit on the jury of the 2015 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition. £7 concs £4 for each masterclass £4 for the showcase concert

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Andreas Scholl

James McMillan/Decca

The Prince Consort

Richard Ecclestone

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November Tuesday 18 November 7.30 pm

Friday 21 November 7.30 pm

Christiane Karg soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Robert Schumann Widmung from Myrthen Clara Schumann Er ist gekommen; Liebeszauber; Sie liebten sich beide; Liebst du um Schönheit Robert Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Robert Schumann Die Löwenbraut Brahms Von ewiger Liebe; Auf dem See; Meine Liebe ist grün; O kühler Wald; Lerchengesang; Wir wandelten; Feldeinsamkeit; Mondnacht

CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW

Joshua Bell violin Alessio Bax piano See page opposite for full details

Saturday 22 November 6.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Ian Brown conductor Marianne Thorsen violin Richard Hosford clarinet

Since making her international breakthrough in 2006, Christiane Karg has moved audiences at many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls and earned a place in Wigmore Hall’s family of thrilling young singers. The Bavarian soprano returns with Malcolm Martineau to explore works

by Clara and Robert Schumann, including the latter’s poignant cycle Frauenliebe und -leben, and songs by Brahms.

NASH COMMISSIONS David Matthews String Trio Op. 48 Alexander Goehr manere Op. 81 Simon Holt Era madrugada

£35 £30 £25 £18

The works will be introduced by the composers in conversation from the stage.

Song Recital Series

Free (ticket required)

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season Christian Blackshaw

Herbie Knott

Wednesday 19 November 7.00 pm NB Starting time

Christian Blackshaw piano Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958; Piano Sonata in A D959; Piano Sonata in B b D960 Following the five-star critical reception and audience ovations generated by his Mozart piano sonata cycle at Wigmore Hall, Christian Blackshaw turns his artistry to three of Schubert’s final masterworks, to mark the anniversary of the composer’s death. The British pianist possesses the intellectual focus and depth of soul required to uncover fresh insights in even the most familiar of compositions.

This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes in duration, with two intervals £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series

Christiane Karg

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Gisela Schenker

David Matthews

Clive Barda

Joshua

Bell Friday 21 November 7.30 pm

Joshua Bell violin Alessio Bax piano Schubert Violin Sonata (Duo) in A D574 Grieg Violin Sonata No. 1 in F Op. 8 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Joshua Bell’s poetic artistry flows from the exquisite beauty and phenomenal virtuosity of his music-making. The Boston Herald hit the mark when it identified him as ‘the greatest American violinist active today’.

His wholehearted interpretations are rooted in respect for the great traditions of violin playing and, in particular, the priceless legacy of the Russian-Jewish School of performance. Joshua Bell is joined by Alessio Bax, a kindred spirit whose performances as soloist and chamber musician prompted The New Yorker to describe him as ‘perhaps the most elegant of today’s young pianists’. £40 £35 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season

Photo by Marc Hom

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November Saturday 22 November 7.30 pm

Sunday 23 November 11.30 am

Sunday 23 November 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Škampa Quartet

Nash Ensemble Wolfgang Holzmair baritone

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106

Dmitri Hvorostovsky baritone Ivari Ilja piano

Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg for voice and ensemble) Weber Scottish folksongs for voice with flute, violin, cello and piano Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ This programme, drawn from the Austro-German tradition, begins and ends with masterpieces for piano and strings, Mozart’s dramatic G minor Quartet and Schubert’s sunny ‘Trout’ Quintet.

Wolfgang Holzmair sings Mahler’s moving Songs of a Wayfarer in Schoenberg’s chamber version, and a little-known group of folksong arrangements

by Weber.

The Škampa Quartet’s long and distinguished association with Wigmore Hall continues with a programme of works deeply ingrained in the ensemble’s collective consciousness. The recital opens with the first of Haydn’s final collection of quartets, a model of thematic economy and structural monumentality, and continues with the String Quartet No. 13 in G, Dvorˇák’s remarkable response to a fallow creative period. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

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Monday 24 November 1.00 pm

Bennewitz Quartet Schulhoff Five Pieces for String Quartet Schubert String Quartet in G D887 Rhythmic freedom, humour and the spirit of jazz are among the qualities present in Erwin Schulhoff’s music. The Czech musician was imprisoned by the Nazis and died at Wülzburg concentration camp in 1942. His Five Pieces for String Quartet, first heard at the Salzburg Festival in 1924, reflect their young composer’s huge talent. They are presented here in company with Schubert’s enchanting String Quartet in G by the Prague-based Bennewitz Quartet. £12.50 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Wolfgang Holzmair

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Ernest W. Gruber

Škampa Quartet

Valentin Georgiev

Bennewitz Quartet

Pavel Ovsik

Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sunday 23 November 7.30 pm

Dmitri Hvorostovsky baritone Ivari Ilja piano Songs by Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mahler and Strauss Following the outstanding success of his recital which opened Wigmore Hall’s 2012/13 Season, Dmitri Hvorostovsky returns with a programme sure to command the attention of connoisseurs of fine singing.

Twenty-five years have passed since the Russian baritone launched his international career as winner of the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and made his Wigmore Hall debut. The Washington Post recently noted that Hvorostovsky ‘stands among the era’s great singers thanks to his combination of rich tone, sonic power, thoughtful characterisation and physical appeal’, a verdict underpinned by countless five-star reviews and sold-out performances at the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls. £50 £40 £30 £20 Song Recital Series

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November Tuesday 25 November 7.30 pm

Wednesday 26 November 7.30 pm

Thursday 27 November 7.30 pm

Vilde Frang violin Michail Lifits piano

Classical Opera Miah Persson soprano Ian Page conductor

Christoph Prégardien tenor Julian Prégardien tenor Michael Gees piano

Haydn Symphony No. 21 in A; Navicella da vento agitata from Marchese; Amore nel mio petto from Lo speziale; Aure chete, verdi allori from Orlando paladino Mozart Exsultate, jubilate K165; Symphony No. 29 in A K201

FATHER AND SON

Grieg Violin Sonata No. 1 in F Op. 8 Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Lutosławski Partita for violin and piano Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18 Vilde Frang, hailed by the Guardian as ‘a new star in the violin firmament’, invests every performance with intense expression and eloquent musicianship.

The young Norwegian artist’s latest Wigmore Hall programme includes the fervent emotions and youthful energy of Richard Strauss’s Violin Sonata, written under the strong influence of his love for his future wife. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Celebrated Swedish soprano Miah Persson joins Ian Page and Classical Opera for an enchanting programme of Haydn and Mozart. One of Haydn’s most exquisite early symphonies – written exactly 250 years ago – is followed by a fascinating selection of arias from his rarely heard operas. The concert’s second half comprises two of Mozart’s sunniest compositions, the vivacious Exsultate, jubilate and the winningly effervescent Symphony No. 29. £35 £30 £25 £18

Mozart Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge; Abendempfindung; Komm, liebe Zither, komm; An Chloe Beethoven Der Kuss; Neue Liebe, neues Leben Silcher Ännchen von Tharau ist, die mir gefällt; Frisch gesungen Schubert Zum Rundtanz; Die Nacht; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Meeres Stille; Der Zwerg Brahms Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr; In stiller Nacht; Erlaube mir, Feins Mädchen; Da unten im Tale Silcher O wie herbe ist das Scheiden; Die Loreley Schubert Erlkönig; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Nähe des Geliebten; Widerspruch; Im Frühling; Licht und Liebe; Nacht und Träume Father and son, Christoph and Julian Prégardien, share the stage for a recital rooted in the romantic realms of folksong, legend and love. Their programme, featuring many songs specially arranged for two voices, includes four works by Friedrich Silcher, a near contemporary of Schubert who was celebrated during his lifetime as a Lieder composer and collector of German folksong.

Early and Baroque Music Series

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Song Recital Series

Vilde Frang

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Marco Borggreve

Miah Persson

Mina Artistbilder

Christoph & Julian Prégardien

Reinhard Langschied

November/December Friday 28 November 7.30 pm

Sunday 30 November 11.30 am

Elena Urioste violin Michael Brown piano Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra Carducci String Quartet

Heath Quartet

Janina Fialkowska piano

Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 64 No. 6 Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131

Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in A b Op. 61; Nocturne in B Op. 9 No. 3; Impromptu No. 3 in G b Op. 51; Prelude in F# Op. 28 No. 8; 3 Mazurkas Op. 50; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52

Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526; String Quartet in D minor K421; Quintet in Eb for piano and winds K452 Mozart wrote to his father soon after completing his Quintet in E flat for piano and winds, praising the high quality of his work. ‘I consider it to be the best work I have ever composed’, he noted. This concert sets the piece alongside two other masterworks, the brilliant A major Violin Sonata and the introspective String Quartet in D minor.

Monday 1 December 1.00 pm

The Heath Quartet turns its technical refinement and musical vision to one of the greatest works in the chamber music canon. Beethoven’s String Quartet in C sharp minor comprises seven movements, with a sublime theme and variations located at its heart. It is prefaced by the sixth of Haydn’s Op. 64 quartets, celebrated for its invention, dramatic contrasts and quicksilver wit. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

‘Chopin’s main means of expression’, observed the Russian author Boris Pasternak, ‘… was melody, melody that was more genuine and more powerful than any other we know’. Few can match Janina Fialkowska’s compassionate engagement with Chopin’s art, directed in this recital to a programme that reflects the composer’s profound feeling for the higher reaches of the human spirit.

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£12.50 concs £10

Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

Sunday 30 November 7.30 pm Monday 1 December 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Saturday 29 November

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Alexander Melnikov piano

£30 £25 £20 £15

The Viola: A Survey from the Baroque to the present day

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Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra

Lewis Brockway

Heath Quartet

Sussie Ahlburg

Janina Fialkowska

Julien Faugere ATMA

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Saturday 29 November

The Viola A Survey from the Baroque to the present day

Since its origins in the early 1500s, the viola has played a crucial role in the development of chamber music. Wigmore Hall’s viola day offers a chance to journey through five centuries of the instrument’s development in company with four remarkable virtuosi: internationally celebrated recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist Tabea Zimmermann, former pupil of Zimmermann and now world renowned Antoine Tamestit, former violist of the Arditti Quartet Garth Knox, and winner of the EUCO Prize at the 2006 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition Rosalind Ventris.

Supported by the Tertis Foundation

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Saturday 29 November 11.30 am

Saturday 29 November 3.00 pm

Saturday 29 November 6.00 pm

Garth Knox viola, viola d’amore Antoine Tamestit viola Rosalind Ventris viola Tabea Zimmermann viola

Garth Knox viola Antoine Tamestit viola Rosalind Ventris viola Tabea Zimmermann viola Thomas Hoppe piano

Pre-Concert Talk

LIONEL TERTIS AS COMPOSER AND ARRANGER

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Programme to include: Fauré Après un rêve Op. 7 No. 1 (arr. Tertis); Elégie Op. 24 (arr. Tertis) Bridge Pensiero; Allegro appassionato Brahms Minnelied Op. 71 No. 5 (arr. Tertis) Mendelssohn Song without Words (arr. Tertis) Kreisler Romance (arr. Tertis); Preghiera (arr. Tertis) Schumann Romance Op. 28 No. 2 (arr. Tertis) Original works by Tertis

Saturday 29 November 7.30 pm

OLD VIOLA MUSIC AND NEWER VARIATIONS Purcell Fantasias Nos. 9, 10 and 11 (arr. Gerard Tamestit) Hume Pavan for viola d’amore Leclair Sonata in G minor for two violins or viols Op. 12 No. 5 (transposed to C minor) Bruno Maderna Malor me bat for 3 violas (after Ockeghem) Garth Knox Marin Marais Variations on ‘Folies d’Espagne’ for 4 violas £12.50 concs £10

Sean Bishop, Director of Bishop Instruments & Bows, presents everything you wanted to know about the viola but were afraid to ask: models, sizes, old and very new, best makers, and the Tertis model. £4

Garth Knox viola, viola d’amore Antoine Tamestit viola Rosalind Ventris viola Tabea Zimmermann viola Thomas Hoppe piano

£12.50 concs £10

THE CORNERSTONES Clarke Sonata for viola and piano Shostakovich 7 Preludes Op. 34 (arr. Borisovsky) Bridge Lament for two violas Hindemith Sonata for viola and piano Op. 11 No. 4 Bax Sonata for viola and piano Garth Knox Sur le chemin de Tolède for viola and viola d’amore (UK première) York Bowen Fantasia for 4 violas Op. 41 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season / The Viola: A Survey from the Baroque to the present day

Day Ticket for all events £30 Tabea Zimmermann

Garth Knox

Marco Borggreve

François Figlarz

Antoine Tamestit

Rosalind Ventris

Eric Larrayadieu

Thomas Hoppe

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November/December Tuesday 2 December 7.30 pm

BEETHOVEN CELLO SONATAS & VARIATIONS

Yevgeny Sudbin piano Scarlatti Sonata in D minor Kk213/L108; Sonata in D minor Kk141/L422 Beethoven 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A b Op. 47 Shostakovich Prelude in B minor Op. 34 No. 6; Prelude in Ab Op. 34 No. 17; Prelude in D minor Op. 34 No. 24 Rachmaninov Prelude in G# minor Op. 32 No. 12; Prelude in G Op. 32 No. 5; Prelude in G minor Op. 23 No. 5 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in Bb Op. 83 Known for his consummate virtuosity and revelatory readings of some of the most demanding works in the piano literature, Yevgeny Sudbin offers a programme chiefly comprising substantial miniatures and character pieces. The Russian pianist’s recital includes Beethoven’s psychologically profound Op. 126 Bagatelles, misleadingly labelled by their composer as ‘a cycle of trifles’, and concludes with the second of Prokofiev’s so-called War Sonatas, first performed in Moscow shortly before the crucial Soviet victory at Stalingrad. £30 £25 £20 £15

Jean-Guihen Queyras

Marco Borggreve

Alexander Melnikov

Marco Borggreve

Sunday 30 November 7.30 pm

Monday 1 December 7.30 pm

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Alexander Melnikov piano

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Alexander Melnikov piano

Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1; Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2; 7 Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Wo0. 46; Cello Sonata in A Op. 69

Beethoven 12 Variations in F on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Op. 66; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1; 12 Variations on a Theme from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO. 45; Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2

Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov launch their two-concert survey of Beethoven’s complete sonatas and variations for cello and piano. The composer made a strikingly assured venture into a genre that was still in its infancy when he penned his two cello sonatas Op. 5 during a triumphant visit to Berlin in 1796, one of the happiest periods in a life all too often marked by suffering and setbacks.

London Pianoforte Series

Beethoven’s Variations on themes from Judas Maccabaeus and Die Zauberflöte were written in Berlin in 1796, the latter chosen because it was the favourite opera of Prussia’s King Friedrich Wilhelm II. Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov conclude each half of this programme with two forward-looking sonatas conceived in 1815 for Joseph Linke, the brilliant Silesian cellist.

£35 £30 £25 £18

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle Chamber Music Season

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Mark Harrison

December Wednesday 3 December 12.15 pm

Thursday 4 December 6.00 pm

Friday 5 December 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

An introduction to the lunchtime concert with Patrick John Jones, winner of OPUS2014.

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor

Jordi Savall director, viols Hespèrion XXI Tembembe Ensamble Continuo

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

NASH COMMISSIONS

See page 64 for full details

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Mark-Anthony Turnage Returning for string sextet Sir Peter Maxwell Davies The Last Island for string sextet

Wednesday 3 December 1.00 pm

The works will be introduced by the composers in conversation from the stage.

Britten Sinfonia Emer McDonough flute Nicholas Daniel oboe Joy Farrall clarinet Sarah Burnett bassoon Stephen Bell horn Michael Berkeley Re-Inventions Crawford Seeger Suite for wind quintet Patrick John Jones New work* (London première) Nielsen Wind Quintet Op. 43 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support from donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

The great Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s fondness for wind instruments relates closely to his love of nature. He was inspired to write his Wind Quintet after hearing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for four winds; likewise, Michael Berkeley turned to past models for his Re-Inventions, based on the famous two-part Inventions of JS Bach. The programme includes the première of a new work by Patrick John Jones, the winner of OPUS2014, Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall’s open call for submissions from unpublished UK composers.

Free (ticket required)

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Saturday 6 December 7.30pm

Belcea Quartet Jonathan Biss piano BRACING CHANGE: NEW BRITISH STRING COMMISSIONS See page 66 for full details

Thursday 4 December 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Eleanor Bron narrator Borodin String Sextet in D minor Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf (arr. David Matthews for narrator and ensemble) Beethoven Septet in Eb Op. 20

Sunday 7 December 11.30 am

Grace Francis piano Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini (Book II) Liszt Consolation No. 3 in Db S172; Dante Sonata Prokofiev Sarcasms Balakirev The Lark; Islamey

Borodin’s tantalisingly incomplete Sextet, a muchloved Tchaikovsky movement in its original quartet form and Prokofiev’s evergreen ‘tale for children’ are followed by a Nash favourite, Beethoven’s youthful Septet for wind and strings.

London-born Grace Francis, praised by David Cairns in The Sunday Times as a ‘phenomenon … of uncommon fire and energy’, studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded the prestigious Chappell Gold Medal. She recently made her debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall and returns to Wigmore Hall to beguile audiences with the astonishing virtuosity and élan of her refined pianism.

£30 £25 £20 £15

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Chamber Music Season / Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Nicholas Daniel

Eleanor Bron

Grace Francis

£12.50 concs £10

Eric Richmond

Benjamin Ealovega

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Jordi Savall Hespèrion XXI & Tembembe Ensamble Continuo Friday 5 December 7.30 pm

Jordi Savall director, viols Hespèrion XXI Tembembe Ensamble Continuo FOLIAS: ANTIGUAS & CRIOLLAS – From the Ancient World to the New World Diego Ortiz La Spagna Anonymous Folias antiguas Gaspar Sanz Jácaras; La Petenera Diego Ortiz Folia IV – Passamezzo antico I – Passamezzo moderno III – Ruggiero - Romanesca VII – Passamezzo moderno II Pedro Guerrero Moresca Antonio de Cabezón Folia: Pavana con su Glosa Juan García de Zéspedes / Traditional from Tixtla Guaracha Celtic Traditions in the New World: Regents Rant (Traditional Scottish); Crabs in the skillet (Ryan’s Mammoth Collection); Lord Moira’s Hornpipe (Ryan’s Collection) Santiago de Murcia / Traditional Jarocho Fandango; El Fandanguillo Antonio Martín y Coll Diferencias sobre las Folias Francisco Correa de Arauxo Glosas sobre ‘Todo el mundo en general’ Anonymous Canarios (improvisations) Antonio Valente Gallarda Napolitana; Jarabe Loco (Jarocho) This year marks the 40th anniversary of Jordi Savall’s pioneering early music ensemble, founded as Hespèrion XX (before acquiring an extra numeral to its name with the turn of the present century). The Catalan viol player, conductor and composer and his close-knit group have ventured across cultural boundaries to discover the common musical connections that once united peoples from different ethnic and religious backgrounds. Joined by Mexican musicians from Tembembe Ensamble Continuo, these artists come together to seek out, recreate, and convey what intimately connects Baroque music with traditional music, with an intoxicating blend of Hispanic and Creole elements influenced by indigenous and African traditions. £40 £35 £25 £15

Early and Baroque Music Series

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December Sunday 7 December 7.30 pm

Monday 8 December 1.00 pm

Fauré Quartet

Philippe Jaroussky countertenor Ensemble Artaserse

Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor Beethoven Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 16 Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. for piano quartet by Fauré Quartet/ G. Gruzman) Pianist Grigory Gruzman and the Fauré Quartet have created a sensational arrangement of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, preserving the original score’s fiery passion while enhancing it with a colourful new tonal palette. The Fauré’s four members set the work in company with Mahler’s Piano Quartet, a product of its gifted young composer’s mid-teens, and Beethoven’s revised version of a work conceived in the late 1790s as a quintet for piano and winds.

Programme to include: Vivaldi Stabat Mater RV621; Longe mala, umbrae, terrores RV629

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

With his pellucid tone, musical intuition and expressive style of singing, the French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky is able to connect like few others with the grand gestures and vivid emotional shadings of Baroque vocal works. He directs his own Ensemble Artaserse in a programme of sacred compositions, complete with Vivaldi’s plangent setting of the ancient Stabat Mater text.

All seats £15

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 8 December 7.30 pm Gustav Mahler

The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director FAYRFAX CELEBRATION

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Tuesday 9 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 11 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Wednesday 17 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

THE SONGS OF GUSTAV MAHLER

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Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a collection of folk poems and songs, was a great source of inspiration to Mahler, who created settings of apparent folkloric simplicity, concealing a complexity of musical craft and symbolic meaning. Mahler was deeply conversant with the tradition of the Romantic Lied, and often drew on his own vocal music as source material for symphonic writing. There are close associations with events in his personal life, most tragically in the case of Kindertotenlieder, which he came to regard as a premonition of his daughter’s death.

Hosted by composer Julian Philips and pianist Laura Roberts, we explore the richly evocative world of Mahler’s songs with contributions from visiting musicologists and performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert

by Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber on 17 December

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Fauré Quartet

Mat Hennek

Philippe Jaroussky

Simon Fowler/Virgin Classics

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Bracing Change New British String Commissions Saturday 6 December 7.30pm

Belcea Quartet Jonathan Biss piano Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 Mark-Anthony Turnage Contusion* (world première) Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 *Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

The need to refresh the chamber music repertoire is recognised here with the launch of a co-commissioning partnership between Wigmore Hall, The Radcliffe Trust and NMC Recordings. Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new work for the Belcea Quartet will be followed in coming seasons with the premières of scores by fellow British composers Simon Holt, Anthony Gilbert, Helen Grime, Donnacha Dennehy and Paul Newland. Jonathan Biss joins the Belceas to perform Brahms’s early masterwork, the Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34. £30 £25 £20 £15

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

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Monday 19 January 2015 7.30 pm

Sunday 14 June 2015 7.30 pm

JACK Quartet New string quartet by Simon Holt

Carducci String Quartet Guy Johnston cello

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New string quintet by Anthony Gilbert

See page 115 for full details

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Keith Saunders

Belcea Quartet

Evy Ottermans

Jonathan Biss

Benjamin Ealovega

December Tuesday 9 December 7.30 pm

THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK FAYRFAX CELEBRATION

Artemis Quartet Mozart String Quartet in G K387 Pe¯teris Vasks String Quartet No. 5 Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ The Berlin-based Artemis Quartet, founded 25 years ago at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, stands today among the world’s leading chamber ensembles. Its commitment to new music is boldly stated with Pe¯teris Vask’s Fifth String Quartet, a two-movement exploration of the conscious states of presence and distance influenced by the Latvian composer’s compassion for ‘a world tortured by grief and contradictions’. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series The Cardinall’s Musick

Dmitri Gutjahr

Robert Fayrfax, born in 1464 in Lincolnshire, rose from the ranks of English provincial musicians to become one of the most important composers of the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. He flourished thanks to support from Lady Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII’s mother, and became a member of her son’s Chapel Royal in the 1490s. Fayrfax led the Chapel Royal during the famous meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I of France at the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520. The Cardinall’s Musick and Andrew Carwood celebrate Fayrfax’s mellifluous work with three concerts, setting his Latin sacred compositions within the context of the religious and political landscape of early Tudor England.

Monday 8 December 7.30 pm

The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director MARY, QUEEN OF HEAVEN Sub-plot: Elizabeth of York Fayrfax Gloria from Missa O quam glorifica Lambe Stella caeli Cornysh Ave Maria mater Dei Fayrfax Most clere of colour; O Maria Deo grata; Ave lumen gratiae Bannester O Maria et Elizabeth Turges Enforce yourself as God’s own knight Plummer Tota pulcra es Cornysh Gaude virgo mater Christi Fayrfax To complayne me; Aeternae laudis lilium Marian devotion and mysticism touched countless lives in late medieval England, inspiring Robert Fayrfax and musicians such as William Cornysh and Walter Lambe to create some of their finest works.

This concert also explores Tudor dynastic politics in the form of Fayrfax’s votive antiphon Aeternae laudis lilium, almost certainly commissioned by Henry VIII’s mother, Elizabeth of York. £30 £25 £20 £15

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Monday 23 March 2015 7.30 pm

CHRIST THE KING Sub-plot: Henry VIII Saturday 20 June 2015 7.30 pm

THE PASSION OF CHRIST Sub-plot: Cardinal Wolsey

Early Music and Baroque Series / The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration

Artemis Quartet

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December Wednesday 10 December 6.00 pm

Thursday 11 December 7.30 pm

Friday 12 December 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Event

Les Vents Français

RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL

Emmanuel Pahud flute François Leleux oboe Paul Meyer clarinet Radovan Vlatkovic´ horn Gilbert Audin bassoon

Max Emanuel Cencic countertenor Il Pomo d’Oro Riccardo Minasi director, violin

The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment in which exceptionally gifted young musicians collaborate closely with some of the world’s finest artists and teachers. This concert offers the chance to hear potential future stars at an early stage in their careers. £6 or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)

Wednesday 10 December 7.30 pm

Eric Le Sage piano

Saturday 13 December 7.30 pm

Farrenc Sextet for wind quintet and piano Thuille Sextet in Bb for piano and winds Op. 6 Ibert Trois pièces brèves Caplet Quintet for piano and winds Poulenc Sextet for wind quintet and piano It would be hard to imagine a finer wind ensemble than Les Vents Français. Founded by five acclaimed solo artists, the quintet upholds the traditions and unmistakeable spirit of the French school of wind playing, directed in this concert to works of ravishing tonal beauty and irresistible melodic charm.

Razumovsky Ensemble Natalia Prischepenko David Alberman violin Diemut Poppen viola Oleg Kogan cello

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violin

£30 £25 £20 £15

Pianist to be announced

Beethoven Serenade in D Op. 8 for String Trio Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83 Schumann Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44

Chamber Music Season

Pavel Haas Quartet Nicholas Angelich piano Programme to include: Smetana String Quartet No. 2 in D minor Dvorˇák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 Nicholas Angelich’s readings of Romantic works have been acclaimed for their uncanny breadth of expression. He joins the Pavel Haas Quartet to perform one of Dvorˇák’s greatest chamber compositions, the epic Piano Quintet in A Op. 81.

The programme also includes Smetana’s Second String Quartet, a late work invested with what its composer described as ‘the turbulence of music in a person who had lost his hearing’. £30 £25 £20 £15

Shostakovich’s Fourth String Quartet, written the year after performances of his music were officially forbidden in the Soviet Union, requires its interpreters to strike a balance between open expression and something altogether more introvert. The Razumovsky Ensemble’s musicians also address the musical and emotional contrasts of Beethoven’s light-hearted Serenade and Schumann’s impassioned Piano Quintet, a genre-defining masterwork.

Chamber Music Season /Bohemia

£35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season

Natalia Prischepenko

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Eric Le Sage

Thomas Rabsch

Les Vents Français

Jean-Baptiste Millot

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Nicholas Angelich

Stéphane de Bourgies

Max Emanuel Cencic & Il Pomo d’Oro Friday 12 December 7.30 pm

Max Emanuel Cencic countertenor Il Pomo d’Oro; Riccardo Minasi director, violin Vivaldi Concerto in C for violin RV181a Albinoni Pianta bella from Il nascimento dell’Aurora Caldara Barbaro, non comprendo from Adriano in Siria Brescianello Sinfonia in F Op. 1 No. 5 Gasparini Dolce mio ben from Flavio Anicio Olibrio Vivaldi Mi vuoi tradir from La verità in cimento Galuppi Concerto a quattro No. 1 in G minor Porta Mormorando quelle fronde from La Costanza Combattuta in Amore Giacomelli Sposa, non mi conosci from La Merope Vivaldi Concerto in E minor for violin RV277 Il favorito; A piedi miei svenato from Argippo; Anche in mezzo aperigliosa from L’odio vinto dalla constanza Max Emanuel Cencic, recognised worldwide as one of today’s greatest countertenors, has developed the power of expression and technique required to project the spectacular virtuosity of Baroque opera. The Croatian-born artist began singing with the Vienna Boys’ Choir and launched his solo career as a male soprano in the early 1990s. Since converting to countertenor, Cenccicc has delivered breathtaking performances of everything from Handel heroes to works by Hasse, Vinci and Vivaldi. His entrepreneurial work to revive rarely heard operas has attracted critical acclaim and a major new recording deal with Decca. Cenccic and Il Pomo d’Oro come to Wigmore Hall, fresh from their recent concert tour of Handel’s Tamerlano, with a programme of early 18th-century operatic showpieces and instrumental works. £40 £35 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Il Pomo d’Oro

Julien Mignot

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December Sunday 14 December 11.30 am

Sunday 14 December 7.30 pm

Monday 15 December 1.00 pm

Adrian Brendel cello Aleksandar Madžar piano

Sophie Bevan soprano Sebastian Wybrew piano

Badke Quartet Maximiliano Martin clarinet

Dohnányi Cello Sonata in Bb minor Op. 8 Janácˇek Pohádka Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69

VAIN GLORY

Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 1 No. 1 ‘La chasse’ Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115

Two artists devoted to the cause of imaginative interpretation and strong expression present their thoughts on a programme of richly flavoured compositions. Adrian Brendel and Aleksandar Madžar’s recital includes the formidable four-movement Cello Sonata in B flat minor, written in 1899 in sonorous late-Romantic style by the young Erno´´ Dohnányi. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

A CALL TO ARMS: Britten O the sight entrancing Ireland Death-parting Bridge ’Tis but a week Ives Tom Sails Away THE HOME FRONT: Britten Sweet Polly Oliver Gurney Most Holy Night Stanford A soft day Wood Roses of Picardy A PATRIOTIC MEDLEY: A selection of popular songs from WW1 AT SEA: Stanford Joy, Shipmate, Joy! from Songs of Faith Elgar Submarines Britten Tom Bowling Gurney The ship

Haydn swiftly spotted the newly created string quartet medium’s potential as a vehicle for expressive exploration and the development of bold musical ideas. The Badke Quartet, winner of the 2007 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, opens the programme with the exuberant hunting calls of the composer’s Op. 1 No. 1 before joining forces with Spanish virtuoso Maximiliano Martin in Brahms’s divine Clarinet Quintet. £12.50 concs £10

BEREAVEMENT: Britten Oft in the stilly night Ireland Spring sorrow Lehmann When I am dead, my dearest Bridge Come to me in my dreams BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert AFTER THE ARMISTICE: Warlock My own country Holst Journey’s End Stanford Homeward bound Sophie Bevan’s exceptional talent was recognised as a student at the Royal College of Music with an invitation to appear with English National Opera. The soprano’s personal warmth and zeal invariably reach out to audiences, as does her obvious joy in singing.

She received the Young Singer Award at the inaugural International Opera Awards last year, underlining her status among the finest artists of her generation. £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Adrian Brendel

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Jack Liebeck

Sophie Bevan

Sussie Ahlburg

Badke Quartet

Ollie Ford

December Tuesday 16 December 7.30 pm

Thursday 18 December 7.30 pm

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Ravel Miroirs Bartók Piano Sonata

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER

John Mark Ainsley tenor Malcolm Martineau piano Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Schubert Schwanengesang In the mid-1980s John Mark Ainsley emerged from the choir of Christ Church, Oxford, to pursue a glittering solo career. The lyric tenor, known for his artistic vision and the supple qualities of his voice, built his reputation with stylish performances of Bach, Handel and Mozart, and has flourished more recently in acclaimed productions of operas by Britten, Henze and Janácˇek.

Artistic bravery is Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s stock in trade. The French pianist’s approach to making music is refreshingly individual, charged by his fascination with the psychology of performance.

Over the past three decades he has returned time and again to the music of Beethoven, Ravel and Bartók, always searching for new depths of meaning. £30 £25 £20 £15

£30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Song Recital Series

Friday 19 December 7.30 pm

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Repeat of concert on 17 December £35 £30 £25 £18

Christian Gerhaher

Jim Rakete/Sony Classical

Song Recital Series

Wednesday 17 December 7.30 pm Repeated Friday 19 December 7.30 pm

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Mahler Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Mahler Kindertotenlieder Christian Gerhaher’s Mahler interpretations, in common with the composer’s work, consistently ask big questions about the nature of reality and the human condition. The German baritone and his regular duo partner, Gerold Huber, find colours and shades in Mahler that elude most, drawing listeners into an almost mystical world of expression thanks to the intensity of their performances. They present landmark works in this recital, including the profoundly moving Kindertotenlieder and the composer’s first song-cycle, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Benjamin Ealovega

John Mark Ainsley

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The Hilliard Ensemble Farewell Concert Saturday 20 December 6.00 pm

Saturday 20 December 7.30 pm

Artists in Conversation

The Hilliard Ensemble

A unique opportunity to join members of The Hilliard Ensemble as they reflect on their 40-year career in conversation with writer and broadcaster Fiona Talkington.

Pérotin Viderunt Omnes Early English carols and motets including Sheryngham Ah, gentle Jesu Piers Hellawell The Hilliard Songbook (selection) Arvo Pärt Most Holy Mother of God; And one of the Pharisees Heiner Goebbels The Excursion into the Mountains from I went to the house but did not enter Music by Roger Marsh

£4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in duration, without an interval £35 £30 £25 £18

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History will be made at Wigmore Hall when The Hilliard Ensemble gives its final performance. Over the past four decades the Hilliards have championed everything from early medieval polyphony to specially commissioned works by many of today’s leading composers. The group’s farewell programme spans almost nine centuries of music, opening with the late 12th-century Christmas Gradual Viderunt Omnes and including Arvo Pärt’s Most Holy Mother of God, written for and dedicated to The Hilliard Ensemble.

Early Music and Baroque Series/ Contemporary Music Series

December Sunday 21 December 11.30 am

Sunday 21 December 7.30 pm

Monday 22 December 7.30 pm

Lise de la Salle piano

Philip Higham cello Alasdair Beatson piano

Paul Lewis piano Lisa Batiashvili violin Lawrence Power viola Bjørg Lewis cello Alois Posch double bass

Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV1004 Bach/Busoni Chorale Prelude in F minor ‘Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’ BWV639 Bach/Liszt Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV543 Liszt 5 transcriptions Hailed by Gramophone during her teens as ‘a talent in a million’, Lise de la Salle has fulfilled her early promise with mature performances of staggering virtuosity and exhilarating invention. The pianist, born in Cherbourg in 1988, recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of her recording career with the release of a Portrait album on the Naïve label and completed an acclaimed season as Artist in Residence at the Zurich Opera House.

Beethoven 7 Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Wo0. 46 Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94 Fauré Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 117 Janácˇek Pohádka Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Two remarkable young British artists offer their shared vision of works that explore everything from the tender heartedness of Beethoven’s Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ and pathos of Janácˇek’s Pohádka, written following the tragic death of his daughter, to the symphonic grandeur of Brahms’s F major Cello Sonata. £30 £25 £20 £15

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Chamber Music Season

Beethoven String Trio in C minor Op. 9 No. 3 Beethoven Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1 Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ Wigmore Hall’s Paul Lewis series continues with an unmissable combination of artists and repertoire.

The pianist shares the platform with his wife, Bjørg Lewis, and three close colleagues in a programme comprising musical treasures from old Vienna, among them Beethoven’s visionary C minor String Trio, composed in 1797– 8, and Schubert’s sonorous ‘Trout’ Quintet. £35 £30 £25 £18

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season/Paul Lewis: A Celebration

Lise de la Salle

Lynn Goldsmith

Philip Higham

Kaupo Kikkas

Lisa Batiashvili

Anja Frers/DG

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December Tuesday 23 December 7.30 pm

Sunday 28 December 11.30 am

Sunday 28 December 7.30 pm

Early Opera Company Sophie Bevan soprano Hilary Summers contralto Allan Clayton tenor James Platt bass Christian Curnyn director

London Haydn Quartet

Zemlinsky Quartet

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Dvorˇák String Quartet in Eb Op. 51

Haydn String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’ Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’

Handel Messiah HWV56 Handel’s Sacred Oratorio Messiah has grown from its almost humble first performance in Fishamble Street, Dublin to something of a worldwide institution, revered and celebrated every Christmas across the world. An outstanding cast of soloists joins the orchestra and choir of EOC in this intimate performance of a true masterpiece.

The London Haydn Quartet, founded in 2000, applies historically informed performance practices to the full range of works in its wide repertoire.

The quartet’s use of gut strings and classical bows helps to elicit the subtle gradations of tone colour and inflections familiar to musicians and audiences of the past. The ensemble explores works by Haydn and Dvorˇák, the latter infused with the distinctive flavours of Slavic folksong. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

To celebrate its 20th anniversary and in keeping with a fine national tradition, the Zemlinsky Quartet is embracing 2014 as the Year of Czech Music. The quartet recalls Janácˇek’s birth in 1854 and Dvorˇák’s death in 1904, placing two of the composers’ greatest chamber works in company with Haydn’s ‘Rider’ Quartet. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£40 £35 £30 £20

Early Music and Baroque Series

Saturday 27 December 7.30 pm

Igor Levit piano See page opposite for full details

Zemlinsky Quartet

Christian Curnyn

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Benjamin Ealovega

London Haydn Quartet

Tomas Bican

Giorgia Bertazzi

Introducing

Igor Levit Anyone unfamiliar with the artistry of Igor Levit should beat a path to his Wigmore Hall series this Season. The Russian-German pianist, born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1987, emerged from the Hanover Academy of Music, Theatre and Media five years ago with the highest performance and academic marks in the institution’s long history. His work since has been compared with that of the young András Schiff and recognised for its depth and maturity. Small wonder that Levit was recently tipped by the Daily Telegraph to become ‘one of this century’s big names’.

Saturday 27 December 7.30 pm

Igor Levit piano Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54 Ronald Stevenson Peter Grimes Fantasy on themes from Britten Rachmaninov Etudes-tableaux Op. 39 Pianophiles await Igor Levit’s performances with eager anticipation, ready to experience the spontaneity and poetic insights of his interpretations. He opens his programme with one of Bach’s best-loved keyboard works before illuminating the concise thematic development of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in F Op. 54. Levit evokes the soul and natural beauty of his native Russia in the Etudes-tableaux Op. 39, written shortly before Rachmaninov joined the ranks of refugees fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution. £30 £25 £20 £15

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

London Pianoforte Series/Introducing Igor Levit

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Monday 26 January 2015 1.00 pm

Igor Levit

piano

Sunday 8 February 2015 3.00 pm

Simon Bode tenor Igor Levit

piano

Wednesday 10 June 2015 7.30 pm

Christiane Iven soprano Igor Levit

piano

Monday 20 July 2015 7.30 pm

Igor Levit

piano

Photo by Felix Broede

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December Monday 29 December 7.30 pm

Tuesday 30 December 7.30 pm

Wednesday 31 December 7.00 pm NB Starting time

Sharon Kam clarinet Stephan Kiefer piano

Piers Lane piano

Stile Antico

Schubert Moments musicaux D780: No. 6 in Ab and No. 4 in C# minor Rachmaninov Moment musical in B minor Op. 16 No. 3 Rachmaninov 10 Préludes Op. 23 Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959

IN DULCI JUBILO – FLEMISH & GERMAN CHRISTMAS MUSIC

Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Reger Clarinet Sonata in Bb Op. 107 Debussy Première rhapsodie Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 The death of two close friends in the early months of 1894 affected Brahms so deeply that he was unable to compose. His creativity returned after he heard Richard Mühlfeld’s exquisite clarinet playing at a festival of chamber music in Vienna.

Sharon Kam’s affinity with her instrument allows her to unlock tonal possibilities available to few other players, ideally suited for the infinite timbral shade and burnished warm tones of Brahms’s Sonata in F minor. £30 £25 £20 £15

Rachmaninov’s Préludes Op. 23, a collection of ten short yet intricate pieces written between 1901 and 1903, date from a testing time in the composer’s personal and professional life which was bookended by a crisis of creative confidence and financial difficulties. Piers Lane prefaces the Préludes with three coruscating miniatures by Schubert and Rachmaninov. He reserves his recital’s second half for the sublime Piano Sonata in A D959, completed during the period of Schubert’s final illness.

Chamber Music Season

£30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Anon Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (arr. M. Praetorius/ Vulpius) Clemens non Papa Pastores quidnam vidistis (motet) Eccard Übers Gebirg Maria geht Handl Canite tuba Clemens non Papa Missa ‘Pastores quidnam vidistis’ Hieronymus Praetorius Magnificat quinti toni (incorporating carols ‘In dulci jubilo’ and ‘Josef lieber, Josef mein’) Eccard Vom Himmel hoch Handl Mirabile mysterium Michael Praetorius Ein Kind geboren in Bethlehem Hassler Hodie Christus Natus est a 10 Lassus Resonet in laudibus Stile Antico’s programme is a delightful mixture of the formal and the informal, of sophisticated polyphony and folk-like dances. Alongside a glorious, richlyscored Christmas mass by the Flemish composer Clemens non Papa, Stile Antico performs traditional old-German carols and motets, many of them still familiar today. Amongst the highlights are Eccard’s infectiously joyful Übers Gebirg Maria geht and Praetorius’s double-choir Magnificat, which includes the carols ‘In dulci jubilo’ and ‘Josef lieber, Josef mein’. Based on the same ‘Josef lieber’ melody, and neatly joining the two strands of the programme, is ‘Resonet in laudibus’ by the Flemish-born, German-resident master Orlandus Lassus. £35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series

Sharon Kam

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Maike Helbig

Piers Lane

Clive Barda

Stile Antico

Marco Borggreve

Julian Anderson Composer in Residence Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, Julian Anderson, has crafted two captivating programmes in collaboration with EXAUDI and Aurora Orchestra. Their repertoire choices include Anderson’s Poetry Nearing Silence, a suite of eight movements inspired by the drawings and poems of Tom Phillips, and a new work written for Wigmore Hall by leading American composer Augusta Read Thomas. The lasting influence of music from the past on that of the present is traced in works by Heinz Holliger, complete with the UK première of nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts, his setting of mystical texts by the 17th-century priest and poet Angelus Silesius, and Giacinto Scelsi’s spiritually uplifting Tre Canti Sacri.

Tuesday 3 February 2015 7.30 pm

Tuesday 7 July 2015 7.30 pm

EXAUDI James Weeks director

Aurora Orchestra Claire Booth soprano

Programme to include: Pieces from the École de Notre-Dame repertory Giacinto Scelsi Tre Canti Sacri Heinz Holliger nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts (a selection) (UK première) Music from the Chantilly Codex Michael Finnissy Kelir

Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet; Three Japanese Lyrics Ravel Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé Julian Anderson Poetry Nearing Silence Augusta Read Thomas New work for voice and ensemble* (world première) Sir Harrison Birtwistle Tragoedia

£30 £25 £20 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series / Contemporary Music Series / Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

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

£30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series/Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

Tuesday 7 July 2015 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Julian Anderson introduces the evening concert.

Booking for all events in this series opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May and to the General Public on 30 May

£4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

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EVENTS FOR FAMILIES,YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS All events listed on pages 78 – 81 will open for booking on 30 May, with the exception of the Family Concerts on 30 October and 8 November and Come and Sing on 15 November, which go on sale to Friends on 6 May and to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May.

We are grateful to Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust for their support of our Family Programme, and to The Monument Trust and The Loveday Charitable Trust for their support of our Schools Programme.

October Saturday 11 October 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Ba’ROCK Opera FAMILY DAY For ages 6 plus Make an opera in a day with music leader Luke Crookes and artist Marc Woodhead. Explore the characters from the baroque paintings in the newly refurbished Great Gallery at The Wallace Collection and then take your inspiration back to Wigmore Hall to create a ‘Ba’ROCK’ opera to perform on the Wigmore stage.

Adults £15 Children £10

In partnership with The Wallace Collection

Saturday 18 October 10.00 am – 12.30 pm Repeated 1.30 pm – 4.00 pm

Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 October 10.00 am – 3.30 pm both days

Family Sing with Dominic Harlan

Ignition

For ages 7 plus

For ages 11 – 16

In the lead up to his half term concert on Thursday 30 October, the inspirational Dominic Harlan leads a fun and accessible workshop for families to come and sing together. Join in with songs you might know and some you probably won’t, and we guarantee you’ll all go away singing them for the rest of the day (at least!).

Ignition is Wigmore Hall’s ensemble for young people, giving you the opportunity to write and perform your own music. Led by Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble Ignite, create music influenced by jazz, chamber and contemporary styles, collaborate with other young performers and professional musicians, and perform on the Wigmore Hall stage.

Adults £9 Children £7

£40 for the 2-day course

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October/November

Illustration by Jason Chapman, published by Templar

Thursday 30 October 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Dominic Harlan: Solitary Hotel HALF TERM FAMILY CONCERT For ages 7 plus Pianist and presenter Dominic Harlan returns to the Hall to take you on a thrilling journey into the world of song. Convicts, smugglers, young violinists, hotel guests and a nine-year-old boy share their stories in this interactive concert that includes music by Schumann, Britten, Sibelius and Barber. Featuring performances by singers, including Sarah Gabriel, Dominic invites audiences young and old to go behind the music using his unique mix of live theatre and audience participation.

For footage from Dominic’s last concert, filmed live at Wigmore Hall, visit www.dominicharlan.com.

Adults £9 Children £7

Friday 7 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon Repeated 1.30 pm – 2.30 pm

Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives: Stan and Mabel KEY STAGE 1 SCHOOLS CONCERT Music-loving dog and cat, Stan and Mabel, set off to find their neighbour who has gone to judge The Best Orchestra in the World competition. Little do they know, they’ll be forming an amazing animal orchestra of their own!

Following the huge success of Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants, Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives return with another irresistible piece by BASCA award-winning composer Paul Rissmann, based on the book by Jason Chapman and published by Templar. With companion pieces by Rossini, Mozart and Delibes, this is a perfect introduction to classical music.

Written and illustrated by Jason Chapman, and published by Templar £3.50

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November Saturday 8 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon Repeated 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives: Stan and Mabel FAMILY CONCERT For ages 4 plus A repeat of the schools concert on 7 November, for families.

Saturday 15 November 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Come and Sing: Mozart As part of Wigmore Hall’s series The Mozart Odyssey, Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults with the chance to sing some of the composer’s varied vocal repertoire. Join in with vocal warm-ups, learn some new songs, and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. £24 concs £16

Written and illustrated by Jason Chapman, and published by Templar Adults £9 Children £7

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Friday 21 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Sound Travels KEY STAGE 3 AND GCSE SCHOOLS CONCERT Wigmore Hall Learning is working in partnership with the EFG London Jazz Festival to present an inspiring concert exploring global musical cultures and improvisation featuring tabla player Kuljit Bhamra, saxophonist Andy Sheppard and guitarist Aliocha Thevenet, three renowned UK-based musicians with far reaching influences and styles.

In partnership with EFG London Jazz Festival £3.50

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December Thursday 4 December 1.00 pm – 1.40 pm

Peter and the Wolf PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS The Nash Ensemble invites local schools to attend this special one-off performance of Peter and the Wolf. This opportunity is free for state schools from the Tri-borough area (Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham).

Free (ticket required)

Please book through the Learning Office on 020 7258 8240

Thursday 4 December 7.30 pm

Peter and the Wolf We invite families to join us as the Nash Ensemble presents Prokofiev’s well-known and enchanting tale Peter and the Wolf as part of the evening concert, narrated by Eleanor Bron.

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

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust For details on the concerts included in the Chamber Zone scheme, visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk /chamberzone To book, call the Box Office on 020 7935 2141 www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Contemporary Music Series Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, as commissioner of new works and champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least through its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London premières. ‘Our commissioning scheme is already the most extensive in Europe for chamber music,’ comments Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly. ‘We plan to present up to 20 commissions per season and make Wigmore Hall one of the world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’

Full details of these concerts are provided throughout the brochure in chronological order. Booking for all concerts in this series opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May and to the General Public on 30 May.

Sunday 14 September 7.30 pm

Saturday 18 October 6.00 pm

Wednesday 3 December 1.00 pm

Nicolas Hodges piano

Nash Ensemble

Britten Sinfonia

Sir Harrison Birtwistle*

David Matthews, Gordon Crosse & Mark-Anthony Turnage

Michael Berkeley & Patrick John Jones*

Thursday 25 September 7.30 pm

Tetzlaff Quartet

Thursday 4 December 6.00 pm Tuesday 21 October 7.30 pm

Jörg Widmann

quartet-lab

Friday 10 October 7.30 pm

Ensemble Modern

Pekka Kuusisto violin Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Lilli Maijala viola Pieter Wispelwey cello

Johannes Schöllhorn* & Janis Petraskevics*

Nico Muhly & George Crumb

Saturday 11 October 7.30 pm

Tuesday 11 November 7.30 pm

Colin Carr cello Thomas Sauer piano

Ensemble intercontemporain Bruno Mantovani*

Saturday 22 November 6.00 pm

Danny Driver piano Thomas Adès

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Mark-Anthony Turnage & Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Saturday 6 December 7.30 pm

Belcea Quartet Jonathan Biss piano Mark-Anthony Turnage*

Tuesday 9 December 7.30 pm

Artemis Quartet

Thomas Adès Wednesday 15 October 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble

Nash Ensemble David Matthews, Alexander Goehr & Simon Holt

Pe¯teris Vasks

Saturday 20 December 7.30 pm

Tuesday 24 February 2015 7.30 pm

Friday 8 May 2015 7.00 pm

The Hilliard Ensemble

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Gillian Keith soprano Rebecca von Lipinski soprano

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Piers Hellawell, Arvo Pärt, Heiner Goebbels & Roger Marsh Wednesday 14 January 2015 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Kaija Saariaho*

Gerald Barry, Thomas Adès, Kurt Schwertsik, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Olga Neuwirth, Poul Ruders, Osvaldo Golijov & Salvatore Sciarrino

Wednesday 14 January 2015 7.30 pm

Sunday 24 May 2015 7.30 pm

Inon Barnatan piano Sebastian Currier* Saturday 6 June 2015 7.30 pm

Gould Piano Trio

Saturday 28 February 2015

James MacMillan

Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day

Saturday 17 January 2015 6.00 pm

Helen Grime*

Aurora Orchestra Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Judith Weir*

Wolfgang Rihm*

Nash Ensemble

Sunday 14 June 2015 7.30 pm

Alexander Goehr, John Casken & Judith Weir

Wednesday 4 March 2015 1.00 pm

Monday 19 January 2015 7.30 pm

Britten Sinfonia

Carducci String Quartet Guy Johnston cello

Joey Roukens*

Anthony Gilbert*

Elliott Carter, Georg Friedrich Haas & Simon Holt *

Sunday 8 March 2015 7.30 pm

Friday 19 June 2015 7.30 pm

Marino Formenti piano

Tuesday 3 February 2015 7.30 pm

Jean Barraqué

EXAUDI

Saturday 14 March 2015 6.00 pm

Baiba Skride violin Gergana Gergova violin Brett Dean viola Nils Mönkemeyer viola Alban Gerhardt cello

JACK Quartet

Heinz Holliger, Giacinto Scelsi & Michael Finnissy (Programme devised by Composer in Residence Julian Anderson) Wednesday 4 February 2015 1.00 pm

Nash Ensemble David Matthews & Michael Berkeley

Brett Dean

Monday 16 March 2015 7.30 pm

Wednesday 1 July 2015 7.30 pm

Pacifica Quartet Shulamit Ran*

Carolyn Sampson soprano Heath Quartet

Saturday 7 February 2015 6.00 pm

Wednesday 18 March 2015 7.30 pm

John Musto*

Nash Ensemble

Nash Ensemble

Tuesday 7 July 2015 7.30 pm

Richard Rodney Bennett, Julian Anderson & Nicholas Maw

Mark-Anthony Turnage, Elliott Carter, Julian Anderson, Richard Causton, Simon Holt & Sir Harrison Birtwistle

Aurora Orchestra

Britten Sinfonia Winner of the Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop*

Tuesday 17 February 2015 7.30 pm

Michala Petri recorder Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Daniel Kidane, Gordon Jacob, Axel Borup-Jørgensen & Vagn Holmboe

Thursday 19 March 2015 7.30 pm

Julian Anderson, Augusta Read Thomas* & Sir Harrison Birtwistle (Programme devised

by Composer in Residence Julian Anderson)

Leila Josefowicz violin John Novacek piano

Monday 20 July 2015 7.30 pm

Magnus Lindberg*

Frederic Rzewski*

Igor Levit piano

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SPRING PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2015

These concerts (except where stated) are not bookable on this brochure. Booking dates and full details of artists and programmes will be published in a separate brochure available from late September 2014.

January 2015 Friday 2 January 7.30 pm

Saturday 3 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 4 January 11.30 am

Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone Wolfram Rieger piano

Roberta Invernizzi soprano Sonia Prina contralto Ensemble Claudiana Luca Pianca director, lute

Guarneri Trio Prague

Mozart Das Veilchen; Komm, liebe Zither, komm; An Chloe; Abendempfindung Beethoven Lied aus der Ferne; Der Kuss; Ich liebe dich; Adelaide Mendelssohn Neue Liebe; Gruss; Morgengruss; Allnächtlich im Traume; Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Reiselied Schubert Heine settings from Schwanengesang: Der Atlas; Ihr Bild; Das Fischermädchen; Die Stadt; Am Meer; Der Doppelgänger Schubert Goethe settings: Auf dem See; Grenzen der Menschheit; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Erlkönig; Ganymed; An Schwager Kronos Song Recital Series

Suk Piano Trio in C minor Op. 2 Bloch Three Nocturnes Dvorˇák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE Piccinini Toccata Monteverdi Eccomi pronta ai baci; Ohimè dov’è il mio ben?

Doni Toccata – Canzone – Passacaglia Monteverdi Mentre vaga angioletta Gabrielli Sonata No. 1 Handel Sono liete, fortunate Lotti Poss’io morir Durante Son io, barbara donna Bach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in Eb BWV998 Handel Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday 4 January 3.00 pm

Adam Plachetka bass-baritone Gary Matthewman piano Dvorˇák Zigeunermelodien (Gypsy Songs) Sibelius Kyssens hopp; Drömmen; Vilse; Svarta rosor; Säv, säv, susa; Demanten på marssnön; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung; Die Nacht; Nachtgang; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Zueignung Schoenberg From Brettl-Lieder: Gigerlette; Der genügsame Liebhaber; Mahnung; Seit ich soviele Weiber sah (Arie aus dem Spiegel von Arkadien) Song Recital Series

Luca Pisaroni

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Marco Borggreve

Sonia Prina

Ribalta Luce Studio

Guarneri Trio Prague

Vincent Dargent

January 2015 Sunday 4 January 7.30 pm

Monday 5 January 7.30 pm

Stephan Loges baritone Simon Lepper piano

Guillermo Klein piano, voice Mark Turner tenor sax Chris Cheek baritone sax Aaron Goldberg piano

Loewe Herr Oluf; Tom der Reimer; Edward Brahms Auf dem See; O kühler Wald; Über die Heide; O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück; Ständchen; Sonntag; Verrat; Da unten im Tale Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Song Recital Series

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Thursday 8 January 7.30 pm

Rafał Blechacz piano Mozart Piano Sonata in D K311 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ Chopin 3 Waltzes Op. 64; 3 Mazurkas Op. 56; Polonaise in F# minor Op. 44 London Pianoforte Series

Tuesday 6 January 7.30 pm Friday 9 January 7.30 pm

Garrick Ohlsson piano

Monday 5 January 1.00 pm

Skryabin Piano Sonata No. 3 in F# minor Op. 23; Piano Sonata No. 8 Op. 66; Piano Sonata No. 9 in F Op. 68 ‘Black Mass’; Piano Sonata No. 6 in G Op. 62; Piano Sonata No. 5 in F# Op. 53 Further Skryabin works to be announced

Alisa Weilerstein cello Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 Kodály Sonata for solo cello Op. 8

András Schiff fortepiano Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894; Piano Sonata in Bb D960 London Pianoforte Series

London Pianoforte Series Saturday 10 January 7.30 pm BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Wednesday 7 January 7.30 pm

Elias String Quartet

Brentano String Quartet

Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5; String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131

Mozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’ Bartók String Quartet No. 3 Brahms String Quartet in Bb Op. 67

Chamber Music Season / Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle

Chamber Music Season

Alisa Weilerstein

Jamie Jung

Guillermo Klein

Rafał Blechacz

Felix Broede/DG

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January 2015 Sunday 11 January 11.30 am

Monday 12 January 1.00 pm

Wednesday 14 January 12.15 pm

Barnabás Kelemen violin Olli Mustonen piano

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Polina Leschenko piano

Pre-Concert Talk

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 3 in Eb Op. 12 No. 3 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80

Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454 Enescu Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor Op. 25 ‘dans le caractère populaire roumain’

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 11 January 3.00 pm

Monday 12 January 7.30 pm

Schubert An die Leier Schumann Dichterliebe Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca

Janine Jansen violin Itamar Golan piano

Song Recital Series

Shostakovich Violin Sonata Op. 134 Ravel Violin Sonata; Tzigane

Sunday 11 January 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season

Jonas Kaufmann tenor Helmut Deutsch piano

Tuesday 13 January 7.30 pm

Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano Kaija Saariaho Nocturne Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Kaija Saariaho New work* (London première) Fauré Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120

Beethoven 6 Bagatelles Op. 126; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111; 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120

Song Recital Series

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Wednesday 14 January 1.00 pm

András Schiff fortepiano

Programme to be announced

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event /Contemporary Music Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sam Furness tenor Matthew Fletcher piano

An introduction to the lunchtime concert with Kaija Saariaho.

London Pianoforte Series

*Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support from donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £12.50 concs £10

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Barnabás Kelemen

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Laszlo Emmer

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Marco Borggreve

Jacqueline Shave

January 2015 Wednesday 14 January 7.30 pm

Saturday 17 January 6.00 pm

Sunday 18 January 11.30 am

Gould Piano Trio

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Trio Mondrian

Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101 James MacMillan Piano Trio No. 2 Beethoven Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ £30 £25 £20 £15

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Nash Ensemble Ian Brown conductor

Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87

NASH COMMISSIONS

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Alexander Goehr ... around Stravinsky for violin and wind quartet John Casken Infanta Marina Judith Weir Airs from Another Planet for wind quintet and piano

Sunday 18 January 3.00 pm

The works will be introduced by the composers in conversation from the stage.

Thursday 15 January 7.30 pm

Free (ticket required)

Mark Padmore tenor András Schiff fortepiano

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Beethoven Mailied; Neue Liebe, neues Leben; Adelaide Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Schubert Die schöne Müllerin Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

The Endellion String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Schubert String Quartet in G D887

Elizabeth Watts soprano Mary Bevan soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Nicky Spence tenor Marcus Farnsworth baritone Audrey Hyland piano Songs and duets by Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Wolf, Britten and Dring

Saturday 17 January 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Sally Matthews soprano

Friday 16 January 7.30 pm

Songsmiths

Song Recital Series

Sunday 18 January 7.30 pm

Jerusalem Quartet

Wagner Siegfried Idyll Mozart String Quintet in C K515 Strauss Prelude to Capriccio for string sextet; Moonlight Music and Last scene from Capriccio for voice and ensemble (arr. D Matthews)

Haydn String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’ Bartók String Quartet No. 4 Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 Chamber Music Season

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Gould Piano Trio

Chris Stock

Mark Padmore

Marco Borggreve

Trio Mondrian

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January 2015 Monday 19 January 1.00 pm

Monday 19 January 7.30 pm

Wednesday 21 January 7.30 pm

Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano

JACK Quartet

Christopher Ainslie countertenor Xandi van Dijk viola James Baillieu piano

Carter String Quartet No. 3 Georg Friedrich Haas String Quartet No. 8 (UK première) Simon Holt New work* (world première)

Schumann Drei Gesänge: Die Löwenbraut; Die Kartenlegerin; Die rote Hanne Schumann Fünf Lieder Op. 40 Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben

SONGS OF NIGHT AND TRAVEL

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

Kitty Whately is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

£30 £25 £20 £15

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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

Monday 19 January 6.00 pm

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Artists in Conversation Composer Simon Holt discusses his new work.

Tuesday 20 January 6.00 pm

£4

Pre-Concert Event

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series

Bach Bist du bei mir Dowland Come, heavy sleep Purcell See, even Night from The Fairy Queen Gurney All night under the moon; Sleep Quilter The Night Piece; At Close of Day Parry Good Night!

Schubert Die Sterne; Nacht und Träume Mendelssohn Nachtlied Brahms 2 Songs with viola Op. 91 Strauss Die Nacht Wolf Storchenbotschaft Wolf An den Schlaf Anonymous I am a poor wayfaring stranger Tchaikovsky Seven Sonnets of Shakespeare (a selection) Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Song Recital Series

RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL

Tuesday 20 January 7.30 pm

Razumovsky Ensemble Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Kitty Whately

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Natalie Watts

JACK Quartet

Henrik Olund

Christopher Ainslie

Denis Jouglet

January 2015 Thursday 22 January 7.30 pm

Friday 23 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 25 January 7.30 pm

Classical Opera Ian Page conductor

Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists Clio Gould director, violin

Hagen Quartet

MOZART 250 LAUNCH CONCERT: A RETROSPECTIVE OF 1765 Programme to include: Mozart Symphony No. 1 in Eb K16; Va, dal furor portata K21; Conservati fedele K23 JC Bach Aria from Adriano in Siria Philidor Scene from Tom Jones Gluck Aria from Telemaco Haydn Symphony No. 28 in A

Stravinsky Concerto in D Bach Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV1048 Stravinsky Apollon Musagète – a ballet in two scenes Chamber Music Season/Early Music and Baroque Series

Early Music and Baroque Series

Saturday 24 January 7.30 pm

ECMA Showcase

Nicola Benedetti violin Alexei Grynyuk piano

Friday 23 January 1.00 pm

Monday 26 January 1.00 pm

Igor Levit piano

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Sunday 25 January 3.00 pm

Chamber Music Season

Programmes to include works by Mendelssohn, Jörg Widmann, Beethoven, Reger, Milhaud & Shostakovich

Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Saturday 24 January 3.00 pm

Giocoso String Quartet Ensemble Alba clarinet trio Stefan Zweig Trio piano trio Darian Trio string trio Galatea Quartet

Mozart String Quartet in G K387; String Quartet in D minor K421; String Quartet in Eb K428

Tchaikovsky Méditation Op. 72 No. 5; The Seasons Op. 37b

Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor K304 Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’

Saturday 24 January 11.00 am – Masterclass

MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/Introducing Igor Levit

Monday 26 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 25 January 11.30 am

Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano CPE Bach Rondo in C minor Wq. 59 Mozart Piano Sonata in Eb K282; Rondo in D K485; Adagio in B minor K540; Piano Sonata in C K330 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/The Mozart Odyssey

Hagen Quartet MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE Mozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’; String Quartet in A K464; String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

Chamber Music Season

Darian Trio

Nicola Benedetti

Kevin Westenberg

Hagen Quartet

Harald Hoffmann

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January/February 2015 Tuesday 27 January 7.30 pm

Thursday 29 January 7.30 pm

Saturday 31 January 7.30 pm

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano

Florian Boesch baritone Roger Vignoles piano

Takács Quartet

Mozart Violin Sonata in F K376; Violin Sonata in Bb K15; Violin Sonata in A K402 (incomplete); Violin Sonata in C K6; Violin Sonata in D K29; Violin Sonata in G K9; Violin Sonata in D K7; Violin Sonata in A K305

Krenek Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen Op. 62

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703; String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’; String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

Chamber Music Season/The Mozart Odyssey

Friday 30 January 7.30 pm

Wednesday 28 January 7.30 pm

Juliane Banse soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

Hagen Quartet MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE Mozart String Quartet in D K499 ‘Hoffmeister’; String Quartet in D K575; String Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’ Chamber Music Season/The Mozart Odyssey

Thursday 29 January 1.00 pm

Hagen Quartet Jörg Widmann clarinet

SCHUBERT BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Song Recital Series/Florian Boesch Residency

Chamber Music Season/Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Rheinlegendchen; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Lob des hohen Verstandes; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?

Mahler Erinnerung; Frühlingsmorgen Duparc Chanson triste; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Extase; L’invitation au voyage Schoenberg Erwartung; Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm; Erhebung; Waldsonne Mahler Five Rückert Lieder

Sunday 1 February 11.30 am

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Richard Hosford clarinet Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 £12.50 concs £10

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Song Recital Series

MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE Mozart String Quartet in F K590; Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Chamber Music Season/The Mozart Odyssey

Jörg Widmann

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Marco Borggreve

Juliane Banse

Stefan Nimmesgern

Takács Quartet

Keith Saunders

February 2015 Sunday 1 February 3.00 pm

Monday 2 February 7.30 pm

Wednesday 4 February 12.15 pm

Royal Academy of Music Song Circle

Takács Quartet: Lecture-Recital

Pre-Concert Talk

A selection of 20 Schubert Lieder

Lecture-Recital on Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ and the first movement of String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6

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

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Chamber Music Season/Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

Song Recital Series

An introduction to the lunchtime concert with the Winner of the Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop.

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series

Sunday 1 February 7.30 pm

Tuesday 3 February 7.30 pm

Robin Tritschler tenor Graham Johnson piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Monday 2 February 1.00 pm

Steven Osborne piano

EXAUDI James Weeks director

Wednesday 4 February 1.00 pm

Programme to include: Pieces from the Ecole de Notre-Dame repertory Scelsi Tre Canti Sacri Heinz Holliger nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts (a selection) (UK première) Music from the Chantilly Codex Michael Finnissy Kelir

Jacqueline Shave violin Miranda Dale violin Clare Finnimore viola Kate Musker viola Caroline Dearnley cello

£30 £25 £20 £15

Rachmaninov 4 Etude s-tableaux Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series /Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Britten Sinfonia

Beethoven String Quintet in C Op. 29 ‘Storm’ Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop Winner New work* (world première) Vaughan Williams Phantasy String Quintet *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support from donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £12.50 concs £10

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Robin Tritschler

Garreth Wong

EXAUDI

Matthew Andrews

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February 2015 Wednesday 4 February 7.30 pm

Friday 6 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 7 February 6.00 pm

Christiane Karg soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Jean-Guihen Queyras cello

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Mozart Das Veilchen; An Chloe; Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte; Der Zauberer; Dans un bois solitaire Schubert 4 Mignon Lieder: Gretchen am Spinnrade; Heiss mich nicht reden; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land Schubert Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Hoffnung; Der Jüngling am Bache; Des Mädchens Klage; Thekla; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Elysium

Vivaldi Ouverture from Giustino; Cello Concerto in G minor RV416 Caldara Sinfonia No. 6 in G minor from San Elena al Calvario Vivaldi Concerto for strings in C RV114; Concerto in E minor for cello, bassoon and strings RV409; Concerto in D minor for 2 violins and cello RV565 from L’estro armonico; Ouverture from Dorilla in Tempe; Cello Concerto in F RV412 Caldara Sinfonia No. 12 in A minor from La Passione di Gesù Cristo signor nostro Vivaldi Cello Concerto in A minor RV419

Song Recital Series

Early Music and Baroque Series

Nash Ensemble Philippa Davies flute Lawrence Power viola Lucy Wakeford harp Roderick Williams baritone NASH COMMISSIONS Debussy Syrinx Bennett Sonata after Syrinx for flute, viola and harp Julian Anderson Prayer for solo viola Maw Roman Canticle for baritone, flute, viola and harp Free (ticket required)

Thursday 5 February 7.30 pm

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Anthony Marwood violin Aleksandar Madžar piano

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Janácˇek Violin Sonata Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 Ravel Violin Sonata in A minor (Sonate Posthume) Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis Chamber Music Season/Anthony Marwood and Friends

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

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Kristof Fischer

Roderick Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

February 2015 Saturday 7 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 8 February 3.00 pm

Monday 9 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Simon Bode tenor Igor Levit*piano

Florilegium

Nash Ensemble Lawrence Power viola Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano

Ashley Solomon director, flute Bojan C˘ic˘ic´ violin Reiko Ichise viola da gamba Jennifer Morsches cello Terence Charlston harpsichord

Programme to be announced * WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Mozart Quintet in E b for piano and winds K452 Mahler Five Rückert Lieder (arr. D Matthews for voice and ensemble) Brahms 2 Songs with viola Op. 91; Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Song Recital Series /Introducing Igor Levit Sunday 8 February 7.30 pm

Eggner Trio

£35 £30 £25 £18

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Sunday 8 February 11.30 am

Valeriy Sokolov violin Evgeny Izotov piano Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1 Bartók Violin Sonata No. 1 Sz. 75 Ravel Tzigane Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Mozart Piano Trio in C K548; Piano Trio in Bb K502 Hummel Piano Trio in G Op. 65 Mozart Piano Trio No. 7 in G K564 Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

Telemann Quartet in D from the Paris Quartets (1738 collection) Forqueray La Rameau; La Leclair Leclair Deuxième recréation de musique Op. 8 Rebel Les caractères de la danse Marais Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève Telemann Quartet in E minor from the Paris Quartets (1738 collection) Early Music and Baroque Series

Monday 9 February 1.00 pm

Wednesday 11 February 7.30 pm

Olena Tokar soprano Igor Gryshyn piano

Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn director, harpsichord

Brahms Botschaft; Sommerabend; Über die Heide; Es träumte mir, ich sei dir teuer Strauss Der Stern; Schlechtes Wetter; Allerseelen; Morgen Rimsky-Korsakov Of what I dream in the quiet night; Cool and fragrant is thy garland; Not the wind, blowing from the heights; The lark sings louder Dvorˇák Seven Gypsy Songs Op. 55

Purcell King Arthur Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Olena Tokar is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sarah Connolly

Peter Warren

Olena Tokar

Dorothee Falke

Florilegium

Amit Lennon

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February 2015 Thursday 12 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 14 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 15 February 7.30 pm

Lawrence Power viola, violin Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Doric String Quartet Andreas Haefliger piano

Programme to be announced

Programme to include: Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Martin Fröst clarinet

Chamber Music Season

Chamber Music Season

Programme to include: Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A K622

Sunday 15 February 11.30 am

Chamber Music Season/Martin Fröst Artist in Residence

Friday 13 February 2.30 pm

Martin Fröst Masterclass Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Martin Fröst Artist in Residence

Andreas Ottensamer clarinet José Gallardo piano Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Friday 13 February 7.30 pm

Monday 16 February 1.00 pm

Giuliano Carmignola violin Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Bach Violin Sonata No. 2 in A BWV1015 Bach Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016 Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526

Imogen Cooper piano Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60; Nocturne in E b Op. 55 No. 2 Schumann Humoreske in Bb Op. 20 Schumann Novellette in F# minor Op. 21 No. 8; Novellette in D Op. 21 No. 2 Chopin Nocturne in B Op. 62 No. 1; Nocturne in E Op. 62 No. 2; Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

London Pianoforte Series /Chamber Music Season

Imogen Cooper

94

Sussie Ahlburg

Andreas Ottensamer

Anatol Kotte /Marcury Classics

Giuliano Carmignola

Anna Carmignola/DG

February 2015 Tuesday 17 February 7.30 pm

Thursday 19 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 21 February 7.30 pm

Michala Petri recorder Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

Dante Quartet

Pavel Haas Quartet

Haydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 33 No. 1 Bartók String Quartet No. 4 Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

Schulhoff String Quartet No. 1 Dvorˇák String Quartet in E b Op. 51 Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’

Contemporary English and Danish music for recorder and harpsichord including works by Daniel Kidane, Gordon Jacob, Axel Borup-Jørgensen and Vagn Holmboe £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Bohemia Friday 20 February 7.30 pm

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Sunday 22 February 11.30 am

Maria João Pires piano

Calidore String Quartet

Programme to be announced

Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’

London Pianoforte Series /Maria João Pires Portrait Series

Wednesday 18 February 7.30 pm

Pavel Haas Quartet Colin Currie percussion

Saturday 21 February 11.00 am

Dvorˇák Miniatures Op. 75a Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Jir˘í Gemrot Quintet for two violins, viola, cello and marimba Haas String Quartet No. 2 Op. 7 ‘From the Monkey Mountains’ with percussion

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Early Opera Company Family Concert For ages 5 plus

PURCELL’S KING ARTHUR Wigmore Hall Learning Event /Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Chamber Music Season/Bohemia

Michala Petri

Chamber Music Season

Peter Olesen

Dante Quartet

Phillip Pratt

Calidore String Quartet

Jeffrey Fasano

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February 2015 Sunday 22 February 7.30 pm

Tuesday 24 February 6.00 pm

Wednesday 25 February 7.30 pm

Miloš Karadaglic´ guitar

Artists in Conversation

Llyˆr Williams piano

Sor Grand Solo Op. 14 Gerhard Fantasia Bach Chaconne in D minor BWV1004 (arr. for guitar) Granados Danza española No. 5: Andaluza; Danza española No. 2: Orientale Rodrigo Invocación y danza Falla Danza del Molinero (arr. Michael Lewin); Homenaje: pièce de guitare écrite pour ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’; Danza española (arr. Michael Lewin)

Members of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in conversation

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Op. 14 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2; 6 Variations on an Original Theme in F Op. 34; Fantasia in G minor Op. 77; Piano Sonata No. 13 in E b Op. 27 No. 1 ‘Quasi una fantasia’; Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’

Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 24 February 7.30 pm

Monday 23 February 1.00 pm

Louis Schwizgebel piano Programme to be announced Louis Schwizgebel is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Monday 23 February 7.30 pm

Lisa Batiashvili violin Paul Lewis piano Schubert Violin Sonata (Duo) in A D574; Rondo in B minor D895 Bach Violin Sonata in E minor BWV1023 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96 Chamber Music Season/Paul Lewis: A Celebration

Miloš Karadaglic´

96

Margaret Malandruccolo/DG

£4

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series

London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 26 February 7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; Gillian Keith soprano Rebecca von Lipinski soprano Jonathan Berman conductor Harvey You Babbitt Quatrains Gerald Barry New work (BCMG commission) (world première) Thomas Adès Life Story Op. 8 Kurt Schwertsik Human Existence; Der Herr weis was der Wil; Singt meine Schwäne Sir Harrison Birtwistle Three Settings of Celan: White and Light; Night; Tenebrae Olga Neuwirth The Cartographer Song Poul Ruders Alone Osvaldo Golijov Sarajevo Detlev Glanert Contemplated by a Portrait of a Divine Castiglioni Vallis clausa Salvatore Sciarrino Due risvegli e il vento A Clementi Wiegenlied Donatoni An Angel within my Heart

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton artistic director Amy Dickson saxophone Glazunov Saxophone Concerto Op. 109 Shostakovich Chamber Symphony in C minor Op. 110a Giya Kancheli Night Prayers Tchaikovsky Serenade in C for strings Op. 48 Chamber Music Season

Friday 27 February 7.30 pm

Marie-Nicole Lemieux contralto Roger Vignoles piano Programme to be announced

£30 £25 £20 £15

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season/ Song Recital Series / Contemporary Music Series

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Clive Barda

Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Denis Rouvre

February/March 2015 Sunday 1 March 11.30 am

WOLFGANG RIHM COMPOSER FOCUS DAY

Beatrice Rana piano Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ Rachmaninov Etudes-tableaux Op. 39 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 1 March 7.30 pm

Belcea Quartet Webern Fünf Stücke Op. 10 Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Chamber Music Season

Monday 2 March 1.00 pm

Signum Quartet

Wolfgang Rihm

Manu Theobald

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

Saturday 28 February 11.30 am

6.00 pm

Quatuor Danel Jörg Widmann clarinet Bruno Schneider horn

Artists in Conversation

Wolfgang Rihm Sextet* (UK première); Vier Male for clarinet in A; 4 Studien zu einem Klarinettenquintett

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Contemporary Music Series

*Co-commissioned by Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £12.50 concs £10

2.00 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Ulrich Eisenlohr piano Wolfgang Rihm Ende der Handschrift Songs by Schubert Wolfgang Rihm Das Rot Schubert Heine Lieder from Schwanengesang

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Wolfgang Rihm in conversation £4

7.30 pm

Arditti Quartet Tanja Tetzlaff cello Teodoro Anzellotti accordion Wolfgang Rihm Grave in memoriam Thomas Kakuska; Fetzen for accordion and string quartet; String Quartet No. 10; Epilog for string quintet £30 £25 £20 £15

ALL DAY TICKET £30

£12.50 concs £10

Booking for these events opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series

Beatrice Rana

Julien Faugère

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March 2015 Wednesday 4 March 12.15 pm

Thursday 5 March 7.30 pm

Saturday 7 March 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Alban Gerhardt cello Steven Osborne piano

Elias String Quartet

An introduction to the lunchtime concert with Joey Roukens.

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series

Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Schnittke Cello Sonata No. 1 (dedicated to Natalia Gutman) Messiaen Louange à l’éternité de Jésus from Quatuor pour la fin du temps Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1 Chamber Music Season/Alban Gerhardt Focus

Wednesday 4 March 1.00 pm

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in F Op. 135 Chamber Music Season/Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle

Sunday 8 March 11.30 am

Paolo Borciani Quartet Competition Prizewinner’s Concert

Britten Sinfonia

Friday 6 March 7.30 pm

Thomas Gould violin Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano Owen Gunnell percussion

Francesco Piemontesi piano

Programme to be announced

Scarlatti Sonatas Mendelssohn Songs without Words Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110 Maximilian Schnaus New commission (world première) Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

London Pianoforte Series

PATHS TO A MASTERPIECE

Harrison Varied Trio for violin, piano and percussion Joey Roukens New work* (world première) Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support from donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

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Marino Formenti piano Barraqué Piano Sonata With short works by D’Anglebert, Debussy, Schubert and Webern

£12.50 concs £10

Thomas Gould

Sunday 8 March 7.30 pm

London Pianoforte Series /Contemporary Music Series

Simon Weir

Francesco Piemontesi

Felix Broede

Elias String Quartet

Benjamin Ealovega

March 2015 Monday 9 March 1.00 pm

Tuesday 10 March 7.30 pm

Friday 13 March 7.30 pm

Christiane Karg soprano Gerold Huber piano

The English Concert Harry Bicket director Rosemary Joshua soprano Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Locke Suite from ‘The Tempest’ (Part 1) Purcell Oh, the Sweet Delights of Love; Draw near, you lovers that complain; If music be the food of love Locke Suite from ‘The Tempest’ (Part 2) Purcell My dearest, my fairest; Music for a while; Oh! Fair Cedaria Blow Arietta variata from Partita No. 7 in C minor Purcell Love, thou art best; One charming night; The Plaint; Celemene, pray tell me

The King’s Consort Robert King conductor Julie Cooper soprano Rebecca Outram soprano Daniel Auchincloss high tenor Christopher Watson high tenor James Gilchrist tenor Charles Daniels tenor Andrew Rupp bass Robert Macdonald bass

Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

GENIUS OF VENICE: Sacred Music by Claudio Monteverdi

Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 9 March 7.30 pm

Lucy Crowe soprano James Baillieu piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Wednesday 11 March 7.30 pm

Modigliani Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Dohnányi String Quartet No. 3 Op. 33 Chamber Music Season

Monteverdi Dixit Dominus (Primo); Currite, populi, psallite timpanis A Gabrieli Intonatione Settimo tono Monteverdi Gloria in excelsis Deo à 7; Venite siccientes; Beatus vir (Primo); Salve Regina; Letaniae della Beata Vergine à 6; O beatae viae; Christe Redemptor omnium A Gabrieli Intonatione Primo tono Monteverdi Magnificat (Primo) Early Music and Baroque Series

Thursday 12 March 7.30 pm

Alexander Melnikov piano Feldman Triadic Memories London Pianoforte Series

Lucy Crowe

Marco Borggreve

Modigliani Quartet

Sylvie Lancrenon

The King’s Consort

Keith Saunders

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March 2015 Saturday 14 March 6.00 pm

Sunday 15 March 11.30 am

Monday 16 March 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Daniel Müller-Schott cello Lauma Skride piano

Paolo Pandolfo viola da gamba Markus Hunninger harpsichord

Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A b Op. 70 Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano

Bach Viola da gamba Sonatas

Nash Ensemble Claire Booth soprano NASH COMMISSIONS David Matthews A Blackbird Sang for flute and string trio Michael Berkeley Three Rilke Sonnets for soprano and ensemble Free (ticket required)

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 15 March 3.00 pm

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series Saturday 14 March 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Duo Contraste Cyrille Dubois tenor Tristan Raes piano Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca French and English sonnets

Nash Ensemble Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Juan Martín flamenco guitar

Song Recital Series

Turina La oración del torero Op. 34 (The Bullfighter’s Prayer) for string quartet Falla 7 canciones populares españolas; El corregidor y la molinera (The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife) Act 1 Flamenco music for guitar Falla El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician) for mezzo-soprano and ensemble

Markus Werba baritone Gary Matthewman piano

Sunday 15 March 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 16 March 7.30 pm

Pacifica Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Shulamit Ran Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory – String Quartet No. 3* (European première) Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 * Co-commissioned by Music Accord, Suntory Hall, and

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

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

£35 £30 £25 £18

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series

Bernarda Fink

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Julia Wesely

Markus Werba

Pacifica Quartet

Saverio Truglia

March 2015 Tuesday 17 March 7.30 pm

Wednesday 18 March 7.30 pm

Thursday 19 March 7.30 pm

Carolyn Sampson soprano Elizabeth Kenny lute Anne-Marie Lasla bass viol Laurence Cummings harpsichord

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Leila Josefowicz violin John Novacek piano

VICTORIOUS LOVE A selection of songs and arias by Purcell Early Music and Baroque Series /Henry Purcell: A Retrospective /Celebrating Carolyn Sampson

Wednesday 18 March 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Composers discuss their works to be performed in the evening concert.

Free (ticket required)

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series /Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series

Nash Ensemble Lionel Friend conductor Richard Hosford clarinet Lucy Wakeford harp Claire Booth soprano

Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105 Magnus Lindberg New work* (world première) Schubert Fantasy in C D934 * Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Linda and Stuart Nelson, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

NASH INVENTIONS Mark-Anthony Turnage Three Farewells for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp* Carter Poems of Louis Zukofsky for soprano and clarinet* Julian Anderson Poetry Nearing Silence Richard Causton Piano Quintet** (London première) Simon Holt Shadow Realm for clarinet, cello and harp* Sir Harrison Birtwistle Three Sonnets for soprano and ensemble* (world première) *Nash Ensemble commissions ** Commissioned by the BBC for the Nash Ensemble’s 50th anniversary £25 £22 £18 £12

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series

Elizabeth Kenny

Richard Haughton

Claire Booth

Sven Arnstein

£30 £25 £20 £15

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Friday 20 March 7.30 pm

Cédric Tiberghien piano Mozart Adagio in B minor K540 Schubert Piano Sonata in B D575 Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor K457 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ London Pianoforte Series

Leila Josefowicz

J Henry Fair

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March 2015 Saturday 21 March 11.00 am

Sunday 22 March 3.00 pm

Monday 23 March 7.30 pm

CAVATINA Family Concert Heath Quartet

Andrè Schuen baritone Daniel Heide piano

The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director

Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Wolf Harfenspieler Lieder: Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; An die Türen will ich schleichen; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß Martin Six Monologues from Hofmannsthal’s ‘Jedermann’

CHRIST THE KING Sub-plot: Henry VIII

For ages 6 plus Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 21 March 7.30 pm

Gerald Finley bass-baritone Julius Drake piano

Song Recital Series

Sunday 22 March 7.30 pm

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Hilary Hahn violin Cory Smythe piano

Sunday 22 March 11.30 am

Programme to be announced

Tesla Quartet

Chamber Music Season

Fayrfax Gloria from Missa ‘Regali ex progenie’ Turges From stormy wyndis Sampson Psallite felices Fayrfax Benedicite: What dremyd I?; Magnificat ‘O bone Jesu’ Ludford Domine Jesu Christe Fayrfax I love, loved Taverner Christe Jesu, pastor bone Henry VIII Helas madame Fayrfax That was my woo; Lauda vivi alpha Early Music and Baroque Series /The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration

Tuesday 24 March 7.30 pm

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Arcadia Quartet Meccorre Quartet

Monday 23 March 1.00 pm

Danish String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in E b Op. 117

Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 Mendelssohn Octet in E b Op. 20

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

Chamber Music Season

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tesla Quartet

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Misha Handschumacher

Andrè Schuen

Angelika Schwarz

Arcadia Quartet

March 2015 Wednesday 25 March 7.30 pm

Saturday 28 March Semi-Finals 2.00 pm & 7.00 pm

Monday 30 March 1.00 pm

Louis Lortie piano

Sunday 29 March Final 6.00 pm

Zhang Zuo piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178

Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2015

Bach Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26

London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 26 March 7.00 pm

Atrium Quartet Borodin String Quartet No. 1 in A Shostakovich String Quartet No. 12 in Db Op. 133 Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132

The Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition is a prestigious and important celebration of the string quartet. Since the first Competition, which was won by the then unknown Takács Quartet in 1979, it has grown in status and prestige, and continues to attract young quartets from around the world.

Zhang Zuo is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 31 March 7.30 pm

Join passionate lovers of the genre as we hear the next generation of musicians, and follow the progress of the Competition from the Preliminary Round (held at the Royal Academy of Music from Tuesday 24 – Friday 27 March) to the Final at Wigmore Hall, and the Prize-Giving Ceremony.

Los Músicos de Su Alteza

Benjamin Appl baritone Graham Johnson piano

Chamber Music Season

Songs by Schubert

Sunday 29 March 11.30 am

Song Recital Series

Dover Quartet

Monteverdi Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius Grandi O quam tu pulchra es Correa de Arauxo Tiento y discurso de segundo tono Berges Oh santísima Cruz Kapsberger Toccata seconda Ferrari Cantata spirituale Monteverdi Pianto della Madonna Frescobaldi Toccata prima Sances Stabat Mater

Chamber Music Season

Friday 27 March 7.30 pm

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 11 in C Op. 61 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Benjamin Appl

David Jerusalem

Dover Quartet

Olalla Alemán soprano Pedro Reula bass viol Josep María Martí chitarrone Luis Antonio González director, harpsichord

Early Music and Baroque Series

Los Músicos de Su Alteza

Michal Novak

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SUMMER PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2015

These concerts (except where stated) are not bookable on this brochure. Booking dates and full details of artists and programmes will be published in a separate brochure available from late December 2014.

April 2015 Wednesday 1 April 7.30 pm

Saturday 4 April 7.30 pm

Monday 6 April 1.00 pm

Khatia Buniatishvili piano

Dunedin Consort John Butt director

Meta4

Programme to be announced London Pianoforte Series

Bach St John Passion BWV245

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1

Early Music and Baroque Series Thursday 2 April 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sunday 5 April 11.30 am

The English Concert Harry Bicket director Terry Wey countertenor Schütz Die mit Tränen säen werden mit Freuden ernten SWV378 JC Bach Ach, daß ich Wassers gnug hätte (Lamento) Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri BUXWV75

London Bridge Ensemble

Tuesday 7 April 7.30 pm

Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898

Andreas Scholl countertenor Tamar Halperin harpsichord

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Early Music and Baroque Series

Khatia Buniatishvili

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Julia Wesely

London Bridge Ensemble

operaomnia.co.uk

Meta4

Stefan Bremer

April 2015 Thursday 9 April 7.30 pm

Sunday 12 April 11.30 am

Sunday 12 April 7.30 pm

Andreas Haefliger piano

Wigmore Hall Debut

Lukas Geniusas piano

Christopher Maltman baritone Graham Johnson piano

Programme to be announced

Programme to be announced

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Song Recital Series

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54 Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) Sz. 81 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90 Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5 London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 12 April 3.00 pm Monday 13 April 1.00 pm

Dominik Köninger baritone Volker Krafft piano

Friday 10 April 7.30 pm

Kari Kriikku clarinet Nils Mönkemeyer viola Tim Horton piano Heath Quartet

Winner of the 2011 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition

Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Mozart Piano Sonata in F K332; Adagio in F K.Anh. 206; Piano Sonata in D K284

SONGS OF THE ELEMENTS

Mozart Duo in Bb K424; Clarinet Trio No. 2 in Eb K498 ‘Kegelstatt’; String Quintet in G minor K516 Chamber Music Season/The Mozart Odyssey

WATER Schubert Der Schiffer; Auf dem Wasser zu singen Mahler Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Brahms Verzagen Wolf Seemanns Abschied

Kuss Quartet

AIR Brahms Unbewegte laue Luft Mahler Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft from Five Rückert Lieder Liszt Es rauschen die Winde Brahms Wehe, so willst du mich wieder

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 50 No. 6 ‘The Frog’ Lutosławski String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

FIRE Mendelssohn And’res Maienlied Mahler Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen from Kindertotenlieder Wolf Der Feuerreiter

Chamber Music Season

EARTH Schubert Die Mutter Erde Brahms Juchhe!

Schumann Mondnacht Wolf Nachtgruss Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen from Five Rückert Lieder

Saturday 11 April 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/ The Mozart Odyssey

Tuesday 14 April 7.30 pm

London Handel Orchestra Programme to be announced Early Music and Baroque Series

Song Recital Series

Nils Mönkemeyer

Irene Zandel

Dominik Köninger

Kristian Bezuidenhout

Marco Borggreve

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April 2015 Wednesday 15 April 7.30 pm

Sunday 19 April 11.30 am

Monday 20 April 1.00 pm

Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Simon Lepper piano

London Conchord Ensemble

Miah Persson soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

Grieg 6 Songs Op. 48 Gustav Mahler Five Rückert Lieder Alma Mahler Die stille Stadt; In meines Vaters Garten; Laue Sommernacht; Bei dir ist es traut; Ich wandle unter Blumen Wagner Wesendonck Lieder

Duruflé Prélude, récitatif et variations for flute, viola and piano Op. 3 Loeffler L’étang from 2 Rhapsodies Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15

Programme to be announced

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sunday 19 April 3.00 pm

Song Recital Series

Monday 20 April 7.30 pm

Saturday 18 April 7.30 pm

Daniel Behle tenor Oliver Schnyder Trio piano trio

Borodin Quartet

Schubert Winterreise (UK première of an arrangement by Behle)

Programme to be announced

Song Recital Series

Song Recital Series

Sunday 19 April 7.30 pm

Tuesday 21 April 7.30 pm

Borodin Quartet

Wihan Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 10 in A b Op. 118; String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131

Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Chamber Music Season

Chamber Music Season

Alice Coote

mezzo-soprano Pianist to be announced

Chamber Music Season

Karen Cargill

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K K Dundas

Borodin Quartet

Keith Saunders

April 2015

Kathleen Ferrier Award 2015 Wednesday 22 April 2.00 pm SEMI-FINAL

Sunday 26 April 11.30 am

Monday 27 April 7.30 pm

Vienna Piano Trio

Garrick Ohlsson piano

Beethoven Variations in G Op. 121a ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’; Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

Skryabin Piano Sonata No. 2 in G# minor Op. 19; Piano Sonata No. 7 in F# Op. 64 ‘White Mass’; Piano Sonata No. 4 in F# Op. 30; Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 6; Piano Sonata No. 10 Op. 70 Further Skryabin works to be announced

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Friday 24 April 6.00 pm FINAL

Thursday 23 April 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Sunday 26 April 7.30 pm

London Pianoforte Series

Michael Collins clarinet Belcea Quartet

Tuesday 28 April 7.30 pm

Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115

Alice Sara Ott piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’ Bach Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV944 Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV1004 Liszt Liebesträume S541; Grandes études de Paganini S141 London Pianoforte Series

Chamber Music Season/The Mozart Odyssey

Vienna Piano Trio Mozart Piano Trio in C K548 Turina Piano Trio No. 1 Op. 35 Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 Chamber Music Season

Monday 27 April 1.00 pm

Antoine Tamestit viola

Wednesday 29 April 7.30 pm

Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007 Hindemith Sonata for solo viola Op. 25 No. 1 Bach Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009

Allan Clayton tenor Paul Lewis piano Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

Saturday 25 April 7.30 pm

Arcanto Quartet

Song Recital Series/Paul Lewis: A Celebration

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 Chamber Music Season

Alice Sara Ott

Esther Haase/DG

Vienna Piano Trio

Nancy Horowitz

Allan Clayton

Jack Liebeck

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April/May 2015 Thursday 30 April 7.30 pm

Sunday 3 May 11.30 am

Monday 4 May 1.00 pm

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano

Martin Fröst clarinet Roland Pöntinen piano

Elias String Quartet Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454; Violin Sonata in G K27; Violin Sonata in C K296; Violin Sonata in F K547; Violin Sonata in Bb K31; Violin Sonata in D K306

Brahms Songs (arr. M Fröst & R Pöntinen): Die Mainacht; Wie Melodien zieht es mir; Mädchenlied Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 14, 19 & 21 (arr. M Fröst & R Pöntinen) Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2

Emily Howard New string quartet (world première) Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44

Chamber Music Season / The Mozart Odyssey Friday 1 May 7.30 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/Martin Fröst Artist in Residence

Martin Fröst clarinet Maxim Rysanov viola Roland Pöntinen piano Miah Persson soprano

Family Concert Martin Fröst clarinet Roland Pöntinen piano

Works by Monteverdi, Schubert and Brahms Early Music and Baroque Series

For ages 5 plus

Tuesday 5 May 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Martin Fröst Artist in Residence

Chamber Music Season/Martin Fröst Artist in Residence Saturday 2 May 7.30 pm Repeated Tuesday 5 May 7.30 pm

Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Berg Sieben frühe Lieder Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben

Dorothea Röschmann soprano Mitsuko Uchida piano Repeat of concert on 2 May

Sunday 3 May 7.30 pm

Dorothea Röschmann soprano Mitsuko Uchida piano

Monday 4 May 7.30 pm

Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor

Sunday 3 May 3.00 pm

Mozart Clarinet Trio No. 2 in E b K498 ‘Kegelstatt’ Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock); Romance from Der häusliche Krieg Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Kurtág Hommage à Robert Schumann Op. 15d

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Song Recital Series

Heath Quartet Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 76 No. 6 Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106 Chamber Music Season

Song Recital Series

Dorothea Röschmann

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Jim Rakete

Roland Pöntinen & Martin Fröst

Mats Bäcker

Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Sheila Rock/Decca

May 2015 Wednesday 6 May 7.30 pm

Friday 8 May 7.00 pm

Saturday 9 May 7.30 pm

Classical Opera Allan Clayton tenor Ian Page conductor

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Belcea Quartet Maxim Rysanov viola Antonio Meneses cello

‘WHERE’ER YOU WALK’: HANDEL’S FAVOURITE TENOR Programme to include: Handel Un momento di contento from Alcina; Vedi l’ape from Berenice; Where’er you walk from Semele; Waft her, angels, through the skies from Jephtha Boyce Softly rise, o southern breeze from Solomon JC Smith Hark how the hounds and horn from The Fairies Arne Overture and From the dawn of early morning from Alfred; Thou like the glorious sun from Artaxerxes

Arnaud Sussmann violin Matthew Lipman viola David Finckel cello Wu Han piano Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Helen Grime String Trio* (world première) Brahms Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata (Sonatensatz) Schumann Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47 *Co-commissioned by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant making foundation £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Brahms String Quartet in Bb Op. 67 Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 Chamber Music Season

Sunday 10 May 11.30 am

Schumann Quartett Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Thursday 7 May 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Olli Mustonen piano Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101; Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90; 12 Variations on the Russian Dance from Wranitsky’s ballet Das Waldmädchen in A WoO. 71 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 82

Friday 8 May 10.00 pm

Alison Balsom trumpet Trevor Pinnock harpsichord The English Concert Works by Purcell

London Pianoforte Series

Wigmore Lates /Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Olli Mustonen

Outi Montosen

Alison Balsom

Schumann Quartett

Kaupo Kikkas

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May 2015 Sunday 10 May 3.00 pm

Monday 11 May 7.30 pm

Thursday 14 May 1.00 pm

Claire Booth soprano Christopher Glynn piano

Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano

Roger Vignoles Masterclass

Schubert Auf der Riesenkoppe; Der Fluss; Nachtviolen; Die Sterne Grieg Haugtussa (The Mountain Maid) Grainger Willow, Willow; Died for Love; Bold William Taylor; The Sprig of Thyme

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Thursday 14 May 7.30 pm

Kirill Gerstein piano

Tuesday 12 May 7.30 pm

Song Recital Series

Gabrieli Consort & Players Paul McCreesh director

Sunday 10 May 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Bartók Excerpts from Mikrokosmos Bach 15 Sinfonias (3 Part Inventions) BWV787– 801 Liszt Études d’exécution transcendante S139 London Pianoforte Series

PURCELL ODES: I

Werner Güra tenor Christoph Berner piano

Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano

Songs by Schubert Song Recital Series

Wednesday 13 May 7.30 pm

Monday 11 May 1.00 pm

Gabrieli Consort & Players Paul McCreesh director

Sara Mingardo contralto Ivano Zanenghi theorbo Giorgio Dal Monte harpsichord

Saturday 16 May 7.30 pm

PURCELL ODES: II Early Music and Baroque Series/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Programme to include works by Falconieri and Monteverdi

Schubert Wehmut; Der Zwerg; Nacht und Träume; Der Musensohn; An die Entfernte; Am Flusse; Willkommen und Abschied; Wandrers Nachtlied II; An die Leier; Am See; Im Haine; Erlkönig; An den Mond (D259); Nähe des Geliebten; Nachtgesang; Liebhaber in allen Gestalten; Meeres Stille; Auf dem See; An Mignon; Erster Verlust; Ganymed; An den Mond (D296) Song Recital Series /Ian Bostridge Schubert Lieder

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Werner Güra

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Marco Borggreve

Christianne Stotijn

Stephen Vanfleteren

Kirill Gerstein

Marco Borggreve

May 2015 Sunday 17 May 11.30 am

Monday 18 May 1.00 pm

Michael Collins clarinet London Winds Michael McHale piano

Christoph Prégardien tenor Daniel Heide piano

Saint-Saëns Caprice sur des airs danois et russes Op. 79 Mozart Quintet in E b for piano and winds K452 Thuille Sextet in Bb for piano and winds Op. 6

Schubert An den Mond; Schäfers Klagelied; Erster Verlust; Rastlose Liebe; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Willkommen und Abschied Schumann Dichterliebe

Thursday 21 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm

YCAT Public Final Auditions 2015

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sunday 17 May 7.30 pm

Friday 22 May 7.00 pm Wednesday 20 May 7.30 pm

Jack Liebeck violin Katya Apekisheva piano Messiaen Theme and Variations Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Stravinsky Divertimento

Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Anthony Spiri piano

Joshua Bell violin Lawrence Power viola Steven Isserlis cello Jeremy Denk piano

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Suk Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 1 Janácˇek Violin Sonata Martinu˚ Cello Sonata No. 2 Dvorˇák Piano Quartet in E b Op. 87

Chamber Music Season

Saturday 23 May 7.30 pm

Joshua Bell violin Pamela Frank violin Lawrence Power viola Steven Isserlis cello Jeremy Denk piano

Chamber Music Season

Dvorˇák Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 (arr. for 2 violins and viola) Janácˇek Pohádka Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 Dvorˇák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 Chamber Music Season

Michael Collins

Benjamin Ealovega

Christoph Prégardien

Marco Borggreve

Joshua Bell

Lisa Marie Mazzucco

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May 2015 Sunday 24 May 11.30 am

Monday 25 May 7.30 pm

Friday 29 May 7.00 pm

Aviv String Quartet

Quatuor Ebène

Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Emperor’ Dutilleux Ainsi la nuit Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132

Henk Neven baritone Imogen Cooper piano

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season Sunday 24 May 7.30 pm

Inon Barnatan piano Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894 Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue Sebastian Currier Glow* (world première) Ravel Gaspard de la nuit *Co-commissioned by Aspen Music Festival, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Tuesday 26 May 7.30 pm

James Ehnes violin Andrew Armstrong piano

Song Recital Series

Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82 Respighi Violin Sonata in B minor

Saturday 30 May 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season

Llyˆr Williams piano

£30 £25 £20 £15

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

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

London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series Monday 25 May 1.00 pm

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano Programme to include works by Beethoven, Boulez, Debussy and Ohana

Mendelssohn Gruß; Allnächtlich im Traume; Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Jagdlied from Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Venetianisches Gondellied; Der Mond; Nachtlied Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Der Tamboursg’sell; Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz; Nicht wiedersehen!; Trost im Unglück; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Revelge; Urlicht

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’; Piano Sonata No. 18 in E b Op. 31 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101

Thursday 28 May 7.30 pm

Philippe Cassard piano David Grimal violin Anne Gastinel cello

London Pianoforte Series

Baptiste Trotignon Trio (London première) Chausson Piano Trio in G minor Op. 3 Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb D929

Sunday 31 May 11.30 am

Jean-Marc Luisada piano

Chamber Music Season

Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 Schumann Arabeske in C Op. 18; Humoreske in Bb Op. 20 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Inon Barnatan

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Quatuor Ebène

Julien Mignot

Jean-Marc Luisada

Catherine Cabrol

May/June 2015 Sunday 31 May 7.30 pm

Tuesday 2 June 7.30 pm

Thursday 4 June 7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt piano Gerald Finley bass-baritone Cremona Quartet

Soloists of Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe director

Mauro Peter tenor Helmut Deutsch piano

10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRASIMENO MUSIC FESTIVAL

O DOLCE MIO TESORO

Programme to be announced

Early Music and Baroque Series

Gesualdo Madrigali libro sesto

London Pianoforte Series /Chamber Music Season/ Song Recital Series

Song Recital Series

Wednesday 3 June 7.30 pm Monday 1 June 1.00 pm

Richard Goode piano

Tasmin Little violin Martin Roscoe piano

Mozart Adagio in B minor K540 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90 Brahms Klavierstücke Op. 76 Debussy Children’s Corner Schumann Humoreske in Bb Op. 20

Brahms Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata (Sonatensatz) Dvorˇák Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano

Programme to include: Schumann From Myrthen: Widmung; Freisinn; Der Nussbaum; Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan I & II; Die Lotosblume; Aus den hebräischen Gesängen; Zwei Venetianische Lieder; Du bist wie eine Blume Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte

Friday 5 June 7.00 pm

London Pianoforte Series

Christian McBride Trio Christian McBride bass Christian Sands piano Ulysses Owens Jr. drums Christian McBride, Christian Sands and Ulysses Owens Jr. have been honing their trio to a fine point of expressive depth and nuance with high profile performances around the world. ‘The real core foundation is hardcore swingin’, blues and the American songbook’ says McBride. ‘Part of that is because Christian [Sands] is so well-rounded and willing to go to so many places, that I can’t help but want to swing hard with him and Ulysses.’

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Tasmin Little

Paul Mitchell

Philippe Herreweghe

Riita Ince

Christian McBride

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June 2015 Friday 5 June 10.00 pm

Sunday 7 June 11.30 am

Tuesday 9 June 7.30 pm

Florian Boesch

ATOS Trio

Phantasm

Debussy Piano Trio in G Chaminade Piano Trio No. 2 in A minor Op. 34 Boulanger D’un matin de printemps

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

baritone Further artists to be announced Schubert (arr. Webern) Tränenregen from Die schöne Müllerin; Ihr Bild from Schwanengesang; Romanze zum Drama Rosamunde; Der Wegweiser from Winterreise; Du bist die Ruh Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg)

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Elizabeth Kenny theorbo

Sunday 7 June 7.30 pm

Wigmore Lates/Florian Boesch Residency

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Saturday 6 June 7.30 pm

Wolf Songs from Italienisches Liederbuch Brahms Four Serious Songs Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39

Aurora Orchestra Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Programme to include: Judith Weir New commission* (world première) *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £40 £35 £25 £15

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music Series

Song Recital Series/Florian Boesch Residency

Gibbons Fantasies a 3, Nos. 3 & 4 Purcell Fantasias a 3, Nos. 1, 2 & 3 Locke Little Consort ‘for my cousin Kemble’ Purcell Fantasias a 4, Nos. 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 & 12 Lawes Royall Consort No. 10 in Bb Ward Fancies a 4, Nos. 3, 4 & 6 Locke Consort of 4 Parts in D minor Early Music and Baroque Series/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Monday 8 June 1.00 pm

Škampa Quartet Krzysztof Chorzelski viola Suk Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale (St Wenceslas) Op. 35a Pavel Fischer String Quartet No. 3 ‘Mad Piper’ Dvorˇák String Quintet in E b Op. 97

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Alice Coote

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Benjamin Ealovega

ATOS Trio

Steven Haberland

Phantasm

Marco Borggreve

June 2015 Wednesday 10 June 7.30 pm

Friday 12 June 7.00 pm

Sunday 14 June 7.30 pm

Christiane Iven soprano Igor Levit*piano

Isabelle Faust violin Alexander Melnikov piano

Carducci String Quartet Guy Johnston cello

Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Wolf Mörike Lieder: Um Mitternacht; Elfenlied; Das verlassene Mägdlein; In der Frühe; Begegnung; Er ist’s Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen; Scheiden und Meiden; Ich ging mit Lust; Nicht wiedersehen!

Schoenberg From Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs): Galathea; Gigerlette; Der genügsame Liebhaber; Mahnung; Seit ich soviele Weiber sah (Arie aus dem Spiegel von Arkadien)

Programme to be announced

Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Anthony Gilbert New work for string quintet* (world première) Schubert String Quintet in C D956

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

Chamber Music Season

Saturday 13 June 7.30 pm

François-Frédéric Guy piano Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano Bartók Two Pictures Op. 10 Debussy/Bavouzet Jeux Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

*Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £30 £25 £20 £15

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

London Pianoforte Series

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

Sunday 14 June 11.30 am

Monday 15 June 1.00 pm

Lana Trotovsek violin Simon Lane piano

Gould Piano Trio

Song Recital Series /Introducing Igor Levit

Thursday 11 June 6.00 pm Repeated Thursday 11 June 9.00 pm

Paul Lewis piano 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 London Pianoforte Series/Paul Lewis: A Celebration

Christiane Iven

Christine Schneider

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Arvo Pärt Fratres for violin and piano Tchaikovsky Meditation from Souvenir d’un lieu cher Op. 42 Tartini Sonata in G minor ‘The Devil’s Trill’

York Bowen Rhapsody Trio for violin, cello and piano Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Lana Trotovsek

Carducci String Quartet

Andy Holdsworth Photography

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June 2015 Monday 15 June 7.30 pm

Thursday 18 June 7.30 pm

Saturday 20 June 7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Michael Gees piano

The Endellion String Quartet

The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director

Schubert Winterreise Song Recital Series

Mozart String Quartet in E b K428 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 Ravel String Quartet in F Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 16 June 7.30 pm

Taverner Sospitati dedit aegros; Mater Christi sanctissima Cornysh Woefully arrayed Fayrfax Maria plena virtute Merbecke Domine Jesu Christe Davy Ah blessed Jesu how fortuned this Fayrfax Alas for lak of her presens Taverner O Wilhelme pastor bone Fayrfax Agnus Dei (Tecum principium)

Friday 19 June 7.00 pm

Till Fellner piano

London Pianoforte Series

Baiba Skride violin Gergana Gergova violin Brett Dean viola Nils Mönkemeyer viola Alban Gerhardt cello

Wednesday 17 June 7.30 pm

Mozart String Quintet in E b K614 Brett Dean Epitaphs Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111

Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book II Nos. 5–8 BWV874–77 Mozart Piano Sonata in E b K282; Rondo in A minor K511 Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16

THE PASSION OF CHRIST Sub-plot: Cardinal Wolsey

Early Music and Baroque Series/The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration

Sunday 21 June 11.30 am

Mark Padmore tenor Roger Vignoles piano

£30 £25 £20 £15

Michelangelo Quartet

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Schubert Atys; Ganymed; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Am Strome; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Der Jüngling an der Quelle; Der Schiffer (D536) Britten Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente Britten The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Schubert Die Mutter Erde; Im Abendrot; Die Taubenpost (D965a)

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Alban Gerhardt Focus

Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Song Recital Series

Till Fellner

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Benjamin Ealovega

Baiba Skride

Marco Borggreve

Michelangelo Quartet

Marco Borggreve

June 2015 Monday 22 June 1.00 pm

Thursday 25 June 7.30 pm

Sunday 28 June 11.30 am

Ailish Tynan soprano James Baillieu piano

Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet director

Jack Liebeck violin Katya Apekisheva piano

Hahn Fêtes galantes; En sourdine; A Chloris Poulenc La courte paille; Trois poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin Hahn Venezia – Chansons en dialecte vénitien

VENETIAN SPLENDOURS

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1 Lekeu Violin Sonata in G Gluck/Kreisler Orfeo ed Euridice, Act II: Dance of the Blessed Spirits ‘Melody’ Falla/Kreisler Danse espagnole from La Vida breve

Campra Mass ‘Ad majorem Dei gloriam’ Vivaldi Laetatus sum RV607; In exitu Israel RV604; Magnificat RV610; Lauda Jerusalem RV609; Gloria RV589

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Early Music and Baroque Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Sunday 28 June 7.30 pm

Friday 26 June 7.00 pm Tuesday 23 June 7.30 pm

Borodin Quartet

Borodin Quartet

Ingrid Fliter piano

Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’ Shostakovich String Quartet No. 6 in G Op. 101 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1

Programme to be announced London Pianoforte Series

Chamber Music Season

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 24 June 7.30 pm Saturday 27 June 7.30 pm

Matthew Polenzani tenor Julius Drake piano

Monday 29 June 1.00 pm

Leipzig String Quartet

Beethoven Adelaide Liszt Wie singt die Lerche schön; Der Glückliche; Die stille Wasserrose; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Es rauschen die Winde; S’il est un charmant gazon; Enfant, si j’étais roi; Comment, disaient-ils; Oh! quand je dors Ravel Cinq mélodies populaires grecques Satie Trois Mélodies Barber Hermit Songs

Beethoven Grosse Fuge in Bb Op. 133 Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 103 Hanna Kulenty New work (UK première) Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1

Ilya Gringolts violin Ashley Wass piano Korngold Violin Sonata in G Op. 6 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor

Chamber Music Season BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Song Recital Series

Ingrid Fliter

Sussie Ahlburg

Le Concert Spirituel

J P Campion

Jack Liebeck

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June/July 2015 Tuesday 30 June 7.30 pm

Thursday 2 July 7.30 pm

Friday 3 July 10.00 pm

Razumovsky Ensemble

Matthias Goerne baritone

Svante Henryson’s Jazz Quartet

Programme to be announced

Pianist to be announced

Chamber Music Season

Programme to be announced

Svante Henryson cello Anders Jormin double bass Audun Kleive drums Jon Balke piano

Song Recital Series Wednesday 1 July 7.30 pm

MONTEVERDI MEETS JAZZ

Carolyn Sampson soprano Heath Quartet Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 in F# minor Op. 10 John Musto New work for soprano and string quartet* (world première) *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £30 £25 £20 £15

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Friday 3 July 7.00 pm

Julia Zenko voice Hugo Ticciati violin Tango for 3 tango quartet Amstel Quartet saxophone quartet

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Annelies van der Vegt

Saturday 4 July 1.00 pm

MONTEVERDI TO TANGO

Amstel Quartet saxophone quartet Hugo Ticciati violin

Tango arrangements of Monteverdi

ORPHEUS GONE POST-MODERN

Chamber Music Season/ O/ModӘrnt: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint

Short opera/ballet based on the myth of Orpheus with music from Monteverdi, Philip Glass, Gluck and Wijnand van Klaveren

Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music Series / Celebrating Carolyn Sampson

Carolyn Sampson

Chamber Music Season/Wigmore Lates / O/ModӘrnt: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint

Chamber Music Season/ O/ModӘrnt: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint

Matthias Goerne

Marco Borggreve

Amstel Quartet

July 2015 Saturday 4 July 7.30 pm

Sunday 5 July 7.30 pm

Tuesday 7 July 6.00 pm

Hugo Ticciati violin Emlyn Stam viola Göran Fröst viola Guy Johnston cello Quirine Viersen cello Alexander Oliver reciter

Hugo Ticciati violin Christian Poltéra cello Tõnu Kaljuste conductor

Pre-Concert Talk

Choirs to be announced

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

ON THE LIMITS OF TONALITY: MONTEVERDI MEETS SCHOENBERG Monteverdi Madrigals arranged for string quintet Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon Op. 41 Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 Chamber Music Season/ O/ModӘrnt: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint

An introduction to the evening concert. £4

VOICES FROM AFAR Monteverdi Lagrima d’amante al sepolcro dell’amata Arvo Pärt Magnificat Pe¯teris Vasks Plainscapes Improvisations for solo violin and cello Arvo Pärt Dopo la Vittoria Tavener Svyati Chamber Music Season/ O/ModӘrnt: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello

John O’Conor piano

Programme to be announced

Beethoven 7 Bagatelles Op. 33 Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Tuesday 7 July 7.30 pm

Aurora Orchestra Claire Booth soprano Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet; Three Japanese Lyrics Ravel Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé Julian Anderson Poetry Nearing Silence Augusta Read Thomas New work for voice and ensemble* (world première) Sir Harrison Birtwistle Tragoedia

Monday 6 July 1.00 pm Sunday 5 July 11.30 am

Wigmore Hall Learning Event /Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

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

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£30 £25 £20 £15

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

Chamber Music Season/Julian Anderson Composer in Residence/Contemporary Music Series

John O’Conor

Hugo Ticciati

Sussie Ahlburg

Claire Booth

Sven Arnstein

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July 2015 Thursday 9 July 7.30 pm

Saturday 11 July 7.00 pm

Sunday 12 July 7.30 pm

Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo-soprano Helmut Deutsch piano

Miah Persson soprano Joan Rodgers soprano Elizabeth Watts soprano Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager

Levon Chilingirian violin Sergey Khachatryan violin Kim Kashkashian viola Alexander Chaushian cello Steven Isserlis cello Vahan Mardirossian piano Ashley Wass piano Sergei Babayan piano Lusine Khachatryan piano

Songs by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Musorgsky Song Recital Series

mezzo-soprano

Renata Pokupic´ mezzo-soprano John Mark Ainsley tenor Mark Padmore tenor Florian Boesch baritone Roderick Williams baritone Antoine Tamestit viola Roger Vignoles piano

Friday 10 July 7.00 pm

Gabriela Montero piano Schubert 4 Impromptus D935 Schumann Carnaval Op. 9 Gabriela Montero Improvisations London Pianoforte Series

Friday 10 July 10.00 pm

Anthony Marwood violin James Crabb accordion

IN MEMORIAM 1915

AN MEIN KLAVIER: ROGER VIGNOLES 70TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Komitas Miniatures for string quartet Arutiunian Pieces for solo piano Babadjanian Piano Trio Komitas 7 songs arranged for solo piano Mansurian Nostalgia for solo piano Schumann Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47

Programme to be announced

Chamber Music Season

Song Recital Series

An evening of tango music

Monday 13 July 1.00 pm

Wigmore Lates/Anthony Marwood and Friends Sunday 12 July 11.30 am

Stephen Kovacevich piano

Modigliani Quartet

Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959

Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Gabriela Montero

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Colin Bell/EMI Classics

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Sheila Rock

Stephen Kovacevich

David Thompson/EMI

July 2015 Monday 13 July 7.30 pm

Wednesday 15 July 7.30 pm

Saturday 18 July 7.30 pm

Janina Fialkowska piano

The Schubert Ensemble

Quatuor Mosaïques

Grieg Six Lyric Pieces Liszt Gretchen – 2nd movement from A Faust Symphony S513 Ravel Jeux d’eau Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26

Schumann Canonic Study in A b (arr. for piano quintet by Orlando Jopling) Fauré Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor Op. 89 Schumann Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44

Mozart String Quartet in C K157 Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2 Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Chamber Music Season

Chamber Music Season

London Pianoforte Series Sunday 19 July 11.30 am Thursday 16 July 2.00 pm and 6.30 pm Tuesday 14 July 7.30 pm

Arcangelo* Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord Programme to be announced * WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Community Chamber Opera Early Opera Company and Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble Ignite are joined by a community cast of all ages from across Westminster for a unique reworking of Purcell’s opera King Arthur.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Sitkovetsky Trio Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 19 July 7.30 pm

Quatuor Mosaïques

Early Music and Baroque Series

Haydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 64 No. 2 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’

Friday 17 July 7.00 pm

Camilla Tilling soprano Paul Rivinius piano

Chamber Music Season

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Arcangelo

Adam Swann

Camilla Tilling

Mats Widén

Quatuor Mosaïques

Wolfgang Krautzer

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July 2015 Monday 20 July 7.30 pm

Wednesday 22 July 7.30 pm

Saturday 25 July 7.30 pm

Igor Levit piano

Matthew Rose bass Helen Collyer piano

Ailish Tynan soprano Iain Burnside piano

Songs by Purcell/ Britten, Brahms and Loewe

Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ Dominic Muldowney In Paris with you Poulenc Fiançailles pour rire (a selection) Weill Complainte de la Seine Ned Rorem Early in the Morning Dave Frishberg Another Song about Paris Songs by Parry Folksongs by Judith Bingham American Songs

Cardew Thälmann Variations Frederic Rzewski Dreams II* (UK première); The People United will never be Defeated *Co -commissioned by Heidelberger Frühling, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £30 £25 £20 £15

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 6 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 15 May & to the General Public on 30 May.

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

London Pianoforte Series /Contemporary Music Series /Introducing Igor Levit

Song Recital Series

Thursday 23 July 7.30 pm

Marc-André Hamelin piano Field Andante inédit Schubert Piano Sonata in A D664 Liszt Soirées de Vienne No. 6 from Valses caprices d’après Schubert S427 Yehudi Wyner Toward the center Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ London Pianoforte Series

Tuesday 21 July 7.30 pm

Roberta Invernizzi soprano La Risonanza Fabio Bonizzoni director, harpsichord Vivaldi Agitata da due venti from Griselda; Ombre vane, ingiusti orrori from Griselda; Se mai senti spirarti sul volto from Catone in Utica; Rete, lacci e strali adopra from Dorilla in Tempe Handel Da tempeste from Giulio Cesare; Se pietà di me non senti from Giulio Cesare; Scherza in mar la navicella from Lotario

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Sunday 26 July 11.30 am

Quatuor Voce Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Schubert String Quartet in G D887

Friday 24 July 7.00 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano Helmut Deutsch piano

Sunday 26 July 7.30 pm

Programme to be announced

Matan Porat piano

Song Recital Series

Ligeti Musica Ricercata: 11 pieces for piano Rameau Suite in A minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959 London Pianoforte Series

Early Music and Baroque Series

Roberta Invernizzi

Song Recital Series

Ribalta Luce Studios

Ailish Tynan

Benjamin Ealovega

Matan Porat

Neda Navaee

BOOKING INFORMATION Booking Dates Booking Period 1 Saturday 6 September – Wednesday 31 December 2014

Friends – Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by Tuesday 6 May 2014 Mailing List – Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by Thursday 15 May 2014 General Public – By telephone/online from Friday 30 May 2014

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

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

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

A–D

Q– S

N–P STA LL S C– M

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

Days without an evening concert 10.00am – 5.00pm. There is a non-refundable £2.50 administration charge for each transaction. This includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits.

CC BB A AA A

Facilities for Disabled People Full details from 020 7258 8210

Postal Bookings Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Hall with the amount left open but stating an upper limit, and add an administration charge of £2.50. Tickets will then be sent by post.

Online Bookings Online booking is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and you can select your own seat. There is a non-refundable £1.50 administration charge.

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

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

Transport

A –B

PL ATFO RM

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

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

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

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.

T– X

A AA A

Car Parking

7 days a week: 10.00am– 8.30pm.

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

Restaurant/Bar

BALCONY

CC BB

Box Office Hours

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

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

OXFORD CIRCUS BON D STREET

This brochure is available in alternative formats. Please contact the Box Office if this would be of assistance to you.

Telephone: 020 7935 2141 Email: boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary.

Cover photos by Benjamin Ealovega Cover design by WLP Ltd. www.whitelabelproductions.co.uk Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson

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SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALL If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend, or by sponsoring a concert or Learning event, please call 020 7258 8230 or email friends@wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information.

The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert, Learning and community programmes: Honorary Patrons

Donors and Sponsors

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

Mr Eric Abraham* Elaine Adair Tony and Marion Allen* The Andor Charitable Trust David and Jacqueline Ansell* Arts Council England BBC Children in Need David and Margaret Beaton Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez Mrs Arline Blass David and Mary Bowerman* Alan Bradley* bureauexport Gwen and Stanley Burnton* Clive Butler CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust Charities Advisory Trust City Bridge Trust Colin Clark Eric Clause* Edwin C Cohen The John S Cohen Foundation Sonia and Harvey Cole John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Michael and Licia Crystal Anthony Davis* Pauline Del Mar Diaphonique Dunard Fund Douglas and Janette Eden Annette Ellis* Vernon and Hazel Ellis The Elton Family Dr C A Endersby and Prof D Cowan Mrs Susan Feakin Peter and Sonia Field A bequest from the late Miss Margaret Flatman John and Amy Ford S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 Friends of Wigmore Hall

Season Patrons Aubrey Adams* American Friends of Wigmore Hall Karl Otto Bonnier* The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Valerie O’Connor David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma† Victoria Sharp and Simon Robey* Cita and Irwin Stelzer* Alisa and Joshua Swidler* William and Alex de Winton* and several anonymous donors † Early Music & Baroque Series supporters

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

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

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Jonathan Gaisman* The Garrick Charitable Trust John Gilhooly John and Lauren Goldsmith* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Charles Green Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* Haringey Music Service The Headley Trust Nicholas Hodgson Peter and Carol Honey* Gay Huey Evans* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Hyde Park Place Estate Charity Simone Hyman* John Lyon’s Charity Marc Jourdren* In memory of Donald Kahn Jerome Karet* David and Louise Kaye* Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn* The Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Maryly La Follette* Su Lesser and Neil Kaplan CBE QC SBS* The Leverhulme Trust Dame Felicity Lott* The Loveday Charitable Trust Julia MacRae* Simon and Pamela Majaro Mayfield Valley Arts Trust George Meyer Milton Damerel Trust The Monument Trust Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Amyas and Louise Morse* Valerie O’Connor and Jeannette McIntosh Hamish Parker The Piano Fund Clive Potter* Oliver Prenn Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Radcliffe Trust The Rayne Foundation

Gifts to honour Rick Rogers from Beryl McAlhone and friends Charles Rose* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, Hon. RCM* Ruth Rothbarth* The Rubinstein Circle The Sampimon Trust The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust Louise Scheuer Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* The Shoresh Charitable Trust Sir Martin and Lady Smith* Joe and Lucy Smouha Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* Gill and Keith Stella* Anne and Paul Swain* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* The Tertis Foundation Allen Thomas and Jane Simpson* Tower Hamlets Arts Music and Education Service John and Ann Tusa* Marina Vaizey* Robin Vousden* Gerry Wakelin* Andrew and Hilary Walker* Professor Janet Walker CD and Professor Doug Jones AO* Michael and Rosemary Warburg David and Frances Waters* Mrs Mary Weston David Evan Williams The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Philip and Emeline Winston* The Wolfson Foundation Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Simon Yates and Kevin Roon and several anonymous donors * also Rubinstein Circle members

Details correct as of February 2014

New releases on Wigmore Hall Live Iestyn Davies countertenor Richard Egarr & Friends Arise, my muse Music of the Restoration

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Works by Byrd, Bach & Ligeti

Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano Songs by Schubert

Jonathan Biss piano Schumann, Janác˘ek & Berg Available from June 2014

CDs priced £9.99 available to buy from the foyer, www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/live and 020 7935 2141

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