March 2016 - Wigmore Hall

March 2016
Susan Graham
INSIDE:
Ensemble Modern
Christian Gerhaher
Magdalena Kožená
Christian McBride
Midori
Le Poème Harmonique
Phantasm
Jean-Guihen Queyras and
Alexandre Tharaud
The Sixteen
Ailish Tynan
Pinchas Zukerman
And many more
Box Office 020 7935 2141
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Cover: Susan Graham © Benjamin Ealovega
Amy Harman bassoon
Matthew Hunt clarinet
Jonathan Ware piano
Kaupo Kikkas
YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2015/16
Kaupo Kikkas
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Tuesday 1 March 1.00 pm
Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 2 in D BWV1028
Olav Berg Duo for bassoon and clarinet
Schubert 3 Songs from Schwanengesang D957
Saint-Saëns Sonata for bassoon and piano Op. 168
Amy Harman
Matthew Hunt
Jonathan Ware
Born in London, Amy Harman studied at the Royal
College of Music and the Akademie Múzických in Prague, and since 2011 has been Principal Bassoon of the Philharmonia
Orchestra. As a chamber musician she is a member of Ensemble 360 and attended Open Chamber Music at Prussia
Cove in 2015. This season she tours California with Camerata Pacifica and gives solo recitals throughout the UK.
‘… the high point of the evening was the playing of Amy Harman … who gave the most stunning performance of
immense artistry and the most assured technical ability in her exquisite performance of Weber’s Bassoon Concerto.
The sheer tonal beauty of sound she magically drew from her instrument was memorable indeed.’
Musicweb International, Arthur Butterworth
£13 concs £11
Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490)
YCAT is grateful for support from the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund, and the legacy of Richard Oake for this series
Leon McCawley piano
Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50 Rachmaninov Prelude in D minor Op. 23 No. 3;
Prelude in D Op. 23 No. 4; Prelude in G minor Op. 23 No. 5
Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54 Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28
Sheila Rock
Tuesday 1 March 7.30 pm
Leon McCawley’s lyrical, crystalline playing and expressive daring draw from a
teaching pedigree that reaches back to Leopold Godowsky and Artur Schnabel.
The British pianist, recently acclaimed by the Washington Post for his ‘erudition,
imagination and fastidiousness’, presents works by Rachmaninov in close proximity
to Haydn and Mendelssohn, creating an unusual context in which to contemplate
their passionate and reflective qualities.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Leon McCawley
London Pianoforte Series
Marco Borggreve
Ralph Kirshbaum cello
Shai Wosner piano
J Henry Fair
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Wednesday 2 March 7.30 pm
Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102
No. 1; 12 Variations on a Theme from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus
WoO. 45; Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2
Ralph Kirshbaum is joined again by the inspirational Shai Wosner to
perform Beethoven’s heart-warming late Cello Sonatas, exquisitely
crafted pieces dedicated to his close friend, Countess Anna Maria
Erdödy. They also explore the composer’s early Variations on a Theme
from Judas Maccabaeus and the Cello Sonata in F, a strikingly original
product of Beethoven’s triumphant concert tour to Berlin in 1796.
Ralph Kirshbaum
Shai Wosner
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by an anonymous donor
Chamber Music Season
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Thursday 3 March 7.30 pm
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Arnaud Stephenson
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers conductor
PURCELL – ROYAL WELCOME SONGS FOR
KING CHARLES II
Purcell Let mine eyes run down with tears; Sleep,
Adam, and take thy rest (Adam’s Sleep); Beati omnes
qui timent Dominum; Since the duke is return’d;
Welcome, Vicegerent of the mighty King (Welcome
song for King Charles 1680); O sing unto the Lord;
Great God and just; Fly, bold rebellion (Welcome
Song performed to his Majesty in 1683)
Marco Borggreve
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers is joined by eight singers and fifteen instrumentalists
from The Sixteen for the first of two all-Purcell programmes built around
uplifting songs of welcome for Charles II. Purcell may have written the
anthem ‘Beati omnes qui timent Dominum’ for performance at his own
wedding in the early 1680s, while his sublime ‘Let mine eyes run down
with tears’ projects a deeply affecting sense of the world’s sorrows into its
setting of words from the Book of Jeremiah.
Returns only
Supported by Dunard Fund
Early Music and Baroque Series
Henry Purcell: A Retrospective / The Sixteen Residency
Harry Christophers
Friday 4 March 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm
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Young Producers Present…
What happens when a group of talented young people from London secondary schools 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 (ticket required)
Supported by The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation and John Lyon’s Charity
Wigmore Hall Learning is a proud supporter of Arts Award, and as part of this
project our Young Producers work towards achieving their Silver Arts Award.
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Young Producers
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Dario Acosta
Wigmore Hall Debut
Russell Duncan
Friday 4 March 7.30 pm
Paul Appleby* tenor
Malcolm Martineau piano
Lachner Das Fischermädchen Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24
Wolf Das Ständchen; Heimweh; In der Fremde VI;
Seemanns Abschied Bridge Go not happy day; Golden Hair;
When you are old; Love went a-riding Berlioz From Les nuits
d’été: Villanelle; Sur les lagunes; L’ île inconnue
Villa-Lobos Canção do poeta do século XVIII; Nhapôpé;
Evocação; Samba clássico
Paul Appleby
Malcolm Martineau
American tenor Paul Appleby, a graduate of the Metropolitan
Opera’s Lindemann Programme, moves from the Vienna of Lachner and Wolf to the contrasting musical worlds of
Bridge, Berlioz and Villa-Lobos in a programme filled with exquisite verse and melody. His recital also includes
Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 24, entrancing settings of nine poems by Heinrich Heine.
£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’.
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Song Recital Series
Tenores di Bitti
Shaho Andalibi Trio
Traditional music by the Sardinian vocal
quartet Tenores di Bitti and Kurdish
music by the Shaho Andalibi Trio
complement the Folk Songs of Luciano
Berio in the evening concert.
All seats £15
Tenores di Bitti
Shaho Andalibi Trio
Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians
Nash Ensemble
Christine Rice mezzo-soprano
Jamie Phillips conductor
Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (arr. David Matthews for ensemble);
Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66
Christine Rice
Rossini Overture to Italian Girl in Algiers
(arr. Graham Sheen for wind quintet) Dallapiccola Piccola Musica Notturna
Berio Folk Songs for mezzo-soprano and ensemble
Music by Mendelssohn makes up the first half: a new chamber version of the familiar
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, and the darkly serious Second Piano Trio.
After the interval the Italians take over, with Luigi Dallapiccola’s poetic ‘Little Night
Music’ and Luciano Berio’s exuberant makeovers of Folk Songs from around the
globe – anticipated in the pre-concert event by folk music in its natural state.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Nash Ensemble
Russell Duncan
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
K. Leighton
Saturday 5 March 7.30 pm
Rob Moore
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Saturday 5 March 5.30 pm
Jamie Phillips
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series /Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians
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Eric Richmond
Matthew Trusler violin
Martin Roscoe piano
Sheila Rock
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Sunday 6 March 11.30 am
Mozart Violin Sonata in G K301
Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano
Tchaikovsky Sérénade mélancolique in B minor Op. 26
Bartók Romanian Folk Dances BB68 (arranged for violin
and piano by Zoltán Székely)
Matthew Trusler’s probing musicianship, creative flair and
emotionally intelligent playing have earned critical plaudits
worldwide. The British violinist, who plays on a 1711
Matthew Trusler
Martin Roscoe
Stradivarius, returns to Wigmore Hall in company with
regular collaborator Martin Roscoe to perform a typically diverse and engaging Coffee Concert programme, complete
with Franck’s fiery Sonata in A.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Clive Barda
Benjamin Appl* baritone
Graham Johnson piano
David Jerusalem
Sunday 6 March 3.00 pm
Schubert Adelaide; Lied aus der Ferne; An Emma;
Abschied (D475); Der entsühnte Orest; Freiwilliges Versinken;
Die Mutter Erde; Der Einsame; Lied des gefangenen Jägers;
Fülle der Liebe; Sehnsucht (D879); Trinklied (D888); An Silvia;
An die Laute; Jägers Liebeslied; Herbst
Benjamin Appl and Graham Johnson present a red-letter
date in Wigmore Hall’s ongoing series of Schubert’s complete
songs. Their recital begins with the composer’s early settings
Benjamin Appl
Graham Johnson
of poetry by Matthisson, broadens to include his inspired
responses to words by Walter Scott and Shakespeare in translation, and ends with the rarely heard gem ‘Herbst’,
completed in April 1828.
All seats £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’.
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs
ATOS Trio
Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1; Piano Trio in C minor
Op. 1 No. 3; Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’
Frank Jerke
Sunday 6 March 7.30 pm
The joy of making music radiates from the ATOS Trio. The
ensemble, founded in 2003, regularly appears at the world’s
most prestigious venues and also runs its own concert series
in Berlin’s culturally diverse Neukölln district, introducing new
audiences to the piano trio repertoire. This programme takes
wing with the soaring opening bars of Beethoven’s Op. 1 No. 1,
explores the personal emotional landscape of the Piano Trio in
C minor, and concludes in the spacious nobility of the ‘Archduke’.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/ATOS Trio: Beethoven Piano Trios
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ATOS Trio
Haydn String Quartet in F# minor Op. 50 No. 4
Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94
Peter Schaaf
Brentano String Quartet
Britten’s Third String Quartet, completed just over
a year before his death, stands among the twentieth
century’s greatest chamber works, comparable in
stature to the finest string quartets of Bartók and
Shostakovich. The Brentano String Quartet, which
recently succeeded the Tokyo Quartet as Quartet
in Residence at Yale School of Music, opens with
another masterwork, Haydn’s tense and driven
Op. 50 No. 4.
£13 concs £11
Brentano String Quartet
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Monday 7 March 7.30 pm
Phantasm
Laurence Dreyfus director, treble viol
Emilia Benjamin treble viol
Jonathan Manson tenor viol
Mikko Perkola tenor viol
Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol
Marco Borggreve
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Monday 7 March 1.00 pm
Jonathan Rees bass viol
Liam Byrne bass viol
PURCELL CONSORT MUSIC
Gibbons Fantasies a 3 Nos. 1 & 2
Jenkins Fantasias a 5 Nos. 13 & 15;
Pavan a 5 in G minor
Purcell Fantasias a 4 Nos. 6 & 8
Lawes Consort Sett a 5 in A minor
Purcell Fantasia a 4 No. 7; Fantasia upon
one note in F
Lawes Consort Sett a 6 in G minor
Ward Fantasia a 6 No. 7; In Nomine a 6 No. 2
Parsons In Nomine a 5 No. 3; A Song of
Trumpets a 6
Purcell In Nomine a 6; In Nomine a 7
Phantasm
Consort music flourished in England in Tudor times
and well into the seventeenth century, creating a rich
legacy of domestic compositions and presenting
young Henry Purcell with inspiration for his own
early works. Phantasm joins forces with close
colleagues Jonathan Rees and Liam Byrne to explore
Jonathan Rees
Liam Byrne
fabulous fantasias and In Nomines, genres that
originated in the mid-1500s, flourished during the Civil War period and were still being composed after the Restoration.
£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’.
Early Music and Baroque Series/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
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Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano
La Cetra
Andrea Marcon conductor, harpsichord
CON CHE SOAVI ACCENTI
Uccellini Aria quinta sopra la Bergamasca from Sonate, arie et correnti
Monteverdi Disprezzata Regina from L’incoronazione di Poppea
Merula Ballo detto Pollicio from Canzoni overo sonate concertate per
chiesa e camera
Monteverdi Addio Roma from L’incoronazione di Poppea
Castello Sonata No. 15 from Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Libro II
Berio Sequenza III
Vít Zouhar Ariana has a problem, directed by Ondřej Havelka (UK première)
Marini Passacaglio a 4 Op. 22
Monteverdi Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Harald Hoffmann/Deutsche Grammophon
Tuesday 8 March 7.30 pm
Magdalena Kožená
Magdalena Kožená is joined by Andrea Marcon and his Basel-based ensemble La Cetra, musicians dedicated to
bringing works from the past to pulsating life in the present. Together they reveal the vitality of musical life in
Monteverdi’s Venice, while Kožená fathoms the uncanny possibilities and expressive registers of the human voice
in Luciano Berio’s Sequenza III, written in 1965 for Cathy Berberian.
£60 £50 £40 £30 £15
Peter Schnetz
Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series/Celebrating Magdalena Kožená
La Cetra
Young Producers Present…
See 4 March for full details
Free (ticket required)
Supported by The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation and
John Lyon’s Charity
Wigmore Hall Learning is a proud supporter of Arts Award,
and as part of this project our Young Producers work towards
achieving their Silver Arts Award.
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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www.benjaminharte.co.uk
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Wednesday 9 March 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm
Wednesday 9 March 7.30 pm
The 2016 Annual Jacqueline du Pré Charity Concert
O Duo percussion duo
London Brass
Dowland Airs and Dances (arr. Roger Harvey): Sir John Smith his
Almain; Fortune my foe; Two Dames and a Squire; In darkness let
me dwell; My Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe Gabrieli Sonata Pian’e Forte
Bach Wohl mir, daß ich Jesum habe from Cantata: Herz und
Mund und Tat und Leben BWV147 (arr. Richard Bissill)
Trad. English Greensleeves (arr. E Howarth)
Lutosławski Variations on a theme of Paganini (arr. Roger Harvey)
Gordon Crosse Peace for brass Op. 53 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody
No. 2 (arr. Richard Bissill) O Duo Bongo Fury; Searching
O Duo
Bach 2 Preludes from The Well-tempered Clavier Book I: No. 3
in C #; No. 6 in D minor (arr. O Duo) Desmond Take 5 Philip Glass Mad Rush Miki Marimba Spiritual
Two ensembles renowned for performing with virtuosity and charismatic communication present a concert supporting
Britain’s oldest musical charity, The Royal Society of Musicians. London Brass, impressively celebrating its
30th anniversary, is followed by percussionists O Duo, whose rapport and extraordinary versatility promise an
exhilarating and animated evening.
£25 £23 £20 £18 £15
The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain (Reg. Charity)
This concert is generously supported by Quilter Cheviot Investment Management
London Brass
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Thursday 10 March 6.00 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
Join ethnomusicologist Theodore Levin and Director of the Aga Khan
Music Initiative Fairouz Nishanova, alongside musicians from the
evening concert, for a discussion with musical excerpts and a short
film to introduce the concert.
£4
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BABUR:
MUSICAL ENCOUNTERS FROM
THE LANDS OF THE MUGHALS
Homayun Sakhi and Rahul Sharma
Sebastian Schutyser/AKTC
Jay Blakesberg/AKTC
This concert presents a modern-day incarnation of
the remarkable synthesis of Persian, Indian, and
Central Asian musical arts that flourished under
the royal patronage of the Mughal court. The first
half consists of instrumental music and folk songs
from Northern Afghanistan and Tajikistan, while the
second half presents music from the Hindustani
raga tradition interpreted by Afghan rubab virtuoso
Homayun Sakhi and Indian santur master
Rahul Sharma.
Salar Nader
This concert will be approximately 2 hours 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.
Sirojiddin Juraev
Sebastian Schutyser/AKTC
Homayun Sakhi Afghan rubab
Rahul Sharma santur
Salar Nader tabla, zerbaghali
Sirojiddin Juraev dutar, tanbur
Mukhtor Muborakqadamov setar
Jay Blakesberg/Retna LTD
Thursday 10 March 7.30 pm
£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
Mukhtor Muborakqadamov
A GA KHAN TRUST FOR C ULTURE
World Music Series/The Other Classical Musics
Friday 11 March 7.30 pm
Liszt Soirées de Vienna No. 6 from ‘Valses caprices
d’après Schubert’ S427 (transcr. for violin and piano)
Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82
Schoenberg Phantasy Op. 47
Strauss Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18
Angela Jimenez
Midori violin
Özgür Aydin piano
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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Music Initiative
Midori stands among the world’s finest violinists, a
communicator of the highest order and a performer
with exceptional gifts. She has also achieved
distinction as an educator and accolades for her
work as a community engagement activist, part of
a wider experience of life that informs her deeply
heartfelt music-making.
Midori
Özgür Aydin
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Chamber Music Season
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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’.
Jean-Guihen Queyras
Masterclass
François Séchet
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Saturday 12 March 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
‘It is important, especially in a time when so much of what we
do is recorded in one way or another, to remember that a
performance is about what people experience in the moment’,
comments Jean-Guihen Queyras. Wigmore Hall’s Artist in
Residence adds that he has learned invaluable lessons from
direct experience about the value of spontaneity and focus in
making music, and is looking forward to sharing them with the
postgraduate masterclass participants.
£8 concs £6
Jean-Guihen Queyras
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Jean-Guihen Queyras Artist in Residence
Saturday 12 March 7.30 pm
Benjamin Moser piano
Debussy Children’s Corner
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
Grieg Lyric Pieces: Til våren (To spring) Op. 43 No. 6; Melodi
(Melody) Op. 38 No. 3; Sommerfugl (Butterfly) Op. 43 No. 1;
Svundne dager (Vanished days) Op. 57 No. 1; Bryllupsdag
på Troldhaugen (Wedding Day at Troldhaugen) Op. 65 No. 6
Skryabin Prelude and Nocturne for the left hand Op. 9
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B b Op. 83
Childhood wonder and exotic fantasy flow through the first half
of Benjamin Moser’s recital programme. The Munich-born
artist, acclaimed by The New York Times for the ‘organic
sweep and full-bodied character’ of his pianism, moves from
Benjamin Moser
the fiendish technical demands of Ravel’s ‘Gaspard’ to Grieg’s
seductive miniatures and the heartfelt angst of Prokofiev’s wartime Piano Sonata No. 7.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
London Pianoforte Series
Schumann Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1
Dvořák String Quartet in E b Op. 51
Kaupo Kikkas
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Sunday 13 March 11.30 am
Haydn’s String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1,
one of a pair of quartets written for Prince
Lobkowitz in 1799, opens with what Hans
Keller called an ‘anti-march’, a rhythmic
movement made lyrical by the refined
quality of its melodic themes. The
Schumann Quartet pairs the work with
Dvořák’s String Quartet in E flat Op. 51,
created with the sounds of Czech folk
melodies in mind.
£13 concs £11
incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Schumann Quartet
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
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Peter Warren
Sarah-Jane Brandon soprano
James Baillieu piano
Kaupo Kikkas
Sunday 13 March 3.00 pm
Brahms Zigeunerlieder Op. 103 Schubert Viola
Strauss Verführung; Junghexenlied; Das Rosenband;
Gesang der Apollopriesterin
Brahms, like many others, was attracted to the so-called
Hungarian Style, rooted in folk dance and Gypsy music.
Sarah-Jane Brandon and James Baillieu present the
composer’s original ‘Gypsy Songs’ before exploring the
gripping narrative of Schubert’s ‘Viola’ and rapt intensity
of four songs by Richard Strauss.
Sarah-Jane Brandon
James Baillieu
All seats £15
Song Recital Series/Introducing James Baillieu
Poulenc Suite française Falla Suite populaire espagnole
Stravinsky Suite italienne for cello and piano
Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A b Op. 70 (for cello
and piano) Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40
Marco Borggreve
Jean-Guihen Queyras cello
Alexandre Tharaud piano
Marco Borggreve
Sunday 13 March 7.30 pm
Jean-Guihen Queyras notes how he was introduced to
Poulenc’s chamber music by Alexandre Tharaud. The close
friends share their thoughts on the composer’s Suite
française in company with two other neo-classical gems.
They conclude with Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in D minor
Op. 40, hallmarked by its classical form and subtle invention.
Jean-Guihen Queyras
Alexandre Tharaud
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle
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’.
Chamber Music Season/Jean-Guihen Queyras Artist in Residence
Schubert Sonatina in G minor D408
(arr. for viola and piano by Maxim Rysanov)
Leonid Desyatnikov Wie der alte Leiermann
Sergey Akhunov Erlkönig for viola and piano
Dobrinka Tabakova Suite in Jazz Style
Patrick Allen
Maxim Rysanov viola
Ashley Wass piano
Irina and Pavel Kozhevnikov
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Monday 14 March 1.00 pm
Leonid Desyatnikov’s chamber composition include the
dream-like Wie der alte Leiermann, written for Gidon
Kremer in 1996, a stark response to the chill of Schubert’s
Maxim Rysanov
Ashley Wass
Winterreise. Maxim Rysanov also performs Dobrinka
Tabakova’s Suite in Jazz Style, which he premièred in 2009, together with his own arrangement of Schubert’s delightful
Sonatina in G minor D408 and Sergey Akhunov’s reimagining of the Romantic composer’s song ‘Erlkönig’.
£13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
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Monday 14 March 6.00 pm
Pre-Concert Event
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 of their careers.
Free (ticket required)
Supported by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848)
Ida Haendel with students from the Razumovsky Academy
Razumovsky Ensemble
Mozart Duo in G K423
Mozart String Quintet in C K515
Tchaikovsky String Sextet in D minor Op. 70 ‘Souvenir de Florence’
Robert Cassen
Monday 14 March 7.30 pm
Creative freedom and joie de vivre appear in the long list of artistic attributes
cultivated by the Razumovsky Ensemble. The group, chosen from a team of
outstanding chamber musicians, turns its collective expertise and generous
spirit to the interpretation of works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky, including the
latter’s radiant string sextet, the ‘Souvenir de Florence’.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Promoted by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848)
Oleg Kogan
Artistic Director of Razumovsky Ensemble
Chamber Music Season
artistic director, leader
Gabriela Montero piano
Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
Scottish Ensemble
Jonathan Morton
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546
Villa-Lobos Aria from Bachianas brasileiras
No. 5 (arr. for strings by John Krance)
Bach Ricercar a 6 from The Musical Offering
BWV1079
Piazzolla 3 pieces for piano and strings
Osvaldo Golijov Last Round
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in E b K449
Scottish Ensemble
Shelley Mosman
One of South America’s most innovative
performers, award-winning pianist
Gabriela Montero, joins Scottish Ensemble
for an exploration of works from two
very different continents. With her
spontaneous, expressive improvisation,
the extended sparkling cadenzas of
Mozart’s concerto will ring out as part of
an invigorating evening of inspired and
inspiring music-making.
Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
15
Tuesday 15 March 7.30 pm
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/
Contemporary Music Series
Jonathan Morton
Gabriela Montero
13
16
For Crying Out Loud!
FOR PARENTS AND BABIES UP TO 1 YEAR OLD
Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the
Royal Academy of Music presented especially for parents
or carers and their babies in a relaxed and accommodating
environment. Although these concerts are not interactive,
the programmes are designed for adults and babies to
enjoy together.
Benjamin Ealovega
Wednesday 16 March 11.00 am – 11.45 am Repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm
£7.50 per adult – babies come free
In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Wednesday 16 March 7.30 pm
Rosenblatt Recitals 2015/16
Ekaterina Siurina soprano
Charles Castronovo tenor
Iain Burnside piano
Mascagni The Cherry Duet from L’amico Fritz Rossini La pastorella; La promessa Bellini Malinconia, ninfa gentile;
Bella Nice, che d’amore Donizetti A mezzanotte Puccini From La bohème: Che gelida manina; Mi chiamano Mimi;
Duet: O soave fanciulla Bizet From Les pêcheurs de perles: Au fond du temple saint ‘The Pearl Fishers’ Duet’;
Je crois entendre encore; Me voilà seule ... comme autrefois Liszt S’il est un charmant gazon; Enfant, si, j’etais roi;
Comment disaient-ils; Oh quand je dors Tchaikovsky Duet from Roméo et Juliette
Russian soprano Ekaterina Siurina returns to the Rosenblatt Recitals, this time with American tenor Charles
Castronovo. This charismatic husband and wife duo are one of the most seductive couples in the opera world
and bring a recital of mixed songs and arias to Wigmore Hall, repeating a popular sell-out recital they
performed at La Monnaie in early 2015.
‘Just as impressive, in their totally different style, were the pairing of Charles Castronovo and Ekaterina Siurina …
both he and Siurina sang with immense lyricism and belief.’ Bachtrack
‘[Ekaterina Siurina] gave a technically exquisite account of this demanding coloratura soprano role, singing with a
clear, sweet tone throughout her range, dispatching coloratura roulades and shimmering high notes with ease.’
New York Times
£30 £26 £22 £18 £16
David Elofer
TallWall Media
Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 12 January (Gianluca Buratto),
25 February (Bryan Hymel & Irene Roberts), 14 April (Javier Camarena)
and 14 June (Mariella Devia)
Ekaterina Siurina
14
Charles Castronovo
Iain Burnside
17
Lisa Peacock Thursday Lunchtime Showcase Recitals
Hélène Dautry cello
Bruno Rigutto piano
Jean-Baptiste Millot
Thursday 17 March 1.00 pm
Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor
Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano
Recognised as one of the most outstanding figures of her
generation, Hélène Dautry is sought after as both cellist
and teacher. A pupil of Maurice Gendron, she received
many prizes including first prize of the CNSM (Paris) and
the International ‘Maurice Ravel Academy’ prize. For 12
years she performed worldwide as a soloist with the
Hélène Dautry
Bruno Rigutto
Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra, and was solo
cello in the orchestra in Besançon, under the leadership of Peter Csaba. She currently divides her time between the
RCM in London and in two conservatoires in Paris. Distinguished French pianist Bruno Rigutto’s international career
lists performances with conductors including Giulini, Maazel, Bernstein and Masur, and chamber music with artists
including Rostropovich, Ma and Amoyal. A major recording artist, 2014 saw the release of a box set of many of his
Decca recordings from Haydn to Prokofiev.
£13 concs £11 20% discount when you book for 3 or more concerts in this series (see further dates below)
Tickets also on sale for Thursday Lunchtime Showcase Recitals on 28 January (Thomas Gould & Ana-Maria Vera) and
25 February (Rivka Golani & Michael Hampton)
Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd
Thursday 17 March 7.30 pm
Ensemble Modern
Brahms Serenade in D Op. 11 (reconstruction of the original instrumentation by Jorge Rotter: nonet of wind and strings)
Hannes Seidl New work* (UK première) Michael Quell New work* (UK première)
* Co-commissioned by Ensemble Modern, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation
Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
The young Brahms served as a conductor and teacher at the Detmold court in the late 1850s. His mature chamber
compositions owe much to the refined craftsmanship of the two Serenades he wrote there, the first of which can be
heard in this recital in its nonet form. Ensemble Modern also performs scores by the experimental composer Hannes
Seidl and by Michael Quell, whose recent music has been inspired by interdisciplinary dialogue.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Katrin Schilling
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
Ensemble Modern
15
Christian McBride double bass
Edgar Meyer double bass
Jim McGuire
R R Jones
18
Friday 18 March 7.30 pm
To begin star bassist Christian McBride’s curatorship of
the Wigmore Hall Jazz Series, he and Edgar Meyer, both
multiple Grammy-winners, join forces for an evening of
duets. Meyer, hailed by The New Yorker as ‘the most
remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of
his instrument’, and his long-time friend Christian McBride,
together represent the very pinnacle of bass playing.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Christian McBride Jazz Series
Edgar Meyer
This programme, performed by a sensational line-up of artists, includes
Bartók’s Contrasts, written in the wake of Hitler’s seizure of power in
Austria, and the pulsating Sonata for two pianos and percussion of 1937,
together with Ligeti’s deliberately provocative Sonata for solo viola and
György Kurtág’s poignant post-modern Hommage à Robert Schumann.
Matthew Hunt
Cédric Tiberghien
François-Frédéric Guy
Collin Currie
Sam Walton
Marco Borggreve
Bartók Sonata for solo violin BB124 György Kurtág Hommage à Robert
Schumann Op.15d Ligeti Sonata for solo viola Bartók Contrasts for violin,
clarinet and piano BB116; Sonata for two pianos and percussion BB115
Antoine Tamestit
Jean-Baptiste Millot
Alina Ibragimova
Guy Vivien
Alina Ibragimova violin
Antoine Tamestit viola
Matthew Hunt clarinet
Cédric Tiberghien piano
François-Frédéric Guy piano
Colin Currie percussion Sam Walton percussion
Eric Larrayadieu
Saturday 19 March 7.00 pm NB starting time
Eva Vermandel
19
Christian McBride
This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes in duration, including
two intervals
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2015 /16 Wigmore Series
Chamber Music Season/Bartók Chamber Music
Callum Smart violin
Richard Uttley piano
Kaupo Kikkas
Wigmore Hall Series Debut
Patrick Allen
20
Sunday 20 March 11.30 am
Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K378 Sir James MacMillan After
the Tryst Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18
Callum Smart’s sincere musicianship caught the ears of
international critics when, at the age of thirteen, he won the
string final of the 2010 BBC Young Musicians Competition.
He makes his Wigmore Series debut with a brilliant
product of Mozart’s early twenties alongside Sir James
MacMillan’s virtuosic After the Tryst and the young Richard
Strauss’s lyrical Violin Sonata.
Callum Smart
£13 concs £11
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
16
Richard Uttley
Banjamin Ealovega
Jonathan McGovern baritone
James Baillieu piano
SONGS OF NIGHT
Kaupo Kikkas
Sunday 20 March 3.00 pm
Britten A Song of Enchantment from Tit for Tat
Schubert Der Einsame
Tchaikovsky At the ball
Debussy La grotte
Hahn L’heure exquise
Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung
Schoenberg Erwartung
Griffes Mein Herz ist wie die dunkle Nacht
Jonathan McGovern
Schubert An den Mond (D259) Strauss Ständchen
Brahms Wie rafft ich mich auf Schoenberg Warnung Roussel Le bachelier de Salamanque
Gurney Sleep Wolf An den Schlaf Rachmaninov In the silence of the secret night
James Baillieu
Success in the 2011 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition helped launch Jonathan
McGovern’s career. He has since achieved distinction in opera and concert performances, and reinforced his status
as a rising star of the song recital. His programme with James Baillieu rejoices in the enchanting words and music
of songs of night and the half-light.
All seats £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/Introducing James Baillieu
The Myrthen Ensemble
Mary Bevan soprano
Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano
Allan Clayton tenor
Marcus Farnsworth baritone
Joseph Middleton piano
John Alexander
Sunday 20 March 7.30 pm
SONGS TO THE MOON
Brahms Der Gang zum Liebchen;
Walpurgisnacht; Nächtens; Vor der Tür;
Unbewegte laue Luft; Ständchen
(Op. 106 No. 1); Der Abend;
Vergebliches Ständchen
Schumann Unterm Fenster; Mondnacht;
Zwei Venetianische Lieder & Die
Lotosblume from Myrthen; In der Nacht
from Spanisches Liederspiel
Warlock The night
Maconchy Sun, Moon and Stars
Barber Nocturne Szulc Clair de lune
The Myrthen Ensemble
Mompou Damunt de tu només les flors
Saint-Saëns Guitares et Mandolines Debussy Apparition Chausson La nuit Hahn L’heure exquise
Duparc La fuite Massenet Rêvons, c’est l’heure Fauré Clair de lune; Pleurs d’or; Tarentelle
No region of the international song repertoire is off limits to The Myrthen Ensemble. The group, populated by what
the Daily Telegraph has described as ‘the crème de la crème of young British-based musical talent’, opens with
works by Schumann and his protégé Brahms before surveying works from Britain, France, Poland, Spain
and the United States.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Song Recital Series
17
Wigmore Hall Debut
Marco Borggreve
21
Monday 21 March 1.00 pm
Esther Yoo violin
Zhang Zuo piano
Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004
Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F (1838) Sibelius Violin Sonatina in E Op. 80
Esther Yoo made headlines as the youngest ever prize-winner at the
International Sibelius Violin Competition in 2010. The American-Korean
Esther Yoo
Zhang Zuo
violinist, a current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, makes her
Wigmore Hall debut with a programme carefully crafted to suit her mesmeric technical skills and spellbinding lyricism.
£13 concs £11
Esther Yoo is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Monday 21 March 7.30 pm
The Monday Platform
Marta Kowalczyk violin
Somi Kim piano
Maxwell String Quartet
Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet
Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121
Krzysztof Penderecki La Follia for solo violin (UK première)
Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 127
Marta Kowalczyk
Somi Kim
Financial Times: ‘[The Park Lane Group] showcases young instrumentalists
and singers of considerable talent.’ The Times wrote of Marta Kowalczyk
and Somi Kim: ‘… a great performance with a breathtaking range of
colour and tone.’ Classical Source: ‘… simply superb.’ And the Guardian:
‘very fine performances from the Maxwell Quartet.’
£20 £18 £14 £12 £10
Park Lane Group (Reg. Charity No. 252205)
Tuesday 22 March 6.00 pm
Introductory Talk and Concert
Gillian Moore, Director of Music at the Southbank Centre, writer
and broadcaster, introduces Berio’s Sequenzas and Naturale.
Tina Foster
Eric Richmond
22
Maxwell String Quartet
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
Nash Ensemble
Berio Sequenza I for solo flute; Sequenza II for solo harp;
Sequenza IV for solo piano; Sequenza VII for solo oboe;
Naturale for viola, percussion and tape
Gareth Hulse
Lucy Wakeford
Ian Brown
Chris Brannick
Clive Barda
Philippa Davies
Giorgia Bertazzi
Philippa Davies flute Gareth Hulse oboe
Lucy Wakeford harp Lawrence Power viola
Ian Brown piano Chris Brannick percussion
Lawrence Power
This Introductory Talk and Concert explores a selection of Luciano Berio’s Sequenzas, instrumental solos requiring a
new and advanced kind of virtuosity, and a piece for viola inspired by Sicilian folk music.
This event will be approximately 2 hours in duration, with a short interval before the concert starts at 7.00 pm
All seats £15 (10% discount when booking for the 6.00 pm and 8.30 pm events on 22 March)
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’.
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians
18
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
Nash Ensemble
Henning Kraggerud violin
Lawrence Power viola
Craig Ogden guitar
K. Leighton
Tuesday 22 March 8.30 pm NB starting time
Puccini Crisantemi
Paganini Quartet No. 15 in A minor for viola with
violin, cello and guitar
Mendelssohn Octet in E b Op. 20
Jack Liebeck
This concert will be approximately one hour in duration,
without an interval
Nash Ensemble
Robert Romik
The late evening concert comprises an elegiac
quartet miniature by Puccini, a Paganini quartet
highlighting the viola, and the teenaged
Mendelssohn’s astonishing Octet for strings.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
(10% discount when booking for the 6.00 pm and
8.30 pm events on 22 March)
Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble:
Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians
Lawrence Power
Craig Ogden
The English Concert
Harry Bicket director, harpsichord
Nadja Zwiener violin
Katharina Spreckelsen oboe
Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano
Richard Haughton
Wednesday 23 March 7.30 pm
Harry Bicket
The outstanding Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg
returns to Wigmore Hall for her long-awaited company
debut with The English Concert
in their celebration of an
Italian Easter. Leader Nadja
Zwiener and oboist Katharina
Spreckelsen offer virtuosic
outpourings to that source of
impassioned inspiration for
successive generations of
Italian composers, the sufferings
of the Virgin Mary.
Nadja Zwiener
Nacy Glor
Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for strings RV157
Vivaldi Violin Concerto in C ‘Per la santissima Assunzione
di Maria Vergine’ RV581
Albinoni Oboe Concerto in D minor Op. 9 No. 2
Vivaldi Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro RV169
Ferrandini Cantata: Il pianto di Maria
Katharina Spreckelsen
Ann Hallenberg
Richard Haughton
23
Henning Kraggerud
This concert will be approximately
one hour and 35 minutes in duration,
including an interval
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
The English Concert
19
Susan Graham mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau piano
Russell Duncan
Susan Graham
24
Thursday 24 March 7.30 pm
FRAUENLIEBE UND -LEBEN: VARIATIONS
Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben
Songs interspersed with:
Grieg Møte Strauss Seitdem dein Aug’ in meines schaute
Dankworth Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Fauré Chanson d’amour Rangström Melodi
Grieg Jeg elsker dig Fauré Au bord de l’eau
Mahler Rheinlegendchen Turina Los dos miedos
Susan Graham
Malcolm Martineau
Schumann Lied der Braut I & II Ravel Tout gai!
Duparc Phidylé Debussy La chevelure Tchaikovsky Cradle Song Poulenc Le carafon
Strauss Wiegenliedchen Berlioz Absence Granados La maja dolorosa I Quilter How should I your true love know
Grammy Award-winner Susan Graham is reunited with her most frequent duo partner, Malcolm Martineau, for a
recital that has all the ingredients necessary for creating an unforgettable musical experience, one of those rare
occasions that genuinely deserves to be called ‘unmissable’. The American mezzo-soprano, a star of the world’s
leading opera stages and consummate interpreter of everything from baroque arias to contemporary music, has
chosen works that span the gamut of art song. With Schumann’s iconic song cycle Frauenliebe und -Leben at its
heart, this programme is incredibly varied musically, dramatically, and stylistically, with the Schumann songs serving
as the impetus and inspiration for all subsequent pieces, clustered by theme.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Song Recital Series
25
Friday 25 March
No performances
Box Office closed
Vincent Dumestre director, baroque guitar, theorbo
Mira Glodeanu violin
Lucas Peres bass viol
Joël Grare bass drum, castanets
Claire Lefilliâtre soprano
ESPERAR, SENTIR, MORIR:
Jean-Baptiste Millot
Le Poème Harmonique
Guy Vivien
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Saturday 26 March 7.30 pm
Vincent Dumestre
Mira Glodeanu
Lucas Peres
Joël Grare
Claire Lefilliâtre
Street dances and courtly songs in seventeenth-century
Spain and Italy
Rossi Un ferito cavaliero Monteverdi Si dolce il tormento Marin Recibe
adorado ausente Anonymous (Spanish) Canario Moulinié Ay Ay Ay
Kapsberger Toccata secunda arpeggiata Merula Hor che tempo di dormire;
Folle ben che si crede Sanz Clarin del mosqueteros del Rey de Francia;
Rujero; Paradetas; Jacaras Martín y Coll Differencias sobra la Folia
Hidalgo Esperar, sentir, morir
Folk dances and popular song fed the imaginations of composers four centuries ago, flowing freely into works
created for the aristocratic households and princely palaces of Italy and Spain. Le Poème Harmonique, experts
in the rhetoric, rhythmic inflections and poetic nuance of baroque music, show why dances such as the Spanish
canario and jacara and the Italian ciaccona and passacaglia proved equally irresistible to refined audiences at
court and jostling crowds in the street.
This concert will be approximately one hour and 20 minutes in duration, without an interval
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
20
Quatuor Zaïde
Mozart String Quartet in C K157
Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 50 No. 5 ‘The Dream’
Bartók String Quartet No. 5
Neda Navaee
27
Sunday 27 March 11.30 am
Tonal symmetry and formal logic support the audacity of
Bartók’s invention in his Fifth String Quartet, written in
the high summer of 1934. Quatuor Zaïde prefaces the
Hungarian composer’s scintillating work with the
light-hearted charm and rhapsodic melodies of Haydn’s
‘The Dream’ and Mozart’s youthful String Quartet in C K157.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Purcell/Britten Lord, what is Man?; O solitude;
I attempt from love’s sickness to fly; Alleluia
Head Over the rim of the moon Ireland The trellis;
My true love hath my heart; When I am dead,
my dearest; If there were dreams to sell; Earth’s call
Walton Daphne; Through gilded trellises; Old Sir Faulk
Sussie Ahlburg
Lucy Crowe soprano
Joseph Middleton piano
Marco Borggreve
Monday 28 March 1.00 pm
Lucy Crowe’s lyric voice couples warmth with clarity.
The British artist’s career has soared over the past decade,
propelled recently by show-stopping performances at
Lucy Crowe
Joseph Middleton
Glyndebourne, Berlin’s Deutsche Oper and the Royal
Opera House. She is joined for this recital by regular duo partner Joseph Middleton, recently described by The Times
as belonging to ‘the cream of the new generation’ of song accompanists.
£13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Pinchas Zukerman violin
Angela Cheng piano
Lisa Kohler
Monday 28 March 7.30 pm
Cheryl Mazak
28
Quatuor Zaïde
Mozart Violin Sonata in G K301
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 3 in E b Op. 12 No. 3
Brahms Scherzo from F.A.E. sonata (Sonatensatz);
Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108
It takes a great artist to break free from interpretative
ideas inherited from past performers. Pinchas
Zukerman belongs to that rare company of musicians
in possession of the all-round experience, heartfelt
Pinchas Zukerman
Angela Cheng
insight and imagination required to infuse the richest
masterworks with revelatory ideas and flashes of personal brilliance. He is partnered by Angela Cheng for a programme
of compositions drawn from the core of his repertoire.
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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’.
Chamber Music Season
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Kaupo Kikkas
Sussie Ahlburg
Ailish Tynan soprano
Adam Walker flute
Alasdair Tait cello
James Baillieu piano
Benjamin Ealovega
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Tuesday 29 March 7.30 pm
Caplet Viens! Une flûte invisible
Ailish Tynan
Adam Walker
Alasdair Tait
James Baillieu
soupire ... Ravel Chansons
madécasses Caplet 2 petites pièces: Rêverie & Petite valse Saint-Saëns Une flûte invisible Martin Ballade for flute
and piano; 3 chants de Noël Judith Weir New commission for soprano, piano, flute and cello* (world première)
Berlioz La captive, orientale Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ Gaubert Soir Païen; Nocturne et allegro scherzando
*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann,
a Swiss grant-making foundation
Although best known today for his orchestrations of Debussy’s music, André Caplet was a prolific composer of songs
with imaginative instrumental accompaniments. This recital opens with his early ‘Viens! Une flûte invisible soupire ...’,
clearly influenced by Debussy, explores rarely performed works by Philippe Gaubert, and by Frank Martin, and includes
the première of a new work by Judith Weir.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall
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/Contemporary Music Series /Introducing James Baillieu
Tim Kölln
Viviane Hagner* violin
Nicole Hagner piano
Tim Kölln
30
Wednesday 30 March 7.30 pm
Bartók Rhapsody No. 1 BB94a Schubert Fantasy in C D934
Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Saint-Saëns Violin Sonata
No. 1 in D minor Op. 75
The Hagner sisters offer a fascinating programme as they bridge a
Nicole Hagner
Viviane Hagner
century of music history with Bartók’s First Rhapsody, built around
six Romanian folk tunes, and Schubert’s Fantasy in C, partly based on the melody of one of his songs. They then chart
the impressionist complexities of Debussy’s late Violin Sonata and the virtuosity of Saint-Saëns’s First Violin Sonata.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Chamber Music Season
Marion Koell/Avi-Service for music
Christian Gerhaher baritone
Gerold Huber piano
Jim Rakete/Sony Classical
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Thursday 31 March 7.30 pm
Schubert An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht; Hoffnung (Schaff’ das
Tagwerk meiner Hände); Im Jänner 1817 (Tiefes Leid); Abschied (D475);
Herbst; Über Wildemann; Der Wanderer (D649); Der Wanderer an den
Mond; Der Zwerg; Abendstern; Im Walde (D834); Nach einem Gewitter;
Der Schiffer (D694); An die Nachtigall (D196); Totengräber-Weise;
Gerold Huber
Christian Gerhaher
Frühlingsglaube; Nachtviolen; Abendlied für die Entfernte; Wehmut;
Der Strom; Der Hirt; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Nachtgesang (D314); Der Sänger am Felsen
Lonely wanderers, Gothic horror and the natural world belong to the creative impulses at work in Christian Gerhaher’s
selection of Schubert songs. His programme addresses everything from the grotesqueries of ‘Der Zwerg’ and sublime
beauty of ‘Nachtviolen’ to the impassioned lyricism of ‘Der Sänger am Felsen’ and unrelenting power of ‘Der Strom’.
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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.
OXFORD
CIRCUS
Benjamin Ealovega
BOND
STREET