2016/17 Wigmore Series Brochure by Wigmore Hall

SEPTEMBER 2016 – JULY 2017

Frances Marshall Photography

Director’s Introduction

One of Britain’s foremost singers, Sarah Connolly, opens the Hall’s new season with regular duo partner Malcolm Martineau, leading listeners through a programme rich in emotional contrasts, poetic reflections and glorious melodies. The recital includes Mahler’s sublime Rückert Lieder, the impassioned lyricism of Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, the exotic subtle narrative impressions of Debussy’s three Chansons de Bilitis, and a selection of Schumann songs.

Mark Padmore’s vocal artistry and ability to extract every drop of emotion from poetic texts have secured his place among today’s finest recitalists. Morgan Szymanski, described by Classical Guitar magazine as ‘a player destined for future glories’ joins him on 12 September. Critical acclaim for Angela Hewitt’s Bach interpretations bears witness to the pianist’s extraordinary ability to connect physically and emotionally as well as intellectually with the dance rhythms and expressive gestures of the composer’s keyboard works. The Bach Odyssey will highlight all of this over the next four years. Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan performs like a force of nature, captivating audiences with her artistry’s presence and expressive vitality. She joins the Calder Quartet, winner of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, for the world première of The sirens cycle by Peter Eötvös.

Peter Dazeley

Beethoven’s piano sonatas occupied forty years of his life. They offer insights into his development as artist and individual, and stand among the greatest of all his works. Igor Levit, now in his late 20s, drew critical superlatives to his debut recording of Beethoven’s late sonatas and has since established his reputation as a visionary interpreter of the composer’s music. His first Beethoven cycle in a major concert hall stands among the must-hear events of 2016/17.

I am very pleased that Collegium 1704 will make its UK debut with Italian mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus, in a programme of arias, songs and other works inspired by the legendary Assyrian queen Semiramis. Václav Luks and his Prague-based ensemble have secured rave reviews for their recordings, Bach’s Mass in B minor among them. Known for her passionate devotion to chamber music, as well as her incandescent concerto performances, Janine Jansen has achieved worldwide acclaim with music-making of the highest integrity. The Dutch violinist, a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall’s audience, is a regular visitor throughout the season. Wigmore Hall marks the start of Helen Grime’s term as its first female Composer in Residence with a day devoted to her art. The Scottish composer, born in 1981, is known not least for her distinctive creative voice and her music’s lyrical beauty. Our Helen Grime Day, on 15 October, offers the chance to become deeply immersed in her chamber compositions. Over the past decade Alison Balsom has captivated audiences worldwide with her lyrical playing, exquisite tone and penetrating musicianship. As performer, educator and advocate she has done more for her instrument and the wider cause of classical music than many achieve in a lifetime. ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’, a series of four concerts throughout the season, offers the chance to experience the full breadth and depth of her work. Based in Sheffield, Music in the Round is the country’s leading chamber music promoter outside of London. Renowned for its innovative, informal and engaging performances, we are delighted to welcome its resident group Ensemble 360 to the Wigmore Hall stage for this special weekend, which explores the chamber music of Robert Schumann and the everyouthful compositions of Felix Mendelssohn, alongside composers who influenced them, and were influenced by them. Shakespeare’s peerless feeling for the music of the English language has inspired countless composers, from those who set the Bard’s verse during his lifetime to musicians as diverse as Britten, Finzi, Korngold and Stravinsky. Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano, together with four outstanding chamber musicians, delve into the rich Shakespeare legacy on 14 November.

Emmanuelle Haïm’s vocal and period-instrument ensemble, Le Concert d’Astrée, owns a collective wealth of understanding and practical experience in the performance of Baroque and early Classical music. Above all the group takes its lead from Haïm’s imaginative engagement with the bold rhetorical gestures of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works, and the absolute conviction of her interpretations. They make their Wigmore Hall debut with a beguiling all-Mozart programme, on 15 November.

We celebrate St Cecilia on her annual festival with the greatest of Purcell’s Odes. Hail, bright Cecilia, the Ode for St Cecilia’s Day 1692, belongs to a distinctive English tradition of honouring music’s patron saint. John Butt and his Dunedin Consort, acclaimed for their interpretations of masterworks by Bach and Handel, invariably find fresh ways of bringing Baroque music to life.

Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo begin their Wigmore Hall residency with two of JS Bach’s earliest church cantatas, including the touching Actus tragicus, perhaps written in 1707 for the funeral of the composer’s uncle, and Telemann’s equally moving funeral cantata, Du aber Daniel, gehe hin. The programme also offers a chance for Arcangelo’s ace period-instrument players to shine in the Sixth Brandenburg Concerto. Sonia Prina and Roberta Invernizzi belong to a generation of singers blessed with remarkable technical skills, musical refinement and emotional freedom. Prina’s sensational agility and ability to mine the depths of the contralto range provide the ideal complement to the crystalline beauty of Invernizzi’s soprano voice. They return to Wigmore Hall with Luca Pianca’s stellar Ensemble Claudiana to perform a programme of works associated with Venice, on 29 December. Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto, first performed in Venice in 1651, blends comedy and tragedy with music of sensuous beauty and irresistible charm. The opera’s libretto is based on the ancient Greek myth of the nymph Callisto as related by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. It will be treated to the energy and artistic vision of La Nuova Musica and its director David Bates. Any collection of essential albums of the keyboard works of Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók would be impoverished without the recordings of Sir András Schiff. The pianist’s affinity for the music of each composer has matured over many decades, making his three recitals and three related evening masterclasses one of the highlights of Wigmore Hall’s 2016/17 Season. One of Germany’s greatest-ever singers, Brigitte Fassbaender, returns to Wigmore Hall to lead two days of masterclasses, working with a company of postgraduate students from UK conservatoires. And, of course, we continue our survey of Schubert’s entire song output throughout the season. It’s impossible for me to mention everything, so please enjoy reading through the brochure for yourself. I look forward to welcoming you to Wigmore Hall throughout the season ahead. John Gilhooly Director

SERIES AT A GLANCE SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2016

See pages 6 – 122 for full details of these concerts and page 123 for booking information. Series and Events to look out for…

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts

Sarah Connolly and Malcolm Martineau 7 Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski 8 Schubert: 10 –11, 34, 45, 57, 67, 86, 89, 92, 98, 104, 110, The Complete Songs 111, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120 The English Concert 12, 76, 90, 114 Jeremy Denk 13 Les Vents Français 14 Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Kristian Bezuidenhout 16 Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey 18–19, 87, 114 Max Emanuel Cencic and Il Pomo d’Oro 20 Barbara Hannigan and Calder Quartet 21 Beethoven Cycle: 15, 22–23, 27, 47, 67, Igor Levit 89, 95, 98, 115 Nathalie Stutzmann and Orfeo 55 24 Anna Bonitatibus and Collegium 1704 26 Janine Jansen Perspectives 28, 91, 113 Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber 30 Helen Grime Day 32–33 Le Poème Harmonique 35 Schubert in English 34, 46, 68 Nash Ensemble: 36–37, 54, 68, Vienna and its Empire 87, 90, 91 Sophie Karthäuser and Eugene Asti 41 Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ 42– 43, 73,111,114 Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclasses 44 Borodin Quartet: Beethoven and 45, 46, 113 Shostakovich Cycle Emerson String Quartet 40th Anniversary 49 Music in the Round Weekend 50–51 Ian Bostridge, Sir Antonio Pappano and Friends 52 Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm 53 Dunedin Consort 56 Ensemble Modern 58 La Nuova Musica and David Bates 60 Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, 62–63, 93, 94, 108 Janácˇek and Bartók Philippe Jaroussky and Le Concert de la Loge Olympique 64 Anne Schwanewilms and Malcolm Martineau 65 Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe 66 Christian McBride Jazz Series 68 Martha Argerich and Alberto Portugheis 69 Arcangelo 70, 85, 108, 121 Francesco Piemontesi Mozart Cycle 71, 108 Trevor Pinnock 70th Birthday Concert 72 René Pape Debut 72 Miklós Perényi 73 Mahan Esfahani 74 Vox Luminis 75 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 75 Roberta Invernizzi, Sonia Prina and Ensemble Claudiana 77 Contemporary Music Series 78–79

Mon 12 Sep

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

Mark Padmore/Morgan Szymanski Page 8 Håkan Hardenberger/Roland Pöntinen 14 Doric String Quartet 17 Steven Isserlis/Olli Mustonen 24 Nicholas Angelich 27 Vilde Frang/Aleksandar Madžar 31 Nelson Goerner 35 Kelemen Quartet 40 Marie-Elisabeth Hecker 47 Martin Helmchen Cuarteto Quiroga/Javier Perianes 49 Garrick Ohlsson 55 Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper 59 Boris Giltburg 65 Emmanuel Pahud 69 Miklós Perényi 73

Ensemble Modern Page Arditti Quartet Nash Ensemble/Christianne Stotijn Sat 10 Dec Sun 11 Dec Belcea Quartet Tue 13 Dec St. Lawrence String Quartet Wed 14 Dec Britten Sinfonia Trevor Pinnock 70th Birthday Concert Fri 16 Dec Tue 20 Dec Balsom Ensemble Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Fri 23 Dec Tue 27 Dec Sitkovetsky Trio Wed 28 Dec Doric String Quartet Gringolts Quartet Fri 30 Dec Fri 25 Nov

Sat 26 Nov

Fri 16 Sep Sun 18 Sep Fri 23 Sep Sat 24 Sep Fri 30 Sep

Sat 1 Oct Thu 6 Oct Fri 7 Oct Sat 8 Oct Sat 15 Oct Sun 16 Oct Sat 22 Oct Thu 27 Oct Mon 31 Oct Wed 2 Nov Fri 4 Nov Sun 6 Nov Fri 11 Nov Sat 12 Nov Sun 13 Nov Sat 19 Nov Wed 23 Nov

Daniel Hope/Paul Neubauer David Finckel/Wu Han Les Vents Français/Eric Le Sage The Endellion String Quartet Aurora Orchestra Renaud Capuçon/Guillaume Chilemme Gérard Caussé/Adrien La Marca Edgar Moreau Calder Quartet/Barbara Hannigan IMS Prussia Cove Pavel Haas Quartet/Harriet Krijgh Janine Jansen/Alexander Gavrylyuk Helen Grime Day The Tetzlaff Trio Nash Ensemble Thomas Zehetmair/Ruth Killius Alison Balsom/Peter Moore/Tom Poster Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio Borodin Quartet Borodin Quartet Ensemble 360 Ensemble 360 Emerson String Quartet Nash Ensemble Truls Mørk/Håvard Gimse

Mon 12 Sep Wed 14 Sep

Thu 22 Sep 9

Thu 29 Sep

Sun 2 Oct

Wed 5 Oct

17 20

Fri 14 Oct Fri 21 Oct

21 25 25 28 33 31 37 39

Mon 24 Oct Wed 26 Oct Thu 10 Nov Tue 15 Nov Tue 22 Nov Mon 28 Nov Thu 1 Dec Sun 4 Dec

43 40

Wed 14 Dec

Fri 16 Dec

Mon 19 Dec

Wed 21 Dec

Thu 22 Dec

Thu 29 Dec

54 57

69 70 71 72 73 75 75 76 76

Early Music and Baroque Series

Mon 19 Sep

Chamber Music Season

Sat 31 Dec

The Brabant Ensemble/Stephen Rice The English Concert/Anna Devin Matthew Brook/Harry Bicket Classical Opera/Ian Page/Ailish Tynan Rachel Kelly/Kitty Whately/Robert Murray Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Kristian Bezuidenhout Max Emanuel Cencic/Il Pomo d’Oro Maxim Emelyanychev Nathalie Stutzmann/Orfeo 55 Anna Bonitatibus/Collegium 1704 Václav Luks The Cardinall’s Musick Le Poème Harmonique Phantasm Florilegium/Dame Emma Kirkby Iestyn Davies/Thomas Dunford Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm Dunedin Consort La Nuova Musica/David Bates Philippe Jaroussky/Le Concert de la Loge Olympique/Julien Chauvin Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen Trevor Pinnock 70th Birthday Concert The King’s Consort Mahan Esfahani Vox Luminis Roberta Invernizzi/Sonia Prina Ensemble Claudiana The English Concert

9 12 14 16 20 24 26 29 35 38 38 48 53 56 60 64 66 70 72 73 74 75 77 76

Song Recital Series

London Pianoforte Series

Tue 21 Mar

Fri 9 Sep

Sarah Connolly/Malcolm Martineau Page 7

Sun 11 Sep

Sat 25 Mar

Sat 10 Sep

Soile Isokoski/Ilkka Paananen

Thu 15 Sep

Fri 7 Apr

Tue 13 Sep

Mark Padmore/James Baillieu

Tue 20 Sep

James Gilchrist/Anna Tilbrook

Sat 1 Oct

Barbara Hannigan/Calder Quartet

Wed 12 Oct

Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber

Thu 20 Oct

Christoph Prégardien Christoph Schnackertz

Sun 23 Oct

Toby Spence/Christopher Glynn

Sun 23 Oct

Jamie Barton/James Baillieu

Fri 28 Oct

The Prince Consort/Stephen Hough

Sun 30 Oct

Sophie Karthäuser/Eugene Asti

Sat 5 Nov

Dorothea Röschmann/Malcolm Martineau 45

Sun 6 Nov

Roderick Williams/Christopher Glynn

Tue 8 Nov

Sir Thomas Allen/Malcolm Martineau Samling Artists

Thu 10 Nov

Iestyn Davies/Thomas Dunford

Mon 14 Nov Ian Bostridge/Sir Antonio Pappano

Elizabeth Kenny/Lawrence Power Michael Collins/Adam Walker Fri 18 Nov

Adrianne Pieczonka/Brian Zeger

Sun 20 Nov

Luca Pisaroni/Maciej Pikulski

Thu 24 Nov

Stuart Jackson/Marcus Farnsworth James Baillieu

Mon 5 Dec

Anne Schwanewilms/Malcolm Martineau 65

Thu 8 Dec

Stephan Loges/Graham Johnson

Sun 11 Dec

Sir John Tomlinson/Christopher Glynn

Sat 17 Dec

René Pape/Camillo Radicke

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

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

Danish String Quartet Nick van Bloss Jack Liebeck/Amandine Savary Van Kuijk Quartet Scottish Ensemble Dover Quartet Nash Ensemble Carducci String Quartet Endymion Ensemble 360 Maximilian Hornung/Hisako Kawamura Tai Murray/Silke Avenhaus Atrium Quartet Adrian Brendel/Aleksandar Madžar Cassard/Grimal/Gastinel Trio

6 13 17 24 27 31 37 40 46 51 55 59 65 68 72

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Fri 9 Dec

Christian McBride

Denis Kozhukhin Page 6 Yulianna Avdeeva 9 Jeremy Denk 13 Sat 17 Sep 19 Sun 25 Sep Angela Hewitt 23 Wed 28 Sep Igor Levit Jan Lisiecki 25 Mon 3 Oct Igor Levit 27 Sun 9 Oct Llyˆr Williams 29 Tue 11 Oct Melvyn Tan 29 Thu 13 Oct 31 Wed 19 Oct Leon McCawley Sunwook Kim 38 Tue 25 Oct Philippe Cassard 39 Sat 29 Oct Alexei Volodin 45 Thu 3 Nov Igor Levit 47 Mon 7 Nov Christian Zacharias 48 Wed 9 Nov 52 Thu 17 Nov Imogen Cooper 63 Tue 29 Nov Sir András Schiff Richard Goode 61 Sat 3 Dec Igor Levit 67 Tue 6 Dec Andreas Staier 67 Wed 7 Dec 69 Mon 12 Dec Martha Argerich/Alberto Portugheis 71 Thu 15 Dec Francesco Piemontesi

World Music Series Fri 2 Dec

Wu Man, Sanubar Tursun, Basel Rajoub’s Soriana Project

Contemporary Music Series James Gilchrist/Anna Tilbrook Aurora Orchestra Sat 1 Oct Calder Quartet/Barbara Hannigan Fri 14 Oct The Cardinall’s Musick Sat 15 Oct Helen Grime Day Fri 28 Oct The Prince Consort/Stephen Hough Mon 31 Oct Alison Balsom/Peter Moore/Tom Poster Sun 13 Nov Emerson String Quartet Fri 25 Nov Ensemble Modern Sat 26 Nov Arditti Quartet Sun 11 Dec Belcea Quartet Tue 13 Dec St. Lawrence String Quartet Wed 14 Dec Britten Sinfonia Fri 30 Dec Gringolts Quartet Mon 23 Jan Philip Higham/Alasdair Beatson Wed 25 Jan Signum Quartet Wed 8 Feb Britten Sinfonia Thu 9 Feb Jörg Widmann/Mitsuko Uchida Sat 18 Feb Scottish Ensemble/Jonathan Morton Alina Ibragimova Sat 25 Feb Xenakis Day Fri 3 Mar Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Huw Watkins/Oliver Knussen Fri 10 Mar Pacifica Quartet/Johannes Moser Tue 20 Sep

Sat 24 Sep

17 21 29 33 39 43 49 58 59 69 70 71 76 88 88 91 91 92 94 96 97

Wed 19 Apr Wed 26 Apr Sun 7 May Thu 11 May Wed 14 Jun Fri 16 Jun Tue 20 Jun Mon 26 Jun Sat 1 Jul

Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins Page 99 Adrian Brendel/Roderick Williams Thomas Adès Day ‘Arcadiana’ 100 Jean-Guihen Queyras 103 Sokratis Sinopoulos/Chemirani Brothers Britten Sinfonia 105 Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Sol Gabetta 107 Patricia Kopatchinskaja 109 Anthony Romaniuk Elias String Quartet 110 Arditti Quartet/Eliot Fisk 115 Jasper String Quartet 116 Ensemble intercontemporain 116 Vienna Piano Trio/Mark Padmore 117 Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson 118

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by

Wigmore Hall Learning Open House Day 13, 80 Wigmore Study Group commences 15 Relaxed Concert: Leonore Piano Trio 17, 80 Sat 24 Sep 19 Sun 25 Sep Pre-Concert Talk 20 Tue 27 Sep For Crying Out Loud! Silver Sunday: Musical Pictures 24, 80 Sun 2 Oct Schools Concert: Ensemble 360 81 Fri 7 Oct and Polly Ives Sat 8 Oct Family Concert: Ensemble 360 25, 81 and Polly Ives Sat 15 Oct Helen Grime Day 33 31 Wed 19 Oct For Crying Out Loud! Study Afternoon: Schubert in English 34 Thu 20 Oct Family Day: A Knight’s Quest 81 Sat 22 Oct Schubert: The Beautiful Maid of the Mill 34 Sun 23 Oct Wed 26 Oct Musical Portraits Band commences 81 Mon 31 Oct Artists in Conversation 43 Thu 3 Nov Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass 44 Fri 4 Nov Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass 44 Sun 6 Nov Schubert: Winter Journey 46 Tue 8 Nov Samling 20th Anniversary Masterclass 47 Sat 12 Nov Family Concert: 51, 82 The Fantastic City of Music Sat 12 Nov Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk 51 Mon 14 Nov Artists in Conversation 52 Wed 16 Nov Schools Concert: Van Kuijk Quartet 82 and Rachel Leach Wed 30 Nov Sir András Schiff Masterclass 63 Fri 2 Dec Pre-Concert Talk 61 Sat 3 Dec Come and Sing: Hungarian Music 61, 82 Sat 10 Dec Early Years: Rumbled 83 Sun 11 Dec Schubert: Swansong 68 Tue 13 Dec Early Years: Rumbled 83 Wed 14 Dec Pre-Concert Talk 71 71, 82 Thu 15 Dec Music for the Moment Sat 17 Dec Early Years: Rumbled 83 Sat 17 Sep

Tue 20 Sep

October

Calendar September

Date

Start Time

Event

Sat 1 Oct

7.30 pm

Barbara Hannigan/Calder Quartet

Sun 2 Oct

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Van Kuijk Quartet Silver Sunday: Musical Pictures Nathalie Stutzmann/Orfeo 55

Mon 3 Oct

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Steven Isserlis/Olli Mustonen Jan Lisiecki

24 25

Wed 5 Oct

7.30 pm

Anna Bonitatibus/Collegium 1704/Václav Luks

Thu 6 Oct

7.30 pm

IMS Prussia Cove

Fri 7 Oct

11.00 am 1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Schools Concert: Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives Schools Concert: Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives Pavel Haas Quartet/Harriet Krijgh

81 81 25

Sat 8 Oct

11.00 am 7.30 pm

Family Concert: Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives Janine Jansen/Alexander Gavrylyuk

Sun 9 Oct

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Scottish Ensemble Igor Levit

27 27 27

21 24 24, 80 24

Date

Start Time

Event

Fri 9 Sep

7.30 pm

Sarah Connolly/Malcolm Martineau

Sat 10 Sep

7.30 pm

Soile Isokoski/Ilkka Paananen

Sun 11 Sep

11.30 am

Danish String Quartet

7.30 pm

Denis Kozhukhin

Mon 10 Oct

1.00 pm

Nicholas Angelich

Mon 12 Sep

1.00 pm

Mark Padmore/Morgan Szymanski

Tue 11 Oct

7.30 pm

Llyˆr Williams

7.30 pm

The Brabant Ensemble/Stephen Rice

Wed 12 Oct

7.30 pm

Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber

Tue 13 Sep

7.30 pm

Mark Padmore/James Baillieu

Thu 13 Oct

7.30 pm

Melvyn Tan

Wed 14 Sep

7.30 pm

The English Concert/Anna Devin/Matthew Brook/Harry Bicket

Fri 14 Oct

7.30 pm

The Cardinall’s Musick

Sat 15 Oct

1.00 pm

6.00 pm 7.30 pm

Helen Grime Day: Alexandra Wood/Rachel Roberts Philip Higham/Nicholas Daniel/Huw Watkins Helen Grime Day: Artists in Conversation Helen Grime Day: BCMG/Geoffrey Paterson/Mark van de Wiel

33 33

Sun 16 Oct

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Dover Quartet The Tetzlaff Trio

31 31

Mon 17 Oct

1.00 pm

Vilde Frang/Aleksandar Madžar

Wed 19 Oct

11.00 am 12.30 pm 7.30 pm

For Crying Out Loud! For Crying Out Loud! Leon McCawley

31 31 31

Thu 15 Sep

7.30 pm

Yulianna Avdeeva

Fri 16 Sep

7.30 pm

Sat 17 Sep

10.00 am

Open House Day

7.30 pm

Jeremy Denk

Sun 18 Sep

Mon 19 Sep

Tue 20 Sep

Daniel Hope/Paul Neubauer/David Finckel/Wu Han

Page

9 9 13, 80 13

11.30 am

Nick van Bloss

7.30 pm

Les Vents Français/Eric Le Sage

25, 81 28

1.00 pm

Håkan Hardenberger/Roland Pöntinen

7.30 pm

Classical Opera/Ian Page/Ailish Tynan/Kitty Whately Rachel Kelly/Robert Murray

Thu 20 Oct

4.00 pm 7.30 pm

Study Afternoon: Schubert in English Christoph Prégardien/Christoph Schnackertz

34 34

3.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group commences

Fri 21 Oct

7.30 pm

Le Poème Harmonique

7.30 pm

James Gilchrist/Anna Tilbrook

Sat 22 Oct

Thu 22 Sep

7.30 pm

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Kristian Bezuidenhout

10.30 am 7.30 pm

Family Day: A Knight’s Quest Nash Ensemble

81 37

Fri 23 Sep

7.30 pm

The Endellion String Quartet

Sun 23 Oct

Sat 24 Sep

11.00 am

Relaxed Concert: Leonore Piano Trio

11.30 am 3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble Toby Spence/Christopher Glynn Jamie Barton/James Baillieu

37 34 35

7.30 pm

Aurora Orchestra

Mon 24 Oct

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Nelson Goerner Phantasm

35 38

11.30 am

Jack Liebeck/Amandine Savary

6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Tue 25 Oct

7.30 pm

Sunwook Kim

Wed 26 Oct

11.00 am 7.30 pm

Musical Portraits Band commences Florilegium/Ashley Solomon/Dame Emma Kirkby

81 38

Sun 25 Sep

17, 80

7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt

Mon 26 Sep

1.00 pm

Doric String Quartet

Thu 27 Oct

7.30 pm

Thomas Zehetmair/Ruth Killius

Tue 27 Sep

11.00 am

For Crying Out Loud!

Fri 28 Oct

7.30 pm

The Prince Consort/Stephen Hough

12.30 pm

For Crying Out Loud!

Sat 29 Oct

7.30 pm

Philippe Cassard

Wed 28 Sep

7.30 pm

Igor Levit

Sun 30 Oct

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Carducci String Quartet Sophie Karthäuser/Eugene Asti

40 41

Thu 29 Sep

7.30 pm

Max Emanuel Cencic/Il Pomo d’Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev

Mon 31 Oct

Fri 30 Sep

7.30 pm

Renaud Capuçon/Guillaume Chilemme/Gérard Caussé Adrien La Marca/Edgar Moreau

1.00 pm 6.00 pm 7.30 pm

Kelemen Quartet Artists in Conversation Alison Balsom/Peter Moore/Tom Poster

40 43 43

November Date

December

Start Time

Event

Wed 2 Nov

7.30 pm

Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio

Thu 3 Nov

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass Alexei Volodin

Fri 4 Nov

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass Borodin Quartet

44 45

Sat 5 Nov

7.30 pm

Dorothea Röschmann/Malcolm Martineau

Sun 6 Nov

11.30 am 3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Endymion Roderick Williams/Christopher Glynn Borodin Quartet

46 46 46

Mon 7 Nov

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/Martin Helmchen Igor Levit

47 47

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Samling 20th Anniversary Masterclass Sir Thomas Allen/Malcolm Martineau/Samling Artists

47 47

7.30 pm

Christian Zacharias

Thu 10 Nov

7.30 pm

Iestyn Davies/Thomas Dunford

Fri 11 Nov

7.30 pm

Ensemble 360

Sat 12 Nov

11.00 am 5.45 pm 7.30 pm

Family Concert: The Fantastic City of Music Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk Ensemble 360

Sun 13 Nov

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Ensemble 360 Emerson String Quartet

51 49

Mon 14 Nov

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

49 52

9.45 pm

Cuarteto Quiroga/Javier Perianes Ian Bostridge/Sir Antonio Pappano/Elizabeth Kenny Lawrence Power/Michael Collins/Adam Walker Artists in Conversation

7.30 pm

Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm

Wed 16 Nov

11.00 am

Schools Concert: Van Kuijk Quartet and Rachel Leach

Thu 17 Nov

7.30 pm

Imogen Cooper

Fri 18 Nov

7.30 pm

Adrianne Pieczonka/Brian Zeger

Sat 19 Nov

6.00 pm 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble Nash Ensemble

54 54

Tue 8 Nov

Wed 9 Nov

Tue 15 Nov

Page

Date

Start Time

Event

Thu 1 Dec

7.30 pm

Philippe Jaroussky/Le Concert de la Loge Olympique Julien Chauvin

44 45

Fri 2 Dec

6.00 pm 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Wu Man/Sanubar Tursun/Basel Rajoub’s Soriana Project

61 61

Sat 3 Dec

10.00 am 7.30 pm

Come and Sing: Hungarian Music Richard Goode

Sun 4 Dec

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Atrium Quartet Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe

65 66

Mon 5 Dec

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Boris Giltburg Anne Schwanewilms/Malcolm Martineau

65 65

Tue 6 Dec

7.30 pm

Igor Levit

Wed 7 Dec

7.30 pm

Andreas Staier

Thu 8 Dec

7.30 pm

Stephan Loges/Graham Johnson

Fri 9 Dec

7.30 pm

Christian McBride

Sat 10 Dec

10.00 am 12 noon 2.00 pm 7.30 pm

Early Years: Rumbled Early Years: Rumbled Early Years: Rumbled Nash Ensemble/Christianne Stotijn

83 83 83 68

Sun 11 Dec

11.30 am 3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Adrian Brendel/Aleksandar Madžar Sir John Tomlinson/Christopher Glynn Belcea Quartet

68 68 69

Mon 12 Dec

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Emmanuel Pahud Martha Argerich/Alberto Portugheis

69 69

Tue 13 Dec

10.00 am 12 noon 2.00 pm 7.30 pm

Early Years: Rumbled Early Years: Rumbled Early Years: Rumbled St. Lawrence String Quartet

83 83 83 70

Wed 14 Dec

12.15 pm 1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Britten Sinfonia Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen

71 71 70

Thu 15 Dec

3.00 pm 7.30 pm

Music for the Moment Francesco Piemontesi

Fri 16 Dec

7.30 pm

Trevor Pinnock 70th Birthday Concert

Sat 17 Dec

10.00 am 12 noon 2.00 pm 7.30 pm

Early Years: Rumbled Early Years: Rumbled Early Years: Rumbled René Pape/Camillo Radicke

83 83 83 72

Sun 18 Dec

11.30 am

Cassard/Grimal/Gastinel Trio

Mon 19 Dec

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Miklós Perényi The King’s Consort

73 73

51, 82 51 51

Page

61, 82 61

71, 82 71

Sun 20 Nov

11.30 am 7.30 pm

Maximilian Hornung/Hisako Kawamura Luca Pisaroni/Maciej Pikulski

55 55

Tue 20 Dec

7.30 pm

Balsom Ensemble

Mon 21 Nov

1.00 pm

Garrick Ohlsson

Wed 21 Dec

7.30 pm

Mahan Esfahani

Tue 22 Nov

7.30 pm

Dunedin Consort

Thu 22 Dec

7.30 pm

Vox Luminis

Wed 23 Nov

7.30 pm

Truls Mørk/Håvard Gimse

Fri 23 Dec

7.30 pm

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Thu 24 Nov

7.30 pm

Stuart Jackson/Marcus Farnsworth/James Baillieu

Tue 27 Dec

7.30 pm

Sitkovetsky Trio

Fri 25 Nov

7.30 pm

Ensemble Modern

Wed 28 Dec

7.30 pm

Doric String Quartet

Thu 29 Dec

7.30 pm

Roberta Invernizzi/Sonia Prina/Ensemble Claudiana

Fri 30 Dec

7.30 pm

Gringolts Quartet

Sat 31 Dec

7.30 pm

The English Concert

Sat 26 Nov

7.30 pm

Arditti Quartet

Sun 27 Nov

11.30 am

Tai Murray/Silke Avenhaus

Mon 28 Nov

1.00 pm 7.30 pm

Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper La Nuova Musica/David Bates

59 60

Tue 29 Nov

7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff

Wed 30 Nov

7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff Masterclass

Booking for all events in the Contemporary Music Series opens to Members on 12 April. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. See pages 78–79 for event dates – full details are given in chronological order throughout the brochure.

WIGMORE SERIES AUTUMN SEASON SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2016

Priority Booking opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted by 5 May 2016 (Friends), and 12 May 2016 (Mailing List Subscribers). Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016.

September Opening Concert of the 2016/17 Season

Sunday 11 September 11.30 am

Sunday 11 September 7.30 pm

Friday 9 September 7.30 pm

Danish String Quartet

Denis Kozhukhin piano

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4

Handel Suite No. 7 in G minor HWV432 Brahms 3 Intermezzi Op. 117 Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) BB89 Messiaen Prelude ‘Cloches d’angoisses et larmes d’adieu’ Boulez Piano Sonata No. 2

See page opposite for full details

Saturday 10 September 7.30 pm

Soile Isokoski soprano Ilkka Paananen piano Schubert Der König in Thule; Gretchen am Spinnrade; Szene aus Goethes ‘Faust’; Gretchen im Zwinger (Gretchens Bitte) Sibelius Våren flyktar hastigt (Spring is Flying); Men min fågel märks dock icke (But my bird is nowhere to be seen); Längtan heter min arvedel (Vain longings are my heritage); Säv, säv, susa (Reed, reed, rustle); Svarta rosor (Black Roses) Mozart Ridente la calma; Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte; Abendempfindung Brahms Liebestreu; Die Mainacht; Von ewiger Liebe; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht; Meine Liebe ist grün Kilpinen Illalla (In the Evening); Rannalta I; Kesäyö (Summer Night); Maassa marjani makaavi (My Love Lies in the Ground)

The quartets of Haydn’s Op. 76, first published in London in 1799, are near-miraculous in their breadth of invention and vitality. The Danish String Quartet turns its beautifully integrated sound to serve the set’s meditative fifth quartet before exploring Beethoven’s almost contemporary Op. 18 No. 4, by turns audacious and charming, violent and serene. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Pierre Boulez’s Second Piano Sonata, galvanised by its powerful reflections on Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata, crowns Denis Kozhukhin’s compelling programme choice. The Russian pianist, winner of the prestigious 2010 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, also surveys the grandeur of Handel’s Suite in G minor and the pulsating energy of Bartók’s Szabadban. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Danish String Quartet

Caroline Bittencourt

Recognised for the sheer beauty and vibrant intensity of her singing, Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski has achieved distinction on the world’s operatic stages and as a recitalist of striking imagination and eloquence. She returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme complete with songs by Schumann and Yrjö Kilpinen, one of the last century’s most gifted composers of Lieder. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series Soile Isokoski

Heikki Tuuli

Denis Kozhukhin

Felix Broede

Sarah Connolly Opening Concert of the 2016/17 Season

Friday 9 September 7.30 pm

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Schumann Märzveilchen; Muttertraum; Der Soldat; Der Spielmann Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35 Mahler Rückert Lieder Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Berlioz Les nuits d’été Poulenc Banalités One of Britain’s foremost singers, in high demand on the international stage, Sarah Connolly has been a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall’s audience for almost two decades. She opens the Hall’s new season in company with regular duo partner Malcolm Martineau, leading listeners through a programme rich in emotional contrasts, poetic reflections and glorious melodies. The acclaimed mezzo-soprano’s recital includes Mahler’s sublime Rückert Lieder, complete with the heart-breaking ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’, the impassioned lyricism of Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, the exotic subtle narrative impressions of Debussy’s three Chansons de Bilitis, and a sparkling selection of Schumann songs. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Song Recital Series Photo of Sarah Connolly by Peter Warren

Malcolm Martineau

Russell Duncan

Mark Padmore Monday 12 September 1.00 pm

Mark Padmore tenor Morgan Szymanski guitar Dowland Come, ye heavy states of night; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; Now, O now I needs must part Alec Roth My Lute and I Stephen McNeff New work (world première) Alec Roth Lights Out Mark Padmore’s eloquent vocal artistry and ability to extract every drop of emotion from poetic texts have secured his place among today’s finest recitalists. The London-born tenor’s extensive experience in opera also informs his song interpretations, which grow from a vivid sense of drama and feeling for life’s extraordinary energy. He is joined by Morgan Szymanski, described by Classical Guitar magazine as ‘a player destined for future glories’ and recognised as ‘One to Watch’ by Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Morgan Szymanski

Photo of Mark Padmore by Marco Borggreve

Capilla

September Monday 12 September 7.30 pm

Wednesday 14 September 7.30 pm

Friday 16 September 7.30 pm

The Brabant Ensemble Stephen Rice director

The English Concert Anna Devin soprano Matthew Brook bass-baritone

Daniel Hope violin Paul Neubauer viola David Finckel cello Wu Han piano

Jacquet of Mantua Missa Surge Petre Jacquet of Mantua Surge Petre Lassus Tristis est anima mea Rore Fratres: Scitote Lassus Justorum animae Jacquet of Mantua O vos omnes Lassus Deficiat in dolore vita mea Rore Illuxit nunc sacra dies Jacquet of Mantua Ave Maria Lassus Ave regina coelorum

Actor to be announced

Harry Bicket director, harpsichord See page 12 for full details

Thursday 15 September 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

The critically acclaimed Brabant Ensemble specialises in the performance of European sacred music of the mid-1500s, a period often overlooked yet rich in powerful masterworks. This programme juxtaposes the music of Cipiano de Rore and Jacquet Colebault with motets by their illustrious younger contemporary, Orlande de Lassus. At its centre is Jacquet’s Missa Surge Petre, his only setting in six parts, written for the patron of Mantua Cathedral, St Peter. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Yulianna Avdeeva piano Bach English Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV807 Chopin Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Mazurkas Op. 7: No. 1 in Bb, No. 2 in A minor, No. 3 in F minor & No. 4 in Ab; Polonaise in Ab Op. 53 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 8 in Bb Op. 84 Prokofiev capped his series of three so-called ‘War Sonatas’ with a work of great expressive depth and emotional insight. Moscow-born Yulianna Avdeeva, winner of the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition, sets Prokofiev’s expansive score together with Chopin’s fiendishly difficult second Ballade and the second of Bach’s English Suites, more French in nature than its name implies.

Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47 Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 Renowned for his deeply thoughtful musicianship and the enquiring spirit he brings to each work in his repertoire, Daniel Hope invites close colleagues from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to explore a programme that encompasses the piano quartet’s diverse repertoire. They open with Mahler’s only surviving chamber piece for instruments alone before traversing the teeming emotional landscapes of masterworks for the medium by Schumann and Brahms. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 13 September 7.30 pm £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Mark Padmore tenor James Baillieu piano

London Pianoforte Series

SCHUBERT: THE COMPLETE SONGS See page 10 for full details

The Brabant Ensemble

Keith Barnes

Yulianna Avdeeva

Harald Hoffmann

Daniel Hope

Harald Hoffmann/DG

Schubert: Wigmore Hall’s determination to perform Schubert’s 600-plus songs within the span of two seasons stands among the most ambitious artistic projects in its history. The series continues in 2016/17 with a host of unmissable recitals, including performances of the composer’s three late song-cycles by Ian Bostridge, Henk Neven and Matthew Rose. Tuesday 13 September 7.30 pm

Mark Padmore tenor James Baillieu piano Schubert Ballade (D134); Das Finden; Der Abend (D221); Die Mondnacht; Huldigung; An die untergehende Sonne; Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz; Viola (D786); Der Wanderer an den Mond; Das Zügenglöcklein; Am Fenster; Sehnsucht (D879); Das Weinen; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Der Winterabend; Die Sterne (D939) Mark Padmore and James Baillieu’s recital embraces everything from the folksong-like simplicity of ‘Der Wanderer an den Mond’ and boisterous humour of ‘Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz’ to the hypnotic blend of voice and piano present in ‘Der Winterabend’, from Schubert’s final year, and the complex emotions of ‘Sehnsucht’. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

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

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

The Complete Songs Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Wednesday 15 February 2017 7.30 pm

Thursday 8 June 2017 7.30 pm

Thursday 20 October 7.30 pm

Matthew Rose bass Gary Matthewman piano

Anna Lucia Richter soprano Michael Gees piano

Christoph Prégardien tenor Christoph Schnackertz piano

Tuesday 14 March 2017 7.30 pm

Sunday 11 June 2017 7.30 pm

Saturday 5 November 7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Julius Drake piano

Ben Johnson tenor Graham Johnson piano

Dorothea Röschmann soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

Tuesday 11 April 2017 7.30 pm

Saturday 17 June 2017 7.30 pm

Thursday 24 November 7.30 pm

Henk Neven baritone Imogen Cooper piano

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Wednesday 10 May 2017 7.30 pm

Sunday 2 July 2017 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Lars Vogt piano

Markus Schäfer tenor Piers Lane piano

Saturday 13 May 2017 7.30 pm

Sunday 9 July 2017 7.30 pm

Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano Jan Philip Schulze piano

Ian Bostridge tenor Graham Johnson piano

Friday 19 May 2017 7.30 pm

Wednesday 19 July 2017 7.30 pm

Julian Prégardien soprano Christoph Schnackertz piano

Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano Eduard Kutrowatz piano

Stuart Jackson tenor Marcus Farnsworth baritone James Baillieu piano Thursday 8 December 7.30 pm

Stephan Loges baritone Graham Johnson piano Wednesday 18 January 2017 7.30 pm

Georg Nigl baritone Andreas Staier fortepiano Thursday 2 February 2017 7.30 pm

Elizabeth Watts soprano Malcolm Martineau piano 11

The English Concert Wednesday 14 September 7.30 pm

The English Concert Anna Devin soprano Matthew Brook bass-baritone Actor to be announced

Harry Bicket director, harpsichord DON QUIXOTE Purcell Don Quixote Suite, including excerpts from The Married Beau and The Comical History of Don Quixote Telemann Don Quixote Suite, including excerpts from Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho and the Ouverture-Suite ‘Burlesque de Quixotte’ Tilting at windmills and rescuing phoney princesses, such are the exploits of the tragicomic knight-errant Don Quixote and his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza. The English Concert recounts the adventures of Cervantes’s irrepressibly idealistic hero on the 400th anniversary of the author’s death, aided by Purcell and Telemann’s vibrant visions of the man of La Mancha. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Anna Devin

Richard Shymansky

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 31 December 7.00 pm with

Alfonso Leal del Ojo viola

Tuesday 7 February 2017 7.30 pm with

Rachel Podger guest director, violin

Wednesday 7 June 2017 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series Photo by Richard Haughton

Matthew Brook

September Sunday 18 September 11.30 am

OPEN JEREMY HOUSE DENK DAY

Nick van Bloss piano Beethoven 6 Variations on an Original Theme in F Op. 34; Piano Sonata No. 18 in Eb Op. 31 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ After achieving recognition as a young pianist of tremendous talent, Nick van Bloss effectively retired in his mid-20s and stayed away from the concert platform for 15 years. Since returning to public performance in 2010, he has attracted critical superlatives and a keen following thanks not least to his revelatory Beethoven interpretations. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Jeremy Denk

Michael Wilson

Saturday 17 September 7.30 pm

Jeremy Denk piano MEDIEVAL TO MODERN

Wigmore Hall auditorium

Peter Dazeley

Saturday 17 September 10.00 am – 3.00 pm

OPEN HOUSE DAY Join us for an opportunity to look behind the scenes and behind the music at Wigmore Hall with free performances and family workshops taking place throughout the day. Bring the family and join Detective Inspector Hermione Jones for a musical mystery trail around the building and free music-making workshops at 11.00 am, 12.15 pm and 1.30 pm. Free (no ticket required)

In a fascinating programme spanning six centuries of repertoire, Jeremy Denk charts the history of Western music from the Medieval and Renaissance worlds of Machaut, Couperin and Frescobaldi to Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, and via the modernists Stravinsky, Cage, Ligeti and John Adams back to Machaut. Praised by The New York Times as an artist ‘you want to hear no matter what he performs’, Jeremy Denk stands among the leading musicians of his generation. The American pianist, honoured by Musical America as its 2014 Instrumentalist of the Year, is blessed with the potent combination of intellectual curiosity, expressive generosity and poetic spirit, qualities at the heart of his strikingly individual interpretations of everything from Bach and Beethoven to Cowell and Kirchner. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

London Pianoforte Series Nick van Bloss

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September

LES VENTS FRANÇAIS

Monday 19 September 1.00 pm

Monday 19 September 7.30 pm

Håkan Hardenberger trumpet Roland Pöntinen piano

Classical Opera Ian Page conductor Ailish Tynan soprano (Gasparina) Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano (Apollonia) Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano (Don Ettore) Robert Murray tenor (Don Pelagio)

Staffan Storm Three Autumns, in 3 mvts and inspired by Achmatova poems Stenhammar Sensommarnätter (Late Summer Nights) Op. 33 (a selection) Roland Pöntinen New work for trumpet and piano (world première) Over the past three decades Swedish trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger has made a huge contribution to the expansion of his instrument’s repertoire, commissioning major new works and inspiring many to arrange pieces for him. He is joined by fellow countryman Roland Pöntinen for a lunchtime recital programme complete with Pöntinen’s latest composition for trumpet and piano. £13 concs £11

Les Vents Français

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Sunday 18 September 7.30 pm

Les Vents Français

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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

Eric Le Sage

LA CANTERINA Haydn Symphony No. 34 in D minor Myslivecˇek Arias from Semiramide: Talor se il vento freme; Tu mi disprezzi ingrato; Di Scitalce ... A pastor se torna; Fiumicel che s’ode appena Haydn La canterina (semi-staged) Classical Opera’s pioneering MOZART 250 series continues with a compelling programme of works written in 1766 by Joseph Haydn and Josef Myslivecˇek, posthumously styled as ‘the divine Bohemian’. Four pulsating arias from Myslivecˇek’s first opera are framed by two contrasting Haydn works: a superbly crafted symphony and a vivacious comedy about love, deception and singing lessons. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Beethoven Trio in G for flute, bassoon and piano WoO. 37 Mozart Quintet in E b for piano and winds K452 Saint-Saëns Caprice sur des airs danois et russes Op. 79; Tarantelle in A minor Op. 6 Poulenc Sextet for wind quintet and piano Emmanuel Pahud and his esteemed colleagues of Les Vents Français evoke two great traditions of music for wind ensemble in this programme, the first rooted in Austro-German soil, the second cultivated in the salons of Paris. They open with Beethoven’s youthful Trio in G, thought to be a creation of his teenage years, and turn to Mozart’s sublime Quintet in E flat for piano and winds, before exploring French works of the utmost sophistication and verve. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Håkan Hardenberger

Marco Borggreve

Ian Page

Sheila Rock

September

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

Tuesday 20 September 7.30 pm

Thursday 22 September 7.30 pm

James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Kristian Bezuidenhout

Finzi Oh Fair to See Op. 13b Julian Philips New work* (world première) Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook continue to develop their dynamic creative partnership with programmes that mine the depths of human experience. Their latest Wigmore Hall recital includes song-cycles by Mahler and Schumann, and a new commission by Julian Philips, acclaimed for his feeling for poetic language and musical sensitivity. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music Series Ludwig van Beethoven

Joseph Willibrord Mähler

fortepiano, director

See page 16 for full details

Friday 23 September 7.30 pm

The Endellion String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2 Bartók String Quartet No. 3 BB93 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ The Endellions, hailed by Gramophone for cultivating ‘the Urtext method of quartet playing’, open their new season with Haydn’s glowing and masterly final complete quartet and end the concert with Beethoven’s symphonic first ‘Razumovsky’ quartet. Bartók’s third quartet burns with a compressed energy that encompasses reflective and profoundly touching melodies. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Tuesday 20 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 22 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Wednesday 28 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Chamber Music Season

BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS One of the iconic landmarks of piano literature, the Beethoven Sonatas trace the immense musical and spiritual journey of the composer’s creative life. Whilst his own performances of them were largely confined to the elite aristocratic salons of Vienna, allowing him to disregard the commercial pressures of the day and write some of his most deeply personal music, Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas soon became central to concert life, and to wider domestic music making, presenting an endlessly fascinating interpretative challenge both to the enthusiastic amateur and to the greatest pianists of each generation. Come and explore Beethoven’s world in three afternoons hosted by the composer Julian Philips alongside pianist Laura Roberts and student 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 Igor Levit on 28 September.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

James Gilchrist

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The Endellion String Quartet

Eric Richmond

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra & Kristian Bezuidenhout Thursday 22 September 7.30 pm

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano, director SPIRIT OF STURM UND DRANG Haydn Symphony No. 52 in C minor CPE Bach Concerto in D minor Wq. 17 JC Bach Symphony in G minor Op. 6 No. 6 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in Eb K449 The symphony and keyboard concerto grew as major genres during the eighteenth century’s second half, arising respectively from the opera sinfonia and JS Bach’s pioneering early concertos for solo harpsichord and instrumental ensemble. Freiburg Baroque Orchestra’s concert connects with the white-hot invention of landmark pieces from the period, including the fiery emotions of Haydn’s Symphony No. 52 in C minor and the chamber-like intimacy of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14. Kristian Bezuidenhout, acclaimed by The Herald as ‘the finest living exponent of the fortepiano’, joins the period instruments of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in works of high energy and creative fantasy. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by Dunard Fund Early Music and Baroque Series Photos by Marco Borggreve

Kristian Bezuidenhout

September Saturday 24 September 11.00 am – 12 noon

Sunday 25 September 11.30 am

Monday 26 September 1.00 pm

Relaxed Concert: Leonore Piano Trio

Jack Liebeck violin Amandine Savary piano

Doric String Quartet

The Leonore Piano Trio presents a diverse programme of music in this concert specifically designed to welcome people who would benefit from a relaxed performance environment, including people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, sensory and communication disorders or learning disabilities.

Schubert Duo Sonata in A D574 Copland Sonata for violin and piano (1943) Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108

All seats £5

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Saturday 24 September 7.30 pm

Since making his Wigmore Hall debut in 2002, London-born Jack Liebeck has established an international career as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He shares the stage for this recital with the beguiling young French pianist Amandine Savary, recently appointed by the Royal Academy of Music to its professorial staff.

Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Bartók String Quartet No. 4 BB95 Formal symmetry and thematic consistency govern the elemental power of Bartók’s Fourth String Quartet, written in the summer of 1928. The Doric String Quartet, described by Gramophone as ‘one of the finest young string quartets’, pairs the Hungarian composer’s complex creation with Debussy’s early G minor Quartet, a work that ditched the rulebook in search of expressive freedom. £13 concs £11

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

Aurora Orchestra

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Ligeti Ten pieces for wind quintet Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (arr. Brett Dean for nonet) Anna Meredith New work* (world première) Beethoven Septet in Eb Op. 20 *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

Aurora Orchestra’s imaginative programmes and support for new music combine here, aided by a Wigmore Hall commission from Anna Meredith, herself a fearless genre-hopping, boundary-pushing composer, and Ligeti’s Ten pieces for wind quintet, a collection of intense avant-garde miniatures completed in 1968. Beethoven’s Septet still sounds as fresh today as when it was first performed over two centuries ago.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sunday 25 September 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk See page 19 for full details

Sunday 25 September 7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt piano ANGELA HEWITT: THE BACH ODYSSEY See page 19 for full details

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Jack Liebeck

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Leonore Piano Trio

Eric Richmond

Aurora Orchestra

Lewis Brockway

Doric String Quartet

David Corfield

George Garnier

Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Critical acclaim for Angela Hewitt’s Bach interpretations bears witness to the pianist’s extraordinary ability to connect physically and emotionally as well as intellectually with the dance rhythms and expressive gestures of the composer’s keyboard works. The Bach Odyssey, designed in collaboration with our Director, will continue to share her mature insights with Wigmore Hall audiences over several coming seasons.

Sunday 25 September 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Pianist Angela Hewitt, renowned for her knowledge and insight on Bach as well as her mesmerising interpretations of his works, launches The Bach Odyssey with a discussion on the composer’s keyboard works ahead of her evening concert, in conversation with Jessica Duchen. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Sunday 25 September 7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt piano Bach Fantasia in C minor BWV906; Aria variata BWV989; 15 Inventions BWV772–786; 15 Sinfonias BWV787–801; Capriccio in B b BWV992 (Capriccio on the Departure of his Most Beloved Brother); Capriccio in E BWV993; Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV904 So often Bach opens the door to music that appears to inhabit the outer reaches of human consciousness, with sounds deeply felt yet rarely heard. The divinely-inspired composer’s keyboard fantasies, inventions and sinfonias provide the creative launch pad for Angela Hewitt’s glorious The Bach Odyssey. Her recital also includes the Capriccio in Bb, Bach’s only surviving piece of programme music. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 20 January 2017 7.30 pm Saturday 10 June 2017 7.30 pm This series will continue over the following three seasons Angela Hewitt

Richard Termine

Portrait of J S Bach by Johann Jakob Ihle, c. 1720. Photo © akg-images

September Tuesday 27 September 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

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

Friday 30 September 7.30 pm

MAX EMANUEL CENCIC IL POMO D’ORO

THE BUSCH PROJECT Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Mozart String Quintet in C K515

Adults £7.50 (babies come free)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Max Emanuel Cencic

Ann Hoffmann

Wednesday 28 September 7.30 pm

Igor Levit piano BEETHOVEN CYCLE: IGOR LEVIT See page 23 for full details

Renaud Capuçon violin Guillaume Chilemme violin Adrien La Marca viola Gérard Caussé viola Edgar Moreau cello

Renaud Capuçon pays homage to Adolf Busch with a programme of works closely associated with the great German violinist. He and a wonderful ensemble of friends reflect on the lasting legacy of a musician whose influence touched everyone, from his son-in-law Rudolf Serkin and pupil Yehudi Menuhin to generations of violinists since his death in 1952.

Thursday 29 September 7.30 pm

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Max Emanuel Cencic countertenor Il Pomo d’Oro Maxim Emelyanychev

Chamber Music Season

conductor, harpsichord

ARIE NAPOLETANE Scarlatti Sinfonia No. 7 in C Porpora Agitata è l’alma mia from Didone abbandonata Sarro Se resto sul lido from Didone abbandonata Hasse Grave and Fuga in G minor Porpora Torbido intorno al core from Meride e Selinunte Sarro Su la pendice from Didone Abbandonata Vinci In questa mia tempesta from Eraclea Leo No, non vedete mai from Siface Auletta Concerto in D for harpsichord, two violins and continuo Scarlatti Miei pensieri from Il prigioniero fortunato Porpora Qual turbine che scende from Germanico in Germania Max Emanuel Cencic’s sensational countertenor voice and entrepreneurial artistic leadership have added momentum to the revival of interest in eighteenth-century opera seria. The Zagreb-born Austrian artist recently recorded arias in this programme with thrilling young period-instrument ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro for Decca, casting brilliant light on works buried for over two centuries. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

For Crying Out Loud!

Benjamin Ealovega

Renaud Capuçon

François Darmigny

Barbara Hannigan & Calder Quartet Saturday 1 October 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut †

Barbara Hannigan† soprano Calder Quartet Peter Eötvös Korrespondenz (String Quartet No. 1) Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Peter Eötvös The sirens cycle* (world première) * Co-commissioned by Tonhalle Society Zürich, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Centro Nacional de Difusion Musical (Madrid), Ircam-Centre Pompidou (Paris), ProQuartet-Centre européen de musique de chambre (Paris), Südwestrundfunk (Kompositionsauftrag des Südwestrundfunks), and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan performs like a force of nature, captivating audiences with her artistry’s presence and expressive vitality. She joins the Calder Quartet, winner of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, for the world première of The sirens cycle by Peter Eötvös. The Hungarian composer’s new score for Wigmore Hall explores the full range of Hannigan’s striking coloratura voice. The programme opens with Korrespondenz, a series of three vivid ‘scenes’ for string quartet completed in 1993. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

Calder Quartet

Autumn de Wilde

Photo of Barbara Hannigan by Raphael Brand

Beethoven Cycle:

Igor Levit Beethoven’s piano sonatas occupied forty years of his life. They offer insights into his development as artist and individual, and stand among the greatest of all his works. Igor Levit, now in his late 20s, drew critical superlatives to his debut recording of Beethoven’s late sonatas and has since established his reputation as a visionary interpreter of the composer’s music. His first Beethoven cycle in a major concert hall stands among the must-hear events of 2016/17. Igor Levit’s Beethoven Cycle is supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton

Wednesday 28 September 7.30 pm

Other Events in this Series

Igor Levit

Wigmore Study Group

piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 2 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 12 in Ab Op. 26 ‘Funeral March’; Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Op. 79; Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ Igor Levit begins his Beethoven Cycle with the composer’s first piano sonata with an opus number, the dashing Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, and embraces works from the composer’s later maturity. His recital’s second half pairs the neo-classical simplicity of the Piano Sonata No. 25 with the Romantic extremes and heroic grandeur of the ‘Waldstein’ Sonata. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Tuesday 20 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 22 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Wednesday 28 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Igor Levit

piano

Sunday 9 October 7.30 pm Monday 7 November 7.30 pm Tuesday 6 December 7.30 pm Monday 30 January 2017 7.30 pm

London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 26 February 2017 7.30 pm Friday 17 March 2017 7.30 pm

Photo by Gregor Hohenberg

Tuesday 13 June 2017 7.30 pm

October Sunday 2 October 11.30 am

Van Kuijk Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

Monday 3 October 1.00 pm

NATHALIE STUTZMANN ORFEO 55

Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94 Olli Mustonen Frei, aber einsam* (UK première) Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40

The Van Kuijk Quartet, winner of the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, presents an ideal pairing of works. Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’ Quartet stands here as companion to Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, a work rooted in the great Classical tradition yet strikingly original in musical substance and complexity. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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

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

Nathalie Stutzmann

Simon Fowler

Sunday 2 October 7.30 pm

Nathalie Stutzmann director, contralto

Sunday 2 October

Orfeo 55

Silver Sunday: Musical Pictures

Leo Allegro from Sinfonia G minor ‘Santa Elena al Calvario’ Caldara Sebben crudele Scarlatti O cessate di piargarmi Bononcini Per la gloria d’adorarvi from Griselda Legrenzi Che fiero costume Marini Passacaglio a 3 e a 4 Caccini Amarilli mia bella Falconieri Passacalle Durante Danza, danza, fanciulla gentile Paisiello Nel cor più non mi sento Vivaldi Cor mio, che prigion sei from L’Atenaide Porpora Sinfonia da camera in C Op. 2 No. 2 Vivaldi Con la face di Megera from Semiramide Durante Vergin, Tutto amor Porpora Largo from Cello Concerto in G Caldara Spera, consolati from Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo Porpora Adagio e Allegro from Sonata No. 3 in G Stradella Queste lagrime e sospiri from San Giovanni Battista D’Anglebert Prelude from Suite No. 1 in G Vivaldi Cessate, omai cessate

As part of Silver Sunday, we invite people living with dementia and their family, friends and carers to join us in the beautiful spaces of The Wallace Collection and Wigmore Hall. Please keep an eye on our website for more details! Free (booking required)

In partnership with The Wallace Collection, Westminster Arts and the Royal Academy of Music

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Steven Isserlis cello Olli Mustonen piano

Frei, aber einsam – ‘Free, but alone’ – connects with the abbreviated title of the collaborative F-A-E Sonata by Schumann, his pupil Albert Dietrich and the young Brahms. Olli Mustonen’s work, a short Invention for solo cello written for Steven Isserlis, serves as a bridge between the flowing melodies of Schumann’s Three Romances and the turbulent emotions of Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in D minor. All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Olli Mustonen

Outi Montosen

Steven Isserlis

Jean-Baptiste Millot

Nathalie Stutzmann’s repertoire choice draws directly from Alessandro Parisotti’s famous anthology of seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury Italian arias. The French contralto’s work as conductor has won countless admirers in recent years, especially in partnership with her own versatile ensemble, Orfeo 55. Their programme includes heart-melting arie antiche by Caccini, Caldara and Vivaldi and rarely heard instrumental pieces by the Neapolitan composer and singing teacher Nicola Porpora. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Van Kuijk Quartet

October Monday 3 October 7.30 pm

Thursday 6 October 7.30 pm

Friday 7 October 7.30 pm

Pavel Haas Quartet Harriet Krijgh cello

Jan Lisiecki piano

IMS Prussia Cove

Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826 Schumann Klavierstücke Op. 32 Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20; 2 Nocturnes Op. 48 Schubert 4 Impromptus D935

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Winfried Rademacher violin Sini Simonen violin István Várdai cello Matthew Hunt clarinet

Born in Canada to Polish parents in 1995, Jan Lisiecki made his international breakthrough at the age of fifteen when Warsaw’s Fryderyk Chopin Institute released his debut recording of Chopin’s piano concertos. He returns to Wigmore Hall for a recital complete with Chopin’s virtuosic Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20 and Schubert’s evergreen Four Impromptus D935.

Other artists to be announced

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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

Webern Fünf Sätze Op. 5 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Schubert String Quintet in C D956

Programme to include: Glinka Trio pathétique Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 60 This year’s annual IMS Prussia Cove autumn tour unites Elisabeth Leonskaja, Winfried Rademacher and Matthew Hunt with young musicians who have progressed through the IMS seminars. Founded over 40 years ago by the great Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh, IMS continues to nurture outstanding chamber music performers under the artistic directorship of cellist Steven Isserlis. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Wednesday 5 October 7.30 pm

Sound and silence share equal importance in Webern’s Fünf Sätze, exquisitely crafted miniatures for string quartet. The Pavel Haas Quartet also performs Shostakovich’s Second String Quartet Op. 68, dedicated to Vissarion Shebalin, one of the few composers who stood by him after his denunciation for ‘bourgeois formalism’ in the newspaper Pravda in 1936, and is joined by young Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh in Schubert’s sublime String Quintet. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Saturday 8 October 11.00 am – 12 noon

Ensemble 360 & Polly Ives: Sir Scallywag and the Battle of Stinky Bottom

Chamber Music Season

Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano Collegium 1704 Václav Luks conductor

FAMILY CONCERT For ages 4 plus

SEMIRAMIDE ‘LA SIGNORA REGALE’

Join Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives for this new children’s concert, based on Giles Andreae’s latest Sir Scallywag story, illustrated by Korky Paul (Penguin 2015). With music by award-winning composer Paul Rissmann, it’s packed with irresistibly memorable songs, vivid story-telling, illustrations and lots of audience participation.

See page 26 for full details

Children £8 Adults £10

Elisabeth Leonskaja

Jan Lisiecki

Mathias Bothor/DG

Pavel Haas Quartet

Julia Wesely

Marco Borggreve

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Family Concert

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Anna Bonitatibus & Collegium 1704 Wednesday 5 October 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut*

Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano Collegium 1704* Václav Luks conductor SEMIRAMIDE ‘LA SIGNORA REGALE’ Caldara Introduzione & Povera navicella from Semiramide in Ascalona Handel Fuggi dagl’occhi miei from Semiramide Riconosciuta Jommelli Barbaro, non dolerti ... Tradita, sprezzata from Semiramide Riconosciuta Gluck Ballet Suite from Semiramis Gluck Fuggi dagl’occhi miei from Semiramide Riconosciuta Bertoni Non so se più t’accendi from Semiramide Riconosciuta Bianchi Sinfonia from La Vendetta di Nino Paisiello Serbo in seno il cor piagato from La Semiramide in Villa Nasolini Deh sospendi a’ pianti miei … Serbo ancora un’alma altera from La Morte di Semiramide Catel Dances Nos. 1 & 2 from Sémiramis Rossini Bel raggio lusinghier from Semiramide García Semiramis Collegium 1704 is joined by Italian mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus, recently hailed for her performance alongside Juan Diego Flórez in Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri at the Vienna State Opera. Václav Luks and his Prague-based ensemble have secured rave reviews for their recordings, Bach’s Mass in B minor among them. Collegium 1704 makes its UK debut at Wigmore Hall with a programme of arias, songs and other works inspired by the legendary Assyrian queen Semiramis. Her mythical story, retold by Metastasio in an opera libretto that received 30 settings between 1729 and 1819, involves the queen’s disguise as king, an unsuccessful poisoning plot and the final triumph of Semiramis. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by Dunard Fund

Early Music and Baroque Series

Collegium 1704 Photo of Anna Bonitatibus by Frank Bonitatibus

Petra Hajská

October Saturday 8 October 7.30 pm

Sunday 9 October 7.30 pm

Janine Jansen violin Alexander Gavrylyuk piano

Igor Levit piano

Nicholas Angelich piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78; Piano Sonata No. 4 in E b Op. 7; Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Op. 14 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 26 in E b Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’

Programme to include: Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 59

See page 28 for full details

Sunday 9 October 11.30 am

Scottish Ensemble Brahms String Sextet in Bb Op. 18 Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 Brahms turned to models from the past, including the late instrumental works of Schubert and the famous Baroque theme ‘La folia’, for his String Sextet in B flat, completed in the summer of 1860. Scottish Ensemble pairs the work with the sensual lyricism and intense late-Romanticism of Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht of 1899.

Monday 10 October 1.00 pm

First published in London in 1810, Beethoven’s lyrical Piano Sonata No. 24 reflects recent lessons learned by the composer in creating his Fifth Piano Concerto, Sixth Symphony and Violin Concerto. Igor Levit’s programme also includes Op. 81a, described by Beethoven as a ‘sonata characterising departure, absence and reunion’, and the Piano Sonata No. 4, an early masterwork.

Following early studies in the United States with his mother, Nicholas Angelich gave his concerto debut at the age of seven and made meteoric progress after his graduation from the Paris Conservatoire in the late 1980s. Virtuosity and romantic intensity are among the hallmarks of his pianism, qualities ideally suited to Liszt’s monumental Piano Sonata in B minor. £13 concs £11

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton

London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Igor Levit

Scottish Ensemble

Gregor Hohenberg

Peter Dibdin

Nicholas Angelich

Stéphane de Bourgies

Janine Jansen

Perspectives

Known for her passionate devotion to chamber music, as well as her incandescent concerto performances, Janine Jansen has achieved worldwide acclaim with music-making of the highest integrity. The Dutch violinist, a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall’s audience, presents a season-long residency in 2016/17, complete with performances of Korngold’s rarely heard Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand, and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. Saturday 8 October 7.30 pm

Janine Jansen violin Alexander Gavrylyuk piano Poulenc Violin Sonata Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis Janine Jansen opens her Wigmore Hall series with a recital programme of great sophistication and nuance. Poulenc’s Violin Sonata was inspired by García Lorca’s famous metaphor ‘The guitar makes dreams weep’ and also by the violin sonatas of Brahms. Szymanowski’s Myths and Prokofiev’s Second Violin Sonata, creations of the two world wars, harness virtuosity to the expression of poetic musical gestures. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season

Forthcoming Events in this Series Wednesday 8 February 2017 7.30 pm

Janine Jansen violin Boris Brovtsyn violin Torleif Thedéen cello Clara Andrada de la Calle flute Olivier Patey clarinet Eldar Nebolsin piano Friday 2 June 2017 7.30 pm

Janine Jansen violin Torleif Thedéen cello Martin Fröst clarinet Lucas Debargue piano Friday 2 June 2017 9.45 pm

Artists in Conversation Photo by Harald Hoffmann/Decca

October Tuesday 11 October 7.30 pm

Wednesday 12 October 7.30 pm

Friday 14 October 7.30 pm

Llyˆr Williams piano

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano

The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director

See page 30 for full details

Arvo Pärt Da pacem Domine; Morning Star; I Am the True Vine; Most Holy Mother of God Byrd Mass for Four Voices Gibbons Hosanna to the son of David; O Lord in Thy Wrath; Lift up your heads; Nunc dimittis (short service); O clap your hands Nico Muhly New work* (world première) Tavener The Lamb; Funeral Ikos; Love bade me welcome

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor Op. 10 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Op. 10 No. 3; 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 Two seasons ago, Llyˆr Williams embarked on a monumental survey of Beethoven’s complete piano works at Wigmore Hall. His latest recital encompasses the vivid stylistic contrasts and fruitful thematic ideas of the three Op. 10 piano sonatas and the elemental Diabelli Variations, remarkable even by Beethoven’s standards for their invention and blend of disciplined craft and individual spontaneity. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 13 October 7.30 pm

Melvyn Tan 60th Birthday Concert

Melvyn Tan piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 Czerny Variations on a theme of Rode ‘La Ricordanza’; Marcia funebre sulla morte di Luigi van Beethoven Op. 146 Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Melvyn Tan celebrates his 60th birthday with a programme richly infused with virtuosity and underpinned by the adamantine musical substance of Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor, among the great monuments of nineteenth-century art. His recital includes the Marcia funebre, Carl Czerny’s heartfelt memorial tribute to his former teacher and friend, completed within days of Beethoven’s death in March 1827. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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

Music has been used to outline and enhance sacred space and time for millennia. The Cardinall’s Musick and Andrew Carwood explore sacred compositions from two periods, past and present, rich in works informed by a profound feeling for something greater than the individual self. Their programme pairs the pristine soundworlds of Arvo Pärt and Byrd, Gibbons and Tavener, and presents a new score by Nico Muhly. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series/ Contemporary Music Series

London Pianoforte Series Saturday 15 October 1.00 pm, 6.00 pm & 7.30 pm

Helen Grime Day See page 33 for full details Llyˆr Williams

Melvyn Tan

Evy Ottermans

Sheila Rock

The Cardinall’s Musick

Dmitri Gutjahr

Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber Wednesday 12 October 7.30 pm

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Dvorˇák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs) Schumann Sechs Gedichte und Requiem Op. 90; Resignation; Die Blume der Ergebung; Der Einsiedler Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35

Following this concert, Christian Gerhaher will be presented with The Wigmore Medal, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Wigmore Hall over the past 15 years. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2016/17 Wigmore Series Song Recital Series Photo by Simon Jay Price

Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber readily access areas of imagination and insight that are off-limits to all but the most enlightened artists. Their latest Wigmore Hall recital opens with Dvorˇák’s Biblical Songs, ten uplifting settings in Czech of Psalms extracted from the Bible of Kralice, a landmark of the Protestant Reformation. Matters spiritual also arise in Schumann’s ‘Requiem’, the ‘old Catholic poem’, which the composer added to his settings of six poems by Nikolaus Lenau. The programme’s second half includes three mature Schumann Lieder and his early sequence of a dozen songs to poems by Justinus Kerner.

October Wednesday 19 October 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

Sunday 16 October 11.30 am

Monday 17 October 1.00 pm

Dover Quartet

Vilde Frang violin Aleksandar Madžar piano

Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Smetana and Dvorˇák were pioneers of Czech music when their homeland fell under Austro-Hungarian rule. Their works helped shape a distinctive national cultural identity and attracted worldwide interest. The Dover Quartet, winner of the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, pairs Dvorˇák’s String Quartet in F Op. 96 with Smetana’s autobiographical String Quartet No. 1 in E minor. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

For Crying Out Loud! Temple Ensemble

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Vilde Frang, born in Norway in 1986, made her debut with the Oslo Philharmonic and Mariss Jansons at the age of twelve. Hailed by the Guardian as ‘a new star in the violin firmament’, she makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall to perform a programme of Brahms and Schubert guaranteed to display her all-encompassing emotional range and virtuosity.

Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and their babies to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment. Adults £7.50 (babies come free)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£13 concs £11

Wednesday 19 October 7.30 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Leon McCawley piano

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 Schubert Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ Schubert/Liszt Die junge Nonne; Du bist die Ruh; Auf dem Wasser zu singen Mendelssohn Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words) Op. 19 Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23

Sunday 16 October 7.30 pm

Christian Tetzlaff violin Tanja Tetzlaff cello Lars Vogt piano Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101; Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87; Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 (revised version)

Leon McCawley, recently praised by the Washington Post as a ‘thoughtful and lyrical pianist’, performs the virtuosic ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy, the first of Schubert’s larger works to be published during his lifetime, and three song arrangements by Liszt that helped secure Schubert’s posthumous reputation. His recital closes with Chopin’s Ballade in G minor, a showpiece of unstoppable momentum.

Brahms’s Piano Trios contain some of the composer’s most memorable music, rich in invention and propelled by what feels like an irresistible flood of lyrical melody. Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff are joined by long-term collaborator Lars Vogt in a programme complete with the composer’s radiant late revision of his Op. 8 Piano Trio.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season Vilde Frang

Lars Vogt, Tanja & Christian Tetzlaff

Giorgia Bertazzi

Dover Quartet

Marco Borggreve

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Leon McCawley

Sheila Rock

Helen Grime Day Wigmore Hall marks the start of Helen Grime’s term as its first female Composer in Residence with a day devoted to her art. The Scottish composer, born in 1981, is known not least for her distinctive creative voice and her music’s lyrical beauty. Helen Grime Day offers the chance to become deeply immersed in her chamber compositions. Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence is supported by The Marchus Trust

Saturday 15 October 1.00 pm

6.00 pm

Alexandra Wood violin Rachel Roberts viola Philip Higham cello Nicholas Daniel oboe Huw Watkins piano

Artists in Conversation

Helen Grime Three Whistler Miniatures for piano trio; Aviary Sketches for string trio (after Joseph Cornell)*; To see the summer sky for violin and viola; New work for oboe and piano (UK première); Oboe Quartet *Co-commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center funded by a generous grant from Linda and Stuart Nelson in honour of Wu Han and David Finckel, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Chamber music occupies the centre ground of Helen Grime’s work, embracing everything from pieces for solo oboe to scores conceived for small ensemble. Three Whistler Miniatures draw inspiration from chalk and pastel pieces exhibited at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Museum, while Aviary Sketches comprises five miniatures influenced by the alluring ‘assemblage boxes’ of American artist and sculptor Joseph Cornell. All seats £10

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series/ Helen Grime Composer in Residence

Helen Grime discusses her life as a composer and her plans during her time as Wigmore Hall Composer in Residence. £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Mark van de Wiel clarinet Geoffrey Paterson conductor Helen Grime Embrace for clarinet and trumpet; Seven Pierrot Miniatures Oliver Knussen Songs without Voices Helen Grime Clarinet Concerto Carter Au Quai for bassoon and viola Helen Grime Luna Janácˇek Concertino Helen Grime’s Seven Pierrot Miniatures project the composer’s uncanny feeling for instrumental tone colours and textural contrasts, whilst her Clarinet Concerto is a study in virtuosity that grows more meditative as it unfolds. Knussen and Carter have been formative influences in Grime’s career; her duo Embrace picks up the duos in Knussen’s delightful Songs without Voices, and the Carter duo, written for Knussen’s 50th birthday, mirrors this. All seats £15 ALL DAY CONCERT TICKET: £20 Tickets to the Artists in Conversation event sold separately

Photo by Jonathan Wrather

October Thursday 20 October 7.30 pm

SCHUBERT IN ENGLISH

Christoph Prégardien tenor Christoph Schnackertz piano Schubert Tischlied; Der Rattenfänger; Wer kauft Liebesgötter?; Tischlerlied; Der Entfernten; An die Harmonie; Die Herbstnacht; Der Herbstabend; Abschied von der Harfe; Die gefangenen Sänger; Die Mutter Erde; Des Sängers Habe Britten Winter Words Bruch Lausche, lausche!; Goldne Brücken; Frisch gesungen; Russisch; Um Mitternacht; Zweites Kophtisches Lied; Kophtisches Lied

The Beautiful Maid of the Mill

Schubert’s songs undoubtedly belong to the stock of mankind’s highest achievements. For many decades in Britain these works were regularly heard in their English translations, although in recent years there has been a shift back to performance in their original language. This autumn we explore the composer’s three great song-cycles and transform them from their original German into new English translations, inviting audiences to discover or revisit these special works in a new light. Thursday 20 October 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm

18th-century engraving

Christoph Prégardien makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with Christoph Schnackertz to perform Britten’s evocative Hardy cycle, Winter Words, and a group of the ever-inventive strophic songs by Schubert. Although best known today for his G minor Violin Concerto, Max Bruch was a prolific songwriter whose output includes fine settings of Geibel, Goethe and Mörike, a selection of which is presented in this recital.

Sunday 23 October 3.00 pm

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Toby Spence tenor Christopher Glynn piano

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Schubert The Beautiful Maid of the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin) (London première of new English translation) Toby Spence, one of the finest lyric tenors of his generation, presents Jeremy Sams’s new translation of Die schöne Müllerin as part of Wigmore Hall’s innovative Learning programme. This concert will be approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in duration, without an interval All seats £15

Christoph Schnackertz

Study Afternoon

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Writer and musician Amanda Holden is joined by pianist Christopher Glynn and singer Toby Spence to discuss Schubert’s three great song-cycles and their transformations into English. How do writers approach the specialist task of translating song texts? And for singers, what are the challenges of performing in translation? These questions and many more are explored in this illuminating study event.

Sunday 6 November 3.00 pm

£7

Schubert Swansong (Schwanengesang)

Clärchen & Hermann Baus

Roderick Williams baritone Christopher Glynn piano Schubert Winter Journey (Winterreise) Sunday 11 December 3.00 pm

Sir John Tomlinson bass Christopher Glynn piano

Song Recital Series /Wigmore Hall Learning Events Christoph Prégardien

Hans Morren

October

LE POÈME HARMONIQUE

Saturday 22 October 7.30 pm

Monday 24 October 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nelson Goerner piano

Nash Ensemble See page 37 for full details Sunday 23 October 11.30 am

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble

Nelson Goerner charts the creative crosscurrents that connected the diverse musical worlds of early twentieth-century Europe in his latest Wigmore Hall recital. The Argentine pianist, celebrated for his Debussy interpretations, offers a selection from the French composer’s Préludes Book II before probing Albéniz’s Iberia and concluding with La valse, Ravel’s heady evocation of an Austrian imperial ball of the mid-1800s.

See page 37 for full details Vincent Dumestre

Guy Vivien

Friday 21 October 7.30 pm

Sunday 23 October 7.30 pm

Le Poème Harmonique

Wigmore Hall Debut*

Claire Lefilliâtre soprano Isabelle Druet mezzo-soprano Mira Glodeanu violin Lucas Peres viol Françoise Enock violone Marie Bournisien harp Thomas Boysen guitar Thor-Harald Johnsen guitar Joël Grare percussion

Vincent Dumestre conductor, guitar Briceño Españoleta; Ay ay ay, todos se burlan de mi; Andalo çaravanda; Danza de la Hacha; Venteçillo murmurador; Ay amor loco; El caballo del marqués; Folia; Dime de que te quexas Anonymous El baxel esta en la playa; Lloren mis ojos (Libro de tonos humanos); Ruggiero; Passacalle; Gaytas; Para tener Nochebuena; No so yo (Cancionero de Uppsala); Canario Berxes Ay! Qué rabia Luis de Briceño, active around 1610–30, spread the Spanish guitar’s popularity beyond its homeland. He made his name in France with a collection of pieces intended for students of guitar. Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre have recorded Briceño’s works for the Alpha label and continue to explore them within the context of early seventeenth-century Spanish music, offering vivid instrumental arrangements of works that capture the vitality and verve of popular dances, villancicos and romances.

Debussy From Préludes Book II: Brouillards; Feuilles mortes; La puerta del vino; Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses; La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune; Feux d’artifice Albéniz From Iberia: Evocación; El puerto; Triana Ravel La valse

Jamie Barton* mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano

£13 concs £11

Turina Homenaje a Lope de Vega Brahms Ständchen; Meine Liebe ist grün; Unbewegte laue Luft; Von ewiger Liebe Dvorˇák Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs) Op. 55 Ives The things our fathers loved; Grantchester; Immortality; The Housatonic at Stockbridge; The Cage; Old Home Day Sibelius Svarta rosor; Säv, säv, susa; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte; Kyssens hopp; Marssnön; Var det en dröm?

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Since winning the First and Song Prizes at the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Jamie Barton has scored notable successes at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and with her BBC Proms debut in Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody. The American mezzo-soprano marks her Wigmore Hall debut with a programme of songs ideally matched to her vocal warmth and sumptuous tone. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by American Friends of Wigmore Hall

Song Recital Series

James Baillieu

Kaupo Kikkas

Nelson Gorner

Jean-Baptiste Millot

This concert will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Jamie Barton

Rebecca Fay

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Vienna and its Empire

Between the early 1500s and the end of the First World War, Vienna emerged as the capital of a vast multicultural empire ruled by the Habsburgs and enlarged by shrewd dynastic marriages. The Habsburg lands evolved to become, by the late 1860s, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Musicians from all corners of the empire made their way to Vienna, cultivating one of Europe’s richest musical legacies. Composers from the empire’s constituent countries, meanwhile, increasingly expressed aspirations for national independence in their scores, drawing not least on folk music traditions. This season the Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Ensemble in Residence, combines music from the Viennese Classical School and the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg and his pupils, with music from Hungary and the Czech lands. Saturday 22 October 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 19 November 6.00 pm Schubert, Bartók & Kodály Saturday 19 November 7.30 pm Brahms, Liszt & Dohnányi Saturday 10 December 7.30 pm with

Saturday 21 January 2017 7.30 pm with

Nash Ensemble Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 for string sextet Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ The Nash Ensemble launches its Viennese series with works by three composers closely associated with ‘the city of music’. Mahler’s only surviving chamber work dates from his precocious teenage years at the Vienna Conservatoire, while Schoenberg’s romantically charged ‘Transfigured Night’ dates from the same year as Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. Schubert’s much-loved ‘Trout’ Quintet, a score of sunny relaxation, was written during a country vacation from his native city. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano

Janácˇek, Smetana & Dvorˇák

Lucy Crowe soprano Ian Brown piano Martyn Brabbins conductor

Haydn, Mozart & Mahler Sunday 5 February 2017 11.30 am Dvorˇák & Smetana Saturday 11 February 2017 6.00 pm with

Claire Booth

soprano

Berg, Webern & Schoenberg Saturday 11 February 2017 7.30 pm

Sunday 23 October 11.30 am with

Claire Booth

soprano

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Berg, Mozart & Schubert

Nash Ensemble

Tuesday 21 March 2017 7.30 pm

Johann Strauss II Kaiser-Walzer Op. 437 (Emperor Waltz) (arr. by Schoenberg for flute, clarinet, string quartet and piano) Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 The apparent political and social stability of Austria-Hungary, more illusion than reality, informs Johann Strauss the younger’s famous Emperor Waltz, performed by the Nash Ensemble in an ensemble arrangement by Arnold Schoenberg. Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25, with its exuberant Hungarian-style finale, was performed in Vienna in 1862 shortly before the composer made his permanent home there. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

NASH INVENTIONS with Martyn Brabbins conductor Adrian Brendel cello Roderick Williams baritone Huw Watkins, Colin Matthews, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Simon Holt & Julian Anderson Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt, Vienna 1907

October Monday 24 October 7.30 pm

Tuesday 25 October 7.30 pm

Wednesday 26 October 7.30 pm

Phantasm

Sunwook Kim piano

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

Mozart Rondo in A minor K511 Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894 ‘Fantasie’ Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’

Florilegium Ashley Solomon director Dame Emma Kirkby soprano

THE WORLD OF ORLANDO GIBBONS Gibbons A selection of Fantasies a 2, a 3, a 4 and a 6 Gibbons A selection of In Nomines Gibbons Peascod Time (The Hunt’s Up); Pavan Lord Salisbury; The silver swanne; Pavan and Galliard a 6; Go from my window; O Lord in Thy Wrath; Hosanna to the son of David Orlando Gibbons, a talented chorister of King’s College, Cambridge, who became organist at Westminster Abbey during the time of James I, contributed outstanding works to the English tradition of music for viol consort. Phantasm celebrates the art of a composer whose sudden death robbed Jacobean England of one of her brightest talents.

LONDON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

London-based Sunwook Kim secured international attention as winner of the 2006 Leeds International Piano Competition. His latest Wigmore Hall recital programme recalls the extraordinary creative energy that swept through Vienna from the time of Mozart’s arrival in the Habsburg imperial capital in the early 1780s to Schubert’s death in November 1728. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Arne Overture No. 8 in G minor from Judgement of Paris; Cantata: The Morning Handel Trio Sonata in E minor Op. 5 No. 3; Sweet Bird from L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato; Gentle Morpheus, son of night from Alceste Chilcot Orpheus with his lute from Henry VIII Handel Organ Concerto in Bb Op. 4 No. 6 HWV294 Lampe Pretty Warblers from Dione Florilegium returns to Wigmore Hall for its 25th anniversary season with Dame Emma Kirkby in a programme showcasing rarely performed works by Lampe, Chilcot and Arne. The programme also contains some of the acclaimed ensemble’s favourite Handel, including well-known arias from two of his operas and the haunting Trio Sonata in E minor.

London Pianoforte Series

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunwook Kim

Phantasm

Marco Borggreve

Florilegium

Doh Lee

John Yip Brandies

October Thursday 27 October 7.30 pm

Friday 28 October 7.30 pm

Saturday 29 October 7.30 pm

Thomas Zehetmair violin Ruth Killius viola

The Prince Consort Stephen Hough piano

Philippe Cassard piano

Klein Duo for Violin and Viola Zimmermann Sonata for solo violin Bartók Selection of duos for 2 violins (arranged for violin and viola) Zimmermann Sonata for solo violin Mozart Duo in Bb K424

Stephen Hough Herbstlieder; Dappled Things (world première); Three Grave Songs; Other Love Songs

Gideon Klein, a victim of the Nazi Holocaust, wrote his Duo for Violin and Viola shortly before his deportation to the Terezín concentration camp in 1941. Thomas Zehetmair and Ruth Killius present the piece in company with the two Sonatas for solo violin by Klein’s near-contemporary Bernd Alois Zimmermann and a selection of Bartók’s folksong-inspired Duos.

Stephen Hough, named by The Economist as one of twenty living polymaths, has achieved distinction not only as a concert pianist but also as a composer, poet, essayist and writer. His collaboration with The Prince Consort has yielded an acclaimed recording and continues with this programme of new works, including the first performance of Hough’s Dappled Things. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

DEBUSSY PERSPECTIVES II: DEBUSSY & OTHERS – ‘WATER MUSICS’ Ravel Jeux d’eau Liszt Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este from Années de pèlerinage, troisième année S163; Au bord d’une source from Années de pèlerinage S160 Debussy Acte 2 from Pelléas et Mélisande (transcr. Cassard); La cathédrale engloutie from Préludes Book I; Ce qu’a vu le vent de l’ouest from Préludes Book I; Brouillards from Préludes Book II; The Snow is Dancing from Children’s Corner; Des pas sur la neige from Préludes Book I; Quelques aspects de ‘Nous n’irons plus au bois parce qu’il fait un temps insupportable’ from Images oubliées; Jardins sous la pluie from Estampes; Ondine from Préludes Book II; Poissons d’or from Images Series 2; Voiles from Préludes Book I; Reflets dans l’eau from Images Series 1 Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60 Debussy L’isle joyeuse Philippe Cassard has lived with the works in this recital for over three decades, during which time he has developed personal interpretations of the utmost eloquence and sensuous beauty. The blend of fleeting display and inward reflection to be found in Cassard’s captivating transcription of music from Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and L’isle joyeuse also surface in the water-inspired pieces of Liszt and Ravel. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series Ruth Killius

Thomas Zehetmair

Robin Fuchs

Keith Pattison

The Prince Consort

Richard Ecclestone

Stephen Hough

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Philippe Cassard

Jean-Baptiste Millot

October/November Sunday 30 October 11.30 am

Monday 31 October 1.00 pm

Wednesday 2 November 7.30 pm

Carducci String Quartet

Kelemen Quartet

40th Anniversary Season

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in E b Op. 117 Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’

Programme to include: Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52 Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703

The Carducci String Quartet marked the 40th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death in 2015 with a marathon day-long performance of his fifteen quartets at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. The group returns to the composer’s edgy Ninth String Quartet for this recital, setting it in company with the third of Beethoven’s remarkable ‘Razumovsky’ quartets.

The Kelemen Quartet, winner of the 2014 Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition, has made meteoric progress since its foundation six years ago in Budapest. Known for its white-hot commitment in performance, the ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall recital explores the refinement of Bartók’s First String Quartet alongside the single sonata-form movement of Schubert’s Quartettsatz.

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

£13 concs £11

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio Beethoven Piano Trio in Bb Op. 11 Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 (revised version) One of the world’s most distinguished piano trios, founded to perform at the inauguration of US President Carter in 1977, explores strikingly rich works in this programme, beginning with the creative struggles and expressive contrasts of Beethoven and Shostakovich. The Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio closes with Brahms’s youthful Piano Trio Op. 8, heavily revised by the composer in later life. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Sunday 30 October 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sophie Karthäuser soprano Eugene Asti piano

Monday 31 October 6.00 pm

See page opposite for full details

Chamber Music Season

Thursday 3 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Artists in Conversation See page 43 for full details

Friday 4 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass

Monday 31 October 7.30 pm

See page 44 for full details

Alison Balsom trumpet Peter Moore trombone Tom Poster piano ALISON BALSOM ‘THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND’ See page 43 for full details

Carducci String Quartet

Andy Holdsworth Photography

Kelemen Quartet

Balazs Borocz Pilvax Studio

Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio

Christian Steiner

Sophie Karthäuser Sunday 30 October 7.30 pm

Sophie Karthäuser soprano

Eugene Asti piano Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister: Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Wolf Heiß mich nicht reden; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; So laßt mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land; Mausfallen-Sprüchlein; Das verlassene Mägdlein; Bei einer Trauung; Agnes; Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens Fauré Automne; Le secret; Prison; Notre amour Satie Trois Mélodies: La statue de bronze; Daphénéo; Le chapelier Honegger Petits cours de morale Chabrier Les cigales; Villanelle des petits canards; Chanson pour Jeanne; Lied Feted as a supremely gifted Mozartean and recognised worldwide for the brilliance of her lyric voice, Belgian soprano Sophie Karthäuser first beguiled Wigmore Hall as a prize winner at its 2003 International Song Competition. Her latest recital programme, given with regular duo partner Eugene Asti, embraces the two languages in which she was raised, German and French. She opens with Schubert and Wolf’s sublime Goethe settings, before unlocking the exquisite colours of mélodies by Fauré and Chabrier. Karthäuser’s repertoire choice also includes Satie’s witty Trois Mélodies, completed exactly a century ago as the First World War raged. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Photo by Molina Visuals/Harmonia Mundi

Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ Over the past decade Alison Balsom has captivated audiences worldwide with her lyrical playing, exquisite tone and penetrating musicianship. As performer, educator and advocate she has done more for her instrument and the wider cause of classical music than many achieve in a lifetime. Wigmore Hall’s Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ series offers the chance to experience the full breadth and depth of her work. Monday 31 October 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Alison Balsom explores her life and career, and discusses her residency at Wigmore Hall this season with broadcaster and presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Monday 31 October 7.30 pm

Alison Balsom trumpet Peter Moore trombone Tom Poster piano Honegger Intrada Hindemith Trumpet Sonata Schubert Impromptu in G b D899 No. 3 for solo piano Enescu Légende Tom Poster & Alison Balsom The Thoughts of Dr May Brahms Trio in E b Op. 40 (transcr. Alison Balsom for trumpet, trombone and piano)

Peter Moore

Kaupo Kikkas

Tom Poster

Hanya Chlala

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Tuesday 20 December 7.30 pm

Balsom Ensemble Thursday 18 May 2017 7.30 pm

Alison Balsom launches her Wigmore Hall Residency in company with regular partner Tom Poster. Their co-composition, The Thoughts of Dr May, takes its place alongside such fine original works as Hindemith’s Trumpet Sonata and Enescu’s Légende and inventive arrangements of existing pieces, crowned by Balsom’s transcription for Brahms’s Trio Op. 40, originally conceived for horn, violin and piano. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

with

Lucy Crowe soprano Other artists to be announced

Friday 9 June 2017 10.00 pm with

Guy Barker trumpet Chris Hill double bass Ross Stanley piano

Photo of Alison Balsom by Maker

Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclasses Thursday 3 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Friday 4 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclasses One of Germany’s greatest singers, Brigitte Fassbaender received early encouragement from her actress mother and formative lessons from her father, the eminent baritone Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender. She made her debut as a Page in Wagner’s Lohengrin in Munich in 1961. During a long and illustrious career, the mezzo-soprano performed at all of the world’s leading opera houses and cultivated exceptional qualities as a Lieder singer. She is also celebrated for masterclass sessions that delve deep into the nature of the expressive art of singing. Fassbaender returns to Wigmore Hall to lead two days of masterclasses, working with a company of postgraduate students from UK conservatoires. £8 concs £6 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

November Thursday 3 November 7.30 pm

Saturday 5 November 7.30 pm

Alexei Volodin piano SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC Prokofiev Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet Op. 75 Mendelssohn/Rachmaninov Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Medtner Tale in C# minor Op. 35 No. 4 Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 28 Alexei Volodin’s recital encompasses the unrestrained expressive range of Late Romantic Russian piano music. His Shakespearean-themed first half embraces everything from the fourth of Medtner’s Op. 35 Skazki or ‘Tales’, based on a quote from King Lear, to the vitality and vibrant emotions of Prokofiev’s arrangements of ten pieces from his 1935 ballet Romeo and Juliet.

BORODIN QUARTET BEETHOVEN AND SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Dorothea Röschmann soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister: Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Schubert Mignon (Kennst du das Land); Nachtstück; Der König in Thule; Gretchen am Spinnrade; Gretchen im Zwinger (Gretchens Bitte) Songs by Schumann Mahler Rückert Lieder A regular guest at the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls, Dorothea Röschmann is blessed with the rare receptivity and imagination required to captivate listeners with her profoundly personal interpretations of words and music. She joins Malcolm Martineau to explore the dramatic intensity and compassion of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mahler. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Friday 4 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass See page opposite for full details

Borodin Quartet

Andy Staples

Friday 4 November 7.30 pm

Borodin Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in Eb Op. 117 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ The Borodin Quartet’s odyssey through the string quartets of Shostakovich and Beethoven continues with a shrewd combination of works. Shostakovich’s Ninth String Quartet confronts anxiety and despair to discover a final sense of defiance; Beethoven’s first ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, meanwhile, offsets the sorrow of its slow movement with a joyful final hymn of praise. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Sunday 6 November 7.30 pm Thursday 1 June 2017 7.30 pm Saturday 3 June 2017 7.30 pm Alexei Volodin

Marco Borggreve

Dorothea Röschmann

WDR/Jim Rakete

November Sunday 6 November 11.30 am

Sunday 6 November 3.00 pm

Sunday 6 November 7.30 pm

Endymion

Roderick Williams baritone Christopher Glynn piano

Borodin Quartet

Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb K493 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 From new commissions to landmarks of the classical repertoire, Endymion has made its mark as one of Britain’s finest chamber ensembles. This programme pairs Mozart’s high-spirited Piano Quartet No. 2, a pioneering work in the genre created in Vienna in 1786, with the lyrical warmth and spaciousness of Brahms’s late Clarinet Quintet.

Schubert Winter Journey (Winterreise) (London première of new English translation)

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

The narrative arc of Winterreise, supplied by Wilhelm Müller’s collection of 24 poems, follows a journey deep into the mysterious territory between life and death. Wigmore Hall’s Schubert in English project offers the chance to connect with the visionary imagery of the composer’s late work, performed here in a new translation by Jeremy Sams by two artists celebrated for their poetic empathy.

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

All seats £15

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in duration, without an interval

Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5; String Quartet in F Op. 135 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 14 in F# Op. 142 The Borodins begin with the fifth of Beethoven’s ground-breaking Op. 18 quartets, inspired by Mozart yet strikingly original in style and content, before turning to the exquisitely subtle String Quartet in F Op. 135, the composer’s final work in the genre. Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 14, another late work, resonates with the subtle humour of Beethoven’s Op. 135. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

Song Recital Series/Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Schubert in English

Roderick Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

Christopher Glynn

Joanna Bergin

Borodin Quartet

Endymion

Ny Che/Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center

Eamonn McCabe

November Monday 7 November 1.00 pm

Monday 7 November 7.30 pm

Tuesday 8 November 7.30 pm

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker cello Martin Helmchen piano

Igor Levit piano

Sir Thomas Allen baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Samling Artists

Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor BWV1029 Stravinsky Suite italienne for cello and piano Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Since making her international breakthrough as winner of the 2005 Rostropovich Cello Competition, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker has become one of the most sought after performers of her generation. She is joined for this recital of characterful cello masterworks by the young German pianist Martin Helmchen, a former BBC New Generation Artist.

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor Op. 10 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor Op. 49 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 20 in G Op. 49 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ ‘What other composer has covered, within his life, such vast musical distances?’ asks Alfred Brendel about Beethoven. Igor Levit’s recital underlines the point, encompassing everything from the subtle humour and technical brilliance of the two-movement Piano Sonata in F Op. 54 to the driving intensity of Op. 10 No. 1 and tragic demeanour of the ‘Appassionata’. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

£13 concs £11

Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton

London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Tuesday 8 November 1.00 pm – 3.30 pm

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker

Benjamin Ealovega

Kiandra Howarth soprano Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano David Butt Philip tenor Benjamin Appl baritone Andrew Foster-Williams baritone James Baillieu piano James Sherlock piano Actor to be announced

SAMLING 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOWCASE ‘THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN’ INFANCY – Britten A Cradle Song; The Nurse’s Song Warlock My sweet little darling Schubert Wiegenlied (D498) CHILDHOOD – Ives The Children’s Hour Schumann Marienwürmchen Poulenc From La courte paille: Ba, be, bi, bo, bu; Les anges musiciens; Le carafon; Lune d’avril

Samling 20th Anniversary Masterclass Sir Thomas Allen baritone Yvonne Kenny soprano Malcolm Martineau piano with Samling Artists

THE LOVER – Schubert Licht und Liebe Liszt Pace non trovo; Benedetto sia’l giorno Quilter It was a lover and his lass Britten Foggy Dew; Soldier, won’t you marry me?

Samling has a long-established reputation for nurturing embryonic potential and setting a course to professional brilliance through its international Artist Programme. This masterclass showcases some of the brightest of its most recent discoveries.

OLD AGE – Brahms O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück; Alte Liebe Barber The Secrets of the Old Copland Going to Heaven!

£8 concs £6

Readings of selected works by Shakespeare

Song Recital Series/Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Since its foundation in 1996 Samling has brought together world-class artists with some of the finest emerging singers and pianists. This 20th Anniversary concert, performed by Samling’s Patron Sir Thomas Allen, Malcolm Martineau and a gathering of Samling Artists from over the years, takes Shakespeare’s ‘Seven Ages of Man’ as its theme and explores ‘this strange eventful history’ through song.

THE SOLDIER – Schubert Kriegers Ahnung Schumann Der Soldat Wolf Der Soldat I & II Fauré Les berceaux Poulenc Bleuet Barber I hear an army THE JUSTICE – Lehmann Fury Said to a Mouse William Bolcom Amor Gilbert & Sullivan When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar

OBLIVION/SECOND INFANCY – Schubert Nachtstück; Des Tages Wiehe

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

DINE WITH THE ARTISTS There are a limited number of tickets for best concert and masterclass seats with a special post-concert sparkling reception and supper with the artists, priced at £125. Available exclusively from Samling on 01434 602885 or by email to enquiries@samling.org.uk.

Igor Levit

Gregor Hohenberg

Sir Thomas Allen

Sussie Ahlburg

Song Recital Series

November Wednesday 9 November 7.30 pm

Thursday 10 November 7.30 pm

Christian Zacharias piano

Iestyn Davies countertenor Thomas Dunford lute

Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D537 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90; Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6 Recognised universally for the perception, sensitivity and heartfelt honesty of his interpretations as pianist and conductor, Christian Zacharias has developed a devoted Wigmore Hall following. This recital comprises works of supreme quality, complete with the intimate introspection of Beethoven’s Op. 109 and Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze, contrasting studies of high-spirited impetuosity and poetic reflection. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Music in the Round Weekend Friday 11 November 7.30 pm

Ensemble 360

JOHN DOWLAND – ‘A DELIGHTFUL THING’ Dowland Preludium (for solo lute); All ye whom love or fortune hath betray’d; Mrs Winters Jump (for solo lute); Behold a wonder here; Come away, come sweet love; A fancy (for solo lute); Time stands still; My thoughts are winged with hopes; Say, love if ever thou didst find; I saw my lady weep; Flow my tears; Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears; Shall I strive with words to move; The King of Denmark Galliard (for solo lute); Can she excuse my wrongs; In darkness let me dwell; Semper Dowland semper dolens (for solo lute); Go, crystal tears; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; Now, O now I needs must part Iestyn Davies won the 2014 Gramophone Recital Award for Arise my muse, his second album for Wigmore Hall Live. The acclaimed countertenor recently named Thomas Dunford as ‘One to Watch’ in The Spectator. ‘He manages to draw everybody in’, he wrote. ‘That’s a really special talent.’ Their evolving duo partnership holds the power to delight critics and audiences alike.

Saturday 12 November 11.00 am – 12 noon

Family Concert Saturday 12 November 5.45 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Saturday 12 November 7.30 pm

Ensemble 360 Sunday 13 November 11.30 am

Ensemble 360 See page 51 for full details

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Song Recital Series/Early Music and Baroque Series

Christian Zacharias

Felvégi Andrea

Iestyn Davies

Benjamin Ealovega

Thomas Dunford

Charles Plumey

November

EMERSON STRING QUARTET

40TH ANNIVERSARY

Monday 14 November 1.00 pm

Monday 14 November 7.30 pm

Cuarteto Quiroga Javier Perianes piano

Ian Bostridge tenor Sir Antonio Pappano piano Adam Walker flute Michael Collins clarinet Lawrence Power viola Elizabeth Kenny lute

Granados Piano Quintet Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 Spanish pianist Javier Perianes has attracted rave reviews and prestigious engagements in recent seasons. His collaboration with the Cuarteto Quiroga, strongly forged in performance and the recording studio, continues with a programme complete with the expressive Piano Quintet by Granados, a wonderfully ripe Late Romantic work at times evocative of Franck and Dvorˇák.

SHAKESPEARE SONGS See page 52 for full details

Monday 14 November 9.45 pm

£13 concs £11

Artists in Conversation See page 52 for full details BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Emerson String Quartet

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Sunday 13 November 7.30 pm

Emerson String Quartet 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONCERT Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Mark-Anthony Turnage Shroud* (UK première) Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 in Eb minor Op. 30

Javier Perianes

Josep Molina

*Co-commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center, University of Washington Seattle, Chamber Music Houston, Tuesday Musical Association Akron, Segerstrom Performing Arts Center, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Berliner Philharmonie, and by Wigmore Hall with the generous support of Peter and Sonia Field

Beethoven’s ‘Serioso’ Quartet of 1810 earned its nickname by exploring conditions of confrontation, emotional turmoil and deep anxiety. The Emerson String Quartet, recently described as ‘electrifying’ by The New York Times, moves from the ‘Serioso’ to the UK première of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Shroud, specially written for the acclaimed American ensemble. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series

Cuarteto Quiroga

Josep Molina

Music in the Round Weekend

Based in Sheffield and founded by the late, great Peter Cropper, Music in the Round is the country’s leading chamber music promoter outside of London. Renowned for its innovative, informal and engaging performances, we are delighted to welcome its resident group Ensemble 360 to the Wigmore Hall stage for this special weekend, which explores the highly charged, often turbulent chamber music of Robert Schumann and the ever-youthful compositions of Felix Mendelssohn, alongside composers who influenced them, and were influenced by them. Friday 11 November 7.30 pm

Saturday 12 November 5.45 pm – 6.45 pm

Ensemble 360

Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk

Bach Trio Sonata in C minor from The Musical Offering BWV1079 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 Robert Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94 Clara Schumann Romance in Db Op. 22 No. 1; Romance in G minor Op. 22 No. 2 Robert Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44

‘Stylistically conservative and expressively reserved.’ Does this assessment of Mendelssohn’s writing, by musicologist and critic Richard Taruskin, stand up in the face of an analysis of the composer’s late, emotionally driven String Quartet Op. 80? Professor Julian Horton considers the arguments with musical illustrations from Ensemble 360.

To launch Music in the Round’s weekend at Wigmore Hall, celebrating Leipzig’s potent contribution to creative invention and musical artistry, its resident Ensemble 360 reveals the links between Bach and Mendelssohn, and goes on to explore Robert and Clara Schumann’s profound spiritual and emotional partnership.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Saturday 12 November 11.00 am – 12 noon

Family Concert: The Fantastic City of Music For ages 5 plus

£4

Saturday 12 November 7.30 pm

Ensemble 360 Reinecke Trio in A for oboe, horn and piano Op. 188 Grieg Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Versatility and excellence propelled Carl Reinecke’s success as composer, pianist, conductor, administrator, writer and influential teacher. His Trio in A Op. 188, completed in Leipzig in 1887, provides a compelling preface to the Violin Sonata No. 3 by Reinecke’s pupil Edvard Grieg. Works by Reinecke’s teachers Schumann and Mendelssohn add to the programme’s network of musical and personal connections.

Andrew J Smith presenter Ensemble 360

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In a concert full of interaction and entertainment, members of the dynamic Ensemble 360 are joined by presenter Andrew J Smith to introduce the whole family to some of the most adored music and musicians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including works by Schumann, Bach and Mendelssohn. With specially designed resources to download and explore before and after the concert, this is a perfect opportunity to discover and enjoy this inspirational music in an informal environment.

Sunday 13 November 11.30 am

Children £8 Adults £10

Leipzig’s prosperous merchants supported a rich musical culture. Recent scholarship suggests that Bach wrote his Flute Sonata in E minor during his early years in the city. Copenhagen-born Niels Gade, who succeeded Mendelssohn as director of the Leipzig Conservatory in 1847, modelled his Fantasiestücke Op. 43 on pioneering ‘fantasy pieces’ by his friend Schumann.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Chamber Music Season

Ensemble 360 Bach Flute Sonata in E minor BWV1034 Mendelssohn Capriccio in E minor Op. 81 No. 3 Gade Fantasiestücke Op. 43 Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Photo of Ensemble 360 by David Shapiro

November Tuesday 15 November 7.30 pm

IAN BOSTRIDGE SIR ANTONIO PAPPANO SHAKESPEARE SONGS

Le Concert d’Astrée Emmanuelle Haïm conductor See page opposite for full details

Thursday 17 November 7.30 pm

Imogen Cooper piano Janácˇek From On an Overgrown Path Book 1: No. 5 ‘They Chattered Like Swallows’; No. 4 ‘The Madonna of Frydek’ & No. 10 ‘The barn owl has not flown away!’ Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6 Debussy La puerta del vino from Préludes Book II; La soirée dans Grenade from Estampes Falla Homenaje pour ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’ Albéniz From Iberia: El Albaicín; Evocación; El Puerto & Fête-Dieu à Séville

Ian Bostridge

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Monday 14 November 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Sir Antonio Pappano piano Adam Walker flute Michael Collins clarinet Lawrence Power viola Elizabeth Kenny lute Shakespeare settings for voice and lute by Johnson, Byrd, Morley and Wilson Shakespeare settings for voice and piano by Britten, Warlock, Gurney, Poulenc,Tippett, Quilter, Finzi and Korngold Stravinsky Three Songs from William Shakespeare (for voice, flute, clarinet and viola)

Sir Antonio Pappano

Musacchio & Ianniello/EMI Classics

Shakespeare’s peerless feeling for the music of the English language has inspired countless composers, from those who set the Bard’s verse during his lifetime to musicians as diverse as Britten, Finzi, Korngold and Stravinsky. Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano, together with four outstanding chamber musicians, delve into the rich Shakespeare legacy here, marking the playwright’s quarter-centenary with a delectable programme of works written for Jacobean productions, Restoration revivals and the modern concert hall.

Hailed by the Guardian as ‘a pianist who has [always] put the music before technique’, Imogen Cooper offers a programme shot through with poetic nuance. She opens with three folksong-inspired miniatures from Janácˇek’s On an Overgrown Path, moves through the striking emotional contrasts of Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze, and closes with Albéniz’s virtuoso evocations of Spain. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

£60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Song Recital Series

Monday 14 November 9.45 pm

Artists in Conversation Following the concert, Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano discuss the programme as well as their lives and careers as performers, alongside writer and musicologist Nigel Simeone. Free to concert ticket holders (no ticket required for this event)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Illustration of William Shakespeare by William Blake, 1800

Imogen Cooper

Sussie Ahlburg

Le Concert d’Astrée & Emmanuelle Haïm Tuesday 15 November 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Le Concert d’Astrée Emmanuelle Haïm conductor GRAN PARTITA Mozart Selections from Le nozze di Figaro (arr. Alfredo Bernardini) Mozart Serenade in Bb for winds K361 ‘Gran Partita’ Emmanuelle Haïm’s vocal and period-instrument ensemble, Le Concert d’Astrée, owns a collective wealth of understanding and practical experience in the performance of Baroque and early Classical music. Above all the group takes its lead from its founder-conductor’s dynamic musicianship, inspired by Haïm’s imaginative engagement with the bold rhetorical gestures of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works, and the absolute conviction of her interpretations. They make their Wigmore Hall debut with a beguiling all-Mozart programme, crowned by the majestic ‘Gran Partita’ for twelve wind instruments and double bass, probably written for the clarinettist Anton Stadler and a dozen other musicians employed by Vienna’s Imperial Court Theatre. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by Dunard Fund

Early Music and Baroque Series Photo of Emmanuelle Haïm by Marianne Rosenstiehl

Le Concert d’Astrée

Guillaume Mirand

November Friday 18 November 7.30 pm

Saturday 19 November 6.00 pm

Saturday 19 November 7.30 pm

Adrianne Pieczonka soprano Brian Zeger piano

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble

Schubert Ganymed; Die Forelle; Frühlingsglaube; Du liebst mich nicht; Die junge Nonne Strauss Rote Rosen; Du meines Herzens Krönelein; Begegnung; Die Nacht; Ruhe, meine Seele; Einerlei; Zueignung Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Korngold Four Shakespeare Songs Op. 31

Schubert Three Marches Militaires D733 for piano duet Bartók Duos for 2 violins (selection) Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7

Nash Ensemble Ian Brown piano Simon Crawford-Phillips piano Lawrence Power viola Richard Hosford clarinet

Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka, acclaimed for her multi-faceted interpretations of roles such as Wagner’s Sieglinde and Strauss’s Marschallin, fathoms the dramatic depths of five famous songs by Schubert. Her programme also includes a delectable selection of Romantic Lieder, complete with early masterworks by Strauss and Wagner’s intensely felt settings of five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck.

The Nash Ensemble’s Austro-Hungarian evening double bill begins with Schubert’s three Marches Militaires for piano duet – the first of which features one of the composer’s best-known tunes – followed by folk-inspired string duos by the two fathers of modern Hungarian music, Bartók and Kodály. All seats £5

Chamber Music Season/ Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

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Song Recital Series

Brahms Hungarian Dances for piano duet Liszt Elégie for cello, piano, harp and harmonium S130; Romance oubliée (for viola and piano) S132 Dohnányi Sextet in C Op. 37 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 This programme includes music by two Hungarian pianist-composers, complete with Liszt’s rarely heard chamber works and Erno˝ Dohnányi’s extrovert Sextet, framed with a selection of Brahms’s Hungarian Dances, arrangements of gypsy tunes that he knew and loved from childhood, and his masterly late Clarinet Quintet, with its gypsy-influenced slow movement. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Adrianne Pieczonka

Bo Huang

Nash Ensemble

K Leighton

November Sunday 20 November 11.30 am

Sunday 20 November 7.30 pm

Monday 21 November 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut*

Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone Maciej Pikulski piano

Garrick Ohlsson piano

Maximilian Hornung* cello Hisako Kawamura piano Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 Webern Two Pieces for cello and piano; Drei kleine Stücke Op. 11 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Prestigious record prizes and other honours, the Young Artist Award 2015 of the European Foundation for Culture among them, have come to Maximilian Hornung in recent years. The young German cellist traces the creative lines and points of contrast between Schumann and Webern, and Webern and Brahms in his Wigmore Hall debut recital. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Schubert Der Schiffer (D536); Memnon; Fahrt zum Hades; Auf der Donau Beethoven Lied aus der Ferne; Der Kuss; Ich liebe dich; Adelaide Mendelssohn Neue Liebe; Gruß! (Op. 19a No. 5); Morgengruß; Allnächtlich im Traume; Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Reiselied (Op. 34 No. 6) Schubert From Schwanengesang: Der Atlas; Ihr Bild; Das Fischermädchen; Die Stadt; Am Meer; Der Doppelgänger Schubert Schäfers Klagelied; Grenzen der Menschheit; Ganymed; Erlkönig; Willkommen und Abschied The charismatic power and poise of Luca Pisaroni’s voice have inspired audiences at the world’s leading opera houses, concert halls and festivals. The Venezuelan-born Italian bass-baritone is joined by pianist Maciej Pikulski to explore the dialogue between voice and piano in works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert.

Smetana Czech Dances: Polka in A minor; Hulán (Lancer); Obkrocˇák (Stepping Dance); Slepicˇka (Little Hen); Furiant Falla 4 piezas españolas: Aragonesa; Cubana; Montañesa; Andaluza Falla Fantasia Baetica Smetana and Falla’s keyboard compositions harbour strong flavours of the folk music of their respective homelands. Garrick Ohlsson offers an exquisitely balanced menu of pieces from Smetana’s second book of Czech Dances, written not long after the composer realised his deafness was incurable, and Falla’s Cuatro piezas españolas of 1906–09, key works in the revival of Spanish nationalism. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Song Recital Series

Maximilian Hornung

Marco Borggreve

Luca Pisaroni

Cate Pisaroni

Garrick Ohlsson

Mark McBeth

Dunedin Consort Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day Tuesday 22 November 7.30 pm

Dunedin Consort John Butt director Joanne Lunn soprano Tim Mead countertenor Nicholas Mulroy tenor Matthew Brook bass-baritone Programme to include: Purcell Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day) Z328 Wigmore Hall celebrates St Cecilia on her annual festival with the greatest of Purcell’s Odes. Hail, bright Cecilia, the Ode for St Cecilia’s Day 1692, belongs to a distinctive English tradition of honouring music’s patron saint. Purcell here enriches Nicholas Brady’s sonorous verse with music packed with expressive subtleties, tonal variety and compelling textural contrasts. John Butt and his Dunedin Consort, acclaimed for their interpretations of masterworks by Bach and Handel, invariably find fresh ways of bringing Baroque music to life. They recently added Hail, bright Cecilia to their repertoire and developed their interpretation with a series of concerts in 2015. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

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

Early Music and Baroque Series

Painting of St Cecilia by Guido Reni, 1606

November Wednesday 23 November 7.30 pm

Thursday 24 November 7.30 pm

Friday 25 November 7.30 pm

Truls Mørk cello Håvard Gimse piano

Stuart Jackson tenor Marcus Farnsworth baritone James Baillieu piano

Ensemble Modern Jonathan Berman conductor

Grieg Intermezzo in A minor for cello and piano Janácˇek Pohádka Bridge Cello Sonata in D minor Sibelius Four Pieces Op. 78 Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36 Two of Norway’s foremost artists join forces for this recital of masterworks for cello and piano, including the folk music-influenced substance of Grieg’s Cello Sonata of 1882–83 and Janácˇek’s Pohádka. Their programme also includes the light-hearted melodic lines of Grieg’s early Intermezzo and joyful charm of Sibelius’s Four Pieces Op. 78 of 1915–17.

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Schubert Leichenfantasie; Das war ich (D174a); Das war ich (D174b) (fragment); Der Morgenstern (D172) (fragment); Die erste Liebe; Jägers Abendlied I; Grablied; Der Fischer; Abends unter der Linde I & II; Lob des Tokayers; Punschlied: im Norden zu singen; Der Vatermörder; An Rosa I & II; Fischerlied (D351); Die Einsiedelei (D393); Lied (Ins stille Land); Fischerlied II; Die Einsiedelei (D563); Des Fräuleins Liebeslauschen; Doch im Getümmel der Schlacht; Wenn ich dich, Holde, sehe; Totengräber-Weise; Fischerweise Two ballads from 1811, ‘Leichenfantasie’ and ‘Der Vatermörder’, introduce each half of this programme, setting the scene for Stuart Jackson and Marcus Farnsworth’s shared Schubert recital. The chosen songs include a strong storytelling element, present not least in the two settings of ‘Das war ich’ and of Goethe’s captivating ‘Jägers Abendlied’ and ‘Der Fischer’.

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Chamber Music Season

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Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Håvard Gimse

Truls Mørk

James Baillieu

Jon Andersen

Stephane de Bourgies/Virgin Classics

Stuart Jackson

Martin Sigmund

Marcus Farnsworth

Kaupo Kikkas

Benjamin Ealovega

Ensemble Modern Friday 25 November 7.30 pm

Ensemble Modern Jonathan Berman conductor Alexander Goehr Manere 1, 2, 3 (world première) Stockhausen Zeitmasze Oliver Knussen Ophelia Dances Book I Op. 13 Alexander Goehr Verschwindendes Wort Alexander Goehr’s family moved from Germany to Britain soon after his birth in 1932. His formative musical and cultural experiences were provided by his father, the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr, and his mother, an accomplished pianist. He attracted attention in the 1950s as a founding member of the Manchester New Music Group, together with fellow students Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies and John Ogdon. Goehr’s influence as composer and teacher runs deep in the musical life of Britain and beyond. Ensemble Modern celebrates his compelling synthesis of modernist and traditional ideas in a programme that includes the world première of Manere 1, 2, 3. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Photo by Katrin Schilling

November Saturday 26 November 7.30 pm

Sunday 27 November 11.30 am

Monday 28 November 1.00 pm

Arditti Quartet

Tai Murray violin Silke Avenhaus piano

Wigmore Hall Debut*

Lutosławski String Quartet Hanna Kulenty String Quartet No. 6* (world première) Philippe Manoury String Quartet No. 4 ‘Fragmenti’ (UK première) Donatoni La Souris sans Sourire *Co-commissioned by De Doelen Rotterdam, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

The Arditti Quartet adds the work of Hanna Kulenty to its extensive repertoire list with the world première of the Polish composer’s Sixth String Quartet. The Ardittis also introduce Philippe Manoury’s ‘Fragmenti’ to the UK, presented alongside the playful musical gestures of Franco Donatoni’s La Souris sans Sourire.

Ilker Arcayürek* tenor Simon Lepper piano

Tartini Sonata in G minor ‘The Devil’s Trill’ (arr. Kreisler) Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Suk Four pieces for violin and piano Op. 17 Tai Murray, a BBC New Generation Artist from 2008 to 2010, is known for the subtlety and nuance of her phrasing and a tone that explores the full spectrum of violin colours. The Chicago-born musician has been described by The New York Times as ‘superb’, a judgment echoed widely in superlative reviews of her concert performances and recordings. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry /juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Schubert Ganymed; Schäfers Klagelied; Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; Am Flusse (D766); Auf dem See; Der Musensohn Schumann Dichterliebe A memorable finalist in the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World competition, Ilker Arcayürek has been selected as a BBC New Generation Artist for 2015 to 2017. The Turkish tenor makes his Wigmore Hall debut with an irresistible programme of songs by Schubert and the emotionally turbulent world of Schumann’s Dichterliebe. £13 concs £11

Ilker Arcayürek is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Arditti Quartet

Iñigo Ibáñez

Tai Murray

Julia Wesely

Ilker Arcayürek

Carreon Lopez

La Nuova Musica & David Bates Monday 28 November 7.30 pm

La Nuova Musica David Bates director Lucy Crowe soprano (Calisto) James Platt bass (Giove) Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano (Diana) Tim Mead countertenor (Endomione) Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano (Giunone) Jonathan McGovern baritone (Mercurio) Andrew Tortise tenor (Linfea) Sam Furness tenor (Pane) Jake Arditti countertenor (Satirino) Edward Grint bass-baritone (Sylvano) Cavalli La Calisto Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto, first performed in Venice in 1651, blends comedy and tragedy with music of sensuous beauty and irresistible charm. The opera’s libretto is based on the ancient Greek myth of the nymph Callisto as related by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. Its modern revival at the 1970 Glyndebourne Festival created a wave of interest in Baroque opera that continues to grow today, driven by the energy and artistic vision of groups such as La Nuova Musica and its director David Bates, who made his critically acclaimed US debut in 2014 conducting La Calisto with Cincinnati Opera. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

‘Jupiter sees the Nymph Callisto’ by Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1620 –1683)

November/December Tuesday 29 November 7.30 pm

Friday 2 December 7.30 pm

Saturday 3 December 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Sir András Schiff piano

Wu Man pipa Sanubar Tursun vocals, dutar Basel Rajoub’s Soriana Project

Come and Sing: Hungarian Music

BACH, SCHUMANN, JANÁCˇEK AND BARTÓK See page 63 for full details

Wednesday 30 November 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff Masterclass

Basel Rajoub saxophones, duclar Andrea Piccioni percussion Feras Charestan qanun Lynn Adib vocals CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FROM THE ENDS OF THE SILK ROUTE

See page 63 for full details

Thursday 1 December 7.30 pm

Philippe Jaroussky countertenor Le Concert de la Loge Olympique Julien Chauvin director, violin See page 64 for full details

In this rare musical encounter, the eastern and western ends of the Silk Route are musically joined as Chinese pipa maestra Wu Man, Uyghur singer-songwriter Sanubar Tursun, and Syrian composer-saxophonist Basel Rajoub perform, both separately and together, a repertoire of new compositions, improvisations and arrangements of contemporary music inspired by tradition. This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Friday 2 December 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Join ethnomusicologist Theodore Levin and Director of the Aga Khan Music Initiative Fairouz Nishanova, alongside musicians from the evening concert, for a discussion with musical excerpts and a short film to introduce the concert. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

The concert will be followed by a Question and Answer session in the auditorium. This is free to concert ticket holders and will take place immediately after the performance. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

These concerts are generously presented in collaboration with the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. www.akdn.org/music

AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE Music Initiative

Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring a wealth of Hungarian music, from traditional folk song to contemporary vocal music. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. £25 concs £19

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 3 December 7.30 pm

Richard Goode piano Bach Preludes and Fugues (a selection) Bach Ouvertüre nach französischer Art BWV831 Chopin Ballade No. 3 in Ab Op. 47; Nocturne in E minor Op. 72 No. 1; Nocturne in B Op. 9 No. 3; 4 Mazurkas Op. 24; Nocturne in E Op. 62 No. 2; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 Since making his debut in the early 1960s, Richard Goode has developed a rare depth of artistic wisdom. The American pianist’s visionary music-making, charged with emotional power and expressive insight, and supported by spellbinding technical prowess, is directed in this recital to works by two of the greatest keyboard composers of all time. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

World Music Series

Wu Man and Sanubar Tursun

Feng Li

Basel Rajoub

Sebastian Schutyser/AKTC

Richard Goode

Steve Riskind

Sir András Schiff Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók Any collection of essential albums of the keyboard works of Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók would be impoverished without the recordings of Sir András Schiff. The pianist’s affinity for the music of each composer has matured over many decades, making his latest series of three recitals and three related evening masterclasses one of the highlights of Wigmore Hall’s 2016/17 Season. Tuesday 29 November 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff piano Bach 15 Inventions BWV772–786 Bartók 10 pieces from For Children BB53; Three Rondos on folktunes BB92; Three Burlesques for solo piano BB55 Janácˇek On an overgrown path (Book I) Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6

Johann Sebastian Bach

Robert Schumann

Leos ˇ Janác ˇek

Béla Bartók

Bach’s Inventions, intended for teaching purposes, stand as a monument to the creation of musical ideas and their development. Sir András Schiff’s recital also explores the breath-taking range of creativity in Bartók’s folksong-inspired miniatures, the first volume of Janácˇek’s On an overgrown path (Book I) and the eighteen peerless character pieces of Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Supported by an anonymous donor and the Chamber Music Circle London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 30 November 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm

Sir András Schiff Masterclass Wigmore Hall’s Learning programme enters the evening concert mainstream with a masterclass led by Sir András Schiff, working with outstanding students chosen by Sir András himself on repertoire featured in the previous evening’s concert. Participants and their audience can expect to discover profound interpretative insights from one of the world’s great musicians, recently hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his ‘impeccable technique’, ‘intense concentration’ and ‘acute sense of being’.

Forthcoming Events in this Series Tuesday 21 February 2017 7.30 pm

Concert Wednesday 22 February 2017 7.30 pm

Masterclass Tuesday 2 May 2017 7.30 pm

All seats £20

Concert

Supported by an anonymous donor

Wednesday 3 May 2017 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Masterclass

Photo of Sir András Schiff by Birgitta Kowsky

Philippe Jaroussky & Le Concert de la Loge Olympique Thursday 1 December 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut*

Philippe Jaroussky countertenor Le Concert de la Loge Olympique* Julien Chauvin director, violin Programme to include: Telemann Cantata: Die stille Nacht (Der am Ölberg zagende Jesus) TWV1:364; Cantata: Jesus liegt in letzten Zügen TWV1:983 Bach Cantata: Ich habe genug BWV82 Bach’s sublime solo cantata ‘Ich habe genug’, written in Leipzig in 1727, and Telemann’s so-called Passion Cantata, Die stille Nacht, create ideal conditions for reflection on matters spiritual. Philippe Jaroussky’s artistry flows from his studies as a violinist and subsequent rise to become one of the finest countertenors of our time. His refined feeling for melodic line and the emotions behind words have won critical plaudits worldwide, leading The New York Times to declare that ‘There are countertenors, and then there is Mr Jaroussky’. He is joined by Julien Chauvin’s recently founded Le Concert de la Loge Olympique for its Wigmore Hall debut. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Le Concert de la Loge Olympique Photo of Philippe Jaroussky by Simon Fowler/Virgin Classics

Franck Juery

December Sunday 4 December 11.30 am

Monday 5 December 1.00 pm

Atrium Quartet

Boris Giltburg piano

Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1 in B minor Op. 50 Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2

Bach/Busoni Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV565 Schumann Papillons Op. 2 Brahms Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Op. 1

Founded in St Petersburg in 2000, the Atrium Quartet is known for the dynamic energy and panache of its interpretations. The Berlin-based ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall to perform two works of tremendous substance, opening with Prokofiev’s First String Quartet, commissioned by the Library of Congress in 1931, and embracing the intense lyricism of Brahms’s Op. 51 No. 2. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

With his vital blend of jaw-dropping virtuosity and musical gravitas, Boris Giltburg has emerged as one of the most poetic and insightful artists of his generation. The Israeli pianist’s latest Wigmore Hall recital opens with Busoni’s richly imagined transcription of one of the most familiar of all Baroque compositions, and includes Brahms’s symphonic First Piano Sonata.

ANNE SCHWANEWILMS MALCOLM MARTINEAU

£13 concs £11

Sunday 4 December 7.30 pm

Collegium Vocale Gent

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Anne Schwanewilms

Dorothee Mields soprano Hana Blažíková soprano Robert Getchell tenor Thomas Hobbs tenor Peter Kooij bass Ageet Zweistra cello Miriam Shalinsky violone Maude Gratton organ Thomas Dunford lute

Javier del Real

Monday 5 December 7.30 pm

Anne Schwanewilms soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

Philippe Herreweghe director See page 66 for full details Boris Giltburg

Sasha Gusov

Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung; Nachtgang; Du meines Herzens Krönelein; Ach Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden Wolf Das verlassene Mägdlein; Wo find ich Trost?; Der Genesene an die Hoffnung Strauss In goldener Fülle; Wiegenliedchen; Wer lieben will, muss leiden; Ach, was Kummer, Qual und Schmerzen; Blauer Sommer; Weisser Jasmin; Das Rosenband; Drei Lieder der Ophelia Wolf Im Frühling; Gesang Weylas; Verborgenheit Strauss Die Nacht; Geduld; Allerseelen Anne Schwanewilms, hailed by Die Presse as ‘Vienna’s new Marschallin’ following her performance in 2014 at the city’s Staatsoper in Der Rosenkavalier, ranks among today’s finest lyric sopranos, a supremely gifted Straussian and one of the foremost interpreters of late Romantic opera and song. The German artist’s regular duo partnership with Malcolm Martineau offers countless delights of detail, expressive shading and poetic timing, channelled from the emotional heart of every piece in their repertoire. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Atrium Quartet

Maria Budtova

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe Sunday 4 December 7.30 pm

Collegium Vocale Gent Dorothee Mields soprano Hana Blažíková soprano Robert Getchell tenor Thomas Hobbs tenor Peter Kooij bass Ageet Zweistra cello Miriam Shalinsky violone Maude Gratton organ Thomas Dunford lute

Philippe Herreweghe director Schein Israelis Brünlein

Beauty of sound and uncanny tonal refinement belong to the many attributes cultivated by Collegium Vocale Gent ever since its foundation by Philippe Herreweghe in 1970. Their awardwinning partnership stands among the most admired in the world of early music and beyond, hallmarked by the sensuous intensity and rhetorical sophistication of their music making. In this concert they explore the imaginative terrain of Israelis Brünlein, a collection of twenty-six sacred madrigals to Old Testament texts in five or six parts by Hermann Schein. Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent’s recent recording of the work was praised by Gramophone for its ‘concentrated brilliance’. Philippe Herreweghe

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

This concert will be 1 hour 50 minutes in duration, including an interval

Early Music and Baroque Series

Photos by Michiel Hendryckx

December Tuesday 6 December 7.30 pm

Wednesday 7 December 7.30 pm

Thursday 8 December 7.30 pm

Igor Levit piano

Andreas Staier fortepiano

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’; Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’; Piano Sonata No. 11 in Bb Op. 22; Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Op. 2 No. 3

Schumann From Album für die Jugend Op. 68: Ein Choral; Kleine Studie; Canonisches Liedchen; Erinnerung; Reiterstück; *** (Sehr langsam); Figurierter Choral Schumann Sieben Clavierstücke in Fughettenform Op. 126; Kinderszenen Op. 15 Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960

Stephan Loges bass-baritone Graham Johnson piano

Beethoven’s ‘Tempest’ Sonata, created in almost one sitting, dates from the time of the Heiligenstadt Testament, the composer’s heart-breaking account of his hearing loss. Igor Levit pairs its quixotic moods with the ‘Grande Sonate pathétique’, among Beethoven’s best-loved works. His recital’s second half probes the grace and spirit of two virtuoso Classical sonatas. Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton

Deep study and reflection invariably inform Andreas Staier’s revelatory interpretations of the keyboard repertoire. The German musician, a pioneer among performers of the fortepiano, is driven by insatiable curiosity and a desire to penetrate the surface of the works in his extensive repertoire and unveil their musical substance.

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London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

London Pianoforte Series

Schubert Lebenstraum II (fragment); Das Leben; Dem Unendlichen; Nachtgesang; Die Einsiedelei; Die Gestirne; Der Alpenjäger; Am Strome; Philoktet; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Der Schiffer (D536); Fischerlied II; Der Alpenjäger (D588); Die Vögel (D691); Lied des gefangenen Jägers; Wiedersehn; Widerspruch; Fischerweise; Sehnsucht (D879); Jägers Liebeslied; Der Hochzeitsbraten Stephan Loges and Graham Johnson survey the chronological span and ceaseless invention of Schubert’s creative life. Their programme embraces everything from works such as ‘Das Leben’ and ‘Dem Unendlichen’, products of the young composer’s annus mirabilis of 1815, to the deliberately humorous ‘Der Hochzeitsbraten’, a convivial conclusion to a Schubertiade of tremendous expressive range and depth. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Igor Levit

Andreas Staier

Simon Jay Price

Graham Johnson

Malcolm Crowthers

Josep Molina

Stephan Loges

Alexander Barnes

December

CHRISTIAN

McBRIDE JAZZ SERIES

Saturday 10 December 7.30 pm

Sunday 11 December 11.30 am

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Adrian Brendel cello Aleksandar Madžar piano

Nash Ensemble Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano Janácˇek Mládi for wind sextet Smetana Der Fischer (Rybár) for reciter, harmonium, harp and strings Dvorˇák Love Songs Op. 83 (arr. for voice and strings by David Matthews); Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn joins the Nash Ensemble to explore music from the Czech lands, a strikingly creative region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This programme voyages from Janácˇek’s wind sextet, which reflects on his time as a choirboy, to Smetana’s evocative tone poem, before arriving at Dvorˇák’s passionate and colourful Love Songs and his Piano Quintet in A, among the best-loved of all chamber works.

Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 Regular duo partners Adrian Brendel and Aleksandar Madžar have cultivated a profound relationship of mutual understanding and artistic insight.Their musicmaking, directed in this recital to works of terrific imaginative scope, emerges from a shared belief in the importance of uncovering and communicating the composer’s intentions with total honesty. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 11 December 3.00 pm

Sir John Tomlinson bass Christopher Glynn piano

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Schubert Swansong (Schwanengesang) (world première of new English translation) Schubert’s late settings of poems by Rellstab, Heine and Seidl, published posthumously as his ‘Swansong’, include the last of his 600-plus songs. The complete cycle is performed here in Jeremy Sams’s new English translation by Sir John Tomlinson, among the greatest singers of his generation. This concert will be approximately 50 minutes in duration, without an interval

Christian McBride

All seats £15

Friday 9 December 7.30 pm

Christian McBride double bass Plus special guests to be announced

Song Recital Series/Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Schubert in English Adrian Brendel

Jack Liebeck

One of the most requested, most recorded, and most respected figures in the world of jazz today, Christian McBride was recently awarded a fifth GRAMMY for his scintillating solo on ‘Cherokee’ from the new album Live at the Village Vanguard. McBride is a star bassist who continues to push the boundaries through his invention, virtuosity and relentless energy. He is joined for this, the last concert in his series, by specially invited guests for a night of creative exchange and musical collaboration. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Christianne Stotijn

Marco Borggreve

Sir John Tomlinson

Robert Workman

December Sunday 11 December 7.30 pm

Monday 12 December 1.00 pm

Belcea Quartet

Emmanuel Pahud flute

Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87 Krzysztof Penderecki String Quartet No. 4* (world première); String Quartet No. 2 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

Takemitsu Voice CPE Bach Flute Sonata in A minor Wq.132 Berio Sequenza I for solo flute Bach Partita in A minor for flute BWV1013 Varèse Density 21.5 Debussy Syrinx

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

Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s large and influential output includes works infused with allusions to nineteenth-century music. His String Quartet No. 4, commissioned by Wigmore Hall, receives its world première in this compelling programme, placed by the Belcea Quartet together with early and late Schubert and the concentrated power of Penderecki’s own String Quartet No. 2.

Emmanuel Pahud celebrates two golden ages of flute playing, the first associated with the royal courts of eighteenth-century Germany, the latter inspired by the great twentieth-century French school of performers. The Swiss musician, principal flute with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 1992, explores his instrument’s solo repertoire in this lunchtime recital, embracing compositions ancient and modern.

MARTHA ARGERICH & ALBERTO PORTUGHEIS 75TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Martha Argerich

A Heitman

Alberto Portugheis

María Diez

£13 concs £11

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 12 December 7.30 pm

Martha Argerich piano Alberto Portugheis piano Emmanuel Pahud

Josef Fischnaller

Mozart Sonata in D for two pianos K448 Rachmaninov 6 Duets for piano 4 hands Op. 11 Ravel Ma mère l’oye Saint-Saëns Variations on a theme of Beethoven Op. 35 Widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of her generation, Martha Argerich joins forces with her great friend and fellow Argentine pianist and pedagogue Alberto Portugheis as they celebrate their 75th birthdays with a programme of works close to their hearts. £100 £75 £50 £30 £15 Booking limited to two tickets only per person

London Pianoforte Series

Belcea Quartet

Tina Fineberg

December Tuesday 13 December 7.30 pm

St. Lawrence String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 20 No. 1 John Adams String Quartet No. 2* (UK première) Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 *Co-commissioned by Stanford Live, the Library of Congress, the Dina Koston and Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music, Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

ARCANGELO

BAROQUE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE

John Adams wrote his Second String Quartet for the St. Lawrence String Quartet, which gave its world première at Stanford, California in January 2015. The ensemble introduces the Beethoven-inspired work to the UK in this recital, framed by two of Haydn’s path-breaking Op. 20 quartets and Janácˇek’s tempestuous String Quartet No. 1, inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Wednesday 14 December 12.15 pm

Pre-Concert Talk See page opposite for full details

Wednesday 14 December 1.00 pm Arcangelo

Britten Sinfonia

Wednesday 14 December 7.30 pm

See page opposite for full details

Arcangelo* Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord, organ

Lydia Teuscher soprano Alex Potter countertenor Andrew Tortise tenor Thomas Bauer baritone Bach Cantata: Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV4; Cantata: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus) BWV106; Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B b BWV1051 Telemann Cantata: Du aber Daniel, gehe hin TWV4:17 St. Lawrence String Quartet

Eric Cheng

Adam Swann

Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo launch their Wigmore Hall series with two of JS Bach’s earliest church cantatas, including the touching Actus tragicus, perhaps written in 1707 for the funeral of the composer’s uncle, and Telemann’s equally moving funeral cantata, Du aber Daniel, gehe hin. The programme also offers a chance for Arcangelo’s ace period-instrument players to shine in the Sixth Brandenburg Concerto, with its warm blend of parts for violas, viole da gamba, cello, violone and harpsichord. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

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

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 13 January 2017 7.30 pm Friday 5 May 2017 10.00 pm Friday 21 July 2017 7.00 pm

December Wednesday 14 December 12.15 pm

Thursday 15 December 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Music for the Moment

Sohrab Uduman, winner of OPUS2016, discusses his new work with Dr Kate Kennedy.

A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

If you are, or you know someone who is, living with dementia, please join us for this afternoon concert. This relaxed performance includes a captivating programme of music by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Contemporary Music Series Wednesday 14 December 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia

FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI MOZART CYCLE

Free (ticket required)

Thomas Gould violin Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Webern Four Pieces Op. 7 Sohrab Uduman New work* (London première) Schoenberg/Steuermann Verklärte Nacht for Piano Trio

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

*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

Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, his first published work, led the composer to the borderlands between late Romanticism and atonality. Heard here in Eduard Steuermann’s arrangement for piano trio, this impassioned work is paired with a new piano trio written by Sohrab Uduman, winner of OPUS2016, Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall’s competition for unpublished composers.

Francesco Piemontesi

Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 15 December 7.30 pm

Francesco Piemontesi piano Mozart Piano Sonata in G K283; Piano Sonata in F K332; Piano Sonata in Eb K282; Piano Sonata in F K533/494

£13 concs £11

Francesco Piemontesi, hailed by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as a ‘stellar Mozartean’, launched his cycle of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas at Wigmore Hall in 2015. He continues his journey through the composer’s magnificent sonatas with a programme comprising two youthful works written during the early months of 1775, the dramatic Piano Sonata in F K332, and the mature K533/494, blessed with an Andante described by one critic as being among ‘the most daring and disturbing movements in all of Mozart’s music’.

Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Forthcoming Events in this Series Thursday 4 May 2017 7.30 pm Monday 23 October 2017 7.30 pm Sohrab Uduman

Jon Barraclough

Music for the Moment

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

December Sunday 18 December 11.30 am

TREVOR PINNOCK 70TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT

RENÉ PAPE WIGMORE HALL DEBUT

David Grimal violin Anne Gastinel cello Philippe Cassard piano Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898 According to Carl Czerny, the central Largo of Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 evokes Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the appearance of Banquo’s ghost. Three outstanding soloists and empathic chamber musicians present the work in company with another landmark of the piano trio repertoire, Schubert’s D898, a strikingly exuberant and genial late composition. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Trevor Pinnock

Peer Lindgreen

Friday 16 December 7.30 pm

Trevor Pinnock harpsichord Rachel Podger violin Bojan Cˇicˇic´ violin Jane Rogers viola Jonathan Manson cello Peter McCarthy violone Lucy Crowe soprano RAM Alumni Ensemble Bach Overture No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 Handel Violin Sonata in A Op. 1 No. 3 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D BWV1050 Mahler Symphony No. 4 (arr. for soprano and chamber ensemble by Irwin Stein) Music that reflects the power of the human spirit supplies the substance of this programme, directed by Trevor Pinnock on his seventieth birthday. The British conductor and harpsichordist, a pioneer of period-instrument performance, is joined by a group of close friends and colleagues to celebrate his personal milestone with works of the highest quality. £60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series/ Chamber Music Season

René Pape

Standbild

Saturday 17 December 7.30 pm

René Pape bass Camillo Radicke piano

David Grimal

One of the world’s leading basses and a truly great Wagnerian, René Pape is among the most versatile singers of his generation. He has achieved equal distinction in the opera house and as concert soloist and recitalist. His Wigmore Hall debut recital spans spiritually uplifting song-cycles by Beethoven and Dvorˇák, and probes Musorgsky’s profound meditations on death. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Song Recital Series

Anne Gastinel

Benoit Linero

Beethoven Sechs Lieder von Gellert Op. 48 Dvorˇák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs) Quilter Three Shakespeare Songs Op. 6 Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death

Stéphane Gallois/Naïve

December

MIKLÓS PERÉNYI

Monday 19 December 7.30 pm

Tuesday 20 December 7.30 pm

The King’s Consort Robert King director Julia Doyle soprano (Angel) Benjamin Hulett tenor (Evangelist) David Wilson-Johnson bass (Herod) Julie Cooper soprano Matthew Venner countertenor Robin Tyson countertenor David de Winter tenor Tom Robson tenor Edward Grint bass Andrew Rupp bass

Balsom Ensemble Alison Balsom director, trumpet

CHRISTMAS IN VENICE Giovanni Gabrieli Quem vidistis pastores Andrea Gabrieli Intonatione Primo tono Guami Canzona XXIV a8 Giovanni Gabrieli Audite principes Andrea Gabrieli Intonazione Settimo toni Giovanni Gabrieli O Magnum Mysterium Gussago Canzona XIX a8 ‘La Leona’ Giovanni Gabrieli Salvator noster Schütz Christmas Story

Miklós Perényi

Szilvia Csibi

Monday 19 December 1.00 pm

Miklós Perényi cello Kodály Sonata for solo cello Op. 8 Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008

A grand first half of festive Venetian polychoral music prefaces Heinrich Schütz’s magical setting of the Christmas Story, complete with a cast of Wise Men, Shepherds, High Priests, the Angel bearing glad tidings, the Heavenly Host, and the villainous Herod, all backed by a wonderfully colourful instrumental ensemble of violins, violettas, cornetti, sackbuts, recorders, dulcian and continuo.

Alison Balsom opens her recital with a homage to Leipzig’s finest trumpeter, Gottfried Reiche, for whom Bach wrote so many high-flying clarino parts, and explores dazzling original compositions by Biber, Fantini, Löwe von Eisenach and Torelli. The trumpet’s lyrical voice is also present in her transcriptions and arrangements of songs by Dowland and Marin Marais’s contemplative ‘Les Voix humaines’. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season / Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

The expressive eloquence and extraordinary tonal refinement of Miklós Perényi’s playing have opened hearts and minds to the infinite spiritual dimensions of the works in his broad repertoire. The Hungarian musician, born in Budapest in 1948, completed his studies with lessons from Pablo Casals and is recognised among today’s greatest cellists. He presents the second of Bach’s Cello Suites in tandem with a composition that matches it in intensity and invention, Kodály’s Sonata for solo cello.

Reiche Fanfare Bendinelli The Procession, from a Venetian coronation (1595) Biber von Bibern Sonata a clarino (for trumpet, strings and continuo) Marais Les Voix humaines for solo lute (arr. Dunford) Fasch Trumpet Concerto Bach Sinfonia from Oratorio BWV248 ‘Weihnachts-Oratorium’ Corelli Christmas Concerto (arr. Balsom) Fantini Sonata for two trumpets Torelli Sonata a 5 in D Dowland Come again! Sweet love doth now invite; Time stands still; Behold a wonder here Löwe von Eisenach Capriccio Purcell Suite from The Fairy Queen Bach Chorale: Jesus bleibet meine Freude from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben BWV147 Biber Sonata No. 7 in C for 2 trumpets and strings from Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV351 (arr. Balsom)

Early Music and Baroque Series

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

The King’s Consort

Taco van der Werf

Alison Balsom

Maker

Mahan Esfahani Wednesday 21 December 7.30 pm

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series/Bach Harpsichord Works

Since making his London debut in 2009, Mahan Esfahani has made giant strides to bring the harpsichord into the mainstream of concert life. Over the next five seasons at Wigmore Hall we explore Bach’s works for harpsichord with Mahan, opening with the Goldberg Variations, a masterpiece of great virtuosity, beauty and vast inventive range written for two-manual harpsichord in 1741. This series continues on 12 September 2017. Photo by Bernhard Musil/Deutsche Grammophon

December Tuesday 27 December 7.30 pm

VOX

LUMINIS

AKADEMIE FÜR ALTE MUSIK BERLIN

Sitkovetsky Trio Turina Piano Trio No. 2 Op. 76 Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Schubert Notturno in E b D897 Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 Hailed by the Independent for artistry ‘reminiscent of the Beaux Arts Trio in its heyday’, the Sitkovetsky Trio’s playing is distinguished by unconditional commitment and high-octane energy. The ensemble, founded in 2007, explores the colourful soundscapes of Turina and Ravel before fathoming the vast creative worlds of Schubert and Schumann. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Uwe Arens

Friday 23 December 7.30 pm Vox Luminis

Ola Renska

Thursday 22 December 7.30 pm

Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier artistic director Vivaldi Domine ad adjuvandum me festina RV593 Handel Nisi Dominus HWV238 Vivaldi Magnificat RV610 Handel Dixit Dominis HWV232

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin A WINTERS NIGHT’S MUSIC Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade in C minor K388 ‘Night Music’ Leopold Mozart Die musikalische Schlittenfahrt: Divertimento in F (arr. Ernst Schlader) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ah vous dirai-je, maman (arr. Georg Druschetzky) Salieri Armonia per un tempio della notte Beethoven Octet in E b Op. 103

Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier have secured a host of prestigious recording awards and five-star reviews, tribute to the quality and panache of their revelatory interpretations of early vocal works. Their most recent album, a recording of motets by members of the Bach family, was lauded by Gramophone as ‘a deeply felt and atmospheric compendium’. They return to Wigmore Hall with a programme of sacred masterworks, including Handel’s youthful setting of Psalm 110, Dixit Dominus, composed in Italy in 1707.

A musical sleigh-ride by Mozart’s father, the music of freemasonry, nocturnal serenades and a dozen variations on a popular French nursery rhyme stand together in this programme of works for wind instruments. Mozart composed his ‘Night Music’ in Vienna in the early 1780s to satisfy the imperial city’s appetite for wind ensemble music, a demand also served by the former regimental musician Georg Druschetzky. Members of Berlin’s renowned Akademie für Alte Musik conclude with the young Beethoven’s vivacious Octet.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Chamber Music Season

Sitkovetsky Trio

December Wednesday 28 December 7.30 pm

Thursday 29 December 7.30 pm

Doric String Quartet

Roberta Invernizzi soprano Sonia Prina contralto Ensemble Claudiana Luca Pianca director, lute Marco Frezzato cello Margret Köll harp

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Bartók String Quartet No. 2 BB75 Mendelssohn String Quartet in E b Op. 44 No. 3 The Doric String Quartet has forged ahead over the past decade to become one of Britain’s leading chamber groups, known for its sophisticated tonal blend and consummate artistry. This programme includes Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2, completed almost a century ago and swiftly absorbed into the international repertoire following its publication in 1920. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE See page opposite for full details

Friday 30 December 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season

Gringolts Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Jörg Widmann String Quartet No. 3 ‘Jagdquartett’ Brahms String Quartet in Bb Op. 67 Founded in 2008, the Zurich-based Gringolts Quartet has been acclaimed for the sensitive nuance of its sound and the responsive musicianship of its members. This programme pairs Beethoven’s forward-looking Op. 18 No. 6, written in the first year of the nineteenth century, with the pulsating energy of Jörg Widmann’s ‘Jagdquartett’, completed soon after the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The English Concert

Richard Haughton

Saturday 31 December 7.00 pm NB starting time

The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Alfonso Leal del Ojo viola NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Doric String Quartet

THE ENGLISH CONCERT

George Garnier

Purcell Suite from King Arthur Corelli Concerto Grosso in C Op. 6 No. 10 Telemann Viola Concerto in G TWV51:G9 Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for strings RV157 Handel Concerto Grosso in G minor Op. 6 No. 6 Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV1068 While The English Concert and Harry Bicket have worked tirelessly in recent years to cast light upon neglected corners of the Baroque and Early Classical repertoire, they welcome in the New Year with a programme of works by the great Baroque masters on whom the ensemble built its reputation. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

Gringolts Quartet

Tomasz Trzebiatowski

Roberta Invernizzi, Sonia Prina & Ensemble Claudiana Thursday 29 December 7.30 pm

Roberta Invernizzi soprano Sonia Prina contralto Ensemble Claudiana, Luca Pianca director, lute Marco Frezzato cello Margret Köll harp AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE Monteverdi Vorrei baciarti; Ohimè dov’è il mio ben? Doni Toccata – Passacaglia Monteverdi Mentre vaga angioletta from Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi, libro ottavo Gabrielli Sonata No. 1 for lute, cello and harp Handel Sono liete, fortunate Lotti Poss’io morir Durante Son io, barbara donna Bach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E b BWV998 for lute and harp Handel Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi

Sonia Prina and Roberta Invernizzi belong to a generation of singers blessed with remarkable technical skills, musical refinement and emotional freedom. Prina’s sensational agility and ability to mine the depths of the contralto range provide the ideal complement to the crystalline beauty of Invernizzi’s soprano voice. They return to Wigmore Hall with Luca Pianca’s ace Ensemble Claudiana to perform a programme of works associated with Venice, complete with Monteverdi’s yearning Ohimè dov’è il mio ben?, a heart-breaking set of variations for two voices and basso continuo, a chamber duet by Antonio Lotti, and Handel’s virtuoso Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Photos by Ribalta Luce Studio

Contemporary Music Series Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, and as a commissioner of new works and a champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least through its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London premières. ‘Our commissioning scheme is already the most extensive in Europe for chamber music’, comments Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly, ‘and in recent years Wigmore Hall has become one of the world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’ Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence is supported by The Marchus Trust Full details of these concerts are provided throughout the brochure in chronological order. Priority Booking for all concerts in this series opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Tuesday 20 September 7.30 pm

Saturday 15 October 7.30 pm

Friday 25 November 7.30 pm

James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Mark van de Wiel clarinet Geoffrey Paterson conductor

Ensemble Modern Jonathan Berman conductor

Helen Grime, Oliver Knussen & Carter

Saturday 26 November 7.30 pm

Anna Meredith*

Friday 28 October 7.30 pm

Arditti Quartet

Saturday 1 October 7.30 pm

The Prince Consort Stephen Hough piano

Julian Philips* Saturday 24 September 7.30 pm

Aurora Orchestra

Calder Quartet Barbara Hannigan soprano Peter Eötvös*

Stephen Hough

Alexander Goehr, Stockhausen & Oliver Knussen

Hanna Kulenty*, Philippe Manoury & Donatoni Sunday 11 December 7.30 pm

Belcea Quartet

Monday 31 October 7.30 pm

Krzysztof Penderecki*

Alison Balsom trumpet Tom Poster piano

Tuesday 13 December 7.30 pm

The Cardinall’s Musick Arvo Pärt, Nico Muhly* & Tavener

Tom Poster & Alison Balsom

Friday 14 October 7.30 pm

Saturday 15 October 1.00 pm

Alexandra Wood violin Rachel Roberts viola Philip Higham cello Nicholas Daniel oboe Huw Watkins piano Helen Grime*

St. Lawrence String Quartet John Adams*

Sunday 13 November 7.30 pm

Wednesday 14 December 1.00 pm

Emerson String Quartet

Britten Sinfonia

Mark-Anthony Turnage*

Sohrab Uduman* Friday 30 December 7.30 pm

Gringolts Quartet Jörg Widmann

Monday 23 January 2017 7.30 pm

Friday 10 March 2017 7.30 pm

Wednesday 26 April 2017 7.30 pm

Philip Higham cello Alasdair Beatson piano

Pacifica Quartet Johannes Moser cello

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Sol Gabetta cello

John Casken

Julia Wolfe

Jörg Widmann, Ligeti & Xenakis

Wednesday 25 January 2017 7.30 pm

Tuesday 21 March 2017 7.30 pm

Sunday 7 May 2017 7.30 pm

Signum Quartet

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Adrian Brendel cello Roderick Williams baritone

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano

Huw Watkins, Colin Matthews, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Simon Holt & Julian Anderson*

Thursday 11 May 2017 7.30 pm

Bruno Mantovani* Wednesday 8 February 2017 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Oliver Knussen & Mark-Anthony Turnage* Thursday 9 February 2017 7.30 pm

Saturday 25 March 2017 1.00 pm

Jörg Widmann clarinet Mitsuko Uchida piano Jörg Widmann Saturday 18 February 2017 7.30 pm

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton leader, artistic director Alina Ibragimova violin Arvo Pärt & Pe¯teris Vasks Saturday 25 February 2017 1.00 pm

JACK Quartet Xenakis Saturday 25 February 2017 7.30 pm

JACK Quartet Pavel Kolesnikov piano Xenakis Friday 3 March 2017 7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Huw Watkins piano Oliver Knussen conductor Helen Grime*

George Crumb, György Kurtág & Michel van der Aa

Elias String Quartet Paul Newland*

Calder Quartet Thomas Adès piano Nicolas Hodges piano

Wednesday 14 June 2017 7.30 pm

Thomas Adès

Hugues Dufourt* & Wolfgang Rihm*

Saturday 25 March 2017 7.30 pm

Friday 16 June 2017 7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Timothy Redmond conductor Calder Quartet Thomas Adès piano

Jasper String Quartet

Thomas Adès, György Kurtág & Gerald Barry

Philippe Schoeller & Matteo Franceschini

Arditti Quartet Eliot Fisk guitar

Aaron Jay Kernis* Tuesday 20 June 2017 7.30 pm

Ensemble intercontemporain Monday 26 June 2017 7.30 pm

Friday 7 April 2017 7.30 pm

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Chemirani Brothers zarb Marco Stroppa, Ross Daly, Sokratis Sinopoulos, György Kurtág, Krzysztof Penderecki & Franck Leriche Wednesday 19 April 2017 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Nicholas Daniel oboe Brian Elias*

Vienna Piano Trio Mark Padmore tenor Thomas Larcher * Saturday 1 July 2017 7.30 pm

Doric String Quartet Alasdair Beatson piano Thomas Adès

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

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by

EVENTS FOR FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS All events listed on pages 80 – 83 will open for booking on 31 May, with the exception of the Relaxed Concert on 24 September, Silver Sunday on 2 October, Family Concerts on 8 October and 12 November, Come and Sing on 3 December, and Music for the Moment on 15 December, which are included in Priority Booking for Friends and Mailing List Subscribers.

September/October Saturday 17 September 10.00 am – 3.00 pm

Open House Day Join us for an opportunity to look behind the scenes and behind the music at Wigmore Hall, with free performances and workshops taking place throughout the day. Bring the family and join Detective Inspector Hermione Jones for a musical mystery trail around the building and free music-making workshops at 11.00 am, 12.15 pm and 1.30 pm. Free (no ticket required)

Study Programme We have an extensive programme of study events including masterclasses, pre-concert talks and study days. For a list of all our events see Wigmore Hall Learning section of At a Glance on page 3.

Saturday 24 September 11.00 am – 12 noon

Sunday 2 October

Relaxed Concert: Leonore Piano Trio

Silver Sunday: Musical Pictures

The Leonore Piano Trio, which brings together three acclaimed artists renowned for their ability to communicate informally with audiences, performs a diverse programme of music for violin, cello and piano in a relaxed and informal environment. Our relaxed concerts are open to everyone and are specifically designed to welcome people who will benefit from a more relaxed performance environment, including people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, sensory and communication disorders, or a learning disability. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement, and our house lights will remain up so there is no darkness. Audience members are able to walk in and out of the auditorium as they need to and there is a designated quiet area.

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Leonore Piano Trio

All seats £5

In partnership with The Wallace Collection, Westminster Arts and the Royal Academy of Music

October Friday 7 October 11.00 am – 12 noon (repeated 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm)

Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives: Sir Scallywag and the Battle of Stinky Bottom RECEPTION & KEY STAGE 1 SCHOOLS CONCERT When King Colin sets his sights on finding the famous Golden Sausage, there’s only ONE person for the job: Sir Scallywag! But will the six-year-old knight be mighty enough to defeat the filthy trolls and win the Stinkiest Battle Ever? Join Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives for this new children’s concert, based on Giles Andreae’s latest Sir Scallywag story, illustrated by Korky Paul (Penguin 2015). With music by award-winning composer Paul Rissmann, it’s packed with irresistibly memorable songs, vivid story-telling, illustrations and lots of audience participation. £3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

Saturday 8 October 11.00 am – 12 noon

Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 22 October 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

A Knight’s Quest FAMILY DAY

Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives: Sir Scallywag and the Battle of Stinky Bottom FAMILY CONCERT For ages 4 plus A repeat of the Schools Concert on 7 October, for families. Children £8 Adults £10

For ages 5 plus Discover the stories hidden in The Wallace Collection and create your own medieval knight’s quest. Try on armour and create a puppet; will you be a knight or a squire? Then write your own travelling music for the journey and perform it onstage at Wigmore Hall. Children £10 Adults £15

Ignite

Benjamin Ealovega

Wednesday 26 October 11.00 am – 3.30 pm Thursday 27 October 11.00 am – 3.30 pm

In partnership with The Wallace Collection

Musical Portraits Band HALF TERM COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS

Early Years

We invite young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders to be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, and to create their own works of art and music with inspiring visual artists alongside Wigmore Hall Learning Associate Artists Ignite.

For Crying Out Loud!, our concert series for parents / carers and their babies under 1, and Chamber Tots, interactive workshops for children aged 1 to 5, take place across the season.

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

See pages 20 & 31 for forthcoming For Crying Out Loud! concerts and see the Learning brochure for forthcoming Chamber Tots workshops.

In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts Benjamin Ealovega

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November/December Saturday 12 November 11.00 am – 12 noon

The Fantastic City of Music Andrew J Smith presenter Ensemble 360

In the Community

FAMILY CONCERT

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

For ages 5 plus In a concert full of interaction and entertainment, members of the dynamic Ensemble 360 are joined by presenter Andy J Smith to introduce the whole family to some of the most adored music and musicians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including works by Schumann, Bach and Mendelssohn. With specially designed resources to download and explore before and after the concert, this is a perfect opportunity to discover and enjoy this inspirational music in an informal environment. Children £8 Adults £10

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Wednesday 16 November 11.00 am – 12 noon

Saturday 3 December 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Van Kuijk Quartet and Rachel Leach: Melodies

Come and Sing: Hungarian Music

KEY STAGE 3 SCHOOLS CONCERT

Join the members of the Van Kuijk Quartet, First Prize-winners of the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, as they perform a dynamic concert exploring the string quartet and its vast and varied repertoire. Alongside presenter Rachel Leach, the quartet performs a wide range of pieces by composers ranging from Ravel to Smetana. Designed to support, complement and extend the Key Stage 3 curriculum, bookers also receive a teachers’ resource pack ahead of the concert. £3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

£25 concs £19

Thursday 15 December 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

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December Saturday 10 December and Saturday 17 December 10.00 am – 10.45 am • 12 noon – 12.45 pm • 2.00 pm – 2.45 pm

Rumbled INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE For children aged 3 – 5 and their parents/carers A young girl has told a very big lie and now, if she doesn’t spin all this straw into gold by the morning, The King will cut off her head! There is no way she can do it, until she meets a mysterious stranger who casts a magical spell and all the dry straw is transformed into sparkling gold. Surely when The King sees all of these riches, he will marry her and make her Queen! But the magical elf returns and wants payment for his troubles. Join us for this immersive adventure which reimagines the well-loved Rumpelstiltskin story. Children £8 Adults £10

Tuesday 13 December 10.00 am – 10.45 am • 12 noon – 12.45 pm • 2.00 pm – 2.45 pm

Rumbled INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE For Nursery, Reception and Special Educational Needs groups A repeat of the events on 10 and 17 December, for Nursery, Reception and Special Educational Needs groups. £3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

Benjamin Ealovega

Chamber Zone FREE CONCERT TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOL GROUPS Over the last nine years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticket scheme Chamber Zone has reached over 7,000 young people aged 8 –25 years.

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

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

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SPRING PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2017

These concerts (except where stated) are not available to book with this brochure. Booking dates and full details of artists and programmes will be published in a separate brochure available from late September 2016.

January 2017 Tuesday 3 January 7.30 pm

Friday 6 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 8 January 11.30 am

John Chest baritone Marcelo Amaral piano

Vijay Iyer piano Wadada Leo Smith trumpet

Novus String Quartet

WINTER JOURNEY

A COSMIC RHYTHM WITH EACH STROKE

Brtitten Winter Words Songs by Schubert, Duparc, Wolf, Schumann and Poulenc

Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer performs with his ‘hero, friend and teacher’, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, who belongs to the first generation of players to come out of Chicago’s hugely influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).

Song Recital Series

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Saturday 7 January 7.30 pm

Cuarteto Casals Mozart String Quartet in G K387; String Quartet in D minor K421; String Quartet in Eb K428 Chamber Music Season

John Chest

Andrey Stoycher

Vijay Iyer

Barbara Rigon

Novus String Quartet

Jin-ho Park

January 2017 Sunday 8 January 3.00 pm

Monday 9 January 1.00 pm

Friday 13 January 7.30 pm

Timothy Fallon tenor Ammiel Bushakevitz piano

Richard Egarr harpsichord

Arcangelo* Jonathan Cohen director, cello Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord

Programme to be announced

Prize winners of the 2013 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Schubert Nacht und Träume; Die Sternennächte; Liebesrausch II; Rastlose Liebe; Wiegenlied; Nachtstück; Willkommen und Abschied Beach Three Browning Songs Op. 44

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Monday 9 January 7.30 pm

Song Recital Series

Danish String Quartet

Sunday 8 January 7.30 pm

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Schnittke String Quartet No. 3 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’

Cuarteto Casals

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

Early Music and Baroque Series/Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen Baroque Ensemble in Residence

Chamber Music Season

Mozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’; String Quartet in A K464; String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Chamber Music Season

Cuarteto Casals

Bach Harpsichord Concerto in G minor BWV1058 (from Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041) Telemann Burlesque de Quixotte TWV55:G10 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D BWV1054 Telemann Suite in G TWV55:G4 ‘Les Nations anciens et modernes’ Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1052

Saturday 14 January 7.30 pm Wednesday 11 January 7.30 pm

La Venexiana

Molina Visuals

Vienna Piano Trio

Monteverdi Selections from the Seventh Book of Madrigals

Haydn Piano Trio in E HXV:28 (Bartolozzi trio) Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8

Early Music and Baroque Series

Chamber Music Season

La Venexiana

Vienna Piano Trio

Nancy Horowitz

January 2017 Sunday 15 January 11.30 am

Monday 16 January 1.00 pm

Tuesday 17 January 7.30 pm

Wigmore Series Debut*

Beatrice Rana piano

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky* violin

Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988

Classical Opera Ian Page conductor

Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced

Soloists to be announced

Beatrice Rana is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

1767 – A RETROSPECTIVE

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 15 January 7.30 pm

Erich Höbarth violin Gerhard Schulz violin Thomas Riebl viola Steven Isserlis cello Ralph Kirshbaum cello Sir András Schiff piano Other artists to be announced

IMS PRUSSIA COVE CELEBRATION CONCERT FOR HILARY TUNSTALL- BEHRENS’S 90TH BIRTHDAY Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Monday 16 January 7.30 pm

Soloists of Les Arts Florissants Paul Agnew director, tenor Miriam Allan soprano Hannah Morrison soprano Lucile Richardot contralto Sean Clayton tenor Cyril Costanzo bass

Described by The Observer as ‘among the most audacious classical music programming ever’, Ian Page’s MOZART 250 follows the chronological trajectory of Mozart’s life, works and influences 250 years on. This concert will present an overview of the musical scene in 1767 with a fascinating programme of works that were written or premièred in that year. Early Music and Baroque Series

Wednesday 18 January 7.30 pm

MONTEVERDI, MASTERS AND POETS – IMITATION AND EMULATION A selection of madrigals by Monteverdi and his contemporaries including Vecchi, Ingegneri, Marenzio, Wert and Pallavicino. Early Music and Baroque Series

Georg Nigl baritone Andreas Staier fortepiano Schubert Die Schatten; Andenken; Geisternähe; Der Abend (D108); Lied der Liebe; Der Geistertanz (D116); Die Mainacht; Seufzer; Frühlingslied (D398); Die Knabenzeit; Klage an den Mond; Erntelied; Abschied (D475); Orest auf Tauris; Erlafsee; Beim Winde; Nachtstück; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Das Zügenglöcklein; Am Fenster; Irdisches Glück; Genügsamkeit; Schiffers Scheidelied Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky

Beatrice Rana

Neda Navaee

Georg Nigl

Bernd Uhlig

January 2017 Thursday 19 January 7.30 pm

Saturday 21 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 22 January 3.00 pm

Julia Fischer violin

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle

Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in G minor Op. 27 No. 1 (à Joseph Szigeti); Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 27 No. 2 (à Jacques Thibaud); Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 27 No. 3 (à Georges Enescu); Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 27 No. 4 (à Fritz Kreisler); Violin Sonata in G Op. 27 No. 5 (à Mathieu Crickboom); Violin Sonata in E Op. 27 No. 6 (à Manuel Quiroya) Chamber Music Season

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Ian Brown piano Lucy Crowe soprano Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘Emperor’ Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in E b K449 Mahler Symphony No. 4 (arr. for soprano and chamber ensemble by Irwin Stein) Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Friday 20 January 7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt piano

Nika Goricˇ soprano Katie Stevenson mezzo-soprano Nicholas Mogg baritone Michael Mofidian bass-baritone Yi-Shing Cheng piano Michael Pandya piano Songs by Charles Villiers Stanford, his pupil Muriel Herbert, and Roger Quilter – the man she loved. The recital will be introduced by Claire Tomalin, Muriel Herbert’s daughter. WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Bach French Suites: No. 1 in D minor BWV812; No. 2 in C minor BWV813; No. 4 in E b BWV815; No. 6 in E BWV817; No. 3 in B minor BWV814; No. 5 in G BWV816

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Sunday 22 January 11.30 am

Song Recital Series

Elias String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13

London Pianoforte Series/ Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey

Monday 23 January 1.00 pm

Roderick Williams baritone Roger Vignoles piano

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Fauré Mirages Op. 113 Caplet Cinq ballades françaises de Paul Fort Honegger Petits cours de morale Poulenc Deux poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire; Parisiana

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Julia Fischer

Felix Broede

Lucy Crowe

Marco Borggreve

Roderick Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

January 2017 Monday 23 January 7.30 pm

ECMA Showcase

Friday 27 January 7.30 pm

Philip Higham cello Alasdair Beatson piano

Thursday 26 January 1.00 pm

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano

Friday 27 January 1.00 pm

Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO. 45 John Casken Stolen Airs (London première) Fauré Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 109 Lutosławski Metamorphoses (1981) Franck/Delsart Sonata in A for cello and piano £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Saturday 28 January 11.00 am – Masterclass Saturday 28 January 1.00 pm

Quatuor Akilone Quatuor Hanson Stratos Quartet Trio Vitruvi Pacific Quartet Vienna

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

Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

Saturday 28 January 7.30 pm

Works by Bartók, Beethoven, Walton, Chausson, Schubert, Mozart and Schumann Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 25 January 7.30 pm

Signum Quartet

Thursday 26 January 7.30 pm

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Bruno Mantovani String Quartet No. 3* (UK première) Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano

*Co-commissioned by Philharmonie Luxembourg, Konzerthaus Vienna, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Programme to include: Nico Muhly New work* Argento From the Diary of Virginia Woolf

Le Concert de la Loge Olympique Julien Chauvin director, violin Karina Gauvin soprano Programme to be announced

Programme to include: Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116

Early Music and Baroque Series

London Pianoforte Series

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Philip Higham

Simon Wall

Elisabeth Leonskaja

Marco Borggreve

Alice Coote

Benjamin Ealovega

January/February 2017 Sunday 29 January 11.30 am

Sunday 29 January 7.30 pm

Monday 30 January 7.30 pm

Amaryllis Quartet

Stéphane Degout baritone Cédric Tiberghien piano

Igor Levit piano

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 33 No. 3 ‘The Bird’ Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 127 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Op. 10 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 18 in E b Op. 31 No. 3

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit Sunday 29 January 3.00 pm

Monday 30 January 1.00 pm

Tim Mead countertenor James Baillieu piano Programme to include: Howells King David Vaughan Williams Linden Lea Purcell/Britten Lord, what is Man? Quilter It was a lover and his lass Vaughan Williams Silent Noon Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci Betty Roe To his sweet saviour Ireland If There Were Dreams to Sell Joseph Phibbs The Moon’s Funeral Vaughan Williams Tired Warlock Love for Love Dankworth Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day? Britten The Salley Gardens Quilter Hey, ho, the wind and the rain

Peter Moore trombone James Baillieu piano

Tuesday 31 January 7.30 pm

Programme to be announced

Schubert Notturno in E b D897; Piano Trio No. 1 in B b D898; Piano Trio No. 2 in E b D929

Gould Piano Trio

Peter Moore is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Chamber Music Season

Thursday 2 February 7.30 pm BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Elizabeth Watts soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Schubert Nähe des Geliebten; Vergebliche Liebe; Liebe schwärmt auf allen Wegen; Das Rosenband; Lambertine; Die verfehlte Stunde; Gott im Frühlinge; Aus Diego Manzanares (Almerine); Pflicht und Liebe; Der Sänger am Felsen; Die Blumensprache; La pastorella al prato; Heiß mich nicht reden (D726); So laßt mich scheinen (D727); Der Blumen Schmerz; Nachtviolen; Du bist die Ruh; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Im Frühling; Über Wildemann; Heimliches Lieben; Frühlingslied (D919)

Song Recital Series

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Amaryllis Quartet

Tobias Wirth

Peter Moore

Kaupo Kikkas

Gould Piano Trio

Jake Morley

February 2017 Friday 3 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 5 February 7.30 pm

Tuesday 7 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet

Takács Quartet Masterclass

The English Concert Rachel Podger guest director, violin

Beethoven String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2; String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’; String Quartet in Bb Op. 130

The Takács Quartet works with two student ensembles on Beethoven String Quartets.

JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066 Telemann Sonata a 6 in F minor TWV44:32 CPE Bach Symphony in G Wq. 182/1 JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 Telemann Concerto in Bb for 3 oboes, 3 violins and basso continuo TWV44:43 JS Bach Concerto in C minor BWV1060 for oboe and violin (reconst.)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Chamber Music Season Monday 6 February 1.00 pm Saturday 4 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’; String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 Chamber Music Season

Isabelle Faust violin Andreas Staier piano

Early Music and Baroque Series

CPE Bach Fantasie in F# minor Wq. 80 (arr. of Fantasia for keyboard solo Wq. 67) Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 131 Brahms Violin Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2 (arr. of Viola Sonata)

Wednesday 8 February 12.15 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Mark-Anthony Turnage discusses the programme for the following lunchtime concert with Dr Kate Kennedy.

Sunday 5 February 11.30 am BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Monday 6 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Dvorˇák Sonatina in G Op. 100 (arr. for flute and piano) Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 Dvorˇák String Quintet in E b Op. 97 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/ Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Contemporary Music Series

Takács Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5; String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4; String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Chamber Music Season

Takács Quartet

Robert Torres

Rachel Podger

Jonas Sacks

February 2017 Wednesday 8 February 1.00 pm

Thursday 9 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 11 February 5.30 pm

Britten Sinfonia

Jörg Widmann clarinet Mitsuko Uchida piano

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet Mark-Anthony Turnage Prayer for a great man Oliver Knussen Cantata (Triptych Part 3) Op. 15 Ravel Introduction and Allegro Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet Mark-Anthony Turnage Col* (world première) * Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Jörg Widmann Fantasie for solo clarinet Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1 for solo piano Jörg Widmann Idyll und Abgrund – Six Schubert Reminiscences for Piano Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73

An introductory talk, followed by: Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Webern Piano Quintet in C Schoenberg Die eiserne Brigade; Ein Stelldichein; Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs); Nachtwandler for soprano, piccolo, trumpet, snare drum and piano Chamber Music Season/ Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

£60 £50 £40 £30 £15

£13 concs £11

Nash Ensemble Claire Booth soprano

Saturday 11 February 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Wednesday 8 February 7.30 pm

Friday 10 February 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble Claire Booth soprano

Janine Jansen violin Boris Brovtsyn violin Torleif Thedéen cello Clara Andrada de la Calle flute Olivier Patey clarinet Eldar Nebolsin piano

Nikolai Demidenko piano Programme to include: Sonatas by Scarlatti Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano (transcription for solo piano by Alfred Cortot) London Pianoforte Series

Berg Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs) (arr. by de Leeuw for soprano, piano, harmonium, flute, clarinet, string quartet and bass) Mozart Clarinet Trio in E b K498 ‘Kegelstatt’ Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock) Schubert Octet in F D803 Chamber Music Season/ Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Korngold Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand Op. 23 Berg Adagio from Chamber Concerto Schoenberg/Webern Kammersymphonie No. 1 Op. 9 Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Perspectives

Britten Sinfonia

Harry Rankin

Jörg Widmann

Marco Borggreve

Claire Booth

Sven Arnstein

February 2017 Sunday 12 February 11.30 am

Tuesday 14 February 7.30 pm

Friday 17 February 7.30 pm

Trio con Brio Copenhagen

Razumovsky Ensemble

Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66

Programme to be announced

Mauro Peter tenor Helmut Deutsch piano

Chamber Music Season

Programme to be announced

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Song Recital Series Wednesday 15 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 12 February 7.30 pm

Belcea Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in E b minor Op. 144 Schubert String Quartet in G D887

Saturday 18 February 7.30 pm

Matthew Rose bass Gary Matthewman piano Schubert Winterreise Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Chamber Music Season Thursday 16 February 7.30 pm Monday 13 February 1.00 pm

Llyˆr Williams piano

Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4 in E b Op. 7; Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78; Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’; Piano Sonata No. 26 in E b Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’

Programme to be announced Kathryn Rudge is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton leader, artistic director Alina Ibragimova violin Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 6 in E b for strings Arvo Pärt Silouan’s Song ‘My soul yearns after the Lord’ Hartmann Concerto funebre Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 10 in B minor for strings Pe¯teris Vasks Viatore Bach Concerto in E for violin BWV1042 £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Kathryn Rudge

Sussie Ahlburg

Llyˆr Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

Helmut Deutsch & Mauro Peter

Benjamin Ealovega

February 2017 Sunday 19 February 11.30 am

Sunday 19 February 7.30 pm

Monday 20 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Isabelle Faust violin Alexander Melnikov piano

Members of The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra Fretwork Harry Christophers conductor

Lara Melda piano Programme to be announced

Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Françaix Sonatine (1934) Fauré Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 108 Antheil Sonata for violin, piano and drums

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 19 February 3.00 pm

Louise Alder soprano Gary Matthewman piano

Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri BuxWV75 Scheidt Two dances from Ludi musici

Chamber Music Season

Early Music and Baroque Series

Monday 20 February 1.00 pm

Tuesday 21 February 7.30 pm

Songs by Sibelius, Huw Watkins, Britten, Debussy and Puccini

Van Kuijk Quartet

Sir András Schiff piano

Song Recital Series

Programme to be announced

Bach 15 Sinfonias BWV787–801 Bartók Suite Op. 14; Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) BB89 Janácˇek Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 in F# minor Op. 11

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

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

London Pianoforte Series/Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Lara Melda

Benjamin Harte

Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov

Marco Borggreve

Harry Christophers

Marco Borggreve

February 2017 Wednesday 22 February 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff Masterclass Sir András Schiff works with an outstanding student on repertoire featured in the previous evening’s concert. Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók

XENAKIS DAY

Thursday 23 February 7.30 pm

Artemis Quartet Maria João Pires piano Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 Bartók String Quartet No. 3 BB93 Schumann Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44 Chamber Music Season Iannis Xenakis

Friday 24 February 7.30 pm

Matthias Goerne baritone

Jane Bown

The JACK Quartet and Pavel Kolesnikov make a welcome return to the Wigmore Hall stage to explore works for string quartet and piano by the Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis. Join us as we immerse ourselves in his unique soundworld and discover how he revolutionised twentieth-century classical music.

Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Saturday 25 February 1.00 pm

JACK Quartet

Henrik Olund

Xenakis Works for string quartet All seats £15

7.30 pm

JACK Quartet Pavel Kolesnikov piano Xenakis Works for string quartet and piano quintet All seats £20

Pavel Kolesnikov

Colin Way

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series Matthias Goerne

Marco Borggreve

February/March 2017 Sunday 26 February 11.30 am

Sunday 26 February 7.30 pm

Tuesday 28 February 7.30 pm

Quatuor Voce

Igor Levit piano

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’; Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1; 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’

Theatre of the Ayre Elizabeth Kenny director, theorbo

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 26 February 3.00 pm

London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

Nicholas Phan tenor Myra Huang piano

Monday 27 February 1.00 pm

KNIGHTS AND KINGS Schubert Der Sänger Brahms Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen Beethoven Aus Goethes Faust: Es war einmal ein König

Early Music and Baroque Series

Wednesday 1 March 7.30 pm

Carducci String Quartet

David Greilsammer piano

MOUNT OLYMPUS Schubert An die Leier; Ganymed; Atys; Der Musensohn

Programme to be announced

Scarlatti Sonatas: in D minor Kk213; in D minor Kk141; in E Kk381; in B minor Kk87; in F minor Kk466; in E Kk531; in B minor Kk27; in D Kk492 Cage Sonatas: No. 14; No. 13; No. 12; No. 1; No. 16; No. 11; No. 5

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Webern Langsamer Satz Chamber Music Season

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT Schumann Der Sandmann Wolf Der Feuerreiter Schubert Der Zwerg Schumann Waldesgespräch Mendelssohn Hexenlied FAIRY TALES Brahms Sandmännchen Wolf Der Rattenfänger; Elfenlied; Storchenbotschaft ‘Des Schäfers sein Haus’ Song Recital Series

Nicholas Phan

FaceCollective

David Greilsammer

Julien Mignot

Elizabeth Kenny

Benjamin Ealovega

March 2017 Thursday 2 March 7.30 pm

Saturday 4 March 7.30 pm

Monday 6 March 1.00 pm

Paul Lewis piano

Bach Partita No. 1 in B b BWV825 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4 in E b Op. 7 Chopin Waltzes: in A minor Op. 34 No. 2; in F minor Op. 70 No. 2; in Ab Op. 42 Weber Piano Sonata No. 2 in Ab Op. 39

Repeat of concert on 2 March

Carolyn Sampson soprano Matthew Wadsworth lute

London Pianoforte Series

Programme to be announced

Sunday 5 March 11.30 am

London Pianoforte Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Arcadia Quartet Amit Peled cello

Friday 3 March 7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Huw Watkins piano Oliver Knussen conductor

Tuesday 7 March 7.30 pm

Mozart String Quartet in G K80 Schubert String Quintet in C D956

Alisa Weilerstein cello Inon Barnatan piano

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Beethoven Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1 Barber Cello Sonata Op. 6 Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65

Programme to include: Helen Grime A Cold Spring Carter Triple Duo Helen Grime Piano Concerto* (world première)

Chamber Music Season

* Co-commissioned by BCMG Sound Investment, and by Wigmore Hall with the generous support of The Marchus Trust £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Helen Grime Composer in Residence

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Clive Barda

Paul Lewis

Molina Visuals

Carolyn Sampson

Marco Borggreve

March 2017 Wednesday 8 March 7.30 pm

Friday 10 March 7.30 pm

Sunday 12 March 11.30 am

The Endellion String Quartet

Pacifica Quartet Johannes Moser cello

Wigmore Series Debut

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 64 No. 4 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Sibelius String Quartet in D minor Op. 56 ‘Voces Intimae’

Programme to include: Julia Wolfe New work for string quintet (UK première) Ravel String Quartet in F £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Chamber Music Season

Thursday 9 March 7.30 pm

The Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips director Isaac Regina caeli laetare; Missa de apostolis; Angeli archangeli Mouton Quis dabit oculis? Isaac Quis dabit capiti meo aquam?; Virgo prudentissima

Simone Lamsma violin Robert Kulek piano Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Arvo Pärt Fratres Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 12 March 3.00 pm

Saturday 11 March 7.30 pm

Ilker Arcayürek tenor Simon Lepper piano

Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano

Programme to include songs by Debussy, Fauré, Hahn and Schumann

Programme to be announced

Song Recital Series

London Pianoforte Series

Early Music and Baroque Series

Alisa Weilerstein

Harald Hoffmann/Decca

Pacifica Quartet

Saverio Truglia

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Marco Borggreve

March 2017 Sunday 12 March 7.30 pm

Tuesday 14 March 7.30 pm

Thursday 16 March 7.30 pm

Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Christoph Prégardien tenor Julius Drake piano

Hilary Hahn violin Robert Levin piano

Programme to be announced

Schubert Auf der Brücke; Der liebliche Stern; Im Walde (D834); Um Mitternacht; Lebensmut; Im Frühling; An mein Herz; Tiefes Leid (Im Jänner 1817); Über Wildemann; Dass sie hier gewesen; Greisengesang; Du bist die Ruh; Im Walde (D708); Nacht und Träume; Fischerweise; Totengräbers Heimweh; Der Winterabend

Programme to be announced

Song Recital Series

Monday 13 March 1.00 pm

Kungsbacka Piano Trio

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80 Ravel Piano Trio in A minor

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Chamber Music Season

Friday 17 March 7.30 pm

Igor Levit piano

Wednesday 15 March 7.30 pm

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90; Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101; Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’

Christian Blackshaw piano

London Pianoforte Series / Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

Mozart Piano Sonata in Bb K333 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 12 Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178

Saturday 18 March 7.30 pm

Patricia Petibon soprano Susan Manoff piano

London Pianoforte Series

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Sheila Rock

Christian Blackshaw

Herbie Knott

Patricia Petibon

Felix Broede/DG

March 2017 Sunday 19 March 11.30 am

Monday 20 March 7.30 pm

Tuesday 21 March 7.30 pm

Meccore Quartet

David Daniels countertenor Martin Katz piano

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Monday 20 March 1.00 pm

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Adrian Brendel cello Roderick Williams baritone

Tuesday 21 March 6.00 pm

NASH INVENTIONS

Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet Nino Gvetadze piano

Pre-Concert Talk

Debussy Première rapsodie Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano Schumann Arabeske in C for solo piano Op. 18 Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1

Free (ticket required)

Huw Watkins String Trio* Colin Matthews Fuga Sir Peter Maxwell Davies A Sea of Cold Flame (UK première) Colin Matthews New work for baritone and ensemble (world première) Simon Holt Bagatelarañas for wind quintet* (world première) Julian Anderson Van Gogh Blue**

Annelien Van Wauwe is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Composers in conversation ahead of the evening concert.

*Nash Commission ** Co-commissioned by The Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Contemporary Music Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Annelien Van Wauwe

Christian Ruvolo

David Daniels

Robert Recker/Virgin Classics

Roderick Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

March 2017 Wednesday 22 March 7.30 pm

Steven Osborne piano Brahms 3 Intermezzi Op. 117: No. 3 in C minor; No. 2 in Bb minor; No. 1 in E b Beethoven Piano Sonatas: No. 30 in E Op. 109; No. 31 in Ab Op. 110; No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 23 March 7.30 pm

The King’s Consort Robert King conductor Julie Cooper soprano Rebecca Outram soprano Robin Blaze countertenor Charles Daniels tenor Matthew Brook bass-baritone

THOMAS ADÈS DAY ‘ARCADIANA’ Saturday 25 March

1.00 pm

Few contemporary composers have proved to be as consistently inventive as Thomas Adès. Wigmore Hall explores his eloquently expressive work with a day-long programme of chamber music, including the string quartets Arcadiana and Four Quarters.

Calder Quartet Thomas Adès piano Nicolas Hodges piano Thomas Adès The Four Quarters Lutosławski Variations on a theme of Paganini Thomas Adès Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face Walton Selections from Façade Thomas Adès Piano Quintet This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval.

‘HENRY PURCELL, BY ROYAL COMMAND’ – MUSIC FOR THE CHAPEL ROYAL

All seats £20

Purcell O sing unto the Lord; Thou wakeful shepherd (A Morning Hymn); Why do the heathen so furiously rage together; Close thine eyes and sleep secure (Upon a Quiet Conscience); Behold, now, praise the Lord; My beloved spake; Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest (Adam’s Sleep); Praise the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me; With sick and famish’d eyes; O praise God in his holiness

6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Thomas Adès in conversation with John Gilhooly £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Early Music and Baroque Series

7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Timothy Redmond conductor Calder Quartet Thomas Adès piano György Kurtág Officium breve Op. 28 Gerald Barry Octet Thomas Adès Concerto Conciso, Arcadiana Solo piano works by Janácˇek and György Kurtág £40 £30 £25 £20 £15

Thomas Adès

Brian Voce

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Steven Osborne

100

Benjamin Ealovega

March 2017 Sunday 26 March 11.30 am

Monday 27 March 1.00 pm

Wednesday 29 March 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Gallicantus

Tamar Beraia piano

Programme to be announced

Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn director

Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition Schumann Carnaval Op. 9

Programme to be announced Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Sunday 26 March 3.00 pm

Monday 27 March 7.30 pm

Manuel Walser baritone Anano Gokieli piano

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Polina Leschenko piano

Wolf From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ihr seid die Allerschönste; Dass doch gemalt; Ein Ständchen euch zu bringen; Hoffärtig seid Ihr, schönes Kind, und geht; Lass sie nur gehn, die so die Stolze spielt; Wie viele Zeit verlor ich Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Strauss Winternacht; Zueignung; Nichts; Die Nacht; Die Georgine; Geduld; Die Verschwiegenen; Die Zeitlose; Allerseelen; Heimliche Aufforderung; Cäcilie

Webern Four Pieces Op. 7 Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 BB85 Ravel Tzigane

Thursday 30 March 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season/ Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Artist in Residence

Marc-André Hamelin piano Leif Ove Andsnes piano Mozart Larghetto and Allegro in E b (completed by Paul Badura-Skoda) Stravinsky Concerto for two pianos Debussy En blanc et noir Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (for piano duo) London Pianoforte Series

Friday 31 March 7.30 pm

Eggner Trio

Song Recital Series

Haydn Piano Trio in D HXV:24; Piano Trio in C HXV:21 Dvorˇák Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 Chamber Music Season

Tamar Beraia

Marco Borggreve

Gallicantus

Leif Ove Andsnes

Özgür Albayrak

101

SUMMER PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2017

April 2017 Saturday 1 April 7.30 pm

Sunday 2 April 7.30 pm

Tuesday 4 April 7.30 pm

EXAUDI James Weeks director

Nikolaj Znaider violin Piotr Anderszewski piano

Miloš Karadaglic´

Programme to be announced

Chamber Music Season

Early Music and Baroque Series / Contemporary Music Series

Chamber Music Season Wednesday 5 April 7.30 pm Monday 3 April 1.00 pm

Alexander Melnikov piano

Apollon Musagète Quartet

Debussy Préludes Books I & II

Programme to be announced

London Pianoforte Series

Sunday 2 April 11.30 am

Dante Quartet

guitar

Programme to be announced

Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

EXAUDI

102

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Matthew Andrews

Apollon Musagète Quartet

Marco Borggreve

April 2017 Thursday 6 April 7.30 pm

Friday 7 April 7.30 pm

Saturday 8 April 7.30 pm

Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Ensemble Prisma Wien Thomas Fheodoroff director, violin

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Chemirani Brothers zarb

Toby Spence tenor Julian Milford piano

Schubert 5 Minuets D89 Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1 (arranged for strings by Thomas Fheodoroff) Haydn Arianna a Naxos Dvorˇák String Quintet in G Op. 77 (mvts 2 & 3) Dvorˇák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs) (arranged for voice, oboe and strings by Christian Mondrup)

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

Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

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

Sunday 9 April 11.30 am

Colin Carr cello Thomas Sauer piano Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 1 in G BWV1027 Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Bernarda Fink

Julia Wesely

Jean-Guihen Queyras

François Sechet

Thomas Sauer & Colin Carr

Jo Schofield

103

April 2017 Sunday 9 April 7.30 pm

Monday 10 April 7.30 pm

Wednesday 12 April 7.30 pm

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset

Ensemble Plus Ultra Programme to be announced

Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet director

director, harpsichord

Early Music and Baroque Series

LEÇONS DE TÉNÈBRES

BACH ET LA FRANCE Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066; Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1059 Leclair Flute Concerto in C Op. 7 No. 3 Rameau Orchestral Suite from Castor et Pollux Early Music and Baroque Series

Tuesday 11 April 7.30 pm

Henk Neven baritone Imogen Cooper piano Schubert Die schöne Müllerin Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Monday 10 April 1.00 pm

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Couperin Première Leçon de ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint Charpentier Répons: Unus ex discipulis meis H114 Lochon Tuere nos mortales (instrumental) Couperin Seconde Leçon de ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint Charpentier Répon: Eram quasi agnus innocens H115 Chein Introit from Missa pro defunctis (Requiem) Couperin Troisième Leçon de ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint Charpentier Répons: Una hora non potuistis H116 Delalande Miserere mei Deus Secumdum S27 Early Music and Baroque Series

Programme to be announced Thursday 13 April 7.30 pm

Sergey Khachatryan violin Lusine Khachatryan piano

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Christophe Rousset

104

Ignacio Barrios Martinez

Ensemble Plus Ultra

Le Concert Spirituel

Centre audiovisuel des Dominicains de Haute

April 2017 Saturday 15 April 7.30 pm

Monday 17 April 7.30 pm

Wednesday 19 April 12.15 pm

Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon piano

London Handel Players Laurence Cummings director

Pre-Concert Talk

Hummel Variations alla Monferrina Op. 54 Onslow Cello Sonata in C minor Op. 16 No. 2 Chopin Introduction and polonaise brillante in C Op. 3 Franchomme Nocturne Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65

LONG-DISTANCE MUSICAL FRIENDS

Chamber Music Season

Works by Telemann and Handel Early Music and Baroque Series

Tuesday 18 April 7.30 pm

Basel Chamber Orchestra Daniel Hope violin

Sunday 16 April 11.30 am

Castalian Quartet

Brian Elias discusses his new work with Dr Kate Kennedy. Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Contemporary Music Series

Wednesday 19 April 1.00 pm

Programme to be announced

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Thomas Adès The Four Quarters Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’

Chamber Music Season

Britten Sinfonia Nicholas Daniel oboe Finzi Interlude for oboe and string quartet Op. 21 Brian Elias Oboe Quintet* (world première) Mozart String Quintet in C minor K406

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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

Monday 17 April 1.00 pm

Alessio Bax piano

£13 concs £11

Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Alessio Bax

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Christian Flierl

105

April 2017 Thursday 20 April 7.30 pm

Sunday 23 April 11.30 am

Monday 24 April 1.00 pm

Thomas Dunford lute

Ivana Gavric´

Louis Lortie piano

LACHRIMAE

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

Dowland Preludium; Fortune; A fancy; Semper Dowland semper dolens; Mistris Winters Jump; A Dream; The King of Denmark Galliard; Melancholy Galliard; Round Battle Galliard; La mia Barbara; Come again! Sweet love doth now invite; Farewell; Frog Galliard; Lachrimae Early Music and Baroque Series

piano

Tuesday 25 April 7.30 pm

Janina Fialkowska piano

Andreas Haefliger piano

Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Brahms Trio in Eb Op. 40 Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’

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

Chamber Music Season

Thomas Dunford

106

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 23 April 7.30 pm

Saturday 22 April 7.30 pm

Programme to be announced

Chopin Polonaise in E b minor Op. 26 No. 2; Nocturne in B Op. 9 No. 3; Impromptu No. 3 in Gb Op. 51; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Waltz in B minor Op. 69 No. 2; Waltz in Ab Op. 42; Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54; Prelude in Eb minor Op. 28 No. 14; Prelude in Db Op. 28 No. 15 ‘Raindrop’; 3 Mazurkas Op. 50; Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20 London Pianoforte Series

Eric Sebbag

Ivana Gavric´

Quentin Huys

Louis Lortie

ELIAS

April 2017

Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2017 Wednesday 26 April 1.30 pm

Thursday 27 April 7.30 pm

Sunday 30 April 11.30 am

Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Nino Chokhonelidze piano

Wigmore Hall Debut

Friday 28 April 6.00 pm

WIGMORE HALL/KOHN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION WINNER’S RECITAL

FINAL

Programme to be announced

SEMI-FINAL

Song Recital Series

Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm

Saturday 29 April 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Sol Gabetta cello

Hagen Quartet

Xenakis Dhipli zyia Jörg Widmann 24 Duos for violin and cello (selection) Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 Ligeti Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg Interspersed with works by CPE Bach, JS Bach and Scarlatti

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73; String Quartet No. 14 in F# Op. 142; String Quartet No. 15 in Eb minor Op. 144 Chamber Music Season

Caroline Goulding violin Danae Dörken piano Schubert Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Enescu Impressions d’enfance Op. 28 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 30 April 7.30 pm

Hagen Quartet Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Chamber Music Season

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Marco Borggreve

Milan Siljanov

Hagen Quartet

Harald Hoffmann

107

May 2017 Monday 1 May 1.00 pm

Tuesday 2 May 7.30 pm

Friday 5 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

Lawrence Zazzo countertenor Daniele Caminiti lute

Sir András Schiff piano

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Bach Capriccio in Bb BWV992 (Capriccio on the Departure of his Most Beloved Brother) Bartók 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm from Mikrokosmos Book VI Bach 4 Duettos from Clavier-Übung (Book III) BWV802– 805 Bartók Piano Sonata Janácˇek In the Mists Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17

Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 1 May 7.30 pm

Benjamin Beilman violin Yura Lee violin, viola Jakob Koranyi cello Wu Han piano Alessio Bax piano Schubert Allegro in A minor D947 ‘Lebensstürme’ Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80 Dvorˇák Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 87

London Pianoforte Series /Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók

Chamber Music Season

Programme to be announced

Wednesday 3 May 7.30 pm

Friday 5 May 10.00 pm

Song Recital Series

Sir András Schiff Masterclass

Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen

Maximilian Schmitt tenor Gerold Huber piano

Sir András Schiff works with an outstanding student on repertoire featured in the previous evening’s concert.

director, harpsichord, organ

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók

Biber Sonata No. 6 in C minor C143 Schmelzer Sonata No. 3 from Sonatae Unarum Fidium Works by Buxtehude, Biber and Schmelzer

Thursday 4 May 7.30 pm

Wigmore Lates/Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen Baroque Ensemble in Residence

Francesco Piemontesi piano Mozart 9 Variations on a Minuet by Duport K573; Piano Sonata in Bb K570; Piano Sonata in C K309; Piano Sonata in C K330; Piano Sonata in A minor K310 London Pianoforte Series/Francesco Piemontesi Mozart Cycle

Lawrence Zazzo

108

Justin Hyer

Sir András Schiff

Nadia F Romanini

Jonathan Cohen

Marco Borggreve

May 2017 Saturday 6 May 7.30 pm

Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm

Monday 8 May 1.00 pm

Karita Mattila soprano Ville Matvejeff piano

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano

Véronique Gens soprano Susan Manoff piano

Programme to include songs by Brahms, Wagner, Berg and Strauss

CPE Bach Fantasie in F# minor Wq. 80 (arr. of Fantasia for keyboard solo Wq. 67) George Crumb Four Nocturnes Vivaldi Violin Sonata in A minor RV32 György Kurtág Tre pezzi Op. 14e Ligeti Hungarian Rock for harpsichord solo CPE Bach Sonata in D for violin and harpsichord Wq. 71 György Kurtág A selection from Signs, Games and Messages for solo violin Michel van der Aa Double for violin and piano Sciarrino Capriccio No. 2 for solo violin JS Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 (with improvised accompaniment)

Hahn Néère; Trois jours de vendange Duparc Chanson triste; Romance de Mignon Chausson Le Charme; Les papillons; Hébé Hahn Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Le rossignol des lilas; A Chloris Chausson La chanson bien douce; Le temps des lilas Hahn Lydé; Tyndaris; Pholoé; Phyllis; Le printemps

Song Recital Series

Sunday 7 May 11.30 am

Saleem Ashkar piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 26 in E b Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 8 May 7.30 pm

Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists Clio Gould director

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

Schubert/Mahler String Quartet in D minor ‘Death and the Maiden’ (for string ensemble) Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op. 70 Chamber Music Season

Karita Mattila

Marica Rosengard

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Marco Borggreve

Véronique Gens

Marc Ribes/VirginClassics

109

May 2017 Wednesday 10 May 7.30 pm

Saturday 13 May 7.30 pm

Sunday 14 May 3.00 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Lars Vogt piano

Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano Jan Philip Schulze piano

Simon Bode tenor Igor Levit piano

Schubert Schwanengesang Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte

Schubert Hagars Klage; Atys; Das war ich; Die Gestirne; Himmelsfunken; Die Sternennächte; Dem Unendlichen; Im Walde (D708); Geheimes; Suleika I; Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz; Der Zwerg; Wehmut; Die Allmacht

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

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Thursday 11 May 7.30 pm

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Elias String Quartet Benjamin Frith piano

Sunday 14 May 11.30 am

Song Recital Series

Dvorˇák String Quartet in E b Op. 51 Paul Newland New commission* (world première) Schumann Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44 *Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, Carnegie Hall, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Wigmore Hall Solo Recital Debut*

Sunday 14 May 7.30 pm

Jakob Koranyi*cello Juho Pohjonen piano

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet

Programme to be announced

Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in E b Op. 127

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Monday 15 May 1.00 pm

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

Tasmin Little violin John Lenehan piano Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 Strauss Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18

Friday 12 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

Joanna MacGregor piano Chopin Mazurkas (complete) BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

London Pianoforte Series

Joanna MacGregor

110

Pal Hansen

Violeta Urmana

Christine Schneider

Simon Bode

Kroeger Photography

May 2017 Monday 15 May 7.30 pm

Wednesday 17 May 7.30 pm

Friday 19 May 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet

Julian Prégardien tenor Christoph Schnackertz piano

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6; String Quartet in F Op. 135; String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’

Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Große Fuge Op. 133

Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 16 May 7.30 pm

Thursday 18 May 7.30 pm

Classical Opera Ian Page conductor Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord Anna Devin soprano

Alison Balsom trumpet Lucy Crowe soprano

BILDER AUS OSTEN Schubert Mahomets Gesang (D549) (fragment); Versunken; Geheimes; Sei mir gegrüsst; Dass sie hier gewesen; Im gegenwärtigen Vergangenes; Auf dem Strom Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Other artists to be announced Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season/Early Music and Baroque Series/Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’

MOZART 250

Schubert Die Nacht (D358); Gott im Frühlinge; An Chloen (D363) (fragment); Der gute Hirt; Alte Liebe rostet nie; Geheimnis; Schlaflied; Sehnsucht (D516); Atys; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren

Mozart Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in F K37; A Berenice ... Sol nascente in questo giorno K70; Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in Bb K39; Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D K40; Ein ergrimmter Löwe brüllet from Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots K35; Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in G K41

Saturday 20 May 7.30 pm

Llyˆr Williams 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

Early Music and Baroque Series Sunday 21 May 11.30 am

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

Takács Quartet

Ellen Appel

Alison Balsom

Hugh Carswell/Warner Classics

Julien Prégardien

Marco Borggreve

111

May 2017 Sunday 21 May 3.00 pm

Monday 22 May 1.00 pm

Friday 26 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

Christoph Pohl baritone Marcelo Amaral piano

Phantasm

Escher String Quartet

Programme to be announced

Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

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

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Saturday 27 May 7.30 pm

Tuesday 23 May 7.30 pm

Pavel Kolesnikov piano

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

Sunday 21 May 7.30 pm

Jerusalem Quartet

London Pianoforte Series

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Dvorˇák Terzetto in C Op. 74 Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1 in B minor Op. 50 Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106 Chamber Music Season

Programme to include: CPE Bach Andante con tenerezza from Sonata in A Wq. 65/32 Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D537 Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26; Nachtstücke Op. 23

Chamber Music Season

Sunday 28 May 11.30 am

Schumann Quartet Programme to include: Mozart String Quartet in F K590 ‘Prussian’ Barber String Quartet Op. 11

Wednesday 24 May 7.30 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Nikolai Lugansky piano Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op. 37b Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in Ab Op. 61; Barcarolle in F# Op. 60; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 London Pianoforte Series

Christoph Pohl

112

René Limbecker

Nikolai Lugansky

Jean-Baptiste Millot

Schumann Quartet

Kaupo Kikkas

May/June 2017 Sunday 28 May 7.30 pm

Thursday 1 June 7.30 pm

Saturday 3 June 7.30 pm

Christina Landshamer soprano Gerold Huber piano

Borodin Quartet

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 12 in Db Op. 133

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

Schumann Aufträge; Röselein, Röselein!; Lied der Suleika; Aus den östlichen Rosen; Liebeslied Ullmann 3 Sonnets Op. 29 Schumann Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land? Ullmann 6 Sonnets Op. 34 Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 and Requiem Song Recital Series

Monday 29 May 1.00 pm

Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

Friday 2 June 7.30 pm Sunday 4 June 11.30 am

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

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 Dvorˇák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)

Zemlinsky Quartet Programme to be announced

Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Perspectives

Sunday 4 June 3.00 pm

Jongmin Park bass Pianist to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Wednesday 31 May 7.30 pm

Christopher Maltman baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Friday 2 June 9.45 pm

Programme to be announced

Artists in Conversation

Song Recital Series

Following her recital, Janine Jansen discusses the evening programme and her life as a performer. Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Christina Landshamer

Marco Borggreve

Borodin Quartet

Keith Saunders

Jongmin Park

113

June 2017 Sunday 4 June 7.30 pm

Wednesday 7 June 7.30 pm

Friday 9 June 7.00 pm NB starting time

Christian Ihle Hadland piano

The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord

Programme to be announced

London Pianoforte Series

Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor K310 Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Schubert Sonata in C D812 ‘Grand Duo’ Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958

Yevgeny Sudbin piano

Early Music and Baroque Series Friday 9 June 10.00 pm

London Pianoforte Series Thursday 8 June 7.30 pm Monday 5 June 1.00 pm

Anna Lucia Richter soprano Michael Gees piano

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Tomkins Pavan in A minor Farnaby Woody-Cock Cowell Set of Four WF Bach Sonata in Eb Steve Reich Piano Phase

Schubert Hoffnung (D637); Suleika II Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister: Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Schubert Romanze zum Drama Rosamunde; Nachtviolen; Viola; Erster Verlust; An mein Herz; An den Mond (D259); Der Zwerg; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Das Heimweh (D456); Totengräbers Heimweh; Ellens Gesänge I, II & III; Abschied von der Erde

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Tuesday 6 June 7.30 pm

Razumovsky Ensemble

Alison Balsom trumpet Guy Barker trumpet Chris Hill double bass Ross Stanley piano Programme to be announced Wigmore Lates/ Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’

Saturday 10 June 7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt piano Bach Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825; Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826; Sonata in D minor BWV964; Partita No. 4 in D BWV828 London Pianoforte Series/ Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey

Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Christian Ihle Hadland

114

Kim Laland

Anna Lucia Richter

Hermann Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Angela Hewitt

Bernd Eberle

June 2017 Sunday 11 June 11.30 am

Monday 12 June 1.00 pm

Wednesday 14 June 7.30 pm

Natalia Prischepenko violin Thomas Hoppe piano

Antoine Tamestit viola

Arditti Quartet Eliot Fisk guitar

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

Programme to be announced

Pianist to be announced

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

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Tuesday 13 June 7.30 pm Sunday 11 June 7.30 pm

Igor Levit piano

Ben Johnson tenor Graham Johnson piano Schubert Trost: An Elisa; Erinnerungen; Andenken; Lied der Liebe; Der Mondabend; Das Bild; Die Sterne (D176); Alles um Liebe; An den Frühling (D283); Entzückung an Laura I; Entzückung an Laura II (fragment); An den Frühling (D587); Sonette I–III (D628–630); Der 13. Psalm (fragment); Die Allmacht; Fröhliches Scheiden; Vor meiner Wiege; Der Winterabend; Die Sterne (D939)

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/ Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

*Co-commissioned by Konzerthaus Wien, Philharmonie de Paris, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation **Co-commissioned by Library of Congress, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Thursday 15 June 7.30 pm

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Nicolas Altstaedt cello Alexander Lonquich piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1; Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2; Cello Sonata in A Op. 69; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1; Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Chamber Music Season

Ben Johnson

Chris Gloag

Antoine Tamestit

Eric Larrayadieu

Arditti Quartet

Lukas Beck

115

June 2017 Friday 16 June 7.30 pm

Sunday 18 June 11.30 am

Monday 19 June 7.30 pm

Jasper String Quartet

Michelangelo Quartet

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

Programme to be announced

Andrè Schuen baritone Daniel Heide piano

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

Sunday 18 June 7.30 pm

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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

Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 20 June 7.30 pm

Monday 19 June 1.00 pm

Ensemble intercontemporain

Carducci String Quartet

Debussy Première rapsodie for clarinet and piano Maderna Viola for solo viola Messiaen Le merle noir for flute and piano Philippe Schoeller Madrigal for piano quintet Berio Sequenza I for solo flute Ravel Sonata in G for violin and piano Matteo Franceschini New work for 6 musicians (UK première)

Programme to be announced

Saturday 17 June 7.30 pm

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Schubert Auf der Brücke; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Nachtstück; Die Sterne (D939) Dapoz Ben danter mile steres Frontull Nos salvans Dapoz Alalt al ci Schubert Der Wanderer (D649); Wandrers Nachtlied II; Auf der Donau; Willkommen und Abschied Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca S270/1 Tosti Quattro canzoni d’Amaranta; L’ultima canzone

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Songs by Schubert Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Jasper String Quartet

116

Vanessa Brinceno

Quatuor Ebène

Julien Mignot

Ensemble incontemporain

June 2017 Wednesday 21 June 7.30 pm

Sunday 25 June 11.30 am

Monday 26 June 7.30 pm

The King’s Consort Robert King conductor

Vienna Piano Trio

Vienna Piano Trio Mark Padmore tenor

BACH: THE FOUR ORCHESTRAL SUITES Bach Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D BWV1069; Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066; Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067; Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV1068 Early Music and Baroque Series Thursday 22 June 7.30 pm

Matthew Polenzani tenor Julius Drake piano Schumann Dichterliebe Janácˇek The Diary of One Who Disappeared Song Recital Series

Schubert Sonatensatz in Bb D28; Notturno in E b D897; Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 25 June 7.30 pm

Florilegium Ashley Solomon director Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano

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

TELEMANN 250TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Telemann Ouverture in E minor from Tafelmusik I; Fantasie; Ihr Volker, hört; Quartet in E minor from the Paris Quartets (1738 collection); Trio Sonata in A TWV42:A5; Trio Sonata in Bb TWV42:B4; Conclusion in E minor from Tafelmusik I

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Tuesday 27 June 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series Saturday 24 June 7.30 pm

Inon Barnatan piano

Monday 26 June 1.00 pm

Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano Philippe Jaroussky countertenor Ensemble Artaserse

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

Programme to be announced

Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano

London Pianoforte Series

Programme to be announced

Programme to be announced Early Music and Baroque Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Cecilia Bartoli

Uli Weber/Decca

Vienna Piano Trio

Nancy Horowitz

Inon Barnatan

Marco Borggreve

117

June/July 2017 Wednesday 28 June 7.30 pm

Friday 30 June 7.30 pm

Sunday 2 July 11.30 am

Edgar Moreau cello Pierre-Yves Hodique piano

Members of The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra Harry Christophers conductor

Doric String Quartet

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

PURCELL SONGS AND ODES FROM THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES II Programme to include: Purcell From hardy climes (Welcome song for the Wedding of Prince George and Princess Anne 1683); Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day) Early Music and Baroque Series

JS Bach Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV 1067a; Concerto in E for violin BWV1042; Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041 CPE Bach String Symphony in B minor Wq. 182/5 JS Bach Concerto for 2 violins in D minor BWV1043 Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 2 July 7.30 pm

Markus Schäfer tenor Piers Lane piano Schubert Sängers Morgenlied I; Liebesrausch I (fragment); Sängers Morgenlied II; Liebesrausch II; Sehnsucht der Liebe; Liebeständelei; Das gestörte Glück; Entzückung; Stimme der Liebe (D418); Lebenslied; Skolie (D507); Vollendung; Die Erde; Abendröte; Die Berge; Der Knabe; Der Fluss; Der Schmetterling; Die Sterne (D684); Die Gebüsche; Lob der Tränen; Die gefangenen Sänger; Wiedersehn; Abendlied für die Entfernte; Ständchen (D889)

Thursday 29 June 7.30 pm

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Bernhard Forck leader Isabelle Faust violin

Mozart String Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’ Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1

Saturday 1 July 7.30 pm

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

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

118

Uwe Arens

Doric String Quartet

George Garnier

Markus Schäfer

Werner Kmetitsch

July 2017 Monday 3 July 1.00 pm

Wednesday 5 July 7.30 pm

Sunday 9 July 11.30 am

Maurice Steger recorder Jean Rondeau harpsichord

Simon Keenlyside baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Navarra String Quartet

Hasse Cantata in D for flute and basso continuo Falconieri Il Spiritillo; El Melo; La Suave Melodia Storace Ciaccona Corelli Sonata in G minor for flute and basso continuo Op. 5 No. 8 (arr. Castrucci) Scarlatti Sonata in D minor Kk213; Sonata in D Kk119 Sammartini Sonata in G Op. 2 No. 4

Programme to be announced

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Tuesday 4 July 7.30 pm

Håvard Gimse piano Grieg From Lyric Pieces Op. 43: Gjaetergut; Gangar; Troldtog; Notturno; Scherzo; Klokkeklang Debussy Images oubliées Janácˇek In the Mists Works by Sibelius London Pianoforte Series

Programme to be announced

Song Recital Series Sunday 9 July 7.30 pm Thursday 6 July 7.30 pm

Andreas Ottensamer clarinet José Gallardo piano Debussy Première rapsodie Widor Introduction et rondo Debussy La fille aux cheveux de lin Françaix Tema con variazioni Gershwin 3 Preludes Templeton Pocket Size Sonata No. 2 Béla Kovács After you, Mr Gershwin! Joseph Horowitz Sonatina for clarinet and piano Chamber Music Season

Ian Bostridge tenor Graham Johnson piano Schubert Der Geistertanz (D116); Als ich sie erröten sah; Die Mainacht; Seufzer; Die Fröhlichkeit; Der Jüngling an der Quelle; An mein Klavier; Am Tage aller Seelen (Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen); Pflügerlied; Die Knabenzeit; Winterlied; Stimme der Liebe (D412); Abendbilder; Hymne I ‘Wenige wissen das Geheimnis’; Hymne II ‘Wenn ich ihn nur habe’; Hymne III ‘Wenn alle untreu werden’; Hymne IV ‘Ich sag’ es jedem’; Nachthymne; Schwestergruss; Drang in die Ferne; Der zürnende Barde; Das Geheimnis (D793); Auf dem Wasser zu singen Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Friday 7 July 7.00 pm NB starting time

Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano Donald Sulzen piano Programme to include songs by Lili Boulanger Song Recital Series

Simon Keenlyside

Uwe Arens

Anna Caterina Antonacci

Benjamin Ealovega

Ian Bostridge

Sim Canetty-Clarke

119

July 2017 Monday 10 July 1.00 pm

Thursday 13 July 7.30 pm

Friday 14 July 7.30 pm

Hanno Müller-Brachmann

Sophie Bevan soprano Allan Clayton tenor Christopher Glynn piano

Marc-André Hamelin piano

bass-baritone Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced

Programme to be announced London Pianoforte Series

A SHAKESPEARE SONGBOOK

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 10 July 7.30 pm

Gould Piano Trio Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1; Variations in G Op. 121a ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’; Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2 Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 12 July 7.30 pm

Aida Garifullina soprano Pianist be announced Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Morley It was a lover and his lass Arne When daisies pied Haydn She never told her love Schubert An Silvia Ireland When daffodils begin to peer Coleridge-Taylor The Willow Song Warlock Sigh no more, Ladies Harrison I know a bank; Philomel Britten Tell me where is Fancy bred Head How sweet the moonlight sleeps Birket Foster Under the greenwood tree Quilter Blow, blow, thou winter wind Handel As steals the morn Tippett Songs for Ariel Dankworth Our revels now are ended Finzi Come away, come away, death; O mistress mine Korngold Adieu, Good Man Devil; Hey, Robin; For the rain, it raineth every day Vaughan Williams Orpheus with his lute Bridge When most I wink Vaughan Williams Fear no more the heat o’ the sun Quilter It was a lover and his lass Song Recital Series

Hanno Müller-Brachmann

120

Monika Ritterhaus

Quatuor Zaïde

Saturday 15 July 7.30 pm

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Brahms Die schöne Magelone Song Recital Series

Sunday 16 July 11.30 am

Quatuor Zaïde Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

July 2017 Sunday 16 July 7.30 pm

Thursday 20 July 7.30 pm

Saturday 22 July 7.30 pm

Quatuor Mosaïques

The Vijay Iyer Sextet

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

Vijay Iyer expands his classic, critically acclaimed piano trio with three of NYC’s greatest horn players.

Andrei Bondarenko baritone Gary Matthewman piano

Vijay Iyer Jazz Series

Chamber Music Season

Songs by Rachmaninov, Glinka, Rubinstein, Sviridov and Tchaikovsky Song Recital Series

Friday 21 July 7.00 pm NB starting time Tuesday 18 July 7.30 pm

Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord

The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director

Clérambault Cantata: Léandre et Héro Couperin La Françoise & L’impériale from Les Nations Montéclair Le retour de la paix

Programme to be announced Early Music and Baroque Series

Early Music and Baroque Series/Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen Baroque Ensemble in Residence

Wednesday 19 July 7.30 pm

Sunday 23 July 11.30 am

Chloë Hanslip violin Danny Driver piano Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano Eduard Kutrowatz piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Elisabeth Kulman

Julia Wesley

Jonathan Cohen

Marco Borggreve

Chloë Hanslip

Benjamin Ealovega

121

July 2017 Monday 24 July 7.30 pm

Wednesday 26 July 7.30 pm

Sunday 30 July 11.30 am

Joshua Bell violin Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon piano

Carolyn Sampson soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Gemma Rosefield cello Tim Horton piano

Programme to include: Wolf Mignon Lieder Brahms Ophelia-Lieder Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia

Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO. 45 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Martinu˚ Variations on a theme by Rossini

Other artists to be announced Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58; Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66; String Quintet in A Op. 18

Song Recital Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season Thursday 27 July 7.30 pm Tuesday 25 July 7.30 pm

Cédric Tiberghien piano

Joshua Bell violin Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon piano

Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ Liszt Csárdás macabre S224; Bagatelle sans tonalité S216a; Mephisto Waltz No. 4 S696; La lugubre gondola; Piano Sonata in B minor S178

Other artists to be announced Programme to include: Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49; String Quintet No. 2 in Bb Op. 87

London Pianoforte Series

Chamber Music Season

Joshua Bell

122

Richard Ascroft

Carolyn Sampson

Marco Borggreve

Gemma Rosefield

Marco Borggreve

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Wigmore Hall Box Office

Online Bookings

36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Tel: 020 7935 2141

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

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

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

BALCONY

T– V Q–S

N–P STA LL S C– M

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

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

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

Transport

A –B CC BB

PL ATFO RM

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

Tickets for Concessions

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.

W–X

AAAA

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

OXFORD CIRCUS BOND STREET

Restaurant/Bar

A–D

CC BB

Facilities for Disabled People

AAAA

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

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

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SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALL With £1.7 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend, joining a Circle of Giving, or by supporting a concert or the Learning programme, please call 020 7258 8230 or email friends@wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information. The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert and Learning programmes:

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

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

Chamber Music Circle Karl Otto Bonnier* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Margery Gray Pauline and Ian Howat Lord and Lady Lloyd Jo and Barry Slavin The Tertis Foundation Marina Vaizey Kathleen Verelst* Tony Wingate and several anonymous donors

Voices at Wigmore: The Schubert Song Project Tony and Marion Allen* Anthony Austin Geoffrey Barnett Karl Otto Bonnier* Michael Brind Nicola Coldstream Pauline Del Mar J L Drewitt Benjamin Hargreaves Julia MacRae* Edith Randall Louise Scheuer Julia Schottlander*

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

Corporate Supporters Capital Group (corporate matched giving) Clifford Chance LLP Complete Coffee Ltd Martin Randall Travel Ltd Rosenblatt Solicitors

Donors and Sponsors The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust L Mr Eric Abraham* Neville and Nicola Abraham Elaine Adair Alexis Gregory Foundation and the Vendome Prize Ian Allan The Andor Charitable Trust L David and Jacqueline Ansell* Bernard and Ann Apter Arts Council England Ms J A Attias Mrs Arlene Beare David and Margaret Beaton Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez Mrs Arline Blass David and Mary Bowerman* Sir John and Lady Boyd Alan Bradley* Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair Nicolas and Hilary Browne-Wilkinson Clive Butler A bequest from the late Peter Cain Donald Campbell CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust L Charities Advisory Trust L Mary and Robert Childs City Bridge Trust L Colin Clark Edwin C Cohen* John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Celia and Andrew Curran Anthony Davis* In memory of Margaret Dewhirst The Dorset Foundation – in memory of Harry M Weinrebe Kate Dugdale In memory of Robert Easton Douglas and Janette Eden

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

David Lyons* Simon Majaro MBE and Pamela Majaro MBE Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Michael and Lynne McGowan* George Meyer L Alison and Antony Milford L Milton Damerel Trust L The Monument Trust Amyas and Louise Morse* Mr and Mrs M J Munz-Jones A C and F A Myer The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust Valerie O’Connor L Celia and Roy Palmer P Parkinson The Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity L The Piano Fund Dr Clive Potter* Oliver and Helen Prenn Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Rayne Foundation L Stuart and Bianca Roden L Charles Rose* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM* The Rubinstein Circle The Sampimon Trust L Julia Schottlander* Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Rhona Shaw Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Sir Martin and Lady Smith*† Michael Smith and Nicholas Bartlett* Elijah Spies Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* John Stephens OBE, Hon FTCL* The Stewarts Law Foundation L Anne and Paul Swain* Alisa and Joshua Swidler* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* Professor Christopher Thompson Robin Vousden* Andrew and Hilary Walker* Professor Janet Walker CD and Professor Doug Jones AO* Dame Fanny Waterman* David and Martha Winfield* Philip and Emeline Winston* The Wolfson Foundation Youth Music L and several anonymous donors * Rubinstein Circle members L Learning Programme supporters † Early Music and Baroque Series supporters ‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters

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

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

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