Wigmore Series Spring 2015 Brochure by Wigmore Hall

SPRING 2015

J A N UA RY – M A RC H 2 0 1 5 W I G M O R E S E R I E S

Keith Saunders

Welcome

Sir András Schiff connects directly with the sound and spirit of works from the nineteenth century’s opening decades in three concerts given on a fine fortepiano of the period. His six-octave instrument, built in Vienna around 1820 by Franz Brodmann, formerly belonged to Charles I of Austria, the last Habsburg emperor. The monarch took the fortepiano with him to exile in Switzerland in 1918. It later passed to the Swiss harpsichordist and conductor Jörg Ewald Dähler, who in turn presented it to Sir András Schiff. The Brodmann fortepiano, complete with four pedals (due corda, bassoon, moderator and dampers), is presently on loan to the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, of which Schiff is an honorary member.

Benjamin Ealovega

Sonia Prina and Luca Pianca’s Ensemble Claudiana held their Wigmore Hall audience spellbound at the end of 2013. This Season they are joined by Roberta Invernizzi, one of the world’s leading interpreters of baroque opera, in a programme seasoned with duet madrigals and chamber cantatas. Their choice of repertoire confronts the often closely related conditions, death and love, and digs deep into the expressive material of works chiefly written in or inspired by Venice. The Italian city, a magnet for itinerant musicians and students such as Handel and Lotti, became the intense focal point for international cultural exchange during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Also watch out for Luca Pisaroni (with Wolfram Rieger) and Adam Plachetka (with Gary Matthewman) in much anticipated song recitals in early January. Jonas Kaufmann’s recital partnership with Helmut Deutsch has delivered exceptional performances, endorsed by five-star reviews and treasured memories for anyone fortunate enough to hear their visionary interpretations, and they join us on 4 January.

Marking 100 years since the death of the Russian composer and pianist Aleksandr Skryabin, Garrick Ohlsson presents the first of two recitals of his solo piano works. The composer’s all-embracing interest in the occult and mysticism conditioned many of his works, the ‘White Mass’ Sonata and the Fifth Piano Sonata among them. This programme takes listeners on a journey through the composer’s unique imaginary soundscape, ranging from the early Op. 8 Études to the sounds of such sublime miniatures as Désir and Fragilité. Modernism, post-modernism and the limitless scope of creative imagination are among the hallmarks of the JACK Quartet’s programme. It opens with Georg Friedrich Haas’s recently completed String Quartet No. 8, the latest in a remarkable series of works that examines the kaleidoscopic qualities of string sound. John Zorn’s The Dead Man, completed in the late 1990s, reflects insights gathered during the composer’s many years of meditative deep listening. In addition to the polyrhythmic complexities and textural collisions of Elliott Carter’s String Quartet No. 3, a product of the early 1970s, the concert includes the world première of Simon Holt’s new work for string quartet – the latest addition to Wigmore Hall’s collection of ‘New British String Commissions’.

Nicola Benedetti’s heartfelt dedication to music education is well known. She has been working with Wigmore Hall Learning this Season in primary schools and will give a concert for pupils aged 7 to 11 at the Hall on 21 January. Her recital three days later stands as a fundraising gala for Wigmore Hall Learning, which turns 21 this year. Please join us to celebrate the remarkable success of Wigmore Hall’s internationally acclaimed education and community programme. Mozart wrote many of his instrumental works with outstanding artists in mind. This Season and next, Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odyssey offers audiences a feast of performances by some of the finest among today’s interpreters of his music. Kristian Bezuidenhout explores works for solo keyboard on fortepiano, while the glorious Hagen Quartet devotes four concerts to Mozart’s mature string quartets. Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, meanwhile, celebrate the composer’s birthday on 27 January with the latest instalment in their ongoing survey of his sonatas for violin and piano. Like all great story-tellers, Florian Boesch’s song interpretations arise from alchemical combinations of personal experience, innate wisdom and a heightened sense of the collective unconscious. The Austrian baritone’s Wigmore Hall residency continues in company with Roger Vignoles in January with an ideal vehicle for his talents, Ernst Krenek’s Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen. Wigmore Hall celebrates the life and work of a towering figure in the story of English music with one of its most ambitious projects ever. Henry Purcell: A Retrospective unfolds this Season and next, offering audiences a rich

programme of the Londoner’s irresistible art and the chance to hear his works performed by a host of the world’s leading Purcellians. Early Opera Company launches the latest round of Purcell performances with the composer’s semi-opera King Arthur, a patriotic entertainment partly influenced by the political and constitutional upheavals of the mid-1680s.

Martin Fröst’s transcendent artistry invariably narrows the gap between matters physical, cerebral and spiritual to create sublime performances, powerfully focused and imbued with profound meaning. The Swedish clarinettist continues his season as Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence, offering a masterclass in the shaping of interpretative ideas before exploring the diverse riches of his instrument’s repertoire in concert. Late masterworks by Beethoven and Schubert form the core of Maria João Pires’s recital. She performs Schubert’s 6 Moments Musicaux and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 110, before sharing the stage with her pupil Pavel Kolesnikov for Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor for piano four-hands.

Paul Lewis continues his season-long series at Wigmore Hall in February when he is joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili, with whom he formed a duo partnership in 2013 which has flourished with a succession of acclaimed recital tours. The programme is sure to engage their all-round artistry and fathom the depths of masterworks by Bach, Beethoven and Schubert. In the 1970s the young Wolfgang Rihm was at the vanguard of a movement to restore expressivity to contemporary German music and open a modern dialogue with the past. While his strikingly original works often connect with the aesthetics of Romanticism, they do so without trace of nostalgia or sentimental yearning for styles overturned by the cataclysmic upheavals of the last century. Wigmore Hall’s Composer Focus Day, featuring performances by artists closely associated with Wolfgang Rihm, touches on the myriad ways in which his art draws pulsating life from the abiding energy of music and poetic images of an earlier age. The 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition is the thirteenth edition of this prestigious Competition, and a celebration of the art of the string quartet. Alongside the Competition itself, we are delighted to welcome back many ‘alumni’ from previous Competitions to perform in concerts throughout the week. I look forward to welcoming you to Wigmore Hall during the Spring Series.

John Gilhooly Director

SERIES AT A GLANCE J A N U A R Y – M A R C H

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See pages 4 – 65 for full details of these concerts and page 67 for booking information. Series and Events to look out for… Roberta Invernizzi & Sonia Prina

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Jonas Kaufmann

Garrick Ohlsson: Skryabin Focus

Rafał Blechacz

Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle Sir András Schiff: A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

8, 44 9

13, 25, 28, 29, 47, 49

Bracing Change: New British String Commissions European Chamber Music Academy Showcase The Mozart Odyssey

16 18

15, 19, 21, 22, 23, 30

Celebrating 21 Years of Wigmore Hall Learning with Nicola Benedetti Introducing Igor Levit

Thu 29 Jan

Hagen Quartet/Jörg Widmann

Sat 31 Jan

Takács Quartet

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Mon 2 Feb

Takács Quartet: Lecture-Recital

Wed 4 Feb

Britten Sinfonia

Thu 5 Feb

Anthony Marwood Aleksandar Madžar

Sat 7 Feb

Nash Ensemble

Sun 8 Feb

Eggner Trio

Thu 12 Feb

Lawrence Power Simon Crawford-Phillips

Sat 14 Feb

Doric Quartet/Andreas Haefliger

Sun 15 Feb

Martin Fröst/Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Mon 16 Feb

Susan Tomes/Erich Höbarth

Tue 17 Feb

Michala Petri/Mahan Esfahani

Wed 18 Feb

Pavel Haas Quartet/Colin Currie

Thu 19 Feb

Dante Quartet

Sat 21 Feb

Pavel Haas Quartet

Sun 22 Feb

Miloš Karadaglic´

Mon 23 Feb

Lisa Batiashvili/Paul Lewis

Tue 24 Feb

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 38

Thu 26 Feb

Scottish Ensemble/Amy Dickson

Sat 28 Feb

Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day

Sun 1 Mar

Belcea Quartet

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Mon 5 Jan

Alisa Weilerstein

Mon 12 Jan

Patricia Kopatchinskaja Polina Leschenko

Mon 19 Jan

Kitty Whately/Joseph Middleton

Mon 26 Jan

Igor Levit

Mon 2 Feb

Steven Osborne

Mon 9 Feb

Olena Tokar/Igor Gryshyn

Mon 16 Feb

Giuliano Carmignola Kristian Bezuidenhout

Mon 23 Feb

Louis Schwizgebel

Mon 2 Mar

Signum Quartet

Mon 9 Mar

Christiane Karg/Gerold Huber

Mon 16 Mar

Paolo Pandolfo/Markus Hunninger

Mon 23 Mar

Danish String Quartet

Mon 30 Mar

Zhang Zuo

Chamber Music Season 21, 29 Wed 7 Jan

Florian Boesch Residency

Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

25, 26

Brentano String Quartet

Sat 10 Jan

Elias String Quartet

Mon 12 Jan

Janine Jansen/Itamar Golan

Wed 14 Jan

Britten Sinfonia

8 8 11 12

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Anthony Marwood and Friends

Wed 14 Jan

Gould Piano Trio

Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

28, 31, 32, 33, 37, 46, 49

Fri 16 Jan

The Endellion String Quartet

Wed 4 Mar

Britten Sinfonia

31, 34

Sat 17 Jan

Nash Ensemble

Thu 5 Mar

Alban Gerhardt/Steven Osborne

Sun 18 Jan

Jerusalem Quartet

Sat 7 Mar

Elias String Quartet

Modigliani Quartet

Martin Fröst Artist in Residence Bohemia

36, 37

Mon 19 Jan

JACK Quartet

Wed 11 Mar

Maria João Pires Portrait Series

Tue 20 Jan

Razumovsky Ensemble

Sat 14 Mar

Nash Ensemble

Paul Lewis: A Celebration

Fri 23 Jan

Giocoso String Quartet/Trio AlbaNord

Mon 16 Mar

Pacifica Quartet

Fri 23 Jan

Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists Clio Gould

Wed 18 Mar

Nash Ensemble

Thu 19 Mar

Leila Josefowicz/John Novacek

Sat 24 Jan

Darian Trio/Stefan Zweig Trio

Sun 22 Mar

Hilary Hahn/Cory Smythe

Sat 24 Jan

Nicola Benedetti/Alexei Grynyuk

Tue 24 Mar

Arcadia Quartet/Meccorre Quartet

Sun 25 Jan

Galatea Quartet

Thu 26 Mar

Atrium Quartet

Sun 25 Jan

Hagen Quartet

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Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition Semi-Finals

Mon 26 Jan

Hagen Quartet

Sat 28 Mar

Tue 27 Jan

Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien

Sun 29 Mar

Hagen Quartet

Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition Final

Wed 28 Jan

Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day

Alban Gerhardt Focus

Celebrating Carolyn Sampson

The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration

2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition Contemporary Music Series

51, 52, 54, 55, 56–57

64–65

Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts

Song Recital Series

Thu 12 Mar

Alexander Melnikov

Sat 14 Mar

Nash Ensemble

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Mon 16 Mar

Pacifica Quartet

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Fri 2 Jan

Luca Pisaroni/Wolfram Rieger

Sun 4 Jan

Adam Plachetka/Gary Matthewman

Wed 18 Mar

Nash Ensemble

Trio Mondrian

Sun 4 Jan

Jonas Kaufmann/Helmut Deutsch

Thu 19 Mar

Leila Josefowicz/John Novacek

Sun 25 Jan

Kristian Bezuidenhout

Sun 11 Jan

Sam Furness/Matthew Fletcher

Sun 1 Feb

Nash Ensemble

Sun 11 Jan

Stephan Loges/Simon Lepper

Sun 8 Feb

Valeriy Sokolov/Evgeny Izotov

Thu 15 Jan

Mark Padmore/Sir András Schiff

Sun 15 Feb

Andreas Ottensamer/José Gallardo

Sat 17 Jan

Sally Matthews/Nash Ensemble

Sun 22 Feb

Calidore String Quartet

Sun 18 Jan

Songsmiths with Audrey Hyland

Sun 1 Mar

Beatrice Rana

Wed 21 Jan

Kelemen Quartet

Christopher Ainslie/James Baillieu Xandi van Dijk

Sun 8 Mar

Daniel Müller-Schott/Lauma Skride

Thu 29 Jan

Florian Boesch/Roger Vignoles

Sun 15 Mar

Fri 30 Jan

Tesla Quartet

Juliane Banse/Malcolm Martineau

Sun 22 Mar

Fri 9 Jan

Post-Concert Talk

Sun 1 Feb

Dover Quartet

Wed 14 Jan

Pre-Concert Talk

Sun 29 Mar

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle

Fri 16 Jan

François Le Roux Masterclass

Sun 1 Feb

Robin Tritschler/Graham Johnson

Mon 19 Jan

Artists in Conversation

Wed 4 Feb

Christiane Karg/Joseph Middleton

Wed 21 Jan

Schools Concert: Nicola Benedetti

Sat 7 Feb

Sarah Connolly/Nash Ensemble

Wed 21 Jan

Wigmore Study Group

Sun 8 Feb

Simon Bode/Igor Levit

Thu 22 Jan

Pre-Concert Talk

Tue 24 Feb

Gillian Keith/Rebecca von Lipinski 38 Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Fri 23 Jan

Wigmore Study Group

Fri 27 Feb

Marie-Nicole Lemieux/Roger Vignoles

Sat 24 Jan

ECMA Masterclass

Sat 24 Jan

Celebrating 21 Years of Wigmore Hall Learning with Nicola Benedetti

Mon 26 Jan

Pre-Concert Talk

Tue 27 Jan

Wigmore Study Group

Sat 31 Jan

Family Day: The Music Machine

Mon 2 Feb

Lecture-Recital: Takács Quartet

Wed 4 Feb

Pre-Concert Talk

Sat 7 Feb

Come and Sing: Early Opera

Thu 12 Feb

Schools Concert: King Arthur

Martin Fröst Masterclass

Sun 4 Jan

Guarneri Trio Prague

Sun 11 Jan

Barnabás Kelemen/Olli Mustonen

Sun 18 Jan

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Early Music and Baroque Series Sat 3 Jan

Roberta Invernizzi/Sonia Prina Ensemble Claudiana/Luca Pianca

Thu 22 Jan

Classical Opera

Fri 23 Jan

Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists Clio Gould

Sat 28 Feb

Christoph Prégardien/Ulrich Eisenlohr

Tue 3 Feb

EXAUDI

Mon 9 Mar

Lucy Crowe/James Baillieu

Fri 6 Feb

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Jean-Guihen Queyras/Xenia Löffler

Sat 14 Mar

Bernarda Fink/Nash Ensemble

Sun 15 Mar

Cyrille Dubois/Tristan Raës

Mon 9 Feb

Florilegium

Sun 15 Mar

Markus Werba/Gary Matthewman

Wed 18 Mar

Claire Booth/Nash Ensemble

Sat 21 Mar

Gerald Finley/Julius Drake

Sun 22 Mar

Andrè Schuen/Daniel Heide

Fri 27 Mar

Benjamin Appl/Graham Johnson

Wed 11 Feb

Early Opera Company

Tue 17 Feb

Michala Petri/Mahan Esfahani

Tue 10 Mar

The English Concert Rosemary Joshua/Sarah Connolly

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Mon 5 Jan

Guillermo Klein/Aaron Goldberg Mark Turner/Chris Cheek

Wigmore Hall Learning

27 28, 60

Fri 13 Mar

The King’s Consort

Fri 13 Feb

Tue 17 Mar

Carolyn Sampson/Laurence Cummings 49 Elizabeth Kenny/Jonathan Manson

Sat 14 Feb

Study Afternoon: Purcell’s King Arthur

Tue 17 Feb

Family Day: Too Hot to Handel

Sat 21 Feb

Family Concert: Purcell’s King Arthur

Mon 23 Mar

The Cardinall’s Musick

Tue 31 Mar

Los Músicos de Su Alteza

London Pianoforte Series Tue 6 Jan

Garrick Ohlsson

Contemporary Music Series

37, 61

Wed 14 Jan

Britten Sinfonia

Wed 14 Jan

Gould Piano Trio

Tue 24 Feb

Artists in Conversation

Sat 17 Jan

Nash Ensemble

Thu 26 Feb

Introduction to Music

Sun 18 Jan

Jerusalem Quartet

Sat 28 Feb

Artists in Conversation

Mon 19 Jan

JACK Quartet

Wed 4 Mar

Pre-Concert Talk

Tue 3 Feb

EXAUDI

Thu 5 Mar

Introduction to Music

Wed 4 Feb

Britten Sinfonia

Wed 11 Mar

Young Producers Concert

Sat 7 Feb

Nash Ensemble

Thu 12 Mar

Introduction to Music

Thu 12 Feb

Lawrence Power Simon Crawford-Phillips

Wed 18 Mar

Pre-Concert Talk

Thu 19 Mar

Introduction to Music

Michala Petri/Mahan Esfahani

Sat 21 Mar

CAVATINA Family Concert: Carducci String Quartet

Thu 8 Jan

Rafał Blechacz

Fri 9 Jan

Sir András Schiff

Tue 13 Jan

Sir András Schiff

Fri 13 Feb

Imogen Cooper

Fri 20 Feb

Maria João Pires/Pavel Kolesnikov

Tue 17 Feb

Wed 25 Feb

Llyˆr Williams

Wed 18 Feb

Pavel Haas Quartet/Colin Currie

Fri 6 Mar

Francesco Piemontesi

Tue 24 Feb

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 38

Tue 24 Mar

Pre-Concert Talk

Sun 8 Mar

Marino Formenti

Sat 28 Feb

Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day

Wed 25 Mar

Come and Play

Thu 12 Mar

Alexander Melnikov

Wed 4 Mar

Britten Sinfonia

Wed 25 Mar

Pre-Concert Performance

Fri 20 Mar

Cédric Tiberghien

Fri 6 Mar

Francesco Piemontesi

Sat 28 Mar

Mark Messenger Masterclass

Wed 25 Mar

Louis Lortie

Sun 8 Mar

Marino Formenti

Sun 29 Mar

String Quartet Discovery Day

40 50, 62 52 57, 62

WIGMORE SERIES S P R I N G S E A S O N J A N U A RY – M A R C H 2 0 1 5

Booking opens (except where stated) to Friends on 8 October, to Mailing List Subscribers on 21 October, and to the General Public/Online on 4 November

January Friday 2 January 7.30 pm

Saturday 3 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 4 January 3.00 pm

Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone Wolfram Rieger piano

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

Wigmore Hall Debut

Mozart Das Veilchen; Komm, liebe Zither, komm; An Chloe; Abendempfindung Beethoven Lied aus der Ferne; Der Kuss; Ich liebe dich; Adelaide Mendelssohn Neue Liebe; Gruss; Morgengruss; Allnächtlich im Traume; Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Reiselied Schubert From Schwanengesang : Der Atlas; Ihr Bild; Das Fischermädchen; Die Stadt; Am Meer; Der Doppelgänger Schubert Auf dem See; Grenzen der Menschheit; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Erlkönig; Ganymed; An Schwager Kronos Luca Pisaroni’s recital explores the riches of German art song, tracing its development from character pieces by Mozart to the mature Lieder of Schubert. The young Italian bass-baritone, among the most charismatic artists of his generation, crowns his programme with six inspired settings of verse by Goethe, the introspective ‘Grenzen der Menschheit’ and dramatic ‘Erlkönig’ among them.

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

Sunday 4 January 11.30 am

Guarneri Trio Prague Suk Piano Trio in C minor Op. 2 Bloch Three Nocturnes Dvorˇák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ Czech music courses through the veins of the Guarneri Trio Prague, nourished by a collective experience developed since the group’s foundation in 1986. The Trio opens this Coffee Concert with a youthful gem by Josef Suk, which includes revisions made at the suggestion of his teacher and future father-in-law, Antonín Dvorˇák.

£35 £30 £25 £18

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

Song Recital Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Luca Pisaroni

Marco Borggreve

Guarneri Trio Prague

Tomasz Trzebiatowski

Adam Plachetka bass-baritone Gary Matthewman piano Dvorˇák Biblické písneˇ (Biblical Songs) Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung; Die Nacht; Nachtgang; Du meines Herzens Krönelein; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Zueignung Dvorˇák Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs) In the decade since making his debut, Czech bass-baritone Adam Plachetka has drawn critical acclaim for his interpretations of Mozart’s operatic anti-heroes and villains. For his Wigmore Hall debut, he turns his glorious voice and incisive dramatic imagination to this captivating programme, moving from Dvorˇák’s Biblical Songs, colourful settings of ten psalms, to his evocative Gypsy Songs, by way of a fine selection of Lieder by Strauss. £15 concs £12.50

Song Recital Series

Adam Plachetka

Ilona Sochorová

Saturday 3 January 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 (for solo lute) Monteverdi Mentre vaga angioletta 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 Luca Pianca’s Ensemble Claudiana held their Wigmore Hall audience spellbound at the end of 2013. They are joined by Roberta Invernizzi, one of the world’s leading interpreters of baroque opera, in a programme seasoned with duet madrigals and chamber cantatas. Their choice of repertoire confronts the often closely related conditions, death and love, and digs deep into the expressive material of works chiefly written in or inspired by Venice. The Italian city, a magnet for itinerant musicians and students such as Handel and Lotti, became the intense focal point for international cultural exchange during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Photos of Roberta Invernizzi (left) and Sonia Prina by Ribaltaluce Studio

£50 £35 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

January Sunday 4 January 7.30 pm

Monday 5 January 7.30 pm

Jonas Kaufmann tenor Helmut Deutsch piano

Guillermo Klein piano Aaron Goldberg piano Mark Turner tenor saxophone Chris Cheek baritone saxophone

See page opposite for full details

Monday 5 January 1.00 pm

Alisa Weilerstein cello Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 Kodály Sonata for solo cello Op. 8 Everyone will have a different understanding of the word ‘heartfelt’. And yet Alisa Weilerstein’s playing comes as close as possible to defining the physical and emotional experience through the sheer intensity of her music making. Her latest programme includes the Sonata for solo cello Op. 8, completed exactly a century ago under the influence of Kodály’s study of the music of Debussy.

GARRICK OHLSSON SKRYABIN FOCUS

Argentine pianist and composer Guillermo Klein returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme infused with the sounds of contemporary music, jazz and folksong. Shades of Messiaen and Ligeti, and of Minimalism will collide and coalesce with white-hot improvisation and instantly memorable tunes. Two pianos and two saxophones, Guillermo explains, offer ample room to explore the ‘unique, engaging and challenging sounds of symmetry’. £30 £25 £20 £15

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Garrick Ohlsson

Paul Body

Tuesday 6 January 7.30 pm

£13 concs £11

Garrick Ohlsson piano Skryabin Prelude in A minor Op. 11 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 2 in G# minor Op. 19; Étude in Bb minor Op. 8 No. 11; Étude in D b Op. 8 No. 10; Piano Sonata No. 4 in F# Op. 30; Piano Sonata No. 7 in F# Op. 64 ‘White Mass’; Désir Op. 57 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 6 in G Op. 62; Étude in Db Op. 42 No. 1; Étude in C# minor Op. 42 No. 5; Fragilité Op. 51 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 5 in F# Op. 53

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Alisa Weilerstein

Jamie Jung

Guillermo Klein

Jonas Kaufmann Sunday 4 January 7.30 pm

Jonas Kaufmann tenor Helmut Deutsch piano Schumann Kernerlieder Op. 35 Songs by Strauss Critical superlatives and audience ovations have become part of life for Jonas Kaufmann. The German tenor’s vocal and musical versatility, allied to his full emotional commitment in performance, would be remarkable enough. But it is the power of Kaufmann’s artistry to transcend the ordinary and to move the spirit that sets him in company with the great singers of past and present. In short, he owns a precious gift for revealing profound insights into the human condition. His recital partnership with Helmut Deutsch has delivered exceptional performances, endorsed by five-star reviews and treasured memories for anyone fortunate enough to hear their visionary interpretations. £100 £80 £60 £40

Booking limited to two tickets only per person Song Recital Series

Photo by Gregor Hohenberg /Sony Music

January Wednesday 7 January 7.30 pm

Friday 9 January 7.30 pm

RAFAŁ BLECHACZ

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

Sir András Schiff fortepiano SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF: A SCHUBERT & BEETHOVEN CELEBRATION See page opposite for full details

Folk idioms surface in each of the works in this programme. The Brentano String Quartet, hailed by The Independent for its ‘passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding’ performances, opens with Mozart’s lyrical ‘Hunt’ Quartet, named for the horn-call character of its opening theme, before exploring the tightly woven construction of Bartók’s Third String Quartet and the Romantic contrasts of Brahms’s Op. 67.

Friday 9 January 9.20 pm

Post-Concert Talk See page opposite for full details

Saturday 10 January 7.30 pm £30 £25 £20 £15

Elias String Quartet

Chamber Music Season

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

Rafał Blechacz

Marco Borggreve

The Elias String Quartet continues its Beethoven journey with a programme of early, middle and late works, capped by an exploration of the universe contained within the composer’s Op. 131. Although Beethoven joked that his C sharp minor quartet was ‘cobbled together out of various things stolen from here and there’, the piece ranks among the finest works of Western art. £35 £30 £25 £18

Thursday 8 January 7.30 pm

Rafał Blechacz piano

Chamber Music Season/Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle

Mozart Piano Sonata in D K311 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 56; 3 Waltzes Op. 64; Polonaise in F# minor Op. 44 Rafał Blechacz’s innate musical talent became clear soon after he began to study the piano at the age of five. He developed naturally with lessons in his native Poland before catching international attention in 2005 as the first Polish musician to win the International Chopin Piano Competition since Krystian Zimerman thirty years earlier. His interpretations, noted not least for their refinement, grace and mature insight, draw listeners deep into the contemplation of sound and silence. £35 £30 £25 £18 London Pianoforte Series

Brentano String Quartet

Peter Schaff

Elias String Quartet

Benjamin Ealovega

Sir András Schiff A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration Sir András Schiff connects directly with the sound and spirit of works from the nineteenth century’s opening decades in three concerts given on a fine fortepiano of the period. His six-octave instrument, built in Vienna around 1820 by Franz Brodmann, formerly belonged to Charles I of Austria, the last Habsburg emperor. The monarch took the fortepiano with him to exile in Switzerland in 1918. It later passed to the Swiss harpsichordist and conductor Jörg Ewald Dähler, who in turn presented it to Sir András Schiff. The Brodmann fortepiano, complete with four pedals (due corda, bassoon, moderator and dampers), is presently on loan to the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, of which Schiff is an honorary member. Friday 9 January 7.30 pm

Friday 9 January 9.20 pm

Sir András Schiff fortepiano

Post-Concert Talk

Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894; Piano Sonata in B b D960

Sir András Schiff discusses his nineteenth-century fortepiano.

Sir András Schiff presents his mature interpretations of two of Schubert’s late sonatas. The Piano Sonata in G D894, the last to be published during its composer’s lifetime, reflects the lightness of bliss tinged with shades of darkness. Its character ideally prefigures the spiritual depths of the Piano Sonata in B flat D960, completed weeks before Schubert’s death.

£4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Sir András Schiff: A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

Tuesday 13 January 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff fortepiano

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

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

£45 £40 £35 £25

London Pianoforte Series / Sir András Schiff: A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

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

London Pianoforte Series /Sir András Schiff: A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

Thursday 15 January 7.30 pm

Mark Padmore tenor Sir András Schiff fortepiano Photo by Nadia F Romanini

Beethoven Mailied; Neue Liebe, neues Leben; Adelaide Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Schubert Die schöne Müllerin £45 £40 £35 £25

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

Song Recital Series /Sir András Schiff: A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

January Sunday 11 January 11.30 am

Sunday 11 January 3.00 pm

Sunday 11 January 7.30 pm

Barnabás Kelemen violin Olli Mustonen piano

Wigmore Series Debut

Stephan Loges bass-baritone Simon Lepper piano

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

Sam Furness tenor Matthew Fletcher piano Schubert An die Leier Schumann Dichterliebe Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca

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

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

Since winning the prestigious Royal Academy of Music Club Prize in 2012, Sam Furness has delivered a succession of fine performances on the opera stage and in concert. His Wigmore Series debut recital embraces songs of love, from the tender lyricism of Schubert’s ‘An die Leier’ and the autobiographical projections of Schumann’s Dichterliebe to the potent musical imagery of Liszt’s Petrarch settings.

Voice and piano work in tandem to heighten poetic expression in Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39. The song cycle, which sets a dozen texts by Joseph von Eichendorff, reinforces the spirit of Romantic metaphors of separation, longing and loneliness. Stephan Loges and Simon Lepper launch their recital with a sequence of evocative ballads and songs by Loewe and Brahms.

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£15 concs £12.50

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Hungarian violinist Barnabás Kelemen, praised by the Guardian for his ‘innate musicality’, joins forces with Olli Mustonen for a Coffee Concert sure to display the compassionate humanity of their artistry. The vitality of Beethoven’s Third Violin Sonata contrasts here with the melancholy introspection of Prokofiev’s F minor Violin Sonata, written during the deathly years of Stalin’s Great Terror and the Second World War.

Barnabás Kelemen

Rovid Emmer

Sam Furness

Maximilian Van London

Stephan Loges

Ana Alvarez Prada

January Monday 12 January 1.00 pm

Monday 12 January 7.30 pm

Tuesday 13 January 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Polina Leschenko piano

Janine Jansen violin Itamar Golan piano

Sir András Schiff fortepiano

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

Shostakovich Violin Sonata Op. 134 Ravel Violin Sonata; Tzigane

Scintillating energy and shimmering creative sparks stand among the many attributes of Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s art. The Moldovan violinist was named as Instrumentalist of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2014, an award determined by the life-affirming power of her recent performances in the UK. She is joined by Polina Leschenko for a lunchtime programme complete with Enescu’s folk-inspired Third Violin Sonata. £13 concs £11

Ravel wrote Tzigane for the Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi and accompanied her in its first performance in London in 1924. ‘This Tzigane must be a piece of great virtuosity’, he wrote while working on the score. In company with the Violin Sonatas of Shostakovich and Ravel, Tzigane amounts to a work of true musical substance, perfectly matched to the essential talents of Janine Jansen and Itamar Golan.

Beethoven 6 Bagatelles Op. 126; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111; 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 Driven by a desire to understand the evolution of his instrument and its music, Sir András Schiff was naturally inspired to explore the fortepiano. His recent recording of the Diabelli Variations, made on his Franz Brodmann fortepiano in the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, casts fresh light on a work of protean complexity and profound contrasts. He presents the composition in company with two other late masterworks. £45 £40 £35 £25

£35 £30 £25 £18

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

Chamber Music Season

London Pianoforte Series /Sir András Schiff: A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Marco Borggreve

Janine Jansen

Harald Hoffmann/Decca

Sir András Schiff

Birgitta Kowsky

January Wednesday 14 January 12.15 pm

Wednesday 14 January 7.30 pm

Thursday 15 January 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Gould Piano Trio

An introduction to the lunchtime concert with Kaija Saariaho.

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

Mark Padmore tenor Sir András Schiff fortepiano

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required) Booking open

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

Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano

High critical praise for the Gould Piano Trio has included comparisons to the legendary Beaux Arts Trio, plaudits for the ensemble’s commitment to new work, and acclaim for its devotion to reaching the widest possible audience. The Trio’s latest Wigmore Hall recital includes James MacMillan’s succinct, intensely focused Piano Trio No. 2, written for and first performed by the Gould Piano Trio in May 2014. £30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

Kaija Saariaho Nocturne Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Kaija Saariaho Light and Matter* (London première) Fauré Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120

Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series

Beethoven Mailied; Neue Liebe, neues Leben; Adelaide Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Schubert Die schöne Müllerin Every word and poetic phrase finds its quintessential expression in Mark Padmore’s interpretations, used to illuminate a song’s rich blend of verbal and musical imagery. He joins forces with Sir András Schiff for a programme touched by emotional turbulence and professional setbacks in the lives of Beethoven and Schubert, clearly mirrored in their song cycles An die ferne Geliebte and Die schöne Müllerin. £45 £40 £35 £25

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

Song Recital Series / Sir András Schiff: A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

*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

Kaija Saariaho conjures sonic images of magnetic force in her music, while the power of suggestion and gifts of lyricism, colour and rhythm of the French composers Fauré and Debussy result in soundworlds that are both luminous and dazzling. In this programme we hear one of Debussy’s finest chamber works and Fauré’s profound Piano Trio in company with Saariaho’s Nocturne for solo violin and her new piano trio. £12.50 concs £10 Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Kaija Saariaho

Priska Ketterer

Gould Piano Trio

Chris Stock

Mark Padmore

Marco Borggreve

January

FRANÇOIS LE ROUX MASTERCLASS

Friday 16 January 7.30 pm

Saturday 17 January 6.00 pm

The Endellion String Quartet

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Schubert String Quartet in G D887 Schubert’s late G major String Quartet reveals its composer’s profoundly moving creative maturity. Symphonic in conception and proportions, it encompasses extreme contrasts of character and emotion to propel performers and listeners on a momentous journey. More concentrated yet equally vast in expressive range, Janácˇek’s First String Quartet feels like an entire opera distilled into fifteen minutes. The programme opens with Haydn’s radiant String Quartet Op. 76 No. 5, among the first works learned by the Endellions thirty-five years ago.

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor NASH COMMISSIONS Alexander Goehr ... around Stravinsky for violin and wind quartet John Casken Infanta Marina Judith Weir Airs from Another Planet for wind quintet and piano. The works will be introduced by the composers in conversation from the stage. Free (ticket required) Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season Saturday 17 January 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

£30 £25 £20 £15

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Sally Matthews soprano

Chamber Music Season

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

François Le Roux

Wagner’s intimate birthday gift to his wife Cosima, the Siegfried Idyll, and Mozart’s masterly C major Quintet precede excerpts from Richard Strauss’s magical late opera Capriccio. Sally Matthews sings the part of the Countess Madeleine, giving life to music that blends Mozartean classicism with the overwhelming romantic impulses of Wagner.

Marco Borggreve

Friday 16 January 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

François Le Roux Masterclass

£35 £30 £25 £18 Booking open

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

François Le Roux’s vast reserve of experience includes lasting lessons learned from François Loup, Vera Rósza and Elisabeth Grümmer and the fruits of a distinguished opera and concert career. The baritone, known for the breadth and depth of his repertoire and the sheer beauty of his voice, emerged during the 1980s as the natural heir to Gérard Souzay in French song. His latest masterclass with young singers from London music colleges is set to deliver invaluable artistic insights to its participants and audience alike. £7 concs £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

The Endellion String Quartet

Eric Richmond

Sally Matthews

Johan Persson

January Sunday 18 January 11.30 am

Sunday 18 January 3.00 pm

Sunday 18 January 7.30 pm

Trio Mondrian

Songsmiths

Jerusalem Quartet

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

Elizabeth Watts soprano Mary Bevan soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Marcus Farnsworth baritone Jonathan Lemalu bass-baritone Audrey Hyland piano

Haydn String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’ Brian Elias String Quartet Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3

Haydn, present at the first performance of Beethoven’s three Op. 1 Piano Trios in 1795, was reported to be surprised that the set’s C minor work was ‘so rapidly and easily grasped, and so favourably taken up by the public’. Trio Mondrian explores the composition’s emotional extremes in company with the formal perfection and compelling energy of Brahms’s Second Piano Trio. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

SECRETS AND OBSESSIONS Balfe Trust her not Messager J’ai deux amants from L’amour masqué Mendelssohn Hüt du dich! Hahn Néère Granados El majo discreto from Tonadillas en un estilo antiguo Rodrigo Adela Gurney Epitaph in old mode Brahms Da unten im Tale Weill Je ne t’aime pas Loewe Edward Wolf Heiss mich nicht reden Schoenberg Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm Brahms Walpurgisnacht Loewe Ach neige, du Schmerzensreiche Britten A Poison Tree from Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Schubert Der Doppelgänger from Schwanengesang Butterworth Is my team ploughing from A Shropshire Lad Strauss Morgen Schubert Abschied von der Erde

‘We feel that it is of the utmost importance to collaborate with composers and perform contemporary music,’ says the Jerusalem Quartet’s violist, Ori Kam. He and his colleagues gave the première of British composer Brian Elias’s vibrant String Quartet in 2013 and bring the work to Wigmore Hall for the first time. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series

Established singers and fast-rising talents join forces in Audrey Hyland’s outstanding ensemble, representing the best of British-trained singers. Their programme’s captivating diversity of musical styles, selected from almost two centuries of song, guides listeners on a journey through the high mountains and deep valleys of human emotion. £15 concs £12.50

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

Song Recital Series

Trio Mondrian

Audrey Hyland

Jerusalem Quartet

Felix Broede

January Monday 19 January 1.00 pm

Tuesday 20 January 6.00 pm

Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Pre-Concert Event

Schumann Die Löwenbraut; Die Kartenlegerin; Die rote Hanne Schumann Fünf Lieder Op. 40 Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Kitty Whately gained an army of admirers as winner of the 2011 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She has made rapid progress since with acclaimed debuts at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and English National Opera. Her BBC Lunchtime recital explores the emotional extremes, dramatic intensity and romantic yearning of Schumann’s Lieder. £13 concs £11

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

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

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

Tuesday 20 January 7.30 pm

Razumovsky Ensemble Mozart Divertimento in E b K563; Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 Mozart completed his Divertimento in E flat in the summer of 1788, soon after finishing work on his final three symphonies. The piece, for violin, viola and cello, marks the birth of the modern string trio, conceived with complete assurance and delivered with astonishing ingenuity. The Razumovsky Ensemble’s all-Mozart programme also includes the sonorous and lyrical Piano Quartet in G minor.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Monday 19 January 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation See page overleaf for full details

£35 £30 £25 £15

Monday 19 January 7.30 pm

Mozart

Painting by Savario dalla Rosa, 1770

Wednesday 21 January 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Friday 23 January 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Tuesday 27 January 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

MOZART’S CHAMBER MUSIC FOR PIANO AND STRINGS Mozart’s piano trios and violin sonatas span his creative life and show him gradually emancipating the violin and cello from subordinate roles to develop a more equal dialogue with the piano. As a child Mozart wrote these works to perform himself, but later they were intended for publication in Vienna where they satisfied a domestic market for chamber music. However, Mozart’s keyboard writing outstripped the capabilities of amateurs in such masterpieces as the G minor piano quartet, which came close to the world of the piano concerto whilst maintaining the intimacy of chamber music. These study sessions are hosted by composer Julian Philips and pianist Laura Roberts with contributions from distinguished visiting musicians and students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Chamber Music Season

JACK Quartet BRACING CHANGE: NEW BRITISH STRING COMMISSIONS See page overleaf for full details

Series ticket price £60 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 27 January. Wigmore Hall Learning Event / The Mozart Odyssey

Kitty Whately

Natalie Watts

Oleg Kogan (Artistic Director, Razumovsky Ensemble)

Robert Cassen

Bracing Change New British String Commissions Monday 19 January 6.00 pm

Monday 19 January 7.30 pm

Artists in Conversation

JACK Quartet*

Writer and lecturer Ivan Hewett in conversation with composer Simon Holt before the première of his new work.

Georg Friedrich Haas String Quartet No. 8 (UK première) John Zorn The Dead Man Simon Holt New work † (world première) Carter String Quartet No. 3

£4 Booking open Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Contemporary Music Series / Bracing Change: New British String Commissions

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

Modernism, post-modernism and the limitless scope of creative imagination are among the hallmarks of the JACK Quartet’s programme. It opens with Georg Friedrich Haas’s recently completed String Quartet No. 8, the latest in a remarkable series of works that examines the kaleidoscopic qualities of string sound. John Zorn’s The Dead Man, completed in the late 1990s, reflects insights gathered during the composer’s many years of meditative deep listening. In addition to the polyrhythmic complexities and textural collisions of Elliott Carter’s String Quartet No. 3, a product of the early 1970s, the concert includes the world première of Simon Holt’s new work for string quartet – the latest addition to Wigmore Hall’s collection of ‘New British String Commissions’. £30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

Supported by Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation

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

Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series / Bracing Change: New British String Commissions Photo by Henrik Olund

January Wednesday 21 January 7.30 pm

Thursday 22 January 6.00 pm

ECMA Showcase

Christopher Ainslie countertenor James Baillieu piano Xandi van Dijk viola

Pre-Concert Talk

Friday 23 January 1.00 pm

Leading Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen presents an overview of the musical scene across Europe in 1765, and introduces music featured in the evening concert.

Saturday 24 January 11.00 am – Masterclass

SONGS OF NIGHT AND TRAVEL

Saturday 24 January 3.00 pm Sunday 25 January 3.00 pm

£4

Dowland Come, heavy sleep Purcell See, even Night from The Fairy Queen Gurney All night under the moon; Sleep Quilter The Night Piece; At Close of Day Parry Good Night! Schubert Die Sterne; Nacht und Träume Mendelssohn Nachtlied Strauss Die Nacht Wolf Storchenbotschaft; Abschied Brahms 2 Songs with viola Op. 91 Anonymous I am a poor wayfaring stranger A Tchaikowsky Seven Sonnets of Shakespeare (a selection) Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Metaphors of dark journeys and night-time pilgrimages towards the light of day are deeply rooted in the great heritage of world literature, art and music. Christopher Ainslie’s programme explores the many layers of meaning contained within everything from the simple folk poetry of ‘I am a poor wayfaring stranger’ to the sublime spirit of Schubert’s ‘Die Sterne’ and deathly vision of Dowland’s ‘Come, heavy sleep’. £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

See page overleaf for full details

Thursday 22 January 7.30 pm

Friday 23 January 7.30 pm

Classical Opera Anna Devin, Sarah Fox sopranos John Mark Ainsley tenor Ian Page conductor

Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists Clio Gould director, violin

‘MOZART 250’ LAUNCH CONCERT: 1765 – A RETROSPECTIVE

Stravinsky Concerto in D Bach Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV1048 Stravinsky Apollon Musagète – a ballet in two scenes

Mozart Symphony No. 1 in E b K16; Va, dal furor portata K21 Gluck In mezzo a un mar crudele from Telemaco JC Bach Cara la dolce fiamma from Adriano in Siria Philidor Scene from Tom Jones Gluck Di questa cetra in seno from Il Parnaso confuso Mozart Conservati fedele K23 Sacchini Al tuo valor m’accendo from Il Creso Haydn Symphony No. 39 in G minor JC Bach Ah, genitore amato from Adriano in Siria

With her vast experience as soloist, chamber musician and ensemble leader, and as director of the Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists, Clio Gould is ideally placed to influence and inspire the next generation of professional players. She leads her thrilling young colleagues in a programme that explores Apollonian qualities of formal logic, grace, beauty and harmony.

Classical Opera explores the chronology and trajectory of Mozart’s career with a ground-breaking new project, Mozart 250. The journey begins in 2015, the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s childhood sojourn in London, and launches with this fascinating retrospective of the year 1765, featuring music written in London, Paris, Vienna, Eisenstadt and in Italy, complete with Mozart’s first symphony and concert arias.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season / Early Music and Baroque Series

£35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series

Christopher Ainslie

Denis Jouglet

Ian Page

Clio Gould

European Chamber Music Academy Showcase The European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) was established in 2004 by Hatto Beyerle, co-founder and violist of the Alban Berg Quartet. Its mission is to promote and nurture today’s aspiring chamber music ensembles. The Academy, which stands as an association of leading European music education institutions and festivals, provides ongoing training opportunities for its young ensembles and offers students an inspiring mix of theoretical tuition and practical instruction.

Giocoso String Quartet

Vincent Beaume

Darian Trio

Martin Wimmer

Stefan Zweig Trio

Georgi Kalojanov

Galatea Quartet

Molina Visuals

Friday 23 January 1.00 pm

Saturday 24 January 11.00 am

Sunday 25 January 3.00 pm

Giocoso String Quartet Trio AlbaNord clarinet trio

ECMA Masterclass

Galatea Quartet

Professor Hatto Beyerle’s tireless work with students of ECMA rests on foundations set during his years as violist with the Vienna Soloists, the Alban Berg Quartet and the Vienna Chamber Ensemble. He leads a masterclass with the Giocoso String Quartet, working in close detail on refined aspects of chamber music interpretation.

Milhaud String Quartet No. 1 Op. 5 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in E b Op. 117

Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Jörg Widmann Nachtstück for clarinet, cello and piano Beethoven Clarinet Trio in B b Op. 11 Trio AlbaNord, comprising current students or alumni of the Norwegian Academy of Music, is the first chamber group with a wind player to be admitted to ECMA. The ensemble shares this showcase concert with the Giocoso String Quartet, formed in Romania in 2003.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 24 January 3.00 pm

Darian Trio string trio Stefan Zweig Trio piano trio Reger String Trio in A minor Op. 77b Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2 The Darian Trio’s name derives from the Persian for ‘upholder of the good’. The emerging ensemble shares the recital platform for this afternoon concert with the Vienna-based Stefan Zweig Trio, which achieved success in the ARD Competition in Munich within months of its foundation in 2012, and has since become a member of ECMA.

Trio AlbaNord

Lars Venner

Galatea, the exquisite mythic statue brought to life by Pygmalion, is an apt name for a group of young chamber musicians devoted to the pursuit of ensemble perfection and tonal beauty. The Galatea Quartet marks its tenth anniversary year with Milhaud’s youthful String Quartet No. 1 and the high-octane energy and tragicomic outbursts of Shostakovich’s Ninth String Quartet of 1964.

All tickets £5 each concert Free admission to masterclass (ticket required) The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton Chamber Music Season/ ECMA Showcase

January Saturday 24 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 25 January 7.30 pm

Monday 26 January 6.00 pm

Celebrating 21 Years of Wigmore Hall Learning with Nicola Benedetti

Hagen Quartet

Pre-Concert Talk

MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE

Journalist and author Jessica Duchen discusses Mozart’s string quartets before the second concert in the Hagen Quartet’s Mozart String Quartet Cycle.

Mozart String Quartet in G K387; String Quartet in D minor K421; String Quartet in E b K428

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Sunday 25 January 11.30 am

Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano CPE Bach Rondo in C minor Wq. 59 Mozart Piano Sonata in E b K282; Rondo in D K485; Adagio in B minor K540; Piano Sonata in C K330 Fantasy played a key role in the development of Classical art, reflected in everything from the transcendent verse of Keats, Blake and Wordsworth to the music of CPE Bach and Mozart. Kristian Bezuidenhout’s fortepiano recital presents the expressive leaps and myriad colours of everything from CPE Bach’s Rondo in C minor to the striking sounds and silences of Mozart’s B minor Adagio.

Revered by chamber music connoisseurs and acclaimed by critics worldwide, the Hagen Quartet is known for performances steeped in psychological insight, dramatic intensity and poetic eloquence. The ensemble joins Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odyssey to share its latest thoughts on three of the composer’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets, enduring monuments to a remarkable artistic friendship.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / The Mozart Odyssey

Monday 26 January 7.30 pm

Hagen Quartet

£35 £30 £25 £18

MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE

Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

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

Monday 26 January 1.00 pm

The Hagen Quartet concludes its survey of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ quartets, opening this recital with the unstoppable power and captivating musical argument of the ‘Hunt’ Quartet. The remaining two works, completed within four days of one another in January 1785, are shot through with harmonic daring, contrapuntal ingenuity and breathtaking brilliance of invention.

Igor Levit piano INTRODUCING IGOR LEVIT

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

£4

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Sunday Morning Coffee Concert / The Mozart Odyssey

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

Kristian Bezuidenhout

Marco Borggreve

Hagen Quartet

Harald Hoffmann

Celebrating 21 Years of Wigmore Hall Learning with Nicola Benedetti Saturday 24 January 7.30 pm

Nicola Benedetti violin Alexei Grynyuk piano Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor K304 Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ In the decade since winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, Nicola Benedetti has matured into one of the finest British artists of her generation, in demand worldwide as concerto soloist and respected as a passionate advocate for music education. This recital with her regular chamber music partner, the Russian pianist Alexei Grynyuk, promises to be a highlight of the Wigmore Hall Chamber Music Season. £50 £35 £25 £15

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Chamber Music Season

Photo by Simon Fower/Universal

January Tuesday 27 January 7.30 pm

INTRODUCING IGOR LEVIT

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano MOZART BIRTHDAY CONCERT Mozart Violin Sonata in F K376; Violin Sonata in Bb K15; Violin Sonata in A K402 (incomplete); Violin Sonata in C K6; Violin Sonata in D K29; Violin Sonata in G K9; Violin Sonata in D K7; Violin Sonata in A K305 Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien resume their survey of Mozart’s violin sonatas on his birthday, presenting five works from the prodigious composer’s boyhood travels. Their programme also includes the two miniature movements of the Violin Sonata in A K402, created in Vienna in the early 1780s, and the radiant Violin Sonata in A K305, inspired by the vivid contrasts and galant style developed in Mannheim during the 1770s. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Benefactor Friends of Wigmore Hall

Igor Levit

Felix Broede

Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

Igor Levit’s playing, notes Alex Ross in The New Yorker, is blessed with ‘technical brilliance, tonal allure, intellectual drive, and an allusive quality that the Germans indicate with the word Innigkeit, or inwardness.’ The young pianist’s ability to intuit deep personal meaning even in the most familiar of compositions has swiftly sealed his place among the most remarkable artists of his generation. Wigmore Hall’s ongoing series provides the perfect introduction to Levit’s work as recital soloist and chamber musician. Monday 26 January 1.00 pm

Igor Levit piano Tchaikovsky Méditation Op. 72 No. 5; The Seasons Op. 37b Tchaikovsky’s art, often larger than life, contained space for reflection on intimate feelings and subtle contrasts of mood. The dozen miniatures of his The Seasons collectively chart the changing states of the months of the year, presented as they unfolded under Russian skies. Igor Levit opens his BBC Lunchtime recital with the composer’s numinous Méditation Op. 72 No. 5, one of his final works for piano. £13 concs £11 WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert / Introducing Igor Levit

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Sunday 8 February 3.00 pm with Wednesday 10 June 7.30 pm with

Simon Bode Christiane Iven

Monday 20 July 7.30 pm Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien

Sussie Ahlburg

The Mozart Odyssey Mozart wrote many of his instrumental works with outstanding artists in mind. This season and next, Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odyssey offers audiences a feast of performances by some of the finest among today’s interpreters of his music. Kristian Bezuidenhout explores works for solo keyboard on fortepiano, while the glorious Hagen Quartet devotes four concerts to Mozart’s mature string quartets. Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, meanwhile, celebrate the composer’s birthday on 27 January with the latest instalment in their ongoing survey of his sonatas for violin and piano. The Mozart Odyssey is made possible thanks to all our contributors to the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to help fund important artistic projects.

Events in this Series Wednesday 21 January 3.00 pm Friday 23 January 3.00 pm Tuesday 27 January 3.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group Sunday 25 January 11.30 am

Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Sunday 25 January 7.30 pm

Hagen Quartet Monday 26 January 6.00 pm

Tuesday 27 January 7.30 pm

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano Wednesday 28 January 7.30 pm

Hagen Quartet Thursday 29 January 1.00 pm

Hagen Quartet Sunday 8 February 7.30 pm

Eggner Trio

Pre-Concert Talk Monday 26 January 7.30 pm

Hagen Quartet Portrait of Mozart by Barbara Kraft (1764 –1825)

Further concerts to be announced for Summer 2015 and the 2015 /16 Season

January Wednesday 28 January 7.30 pm

Thursday 29 January 1.00 pm

Friday 30 January 7.30 pm

Hagen Quartet

Hagen Quartet Jörg Widmann clarinet

Juliane Banse soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE

Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Rheinlegendchen; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Lob des hohen Verstandes; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? Mahler Erinnerung; Frühlingsmorgen Duparc Chanson triste; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Extase; L’invitation au voyage Schoenberg Erwartung; Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm; Erhebung; Waldsonne Mahler Rückert Lieder

MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE Mozart String Quartet in D K499 ‘Hoffmeister’; String Quartet in D K575 ‘Prussian’; String Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’ Mozart wrote his ‘Hoffmeister’ Quartet for the Viennese composer and publisher Anton Hoffmeister, purveyor of chamber music to the imperial city’s music-loving population. The Hagen Quartet presents it alongside two of the quartets written for King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall

Chamber Music Season / The Mozart Odyssey

Mozart String Quartet in F K590; Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Mozart’s final essay in the string quartet genre, crafted in June 1790, stands among the finest achievements of the Classical period, a masterwork of formal construction, thematic contrasts and melodic invention. Jörg Widmann brings his special qualities as composer and performer to the interpretation of the elegiac Clarinet Quintet in A, one of the earliest and greatest works for solo clarinet and string quartet. £15 concs £12.50

Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

Thursday 29 January 7.30 pm

Florian Boesch baritone Roger Vignoles piano

Juliane Banse and Malcolm Martineau have worked together over many years to create song interpretations rich in spiritual insight and profound meaning. The German soprano, who recently made her Metropolitan Opera debut, builds her latest Wigmore Hall programme around the mixed emotions and bitter-sweet yearning of Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn and his visionary Rückert songs. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

FLORIAN BOESCH RESIDENCY See page overleaf for full details

Hagen Quartet with Jörg Widmann

Harald Hoffmann

Juliane Banse

Stefan Nimmesgern

Florian Boesch Residency Like all great story-tellers, Florian Boesch’s song interpretations arise from alchemical combinations of personal experience, innate wisdom and a heightened sense of the collective unconscious. The Austrian baritone’s Wigmore Hall residency continues in company with Roger Vignoles with an ideal vehicle for his talents, Ernst Krenek’s Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen. Boesch returns later this season to explore the creative world of old Vienna with two delicious programmes, gracing Wigmore Lates on 5 June with songs of travel, transition and departure, and joining Malcolm Martineau two days later for an evening of landmark works by Wolf, Brahms and Schumann. Thursday 29 January 7.30 pm

Florian Boesch baritone Roger Vignoles piano Krenek Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen Ernst Krenek’s formative years coincided with the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, the rise of extreme political ideologies and the emergence of iconoclastic trends in art and music. He absorbed the profusion of new musical styles and put many of them to thought-provoking effect in his Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen, an entrancing song cycle that probes the existential uncertainties of the late 1920s. This concert will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval

£35 £30 £25 £18 Song Recital Series / Florian Boesch Residency

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series: Friday 5 June 10.00 pm with

Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Sunday 7 June 7.30 pm with Malcolm

Martineau piano Photo by Lukas Beck

January/February Saturday 31 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 1 February 11.30 am

Sunday 1 February 3.00 pm

Takács Quartet

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle

SCHUBERT BIRTHDAY CONCERT Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703; String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’; String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists commemorate Schubert’s birthday with an unmissable celebration of the composer’s mature chamber music masterworks. The Takács Quartet sets the tone with his Quartettsatz in C minor. Its single movement serves as the intense point of departure for the ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet’s contrasting moods and the haunting melancholy of the monumental ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet of 1824. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle

Chamber Music Season/ Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

Nash Ensemble Richard Hosford clarinet Marianne Thorsen violin Laura Samuel violin Lawrence Power viola Adrian Brendel cello

SCHUBERT’S HIDDEN GEMS

Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 The Nash Ensemble’s renowned string players present Haydn’s much-loved ‘Sunrise’ Quartet, so called because of its gently rising opening theme, a work infused with the bold gestures and effects he cultivated during his time in London. The ensemble is joined by its long-serving clarinettist Richard Hosford in Brahms’s autumnal chamber masterwork. Brahms created his Clarinet Quintet in B minor to suit the burnished playing of Richard Mühlfeld, who first introduced the composition to London audiences in the 1890s.

Schubert Am Flusse (D766); Am Flusse (D160); Das Lied vom Reifen; Der Fluss; Der Jüngling am Bache; Gondelfahrer; Des Mädchens Klage; Die Knabenzeit; Herbst; Herbstlied; Liane; Licht und Liebe; Nach einem Gewitter; Marie; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Rückweg; Vollendung; Winterlied; Die Erde; Heiss mich nicht reden When Max Friedlaender was preparing the final volume of his Schubert Lieder Edition for Peters, many songs (such as 'Herbst') were unknown to him. The Royal Academy of Music Song Circle presents twenty such gems that are not included in the seven Lieder volumes of the Peters Editions and are still too rarely performed. £15 concs £12.50

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

Song Recital Series

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert / Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Takács Quartet

Keith Saunders

Richard Hosford

Keith Saunders

February Sunday 1 February 7.30 pm

Robin Tritschler tenor Graham Johnson piano

Monday 2 February 1.00 pm

Monday 2 February 7.30 pm

Steven Osborne piano

Takács Quartet: Lecture-Recital

Rachmaninov Études-tableaux (a selection) Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Schumann Kernerlieder Op. 35 SONGS FROM THE (BARD’S) SHOWS Vaughan Williams Orpheus with his lute Leveridge Who is Silvia? Anon. (17th century) Jog on, jog on the footpath way Moeran The sweet o’ the year Eisler Horatios Monolog Castelnuovo-Tedesco The clown in the churchyard Finzi Songs of Hiems and Ver Castelnuovo-Tedesco Caliban Tippett Songs for Ariel Gurney Under the greenwood tree Korngold Blow, blow thou winter wind Quilter It was a lover and his lass Castelnuovo-Tedesco The Fool Dale O Mistress Mine Finzi Come away, come away, death Korngold Adieu, Good Man Devil

Poetic pianism, richly conceived in tonal and expressive nuance, distinguishes Steven Osborne’s interpretations of the great works of the keyboard literature. His receptivity to the romantic depths of the Slavic soul invariably rises to the surface in his acclaimed interpretations of Russian music. ‘This may well be the most lucid and musicianly Pictures on record,’ observed Gramophone following the release of his recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Lecture-Recital on Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ The Takács Quartet presents a rare opportunity to hear its highly developed thoughts about a seminal work of the string quartet repertoire. This lecture-recital opens with a discussion of the String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’, illustrated with excerpts from the work. The evening’s second half contains a complete performance of Beethoven’s pioneering score. £30 £25 £20 £15

£13 concs £11

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Chamber Music Season/ Takács Quartet: Associate Artists BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Robin Tritschler and Graham Johnson present a treat for song-lovers with their captivating programme. Schumann’s Kernerlieder, like so many of the songs he created in 1840, convey the strength of his fervent love for Clara Wieck. He completed his ‘song sequence’ soon after their marriage, a union contracted against her father’s wishes. For the second half, the duo performs settings of Shakespeare from a selection of his most celebrated plays. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Robin Tritschler

Garreth Wong

Steven Osborne

Benjamin Ealovega

Takács Quartet

Peter Smith

February Tuesday 3 February 7.30 pm

Wednesday 4 February 12.15 pm

Wednesday 4 February 7.30 pm

EXAUDI James Weeks director

Pre-Concert Talk

Christiane Karg soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Leonin Organum Scelsi Tre Canti Sacri Heinz Holliger nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts (excerpts) (UK première) Machaut La Messe de Nostre Dame (excerpts) Ciconia Le ray au soleyl Rodericus Angelorum psalat Michael Finnissy Kelir Worlds collide in this scintillating programme, devised by Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence Julian Anderson and EXAUDI’s director James Weeks: medieval and modern, sacred and profane, European and Eastern. Twelfth-century Parisian polyphony elides with the drone-rich imagination of Giacinto Scelsi; Heinz Holliger’s fascination with Machaut can be heard in the luminous Angelus Silesius settings of nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts; and the intricate rhythmic world of the Ars Subtilior finds a parallel in the ardent, tangled vocality of Finnissy’s dramatic Kelir. £30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

Supported by Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation

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

An introduction to the lunchtime concert with Ben Comeau, the Winner of the Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop. Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required) Booking open

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Contemporary Music Series Wednesday 4 February 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin Miranda Dale violin Clare Finnimore viola Catherine Musker viola Caroline Dearnley cello Vaughan Williams Phantasy String Quintet Ben Comeau New work* (world première) Beethoven String Quintet in C Op. 29 *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

Mozart Das Veilchen; An Chloe; Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte; Der Zauberer; Dans un bois solitaire Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade; Heiss mich nicht reden; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Hoffnung; Der Jüngling am Bache; Des Mädchens Klage; Thekla; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Elysium Christiane Karg’s vitality connects directly with the works in her repertoire, sparking words and music to life. The Bavarian soprano’s programme includes settings of verse by one of the titans of world literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, among them Mozart’s exquisite treatment of ‘Das Veilchen’ and Mignon’s songs of yearning for her Italian homeland, ‘Kennst du das Land’ and ‘Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt’. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Vaughan Williams’s Phantasy for string quintet, was dedicated to William Wilson Cobbett, whose celebrated competition encouraged young composers to write new chamber works. Winner of Britten Sinfonia’s Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop, Ben Comeau’s work receives its première in this concert, alongside Beethoven’s transitional tumultuous String Quintet of 1801, popularly known as ‘The Storm’. £12.50 concs £10 Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

EXAUDI

Matthew Andrews

Christiane Karg

Gisela Schenker

February Thursday 5 February 7.30 pm

Friday 6 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 7 February 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Anthony Marwood violin Aleksandar Madžar piano

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Xenia Löffler oboe

Come and Sing: Early Opera

Janácˇek Violin Sonata Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 Ravel Violin Sonata in A minor (Sonate Posthume) Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis Beethoven’s Violin Sonata in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 was written in 1802, the fateful year when he first experienced the sharp despair of deafness. Anthony Marwood and Aleksandar Madžar survey the equally personal emotions of Janácˇek’s Violin Sonata, composed in the early months of the First World War, together with the classical elegance of works by Ravel and Prokofiev. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Anthony Marwood and Friends

Vivaldi Sinfonia from Giustino RV717; Cello Concerto in G minor RV416; Concerto for strings in C RV114; Concerto in G minor for oboe, cello and strings RV812; Concerto in D minor for 2 violins and cello Op. 3 No. 11 from L’estro armonico RV565; Sinfonia from Dorilla in Tempe RV709; Cello Concerto in F RV412 Caldara Sinfonia No. 6 in G minor from San Elena al Calvario Vivaldi Oboe Concerto in C RV450; Cello Concerto in A minor RV419 Period instrument performances have been raised to the highest levels of technical virtuosity and insight thanks to the work of ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and artists of the calibre of Jean-Guihen Queyras and Xenia Löffler. Their thrilling programme reflects Vivaldi’s passion for the cello, a comparative newcomer in the composer’s day, and the jaw-dropping virtuosity of his writing for solo oboe and strings.

As part of our Henry Purcell: A Retrospective series, come and sing some of the composer’s operatic work and have a go at some of the movements and gestures which accompany the words and music. Isabelle Adams leads this workshop day for adults, which includes the opportunity to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day. £24 concs £16

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Saturday 7 February 6.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

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

£40 £35 £25 £15

Debussy Syrinx Bennett Sonata after Syrinx for flute, viola and harp Julian Anderson Prayer for solo viola Maw Roman Canticle for baritone, flute, viola and harp

Early Music and Baroque Series

The works will be introduced from the stage by Julian Anderson. Free (ticket required) Booking open

Anthony Marwood & Aleksandar Madžar

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

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

Benjamin Ealovega

Kristof Fischer

Roderick Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

February Saturday 7 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 8 February 11.30 am

Sunday 8 February 3.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Valeriy Sokolov violin Evgeny Izotov piano

Simon Bode tenor Igor Levit* piano

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1 Bartók Violin Sonata No. 1 Sz. 75 Ravel Tzigane

Schubert Abendlied für die Entfernte Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Wolfgang Rihm Das Rot Schubert Dass sie hier gewesen Beethoven Adelaide; Wonne der Wehmut; Neue Liebe, neues Leben

Nash Ensemble Ian Brown conductor Lawrence Power viola Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Mozart Quintet in E b for piano and winds K452 Mahler Rückert Lieder (arr. D Matthews for voice and ensemble) Brahms 2 Songs with viola Op. 91; Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 This programme is bookended by two contrasting works for five instrumentalists, Mozart’s perfectly finished Quintet for piano and winds and Brahms’s passionate Quintet for piano and strings. Sarah Connolly also sings Mahler’s lyrical settings of poems by Rückert and Brahms’s eloquent songs with viola and piano, ‘Gestillte Sehnsucht’ (‘Stilled Desire’) and ‘Geistliches Wiegenlied’ (‘Sacred Lullaby’).

Valeriy Sokolov’s recent recording of violin concertos by Tchaikovsky and Bartók received rave reviews, reinforcing his status among the finest artists of his generation. The young Ukrainian violinist, partnered by Evgeny Izotov, opens his recital with the Violin Sonata Op. 30 No. 1, Beethoven’s spiritually serene and noble response to encroaching deafness. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Distant love and unfulfilled desires combine in this programme, projected with overwhelming fervour by Beethoven in the half dozen songs of An die ferne Geliebte and focused with sustained introspection by Schubert in his ‘Abendlied für die Entfernte’. Wolfgang Rihm’s song cycle Das Rot (1990), a setting of six texts by the German Romantic poet Karoline von Günderrode, explores the shifting borderlands between illusion and reality, darkness and light. £15 concs £12.50

£35 £30 £25 £18 Booking open

* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

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

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Sarah Connolly

Peter Warren

Song Recital Series /Introducing Igor Levit

Valeriy Sokolov

Simon Fowler/EMI Classics

Simon Bode

Wolfgang Runkel

February Sunday 8 February 7.30 pm

Monday 9 February 1.00 pm

Monday 9 February 7.30 pm

Eggner Trio

Wigmore Hall Debut

Florilegium

Olena Tokar soprano Igor Gryshyn piano

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

Mozart Piano Trio in C K548; Piano Trio in Bb K502 Hummel Piano Trio in G Op. 65 Mozart Piano Trio in G K564 The Austrian Eggner Trio, a family ensemble of three brothers, performs works by Mozart which helped to define the piano trio genre. The programme begins with the Piano Trio in C, simple in its design and harmony yet emotionally complex. The composer’s final piano trio is prefaced with a score by the hugely gifted Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a child prodigy who became Mozart’s only full-time pupil in 1786.

Brahms Botschaft; Sommerabend; Über die Heide; Es träumte mir, ich sei dir teuer Strauss Der Stern; Schlechtes Wetter; Allerseelen; Morgen Rimsky-Korsakov Of what I dream in the quiet night; Cool and fragrant is thy garland; Not the wind, blowing from the heights; The lark sings louder Dvorˇák Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs) Ukrainian soprano Olena Tokar made her breakthrough in 2011 with the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project. She won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich the following year and went on to represent her homeland as a finalist in the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. She makes her Wigmore Hall debut with an enchanting programme of German, Russian and Czech songs.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season / The Mozart Odyssey

£13 concs £11

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

Telemann Quartet in D from the ‘Paris Quartets’ (1738 collection) Forqueray La Rameau; La Leclair Leclair Deuxième recréation de musique Op. 8 Rebel Les caractères de la danse Marais Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève Telemann Quartet in E minor from the ‘Paris Quartets’ (1738 collection) Florilegium’s programme includes works by some of the greatest French chamber music composers employed by the courts of Louis XIV and XV. Rebel’s Les caractères de la danse is one of the first choreographed ‘symphonies’, a popular genre in eighteenth-century France. Two of Telemann’s celebrated ‘Paris Quartets’ frame this concert and bear witness to the international reach of French musical fashions three centuries ago. £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Eggner Trio

Keith Saunders

Olena Tokar

Dorothee Falke

Florilegium

Amit Lennon

February Wednesday 11 February 7.30 pm

Thursday 12 February 7.30 pm

Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn director, harpsichord Joélle Harvey soprano Mhairi Lawson soprano Samuel Boden tenor Nick Pritchard tenor George Humphreys bass

Lawrence Power viola, violin Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Purcell King Arthur John Dryden’s King Arthur was among the most successful of his ‘Dramatick Operas’, where play, ballet and music were combined much as they are in present day West End musical theatre. Purcell’s exquisite music, the work’s chief glory, heightens the plot’s depictions of Druid sacrifices, drunken farmers, Evil Spirits and, in the shivering frost scene, a very chilly Cupid!

Britten Suite for violin and piano Op. 6 Colin Matthews Four Moods for viola and piano Bowen Phantasy for viola and piano Op. 54 Huw Watkins Fantasy for viola and piano Mark-Anthony Turnage Powerplay* (world première)

MARTIN FRÖST MASTERCLASS

*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

Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Powerplay, complete with punning title and vigorous virtuosity, receives its world première. The work was written to complement the phenomenal artistry of Lawrence Power and his regular duo partner Simon Crawford-Phillips. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

£40 £35 £30 £20

Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Martin Fröst

Mats Bäcker

Friday 13 February 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm

Martin Fröst Masterclass The relationship between music and movement falls within the spread of subjects on Martin Fröst’s masterclass agenda. He will work with postgraduate students from London’s four conservatoires and introduce them to ideas already tested on outstanding young clarinettists in his home city of Stockholm. ‘We must not lose the human connection or the physical part of music-making’, he observes. ‘That connection has existed forever. Now is the right time to highlight its place in classical music.’ £7 concs £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Martin Fröst Artist in Residence

Christian Curnyn

Benjamin Ealovega

Lawrence Power

Jack Liebeck

Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Wigmore Hall celebrates the life and work of a towering figure in the story of English music with one of its most ambitious projects ever. Henry Purcell: A Retrospective unfolds this Season and next, offering audiences a rich programme of the Londoner’s irresistible art and the chance to hear his works performed by a host of the world’s leading Purcellians. Early Opera Company launches the latest round of Purcell performances with the composer’s semi-opera King Arthur, a patriotic entertainment partly influenced by the political and constitutional upheavals of the mid-1680s. Henry Purcell: A Retrospective is made possible thanks to all our contributors to the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to help fund important artistic projects.

Events in this Series Saturday 7 February 10.30 am

Saturday 21 February 11.00 am

Come and Sing: Early Opera

Family Concert: KING ARTHUR

Wednesday 11 February 7.30 pm

Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn director Joélle Harvey soprano Mhairi Lawson soprano Samuel Boden tenor Nick Pritchard tenor George Humphreys bass KING ARTHUR Saturday 14 February 3.00 pm

Study Afternoon

Tuesday 10 March 7.30 pm

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

Carolyn Sampson soprano Elizabeth Kenny lute Jonathan Manson bass viol Laurence Cummings harpsichord COME ALL YE SONGSTERS: SONGS AND ARIAS

Further concerts to be announced for Summer 2015 and the 2015 /16 Season

Portrait of Henry Purcell after John Closterman

February Friday 13 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 14 February 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Saturday 14 February 7.30 pm

Imogen Cooper piano

Study Afternoon with Andrew Pinnock

Doric String Quartet Andreas Haefliger piano

PURCELL’S KING ARTHUR – THE ORIGINAL ROYAL OPERA

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57

1836 –1846 – PARALLEL PATHS Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60; Nocturne in E b Op. 55 No. 2 Schumann Humoreske in Bb Op. 20; Novellette in F# minor Op. 21 No. 8; Novellette in D Op. 21 No. 2 Chopin Nocturne in B Op. 62 No. 1; Nocturne in E Op. 62 No. 2; Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23 A regular guest at Wigmore Hall since her acclaimed debut at the BBC Proms forty years ago, Imogen Cooper explores the parallel paths of Chopin and Schumann, who were both born in 1810. Her programme embraces the fleeting moods and wit of Schumann’s Humoreske, the delicate shadings of Chopin’s Op. 62 Nocturnes and the wistful nostalgia of the Polish composer’s youthful Ballade in G minor. £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series

Interest in royal opera increased towards the end of King Charles II’s reign, as the 25th anniversary of the Restoration approached. A number of ambitious works were commissioned, King Arthur among them, but Charles’s unexpected death in February 1685 threw plans for a national celebration off course, and King Arthur had to wait until 1691 to receive its première. By then, the political climate had changed radically, and to ensure its acceptability to the new regime, King Arthur needed a political makeover. Andrew Pinnock, Professor of Music at the University of Southampton and a much-published Purcellian, presents this study afternoon which draws on recent research to explore the opera’s masque precursors, its complicated production history and its hidden message – prophesying endless British prosperity under Stuart rule.

Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger joins the Doric String Quartet for a performance of one of the last century’s most powerful and uplifting chamber music compositions. While Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor includes irony and melancholy, it stands above all for optimism in an age of bloodshed and brutality, as meaningful today as it was at the time of its composition in 1940. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season

£12 concs £8

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Andreas Haefliger

Imogen Cooper

Sussie Ahlburg

Doric String Quartet

Marco Borggreve

George Garnier

February Sunday 15 February 11.30 am

Andreas Ottensamer clarinet José Gallardo piano

MARTIN FRÖST ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Weber Grand Duo Concertant in Eb Op. 48 A selection of Hungarian and Romanian dances and folk songs Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Known for his beautiful sound and beguiling artistry, Andreas Ottensamer became the first clarinettist to sign an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon in 2013. The Austrian musician’s recital programme touches on the folk allegiances of his instrument before closing with the tonal radiance and tender melancholy of Brahms’s F minor Clarinet Sonata. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Martin Fröst

Mats Bäcker

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Martin Fröst clarinet Mozart Serenade in G K525 ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’; Clarinet Concerto in A K622 Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies Op. 34 Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 (Nos. 1, 2 & 5) (arr. for clarinet and strings) Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 12, 13 & 21 (arr. for clarinet and strings by Göran Fröst) Traditional 3 Klezmer Dances (arr. for clarinet and strings by Göran Fröst) Martin Fröst’s mature vision of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto evokes mystical imagery with its hypnotic lyricism and joyful spontaneity. He has performed the piece many times with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, establishing an artistic relationship based on mutual respect and emotional engagement. Their programme also includes works arranged by Fröst’s brother Göran, crowned by his evocative treatment of three Klezmer dances. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2014/15 Wigmore Series Chamber Music Season / Martin Fröst Artist in Residence

Other Events in this Series

Masterclass Miah Persson soprano Maxim Rysanov viola Roland Pöntinen piano Sunday 3 May 11.30 am with Roland Pöntinen piano Sunday 3 May 3.00 pm Family Concert Friday 13 February 2.30 pm Friday 1 May 7.30 pm with

Andreas Ottensamer

Anatol Kotte/Mercury Classics/DG

February Monday 16 February 1.00 pm

Monday 16 February 7.30 pm

Tuesday 17 February 7.30 pm

Giuliano Carmignola violin Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano

Susan Tomes piano Erich Höbarth violin

Michala Petri recorder Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

Bach Violin Sonata No. 2 in A BWV1015 Bach Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016 Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526

Schubert Sonata in A minor (Sonatina) for piano and violin D385; Sonata in A (Duo) for piano and violin D574 Schubert Moments Musicaux D780: No. 1 in C; No. 2 in A b; No. 3 in F minor Schubert Fantasy in C for piano and violin D934

Corelli Sonata in G (transcription of Violin Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 10); Sonata in G minor (transcription of Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 5 No. 12 ‘La Folia’) Bach Flute Sonata in B minor BWV1030; Sonata in G minor (transcription of Flute Sonata in E minor BWV1034) Borup-Jørgensen Fantasia Daniel Kidane Tourbillion Jacob Sonatina

Over the course of a career spanning more than four decades, Giuliano Carmignola has given poetic expression to the full range of human emotions on modern and period instruments. He is partnered by Kristian Bezuidenhout for a recital rooted in the soundworld of the eighteenth century yet alive to the spirit of the present moment. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Two seasoned chamber music artists and close friends turn to the works of Schubert. Susan Tomes and Erich Höbarth, who received ovations for their Mozart recitals at Wigmore Hall two years ago, begin with the striking rhetoric and pathos of Schubert’s ‘Sonatina’. Tomes occupies centre stage as soloist in three of the composer’s Moments Musicaux before partnering Höbarth in the majestic Fantasy in C. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Music both ancient and modern appeals to Michala Petri and Mahan Esfahani, virtuoso artists ever ready to bring new works to life and challenge received wisdom about the repertoires of their respective instruments. Their programme explores the baroque art of transcription in company with twentieth-century works for recorder and harpsichord. It also includes Tourbillion by 28-year-old British composer Daniel Kidane, whose music has been described by the Financial Times as ‘quietly impressive’. £30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

Chamber Music Season / Early Music and Baroque Series / Contemporary Music Series

Giuliano Carmignola

Anna Carmignola/DG

Susan Tomes

Robert Philip

Mahan Esfahani & Michala Petri

Sven Withfelt

February Wednesday 18 February 7.30 pm

Thursday 19 February 7.30 pm

Friday 20 February 7.30 pm

Pavel Haas Quartet Colin Currie percussion

Dante Quartet

Maria João Pires piano Pavel Kolesnikov piano

Dvorˇák Miniatures Op. 75a Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Jir˘í Gemrot Quintet for two violins, viola, cello and marimba (UK première) Haas String Quartet No. 2 Op. 7 ‘From the Monkey Mountains’ with percussion Jir˘í Gemrot, Prague-based Director in Chief of Czech Radio, composed his Quintet for the Pavel Haas Quartet and Colin Currie in 2014. They place the score’s individual sounds and lyrical melodies at the heart of a programme of works by Czech composers, complete with the white-hot creative energy of Janácˇek’s ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ and Pavel Haas’s innovative and atmospheric ‘From the Monkey Mountains’.

Haydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 33 No. 1 Bartók String Quartet No. 4 Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Bartók’s synthesis of folk and art music went further and deeper than anything attempted before. His Fourth String Quartet encapsulates the composer’s experiments in form and content, texture and timbre. The Dante Quartet frames Bartók’s work with the pathos and dark wit of Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 1 and Debussy’s iconoclastic String Quartet in G minor. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

£30 £25 £20 £15

Schubert 6 Moments Musicaux D780 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110 Schumann Fantasy in F minor D940 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Late masterworks by Beethoven and Schubert form the core of this recital. Maria João Pires performs Schubert’s 6 Moments Musicaux and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 110, before sharing the stage with her pupil Pavel Kolesnikov for Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor for piano four-hands. Kolesnikov’s Wigmore Hall debut in January 2014, greeted by five-star reviews, set the seal on the remarkable opening phase of the young Russian-born pianist’s career. He closes this recital with a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 111. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series /Bohemia

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Pavel Kolesnikov is a soloist of the Music Chapel and this concert forms part of the Partitura Project. Initiated by Maria João Pires, the aim of this project is to create an altruistic dynamic between artists of different generations and to offer an alternative in a world too often focused on competitiveness. www.musicchapel.org

Colin Currie

Marco Borggreve

Dante Quartet

Pavel Haas Quartet

Marco Borggreve

Maria João Pires

Phillip Pratt

Felix Broede/DG

London Pianoforte Series / Maria João Pires Portrait Series

Pavel Kolesnikov

Colin Way

February Saturday 21 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Saturday 21 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 22 February 11.30 am

Early Opera Company and Isabelle Adams: Purcell’s King Arthur

Pavel Haas Quartet

Calidore String Quartet

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

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

FAMILY CONCERT For ages 5 plus Join instrumentalists and singers from the Early Opera Company and presenter Isabelle Adams for a magical musical story featuring King Arthur, Merlin, Guinevere and England’s Patron Saint, George. Adapted from Purcell’s opera and using extracts of the original music, we will tell an alternative tale of King Arthur on an adventure through golden fields, icy forests and epic battles. Adults £9 Children £7

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Family Concert

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The Pavel Haas Quartet’s programme features works influenced by the composers’ personal circumstances and shared concerns. Smetana, whose autobiographical quartet presents scenes ‘From my life’, wrote that its four players ‘should converse together in an intimate circle about the things which so deeply trouble me’. Erwin Schulhoff’s String Quartet No. 1, meanwhile, dates from the short-lived Czechoslovak Republic’s hugely creative interwar years.

Felix Mendelssohn wrote his first complete string quartet within months of Beethoven’s death in 1827. The work, later published as the prodigiously gifted young composer’s Second String Quartet, was inspired by the example of Beethoven’s string quartets, which Mendelssohn knew well. The Calidore String Quartet’s Coffee Concert concludes with Beethoven’s emotionally complex Second ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, in which silence serves to articulate and intensify the musical argument.

£30 £25 £20 £15

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

Chamber Music Season/Bohemia

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Calidore String Quartet

Jeffrey Fasano

February Sunday 22 February 7.30 pm

Monday 23 February 1.00 pm

Tuesday 24 February 6.00 pm

Miloš Karadaglic´ guitar

Louis Schwizgebel piano

Artists in Conversation

Sor Variations on a Theme of Mozart Bach Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004 Gerhard Fantasia Granados Danza española No. 2: Orientale Rodrigo Invocación y danza; Zapateado from 3 Piezas españolas Domeniconi Koyunbaba

Haydn Piano Sonata in E b HXVI:49 Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A b Op. 47; Étude in C# minor Op. 25 No. 7; Waltz in C# minor Op. 64 No. 2; Fantaisie-impromptu in C# minor Op. 66 Liszt Consolation No. 3 in D b S172; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D b S244

Members of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in conversation before the evening concert.

Since moving to London from Montenegro in his late teens to study at the Royal Academy of Music, Miloš Karadaglic´ has emerged as one of the finest classical guitarists of our time. He returns to Wigmore Hall with a typically zestful programme, which includes Roberto Gerhard’s Fantasia of 1957 and Fernando Sor’s eternally delightful Variations on a Theme of Mozart, first published in London in 1821.

Born in Geneva in 1987, Swiss-Chinese pianist Louis Schwizgebel has been described by the Guardian as ‘a pianist with a profound gift’, a view consistently underlined by the refinement and searching intelligence of his performances. His BBC Lunchtime programme spans the gamut from Classical Haydn to the expressive extremes and technical challenges of Liszt’s virtuosic art. £13 concs £11

Louis Schwizgebel is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

£35 £30 £25 £18

£4 Booking open

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Contemporary Music Series

Tuesday 24 February 7.30 pm

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

Supported by an anonymous donor

Chamber Music Season BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 23 February 7.30 pm

Lisa Batiashvili violin Paul Lewis piano PAUL LEWIS: A CELEBRATION See page opposite for full details

Since its foundation in 1987, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group has premièred over 150 works. The chamber ensemble’s pioneering Sound Investment commissioning scheme, admired and emulated worldwide, has funded the creation of many new scores by emerging talents and established composers. This programme includes the world première of the BCMG’s fourth commission from Irish composer Gerald Barry, alongside a selection of songs from the remarkable collection commissioned by John Woolrich for Mary Wiegold’s Songbook. £30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Contemporary Music Series Miloš Karadaglic´

Lars Borges/Mercury Classics

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Clive Barda

Paul Lewis: A Celebration Paul Lewis’s virtuosity derives from devoted study, tireless preparation and a readiness to forge fresh ideas of interpretation in the white heat of performance. The English pianist continues his season-long series at Wigmore Hall with three programmes sure to engage his all-round artistry and fathom the depths of masterworks by Bach, Beethoven and Schubert. He joins forces with two like-minded musicians, Lisa Batiashvili and Allan Clayton, in landmarks of chamber music and song, before presenting his mature thoughts on Beethoven’s three final piano sonatas twice in the same evening!

Lisa Batiashvili

Sammy Hart /Deutsche Grammophon

Monday 23 February 7.30 pm

Lisa Batiashvili violin Paul Lewis piano Schubert Violin Sonata (Duo) in A D574; Rondo in B minor D895 Bach Violin Sonata in E minor BWV1023 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96 Following the artistic success of their collaboration in 2013, Lisa Batiashvili and Paul Lewis formed a duo partnership that has flourished with a succession of recital tours. Their latest project opens with Schubert’s Violin Sonata in A, posthumously dubbed ‘Duo’ by its publisher to signify the equal status of the work’s violin and piano parts. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall Chamber Music Season /Paul Lewis: A Celebration

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series: Wednesday 29 April 7.30 pm with Allan

Clayton tenor

Thursday 11 June 6.00 pm & 9.00 pm Photo of Paul Lewis by Josep Molina/Harmonia Mundi

February Wednesday 25 February 7.30 pm

Thursday 26 February 7.30 pm

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

INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC

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

Llyˆr Williams charts the evolution of Beethoven’s music in this recital, opening with the strikingly different characters of the composer’s early Op. 14 piano sonatas, the former full of bold dramatic contrasts, the latter praised by the critic and scholar Donald Tovey as ‘an exquisite little work’. The improvisatory Fantasia in G minor, perhaps inspired by Bach, prepares the atmosphere for Beethoven’s radical Op. 27 piano sonatas.

Amy Dickson, the young Classic BRIT Awardwinning saxophonist, joins the Scottish Ensemble in two powerful pieces for classical saxophone – Glazunov’s lyrical yet scintillatingly virtuosic Saxophone Concerto, and the profound spirituality of Georgian composer Giya Kancheli’s captivating Night Prayers. The programme’s transformative journey from darkness to light contrasts Shostakovich’s deeply personal Chamber Symphony, a transcription by Rudolf Barshai of the composer’s monument to ‘the victims of fascism and war’, his autobiographical String Quartet No. 8, with Tchaikovsky’s radiant Serenade for Strings.

The next concert in Llyˆr Williams’s Beethoven piano sonata cycle is on 30 May 2015. £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday

26 February 5 March 12 March 19 March

5.00 pm – 6.15 pm 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm

HOW MUSIC WORKS Aimed at music lovers who do not possess an intimate knowledge of the ‘nuts and bolts’ of music and would like to know a little more. Listening to music is greatly enriched by understanding, and many aspects of the construction of music are easily explained given a little time and the assistance of musical examples to put the ideas in context. Harmony, melody and rhythm are among the fundamental elements of music, but how do they work and what are the rules that govern their use? These four lectures with Roy Stratford will demystify what can be an intimidating subject, and will help you to gain a better understanding of these key areas. Series ticket price £30 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Llyˆr Williams

Benjamin Ealovega

Amy Dickson

February/March Friday 27 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 28 February

Sunday 1 March 7.30 pm

Marie-Nicole Lemieux contralto Roger Vignoles piano

Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day

Belcea Quartet

Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ Op. 58 Lekeu Trois Poèmes Hahn Offrande; D’une prison; L’heure exquise; Fêtes galantes Koechlin Menuet; La pêche; La lune; L’hiver; Si tu le veux Debussy From Fêtes galantes Book II: Les ingénus; Le faune; Colloque sentimental Duparc L’invitation au voyage; La vie antérieure; Sérénade florentine; Phidylé

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Marie-Nicole Lemieux, a native of Québec, made her mark in 2000 as winner of the Prix de la Reine Fabiola and Prix du Lied at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Belgium. The unique colours of her sonorous contralto voice and probing artistry, in high demand worldwide, are directed in this recital to an exquisite programme of chansons from the golden age of French song. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Webern Five Movements Op. 5 Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2

Sunday 1 March 11.30 am

Wigmore Hall Debut

Beatrice Rana piano Bach Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825 Chopin Scherzo No. 3 in C# minor Op. 39; Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ Ravel La valse Beatrice Rana’s impassioned music-making entranced listeners at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, and was acknowledged with the prestigious event’s Silver Medal and Audience Award. The 21-year-old Italian pianist makes her Wigmore Hall debut with a programme designed to display the breadth of her musicianship and her gift for expressing vivid images in music.

Webern’s admiration for the music of Schubert frequently extended to his concert programmes as conductor. The Belcea Quartet’s concert offers a natural pairing of works by two composers profoundly concerned with the spiritual qualities of sound and the power of music to speak where words fall short. It closes with Brahms’s String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2, the rich outcome of many years of experiment and painstaking work. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Denis Rouvre

Beatrice Rana

Neda Navaee

Belcea Quartet

Ronald Knapp

Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day In the 1970s the young Wolfgang Rihm was at the vanguard of a movement to restore expressivity to contemporary German music and open a modern dialogue with the past. While his strikingly original works often connect with the aesthetics of Romanticism, they do so without trace of nostalgia or sentimental yearning for styles overturned by the cataclysmic upheavals of the last century. Wigmore Hall’s Composer Focus Day, featuring performances by artists closely associated with Wolfgang Rihm, touches on the myriad ways in which his art draws pulsating life from the abiding energy of music and poetic images of an earlier age.

Saturday 28 February 11.30 am

6.00 pm

Quatuor Danel Jörg Widmann clarinet Bruno Schneider horn

Artists in Conversation

Wolfgang Rihm Sextet* (UK première); Vier Male for clarinet in A; 4 Studien zu einem Klarinettenquintett * Co-commissioned by Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam with the support of the AMMODO Foundation; Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation, and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in duration, without an interval £12.50 concs £10

2.00 pm

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

Join composer Wolfgang Rihm when he discusses his life and works. £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Contemporary Music Series

7.30 pm

Arditti Quartet Tanja Tetzlaff cello Teodoro Anzellotti accordion Wolfgang Rihm Grave in memoriam Thomas Kakuska; Fetzen for accordion and string quartet; String Quartet No. 10; Epilog for string quintet This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, with an interval £30 £25 £20 £15

ALL DAY TICKET £30 This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, with an interval

Booking is open for all events on this date

£12.50 concs £10

Photo by Manu Theobald

Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series / Song Recital Series

March Monday 2 March 1.00 pm

Wednesday 4 March 12.15 pm

Signum Quartet

Pre-Concert Talk

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

An introduction to the lunchtime concert with composer Joey Roukens.

Completed almost two centuries ago, Beethoven’s Op. 130 and its vast finale, the ‘Great Fugue’, stand as a timeless monument to the highest ambitions of human achievement. Stravinsky considered the Grosse Fuge to be ‘an absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary forever’, a view certain to be reinforced when the Signum Quartet presents the movement in its original context in this recital.

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required) Booking open

ALBAN GERHARDT FOCUS

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Contemporary Music Series Wednesday 4 March 1.00 pm

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

£13 concs £11

Harrison Varied Trio for violin, piano and percussion Joey Roukens New work* (world première) Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Dick Staats

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Thursday 5 March 7.30 pm

Alban Gerhardt cello Steven Osborne piano

Joey Roukens has emerged as one of the finest young composers on the Dutch music scene. His works explore the natural coexistence of different musical genres, be they new or old in style, influenced by high or popular culture, western or non-western. In this hour-long concert we hear a new work from Roukens, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall, alongside music by Lou Harrison, a maverick of twentieth-century American music, and Shostakovich’s haunting second piano trio.

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

£12.50 concs £10 Booking open

Joey Roukens

Alban Gerhardt

Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series

Alban Gerhardt’s spiritually charged interpretations draw energy from his profound reflections on life and the nature of reality. His duo partnership with Steven Osborne has delivered, among many fine things, insightful readings of Beethoven’s late cello sonatas and a recording of Schnittke’s First Cello Sonata that revels in the work’s imaginative treatment of the often tense, sometimes subtle dialogue between minor and major tonalities. £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2014/15 Wigmore Series

Chamber Music Season / Alban Gerhardt Focus

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Friday 19 June 7.00 pm String Quintets with

Baiba Skride violin Gergana Gergova violin Brett Dean viola Nils Mönkemeyer viola Signum Quartet

Irène Zandel

March Friday 6 March 7.30 pm

Saturday 7 March 7.30 pm

Sunday 8 March 11.30 am

Francesco Piemontesi piano

Elias String Quartet

Paolo Borciani Quartet Competition Prizewinner’s Concert

Scarlatti Sonata in A Kk208; Sonata in G Kk55; Sonata in A minor Kk175; Sonata in A Kk212 Mendelssohn Songs without Words: in E b Op. 53 No. 2; in B minor Op. 30 No. 4; in A Op. 102 No. 5; in Ab Op. 38 No. 6 ‘Duo’ Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110 Maximilian Schnaus New work* (world première) Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in F Op. 135

Kelemen Quartet

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

Francesco Piemontesi’s poetic artistry and immaculate technique are at the heart of performances that reveal countless details all too easily overlooked. His latest Wigmore Hall programme explores the light and shade of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words. He also gives the first performance of a new work by the young German composer Maximilian Schnaus.

For the composer Robert Simpson, Beethoven’s final string quartet contained ‘the most sensitively coloured quartet writing in existence’. The Op. 135 score combines searing tragedy and subtle humour, the latter used to reflect on life’s fragility. The Elias String Quartet’s Beethoven cycle places the piece in company with two other pioneering works, both of which anticipate the spiritual heights attained in the composer’s late quartets.

Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 in E b minor Op. 30 Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’

£35 £30 £25 £18

The Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition, named after the Quartetto Italiano’s founder and first violinist, has helped launch the careers of many of today’s leading string quartets since its creation in 1987, the Artemis, Pavel Haas and Bennewitz quartets among them. The Kelemen Quartet won the triennial competition’s tenth edition in June 2014 and performs this Wigmore Hall recital as part of its prize.

Chamber Music Season / Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series / Contemporary Music Series

Elias String Quartet

Francesco Piemontesi

Felix Broede

Kelemen Quartet

Benjamin Ealovega

Tamas Dobos

March Sunday 8 March 7.30 pm

Monday 9 March 1.00 pm

Monday 9 March 7.30 pm

Marino Formenti piano

Christiane Karg soprano Gerold Huber piano

Lucy Crowe soprano James Baillieu piano

Wolf Heiss mich nicht reden; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land Brahms Wie erkenn ich den Treulieb; Sein Leichenhemd weiss Strauss Wie erkenn’ ich mein Treulieb vor andern nun? Brahms Auf morgen ist Sankt Valentins Tag Strauss Guten Morgen, ’s ist Sankt Valentinstag Brahms Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss; Und kommt er nicht mehr zurück? Strauss Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss Saint-Saëns La mort d’Ophélie Hahn Lydé; A Chloris; Séraphine Duparc Phidylé; Romance de Mignon

Songs by Purcell Folk songs Lutosławski Chantefleurs et chantefables Wolf Songs from Italienisches Liederbuch Strauss Vier letzte Lieder (4 Last Songs)

PATHS TO A MASTERPIECE Barraqué Piano Sonata With short works by D’Anglebert, Debussy, Schubert and Webern Italian pianist and conductor Marino Formenti has created a fascinating programme around Jean Barraqué’s Piano Sonata. This monumental masterpiece, which was completed in 1952, is presented alongside smaller works that led, like paths, towards it. £30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

London Pianoforte Series / Contemporary Music Series

Christiane Karg opens her BBC Lunchtime recital with a group of Goethe settings by Wolf, exquisitely judged musical complements to the poet’s already musical use of language. She continues by exploring responses to the desperate tragedy of Shakespeare’s Ophelia in songs by Brahms, Richard Strauss and Saint-Saëns before touching on the musical pastiche of Hahn’s ‘A Chloris’ and seductive beauty of Duparc’s early ‘Romance de Mignon’.

Lucy Crowe’s lyrical lightness and clarity of voice are allied to her delightfully imaginative engagement with words and their meaning. She recently received glowing reviews for her interpretation of Strauss’s Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier ) in concert with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder, underlining her place among the most compelling British singers of her generation. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Marino Formenti

Gyula Fodor

Christiane Karg

Gisela Schenker

Lucy Crowe

Marco Borggreve

March Tuesday 10 March 7.30 pm

Wednesday 11 March 7.30 pm

The English Concert Harry Bicket director Rosemary Joshua soprano Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano

Modigliani Quartet

Alexander Melnikov piano

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

Feldman Triadic Memories

Locke Suite from The Tempest (Part 1) Purcell If music be the food of love; Draw near, you lovers that complain; Oh, the sweet delights of love Locke Suite from The Tempest (Part 2) Purcell Music for a while; Oh! Fair Cedaria; My dearest, my fairest Blow Arietta variata from Partita No. 7 in C minor Purcell One charming night; The plaint; Love, thou art best Music by Henry Purcell, his predecessor as composer to Charles II’s violin band, Matthew Locke, and his teacher and friend, John Blow, occupy The English Concert’s attention. Harry Bicket and his acclaimed period-instrument orchestra are joined by Rosemary Joshua and Sarah Connolly in a selection of Purcell’s songs, arias and duets, crowned by ‘One charming night’ and ‘The plaint’ from The Fairy Queen.

Thursday 12 March 7.30 pm

Described as one of ‘the best quartets in the world’ by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and as ‘a fab foursome’ by the Seattle Times, the Modigliani Quartet is globally admired for the symphonic intensity, refined balance, tonal beauty and panache of its performance style. This programme presents three contrasting works in minor keys, including a rare chance to hear Dohnányi’s emotionally charged Third String Quartet.

Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories, first performed at the ICA in London in 1981, offers a study in deep listening. This vast work barely rises above a whisper, gently drawing listeners into its kaleidoscopic soundworld of shifting Minimalist textures. The composer described his score as ‘probably the largest butterfly in captivity’, a wonderful metaphor for one of the most exquisite pieces in the contemporary piano repertoire. There will be no interval in this concert £30 £25 £20 £15

£30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series

Chamber Music Season

£35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Modigliani Quartet

Rosemary Joshua, Harry Bicket & Sarah Connolly

Peter Warren

The English Concert

Sylvie Lancrenon

Alexander Melnikov

Marco Borggreve

Richard Haughton

March Friday 13 March 7.30 pm

Saturday 14 March 6.00 pm

Sunday 15 March 11.30 am

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

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Daniel Müller-Schott cello Lauma Skride piano

GENIUS OF VENICE: Sacred Music by Claudio Monteverdi Monteverdi Dixit Dominus (Primo); Currite, populi, psallite timpanis A Gabrieli Intonatione Settimo tono Monteverdi Gloria in excelsis Deo a 7; Venite siccientes; Beatus vir (Primo); Salve Regina; Letaniae della Beata Vergine a 6; O beatae viae; Christe Redemptor omnium A Gabrieli Intonatione Primo tono Monteverdi Magnificat (Primo) Glorious sacred music from Monteverdi’s Venice, as would have been heard by visitors attending services at St Mark’s Basilica around 1610, provides the lifeblood of this concert. One such visitor, hearing music ‘to ravish and stupefy all those that never heard the like’, described the performers as ‘superexcellent’. The King’s Consort’s Monteverdi performances have been acclaimed worldwide. In this vivid programme they feature a world-class ensemble of singers and instrumentalists. £35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series

Nash Ensemble Ian Brown conductor Philippa Davies flute Claire Booth soprano NASH COMMISSIONS Huw Watkins New work David Matthews A Blackbird Sang for flute and string trio Michael Berkeley Three Rilke Sonnets for soprano and ensemble The works will be introduced by the composers in conversation from the stage.

Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Schumann Adagio and Allegro in Ab Op. 70 Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano Daniel Müller-Schott returns to Wigmore Hall to perform three landmark works of the cello repertoire, including Schumann’s heartfelt Adagio and Allegro. He is joined by the Latvian pianist Lauma Skride, recipient of the Bonn Beethoven Festival’s Beethoven-Ring award in 2008. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Free (ticket required) Booking open

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

Saturday 14 March 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Juanjo Mena conductor Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Juan Martín flamenco guitar Turina La oración del torero Op. 34 (The Bullfighter’s Prayer) for string quartet Falla 7 canciones populares españolas (7 Spanish folk songs) for voice and piano; El corregidor y la molinera (The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife); El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician) for mezzo-soprano and ensemble Flamenco guitar music from Andalucía

Daniel Müller-Schott

Uwe Arens

A programme centred around the ballet music of Falla, including The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife, which became Act I of The Three-Cornered Hat, and Love, the Magician. Bernarda Fink sings the part of the gypsy Candelas in the latter, and adds a group of folksong arrangements, while the programme is completed by a tone-poem for string quartet by Falla’s friend Turina and a special appearance by the celebrated flamenco guitarist Juan Martín. £35 £30 £25 £18 Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series The King’s Consort

Keith Saunders

Juan Martín

Suzan Felton

March Sunday 15 March 3.00 pm

Sunday 15 March 7.30 pm

Monday 16 March 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Markus Werba baritone Gary Matthewman piano

Paolo Pandolfo viola da gamba Markus Hunninger harpsichord

Schubert Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk; Der Kreuzzug; Des Fräuleins Liebeslauschen; An die Laute; Alinde; Bei dir allein!; Augenlied; Abendlied für die Entfernte; Auf der Brücke; Normans Gesang; Romanze des Richard Löwenherz; Gebet während der Schlacht; Erlafsee; Der liebliche Stern; Um Mitternacht; Sehnsucht; Selige Welt; Todesmusik

Bach Viola da gamba Sonatas Works by Abel

Cyrille Dubois tenor Tristan Raës piano Duparc Chanson triste; Soupir; Phidylé Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Rachmaninov These Summer Nights; The muse; Spring waters; Dreams Cyrille Dubois has made mighty career strides since graduating from the Paris Conservatoire. The young French tenor’s notable successes on the opera stage include appearances at La Scala and the Opéra de Paris. In 2010 he joined forces with pianist Tristan Raës to form a duo partnership. Their Wigmore Hall debut recital includes Britten’s Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, a work which received its world première at the Hall in 1942. £15 concs £12.50

Markus Werba looks at history as seen through the rear-view mirror of Romantic poetry in songs such as ‘Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk’, the ‘Romanze des Richard Löwenherz’ and the fearsome battle imagery of ‘Gebet während der Schlacht’. The Austrian baritone, accompanied by Gary Matthewman, also explores richly detailed miniatures by Schubert, ‘An die Laute’, ‘Alinde’ and ‘Sehnsucht’ among them.

Song Recital Series

£35 £30 £25 £18

Paolo Pandolfo began his career as a jazz performer. He subsequently made his mark as a viola da gamba specialist in the late 1970s, co-founding the period-instrument ensemble La Stravaganza and swiftly establishing his position among the world’s finest gamba players. He joins his regular artistic collaborator Markus Hunninger for a programme complete with Bach’s intensely expressive sonatas. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Song Recital Series

Cyrille Dubois

Tristan Raës

Stéphane Grangier

Markus Werba

Francesco Luciani

Paolo Pandolfo

Evy Ottermans

March Monday 16 March 7.30 pm

Tuesday 17 March 7.30 pm

Wednesday 18 March 6.00 pm

Pacifica Quartet

Carolyn Sampson soprano Elizabeth Kenny lute Jonathan Manson bass viol Laurence Cummings harpsichord

Pre-Concert Talk

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Shulamit Ran Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory – String Quartet No. 3* (UK première) Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 *Co-commissioned by Music Accord, Suntory Hall, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grantmaking foundation

Shulamit Ran’s musical language pulsates with complex rhythmic patterns and contrasting textures. The virtuosity of her music often pushes performers to explore the far limits of instrumental technique, an essential ingredient of her art’s dramatic power. The Pacifica Quartet presents the UK première of Ran’s latest chamber music score, co-commissioned for the ensemble by Wigmore Hall and presented alongside two works shot through with insights into the human psyche. £30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Composers discuss their works to be performed in the evening concert. Free (ticket required) Booking open

COME ALL YE SONGSTERS Purcell From The Fairy Queen: Come all ye songsters; Sing while we trip it; Ye gentle spirits of the air Purcell The cares of lovers from Timon of Athens; Fly swift, ye hours; Not all my torments; From rosy bowers from Don Quixote; Let the dreadful engines from Don Quixote; I see she flies me; What a sad fate is mine; Pious Celinda goes to prayers; ’Tis nature’s voice; Lucinda is bewitching fair; Hark! The echoing air from The Fairy Queen Interspersed with solo instrumental music by Purcell Henry Purcell and John Blow refined the repertoire of ‘songs sung at court and at the public theatres’ in the years following Charles II’s return to the throne in 1660. Purcell went further than any of his contemporaries in terms of the eloquence, invention and expressive impact of his contributions to the great Restoration songbook. Wigmore Hall favourite Carolyn Sampson and a trio of period-instrument experts present their choice of Purcell songs and arias. £40 £35 £25 £15

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

Early Music and Baroque Series/ Henry Purcell: A Retrospective/ Celebrating Carolyn Sampson Shulamit Ran

NASH INVENTIONS

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series /Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series Wednesday 18 March 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Lionel Friend conductor Richard Hosford clarinet Lucy Wakeford harp Bjørg Lewis cello Claire Booth soprano NASH INVENTIONS Richard Causton Piano Quintet* (2015) (London première) Carter Poems of Louis Zukofsky for soprano and clarinet** (2010) Sir Peter Maxwell Davies String Quintet*** (2015) (world première) Simon Holt Shadow Realm for clarinet, cello and harp** (1983) Sir Harrison Birtwistle 9 Settings of Lorine Niedecker for soprano and cello** (1998 /2000) Julian Anderson Poetry Nearing Silence** (1997) * Commissioned by the BBC for the Nash Ensemble’s 50th anniversary ** Nash Ensemble commissions ** * Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with funds provided by Arts Council England and Wigmore Hall

Valerie Booth

The Nash Ensemble’s 50th anniversary series ends with its annual ‘Nash Inventions’ concert, featuring two new quintets commissioned from major British composers of two generations, Richard Causton and the irrepressible octogenarian Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The programme also includes works written for the group by the eminent American composer Elliott Carter and by three leading British figures, Davies’s contemporary Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Simon Holt and Wigmore Hall’s current Composer in Residence, Julian Anderson. £25 £22 £18 £12 Booking open

Carolyn Sampson

Marco Borggreve

Claire Booth

Sven Arnstein

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

March Thursday 19 March 7.30 pm

Leila Josefowicz violin John Novacek piano Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105 Magnus Lindberg New work* (world première) Erkki-Sven Tüür Conversio John Adams Road Movies *Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Linda and Stuart Nelson, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Schumann’s subjective reflections and the personal psychological torments expressed in his Violin Sonata No. 1 set the concentrated mood for this recital. Leila Josefowicz and John Novacek also bring Magnus Lindberg’s Wigmore Hall commission to life and explore the pulsating rhythms and shifting patterns of John Adams’s Road Movies. Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür’s rip-roaring Conversio completes this irresistible programme mix.

Friday 20 March 7.30 pm

Saturday 21 March 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Cédric Tiberghien piano

CAVATINA Family Concert: Carducci String Quartet

Mozart Adagio in B minor K540 Schubert Piano Sonata in B D575 Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor K457 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ Cédric Tiberghien’s pianism spans the widest contrasts of expression, colour and touch to deliver performances that appear to make time stand still. His programme includes two masterly works by Mozart, both coloured by turbulent emotions, the late Romanticism of Alban Berg’s Op. 1 and the fiery passions and unbridled technical challenges of Beethoven’s ‘Waldstein’ Sonata.

An exciting, interactive hour of fun with the Carducci String Quartet full of inspiration, audience participation and glorious music, including Haydn’s ‘Bird’ and ‘Frog’ quartets, and works by Beethoven, Piazzolla and Philip Glass. Learn the ‘forbidden rhythm’ and see how Shostakovich used it in the ‘wrong note’ Polka, and join the quartet in a performance of Arbeau’s ‘Sword Dance’. Adults £9 Children £7

Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

London Pianoforte Series

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

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Leila Josefowicz

GETTING THE QUARTET BUG

CAVATINA

£35 £30 £25 £18

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

Magnus Lindberg

For ages 5 plus

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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J Henry Fair

Cédric Tiberghien

Benjamin Ealovega

Carducci String Quartet

Andy Holdsworth photography

March Saturday 21 March 7.30 pm

Sunday 22 March 11.30 am

Sunday 22 March 3.00 pm

Gerald Finley bass-baritone Julius Drake piano

Tesla Quartet

Wigmore Hall Debut

Mozart Cantata ‘Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt’ K619 Songs by Beethoven Brahms Four Serious Songs Op. 121 Vaughan Williams 3 Poems by Walt Whitman Ned Rorem War Scenes Song by Ives Matters of life and death course through this programme, powerfully treated by Brahms in his Four Serious Songs and touched upon with lightness by Mozart in his tuneful ‘little German cantata’ of July 1791. Gerald Finley and Julius Drake tackle Ned Rorem’s War Scenes in their recital’s second half, a haunting cycle of five songs dedicated to ‘those who died in Vietnam, both sides, during the composition: 20–30 June 1969’. £35 £30 £25 £18

Classical balance and Romantic intensity meld in Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2, drafted while the composer was on honeymoon in the Black Forest during the summer of 1837. This concert by the Tesla Quartet, Third Prize-winner of the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition, sets out with the noble sweep of Schubert’s Quartettsatz before turning to Haydn’s String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4, highly advanced in drawing its thematic material from tuneful melodies composed in a popular style. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert 2015

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Wigmore Hall

Andrè Schuen baritone Daniel Heide piano Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Wolf Harfenspieler I – III: Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; An die Türen will ich schleichen; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass Martin Six Monologues from Hofmannsthal’s Jedermann Born in Italy’s South Tyrol, Andrè Schuen studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum and refined his innate feeling for song under Wolfgang Holzmair’s care. He opens his Wigmore Hall debut with Schumann’s setting of nine Heine poems, the Liederkreis Op. 24, and journeys towards Frank Martin’s redemptive monologues from Hofmannsthal’s Jedermann by way of the three Harfenspieler songs from Wolf’s Goethe-Lieder. £15 concs £12.50

International

String Quartet

Song Recital Series

Gerald Finley

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

Song Recital Series

Competition

Sim Canetty-Clarke

Tesla Quartet

Arthur Moeller

Andrè Schuen

Angelika Schwarz

March Sunday 22 March 7.30 pm

Monday 23 March 1.00 pm

Tuesday 24 March 6.00 pm

Hilary Hahn violin Cory Smythe piano

Danish String Quartet

Pre-Concert Talk

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in Eb Op. 117

Violist, teacher, and editor of the new Peters Edition of Haydn’s String Quartets, Simon Rowland-Jones talks about the composer’s output for the genre, illustrated with excerpts played by the Arcadia Quartet.

Programme to include: Bach Partita No. 3 in E for solo violin BWV1006 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Interspersed with a selection of encore pieces by contemporary composers Soon after making her professional debut 21 years ago, Hilary Hahn seized international attention with a series of high profile concerto debuts and recordings. Her commitment to the evolution of her instrument’s repertoire is reflected not least in the 27 Hilary Hahn Encores, which she and Cory Smythe have introduced to their recital programmes in recent seasons.

Within a month of starting piano lessons, Dmitry Shostakovich was playing easy pieces by Mozart and Haydn. The Russian composer’s Ninth String Quartet also looks back to music of the past, alluding to the famous fanfare theme from Rossini’s ‘William Tell’ Overture. The dynamic Danish String Quartet, First Prize-winner of the 2009 London International String Quartet Competition, pairs Shostakovich’s often experimental work with the bold rhetoric and virtuosity of Haydn’s String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event 2015

Chamber Music Season

String Quartet Competition

Tuesday 24 March 7.30 pm

2015

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

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

First and Second Prize-winners at the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition, the Arcadia and Meccorre Quartets, join forces in Mendelssohn’s peerless Octet. The wit of Haydn’s String Quartet in E flat Op. 33 No. 2, nicknamed for the ‘has-it-finished-yet?’ repetitions of its rondo theme, and Beethoven’s Shakespeare-inspired String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 complete this programme.

Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet Competition

Monday 23 March 7.30 pm

The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season

See page opposite for full details 2015

Hilary Hahn

Danish String Quartet

Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet

Peter Miller

Caroline Bittencourt

Wigmore Hall

International

£13 concs £11

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

£35 £30 £25 £18

£4

Competition

Arcadia Quartet

Marion Gravrand

Meccorre Quartet

The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall’s Musick continue their season-long celebration of the life and work of Robert Fayrfax. Each concert is shaped by a main theme related to a sacred subject and a sub-plot connected to a central character from Tudor politics. Fayrfax and contemporaries such as John Taverner, William Cornysh and Nicholas Ludford heightened the ruling elite’s experience of worship with music of intricate complexity and sonorous weight, underlining the vitality of the late medieval English Church before Henry VIII’s break with Rome. Monday 23 March 7.30 pm

The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director CHRIST THE KING Sub-plot: Henry VIII Fayrfax Gloria from Missa ‘Regali ex progenie’ Turges From stormy wyndis Sampson Psallite felices Fayrfax Benedicite: What dremyd I?; Magnificat ‘O bone Jesu’ Ludford Domine Jesu Christe Fayrfax I love, loved Taverner Christe Jesu, pastor bone Henry VIII Helas madame Fayrfax That was my woo; Lauda vivi alpha

Photo by Dmitri Gutjahr

Robert Fayrfax, incorporated as a Doctor of Music in Oxford in 1511, was among the musicians who travelled with Henry VIII to France in 1520 to demonstrate England’s prowess at the Field of Cloth of Gold. The King’s considerable skills as a composer are recognised in this concert, which also displays the technical brilliance of Fayrfax’s Missa ‘Regali ex progenie’ and the forward-looking choral textures of his motet Lauda vivi alpha. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Early Music and Baroque Series / The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration

Future Concert in this Series: Saturday 20 June 2015 7.30 pm THE PASSION OF CHRIST Sub-plot: Cardinal Wolsey

March Wednesday 25 March 6.00 pm

Thursday 26 March 7.00 pm NB Starting time

Friday 27 March 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Performance

Atrium Quartet

Performance by quartets that took part in the National Young String Quartet Weekend earlier in the year at Chetham’s School of Music.

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

Benjamin Appl baritone Graham Johnson piano

Free (ticket required)

Founded in St Petersburg in 2000, the Atrium Quartet confirmed its exceptional promise three years later as winner of the London International String Quartet Competition. The ensemble’s close association with the music of Shostakovich is reflected in this programme, which sets the composer’s ground-breaking Twelfth String Quartet in company with the contrapuntal complexities of Borodin’s First String Quartet and transcendent spiritual qualities of Beethoven’s late String Quartet in A minor.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event 2015

Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet Competition

Wednesday 25 March 7.30 pm

Louis Lortie piano

£35 £30 £25 £18

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

This concert will be approximately 2 hours 30 minutes in duration, with an interval

Louis Lortie’s acclaimed artistry arises from the combination of his uncanny technical command and the visionary insights into the works in his repertoire. Two mighty pillars of the piano literature occupy his attention in this recital, both inexhaustible in the variety of their ideas and what they have to say about the human condition.

Schubert Am Bach im Frühling; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Im Freien; Geheimes; Wandrers Nachtlied II; An den Mond (D259); Das Lied im Grünen; Fischerweise; Verklärung; An den Tod; Der Zwerg; An die Leier; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Memnon; Alinde; Der Kampf; Prometheus; Die Gebüsche; Nachtstück; Im Abendrot German baritone Benjamin Appl has established a close artistic rapport with Graham Johnson since joining the latter’s Young Songmakers’ Almanac project in 2012. Their recital highlights Appl’s affinity for Schubert, devoted here to a selection of songs that span everything from the radiant joy of ‘Am Bach im Frühling’ and conflicting emotions of ‘An den Mond’ to the contemplation of death and renewal in ‘Nachtstück’.

Chamber Music Season £30 £25 £20 £15

2015

Wigmore Hall

International

Song Recital Series

String Quartet Competition

£35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Benefactor Friends of Wigmore Hall

London Pianoforte Series

Louis Lortie

Elias

Atrium Quartet

Maria Budtova

Benjamin Appl

David Jerusalem

March Saturday 28 March 2.00 pm & 7.30 pm

Sunday 29 March 11.30 am

Sunday 29 March 6.00 pm

Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2015

Dover Quartet

Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2015

SEMI-FINALS After giving two different recital programmes during the Preliminary Round, at least six quartets selected by the International Jury will perform their choice of one of Beethoven’s quartets. At the end of the evening, the Jury will select at least three quartets for the Final. Each session: £35 £30 £25 £18

Book for both Semi-Final sessions and receive a 20% discount

Chamber Music Season/ Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2015

Wigmore Hall

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 11 in C Op. 61 The Dover Quartet emerged victorious from the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, capturing the event’s Grand Prize and securing three additional prizes, including that for the best Haydn performance. The ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall following its Semi-Final performance in the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition, pairing one of Haydn’s most inventive string quartets with the classical refinement and romantic harmonies of Dvorˇák’s String Quartet No. 11. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

International

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Competition

2015

String Quartet

Wigmore Hall

International

FINAL The selected finalists will each play their chosen work from the Romantic repertoire, which could include works by Brahms, Debussy, Dvorˇák, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Schumann, Schubert and Smetana. The concert will be followed by the Awards Ceremony at about 9.00 pm. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2015

Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet Competition

String Quartet Saturday 28 March 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm

Competition

Beethoven Masterclass Mark Messenger gives a masterclass on one of Beethoven’s string quartets, with a big screen projection of the score behind the performing ensemble. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event 2015

Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet Competition

Mark Messenger

Milken Family Foundation

Dover Quartet

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2015

Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet Competition

The 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition is the thirteenth edition of this prestigious Competition, and a celebration of the art of the string quartet. Alongside the Competition itself, we are delighted to welcome back many ‘alumni’ from previous years to perform in concerts throughout the week. Saturday 28 March 2.00 pm & 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2015

Related Events

Pre-Concert Performance Tuesday 24 March 10.00 am At the Royal Academy of Music

Mark-Anthony Turnage Talk CONTUSION To open the 2015 Competition, Mark-Anthony Turnage talks about Contusion, his new work for string quartet, which is the compulsory piece for the Competitors. Contusion was 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, to be premièred by the Belcea Quartet at Wigmore Hall in December 2014. Free (no ticket required) Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Book for both Semi-Final sessions and receive a 20% discount

Tuesday 24 March 6.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Thursday 26 March 10.00 am – 5.00 pm Friday 27 March 10.00 am – 5.00 pm At the Royal Academy of Music

Masterclasses WITH CHRISTOPH RICHTER String quartets wishing to take part should contact quartetcompetition@wigmore-hall.org.uk for information. The sessions will be open to the public. Free (no ticket required)

Saturday 28 March 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm

Beethoven Masterclass

WITH MARK MESSENGER

£4

Sunday 29 March 6.00 pm

Wednesday 25 March 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm Repeated 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm

Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2015

At the Royal Academy of Music

FINAL

An unmissable opportunity for inspiration and professional coaching for adult amateur string quartets. Work on a piece of repertoire of your choice with expert guidance from the Carducci String Quartet, and perform it in the Royal Academy of Music’s David Josefowitz Recital Hall at the end of the workshop.

Chamber Music Season/ Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition

Free (ticket required)

Pre-Concert Talk

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£35 £30 £25 £18

Performance by quartets that took part in the National Young String Quartet Weekend earlier in the year at Chetham’s School of Music.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Chamber Music Season/Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition

The selected finalists will each play their chosen work from the Romantic repertoire, which could include works by Brahms, Debussy, Dvorˇák, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Schumann, Schubert and Smetana. The concert will be followed by the Awards Ceremony at about 9.00 pm.

Wednesday 25 March 6.00 pm

Come and Play: String Quartets

£60 per quartet (Tickets can only be booked as a complete quartet)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

A masterclass on one of Beethoven’s string quartets, with a big screen projection of the score behind the performing ensemble. £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Related Concerts at Wigmore Hall Sunday 22 March 11.30 am

Tesla Quartet Monday 23 March 1.00 pm

Danish String Quartet Tuesday 24 March 7.30 pm

Arcadia Quartet Meccorre Quartet Thursday 26 March 7.00 pm

Atrium Quartet Sunday 29 March 11.30 am

Dover Quartet 57

March Monday 30 March 1.00 pm

Tuesday 31 March 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Los Músicos de Su Alteza

Zhang Zuo piano

Olalla Alemán soprano Pedro Reula viola da gamba Josep María Martí chitarrone Luis Antonio González director, harpsichord

Bach Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26 Zhang Zuo, a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, has inspired audiences and critics alike with the technical accomplishment and captivating spontaneity of her performances. With a busy international schedule, including a date in the 2014 BBC Proms, she makes her Wigmore Hall debut with a choice of works guaranteed to bring out the emotional fire and precision of her pianism. £13 concs £11

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

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monteverdi Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius Grandi O quam tu pulchra es Correa de Arauxo Tiento y discurso de segundo tono Berges Oh santísima Cruz Kapsberger Toccata seconda Ferrari Cantata spirituale Monteverdi Pianto della Madonna Frescobaldi Toccata prima Sances Stabat Mater Los Músicos de Su Alteza, named after the accomplished band of musicians maintained by the Vicar General of Aragón in the late 1600s, has made waves in the Early Music world with the sheer vitality and affective power of its performances. The thrilling Spanish ensemble, founded by Luis Antonio González in 1992, explores the multi-hued colours of sacred works from the Iberian Peninsula and Venice together with improvisatory toccatas by Kapsberger and Frescobaldi. £35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series

Zhang Zuo

Los Músicos de Su Alteza

Michal Novak

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T It remains of the utmost importance for Wigmore Hall to nurture the finest young artists in order to ensure that the demanding standards and values set deep within today’s musical practices live long into the next generation and beyond. Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent allows us to create essential performance opportunities for some of these artists as they gain experience and broaden their knowledge of the repertoire. Young artists supported by the Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent scheme in 2014/15 are:

Apollon Musagète Quartet

JACK Quartet

Tuesday 16 September 2014

Monday 19 January 2015

Four Polish-born musicians chose the title of a Stravinsky ballet to name their new quartet in 2006. The Apollon Musagète Quartet made its mark two years later by winning the ARD International Music Competition, and was selected as BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist in 2012. The Quartet now enjoys a busy international schedule, and is acclaimed by audiences and critics alike around the globe.

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

Behzod Abduraimov Tuesday 30 September 2014

Behzod Abduraimov’s jaw-dropping technical brilliance is complemented by the subtle eloquence of his musicianship. The Uzbek artist, born in 1990, stormed to spectacular success as winner of the 2009 London International Piano Competition. Now an exclusive Decca artist, Behzod’s captivating performances are rapidly establishing him as one of the forerunners of his generation.

Igor Levit Saturday 27 December 2014 Monday 26 January 2015 Sunday 8 February 2015 Wednesday 10 June 2015 Monday 20 July 2015

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

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle Sunday 1 February 2015

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

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

Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

EVENTS FOR FAMILIES,YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS All events listed on pages 60 – 63 will open for booking on 4 November, with the exception of the Family Concerts on 21 February and 21 March, Come and Sing on 7 February, and Come and Play on 25 March, which go on sale to Friends on 8 October and to Mailing List Subscribers on 21 October.

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

January/February Wednesday 21 January 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Saturday 31 January 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Saturday 7 February 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Nicola Benedetti

The Music Machine

Come and Sing: Early Opera

KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT

FAMILY DAY

A very special opportunity to hear the celebrated young violinist, Nicola Benedetti, in a concert presented especially for schools. Nicola will play music, including works by Beethoven, which has been explored through her work with young people over the years. She will be accompanied by her regular pianist, Alexei Grynyuk.

For ages 6 plus

£3.50

Create a mechanical musical world with workshop leader Jessie Maryon Davies and musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. Work together to explore new sounds, hear exciting music by contemporary composers, and build a brand new piece where everyone is a musical cog in a marvellous machine.

£24 concs £16

Adults £15 Children £10

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and London Music Masters

Nicola Benedetti www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning 60

Kevin Westenberg

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February Tuesday 17 February 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Saturday 21 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Too Hot to Handel

Early Opera Company and Isabelle Adams: Purcell’s King Arthur

FAMILY DAY For ages 6 plus Travel back to the year 1749 to explore the great composer George Frideric Handel’s home, where he is busy writing his Music for the Royal Fireworks. After our morning visit to Handel House Museum, join workshop leader Kate Mapp to discover your inner composer, and create some explosive music of your own to perform on stage at the end of the day.

FAMILY CONCERT For ages 5 plus A repeat of the schools concert on 12 February, for families. Adults £9 Children £7

Adults £15 Children £10

In partnership with Handel House

Isabelle Adams

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Thursday 12 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Early Opera Company and Isabelle Adams: Purcell’s King Arthur KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT Join instrumentalists and singers from the Early Opera Company and presenter Isabelle Adams for a magical musical story featuring King Arthur, Merlin, Guinevere and England’s Patron Saint, George. Adapted from Purcell’s opera and using extracts of the original music, we will tell an alternative tale of King Arthur on an adventure through golden fields, icy forests and epic battles. £3.50

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March Wednesday 11 March 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm

Saturday 21 March 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Young Producers Concert

CAVATINA Family Concert: Carducci String Quartet

What happens when a group of talented young people from three secondary schools in Tower Hamlets programme a concert at Wigmore Hall? Which artists will they choose? What will they play? Find out more about this unique project at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk /young-producers Free (no ticket required)

In partnership with Tower Hamlets Arts and Music Education Service (THAMES)

For ages 5 plus

GETTING THE QUARTET BUG An exciting, interactive hour of fun with the Carducci String Quartet full of inspiration, audience participation and glorious music, including Haydn’s ‘Bird’ and ‘Frog’ quartets, and works by Beethoven, Piazzolla and Philip Glass. Learn the ‘forbidden rhythm’ and see how Shostakovich used it in the ‘wrong note’ Polka, and join the quartet in a performance of Arbeau’s ‘Sword Dance’.

Carducci String Quartet

Andy Holdsworth Photography

Wednesday 25 March 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm Repeated 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm

Adults £9 Children £7 CAVATINA

At the Royal Academy of Music

Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

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

Come and Play: String Quartets An unmissable opportunity for inspiration and professional coaching for adult amateur string quartets. Work on a piece of repertoire of your choice with expert guidance from the Carducci String Quartet and perform it in the Royal Academy of Music’s David Josefowitz Recital Hall at the end of the workshop. £60 per quartet (Tickets can only be booked as a complete quartet)

2015

Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet Competition

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March Sunday 29 March 11.30 am – 4.30 pm

At the Royal Academy of Music

String Quartet Discovery Day FREE FAMILY DAY For ages 5 plus Join us at the Royal Academy of Music, where you will be able to listen to a concert, write your own music, try out a violin or even build your own paper cello at this fun family day. Discover and explore interesting instruments and spectacular stringy sounds with fantastic young musicians on hand to help you along the way, including a string quartet of course. Free (no ticket required)

2015

Wigmore Hall

International

String Quartet Competition

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Chamber Zone FREE CONCERT TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOLS

Over the last seven years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticket scheme Chamber Zone has reached over 5,000 young people aged 8 –25 years. Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust and 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

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

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

Please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk / contemporary for further details on all forthcoming concerts in the Contemporary Music Series. Booking for all concerts in this series is now open. Wednesday 14 January 1.00 pm

Tuesday 3 February 7.30 pm

Britten Sinfonia

EXAUDI

Kaija Saariaho*

Heinz Holliger & Michael Finnissy (Programme devised by Composer in Residence Julian Anderson)

Wednesday 14 January 7.30 pm

Gould Piano Trio

Wednesday 4 February 1.00 pm

James MacMillan

Britten Sinfonia

Saturday 17 January 6.00 pm

Ben Comeau*

Nash Ensemble

Saturday 7 February 6.00 pm

Alexander Goehr, John Casken & Judith Weir

Nash Ensemble

Sunday 18 January 7.30 pm

Richard Rodney Bennett, Julian Anderson & Nicholas Maw

Jerusalem Quartet Brian Elias

Thursday 12 February 7.30 pm

Monday 19 January 7.30 pm

Lawrence Power viola, violin Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

JACK Quartet Elliott Carter, Georg Friedrich Haas, John Zorn & Simon Holt *

Colin Matthews, Huw Watkins & Mark-Anthony Turnage*

Tuesday 17 February 7.30 pm

Thursday 12 March 7.30 pm

Sunday 14 June 7.30 pm

Michala Petri recorder Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

Alexander Melnikov piano

Carducci String Quartet Guy Johnston cello

Morton Feldman

Daniel Kidane & Axel Borup-Jørgensen

Anthony Gilbert* Saturday 14 March 6.00 pm

Wednesday 18 February 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble

Pavel Haas Quartet Colin Currie percussion

Huw Watkins, David Matthews & Michael Berkeley

Jirˇí Gemrot

Monday 16 March 7.30 pm

Tuesday 24 February 7.30 pm

Pacifica Quartet

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Gillian Keith soprano Rebecca von Lipinski soprano Jonathan Berman conductor Jonathan Harvey, Milton Babbitt, Gerald Barry, Thomas Adès, Kurt Schwertsik, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Olga Neuwirth, Poul Ruders, Osvaldo Golijov, Salvatore Sciarrino, Detlev Glanert, Niccolò Castiglioni, Aldo Clementi & Franco Donatoni Saturday 28 February

Shulamit Ran* Wednesday 18 March 7.30 pm

£30 £25 £20 £15

Friday 19 June 7.30 pm

Baiba Skride violin Gergana Gergova violin Brett Dean viola Nils Mönkemeyer viola Alban Gerhardt cello Brett Dean £30 £25 £20 £15

Nash Ensemble Sir Peter Maxwell Davies*, Elliott Carter, Julian Anderson, Richard Causton, Simon Holt & Sir Harrison Birtwistle Thursday 19 March 7.30 pm

Leila Josefowicz violin John Novacek piano Magnus Lindberg*, Erkki-Sven Tüür & John Adams

Wednesday 1 July 7.30 pm

Carolyn Sampson soprano Heath Quartet John Musto* £30 £25 £20 £15

Tuesday 7 July 7.30 pm

Friday 8 May 7.00 pm

Aurora Orchestra Claire Booth soprano

Wolfgang Rihm*

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Julian Anderson, Augusta Read Thomas* & Sir Harrison Birtwistle (Programme devised by Composer in Residence Julian Anderson)

Wednesday 4 March 1.00 pm

Helen Grime*

Britten Sinfonia

£30 £25 £20 £15

Joey Roukens*

Sunday 24 May 7.30 pm

Friday 6 March 7.30 pm

Inon Barnatan piano

Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day

Francesco Piemontesi piano

£30 £25 £20 £15

Monday 20 July 7.30 pm

Sebastian Currier*

Igor Levit piano Cornelius Cardew & Frederic Rzewski* £30 £25 £20 £15

£30 £25 £20 £15

Maximilian Schnaus* Saturday 6 June 7.30 pm Sunday 8 March 7.30 pm

Marino Formenti piano

Aurora Orchestra Alice Coote mezzo-soprano

Jean Barraqué

Judith Weir*

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

£40 £35 £25 £15

BOOKING INFORMATION Booking Dates Booking Period 2 Friday 2 January – Tuesday 31 March 2015 Friends – Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by Wednesday 8 October 2014 Mailing List – Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by Tuesday 21 October 2014 General Public – By telephone/online from Tuesday 4 November 2014

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

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

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

A–D

T– X Q– S

N–P STA LL S C– M A –B

A AA A

CC BB

PL ATFO RM

Car Parking

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

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

Telephone Bookings 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm. Days without an evening concert 10.00am – 5.00pm. There is a non-refundable £3.00 administration charge for each transaction. This includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits.

A AA A

Facilities for Disabled People Full details from 020 7258 8210 or access@wigmore-hall.org.uk

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

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

Online Bookings Online booking is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and you can select your own seat. There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration charge.

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

Group Bookings OXFORD CIRCUS

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

Restaurant/Bar

BALCONY

CC BB

Box Office Hours

BOND STREET

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

This brochure is available in alternative formats. Please contact the Box Office if this would be of assistance to you. Telephone: 020 7935 2141 Email: boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk

Transport

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

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

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

SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALL With £1.5 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend, or by sponsoring a concert or Learning event, please call 020 7258 8230 or email friends@wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information. The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert, Learning and community programmes: Honorary Patrons

Donors and Sponsors

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

Mr Eric Abraham* Elaine Adair Tony and Marion Allen* The Andor Charitable Trust David and Jacqueline Ansell* Arts Council England Anthony Austin Ben Baglio and Richard Wilson BBC Children in Need David and Margaret Beaton Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez Mrs Arline Blass David and Mary Bowerman* Alan Bradley* Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair bureauexport Clive Butler CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust Charities Advisory Trust City Bridge Trust Colin Clark Eric Clause* Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation ‡ Edwin C Cohen Sonia and Harvey Cole John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Anthony Davis* Pauline Del Mar Diaphonique The Dorset Foundation Douglas and Janette Eden Annette Ellis* Vernon and Hazel Ellis The Elton Family Dr C A Endersby and Prof D Cowan Caroline Erskine Mrs Susan Feakin The Fidelio Charitable Trust Peter and Sonia Field A bequest from the late Miss Margaret Flatman John and Amy Ford Institut Français du Royaume-Uni

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

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

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

S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 Friends of Wigmore Hall Jonathan Gaisman* The Garrick Charitable Trust John Gilhooly John and Lauren Goldsmith* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Charles Green Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* Haringey Music Service The Headley Trust Nicholas Hodgson André and Rosalie Hoffmann‡ Peter and Carol Honey* Gay Huey Evans* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Hyde Park Place Estate Charity Simone Hyman* Peter and Nikki Jeffcote John Lyon’s Charity Marc Jourdren* In memory of Donald Kahn Su and Neil Kaplan* Jerome Karet* David and Louise Kaye* Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn* The Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Maryly La Follette* The Leverhulme Trust Tim Llewellyn Dame Felicity Lott* The Loveday Charitable Trust Simon and Sophie Ludlam* Julia MacRae* Simon and Pamela Majaro Mayfield Valley Arts Trust George Meyer Milton Damerel Trust The Monument Trust Amyas and Louise Morse* A C and F A Myer Valerie O’Connor and Jeannette McIntosh Hamish Parker The Piano Fund Dr Clive Potter* Nick and Claire Prettejohn*

The Radcliffe Trust Edith Randall The Rayne Foundation Gifts to honour Rick Rogers from Beryl McAlhone and friends Charles Rose* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, Hon. RCM* Ruth Rothbarth* The Rubinstein Circle The Sampimon Trust The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust Louise Scheuer Julia Schottlander* Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* The Shoresh Charitable Trust Sir Martin and Lady Smith* Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* Gill and Keith Stella* Derek Sugden Anne and Paul Swain* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* The Tertis Foundation Allen Thomas and Jane Simpson* Tower Hamlets Arts Music and Education Service John and Ann Tusa* Robin Vousden* Gerry Wakelin* Stephen and Josie Waley-Cohen Andrew and Hilary Walker* Professor Janet Walker CD and Professor Doug Jones AO* David and Frances Waters* David Evan Williams The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Philip and Emeline Winston* The Wolfson Foundation Simon Yates and Kevin Roon and several anonymous donors * Rubinstein Circle members † Early Music & Baroque Series supporters ‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters

Details correct as of July 2014

New releases on Wigmore Hall Live

CDs priced from £9.99 Available to buy from the foyer, www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/live and 020 7935 2141

Ian Bostridge Julius Drake Songs by Schubert

Jonathan Biss

Christian Blackshaw Mozart Piano Sonatas – Volume 2 (Double CD)

Sitkovetsky Trio

Available from 29 September

Schumann & Janáček

Brahms & Schubert Available from 29 September

Director: John Gilhooly OBE 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP The Wigmore Hall Trust, registered charity number 1024838

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