January 2016 - Wigmore Hall

January 2016
Sir Simon Rattle
Magdalena Kožená
INSIDE:
Lisa Batiashvili | James Ehnes | Heath Quartet
Simon Keenlyside | La Serenissima | Christopher Maltman
Nash Ensemble | Mark Padmore | Luca Pisaroni
Renaud Capuçon & Nicholas Angelich | and many more
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Cover: Sir Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená © Jiří Sláma
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Friday 1 January
No performances
Box Office closed
Christian Ihle Hadland piano
Anders Bergersen
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Saturday 2 January 7.30 pm
Bach Italian Concerto in F BWV971
Beethoven Piano Sonata in A Op. 2 No. 2
Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54
Brahms 2 Rhapsodies Op. 79
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 14
Since making his concerto debut with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra at the
age of fifteen, Christian Ihle Hadland has gained a reputation for pianism of
the highest insight and imagination. The young Norwegian artist returns to
Wigmore Hall with a programme crowned by the fiery passion of Prokofiev’s
youthful Second Piano Sonata.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Christian Ihle Hadland
London Pianoforte Series
Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C Op. 119
Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19
The Moser brothers, joint recipients of the 2014 Brahms
Prize, come to Wigmore Hall with a programme ideally
matched to their virtuosity and poetic artistry. Prokofiev
created his Cello Sonata in C against the dark background
of his denunciation by the Soviet authorities in 1948.
The piece stands with Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata among
the great masterworks for cello and piano.
Uwe Arens a& Die Hoffotographen
Johannes Moser cello
Benjamin Moser piano
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Johannes and Benjamin Moser
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Maximilian Schmitt tenor
Gerold Huber piano
Marion Koell/Avi Service for music
Sunday 3 January 3.00 pm
Christian Kagl
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Sunday 3 January 11.30 am
Robert Schumann Der arme Peter
Clara Schumann Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen;
Sie liebten sich beide; Lorelei
Beethoven Marmotte; Wonne der Wehmut; Der Kuss;
Resignation; Adelaide
Robert Schumann Dichterliebe
Maximilian Schmitt
Gerold Huber
Maximilian Schmitt gained his early musical experience as
a member of the famous Regensburger Domspatzen. He moved effortlessly from boy chorister to solo tenor, serving as
a member of Bavarian State Opera’s Young Ensemble before launching his solo career a decade ago. His programme
includes Clara Schumann’s captivating ‘Lorelei’ and her husband’s timeless Dichterliebe.
All seats £15
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series
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Sunday 3 January 7.30 pm
Winner of the 2012 New Orleans International Piano Competition
Viktor Valkov piano
Bach/Busoni Prelude and Fugue in D BWV532
Schumann Études symphoniques Op. 13 Wagner Isoldes Liebestod
Chopin Nocturne in C# minor Op. posth.; Nocturne in F# minor Op. 48 No. 2
Liszt Valse-impromptu S213; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9 in E b S244
The highly acclaimed young Bulgarian Pianist, Viktor Valkov, studied in the USA
at the Juilliard School and at Rice University Houston. A gold medallist at several
international piano competitions, he was awarded First Prize at the New Orleans
International Piano Competition in 2012. This concert marks his London debut.
£20 £18 £14 £12 £10
Nigel Grant Rogers Musical Artists Management
Sponsored by the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans
Monday 4 January 1.00 pm
Benjamin Appl* baritone
Graham Johnson piano
David Jerusalem
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Viktor Valkov
Schumann Frühlingsfahrt; Der Einsiedler; Der frohe Wandersmann
Mendelssohn Pagenlied; Nachtlied; Wanderlied
Brahms In der Fremde; Mondnacht; Parole; Anklänge
Pfitzner In Danzig; Der Gärtner; Zum Abschied meiner Tochter
Wolf Nachruf; Das Ständchen; Der Musikant; Der Scholar; Der Freund
£13 concs £11
Benjamin Appl
Malcolm Crowthers
Superlatives are a common feature in reviews of Benjamin Appl’s artistry.
The young German baritone, a current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist,
first made his mark at Wigmore Hall in recital with Graham Johnson in 2013.
They appear together again, directing their artistic partnership to a programme
certain to delight and beguile.
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Benjamin Appl is a member of BBC Radio 3’s
New Generation Artists scheme
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Graham Johnson
Giorgia Bertazzi
Christian Tetzlaff violin
Tanja Tetzlaff cello
Giorgia Bertazzi
Monday 4 January 7.30 pm
Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
Jörg Widmann 24 Duos for violin and cello
Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7
Jörg Widmann’s artistry as composer and
performer is already familiar to Wigmore Hall
audiences. He began composing as a child
and completed his studies with Wolfgang
Christian Tetzlaff
Tanja Tetzlaff
Rihm in Karlsruhe. Alongside masterworks by
Ravel and Kodály, Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff present a recent Widmann score. His 24 Duos, completed in 2008, allude
to past styles and weave familiar melodies, the James Bond theme among them, into a richly complex musical tapestry.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
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Tuesday 5 January 7.30 pm
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Heath Quartet
James Baillieu piano
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K 546; Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414
Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84
Mozart described the music of his Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414, conceived for performance either with small
orchestra or string quartet, as ‘very brilliant, pleasing to the ear, and natural’. James Baillieu moves from concerto
soloist to chamber music partner in the second half, joining the Heath Quartet in Elgar’s Piano Quintet, which
received its first public performance at Wigmore Hall in May 1919.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust
with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Kaupo Kikkas
Kaupo Kikkas
Chamber Music Season/Introducing James Baillieu
James Baillieu
Heath Quartet
Werner Mokesch
Birgid Steinberger soprano
Daniel Johannsen tenor
Benjamin Appl* baritone
Graham Johnson piano
SONGS AND BALLADS OF GOTHIC HORROR
Schubert Der Geistertanz (D15) (fragment); Der Geistertanz (D15a)
(fragment); Minona; Adelwold und Emma
Daniel Johannsen
Clive Barda
Birgid Steinberger
In 1812 Schubert made two bold attempts to set ‘Der Geistertanz’,
Friedrich von Matthisson’s vivid depiction of nocturnal spirits at
play in a graveyard. The young composer’s feeling for supernatural
scenes and Gothic romance also flows through his dramatic setting
of the 38 verses of ‘Adelwold und Emma’, remarkable even by the
near-miraculous standards of Schubert’s songs from 1815.
Falk Kastel
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Wednesday 6 January 6.00 pm
This concert will be approximately 45 minutes in duration,
without an interval
All seats £5
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Benjamin Appl
Graham Johnson
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series /Schubert: The Complete Songs
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Wednesday 6 January 7.30 pm
Clive Barda
Pia Clodi
Christopher Maltman baritone
Graham Johnson piano
Schubert Szene aus Goethes ‘Faust’; An den Mond (D193); An die
Nachtigall (D196); An die Apfelbäume, wo ich Julien erblickte;
Auf den Tod einer Nachtigall (D201); Die Nonne; Die Bürgschaft;
Liane; Fragment aus dem Aeschylus; Liedesend; Rückweg;
Alte Liebe rostet nie; Zum Punsche
FROM THE BATTLEFIELD
Schubert An die Leier; Normans Gesang; Das Heimweh (D851);
Romanze des Richard Löwenherz; Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht
beim Trunk
Christopher Maltman
Graham Johnson
The teenaged Schubert was inspired by the first part of Goethe’s Faust, which appeared in print in 1808, to create
an operatic scene depicting Gretchen’s downfall. This programme also includes an exploration of songs of battle
and the romance of chivalry, and concludes with a campaign-hardened knight’s rollicking drinking song.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series / Schubert: The Complete Songs
Michael Roll piano
Mary Robert
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Thursday 7 January 7.30 pm
Beethoven 6 Bagatelles Op. 126
Brahms Klavierstücke Op. 76
Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960
Michael Roll made his mark as winner of the inaugural Leeds International
Piano Competition in 1963 and went on to collaborate with, among others,
Adrian Boult, Benjamin Britten and Pierre Boulez. He continues to astonish
and delight audiences with a mind keenly aware of the poetic nuances and
dramatic contrasts of the works in this programme.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
London Pianoforte Series
Friday 8 January 7.30 pm
The English Concert
Kristian Bezuidenhout
guest director, fortepiano
Richard Haughton
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Michael Roll
J C Bach Symphony in E b Op. 6 No. 3
C P E Bach Concerto in C for fortepiano and
strings Wq. 20
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 in E b K271
Mozart Symphony No. 15 in G K124
Marco Borggreve
The English Concert
Described by the Boston Globe as ‘a vigorously
intelligent musician, well equipped with the technique to back up some
extraordinary new ideas about old music’, Kristian Bezuidenhout, virtuoso
pianist and director, launches The English Concert’s year with a thrilling
whistle-stop tour of Europe in the 1770s, a period of transition and experiment,
musically speaking, in which the new classical style was created.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
Kristian Bezuidenhout
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Come and Sing:
Early Italian Music
Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults
exploring Italian madrigals, oratorio and early opera.
Get to know the music from the inside, develop
your singing skills and finish the day with a
performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
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Saturday 9 January 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
£25 concs £19
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
A Celebration Concert for Marie Curie
Leonore Piano Trio
Benjamin Nabarro violin
Gemma Rosefield cello
Tim Horton piano
Eric Richmond
Saturday 9 January 7.30 pm
Krzysztof Chorzelski viola
Laurène Durantel double bass
Beethoven Piano Quartet in E b Op. 16
Lalo Piano Trio No. 3 in A minor
Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’
The Leonore Piano Trio joins forces with Belcea
Quartet violist, Krzysztof Chorzelski, and Ensemble
360 bassist, Laurène Durantel, for A Celebration
Concert for Marie Curie. Featuring Schubert’s
Trout Quintet, the concert coincides with the
release of the Trio’s latest recording on Hyperion,
of Lalo’s piano trios – its last disc was critically
acclaimed for their ‘revelatory playing’ (Observer).
Leonore Piano Trio
£25 £23 £20 £18 £15
All proceeds will go to Marie Curie Cancer Care Charity
(Reg. Charity No. 207994)
Krzysztof Chorzelski
Sunday 10 January 11.30 am
Daniel-Ben Pienaar piano
Chopin 3 Nouvelles Études; Ballade No. 4 in
F minor Op. 52
Schubert From Moments Musicaux D780: No. 3 in
F minor; Impromptu in Ab D935 No. 2;
Piano Sonata in A D959
Ondrej Bires
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Laurène Durantel
Rave reviews have followed Daniel-Ben Pienaar’s
complete recordings of the piano sonatas of Mozart
and Beethoven and Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues.
The South African-born pianist, currently Curzon
Lecturer in Performance Studies at the Royal Academy
of Music, presents a programme rich in romantic
imagery, technical virtuosity and sublime invention.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Daniel-Ben Pienaar
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Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano
James Baillieu piano
Brahms Ständchen (Op. 106 No. 1); Spanisches Lied;
O kühler Wald; Von ewiger Liebe
Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben
Gibbs Five eyes Vaughan Williams The water mill
Trad (arr. Hughes) She moved through the fair
Vaughan Williams Silent noon Weill The Saga of Jenny
Flanders and Swann The Warthog
William Bolcom Lime jello marshmallow cottage cheese surprise
Grand What’s a lady like me
Kaupo Kikkas
Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Voice Fellowship Recital
Kaupo Kikkas
Sunday 10 January 3.00 pm
Anna Huntley
James Bailieu
Anna Huntley, recipient of the 2011 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Voice Fellowship, has developed a close
artistic partnership with James Baillieu in recent seasons. Their programme embraces everything from songs of
love lost and love found, ‘O kühler Wald’ and ‘The Warthog’ among them, to the taste-bud paralysing excesses of
William Bolcom’s ‘Lime jello marshmallow cottage cheese surprise’.
All seats £15
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series/Introducing James Baillieu
Bartók Rhapsody No. 2 BB96a; Sonata for solo violin BB124;
Sonatina for violin and piano (arr. E. Gertler with Bartók)
BB102a; Violin Sonata No. 1 BB84
Benjamin Ealovega
James Ehnes violin
Andrew Armstrong piano
Olivier Wilkins
Sunday 10 January 7.30 pm
Bartók created his Violin Sonata No. 1 with the exceptional
talents of the London-based Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi
in mind. The piece, which boldly evokes Hungarian and
Romanian folksong, unleashes just about every string technique
in the book. Canadian virtuoso James Ehnes also performs
the fiendishly difficult Sonata for solo violin, written for Yehudi
Menuhin in 1944, and the folk-inspired Second Rhapsody and Sonatina.
James Ehnes
Andrew Armstrong
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/Bartók Chamber Music
Pavel Kolesnikov piano
Debussy Préludes Book I; L’isle joyeuse
Colin Way
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Monday 11 January 1.00 pm
Five-star reviews greeted Pavel Kolesnikov’s Wigmore Hall debut recital in 2014,
secured not least thanks to his interpretation of Debussy’s first set of Images.
The young Russian-born pianist turns to Debussy once again, exploring the
dozen characterful pieces of the composer’s Préludes Book I and devoting his
highly developed feeling for tonal colours and textures to L’isle joyeuse.
£13 concs £11
Pavel Kolesnikov is a member of BBC Radio 3’s
New Generation Artists scheme
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
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Pavel Kolesnikov
Schubert Pensa, che questo istante; Schäfers Klagelied;
Erlkönig; An Schwager Kronos; Wie Ulfru fischt; Fahrt zum Hades;
Der Schiffer (D536); Auf dem See; Auf der Donau; Das Abendrot
(D627); Grenzen der Menschheit; Heliopolis I & II; L’incanto
degli occhi; Il modo di prender moglie; Il traditor deluso
Schubert From Schwanengesang : Der Atlas; Ihr Bild;
Das Fischermädchen; Die Stadt; Am Meer; Der Doppelgänger
Daniel Pasche
Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone
Wolfram Rieger piano
Marco Borggreve
Monday 11 January 7.30 pm
Wolfram Rieger
Luca Pisaroni
This programme ideally suits the sonorous warmth and operatic
intensity of Luca Pisaroni’s voice. The Italian bass-baritone opens with a song in his native language from 1813 before
tackling the tragic drama of ‘Erlkönig’ and addressing mankind’s insignificance in ‘Grenzen der Menschheit’. The
recital ends with six matchless Heine settings from Schwanengesang, completed shortly before Schubert’s death.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs
Rosenblatt Recitals 2015 /16
Kaupo Kikkas
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Tuesday 12 January 7.30 pm
Gianluca Buratto bass
James Baillieu piano
Monteverdi La Morte di Seneca from L’incoronazione di Poppea
Cazzati In Calvaria rupe Handel Sorge infausta una procella
from Orlando Vivaldi Se il cor guerriero from Tito Manilo
Mozart Madamina, Il catalogo è questo from Don Giovanni;
O Isis und Osiris from Die Zauberflöte Rossini La calunnia
from Il barbiere di Siviglia Bellini Cinta di Fiori from I puritani
Verdi Il lacerato spirito from Simon Boccanegra
Gianluca Buratto
James Baillieu
Following a 2015 season that has included concerts of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Vespers with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and
his Monteverdi Choir in the US, and in London at the BBC Proms, Italian bass Gianluca Buratto gives the first Rosenblatt
Recital of 2016. A former winner of the International Ferruccio Tagliavani Singing Competition, Buratto made his opera
stage debut in 2009 at the Giuseppe Verdi Theatre in Italy. ‘An Italian bass to watch’ The Sunday Times
Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 1 December (Dorottya Láng),
25 February (Bryan Hymel & Irene Roberts), 16 March (Ekaterina Siurina & Charles
Castronovo), 14 April (Javier Camarena) and 14 June (Mariella Devia)
£30 £26 £22 £18 £16
Llŷr Williams piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 12 in Ab Op. 26 ‘Funeral March’; Piano Sonata No. 8
in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’; Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor Op. 49 No. 1;
Piano Sonata No. 20 in G Op. 49 No. 2; 15 Variations and a Fugue on an
Original Theme in E b ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35
Benjamin Ealovega
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Wednesday 13 January 7.30 pm
In 1805, Beethoven, in search of much-needed income, chose to publish two
early piano sonatas as his Op. 49. These brief pieces stand at the centre of the
latest recital in Llŷr Williams’s Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle, creating space
for contemplation and repose between the impassioned romanticism of the
‘Pathétique’ and the Promethean striving and energy of the ‘Eroica Variations’.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
London Pianoforte Series/Llŷr Williams Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle
Llŷr Williams
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Renaud Capuçon violin
Guillaume Chilemme violin
Adrien La Marca viola
Edgar Moreau cello
Caroline Doutre
Quatuor Renaud Capuçon
Francçois Darmigny
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Thursday 14 January 7.30 pm
THE BUSCH PROJECT
Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131
Schubert String Quartet in G D887
Renaud Capuçon
Guillaume Chilemme
Matt Dine
Four of today’s exceptional chamber musicians join forces
to perform two of the greatest of all string quartet works,
commemorating the concert given at Wigmore Hall in March
1933 by the Busch Quartet. Beethoven’s late String Quartet
in C sharp minor was written following his nephew’s failed
suicide attempt, its seven movements reflecting on the miracle
of life and its fleeting impermanence.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Adrien La Marca
Edgar Moreau
Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust
with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler director, violin
Peter Whelan bassoon
Eric Richmond
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Friday 15 January 7.30 pm
VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS
Vivaldi Concerto in D for violin ‘in tromba marina’, strings and
continuo RV221; Concerto in G minor for bassoon, strings and
continuo RV496; Concerto in G for violin ‘in tromba marina’,
strings and continuo RV311; Concerto in B b for bassoon,
strings and continuo RV501 ‘La notte’
Vivaldi Le Quattro Stagioni – The Four Seasons (Manchester
version): Concertos for violin, strings and continuo: in E
‘La Primavera’ RV269; in G minor ‘L’Estate’ RV315;
in F ‘L’Autumno’ RV293; in F minor ‘L’Inverno’ RV297
Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima have built an all-Vivaldi
programme complete with ‘ghosts, birds, unrequited love,
guns, drunks, dogs … and a pimped-up violin’. Their 21st
anniversary concert presents the Venetian composer’s famous
‘Four Seasons’ in an edition based on the work’s only surviving
manuscript copy. Vivaldi’s adventurous spirit can also be
heard in two concertos for the tromba marina, a single-stringed
instrument that sounds like a trumpet. Adrian Chandler, luthier
David Rattray and Vivaldi expert Michael Talbot have teamed up
to recreate this curious and loud instrument from evidence
Adrian Chandler
surviving in the archives of the Ospedale della Pietà, the famous
foundling institution with which Vivaldi was associated for much of his career.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
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Martin Usborne
Benjamin Harte
La Serenissima
Peter Whelan
Musical Explorers
FAMILY DAY
For ages 5 plus
An unmissable opportunity to explore improvisation inspired
by musical genres from around the world, with music leader
and violinist Alison Blunt alongside students from the Royal
Academy of Music. The day is linked to the centenary of the
birth of the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who was himself
fascinated with improvisation and music from different
cultures. Work with Alison and create new music to perform
on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day.
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
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Saturday 16 January 10.30 am – 3.30 pm
This day is delivered in partnership with the Royal Academy of Music
and with London Music Masters
Children £10 Adults £15
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Nash Ensemble
Roderick Williams baritone
K. Leighton
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
Benjamin Ealovega
Saturday 16 January 7.30 pm
Boccherini String Quintet in C Op. 28 No. 4
Wolf Italian Serenade in G for string quartet
Mendelssohn Songs with piano
Mozart String Quintet in G minor K516
One of the graceful quintets with two cellos
by the Italian-born, Spanish-based Luigi
Boccherini opens this programme; the most
dramatic and intense of Mozart’s quintets
with two violas closes it. In between come a
quartet movement by Hugo Wolf drenched in
Italian sunshine and a group of Mendelssohn
songs sung by Roderick Williams.
Nash Ensemble
Roderick Williams
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians
Endymion
Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581
Eamonn McCabe
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Sunday 17 January 11.30 am
Many of Radio 4’s desert island castaways
have named Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in
A K581 among their essential recordings.
The work, written to display the talents of the
composer’s fellow freemason, Anton Stadler,
is prefaced by Endymion’s interpretation of
the Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, among
the genre’s earliest and finest works.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Endymion
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
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Sunday 17 January 3.00 pm
Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle
Emily Garland soprano Claire Barnett-Jones mezzo-soprano
Henry Neill baritone Božidar Smiljanić bass-baritone
Jâms Coleman piano Jonathan Lakeland piano
THE BALLADS OF CARL LOEWE AND FRANZ LISZT
Liszt Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Freudvoll und leidvoll Loewe Tom der Reimer; Die wandelnde Glocke;
Spirito santo; Gutmann und Gutweib Liszt Comment, disaient-ils; Oh! quand je dors
Loewe Edward; Hinkende Jamben Liszt Es war ein König in Thule; Der du von dem Himmel bist
Loewe Meine Ruh ist hin Liszt Die drei Zigeuner; Die Loreley Loewe Erlkönig
Six outstanding young performers from the Royal Academy of Music evoke the vivid images and supernatural narratives
of songs and ballads by Loewe and Liszt. Their programme includes Liszt’s early settings of verse by Goethe and Heine,
‘Es war ein König in Thule’ and ‘Die Loreley’ among them, and Loewe’s engrossing ‘Erlkönig’, written in 1817/18
during the composer’s student years.
All seats £15
WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series
Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle
THE BUSCH PROJECT
Stéphane de Bourgies
Renaud Capuçon violin
Nicholas Angelich piano
Mat Hennek
Sunday 17 January 7.30 pm
Busoni Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 36a
Mozart Violin Sonata in G K379
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2
Acclaimed by the Guardian as ‘one of the world’s
outstanding violinists’, Renaud Capuçon appears
Renaud Capuçon
Nicholas Angelich
in company with his regular chamber music partner
and close friend, Nicholas Angelich, to pay homage to the concert given at Wigmore Hall in March 1934 by Adolf
Busch and Rudolf Serkin. In addition to performing masterworks by Mozart and Beethoven, they are set to reveal the
exceptional qualities of Busoni’s Violin Sonata No. 2, which includes majestic variations on the melody of a Bach chorale.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season
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Dejan Lazić piano
Haydn Piano Sonata in Eb HXVI:52 Shostakovich Three Fantastic Dances Op. 5
Schumann Waldszenen Op. 82 Dejan Lazić 3 Istrian Dances Op. 15a
Susie Knoll
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Monday 18 January 1.00 pm
Zagreb-born pianist Dejan Lazić is increasingly making his name as a composer,
recognised not least for the melodic eloquence of his musical language. His trio
of Istrian Dances makes a strong companion to the nine short movements of
Schumann’s Waldszenen Op. 82 and ideally complements the breathtaking
invention of Haydn’s final piano sonata, written in London in 1794.
£13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Dejan Lazić
The Endellion String Quartet
Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Haydn String Quartet in A Op. 20 No. 6
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’
Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10
Eric Richmond
Monday 18 January 7.30 pm
Schubert’s dramatic and lyrical ‘Quartettsatz’ opens this programme, followed by a
work charged with Haydn’s inventive mastery, complete with a whispered fugue.
The Endellion String Quartet also explores the expressive range and tremendous
power of Beethoven’s Op. 95, before turning, in contrast, to Debussy’s early
masterpiece and revealing his extraordinary imagination for colour and texture.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
The Endellion String Quartet
The Endellion String Quartet concert series at Wigmore Hall is sponsored by Lark Insurance Group
Chamber Music Season
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Tuesday 19 January 6.00 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
Leading Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen, Professor at King’s College, London and editor of a forthcoming new critical
edition and English-language translation of the Mozart family correspondence, discusses the young Mozart’s
travels in 1766 and introduces some of the music being performed in the concert.
£4
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Tuesday 19 January 7.30 pm
Classical Opera
Ana Maria Labin soprano
Benjamin Hulett tenor
Ian Page conductor
‘MOZART 250’: 1766 – A RETROSPECTIVE
Mozart Symphony No. 5 in Bb K22 Jommelli Aria
from Il Vologeso Mozart Per pietà, bell’idol mio K78;
Ana Maria Labin
Benjamin Hulett
Ian Page
O temerario Arbace ... Per quel paterno amplesso K79
Vanhal Symphony in G minor Haydn Et incarnatus est from Missa Cellensis Guglielmi Aria from Lo spirito di
contradizione Beck Symphony in D Op. 4 No. 1 (1st movement) J C Bach Ah, why shou’d love with tyrant sway
Mozart Or che il dover ... Tali e cotanti sono K36; Symphony in G K45a ‘Lambach’
Following last season’s triumphant launch of MOZART 250, Classical Opera continues its unique traversal of the fertile
musical landscape of 250 years ago with a fascinating programme of works either written or premièred in the year 1766.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
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Wednesday 20 January 12.15 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
An introduction to the lunchtime concert with composer Anna Clyne and Dr Kate Kennedy.
Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Julia Doyle soprano
Marios Argiros oboe
Jacqueline Shave violin
Miranda Dale violin
Clare Finnimore viola
Caroline Dearnley cello
Maggie Cole harpsichord
Harry Rankin
Britten Sinfonia
Raphaelle Photography/Baixa
Wednesday 20 January 1.00 pm
Julia Doyle
Marios Argiros
Miranda Dale
Clare Finnimore
Caroline Dearnley
Maggie Cole
Sussie Ahlburg
Preoccupation with texture permeates this programme, arising with two
arias from J S Bach. Ligeti’s Continuum tests the exhilarating knife-edge
between identifying individual notes and hearing continuous sound.
A London première from Grammy-nominated composer, Anna Clyne,
whose music seeks to explore resonant soundscapes and propelling
textures, completes the journey from the baroque to the present.
Jacqueline Shave
Harry Rankin
Bach Gott versorget alles Leben from Cantata
BWV187; Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not from Cantata BWV21
Ligeti Continuum
Anna Clyne This Lunar Beauty* (London première)
Arvo Pärt Fratres
Salvatore Sciarrino Due arie notturne dal campo (arr. of two arias
by A. Scarlatti)
*Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support from donors to the Musically
Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,
president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
£13 concs £11
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch
Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’
Arensky Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 32
Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor Op. posth
Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87
Hagai Shaham
Wednesday 20 January 7.30 pm
Beethoven, as with other genres, raised the bar for the
piano trio. ‘Despite the good nature that prevails’, noted
E TA Hoffmann in his review of the composer’s Op. 70,
‘Beethoven’s genius is in the last analysis serious’. The
Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch sets the famous ‘Ghost’ Trio
in company with Arensky’s formidable First Piano Trio
and two contrasting works, Rachmaninov’s early Trio
élégiaque and Brahms’s genial Second Piano Trio.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust
Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch
Chamber Music Season
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Sussie Ahlburg
Jack Liebeck
Lawrence Power viola, violin
Adrian Brendel cello
Simon Crawford-Phillips piano
Giorgia Bertazzi
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Thursday 21 January 7.30 pm
Hahn Soliloque et forlane
Vierne Le Soir Op. 5 No. 1
Büsser Appassionato Op. 34
Brahms Trio in A minor for viola, cello and
piano Op. 114 Suk Elegie Op. 23
Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8
Lawrence Power
Adrian Brendel
Simon Crawford-Phillips
Technical mastery, tonal warmth and mesmerising
musicianship are among the many qualities that make Lawrence Power’s artistry so compelling. Revered by
chamber music connoisseurs worldwide for the life-enhancing insights and depth of his playing, he stands both
as a wholehearted champion of contemporary work and a grand master of his instrument’s classical repertoire.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Chamber Music Season
ECMA Showcase
Friday 22 January 1.00 pm Mettis String Quartet and Stratos Quartet (piano quartet)
Saturday 23 January 11.00 am Masterclass: Johannes Meissl with the Mettis String Quartet
Saturday 23 January 3.00 pm Arcis Saxophone Quartet and Stratos Quartet (piano quartet)
Sunday 24 January 3.00 pm Meta4
The European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) was established in 2004 by Hatto Beyerle, co-founder and violist
of the Alban Berg Quartet. Its mission is to promote and nurture today’s aspiring chamber music ensembles.
The Academy, which stands as an association of leading European music education institutions and festivals,
provides ongoing training opportunities for its young ensembles and offers students an inspiring mix of
theoretical tuition and practical instruction.
The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton
Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase
Friday 22 January 1.00 pm
European Chamber Music Academy Showcase
Mettis String Quartet
Stratos Quartet piano quartet
Lukas Beck
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Bartók String Quartet No. 2 Op. 17
Schumann Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47
Since its foundation in 2004, the European Chamber
Music Academy (ECMA) has forged a fruitful
partnership with Wigmore Hall. The organisation’s
annual showcase opens with performances given
by two strikingly accomplished young ensembles,
the Mettis String Quartet from Lithuania and the
Stratos Quartet, comprising musicians from Austria,
the Czech Republic and Finland.
Mettis String Quartet
All tickets £5
The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from
the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory
of Sigmund Elton
Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase
Stratos Quartet
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Josep Molina
Mark Padmore tenor
Paul Lewis piano
Marco Borggreve
Friday 22 January 7.30 pm
Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24
Brahms Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze; Sommerabend;
Mondenschein; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht;
Es schauen die Blumen; Meerfahrt
Schubert An den Mond (D296); Meeres Stille;
Gesänge des Harfners; An Schwager Kronos
Wolf Der Rattenfänger; Spottlied aus Wilhelm Meister;
Blumengruss; Gleich und gleich; Phänomen;
Mark Padmore
Paul Lewis
Anakreons Grab; Ob der Koran von Ewigkeit; Trunken
müssen wir allen sein!; So lang man nüchtern ist; Sie haben wegen der Trunkenheit; Was in der Schenke waren heute
Described by Gramophone as ‘two deeply thoughtful artists pushing each other ever onwards’, Mark Padmore and
Paul Lewis have cultivated one of today’s most visionary and spiritually rewarding Lieder recital partnerships. Their
programme charts the development of German romantic song and celebrates the vital relationship between verse
and music in works by four of the greatest ever songwriters.
£45 £35 £30 £25 £15
Song Recital Series
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Saturday 23 January 11.00 am – Masterclass
European Chamber Music Academy Showcase
ECMA Masterclass
Violinist Johannes Meissl, ECMA’s Artistic Director and a member of
Vienna’s Artis Quartet, shares his long experience as performer and
pedagogue with the Mettis String Quartet in a session that promises
to cast fresh light on the fine art of quartet playing and offer profound
insights into advanced musical interpretation.
Free admission to masterclass (ticket required)
Johannes Meissl
The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton
Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase/Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Saturday 23 January 3.00 pm
European Chamber Music Academy Showcase
Arcis Saxophone Quartet
Stratos Quartet piano quartet
Ligeti Six Bagatelles
Farkas Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th century
Fabien Lévy Durch, in memoriam G. Grisey
Strauss Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 13
Arcis Saxophone Quartet
Vipin Mayer
This concert rejoices in the diversity of repertoire for two contrasting
ensembles, the piano quartet and saxophone quartet. Ligeti’s Six
Bagatelles, originally written for piano, launch the Arcis Saxophone
Quartet’s dynamic programme, while the Stratos Quartet takes on
the young Richard Strauss’s Brahmsian Piano Quartet Op. 13, a
work of monumental scope and rousing audacity.
All tickets £5
The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the
late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton
Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase
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Stratos Quartet
Alexander Melnikov piano
Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28
Skryabin Fantasie Op. 28; Deux poèmes Op. 32;
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F# minor Op. 23;
Cinq préludes Op. 74
Martin Lengemann
Saturday 23 January 7.30 pm
Alexander Melnikov’s pianism is securely rooted in a
deep knowledge of his instrument and the evolution of its
repertoire. The Russian artist’s Skryabin interpretations
reflect the composer’s early debt to Chopin as well
as the individuality of his mature musical language.
Melnikov opens with one of the great monuments of
nineteenth-century music, Chopin’s 24 Preludes Op. 28.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Alexander Melnikov
London Pianoforte Series
Mozart String Quartet in F K590 ‘Prussian’
Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2
Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
Cecilia String Quartet
Named after music’s patron saint, the Cecilia String
Quartet has delighted admirers worldwide with the
polish and panache of its artistry. The ensemble,
which won the Banff International String Quartet
Competition in 2010, makes a welcome return to
Wigmore Hall with two works famed for their brilliance,
classical poise and life-enhancing energy.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Cecilia String Quartet
Sunday 24 January 3.00 pm
European Chamber Music Academy Showcase
Meta4
Noora Isoeskeli
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Sunday 24 January 11.30 am
Webern String Quartet Op. 28
Sebastian Fagerlund Scherzic for viola and cello
Jouni Kaipainen Sonata for two violins Op. 94
(second movement)
Jaakko Kuusisto Play III
Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135
Meta4 has consistently broadened the string quartet
repertoire since its foundation almost fifteen years ago.
The ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall to take part in
this year’s ECMA Showcase, interleaving two Viennese
masterworks with a trio of contemporary pieces by
Meta4’s fellow Finns, Sebastian Fagerlund, Jouni
Kaipainen and the violinist-composer Jaakko Kuusisto.
All tickets £5
The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the
estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of
Sigmund Elton
Meta4
Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase
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Sunday 24 January 7.30 pm
Laurie Lewis
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Valeriy Sokolov violin
Gérard Caussé viola
Gautier Capuçon cello
Frank Braley piano
DUTILLEUX 100TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Dutilleux Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher
Dutilleux 3 Préludes: D’ombre et de silence; Sur un même accord;
Le jeu des contraires Ravel Piano Trio in A minor
Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Dutilleux String Quartet ‘Ainsi la nuit’
Henri Dutilleux, who died in May 2013, nearly lived to celebrate his
hundredth birthday. This concert marks the French composer’s
Henri Dutilleux (1916 – 2013)
centenary almost to the day, its contents chosen to chart the exquisite
beauty and refinement of his feeling for sound and to open windows into his radiant imaginary world. The programme
begins with Dutilleux’s tribute to the Swiss conductor and musical philanthropist Paul Sacher and includes his
3 Préludes of 1973–88, works that probe the usually hidden recesses of silence and musical simplicity. Five artists
with an innate empathy for tonal light and shade offer their tribute to Dutilleux and also explore the influences of
Debussy and Ravel on his distinctive music.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Lisa Batiashvili
Valeriy Sokolov
Marc Ribes
Michael Tammaro/Virgin Classics
Gérard Caussé
Gautier Capuçon
Monday 25 January 1.00 pm
Armida Quartet
Mozart String Quartet in G K80
Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1
‘Razumovsky’
Felix Broede
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David Arranz
Simon Fowler/EMI Classics
Anja Frers /DG
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
The Berlin-based Armida Quartet captivated
the hall at the ARD International Music
Competition in 2012, where it received
first prize, the audience prize and six
other special awards. Its successes since,
including selection for BBC Radio 3’s
New Generation Artist scheme, rest on
the group’s intense preparation and the
enchanting spontaneity of its performances.
£13 concs £11
Armida Quartet
The Armida Quartet is a member of
BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
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Frank Braley
Monday 25 January 6.00 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
Mozart scholar Professor John Irving introduces the first concert in Francesco Piemontesi’s complete cycle of Mozart’s
piano sonatas.
£4
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/The Mozart Odyssey
Francesco Piemontesi piano
THE MOZART ODYSSEY
Julien Mignot
Monday 25 January 7.30 pm
Mozart Fantasia in D minor K397; Piano Sonata in D K284;
Rondo in A minor K511; Piano Sonata in A K331
Francesco Piemontesi launches his Wigmore Hall survey of Mozart’s
piano sonatas and solo keyboard works with the Fantasia in D minor,
a work charged with dramatic pauses, sudden silences and fiery
outbursts. The programme also pairs the Rondo in A minor of 1787,
audacious and forward-looking in its harmonies, with the equally
unconventional Piano Sonata in A K331, famed for its iconoclastic
Minuet and ‘Turkish’ Rondo.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
London Pianoforte Series / The Mozart Odyssey
Francesco Piemontesi
Tuesday 26 January 11.00 am – 11.45 am Repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm
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For Crying Out Loud!
FOR PARENTS AND BABIES UP TO 1 YEAR OLD
Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music presented especially for parents or
carers and their babies in a relaxed and accommodating environment. Although these concerts are not interactive,
the programmes are designed for adults and babies to enjoy together.
£7.50 per adult – babies come free
In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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Tuesday 26 January 6.00 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
Writer Nigel Simeone introduces Simon Keenlyside’s evening programme of popular song from the
mid-twentieth century.
£4
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Simon Keenlyside baritone
Howard McGill woodwind
Gordon Campbell trombone
Richard Pryce double bass
Mike Smith drums
Matthew Regan piano
Uwe Arens
Tuesday 26 January 7.30 pm
Songs by Emmerich Kalman, Irving Berlin,
Kurt Weill, Jerome Kern and George Gershwin
Simon Keenlyside
Howard McGill
Gordon Campbell
Richard Pryce
Mike Smith
Matthew Regan
The patterns of music history show that the most
creative artists often cluster in particular places
at particular times. Simon Keenlyside and five
British jazz musicians unlock the energy and
heart of songs penned for New York’s Broadway
stages and reflect their debt to European
traditions of operetta and cabaret.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Song Recital Series
Rob Moore
Michael Collins director, clarinet
City of London Sinfonia
London Winds
Christine Rice mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Ealovega
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Wednesday 27 January 7.30 pm
MOZART BIRTHDAY CONCERT
Michael Collins
Michael Collins and friends celebrate
Mozart’s birthday in style, starting
with the ‘Gran Partita’, perhaps
commissioned by Anton Stadler, for
whom Mozart later composed his
Clarinet Concerto. Christine Rice
joins the party to perform ‘Parto,
parto’, one of the glories of Mozart’s
final opera, La clemenza di Tito.
City of London Sinfonia
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Chamber Music Season/
Michael Collins Series /The Mozart Odyssey
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Christine Rice
Eric Richmond
Mozart Serenade in Bb for 13 wind
instruments K361 ‘Gran Partita’;
Parto, parto from La clemenza di
Tito; Clarinet Concerto in A K622
London Winds
Thomas Gould violin
Ana-Maria Vera piano
Toby Amies
Lisa Peacock Thursday Lunchtime Showcase Recitals
Aga Tomaszek
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Thursday 28 January 1.00 pm
Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454
Ravel Violin Sonata
Thomas Gould performs as soloist with orchestras worldwide
and with many of the leading conductors of today. He appears
regularly at the main UK venues, and in recent seasons has
performed in London at the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Centre
Thomas Gould
Ana-Maria Vera
and Royal Festival Hall; in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall and
Manchester Evening News Arena, and Birmingham’s Symphony Hall and National Indoor Arena. Ana-Maria Vera has
appeared as soloist with Orchestras including the Philadelphia, London Philharmonic, Australian Chamber, Rotterdam
Philharmonic and Tokyo Symphony, under conductors including Muti, Zinman, de Waart, Inbal and Conlon. She has
performed in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Concertgebouw, Salle Gaveau and Wigmore Hall, and maintains
close duo partnerships with Ivry Gitlis, Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis. Ana-Maria Vera is the founder and director of
Bolivia Clásica, a charitable organization which promotes cultural exchanges between Bolivia and the rest of the world.
£13 concs £11 20% discount when you book for 3 or more concerts in this series (see further dates below)
Tickets also on sale for Thursday Lunchtime Showcase Recitals on 26 November (Konstantin Scherbakov),
25 February (Rivka Golani & Michael Hampton) and 17 March (Hélène Dautry & Bruno Rigutto)
Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd
Sir Simon Rattle
Daishin Kashimoto
Alfred Steffen
Magdalena Kožená
Matthias Creutziger
Jim Rakete
Mathias Bothor/DG
Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano
Sir Simon Rattle piano
Daishin Kashimoto violin
Rahel Maria Rilling violin
Amihai Grosz viola
Dávid Adorján cello
Kaspar Zehnder flute
Andrew Marriner clarinet
Alfred Steffen
CELEBRATING MAGDALENA KOŽENÁ
Amihai Grosz
Dávid Adorján
Benjamin Ealovega
Chausson Chanson perpétuelle
Stravinsky Three Songs from William Shakespeare
Ravel Chansons madécasses
Rahel Maria Rilling
Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia
Brahms Ophelia-Lieder; 2 Songs with viola Op. 91
Janáček Rikadla (Nursery Rhymes)
Dvořák My song of love rings through the dusk; The gypsy songman;
In pain, my heart often broods; When a maiden was a-mowing;
Songs my mother taught me; Come and join the dancing
Guy Perrenoud
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Friday 29 January 7.30 pm
Sir Simon Rattle makes his Wigmore Hall debut as pianist in company
with Magdalena Kožená and outstanding musicians from Berlin, Bern
Kaspar Zehnder
Andrew Marriner
and London. Their programme opens with Chausson’s last completed
work, offers contrasting responses to Shakespeare’s troubled Ophelia, and embraces songs of Kožená’s Czech
homeland, Dvořák’s evergreen ‘Songs my mother taught me’ and Janáček’s irresistible ‘Rikadla’ among them.
£100 £75 £50 £30 £15
Booking limited to two tickets per person.
We expect exceptionally high demand for this concert.
Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season/Celebrating Magdalena Kožená
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Saturday 30 January 11.00 am – 12.00 noon
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CAVATINA Family Concert
Magnard Ensemble
For ages 5 plus
Formed in 2012 at the Royal Academy of Music, the Magnard Ensemble is a vibrant young chamber group committed
to delivering high-quality performances and inspirational Learning projects. In this interactive family concert, the
ensemble takes you on a tour around the wind quintet, exploring the colours and textures of the different instruments
through the music of Haydn, Ibert, Hindemith, Malcolm Arnold and Paul Patterson.
Children £8 Adults £10
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringing chamber music to young people and young
people to chamber music, is delighted to present this concert in association with Wigmore Hall.
Joseph Shiner
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Magnard Ensemble
Alina Ibragimova violin
Cédric Tiberghien piano
Sussie Ahlburg
Saturday 30 January 7.30 pm
Mozart Violin Sonata in E b K380; Violin Sonata in A K12;
Violin Sonata in G K11; Sonata in Bb K570 (version for violin
and piano); Violin Sonata in Eb K302; 12 Variations in G K359
‘La bergère Célimène’; Violin Sonata in A K526
Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien complete their five-concert
survey of Mozart’s sonatas for violin and piano, presenting two of
his earliest works in the genre together with the dramatic twists and
turns of the Violin Sonata in E flat K380. They conclude with the
Violin Sonata in A K526, widely considered to be the greatest of
Mozart’s works for violin and piano.
This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes in duration,
including an interval
Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust
with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season/
The Mozart Odyssey
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Alexandra Dariescu piano
Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54
Fauré Prélude in F Op. 103 No. 4; Prélude in G minor Op. 103 No. 3;
Prélude in C # minor Op. 103 No. 2
Chopin Prelude in C# minor Op. 45
Szymanowski Prelude in C minor Op. 1 No. 7; Prelude in Eb minor
Op. 1 No. 8; Prelude in B minor Op. 1 No. 9
Tchaikovsky/Pletnev The Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a
Chopin Scherzo No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 31
Adrian Stoicoviciu
Sunday 31 January 11.30 am
International Piano Magazine recently named Alexandra Dariescu
as ‘one of 30 pianists under 30 destined for a spectacular career’,
an accolade underpinned by the Romanian-born artist’s increasingly
busy schedule. She returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme
designed to project her technical brilliance, open-hearted
communication and sensitivity to poetic nuance.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Alexandra Dariescu
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Sunday 31 January 7.30 pm
Simon Keenlyside baritone
Malcolm Martineau piano
SCHUBERT BIRTHDAY CONCERT
Schubert Alinde; Geheimes; Seligkeit; Bei dir allein!; Nachtstück; Der Wanderer (D649); An den Mond in
einer Herbstnacht; Herbstlied; Im Haine; Im Walde (D708); L’incanto degli occhi; Pensa, che questo istante;
Der Jüngling und der Tod; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Des Fischers Liebesglück (2 verses);
Die Sterne (D939); Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz; Fischerlied; Der Wanderer an den Mond;
Abschied from Schwanengesang
More than two decades have passed since Simon Keenlyside made his solo recording debut in partnership with
Malcolm Martineau with an album of Schubert songs. He was hailed by Gramophone at the time as ‘the best
baritone singer and interpreter of Schubert this country has ever had’. This programme offers an unmissable
feast for anyone eager to hear Schubert interpretation at its best.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Voices at Wigmore
Supporting Schubert: The Complete Songs 2015/16 and 2016 /17
Benjamin Ealovega
Russell Duncan
Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs
Simon Keenlyside
Malcolm Martineau
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How to get to Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141
Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM
The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity No. 1024838
Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s West
End and is easily accessible by public transport or car.
Tubes Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and Oxford
Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines) tube stations
are both close by.
Buses A large number of buses travel along Oxford
Street, which is approximately five minutes walk from
Wigmore Hall.
Car Parking There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm
(Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas.
Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish
Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of
which are less than a five minute walk from the Hall.
Wigmore Hall par ticipates in the Theatreland Parking
Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50%
discount on their parking. Please contact the box office
for further details or visit our website.
Restaurant and Bars
Full information on pre-concert and interval refreshments
can be found at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant
or by calling 020 7258 8292. Table reservations can
be made by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.
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