April 2016 - Wigmore Hall

April 2016
Sir András Schiff
INSIDE:
Les Arts Florissants
Borodin Quartet
Tara Erraught
Isabelle Faust & Kristian Bezuidenhout
Werner Güra
Hagen Quartet
Quatuor Ebène
Angela Hewitt
Rolf Hind
Ann Murray DBE
Christoph Prégardien
Les Talens Lyriques
Ailish Tynan
and many more
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Vadim Gluzman violin
Angela Yoffe piano
Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo
violin BWV1004 (transcr. Schumann)
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78
Lera Auerbach Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano
‘September 11’ Op. 63
Tchaikovsky Sérénade mélancolique in B minor
Op. 26; Valse-scherzo Op. 34
Marco Borggreve
Friday 1 April 7.30 pm
A student of the glories of the golden age of violin
playing, Vadim Gluzman is famed for the rich warmth
Vadim Gluzman
Angela Yoffe
of his tone, the grace of his technique and the insight
of his interpretations. The Ukrainian-born Israeli artist returns to Wigmore Hall with regular duo partner Angela Yoffe
to perform works of great spiritual substance and emotional depth.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
Saturday 2 April 7.30 pm
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Sir András Schiff piano
THE FINAL SONATAS: HAYDN, MOZART, BEETHOVEN AND SCHUBERT
Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109
Mozart Piano Sonata in C K545
Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958
London’s Broadwood pianos, sonorous and strong, influenced the symphonic sweep of Haydn’s Piano Sonata in C.
The work’s thematic concentration and audacious humour complement the restless lyricism of Beethoven’s Op. 109.
Mozart styled his Piano Sonata in C K545 as a ‘little piano sonata for beginners’. He completed his elegant work in
June 1788, on the same day as he finished his Symphony No. 39.
This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval
£45 £35 £30 £25 £15
Yutaka Suzuki
London Pianoforte Series
Sir András Schiff
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Giorgia Bertazzi
Adrian Brendel cello
Alasdair Beatson piano
Jack Liebeck
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Sunday 3 April 11.30 am
Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1
Bridge Cello Sonata in D minor
Chopin Introduction et polonaise brillante in C Op. 3
Frank Bridge wrote his Cello Sonata between 1913 and
1917, absorbing the grim darkness and despair of the
era’s global conflict into its score. The two-movement
work, premièred at Wigmore Hall almost a century ago,
is prefaced by Beethoven’s genial Cello Sonata Op. 5
No. 1. Adrian Brendel and Alasdair Beatson conclude
with Chopin’s dashing Introduction et polonaise brillante.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Adrian Brendel
Alasdair Beatson
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Sunday 3 April 7.30 pm
Artemis Quartet
Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87
Eduard Demetz String Quartet No. 2 (UK première)
(Prize-winner of the Artemis Quartet Composition
Competition 2015)
Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27
Named after the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt,
the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet secured its place at
the top table of string quartets with sensational debut
performances at the world’s leading chamber music
venues in the 1990s. The ensemble’s latest Wigmore
Hall programme opens with early Schubert and
includes the prize-winning work from its pioneering
string quartet competition.
Eduard Demetz
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
Monday 4 April 1.00 pm
John Mark Ainsley tenor
Gary Matthewman piano
Johan Persson
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Britten Fish in the unruffled lakes
L Berkeley Five Poems of WH Auden Op. 53
Huw Watkins Three Auden Songs
Britten On this Island Op. 11
WH Auden described the 1930s as ‘a low dishonest
decade’. The poet’s line suited the era’s political
catastrophes but not its shining artistic achievements,
including those arising from his collaboration with
Benjamin Britten. John Mark Ainsley’s lunchtime
programme includes Britten’s first published songs
with piano, On this Island, and other captivating
Auden settings by Lennox Berkeley and Huw Watkins.
£13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
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John Mark Ainsley
Gary Matthewman
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie director, harpsichord
Emmanuelle de Negri soprano
Anna Reinhold mezzo-soprano
Reinoud Van Mechelen high tenor
Cyril Auvity tenor
Lisandro Abadie bass
Philippe Grollier
Monday 4 April 7.30 pm
AIRS SÉRIEUX ET A BOIRE – VOLUME 2
Simon Fowler
Charpentier Overture and Scenes 1 & 2 from
Les Arts Florissants
Petite pastorale H479 Moulinié Amis enivrons nous
du vin d’Espagne en France Lambert Amour, je me suis plaint cent fois
Charpentier Prelude and Scene 1 from Pastorelette del Sgr M. Ant. Charpentier:
Amor vince ogni cosa H492 Lambert Vos yeux adorables Moulinié Enfin la beauté que
j’adore Le Camus Ah, que vous êtes heureux! Charpentier Charmantes fleurs naissez;
Scene 2 from Pastorelette del Sgr M. Ant. Charpentier: Amor vince ogni cosa H492;
Tristes déserts, sombre retraite Lambert J’aimerais mieux souffrir la mort
Charpentier Scene 3 from Pastorelette del Sgr M. Ant. Charpentier: Amor vince ogni
cosa H492 Lambert Sans murmurer Le Camus Laissez durer la nuit, impatiente Aurore
Lambert Laissez-moi soupirer importune raison; Vous avez trop d’appas
William Christie
Moulinié Guillot est mon ami Lambert Vos mépris chaque jour me causent mille alarmes
Charpentier Scene 4 and Finale from Pastorelette del Sgr M. Ant. Charpentier: Amor vince ogni cosa H492
Founded in Paris in 1979 by William Christie, Les Arts Florissants revived interest in music of the French Baroque
and has since attracted a vast international audience to works overshadowed by centuries of neglect. The ensemble’s
critically acclaimed interpretations are influenced by the colour and nuance of the French language and by the art of
rhetoric, revealing the poetic nature of the music it performs. This programme features a selection of Michel Lambert’s
sublime airs for the court of Louis XIV together with dramatic and pastoral scenes, including Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s
cantata-like ‘Pastorelette’, an innovative blend of Italian and French musical influences.
£60 £50 £40 £30 £15
Supported by Dunard Fund
Early Music and Baroque Series
London Handel Orchestra
Adrian Butterfield director, violin
Rachel Brown flute
Chris Christodoulou
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Tuesday 5 April 7.30 pm
HANDEL AND HIS EUROPEAN
CONNECTIONS
Corelli Concerto Grosso in F Op. 6 No. 9
Purcell The Married Beau Suite Z603
Quantz Flute Concerto No. 5 in B minor
Wassenaer Concerto Armonico No. 5 in F minor
Leclair Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 7 No. 1
Handel Concerto Grosso in A Op. 6 No. 11
To celebrate 35 years devoted to the performance
of Handel’s music, the London Handel Orchestra –
London Handel Orchestra
led by its director Adrian Butterfield – crowns its
programme with the composer’s glorious Concerto Grosso in A Op. 6 No. 11. The programme also features a selection
of pieces by several illustrious European composers with whom Handel was closely associated.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
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Sir András Schiff piano
THE FINAL SONATAS: HAYDN, MOZART, BEETHOVEN
AND SCHUBERT
Mozart Piano Sonata in B b K570
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110
Haydn Piano Sonata in D HXVI:51
Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959
Birgitta Kowsky, Leipzig
Wednesday 6 April 7.30 pm
Sir András Schiff’s exploration of late works continues with four
contrasting compositions. Haydn’s Piano Sonata in D, written in London
in 1794, is small of scale but large in invention. Beethoven creates
the perfect blend of strict counterpoint and open-hearted emotional
expression in his Op. 110, while Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata
pays tribute to Beethoven in its lyrical finale.
£45 £35 £30 £25 £15
This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration,
without an interval
Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle
Sir András Schiff
London Pianoforte Series
Thursday 7 April 7.30 pm
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Kuss Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’
Sir Harrison Birtwistle From 9 Movements for String Quartet: Fantasia 1; Fantasia 3; Frieze 2; Fantasia 4;
Fantasia 5; Frieze 3
Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’
Experiment and risk-taking belong to the Kuss Quartet’s artistic outlook. The ensemble’s programming reflects its
determination to break down barriers between different periods of music history, past and present. This concert
offers a chance to hear the Berlin-based quartet’s artistry in masterworks by Haydn and Schubert as well as extracts
from Birtwistle’s 9 Movements for String Quartet, written between 1991 and 1996.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Molina Visuals
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
Kuss Quartet
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Friday 8 April 6.00 pm
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Pre-Concert Talk
Writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explores the poetic world of Schubert’s songs, widely regarded as some of
the greatest music ever written.
£4
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Friday 8 April 7.30 pm
Christoph Prégardien tenor
Michael Gees piano
Schubert Sehnsucht (D123); Geistes-Gruss; An Mignon; Nähe des Geliebten; Rastlose Liebe; Der Liedler;
Zufriedenheit (D362); Abendlied (D382); Geist der Liebe; Julius an Theone; Der Leidende; Seligkeit;
Gesänge des Harfners I–III; An die Entfernte; Am Flusse (D766); Willkommen und Abschied
Poetic inflections and the music of words have been a lifelong inspiration to Christoph Prégardien. The German lyric
tenor’s apparently limitless ability to colour phrases and project profound emotions will be directed to a programme
of songs based chiefly on exquisite verse by Goethe, including Schubert’s settings of the ‘Gesänge des Harfners’
from the influential novel Wilhelm Meister.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Hans Morren
Hermann and Clärchen Baus
Song Recital Series /Schubert: The Complete Songs
Christoph Prégardien
Saturday 9 April 7.30 pm
Sir András Schiff piano
THE FINAL SONATAS: HAYDN, MOZART, BEETHOVEN
AND SCHUBERT
Haydn Piano Sonata in E b HXVI:52
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111
Mozart Piano Sonata in D K576
Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960
Nadia F Romanani/ECM Records
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Michael Gees
Each piece in this programme offers a sense of striving for the infinite, heard
in the contrapuntal ingenuity of Mozart’s final piano sonata and ever-present
in Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in C minor Op. 111. Sir András Schiff begins
with Haydn’s mighty Piano Sonata in E flat and draws his survey of final
sonatas to a close with Schubert’s majestic Piano Sonata in B flat D960.
This concert will be approximately 2 hours 15 minutes in duration,
including an interval
£45 £35 £30 £25 £15
Sir András Schiff
London Pianoforte Series
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Wigmore Hall Debut
Uwe Neumann
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Sunday 10 April 11.30 am
Cédric Pescia piano
Couperin 25e ordre from Quatrième livre de pièces de clavecin Messiaen Le courlis
cendré from Catalogue d’oiseaux Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6
Cédric Pescia, born in Lausanne, made his breakthrough in 2002 with victory in
the Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition. He makes his Wigmore
Hall debut with a programme that spans the gamut of keyboard character pieces,
from François Couperin’s Quatrième livre de pièces de clavecin to Schumann’s
Davidsbündlertänze, intimate reflections on contrasting aspects of the composer’s
artistic personality.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Cédric Pescia
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Judith Weir Ständchen;
Blackbirds and Thrushes; On Buying a Horse
Judith Weir From Songs from the Exotic: Sevdalino, my
little one; In the lovely village of Nevesinje; The Romance
of Count Arnaldos Ravel Histoires naturelles
Kaupo Kikkas
Johnny Herford baritone
James Baillieu piano
Maximilian Van London
Sunday 10 April 3.00 pm
Storytelling is central to the work of Judith Weir, one of
Britain’s finest contemporary composers. Johnny Herford
and James Baillieu enter Weir’s bold soundworld, exploring
Johnny Herford
James Baillieu
the confrontations and dramatic twists and turns of her
Songs from the Exotic and other landmark compositions. Their programme is crowned by Ravel’s Histoires naturelles,
witty settings of verse about the individual characteristics of five animals.
All seats £15
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.
To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series /Introducing James Baillieu
Sunday 10 April 7.30 pm
RNCM Gold Medal Winners Concert 2016
Dominic Degavino solo piano
Amy Yule flute, with Benjamin Powell piano
Tom Hicks solo piano
Gulda Prelude and Fugue David Matthews Piano Sonata
Op. 47 Ligeti From Études Book II: No. 11 En suspens;
No. 13 L’escalier du diable Bach Sonata in Eb for flute and
Dominic Degavino
piano BWV1031 Paganini Cantabile for flute and piano
Lowell Liebermann Sonata for flute and piano Op. 23 Liszt Fantasie und Fuge über das
Thema B–A–C–H S529 ii Ireland The Island Spell Rodion Shchedrin Piano Sonata No. 1
Amy Yule
The Royal Northern College of Music’s annual Gold Medal Competition features the finest
young performers at the College, each competing for the coveted RNCM Gold Medal in
front of a distinguished panel from across the industry. This showcase features the winners
of the 2015 competition performing repertoire from their winning programmes. Don’t miss
this chance to hear the stars of tomorrow.
All seats £15
Royal Northern College of Music
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Tom Hicks
I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth director
Keith Saunders
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Monday 11 April 1.00 pm
Byrd This sweet and merry month of May (a4) Wilbye Adieu, sweet
Amaryllis; Ye restless thoughts; Draw on a sweet night
Tomkins Weep no more thou sorry boy; Too much I once lamented
Gibbons The silver swanne Ward If the deep sighs
Janet Wheeler Music to Hear William Brooks New work (world première)
Adrian Williams Those lines that I before have writ do lie
English composers such as Wilbye and Byrd were inspired by the
I Fagiolini
madrigals of Italy to make their own distinctive marks on the genre’s
history. The spontaneity and freshness of I Fagiolini’s full-blooded madrigal performances have helped engage new
audiences with a fascinating and strikingly fruitful repertoire of fine words and music.
£13 concs £11
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.
To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Monday 11 April 7.30 pm
Peter Freudenreich
The Monday Platform
Alena Lugovkina flute
Pavel Timofeyevsky piano
Dinara Klinton solo piano
Corelli Sonata No. 4 (arr. Lugovkina/Timofeyevsky)
Jolivet Chant de Linos Liszt Études d’exécution
Alena Lugovkina
Pavel Timofeyevsky
Dinara Klinton
transcendante S139: No. 1 in C; No. 2 in A minor;
No. 3 in F; No. 4 in D minor; No. 5 in Bb Scarlatti Sonatas: in F minor Kk466; in G Kk455 Prokofiev Sarcasms
Schulhoff Sonata for flute and piano Gaubert Nocturne et allegro scherzando
Prizewinner of the Busoni, Paderewski and BNDES International Piano competitions, Dinara Klinton is also a recipient of
the Benjamin Britten Fellowship at the RCM. Flautist Alena Lugovkina is the recipient of the Guildhall Artists Fellowship
2014–15; she has won numerous prizes as well as being an accomplished orchestral and chamber musician and soloist.
£20 £18 £14 £12 £10
Presented by Musicians’ Company Concerts (Reg. Charity) and Maisie Lewis Young Artists’ Fund
YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2015 /16
Alexander Ullman piano
Kaupo Kikkas
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Tuesday 12 April 1.00 pm
Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 Ravel From Miroirs: Noctuelles; Oiseaux tristes
Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178
Born in London, Alexander studied at The Purcell School, the Curtis Institute of Music
in Philadelphia and is currently at the Royal College of Music with Dmitri Alexeev.
Over the last year Alexander has performed Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 with Vladimir
Ashkenazy and Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra Filharmonica
Marchigiani in Italy. Future international engagements include recitals and concertos
in Milan, Munich, Leipzig, Ankara and Athens. ‘Ullman followed in the best
interpretative tradition, flaunting mastery and absolute assuredness’ Il Nuovo Pesaro,
Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiani – Tchaikovsky Concerto, May 2015
Alexander Ullman
£13 concs £11
Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490)
YCAT is grateful for support from the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund, and the legacy of Richard Oake for this series
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Detlev Schneider
Isabelle Faust violin
Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord
Marco Borggreve
Tuesday 12 April 7.30 pm
Bach Violin Sonata in G BWV1021; Sonata No. 2 in
A minor for solo violin BWV1003; Violin Sonata No. 3 in
E BWV1016; Violin Sonata No. 5 in F minor BWV1018;
Toccata in D minor BWV913 (for solo harpsichord);
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A BWV1015
Bach extended the techniques of violin playing in his
works for the instrument and broadened its possibilities
in pursuit of previously unimagined creative goals.
Isabelle Faust
Kristian Bezuidenhout
Isabelle Faust places the composer’s Sonata No. 2 in
A minor, which conjures up the impression of four-part counterpoint from a single instrument, together with three of
his sonatas for violin and keyboard, and the Violin Sonata in G BWV1021, in which acclaimed early keyboard player
Kristian Bezuidenhout will improvise the harmonies from Bach’s figured bass line.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected
concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John
Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Early Music and Baroque Series
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Wednesday 13 April 12.15 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
An introduction to the lunchtime concert with composer
Bryce Dessner.
Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Photo of Bryce Dessner by Anne Mie Dreves /Deutsche Grammophon
Bartók Duos for 2 violins BB104 (a selection, transcribed
for violin and viola)
Bryce Dessner New work* (London première)
Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47
*Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of 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
Harry Rankin
Thomas Gould
Clare Finnimore
Benjamin Ealovega
Thomas Gould violin
Clare Finnimore viola
Caroline Dearnley cello
Huw Watkins piano
Sussie Ahlburg
Britten Sinfonia
Aga Tomaszek
Wednesday 13 April 1.00 pm
Bryce Dessner, known to many as the guitarist from
The National, has been leading a double life as a prolific
composer and curator in the realm of creative new music.
His compositions, marked by a keen sensitivity to
Caroline Dearnley
instrumental colour and texture, feature in this hour-long
programme alongside Bartók’s folklore-inspired Duos and Schumann’s evergreen Piano Quartet.
£13 concs £11
Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series
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Huw Watkins
KOMM, TROST DER WELT
Robert Schumann Aus den östlichen Rosen;
Volksliedchen; Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint
Clara Schumann Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort;
O Lust, O Lust; Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen;
Sie liebten sich beide; An einem lichten Morgen
Mahler Rückert Lieder
Robert Schumann Frühlingsfahrt; Stirb, Lieb und Freud!
Barber Hermit Songs
Robert Schumann Der Einsiedler
Esther Haase/EMI Classics
Kate Royal soprano
Roger Vignoles piano
Benjamin Ealovega
Wednesday 13 April 7.30 pm
Kate Royal
Roger Vignoles
Kate Royal’s recital includes the Hermit Songs of Samuel Barber, settings of evocative texts largely by anonymous
early medieval Irish monks, together with other works dealing with the world of the spirit and the flesh. The duo’s
choice of songs by Robert and Clara Schumann highlight the melodic gifts of both composers, capped by Robert’s
profoundly moving reflections on the hermit’s solitary life in ‘Der Einsiedler’.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.
To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series
Rosenblatt Recitals 2015/16
Marco Borggreve
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Thursday 14 April 7.30 pm
Javier Camarena tenor
Ángel Rodriguez piano
Rossini Que les destins prospères from Le comte Ory
Mozart Vado incontro al fato estremo from Mitridate
Massenet En fermant les yeux from Manon
Donizetti Vivi tu, te ne scongiuro ... Nel veder la tua
costanza from Anna Bolena
Bellini Vaga Luna, che inargenti Rossini La Danza (Tarantella)
Serrano Te quiero, morena from El trust de los tenorios
Chapí No extrañeis, no, que se escapen from La bruja
Lara Medley: Oracion Caribe; Mujer; Veracruz
Arcaráz Bonita Tata Nacho Medley: La borrachita;
Tengo nostalgia de ti; Intima Moral No niegues que me quisiste
Javier Camarena
Ángel Rodriguez
Javier Camarena returns to the Rosenblatt Recitals series having made his sensational debut last season. Hailed
as ‘one of the most exciting tenors singing today’ (Huffington Post ), he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera
in 2011 and became the third singer in modern times to give a rare encore at the Met – preceded only by Luciano
Pavarotti and Juan Diego Flórez – after stepping in for Flórez in La cenerentola in 2014.
‘Javier Camarena had a triumphant evening, singing with a hearty, burnished tone ... He’s a singer capable of
gladiatorial power but also subtle shadings, supple phrasing and a thoroughly convincing Italian flavor.’
New York Times
‘In Javier Camarena, it was clear the company had a new star, a rival to fellow tenors Juan Diego Flórez and
Lawrence Brownlee for the title of ‘King of the High Cs.’ Mr. Camarena's voice combines the flexibility and high
range usually associated with the ‘tenore di grazia’ type with an unusual depth and richness of timbre.’
New York Observer
£30 £26 £22 £18 £16
Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 25 February (Bryan Hymel & Irene Roberts),
16 March (Ekaterina Siurina & Charles Castronovo) and 14 June (Mariella Devia)
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Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
Schubert Piano Sonata in A D664
Chopin Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Nocturne in C minor Op. 48 No. 1;
Polonaise in Ab Op. 53
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor Op. 28
Rachmaninov Études-tableaux Op. 39: No. 1 in C minor; No. 2 in A minor;
No. 5 in Eb minor; No. 6 in A minor; No. 7 in C minor; No. 9 in D
Balakirev Islamey
Mika Bovan
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Friday 15 April 7.30 pm
Alexander Gavrylyuk, born in Ukraine in 1984, confirmed his place among
the finest artists of his generation as winner of the 2005 Arthur Rubinstein
Alexander Gavrylyuk
International Piano Master Competition. His probing interpretations of
Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, on disc and in the concert hall, have attracted critical superlatives and favourable
comparisons with benchmark recordings by past greats.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
London Pianoforte Series
Avex Recital Series
Yuji Hori
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Saturday 16 April 1.00 pm
Nobuyuki Tsujii piano
Chopin 12 Études Op. 10
Chopin The Four Ballades: No. 1 in G minor Op. 23; No. 2 in F Op. 38;
No. 3 in Ab Op. 47; No. 4 in F minor Op. 52
The first of three lunchtime concerts in the Avex Recital Series features
Japanese pianist, Nobuyuki Tsujii making his Wigmore Hall debut. A joint
Gold Medal winner at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
and a musician of ‘unparalleled excitement’ (Observer ), Nobuyuki Tsujii
performs Chopin’s much-loved Études Op. 10 and Ballades.
All seats £20
Nobuyuki Tsujii
This concert will be 90 minutes in duration, without an interval.
Presented by Avex Classics International.
Avex Recital Series is kindly sponsored by Tarisio – Fine Instruments and Bows
Tickets also on sale for concerts in the Avex Recital Series on 21 May (Akiko Suwanai violin & Enrico Pace piano) and
Saturday 18 June (Sayaka Shoji violin & Jonathan Gilad piano).
Elias String Quartet
Simon Crawford-Phillips piano
Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2
Britten String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 25
Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34
Benjamin Ealovega
Saturday 16 April 7.30 pm
Simon Crawford-Phillips joins the Elias String
Quartet in Brahms’s monumental Piano
Quintet in F minor Op. 34, a milestone work
from the composer’s early maturity. The Quartet
begins with Haydn’s Op. 54 No. 2, a tour de
force of violin virtuosity, and continues with
Britten’s adventurous First String Quartet of 1941,
written in the garden toolshed of his wartime hosts in California.
Elias String Quartet
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season
Simon Crawford-Phillips
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Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor
Op. 101
Brahms String Sextet in G Op. 36
Hanya Chlala
Elias String Quartet
Kungsbacka Piano Trio
Benjamin Ealovega
Brahms composed the last of his three
piano trios during the summer of 1886,
in a rented villa near Lake Thun in
Switzerland. Clara Schumann praised
Elias String Quartet
Kungsbacka Piano Trio
her friend’s ‘wonderfully gripping’ work,
commending ‘its power of thought, its gracefulness, its poetry’. Members of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio join the
Elias String Quartet in Brahms’s G major String Sextet, a work of Schubertian warmth and lyricism.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Schumann Röselein, Röselein!; Die Blume der Ergebung;
Mädchen-Schwermut; Nachtlied; Einsamkeit; Meine Rose;
Die Sennin; Abendlied (Op. 107 No. 6); Requiem (Op. 90
No. 7) Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Ravel Deux mélodies
hebraïques Britten A Charm of Lullabies Op. 41
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Ruby Hughes soprano
Julius Drake piano
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Sunday 17 April 3.00 pm
Ruby Hughes graduated as a cellist before returning to
study voice and winning the 2009 London Handel Singing
Competition. Her programme for this recital explores
Schumann’s later songs, including four of the composer’s
Ruby Hughes
settings of verse by Nikolaus Lenau and the ‘Requiem’
he added to his Op. 90 collection in response to mistaken news of the poet’s death.
Julius Drake
All seats £15
Song Recital Series
Sunday 17 April 7.30 pm
Schubert Romanze (D114); An Laura, als sie Klopstocks
Auferstehungslied sang; Der Geistertanz; Stimme der
Liebe (D187); Naturgenuss; Totenkranz für ein Kind;
An mein Klavier; Grablied auf einen Soldaten; An den Tod;
Die Forelle; Morgenlied (D685); Frühlingsglaube;
Der Jüngling auf dem Hügel; Der Blumen Schmerz;
Der Wachtelschlag; Schwanengesang (D744); Selige Welt;
Todesmusik; Schatzgräbers Begehr; Wandrers Nachtlied II;
Der Musensohn
Kaupo Kikkas
Julian Prégardien tenor
James Baillieu piano
Marco Borggreve
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Sunday 17 April 11.30 am
Julian Prégardien
James Baillieu
Schubert’s early ‘Romanze’, written in 1814, catches the
Gothic tale of a maiden imprisoned by her uncle in a castle tower. Scene-painting and story telling flow throughout
Julian Prégardien’s recital. The tenor’s programme includes the rarely heard ‘Todesmusik’, operatic in intensity, and
the pastoral beauty of ‘Der Musensohn’, among the last but not least of Schubert’s Goethe settings.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs/Introducing James Baillieu
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Monday 18 April 1.00 pm
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Hagen Quartet
Schubert String Quartet in G D887
In his final years Schubert absorbed lessons
learned from the late string quartets of Beethoven.
His String Quartet in G D887 stands among the
most adventurous of all his chamber compositions,
operatic in the power of its drama and the impact
of its lyrical themes. The Hagen Quartet, formed
in 1981, has developed its engrossing interpretation
of the work over many years in performance at the
highest level.
All seats £15
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Hagen Quartet
Monday 18 April 7.30 pm
Hagen Quartet
Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13
György Kurtág Hommage à Mihály András (12 Microludes) Op. 13
Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1
There is an edge of anxiety and restlessness about both of the works in the first half of this concert. The Hagen Quartet
pairs Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2, an impassioned product of the composer’s late teens, with György Kurtág’s
Hommage à Mihály András, completed in 1978. The programme closes with Schumann’s exquisite String Quartet in
A minor, dedicated to the composer’s friend Mendelssohn.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected
concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John
Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Harald Hoffmann
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
Hagen Quartet
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IRISH CULTURE IN BRITAIN: A CENTENARY CELEBRATION
Tuesday 19 April 1.00 pm Micheál Ó’Súilleabháin
Wednesday 20 April 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Ann Murray DBE Masterclass
Thursday 21 April 6.30 pm – 7.00 pm Keynote Address
Thursday 21 April 7.30 pm Gala Concert
Friday 22 April 11.00 am – 12 noon Masterclass Showcase Recital
Sunday 24 April 3.00 pm Pre-Concert Talk
Sunday 24 April 4.00 pm Ensemble Marsyas/Peter Whelan
John Gilhooly OBE has directed a major part of London’s contribution to
the Ireland 2016 centenary programme. He is very pleased to play a
significant role at this pivotal moment in relations between Ireland and
the UK, and to help, through culture, the strengthening of this important
bond of friendship and reconciliation, recognising and enhancing further
Ireland’s reputation for cultural excellence over the past century. His
week-long festival is one of the highlights of the global celebrations,
and aims to underline the extensive and productive network of contacts
between both countries, which has been especially fruitful in the fields
of music and literature.
Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme
Tuesday 19 April 1.00 pm
Wigmore Hall Debut
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin piano
THE CAROLAN CELEBRATION
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Chair of Music and
Founder/Director of the Irish World Academy of
Music and Dance at the University of Limerick,
is noted for his development of a uniquely Irish
traditional piano style.
Mícheál makes a much-anticipated Wigmore Hall
debut with the first performance of a new series
of suites for solo piano, edited from the eighteenthcentury Irish harp music of Turlough O’Carolan.
The music of this nomadic blind traditional
harper, known simply as Carolan to his Anglo-Irish
patrons, represents a sonic encodement of a
rapidly changing Ireland.
All seats £15
Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland
2016 Centenary Programme
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
London Pianoforte Series/Irish Culture in Britain: A Centenary Celebration
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Llŷr Williams piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Op. 79; Piano Sonata No. 27 in
E minor Op. 90; 6 Bagatelles Op. 126; Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb
Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’
Benjamin Ealovega
Tuesday 19 April 7.30 pm
Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams continues his complete Beethoven cycle at
Wigmore Hall by tackling one of the most formidable musical monuments
in the piano literature, the all-encompassing, strikingly complex
‘Hammerklavier’. According to Beethoven scholar Lewis Lockwood,
the work signalled ‘a turning point … in the history of the piano sonata’.
Williams prefaces the work with two contrasting compositions, including
the highly charged Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, and Beethoven’s final
work for piano, the Op. 126 Bagatelles. This series continues with three
further concerts in the 2016/17 Season.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Llŷr Williams
London Pianoforte Series
Ann Murray DBE Masterclass
Over the course of her long and distinguished career, Ann Murray DBE
has performed on the world’s leading opera and concert platforms.
She is held in the highest affection by Wigmore Hall’s audience, not least
for her many recitals here in partnership with Graham Johnson and with
the Songmakers’ Almanac. The charismatic mezzo-soprano, born and
raised in Dublin, returns to Wigmore Hall for an afternoon masterclass
in which she will work with selected students and alumni from the
Royal Irish Academy of Music, accompanied by Dearbhla Collins.
Sian Trenberth
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Wednesday 20 April 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm
All seats £4
Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at
selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the
Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Ann Murray DBE
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/London Pianoforte Series/Irish Culture in Britain: A Centenary Celebration
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38
Sir Harrison Birtwistle Bogenstrich – Lied ohne Worte;
Bogenstrich – Wie eine Fuge; Bogenstrich – Variationen
Sean Shepherd Cello Sonata* (world première)
Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2
Eric Richmond
Anssi Karttunen cello
Nicolas Hodges piano
Leander Lammertink
Wednesday 20 April 7.30 pm
*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,
president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Anssi Karttunen and Nicolas Hodges range across more than
two centuries of repertoire for cello and piano, embracing
Anssi Karttunen
Nicolas Hodges
everything from the concentrated expression of Beethoven’s
Op. 102 No. 2 to Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Bogenstrich (‘Bow-stroke’) of 2006–09. Their programme also contains the
world première of a new Cello Sonata by American composer Sean Shepherd, specially commissioned by Wigmore Hall.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
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Centenary Ireland
Irish Ambassador H.E. Daniel Mulhall gives the keynote address on
100 years of Ireland, including culture.
Free to concert ticket holders
(no extra ticket required)
Pictured right: H.E. Daniel Mulhall, Irish Ambassador
Kristin Speed
Sian Trenberth
Ann Murray DBE
Tara Erraught
Tina Foster
Anthony Riordan
Ailish Tynan
Garreth Wong
Ailish Tynan soprano
Ann Murray DBE mezzo-soprano
Tara Erraught mezzo-soprano
Robin Tritschler tenor
Gavan Ring baritone
Lucy Wakeford harp
Jonathan Ware piano
Finghin Collins piano
Michael Collins clarinet
RTÉ Contempo String Quartet
Benjamin Ealovega
Thursday 21 April 7.30 pm
Choirs from:
British and Irish national anthems
Solo piano works by Schubert and Field
Schubert songs to include: An die Musik;
Heidenröslein; Die Forelle; Die Sterne (D939);
Licht und Liebe; Nacht und Träume; Erlkönig;
Ellens Gesang III (Ave Maria); Der Hirt auf dem
Jonathan Ware
Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock);
Ständchen (D920) Gerald Barry String Quartet No. 1*
(revised) (world première)
Irish songs to include: Balfe I dreamt that I dwelt in Marble Halls
Trad/Irish Galway Bay; She moved thro’ the fair J L Molloy The Kerry Dance;
The Salley Gardens (arr. Britten); The lark in the clear air (arr. Stanford);
I have a bonnet trimmed with blue; Phil the Fluter’s Ball
Head The ships of Arcady; A Blackbird Singing Lambert She is far from
the land Trad/Irish Danny Boy; Molly Malone
Gavan Ring
Mark Stedman
GALA CONCERT
Robin Tritschler
Lucy Wakeford
Benjamin Ealovega
Royal Irish Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
Kaupo Kikkas
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Thursday 21 April 6.30 pm – 7.00 pm
Finghin Collins
Michael Collins
*Co-commissioned by RTÉ and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,
president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Following this concert, Ann Murray DBE will be presented with The
Wigmore Medal, in recognition of her significant international career.
RTÉ Contempo String Quartet
This Gala honours those who died at Easter 1916, Irish and British, and all the soldiers who lost their lives in the
Great War.
This concert will be 2 hours and 30 minutes in duration, with an interval.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme
Song Recital Series /Chamber Music Season/Irish Culture in Britain: A Centenary Celebration
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Friday 22 April 11.00 am – 12 noon
Masterclass Showcase Recital
With students and alumni from the Royal Irish Academy of Music who took part in the masterclass with
Ann Murray DBE, accompanied by Dearbhla Collins.
All seats £4
Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Irish Culture in Britain: A Centenary Celebration
Angela Hewitt Masterclass
Celebrated for her Bach interpretations and the dazzling brilliance, vitality
and wit of her readings of works by everyone from Rameau, Couperin and
Ravel to Mozart, Beethoven and Messiaen, Angela Hewitt has gathered a
vast store of experience and a wealth of insight into the art of performance.
The Canadian pianist shares her perceptive thoughts and opinions on musical
interpretation in this masterclass session with postgraduate pianists from the
four London music colleges.
Mai Wolf
Friday 22 April 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
£8 concs £6
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Angela Hewitt
Borodin Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83
Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3;
Grosse Fuge in B b Op. 133
Keith Saunders
Friday 22 April 7.30 pm
For the latest in its Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle,
the Borodin Quartet presents a programme rich in
contrasts. Shostakovich’s Fourth Quartet evokes the
emotional depths of song and the spirit of folksong,
while Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge strives to reach the outer
limits of the universe through the art of counterpoint.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by the Benefactor Friends of Wigmore Hall
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Borodin Quartet
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected
concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John
Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season
Angela Hewitt piano
Haydn Piano Sonata in Ab HXVI:46 Schubert Moments Musicaux D780:
No. 1 in C; No. 2 in Ab & No. 3 in F minor
Haydn Piano Sonata in G HXVI:40; Piano Sonata in B minor HXVI:32
Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D784 Haydn Fantasia in C HXVII:4
Bernd Eberle
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Saturday 23 April 7.30 pm
Angela Hewitt’s pianism has been hailed for its lyricism and sense of rhythmic
nuance. She directs her artistry to a thrilling combination of works, framing three
of Schubert’s Moments Musicaux in her recital’s first half with Haydn’s early
Piano Sonata in A flat and the quixotic humour of his later Piano Sonata in G.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
London Pianoforte Series
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Angela Hewitt
Sibelius String Trio in G minor
Mozart Divertimento in E b K563
Simon Weir
Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra
Mozart wrote his Divertimento in E flat K563 for his friend the
Viennese merchant Michael Puchberg. This superb work, the
first ever trio for violin, viola and cello, was probably written for
performance to a small private audience. Principal players of
Aurora Orchestra offer Mozart’s score in company with Sibelius’s
early String Trio in G minor, serious and intense in mood.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/
The Mozart Odyssey
3D model of Aurora Orchestra
Sunday 24 April 3.00 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
JS COUSSER AND THE IRISH STATE MUSICK AT DUBLIN CASTLE
Professor Samantha Owens introduces John Sigismond Cousser’s work The Universal Applause of Mount Parnassus
ahead of the concert.
£4
Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Irish Culture in Britain: A Centenary Celebration
Sunday 24 April 4.00 pm
Ensemble Marsyas
Peter Whelan director, harpsichord
Samuel Boden tenor (Apollo)
Mhairi Lawson soprano (Calliope/Polymnia)
Emilie Renard mezzo-soprano (Thalia/Terpsichore)
Chloe Morgan soprano (Clio/Euterpe)
Sarah Brady soprano (Melpomene/Urania)
Niamh O’Sullivan mezzo-soprano (Erato)
Cousser The Universal Applause of Mount Parnassus
Handel Eternal source of light divine
This concert is dedicated to HM Queen Elizabeth II in the
week of her 90th birthday.
Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the
Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme
Early Music and Baroque Series/Irish Culture
in Britain: A Centenary Celebration
Samuel Boden
Miriam Kaczor
All seats £15
Peter Whelan
Emilie Renard
Chloe Morgan
Mhairi Lawson
Mark Stedman
Ensemble Marsyas and guest soloists perform an Ode
written for the birthday celebrations of Queen Anne in
Dublin, 1711, composed by John Sigismond Cousser,
a student of Lully and ‘Master of State Musick’ at
Dublin Castle.
Katie Glastonbury
Robert Bridgens
Ensemble Marsyas
Raphaëlle Photography
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Sunday 24 April 11.30 am
Sarah Brady
Niamh O’Sullivan
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Borodin Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F# minor Op. 108;
String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122
Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 127
Keith Saunders
Sunday 24 April 7.30 pm
Sorrow pervades Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 11, woven
into its fabric by a composer all too familiar with grief and loss.
The Borodin Quartet prefaces the work with the short String
Quartet No. 7, a score distilled down to leave the essence of
emotional expression. Beethoven’s Op. 127, the first of his late
quartets, points to the eternal serenity that lies beyond the
chaos of humanity’s struggle for survival.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Borodin Quartet
Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle
Monday 25 April 1.00 pm
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Benjamin Ealovega
Borodin Quartet
Michael Collins clarinet
Tchaikovsky Album pour enfants Op. 39
(arr. for string quartet by R. Dubinsky)
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581
The late Rostislav Dubinsky, the Borodin Quartet’s founding
first violinist, fashioned a delightful arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s
Album pour enfants for string quartet, enhancing the music’s
playfulness and also highlighting its romantic qualities. The
Borodins are joined by Michael Collins for a performance of
Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, among the great masterworks of
chamber music.
£13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Ny Che Goyang /Aram Nuri Arts Center
Michael Collins
Borodin Quartet
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Robert Schumann Sängers Trost; Dein Angesicht;
Es leuchtet meine Liebe; Mein altes Ross;
Schlusslied des Narren
Brahms Es reit ein Herr und auch sein Knecht;
Schwesterlein; Es steht ein Lind; Jungfräulein, soll ich
mit euch gehn; Da unten im Tale
Clara Schumann Sie liebten sich beide; Warum willst
du and’re fragen; Geheimes Flüstern; Er ist gekommen
Robert Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35
Monika Rittershaus
Werner Güra tenor
Christoph Berner piano
Monika Rittershaus
Monday 25 April 7.30 pm
Werner Güra
Christoph Berner
Werner Güra and Christoph Berner have cultivated a
sixth sense of communication in their critically acclaimed partnership. They begin by exploring the five songs of
Schumann’s Op. 127, two of which were originally conceived as part of the original version of Dichterliebe, before
presenting works from Brahms’s Deutsche Volkslieder together with four enchanting songs by Clara Schumann.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.
To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series
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The English Concert
Christian Curnyn guest director, harpsichord
Eric Richmond
Tuesday 26 April 7.30 pm
Marais Suite from Alcyone
Haydn Symphony No. 44 in E minor ‘Trauer’
Rameau Suite from Les Boréades
Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A K201
The English Concert returns to Wigmore Hall with guest director Christian Curnyn
to perform two suites from French opera-ballets, Marin Marais’s Alcyone and
Rameau’s Les Boréades. This typically inventive programme challenges
preconceptions of baroque and classical timelines: Les Boréades, a landmark
of high baroque opera, was written in 1763, while the 30-year-old Haydn was
developing foundations of the new classical style in Vienna.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
Richard Haughton
Christian Curnyn
The English Concert
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The annual auditions for this famous singing competition,
founded in memory of one of the UK’s best loved contraltos,
attract capacity houses from both devoted lovers of vocal
art and students of singing.
Salzburger Festspiele/Franz Neumayr
Semi-Final of the Competition for
the Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2016
Angus McBean
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Wednesday 27 April 1.30 pm – 6.00 pm
All seats £18 students £10
Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship Fund
Pictured right: Christina Gansch, winner of the 2014 Kathleen
Ferrier Award
Rolf Hind piano
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
PIANO SONATA NO. 2 WORLD PREMIÈRE
Rolf Hind Thus Have I Heard
Hans Abrahamsen Ten Studies (UK première)
Simon Steen-Andersen Rerendered (for piano
and two assistants)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Piano Sonata No. 2*
(world première)
Alexander Banck-Petersen
Wednesday 27 April 7.30 pm
*Co-commissioned by Nottingham Lakeside Arts, the University
of Nottingham and the Sound Festival in association with the
University of Aberdeen, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of
André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss
grant-making foundation
Rolf Hind’s recital features the world première of Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies’s Second Piano Sonata, a major new work
commissioned by Wigmore Hall from the octogenarian
composer. Hind, an acclaimed pianist-composer, considers
Rolf Hind
impermanence and transcendence in his own work
Thus Have I Heard, which recalls the opening lines of Buddhist scriptural texts, reflecting the aural tradition of
the Buddha’s teachings. The programme also includes the keenly awaited UK première of Ten Studies (1984–98
by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen, who refers to his creation as ‘studies of the piano’s character or soul.
A soul that has been created by all the music … written for the instrument, from its childhood until today.’
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series
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Thursday 28 April 6.00 pm
Pre-Concert Performance
Join us for a performance by quartets that took part
in the National Young String Quartet Weekend earlier
in the year at Chetham’s School of Music.
Free (ticket required)
Supported by the Leverhulme Trust
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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Julien Mignot
Quatuor Ebène
Gautier Capuçon cello
Michael Tammaro
Thursday 28 April 7.30 pm
Schubert String Quintet in C D956 Beethoven String Quartet
in Bb Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133
French cellist Gautier Capuçon, one of the foremost cellists
of his generation, joins Quatuor Ebène for the first half of a
concert comprising two of the greatest of all chamber music
compositions. Schubert’s String Quintet stands here as the
sublime complement to Beethoven’s Op. 130 String Quartet,
performed with its original finale, the cosmic, ultimately
consoling Grosse Fuge.
Quatuor Ebène
Gautier Capuçon
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected
concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John
Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season
Final of the Competition for the
Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2016
Angus McBean
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Friday 29 April 6.00 pm – 10.00 pm NB starting time
The annual auditions for this famous singing competition,
founded in memory of one of the UK’s best loved contraltos,
attract capacity houses from both devoted lovers of vocal
art and students of singing.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
There will be an Interval Supper from 8.20 pm – 9.30 pm. All tables
in the Wigmore Hall Restaurant must be pre-booked. To reserve a
table for dinner, please call the Restaurant on 020 7258 8292.
Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship Fund
Pictured right: Gemma Lois Summerfield, winner of the 2015 Kathleen Ferrier Award
Christophe Rousset director, harpsichord
Gilone Gaubert-Jacques violin
Jivka Kaltcheva violin
Emmanuel Jacques cello
Nancy Glor
Les Talens Lyriques
Ignacio Barrios Martinez
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Saturday 30 April 7.30 pm
Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano
ARCADIAN CANTATAS FROM ROME TO VENICE
Christophe Rousset
Ann Hallenberg
Scarlatti Cantata: Dall’oscura magion dell’arsa Dite (L’Orfeo)
Corelli Trio Sonata in D minor Op. 3 No. 5 Vivaldi Cantata: Perché son molli RV681
Handel Trio Sonata in G Op. 5 No. 4 HWV399 Handel Cantata: Notte placida e cheta HWV142
Ann Hallenberg returns to Wigmore Hall with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset to perform chamber cantatas
by Alessandro Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Handel infused with warmth and fiery passion. The Swedish mezzo-soprano’s
visionary readings of Baroque music, together with her appearances on the world’s leading opera stages, have triggered
rave reviews. She opens this recital with Dall’oscura magion dell’arsa Dite, Scarlatti’s heart-melting response to the
myth of Orpheus, and explores the seductive melodic lines of Vivaldi’s Perché son molli before charting the yearning
emotions of Handel’s Notte placida e cheta, an exquisite product of the composer’s apprentice years in Italy.
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
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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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