July 2016 - Wigmore Hall

July 2016
Julia Fischer
INSIDE:
Florian Boesch
Ian Bostridge & Lars Vogt
Doric String Quartet
Mahan Esfahani
Igor Levit
Christian McBride
& Chick Corea
Francesco Piemontesi
Quatuor Van Kuijk
Nathalie Stutzmann
& Orfeo 55
Roderick Williams
and many more
Box Office 020 7935 2141
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Cover: Julia Fischer © Felix Broede
Sophie Gent
Matthew Truscott
Gerard Collett
TRIOS AND SOLOS BY THE MOST
FAM’D MASTERS
Purcell Sonata in Four Parts No. 9 in F Z810; Suite in A minor Z663;
Sonata in Three Parts No. 10 in A Z799; Sonata in Three Parts
No. 6 in C Z795 Croft Ground for harpsichord (formerly attr. Purcell)
Purcell Sonata in Three Parts No. 9 in C minor Z798; Sonata in Four
Parts No. 6 in G minor Z807 Corelli Trio Sonata in G Op. 2 No. 12
Thomas Dunford
‘Ciaccona’; Trio Sonata in C Op. 3 No. 8 Dowland The King of Denmark’s
Galliard; Lachrimae Kapsberger Toccata No. 6 from Libro primo d’intavolatura di lauto
Dalza Calate ala spagnola Handel Trio Sonata in F HWV392
Jonathan Manson
Peer Lindgreen
Sophie Gent violin
Matthew Truscott violin
Jonathan Manson viola da gamba, cello
Thomas Dunford lute
Trevor Pinnock harpsichord, organ
Marco Borggreve
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Marco Borggreve
Friday 1 July 7.30 pm
Trevor Pinnock
Wigmore Hall’s acclaimed Purcell series closes in fitting style with a survey of the composer’s chamber music.
Trevor Pinnock, a pioneer of period-instrument performance, is joined by an outstanding trio of string players in a
programme complete with Purcell’s Italianate sonatas in four parts and Handel’s Trio Sonata in F, probably written
during his apprentice years in Italy.
£40 £30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
Saturday 2 July 7.30 pm
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Nathalie Stutzmann
Orfeo 55
director, contralto
Vivaldi Concerto in D for lute and strings RV93; Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro RV169; Stabat Mater RV621
Vivaldi Agitata infido flatu from Juditha triumphans; Ritornello di Medoro from Orlando Furioso; Io sento in questo seno
from Arsilda, regina di Ponto; Cor mio, che prigion sei from L’Atenaide; Largo from Bassoon Concerto in G RV493;
Gelido in ogni vena from Farnace; Concerto for Strings in C RV109; Gemo in un punto e fremo from L’Olimpiade
Nathalie Stutzmann’s artistry stems from early studies in piano, bassoon, chamber music and conducting. Her rich
contralto voice was developed during lessons with her mother, the soprano Christiane Stutzmann, and subsequently
at the École d’Art Lyrique de l’Opéra de Paris with the legendary Hans Hotter. In addition to performing with the
world’s leading orchestras and being an esteemed recitalist, she has flourished in recent years as a conductor.
Stutzmann returns to Wigmore Hall with her ensemble Orfeo 55 to explore the energy, emotion and lyrical beauty of
some of Vivaldi’s finest arias, complete with his plangent setting of Stabat Mater.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Supported by Dunard Fund
Simon Fowler
DR – VG
Early Music and Baroque Series
Nathalie Stutzmann
Orfeo 55
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Uwe Neumann
Philippe Cassard piano
Cédric Pescia piano
Bernard Martinez
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Sunday 3 July 11.30 am
Mozart Sonata in F for piano duet K497
Debussy Six épigraphes antiques
Schubert Fantasie in F minor D940
Two artists blessed with rich experience as solo artists and chamber
musicians share the stage to create the irresistible force of a piano
duet. Philippe Cassard and Cédric Pescia open with Mozart’s most
Philippe Cassard
serious work for piano four-hands and probe Debussy’s atmospheric
portraits of everything from ‘Pan, god of the summer wind’ to ‘a tomb without name’.
Cédric Pescia
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Sunday 3 July 3.00 pm
Royal College of Music
Junior Department Young Artists
Programme to include performances by the winners of the 2016
RCMJD Chamber Music Prize and other leading soloists from
the RCM Junior Department.
The RCM Junior Department offers advanced training to young
musicians aged 8 – 18, providing individually-tailored programmes of
instrument, voice and composition lessons, supported by chamber
music, orchestra, choir and musicianship classes. This concert will
feature performances from some of the RCMJD’s leading soloists
together with the winners of the RCMJD 2016 Chamber Music Prize.
Royal College of Music Juniors
All seats £15
Royal College of Music Junior Department
Sunday 3 July 7.30 pm
Royal College of Music String Showcase Concert
Emily Sun
Aiga Ozo
Yume Fujise
Jamal Aliyev
Jana Koelmel
Laia Braun, Yume Fujise,
Jian Ren, Emily Sun violin
Bryony Gibson-Cornish viola
Jamal Aliyev, Yoon-Kyung Cho,
Yaroslava Trofymchuk cello
Jon Mikel Martínez Valgañón double bass
Hin-Yat Tsang piano Maria Tarasewicz piano
REFLECTIONS
Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A b Op. 70 Prokofiev Sonata No. 2 in D
Op. 94bis Szymanowski Three Paganini Caprices Op. 40
Schubert Erlkönig D328 (arr. for solo violin by Ernst) Martinu° Variations on
a theme by Rossini Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’
Yoon-Kyung Cho
Jon Mikel Martínez
Valgañón
The Royal College of Music annual summer concert showcases some of the RCM’s most outstanding young string
players. This year’s programme, ‘Reflections’, features works where the composer himself has arranged the work of
another composer or one of his own pieces, such as Schubert’s ever popular ‘Trout’ Quintet.
£20 £18 £14 £12 £10 (£5 RCM Students)
Royal College of Music
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Monday 4 July 1.00 pm
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Lukas Beck
Florian Boesch baritone
Justus Zeyen piano
Schumann Es leuchtet meine Liebe; Die feindlichen Brüder;
Die beiden Grenadiere; Märzveilchen; Muttertraum; Der Soldat;
Der Spielmann; Verratene Liebe
Wolf Der Schäfer; Phänomen; Wanderers Nachtlied; Anakreons
Grab; Harfenspieler I–III; Prometheus
Austrian baritone Florian Boesch is widely regarded to be among
Florian Boesch
Justus Zeyen
today’s foremost interpreters of Lieder, a consummate artist blessed
with the breadth of tonal colours, keen intelligence and insight required to create the alchemical marriage between
words and music. He is joined for this concert by Grammy Award nominee Justus Zeyen.
All seats £15
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Monday 4 July 6.00 pm
Artists in Conversation
Pianist Igor Levit and violinist Julia Fischer discuss their lives as performers, as well as the evening programme,
alongside Annette Morreau.
£4
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Monday 4 July 7.30 pm
Julia Fischer violin
Igor Levit piano
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Op. 12 No. 1; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2;
Violin Sonata No.3 in E b Op. 12 No. 3; Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23
Julia Fischer and Igor Levit launch their survey of Beethoven’s violin sonatas with the three strikingly individual works
of the composer’s Op. 12, a popular success following their publication in the late 1790s. Creative striving and a
tumult of ideas hallmark the Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 23, a work of daring experiment and invention.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected
concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John
Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Felix Booede and Gregor Hohenberg
Chamber Music Season
Julia Fischer and Igor Levit
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Julia Fischer violin
Igor Levit piano
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’; Violin Sonata
No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1; Violin Sonata No.7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2;
Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Op. 30 No. 3
Gregor Hohenberg
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Harald Hoffmann
Tuesday 5 July 7.30 pm
Beethoven reflects on the individual’s relationship to the natural
world and the blissful qualities of nature in his lyrical ‘Spring’ Sonata
Julia Fischer
Igor Levit
of 1800. The three sonatas of Op. 30 date from 1802, the time of
the Heiligenstadt Testament, Beethoven’s heart-breaking letter about the despair and anguish caused by his hearing loss.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season
Wednesday 6 July 7.30 pm
Felix Broede
Julia Fischer violin
Igor Levit piano
Simon Jay Price
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Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’;
Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96
Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata was written for George Polegreen
Bridgetower, former leader of the Brighton Pavilion Orchestra, while
Julia Fischer
Igor Levit
the warm-hearted Violin Sonata No. 10 was conceived in 1812 for
a private performance given by the composer’s patron and piano pupil Archduke Rudolph of Austria and the French
violinist Pierre Rode. Both are virtuoso works that deliver rich rewards to performers and audiences alike.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by the Chamber Music Circle
Chamber Music Season
Thursday 7 July 7.30 pm
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Ian Bostridge tenor
Lars Vogt piano
Schubert Hymne I–4; Marie; Nachthymne; Einsamkeit; Sängers Morgenlied I & II; Das war ich; Auf der Riesenkoppe;
Der Tod und das Mädchen; Ihr Grab; Schwestergruss; Am See; An die Leier; Im Haine
Schubert’s songs often subvert ideas of high art by using the simplest musical material to fathom spiritual depths.
The four hymns that open Ian Bostridge’s recital, for example, match music of the greatest economy to profoundly
moving words by Novalis, while the haunting quality of ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ (‘Death and the Maiden’) arises
directly from its insistent melodic and rhythmic repetitions.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Neda Navaee
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs
Lars Vogt
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Ian Bostridge
Christian McBride double bass
Chick Corea piano
For the second concert in his curatorship of
the Wigmore Hall Jazz Series, star bassist
Christian McBride is joined by the great jazz
pianist Chick Corea. A DownBeat Hall of Famer,
NEA Jazz Master and 22-time Grammy winner,
Chick Corea has attained living legend status
after five decades of vibrant creativity and a
staggering artistic output. Following their
spectacular collaboration on the 2014 trio
album ‘Trilogy’, McBride and Corea join forces
again for a special duo recital that promises to
be one of the jazz highlights of the year.
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R R Jones
Friday 8 July 7.00 pm NB starting time
Christian McBride
Chick Corea
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Wigmore Hall Jazz Series
AT WILTON’S MUSIC HALL
Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano
Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers
Programme to include:
Cole Porter (arranged by Juraj Bartoš) Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye;
I Get a Kick Out of You; I’ve Got You Under My Skin; Night and Day;
Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love; What Is This Thing Called Love?
James Mackenzie and Tony Simpson and White Light Ltd
Friday 8 July 7.30 pm
(repeated Saturday 9 July 7.30 pm)
As part of Magdalena Kožená’s series this season, the mezzo-soprano
has partnered with Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers for this
Wilton’s Music Hall
extraordinary Wigmore Series concert taking place at Wilton’s Music Hall.
Wilton’s is one of the last and oldest surviving grand music halls in the world, offering a vibrant blend of culture,
heritage, learning and participation, with a diverse programme of theatre, opera, dance and music.
£50 £35 £15 Tickets only available from Wigmore Hall Box Office
Please note that best available seats will be assigned at your chosen price at the time of purchase
Song Recital Series / Wigmore Hall Jazz Series /Celebrating Magdalena Kožená
Wilton’s Music Hall
1 Graces Alley
London E1 8JB
Nearest stations: Aldgate East, Tower Hill, Tower Gateway & Shadwell
Mathias Bothor/Deutsche Grammophon
For directions and details of the venue, please visit www.wiltons.org.uk or call 020 7702 2789.
Magdalena Kožená
Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers
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Friday 8 July 10.00 pm
Zoë Martlew cello
REVUE Z – ONE WOMAN CABARET WRITTEN AND
PERFORMED BY ZOË MARTLEW
Revue Z, the spectacular cabaret creation from pigeonhole-defying
cellist, performer, composer, blogger, broadcaster and educator
Zoë Martlew, comes to Wigmore Hall for an unmissable late-night
outing. Since its inaugural London performance eight years ago,
this uproarious, moving, sexy, hilarious and defiantly off-the-wall
show has stormed to success at festivals in the UK, Denmark,
Iceland, Vietnam and Canada.
All seats £15
Wigmore Lates
Zoë Martlew
Saturday 9 July 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
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Come and Sing: Music and Monarchs
Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring songs written for, and by, monarchs from around the world
and across the ages. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a
performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.
£25 concs £19
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Come and Sing
Jonathan Plowright piano
Bach/Busoni Chorale Prelude ‘Nun komm der Heiden Heiland’ BWV659;
Chorale Prelude ‘Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’ BWV639
Brahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 Liszt Funérailles S173 No. 7
Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV1004
Schumann Carnaval Op. 9
Dianae Shaw
Saturday 9 July 7.30 pm
Liszt, notes Alfred Brendel, ‘revealed the full horizon of what the piano
was able to offer’. Jonathan Plowright’s recital includes the composer’s
elegy to lives and dreams destroyed by the bloody suppression of the
Hungarian revolution of 1848. He also presents Busoni’s brilliant Bach
transcriptions and Schumann’s collection of miniature portraits in sound,
Carnaval, inspired by a turbulent and short-lived love affair.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
London Pianoforte Series
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Jonathan Plowright
Saturday 9 July 7.30 pm
James Mackenzie and Tony Simpson and White Light Ltd
AT WILTON’S MUSIC HALL
Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano
Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers
Repeat of concert on Friday 8 Juy
£50 £35 £15 Tickets only available from Wigmore Hall Box Office
Please note that best available seats will be assigned at your chosen price
at the time of purchase
Song Recital Series / Wigmore Hall Jazz Series /
Celebrating Magdalena Kožená
Wilton’s Music Hall
Wilton’s Music Hall
1 Graces Alley
London E1 8JB
Nearest stations: Aldgate East, Tower Hill, Tower Gateway & Shadwell
Jiři Sláma
For directions and details of the venue, please visit www.wiltons.org.uk or call 020 7702 2789.
Magdalena Kožená
Sunday 10 July 11.30 am
Christian Steiner
Benjamin Beilman* violin
Andrew Tyson piano
Giorgia Bertazzi
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Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers
Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454
Janáček Violin Sonata
Schubert Rondo in B minor D895
Benjamin Beilman’s impassioned
performances have earned plaudits from
leading critics and invitations to appear
at the world’s most prestigious venues.
The American violinist, now in his
mid-20s, made his international
breakthrough in 2010 as winner of the
Montreal International Music Competition.
His programme is, by turns, meditative
and playful.
Benjamin Beilman
Andrew Tyson
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
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Sunday 10 July 7.30 pm
Tine Thing Helseth trumpet
Kathryn Stott piano
Honegger Intrada Jennifer Higdon Trumpet songs Martinů Sonatina for trumpet and piano
Rolf Wallin Elegie Pilss Sonata for trumpet and piano Bartók Romanian Folk Dances (transcribed for trumpet)
Grieg Haugtussa Op. 67 ‘The Mountain Maid’ (transcribed for trumpet)
Tine Thing Helseth’s ‘ability to transform the brassy trumpet sound into something soft, supple, lyrical and delectable
needs to be heard to be believed’, notes the Evening Standard. In recent seasons the Norwegian artist has established
a winning partnership with Kathryn Stott, touring together worldwide with programmes that show the versatility and
variety of the trumpet.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Cicconi Massi
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
Tine Thing Helseth
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Kathryn Stott
Monday 11 July 1.00 pm
Ensemble Marsyas
Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano
Mozart Quintet in Eb for piano and winds K452 Beethoven Quintet in Eb for piano and winds Op. 16
Kristian Bezuidenhout and Ensemble Marsyas use period instruments to explore the colourful soundworld of two
masterworks for piano and winds. ‘I myself consider it to be the best work I have ever composed’, Mozart told his
father soon after the première of his K452. Beethoven studied its score and modelled his Op. 16 on Mozart’s work.
£13 concs £11
Marco Borggreve
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Ensemble Marsyas
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Kristian Bezuidenhout
The Monday Platform
Ferio Saxophone Quartet
Jackson/Beilby Duo:
Charlotte McMurray
Monday 11 July 7.30 pm
Martyn Jackson violin
Annie Beilby viola
Ferio Saxophone Quartet
Kaupo Kikkas
Mozart Duo in G K423
Martinů Three Madrigals for violin and viola
Schubert Erlkönig D328 (arr. for violin and
viola by Wolff)
Handel/Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin
and viola
Laura Bowler Ludovico Technique
Pierné Introduction et variations sur une
ronde populaire
Guillermo Lago From Ciudades: Tokyo;
Sarajevo; Addis Ababa
These ensembles are both finalists from the
Royal Over-Seas League’s 2015 Annual
Music Competition. The Ferio Saxophone
Quartet has just released its first recording,
‘Polychroma’, and will be appearing at the
Martyn Jackson and Annie Beilby
Edinburgh Fringe, St John’s, Smith Square
and numerous other festivals throughout 2016. The Jackson/Beilby Duo are both members of the renowned Cavaleri
Quartet, and they have performed as a duo at major festivals in Austria, Spain and London.
£20 £18 £14 £12 £10
ROSL ARTS (Royal Over-Seas League, Reg. Charity No. 306095)
Kirckman Concert Society Series
Foyle-Štšura Duo:
Michael Foyle violin
Maksim Štšura piano
Benjamin Ealovega
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Tuesday 12 July 7.30 pm
Lutosławski Partita for violin and piano
Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor K304
Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor
Prokofiev 5 Melodies Op. 35bis
Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano
The Foyle-Štšura Duo, praised for playing
of ‘compelling conviction’ by the Daily
Telegraph, is the 2015 winner of the
Salieri-Zinetti International Chamber Music
Competition and the Beethoven Piano
Society of Europe Duo Competition. The
current season includes performances at
Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, New York’s
Chamber Music Festival, the Estonia
Michael Foyle and Maksim Štšura
Concert Hall, Tallinn and Bridgewater Hall,
Manchester. For their Wigmore Hall debut Michael and Maksim present a versatile programme ranging from
Mozart to Lutosławski.
£20 £18 £14 £12 £10
Kirckman Concert Society
Supported by LankellyChase Foundation (Reg. Charity No. 1107583)
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Francesco Piemontesi piano
Mozart Piano Sonata in C K279; Piano Sonata in F K280; Piano Sonata in Bb K281;
Fantasia in C minor K475; Piano Sonata in C minor K457
Benjamin Ealovega
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Wednesday 13 July 7.30 pm
Mozart’s piano sonatas require brilliant musicianship and a profound feeling for
humanity. Francesco Piemontesi, hailed as ‘a Mozartean of rare refinement and
wisdom’, makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall, opening his recital with a fine
product of Mozart’s late teens and pairing the passionate C minor Sonata with
the Fantasia in C minor. This cycle of Mozart’s works for piano continues on
Thursday 15 December 2016, and stretches into 2017 with two further recitals.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall
London Pianoforte Series/The Mozart Odyssey
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Francesco Piemontesi
Thursday 14 July 6.00 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
Join ethnomusicologist Theodore Levin and Director of Aga Khan Music Initiative Fairouz Nishanova, alongside
musicians performing in the evening concert, for a discussion with musical excerpts and a short film.
£4
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Thursday 14 July 7.30 pm
Sebastian Schutyser/AKTC
Sirojiddin Juraev dutar, tanbur, sato
Alim Qasimov Ensemble
Alim Qasimov vocals, daf
Fargana Qasimova vocals, daf
Rafael Asgarov balaban
Rauf Islamov kamancha
Zaki Valiyev tar
Javidan Nabiyev naghara
Linked by a millennium-old tradition of classical music known variously
as mugham, maqom, and muqam, the celebrated Azerbaijani vocalists
Alim Qasimov and his daughter, Fargana, accompanied by their
four-man ensemble, are paired with Tajik instrumentalist Sirojiddin
Juraev, the leading dutar player of his generation and an influential
composer of new tradition-based music.
Sebastian Schutyser/AKTC
Sirojiddin Juraev
CLASSICAL MASTERS OF AZERBAIJAN AND TAJIKISTAN
This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes in duration,
including an interval
The concert will be followed by a Question and Answer session in
the auditorium. This is free to concert ticket holders and will take
place immediately after the performance.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
This series (10 March, 14 July & 2 December 2016)
is generously presented in collaboration with the
Aga Khan Music Initiative, a programme of the
Aga Khan Trust for Culture. www.akdn.org/music
AGA KHAN TRUST FOR C ULTURE
Music Initiative
World Music Series /The Other Classical Musics
Pictured right: A young man playing the lute: a sixteenth-century miniature in watercolour,
gold and ink, adorning the poetry collection of Sultan Ibrahim Mirza. Mashhad, Iran, 1852.
© Aga Khan Music Initiative
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Alim Qasimov and Fargana Qasimova
Friday 15 July 7.30 pm
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Doric String Quartet
BRACING CHANGE
NEW STRING COMMISSIONS
Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 64 No. 6
Donnacha Dennehy New commission* (world première)
Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’
*Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, Carnegie Hall, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of
André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Over the past decade the Doric String Quartet has established its place as one of the finest British quartets of its
generation, achieving the highest standards of ensemble and refinement in everything from mainstream repertoire
to contemporary compositions. The group’s latest Wigmore Hall performance opens with the last of Haydn’s
Op. 64 quartets, famed for its wit and virtuosity, and includes the world première of a work commissioned from the
outstanding Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy, known for the vitality, freshness and expressive power of his music.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
George Garnier
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
Doric String Quartet
Saturday 16 July 11.00 am – 12 noon
TROUPE: The Bad Mood
FAMILY CONCERT
For ages 7 plus
Camilla Whitehall
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Donnacha Dennehy
TROUPE invites sound-makers everywhere to
join them for a noisy morning at Sonic HQ!
HQ does its best to keep the world ticking
tidily along but when a Bad Mood arrives
on the grid, HQ’s sound-makers realise they
haven’t a clue how to reach it.
Join musicians from TROUPE in an interactive
family adventure featuring movement,
storytelling and music by Bach, Cage and
Ravel. Weaving together brand new poetry
with music from across the centuries, they
present an eclectic performance of humour,
colour and invention.
TROUPE
Children £8 Adults £10
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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Jean-Baptiste Millot
Alexander Kniazev cello
Nikolai Lugansky piano
James McMillan
Saturday 16 July 7.30 pm
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99
Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40
Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19
Two charismatic Russian artists focus on works
charged with intense energy and emotion.
Brahms’s confidante, Elisabeth von Herzogenberg,
first noted the ‘torrent-like’ force of his Second
Cello Sonata, a term also apt to describe
Rachmaninov’s mighty Op. 19 and the irresistible
power of its writing for cello and piano.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Alexander Kniazev
Nikolai Lugansky
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected
concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John
Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season
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Sunday 17 July 11.30 am
Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition Winner’s Concert
Quatuor Van Kuijk
Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’
Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’
‘These four young Frenchmen made the music smile, and would have made Beethoven do the same’, noted the
Observer after the Quatuor Van Kuijk emerged as winners of the 13th Wigmore Hall International String Quartet
Competition. The ensemble returns to perform a programme that includes the poignant String Quartet No. 1 in
E minor ‘From my life’, written soon after the onset of Smetana’s deafness.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Quatuor Van Kuijk
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The Brook Street Band
Rachel Harris baroque violin
Farran Scott baroque violin
Tatty Theo baroque cello
Carolyn Gibley harpsichord
John Crockatt baroque viola
Lisete da Silva baroque flute
Leo Duarte baroque oboe
Joel Raymond baroque oboe
Nathaniel Harrison baroque bassoon
Kate Mount
Sunday 17 July 7.30 pm
Nicki Kennedy soprano
Matthew Brook bass-baritone
THE BROOK STREET BAND
20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
Handel Trio Sonata in C HWV403; ‘Oxford’
Water Music Suites; Trio Sonata in G Op. 5
No. 4 HWV399; Apollo e Dafne HWV122
Richard Shymansky
As part of its 20th Anniversary celebrations, The Brook Street Band
returns to its roots with an all-Handel programme, presenting some
of the composer’s best-loved chamber music and The Band’s favourite
repertoire. The Band’s core members are joined by musical friends,
familiar faces from its line-up over the past two decades.
Hanya Chlala
The Brook Street Band
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
Matthew Brook
Ailish Tynan
Garreth Wong
Anna Huntley
Falk Kastell
SONGS OF SEDUCTION
Beethoven Der Kuss Brahms Ständchen (Op. 106 No. 1);
Willst du, dass ich geh?; Vergebliches Ständchen
Mozart An Chloe Wolf Auf dem grünen Balkon & Wenn du zu den
Blumen gehst from Spanisches Liederbuch
Loewe Erlkönig Schubert Erlkönig Schoenberg Schenk mir deinen
goldenen Kamm; Lockung Quilter Love’s philosophy
Shostakovich Chermookaya Clara Schumann Lorelei Liszt Die Loreley
Gershwin Lorelei Debussy La chevelure from Chansons de Bilitis
Benjamin Appl
Duparc Phidylé Strauss Cäcilie Satie Je te veux
Schumann Waldesgespräch Schumann Songs from Spanisches Liederspiel Op. 74
Robin Tritschler
Kaupo Kikkas
Ailish Tynan soprano
Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano
Robin Tritschler tenor
Benjamin Appl* baritone
James Baillieu piano
Kaupo Kikkas
Monday 18 July 7.30 pm
Benjamin Ealovega
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Nicki Kennedy
James Baillieu
James Baillieu is joined by four strikingly gifted singers in a programme spanning the gamut of emotions and an
equally broad spectrum of song, from riveting settings of Goethe’s ‘Erlkönig’ by Loewe and Schubert to three
contrasting responses to the Lorelei legend by Clara Schumann, Liszt and Gershwin.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Song Recital Series/Introducing James Baillieu
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Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
Bernhard Musil/DG
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Tuesday 19 July 7.30 pm
Bull Chromatic (Queen Elizabeth’s) Pavan and Galliard K87
Kalabis Aquarelles Op. 53 Bull Fantasia XII D’Anglebert Pièces de
clavecin (selection) Borup-Jørgensen Tarocco per il cembalo Op. 124
Kaija Saariaho Jardin secret II for harpsichord and tape
Daniel Kidane Six Etudes Scarlatti Sonatas (a selection)
Few artists have done more to project the harpsichord into the concert
mainstream than Mahan Esfahani. Recently lauded by The Times as
‘a superstar whose musicianship, imagination, virtuosity, cultural breadth
and charisma far transcends the ivory tower in which the harpsichord
has traditionally been placed’, he returns to Wigmore Hall with a
programme of virtuoso pieces from past and present.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series
Wednesday 20 July 7.30 pm
Tim Horton piano
Brahms 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119 Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 in F# minor
Op. 11 Schoenberg Drei Klavierstücke Op. 11; 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’
Benjamin Ealovega
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Mahan Esfahani
In high demand as a chamber musician and solo artist, Tim Horton made his
international breakthrough soon after graduating from Trinity College Cambridge
in 1994 when he replaced Alfred Brendel in two performances of Schoenberg’s
Piano Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sir
Simon Rattle. His programme for this recital includes Schoenberg’s aphoristic
Drei Klavierstücke and Beethoven’s all-encompassing ‘Appassionata’.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
London Pianoforte Series
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Roger Vignoles piano
THOSE SUMMER NIGHTS: THE POEMS OF
THÉOPHILE GAUTIER
Vierne Beaux papillons blancs Lalo L’esclave
Gounod La chanson du pêcheur Bizet Absence
Duparc Lamento Hahn Infidélité Chausson La caravane
Debussy Les papillons; Coquetterie posthume; Séguidille
Falla 3 mélodies de Théophile Gautier
Berlioz Les nuits d’été
Benjamin Ealovega
Thursday 21 July 7.30 pm
Marco Borggreve
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Tim Horton
Elizabeth Watts
Roger Vignoles
Elizabeth Watts and Roger Vignoles celebrate high summer with a scintillating programme of French song. Their
programme includes some of the finest of all mélodies, including Debussy’s seductive ‘Séguidille’ and the haunting
lines of Duparc’s ‘Lamento’. The verse of Théophile Gautier, polemicist, poet and storyteller, supplies the thread that
links each piece and proved such an inspiration to Berlioz in his Les nuits d’été.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.
To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’
Song Recital Series
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Music for the Moment
Mary Reid harp
Hao Zi Yoh piano
A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA
AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
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Friday 22 July 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm
If you are, or you know someone who is living with dementia,
please join us for this afternoon concert. This relaxed
performance includes a captivating programme by musicians
from the Royal Academy of Music.
You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm
No ticket is required for this concert, but if you have any access
requirements please call the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.
In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Friday 22 July 7.30 pm
Kirckman Concert Society Series
Costanza Principe piano
Bach Italian Concerto in F BWV971 Schubert Drei Klavierstücke D946
Schumann Gesänge der Frühe Op. 133
Janáček Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the Street’
Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 36 (Revised version)
Italian pianist Costanza Principe makes her Wigmore Hall debut with a
programme ranging from the freshness of Bach’s Italian Concerto to
Rachmaninov’s passionate romanticism, while exploring a wide variety of
styles through the moving lyricism of Schubert’s Drei Klavierstücke D946
and gems by Schumann and Janáček.
£20 £18 £14 £12 £10
Kirckman Concert Society
Supported by LankellyChase Foundation (Reg. Charity No. 1107583)
Saturday 23 July 7.30 pm
Roderick Williams baritone
Gary Matthewman piano
Johan Persson
Final Evening Concert of the 2015/16 Season
Benjamin Ealovega
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Constanza Principe
Schubert An die Freude; Laura am Klavier; Die Erwartung;
Klage um Ali Bey; Bei dem Grabe meines Vaters;
Abendlied (D499); Am Grabe Anselmos; An eine Quelle;
Täglich zu singen; Am Bach im Frühling; Trost im Liede;
An die Musik; Der Kampf; Sehnsucht (D636); Pax
vobiscum; Todesmusik; Schatzgräbers Begehr; Strophe
aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Der Pilgrim; Dithyrambe
Roderick Williams
Gary Matthewman
Schubert: The Complete Songs reaches its midpoint,
a milestone marked by the uplifting melody of Schiller’s ‘An die Freude’, created almost a decade before Beethoven
set the same text at the close of his Ninth Symphony. Roderick Williams also embraces the more serious matters of
‘Todesmusik’ and ‘Schatzgräbers Begehr’ before closing with another joyful Schiller setting, ‘Dithyrambe’.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs
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Sunday 24 July 11.30 am
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Final Coffee Concert of the 2015/16 Season
Armida Quartet
Mozart String Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’
Dvořák String Quartet No. 14 in Ab Op. 105
Since winning the ARD International Music Competition in 2012, the Armida Quartet has forged ahead with critically
acclaimed performances and an outstanding debut CD of works by Bartók, Ligeti and Kurtág. The Berlin-based
ensemble takes to the Wigmore Hall stage with Mozart’s K589, written for Frederick William II of Prussia, and
Dvořák’s final string quartet, a work of great lyricism and tonal warmth.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Felix Broede
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Armida Quartet
Musical Portraits
FOUR-DAY SUMMER COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS
Be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery,
and create your own works of art and music with Wigmore
Hall Learning’s Associate Artists Ignite. Finish the course
by performing your own pieces onstage at Wigmore Hall.
This course is for new and returning participants with
Autism Spectrum Disorders aged 10 – 14 years.
For more information contact Turtle Key Arts on
020 8964 5060 or email [email protected].
Free (application required)
In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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How to get to Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141
Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM
The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity No. 1024838
Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s West
End and is easily accessible by public transport or car.
Tubes Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and Oxford
Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines) tube stations
are both close by.
Buses A large number of buses travel along Oxford
Street, which is approximately five minutes walk from
Wigmore Hall.
Car Parking 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 par ticipates 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.
Restaurant and Bars
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.
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