July 2015 - Wigmore Hall

July 2015
Janina Fialkowska
INSIDE:
Matthias Goerne & Menahem Pressler
Marc-André Hamelin | Heath Quartet
Angelika Kirchschlager | Igor Levit
Gabriela Montero | O/MODӘRNT
Quatuor Mosaïques | Carolyn Sampson
and many more
Box Office 020 7935 2141
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Cover: Janina Fialkowska © Julien Faugère ATMA
Wednesday 1 July 7.30 pm
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Carolyn Sampson soprano
Heath Quartet
Bach Chorale Preludes: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV731; Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr BWV662;
In dulci jubilo BWV608 John Musto Another Place for soprano and string quartet* (world première)
Webern Langsamer Satz Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 in F # minor Op. 10
* Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann,
a Swiss grant-making foundation
Wigmore Hall’s Celebrating Carolyn Sampson series concludes in festive fashion with the world première of
Brooklyn-born composer John Musto’s latest score for soprano and string quartet. Carolyn Sampson also joins
the Heath Quartet in the haunting final movements of Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2, a work marked by a
period of emotional turmoil in its composer’s personal life.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Sussie Ahlburg
Marco Borggreve
Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series/Celebrating Carolyn Sampson
Carolyn Sampson
Thursday 2 July 7.30 pm
Matthias Goerne baritone
Menahem Pressler piano
Schumann From Sech Gesänge Op. 89: Es stürmet
am Abendhimmel; Heimliches Verschwinden;
Herbstlied; Abschied vom Walde; Ins Freie; from
Sechs Gedichte von N. Lenau und Requiem Op. 90:
Meine Rose; Kommen und Scheiden; Die Sennin;
Einsamkeit; Der schwere Abend; Requiem
Schumann Variations on an original theme in E b
WoO. 24 ‘Geister Variations’
Schumann Dichterliebe
Marco Borggreve
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Heath Quartet
In constant demand at the world’s leading concert
halls and opera houses, Matthias Goerne made
Matthias Goerne and Menahem Pressler
headline news in March 2014 when he stepped into
the title-role of Berg’s Wozzeck at the Metropolitan Opera at short notice, and went on to receive rave reviews for his
account of Schubert’s Winterreise at last summer’s Aix-en-Provence Festival. The German baritone’s ability to express
emotional states and conjure up tone colours that bring poetic texts to life are among the rare gifts in his artistic
locker, comparable to those of the greatest Lieder singers of all time. We also look forward to a welcome return from
legendary pianist Menahem Pressler, described by The New York Times as ‘a poet, time and again revealing
unexpected depths in works that have been endlessly plumbed and surveyed’.
Returns only
Song Recital Series
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O/MOD RNT
MONTEVERDI IN HISTORICAL COUNTERPOINT
Friday 3 July 7.30 pm – MONTEVERDI TO TANGO
Friday 3 July 10.00 pm – MONTEVERDI MEETS JAZZ
Saturday 4 July 1.00 pm – ORPHEUS GOES POSTMODERN
Saturday 4 July 7.30 pm – ON THE LIMITS OF TONALITY: MONTEVERDI MEETS SCHOENBERG
Sunday 5 July 3.00 pm – CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI – A THEOLOGIAN, MUSICOLOGIST AND PHILOSOPHER MEET!
Sunday 5 July 7.30 pm – VOICES FROM AFAR
Celebrating reflections of the musical past in the present, Hugo Ticciati’s pioneering
O/MOD RNT festival at Ulriksdal’s Palace Theatre Confidencen in Sweden explores
the relationships between the work of old composers and the artistic and intellectual
creations of modern culture. O/MOD RNT, Swedish for ‘un/modern’, comes to
Wigmore Hall to present Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint.
For Leo Schrade, a leading scholar on Claudio Monteverdi, the great Italian
composer was nothing less than the ‘creator of modern music’. Monteverdi’s
revolutionary expressive style certainly changed the course of music four centuries
ago. His radical and provocative spirit is celebrated at Wigmore Hall in five
imaginative concerts and a round-table discussion.
Monteverdi’s sensuous arabesques merge with the vibrant physicality of Argentinian
tango; 400-year-old bass lines inspire extemporized jazz; Orfeo, the original modern
Monteverdi image by Simone Kotva
opera, is reinterpreted with a postmodern twist; Schoenberg’s tonal-atonal revolution
is twinned with the Old Master’s modal-tonal paradigm shift; finally, Monteverdi’s aesthetic credo ‘music is the servant
of the words’ resonates in contemplative works by Arvo Pärt, John Tavener and Pēteris Vasks.
Julia Zenko voice
Hugo Ticciati violin
Tango for 3 tango quartet
Fotografia Russarabian
Friday 3 July 7.30 pm
Sverre Indris Joner piano
Per Arne Glorvigen bandoneon
Odd Hannisdal violin
Steinar Haugerud double bass
Julia Zenko
MONTEVERDI TO TANGO
Hugo Ticciati
Marco Borggreve
Amstel Quartet saxophone quartet
Monteverdi Movements from masses
(in a tango style)
Sverre Indris Joner Toque de Tango
Monteverdi (arr. Sverre Indris Joner)
Lasciatemi morire Grever Alma mia
Piazzolla Renacere Blázquez Sin piel
Monteverdi (arr. Sverre Indris Joner)
Tango for 3
Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace;
Sí dolce è’l tormento; Lamento della ninfa; Pur ti miro from L’incoronazione di Poppea
Amstel Quartet
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
£30 £25 £20 £15
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
The Wigmore Hall Restaurant will serve dinner after the concert. Please contact the Box Office to make your table reservations.
Chamber Music Season /O/MODӘRNT: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint
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Friday 3 July 10.00 pm
Svante Henryson Quartet
Svante Henryson cello, composer
Anders Jormin double bass
Audun Kleive drums
Jon Balke piano
MONTEVERDI MEETS JAZZ
A reinvention of Monteverdi in the spirit of Jazz
All seats £15
Chamber Music Season/Wigmore Lates/
O/MODӘRNT: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint
Jack Liebeck
Renata Pokupić mezzo-soprano
Hugo Ticciati violin
Meghan Cassidy viola
Guy Johnston cello
Henrik Måwe piano
Amstel Quartet saxophone quartet
Ederson Rodrigues Xavier dancer
Chris Gloag
Saturday 4 July 1.00 pm
Renata Pokupić
Guy Johnston
Henrik Måwe
ORPHEUS GOES POSTMODERN
Wijnand van Klaveren Orpheus Revisited
Short opera/ballet based on the myth of Orpheus
with music from Monteverdi, Philip Glass, Gluck
and Wijnand van Klaveren
All seats £15
Meghan Cassidy
Ederson Rodrigues Xavier
Chamber Music Season/
O/MODӘRNT: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint
Saturday 4 July 7.30 pm
Monteverdi Madrigals arranged for string quintet
Schoenberg Phantasy Op. 47; Ode to Napoleon
Op. 41; Verklärte Nacht Op. 4
Jennifer Stumm
Giorgia Bertazzi
Bartholomew LaFollette
Alasdair Beatson
George Garnier
ON THE LIMITS OF TONALITY:
MONTEVERDI MEETS SCHOENBERG
Richard Lewisohn
Hugo Ticciati violin
Jennifer Stumm viola
Bartholomew LaFollette cello
Doric String Quartet
Alasdair Beatson piano
Alexander Oliver reciter
Graham’s Photographsy
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Svante Henryson
£30 £25 £20 £15
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts,
Alexander Oliver
Doric String Quartet
supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season/O/MODӘRNT: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint
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Sunday 5 July 11.30 am
John O’Conor piano
Beethoven 7 Bagatelles Op. 33
Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960
John O’Conor, Artistic Director of the Dublin International
Piano Competition, has been hailed for the boundless
sensitivity, flawless touch and musical insights of his
pianism. Studies with Wilhelm Kempff and first prize at
the 1973 International Beethoven Piano Competition
in Vienna prepared the way for the Irish musician’s
distinguished international career.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
John O’Conor
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Sunday 5 July 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Study Afternoon
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI:
A THEOLOGIAN, MUSICOLOGIST AND PHILOSOPHER MEET!
At the turn of the sixteenth century, the cusp of what historians have since
called ‘the modern era’, Monteverdi posed the perennial question of every
artist: how do my creations relate to those of past masters? How does
innovation relate to imitation? Such questions will spark the imagination of
our highly distinguished panel of speakers, including Professor John Milbank,
Professor Alexander Goehr, Dr Simone Kotva and Hugo Ticciati.
£12 concs £8
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/
O/MODӘRNT: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint
Portrait of Monteverdi by B. Strozzi, c.1630
Felix Broede
Hugo Ticciati violin
Leonard Elschenbroich cello
Voces8 and Friends
Marco Borggreve
Sunday 5 July 7.30 pm
VOICES FROM AFAR
Monteverdi Lagrime d’amante al sepolcro dell’amata
Arvo Pärt Magnificat
Pēteris Vasks Plainscapes
Improvisations for solo violin
Arvo Pärt Dopo la Vittoria
Tavener Svyati
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported
by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young
people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote
‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Leonard Elschenbroich
Paul Stuart /Decca Classics
£30 £25 £20 £15
Hugo Ticciati
Chamber Music Season/
O/MODӘRNT: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint
Voces8
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Britten Cello Suite No. 1 Op. 72
Bach Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012
Marco Borggreve
Jean-Guihen Queyras cello
First performed fifty years ago by Mstislav
Rostropovich at the Aldeburgh Festival, the
nine continuous sections of Britten’s First
Cello Suite make massive technical and
emotional demands on the soloist. Jean-Guihen
Queyras journeys through the work before
turning to the last of Bach’s Cello Suites,
which Rostropovich aptly described as
‘a symphony for cello’.
£13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Jean-Guihen Queyras
The Brook Street Band
Rachel Harris baroque violin
Farran Scott baroque violin
Nichola Blakey baroque viola
Tatty Theo baroque cello
Carina Cosgrave baroque bass
Alexandra Bellamy baroque oboe
Carolyn Gibley harpsichord, chamber organ
Kate Mount
Monday 6 July 7.30 pm
Matthew Brook bass-baritone
HEAVEN AND EARTH
Handel Concerto for oboe and strings in
G minor HWV287
Bach Trio Sonata in G BWV1039
Handel Cantata: Dalla guerra amorosa
HWV102a
Bach Trio Sonata in G BWV1038
Handel Trio Sonata in G minor HWV393
Bach Cantata BWV82 ‘Ich habe genug’
The Brook Street Band
Bach’s sacred cantata ‘Ich habe genug’ is
central to this programme encompassing
love and destiny, both earthbound and
celestial. Bach and Handel’s sublime
music explores this theme, through both
composers’ understanding of the pains
and delights of the human condition,
expressed through the power and beauty
of their music.
Richard Shymansky
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Monday 6 July 1.00 pm
£30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
Matthew Brook
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Tuesday 7 July 6.00 pm
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Artists in Conversation
Wigmore Hall Composer in Residence Julian Anderson in conversation with Augusta Read Thomas before the
performance by Aurora Orchestra and Claire Booth, which includes music by both composers.
£4
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Sven Arnstein
Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet
Stravinsky Three Japanese Lyrics
Ravel Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Julian Anderson Poetry Nearing Silence
Augusta Read Thomas New work for voice and ensemble*
(world première)
Sir Harrison Birtwistle Tragoedia
Claire Booth
* Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation
Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Augusta Read Thomas
John Batten
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor
Claire Booth soprano
Michael Lutch
Tuesday 7 July 7.30 pm
Julian Anderson has programmed a concert of compelling reflections on the music of
poetry and the poetry of music. Aurora Orchestra opens with the rhythmic intensity of
Stravinsky’s Concertino for string quartet and includes Anderson’s own Poetry Nearing
Silence, an eight-movement suite inspired by the drawings and poems of Tom Phillips.
Claire Booth is soloist in the world première of Augusta Read Thomas’s new work.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Simon Weir
Chamber Music Season/Julian Anderson Composer in Residence/
Contemporary Music Series
Nicholas Collon and Aurora Orchestra
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Julian Anderson
Sing a Story
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Wednesday 8 July 11.00 am – 12 noon
Repeated 1.30 pm – 2.30 pm
RECEPTION – YEAR 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT
All aboard the Sing a Story train for a journey through
songs and stories with presenter John Webb, actor
Charlotte Mafham and a cast of marvellous musicians
who will bring both well-known and new stories to life.
Learn the songs with our interactive resource pack
and you’ll be ready to join in on the day!
£3.50
Book through the Learning Office on 020 7258 8240
Wigmore Hall’s Schools programme is supported by
The Monument Trust, John Lyon’s Charity and The Loveday
Charitable Trust
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Wednesday 8 July 7.30 pm
Students of
The Yehudi Menuhin School
This year’s graduating students and other pupils
of The Yehudi Menuhin School perform a varied
programme of solos and chamber works for
string instruments and piano.
£15 £13 £10 £8
The Yehudi Menuhin School
Pictured right: The Yehudi Menuhin School Leavers
Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo-soprano
Helmut Deutsch piano
Tchaikovsky We sat together; To forget so soon;
The fires in the room were already out; Do not ask;
If only I had known; It was in the early spring; Night;
Does the day reign?
Musorgsky What are words of love to you?; Forgotten;
Night; Gopak; The magpie; Hebrew song; Eremushka’s
lullaby; A society tale: The goat
Rachmaninov In the silence of the secret night;
She is as lovely as the noon; On the death of a linnet;
Christ is risen; Sing not to me, beautiful maiden;
Here it’s so fine; Spring waters
Sheila Rock
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Thursday 9 July 7.30 pm
Ekaterina Semenchuk
Helmut Deutsch
Russian composers created a remarkable legacy of romances, art songs influenced by the spirit of nostalgia and
passion of the Slavic soul. Ekaterina Semenchuk, one of today’s leading mezzo-sopranos, presents an inspired
selection of works from her homeland, complete with Tchaikovsky’s ‘Night’, a series of Musorgsky’s spirited songs,
and Rachmaninov’s heart-breaking ‘Christ is risen’.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series
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Gabriela Montero piano
Schubert 4 Impromptus D899
Schumann Carnaval Op. 9
Gabriela Montero Improvisations
Rob Stothard
Friday 10 July 7.00 pm NB Starting time
Gabriela Montero’s heartfelt performances
arise, above all, from a powerful desire to
communicate directly with her audience.
She is heir to the great tradition of keyboard
improvisation, an art once common but
now exceptionally rare among classical
performers. Her programme’s second half
will be created in the moment in the styles
of various composers, with shades of
Schubert and Schumann no doubt appearing
in her improvisations.
£35 £30 £25 £18
London Pianoforte Series
Gabriela Montero
Friday 10 July 10.00 pm
Anthony Marwood violin
James Crabb accordion
Graham Mitchell double bass
Traditional (Scottish) Mary Scott, the Flower of Yarrow/Struan Robertson’s Rant (arr. James Crabb)
Piazzolla S.V.P. (S’il vous plait); Tzigane Tango; Preparense
Ravel Deux mélodies hébraïques
Gardel/Williams Por una Cabeza
Bach Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016
Piazzolla Libertango; Oblivion; Escualo (arr. James Crabb)
For this late-night concert, Anthony Marwood is joined by accordionist James Crabb and double bass player
Graham Mitchell for an evening of tango music. One of the world’s leading exponents of Astor Piazzolla’s music,
James Crabb has helped revitalise the accordion repertoire by commissioning new works and creating jaw-dropping
arrangements of existing compositions. The three musicians highlight Piazzolla’s debt to Bach and embrace the
mysterious beauty of Ravel’s Deux mélodies hébraïques.
All seats £15
Felix van Dijk
Christoffer Askman
Wigmore Lates/Anthony Marwood and Friends
Anthony Marwood
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James Crabb
Graham Mitchell
Miah Persson
Michael Chance
John Mark Ainsley
Lukas Beck
Marco Borggreve
Renata Pokupić
At John Gilhooly’s request, Roger Vignoles, an aristocrat
among piano accompanists, marks the eve of his
70th birthday with a kaleidoscopic programme built
around the theme of music and musicians, and woven
together with songs for a summer night. He is joined by
a stellar cast of singers, close colleagues and friends with
whom he has collaborated over many years. Their recital
includes works by, among others, Schubert, Purcell,
Loewe, Brahms, Wolf, Joaquín Nin, Rangstrøm, Tomášek,
Rossini, Britten and John Dankworth.
Angelika Kirchschlager
Benjamin Ealovega
AN MEIN KLAVIER
Bernarda Fink
Hanya Chlala
Elizabeth Watts
Joan Rodgers
Nikolaus Karlinsky
Stefan Reichmann
Roger Vignoles
Rose Daniel
Mina Artistbilder
Benjamin Ealovega
Roger Vignoles piano
Miah Persson soprano
Joan Rodgers soprano
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano
Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano
Renata Pokupić mezzo-soprano
Michael Chance countertenor
John Mark Ainsley tenor
Mark Padmore tenor
Florian Boesch baritone
Roderick Williams baritone
Marco Borggreve
Roger Vignoles
70th Birthday Concert
Chris Gloag
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Saturday 11 July 7.00 pm NB Starting time
Mark Padmore
Florian Boesch
Roderick Williams
This concert will be approximately 3 hours in duration, including two intervals
Returns only
Song Recital Series
Modigliani Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49
Dvořák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’
Sylvie Lancrenon
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Sunday 12 July 11.30 am
Praised by the Süddeutsche Zeitung for the
‘balance, transparency, symphonic
comprehension [and] confident style’ of its
music-making, the Modigliani Quartet is in
demand at the world’s leading concert venues.
Award-winning recordings of everything from
Haydn and Arriaga to Brahms and Debussy
bear witness to the French ensemble’s
exceptional unity and collective brilliance.
£13 concs £11
incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Modigliani Quartet
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Sunday 12 July 7.30 pm
Kim Kashkashian
Christian Steiner
Sergey Khachatryan
Satoshi Aoyagi
Levon Chilingirian
Steve Riskind
Terry Linke
Levon Chilingirian violin
Sergey Khachatryan violin
Kim Kashkashian viola
Alexander Chaushian cello
Steven Isserlis cello
Sergei Babayan piano
Lusine Khachatryan piano
Vahan Mardirossian piano
Yevgeny Sudbin piano
IN MEMORIAM 1915
Steven Isserlis
To mark the centenary of the Armenian Genocide,
the deliberate campaign of mass murder
perpetrated by Ottoman forces during the First
World War, a group of world-renowned artists
offers a programme of works chiefly by Armenian
composers. Devised by Alexander Chaushian,
Lusine Khachatryan
Vahan Mardirossian
this concert celebrates the fact that, despite the
genocide of 1915, Armenians and their musical culture survived and continue to flourish today.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Supported by the Armenian Institute of London
Nigel Grant Rogers Musical Artists’ Management
Chamber Music Season
Monday 13 July 1.00 pm
Stephen Kovacevich piano
Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1
Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959
The prospect of lessons with Dame Myra Hess
attracted Stephen Kovacevich to London from
his native Los Angeles in the late 1950s.
He made his European debut in 1961 with a
sensational recital at Wigmore Hall, complete
with Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata Op. 1. The
acclaimed pianist’s BBC Lunchtime programme
includes another work close to his heart, the
lyrical late Piano Sonata in A D959 by Schubert.
David Thompson/EMI Classics
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£13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Stephen Kovacevich
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Sergei Babayan
Mark Harrison
Raffi Mardirossian
Alexander Chaushian
Vera Friederich
Komitas Miniatures for string quartet
Arutiunian Pieces for solo piano
Babadjanian Piano Trio; Poem
Komitas 7 Songs (arranged for solo piano)
Babadjanian 6 Pictures
Schumann Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47
Yevgeny Sudbin
Janina Fialkowska piano
Grieg Six Lyric Pieces
Liszt Gretchen – 2nd movement from A Faust Symphony S513
Ravel Jeux d’eau
Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26
Julien Faugère ATMA
Monday 13 July 7.30 pm
Janina Fialkowska made her professional debut more than half
a century ago. The Canadian pianist’s mature artistry still draws
from the spontaneity and virtuosity of her youth, combined
now with the insight and wisdom of experience. Her latest
Wigmore Hall programme includes ‘Gretchen’, Liszt’s moving
reflections on the tragic figure from Goethe’s Faust, and the
vibrant virtuosity of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Schumann’s
entrancing evocation of the Vienna Carnival.
£35 £30 £25 £18
London Pianoforte Series
Janina Fialkowska
Tuesday 14 July 7.30 pm
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Adam Swann
Arcangelo*
Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord, organ
Samuel Boden tenor
Thomas Walker tenor
Stéphane Degout baritone
Couperin L’Apothéose de Lully
Blow An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell
Charpentier Leçons de ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint
Arcangelo, inspired by Jonathan Cohen’s visionary artistic
leadership, has injected fresh energy and panache into
the performance of Baroque music. The ensemble’s
Arcangelo
approach is informed by a deep understanding of the
emotional language and expressive rhetoric of works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focused here
on Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s intense settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. The programme draws on the
jaw-dropping virtuosity of the players and their ability to work in consort as chamber musicians. Arcangelo is joined
by the internationally acclaimed French baritone Stéphane Degout, among the most versatile artists of his generation,
Samuel Boden, a seasoned performer of lyric works of the French Baroque, and fine British tenor Thomas Walker.
£50 £40 £30 £20
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Jonathan Cohen
Samuel Boden
Julien Benhamou
Robert Workman
Marco Borggreve
Robert Bridgens
Early Music and Baroque Series
Thomas Walker
Stéphane Degout
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The Schubert Ensemble
Schumann Canonic Study in A b (arr. for piano quintet
by Orlando Jopling)
Fauré Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor Op. 89
Schumann Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44
Jack Liebeck
Wednesday 15 July 7.30 pm
Bach’s influence is ever present in Schumann’s Canonic
Study in A flat, originally created in 1846 for the pedal
piano and performed in Orlando Jopling’s sumptuous
arrangement for piano quartet. The Schubert Ensemble
also explores the enigmatic world of Fauré’s rarely
performed Piano Quintet No. 1 before turning to
Schumann’s pioneering Piano Quintet in E flat, among
the first works to pair string quartet with piano.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Chamber Music Season
The Schubert Ensemble
Thursday 16 July
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2.00 pm – 3.00 pm: Schools & Community Groups Matinée
6.30 pm – 7.30 pm: Evening Performance
Reimagining King Arthur
A COMMUNITY CHAMBER OPERA
Composer Alasdair Nicolson, Early Opera Company and Ignite – Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble – explore
the myths and legends of King Arthur alongside a community cast of all ages from across Westminster to perform
this unique reworking of Purcell’s opera.
2.00 pm – Free performance for schools & community groups (please book through the Learning Office on 020 7258 8240)
6.30 pm – £5 concs £3
Supported by The Monument Trust, City Bridge Trust, John Lyon’s Charity, The Harold Hyam
Wingate Foundation, Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Loveday Charitable Trust
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/
Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
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Camilla Tilling soprano
Paul Rivinius piano
Linde Äppelträd och päronträd; Den ängen där du kysste mig
Stenhammar Vandraren; Nattyxne; Jungfru Blond och
jungfru Brunett; Det far ett skepp
Sibelius Den första kyssen; Lasse liten; Soluppgång; Var det
en dröm?; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte; En slända
Mahler Ich ging mit Lust; Frühlingsmorgen; Hans und Grethe;
Ablösung im Sommer; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung; Schlagende Herzen;
Nachtgang; Ruhe, meine Seele; Cäcilie; Heimliche
Aufforderung; Morgen
Josep Molina
Mats Widén
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Friday 17 July 7.30 pm
Camilla Tilling
Paul Rivinius
Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling received critical acclaim for her recent performances of Bach’s St Matthew Passion
with Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker. She makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall to perform a
programme inspired by imaginary landscapes, natural beauty, young love and romantic adventures, including works
by her countryman Wilhelm Stenhammar and the expansive emotions of Strauss’s Op. 27 songs.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series
Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults
exploring a range of English music and song.
Get to know the music from the inside, develop
your singing skills and finish the day with a
performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
Come and Sing:
English Music
£24 concs £16
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Saturday 18 July 7.30 pm
Quatuor Mosaïques
Mozart String Quartet in C K157
Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2
Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2
Wolfgang Krautzer
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Saturday 18 July 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
Mozart’s early String Quartet in C, written while
the teenaged composer was working on his
opera Lucio Silla for Milan, and mature Haydn
form the first half of this recital. The period
instruments, wealth of experience and revelatory
musicianship of the Quatuor Mosaïques are sure
to offer fresh perspectives on both works and
reconnect with the radical nature of Brahms’s
String Quartet in A minor, a composition of
striking contrasts and remarkable coherence.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Chamber Music Season
Quatuor Mosaïques
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Sunday 19 July 11.30 am
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Sitkovetsky Trio
Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49
Since making its debut appearance at Wigmore Hall in 2008, the Sitkovetsky Trio has forged ahead with
performances driven by a powerful blend of virtuosity, sophisticated musicianship and total commitment.
The recital features Beethoven’s Op. 70 No. 2, a work of profound humanity, capable of carrying the
listener into new realms of the imagination.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
We are grateful for a gift made towards this concert in memory of Margaret Martin
Benjamin Ealovega
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Sitkovetsky Trio
Quatuor Mosaïques
Haydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 64 No. 2
Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 127
Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’
Wolfgang Krautzer
Sunday 19 July 7.30 pm
Three Viennese classics occupy Quatuor Mosaïques
in this programme. The period-instrument ensemble
launches its programme with Haydn’s Op. 64 No. 2,
an enticing blend of ‘Storm and Stress’ outbursts and
genial good humour, before exploring Beethoven’s
Op. 127, completed in 1825, and Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’
Quartet, which offers yet another penetrating
examination of the human condition.
£35 £30 £25 £18
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Quatuor Mosaïques
Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust,
The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season
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Igor Levit piano
Cardew Thälmann Variations Frederic Rzewski Dreams II* (UK première);
The People United will never be Defeated
Felix Broede
Monday 20 July 7.30 pm
* Co-commissioned by Heidelberger Frühling and by Wigmore Hall with the support of
André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
American composer and piano virtuoso Frederic Rzewski absorbed fertile
ideas from teachers such as Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt and Luigi
Dallapiccola. Taking this inspiration he found his true voice with a series
of works inspired by social and political concerns, famously so in his set of
36 variations on the Chilean song The People United will never be Defeated.
Igor Levit prefaces the UK première of Rzewski’s Dreams II with Thälmann
Variations by another politically motivated composer, Cornelius Cardew.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Igor Levit
Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2014 –15 Wigmore Series
WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series/Introducing Igor Levit
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Roberta Invernizzi soprano
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni director, harpsichord
Ribaltaluce Studio
Tuesday 21 July 7.30 pm
Vivaldi From Griselda: Agitata da due venti; Ombre vane, ingiusti orrori
Vivaldi Sinfonia from Dorilla in Tempe
Vivaldi Se mai senti spirarti sul volto from Catone in Utica; Rete, lacci e
strali adopra from Dorilla in Tempe
Handel From Giulio Cesare: Da tempeste; Se pietà di me non senti
Handel Overture from Rodrigo
Handel Scherza in mar la navicella from Lotario
Roberta Invernizzi
Most of Vivaldi’s 50 or so operas proved a success during the composer’s
lifetime. They soon faded from view following his death in 1741. Fabio Bonizzoni and La Risonanza, in company with
Roberta Invernizzi, have played an important role in the recent revival of interest in Vivaldi’s stage works. They have
also been acclaimed worldwide for their enchanting performances and recordings of Handel’s music.
£50 £40 £30 £20
Laura Crippa
Early Music and Baroque Series
Fabio Bonizzoni (second from right) and La Risonanza
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Matthew Rose bass
Helen Collyer piano
Lena Kern
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Wednesday 22 July 7.30 pm
Purcell/Britten Job’s Curse
Loewe Edward; Tom der Reimer; Heinrich der Vogler
Brahms Mit vierzig Jahren ist der Berg erstiegen; Steig auf,
geliebter Schatten; Mein Herz ist schwer; Sapphische Ode;
Kein Haus, keine Heimat Brahms Four Serious Songs
Loewe Archibald Douglas
Purcell/Britten Let the dreadful engines
Britten’s vivid versions of bold, dramatic songs by Purcell
Matthew Rose
Helen Collyer
frame Matthew Rose’s survey of German Romantic ballads
and narrative pieces. The power and warmth of his majestic bass voice contain the colours required to bring each
song to life, and to trawl deep beneath their often simple melodies to catch the archetypal messages.
£35 £30 £25 £18
In memory of Robert Easton
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series
Marc-André Hamelin piano
Field Andante inédit Schubert Piano Sonata in A D664
Liszt Soirées de Vienne No. 6 from ‘Valses caprices d’après Schubert’ S427
Yehudi Wyner Toward the center
Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in B b minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’
Sim Canetty-Clarke
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Thursday 23 July 7.30 pm
Few recitalists can match Marc-André Hamelin when it comes to imaginative
programme building. The Canadian virtuoso’s latest Wigmore Hall recital
combines the reflective soundworlds of Field’s Andante inédit and Yehudi
Wyner’s Toward the center with two masterful approaches to sonata form
and Liszt’s impassioned Soirées de Vienne No. 6.
£35 £30 £25 £18
London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series
Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau piano
Brahms Von waldbekränzter Höhe; Wenn du nur zuweilen
lächelst; Es träumte mir, ich sei dir teuer; Ach, wende
diesen Blick; Unbewegte laue Luft
Wolf Alte Wiesen: Sechs Gedichte von Keller
Schumann Freisinn; Erstes Grün; Der Einsiedler;
Volksliedchen; Die Soldatenbraut; Er ist’s
Hahn Le souvenir d’avoir chanté; Seule; A Chloris; Quand je
fus pris au pavillon; L’heure exquise; La chère blessure
Russell Duncan
Friday 24 July 7.00 pm NB Starting time
Nikolaus Karlinsky
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Marc-André Hamelin
Angelika Kirchschlager
Malcolm Martineau
Acclaimed worldwide for her profound interpretations of
Lieder, and renowned for her inspired engagement with words and music, Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika
Kirchschlager has been a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall audiences over many seasons. She is joined by
Malcolm Martineau for a rich programme of some of the most captivating Romantic art song.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series
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Trio Mediæval
AQUILONIS
A musical journey from Iceland to the Mediterranean
via the coasts of Scandinavia and England
Ingvil Skeie Ljones
Friday 24 July 10.00 pm
14th century Icelandic From Thorlakstidir : Dum
Johannes; Adest festum; Aquilonis; Fans ex Basan
Dominus; Docent digna; Sursum in altissima;
O Pastor Islandia
Anders Jormin Ama
15th century English carols Ave Rex Angelorum;
Ecce quod natura; Alleluia a newe werk
Andrew Smith Ave Maris Stella; Iosef fili David;
Ave Regina Caelorum
12th century Italian Fammi cantar; Benedicti e
llaudati (arr. A M Friman/L A Fuglseth)
Trio Mediæval
Traditional (Norway) Gud unde oss (arr. Berit Opheim);
Ingen vinner frem til den evige ro (arr. A M Friman/L A Fuglseth); Fryd dig, du Kristi brud (arr. L A Fuglseth)
William Brooks Vace, dulcis amice
Trio Mediæval, founded in Oslo in 1997, has attracted a cult following to sacred and secular works from the distant
past. The female vocal trio’s discography for ECM Records includes everything from polyphony and thirteenth-century
Worcester and Scandinavian folksongs to contemporary compositions by William Brooks and Andrew Smith. This
late-night programme casts shadows of forgotten ancestors and evokes the mystical traditions of medieval worship.
All seats £15
Wigmore Lates
The evening continues in the Wigmore Hall Bar with music
by the Dorian Ford – Without Words Trio from 11.15 pm.
This is a free event, with no ticket required.
Dorian Ford, a multi-talented jazz pianist and composer with
a natural flair for melody, returns to Wigmore Lates with
guitarist Dominic Ashworth and the bassist Lydian B Dhami.
Wigmore Lates
Saturday 25 July 7.30 pm
Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ Op. 58
Dominic Muldowney In Paris with you
Poulenc Fiançailles pour rire
Ned Rorem Early in the morning
Dave Frishberg Another song about Paris
Parry Good night!; Crabbed age and youth; Bright star;
Where shall the lover rest
Judith Bingham The shadow side of Joy Finzi: A mad song
Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci
Jake Heggie From Eve-Song : My name; Snake; The farm
TallWall Media
Ailish Tynan soprano
Iain Burnside piano
Benjamin Ealovega
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Dorian Ford
Ailish Tynan
Iain Burnside
Ailish Tynan and Iain Burnside continue their fruitful artistic partnership with a programme filled with bold musical
ideas and poetic reflections on life. Judith Bingham’s The Shadow Side of Joy Finzi: A Mad Song offers pathways
into the nature of the unconscious mind, blending loud echoes of grief with fragments from Lorna Doone.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series
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Sunday 26 July 11.30 am
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Wigmore Series Debut
Quatuor Voce
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’
Schubert String Quartet in G D887
Praised by The Strad for its ‘refinement, beautiful tone, excellent ensemble, precise chording, fine rhythm and loads
of character’, Quatuor Voce underlined its growing reputation when it was selected for the ECHO Rising Stars scheme
for the 2013/14 Season. The quartet makes its Wigmore Series debut with two works of great substance, Beethoven’s
intensely focused ‘Serioso’ Quartet and Schubert’s equally inventive String Quartet in G D887.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sophie Pawlak
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Quatuor Voce
Final Concert of the 2014 /15 Season
Matan Porat piano
Neda Navaee
Sunday 26 July 7.30 pm
Ligeti Musica Ricercata: 11 pieces for piano
Rameau Suite in A minor: Allemande, Courante, Sarabande,
Fanfarinette, Gavotte et doubles from Nouvelles suites de
pièces de clavecin
Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959
Pianist and composer Matan Porat’s artistic evolution has
been led by the breadth of his musical interests and his
mind’s intense curiosity, qualities vividly mirrored in this
programme. His recital opens with a modern masterwork,
Ligeti’s carefully constructed Musica Ricercata, presented
in tandem with movements from Rameau’s Suite in A minor.
Porat also offers his thoughts on Piano Sonata in A D959,
among Schubert’s last and finest compositions.
£30 £25 £20 £15
London Pianoforte Series
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Matan Porat
Musical Portraits
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC
SPECTRUM DISORDERS
Be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, make your
own works of art, create some brand new music with Wigmore Hall
Learning’s resident ensemble Ignite, and finish by performing your
own pieces onstage in the National Portrait Gallery theatre at the
end of this four-day course.
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Monday 27 – Thursday 30 July 11.00 am – 4.00 pm
For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Turtle Key Arts
on 020 8964 5060 or email [email protected]
Free (application required)
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Monument Trust and
BBC Children in Need
In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts
SEPTEMBER
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Sunday 6 – Thursday 10 September
Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation
International Song Competition
See overleaf for full details
The English Concert
Iestyn Davies countertenor
Harry Bicket director, harpsichord
Handel From Partenope: Overture; Sento amor;
Ch’io parta; Furibondo spira il vento
Veracini Overture No. 6 in Bb
Handel From Rinaldo: Cara sposa; Venti turbini
Handel Pompe vane ... Dove sei from Rodelinda
Porpora Sinfonia di camera in G Op. 2 No. 1
Handel From Orlando: Ah Stigie larve; Già latra
Cerbero; Ma la furia; Vaghe pupille
Handel Passacaglia from Radamisto
Handel From Orlando: Fammi combattere; Già per la mand’Orlando ...
Già l’ebro mio ciglio
Harry Bicket and The English Concert
Marco Borggreve
Opening Concert of the 2015 /16 Season
Richard Haughton
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Saturday 12 September 7.30 pm
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Booking opens to the General Public/Online on 29 May
Early Music and Baroque Series
Iestyn Davies
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Wigmore Hall/
2015 Kohn Foundation
International
Song
Competition
Kindly supported by the Kohn Foundation since 1997
JURY
John Gilhooly OBE Chair
Iain Burnside | Wolfgang Holzmair | Graham Johnson OBE
Angelika Kirchschlager | Sir Ralph Kohn FRS non-voting
Christoph Prégardien | Thomas Quasthoff | Maxine Robertson
Asadour Santourian | David Stern | Ailish Tynan
This Competition recognises the song tradition
as a whole and requires contestants to perform
in at least three languages. At the same time it
honours the Lied’s place at the heart of the song
repertoire and celebrates the Shakespearean
stature of Schubert in the genre.
Sunday 6 September 11.00 am and 2.30 pm
Preliminary Stage – Day 1
Candidates will each perform a 15-minute
programme
All day £13 concs £11
Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List
Subscribers
Monday 7 September 11.00 am and 2.30 pm
Preliminary Stage – Day 2
Candidates will each perform a 15-minute
programme
All day £13 concs £11
Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List
Subscribers
Tuesday 8 September 3.00 pm and 7.30 pm
Semi-Final
12 semi-finalists will each perform a 20-minute
programme
All day £15 concs £12
Please note there will be an interval from 6.00 pm to
7.30 pm. If you would like to reserve a table for dinner
in the Wigmore Hall Restaurant, please contact the
Box Office.
BOOK FOR THE FIRST THREE STAGES AT THE SAME TIME
£30 concs £25
Thursday 10 September 6.00 pm
Final and Prize-Giving
Four singers will each give a recital of
30 minutes
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Please note there will be an interval from 8.20 pm to
9.30 pm. If you would like to reserve a table for dinner
in the Wigmore Hall Restaurant, please contact the
Box Office.
Booking opens to the General Public/Online on 29 May
Song Recital Series
Photo by Benjamin Ealovega
How to get to Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141
John Gilhooly OBE Director
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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