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SEPTEMBER 2016
– JULY 2017
Frances Marshall Photography
Director’s Introduction
One of Britain’s foremost singers, Sarah Connolly, opens the Hall’s new
season with regular duo partner Malcolm Martineau, leading listeners
through a programme rich in emotional contrasts, poetic reflections and
glorious melodies. The recital includes Mahler’s sublime Rückert Lieder,
the impassioned lyricism of Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, the exotic subtle
narrative impressions of Debussy’s three Chansons de Bilitis, and a
selection of Schumann songs.
Mark Padmore’s vocal artistry and ability to extract every drop of emotion
from poetic texts have secured his place among today’s finest recitalists.
Morgan Szymanski, described by Classical Guitar magazine as ‘a player
destined for future glories’ joins him on 12 September.
Critical acclaim for Angela Hewitt’s Bach interpretations bears witness
to the pianist’s extraordinary ability to connect physically and emotionally
as well as intellectually with the dance rhythms and expressive gestures
of the composer’s keyboard works. The Bach Odyssey will highlight all of
this over the next four years.
Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan performs like a force of nature,
captivating audiences with her artistry’s presence and expressive vitality.
She joins the Calder Quartet, winner of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career
Grant, for the world première of The sirens cycle by Peter Eötvös.
Peter Dazeley
Beethoven’s piano sonatas occupied forty years of his life. They offer
insights into his development as artist and individual, and stand among
the greatest of all his works. Igor Levit, now in his late 20s, drew critical
superlatives to his debut recording of Beethoven’s late sonatas and has
since established his reputation as a visionary interpreter of the
composer’s music. His first Beethoven cycle in a major concert hall
stands among the must-hear events of 2016/17.
I am very pleased that Collegium 1704 will make its UK debut with
Italian mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus, in a programme of arias, songs
and other works inspired by the legendary Assyrian queen Semiramis.
Václav Luks and his Prague-based ensemble have secured rave reviews
for their recordings, Bach’s Mass in B minor among them.
Known for her passionate devotion to chamber music, as well as her
incandescent concerto performances, Janine Jansen has achieved
worldwide acclaim with music-making of the highest integrity. The Dutch
violinist, a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall’s audience, is a regular visitor
throughout the season.
Wigmore Hall marks the start of Helen Grime’s term as its first female
Composer in Residence with a day devoted to her art. The Scottish
composer, born in 1981, is known not least for her distinctive creative voice
and her music’s lyrical beauty. Our Helen Grime Day, on 15 October, offers
the chance to become deeply immersed in her chamber compositions.
Over the past decade Alison Balsom has captivated audiences worldwide
with her lyrical playing, exquisite tone and penetrating musicianship. As
performer, educator and advocate she has done more for her instrument
and the wider cause of classical music than many achieve in a lifetime.
‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’, a series of four concerts throughout the
season, offers the chance to experience the full breadth and depth of
her work.
Based in Sheffield, Music in the Round is the country’s leading chamber
music promoter outside of London. Renowned for its innovative, informal
and engaging performances, we are delighted to welcome its resident
group Ensemble 360 to the Wigmore Hall stage for this special weekend,
which explores the chamber music of Robert Schumann and the everyouthful compositions of Felix Mendelssohn, alongside composers who
influenced them, and were influenced by them.
Shakespeare’s peerless feeling for the music of the English language has
inspired countless composers, from those who set the Bard’s verse
during his lifetime to musicians as diverse as Britten, Finzi, Korngold and
Stravinsky. Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano, together with four
outstanding chamber musicians, delve into the rich Shakespeare legacy
on 14 November.
Emmanuelle Haïm’s vocal and period-instrument ensemble, Le Concert
d’Astrée, owns a collective wealth of understanding and practical
experience in the performance of Baroque and early Classical music.
Above all the group takes its lead from Haïm’s imaginative engagement with
the bold rhetorical gestures of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works,
and the absolute conviction of her interpretations. They make their Wigmore
Hall debut with a beguiling all-Mozart programme, on 15 November.
We celebrate St Cecilia on her annual festival with the greatest of
Purcell’s Odes. Hail, bright Cecilia, the Ode for St Cecilia’s Day 1692,
belongs to a distinctive English tradition of honouring music’s patron
saint. John Butt and his Dunedin Consort, acclaimed for their interpretations
of masterworks by Bach and Handel, invariably find fresh ways of bringing
Baroque music to life.
Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo begin their Wigmore Hall residency
with two of JS Bach’s earliest church cantatas, including the touching
Actus tragicus, perhaps written in 1707 for the funeral of the composer’s
uncle, and Telemann’s equally moving funeral cantata, Du aber Daniel,
gehe hin. The programme also offers a chance for Arcangelo’s ace
period-instrument players to shine in the Sixth Brandenburg Concerto.
Sonia Prina and Roberta Invernizzi belong to a generation of singers
blessed with remarkable technical skills, musical refinement and
emotional freedom. Prina’s sensational agility and ability to mine the
depths of the contralto range provide the ideal complement to the
crystalline beauty of Invernizzi’s soprano voice. They return to Wigmore
Hall with Luca Pianca’s stellar Ensemble Claudiana to perform a programme
of works associated with Venice, on 29 December.
Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto, first performed in Venice in 1651, blends
comedy and tragedy with music of sensuous beauty and irresistible charm.
The opera’s libretto is based on the ancient Greek myth of the nymph
Callisto as related by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. It will be treated to the
energy and artistic vision of La Nuova Musica and its director David Bates.
Any collection of essential albums of the keyboard works of Bach,
Schumann, Janáček and Bartók would be impoverished without the
recordings of Sir András Schiff. The pianist’s affinity for the music of each
composer has matured over many decades, making his three recitals
and three related evening masterclasses one of the highlights of Wigmore
Hall’s 2016/17 Season.
One of Germany’s greatest-ever singers, Brigitte Fassbaender, returns
to Wigmore Hall to lead two days of masterclasses, working with a
company of postgraduate students from UK conservatoires. And, of
course, we continue our survey of Schubert’s entire song output
throughout the season.
It’s impossible for me to mention everything, so please enjoy reading
through the brochure for yourself. I look forward to welcoming you to
Wigmore Hall throughout the season ahead.
John Gilhooly
Director
SERIES AT A GLANCE
SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2016
See pages 6 – 122 for full details of these concerts and page 123 for booking information.
Series and Events to look out for…
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts
Sarah Connolly and Malcolm Martineau
7
Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski
8
Schubert: 10 –11, 34, 45, 57, 67, 86, 89, 92, 98, 104, 110,
The Complete Songs
111, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120
The English Concert
12, 76, 90, 114
Jeremy Denk
13
Les Vents Français
14
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Kristian Bezuidenhout 16
Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey
18–19, 87, 114
Max Emanuel Cencic and Il Pomo d’Oro
20
Barbara Hannigan and Calder Quartet
21
Beethoven Cycle:
15, 22–23, 27, 47, 67,
Igor Levit
89, 95, 98, 115
Nathalie Stutzmann and Orfeo 55
24
Anna Bonitatibus and Collegium 1704
26
Janine Jansen Perspectives
28, 91, 113
Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber
30
Helen Grime Day
32–33
Le Poème Harmonique
35
Schubert in English
34, 46, 68
Nash Ensemble:
36–37, 54, 68,
Vienna and its Empire
87, 90, 91
Sophie Karthäuser and Eugene Asti
41
Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ 42– 43, 73,111,114
Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclasses
44
Borodin Quartet: Beethoven and
45, 46, 113
Shostakovich Cycle
Emerson String Quartet 40th Anniversary
49
Music in the Round Weekend
50–51
Ian Bostridge, Sir Antonio Pappano and Friends
52
Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm
53
Dunedin Consort
56
Ensemble Modern
58
La Nuova Musica and David Bates
60
Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann,
62–63, 93, 94, 108
Janáček and Bartók
Philippe Jaroussky and Le Concert de la Loge Olympique 64
Anne Schwanewilms and Malcolm Martineau
65
Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe
66
Christian McBride Jazz Series
68
Martha Argerich and Alberto Portugheis
69
Arcangelo
70, 85, 108, 121
Francesco Piemontesi Mozart Cycle
71, 108
Trevor Pinnock 70th Birthday Concert
72
René Pape Debut
72
Miklós Perényi
73
Mahan Esfahani
74
Vox Luminis
75
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
75
Roberta Invernizzi, Sonia Prina and Ensemble Claudiana 77
Contemporary Music Series
78–79
Mon 12 Sep
2
Mon 19 Sep
Mon 26 Sep
Mon 3 Oct
Mon 10 Oct
Mon 17 Oct
Mon 24 Oct
Mon 31 Oct
Mon 7 Nov
Mon 14 Nov
Mon 21 Nov
Mon 28 Nov
Mon 5 Dec
Mon 12 Dec
Mon 19 Dec
Mark Padmore/Morgan Szymanski Page 8
Håkan Hardenberger/Roland Pöntinen 14
Doric String Quartet
17
Steven Isserlis/Olli Mustonen
24
Nicholas Angelich
27
Vilde Frang/Aleksandar Madžar
31
Nelson Goerner
35
Kelemen Quartet
40
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
47
Martin Helmchen
Cuarteto Quiroga/Javier Perianes
49
Garrick Ohlsson
55
Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper
59
Boris Giltburg
65
Emmanuel Pahud
69
Miklós Perényi
73
Ensemble Modern
Page
Arditti Quartet
Nash Ensemble/Christianne Stotijn
Sat 10 Dec
Sun 11 Dec Belcea Quartet
Tue 13 Dec St. Lawrence String Quartet
Wed 14 Dec Britten Sinfonia
Fri 16 Dec
Tue 20 Dec Balsom Ensemble
Fri 23 Dec
Tue 27 Dec Sitkovetsky Trio
Wed 28 Dec Doric String Quartet
Gringolts Quartet
Fri 30 Dec
Fri 25 Nov
58
Sat 26 Nov
59
Fri 16 Sep
Sun 18 Sep
Fri 23 Sep
Sat 24 Sep
Fri 30 Sep
Sat 1 Oct
Thu 6 Oct
Fri 7 Oct
Sat 8 Oct
Sat 15 Oct
Sun 16 Oct
Sat 22 Oct
Thu 27 Oct
Mon 31 Oct
Wed 2 Nov
Fri 4 Nov
Sun 6 Nov
Fri 11 Nov
Sat 12 Nov
Sun 13 Nov
Sat 19 Nov
Wed 23 Nov
Daniel Hope/Paul Neubauer
David Finckel/Wu Han
Les Vents Français/Eric Le Sage
The Endellion String Quartet
Aurora Orchestra
Renaud Capuçon/Guillaume Chilemme
Gérard Caussé/Adrien La Marca
Edgar Moreau
Calder Quartet/Barbara Hannigan
IMS Prussia Cove
Pavel Haas Quartet/Harriet Krijgh
Janine Jansen/Alexander Gavrylyuk
Helen Grime Day
The Tetzlaff Trio
Nash Ensemble
Thomas Zehetmair/Ruth Killius
Alison Balsom/Peter Moore/Tom Poster
Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio
Borodin Quartet
Borodin Quartet
Ensemble 360
Ensemble 360
Emerson String Quartet
Nash Ensemble
Truls Mørk/Håvard Gimse
Mon 12 Sep
Wed 14 Sep
Thu 22 Sep
9
Thu 29 Sep
14
Sun 2 Oct
15
Wed 5 Oct
17
20
Fri 14 Oct
Fri 21 Oct
21
25
25
28
33
31
37
39
Mon 24 Oct
Wed 26 Oct
Thu 10 Nov
Tue 15 Nov
Tue 22 Nov
Mon 28 Nov
Thu 1 Dec
Sun 4 Dec
43
40
Wed 14 Dec
45
Fri 16 Dec
46
Mon 19 Dec
51
Wed 21 Dec
51
Thu 22 Dec
49
Thu 29 Dec
54
57
69
70
71
72
73
75
75
76
76
Early Music and Baroque Series
Mon 19 Sep
Chamber Music Season
68
Sat 31 Dec
The Brabant Ensemble/Stephen Rice
The English Concert/Anna Devin
Matthew Brook/Harry Bicket
Classical Opera/Ian Page/Ailish Tynan
Rachel Kelly/Kitty Whately/Robert Murray
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Kristian Bezuidenhout
Max Emanuel Cencic/Il Pomo d’Oro
Maxim Emelyanychev
Nathalie Stutzmann/Orfeo 55
Anna Bonitatibus/Collegium 1704
Václav Luks
The Cardinall’s Musick
Phantasm
Florilegium/Dame Emma Kirkby
Iestyn Davies/Thomas Dunford
Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm
Dunedin Consort
La Nuova Musica/David Bates
Philippe Jaroussky/Le Concert de la
Loge Olympique/Julien Chauvin
Collegium Vocale Gent
Philippe Herreweghe
Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen
The King’s Consort
Mahan Esfahani
Vox Luminis
Roberta Invernizzi/Sonia Prina
Ensemble Claudiana
The English Concert
9
12
14
16
20
24
26
29
35
38
38
48
53
56
60
64
66
70
72
73
74
75
77
76
Song Recital Series
London Pianoforte Series
Tue 21 Mar
Fri 9 Sep
Sarah Connolly/Malcolm Martineau Page 7
Sun 11 Sep
Sat 25 Mar
Sat 10 Sep
Soile Isokoski/Ilkka Paananen
6
Thu 15 Sep
Fri 7 Apr
Tue 13 Sep
Mark Padmore/James Baillieu
10
Tue 20 Sep
James Gilchrist/Anna Tilbrook
15
Sat 1 Oct
Barbara Hannigan/Calder Quartet
21
Wed 12 Oct
Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber
30
Thu 20 Oct
Christoph Prégardien
Christoph Schnackertz
34
Sun 23 Oct
Toby Spence/Christopher Glynn
34
Sun 23 Oct
Jamie Barton/James Baillieu
35
Fri 28 Oct
The Prince Consort/Stephen Hough
39
Sun 30 Oct
Sophie Karthäuser/Eugene Asti
41
Sat 5 Nov
Dorothea Röschmann/Malcolm Martineau 45
Sun 6 Nov
Roderick Williams/Christopher Glynn
46
Tue 8 Nov
Sir Thomas Allen/Malcolm Martineau
Samling Artists
47
Thu 10 Nov
48
Mon 14 Nov Ian Bostridge/Sir Antonio Pappano
52
Elizabeth Kenny/Lawrence Power
Michael Collins/Adam Walker
Fri 18 Nov
Adrianne Pieczonka/Brian Zeger
54
Sun 20 Nov
Luca Pisaroni/Maciej Pikulski
55
Thu 24 Nov
Stuart Jackson/Marcus Farnsworth
James Baillieu
57
Mon 5 Dec
Anne Schwanewilms/Malcolm Martineau 65
Thu 8 Dec
Stephan Loges/Graham Johnson
67
Sun 11 Dec
Sir John Tomlinson/Christopher Glynn
68
Sat 17 Dec
René Pape/Camillo Radicke
72
We are grateful to The Monument Trust for essential
additional support for our expanded vocal series
Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts
Sun 11 Sep
Sun 18 Sep
Sun 25 Sep
Sun 2 Oct
Sun 9 Oct
Sun 16 Oct
Sun 23 Oct
Sun 30 Oct
Sun 6 Nov
Sun 13 Nov
Sun 20 Nov
Sun 27 Nov
Sun 4 Dec
Sun 11 Dec
Sun 18 Dec
Danish String Quartet
Nick van Bloss
Jack Liebeck/Amandine Savary
Van Kuijk Quartet
Scottish Ensemble
Dover Quartet
Nash Ensemble
Carducci String Quartet
Endymion
Ensemble 360
Maximilian Hornung/Hisako Kawamura
Tai Murray/Silke Avenhaus
Atrium Quartet
Adrian Brendel/Aleksandar Madžar
Cassard/Grimal/Gastinel Trio
6
13
17
24
27
31
37
40
46
51
55
59
65
68
72
Wigmore Hall Jazz Series
Fri 9 Dec
Christian McBride
68
Denis Kozhukhin
Page 6
Yulianna Avdeeva
9
Jeremy Denk
13
Sat 17 Sep
19
Sun 25 Sep Angela Hewitt
23
Wed 28 Sep Igor Levit
Jan Lisiecki
25
Mon 3 Oct
Igor Levit
27
Sun 9 Oct
Llŷr Williams
29
Tue 11 Oct
Melvyn Tan
29
Thu 13 Oct
31
Wed 19 Oct Leon McCawley
Sunwook Kim
38
Tue 25 Oct
Philippe Cassard
39
Sat 29 Oct
Alexei Volodin
45
Thu 3 Nov
Igor Levit
47
Mon 7 Nov
Christian Zacharias
48
Wed 9 Nov
52
Thu 17 Nov Imogen Cooper
63
Tue 29 Nov Sir András Schiff
Richard Goode
61
Sat 3 Dec
Igor Levit
67
Tue 6 Dec
Andreas Staier
67
Wed 7 Dec
69
Mon 12 Dec Martha Argerich/Alberto Portugheis
71
Thu 15 Dec Francesco Piemontesi
World Music Series
Fri 2 Dec
Wu Man, Sanubar Tursun,
Basel Rajoub’s Soriana Project
61
Aurora Orchestra
Sat 1 Oct
Calder Quartet/Barbara Hannigan
Fri 14 Oct
Sat 15 Oct
Helen Grime Day
Fri 28 Oct
Mon 31 Oct Alison Balsom/Peter Moore/Tom Poster
Sun 13 Nov Emerson String Quartet
Fri 25 Nov
Ensemble Modern
Sat 26 Nov
Arditti Quartet
Sun 11 Dec Belcea Quartet
Tue 13 Dec St. Lawrence String Quartet
Wed 14 Dec Britten Sinfonia
Fri 30 Dec
Gringolts Quartet
Mon 23 Jan Philip Higham/Alasdair Beatson
Wed 25 Jan Signum Quartet
Wed 8 Feb
Britten Sinfonia
Thu 9 Feb
Jörg Widmann/Mitsuko Uchida
Sat 18 Feb
Scottish Ensemble/Jonathan Morton
Alina Ibragimova
Sat 25 Feb
Xenakis Day
Fri 3 Mar
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Huw Watkins/Oliver Knussen
Fri 10 Mar
Pacifica Quartet/Johannes Moser
Tue 20 Sep
15
Sat 24 Sep
17
21
29
33
39
43
49
58
59
69
70
71
76
88
88
91
91
92
94
96
97
Wed 19 Apr
Wed 26 Apr
Sun 7 May
Thu 11 May
Wed 14 Jun
Fri 16 Jun
Tue 20 Jun
Mon 26 Jun
Sat 1 Jul
Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins
Page 99
Adrian Brendel/Roderick Williams
Thomas Adès Day ‘Arcadiana’
100
Jean-Guihen Queyras
103
Sokratis Sinopoulos/Chemirani Brothers
Britten Sinfonia
105
Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Sol Gabetta
107
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
109
Anthony Romaniuk
Elias String Quartet
110
Arditti Quartet/Eliot Fisk
115
Jasper String Quartet
116
Ensemble intercontemporain
116
Vienna Piano Trio/Mark Padmore
117
Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson 118
The Contemporary Music Series is supported by
Wigmore Hall Learning
Open House Day
13, 80
Wigmore Study Group commences
15
Relaxed Concert: Leonore Piano Trio 17, 80
Sat 24 Sep
19
Sun 25 Sep Pre-Concert Talk
20
Tue 27 Sep For Crying Out Loud!
Silver Sunday: Musical Pictures
24, 80
Sun 2 Oct
Schools Concert: Ensemble 360
81
Fri 7 Oct
and Polly Ives
Sat 8 Oct
Family Concert: Ensemble 360
25, 81
and Polly Ives
Sat 15 Oct
Helen Grime Day
33
31
Wed 19 Oct For Crying Out Loud!
Study Afternoon: Schubert in English
34
Thu 20 Oct
Family Day: A Knight’s Quest
81
Sat 22 Oct
Schubert: The Beautiful Maid of the Mill 34
Sun 23 Oct
Wed 26 Oct Musical Portraits Band commences
81
Mon 31 Oct Artists in Conversation
43
Thu 3 Nov
Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass
44
Fri 4 Nov
44
Sun 6 Nov
Schubert: Winter Journey
46
Tue 8 Nov
Samling 20th Anniversary Masterclass
47
Sat 12 Nov
Family Concert:
51, 82
The Fantastic City of Music
Sat 12 Nov
Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk
51
Mon 14 Nov Artists in Conversation
52
Wed 16 Nov Schools Concert: Van Kuijk Quartet
82
and Rachel Leach
Wed 30 Nov Sir András Schiff Masterclass
63
Fri 2 Dec
Pre-Concert Talk
61
Sat 3 Dec
Come and Sing: Hungarian Music
61, 82
Sat 10 Dec
Early Years: Rumbled
83
Sun 11 Dec Schubert: Swansong
68
Tue 13 Dec Early Years: Rumbled
83
Wed 14 Dec Pre-Concert Talk
71
71, 82
Thu 15 Dec Music for the Moment
Sat 17 Dec
83
Sat 17 Sep
Tue 20 Sep
3
October
Calendar
September
Date
Start Time
Event
Sat 1 Oct
7.30 pm
Barbara Hannigan/Calder Quartet
Sun 2 Oct
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Van Kuijk Quartet
Nathalie Stutzmann/Orfeo 55
Mon 3 Oct
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Steven Isserlis/Olli Mustonen
Jan Lisiecki
24
25
Wed 5 Oct
7.30 pm
Anna Bonitatibus/Collegium 1704/Václav Luks
26
Thu 6 Oct
7.30 pm
IMS Prussia Cove
25
Fri 7 Oct
11.00 am
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Schools Concert: Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives
Schools Concert: Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives
Pavel Haas Quartet/Harriet Krijgh
81
81
25
Sat 8 Oct
11.00 am
7.30 pm
Family Concert: Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives
Janine Jansen/Alexander Gavrylyuk
Sun 9 Oct
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Scottish Ensemble
Igor Levit
27
27
27
21
24
24, 80
24
Date
Start Time
Event
Fri 9 Sep
7.30 pm
Sarah Connolly/Malcolm Martineau
7
Sat 10 Sep
7.30 pm
Soile Isokoski/Ilkka Paananen
6
Sun 11 Sep
11.30 am
6
7.30 pm
Denis Kozhukhin
6
Mon 10 Oct
1.00 pm
Nicholas Angelich
Mon 12 Sep
1.00 pm
Mark Padmore/Morgan Szymanski
8
Tue 11 Oct
7.30 pm
Llŷr Williams
29
7.30 pm
The Brabant Ensemble/Stephen Rice
9
Wed 12 Oct
7.30 pm
Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber
30
Tue 13 Sep
7.30 pm
Mark Padmore/James Baillieu
10
Thu 13 Oct
7.30 pm
Melvyn Tan
29
Wed 14 Sep
7.30 pm
The English Concert/Anna Devin/Matthew Brook/Harry Bicket
12
Fri 14 Oct
7.30 pm
29
Sat 15 Oct
1.00 pm
33
6.00 pm
7.30 pm
Helen Grime Day: Alexandra Wood/Rachel Roberts
Philip Higham/Nicholas Daniel/Huw Watkins
Helen Grime Day: Artists in Conversation
Helen Grime Day: BCMG/Geoffrey Paterson/Mark van de Wiel
33
33
Sun 16 Oct
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Dover Quartet
The Tetzlaff Trio
31
31
Mon 17 Oct
1.00 pm
Vilde Frang/Aleksandar Madžar
31
Wed 19 Oct
11.00 am
12.30 pm
7.30 pm
For Crying Out Loud!
Leon McCawley
31
31
31
Thu 15 Sep
7.30 pm
Yulianna Avdeeva
Fri 16 Sep
7.30 pm
Sat 17 Sep
10.00 am
Open House Day
7.30 pm
Jeremy Denk
Sun 18 Sep
Mon 19 Sep
Tue 20 Sep
Daniel Hope/Paul Neubauer/David Finckel/Wu Han
Page
Page
9
9
13, 80
13
11.30 am
Nick van Bloss
13
7.30 pm
Les Vents Français/Eric Le Sage
14
25, 81
28
1.00 pm
Håkan Hardenberger/Roland Pöntinen
14
7.30 pm
Classical Opera/Ian Page/Ailish Tynan/Kitty Whately
Rachel Kelly/Robert Murray
14
Thu 20 Oct
4.00 pm
7.30 pm
Study Afternoon: Schubert in English
Christoph Prégardien/Christoph Schnackertz
34
34
3.00 pm
Wigmore Study Group commences
15
Fri 21 Oct
7.30 pm
35
7.30 pm
15
Sat 22 Oct
Thu 22 Sep
7.30 pm
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Kristian Bezuidenhout
16
10.30 am
7.30 pm
Family Day: A Knight’s Quest
Nash Ensemble
81
37
Fri 23 Sep
7.30 pm
15
Sun 23 Oct
Sat 24 Sep
11.00 am
Relaxed Concert: Leonore Piano Trio
11.30 am
3.00 pm
7.30 pm
Nash Ensemble
Toby Spence/Christopher Glynn
Jamie Barton/James Baillieu
37
34
35
7.30 pm
Aurora Orchestra
17
Mon 24 Oct
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Nelson Goerner
Phantasm
35
38
11.30 am
Jack Liebeck/Amandine Savary
17
6.00 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
19
Tue 25 Oct
7.30 pm
Sunwook Kim
38
Wed 26 Oct
11.00 am
7.30 pm
Musical Portraits Band commences
Florilegium/Ashley Solomon/Dame Emma Kirkby
81
38
Sun 25 Sep
17, 80
7.30 pm
Angela Hewitt
19
Mon 26 Sep
1.00 pm
17
Thu 27 Oct
7.30 pm
Thomas Zehetmair/Ruth Killius
39
Tue 27 Sep
11.00 am
20
Fri 28 Oct
7.30 pm
39
12.30 pm
20
Sat 29 Oct
7.30 pm
Philippe Cassard
39
Wed 28 Sep
7.30 pm
Igor Levit
23
Sun 30 Oct
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Sophie Karthäuser/Eugene Asti
40
41
Thu 29 Sep
7.30 pm
Max Emanuel Cencic/Il Pomo d’Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev
20
Mon 31 Oct
Fri 30 Sep
7.30 pm
Renaud Capuçon/Guillaume Chilemme/Gérard Caussé
Adrien La Marca/Edgar Moreau
20
1.00 pm
6.00 pm
7.30 pm
Kelemen Quartet
Artists in Conversation
Alison Balsom/Peter Moore/Tom Poster
40
43
43
4
November
Date
December
Start Time
Event
Wed 2 Nov
7.30 pm
Thu 3 Nov
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Alexei Volodin
Fri 4 Nov
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Borodin Quartet
44
45
Sat 5 Nov
7.30 pm
Dorothea Röschmann/Malcolm Martineau
45
Sun 6 Nov
11.30 am
3.00 pm
7.30 pm
Endymion
Roderick Williams/Christopher Glynn
Borodin Quartet
46
46
46
Mon 7 Nov
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/Martin Helmchen
Igor Levit
47
47
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Samling 20th Anniversary Masterclass
Sir Thomas Allen/Malcolm Martineau/Samling Artists
47
47
7.30 pm
Christian Zacharias
48
Thu 10 Nov
7.30 pm
48
Fri 11 Nov
7.30 pm
Ensemble 360
51
Sat 12 Nov
11.00 am
5.45 pm
7.30 pm
Family Concert: The Fantastic City of Music
Ensemble 360
Sun 13 Nov
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Ensemble 360
51
49
Mon 14 Nov
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
49
52
9.45 pm
Cuarteto Quiroga/Javier Perianes
Ian Bostridge/Sir Antonio Pappano/Elizabeth Kenny
Lawrence Power/Michael Collins/Adam Walker
7.30 pm
Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm
53
Wed 16 Nov
11.00 am
Schools Concert: Van Kuijk Quartet and Rachel Leach
82
Thu 17 Nov
7.30 pm
Imogen Cooper
52
Fri 18 Nov
7.30 pm
Adrianne Pieczonka/Brian Zeger
54
Sat 19 Nov
6.00 pm
7.30 pm
Nash Ensemble
Nash Ensemble
54
54
Tue 8 Nov
Wed 9 Nov
Tue 15 Nov
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Date
Start Time
Event
40
Thu 1 Dec
7.30 pm
Philippe Jaroussky/Le Concert de la Loge Olympique
Julien Chauvin
64
44
45
Fri 2 Dec
6.00 pm
7.30 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
Wu Man/Sanubar Tursun/Basel Rajoub’s Soriana Project
61
61
Sat 3 Dec
10.00 am
7.30 pm
Come and Sing: Hungarian Music
Richard Goode
Sun 4 Dec
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Atrium Quartet
Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe
65
66
Mon 5 Dec
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Boris Giltburg
Anne Schwanewilms/Malcolm Martineau
65
65
Tue 6 Dec
7.30 pm
Igor Levit
67
Wed 7 Dec
7.30 pm
Andreas Staier
67
Thu 8 Dec
7.30 pm
Stephan Loges/Graham Johnson
67
Fri 9 Dec
7.30 pm
Christian McBride
68
Sat 10 Dec
10.00 am
12 noon
2.00 pm
7.30 pm
Nash Ensemble/Christianne Stotijn
83
83
83
68
Sun 11 Dec
11.30 am
3.00 pm
7.30 pm
Adrian Brendel/Aleksandar Madžar
Sir John Tomlinson/Christopher Glynn
Belcea Quartet
68
68
69
Mon 12 Dec
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Emmanuel Pahud
Martha Argerich/Alberto Portugheis
69
69
Tue 13 Dec
10.00 am
12 noon
2.00 pm
7.30 pm
St. Lawrence String Quartet
83
83
83
70
Wed 14 Dec
12.15 pm
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
Britten Sinfonia
Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen
71
71
70
Thu 15 Dec
3.00 pm
7.30 pm
Music for the Moment
Francesco Piemontesi
Fri 16 Dec
7.30 pm
72
Sat 17 Dec
10.00 am
12 noon
2.00 pm
7.30 pm
René Pape/Camillo Radicke
83
83
83
72
Sun 18 Dec
11.30 am
Cassard/Grimal/Gastinel Trio
72
Mon 19 Dec
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Miklós Perényi
73
73
51, 82
51
51
52
Page
61, 82
61
71, 82
71
Sun 20 Nov
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Maximilian Hornung/Hisako Kawamura
Luca Pisaroni/Maciej Pikulski
55
55
Tue 20 Dec
7.30 pm
Balsom Ensemble
73
Mon 21 Nov
1.00 pm
Garrick Ohlsson
55
Wed 21 Dec
7.30 pm
Mahan Esfahani
74
Tue 22 Nov
7.30 pm
Dunedin Consort
56
Thu 22 Dec
7.30 pm
Vox Luminis
75
Wed 23 Nov
7.30 pm
Truls Mørk/Håvard Gimse
57
Fri 23 Dec
7.30 pm
75
Thu 24 Nov
7.30 pm
Stuart Jackson/Marcus Farnsworth/James Baillieu
57
Tue 27 Dec
7.30 pm
Sitkovetsky Trio
75
Fri 25 Nov
7.30 pm
Ensemble Modern
58
Wed 28 Dec
7.30 pm
76
Thu 29 Dec
7.30 pm
Roberta Invernizzi/Sonia Prina/Ensemble Claudiana
77
Fri 30 Dec
7.30 pm
Gringolts Quartet
76
Sat 31 Dec
7.30 pm
The English Concert
76
Sat 26 Nov
7.30 pm
Arditti Quartet
59
Sun 27 Nov
11.30 am
Tai Murray/Silke Avenhaus
59
Mon 28 Nov
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper
La Nuova Musica/David Bates
59
60
Tue 29 Nov
7.30 pm
Sir András Schiff
63
Wed 30 Nov
7.30 pm
Sir András Schiff Masterclass
63
Booking for all events in the Contemporary Music Series opens to Members on 12 April. Requests
should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016.
Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. See pages 78–79 for event dates – full
details are given in chronological order throughout the brochure.
5
WIGMORE SERIES
AUTUMN SEASON SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2016
Priority Booking opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted by 5 May 2016 (Friends), and 12 May 2016 (Mailing List Subscribers).
Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016.
September
Opening Concert of the 2016/17 Season
Sunday 11 September 11.30 am
Sunday 11 September 7.30 pm
Friday 9 September 7.30 pm
Denis Kozhukhin piano
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau piano
Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5
Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4
Handel Suite No. 7 in G minor HWV432
Brahms 3 Intermezzi Op. 117
Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) BB89
Messiaen Prelude ‘Cloches d’angoisses et larmes
d’adieu’
Boulez Piano Sonata No. 2
See page opposite for full details
Saturday 10 September 7.30 pm
Soile Isokoski soprano
Ilkka Paananen piano
Schubert Der König in Thule; Gretchen am
Spinnrade; Szene aus Goethes ‘Faust’;
Gretchen im Zwinger (Gretchens Bitte)
Sibelius Våren flyktar hastigt (Spring is Flying);
Men min fågel märks dock icke (But my bird is
nowhere to be seen); Längtan heter min arvedel
(Vain longings are my heritage); Säv, säv, susa
(Reed, reed, rustle); Svarta rosor (Black Roses)
Mozart Ridente la calma; Als Luise die Briefe
ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte;
Abendempfindung
Brahms Liebestreu; Die Mainacht; Von ewiger
Liebe; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht;
Meine Liebe ist grün
Kilpinen Illalla (In the Evening); Rannalta I;
Kesäyö (Summer Night); Maassa marjani makaavi
(My Love Lies in the Ground)
The quartets of Haydn’s Op. 76, first published in
London in 1799, are near-miraculous in their breadth
of invention and vitality. The Danish String Quartet
turns its beautifully integrated sound to serve the
set’s meditative fifth quartet before exploring
Beethoven’s almost contemporary Op. 18 No. 4, by
turns audacious and charming, violent and serene.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Pierre Boulez’s Second Piano Sonata, galvanised
by its powerful reflections on Beethoven’s
‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata, crowns Denis Kozhukhin’s
compelling programme choice. The Russian pianist,
winner of the prestigious 2010 Queen Elisabeth
Competition in Brussels, also surveys the grandeur
of Handel’s Suite in G minor and the pulsating
energy of Bartók’s Szabadban.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Caroline Bittencourt
Recognised for the sheer beauty and vibrant intensity
of her singing, Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski has
achieved distinction on the world’s operatic stages
and as a recitalist of striking imagination and
eloquence. She returns to Wigmore Hall with a
programme complete with songs by Schumann and
Yrjö Kilpinen, one of the last century’s most gifted
composers of Lieder.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Song Recital Series
Soile Isokoski
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Heikki Tuuli
Denis Kozhukhin
Felix Broede
Sarah Connolly
Opening Concert of the 2016/17 Season
Schumann Märzveilchen; Muttertraum;
Der Soldat; Der Spielmann
Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35
Mahler Rückert Lieder
Debussy Chansons de Bilitis
Berlioz Les nuits d’été
Poulenc Banalités
One of Britain’s foremost singers, in high demand
on the international stage, Sarah Connolly has been
a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall’s audience for
almost two decades. She opens the Hall’s new
season in company with regular duo partner Malcolm
Martineau, leading listeners through a programme
rich in emotional contrasts, poetic reflections and
glorious melodies. The acclaimed mezzo-soprano’s
recital includes Mahler’s sublime Rückert Lieder,
complete with the heart-breaking ‘Ich bin der Welt
abhanden gekommen’, the impassioned lyricism of
Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, the exotic subtle narrative
impressions of Debussy’s three Chansons de Bilitis,
and a sparkling selection of Schumann songs.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Song Recital Series
Photo of Sarah Connolly by Peter Warren
Malcolm Martineau
Russell Duncan
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Mark Padmore
Monday 12 September 1.00 pm
Mark Padmore tenor
Morgan Szymanski guitar
Dowland Come, ye heavy states of night;
Come again, sweet love doth now invite;
Now, O now I needs must part
Alec Roth My Lute and I
Stephen McNeff New work (world première)
Alec Roth Lights Out
Mark Padmore’s eloquent vocal artistry and ability to
extract every drop of emotion from poetic texts have
secured his place among today’s finest recitalists.
The London-born tenor’s extensive experience in opera
also informs his song interpretations, which grow
from a vivid sense of drama and feeling for life’s
extraordinary energy. He is joined by Morgan Szymanski,
described by Classical Guitar magazine as ‘a player
destined for future glories’ and recognised as ‘One to
Watch’ by Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine.
All seats £15
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Morgan Szymanski
Photo of Mark Padmore by Marco Borggreve
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Capilla
September
Wednesday 14 September 7.30 pm
The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice director
The English Concert
Anna Devin soprano
Matthew Brook bass-baritone
Daniel Hope violin
Paul Neubauer viola
David Finckel cello
Wu Han piano
Jacquet of Mantua Missa Surge Petre
Jacquet of Mantua Surge Petre
Lassus Tristis est anima mea
Rore Fratres: Scitote
Lassus Justorum animae
Jacquet of Mantua O vos omnes
Lassus Deficiat in dolore vita mea
Rore Illuxit nunc sacra dies
Jacquet of Mantua Ave Maria
Lassus Ave regina coelorum
Actor to be announced
Harry Bicket director, harpsichord
See page 12 for full details
Thursday 15 September 7.30 pm
Wigmore Hall Debut
The critically acclaimed Brabant Ensemble
specialises in the performance of European sacred
music of the mid-1500s, a period often overlooked
yet rich in powerful masterworks. This programme
juxtaposes the music of Cipiano de Rore and
Jacquet Colebault with motets by their illustrious
younger contemporary, Orlande de Lassus. At its
centre is Jacquet’s Missa Surge Petre, his only
setting in six parts, written for the patron of Mantua
Cathedral, St Peter.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Yulianna Avdeeva piano
Bach English Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV807
Chopin Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Mazurkas Op. 7:
No. 1 in Bb, No. 2 in A minor, No. 3 in F minor &
No. 4 in Ab; Polonaise in Ab Op. 53
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 8 in Bb Op. 84
Prokofiev capped his series of three so-called
‘War Sonatas’ with a work of great expressive depth
and emotional insight. Moscow-born Yulianna
Avdeeva, winner of the 2010 International Chopin
Piano Competition, sets Prokofiev’s expansive score
together with Chopin’s fiendishly difficult second
Ballade and the second of Bach’s English Suites,
more French in nature than its name implies.
Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor
Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25
Renowned for his deeply thoughtful musicianship
and the enquiring spirit he brings to each work in
his repertoire, Daniel Hope invites close colleagues
from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
to explore a programme that encompasses the
piano quartet’s diverse repertoire. They open with
Mahler’s only surviving chamber piece for
instruments alone before traversing the teeming
emotional landscapes of masterworks for the
medium by Schumann and Brahms.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Tuesday 13 September 7.30 pm
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Mark Padmore tenor
James Baillieu piano
SCHUBERT: THE COMPLETE SONGS
The Brabant Ensemble
Keith Barnes
Yulianna Avdeeva
Harald Hoffmann
Daniel Hope
Harald Hoffmann/DG
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Schubert:
Wigmore Hall’s determination to
perform Schubert’s 600-plus songs
within the span of two seasons
stands among the most ambitious
artistic projects in its history.
The series continues in 2016/17
with a host of unmissable recitals,
including performances of the
composer’s three late song-cycles
by Ian Bostridge, Henk Neven and
Matthew Rose.
Mark Padmore tenor
Schubert Ballade (D134); Das Finden;
Der Abend (D221); Die Mondnacht; Huldigung;
An die untergehende Sonne; Herrn Josef Spaun,
Assessor in Linz; Viola (D786); Der Wanderer
an den Mond; Das Zügenglöcklein; Am Fenster;
Sehnsucht (D879); Das Weinen; Des Fischers
Liebesglück; Der Winterabend; Die Sterne (D939)
Mark Padmore and James Baillieu’s recital
embraces everything from the folksong-like
simplicity of ‘Der Wanderer an den Mond’ and
boisterous humour of ‘Herrn Josef Spaun,
Assessor in Linz’ to the hypnotic blend of voice
and piano present in ‘Der Winterabend’, from
Schubert’s final year, and the complex emotions
of ‘Sehnsucht’.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Voices at Wigmore
Supporting Schubert: The Complete Songs
2015/16 and 2016/17
Song Recital Series
Portrait of Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder
Background painting by Caspar David Friedrich
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The Complete Songs
Forthcoming Concerts in this Series
Wednesday 15 February 2017 7.30 pm
Thursday 8 June 2017 7.30 pm
Thursday 20 October 7.30 pm
Matthew Rose bass
Gary Matthewman piano
Anna Lucia Richter soprano
Michael Gees piano
Christoph Prégardien tenor
Christoph Schnackertz piano
Tuesday 14 March 2017 7.30 pm
Sunday 11 June 2017 7.30 pm
Saturday 5 November 7.30 pm
Julius Drake piano
Ben Johnson tenor
Graham Johnson piano
Dorothea Röschmann soprano
Tuesday 11 April 2017 7.30 pm
Saturday 17 June 2017 7.30 pm
Thursday 24 November 7.30 pm
Henk Neven baritone
Imogen Cooper piano
Florian Boesch baritone
Wednesday 10 May 2017 7.30 pm
Sunday 2 July 2017 7.30 pm
Ian Bostridge tenor
Lars Vogt piano
Markus Schäfer tenor
Piers Lane piano
Saturday 13 May 2017 7.30 pm
Sunday 9 July 2017 7.30 pm
Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano
Jan Philip Schulze piano
Ian Bostridge tenor
Friday 19 May 2017 7.30 pm
Wednesday 19 July 2017 7.30 pm
Julian Prégardien soprano
Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano
Eduard Kutrowatz piano
Stuart Jackson tenor
Marcus Farnsworth baritone
Thursday 8 December 7.30 pm
Stephan Loges baritone
Wednesday 18 January 2017 7.30 pm
Georg Nigl baritone
Andreas Staier fortepiano
Thursday 2 February 2017 7.30 pm
Elizabeth Watts soprano
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The English Concert
The English Concert
Anna Devin soprano
DON QUIXOTE
Purcell Don Quixote Suite, including excerpts from The Married Beau and
The Comical History of Don Quixote
Telemann Don Quixote Suite, including excerpts from Don Quichotte auf der
Hochzeit des Comacho and the Ouverture-Suite ‘Burlesque de Quixotte’
Tilting at windmills and rescuing phoney princesses, such are the exploits
of the tragicomic knight-errant Don Quixote and his faithful sidekick Sancho
Panza. The English Concert recounts the adventures of Cervantes’s
irrepressibly idealistic hero on the 400th anniversary of the author’s death,
aided by Purcell and Telemann’s vibrant visions of the man of La Mancha.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Anna Devin
Richard Shymansky
Saturday 31 December 7.00 pm
with
Alfonso Leal del Ojo viola
Tuesday 7 February 2017 7.30 pm
with
Rachel Podger guest director, violin
Wednesday 7 June 2017 7.30 pm
Photo by Richard Haughton
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Matthew Brook
September
OPEN JEREMY
HOUSE DENK
DAY
Nick van Bloss piano
Beethoven 6 Variations on an Original Theme
in F Op. 34; Piano Sonata No. 18 in Eb Op. 31
No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57
‘Appassionata’
After achieving recognition as a young pianist of
tremendous talent, Nick van Bloss effectively retired
in his mid-20s and stayed away from the concert
platform for 15 years. Since returning to public
performance in 2010, he has attracted critical
superlatives and a keen following thanks not least
to his revelatory Beethoven interpretations.
Jeremy Denk
Michael Wilson
Jeremy Denk piano
MEDIEVAL TO MODERN
Wigmore Hall auditorium
Peter Dazeley
Saturday 17 September 10.00 am – 3.00 pm
OPEN HOUSE DAY
Join us for an opportunity to look behind
the scenes and behind the music at
Wigmore Hall with free performances
and family workshops taking place
throughout the day. Bring the family and
join Detective Inspector Hermione Jones
for a musical mystery trail around the
building and free music-making workshops
at 11.00 am, 12.15 pm and 1.30 pm.
Free (no ticket required)
In a fascinating programme spanning six
centuries of repertoire, Jeremy Denk
charts the history of Western music from
the Medieval and Renaissance worlds of
Machaut, Couperin and Frescobaldi to
Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, and via
the modernists Stravinsky, Cage, Ligeti
and John Adams back to Machaut.
Praised by The New York Times as an
artist ‘you want to hear no matter what
he performs’, Jeremy Denk stands
among the leading musicians of his
generation. The American pianist,
honoured by Musical America as its
2014 Instrumentalist of the Year, is
blessed with the potent combination of
intellectual curiosity, expressive
generosity and poetic spirit, qualities at
the heart of his strikingly individual
interpretations of everything from Bach
and Beethoven to Cowell and Kirchner.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Nick van Bloss
Privat
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September
LES VENTS
FRANÇAIS
Håkan Hardenberger trumpet
Roland Pöntinen piano
Classical Opera
Ian Page conductor
Ailish Tynan soprano (Gasparina)
Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano (Apollonia)
Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano (Don Ettore)
Robert Murray tenor (Don Pelagio)
Staffan Storm Three Autumns, in 3 mvts and
inspired by Achmatova poems
Stenhammar Sensommarnätter (Late Summer Nights)
Op. 33 (a selection)
Roland Pöntinen New work for trumpet and piano
(world première)
Over the past three decades Swedish trumpeter
Håkan Hardenberger has made a huge contribution
to the expansion of his instrument’s repertoire,
commissioning major new works and inspiring
many to arrange pieces for him. He is joined by
fellow countryman Roland Pöntinen for a lunchtime
recital programme complete with Pöntinen’s latest
composition for trumpet and piano.
£13 concs £11
Les Vents Français
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Les Vents Français
Emmanuel Pahud flute
François Leleux oboe
Paul Meyer clarinet
Radovan Vlatković horn
Gilbert Audin bassoon
Eric Le Sage
LA CANTERINA
Haydn Symphony No. 34 in D minor
Mysliveček Arias from Semiramide: Talor se il vento
freme; Tu mi disprezzi ingrato; Di Scitalce ... A pastor
se torna; Fiumicel che s’ode appena
Haydn La canterina (semi-staged)
Classical Opera’s pioneering MOZART 250 series
continues with a compelling programme of works
written in 1766 by Joseph Haydn and Josef
Mysliveček, posthumously styled as ‘the divine
Bohemian’. Four pulsating arias from Mysliveček’s
first opera are framed by two contrasting Haydn
works: a superbly crafted symphony and a vivacious
comedy about love, deception and singing lessons.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
piano
Beethoven Trio in G for flute, bassoon and
piano WoO. 37
Mozart Quintet in E b for piano and winds
K452
Saint-Saëns Caprice sur des airs danois et
russes Op. 79; Tarantelle in A minor Op. 6
Poulenc Sextet for wind quintet and piano
Emmanuel Pahud and his esteemed
colleagues of Les Vents Français evoke two
great traditions of music for wind ensemble
in this programme, the first rooted in
Austro-German soil, the second cultivated
in the salons of Paris. They open with
Beethoven’s youthful Trio in G, thought to
be a creation of his teenage years, and
turn to Mozart’s sublime Quintet in E flat
for piano and winds, before exploring
French works of the utmost sophistication
and verve.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Håkan Hardenberger
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Marco Borggreve
Ian Page
Sheila Rock
September
WIGMORE
STUDY GROUP
James Gilchrist tenor
Anna Tilbrook piano
Finzi Oh Fair to See Op. 13b
Julian Philips New work* (world première)
Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24
Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of
André Hoffmann, president of Fondation Hoffmann,
a Swiss grant-making foundation
James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook continue to
develop their dynamic creative partnership with
programmes that mine the depths of human
experience. Their latest Wigmore Hall recital
includes song-cycles by Mahler and Schumann,
and a new commission by Julian Philips,
acclaimed for his feeling for poetic language and
musical sensitivity.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music Series
Ludwig van Beethoven
Joseph Willibrord Mähler
fortepiano, director
Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2
Bartók String Quartet No. 3 BB93
Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1
‘Razumovsky’
The Endellions, hailed by Gramophone for
cultivating ‘the Urtext method of quartet playing’,
open their new season with Haydn’s glowing and
masterly final complete quartet and end the concert
with Beethoven’s symphonic first ‘Razumovsky’
quartet. Bartók’s third quartet burns with a
compressed energy that encompasses reflective
and profoundly touching melodies.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Tuesday 20 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Thursday 22 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Wednesday 28 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS
One of the iconic landmarks of piano literature,
the Beethoven Sonatas trace the immense
musical and spiritual journey of the composer’s
creative life. Whilst his own performances
of them were largely confined to the elite
aristocratic salons of Vienna, allowing him
to disregard the commercial pressures of
the day and write some of his most deeply
personal music, Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
soon became central to concert life, and to
wider domestic music making, presenting an
endlessly fascinating interpretative challenge
both to the enthusiastic amateur and to
the greatest pianists of each generation.
Come and explore Beethoven’s world in
three afternoons hosted by the composer
Julian Philips alongside pianist Laura Roberts
and student performers from the
Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study
sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by
Igor Levit on 28 September.
Wigmore Hall Learning Event /
Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit
James Gilchrist
operaomnia.co.uk
Eric Richmond
15
& Kristian Bezuidenhout
Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano, director
SPIRIT OF STURM UND DRANG
Haydn Symphony No. 52 in C minor
CPE Bach Concerto in D minor Wq. 17
JC Bach Symphony in G minor Op. 6 No. 6
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in Eb K449
The symphony and keyboard concerto grew as major genres during the eighteenth century’s second half,
arising respectively from the opera sinfonia and JS Bach’s pioneering early concertos for solo harpsichord
and instrumental ensemble. Freiburg Baroque Orchestra’s concert connects with the white-hot invention
of landmark pieces from the period, including the fiery emotions of Haydn’s Symphony No. 52 in C minor
and the chamber-like intimacy of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14. Kristian Bezuidenhout, acclaimed by
The Herald as ‘the finest living exponent of the fortepiano’, joins the period instruments of the Freiburg
Baroque Orchestra in works of high energy and creative fantasy.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Supported by Dunard Fund
Photos by Marco Borggreve
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September
Saturday 24 September 11.00 am – 12 noon
Relaxed Concert:
Leonore Piano Trio
Jack Liebeck violin
Amandine Savary piano
The Leonore Piano Trio presents a diverse programme
of music in this concert specifically designed to
welcome people who would benefit from a relaxed
performance environment, including people with
Autistic Spectrum Disorders, sensory and
communication disorders or learning disabilities.
Schubert Duo Sonata in A D574
Copland Sonata for violin and piano (1943)
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108
All seats £5
Since making his Wigmore Hall debut in 2002,
London-born Jack Liebeck has established an
international career as concerto soloist, recitalist
and chamber musician. He shares the stage for
this recital with the beguiling young French pianist
Amandine Savary, recently appointed by the Royal
Academy of Music to its professorial staff.
Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10
Formal symmetry and thematic consistency govern
the elemental power of Bartók’s Fourth String
Quartet, written in the summer of 1928. The Doric
String Quartet, described by Gramophone as ‘one of
the finest young string quartets’, pairs the Hungarian
composer’s complex creation with Debussy’s early
G minor Quartet, a work that ditched the rulebook
in search of expressive freedom.
£13 concs £11
Aurora Orchestra
Ligeti Ten pieces for wind quintet
Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (arr. Brett
Dean for nonet)
Anna Meredith New work* (world première)
Beethoven Septet in Eb Op. 20
*Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings,
and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,
president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making
foundation
Aurora Orchestra’s imaginative programmes and
support for new music combine here, aided by a
Wigmore Hall commission from Anna Meredith, herself
a fearless genre-hopping, boundary-pushing composer,
and Ligeti’s Ten pieces for wind quintet, a collection
of intense avant-garde miniatures completed in 1968.
Beethoven’s Septet still sounds as fresh today as
when it was first performed over two centuries ago.
Pre-Concert Talk
Angela Hewitt piano
ANGELA HEWITT: THE BACH ODYSSEY
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Jack Liebeck
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
Leonore Piano Trio
Eric Richmond
Aurora Orchestra
Lewis Brockway
David Corfield
George Garnier
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Angela Hewitt:
The Bach Odyssey
Critical acclaim for Angela Hewitt’s Bach interpretations
bears witness to the pianist’s extraordinary ability
to connect physically and emotionally as well as
intellectually with the dance rhythms and expressive
gestures of the composer’s keyboard works. The Bach
Odyssey, designed in collaboration with our Director, will
continue to share her mature insights with Wigmore Hall
audiences over several coming seasons.
Pre-Concert Talk
Pianist Angela Hewitt, renowned for her knowledge and insight on Bach
as well as her mesmerising interpretations of his works, launches
The Bach Odyssey with a discussion on the composer’s keyboard works
ahead of her evening concert, in conversation with Jessica Duchen.
£4
Angela Hewitt piano
Bach Fantasia in C minor BWV906; Aria variata BWV989;
15 Inventions BWV772–786; 15 Sinfonias BWV787–801;
Capriccio in B b BWV992 (Capriccio on the Departure of his
Most Beloved Brother); Capriccio in E BWV993;
Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV904
So often Bach opens the door to music that appears to inhabit the
outer reaches of human consciousness, with sounds deeply felt yet
rarely heard. The divinely-inspired composer’s keyboard fantasies,
inventions and sinfonias provide the creative launch pad for Angela
Hewitt’s glorious The Bach Odyssey. Her recital also includes the
Capriccio in Bb, Bach’s only surviving piece of programme music.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Friday 20 January 2017 7.30 pm
This series will continue over the following three seasons
Angela Hewitt
Richard Termine
Portrait of J S Bach by Johann Jakob Ihle, c. 1720. Photo © akg-images
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September
Tuesday 27 September 11.00 am – 11.45 am
(repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)
Nicholas Mogg baritone
Jâms Coleman piano
Hear outstanding performances by musicians from
the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts
presented especially for parents or carers and
their babies to enjoy together in a relaxed and
accommodating environment.
MAX EMANUEL
CENCIC
IL POMO D’ORO
THE BUSCH PROJECT
Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132
Mozart String Quintet in C K515
Adults £7.50 (babies come free)
Max Emanuel Cencic
Ann Hoffmann
Igor Levit piano
BEETHOVEN CYCLE: IGOR LEVIT
Renaud Capuçon violin
Guillaume Chilemme violin
Adrien La Marca viola
Gérard Caussé viola
Edgar Moreau cello
Renaud Capuçon pays homage to Adolf Busch
with a programme of works closely associated
with the great German violinist. He and a wonderful
ensemble of friends reflect on the lasting legacy
of a musician whose influence touched everyone,
from his son-in-law Rudolf Serkin and pupil
Yehudi Menuhin to generations of violinists since
his death in 1952.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Max Emanuel Cencic countertenor
Il Pomo d’Oro
Maxim Emelyanychev
conductor, harpsichord
ARIE NAPOLETANE
Scarlatti Sinfonia No. 7 in C
Porpora Agitata è l’alma mia from Didone
abbandonata Sarro Se resto sul lido from
Didone abbandonata Hasse Grave and Fuga
in G minor Porpora Torbido intorno al core
from Meride e Selinunte Sarro Su la pendice
from Didone Abbandonata Vinci In questa
mia tempesta from Eraclea Leo No, non
vedete mai from Siface Auletta Concerto in
D for harpsichord, two violins and continuo
Scarlatti Miei pensieri from Il prigioniero
fortunato Porpora Qual turbine che scende
from Germanico in Germania
Max Emanuel Cencic’s sensational
countertenor voice and entrepreneurial
artistic leadership have added momentum to
the revival of interest in eighteenth-century
opera seria. The Zagreb-born Austrian artist
recently recorded arias in this programme with
thrilling young period-instrument ensemble
Il Pomo d’Oro for Decca, casting brilliant light
on works buried for over two centuries.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
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Benjamin Ealovega
Renaud Capuçon
François Darmigny
Barbara Hannigan
& Calder Quartet
Saturday 1 October 7.30 pm
Wigmore Hall Debut †
Barbara Hannigan† soprano
Calder Quartet
Peter Eötvös Korrespondenz (String Quartet No. 1)
Peter Eötvös The sirens cycle* (world première)
* Co-commissioned by Tonhalle Society Zürich, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Centro Nacional de
Difusion Musical (Madrid), Ircam-Centre Pompidou (Paris), ProQuartet-Centre européen de
musique de chambre (Paris), Südwestrundfunk (Kompositionsauftrag des Südwestrundfunks),
and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation
Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan performs like a force of nature, captivating
audiences with her artistry’s presence and expressive vitality. She joins the
Calder Quartet, winner of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, for the world
première of The sirens cycle by Peter Eötvös. The Hungarian composer’s new
score for Wigmore Hall explores the full range of Hannigan’s striking coloratura
voice. The programme opens with Korrespondenz, a series of three vivid
‘scenes’ for string quartet completed in 1993.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series
Calder Quartet
Autumn de Wilde
Photo of Barbara Hannigan by Raphael Brand
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Beethoven Cycle:
Igor Levit
Beethoven’s piano sonatas occupied forty years of his life. They offer insights into his development
as artist and individual, and stand among the greatest of all his works. Igor Levit, now in his late
20s, drew critical superlatives to his debut recording of Beethoven’s late sonatas and has since
established his reputation as a visionary interpreter of the composer’s music. His first Beethoven
cycle in a major concert hall stands among the must-hear events of 2016/17.
Igor Levit’s Beethoven Cycle is supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton
Other Events in this Series
Igor Levit
Wigmore Study Group
piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 2 No. 1; Piano Sonata
No. 12 in Ab Op. 26 ‘Funeral March’; Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Op. 79;
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’
Igor Levit begins his Beethoven Cycle with the composer’s first piano
sonata with an opus number, the dashing Piano Sonata No. 1 in
F minor, and embraces works from the composer’s later maturity.
His recital’s second half pairs the neo-classical simplicity of the Piano
Sonata No. 25 with the Romantic extremes and heroic grandeur of
the ‘Waldstein’ Sonata.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Tuesday 20 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Thursday 22 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Wednesday 28 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Igor Levit
piano
Sunday 9 October 7.30 pm
Monday 7 November 7.30 pm
Tuesday 6 December 7.30 pm
Monday 30 January 2017 7.30 pm
Sunday 26 February 2017 7.30 pm
Friday 17 March 2017 7.30 pm
Photo by Gregor Hohenberg
Tuesday 13 June 2017 7.30 pm
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October
Sunday 2 October 11.30 am
Van Kuijk Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’
Monday 3 October 1.00 pm
NATHALIE STUTZMANN
ORFEO 55
Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94
Olli Mustonen Frei, aber einsam* (UK première)
Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40
The Van Kuijk Quartet, winner of the 2015 Wigmore
Hall International String Quartet Competition,
presents an ideal pairing of works. Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’
Quartet stands here as companion to Debussy’s
String Quartet in G minor, a work rooted in the great
Classical tradition yet strikingly original in musical
substance and complexity.
WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
* Co-commissioned by Concertgebouw Brugge, and by
Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,
president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss
grant-making foundation
Nathalie Stutzmann
Simon Fowler
Nathalie Stutzmann
director, contralto
Sunday 2 October
Orfeo 55
Leo Allegro from Sinfonia G minor ‘Santa
Elena al Calvario’ Caldara Sebben crudele
Scarlatti O cessate di piargarmi
Bononcini Per la gloria d’adorarvi from
Griselda Legrenzi Che fiero costume
Marini Passacaglio a 3 e a 4 Caccini Amarilli
mia bella Falconieri Passacalle
Durante Danza, danza, fanciulla gentile
Paisiello Nel cor più non mi sento
Vivaldi Cor mio, che prigion sei from
L’Atenaide Porpora Sinfonia da camera in C
Op. 2 No. 2 Vivaldi Con la face di Megera
from Semiramide Durante Vergin, Tutto amor
Porpora Largo from Cello Concerto in G
Caldara Spera, consolati from Maddalena ai
piedi di Cristo Porpora Adagio e Allegro from
Sonata No. 3 in G Stradella Queste lagrime
e sospiri from San Giovanni Battista
D’Anglebert Prelude from Suite No. 1 in G
Vivaldi Cessate, omai cessate
As part of Silver Sunday, we invite people living with
dementia and their family, friends and carers to join
us in the beautiful spaces of The Wallace Collection
and Wigmore Hall. Please keep an eye on our
website for more details!
Free (booking required)
In partnership with The Wallace Collection,
Westminster Arts and the Royal Academy
of Music
Steven Isserlis cello
Olli Mustonen piano
Frei, aber einsam – ‘Free, but alone’ – connects
with the abbreviated title of the collaborative F-A-E
Sonata by Schumann, his pupil Albert Dietrich and
the young Brahms. Olli Mustonen’s work, a short
Invention for solo cello written for Steven Isserlis,
serves as a bridge between the flowing melodies of
Schumann’s Three Romances and the turbulent
emotions of Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in D minor.
All seats £15
Olli Mustonen
Outi Montosen
Steven Isserlis
Jean-Baptiste Millot
Nathalie Stutzmann’s repertoire choice draws
directly from Alessandro Parisotti’s famous
anthology of seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury Italian arias. The French contralto’s work
as conductor has won countless admirers
in recent years, especially in partnership with
her own versatile ensemble, Orfeo 55. Their
programme includes heart-melting arie antiche
by Caccini, Caldara and Vivaldi and rarely
heard instrumental pieces by the Neapolitan
composer and singing teacher Nicola Porpora.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Van Kuijk Quartet
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October
Friday 7 October 7.30 pm
Pavel Haas Quartet
Harriet Krijgh cello
Jan Lisiecki piano
IMS Prussia Cove
Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826
Schumann Klavierstücke Op. 32
Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20;
2 Nocturnes Op. 48
Schubert 4 Impromptus D935
Elisabeth Leonskaja piano
Winfried Rademacher violin
Sini Simonen violin
István Várdai cello
Matthew Hunt clarinet
Born in Canada to Polish parents in 1995, Jan
Lisiecki made his international breakthrough at
the age of fifteen when Warsaw’s Fryderyk Chopin
Institute released his debut recording of Chopin’s
piano concertos. He returns to Wigmore Hall for a
recital complete with Chopin’s virtuosic Scherzo
No. 1 in B minor Op. 20 and Schubert’s evergreen
Four Impromptus D935.
Other artists to be announced
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Webern Fünf Sätze Op. 5
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68
Schubert String Quintet in C D956
Programme to include:
Glinka Trio pathétique
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 60
This year’s annual IMS Prussia Cove autumn tour
unites Elisabeth Leonskaja, Winfried Rademacher
and Matthew Hunt with young musicians who have
progressed through the IMS seminars. Founded
over 40 years ago by the great Hungarian violinist
Sándor Végh, IMS continues to nurture outstanding
chamber music performers under the artistic
directorship of cellist Steven Isserlis.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Wednesday 5 October 7.30 pm
Sound and silence share equal importance in
Webern’s Fünf Sätze, exquisitely crafted miniatures for
string quartet. The Pavel Haas Quartet also performs
Shostakovich’s Second String Quartet Op. 68,
dedicated to Vissarion Shebalin, one of the few
composers who stood by him after his denunciation
for ‘bourgeois formalism’ in the newspaper Pravda
in 1936, and is joined by young Dutch cellist Harriet
Krijgh in Schubert’s sublime String Quintet.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Saturday 8 October 11.00 am – 12 noon
Ensemble 360 & Polly Ives:
Sir Scallywag and the Battle
of Stinky Bottom
Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano
Collegium 1704
Václav Luks conductor
FAMILY CONCERT
For ages 4 plus
SEMIRAMIDE ‘LA SIGNORA REGALE’
Join Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives for this
new children’s concert, based on Giles Andreae’s
latest Sir Scallywag story, illustrated by Korky Paul
(Penguin 2015). With music by award-winning
composer Paul Rissmann, it’s packed with irresistibly
memorable songs, vivid story-telling, illustrations
and lots of audience participation.
Children £8 Adults £10
Elisabeth Leonskaja
Jan Lisiecki
Mathias Bothor/DG
Pavel Haas Quartet
Julia Wesely
Marco Borggreve
Family Concert
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
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Anna Bonitatibus
& Collegium 1704
Wigmore Hall Debut*
Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano
Collegium 1704*
Václav Luks conductor
SEMIRAMIDE ‘LA SIGNORA REGALE’
Caldara Introduzione & Povera navicella from Semiramide in Ascalona
Handel Fuggi dagl’occhi miei from Semiramide Riconosciuta
Jommelli Barbaro, non dolerti ... Tradita, sprezzata from Semiramide Riconosciuta
Gluck Ballet Suite from Semiramis
Gluck Fuggi dagl’occhi miei from Semiramide Riconosciuta
Bertoni Non so se più t’accendi from Semiramide Riconosciuta
Bianchi Sinfonia from La Vendetta di Nino
Paisiello Serbo in seno il cor piagato from La Semiramide in Villa
Nasolini Deh sospendi a’ pianti miei … Serbo ancora un’alma altera
from La Morte di Semiramide
Catel Dances Nos. 1 & 2 from Sémiramis
Rossini Bel raggio lusinghier from Semiramide
García Semiramis
Collegium 1704 is joined by Italian mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus, recently
hailed for her performance alongside Juan Diego Flórez in Rossini’s L’Italiana in
Algeri at the Vienna State Opera. Václav Luks and his Prague-based ensemble
have secured rave reviews for their recordings, Bach’s Mass in B minor among
them. Collegium 1704 makes its UK debut at Wigmore Hall with a programme
of arias, songs and other works inspired by the legendary Assyrian queen
Semiramis. Her mythical story, retold by Metastasio in an opera libretto that
received 30 settings between 1729 and 1819, involves the queen’s disguise
as king, an unsuccessful poisoning plot and the final triumph of Semiramis.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Collegium 1704
Photo of Anna Bonitatibus by Frank Bonitatibus
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Petra Hajská
October
Janine Jansen violin
Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
Igor Levit piano
Nicholas Angelich piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78; Piano
Sonata No. 4 in E b Op. 7; Piano Sonata No. 9 in E
Op. 14 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2;
Piano Sonata No. 26 in E b Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’
Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178
Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 59
Scottish Ensemble
Brahms String Sextet in Bb Op. 18
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4
Brahms turned to models from the past, including
the late instrumental works of Schubert and the
famous Baroque theme ‘La folia’, for his String Sextet
in B flat, completed in the summer of 1860. Scottish
Ensemble pairs the work with the sensual lyricism
and intense late-Romanticism of Schoenberg’s
string sextet Verklärte Nacht of 1899.
First published in London in 1810, Beethoven’s
lyrical Piano Sonata No. 24 reflects recent lessons
learned by the composer in creating his Fifth Piano
Concerto, Sixth Symphony and Violin Concerto. Igor
Levit’s programme also includes Op. 81a, described
by Beethoven as a ‘sonata characterising departure,
absence and reunion’, and the Piano Sonata No. 4,
an early masterwork.
Following early studies in the United States with his
mother, Nicholas Angelich gave his concerto debut
at the age of seven and made meteoric progress
after his graduation from the Paris Conservatoire in
the late 1980s. Virtuosity and romantic intensity are
among the hallmarks of his pianism, qualities ideally
suited to Liszt’s monumental Piano Sonata
in B minor.
£13 concs £11
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton
London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit
Igor Levit
Scottish Ensemble
Gregor Hohenberg
Peter Dibdin
Nicholas Angelich
Stéphane de Bourgies
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Janine Jansen
Perspectives
Known for her passionate devotion to chamber music, as well as her incandescent concerto
performances, Janine Jansen has achieved worldwide acclaim with music-making of the
highest integrity. The Dutch violinist, a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall’s audience, presents
a season-long residency in 2016/17, complete with performances of Korngold’s rarely heard
Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand, and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
Poulenc Violin Sonata
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108
Szymanowski Myths Op. 30
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis
Janine Jansen opens her Wigmore Hall series with a recital programme
of great sophistication and nuance. Poulenc’s Violin Sonata was inspired
by García Lorca’s famous metaphor ‘The guitar makes dreams weep’ and
also by the violin sonatas of Brahms. Szymanowski’s Myths and Prokofiev’s
Second Violin Sonata, creations of the two world wars, harness virtuosity
to the expression of poetic musical gestures.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Forthcoming Events in this Series
Janine Jansen violin Boris Brovtsyn violin
Torleif Thedéen cello
Clara Andrada de la Calle flute
Olivier Patey clarinet Eldar Nebolsin piano
Friday 2 June 2017 7.30 pm
Janine Jansen violin Torleif Thedéen cello
Martin Fröst clarinet Lucas Debargue piano
Photo by Harald Hoffmann/Decca
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October
Tuesday 11 October 7.30 pm
Llŷr Williams piano
Christian Gerhaher baritone
Gerold Huber piano
Andrew Carwood director
Arvo Pärt Da pacem Domine; Morning Star;
I Am the True Vine; Most Holy Mother of God
Byrd Mass for Four Voices
Gibbons Hosanna to the son of David; O Lord
in Thy Wrath; Lift up your heads; Nunc dimittis
(short service); O clap your hands
Nico Muhly New work* (world première)
Tavener The Lamb; Funeral Ikos; Love bade
me welcome
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor Op. 10
No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2;
Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Op. 10 No. 3;
33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120
Two seasons ago, Llŷr Williams embarked on a
monumental survey of Beethoven’s complete piano
works at Wigmore Hall. His latest recital encompasses
the vivid stylistic contrasts and fruitful thematic ideas
of the three Op. 10 piano sonatas and the elemental
Diabelli Variations, remarkable even by Beethoven’s
standards for their invention and blend of disciplined
craft and individual spontaneity.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Melvyn Tan 60th Birthday Concert
Melvyn Tan piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109;
6 Bagatelles Op. 126
Czerny Variations on a theme of Rode ‘La
Ricordanza’; Marcia funebre sulla morte di Luigi
van Beethoven Op. 146
Melvyn Tan celebrates his 60th birthday with a
programme richly infused with virtuosity and
underpinned by the adamantine musical substance
of Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor, among the great
monuments of nineteenth-century art. His recital
includes the Marcia funebre, Carl Czerny’s heartfelt
memorial tribute to his former teacher and friend,
completed within days of Beethoven’s death in
March 1827.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
* Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of
André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann,
Music has been used to outline and enhance sacred
space and time for millennia. The Cardinall’s Musick
and Andrew Carwood explore sacred compositions
from two periods, past and present, rich in works
informed by a profound feeling for something greater
than the individual self. Their programme pairs the
pristine soundworlds of Arvo Pärt and Byrd, Gibbons
and Tavener, and presents a new score by Nico Muhly.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series/
Saturday 15 October 1.00 pm, 6.00 pm & 7.30 pm
Helen Grime Day
Llŷr Williams
Melvyn Tan
Evy Ottermans
Sheila Rock
Dmitri Gutjahr
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Christian Gerhaher
& Gerold Huber
Gerold Huber piano
Dvořák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs)
Schumann Sechs Gedichte und Requiem Op. 90;
Resignation; Die Blume der Ergebung; Der Einsiedler
Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35
Following this concert, Christian Gerhaher will be
presented with The Wigmore Medal, in recognition
of his outstanding contribution to Wigmore Hall
over the past 15 years.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major
contribution to the 2016/17 Wigmore Series
Song Recital Series
Photo by Simon Jay Price
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Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber readily access areas
of imagination and insight that are off-limits to all but the
most enlightened artists. Their latest Wigmore Hall recital
opens with Dvořák’s Biblical Songs, ten uplifting settings
in Czech of Psalms extracted from the Bible of Kralice, a
landmark of the Protestant Reformation. Matters spiritual
also arise in Schumann’s ‘Requiem’, the ‘old Catholic
poem’, which the composer added to his settings of six
poems by Nikolaus Lenau. The programme’s second half
includes three mature Schumann Lieder and his early
sequence of a dozen songs to poems by Justinus Kerner.
October
Wednesday 19 October 11.00 am – 11.45 am
Dover Quartet
Vilde Frang violin
Aleksandar Madžar piano
Dvořák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’
Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From
my life’
Smetana and Dvořák were pioneers of Czech music
when their homeland fell under Austro-Hungarian
rule. Their works helped shape a distinctive national
cultural identity and attracted worldwide interest.
The Dover Quartet, winner of the 2013 Banff
International String Quartet Competition, pairs
Dvořák’s String Quartet in F Op. 96 with Smetana’s
autobiographical String Quartet No. 1 in E minor.
Temple Ensemble
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78
Schubert Fantasy in C D934
Vilde Frang, born in Norway in 1986, made her debut
with the Oslo Philharmonic and Mariss Jansons at
the age of twelve. Hailed by the Guardian as ‘a new
star in the violin firmament’, she makes a welcome
return to Wigmore Hall to perform a programme of
Brahms and Schubert guaranteed to display her
all-encompassing emotional range and virtuosity.
Hear outstanding performances by musicians from
the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts
presented especially for parents or carers and
their babies to enjoy together in a relaxed and
accommodating environment.
Adults £7.50 (babies come free)
£13 concs £11
Leon McCawley piano
Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6
Schubert Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’
Schubert/Liszt Die junge Nonne; Du bist die Ruh;
Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Mendelssohn Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without
Words) Op. 19
Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23
Christian Tetzlaff violin
Tanja Tetzlaff cello
Lars Vogt piano
Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101;
Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87; Piano Trio No. 1 in B
Op. 8 (revised version)
Leon McCawley, recently praised by the Washington
Post as a ‘thoughtful and lyrical pianist’, performs the
virtuosic ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy, the first of Schubert’s
larger works to be published during his lifetime, and
three song arrangements by Liszt that helped secure
Schubert’s posthumous reputation. His recital closes
with Chopin’s Ballade in G minor, a showpiece of
unstoppable momentum.
Brahms’s Piano Trios contain some of the composer’s
most memorable music, rich in invention and
propelled by what feels like an irresistible flood of
lyrical melody. Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff are joined
by long-term collaborator Lars Vogt in a programme
complete with the composer’s radiant late revision
of his Op. 8 Piano Trio.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Vilde Frang
Lars Vogt, Tanja & Christian Tetzlaff
Giorgia Bertazzi
Dover Quartet
Marco Borggreve
Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
Leon McCawley
Sheila Rock
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Helen Grime
Day
Wigmore Hall marks the start of Helen Grime’s term as its first female Composer in Residence with
a day devoted to her art. The Scottish composer, born in 1981, is known not least for her distinctive
creative voice and her music’s lyrical beauty. Helen Grime Day offers the chance to become deeply
immersed in her chamber compositions.
Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence is supported by The Marchus Trust
Saturday 15 October
1.00 pm
6.00 pm
Alexandra Wood violin
Rachel Roberts viola
Philip Higham cello
Nicholas Daniel oboe
Huw Watkins piano
Helen Grime Three Whistler Miniatures for piano trio;
Aviary Sketches for string trio (after Joseph Cornell)*;
To see the summer sky for violin and viola; New work for
oboe and piano (UK première); Oboe Quartet
*Co-commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
funded by a generous grant from Linda and Stuart Nelson in honour
of Wu Han and David Finckel, and by Wigmore Hall with the support
of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss
Chamber music occupies the centre ground of Helen
Grime’s work, embracing everything from pieces for solo
oboe to scores conceived for small ensemble. Three
Whistler Miniatures draw inspiration from chalk and pastel
pieces exhibited at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Museum,
while Aviary Sketches comprises five miniatures influenced
by the alluring ‘assemblage boxes’ of American artist and
sculptor Joseph Cornell.
All seats £10
Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series/
Helen Grime Composer in Residence
Helen Grime discusses her life as a composer and her plans during her
time as Wigmore Hall Composer in Residence.
£4
7.30 pm
Mark van de Wiel clarinet
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
Helen Grime Embrace for clarinet and trumpet; Seven Pierrot Miniatures
Oliver Knussen Songs without Voices Helen Grime Clarinet Concerto
Carter Au Quai for bassoon and viola Helen Grime Luna
Janáček Concertino
Helen Grime’s Seven Pierrot Miniatures project the composer’s uncanny
feeling for instrumental tone colours and textural contrasts, whilst her
Clarinet Concerto is a study in virtuosity that grows more meditative as
it unfolds. Knussen and Carter have been formative influences in Grime’s
career; her duo Embrace picks up the duos in Knussen’s delightful Songs
without Voices, and the Carter duo, written for Knussen’s 50th birthday,
mirrors this.
All seats £15
ALL DAY CONCERT TICKET: £20
Tickets to the Artists in Conversation event sold separately
Photo by Jonathan Wrather
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October
SCHUBERT IN ENGLISH
Schubert Tischlied; Der Rattenfänger; Wer kauft
Liebesgötter?; Tischlerlied; Der Entfernten; An die
Harmonie; Die Herbstnacht; Der Herbstabend;
Abschied von der Harfe; Die gefangenen Sänger;
Die Mutter Erde; Des Sängers Habe
Britten Winter Words
Bruch Lausche, lausche!; Goldne Brücken;
Frisch gesungen; Russisch; Um Mitternacht;
Zweites Kophtisches Lied; Kophtisches Lied
The Beautiful Maid of the Mill
Schubert’s songs undoubtedly belong
to the stock of mankind’s highest
achievements. For many decades in
Britain these works were regularly heard
in their English translations, although in
recent years there has been a shift back
to performance in their original language.
This autumn we explore the composer’s
three great song-cycles and transform
them from their original German into new
English translations, inviting audiences
to discover or revisit these special works
in a new light.
Thursday 20 October 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm
18th-century engraving
Christoph Prégardien makes a welcome return to
Wigmore Hall with Christoph Schnackertz to perform
Britten’s evocative Hardy cycle, Winter Words,
and a group of the ever-inventive strophic songs
by Schubert. Although best known today for his
G minor Violin Concerto, Max Bruch was a prolific
songwriter whose output includes fine settings of
Geibel, Goethe and Mörike, a selection of which
is presented in this recital.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Toby Spence tenor
Christopher Glynn piano
Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs
Schubert The Beautiful Maid of the Mill
(Die schöne Müllerin)
(London première of new English translation)
Toby Spence, one of the finest lyric tenors of his
generation, presents Jeremy Sams’s new translation
of Die schöne Müllerin as part of Wigmore Hall’s
innovative Learning programme.
This concert will be approximately 1 hour 10 minutes
in duration, without an interval
All seats £15
Christoph Schnackertz
Study Afternoon
Writer and musician Amanda Holden is joined
by pianist Christopher Glynn and singer
Toby Spence to discuss Schubert’s three
great song-cycles and their transformations
into English. How do writers approach the
specialist task of translating song texts?
And for singers, what are the challenges of
performing in translation? These questions
and many more are explored in this
illuminating study event.
Sunday 6 November 3.00 pm
£7
Schubert Swansong (Schwanengesang)
Clärchen & Hermann Baus
Roderick Williams baritone
Schubert Winter Journey (Winterreise)
Sunday 11 December 3.00 pm
Sir John Tomlinson bass
Song Recital Series /Wigmore Hall Learning Events
Christoph Prégardien
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Hans Morren
October
LE POÈME HARMONIQUE
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
Nelson Goerner piano
Nash Ensemble
Nash Ensemble
Nelson Goerner charts the creative crosscurrents
that connected the diverse musical worlds of early
twentieth-century Europe in his latest Wigmore Hall
recital. The Argentine pianist, celebrated for his
Debussy interpretations, offers a selection from the
French composer’s Préludes Book II before probing
Albéniz’s Iberia and concluding with La valse,
Ravel’s heady evocation of an Austrian imperial ball
of the mid-1800s.
Vincent Dumestre
Guy Vivien
Wigmore Hall Debut*
Claire Lefilliâtre soprano
Isabelle Druet mezzo-soprano
Mira Glodeanu violin
Lucas Peres viol
Françoise Enock violone
Marie Bournisien harp
Thomas Boysen guitar
Thor-Harald Johnsen guitar
Joël Grare percussion
Vincent Dumestre conductor, guitar
Briceño Españoleta; Ay ay ay, todos se burlan
de mi; Andalo çaravanda; Danza de la Hacha;
Venteçillo murmurador; Ay amor loco; El caballo
del marqués; Folia; Dime de que te quexas
Anonymous El baxel esta en la playa; Lloren
mis ojos (Libro de tonos humanos); Ruggiero;
Passacalle; Gaytas; Para tener Nochebuena;
No so yo (Cancionero de Uppsala); Canario
Berxes Ay! Qué rabia
Luis de Briceño, active around 1610–30,
spread the Spanish guitar’s popularity beyond
its homeland. He made his name in France
with a collection of pieces intended for
students of guitar. Le Poème Harmonique
and Vincent Dumestre have recorded Briceño’s
works for the Alpha label and continue to
explore them within the context of early
seventeenth-century Spanish music, offering
vivid instrumental arrangements of works
that capture the vitality and verve of popular
dances, villancicos and romances.
Debussy From Préludes Book II: Brouillards;
Feuilles mortes; La puerta del vino; Les fées sont
d’exquises danseuses; La terrasse des audiences
du clair de lune; Feux d’artifice
Albéniz From Iberia: Evocación; El puerto; Triana
Ravel La valse
Jamie Barton* mezzo-soprano
£13 concs £11
Turina Homenaje a Lope de Vega Brahms Ständchen;
Meine Liebe ist grün; Unbewegte laue Luft; Von ewiger
Liebe Dvořák Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs) Op. 55
Ives The things our fathers loved; Grantchester;
Immortality; The Housatonic at Stockbridge;
The Cage; Old Home Day Sibelius Svarta rosor;
Säv, säv, susa; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte;
Kyssens hopp; Marssnön; Var det en dröm?
Since winning the First and Song Prizes at the 2013
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Jamie
Barton has scored notable successes at New York’s
Metropolitan Opera and with her BBC Proms
debut in Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody. The American
mezzo-soprano marks her Wigmore Hall debut with
a programme of songs ideally matched to her vocal
warmth and sumptuous tone.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by American Friends of Wigmore Hall
Song Recital Series
James Baillieu
Kaupo Kikkas
Nelson Gorner
This concert will be approximately 75 minutes in
duration, without an interval
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Jamie Barton
Rebecca Fay
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Nash Ensemble
Vienna and its Empire
Between the early 1500s and the end of the First World War, Vienna emerged as
the capital of a vast multicultural empire ruled by the Habsburgs and enlarged by
shrewd dynastic marriages. The Habsburg lands evolved to become, by the late
1860s, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Musicians from all corners of the empire
made their way to Vienna, cultivating one of Europe’s richest musical legacies.
Composers from the empire’s constituent countries, meanwhile, increasingly
expressed aspirations for national independence in their scores, drawing not
least on folk music traditions. This season the Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’s
Chamber Ensemble in Residence, combines music from the Viennese Classical
School and the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg and his pupils, with
music from Hungary and the Czech lands.
Schubert, Bartók & Kodály
Brahms, Liszt & Dohnányi
with
Saturday 21 January 2017 7.30 pm
with
Nash Ensemble
Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 for
string sextet Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’
The Nash Ensemble launches its Viennese series with works by three composers closely
associated with ‘the city of music’. Mahler’s only surviving chamber work dates from his
precocious teenage years at the Vienna Conservatoire, while Schoenberg’s romantically
charged ‘Transfigured Night’ dates from the same year as Freud’s The Interpretation of
Dreams. Schubert’s much-loved ‘Trout’ Quintet, a score of sunny relaxation, was written
during a country vacation from his native city.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano
Janáček, Smetana & Dvořák
Lucy Crowe soprano
Ian Brown piano
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Haydn, Mozart & Mahler
Sunday 5 February 2017 11.30 am
Dvořák & Smetana
Saturday 11 February 2017 6.00 pm
with
Claire Booth
soprano
Berg, Webern & Schoenberg
with
Claire Booth
soprano
Berg, Mozart & Schubert
Nash Ensemble
Johann Strauss II Kaiser-Walzer Op. 437 (Emperor Waltz) (arr. by Schoenberg for flute,
clarinet, string quartet and piano) Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25
The apparent political and social stability of Austria-Hungary, more illusion than reality, informs
Johann Strauss the younger’s famous Emperor Waltz, performed by the Nash Ensemble in
an ensemble arrangement by Arnold Schoenberg. Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor
Op. 25, with its exuberant Hungarian-style finale, was performed in Vienna in 1862 shortly
before the composer made his permanent home there.
NASH INVENTIONS
with Martyn Brabbins conductor
Adrian Brendel cello
Huw Watkins, Colin Matthews, Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies, Simon Holt & Julian Anderson
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt, Vienna 1907
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October
Tuesday 25 October 7.30 pm
Phantasm
Sunwook Kim piano
Laurence Dreyfus director
Emilia Benjamin treble viol
Jonathan Manson tenor viol
Mikko Perkola tenor viol
Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol
Mozart Rondo in A minor K511
Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894 ‘Fantasie’
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106
‘Hammerklavier’
Florilegium
Ashley Solomon director
Dame Emma Kirkby soprano
THE WORLD OF ORLANDO GIBBONS
Gibbons A selection of Fantasies a 2, a 3, a 4 and a 6
Gibbons A selection of In Nomines
Gibbons Peascod Time (The Hunt’s Up); Pavan Lord
Salisbury; The silver swanne; Pavan and Galliard a 6;
Go from my window; O Lord in Thy Wrath; Hosanna
to the son of David
Orlando Gibbons, a talented chorister of King’s
College, Cambridge, who became organist at
Westminster Abbey during the time of James I,
contributed outstanding works to the English tradition
of music for viol consort. Phantasm celebrates the
art of a composer whose sudden death robbed
Jacobean England of one of her brightest talents.
LONDON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
London-based Sunwook Kim secured international
attention as winner of the 2006 Leeds International
Piano Competition. His latest Wigmore Hall recital
programme recalls the extraordinary creative energy
that swept through Vienna from the time of Mozart’s
arrival in the Habsburg imperial capital in the early
1780s to Schubert’s death in November 1728.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Arne Overture No. 8 in G minor from Judgement
of Paris; Cantata: The Morning
Handel Trio Sonata in E minor Op. 5 No. 3; Sweet
Bird from L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato;
Gentle Morpheus, son of night from Alceste
Chilcot Orpheus with his lute from Henry VIII
Handel Organ Concerto in Bb Op. 4 No. 6 HWV294
Lampe Pretty Warblers from Dione
Florilegium returns to Wigmore Hall for its
25th anniversary season with Dame Emma Kirkby
in a programme showcasing rarely performed
works by Lampe, Chilcot and Arne. The programme
also contains some of the acclaimed ensemble’s
favourite Handel, including well-known arias from
two of his operas and the haunting Trio Sonata in
E minor.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Sunwook Kim
Phantasm
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Marco Borggreve
Florilegium
Doh Lee
John Yip Brandies
October
Thomas Zehetmair violin
Ruth Killius viola
The Prince Consort
Stephen Hough piano
Philippe Cassard piano
Klein Duo for Violin and Viola
Zimmermann Sonata for solo violin
Bartók Selection of duos for 2 violins (arranged for
violin and viola)
Zimmermann Sonata for solo violin
Mozart Duo in Bb K424
Stephen Hough Herbstlieder; Dappled Things
(world première); Three Grave Songs;
Other Love Songs
Gideon Klein, a victim of the Nazi Holocaust, wrote
his Duo for Violin and Viola shortly before his
deportation to the Terezín concentration camp in
1941. Thomas Zehetmair and Ruth Killius present
the piece in company with the two Sonatas for
solo violin by Klein’s near-contemporary Bernd
Alois Zimmermann and a selection of Bartók’s
folksong-inspired Duos.
Stephen Hough, named by The Economist as one
of twenty living polymaths, has achieved distinction
not only as a concert pianist but also as a composer,
poet, essayist and writer. His collaboration with
The Prince Consort has yielded an acclaimed
recording and continues with this programme
of new works, including the first performance of
Hough’s Dappled Things.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
DEBUSSY PERSPECTIVES II:
DEBUSSY & OTHERS – ‘WATER MUSICS’
Ravel Jeux d’eau
Liszt Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este from Années
de pèlerinage, troisième année S163; Au bord
d’une source from Années de pèlerinage S160
Debussy Acte 2 from Pelléas et Mélisande (transcr.
Cassard); La cathédrale engloutie from Préludes
Book I; Ce qu’a vu le vent de l’ouest from Préludes
Book I; Brouillards from Préludes Book II; The Snow is
Dancing from Children’s Corner; Des pas sur la neige
from Préludes Book I; Quelques aspects de ‘Nous
n’irons plus au bois parce qu’il fait un temps
insupportable’ from Images oubliées; Jardins sous la
pluie from Estampes; Ondine from Préludes Book II;
Poissons d’or from Images Series 2; Voiles from
Préludes Book I; Reflets dans l’eau from Images
Series 1
Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60
Debussy L’isle joyeuse
Philippe Cassard has lived with the works in this
recital for over three decades, during which time he
has developed personal interpretations of the utmost
eloquence and sensuous beauty. The blend of fleeting
display and inward reflection to be found in Cassard’s
captivating transcription of music from Debussy’s
Pelléas et Mélisande and L’isle joyeuse also surface
in the water-inspired pieces of Liszt and Ravel.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Ruth Killius
Thomas Zehetmair
Robin Fuchs
Keith Pattison
The Prince Consort
Richard Ecclestone
Stephen Hough
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Philippe Cassard
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October/November
Wednesday 2 November 7.30 pm
Kelemen Quartet
40th Anniversary Season
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in E b Op. 117
Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3
‘Razumovsky’
Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703
The Carducci String Quartet marked the 40th
anniversary of Shostakovich’s death in 2015 with
a marathon day-long performance of his fifteen
quartets at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
The group returns to the composer’s edgy Ninth
String Quartet for this recital, setting it in company
with the third of Beethoven’s remarkable
‘Razumovsky’ quartets.
The Kelemen Quartet, winner of the 2014 Paolo
Borciani International String Quartet Competition,
has made meteoric progress since its foundation
six years ago in Budapest. Known for its white-hot
commitment in performance, the ensemble’s
latest Wigmore Hall recital explores the refinement
of Bartók’s First String Quartet alongside the single
sonata-form movement of Schubert’s Quartettsatz.
£13 concs £11
Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson
Trio
Beethoven Piano Trio in Bb Op. 11
Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67
Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 (revised version)
One of the world’s most distinguished piano trios,
founded to perform at the inauguration of US
President Carter in 1977, explores strikingly rich
works in this programme, beginning with the creative
struggles and expressive contrasts of Beethoven and
Shostakovich. The Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio
closes with Brahms’s youthful Piano Trio Op. 8,
heavily revised by the composer in later life.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Sophie Karthäuser soprano
Eugene Asti piano
Thursday 3 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Friday 4 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Brigitte Fassbaender
Masterclass
Alison Balsom trumpet
Peter Moore trombone
Tom Poster piano
ALISON BALSOM ‘THE TRUMPET
SHALL SOUND’
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Andy Holdsworth Photography
Kelemen Quartet
Balazs Borocz Pilvax Studio
Christian Steiner
Sophie Karthäuser
Sophie Karthäuser soprano
Eugene Asti piano
Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister: Heiß mich nicht reden;
So laßt mich scheinen; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
Wolf Heiß mich nicht reden; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt;
So laßt mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land; Mausfallen-Sprüchlein;
Das verlassene Mägdlein; Bei einer Trauung; Agnes;
Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens
Fauré Automne; Le secret; Prison; Notre amour
Satie Trois Mélodies: La statue de bronze; Daphénéo; Le chapelier
Honegger Petits cours de morale
Chabrier Les cigales; Villanelle des petits canards;
Chanson pour Jeanne; Lied
Feted as a supremely gifted Mozartean and recognised worldwide for the
brilliance of her lyric voice, Belgian soprano Sophie Karthäuser first beguiled
Wigmore Hall as a prize winner at its 2003 International Song Competition.
Her latest recital programme, given with regular duo partner Eugene Asti,
embraces the two languages in which she was raised, German and French.
She opens with Schubert and Wolf’s sublime Goethe settings, before
unlocking the exquisite colours of mélodies by Fauré and Chabrier.
Karthäuser’s repertoire choice also includes Satie’s witty Trois Mélodies,
completed exactly a century ago as the First World War raged.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Song Recital Series
Photo by Molina Visuals/Harmonia Mundi
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Alison Balsom
‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’
Over the past decade Alison Balsom has captivated audiences worldwide with her lyrical playing,
exquisite tone and penetrating musicianship. As performer, educator and advocate she has done
more for her instrument and the wider cause of classical music than many achieve in a lifetime.
Wigmore Hall’s Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ series offers the chance to experience
the full breadth and depth of her work.
Alison Balsom explores her life and career, and discusses her
residency at Wigmore Hall this season with broadcaster and
presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
£4
Tom Poster piano
Honegger Intrada
Hindemith Trumpet Sonata
Schubert Impromptu in G b D899 No. 3 for solo piano
Enescu Légende
Tom Poster & Alison Balsom The Thoughts of Dr May
Brahms Trio in E b Op. 40 (transcr. Alison Balsom for trumpet,
trombone and piano)
Peter Moore
Kaupo Kikkas
Tom Poster
Hanya Chlala
Balsom Ensemble
Thursday 18 May 2017 7.30 pm
Alison Balsom launches her Wigmore Hall Residency in company
with regular partner Tom Poster. Their co-composition, The
Thoughts of Dr May, takes its place alongside such fine
original works as Hindemith’s Trumpet Sonata and Enescu’s
Légende and inventive arrangements of existing pieces,
crowned by Balsom’s transcription for Brahms’s Trio Op. 40,
originally conceived for horn, violin and piano.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
with
Lucy Crowe soprano
with
Guy Barker trumpet
Chris Hill double bass
Ross Stanley piano
Photo of Alison Balsom by Maker
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Brigitte
Fassbaender
Masterclasses
Thursday 3 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclasses
One of Germany’s greatest singers, Brigitte Fassbaender
received early encouragement from her actress mother and
formative lessons from her father, the eminent baritone
Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender. She made her debut as a Page
in Wagner’s Lohengrin in Munich in 1961. During a long
and illustrious career, the mezzo-soprano performed at all of
the world’s leading opera houses and cultivated exceptional
qualities as a Lieder singer. She is also celebrated for
masterclass sessions that delve deep into the nature of the
expressive art of singing. Fassbaender returns to Wigmore
Hall to lead two days of masterclasses, working with a
company of postgraduate students from UK conservatoires.
£8 concs £6
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November
Alexei Volodin piano
SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC
Prokofiev Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet Op. 75
Mendelssohn/Rachmaninov Scherzo from
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Medtner Tale in C# minor Op. 35 No. 4
Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 28
Alexei Volodin’s recital encompasses the unrestrained
expressive range of Late Romantic Russian piano
music. His Shakespearean-themed first half embraces
everything from the fourth of Medtner’s Op. 35
Skazki or ‘Tales’, based on a quote from King Lear,
to the vitality and vibrant emotions of Prokofiev’s
arrangements of ten pieces from his 1935 ballet
Romeo and Juliet.
BORODIN
QUARTET
BEETHOVEN AND
SHOSTAKOVICH
CYCLE
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Dorothea Röschmann soprano
Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister:
Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen;
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
Schubert Mignon (Kennst du das Land); Nachtstück;
Der König in Thule; Gretchen am Spinnrade;
Gretchen im Zwinger (Gretchens Bitte)
Songs by Schumann
Mahler Rückert Lieder
A regular guest at the world’s leading opera houses
and concert halls, Dorothea Röschmann is blessed
with the rare receptivity and imagination required
to captivate listeners with her profoundly personal
interpretations of words and music. She joins
Malcolm Martineau to explore the dramatic intensity
and compassion of songs by Schubert, Schumann
and Mahler.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Brigitte Fassbaender
Masterclass
Borodin Quartet
Andy Staples
Friday 4 November 7.30 pm
Borodin Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in Eb
Op. 117 Beethoven String Quartet in F
Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’
The Borodin Quartet’s odyssey through the
string quartets of Shostakovich and Beethoven
continues with a shrewd combination of
works. Shostakovich’s Ninth String Quartet
confronts anxiety and despair to discover a
final sense of defiance; Beethoven’s first
‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, meanwhile, offsets
the sorrow of its slow movement with a
joyful final hymn of praise.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Forthcoming Concert in this Series
Thursday 1 June 2017 7.30 pm
Alexei Volodin
Marco Borggreve
Dorothea Röschmann
WDR/Jim Rakete
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November
Sunday 6 November 11.30 am
Endymion
Borodin Quartet
Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb K493
Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115
From new commissions to landmarks of the
classical repertoire, Endymion has made its mark
as one of Britain’s finest chamber ensembles.
This programme pairs Mozart’s high-spirited
Piano Quartet No. 2, a pioneering work in the
genre created in Vienna in 1786, with the lyrical
warmth and spaciousness of Brahms’s late
Clarinet Quintet.
Schubert Winter Journey (Winterreise)
(London première of new English translation)
The narrative arc of Winterreise, supplied by Wilhelm
Müller’s collection of 24 poems, follows a journey
deep into the mysterious territory between life and
death. Wigmore Hall’s Schubert in English project
offers the chance to connect with the visionary
imagery of the composer’s late work, performed
here in a new translation by Jeremy Sams by two
artists celebrated for their poetic empathy.
All seats £15
This concert will be approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in
duration, without an interval
Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5;
String Quartet in F Op. 135
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 14 in F# Op. 142
The Borodins begin with the fifth of Beethoven’s
ground-breaking Op. 18 quartets, inspired by
Mozart yet strikingly original in style and content,
before turning to the exquisitely subtle String
Quartet in F Op. 135, the composer’s final work in
the genre. Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 14,
another late work, resonates with the subtle
humour of Beethoven’s Op. 135.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet:
Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle
Song Recital Series/Wigmore Hall Learning Event/
Schubert in English
Roderick Williams
Benjamin Ealovega
Christopher Glynn
Joanna Bergin
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Borodin Quartet
Endymion
Ny Che/Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center
Eamonn McCabe
November
Tuesday 8 November 7.30 pm
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker cello
Martin Helmchen piano
Igor Levit piano
Sir Thomas Allen baritone
Samling Artists
Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor
BWV1029
Stravinsky Suite italienne for cello and piano
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38
Since making her international breakthrough as
winner of the 2005 Rostropovich Cello Competition,
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker has become one of the most
sought after performers of her generation. She is
joined for this recital of characterful cello masterworks
by the young German pianist Martin Helmchen, a
former BBC New Generation Artist.
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor Op. 10
No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor Op. 49
No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 20 in G Op. 49 No. 2;
Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54; Piano Sonata
No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’
‘What other composer has covered, within his life, such
vast musical distances?’ asks Alfred Brendel about
Beethoven. Igor Levit’s recital underlines the point,
encompassing everything from the subtle humour
and technical brilliance of the two-movement Piano
Sonata in F Op. 54 to the driving intensity of Op. 10
No. 1 and tragic demeanour of the ‘Appassionata’.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
£13 concs £11
Tuesday 8 November 1.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
Benjamin Ealovega
Kiandra Howarth soprano
Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano
David Butt Philip tenor Benjamin Appl baritone
Andrew Foster-Williams baritone
James Baillieu piano James Sherlock piano
SAMLING 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOWCASE
‘THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN’
INFANCY – Britten A Cradle Song; The Nurse’s Song
Warlock My sweet little darling
Schubert Wiegenlied (D498)
CHILDHOOD – Ives The Children’s Hour
Schumann Marienwürmchen
Poulenc From La courte paille: Ba, be, bi, bo, bu;
Les anges musiciens; Le carafon; Lune d’avril
Samling 20th Anniversary
Masterclass
Sir Thomas Allen baritone
Yvonne Kenny soprano
with Samling Artists
THE LOVER – Schubert Licht und Liebe Liszt Pace non
trovo; Benedetto sia’l giorno Quilter It was a lover and his
lass Britten Foggy Dew; Soldier, won’t you marry me?
Samling has a long-established reputation for
nurturing embryonic potential and setting a course
to professional brilliance through its international
Artist Programme. This masterclass showcases
some of the brightest of its most recent discoveries.
OLD AGE – Brahms O wüsst ich doch den Weg
zurück; Alte Liebe Barber The Secrets of the Old
Copland Going to Heaven!
£8 concs £6
Readings of selected works by Shakespeare
Song Recital Series/Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Since its foundation in 1996 Samling has brought
together world-class artists with some of the finest
emerging singers and pianists. This 20th Anniversary
concert, performed by Samling’s Patron Sir Thomas
Allen, Malcolm Martineau and a gathering of Samling
Artists from over the years, takes Shakespeare’s
‘Seven Ages of Man’ as its theme and explores
‘this strange eventful history’ through song.
THE SOLDIER – Schubert Kriegers Ahnung
Schumann Der Soldat Wolf Der Soldat I & II Fauré
Les berceaux Poulenc Bleuet Barber I hear an army
THE JUSTICE – Lehmann Fury Said to a Mouse
William Bolcom Amor Gilbert & Sullivan When I,
Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar
OBLIVION/SECOND INFANCY – Schubert Nachtstück;
Des Tages Wiehe
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
DINE WITH THE ARTISTS
There are a limited number of tickets for best concert and
masterclass seats with a special post-concert sparkling
reception and supper with the artists, priced at £125.
Available exclusively from Samling on 01434 602885 or
by email to [email protected].
Igor Levit
Gregor Hohenberg
Sir Thomas Allen
Sussie Ahlburg
Song Recital Series
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November
Christian Zacharias piano
Iestyn Davies countertenor
Thomas Dunford lute
Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D537
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90;
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109
Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6
Recognised universally for the perception, sensitivity
and heartfelt honesty of his interpretations as
pianist and conductor, Christian Zacharias has
developed a devoted Wigmore Hall following.
This recital comprises works of supreme quality,
complete with the intimate introspection of
Beethoven’s Op. 109 and Schumann’s
Davidsbündlertänze, contrasting studies of
high-spirited impetuosity and poetic reflection.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Music in the Round Weekend
Ensemble 360
JOHN DOWLAND – ‘A DELIGHTFUL THING’
Dowland Preludium (for solo lute); All ye whom love
or fortune hath betray’d; Mrs Winters Jump (for solo
lute); Behold a wonder here; Come away, come
sweet love; A fancy (for solo lute); Time stands still;
My thoughts are winged with hopes; Say, love if ever
thou didst find; I saw my lady weep; Flow my tears;
Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears; Shall I strive
with words to move; The King of Denmark Galliard
(for solo lute); Can she excuse my wrongs;
In darkness let me dwell; Semper Dowland semper
dolens (for solo lute); Go, crystal tears; Come again,
sweet love doth now invite; Now, O now I needs
must part
Iestyn Davies won the 2014 Gramophone Recital
Award for Arise my muse, his second album for
Wigmore Hall Live. The acclaimed countertenor
recently named Thomas Dunford as ‘One to Watch’
in The Spectator. ‘He manages to draw everybody
in’, he wrote. ‘That’s a really special talent.’ Their
evolving duo partnership holds the power to delight
critics and audiences alike.
Saturday 12 November 11.00 am – 12 noon
Family Concert
Pre-Concert Talk
Ensemble 360
Ensemble 360
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Song Recital Series/Early Music and Baroque Series
Christian Zacharias
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Felvégi Andrea
Iestyn Davies
Benjamin Ealovega
Thomas Dunford
Charles Plumey
November
EMERSON
STRING QUARTET
40TH ANNIVERSARY
Cuarteto Quiroga
Javier Perianes piano
Ian Bostridge tenor
Sir Antonio Pappano piano
Adam Walker flute
Michael Collins clarinet
Lawrence Power viola
Elizabeth Kenny lute
Granados Piano Quintet
Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34
Spanish pianist Javier Perianes has attracted rave
reviews and prestigious engagements in recent
seasons. His collaboration with the Cuarteto Quiroga,
strongly forged in performance and the recording
studio, continues with a programme complete
with the expressive Piano Quintet by Granados,
a wonderfully ripe Late Romantic work at times
evocative of Franck and Dvořák.
SHAKESPEARE SONGS
£13 concs £11
Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
CONCERT
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95
‘Serioso’
Mark-Anthony Turnage Shroud*
(UK première)
Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 in Ebminor
Op. 30
Javier Perianes
Josep Molina
*Co-commissioned by the Chamber Music Society
of the Lincoln Center, University of Washington
Seattle, Chamber Music Houston, Tuesday Musical
Association Akron, Segerstrom Performing Arts
Center, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing
Arts, Berliner Philharmonie, and by Wigmore Hall
with the generous support of Peter and Sonia Field
Beethoven’s ‘Serioso’ Quartet of 1810
earned its nickname by exploring conditions
of confrontation, emotional turmoil and
deep anxiety. The Emerson String Quartet,
recently described as ‘electrifying’ by The
New York Times, moves from the ‘Serioso’ to
the UK première of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s
Shroud, specially written for the acclaimed
American ensemble.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/
Cuarteto Quiroga
Josep Molina
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Music in the Round
Weekend
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Based in Sheffield and founded by the late, great Peter Cropper, Music in the Round is the country’s leading
chamber music promoter outside of London. Renowned for its innovative, informal and engaging performances,
we are delighted to welcome its resident group Ensemble 360 to the Wigmore Hall stage for this special weekend,
which explores the highly charged, often turbulent chamber music of Robert Schumann and the ever-youthful
compositions of Felix Mendelssohn, alongside composers who influenced them, and were influenced by them.
Saturday 12 November 5.45 pm – 6.45 pm
Ensemble 360
Bach Trio Sonata in C minor from The Musical Offering BWV1079
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49
Robert Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94
Clara Schumann Romance in Db Op. 22 No. 1; Romance in
G minor Op. 22 No. 2
Robert Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44
‘Stylistically conservative and expressively reserved.’ Does this
assessment of Mendelssohn’s writing, by musicologist and critic
Richard Taruskin, stand up in the face of an analysis of the composer’s
late, emotionally driven String Quartet Op. 80? Professor Julian Horton
considers the arguments with musical illustrations from Ensemble 360.
To launch Music in the Round’s weekend at Wigmore Hall,
celebrating Leipzig’s potent contribution to creative invention
and musical artistry, its resident Ensemble 360 reveals the
links between Bach and Mendelssohn, and goes on to explore
Robert and Clara Schumann’s profound spiritual and emotional
partnership.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Family Concert: The Fantastic City
of Music
For ages 5 plus
£4
Ensemble 360
Reinecke Trio in A for oboe, horn and piano Op. 188
Grieg Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45
Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73
Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80
Versatility and excellence propelled Carl Reinecke’s success as composer,
pianist, conductor, administrator, writer and influential teacher. His Trio in
A Op. 188, completed in Leipzig in 1887, provides a compelling preface
to the Violin Sonata No. 3 by Reinecke’s pupil Edvard Grieg. Works by
Reinecke’s teachers Schumann and Mendelssohn add to the programme’s
network of musical and personal connections.
Andrew J Smith presenter
Ensemble 360
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
In a concert full of interaction and entertainment, members of
the dynamic Ensemble 360 are joined by presenter Andrew J Smith
to introduce the whole family to some of the most adored music
and musicians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
including works by Schumann, Bach and Mendelssohn. With
specially designed resources to download and explore before
and after the concert, this is a perfect opportunity to discover
and enjoy this inspirational music in an informal environment.
Leipzig’s prosperous merchants supported a rich musical culture.
Recent scholarship suggests that Bach wrote his Flute Sonata in
E minor during his early years in the city. Copenhagen-born Niels Gade,
who succeeded Mendelssohn as director of the Leipzig Conservatory
in 1847, modelled his Fantasiestücke Op. 43 on pioneering ‘fantasy
pieces’ by his friend Schumann.
Ensemble 360
Bach Flute Sonata in E minor BWV1034
Mendelssohn Capriccio in E minor Op. 81 No. 3
Gade Fantasiestücke Op. 43
Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47
Photo of Ensemble 360 by David Shapiro
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November
IAN BOSTRIDGE
SIR ANTONIO PAPPANO
SHAKESPEARE SONGS
Le Concert d’Astrée
Emmanuelle Haïm conductor
Imogen Cooper piano
Janáček From On an Overgrown Path Book 1: No. 5
‘They Chattered Like Swallows’; No. 4 ‘The Madonna
of Frydek’ & No. 10 ‘The barn owl has not flown away!’
Debussy La puerta del vino from Préludes Book II;
La soirée dans Grenade from Estampes
Falla Homenaje pour ‘Le Tombeau de Claude
Debussy’
Albéniz From Iberia: El Albaicín; Evocación;
El Puerto & Fête-Dieu à Séville
Ian Bostridge
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Ian Bostridge tenor
Sir Antonio Pappano piano
Adam Walker flute
Michael Collins clarinet
Elizabeth Kenny lute
Shakespeare settings for voice and lute by
Johnson, Byrd, Morley and Wilson
Shakespeare settings for voice and piano by
Britten, Warlock, Gurney, Poulenc,Tippett,
Quilter, Finzi and Korngold
Stravinsky Three Songs from William
Shakespeare (for voice, flute, clarinet and viola)
Sir Antonio Pappano
Musacchio & Ianniello/EMI Classics
Shakespeare’s peerless feeling for the music
of the English language has inspired countless
composers, from those who set the Bard’s
verse during his lifetime to musicians as diverse
as Britten, Finzi, Korngold and Stravinsky.
Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano, together
with four outstanding chamber musicians, delve
into the rich Shakespeare legacy here, marking
the playwright’s quarter-centenary with a
delectable programme of works written for
Jacobean productions, Restoration revivals and
the modern concert hall.
Hailed by the Guardian as ‘a pianist who has
[always] put the music before technique’, Imogen
Cooper offers a programme shot through with poetic
nuance. She opens with three folksong-inspired
miniatures from Janáček’s On an Overgrown Path,
moves through the striking emotional contrasts of
Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze, and closes with
Albéniz’s virtuoso evocations of Spain.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
£60 £50 £40 £30 £15
Song Recital Series
Following the concert, Ian Bostridge and
Sir Antonio Pappano discuss the programme
as well as their lives and careers as performers,
alongside writer and musicologist Nigel Simeone.
Free to concert ticket holders
(no ticket required for this event)
Illustration of William Shakespeare by William Blake, 1800
Imogen Cooper
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Sussie Ahlburg
& Emmanuelle Haïm
Wigmore Hall Debut
Emmanuelle Haïm conductor
GRAN PARTITA
Mozart Selections from Le nozze di Figaro (arr. Alfredo Bernardini)
Mozart Serenade in Bb for winds K361 ‘Gran Partita’
Emmanuelle Haïm’s vocal and period-instrument ensemble, Le Concert
d’Astrée, owns a collective wealth of understanding and practical
experience in the performance of Baroque and early Classical music.
Above all the group takes its lead from its founder-conductor’s dynamic
musicianship, inspired by Haïm’s imaginative engagement with the bold
rhetorical gestures of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works, and
the absolute conviction of her interpretations. They make their Wigmore
Hall debut with a beguiling all-Mozart programme, crowned by the
majestic ‘Gran Partita’ for twelve wind instruments and double bass,
probably written for the clarinettist Anton Stadler and a dozen other
musicians employed by Vienna’s Imperial Court Theatre.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Photo of Emmanuelle Haïm by Marianne Rosenstiehl
Guillaume Mirand
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November
Adrianne Pieczonka soprano
Brian Zeger piano
Nash Ensemble
Schubert Ganymed; Die Forelle; Frühlingsglaube;
Du liebst mich nicht; Die junge Nonne
Strauss Rote Rosen; Du meines Herzens Krönelein;
Begegnung; Die Nacht; Ruhe, meine Seele;
Einerlei; Zueignung
Wagner Wesendonck Lieder
Korngold Four Shakespeare Songs Op. 31
Schubert Three Marches Militaires D733 for
piano duet
Bartók Duos for 2 violins (selection)
Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7
Nash Ensemble
Ian Brown piano
Simon Crawford-Phillips piano
Richard Hosford clarinet
Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka, acclaimed
for her multi-faceted interpretations of roles such
as Wagner’s Sieglinde and Strauss’s Marschallin,
fathoms the dramatic depths of five famous songs
by Schubert. Her programme also includes a
delectable selection of Romantic Lieder, complete
with early masterworks by Strauss and Wagner’s
intensely felt settings of five poems by Mathilde
Wesendonck.
The Nash Ensemble’s Austro-Hungarian evening
double bill begins with Schubert’s three Marches
Militaires for piano duet – the first of which features
one of the composer’s best-known tunes – followed
by folk-inspired string duos by the two fathers of
modern Hungarian music, Bartók and Kodály.
All seats £5
Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Song Recital Series
Brahms Hungarian Dances for piano duet
Liszt Elégie for cello, piano, harp and harmonium
S130; Romance oubliée (for viola and piano) S132
Dohnányi Sextet in C Op. 37
Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115
This programme includes music by two Hungarian
pianist-composers, complete with Liszt’s rarely
heard chamber works and Ernő Dohnányi’s
extrovert Sextet, framed with a selection of
Brahms’s Hungarian Dances, arrangements of
gypsy tunes that he knew and loved from childhood,
and his masterly late Clarinet Quintet, with its
gypsy-influenced slow movement.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Adrianne Pieczonka
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Bo Huang
Nash Ensemble
K Leighton
November
Wigmore Hall Debut*
Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone
Maciej Pikulski piano
Garrick Ohlsson piano
Maximilian Hornung* cello
Hisako Kawamura piano
Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102
Webern Two Pieces for cello and piano;
Drei kleine Stücke Op. 11
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99
Prestigious record prizes and other honours, the
Young Artist Award 2015 of the European Foundation
for Culture among them, have come to Maximilian
Hornung in recent years. The young German cellist
traces the creative lines and points of contrast
between Schumann and Webern, and Webern and
Brahms in his Wigmore Hall debut recital.
Schubert Der Schiffer (D536); Memnon;
Fahrt zum Hades; Auf der Donau
Beethoven Lied aus der Ferne; Der Kuss;
Ich liebe dich; Adelaide
Mendelssohn Neue Liebe; Gruß! (Op. 19a No. 5);
Morgengruß; Allnächtlich im Traume; Auf Flügeln
des Gesanges; Reiselied (Op. 34 No. 6)
Schubert From Schwanengesang: Der Atlas;
Ihr Bild; Das Fischermädchen; Die Stadt;
Am Meer; Der Doppelgänger
Schubert Schäfers Klagelied; Grenzen der
Menschheit; Ganymed; Erlkönig; Willkommen
und Abschied
The charismatic power and poise of Luca Pisaroni’s
voice have inspired audiences at the world’s
leading opera houses, concert halls and festivals.
The Venezuelan-born Italian bass-baritone is joined
by pianist Maciej Pikulski to explore the dialogue
between voice and piano in works by Beethoven,
Mendelssohn and Schubert.
Smetana Czech Dances: Polka in A minor; Hulán
(Lancer); Obkročák (Stepping Dance); Slepička
(Little Hen); Furiant
Falla 4 piezas españolas: Aragonesa; Cubana;
Montañesa; Andaluza
Falla Fantasia Baetica
Smetana and Falla’s keyboard compositions harbour
strong flavours of the folk music of their respective
homelands. Garrick Ohlsson offers an exquisitely
balanced menu of pieces from Smetana’s second
book of Czech Dances, written not long after the
composer realised his deafness was incurable, and
Falla’s Cuatro piezas españolas of 1906–09, key
works in the revival of Spanish nationalism.
£13 concs £11
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Song Recital Series
Maximilian Hornung
Marco Borggreve
Luca Pisaroni
Cate Pisaroni
Garrick Ohlsson
Mark McBeth
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Dunedin
Consort
Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day
Dunedin Consort
John Butt director
Joanne Lunn soprano
Tim Mead countertenor
Nicholas Mulroy tenor
Purcell Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day) Z328
Wigmore Hall celebrates St Cecilia on
her annual festival with the greatest
of Purcell’s Odes. Hail, bright Cecilia,
the Ode for St Cecilia’s Day 1692,
belongs to a distinctive English tradition
of honouring music’s patron saint.
Purcell here enriches Nicholas Brady’s
sonorous verse with music packed
with expressive subtleties, tonal variety
and compelling textural contrasts.
John Butt and his Dunedin Consort, acclaimed for their interpretations
of masterworks by Bach and Handel, invariably find fresh ways of bringing
Baroque music to life. They recently added Hail, bright Cecilia to their repertoire
and developed their interpretation with a series of concerts in 2015.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the
2016 /17 Wigmore Series
Painting of St Cecilia by Guido Reni, 1606
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November
Truls Mørk cello
Håvard Gimse piano
Stuart Jackson tenor
Marcus Farnsworth baritone
Ensemble Modern
Jonathan Berman conductor
Grieg Intermezzo in A minor for cello and piano
Janáček Pohádka
Bridge Cello Sonata in D minor
Sibelius Four Pieces Op. 78
Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36
Two of Norway’s foremost artists join forces for this
recital of masterworks for cello and piano, including
the folk music-influenced substance of Grieg’s Cello
Sonata of 1882–83 and Janáček’s Pohádka. Their
programme also includes the light-hearted melodic
lines of Grieg’s early Intermezzo and joyful charm of
Sibelius’s Four Pieces Op. 78 of 1915–17.
Schubert Leichenfantasie; Das war ich (D174a);
Das war ich (D174b) (fragment); Der Morgenstern
(D172) (fragment); Die erste Liebe; Jägers Abendlied I;
Grablied; Der Fischer; Abends unter der Linde I & II;
Lob des Tokayers; Punschlied: im Norden zu singen;
Der Vatermörder; An Rosa I & II; Fischerlied (D351);
Die Einsiedelei (D393); Lied (Ins stille Land);
Fischerlied II; Die Einsiedelei (D563); Des Fräuleins
Liebeslauschen; Doch im Getümmel der Schlacht;
Wenn ich dich, Holde, sehe; Totengräber-Weise;
Fischerweise
Two ballads from 1811, ‘Leichenfantasie’ and
‘Der Vatermörder’, introduce each half of this
programme, setting the scene for Stuart Jackson
and Marcus Farnsworth’s shared Schubert recital.
The chosen songs include a strong storytelling
element, present not least in the two settings of
‘Das war ich’ and of Goethe’s captivating ‘Jägers
Abendlied’ and ‘Der Fischer’.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Håvard Gimse
Truls Mørk
James Baillieu
Jon Andersen
Stephane de Bourgies/Virgin Classics
Stuart Jackson
Martin Sigmund
Marcus Farnsworth
Kaupo Kikkas
Benjamin Ealovega
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Ensemble Modern
Ensemble Modern
Alexander Goehr Manere 1, 2, 3 (world première)
Stockhausen Zeitmasze
Oliver Knussen Ophelia Dances Book I Op. 13
Alexander Goehr Verschwindendes Wort
Alexander Goehr’s family moved from Germany to Britain soon after his birth in 1932. His formative musical and cultural
experiences were provided by his father, the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr, and his mother, an accomplished
pianist. He attracted attention in the 1950s as a founding member of the Manchester New Music Group, together with
fellow students Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies and John Ogdon. Goehr’s influence as composer and teacher runs
deep in the musical life of Britain and beyond. Ensemble Modern celebrates his compelling synthesis of modernist and
traditional ideas in a programme that includes the world première of Manere 1, 2, 3.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Photo by Katrin Schilling
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November
Arditti Quartet
Tai Murray violin
Silke Avenhaus piano
Wigmore Hall Debut*
Lutosławski String Quartet
Hanna Kulenty String Quartet No. 6* (world première)
Philippe Manoury String Quartet No. 4 ‘Fragmenti’
(UK première)
Donatoni La Souris sans Sourire
*Co-commissioned by De Doelen Rotterdam, and by
Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,
president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss
The Arditti Quartet adds the work of Hanna Kulenty
to its extensive repertoire list with the world première
of the Polish composer’s Sixth String Quartet. The
Ardittis also introduce Philippe Manoury’s ‘Fragmenti’
to the UK, presented alongside the playful musical
gestures of Franco Donatoni’s La Souris sans Sourire.
Ilker Arcayürek* tenor
Simon Lepper piano
Tartini Sonata in G minor ‘The Devil’s Trill’
(arr. Kreisler)
Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13
Suk Four pieces for violin and piano Op. 17
Tai Murray, a BBC New Generation Artist from
2008 to 2010, is known for the subtlety and
nuance of her phrasing and a tone that explores
the full spectrum of violin colours. The Chicago-born
musician has been described by The New York
Times as ‘superb’, a judgment echoed widely in
superlative reviews of her concert performances
and recordings.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry /juice
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Schubert Ganymed; Schäfers Klagelied;
Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; Am Flusse (D766);
Auf dem See; Der Musensohn
Schumann Dichterliebe
A memorable finalist in the 2015 Cardiff Singer of
the World competition, Ilker Arcayürek has been
selected as a BBC New Generation Artist for 2015
to 2017. The Turkish tenor makes his Wigmore Hall
debut with an irresistible programme of songs by
Schubert and the emotionally turbulent world of
Schumann’s Dichterliebe.
£13 concs £11
Ilker Arcayürek is a member of BBC Radio 3’s
New Generation Artists scheme
Arditti Quartet
Iñigo Ibáñez
Tai Murray
Julia Wesely
Ilker Arcayürek
Carreon Lopez
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La Nuova Musica
& David Bates
La Nuova Musica
David Bates director
Lucy Crowe soprano (Calisto)
James Platt bass (Giove)
Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano (Diana)
Tim Mead countertenor (Endomione)
Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano (Giunone)
Jonathan McGovern baritone (Mercurio)
Andrew Tortise tenor (Linfea)
Sam Furness tenor (Pane)
Jake Arditti countertenor (Satirino)
Edward Grint bass-baritone (Sylvano)
Cavalli La Calisto
Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto, first performed in Venice in 1651,
blends comedy and tragedy with music of sensuous beauty and
irresistible charm. The opera’s libretto is based on the ancient
Greek myth of the nymph Callisto as related by Ovid in his
Metamorphoses. Its modern revival at the 1970 Glyndebourne
Festival created a wave of interest in Baroque opera that
continues to grow today, driven by the energy and artistic vision
of groups such as La Nuova Musica and its director David Bates,
who made his critically acclaimed US debut in 2014 conducting
La Calisto with Cincinnati Opera.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
‘Jupiter sees the Nymph Callisto’
by Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem
(1620 –1683)
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November/December
Friday 2 December 7.30 pm
Saturday 3 December 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
Sir András Schiff piano
Wu Man pipa
Sanubar Tursun vocals, dutar
Basel Rajoub’s Soriana Project
Come and Sing:
Hungarian Music
BACH, SCHUMANN, JANÁČEK AND BARTÓK
Basel Rajoub saxophones, duclar
Andrea Piccioni percussion
Feras Charestan qanun
Lynn Adib vocals
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FROM THE
ENDS OF THE SILK ROUTE
Philippe Jaroussky countertenor
Le Concert de la Loge Olympique
Julien Chauvin director, violin
In this rare musical encounter, the eastern and
western ends of the Silk Route are musically
joined as Chinese pipa maestra Wu Man, Uyghur
singer-songwriter Sanubar Tursun, and Syrian
composer-saxophonist Basel Rajoub perform,
both separately and together, a repertoire of new
compositions, improvisations and arrangements
of contemporary music inspired by tradition.
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration,
including an interval
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
The concert will be followed by a Question and
Answer session in the auditorium. This is free
to concert ticket holders and will take place
immediately after the performance.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
These concerts are generously
presented in collaboration with
the Aga Khan Music Initiative,
a programme of the
Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
www.akdn.org/music
AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE
Music Initiative
Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults
exploring a wealth of Hungarian music, from
traditional folk song to contemporary vocal music.
Get to know the music from the inside, develop
your singing skills and finish the day with a
performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.
£25 concs £19
Richard Goode piano
Bach Preludes and Fugues (a selection)
Bach Ouvertüre nach französischer Art BWV831
Chopin Ballade No. 3 in Ab Op. 47; Nocturne in
E minor Op. 72 No. 1; Nocturne in B Op. 9 No. 3;
4 Mazurkas Op. 24; Nocturne in E Op. 62 No. 2;
Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52
Since making his debut in the early 1960s, Richard
Goode has developed a rare depth of artistic wisdom.
The American pianist’s visionary music-making,
charged with emotional power and expressive
insight, and supported by spellbinding technical
prowess, is directed in this recital to works by two
of the greatest keyboard composers of all time.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
World Music Series
Wu Man and Sanubar Tursun
Feng Li
Basel Rajoub
Sebastian Schutyser/AKTC
Richard Goode
Steve Riskind
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Sir András Schiff
Bach, Schumann, Janáček and Bartók
Any collection of essential albums of the keyboard works of Bach, Schumann, Janáček and Bartók
would be impoverished without the recordings of Sir András Schiff. The pianist’s affinity for the music
of each composer has matured over many decades, making his latest series of three recitals and
three related evening masterclasses one of the highlights of Wigmore Hall’s 2016/17 Season.
Bach 15 Inventions BWV772–786
Bartók 10 pieces from For Children BB53; Three Rondos on folktunes BB92;
Three Burlesques for solo piano BB55
Janáček On an overgrown path (Book I)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Robert Schumann
Leoš Janáček
Béla Bartók
Bach’s Inventions, intended for teaching purposes, stand as a monument to
the creation of musical ideas and their development. Sir András Schiff’s recital
also explores the breath-taking range of creativity in Bartók’s folksong-inspired
miniatures, the first volume of Janáček’s On an overgrown path (Book I) and
the eighteen peerless character pieces of Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Supported by an anonymous donor and the Chamber Music Circle
Wednesday 30 November 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm
Wigmore Hall’s Learning programme enters the evening concert mainstream
with a masterclass led by Sir András Schiff, working with outstanding students
chosen by Sir András himself on repertoire featured in the previous evening’s
concert. Participants and their audience can expect to discover profound
interpretative insights from one of the world’s great musicians, recently hailed
by the Los Angeles Times for his ‘impeccable technique’, ‘intense concentration’
and ‘acute sense of being’.
Tuesday 21 February 2017 7.30 pm
Concert
Masterclass
Tuesday 2 May 2017 7.30 pm
All seats £20
Concert
Supported by an anonymous donor
Wednesday 3 May 2017 7.30 pm
Masterclass
Photo of Sir András Schiff by Birgitta Kowsky
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Philippe Jaroussky
& Le Concert de la
Loge Olympique
Wigmore Hall Debut*
Le Concert de la Loge Olympique*
Telemann Cantata: Die stille Nacht (Der am Ölberg zagende Jesus)
TWV1:364; Cantata: Jesus liegt in letzten Zügen TWV1:983
Bach Cantata: Ich habe genug BWV82
Bach’s sublime solo cantata ‘Ich habe genug’, written in Leipzig in
1727, and Telemann’s so-called Passion Cantata, Die stille Nacht,
create ideal conditions for reflection on matters spiritual. Philippe
Jaroussky’s artistry flows from his studies as a violinist and
subsequent rise to become one of the finest countertenors of our
time. His refined feeling for melodic line and the emotions behind
words have won critical plaudits worldwide, leading The New York
Times to declare that ‘There are countertenors, and then there is
Mr Jaroussky’. He is joined by Julien Chauvin’s recently founded
Le Concert de la Loge Olympique for its Wigmore Hall debut.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Le Concert de la Loge Olympique
Photo of Philippe Jaroussky by Simon Fowler/Virgin Classics
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Franck Juery
December
Sunday 4 December 11.30 am
Monday 5 December 1.00 pm
Atrium Quartet
Boris Giltburg piano
Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1 in B minor Op. 50
Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2
Bach/Busoni Toccata and Fugue in D minor
BWV565
Schumann Papillons Op. 2
Brahms Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Op. 1
Founded in St Petersburg in 2000, the Atrium
Quartet is known for the dynamic energy and
panache of its interpretations. The Berlin-based
ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall to perform two
works of tremendous substance, opening with
Prokofiev’s First String Quartet, commissioned by
the Library of Congress in 1931, and embracing
the intense lyricism of Brahms’s Op. 51 No. 2.
With his vital blend of jaw-dropping virtuosity and
musical gravitas, Boris Giltburg has emerged as
one of the most poetic and insightful artists of his
generation. The Israeli pianist’s latest Wigmore
Hall recital opens with Busoni’s richly imagined
transcription of one of the most familiar of all
Baroque compositions, and includes Brahms’s
symphonic First Piano Sonata.
ANNE
SCHWANEWILMS
MALCOLM
MARTINEAU
£13 concs £11
Anne Schwanewilms
Dorothee Mields soprano
Hana Blažíková soprano
Robert Getchell tenor
Thomas Hobbs tenor
Peter Kooij bass
Ageet Zweistra cello
Miriam Shalinsky violone
Maude Gratton organ
Thomas Dunford lute
Javier del Real
Anne Schwanewilms soprano
Philippe Herreweghe director
Boris Giltburg
Sasha Gusov
Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung;
Nachtgang; Du meines Herzens Krönelein;
Ach Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden
Wolf Das verlassene Mägdlein; Wo find ich
Trost?; Der Genesene an die Hoffnung
Strauss In goldener Fülle; Wiegenliedchen;
Wer lieben will, muss leiden; Ach, was Kummer,
Qual und Schmerzen; Blauer Sommer;
Weisser Jasmin; Das Rosenband; Drei Lieder
der Ophelia Wolf Im Frühling; Gesang
Weylas; Verborgenheit Strauss Die Nacht;
Geduld; Allerseelen
Anne Schwanewilms, hailed by Die Presse
as ‘Vienna’s new Marschallin’ following her
performance in 2014 at the city’s Staatsoper
in Der Rosenkavalier, ranks among today’s
finest lyric sopranos, a supremely gifted
Straussian and one of the foremost
interpreters of late Romantic opera and song.
The German artist’s regular duo partnership
with Malcolm Martineau offers countless
delights of detail, expressive shading and
poetic timing, channelled from the emotional
heart of every piece in their repertoire.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Song Recital Series
Atrium Quartet
Maria Budtova
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& Philippe Herreweghe
Dorothee Mields soprano
Hana Blažíková soprano
Robert Getchell tenor
Thomas Hobbs tenor
Peter Kooij bass
Ageet Zweistra cello
Miriam Shalinsky violone
Maude Gratton organ
Thomas Dunford lute
Philippe Herreweghe director
Schein Israelis Brünlein
Beauty of sound and uncanny tonal refinement
belong to the many attributes cultivated by
Collegium Vocale Gent ever since its foundation
by Philippe Herreweghe in 1970. Their awardwinning partnership stands among the most
admired in the world of early music and
beyond, hallmarked by the sensuous intensity
and rhetorical sophistication of their music
making. In this concert they explore the
imaginative terrain of Israelis Brünlein, a
collection of twenty-six sacred madrigals to Old
Testament texts in five or six parts by Hermann
Schein. Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale
Gent’s recent recording of the work was praised
by Gramophone for its ‘concentrated brilliance’.
Philippe Herreweghe
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
This concert will be 1 hour 50 minutes in duration,
including an interval
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Photos by Michiel Hendryckx
December
Wednesday 7 December 7.30 pm
Igor Levit piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31
No. 2 ‘The Tempest’; Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor
Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’; Piano Sonata No. 11 in Bb
Op. 22; Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Op. 2 No. 3
Schumann From Album für die Jugend Op. 68:
Ein Choral; Kleine Studie; Canonisches Liedchen;
Erinnerung; Reiterstück; *** (Sehr langsam);
Figurierter Choral
Schumann Sieben Clavierstücke in Fughettenform
Op. 126; Kinderszenen Op. 15
Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960
Stephan Loges bass-baritone
Beethoven’s ‘Tempest’ Sonata, created in almost
one sitting, dates from the time of the Heiligenstadt
Testament, the composer’s heart-breaking account
of his hearing loss. Igor Levit pairs its quixotic
moods with the ‘Grande Sonate pathétique’, among
Beethoven’s best-loved works. His recital’s second
half probes the grace and spirit of two virtuoso
Classical sonatas.
Deep study and reflection invariably inform Andreas
Staier’s revelatory interpretations of the keyboard
repertoire. The German musician, a pioneer among
performers of the fortepiano, is driven by insatiable
curiosity and a desire to penetrate the surface of the
works in his extensive repertoire and unveil their
musical substance.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Schubert Lebenstraum II (fragment); Das Leben;
Dem Unendlichen; Nachtgesang; Die Einsiedelei;
Die Gestirne; Der Alpenjäger; Am Strome; Philoktet;
Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Der Schiffer
(D536); Fischerlied II; Der Alpenjäger (D588);
Die Vögel (D691); Lied des gefangenen Jägers;
Wiedersehn; Widerspruch; Fischerweise; Sehnsucht
(D879); Jägers Liebeslied; Der Hochzeitsbraten
Stephan Loges and Graham Johnson survey the
chronological span and ceaseless invention of
Schubert’s creative life. Their programme embraces
everything from works such as ‘Das Leben’ and
‘Dem Unendlichen’, products of the young composer’s
annus mirabilis of 1815, to the deliberately humorous
‘Der Hochzeitsbraten’, a convivial conclusion to
a Schubertiade of tremendous expressive range
and depth.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Igor Levit
Andreas Staier
Simon Jay Price
Graham Johnson
Malcolm Crowthers
Josep Molina
Stephan Loges
Alexander Barnes
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December
CHRISTIAN
McBRIDE
JAZZ SERIES
Aleksandar Madžar piano
Nash Ensemble
Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano
Janáček Mládi for wind sextet
Smetana Der Fischer (Rybár) for reciter, harmonium,
harp and strings
Dvořák Love Songs Op. 83 (arr. for voice and strings
by David Matthews); Piano Quintet in A Op. 81
Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn joins
the Nash Ensemble to explore music from the
Czech lands, a strikingly creative region of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire. This programme voyages
from Janáček’s wind sextet, which reflects on his
time as a choirboy, to Smetana’s evocative tone
poem, before arriving at Dvořák’s passionate and
colourful Love Songs and his Piano Quintet in A,
among the best-loved of all chamber works.
Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano
Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2
Regular duo partners Adrian Brendel and Aleksandar
Madžar have cultivated a profound relationship of
mutual understanding and artistic insight.Their musicmaking, directed in this recital to works of terrific
imaginative scope, emerges from a shared belief in
the importance of uncovering and communicating
the composer’s intentions with total honesty.
Sir John Tomlinson bass
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Schubert Swansong (Schwanengesang)
(world première of new English translation)
Schubert’s late settings of poems by Rellstab, Heine
and Seidl, published posthumously as his ‘Swansong’,
include the last of his 600-plus songs. The complete
cycle is performed here in Jeremy Sams’s new
English translation by Sir John Tomlinson, among
the greatest singers of his generation.
This concert will be approximately 50 minutes in duration,
without an interval
Christian McBride
All seats £15
Christian McBride double bass
Plus special guests to be announced
Song Recital Series/Wigmore Hall Learning Event/
Schubert in English
Adrian Brendel
Jack Liebeck
One of the most requested, most recorded,
and most respected figures in the world of
jazz today, Christian McBride was recently
awarded a fifth GRAMMY for his scintillating
solo on ‘Cherokee’ from the new album
Live at the Village Vanguard. McBride is a
star bassist who continues to push the
boundaries through his invention, virtuosity
and relentless energy. He is joined for this,
the last concert in his series, by specially
invited guests for a night of creative
exchange and musical collaboration.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Christianne Stotijn
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Marco Borggreve
Sir John Tomlinson
Robert Workman
December
Belcea Quartet
Emmanuel Pahud flute
Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87
Krzysztof Penderecki String Quartet No. 4*
(world première); String Quartet No. 2
Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death
and the Maiden’
Takemitsu Voice
CPE Bach Flute Sonata in A minor Wq.132
Berio Sequenza I for solo flute
Bach Partita in A minor for flute BWV1013
Varèse Density 21.5
Debussy Syrinx
*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of
Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s large and
influential output includes works infused with
allusions to nineteenth-century music. His String
Quartet No. 4, commissioned by Wigmore Hall,
receives its world première in this compelling
programme, placed by the Belcea Quartet together
with early and late Schubert and the concentrated
power of Penderecki’s own String Quartet No. 2.
Emmanuel Pahud celebrates two golden ages of
flute playing, the first associated with the royal
courts of eighteenth-century Germany, the latter
inspired by the great twentieth-century French
school of performers. The Swiss musician, principal
flute with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since
1992, explores his instrument’s solo repertoire in
this lunchtime recital, embracing compositions
ancient and modern.
MARTHA ARGERICH &
ALBERTO PORTUGHEIS
75TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT
Martha Argerich
A Heitman
Alberto Portugheis
María Diez
£13 concs £11
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Martha Argerich piano
Alberto Portugheis piano
Emmanuel Pahud
Josef Fischnaller
Mozart Sonata in D for two pianos K448
Rachmaninov 6 Duets for piano 4 hands
Op. 11
Ravel Ma mère l’oye
Saint-Saëns Variations on a theme of
Beethoven Op. 35
Widely regarded as one of the greatest
musicians of her generation, Martha Argerich
joins forces with her great friend and fellow
Argentine pianist and pedagogue Alberto
Portugheis as they celebrate their 75th
birthdays with a programme of works close
to their hearts.
£100 £75 £50 £30 £15
Booking limited to two tickets only per person
Belcea Quartet
Tina Fineberg
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December
Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 20 No. 1
John Adams String Quartet No. 2* (UK première)
Janáček String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2
*Co-commissioned by Stanford Live, the Library of Congress,
the Dina Koston and Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music,
Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and by Wigmore Hall
with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the
Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
ARCANGELO
BAROQUE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE
John Adams wrote his Second String Quartet for the
St. Lawrence String Quartet, which gave its world
première at Stanford, California in January 2015.
The ensemble introduces the Beethoven-inspired
work to the UK in this recital, framed by two of
Haydn’s path-breaking Op. 20 quartets and Janáček’s
tempestuous String Quartet No. 1, inspired by
Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Pre-Concert Talk
Arcangelo
Britten Sinfonia
Arcangelo*
Jonathan Cohen
director, harpsichord, organ
Lydia Teuscher soprano
Alex Potter countertenor
Andrew Tortise tenor
Thomas Bauer baritone
Bach Cantata: Christ lag in
Todesbanden BWV4; Cantata:
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit
(Actus tragicus) BWV106;
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
in B b BWV1051
Telemann Cantata: Du aber Daniel,
gehe hin TWV4:17
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Eric Cheng
Adam Swann
Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo launch their Wigmore Hall
series with two of JS Bach’s earliest church cantatas,
including the touching Actus tragicus, perhaps written
in 1707 for the funeral of the composer’s uncle, and
Telemann’s equally moving funeral cantata, Du aber
Daniel, gehe hin. The programme also offers a chance for
Arcangelo’s ace period-instrument players to shine in the
Sixth Brandenburg Concerto, with its warm blend of parts
for violas, viole da gamba, cello, violone and harpsichord.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Friday 13 January 2017 7.30 pm
Friday 5 May 2017 10.00 pm
Friday 21 July 2017 7.00 pm
December
Thursday 15 December 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
Sohrab Uduman, winner of OPUS2016, discusses his
new work with Dr Kate Kennedy.
A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH
DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY
AND CARERS
Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)
If you are, or you know someone who is, living with
dementia, please join us for this afternoon concert.
This relaxed performance includes a captivating
programme of music by musicians from the
Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited
to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm.
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/
Britten Sinfonia
FRANCESCO
PIEMONTESI
MOZART CYCLE
Free (ticket required)
Thomas Gould violin
Caroline Dearnley cello
Huw Watkins piano
In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music
Webern Four Pieces Op. 7
Sohrab Uduman New work* (London première)
Schoenberg/Steuermann Verklärte Nacht for
Piano Trio
*Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support from
donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore
Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the
Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, his first published
work, led the composer to the borderlands between
late Romanticism and atonality. Heard here in
Eduard Steuermann’s arrangement for piano trio,
this impassioned work is paired with a new piano trio
written by Sohrab Uduman, winner of OPUS2016,
Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall’s competition for
unpublished composers.
Francesco Piemontesi
Benjamin Ealovega
Francesco Piemontesi piano
Mozart Piano Sonata in G K283;
Piano Sonata in F K332; Piano Sonata in Eb
K282; Piano Sonata in F K533/494
£13 concs £11
Francesco Piemontesi, hailed by the
Cleveland Plain Dealer as a ‘stellar
Mozartean’, launched his cycle of Mozart’s
Piano Sonatas at Wigmore Hall in 2015.
He continues his journey through the
composer’s magnificent sonatas with a
programme comprising two youthful works
written during the early months of 1775,
the dramatic Piano Sonata in F K332, and
the mature K533/494, blessed with an
Andante described by one critic as being
among ‘the most daring and disturbing
movements in all of Mozart’s music’.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Monday 23 October 2017 7.30 pm
Sohrab Uduman
Jon Barraclough
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December
TREVOR PINNOCK
70TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT
RENÉ
PAPE
WIGMORE HALL DEBUT
David Grimal violin
Anne Gastinel cello
Philippe Cassard piano
Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’
Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898
According to Carl Czerny, the central Largo of
Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 evokes
Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the appearance of
Banquo’s ghost. Three outstanding soloists and
empathic chamber musicians present the work in
company with another landmark of the piano trio
repertoire, Schubert’s D898, a strikingly exuberant
and genial late composition.
Trevor Pinnock
Peer Lindgreen
Trevor Pinnock harpsichord
Rachel Podger violin
Bojan Čičić violin
Jane Rogers viola
Jonathan Manson cello
Peter McCarthy violone
Lucy Crowe soprano
RAM Alumni Ensemble
Bach Overture No. 2 in B minor BWV1067
Handel Violin Sonata in A Op. 1 No. 3
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D
BWV1050
Mahler Symphony No. 4 (arr. for soprano
and chamber ensemble by Irwin Stein)
Music that reflects the power of the human
spirit supplies the substance of this
programme, directed by Trevor Pinnock
on his seventieth birthday. The British
conductor and harpsichordist, a pioneer of
period-instrument performance, is joined
by a group of close friends and colleagues
to celebrate his personal milestone with
works of the highest quality.
£60 £50 £40 £30 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series/
René Pape
Standbild
René Pape bass
Camillo Radicke piano
David Grimal
One of the world’s leading basses and a truly
great Wagnerian, René Pape is among the
most versatile singers of his generation.
He has achieved equal distinction in the opera
house and as concert soloist and recitalist.
His Wigmore Hall debut recital spans
spiritually uplifting song-cycles by Beethoven
and Dvořák, and probes Musorgsky’s
profound meditations on death.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Song Recital Series
Anne Gastinel
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Benoit Linero
Beethoven Sechs Lieder von Gellert Op. 48
Quilter Three Shakespeare Songs Op. 6
Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death
Stéphane Gallois/Naïve
December
MIKLÓS
PERÉNYI
Robert King director
Julia Doyle soprano (Angel)
Benjamin Hulett tenor (Evangelist)
David Wilson-Johnson bass (Herod)
Julie Cooper soprano
Matthew Venner countertenor
Robin Tyson countertenor
David de Winter tenor
Tom Robson tenor
Edward Grint bass
Andrew Rupp bass
Balsom Ensemble
Alison Balsom director, trumpet
CHRISTMAS IN VENICE
Giovanni Gabrieli Quem vidistis pastores
Andrea Gabrieli Intonatione Primo tono
Guami Canzona XXIV a8 Giovanni Gabrieli Audite
principes Andrea Gabrieli Intonazione Settimo toni
Giovanni Gabrieli O Magnum Mysterium
Gussago Canzona XIX a8 ‘La Leona’ Giovanni
Gabrieli Salvator noster Schütz Christmas Story
Miklós Perényi
Szilvia Csibi
Miklós Perényi cello
Kodály Sonata for solo cello Op. 8
Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008
A grand first half of festive Venetian polychoral
music prefaces Heinrich Schütz’s magical setting
of the Christmas Story, complete with a cast of Wise
Men, Shepherds, High Priests, the Angel bearing
glad tidings, the Heavenly Host, and the villainous
Herod, all backed by a wonderfully colourful
instrumental ensemble of violins, violettas, cornetti,
sackbuts, recorders, dulcian and continuo.
Alison Balsom opens her recital with a homage to
Leipzig’s finest trumpeter, Gottfried Reiche, for whom
Bach wrote so many high-flying clarino parts, and
explores dazzling original compositions by Biber,
Fantini, Löwe von Eisenach and Torelli. The trumpet’s
lyrical voice is also present in her transcriptions and
arrangements of songs by Dowland and Marin
Marais’s contemplative ‘Les Voix humaines’.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Chamber Music Season /
Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
The expressive eloquence and extraordinary
tonal refinement of Miklós Perényi’s playing
have opened hearts and minds to the infinite
spiritual dimensions of the works in his
broad repertoire. The Hungarian musician,
born in Budapest in 1948, completed his
studies with lessons from Pablo Casals
and is recognised among today’s greatest
cellists. He presents the second of Bach’s
Cello Suites in tandem with a composition
that matches it in intensity and invention,
Kodály’s Sonata for solo cello.
Reiche Fanfare
Bendinelli The Procession, from a Venetian
coronation (1595)
Biber von Bibern Sonata a clarino (for trumpet,
strings and continuo)
Marais Les Voix humaines for solo lute (arr. Dunford)
Fasch Trumpet Concerto
Bach Sinfonia from Oratorio BWV248
‘Weihnachts-Oratorium’
Corelli Christmas Concerto (arr. Balsom)
Fantini Sonata for two trumpets
Torelli Sonata a 5 in D
Dowland Come again! Sweet love doth now invite;
Time stands still; Behold a wonder here
Löwe von Eisenach Capriccio
Purcell Suite from The Fairy Queen
Bach Chorale: Jesus bleibet meine Freude from
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben BWV147
Biber Sonata No. 7 in C for 2 trumpets and strings
from Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes
Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV351
(arr. Balsom)
£13 concs £11
Taco van der Werf
Alison Balsom
Maker
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Mahan Esfahani
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series/Bach Harpsichord Works
Since making his London debut in 2009, Mahan Esfahani
has made giant strides to bring the harpsichord into the
mainstream of concert life. Over the next five seasons at
Wigmore Hall we explore Bach’s works for harpsichord with
Mahan, opening with the Goldberg Variations, a masterpiece
of great virtuosity, beauty and vast inventive range written
for two-manual harpsichord in 1741. This series continues
on 12 September 2017.
Photo by Bernhard Musil/Deutsche Grammophon
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December
VOX
LUMINIS
AKADEMIE FÜR
ALTE MUSIK
BERLIN
Sitkovetsky Trio
Turina Piano Trio No. 2 Op. 76
Ravel Piano Trio in A minor
Schubert Notturno in E b D897
Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63
Hailed by the Independent for artistry
‘reminiscent of the Beaux Arts Trio in its heyday’,
the Sitkovetsky Trio’s playing is distinguished by
unconditional commitment and high-octane
energy. The ensemble, founded in 2007, explores
the colourful soundscapes of Turina and Ravel
before fathoming the vast creative worlds of
Schubert and Schumann.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Uwe Arens
Vox Luminis
Ola Renska
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier artistic director
Vivaldi Domine ad adjuvandum me festina
RV593
Handel Nisi Dominus HWV238
Vivaldi Magnificat RV610
Handel Dixit Dominis HWV232
Akademie für Alte Musik
Berlin
A WINTERS NIGHT’S MUSIC
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade in
C minor K388 ‘Night Music’
Leopold Mozart Die musikalische
Schlittenfahrt: Divertimento in F
(arr. Ernst Schlader)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ah vous
dirai-je, maman (arr. Georg Druschetzky)
Salieri Armonia per un tempio della notte
Beethoven Octet in E b Op. 103
Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier have
secured a host of prestigious recording
awards and five-star reviews, tribute to
the quality and panache of their revelatory
interpretations of early vocal works. Their
most recent album, a recording of motets
by members of the Bach family, was lauded
by Gramophone as ‘a deeply felt and
atmospheric compendium’. They return to
Wigmore Hall with a programme of sacred
masterworks, including Handel’s youthful
setting of Psalm 110, Dixit Dominus,
composed in Italy in 1707.
A musical sleigh-ride by Mozart’s father, the
music of freemasonry, nocturnal serenades
and a dozen variations on a popular French
nursery rhyme stand together in this
programme of works for wind instruments.
Mozart composed his ‘Night Music’ in Vienna
in the early 1780s to satisfy the imperial city’s
appetite for wind ensemble music, a demand
also served by the former regimental musician
Georg Druschetzky. Members of Berlin’s
renowned Akademie für Alte Musik conclude
with the young Beethoven’s vivacious Octet.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Sitkovetsky Trio
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December
Roberta Invernizzi soprano
Sonia Prina contralto
Ensemble Claudiana
Luca Pianca director, lute
Marco Frezzato cello
Margret Köll harp
Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’
Mendelssohn String Quartet in E b Op. 44 No. 3
The Doric String Quartet has forged ahead over the
past decade to become one of Britain’s leading
chamber groups, known for its sophisticated tonal
blend and consummate artistry. This programme
includes Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2, completed
almost a century ago and swiftly absorbed into
the international repertoire following its publication
in 1920.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE
Gringolts Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6
Jörg Widmann String Quartet No. 3 ‘Jagdquartett’
Brahms String Quartet in Bb Op. 67
Founded in 2008, the Zurich-based Gringolts
Quartet has been acclaimed for the sensitive nuance
of its sound and the responsive musicianship of its
members. This programme pairs Beethoven’s
forward-looking Op. 18 No. 6, written in the first year
of the nineteenth century, with the pulsating energy
of Jörg Widmann’s ‘Jagdquartett’, completed soon
after the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The English Concert
Richard Haughton
NB starting time
The English Concert
Alfonso Leal del Ojo viola
NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
THE ENGLISH
CONCERT
George Garnier
Purcell Suite from King Arthur
Corelli Concerto Grosso in C Op. 6
No. 10
Telemann Viola Concerto in G
TWV51:G9
Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for strings
RV157
Handel Concerto Grosso in G minor
Op. 6 No. 6
Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D
BWV1068
While The English Concert and Harry
Bicket have worked tirelessly in recent
years to cast light upon neglected corners
of the Baroque and Early Classical
repertoire, they welcome in the New Year
with a programme of works by the great
Baroque masters on whom the ensemble
built its reputation.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Gringolts Quartet
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Tomasz Trzebiatowski
Roberta Invernizzi, Sonia Prina
& Ensemble Claudiana
Roberta Invernizzi soprano Sonia Prina contralto
Ensemble Claudiana, Luca Pianca director, lute
Marco Frezzato cello Margret Köll harp
AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE
Monteverdi Vorrei baciarti; Ohimè dov’è il mio ben? Doni Toccata – Passacaglia
Monteverdi Mentre vaga angioletta from Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi, libro ottavo
Gabrielli Sonata No. 1 for lute, cello and harp Handel Sono liete, fortunate
Lotti Poss’io morir Durante Son io, barbara donna
Bach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E b BWV998 for lute and harp
Handel Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi
Sonia Prina and Roberta Invernizzi belong to a
generation of singers blessed with remarkable
technical skills, musical refinement and emotional
freedom. Prina’s sensational agility and ability to
mine the depths of the contralto range provide
the ideal complement to the crystalline beauty of
Invernizzi’s soprano voice. They return to Wigmore
Hall with Luca Pianca’s ace Ensemble Claudiana
to perform a programme of works associated
with Venice, complete with Monteverdi’s yearning
Ohimè dov’è il mio ben?, a heart-breaking set of
variations for two voices and basso continuo, a
chamber duet by Antonio Lotti, and Handel’s
virtuoso Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Photos by Ribalta Luce Studio
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Contemporary
Music Series
Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, and as a commissioner of new works
and a champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least
through its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London premières. ‘Our commissioning
scheme is already the most extensive in Europe for chamber music’, comments Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly,
‘and in recent years Wigmore Hall has become one of the world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’
Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence is supported by The Marchus Trust
Full details of these concerts are provided throughout the brochure in chronological order. Priority Booking for all concerts in this series opens
on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016.
James Gilchrist tenor
Anna Tilbrook piano
Birmingham Contemporary
Music Group
Mark van de Wiel clarinet
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
Ensemble Modern
Helen Grime, Oliver Knussen & Carter
Anna Meredith*
Arditti Quartet
The Prince Consort
Stephen Hough piano
Julian Philips*
Aurora Orchestra
Calder Quartet
Barbara Hannigan soprano
Peter Eötvös*
Stephen Hough
Alexander Goehr, Stockhausen &
Oliver Knussen
Hanna Kulenty*, Philippe Manoury &
Donatoni
Belcea Quartet
Krzysztof Penderecki*
Tom Poster piano
Arvo Pärt, Nico Muhly* & Tavener
Tom Poster & Alison Balsom
Alexandra Wood violin
Rachel Roberts viola
Philip Higham cello
Huw Watkins piano
Helen Grime*
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John Adams*
Britten Sinfonia
Mark-Anthony Turnage*
Sohrab Uduman*
Gringolts Quartet
Jörg Widmann
Monday 23 January 2017 7.30 pm
Wednesday 26 April 2017 7.30 pm
Philip Higham cello
Alasdair Beatson piano
Pacifica Quartet
Johannes Moser cello
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
Sol Gabetta cello
John Casken
Julia Wolfe
Jörg Widmann, Ligeti & Xenakis
Wednesday 25 January 2017 7.30 pm
Sunday 7 May 2017 7.30 pm
Signum Quartet
Nash Ensemble
Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano
Huw Watkins, Colin Matthews,
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Simon Holt
& Julian Anderson*
Bruno Mantovani*
Britten Sinfonia
Oliver Knussen & Mark-Anthony Turnage*
Thursday 9 February 2017 7.30 pm
Saturday 25 March 2017 1.00 pm
Jörg Widmann clarinet
Mitsuko Uchida piano
Jörg Widmann
Scottish Ensemble
Jonathan Morton leader, artistic director
Alina Ibragimova violin
Arvo Pärt & Pēteris Vasks
JACK Quartet
Xenakis
JACK Quartet
Pavel Kolesnikov piano
Xenakis
Music Group
Huw Watkins piano
Oliver Knussen conductor
Helen Grime*
George Crumb, György Kurtág & Michel van
der Aa
Paul Newland*
Calder Quartet
Thomas Adès piano
Nicolas Hodges piano
Wednesday 14 June 2017 7.30 pm
Thomas Adès
Hugues Dufourt* & Wolfgang Rihm*
Saturday 25 March 2017 7.30 pm
Music Group
Timothy Redmond conductor
Calder Quartet
Thomas Adès piano
Thomas Adès, György Kurtág &
Gerald Barry
Philippe Schoeller & Matteo Franceschini
Arditti Quartet
Eliot Fisk guitar
Aaron Jay Kernis*
Tuesday 20 June 2017 7.30 pm
Monday 26 June 2017 7.30 pm
Friday 7 April 2017 7.30 pm
Jean-Guihen Queyras cello
Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra
Chemirani Brothers zarb
Marco Stroppa, Ross Daly, Sokratis
Sinopoulos, György Kurtág, Krzysztof
Penderecki & Franck Leriche
Wednesday 19 April 2017 1.00 pm
Britten Sinfonia
Brian Elias*
Vienna Piano Trio
Mark Padmore tenor
Thomas Larcher *
Saturday 1 July 2017 7.30 pm
Thomas Adès
* Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall
with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the
The Contemporary Music Series is supported by
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EVENTS FOR FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS
All events listed on pages 80 – 83 will open for booking on 31 May, with the exception of the Relaxed Concert on 24 September, Silver Sunday on
2 October, Family Concerts on 8 October and 12 November, Come and Sing on 3 December, and Music for the Moment on 15 December, which
are included in Priority Booking for Friends and Mailing List Subscribers.
September/October
Saturday 17 September 10.00 am – 3.00 pm
Open House Day
Join us for an opportunity to look behind the scenes
and behind the music at Wigmore Hall, with free
performances and workshops taking place
throughout the day.
Bring the family and join Detective Inspector
Hermione Jones for a musical mystery trail around
the building and free music-making workshops at
11.00 am, 12.15 pm and 1.30 pm.
Free (no ticket required)
Study
Programme
We have an extensive programme of
study events including masterclasses,
pre-concert talks and study days.
For a list of all our events see Wigmore Hall
Learning section of At a Glance on page 3.
Saturday 24 September 11.00 am – 12 noon
Sunday 2 October
Relaxed Concert:
Leonore Piano Trio
The Leonore Piano Trio, which brings together three
acclaimed artists renowned for their ability to
communicate informally with audiences, performs
a diverse programme of music for violin, cello and
piano in a relaxed and informal environment.
Our relaxed concerts are open to everyone and are
specifically designed to welcome people who will
benefit from a more relaxed performance environment,
including people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders,
sensory and communication disorders, or a learning
disability. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and
movement, and our house lights will remain up so
there is no darkness. Audience members are able
to walk in and out of the auditorium as they need to
and there is a designated quiet area.
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning
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Eric Richmond
Leonore Piano Trio
All seats £5
As part of Silver Sunday, we invite people living with
dementia and their family, friends and carers to join
us in the beautiful spaces of The Wallace Collection
and Wigmore Hall. Please keep an eye on our
website for more details!
Free (booking required)
In partnership with The Wallace Collection, Westminster Arts
and the Royal Academy of Music
October
Friday 7 October 11.00 am – 12 noon
Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives:
of Stinky Bottom
RECEPTION & KEY STAGE 1
SCHOOLS CONCERT
When King Colin sets his sights on finding the famous
Golden Sausage, there’s only ONE person for the job:
Sir Scallywag! But will the six-year-old knight be
mighty enough to defeat the filthy trolls and win the
Stinkiest Battle Ever? Join Ensemble 360 and narrator
Polly Ives for this new children’s concert, based on
Giles Andreae’s latest Sir Scallywag story, illustrated
by Korky Paul (Penguin 2015). With music by
award-winning composer Paul Rissmann, it’s packed
with irresistibly memorable songs, vivid story-telling,
illustrations and lots of audience participation.
£3.50
Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240
Saturday 8 October 11.00 am – 12 noon
Benjamin Ealovega
Saturday 22 October 10.30 am – 3.30 pm
A Knight’s Quest
FAMILY DAY
Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives:
of Stinky Bottom
FAMILY CONCERT
For ages 4 plus
A repeat of the Schools Concert on 7 October,
for families.
For ages 5 plus
Discover the stories hidden in The Wallace Collection
and create your own medieval knight’s quest. Try on
armour and create a puppet; will you be a knight or
a squire? Then write your own travelling music for
the journey and perform it onstage at Wigmore Hall.
Ignite
Benjamin Ealovega
Wednesday 26 October 11.00 am – 3.30 pm
Thursday 27 October 11.00 am – 3.30 pm
In partnership with
The Wallace Collection
Musical Portraits Band
HALF TERM COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS
Early Years
We invite young people with Autism Spectrum
Disorders to be inspired by paintings in the National
Portrait Gallery, and to create their own works of
art and music with inspiring visual artists alongside
Wigmore Hall Learning Associate Artists Ignite.
For Crying Out Loud!, our concert series for
parents / carers and their babies under 1, and
Chamber Tots, interactive workshops for children
aged 1 to 5, take place across the season.
For more information, and to apply for a place,
contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or
email [email protected].
Free (application required)
See pages 20 & 31 for forthcoming For Crying
Out Loud! concerts and see the Learning brochure
for forthcoming Chamber Tots workshops.
In partnership with the
National Portrait Gallery
and Turtle Key Arts
Benjamin Ealovega
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November/December
The Fantastic City of Music
Andrew J Smith presenter
Ensemble 360
In the Community
FAMILY CONCERT
Our Learning projects reach out
across London and further afield,
including an extensive schools
and early years programme, a
community programme working
with children, young people and
adults in challenging circumstances,
and Music for Life, in which we
lead creative music workshops with
people living with dementia.
For ages 5 plus
In a concert full of interaction and entertainment,
members of the dynamic Ensemble 360 are joined by
presenter Andy J Smith to introduce the whole family
to some of the most adored music and musicians of
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including
works by Schumann, Bach and Mendelssohn.
With specially designed resources to download and
explore before and after the concert, this is a perfect
opportunity to discover and enjoy this inspirational
music in an informal environment.
Wednesday 16 November 11.00 am – 12 noon
Saturday 3 December 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
Van Kuijk Quartet and Rachel
Leach: Melodies
Come and Sing:
Hungarian Music
KEY STAGE 3 SCHOOLS CONCERT
Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults
exploring a wealth of Hungarian music, from
traditional folk song to contemporary vocal music.
Get to know the music from the inside, develop
your singing skills and finish the day with a
performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.
Join the members of the Van Kuijk Quartet, First
Prize-winners of the 2015 Wigmore Hall International
String Quartet Competition, as they perform a dynamic
concert exploring the string quartet and its vast and
varied repertoire. Alongside presenter Rachel Leach,
the quartet performs a wide range of pieces by
composers ranging from Ravel to Smetana.
Designed to support, complement and extend the
Key Stage 3 curriculum, bookers also receive a
teachers’ resource pack ahead of the concert.
£3.50
£25 concs £19
Thursday 15 December 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm
A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH
DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS,
FAMILY AND CARERS
If you are, or you know someone who is, living with
dementia, please join us for this afternoon concert.
This relaxed performance includes a captivating
programme of music by musicians from the
Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to
join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm.
In partnership with the Royal Academy
of Music
Van Kuijk Quartet
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December
Saturday 10 December and Saturday 17 December
10.00 am – 10.45 am • 12 noon – 12.45 pm • 2.00 pm – 2.45 pm
Rumbled
INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE
For children aged 3 – 5 and their parents/carers
A young girl has told a very big lie and now, if she doesn’t spin all this straw into
gold by the morning, The King will cut off her head! There is no way she can do
it, until she meets a mysterious stranger who casts a magical spell and all the dry
straw is transformed into sparkling gold. Surely when The King sees all of these
riches, he will marry her and make her Queen! But the magical elf returns and
wants payment for his troubles. Join us for this immersive adventure which
reimagines the well-loved Rumpelstiltskin story.
Tuesday 13 December
10.00 am – 10.45 am • 12 noon – 12.45 pm • 2.00 pm – 2.45 pm
Rumbled
INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE
For Nursery, Reception and Special Educational Needs groups
A repeat of the events on 10 and 17 December, for Nursery, Reception and
Special Educational Needs groups.
£3.50
Benjamin Ealovega
Chamber Zone
FREE CONCERT TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOL GROUPS
Over the last nine years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticket scheme Chamber Zone has reached
over 7,000 young people aged 8 –25 years.
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity
For details on the concerts included in the Chamber Zone scheme and how to book visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk /chamberzone
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SPRING PREVIEW
JANUARY – MARCH 2017
These concerts (except where stated) are not available to book with this brochure. Booking dates and full details of artists and
programmes will be published in a separate brochure available from late September 2016.
January 2017
Tuesday 3 January 7.30 pm
Friday 6 January 7.30 pm
Sunday 8 January 11.30 am
John Chest baritone
Marcelo Amaral piano
Vijay Iyer piano
Wadada Leo Smith trumpet
Novus String Quartet
WINTER JOURNEY
A COSMIC RHYTHM WITH EACH STROKE
Brtitten Winter Words
Songs by Schubert, Duparc, Wolf, Schumann
and Poulenc
Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer performs with his
‘hero, friend and teacher’, trumpeter Wadada Leo
Smith, who belongs to the first generation of
players to come out of Chicago’s hugely influential
Association for the Advancement of Creative
Musicians (AACM).
Song Recital Series
Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor
Op. 80
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95
‘Serioso’
Saturday 7 January 7.30 pm
Cuarteto Casals
Mozart String Quartet in G K387; String Quartet in
D minor K421; String Quartet in Eb K428
John Chest
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Andrey Stoycher
Vijay Iyer
Barbara Rigon
Novus String Quartet
Jin-ho Park
January 2017
Sunday 8 January 3.00 pm
Monday 9 January 1.00 pm
Timothy Fallon tenor
Ammiel Bushakevitz piano
Richard Egarr harpsichord
Arcangelo*
Jonathan Cohen director, cello
Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord
Programme to be announced
Prize winners of the 2013 Wigmore Hall/Kohn
Foundation International Song Competition
Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca
Schubert Nacht und Träume; Die Sternennächte;
Liebesrausch II; Rastlose Liebe; Wiegenlied;
Nachtstück; Willkommen und Abschied
Beach Three Browning Songs Op. 44
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital
Song Recital Series
Schnittke String Quartet No. 3
Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2
‘Razumovsky’
Cuarteto Casals
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Early Music and Baroque Series/Arcangelo and
Jonathan Cohen Baroque Ensemble in Residence
Mozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’; String
Quartet in A K464; String Quartet in C K465
‘Dissonance’
Cuarteto Casals
Bach Harpsichord Concerto in G minor BWV1058
(from Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041)
Telemann Burlesque de Quixotte TWV55:G10
Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D BWV1054
Telemann Suite in G TWV55:G4 ‘Les Nations
anciens et modernes’
Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1052
Wednesday 11 January 7.30 pm
La Venexiana
Molina Visuals
Vienna Piano Trio
Monteverdi Selections from the Seventh Book
of Madrigals
Haydn Piano Trio in E HXV:28 (Bartolozzi trio)
Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8
La Venexiana
Vienna Piano Trio
Nancy Horowitz
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January 2017
Wigmore Series Debut*
Beatrice Rana piano
Nikita Boriso-Glebsky* violin
Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988
Classical Opera
Ian Page conductor
Pianist to be announced
Soloists to be announced
Beatrice Rana is a member of BBC Radio 3’s
1767 – A RETROSPECTIVE
Erich Höbarth violin
Gerhard Schulz violin
Thomas Riebl viola
Ralph Kirshbaum cello
IMS PRUSSIA COVE
CELEBRATION CONCERT FOR
HILARY TUNSTALL- BEHRENS’S
90TH BIRTHDAY
Soloists of Les Arts Florissants
Paul Agnew director, tenor
Miriam Allan soprano
Hannah Morrison soprano
Lucile Richardot contralto
Sean Clayton tenor
Cyril Costanzo bass
Described by The Observer as ‘among the most
audacious classical music programming ever’,
Ian Page’s MOZART 250 follows the chronological
trajectory of Mozart’s life, works and influences
250 years on. This concert will present an overview
of the musical scene in 1767 with a fascinating
programme of works that were written or premièred
in that year.
MONTEVERDI, MASTERS AND POETS –
IMITATION AND EMULATION
A selection of madrigals by Monteverdi and his
contemporaries including Vecchi, Ingegneri,
Marenzio, Wert and Pallavicino.
Georg Nigl baritone
Schubert Die Schatten; Andenken; Geisternähe;
Der Abend (D108); Lied der Liebe; Der Geistertanz
(D116); Die Mainacht; Seufzer; Frühlingslied (D398);
Die Knabenzeit; Klage an den Mond; Erntelied;
Abschied (D475); Orest auf Tauris; Erlafsee; Beim
Winde; Nachtstück; Der Wanderer an den Mond;
Das Zügenglöcklein; Am Fenster; Irdisches Glück;
Genügsamkeit; Schiffers Scheidelied
Nikita Boriso-Glebsky
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Beatrice Rana
Neda Navaee
Georg Nigl
Bernd Uhlig
January 2017
Thursday 19 January 7.30 pm
Julia Fischer violin
Royal Academy of Music
Richard Lewis Song Circle
Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in G minor Op. 27 No. 1
(à Joseph Szigeti); Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 27
No. 2 (à Jacques Thibaud); Violin Sonata in
D minor Op. 27 No. 3 (à Georges Enescu);
Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 27 No. 4 (à Fritz Kreisler);
Violin Sonata in G Op. 27 No. 5 (à Mathieu Crickboom);
Violin Sonata in E Op. 27 No. 6 (à Manuel Quiroya)
Nash Ensemble
Ian Brown piano
Lucy Crowe soprano
Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘Emperor’
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in E b K449
Mahler Symphony No. 4 (arr. for soprano and
chamber ensemble by Irwin Stein)
Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble: Vienna
and its Empire
Angela Hewitt piano
Nika Gorič soprano
Katie Stevenson mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Mogg baritone
Michael Mofidian bass-baritone
Yi-Shing Cheng piano
Michael Pandya piano
Songs by Charles Villiers Stanford, his pupil
Muriel Herbert, and Roger Quilter – the man
she loved. The recital will be introduced by
Claire Tomalin, Muriel Herbert’s daughter.
Bach French Suites: No. 1 in D minor BWV812;
No. 2 in C minor BWV813; No. 4 in E b BWV815;
No. 6 in E BWV817; No. 3 in B minor BWV814;
No. 5 in G BWV816
Song Recital Series
Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13
London Pianoforte Series/
Roger Vignoles piano
Fauré Mirages Op. 113
Caplet Cinq ballades françaises de Paul Fort
Honegger Petits cours de morale
Poulenc Deux poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire;
Parisiana
Julia Fischer
Felix Broede
Lucy Crowe
Marco Borggreve
Roderick Williams
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January 2017
ECMA Showcase
Philip Higham cello
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake piano
Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero
comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO. 45
John Casken Stolen Airs (London première)
Fauré Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 109
Lutosławski Metamorphoses (1981)
Franck/Delsart Sonata in A for cello and piano
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016.
Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016,
and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016.
Saturday 28 January 11.00 am – Masterclass
Quatuor Akilone
Quatuor Hanson
Stratos Quartet
Trio Vitruvi
Pacific Quartet Vienna
* Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of
Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series
Works by Bartók, Beethoven, Walton, Chausson,
Schubert, Mozart and Schumann
Signum Quartet
Bruno Mantovani String Quartet No. 3* (UK première)
Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3
‘Razumovsky’
Elisabeth Leonskaja piano
*Co-commissioned by Philharmonie Luxembourg,
Konzerthaus Vienna, and by Wigmore Hall with the
support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation
Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Nico Muhly New work*
Argento From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
Le Concert de la Loge
Olympique
Karina Gauvin soprano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109
Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Philip Higham
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Simon Wall
Elisabeth Leonskaja
Marco Borggreve
Alice Coote
Benjamin Ealovega
January/February 2017
Amaryllis Quartet
Stéphane Degout baritone
Cédric Tiberghien piano
Igor Levit piano
Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 33 No. 3 ‘The Bird’
Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 127
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2;
Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Op. 10 No. 3; Piano Sonata
No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 18 in E b
Op. 31 No. 3
Song Recital Series
Tim Mead countertenor
Howells King David
Vaughan Williams Linden Lea
Purcell/Britten Lord, what is Man?
Quilter It was a lover and his lass
Vaughan Williams Silent Noon
Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci
Betty Roe To his sweet saviour
Ireland If There Were Dreams to Sell
Joseph Phibbs The Moon’s Funeral
Vaughan Williams Tired
Warlock Love for Love
Dankworth Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day?
Britten The Salley Gardens
Quilter Hey, ho, the wind and the rain
Schubert Notturno in E b D897; Piano Trio No. 1
in B b D898; Piano Trio No. 2 in E b D929
Gould Piano Trio
Peter Moore is a member of BBC Radio 3’s
Thursday 2 February 7.30 pm
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Schubert Nähe des Geliebten; Vergebliche Liebe;
Liebe schwärmt auf allen Wegen; Das Rosenband;
Lambertine; Die verfehlte Stunde; Gott im Frühlinge;
Aus Diego Manzanares (Almerine); Pflicht und
Liebe; Der Sänger am Felsen; Die Blumensprache;
La pastorella al prato; Heiß mich nicht reden (D726);
So laßt mich scheinen (D727); Der Blumen Schmerz;
Nachtviolen; Du bist die Ruh; Auf dem Wasser zu
singen; Im Frühling; Über Wildemann; Heimliches
Lieben; Frühlingslied (D919)
Song Recital Series
Amaryllis Quartet
Tobias Wirth
Peter Moore
Kaupo Kikkas
Gould Piano Trio
Jake Morley
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Friday 3 February 7.30 pm
Sunday 5 February 7.30 pm
Tuesday 7 February 7.30 pm
Wigmore Hall Associate Artists
Takács Quartet
Takács Quartet Masterclass
The English Concert
Rachel Podger guest director, violin
Beethoven String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2;
String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’;
String Quartet in Bb Op. 130
The Takács Quartet works with two student
ensembles on Beethoven String Quartets.
JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066
Telemann Sonata a 6 in F minor TWV44:32
CPE Bach Symphony in G Wq. 182/1
JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067
Telemann Concerto in Bb for 3 oboes, 3 violins and
basso continuo TWV44:43
JS Bach Concerto in C minor BWV1060 for oboe
and violin (reconst.)
Monday 6 February 1.00 pm
Saturday 4 February 7.30 pm
Takács Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1;
String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’; String Quartet
in C# minor Op. 131
Isabelle Faust violin
Andreas Staier piano
CPE Bach Fantasie in F# minor Wq. 80
(arr. of Fantasia for keyboard solo Wq. 67)
Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 131
Brahms Violin Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2
(arr. of Viola Sonata)
Wednesday 8 February 12.15 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
Mark-Anthony Turnage discusses the programme
for the following lunchtime concert with
Dr Kate Kennedy.
Sunday 5 February 11.30 am
Nash Ensemble
Dvořák Sonatina in G Op. 100 (arr. for flute and piano)
Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15
Dvořák String Quintet in E b Op. 97
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/
Takács Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5;
String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4;
String Quartet in A minor Op. 132
Takács Quartet
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Robert Torres
Rachel Podger
Jonas Sacks
February 2017
Britten Sinfonia
Jörg Widmann clarinet
Mitsuko Uchida piano
Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet
Mark-Anthony Turnage Prayer for a great man
Oliver Knussen Cantata (Triptych Part 3) Op. 15
Ravel Introduction and Allegro
Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet
Mark-Anthony Turnage Col* (world première)
* Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of
Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1
Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5
Jörg Widmann Fantasie for solo clarinet
Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1 for
solo piano
Jörg Widmann Idyll und Abgrund –
Six Schubert Reminiscences for Piano
An introductory talk, followed by:
Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5
Webern Piano Quintet in C
Schoenberg Die eiserne Brigade; Ein Stelldichein;
Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs); Nachtwandler for
soprano, piccolo, trumpet, snare drum and piano
£60 £50 £40 £30 £15
£13 concs £11
Nash Ensemble
Claire Booth soprano
Nash Ensemble
Claire Booth soprano
Boris Brovtsyn violin
Clara Andrada de la Calle flute
Olivier Patey clarinet
Eldar Nebolsin piano
Nikolai Demidenko piano
Sonatas by Scarlatti
Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano
(transcription for solo piano by Alfred Cortot)
Berg Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs)
(arr. by de Leeuw for soprano, piano, harmonium,
flute, clarinet, string quartet and bass)
Mozart Clarinet Trio in E b K498 ‘Kegelstatt’
Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd
on the Rock)
Schubert Octet in F D803
Korngold Suite for two violins, cello and piano left
hand Op. 23
Berg Adagio from Chamber Concerto
Schoenberg/Webern Kammersymphonie No. 1 Op. 9
Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Perspectives
Britten Sinfonia
Harry Rankin
Jörg Widmann
Marco Borggreve
Claire Booth
Sven Arnstein
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February 2017
Trio con Brio Copenhagen
Razumovsky Ensemble
Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66
Mauro Peter tenor
Helmut Deutsch piano
Song Recital Series
Belcea Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in E b minor
Op. 144
Schubert String Quartet in G D887
Matthew Rose bass
Schubert Winterreise
Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4 in E b Op. 7; Piano
Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78; Piano Sonata No. 15
in D Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’; Piano Sonata No. 26 in E b
Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’
Kathryn Rudge is a member of BBC Radio 3’s
Scottish Ensemble
Jonathan Morton leader, artistic director
Alina Ibragimova violin
Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 6 in E b for strings
Arvo Pärt Silouan’s Song ‘My soul yearns after
the Lord’
Hartmann Concerto funebre
Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 10 in B minor for strings
Pēteris Vasks Viatore
Bach Concerto in E for violin BWV1042
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Kathryn Rudge
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Sussie Ahlburg
Llŷr Williams
Benjamin Ealovega
Helmut Deutsch & Mauro Peter
Benjamin Ealovega
February 2017
Wigmore Hall Debut
Alexander Melnikov piano
Members of The Sixteen Choir
and Orchestra
Fretwork
Harry Christophers conductor
Lara Melda piano
Szymanowski Myths Op. 30
Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13
Françaix Sonatine (1934)
Fauré Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 108
Antheil Sonata for violin, piano and drums
Louise Alder soprano
Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri BuxWV75
Scheidt Two dances from Ludi musici
Songs by Sibelius, Huw Watkins, Britten, Debussy
and Puccini
Van Kuijk Quartet
Song Recital Series
Bach 15 Sinfonias BWV787–801
Bartók Suite Op. 14; Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite)
BB89
Janáček Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the Street’
Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 in F# minor Op. 11
The Van Kuijk Quartet is a member of BBC Radio 3’s
London Pianoforte Series/Sir András Schiff:
Lara Melda
Benjamin Harte
Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov
Marco Borggreve
Harry Christophers
Marco Borggreve
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February 2017
Sir András Schiff works with an outstanding
student on repertoire featured in the previous
evening’s concert.
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Sir András Schiff:
XENAKIS DAY
Artemis Quartet
Maria João Pires piano
Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3
Schumann Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44
Iannis Xenakis
Matthias Goerne baritone
Jane Bown
The JACK Quartet and Pavel Kolesnikov
make a welcome return to the Wigmore
Hall stage to explore works for string
quartet and piano by the Greek-French
composer Iannis Xenakis. Join us as
we immerse ourselves in his unique
soundworld and discover how he
revolutionised twentieth-century
classical music.
Song Recital Series
Saturday 25 February
1.00 pm
JACK Quartet
JACK Quartet
Henrik Olund
Xenakis Works for string quartet
All seats £15
7.30 pm
JACK Quartet
Xenakis Works for string quartet and
piano quintet
All seats £20
Pavel Kolesnikov
Colin Way
Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016,
and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016.
Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series
Matthias Goerne
94
Marco Borggreve
February/March 2017
Quatuor Voce
Igor Levit piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28
‘Pastoral’; Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1;
Piano Sonata No. 13 in E b Op. 27 No. 1 ‘Quasi una
fantasia’; Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27
No. 2 ‘Moonlight’
Theatre of the Ayre
Elizabeth Kenny director, theorbo
Nicholas Phan tenor
Myra Huang piano
KNIGHTS AND KINGS
Schubert Der Sänger
Brahms Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein
Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn:
Rheinlegendchen; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
Beethoven Aus Goethes Faust: Es war einmal ein
König
Wednesday 1 March 7.30 pm
David Greilsammer piano
MOUNT OLYMPUS
Schubert An die Leier; Ganymed; Atys;
Der Musensohn
Scarlatti Sonatas: in D minor Kk213;
in D minor Kk141; in E Kk381; in B minor Kk87;
in F minor Kk466; in E Kk531; in B minor Kk27;
in D Kk492
Cage Sonatas: No. 14; No. 13; No. 12; No. 1;
No. 16; No. 11; No. 5
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11 in F minor
Op. 122
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’
Webern Langsamer Satz
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
Schumann Der Sandmann
Wolf Der Feuerreiter
Schubert Der Zwerg
Schumann Waldesgespräch
Mendelssohn Hexenlied
FAIRY TALES
Brahms Sandmännchen
Wolf Der Rattenfänger; Elfenlied; Storchenbotschaft
‘Des Schäfers sein Haus’
Song Recital Series
Nicholas Phan
FaceCollective
David Greilsammer
Julien Mignot
Elizabeth Kenny
Benjamin Ealovega
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March 2017
Thursday 2 March 7.30 pm
Saturday 4 March 7.30 pm
Monday 6 March 1.00 pm
Paul Lewis piano
Paul Lewis piano
Bach Partita No. 1 in B b BWV825
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4 in E b Op. 7
Chopin Waltzes: in A minor Op. 34 No. 2;
in F minor Op. 70 No. 2; in Ab Op. 42
Weber Piano Sonata No. 2 in Ab Op. 39
Repeat of concert on 2 March
Carolyn Sampson soprano
Matthew Wadsworth lute
Sunday 5 March 11.30 am
Arcadia Quartet
Amit Peled cello
Friday 3 March 7.30 pm
Music Group
Huw Watkins piano
Oliver Knussen conductor
Tuesday 7 March 7.30 pm
Mozart String Quartet in G K80
Schubert String Quintet in C D956
Alisa Weilerstein cello
Inon Barnatan piano
Beethoven Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1
Barber Cello Sonata Op. 6
Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2
Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65
Helen Grime A Cold Spring
Carter Triple Duo
Helen Grime Piano Concerto* (world première)
* Co-commissioned by BCMG Sound Investment,
and by Wigmore Hall with the generous support of
The Marchus Trust
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/
Helen Grime Composer in Residence
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Clive Barda
Paul Lewis
Molina Visuals
Carolyn Sampson
Marco Borggreve
March 2017
Pacifica Quartet
Johannes Moser cello
Wigmore Series Debut
Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 64 No. 4
Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor
Op. 80
Sibelius String Quartet in D minor Op. 56
‘Voces Intimae’
Julia Wolfe New work for string quintet (UK première)
Ravel String Quartet in F
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips director
Isaac Regina caeli laetare; Missa de apostolis;
Angeli archangeli
Mouton Quis dabit oculis?
Isaac Quis dabit capiti meo aquam?;
Virgo prudentissima
Simone Lamsma violin
Robert Kulek piano
Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384
Arvo Pärt Fratres
Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18
Sunday 12 March 3.00 pm
Ilker Arcayürek tenor
Simon Lepper piano
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
Programme to include songs by Debussy, Fauré,
Hahn and Schumann
Song Recital Series
Alisa Weilerstein
Harald Hoffmann/Decca
Pacifica Quartet
Saverio Truglia
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Marco Borggreve
97
March 2017
Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo-soprano
Joseph Middleton piano
Julius Drake piano
Hilary Hahn violin
Robert Levin piano
Schubert Auf der Brücke; Der liebliche Stern;
Im Walde (D834); Um Mitternacht; Lebensmut;
Im Frühling; An mein Herz; Tiefes Leid (Im Jänner
1817); Über Wildemann; Dass sie hier gewesen;
Greisengesang; Du bist die Ruh; Im Walde (D708);
Nacht und Träume; Fischerweise; Totengräbers
Heimweh; Der Winterabend
Song Recital Series
Kungsbacka Piano Trio
Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80
Igor Levit piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90;
Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101; Piano Sonata
No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’
Christian Blackshaw piano
London Pianoforte Series /
Mozart Piano Sonata in Bb K333
Patricia Petibon soprano
Susan Manoff piano
Song Recital Series
Ekaterina Semenchuk
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Sheila Rock
Christian Blackshaw
Herbie Knott
Patricia Petibon
Felix Broede/DG
March 2017
Meccore Quartet
David Daniels countertenor
Martin Katz piano
Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27
Song Recital Series
Nash Ensemble
NASH INVENTIONS
Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet
Nino Gvetadze piano
Pre-Concert Talk
Debussy Première rapsodie
Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano
Schumann Arabeske in C for solo piano Op. 18
Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1
Huw Watkins String Trio*
Colin Matthews Fuga
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies A Sea of Cold Flame
(UK première)
Colin Matthews New work for baritone and
ensemble (world première)
Simon Holt Bagatelarañas for wind quintet*
(world première)
Julian Anderson Van Gogh Blue**
Annelien Van Wauwe is a member of BBC Radio 3’s
Composers in conversation ahead of the
evening concert.
*Nash Commission
** Co-commissioned by The Koussevitzky Music Foundation,
and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,
president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making
foundation
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Annelien Van Wauwe
Christian Ruvolo
David Daniels
Robert Recker/Virgin Classics
Roderick Williams
Benjamin Ealovega
99
March 2017
Steven Osborne piano
Brahms 3 Intermezzi Op. 117: No. 3 in C minor;
No. 2 in Bb minor; No. 1 in E b
Beethoven Piano Sonatas: No. 30 in E Op. 109;
No. 31 in Ab Op. 110; No. 32 in C minor Op. 111
Robert King conductor
Julie Cooper soprano
Rebecca Outram soprano
Robin Blaze countertenor
Charles Daniels tenor
THOMAS ADÈS DAY
‘ARCADIANA’
Saturday 25 March
1.00 pm
Few contemporary composers have
proved to be as consistently inventive
as Thomas Adès. Wigmore Hall explores
his eloquently expressive work with a
day-long programme of chamber music,
including the string quartets Arcadiana
and Four Quarters.
Calder Quartet
Thomas Adès piano
Nicolas Hodges piano
Thomas Adès The Four Quarters
Lutosławski Variations on a theme of Paganini
Thomas Adès Concert Paraphrase on
Powder Her Face
Walton Selections from Façade
Thomas Adès Piano Quintet
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in
duration, including an interval.
‘HENRY PURCELL, BY ROYAL COMMAND’ –
MUSIC FOR THE CHAPEL ROYAL
All seats £20
Purcell O sing unto the Lord; Thou wakeful
shepherd (A Morning Hymn); Why do the heathen
so furiously rage together; Close thine eyes and
sleep secure (Upon a Quiet Conscience); Behold,
now, praise the Lord; My beloved spake; Sleep,
Adam, and take thy rest (Adam’s Sleep); Praise the
Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me; With sick
and famish’d eyes; O praise God in his holiness
6.00 pm
Thomas Adès in conversation with John Gilhooly
£4
7.30 pm
Music Group
Timothy Redmond conductor
Calder Quartet
Thomas Adès piano
György Kurtág Officium breve Op. 28
Gerald Barry Octet
Thomas Adès Concerto Conciso, Arcadiana
Solo piano works by Janáček and
György Kurtág
£40 £30 £25 £20 £15
Thomas Adès
Brian Voce
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Steven Osborne
100
Benjamin Ealovega
March 2017
Wigmore Hall Debut
Gallicantus
Tamar Beraia piano
Early Opera Company
Christian Curnyn director
Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition
Schumann Carnaval Op. 9
Manuel Walser baritone
Anano Gokieli piano
Polina Leschenko piano
Wolf From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ihr seid die
Allerschönste; Dass doch gemalt; Ein Ständchen
euch zu bringen; Hoffärtig seid Ihr, schönes Kind,
und geht; Lass sie nur gehn, die so die Stolze spielt;
Wie viele Zeit verlor ich
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel
Strauss Winternacht; Zueignung; Nichts; Die Nacht;
Die Georgine; Geduld; Die Verschwiegenen;
Die Zeitlose; Allerseelen; Heimliche Aufforderung;
Cäcilie
Webern Four Pieces Op. 7
Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121
Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 BB85
Ravel Tzigane
Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Artist in Residence
Marc-André Hamelin piano
Leif Ove Andsnes piano
Mozart Larghetto and Allegro in E b (completed by
Paul Badura-Skoda)
Stravinsky Concerto for two pianos
Debussy En blanc et noir
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (for piano duo)
Eggner Trio
Song Recital Series
Haydn Piano Trio in D HXV:24; Piano Trio in C HXV:21
Dvořák Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65
Tamar Beraia
Marco Borggreve
Gallicantus
Leif Ove Andsnes
Özgür Albayrak
101
SUMMER PREVIEW
APRIL – JULY 2017
These concerts (except where stated) are not available to book with this brochure. Booking dates and full details of artists and
programmes will be published in a separate brochure available from late December 2016.
April 2017
Saturday 1 April 7.30 pm
Sunday 2 April 7.30 pm
Tuesday 4 April 7.30 pm
EXAUDI
James Weeks director
Nikolaj Znaider violin
Piotr Anderszewski piano
Miloš Karadaglić
Early Music and Baroque Series /
Wednesday 5 April 7.30 pm
Monday 3 April 1.00 pm
Alexander Melnikov piano
Apollon Musagète Quartet
Debussy Préludes Books I & II
Sunday 2 April 11.30 am
Dante Quartet
guitar
Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’
Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130
EXAUDI
102
Matthew Andrews
Apollon Musagète Quartet
Marco Borggreve
April 2017
Thursday 6 April 7.30 pm
Friday 7 April 7.30 pm
Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano
Ensemble Prisma Wien
Thomas Fheodoroff director, violin
Jean-Guihen Queyras cello
Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra
Chemirani Brothers zarb
Toby Spence tenor
Julian Milford piano
Schubert 5 Minuets D89
Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1
(arranged for strings by Thomas Fheodoroff)
Haydn Arianna a Naxos
Dvořák String Quintet in G Op. 77 (mvts 2 & 3)
(arranged for voice, oboe and strings by
Christian Mondrup)
Marco Stroppa Ay, there’s the rub
Ross Daly Karsilamas
Sokratis Sinopoulos Nihavent Semai
György Kurtág 3 pieces from Signs, Games and
Messages
Keyvan & Bijan Chemirani Percussion improvisation:
‘7 beat’
Lutosławski Sacher Variation
Traditional Homayun
Krzysztof Penderecki Capriccio per Siegfried Palm
Franck Leriche 5 beat
Traditional Sunday Morning (arr. Sokratis Sinopoulos);
Hasapiko
Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Britten On this Island
Tippett Boyhood’s End
Poulenc Tel jour, telle nuit
Finzi Till Earth Outwears
Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo
Song Recital Series
Colin Carr cello
Thomas Sauer piano
Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 1 in G BWV1027
Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99
Bernarda Fink
Julia Wesely
Jean-Guihen Queyras
François Sechet
Thomas Sauer & Colin Carr
Jo Schofield
103
April 2017
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Ensemble Plus Ultra
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet director
director, harpsichord
LEÇONS DE TÉNÈBRES
BACH ET LA FRANCE
Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066;
Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1059
Leclair Flute Concerto in C Op. 7 No. 3
Rameau Orchestral Suite from Castor et Pollux
Henk Neven baritone
Imogen Cooper piano
Schubert Die schöne Müllerin
Couperin Première Leçon de ténèbres pour le
Mercredi Saint
Charpentier Répons: Unus ex discipulis meis H114
Lochon Tuere nos mortales (instrumental)
Couperin Seconde Leçon de ténèbres pour le
Mercredi Saint
Charpentier Répon: Eram quasi agnus innocens H115
Chein Introit from Missa pro defunctis (Requiem)
Couperin Troisième Leçon de ténèbres pour le
Mercredi Saint
Charpentier Répons: Una hora non potuistis H116
Delalande Miserere mei Deus Secumdum S27
Sergey Khachatryan violin
Lusine Khachatryan piano
Christophe Rousset
104
Ignacio Barrios Martinez
Ensemble Plus Ultra
Le Concert Spirituel
Centre audiovisuel des Dominicains de Haute
April 2017
Dénes Várjon piano
London Handel Players
Laurence Cummings director
Pre-Concert Talk
Hummel Variations alla Monferrina Op. 54
Onslow Cello Sonata in C minor Op. 16 No. 2
Chopin Introduction and polonaise brillante in C Op. 3
Franchomme Nocturne
Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65
LONG-DISTANCE MUSICAL FRIENDS
Works by Telemann and Handel
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Hope violin
Castalian Quartet
Brian Elias discusses his new work with
Dr Kate Kennedy.
Thomas Adès The Four Quarters
‘Razumovsky’
Britten Sinfonia
Finzi Interlude for oboe and string quartet Op. 21
Brian Elias Oboe Quintet* (world première)
Mozart String Quintet in C minor K406
* Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of
Alessio Bax piano
£13 concs £11
Alessio Bax
Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Christian Flierl
105
April 2017
Thomas Dunford lute
Ivana Gavrić
Louis Lortie piano
LACHRIMAE
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31
No. 2 ‘The Tempest’
Chopin 4 Mazurkas
Liszt 3 Petrarch Sonnets S158; Rhapsodie
espagnole S254
Dowland Preludium; Fortune; A fancy; Semper
Dowland semper dolens; Mistris Winters Jump;
A Dream; The King of Denmark Galliard; Melancholy
Galliard; Round Battle Galliard; La mia Barbara;
Come again! Sweet love doth now invite; Farewell;
Frog Galliard; Lachrimae
piano
Janina Fialkowska piano
Andreas Haefliger piano
Soloists of the London
Philharmonic Orchestra
Brahms Trio in Eb Op. 40
Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2
Berio Erdenklavier; Wasserklavier
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109
Berio Luftklavier; Feuerklavier
Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17
Thomas Dunford
106
Chopin Polonaise in E b minor Op. 26 No. 2;
Nocturne in B Op. 9 No. 3; Impromptu No. 3 in Gb
Op. 51; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Waltz in B minor
Op. 69 No. 2; Waltz in Ab Op. 42; Fantaisie in
F minor Op. 49; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54;
Prelude in Eb minor Op. 28 No. 14; Prelude in Db
Op. 28 No. 15 ‘Raindrop’; 3 Mazurkas Op. 50;
Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20
Eric Sebbag
Ivana Gavrić
Quentin Huys
Louis Lortie
ELIAS
April 2017
Kathleen Ferrier
Awards 2017
Milan Siljanov bass-baritone
Nino Chokhonelidze piano
Wigmore Hall Debut
Friday 28 April 6.00 pm
WIGMORE HALL/KOHN FOUNDATION
INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION
WINNER’S RECITAL
FINAL
SEMI-FINAL
Song Recital Series
Sol Gabetta cello
Hagen Quartet
Xenakis Dhipli zyia
Jörg Widmann 24 Duos for violin and cello (selection)
Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7
Ligeti Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg
Interspersed with works by CPE Bach, JS Bach
and Scarlatti
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73;
String Quartet No. 14 in F# Op. 142;
String Quartet No. 15 in Eb minor Op. 144
Caroline Goulding violin
Danae Dörken piano
Schubert Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384
Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121
Enescu Impressions d’enfance Op. 28
Hagen Quartet
Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87
Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135
Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810
‘Death and the Maiden’
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Marco Borggreve
Milan Siljanov
Hagen Quartet
Harald Hoffmann
107
May 2017
Monday 1 May 1.00 pm
Tuesday 2 May 7.30 pm
Friday 5 May 7.00 pm NB starting time
Lawrence Zazzo countertenor
Daniele Caminiti lute
Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center
Bach Capriccio in Bb BWV992 (Capriccio on the
Departure of his Most Beloved Brother)
Bartók 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm from
Mikrokosmos Book VI
Bach 4 Duettos from Clavier-Übung (Book III)
BWV802– 805
Bartók Piano Sonata
Janáček In the Mists
Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17
Benjamin Beilman violin
Yura Lee violin, viola
Jakob Koranyi cello
Wu Han piano
Alessio Bax piano
Schubert Allegro in A minor D947 ‘Lebensstürme’
Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80
Dvořák Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 87
London Pianoforte Series /Sir András Schiff:
Wednesday 3 May 7.30 pm
Friday 5 May 10.00 pm
Song Recital Series
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen
Maximilian Schmitt tenor
Gerold Huber piano
Sir András Schiff works with an outstanding
student on repertoire featured in the previous
evening’s concert.
director, harpsichord, organ
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Sir András Schiff:
Biber Sonata No. 6 in C minor C143
Schmelzer Sonata No. 3 from Sonatae Unarum
Fidium
Works by Buxtehude, Biber and Schmelzer
Thursday 4 May 7.30 pm
Wigmore Lates/Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen
Baroque Ensemble in Residence
Francesco Piemontesi piano
Mozart 9 Variations on a Minuet by Duport K573;
Piano Sonata in Bb K570; Piano Sonata in C K309;
Piano Sonata in C K330; Piano Sonata in A minor K310
London Pianoforte Series/Francesco Piemontesi
Mozart Cycle
Lawrence Zazzo
108
Justin Hyer
Sir András Schiff
Nadia F Romanini
Jonathan Cohen
Marco Borggreve
May 2017
Saturday 6 May 7.30 pm
Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm
Karita Mattila soprano
Ville Matvejeff piano
Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano
Véronique Gens soprano
Susan Manoff piano
Programme to include songs by Brahms, Wagner,
Berg and Strauss
CPE Bach Fantasie in F# minor Wq. 80
(arr. of Fantasia for keyboard solo Wq. 67)
George Crumb Four Nocturnes
Vivaldi Violin Sonata in A minor RV32
György Kurtág Tre pezzi Op. 14e
Ligeti Hungarian Rock for harpsichord solo
CPE Bach Sonata in D for violin and harpsichord
Wq. 71
György Kurtág A selection from Signs, Games and
Messages for solo violin
Michel van der Aa Double for violin and piano
Sciarrino Capriccio No. 2 for solo violin
JS Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for
solo violin BWV1004 (with improvised accompaniment)
Hahn Néère; Trois jours de vendange
Duparc Chanson triste; Romance de Mignon
Chausson Le Charme; Les papillons; Hébé
Hahn Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Le rossignol
des lilas; A Chloris
Chausson La chanson bien douce; Le temps des lilas
Hahn Lydé; Tyndaris; Pholoé; Phyllis; Le printemps
Song Recital Series
Sunday 7 May 11.30 am
Saleem Ashkar piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2;
Piano Sonata No. 26 in E b Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’;
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57
‘Appassionata’
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Sainsbury Royal Academy
Soloists
Clio Gould director
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music
Series /Early Music and Baroque Series/
Schubert/Mahler String Quartet in D minor
‘Death and the Maiden’ (for string ensemble)
Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op. 70
Karita Mattila
Marica Rosengard
Marco Borggreve
Véronique Gens
Marc Ribes/VirginClassics
109
May 2017
Ian Bostridge tenor
Lars Vogt piano
Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano
Jan Philip Schulze piano
Simon Bode tenor
Igor Levit piano
Schubert Schwanengesang
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte
Schubert Hagars Klage; Atys; Das war ich;
Die Gestirne; Himmelsfunken; Die Sternennächte;
Dem Unendlichen; Im Walde (D708); Geheimes;
Suleika I; Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz;
Der Zwerg; Wehmut; Die Allmacht
Mendelssohn Frühlingslied; Das erste Veilchen;
Winterlied; Neue Liebe; Gruss!; Reiselied
Wolf Er ist’s; Fußreise; Zitronenfalter im April;
Auf einer Wanderung; Gebet; Lied eines Verliebten;
Der Feuerreiter
Korngold Aussicht; Das Mädchen; Der Friedensbote;
Die Geniale; Reiselied; Sangesmut; Vesper; Vom Berge
Benjamin Frith piano
Song Recital Series
Dvořák String Quartet in E b Op. 51
Paul Newland New commission* (world première)
Schumann Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44
*Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings,
Carnegie Hall, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of
Wigmore Hall Solo Recital Debut*
Jakob Koranyi*cello
Juho Pohjonen piano
Takács Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3;
String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’;
String Quartet in E b Op. 127
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Bracing Change: New British String Commissions
Tasmin Little violin
John Lenehan piano
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100
Strauss Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18
Joanna MacGregor piano
Chopin Mazurkas (complete)
Joanna MacGregor
110
Pal Hansen
Violeta Urmana
Christine Schneider
Simon Bode
Kroeger Photography
May 2017
Friday 19 May 7.30 pm
Takács Quartet
Takács Quartet
Julian Prégardien tenor
Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6;
String Quartet in F Op. 135; String Quartet in C
Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’
‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with
Große Fuge Op. 133
Classical Opera
Ian Page conductor
Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord
Anna Devin soprano
Lucy Crowe soprano
BILDER AUS OSTEN
Schubert Mahomets Gesang (D549) (fragment);
Versunken; Geheimes; Sei mir gegrüsst; Dass sie
hier gewesen; Im gegenwärtigen Vergangenes;
Auf dem Strom
Chamber Music Season/Early Music and Baroque
Series/Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’
MOZART 250
Schubert Die Nacht (D358); Gott im Frühlinge;
An Chloen (D363) (fragment); Der gute Hirt;
Alte Liebe rostet nie; Geheimnis; Schlaflied;
Sehnsucht (D516); Atys; Lied eines Schiffers an
die Dioskuren
Mozart Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in F K37;
A Berenice ... Sol nascente in questo giorno K70;
Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in Bb K39; Keyboard
Concerto No. 3 in D K40; Ein ergrimmter Löwe
brüllet from Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots K35;
Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in G K41
Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110; Piano Sonata
No. 32 in C minor Op. 111
Armida Quartet
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546
Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80
Takács Quartet
Ellen Appel
Alison Balsom
Hugh Carswell/Warner Classics
Julien Prégardien
Marco Borggreve
111
May 2017
Christoph Pohl baritone
Marcelo Amaral piano
Phantasm
Escher String Quartet
BALLADEN
Liszt Der Fischerknabe; Im Rhein, im schönen
Strome; Die Loreley
Schubert Der Jüngling am Bache (D638);
Der Taucher
Loewe Wandrers Nachtlied II; Erlkönig
Wolf Ganymed; Der Rattenfänger
Song Recital Series
Webern Fünf Sätze Op. 5
Mozart String Quartet in D K575 ‘Prussian’
Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2
Jerusalem Quartet
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Dvořák Terzetto in C Op. 74
Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1 in B minor Op. 50
Dvořák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106
CPE Bach Andante con tenerezza from Sonata
in A Wq. 65/32
Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D537
Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26;
Nachtstücke Op. 23
Schumann Quartet
Mozart String Quartet in F K590 ‘Prussian’
Barber String Quartet Op. 11
Nikolai Lugansky piano
Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op. 37b
Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in Ab Op. 61; Barcarolle
in F# Op. 60; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52
Christoph Pohl
112
René Limbecker
Nikolai Lugansky
Schumann Quartet
Kaupo Kikkas
May/June 2017
Thursday 1 June 7.30 pm
Saturday 3 June 7.30 pm
Christina Landshamer soprano
Gerold Huber piano
Borodin Quartet
Borodin Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 12 in Db Op. 133
Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in Eb minor
Op. 144
Schumann Aufträge; Röselein, Röselein!; Lied der
Suleika; Aus den östlichen Rosen; Liebeslied
Ullmann 3 Sonnets Op. 29
Schumann Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt;
Kennst du das Land?
Ullmann 6 Sonnets Op. 34
Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 and Requiem
Song Recital Series
Friday 2 June 7.30 pm
Sunday 4 June 11.30 am
Martin Fröst clarinet
Lucas Debargue piano
Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49
Dvořák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’
Schubert Fantasy in C D934
Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for
the End of Time)
Zemlinsky Quartet
Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Perspectives
Sunday 4 June 3.00 pm
Jongmin Park bass
Christopher Maltman baritone
Song Recital Series
Following her recital, Janine Jansen discusses the
evening programme and her life as a performer.
Song Recital Series
Christina Landshamer
Marco Borggreve
Borodin Quartet
Keith Saunders
Jongmin Park
113
June 2017
Wednesday 7 June 7.30 pm
Friday 9 June 7.00 pm NB starting time
Christian Ihle Hadland piano
The English Concert
Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor K310
Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116
Schubert Sonata in C D812 ‘Grand Duo’
Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958
Yevgeny Sudbin piano
Monday 5 June 1.00 pm
Anna Lucia Richter soprano
Michael Gees piano
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
Tomkins Pavan in A minor
Farnaby Woody-Cock
Cowell Set of Four
WF Bach Sonata in Eb
Steve Reich Piano Phase
Schubert Hoffnung (D637); Suleika II
Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister:
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
Schubert Romanze zum Drama Rosamunde;
Nachtviolen; Viola; Erster Verlust; An mein Herz;
An den Mond (D259); Der Zwerg; Strophe aus
‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Das Heimweh (D456);
Totengräbers Heimweh; Ellens Gesänge I, II & III;
Abschied von der Erde
Tuesday 6 June 7.30 pm
Razumovsky Ensemble
Guy Barker trumpet
Chris Hill double bass
Ross Stanley piano
Wigmore Lates/
Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’
Angela Hewitt piano
Bach Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825; Partita No. 2
in C minor BWV826; Sonata in D minor BWV964;
Partita No. 4 in D BWV828
Christian Ihle Hadland
114
Kim Laland
Anna Lucia Richter
Hermann Clärchen & Matthias Baus
Angela Hewitt
Bernd Eberle
June 2017
Natalia Prischepenko violin
Thomas Hoppe piano
Antoine Tamestit viola
Arditti Quartet
Eliot Fisk guitar
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78
Scharwenka Suite in G minor for violin and piano
Op. 99
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80
Hugues Dufourt String Quartet No. 3* (UK première)
Berio Sequenza XI for solo guitar
Wolfgang Rihm Quintet for guitar and string quartet**
(UK première)
Igor Levit piano
Ben Johnson tenor
Schubert Trost: An Elisa; Erinnerungen; Andenken;
Lied der Liebe; Der Mondabend; Das Bild; Die Sterne
(D176); Alles um Liebe; An den Frühling (D283);
Entzückung an Laura I; Entzückung an Laura II
(fragment); An den Frühling (D587); Sonette I–III
(D628–630); Der 13. Psalm (fragment);
Die Allmacht; Fröhliches Scheiden; Vor meiner Wiege;
Der Winterabend; Die Sterne (D939)
Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110; Piano Sonata
No. 32 in C minor Op. 111
*Co-commissioned by Konzerthaus Wien, Philharmonie
de Paris, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André
Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss
**Co-commissioned by Library of Congress, and by Wigmore
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Nicolas Altstaedt cello
Alexander Lonquich piano
Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1;
Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2; Cello Sonata
in A Op. 69; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1;
Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2
Ben Johnson
Chris Gloag
Antoine Tamestit
Eric Larrayadieu
Arditti Quartet
Lukas Beck
115
June 2017
Michelangelo Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1
Aaron Jay Kernis String Quartet No. 3 ‘River’*
(UK première)
Andrè Schuen baritone
Daniel Heide piano
*Co-commissioned by Caramoor, Carnegie Hall, Classic
Chamber Concerts (Naples, FL), Chamber Music Monterey
Bay (CA), Chamber Music Northwest (OR), Chamber Music
America, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André
Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Quatuor Ebène
Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’
Ravel String Quartet in F
Song Recital Series
Debussy Première rapsodie for clarinet and piano
Maderna Viola for solo viola
Messiaen Le merle noir for flute and piano
Philippe Schoeller Madrigal for piano quintet
Berio Sequenza I for solo flute
Ravel Sonata in G for violin and piano
Matteo Franceschini New work for 6 musicians
(UK première)
Florian Boesch baritone
Schubert Auf der Brücke; Der Wanderer an den
Mond; Nachtstück; Die Sterne (D939)
Dapoz Ben danter mile steres
Frontull Nos salvans
Dapoz Alalt al ci
Schubert Der Wanderer (D649); Wandrers Nachtlied II;
Auf der Donau; Willkommen und Abschied
Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca S270/1
Tosti Quattro canzoni d’Amaranta; L’ultima canzone
Songs by Schubert
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
116
Vanessa Brinceno
Quatuor Ebène
Julien Mignot
Ensemble incontemporain
June 2017
Robert King conductor
Vienna Piano Trio
Vienna Piano Trio
Mark Padmore tenor
BACH: THE FOUR ORCHESTRAL SUITES
Bach Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D BWV1069;
Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066;
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067;
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV1068
Matthew Polenzani tenor
Julius Drake piano
Schumann Dichterliebe
Janáček The Diary of One Who Disappeared
Song Recital Series
Schubert Sonatensatz in Bb D28; Notturno in E b
D897; Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898
Florilegium
Ashley Solomon director
Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano
* Co-commissioned by Wiener Konzerthaus, and by Wigmore
TELEMANN 250TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Telemann Ouverture in E minor from Tafelmusik I;
Fantasie; Ihr Volker, hört; Quartet in E minor from
the Paris Quartets (1738 collection); Trio Sonata
in A TWV42:A5; Trio Sonata in Bb TWV42:B4;
Conclusion in E minor from Tafelmusik I
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Inon Barnatan piano
Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano
Ensemble Artaserse
Bennett Tom O’Bedlam’s Song
Schubert Gesänge des Harfners I–III
Thomas Larcher New work* (UK première)
Schubert Herbst; Auf dem Strom
Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb D929
Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano
Cecilia Bartoli
Uli Weber/Decca
Vienna Piano Trio
Nancy Horowitz
Inon Barnatan
Marco Borggreve
117
June/July 2017
Sunday 2 July 11.30 am
Edgar Moreau cello
Pierre-Yves Hodique piano
Members of The Sixteen Choir
and Orchestra
Harry Christophers conductor
Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69
Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40
Poulenc Cello Sonata
Schumann Adagio and Allegro in Ab Op. 70
Saint-Saëns Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix from
Samson et Dalila
Paganini Variation on a theme by Rossini
PURCELL SONGS AND ODES FROM
THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES II
Purcell From hardy climes (Welcome song for the
Wedding of Prince George and Princess Anne 1683);
Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day)
JS Bach Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV 1067a;
Concerto in E for violin BWV1042; Concerto in
A minor for violin BWV1041
CPE Bach String Symphony in B minor Wq. 182/5
JS Bach Concerto for 2 violins in D minor BWV1043
Sunday 2 July 7.30 pm
Markus Schäfer tenor
Piers Lane piano
Schubert Sängers Morgenlied I; Liebesrausch I
(fragment); Sängers Morgenlied II; Liebesrausch II;
Sehnsucht der Liebe; Liebeständelei; Das gestörte
Glück; Entzückung; Stimme der Liebe (D418);
Lebenslied; Skolie (D507); Vollendung; Die Erde;
Abendröte; Die Berge; Der Knabe; Der Fluss; Der
Schmetterling; Die Sterne (D684); Die Gebüsche;
Lob der Tränen; Die gefangenen Sänger; Wiedersehn;
Abendlied für die Entfernte; Ständchen (D889)
Bernhard Forck leader
Mozart String Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’
Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1
Saturday 1 July 7.30 pm
Thomas Adès Piano Quintet
Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94
Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
118
Uwe Arens
George Garnier
Markus Schäfer
Werner Kmetitsch
July 2017
Monday 3 July 1.00 pm
Wednesday 5 July 7.30 pm
Maurice Steger recorder
Jean Rondeau harpsichord
Simon Keenlyside baritone
Navarra String Quartet
Hasse Cantata in D for flute and basso continuo
Falconieri Il Spiritillo; El Melo; La Suave Melodia
Storace Ciaccona
Corelli Sonata in G minor for flute and basso
continuo Op. 5 No. 8 (arr. Castrucci)
Scarlatti Sonata in D minor Kk213;
Sonata in D Kk119
Sammartini Sonata in G Op. 2 No. 4
Tuesday 4 July 7.30 pm
Håvard Gimse piano
Grieg From Lyric Pieces Op. 43: Gjaetergut; Gangar;
Troldtog; Notturno; Scherzo; Klokkeklang
Debussy Images oubliées
Janáček In the Mists
Works by Sibelius
Song Recital Series
Thursday 6 July 7.30 pm
Andreas Ottensamer clarinet
José Gallardo piano
Debussy Première rapsodie
Widor Introduction et rondo
Debussy La fille aux cheveux de lin
Françaix Tema con variazioni
Gershwin 3 Preludes
Templeton Pocket Size Sonata No. 2
Béla Kovács After you, Mr Gershwin!
Joseph Horowitz Sonatina for clarinet and piano
Ian Bostridge tenor
Schubert Der Geistertanz (D116); Als ich sie
erröten sah; Die Mainacht; Seufzer; Die Fröhlichkeit;
Der Jüngling an der Quelle; An mein Klavier; Am
Tage aller Seelen (Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen);
Pflügerlied; Die Knabenzeit; Winterlied; Stimme der
Liebe (D412); Abendbilder; Hymne I ‘Wenige wissen
das Geheimnis’; Hymne II ‘Wenn ich ihn nur habe’;
Hymne III ‘Wenn alle untreu werden’; Hymne IV
‘Ich sag’ es jedem’; Nachthymne; Schwestergruss;
Drang in die Ferne; Der zürnende Barde;
Das Geheimnis (D793); Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Friday 7 July 7.00 pm NB starting time
Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano
Donald Sulzen piano
Programme to include songs by Lili Boulanger
Song Recital Series
Simon Keenlyside
Uwe Arens
Anna Caterina Antonacci
Benjamin Ealovega
Ian Bostridge
Sim Canetty-Clarke
119
July 2017
Friday 14 July 7.30 pm
Hanno Müller-Brachmann
Sophie Bevan soprano
Allan Clayton tenor
Marc-André Hamelin piano
bass-baritone
A SHAKESPEARE SONGBOOK
Gould Piano Trio
Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1; Variations
in G Op. 121a ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’;
Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2
Aida Garifullina soprano
Pianist be announced
Song Recital Series
Morley It was a lover and his lass
Arne When daisies pied
Haydn She never told her love
Schubert An Silvia
Ireland When daffodils begin to peer
Coleridge-Taylor The Willow Song
Warlock Sigh no more, Ladies
Harrison I know a bank; Philomel
Britten Tell me where is Fancy bred
Head How sweet the moonlight sleeps
Birket Foster Under the greenwood tree
Quilter Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Handel As steals the morn
Tippett Songs for Ariel
Dankworth Our revels now are ended
Finzi Come away, come away, death; O mistress mine
Korngold Adieu, Good Man Devil; Hey, Robin;
For the rain, it raineth every day
Vaughan Williams Orpheus with his lute
Bridge When most I wink
Vaughan Williams Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
Quilter It was a lover and his lass
Song Recital Series
Hanno Müller-Brachmann
120
Monika Ritterhaus
Quatuor Zaïde
Gerold Huber piano
Brahms Die schöne Magelone
Song Recital Series
Quatuor Zaïde
July 2017
Quatuor Mosaïques
The Vijay Iyer Sextet
Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5
Mozart String Quartet in G K387
Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D
Vijay Iyer expands his classic, critically acclaimed
piano trio with three of NYC’s greatest horn players.
Andrei Bondarenko baritone
Vijay Iyer Jazz Series
Songs by Rachmaninov, Glinka, Rubinstein,
Sviridov and Tchaikovsky
Song Recital Series
Friday 21 July 7.00 pm NB starting time
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord
Andrew Carwood director
Clérambault Cantata: Léandre et Héro
Couperin La Françoise & L’impériale from
Les Nations
Montéclair Le retour de la paix
Early Music and Baroque Series/Arcangelo and
Jonathan Cohen Baroque Ensemble in Residence
Chloë Hanslip violin
Danny Driver piano
Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’
Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano
Eduard Kutrowatz piano
Elisabeth Kulman
Julia Wesley
Jonathan Cohen
Marco Borggreve
Chloë Hanslip
Benjamin Ealovega
121
July 2017
Joshua Bell violin
Carolyn Sampson soprano
Gemma Rosefield cello
Tim Horton piano
Wolf Mignon Lieder
Brahms Ophelia-Lieder
Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia
Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring
hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus
WoO. 45
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38
Martinů Variations on a theme by Rossini
Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58;
Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66; String Quintet
in A Op. 18
Song Recital Series
Cédric Tiberghien piano
Joshua Bell violin
Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35
‘Funeral March’
Liszt Csárdás macabre S224; Bagatelle sans tonalité
S216a; Mephisto Waltz No. 4 S696; La lugubre
gondola; Piano Sonata in B minor S178
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49;
String Quintet No. 2 in Bb Op. 87
Joshua Bell
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Richard Ascroft
Carolyn Sampson
Marco Borggreve
Gemma Rosefield
Marco Borggreve
BOOKING INFORMATION
Booking Dates
Booking Period 1
Friday 9 September – Saturday 31 December 2016
Priority Booking opens to Friends and Mailing List
Subscribers on Tuesday 12 April 2016:
Friends – Request to be submitted by
Thursday 5 May 2016
Mailing List – Request to be submitted by
Thursday 12 May 2016
General Public – By telephone/online from
Tuesday 31 May 2016
Box Office Hours
Car Parking
7 days a week: 10.00am– 8.30pm.
Days without an evening concert:
10.00am– 5.00pm. No advance booking
during the half-hour prior to performance.
There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm (Mon– Sat)
and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively
there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley
Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less
than a five-minute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall
participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which
gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on
their parking when using the Cavendish Square (Q Park
Oxford Street) car park. Please contact the Box Office
for further details or visit our website.
Telephone Bookings
7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm.
Days without an evening concert:
10.00am – 5.00pm. There is a non-refundable
£3.00 administration charge for each
transaction. This includes the return of your
tickets by post if time permits.
Postal Bookings
We strongly recommend early booking for
Pre-Concert Talks, Artists in Conversation
and Study Events.
Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Hall
with the amount left open but stating an upper
limit, and add an administration charge of
£3.00. Tickets will then be sent by post.
Wigmore Hall Box Office
Online Bookings
36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Tel: 020 7935 2141
Online booking is available 24 hours a day,
7 days a week. There is a non-refundable
£2.00 administration charge.
Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Email (not for bookings):
[email protected]
Tickets
Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided
into five price ranges:
Stalls C – M: Highest price
Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price
Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price
Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd highest price
Stalls AA, T – V: 4th highest price
Stalls W – X: Lowest price
BALCONY
T– V
Q–S
N–P
STA LL S
C– M
Where a concession (concs) ticket price is
listed these are available to students, senior
citizens and the unemployed. For full details
visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/concessions.
Under 35s Ticket Scheme
Ticket buyers under the age of 35 are entitled to
reduced price tickets for selected concerts. For
full details visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/u35.
Group Bookings
Discounts of 10% are available for groups of
12 or more, subject to availability.
Transport
A –B
CC
BB
PL ATFO RM
Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze
Charter Mark from Attitude is Everything
Tickets for Concessions
Full information on pre-concert and interval
refreshments can be found at
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or by calling
020 7258 8292. Table reservations can be made
by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.
W–X
AAAA
Full details from 020 7935 2141
or [email protected]
OXFORD
CIRCUS
BOND
STREET
Restaurant/Bar
A–D
CC
BB
Facilities for Disabled People
AAAA
Tubes: Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines),
Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines).
Buses: A number of bus routes pass along
Oxford Street.
This brochure is available in alternative formats.
If this would be of assistance to you, please
email [email protected] or call
020 7935 2141.
Information in this brochure was correct at the time
of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists
and to vary programmes if necessary.
Cover designed at Process Studios. www.processstudios.net
Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson
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SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALL
With £1.7 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by
becoming a Friend, joining a Circle of Giving, or by supporting a concert or the Learning programme, please call 020 7258 8230 or email
[email protected] for more information.
The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert
and Learning programmes:
Honorary Patrons
Aubrey Adams
André and Rosalie Hoffmann
Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn
Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan
Season Patrons
Aubrey Adams*
Tony and Marion Allen*
American Friends of Wigmore Hall
Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne ‡
Karl Otto Bonnier*
Henry and Suzanne Davis
Dunard Fund†
The Hargreaves and Ball Trust
Pauline and Ian Howat
Simon and Sophie Ludlam*
The Marchus Trust ‡
The Monument Trust
Valerie O’Connor
Hamish Parker
Victoria and Simon Robey*
David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma*†
Ian Rosenblatt
Cita and Irwin Stelzer*
William and Alex de Winton*
and several anonymous donors
Chamber Music Circle
Karl Otto Bonnier*
Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning*
Margery Gray
Pauline and Ian Howat
Lord and Lady Lloyd
Jo and Barry Slavin
The Tertis Foundation
Marina Vaizey
Kathleen Verelst*
Tony Wingate
Voices at Wigmore:
The Schubert Song Project
Tony and Marion Allen*
Anthony Austin
Geoffrey Barnett
Karl Otto Bonnier*
Michael Brind
Nicola Coldstream
Pauline Del Mar
J L Drewitt
Benjamin Hargreaves
Julia MacRae*
Edith Randall
Louise Scheuer
Julia Schottlander*
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Gill and Keith Stella*
In memory of Robert Streit
John and Ann Tusa
Gerry Wakelin*
Susan Ward
David and Frances Waters*
Anne and David Weizmann
David Evan Williams
Corporate Supporters
Capital Group (corporate matched giving)
Clifford Chance LLP
Complete Coffee Ltd
Martin Randall Travel Ltd
Rosenblatt Solicitors
Donors and Sponsors
The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust L
Mr Eric Abraham*
Neville and Nicola Abraham
Elaine Adair
Alexis Gregory Foundation and the
Vendome Prize
Ian Allan
The Andor Charitable Trust L
David and Jacqueline Ansell*
Bernard and Ann Apter
Arts Council England
Ms J A Attias
Mrs Arlene Beare
David and Margaret Beaton
Alan Bell-Berry
Mr Nicholas J Bez
Mrs Arline Blass
David and Mary Bowerman*
Sir John and Lady Boyd
Alan Bradley*
Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair
Nicolas and Hilary Browne-Wilkinson
Clive Butler
A bequest from the late Peter Cain
Donald Campbell
CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust L
Charities Advisory Trust L
Mary and Robert Childs
City Bridge Trust L
Colin Clark
Edwin C Cohen*
John Crisp*
Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch*
Celia and Andrew Curran
Anthony Davis*
In memory of Margaret Dewhirst
The Dorset Foundation – in memory of
Harry M Weinrebe
Kate Dugdale
In memory of Robert Easton
Douglas and Janette Eden
Mr Martin R Edwards
The Eldering/Goecke Family
Annette Ellis*
The Elton Family
Dr C A Endersby and Prof D Cowan
The Ernest Cook Trust
Caroline Erskine
Felicity Fairbairn L
Mrs Susan Feakin
Peter and Sonia Field L
Deborah Finkler and Allan Murray-Jones
John and Amy Ford
The Foyle Foundation
S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 L
Neil and Deborah Franks*
Friends of Wigmore Hall
Jonathan Gaisman*
The Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garrick Charitable Trust
John Gilhooly*
John and Lauren Goldsmith*
Nicholas and Judith Goodison*
Peter Goodwin
Charles Green
Barbara and Michael Gwinnell
Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour*
Peter Hardy
The Hargreaves and Ball Trust
The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation L
The Headley Trust L
Malcolm Herring*
Nicholas Hodgson
André and Rosalie Hoffmann ‡
Peter and Carol Honey*
Gay Huey Evans*
Graham and Amanda Hutton*
Hyde Park Place Estate Charity L
Simone Hyman*
The Idlewild Trust
J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust
Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust
Peter and Nikki Jeffcote
John Lyon’s Charity L
Marc Jourdren*
In memory of Donald Kahn
Su and Neil Kaplan*
Jerome Karet*
David and Louise Kaye*
Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn*
Kohn Foundation
Christian Kwek and David Hodges*
Maryly La Follette*
Gabor Lacko
Alan Leibowitz and Barbara Weiss L
Rose and Dudley Leigh
The Leverhulme Trust L
Tim Llewellyn
Dame Felicity Lott
The Loveday Charitable Trust L
Mr H Lucas
David Lyons*
Simon Majaro MBE and Pamela Majaro MBE
Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Michael and Lynne McGowan*
George Meyer L
Alison and Antony Milford L
Milton Damerel Trust L
The Monument Trust
Amyas and Louise Morse*
Mr and Mrs M J Munz-Jones
A C and F A Myer
The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust
Valerie O’Connor L
Celia and Roy Palmer
P Parkinson
The Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity L
The Piano Fund
Dr Clive Potter*
Oliver and Helen Prenn
Nick and Claire Prettejohn*
The Rayne Foundation L
Stuart and Bianca Roden L
Charles Rose*
Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM*
The Rubinstein Circle
The Sampimon Trust L
Julia Schottlander*
Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen*
Rhona Shaw
Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement
Sir Martin and Lady Smith*†
Michael Smith and Nicholas Bartlett*
Elijah Spies
Nigel and Johanna Stapleton*
John Stephens OBE, Hon FTCL*
The Stewarts Law Foundation L
Anne and Paul Swain*
Alisa and Joshua Swidler*
Katja and Nicolai Tangen*
Professor Christopher Thompson
Robin Vousden*
Andrew and Hilary Walker*
Professor Janet Walker CD and
Professor Doug Jones AO*
Dame Fanny Waterman*
David and Martha Winfield*
Philip and Emeline Winston*
The Wolfson Foundation
Youth Music L
* Rubinstein Circle members
L
Learning Programme supporters
† Early Music and Baroque Series supporters
‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters
Details correct as of February 2016
THE WIGMORE HALL TRUST
Registered Charity Number 1024838
Director: John Gilhooly OBE,
HonFRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM
36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Box Ofﬁce Tel: 020 7935 2141
The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity Number 1024838

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