Summer 2018 Wigmore Series Brochure

April – July 2018

2017/18 Season

2• We celebrate Purcell in a big way this April. ‘Genius’ may be an overworked term but it surely applies to the composer and his Dido and Aeneas. David Bates and La Nuova Musica offer a lunchtime date with the opera’s passions and high emotions, its earthy humour and profound tragedy. Music of lament and consolation occupy the latest imaginative programme from Hugo Ticciati’s O/Modernt. The ground-breaking ensemble explores Purcell from the Ground Up, a series of concerts not to be missed.

Director’s Introduction

During his student days Igor Levit, captivated by Frederic Rzewski’s music, asked the composer to write a new piece – which he did. Their deep artistic friendship is marked with the première of a special Wigmore Hall commission to celebrate Rzewski’s 80th birthday. Igor also joins us on 21 July in a programme of Brahms, Busoni, Schumann, Wagner and Liszt.

Brahms wrote his violin sonatas chiefly during summertime stays in alpine resorts. Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien reveal the warmth and lyricism, together with the stormy emotional outbursts and nostalgic yearning, of these late Romantic landmarks.

Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov commemorates the centenary of Debussy’s death by offering fresh perspectives on his Children’s Corner. ‘My homage to Debussy aims to explore his diversity and, like his music, includes something that will touch every listener’, he notes. By a happy coincidence, both Pavel Kolesnikov and Cédric Tiberghien include the Schumann Fantasie in their April programmes, so it will make an interesting comparison. Cédric Tiberghien is hailed for his rich imagination and he brings three great Romantic compositions for his solo recital on 23 April.

Wigmore Lates, firm fixtures in the Hall’s summer calendar, make the ideal start to the weekend. This season’s run kicks off with the genredefying Erlkings, and includes a jazz date with Onyx Brass, praised

by BBC Music Magazine as ‘the classiest brass ensemble in Britain’, an intimate concert of Scottish folk music, a celebration of ‘The Class of 1938’, and much more! A highlight of our late night series is the Chineke! Orchestra, which stormed last summer’s BBC Proms with a sensational debut, one of many opportunities it creates for young Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) classical musicians. Its Wigmore debut includes impassioned music by Florence Price, the first African-American woman to break through as a symphonic composer.

Percussion pioneer Evelyn Glennie, one of the world’s most prominent percussion soloists, is a champion of communication.

She is joined by celebrated pianist Philip Smith for an extraordinary event, in which conversations with Huw Edwards will be illustrated by performances of a range of works.

I look forward to welcoming you to the Hall during the summer series.

© Benjamin Ealovega

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Contents At a Glance

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Calendar 8 April 10 May 39 June 62 July 83 Booking Information

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At a Glance

April – July 2018

See pages 10 – 97 for full details of these concerts and page 100 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for…

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts

Theatre of the Ayre

11

Llŷr Williams Beethoven Album Launch

12

Mon 2 Apr Laura van der Heijden/ Petr Limonov

Le Conert d’Astrée & Emmanuelle Haïm 13 Elias String Quartet: After Beethoven 13, 76 Purcell from the Ground Up

15, 16, 17, 18

Isabelle Faust Season-Long Celebration International String Quartet Competition

19

20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26

JACK Quartet

23

Igor Levit

24, 95

Jörg Widmann as Composer-Performer

27, 45, 69, 73, 93

Haydn String Quartet Series

29, 35, 57, 61, 73, 89, 96

Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien

32

Matthias Goerne

34, 36

Pavel Kolesnikov

38

Sonia Prina: A Celebration

39

Simon Trpčeski Series

40

Mauro Peter

41

In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage

42

Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works

45, 75

Sir András Schiff at Wigmore Hall Leeds Piano Festival

50, 51, 55

Roderick Williams: Exploring Schubert’s Song Cycles Thomas Dunford

50 51

Takács Quartet: Associate Artists Wigmore Lates

45

53, 54

58, 59, 62, 68, 76, 82, 86, 89, 93

Mon 9 Apr Javier Perianes 19 Mon 16 Apr Christoph Prégardien/ Julius Drake

26

Mon 23 Apr Sophie Gent/ Matthew Truscott/ Jonathan Manson/ Trevor Pinnock

33

Mon 30 Apr Hille Perl/ Lee Santana

38

Mon 7 May Sabine Devieilhe/ Anne Le Bozec

44

Mon 14 May Schumann Quartet

49

Mon 21 May Sara Mingardo/ Francesca Biliotti/ Giorgio dal Monte/ Giovanni Bellini

54

Mon 28 May Danish String Quartet

60

Mon 4 Jun Toby Spence/ Christopher Glynn

65

Mon 11 Jun Trio Wanderer/ Christophe Gaugué

69

Mon 18 Jun Christine Rice/ Julius Drake

Wed 11 Apr JACK Quartet

23

Thu 12 Apr Belcea Quartet

23

Sat 14 Apr International String Quartet 25 Competition Semi-Finals Sun 15 Apr International String Quartet 26 Competition Final and Prize-Giving Tue 17 Apr Castalian String Quartet

29

Wed 18 Apr Britten Sinfonia

30

Fri 20 Apr Alina Ibragimova/ Cédric Tiberghien

32

Sun 22 Apr Leonore Piano Trio

33

Wed 25 Apr Vertavo String Quartet

35

Sat 5 May In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage

42

Sat 5 May

Borodin Quartet

43

Tue 8 May Sacconi String Quartet

44

Thu 10 May Pavel Haas Quartet

45

Sat 12 May Jörg Widmann/ Sir András Schiff

45

Sun 13 May The Endellion String Quartet 47 Sat 19 May Takács Quartet/ Louise Williams/Pál Banda

53

74

Sun 20 May Tetzlaff Quartet

54

Mon 25 Jun Elias String Quartet/ Navarra String Quartet

78

Mon 21 May Takács Quartet/ Louise Williams/Pál Banda

54

Mon 2 Jul Adam Walker/ Cédric Tiberghien

84

Sat 26 May Doric String Quartet/ Sir Thomas Allen

57

Mon 28 May Trio Tre Voci

60

Wed 30 May Quatuor Mosaïques

61

Mon 9 Jul

Chloë Hanslip/ Danny Driver

87

Chamber Music Season

Thu 31 May Quatuor Mosaïques

61

Mon 4 Jun Cuarteto Casals

64

10

Sun 10 Jun Tetzlaff Quartet/ Jörg Widmann

69

Mon 2 Apr Narek Hakhnazaryan/ Oxana Shevchenko

63

13

Tue 12 Jun Belcea Quartet/ Antoine Tamestit

70

Fri 6 Apr Elias String Quartet/ Richard Wigmore

64, 85

Sat 7 Apr O/Modernt Soloists/ Hugo Ticciati/ Christoph Sommer/ Natacha Kudritskaya/ Luciana Mancini

16

Sun 8 Apr O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra/Hugo Ticciati/ Christoph Sommer/ Henrik Måwe/ Luciana Mancini/ The Cardinall’s Musick

18

Mon 9 Apr Isabelle Faust/ Kristian Bezuidenhout

19

Simon Keenlyside

57

Chineke! Orchestra

62

Carolyn Sampson/Iestyn Davies/ Joseph Middleton Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle Christian Tetzlaff Focus

69

Collegium Vocale Gent

70

Jakub Józef Orlinski

71

Dunedin Consort: Big Ideas for a Small Stage

76

Dame Felicity Palmer

88

Evelyn Glennie/Philip Smith/ Huw Edwards

90

Sergei Babayan

92

Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey

97

Contemporary Music Series

10

98, 99

Fri 15 Jun

22

73 73

Wed 20 Jun Edgar Moreau/ David Kadouch

75

Fri 22 Jun Elias String Quartet

76

Sun 24 Jun Quatuor Ebène

78

Mon 25 Jun Quatuor Ebène/ Martin Fröst

79

Wed 27 Jun Ming Xie

Tue 10 Apr International String Quartet 22 Competition Preliminary Round commences Tue 10 Apr Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Razumovsky Ensemble

Sat 16 Jun Heath Quartet/ Mary Bevan

81

Wed 4 Jul

Cuarteto Casals

85

Thu 5 Jul

Tana String Quartet

85

Sun 8 Jul

ATOS Trio

87

Tue 10 Jul Veronika Eberle/ Tatjana Masurenko/ Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/ Martin Helmchen

88

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Wed 11 Jul Ensemble Variances/ 88 Anssi Karttunen/Thierry Pécou Thu 12 Jul Carducci String Quartet

89

Fri 13 Jul

Bennewitz Quartet

Sat 14 Jul

Evelyn Glennie/ 90 Philip Smith/Huw Edwards

89

Mon 23 Jul Alban Gerhardt/ Vikingur Olafsson

96

Tue 24 Jul Julia Fischer/ Aris Alexander Blettenberg

96

Wed 25 Jul Castalian String Quartet

96

Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Sun 1 Apr

Zemlinsky Quartet

Sun 8 Apr Atrium Quartet

10 17

Sun 15 Apr Arcadia Quartet/ 25 Stefan Fehlandt/Stephan Forck Sun 22 Apr Modigliani Quartet

33

Sun 29 Apr Smetana Trio

37

Sun 6 May Borodin Quartet

43

Sun 13 May Kopelman Quartet/ Blythe Teh Engstroem

47

Sun 8 Apr O/Modernt Chamber 18 Orchestra/Hugo Ticciati/ Christoph Sommer/ Henrik Måwe/Luciana Mancini/ The Cardinall’s Musick Thu 19 Apr The English Concert Tue 1 May

Sonia Prina/ Vivica Genaux/ Concerto Copenhagen

31 39

Sun 6 May Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists/ Rachel Podger

43

Wed 9 May Mahan Esfahani

45

Mon 14 May Phantasm

49

Thu 17 May Thomas Dunford

51

Tue 22 May La Nuova Musica/ Tim Mead

55

Sun 3 Jun Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Anna Prohaska

65

Mon 11 Jun Collegium Vocale Gent

70

Tue 19 Jun Mahan Esfahani

75

Thu 21 Jun Dunedin Consort

76

Sat 23 Jun The Sixteen

77

Thu 26 Jul Angela Hewitt 97

Sun 20 May Peter Hill

52

Sun 27 May István Várdai/ Vikingur Olafsson

57

Sun 3 Jun Kuss Quartet

63

Sun 10 Jun Christian Ihle Hadland

69

Sun 17 Jun Apollon Musagète Quartet

74

Sun 24 Jun Amaryllis Quartet

77

Mon 16 Apr Yefim Bronfman

27

Sun 1 Jul Veronika Eberle/ 83 Alban Gerhardt/ Edicson Ruiz/José Gallardo

Wed 18 Apr Yevgeny Sudbin

30

Mon 23 Apr Cédric Tiberghien

35

Sat 28 Apr Nikolai Lugansky

37

Sun 8 Jul Formosa Quartet/ Richard Lester

87

Sun 15 Jul Sitkovetsky Trio

91

Sun 22 Jul Zorá String Quartet

95

Early Music and Baroque Series Theatre of the Ayre/ Elizabeth Kenny

11

Le Concert d’Astrée/ Emmanuelle Haïm/ Sabine Devieilhe/ Marianne Crebassa

13

Sat 7 Apr

La Nuova Musica

16

Sat 7 Apr

O/Modernt Soloists/ Hugo Ticciati/ Christoph Sommer/ Natacha Kudritskaya/ Luciana Mancini

16

Tue 3 Apr Thu 5 Apr

London Pianoforte Series Wed 4 Apr Llŷr Williams Wed 4 Apr Bertrand Chamayou Fri 13 Apr

13 24

Sun 29 Apr Leslie Howard

37

Mon 30 Apr Pavel Kolesnikov

38

Wed 2 May Simon Trpčeski

40

Tue 15 May Andreas Haefliger

49

Wed 16 May Lars Vogt

50

Thu 17 May Sunwook Kim

51

Fri 18 May Alessio Bax

51

Fri 18 May Richard Goode

52

Fri 25 May Inon Barnatan

56

Finghin Collins

68

Mon 18 Jun Peter Donohoe

75

Thu 7 Jun

Sun 8 Apr O/Modernt Soloists/ 17 Priya Mitchell/ Karl Nyhlin/Christoph Sommer/ Cecilia Knudsen/ Nora Thiele/Luciana Mancini

Igor Levit

12

Tue 26 Jun Imogen Cooper

79

Sat 7 Jul

Steven Osborne

86

Tue 17 Jul

Sergei Babayan

92

Thu 19 Jul Gabriela Montero Sat 21 Jul

Igor Levit

Thu 26 Jul Angela Hewitt

93 95 97

Song Recital Series Sat 21 Apr Venera Gimadieva/ 31 Pavel Nebolsin Tue 24 Apr Matthias Goerne/ 34 Seong-Jin Cho Thu 26 Apr Matthias Goerne/ 36 Alexander Schmalcz Thu 3 May Mauro Peter/ 41 Helmut Deutsch Fri 4 May Lucy Crowe/Anna Tilbrook 40 Fri 11 May Andrè Schuen/Gerold Huber 46 Sun 13 May Morgan Pearse/ 47 Simon Lepper Wed 16 May Roderick Williams/ 50 Iain Burnside Wed 23 May Karen Cargill/Simon Lepper 55 Sun 27 May Simon Keenlyside/ 57 Malcolm Martineau Fri 1 Jun Birgid Steinberger/ 63 Julius Drake Sat 2 Jun Carolyn Sampson/ 63 Iestyn Davies/Joseph Middleton Tue 5 Jun Stéphane Degout/ 67 Simon Lepper Wed 6 Jun The Prince Consort/ 67 Laura Mucha Wed 13 Jun Jakub Józef Orliński/ 71 Michał Biel Sat 16 Jun Heath Quartet/ Mary Bevan 73 Sun 17 Jun Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 74 Sun 24 Jun Samuel Hasselhorn/ 78 Renate Rohlfing Thu 28 Jun Elizabeth Watts/ 82 Roderick Williams/ Roger Vignoles Sat 30 Jun Sophie Bevan/ 83 Ryan Wigglesworth Mon 2 Jul Véronique Gens/ 84 Susan Manoff Tue 3 Jul David Hansen/ 84 Academia Montis Regalis/ Alessandro De Marchi Fri 6 Jul Sandrine Piau/Susan Manoff 85 Mon 9 Jul Dame Felicity Palmer/ 88 Simon Lepper Sun 15 Jul Robin Tritschler/ 91 Jonathan Ware Wed 18 Jul Maximilian Schmitt/ 92 Gerold Huber Sat 21 Jul Principality Only Boys 94 Aloud Academi 2017 Sun 22 Jul Pavol Breslik/Amir Katz 95 We are grateful to The Monument Trust for essential additional support for our expanded vocal series

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At a Glance

April – July 2018

See pages 10 – 97 for full details of these concerts and page 100 for booking information.

Jazz Series Svante Henryson/ Leandro Mancini-Olivos/ Henrik Måwe/ Baba Israel/ Samuel West

16

Fri 8 Jun

Onyx Brass

68

Sat 9 Jun

Django Bates Belovèd

Fri 6 Jul Fri 13 Jul

Sat 7 Apr

Wed 13 Jun Wigmore Study Group commences

72

Sat 16 Jun Heath Quartet

73

Thu 14 Jun Chamber Tots

72

Mon 25 Jun Elias String Quartet

78

Sat 16 Jun RNIB Family Day 73

Fri 29 Jun Lucy Schaufer/ 82 Huw Watkins

Sat 23 Jun Relaxed Concert: Diphonon Duo

77

68

Sat 30 Jun Sophie Bevan/ 83 Ryan Wigglesworth

Tue 26 Jun Jenny Q Chai: Lecture-Recital

79

David Orlowsky Trio

86

Wed 4 Jul Cuarteto Casals

85

89

Thu 5 Jul Tana String Quartet

85

Wed 27 Jun Schools Concert: Butterfly Brain

81

The Prince Consort/ Jason Rebello

Wigmore Lates Fri 25 May The Erlkings

Sandrine Piau/ 85 Susan Manoff

Fri 6 Jul

David Orlowsky Trio

86

Sun 8 Jul ATOS Trio

87

Wed 11 Jul Ensemble Variances/ Anssi Karttunen/ Thierry Pécou

88

Tue 17 Jul Sergei Babayan

92

Chineke! Orchestra

62

Fri 8 Jun

Onyx Brass

68

Fri 22 Jun Donald Grant 76 Fri 29 Jun Lucy Schaufer/ 82 Huw Watkins David Orlowsky Trio

Fri 6 Jul

58

Fri 1 Jun

Fri 6 Jul

Wed 13 Jun Jakub Józef Orliński/ 71 Michał Biel

86

Fri 13 Jul

The Prince Consort/ Jason Rebello

Fri 20 Jul

Heath Quartet/ 93 Ruth Gibson/ Marie Bitlloch

89

Fri 20 Jul Members of Britten Sinfonia 93 Fri 20 Jul Heath Quartet

Fri 6 Apr

Elias String Quartet

Sat 7 Apr

Svante Henryson/ 16 Leandro Mancini-Olivos/ Henrik Måwe/ Baba Israel/ Samuel West

13

Tue 10 Apr Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

22

Wed 11 Apr JACK Quartet

23

Fri 13 Apr Igor Levit

24

Pre-Concert Talk

19

Tue 10 Apr StringTing

22

Wed 11 Apr Pre-Concert Talk

23

Thu 12 Apr Pre-Concert Talk Fri 13 Apr

Sat 14 Apr Film Screening: 4

25

Sun 15 Apr Family Workshop

26

36

Thu 3 May Chamber Tots

40

Wed 9 May Side by Side

44

Sat 12 May Jörg Widmann/ 45 Sir András Schiff

Wed 16 May Artists in Conversation

50

Fri 25 May Inon Barnatan 56

Wed 23 May Lang Lang Young Scholars 55

Mon 28 May Trio Tre Voci

60

Sat 26 May Come and Sing

56

62

Wed 30 May Chamber Tots

60

Mon 4 Jun Cuarteto Casals

64

Thu 31 May RNIB Study Day

61

Wed 6 Jun The Prince Consort/ Laura Mucha

67

Tue 5 Jun Come and Sing

66

Tue 8 May Sacconi String Quartet

44

Fri 1 Jun

Fri 8 Jun

Chineke! Orchestra

Onyx Brass

Sun 10 Jun Jörg Widmann

68 69

For Crying Out Loud!

86

Sat 14 Jul

Artists in Conversation and Concert

90

Mon 16 Jul Music for the Moment

91

Wed 18 Jul Chamber Tots

92

23

Sat 28 Apr Family Concert: Aglaia Trio

42

Sat 7 Jul

String Quartet Masterclass 23

31

In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage

83

Thu 12 Apr String Quartet Masterclass 23

36

Sat 5 May

Sat 30 Jun Family Concert: Butterfly Brain

13

Tue 10 Apr Opening Talk: Castalian String Quartet

Thu 26 Apr For Crying Out Loud!

Wed 18 Apr Britten Sinfonia 30

82

Wigmore Hall Learning

Fri 20 Apr Music for the Moment

Mon 16 Apr Yefim Bronfman 27

81

Thu 28 Jun Introduction to the String Quartet commences

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by

Fri 6 Apr

Contemporary Music Series

93

Thu 28 Jun Chamber Tots

Sat 19 May Richard Goode Masterclass 52

Thu 7 Jun

Voiceworks

Tue 12 Jun Diphonon Duo

67 70

Front cover images Top Left Roderick Williams © Benjamin Ealovega Hugo Ticciati © Marco Borggreve Angela Hewitt © Bernd Eberle Top Right Llŷr Williams © Benjamin Ealovega Alina Ibragimova © Eva Vermandel Thomas Dunford © Gerard Collett Evelyn Glennie © Jim Callaghan Bottom Left Chi-Chi Nwanoku Mahan Esfahani © Bernhard Musil Jörg Widmann © Marco Borggreve Bottom Right Seong-Jin Cho © Harald Hoffmann Carolyn Sampson© Marco Borggreve Simon Keenlyside © Uwe Arens Sonia Prina

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Calendar April – July 2018 April Sun 1 Apr

11.30am Zemlinsky Quartet

Mon 2 Apr 1.00pm Laura van der Heijden/Petr Limonov 7.30pm Narek Hakhnazaryan/Oxana Shevchenko Tue 3 Apr

7.30pm Theatre of the Ayre/Elizabeth Kenny

Wed 4 Apr 1.00pm Llŷr Williams 7.30pm Bertrand Chamayou

10 10 10 11 12 13

Thu 5 Apr 7.30pm Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm/ 13

Sabine Devieilhe/Marianne Crebassa Fri 6 Apr 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 7.30pm Elias String Quartet/Richard Wigmore

13 13

Sat 7 Apr 1.00pm La Nuova Musica 7.00pm O/Modernt Soloists/Hugo Ticciati/ Christoph Sommer/Natacha Kudritskaya/ Luciana Mancini 10.00pm Svante Henryson/Leandro Mancini-Olivos/ Henrik Måwe/Baba Israel/Samuel West

16 16 16

Sun 8 Apr 11.30am Atrium Quartet 17 3.00pm O/Modernt Soloists/Priya Mitchell/ 17 Karl Nyhlin/Christoph Sommer/Cecilia Knudsen/ Nora Thiele/Luciana Mancini 6.00pm Study Event 17 7.30pm O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra/Hugo 18 Ticciati/Christoph Sommer/Henrik Måwe/ Luciana Mancini/The Cardinall’s Musick

Tue 24 Apr 7.30pm Matthias Goerne/Seong-Jin Cho

34

Wed 25 Apr 1.30pm Kathleen Ferrier Awards Semi-Final 7.30pm Vertavo String Quartet

35 35

Thu 26 Apr 11.00am For Crying Out Loud!

12.30pm For Crying Out Loud!

7.30pm Matthias Goerne/Alexander Schmalcz

36 36 36

Fri 27 Apr

6.00pm Kathleen Ferrier Awards Final

35

Sat 28 Apr 11.00am Family Concert: Aglaia Trio 7.30pm Nikolai Lugansky

36 37

Sun 29 Apr 11.30am Smetana Trio 4.00pm Leslie Howard

37 37

Mon 30 Apr 1.00pm Hille Perl/Lee Santana 7.30pm Pavel Kolesnikov

38 38

May Tue 1 May 7.30pm Sonia Prina/Vivica Genaux/ Concerto Copenhagen

39

Wed 2 May 7.30pm Simon Trpčeski

40

Thu 3 May 10.15am Chamber Tots 11.45am Chamber Tots 7.30pm Mauro Peter/Helmut Deutsch

40 40 41

Fri 4 May

7.30pm Lucy Crowe/Anna Tilbrook

40

Sat 5 May 10.30am In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage 42

12 noon In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage Study Event 42 2.00pm In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage 42 7.30pm Borodin Quartet 43

Mon 9 Apr 1.00pm Javier Perianes 7.30pm Isabelle Faust/Kristian Bezuidenhout

19 19

Tue 10 Apr 10.00am Opening Talk: Castalian String Quartet 11.00am International String Quartet Competition Preliminary Round commences 6.00pm StringTing 7.30pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

19 22

Wed 11 Apr 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 7.30pm JACK Quartet

23 23

Thu 12 Apr 10.00am String Quartet Masterclass 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 7.30pm Belcea Quartet

23 23 23

Fri 13 Apr 10.00am String Quartet Masterclass 7.30pm Igor Levit

23 24

Sat 14 Apr 2.00pm International String Quartet Competition Semi-Finals 5.00pm Film Screening: 4 7.30pm International String Quartet Competition Semi-Finals

25

Sun 15 Apr 11.30am Arcadia Quartet/Stefan Fehlandt/ Stephan Forck 2.00pm Family Workshop 6.00pm International String Quartet Competition Final and Prize-Giving

25

Tue 15 May 7.30pm Andreas Haefliger

49

26 26

Wed 16 May 1.00pm Lars Vogt 7.30pm Roderick Williams/Iain Burnside 8.45pm Artists in Conversation

50 50 50

Thu 17 May 1.00pm Sunwook Kim 7.30pm Thomas Dunford

51 51

Fri 18 May 1.00pm Alessio Bax 7.30pm Richard Goode

51 52

Sat 19 May 2.00pm Richard Goode Masterclass 7.30pm Takács Quartet/Louise Williams/Pál Banda

52 53

Sun 20 May 11.30am Peter Hill 7.30pm Tetzlaff Quartet

52 54

Mon 21 May 1.00pm Sara Mingardo/Francesca Biliotti/ Giorgio dal Monte/Giovanni Bellini 7.30pm Takács Quartet/Louise Williams/Pál Banda

54

Tue 22 May 7.30pm La Nuova Musica/Tim Mead

55

Wed 23 May 1.00pm Lang Lang Young Scholars 7.30pm Karen Cargill/Simon Lepper

55 55

Mon 16 Apr 1.00pm Christoph Prégardien/Julius Drake 7.30pm Yefim Bronfman Tue 17 Apr

7.30pm Castalian String Quartet

22 22

25 25

26 27 29

Wed 18 Apr 12.15pm Pre-Concert Talk 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia 7.30pm Yevgeny Sudbin

30 30 30

Thu 19 Apr 7.30pm The English Concert

31

Fri 20 Apr 3.00pm Music for the Moment 7.30pm Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien

31 32

Sat 21 Apr

7.30pm Venera Gimadieva/Pavel Nebolsin

31

Sun 22 Apr 11.30am Modigliani Quartet 7.30pm Leonore Piano Trio

33 33

Mon 23 Apr 1.00pm Sophie Gent/Matthew Truscott/ Jonathan Manson/Trevor Pinnock 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien

33 35

Sun 6 May 11.30am Borodin Quartet 43 7.30pm Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists/ 43 Rachel Podger Mon 7 May

1.00pm Sabine Devieilhe/Anne Le Bozec

44

Tue 8 May

7.30pm Sacconi String Quartet

44

Wed 9 May 1.00pm Side by Side 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani Thu 10 May 7.30pm Pavel Haas Quartet Fri 11 May

7.30pm Andrè Schuen/Gerold Huber

44 45 45 46

Sat 12 May 7.30pm Jörg Widmann/Sir András Schiff

45

Sun 13 May 11.30am Kopelman Quartet/Blythe Teh Engstroem 3.00pm Morgan Pearse/Simon Lepper 7.30pm The Endellion String Quartet

47 47 47

Mon 14 May 1.00pm Schumann Quartet 49 7.30pm Phantasm 49

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Thu 24 May 3.00pm YCAT Finals 2018

56

7.30pm Quatuor Ebène/Martin Fröst

79

Fri 25 May 7.00pm Inon Barnatan 10.00pm The Erlkings

56 58

Tue 26 Jun 4.00pm Jenny Q Chai: Lecture-Recital 7.30pm Imogen Cooper

79 79

Sat 26 May 10.00am Come and Sing 7.30pm Doric String Quartet/Sir Thomas Allen

56 57

Sun 27 May 11.30am István Várdai/Vikingur Olafsson 7.30pm Simon Keenlyside/Malcolm Martineau

57 57

Wed 27 Jun 11.00am Schools Concert: Butterfly Brain 1.00pm Schools Concert: Butterfly Brain 7.30pm Ming Xie

81 81 81

Mon 28 May 1.00pm Danish String Quartet 7.30pm Trio Tre Voci

60 60

Wed 30 May 10.15am Chamber Tots 11.45am Chamber Tots 7.30pm Quatuor Mosaïques

60 60 61

Thu 28 Jun 10.15am Chamber Tots 11.45am Chamber Tots 4.45pm Introduction to the String Quartet commences 7.30pm Elizabeth Watts/Roderick Williams/ Roger Vignoles

81 81 82 82

Fri 29 Jun 10.00pm Lucy Schaufer/Huw Watkins

82

Thu 31 May 10.00am RNIB Study Day 7.30pm Quatuor Mosaïques

61 61

Sat 30 Jun 11.00am Family Concert: Butterfly Brain 7.30pm Sophie Bevan/Ryan Wigglesworth

83 83

July

June

Sun 1 Jul 11.30am Veronika Eberle/Alban Gerhardt/ Edicson Ruiz/José Gallardo

83

63

Mon 2 Jul 1.00pm Adam Walker/Cédric Tiberghien 7.30pm Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff

84 84

Sun 3 Jun 11.30am Kuss Quartet 7.30pm Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/ Anna Prohaska

63 65

Tue 3 Jul 7.30pm David Hansen/Academia Montis Regalis/ Alessandro De Marchi

84

Wed 4 Jul

7.30pm Cuarteto Casals

85

Mon 4 Jun 1.00pm Toby Spence/Christopher Glynn 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals

65 64

Thu 5 Jul

7.30pm Tana String Quartet

85

Tue 5 Jun 10.30am Come and Sing 7.30pm Stéphane Degout/Simon Lepper

66 67

Fri 1 Jun 7.00pm Birgid Steinberger/Julius Drake 10.00pm Chineke! Orchestra

63 62

Sat 2 Jun 7.30pm Carolyn Sampson/Iestyn Davies/ Joseph Middleton

Wed 6 Jun

7.30pm The Prince Consort/Laura Mucha

Thu 7 Jun 1.00pm Voiceworks 7.30pm Finghin Collins Fri 8 Jun Sat 9 Jun

10.00pm Onyx Brass 7.30pm Django Bates Belovèd

67 67 68 68 68

Sun 10 Jun 11.30am Christian Ihle Hadland 7.30pm Tetzlaff Quartet/Jörg Widmann

69 69

Mon 11 Jun 1.00pm Trio Wanderer/Christophe Gaugué 7.30pm Collegium Vocale Gent

69 70

Tue 12 Jun 5.30pm Diphonon Duo 7.30pm Belcea Quartet/Antoine Tamestit

70 70

Wed 13 Jun 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group commences 7.30pm Jakub Józef Orliński/Michał Biel

72 71

Thu 14 Jun 12.30pm Chamber Tots 2.00pm Chamber Tots

72 72

Fri 15 Jun 6.00pm Razumovsky Ensemble Young Artists Recital 72 7.30pm Razumovsky Ensemble 73 Sat 16 Jun 11.00am RNIB Family Day 7.30pm Heath Quartet/Mary Bevan

73 73

Sun 17 Jun 11.30am Apollon Musagète Quartet 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake

74 74

Mon 18 Jun 1.00pm Christine Rice/Julius Drake 7.30pm Peter Donohoe

74 75

Fri 6 Jul 7.00pm Sandrine Piau/Susan Manoff 10.00pm David Orlowsky Trio

85 86

Sat 7 Jul 11.00am For Crying Out Loud!

12.30pm For Crying Out Loud!

7.30pm Steven Osborne

86 86 86

Sun 8 Jul 11.30am Formosa Quartet/Richard Lester 7.30pm ATOS Trio

87 87

Mon 9 Jul 1.00pm Chloë Hanslip/Danny Driver 7.30pm Dame Felicity Palmer/Simon Lepper

87 88

Tue 10 Jul 7.30pm Veronika Eberle/Tatjana Masurenko/ Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/Martin Helmchen

88

Wed 11 Jul 7.30pm Ensemble Variances/Anssi Karttunen/ Thierry Pécou

88

7.30pm Carducci String Quartet

89

Thu 12 Jul Fri 13 Jul

Sat 14 Jul

7.00pm Bennewitz Quartet 10.00pm The Prince Consort/Jason Rebello 7.30pm Evelyn Glennie/Philip Smith/Huw Edwards

Sun 15 Jul 11.30am Sitkovetsky Trio 7.30pm Robin Tritschler/Jonathan Ware Mon 16 Jul 3.00pm Music for the Moment Tue 17 Jul

7.30pm Sergei Babayan

Wed 18 Jul 10.15am Chamber Tots 11.45am Chamber Tots 7.30pm Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Huber Thu 19 Jul

7.30pm Gabriela Montero

89 89 90 91 91 91 92 92 92 92 93

75

Fri 20 Jul 7.00pm Members of Britten Sinfonia 93 10.00pm Heath Quartet/Ruth Gibson/Marie Bitlloch 93

Wed 20 Jun 7.30pm Edgar Moreau/David Kadouch

75

Sat 21 Jul

1.00pm Principality Only Boys Aloud Academi 2017 94

Thu 21 Jun 7.30pm Dunedin Consort

76

Sat 21 Jul

7.30pm Igor Levit

95

Fri 22 Jun 7.00pm Elias String Quartet 10.00pm Donald Grant

76 76

Sun 22 Jul 11.30am Zorá String Quartet 7.30pm Pavol Breslik/Amir Katz

95 95

Sat 23 Jun 11.00am Relaxed Concert: Diphonon Duo 7.30pm The Sixteen

77 77

Mon 23 Jul 7.30pm Alban Gerhardt/Vikingur Olafsson

96

Sun 24 Jun 11.30am Amaryllis Quartet 3.00pm Samuel Hasselhorn/Renate Rohlfing 7.30pm Quatuor Ebène

77 78 78

Wed 25 Jul 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet

Mon 25 Jun 1.00pm Elias String Quartet/Navarra String Quartet

78

Tue 19 Jun

7.30pm Mahan Esfahani

Tue 24 Jul Thu 26 Jul

7.30pm Julia Fischer/Aris Alexander Blettenberg 7.30pm Angela Hewitt

96 96 97

10 • APRIL

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Sunday 1 April 11.30am

Monday 2 April 1.00pm

Monday 2 April 7.30pm

Zemlinsky Quartet

Laura van der Heijden

Narek Hakhnazaryan cello Oxana Shevchenko piano

Mozart String Quartet in E flat K428 Dvořák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106 The Prague-based Zemlinsky Quartet, famed for the rich, Romantic warmth of its playing, takes to the Wigmore stage for a programme crowned by the tender-hearted lyricism of Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 13. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

cello

Petr Limonov piano Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Laura van der Heijden scored a sensational hit as winner of BBC Young Musician 2012. Her first Wigmore Hall lunchtime recital, given in company with regular duo partner Petr Limonov, presents two intensely haunting modern masterworks for cello. £15 concs £13

Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat Op. 70 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Tsintsadze Five pieces on Folk Themes Massenet Méditation from Thaïs Albéniz Asturias from Suite española Shchedrin In the style of Albéniz Cassadó Requiebros Risk and spontaneity make Narek Hakhnazaryan’s musicmaking utterly compelling. The former BBC New Generation Artist, described as ‘dazzlingly brilliant’ by The Strad, moves from the Romantic soundscapes of Schumann and Brahms to miniatures hallmarked by their impassioned melodies. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Zemlinksy Quartet © Ilona Sochorová

Laura van der Heijden © Sam Trench

Narek Haknazaryan © Marco Borggreve

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Tuesday 3 April 7.30pm

Theatre of the Ayre Elizabeth Kenny director, lute Rodolfo Richter violin Jane Gordon violin Robert Howarth harpsichord Joanne Lunn soprano Anna Starushkevych mezzo-soprano Nicholas Mulroy tenor Nick Pritchard tenor Giles Underwood bass-baritone Inventing Bel Canto Monteverdi Chiome d’oro from Settimo libro de madrigali Merula Ciaconna Caccini O che felice giorno; Amarilli mia bella Fontana Trio Sonata No. 8 in D minor D’India Cruda Amarilli; Ancidetemi pur (Lamento di Giasone) Uccellini Sonata decima detta La Rinalda Monteverdi Chi vole aver felice e lieto il core Vivaldi Trio Sonata in D minor Op. 1 No. 12 ‘La Follia’ D’India La mia Filli crudel; Voi bacciatrici; Langue al vostro languir Caccini Lasciatemi qui solo Uccellini Sonata ottava detta La Torella D’India Se tu, Silvio crudel Monteverdi and his followers unleashed a musical revolution, ditching old rules to create compositions filled with spine-tingling expression and powerful human emotions.

Elizabeth Kenny’s Theatre of the Ayre performs works that sound as fresh today as when they were written. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Elizabeth Kenny © Benjamin Ealovega

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Wednesday 4 April 1.00pm

Llŷr Williams piano Beethoven Album Launch Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; 7 Bagatelles Op. 33; Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’ Following his recent Beethoven sonata cycle at Wigmore Hall, Llŷr Williams launches his Beethoven CD with a concert offering a vivid snapshot of the composer’s relentless creative energy through more than two decades to reveal the power of art made in a revolutionary age.

Approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval £15 concs £13

Llŷr Williams © Benjamin Ealovega

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Wednesday 4 April 7.30pm

Thursday 5 April 7.30pm

Friday 6 April 6.00pm and 7.30pm

Bertrand Chamayou piano

Le Concert d’Astrée Emmanuelle Haïm director,

Pre-Concert Talk 6.00pm

Chopin/Liszt Six Polish Songs Op. 74 S480 Schumann/Liszt Frühlingsnacht S568; Widmung S566 Wagner/Liszt Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Gral from Parsifal; Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde Liszt Etudes d’exécution transcendante S139 Bertrand Chamayou’s artistry flows naturally from his feeling for subtle yet striking contrasts of sound and emotions. He explores the art of piano transcription in his recital’s first half before plunging into the boiling waters of Liszt’s virtuosic Transcendental Études. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

harpsichord, organ

Sabine Devieilhe soprano Marianne Crebassa

mezzo-soprano

Members of the Elias String Quartet discuss their evening programme with writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore. £5

Italian Cantatas Handel Dietro l’orme fuggaci (Armida abbandonata) HWV105; Trio Sonata in B minor HWV386b; O numi eterni (La Lucrezia) HWV145; Arresta il passo (Aminta e Fillide) HWV83 Handel, like many young musicians, refined his craft in Italy.

Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée bring the composer’s Italian years to life with three dramatic cantatas, including the tale of abandoned sorceress Armida, and one of his finest trio sonatas. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Elias String Quartet 7.30pm Richard Wigmore reader After Beethoven: Turning inward György Kurtág 6 Moments Musicaux Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 Janáček String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ The Elias String Quartet contrasts works as diverse as Schumann’s sublime String Quartet in A and Kurtág’s Janáček-inspired Moments Musicaux. Richard Wigmore joins the ensemble to read extracts from Janáček’s letters to complement the performance of his String Quartet No. 2. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Bertrand Chamayou © Marco Borggreve

Emmanuelle Haïm © Marianne Rosenstiehl

Elias String Quartet © Benjamin Ealovega

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Purcell from the Ground Up The past is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists working in every creative field. O/Modernt (Swedish for ‘Un/Modern’) is the concept devised by violinist Hugo Ticciati that celebrates this ‘looking back’, using inventive programming to explore vital connections between old and new. Henry Purcell and his inimitable ground basses are the creative spark for this weekend’s imaginative programmes.

Saturday 7 April 1.00pm

Saturday 7 April 10.00pm

Sunday 8 April 6.00pm

La Nuova Musica

Svante Henryson

Study Event

Henrik Måwe piano,

Out of Silence: The Recovery of Ancient Babylonian Music

David Bates director Rachel Kelly Dido George Humphreys Aeneas Anna Dennis Belinda Emilie Renard Sorceress Helen Charlston First Witch Martha McLorinan Second Witch Louise Kemény Second Woman Nick Pritchard Sailor Richard Bannan Spirit Purcell Dido and Aeneas

electric guitar, composer

composer

Leandro Mancini-Olivos percussion

Baba Israel rapper Samuel West narrator William Rapped, Henry Sampled See page 16

See page 16

Sunday 8 April 3.00pm

Saturday 7 April 7.00pm

O/Modernt Soloists

Hugo Ticciati director, violin Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano Natacha Kudritskaya piano Christoph Sommer theorbo

Priya Mitchell violin Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano Karl Nyhlin theorbo Christoph Sommer theorbo Cecilia Knudsen viola da gamba Nora Thiele percussion

Lament and Consolation: Fourths Down and Up

Transforming Spanish Sexuality: The Chaconne

See page 16

See page 17

O/Modernt Soloists

Out of the Ground: Overtones See page 17 Sunday 8 April 7.30pm

O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra Hugo Ticciati director, violin Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano Christoph Sommer theorbo Henrik Måwe piano The Cardinall’s Musick Fairest Isle See page 18

‘ The past must be invented The future must be revised’ Hugo Ticciati © Marco Borggreve

John Cage

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Purcell from the Ground Up

Purcell from the Ground Up

Purcell from the Ground Up

Saturday 7 April 1.00pm

Saturday 7 April 7.00pm NB starting time

Saturday 7 April 10.00pm

La Nuova Musica

O/Modernt Soloists

David Bates director Rachel Kelly Dido George Humphreys Aeneas Anna Dennis Belinda Emilie Renard Sorceress Helen Charlston First Witch Martha McLorinan Second Witch Louise Kemény Second Woman Nick Pritchard Sailor Richard Bannan Spirit

Hugo Ticciati director, violin Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano Natacha Kudritskaya piano Christoph Sommer theorbo

guitar, composer

Lament and Consolation: Fourths Down and Up

percussion

Purcell Dido and Aeneas ‘Genius’ may be an overworked term but it surely applies to Purcell and Dido and Aeneas. David Bates and La Nuova Musica offer a lunchtime date with the opera’s full passions and high emotions, its earthy humour and profound tragedy. £30 £26 £22 £18 £15

Purcell When I am Laid in Earth from Dido and Aeneas Rameau L’Enharmonique from Pièces de clavecin Purcell The Staircase Overture Z614 Monteverdi Lamento d’Arianna from Arianna Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Strauss Metamorphosen for string septet For the past four hundred years the descending bass line constructed from a perfect fourth has provided the harmonic structure for the ‘lament’.

Exploring this particular musical interval, we question whether consolation can be found in the rising fourths of Berg’s Op. 1 and Strauss’s Metamorphosen.

Svante Henryson electric Henrik Måwe piano,

composer

Leandro Mancini-Olivos Baba Israel rapper Samuel West narrator

William Rapped, Henry Sampled Recompositions by Henrik Måwe and Svante Henryson: Purcell If Music be the food of love Z379c Songs by Purcell Shakespeare and Purcell saw the London stage as a place for experiment, where cutting-edge music and drama brought theatre to life. Shakespeare’s Sonnets provide the inspiration for New York City-raised rapper Baba Israel, while Purcell’s ground basses supply the harmonic groove for O/Modernt’s late-night set. £15 concs £13

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Rachel Kelly © Gerard Collett

Hugo Ticciati © Marco Borggreve

Svante Henryson © Mats Bäcker

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APRIL • 17 Purcell from the Ground Up

Purcell from the Ground Up

Sunday 8 April 11.30am

Sunday 8 April 3.00pm

Sunday 8 April 6.00pm

Atrium Quartet

O/Modernt Soloists

Study Event

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49 Arensky String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 35

Priya Mitchell violin Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano Karl Nyhlin theorbo Christoph Sommer theorbo Cecilia Knudsen viola da gamba Nora Thiele percussion

Hugo Ticciati, violinist and artistic director of O/Modernt, hosts this study event followed by questions from the audience.

Tender and passionate emotions pulse through Arensky’s second string quartet, which was written in memory of Tchaikovsky. The Russian-born, Berlin-based Atrium Quartet opens this coffee concert with the optimism of Shostakovich’s first string quartet from 1938. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice 2018 Wigmore Hall International

String Quartet Competition

Transforming Spanish Sexuality: The Chaconne Programme to include: Original Spanish chaconnes Purcell Chacony in G minor Z730; Chaconne in C from The Fairy Queen; Chaconne from King Arthur Bach Chaconne in D minor BWV1004 O/Modernt recognises that magical transformations can occur when familiar things are approached from fresh angles. This enchanting programme traces the roots of well-known chaconnes by Purcell and Bach to their likely origins in the sultry, seductive sounds of the Spanish chaconne.

Out of Silence: The Recovery of Ancient Babylonian Music Dr Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, discusses Ancient Babylonian music.

Out of the Ground: Overtones An introduction to Overtone Singing by the South African viola player and overtone singer Gareth Lubbe.

Free (ticket required)

£15 concs £13 Approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval Atrium Quartet © Maria Budtova

Priya Mitchell © Balazs Borocz

Dr Irving Finkel

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Purcell from the Ground Up Sunday 8 April 7.30pm

O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra Hugo Ticciati director, violin Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano Christoph Sommer theorbo Henrik Måwe piano The Cardinall’s Musick Fairest Isle Purcell Overture in G minor Z772; Sweeter than Roses Britten I know a bank Elgar Serenade in E minor Op. 20 ‘Serenade for Strings’ Tavener Mother of God, Here I Stand Gibbons Drop, Drop, Slow Tears Purcell Hear my prayer, O Lord Improvisation on Purcell A New Ground ZT682 Bridge Autumn; Music when soft voices die; The Bee Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge In the fifteenth century the richly harmonised polyphony that emerged from English composers quickly spread far and wide throughout Europe. The Cardinall’s Musick joins O/Modernt to explore the sense of place rooted in works

by Purcell, Gibbons, Elgar and Britten, as we celebrate the music of the ‘Fairest Isle’. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Hugo Ticciati © Marco Borggreve

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APRIL • 19 Isabelle Faust Season-Long Celebration

Monday 9 April 1.00pm

Monday 9 April 7.30pm

Tuesday 10 April 10.00am

Javier Perianes piano

Isabelle Faust violin Kristian Bezuidenhout

Opening Talk

Chopin Prelude in C Op. 28 No. 1 Debussy Danseuses de Delphes Chopin Berceuse in D flat Op. 57 Debussy Clair de lune; Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 Debussy La sérénade interrompue; La puerta del vino Falla Fantasia baetica Delicate impressions and fleeting dances flow through Javier Perianes’s programme.

The Spanish artist, hailed by the Telegraph as ‘a pianist of impeccable and refined tastes’, traces the subtle connections between Chopin and Debussy before closing with Falla’s flamboyant Fantasia baetica. £15 concs £13

harpsichord

Bach Violin Sonata No. 4 in C minor BWV1017 Froberger Suite No. 12 in C for harpsichord Bach Violin Sonata No. 5 in F minor BWV1018 Biber Violin Sonata No. 5 in E minor C142; Passacaglia in G minor from Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas Bach Violin Sonata No. 2 in A BWV1015

At Royal Academy of Music The Castalian String Quartet discusses The Four Quarters by Thomas Adès, the set work for all quartets in the Competition.

Free (no ticket required) 2018 Wigmore Hall International

String Quartet Competition

Wigmore Hall’s celebration of Isabelle Faust’s artistry continues with a programme of virtuoso works by Bach, Biber and Froberger. She and Kristian Bezuidenhout explore captivating scores by composer-performers who probed the technical and expressive limits of string and keyboard instruments. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2017/18 Wigmore Series

Javier Perianes © Daniel García Bruno

Isabelle Faust © Felix Broede

Castalian String Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas

20 • APRIL

The 2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition is the fourteenth edition of this prestigious Competition, and a celebration of the art of the string quartet.

Tuesday 10 April – Friday 13 April

Saturday 14 April 2.00pm & 7.30pm

Sunday 15 April 6.00pm

PRELIMINARY ROUND

SEMI-FINALS

FINAL AND PRIZE-GIVING

At the Royal Academy of Music

After performing two different recital programmes during the Preliminary Round, at least six quartets that have been selected by the International Jury will each perform their choice of one of Beethoven’s quartets. At the end of the evening, the Jury will select at least three quartets for the Final.

The selected finalists will each play their chosen work from the Romantic repertoire, which could include works by Brahms, Debussy, Dvořák, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Schumann, Schubert and Smetana. The concert will be followed by the Awards Ceremony at about 9.00pm.

Each of the twelve selected ensembles presents two contrasting recital programmes, including cornerstones of the repertoire.

The first recital consists of Haydn alongside The Four Quarters by Thomas Adès, and the second recital includes a late Mozart work paired with any major quartet written between 1918 and 1999.

For a full schedule of events, please check the Wigmore Hall website.

Free (no ticket required)

Each session: £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Book for both semi-final sessions and receive a 20% discount

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

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2018 Wigmore Hall International

String Quartet Competition

Related Learning Events Tuesday 10 April 10.00am Opening Talk: Castalian String Quartet At Royal Academy of Music

Related Concerts Thursday 12 and Friday 13 April 10.00am and 2.30pm Masterclasses

StringTing At Royal Academy of Music See page 20 Wednesday 11 April 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk: Julian Anderson See page 23

Atrium Quartet See page 17

See page 23

See page 19 Tuesday 10 April 6.00pm – 7.00pm

Sunday 8 April 11.30am

Thursday 12 April 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk: Evolution of the String Quartet See page 23 Saturday 14 April 5.00pm Film Screening: 4

Wednesday 11 April 7.30pm JACK Quartet See page 23 Thursday 12 April 7.30pm Belcea Quartet See page 23

See page 23

Sunday 15 April 11.30am

Sunday 15 April 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Arcadia Quartet Stefan Fehlandt viola Stephan Forck cello

Family Workshop See page 26

See page 25

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Tuesday 10 April – Friday 13 April

2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition PRELIMINARY ROUND At the Royal Academy of Music Each of the twelve selected ensembles presents two contrasting recital programmes, including cornerstones of the repertoire. The first recital consists of Haydn alongside The Four Quarters by Thomas Adès, and the second recital includes a late Mozart work paired with any major quartet written between 1918 and 1999.

For a full schedule of events, please check the Wigmore Hall website

Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Tuesday 10 April 6.00pm – 7.00pm

Tuesday 10 April 7.30pm

StringTing

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

At Royal Academy of Music StringTing is a flagship ensemble from Tomorrow’s Warriors, the celebrated hothouse for young jazz talent in the UK. Blazing a wide trail for women and strings in jazz, StringTing’s musicians are core players in Tomorrow’s Warriors’ acclaimed Nu Civilisation Orchestra and are ones to watch as they begin to make an indelible mark on the London jazz scene.

Approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval All seats £10 In partnership with Tomorrow’s Warriors 2018 Wigmore Hall International

Free (no ticket required)

String Quartet

2018 Wigmore Hall International

Competition

String Quartet Competition

Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Paul Huang violin Richard O’Neill viola Paul Watkins cello Gilles Vonsattel piano Schubert String Trio in B flat D581 Huw Watkins Piano Quintet* (world première) Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 *Co-commissioned by Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Schubert’s songful String Trio in B flat and Brahms’s majestic Piano Quintet in F minor frame the world première of a thrilling new Piano Quintet by Huw Watkins, a regular presence at Wigmore Hall both as pianist and composer.

All seats £15 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall

© Benjamin Ealovega

StringTing

Huw Watkins © Benjamin Ealovega

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Wednesday 11 April 6.00pm and 7.30pm

Thursday 12 and Friday 13 April 10.00am and 2.30pm

Thursday 12 April 6.00pm and 7.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk 6.00pm

Masterclasses

Pre-Concert Talk 6.00pm

Julian Anderson discusses the creation of his new string quartet, to be premièred in the evening concert. £5

JACK Quartet 7.30pm Amy Williams Richter Textures Marcos Balter Chambers Julian Anderson String Quartet No. 3* (world première) Brian Ferneyhough Dum Transisset *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Miguel da Silva (ex-Ysaÿe Quartet) and Christoph Richter (Faculty Member, European Chamber Music Academy) work with quartets from UK conservatoires.

Each session is approximately 3 hours 15 minutes in duration, including an interval Free (no ticket required) 2018 Wigmore Hall International

String Quartet Competition

Evolution of the String Quartet Explore the evolution of the genre’s form, its instruments and repertoire. £5

Belcea Quartet 7.30pm Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’ Dvořák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ Echoes of folksong sound in Ligeti’s ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’, an early masterwork written before he left Hungary in 1956. The Belcea Quartet explores the composer’s life-enhancing score in company with Dvořák’s ‘American’ Quartet, a work of radiant warmth and lyrical charm.

Musical adventures belong to the JACK Quartet’s artistic lifeblood.

The Boston Globe hailed the ensemble as ‘superheroes of the new music world’, a title reinforced with Ferneyhough’s gritty Dum Transisset and the world première of Anderson’s Third String Quartet.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

All seats £15

2018 Wigmore Hall International

2018 Wigmore Hall International

String Quartet

String Quartet

Competition

Competition

JACK Quartet © Shervin Lainez

© Benjamin Ealovega

Belcea Quartet © Marco Borggreve

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Friday 13 April 7.30pm

Igor Levit piano Frederic Rzewski 80th Birthday Concert Frederic Rzewski New work* Mendelssohn Songs without Words (selection): in E Op. 19 No. 1; in A Op. 19 No. 3 ‘The Hunt’; in F sharp minor Op. 19 No. 5; in B minor Op. 30 No. 4; in E Op. 30 No. 3; in E flat Op. 38 No. 3; in A flat Op. 38 No. 6 ‘Duo’ Mahler Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (Ronald Stevenson transcription) *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the generous support of Annette Scawen Morreau During his student days Igor Levit, captivated by Frederic Rzewski’s music, asked the composer to write a new piece – which he did. Their deep artistic friendship continues with the première of a special Wigmore Hall commission to celebrate Rzewski’s 80th birthday. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Forthcoming Concert Saturday 21 July 7.30pm

Igor Levit © Robbie Lawrence

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Saturday 14 April 2.00pm & 7.30pm

Saturday 14 April 5.00pm

Sunday 15 April 11.30am

2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition

Film Screening: 4

Arcadia Quartet Stefan Fehlandt viola Stephan Forck cello

SEMI-FINALS After performing two different recital programmes during the Preliminary Round, at least six quartets that have been selected by the International Jury will each perform their choice of one of Beethoven’s quartets. At the end of the evening, the Jury will select at least three quartets for the Final.

Each session: £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Book for both semi-final sessions and receive a 20% discount 2018 Wigmore Hall International

String Quartet

4, an award-winning independent documentary on Quatuor Ebène, takes viewers on the string quartet’s tour through Italy, Austria and Germany, gradually drawing them into the ambivalent interactions that have come to characterise the connections between the musicians. This piece delves into relationships, and the antagonism between ambition and reality. 4 is directed and produced

by Daniel Kutschinski.

Approximately 1 hour 35 minutes in duration, without an interval Free (separate ticket required) 2018 Wigmore Hall International

String Quartet Competition

Competition

Brahms String Sextet in B flat Op. 18 Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Romania’s Arcadia Quartet has drawn worldwide critical acclaim since winning the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition, inspiring critics and audiences with penetrating, edge-of-the-seat performances. The ensemble is joined by two members of the Vogler Quartet, in Brahms’s sonorous First String Sextet. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice 2018 Wigmore Hall International

String Quartet Competition

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Quatuor Ebène © Julien Mignot

Arcadia Quartet

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Sunday 15 April 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Sunday 15 April 6.00pm

Monday 16 April 1.00pm

Family Workshop

2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition

Christoph Prégardien

Join us for an afternoon of music making and exploration of the string quartet in this interactive workshop for all the family.

Children £8 Adults £10 2018 Wigmore Hall International

String Quartet Competition

FINAL AND PRIZE-GIVING The selected finalists will each play their chosen work from the Romantic repertoire, which could include works by Brahms, Debussy, Dvořák, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Schumann, Schubert and Smetana. The concert will be followed by the Awards Ceremony at about 9.00pm. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 2018 Wigmore Hall International

String Quartet

tenor

Julius Drake piano Loewe Der Nöck; Erlkönig Schumann Belsazar Liszt Die Loreley S273 Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Musical intelligence and a poetic feeling for words belong to Christoph Prégardien’s artistic attributes. The lyric tenor joins regular duo partner Julius Drake to explore mystical ballads and the rapturous romanticism of Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39.

All seats £15

Competition

Family Workshop © Benjamin Ealovega

© Benjamin Ealovega

Christoph Prégardien © Marco Borggreve

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Jörg Widmann as Composer-Performer Creative evolution lies at the heart of Jörg Widmann’s work.

The German artist draws key lessons from history to produce compelling new insights as composer and performer.

Jörg Widmann’s residency is made possible thanks to Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation, with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund Monday 16 April 7.30pm

Yefim Bronfman piano Schumann Arabeske in C Op. 18; Humoreske in B flat Op. 20 Jörg Widmann Eleven Humoresques Prokoviev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat Op. 83 Immortalised as ‘a force of nature’ by Philip Roth in The Human Stain, Yefim Bronfman stands among today’s keyboard greats. Romantic fantasies and wild jokes erupt throughout Jörg Widmann’s Schumann-inspired Eleven Humoresques, which were written for Bronfman. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 12 May 7.30pm Jörg Widmann clarinet Sir András Schiff piano Sunday 10 June 7.30pm Tetzlaff Quartet Jörg Widmann clarinet Saturday 16 June 7.30pm Heath Quartet Mary Bevan soprano Friday 20 July 10.00pm Heath Quartet Ruth Gibson viola Marie Bitlloch cello

Jörg Widmann © Marco Borggreve

28 • APRIL

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Haydn String Quartet Series This season’s Haydn String Quartet Series at Wigmore Hall, performed by leading groups from around the globe, continues with a programme saturated with musical eloquence, expressive contrasts and dazzling invention.

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Tuesday 17 April 7.30pm

Castalian String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1; String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 ‘Fifths’; String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Emperor’ The exciting young Castalian String Quartet, prize winners at the 2016 Banff International String Quartet Competition, presents the first in a pair of concerts devoted to Haydn’s Opus 76, extraordinarily diverse works by a composer at the height of his powers. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Castalian String Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas

Supported by an anonymous donor Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Wednesday 25 April 7:30pm

Saturday 16 June 7:30pm

Vertavo String Quartet

Heath Quartet Mary Bevan soprano

Saturday 26 May 7:30pm

Friday 13 July 7:00pm

Doric String Quartet Sir Thomas Allen narrator

Bennewitz Quartet

Wednesday 30 May 7:30pm

Wednesday 25 July 7:30pm

Quatuor Mosaïques

Castalian String Quartet

Thursday 31 May 7:30pm Quatuor Mosaïques

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Wednesday 18 April 12.15pm

Wednesday 18 April 1.00pm

Wednesday 18 April 7.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Britten Sinfonia

Yevgeny Sudbin piano

Caroline Shaw discusses her new work with Dr Kate Kennedy

Thomas Gould violin Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Tom Poster piano

Haydn Piano Sonata in B minor HXVI:32 Beethoven Bagatelles Op. 126 Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 Skryabin Nocturne for the left hand Op. 9 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 5 Op. 53; Mazurka in E minor Op. 25 No. 3 Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre (arr. Sudbin)

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Caroline Shaw New work* (world première tour) Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 *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

Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw’s beautiful music, with its rich sound and irresistible energy, has entranced pop and classical audiences alike. Britten Sinfonia unveils the young American composer’s latest score in company with Brahms’s magnificent First Piano Quartet.

Yevgeny Sudbin’s pianism rests on interpretations that are never forced yet always deeply personal and charged with meaning. Known for his poetic way with Chopin and Skryabin, the Russian-born artist has also received critical acclaim for his exquisite readings of Haydn and Beethoven. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

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Caroline Shaw © Dashon Burton

Britten Sinfonia © Harry Rankin

Yevgeny Sudbin © Peter Rigaud

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Thursday 19 April 7.30pm

Friday 20 April 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Saturday 21 April 7.30pm

The English Concert Harry Bicket director,

Music for the Moment

Venera Gimadieva soprano Pavel Nebolsin piano

harpsichord

Nadja Zwiener violin

A European Grand Tour London: Arne Overture to The Judgement of Paris Versailles: Rameau Suite from Les fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour Venice: Tartini Violin Concerto in B minor, D125 ‘Lascia ch’io dica addio’ Dresden: Zelenka Simphonie a8 ZWV189 Three centuries ago Britain’s young aristocrats took the equivalent of today’s gap year, setting out on a Grand Tour of Europe. The English Concert travels to the great musical centres of London, Versailles, Dresden and Venice, essential destinations on the grand tourist trail.

A concert for people living with dementia and their friends, family and carers If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for this informal afternoon concert with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30pm.

Free (ticket required) In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts

Glière Wake up, child; Rusalka Rimsky-Korsakov The nymph; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Eastern Song: Enslaved by the rose, the nightingale Tchaikovsky Dumka: Russian rustic scene; Tell me, what in the shadow of branches; Lullaby; Serenade (O child, beneath thy window); Pimpinella Glière Will live Rachmaninov Sing not to me, beautiful maiden; Prelude in C sharp minor Op. 3 No. 2; The Dream; Daisies; They answered; In my garden at night; The Migrant Wind; The pied piper Skryabin Étude in D sharp minor Op. 8 No. 12 Prokofiev True Tenderness; Greetings; Chatterbox Skryabin Étude in C sharp minor Op. 42 No. 5 Banevich Song of Gerda Venera Gimadieva earned rave reviews following her 2016 debut at the Royal Opera House as Verdi’s Violetta. She makes her Wigmore Hall debut with an inspiring programme drawn from the Russian repertoire’s romantic heart.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 The English Concert © Richard Haughton

Music for the Moment © Benjamin Harte

Venera Gimadieva © Leonid Semenyuk

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Friday 20 April 7.30pm

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100; Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Brahms wrote his violin sonatas chiefly during summertime stays in alpine resorts. Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien reveal the warmth and lyricism, together with the stormy emotional outbursts and nostalgic yearning, of these late Romantic landmarks. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Ibragimova Tiberghien Duo © Sussie Ahlburg

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Sunday 22 April 11.30am

Sunday 22 April 7.30pm

Monday 23 April 1.00pm

Modigliani Quartet

Leonore Piano Trio

Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Saint-Saëns String Quartet No. 1 in E minor Op. 112

Haydn Piano Trio in E flat HXV:29 Parry Piano Trio No. 1 in E minor Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat D898

Sophie Gent violin Matthew Truscott violin Jonathan Manson bass

The Paris-based Modigliani Quartet, formed by four close friends in 2003, is known for the energy, passion and conviction of its interpretations. The group’s Coffee Concert programme includes Saint-Saëns’s First String Quartet, a work of haunting beauty and grace. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Audience ovations encouraged three members of Sheffield-based Ensemble 360 to form the Leonore Piano Trio in 2012, a decision endorsed since by international critical acclaim for their concerts and recordings. Two charities will benefit from proceeds from this concert. £25 £23 £20 £18 £15 The London Philharmonic Orchestra Benevolent Fund gives financial support to LPO musicians unable to work due to illness or injury.

Registered Charity Number 238045 London’s only Marie Curie hospice offers both residential and day-care for people living with any terminal illness and their families.

Registered Charity Number 207994

Modigliani Quartet © Sylvie Lancrenon

Leonore Piano Trio © Eric Richmond

viol, cello

Trevor Pinnock harpsichord

Hacquart Sonata No. 6 in D minor from Harmonia Parnassia Op. 2 Buxtehude Trio Sonata in G minor BuxWV261 Froberger Suite No. 12 in C for harpsichord Handel Trio Sonata in B flat HWV388 Trevor Pinnock and three internationally renowned periodinstrument performers, musical friends for many years, evoke the noble spirit of works from the late 1600s and early 1700s.

Their programme includes a rare outing for the rousing Sonata in D minor by Flemish composer Carolus Hacquart.

All seats £15

Sophie Gent © Marco Borggreve

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Tuesday 24 April 7.30pm

Matthias Goerne baritone Seong-Jin Cho piano Wolf Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo Pfitzner Sehnsucht; Ist der Himmel dann so blau im Lenz; Es glänzt so schön die sinkende Sonne; Wasserfahrt; Abendrot; Stimme der Sehnsucht; Nachts; An die Mark Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung; Morgen; Ruhe, meine Seele; Freundliche Vision; Im Abendrot from Four Last Songs Intuition and intellect fuel the irresistible force behind Matthias Goerne’s artistry. The German baritone, recently acclaimed for his performances as Berg’s Wozzeck at the Salzburg Festival, stands among today’s finest interpreters of song and a master of the art of musical and poetic expression. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Matthias Goerne © Marco Borggreve

Forthcoming Concert Thursday 26 April 7.30pm Matthias Goerne baritone Alexander Schmalcz piano

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Monday 23 April 7.30pm

Cédric Tiberghien piano Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 Schumann Arabeske in C Op. 18; Fantasie in C Op. 17 Hailed for his poetic artistry and rich imagination, Cédric Tiberghien is in demand worldwide as chamber musician and soloist. His latest Wigmore Hall recital charts the depth and variety of three great Romantic compositions, including Chopin’s enthralling Preludes Op. 28. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 With grateful thanks to the Piano Circle

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Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2018 The annual auditions for the 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.

Wednesday 25 April 1.30pm

Semi-Final All seats £15 Students £10 Friday 27 April 6.00pm

Final

Haydn String Quartet Series Wednesday 25 April 7.30pm

Vertavo String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in B flat Op. 71 No. 1; String Quartet in B flat Op. 55 No. 3; String Quartet in D minor Op. 103 (unfinished); String Quartet in F Op. 74 No. 2 Haydn wrote his six Opus 71 & 74 quartets with London concert audiences in mind. The Vertavo String Quartet unleashes the symphonic energy of two of them in company with Haydn’s unfinished ‘swansong’, the D minor quartet Op. 103, and the reflective Op. 55 No.3. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

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Cédric Tiberghien © Jean-Baptiste Millot

Vertavo String Quartet

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Thursday 26 April 11.00am and 12.30pm

Thursday 26 April 7.30pm

Saturday 28 April 11.00am – 12 noon

For Crying Out Loud!

Matthias Goerne baritone Alexander Schmalcz

Family Concert: Aglaia Trio

Holly Cook flute Helen Nicholas piano Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment.

Approximately 45 minutes in duration Adults £8.50 (babies come free) In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

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Schubert Einsamkeit (D620); Der Taucher (D111); Die Bürgschaft (D246) Harmonia Mundi recently released its Goerne-Schubert Edition, a dozen albums devoted to the German baritone’s revelatory performances of Schubert songs.

For his latest Wigmore Hall recital, he is joined by one of his partners from the series, Alexander Schmalcz, in three of Schubert’s most dramatic lieder, each like a mini opera. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

© Benjamin Ealovega

Matthias Goerne

For ages 5 plus Jessie Maryon Davies presenter Gudrún Ólafsdóttir mezzosoprano Elena Jáuregui violin Francisco Javier Jáuregui guitar Join the Aglaia Trio on a musical journey through Spain’s rich cultural, historical and natural landscape. In this interactive family concert, the trio performs some of Spain’s most beloved songs in a range of languages and styles, as presenter Jessie Maryon Davies invites you to sing, dance, create your own bird-song chorus and even have a go at some conducting.

Children £10 Adults £12

Family Concert © Benjamin Ealovega

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Saturday 28 April 7.30pm

Sunday 29 April 11.30am

Sunday 29 April 4.00pm

Nikolai Lugansky piano

Smetana Trio

Leslie Howard piano

Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15 Debussy Suite bergamasque Rachmaninov Preludes Op. 23: No. 1 in F sharp minor, No. 3 in D minor, No. 4 in D, No. 5 in G minor, No. 6 in E flat & No. 7 in C minor Rachmaninov Preludes Op. 32: No. 1 in C, No. 2 in B flat minor, No. 3 in E, No. 4 in E minor, No. 5 in G, No. 12 in G sharp minor & No. 13 in D flat

Dvořák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15

70th Birthday Concert

Nikolai Lugansky, whose most recent recital album was praised by the Guardian for its ‘insightful and mature’ interpretations, returns to Wigmore Hall to explore composers central to his repertoire with a programme spanning a vast emotional landscape.

The Smetana Trio, among the great institutions of Czech music, began life in 1934. The ensemble’s current formation, winner of a 2017 BBC Music Magazine Award for its recording of Martinů’s complete piano trios, performs two heart-melting masterworks of the Czech repertoire. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Liszt Sarabande und Chaconne über Themen aus dem Singspiel Almira von Händel S181; Aïda di Verdi Danza sacra e duetto finale S436; Fantasie über Themen aus Mozart’s Figaro und Don Giovanni; Réminiscences des Huguenots de Meyerbeer – Grande Fantaisie dramatique S412ii; Les adieux – Rêverie sur un motif de l’opéra Roméo et Juliette de Gounod S409; Réminiscences de Norma de Bellini – Grande Fantaisie S394 Leslie Howard made his Wigmore Hall debut forty-four seasons ago, soon after moving to London from his native Australia. The only person ever to have recorded Liszt’s complete solo piano works, he returns to celebrate his 70th birthday with ‘Liszt at the opera’. £30 £26 £22 £18 £15

Nikolai Lugansky © Marco Borggreve

Smetana Trio © Richard Sklar

Leslie Howard

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Monday 30 April 1.00pm

Monday 30 April 7.30pm

Hille Perl viola da gamba Lee Santana theorbo

Pavel Kolesnikov piano

Dreams and Dances of the Sun King L Couperin Prelude in D minor Sainte-Colombe Les Couplets Marais Suite from Troisième livre de pièces de viole Forqueray La Leclair Marais Le Badinage & Le Labyrinth from Quatrième livre des pièces de viole de Visée Prélude; Les Silvains de Couperin; Muzette Marais Les folies d’Espagne from Deuxième livre de pièces de viole Chamber music offered Louis XIV respite from his relentless pursuit of power. Hille Perl, among the early music world’s great communicators, connects with the composers who supplied the soundtrack to the Sun King’s court and to late 17th-century Paris.

Lachenmann Schattentanz from Ein Kinderspiel Debussy Children’s Corner: Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum; Jimbo’s Lullaby; Serenade for the Doll; The Snow is Dancing; The Little Shepherd; Golliwogg’s Cake-Walk Chopin Mazurka in C sharp minor Op. 30 No. 4; Étude in F minor Op. 25 No. 2 L Couperin Tombeau de Monsieur de Blancrocher Lachenmann Filter-Schaukel from Ein Kinderspiel Debussy Feux d’artifice from Préludes Book II Chopin Nocturne in F sharp minor Op. 48 No. 2 Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov commemorates the centenary of Debussy’s death by offering fresh perspectives on his Children’s Corner. ‘My homage to Debussy aims to explore his diversity and, like his music, includes something that will touch every listener’, he notes. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

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Hille Perl © Foppe Schut

Pavel Kolesnikov © Eva Vermandel

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Sonia Prina: A Celebration Tuesday 1 May 7.30pm

Sonia Prina contralto Vivica Genaux mezzo-soprano Concerto Copenhagen Lars Ulrik Mortensen director TITANS Porpora Sinfonia from Festa d’Imeneo; Quel cor che mi donasti Vinci Sento due fiamme in petto Porpora Vanne e vivi con la speranza Bononcini Sinfonia & Dell’offesa vendicarti from Griselda Handel Rompo i lacci e frango i dardi Bononcini La costanza, il timore, l’affetto Gasparini Se non temi il mio furore Giacomelli Mi par sentir la bella Porpora Quel vast, quel fiero Giacomelli Placide a miglior vita Ariosti Sinfonia from Vespasiano Hasse Mi lusinga il dolce affetto Sellitto Scenda dal cielo irato Bononcini Mai non potrei goder Celebrity castrati Farinelli and Senesino became bitter rivals while inspiring everyone from Handel to Hasse to write dazzling operatic arias for them. Sonia Prina and Vivica Genaux, stars of today’s opera stage, pay generous homage to these two vocal titans. £60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Sonia Prina © Ribalta Luce Studio

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Simon Trpčeski Series Wednesday 2 May 7.30pm

Thursday 3 May 10.15am and 11.45am

Friday 4 May 7.30pm

Simon Trpčeski piano

Chamber Tots

Grieg Holberg Suite Op. 40 Mendelssohn Songs without Words (selection): in E Op. 19 No. 1; in A Op. 19 No. 3 ‘The Hunt’; in F sharp minor ‘Venetianisches Gondellied’ Op. 30 No. 6; in C minor Op. 38 No. 2; in E flat Op. 53 No. 2; in G Op. 62 No. 1; in F sharp minor Op. 67 No. 2 Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade Op. 35

Under the Sea

Lucy Crowe soprano Anna Tilbrook piano

Vibrant harmonies and enchanting melodies are common to the works in Simon Trpčeski’s recital. The Macedonian pianist’s programme offers the chance to hear his stunning transcription of RimskyKorsakov’s tone-poem Sheherazade, a recent and utterly compelling addition to his broad repertoire.

10.15am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45am (3–5 year olds) Approximately 1 hour in duration

We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us as we dive deep under the sea! This interactive musicmaking workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging ensembles.

Children £6 Adults £4

Female Portraits Purcell Bess of Bedlam Schubert An Silvia; Gretchen am Spinnrade; Marie; Suleika I Mendelssohn Suleika Schumann Kennst du das Land?; Lied der Suleika Wolf Philine Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia; Cäcilie Hahn A Chloris Fauré Lydia; Sylvie; Nell Debussy Jane Duparc Phidyle Paladilhe Psyché Walton Daphne; Beatriz’s Song Britten Sweet Polly Oliver; Sally in our Alley Hoagy Carmichael Georgia Cole Porter Miss Otis Regrets Betrayed women, eroticism and chastity are among the subjects of Lucy Crowe’s selection of songs. Her ‘Female Portraits’ contain sublime settings of poetry by, among others, Goethe, Novalis and Shakespeare, including Schubert’s exquisite ‘Marie’ and Wolf’s seductive ‘Philine’.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Simon Trpčeski © Simon Fowler

Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

Lucy Crowe © Marco Borggreve

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Thursday 3 May 7.30pm

Mauro Peter tenor Helmut Deutsch piano Schubert An Silvia; Stimme der Liebe (D412); Dass sie hier gewesen; Über Wildemann; Die Liebe hat gelogen; Wandrers Nachtlied I; Im Frühling; Die Sterne (D939); Hoffnung (D637); Fischerweise; Auf der Brücke Liszt S’il est un charmant gazon; Enfant, si j’étais roi; Comment, disaient-ils; Oh! quand je dors; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome (S272/1); Es war ein König in Thule; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh (S306/2); Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Die stille Wasserrose; Ihr Glocken von Marling; Die drei Zigeuner Swiss tenor Mauro Peter was one of the last to study with Helmut Deutsch during the latter’s long teaching career in Munich.

Singer and pianist, close musical partners and friends, present a selection of great Schubert and Liszt Lieder. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Mauro Peter © Christian Felber

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In Focus: Mark-Anthony

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Turnage

Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music Clark Rundell conductor The Royal Northern College of Music and Wigmore Hall present a day of music to celebrate the work of composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, one of the best known and most prolific British composers. Turnage has a distinctive musical personality, with aggressive and energetic qualities contrasted with lyricism and tenderness, projected across his large catalogue of orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works, as well as two large-scale operas. He is known for combining jazz, popular and classical elements in his music, often appealing to young audiences. This study day features chamber music and orchestral works performed by students from the RNCM.

Saturday 5 May 10.30am Mark-Anthony Turnage Two Elegies Framing a Shout; Sleep On: Three Lullabies; True Life Stories 12 noon Study Event A discussion of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s music.

2.00pm Mark-Anthony Turnage Release; Col; Two Baudelaire Songs for soprano and ensemble; Eulogy All seats £5 concs £3 (each event) or Day ticket £10 concs £7 In partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music

Mark-Anthony Turnage © Philip Gatward

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Saturday 5 May 7.30pm

Sunday 6 May 11.30am

Sunday 6 May 7.30pm

Borodin Quartet

Borodin Quartet

Haydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 33 No. 1; String Quartet in G Op. 33 No. 5 Wolf Italian Serenade in G Borodin String Quartet No. 1 in A

Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Schubert String Quartet in E flat D87

Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists Rachel Podger violin

Few chamber ensembles achieve legendary status. The Borodin Quartet, founded in 1945 and closely associated with Shostakovich, is truly legendary in the classical music world. Its programme moves from Haydn to Borodin by way of Wolf’s delightful Italian Serenade. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Mozart’s passionate String Quartet in D minor, born at the same time as the composer’s first child, sets the tone for a programme steeped in emotional contrasts. The Borodin Quartet’s Wigmore Hall weekend closes with Schubert’s reflective String Quartet in E flat. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

L’Amour Triomphe Rameau Platée RCT53 (excerpts) Telemann Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho (excerpts) Gluck Don Juan Wq. 52 (excerpts) Rameau Pigmalion RCT52 A banquet of amorous ballet music from the High Baroque and early Rococo, celebrating the loves of an ugly Nymph, a famous rake and deluded dreamers, culminates in the gloriously poignant Pigmalion, Rameau’s acte-de-ballet first performed in Paris in 1748. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Borodin Quartet © Andy Staples

Rachel Podger © Theresa Pewal

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Monday 7 May 1.00pm

Tuesday 8 May 7.30pm

Wednesday 9 May 1.00pm – 2.00pm

Sabine Devieilhe soprano Anne Le Bozec piano

Sacconi String Quartet

Side by Side

Jonathan Dove Out of Time Haydn String Quartet in E Op. 54 No. 3; String Quartet in F minor Op. 55 No. 2 ‘The Razor’ Janáček String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’

The Prince Consort Musicians from Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Jonathan Dove’s Out of Time plays with musical time to create a work of pulsating energy. It launches the Sacconi String Quartet’s absorbing programme, which includes Haydn’s ‘Razor’ Quartet, offered to a music publisher in return for a pair of sharp-edged English razors.

The Prince Consort is renowned for its imaginative programming, world-class performances and its original approach to commissioning new works. The ensemble is also passionate about supporting the development of the next generation of singers and pianists. For this project, members of the ensemble have worked with musicians from Guildhall School of Music & Drama towards this performance, in which the students and ensemble perform side by side.

Les Salons de Pauline Viardot Berlioz Villanelle Viardot Hai luli!

Bizet Pastorale Fauré Au bord de l’eau Berlioz La mort d’Ophélie Bizet Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe Clara Schumann Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen Robert Schumann From Mythen: Widmung & Der Nussbaum Mendelssohn Neue Liebe Viardot Aime-moi Debussy Romance Hahn Le printemps Sabine Devieilhe turned to singing after studying cello and musicology. The French soprano, who made her Royal Opera House debut earlier this season as Mozart’s Queen of the Night, trains the spotlight on contemplative 19thcentury French and German songs for her Wigmore Hall debut.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Programme to include: Schumann Spanisches Liederspiel Op. 74

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Sabine Devieilhe © Caroline Doutre

Sacconi String Quartet © Emilie Bailey

The Prince Consort © Richard Eccleston

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Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works

Jörg Widmann as Composer-Performer

Wednesday 9 May 7.30pm

Thursday 10 May 7.30pm

Saturday 12 May 7.30pm

Mahan Esfahani

Pavel Haas Quartet

Jörg Widmann clarinet Sir András Schiff piano

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Bach 6 Little Preludes BWV933– 938; Sonata in C BWV966; Toccata in G minor BWV915; Toccata in C minor BWV911; English Suite No. 5 in E minor BWV810 Mahan Esfahani’s Bach interpretations reveal the harpsichord’s lyrical soul. His ongoing survey of the composer’s works continues with two dashing Toccatas and the Fifth English Suite, described by Bach’s first biographer as one of his ‘perfect masterpieces of original harmony and melody’.

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor Op. 108; String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110; String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Pavel Haas Quartet’s spellbinding performances stem from its total immersion in the music. The ensemble pairs Shostakovich’s shortest string quartet, the seventh, written in memory of his first wife, with the hugely popular String Quartet No. 8, a work of heartfelt anguish. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Forthcoming Concert in this Series

Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E flat Op. 120 No.2 Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Jörg Widmann Intermezzi Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Jörg Widmann’s music creates a compelling contemporary dialogue with the past. He performs works by his favourite composers with Sir András Schiff, while the pianist offers Widmann’s Brahms-inspired Intermezzi, created for and first performed by Sir András at the 2010 Salzburg Festival. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Tuesday 19 June 7.30pm

Mahan Esfahani © Bernhard Musil / DG

Pavel Haas Quartet © Marco Borggreve

Jörg Widmann © Marco Borggreve

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Friday 11 May 7.30pm

Andrè Schuen baritone Gerold Huber piano Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35; Fünf Lieder Op. 40 Dapoz Ben danter mile steres; A la net Frontull Nos salvans Verginer Salüć dal frostì Dapoz Alalt al ci Schumann Sechs Gedichte und Requiem Op. 90 The search for higher truths and mystical insights through music drove Schumann to probe the depths of his soul. Andrè Schuen, a native of the South Tyrol, combines seven of the composer’s most profound songs with pieces in Ladin, his mother tongue. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Andrè Schuen © Guido Werner

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Sunday 13 May 11.30am

Sunday 13 May 3.00pm

Sunday 13 May 7.30pm

Kopelman Quartet Blythe Teh Engstroem

Morgan Pearse baritone Simon Lepper piano

The Endellion String Quartet

Brahms Wir wandelten; Meine Liebe ist grün; Von ewiger Liebe; An die Nachtigall; Wie rafft ich mich auf; Die Mainacht Strauss Vier Lieder Op. 27 Barber Nocturne; Solitary Hotel; Rain has fallen; Sleep now; I hear an army

Haydn String Quartet in B flat Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Tippett String Quartet No. 2 Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1

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Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 92 Shostakovich Two pieces for string quartet (1931): Elegy and Polka Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111 With of one of the most sophisticated string sounds imaginable, the Kopelman Quartet directs its compelling artistry to Shostakovich’s Two pieces for string quartet. Blythe Teh Engstroem joins the Kopelmans for a late Brahms masterwork. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Australian baritone Morgan Pearse has earned his reputation as one of the most debonair artists of his generation with performances of poise and panache. He and Simon Lepper explore impassioned Lieder

by Brahms and Strauss’s charming Op. 27, alongside Barber’s haunting James Joyce settings.

The Endellion String Quartet opens with Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’, among the composer’s greatest works, before exploring the creative world of Tippett’s Second String Quartet, with its melancholy slow movement inspired by the threat of war. The programme concludes with the surging energy of Brahms’s First String Quartet. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

All seats £15

Kopelman Quartet

Morgan Pearse © Eric Melear

The Endellion String Quartet © Eric Richmond

48 • MAY

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MUSICAL PORTRAITS Musical Portraits is a collaborative project led by Wigmore Hall, National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts for young people aged 10–14 with Autism Spectrum Conditions.

Participants create their own works of art and music inspired by paintings at the National Portrait Gallery, culminating in a performance onstage at Wigmore Hall alongside musicians from Ignite, Wigmore Hall Learning’s Associate Artists.

Musical Portraits encourages young people to develop their artistic and musical interests by providing opportunities to engage with art and music making, and to make social connections with other young people.

Our next project runs from Monday 30 July to Thursday 2 August. For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Charlotte Cunningham at Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email charlotte@turtlekeyarts.org.uk.

© Brian Slater

‘When a child is socially excluded, as [he] has been at school, it is critical that he can access other opportunities with other people.

This project allowed him interactions that steered him away from feelings of despair and loneliness.’

Parent

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Monday 14 May 1.00pm

Monday 14 May 7.30pm

Tuesday 15 May 7.30pm

Schumann Quartet

Phantasm

Andreas Haefliger piano

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor Op. 108 Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’

Laurence Dreyfus treble viol, director Emilia Benjamin treble viol Jonathan Manson tenor viol Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol Heidi Gröger tenor viol Emily Ashton bass viol

Mozart Fantasia in C minor K475 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101 Mozart Adagio in B minor K540 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’

Leading Lights before the English Civil War

Andreas Haefliger’s imaginative programming complements his lyrical, heartfelt pianism.

His latest Wigmore Hall recital traces connections between the introspection of Mozart’s Fantasia in C minor and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 28, and the Romanticism of the Adagio in B minor and the ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata.

Resilience in the face of grief and the human spirit’s transcendent power find expression in Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 7, written soon after his first wife’s sudden death. The Schumann Quartet places the work together with the arching melodies of Schubert’s ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet. £15 concs £13

Lawes Consort Setts: IV a5 in F, I a5 in G minor, IX a6 in B flat & VIII a6 in F Jenkins Fantasies a5: No. 15 in D, No. 3 in G minor, No. 8 in C minor, No. 9 in C minor, No. 1 in G & No. 17 in C Jenkins Fantasies a6: No. 8 in A minor, No. 10 in E minor & No. 5 in D minor Jenkins Pavans a5: in F & in G minor Jenkins In nomine in E minor; The Bell Pavan

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

John Jenkins and William Lawes lived in turbulent times. While the former survived the English Civil War, the latter died fighting for the Royalist cause. Phantasm explores the composers’ sublime compositions for viol consort. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Schumann Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas

Phantasm © Marco Borggreve

Andreas Haefliger © Marco Borggreve

50 • MAY

Leeds Piano Festival Under the new leadership of co-Artistic Directors Paul Lewis and Adam Gatehouse, the Leeds International Piano Competition comes to Wigmore Hall with a festival of concerts featuring recitals by previous winners and a showcase of three of the emerging stars of tomorrow.

Wednesday 16 May 1.00pm

Lars Vogt piano Janáček On an overgrown path (Book I) Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Lars Vogt brings the Leeds Piano Festival to Wigmore Hall for the first of a series of lunchtime concerts by alumni of the Leeds International Piano Competition. He harnesses the yearning nostalgia of Janáček’s On an overgrown path to Beethoven’s revolutionary ‘Appassionata’ Sonata. £15 concs £13

Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Roderick Williams: Exploring Schubert’s Song Cycles Wednesday 16 May 7.30pm and 8.45pm 7.30pm

Roderick Williams baritone

Iain Burnside piano Schubert Schwanengesang Whether performing, composing or talking about music, Roderick Williams is a great communicator, open hearted and generous in reaching out to audiences.

His season-long exploration of Schubert’s song cycles moves to the emotionally intense, deathdefiant songs of Schwanengesang. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Other Events in this Series

Approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

Thursday 17 May 1.00pm Sunwook Kim piano

8.45pm

Friday 18 May 1.00pm Alessio Bax piano Wednesday 23 May 1.00pm Lang Lang Young Scholars

Artists in Conversation Roderick Williams reflects on his experience of performing the three major Schubert song cycles over the season.

Free with evening concert ticket

Lars Vogt © Giorgia Bertazzi

Roderick Williams © Simon van Boxtel

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Leeds Piano Festival

Leeds Piano Festival

Thursday 17 May 1.00pm

Thursday 17 May 7.30pm

Friday 18 May 1.00pm

Sunwook Kim piano

Thomas Dunford lute

Alessio Bax piano

Bach Toccata, adagio and fugue in C BWV564 (trans. Busoni) Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op. 24

Bach Suite in G minor BWV995; Suite in G BWV1007; Chaconne in D minor BWV1004

Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor S D935 (arr. Bach BWV 974) Rachmaninov Variations on a theme of Corelli Op. 42 Dallapiccola Quaderno musicale di Annalibera Liszt Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata from Années de pèlerinage S161

Sunwook Kim was eighteen when he made his international breakthrough as winner of the 2006 Leeds International Piano Competition. He continues Wigmore Hall’s Leeds Piano Festival series with three keyboard masterworks, capped by the kaleidoscopic moods of Brahms’s Handel Variations.

Arguments about the origins of Bach’s lute suites fade to silence when Thomas Dunford brings the pieces to life with virtuosity, versatility and jaw-dropping spontaneity. The sensational British lutenist’s programme also includes a thrilling transcription of Bach’s Chaconne.

Approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in duration, without an interval £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

£15 concs £13

Wigmore Hall’s Leeds Piano Festival series includes this recital

by Alessio Bax, winner of the 2000 Leeds International Piano Competition. The Italian pianist’s spectacular programme includes the spine-tingling sounds of Dallapiccola’s Quaderno musicale di Annalibera and Liszt’s diabolic Dante Sonata. £15 concs £13

Sunwook Kim © Marco Borggreve

Thomas Dunford © Gerard Collett

Alessio Bax © Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

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Friday 18 May 7.30pm

Saturday 19 May 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Sunday 20 May 11.30am

Richard Goode piano

Richard Goode Masterclass

Peter Hill piano

Byrd 2 Pavians and Galliardes from My Ladye Nevells Booke Bach English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV811 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat Op. 110 Debussy Préludes Book II Keyboard connoisseurs flock to Richard Goode’s recitals, drawn by the profound introspection and emotional authenticity of his music-making. The native New Yorker’s latest Wigmore Hall programme spans everything from hypnotic works by Byrd to the shimmering impressions of Debussy’s Préludes.

‘Every time we hear him’, notes Gramophone, ‘he impresses us as better than we remembered, surprising us, surpassing our expectations and communicating perceptions that stay in the mind’.

Richard Goode’s artistry rests on studies with, among others, Elvira Szigeti and Rudolf Serkin.

Outstanding postgraduate students from the UK’s conservatoires have the chance to gain from the American pianist’s vast experience with this landmark masterclass.

Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 Described by his teacher Nadia Boulanger as ‘a born artist, a beautiful natural talent’, Peter Hill has achieved distinction as performer, scholar and author. His sensitive artistry is sure to deliver profound spiritual insights into Bach’s Goldberg Variations. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£10 concs £8

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Richard Goode © Steve Riskind

Peter Hill

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Saturday 19 May 7.30pm

Takács Quartet Louise Williams viola Pál Banda cello Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op. 70 Brahms String Sextet in G Op. 36 Wigmore Hall Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet, and two close collaborators perform sextets rich in character and contrasts. Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence projects Italianate warmth and Russian passion, while Brahms’s Second String Sextet releases emotions aroused by a short-lived love affair. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Concert Repeated Monday 21 May 7.30pm

Takács Quartet © Keith Saunders

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54 • MAY

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Christian Tetzlaff Residency Sunday 20 May 7.30pm

Monday 21 May 1.00pm

Monday 21 May 7.30pm

Tetzlaff Quartet

Sara Mingardo contralto Francesca Biliotti contralto Giovanni Bellini theorbo Giorgio Dal Monte

Takács Quartet

Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Op. 130 with Grosse Fugue Op. 133; String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Beethoven’s String Quartet in B flat Op. 130, first performed with its original Grosse Fuge finale in 1826, spans art’s capacity to reveal unique and universal emotions. The Tetzlaff Quartet concludes with the A minor String Quartet, in which Beethoven confronts questions of existence. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

harpsichord

Monteverdi Romanesca; Con che soavità, labbra odorate Frescobaldi Toccata Nona Monteverdi Vorrei baciarti; Voglio di vita uscir Monteverdi From Settimo libro de madrigali: Non è di gentil core & O come sei gentile Kapsberger Canzone prima Monteverdi Zefiro torna

Louise Williams viola Pál Banda cello Repeat of concert on 19 May £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Conservative ears were offended

by Monteverdi’s rule-breaking, risk-taking madrigals four centuries ago. But the composer’s expressive freedom opened the door to a new music of passionate emotions, one explored by Sara Mingardo and Francesca Biliotti in an irresistible programme from Italy’s early Baroque. £15 concs £13

Tetzlaff Quartet © Georgia Bertazzi

Sara Mingardo © Carlo Coppitz

Takács Quartet © Ellen Appel

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MAY • 55 Leeds Piano Festival

Tuesday 22 May 7.30pm

Wednesday 23 May 1.00pm

Wednesday 23 May 7.30pm

La Nuova Musica David Bates director Tim Mead countertenor

Lang Lang International Music Foundation – Young Scholars

Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Simon Lepper piano

Bach Cantata: Widerstehe doch der Sünde BWV54; Concerto in C minor BWV1060 for oboe and violin (reconst.); Concerto for 2 violins in D minor BWV1043; Cantata: Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust BWV170 La Nuova Musica celebrates the sacred and secular Bach.

Tim Mead’s recent recording of the composer’s solo cantatas with David Bates’s group, two of which frame this programme, harvested rave reviews and caught the mellifluous beauty of his countertenor voice. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2017/18 Wigmore Series

This year the Leeds International Piano Competition has launched a new partnership with the Lang Lang International Music Foundation Young Scholars programme. The two organisations share an ambition to inspire a new generation of pianists through a diverse range of significant performance opportunities at venues in the UK from concert halls to community settings. The Foundation offers mentoring, tutelage and unique performance opportunities to a small number of exceptionally talented young pianists from around the world selected for the programme by Lang Lang himself. Wigmore Hall is delighted to welcome three Young Scholars for this lunchtime recital.

Hahn A Chloris; Le rossignol des lilas; L’énamourée; Infidélité; Les fontaines Debussy Trois chansons de Bilitis Chausson Le Charme; Sérénade italienne; Le colibri; Les papillons Duparc L’invitation au voyage; Chanson triste; Extase; Phidylé Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill sets the heady eroticism of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder in company with sensual songs

by Duparc, himself a confirmed Wagnerian. She also embraces the sophisticated soundworld of French mélodies by Chausson, Debussy and Hahn. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

All seats £5 In partnership with Leeds International Piano Competition Tim Mead © Andy Staples

Wigmore Hall © Benjamin Ealovega

Karen Cargill © K K Dundas

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Thursday 24 May 3.00pm & 7.00pm

Friday 25 May 7.00pm NB starting time

Saturday 26 May 10.00am – 3.30pm

YCAT Public Final Auditions 2018

Inon Barnatan piano

Come and Sing

Young Classical Artists Trust: the destination point for emerging talent YCAT Artists are selected through a rigorous annual auditions process. In this third and final round, outstanding young soloists and chamber ensembles, selected from over 100 applicants in the preliminary rounds, audition before a panel of distinguished judges. Join YCAT in celebrating the very best emerging talent in the UK at this unique event.

Previous artists include Ian Bostridge, Alison Balsom, Joanna MacGregor and the Heath, Doric and Belcea Quartets.

Schubert 6 Moments Musicaux D780 Avner Dorman 2 Moments Musicaux Rachmaninov 6 Moments Musicaux Op. 16 Inon Barnatan, described by the Evening Standard as ‘a poet of the keyboard’, explores the world of ‘Musical Moments’, a miniature form invented by Schubert and enhanced by Rachmaninov.

His programme includes Israeli composer Avner Dorman’s fresh take on the genre.

Join us at Wigmore Hall for a day of group singing. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. £25 concs £19

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

£16 for both sessions, or £10/£8 (concs) for individual sessions YCAT is grateful for support from the Rachel Baker Memorial Charity, Help Musicians UK and the International Music and Art Foundation for this event.

YCAT Registered Charity No. 326490

YCAT © Kaupo Kikkas

Inon Barnatan © Marco Borggreve

Come and Sing © Benjamin Ealovega

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Haydn String Quartet Series Saturday 26 May 7.30pm

Sunday 27 May 11.30am

Doric String Quartet Sir Thomas Allen narrator

István Várdai cello Vikingur Olafsson piano

Haydn Seven Last Words from the Cross

Bartók Rhapsody No. 1 (arr. for cello and piano) Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2

Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, written for performance in Cadíz in 1787, creates a sequence of meditations on the crucified Christ’s final words. Sir Thomas Allen prefaces each movement with sacred readings, adding to the poignancy of the Doric String Quartet’s interpretation.

Approximately 1 hour, 10 minutes in duration, without an interval £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

István Várdai won Munich’s prestigious ARD Competition in 2014. He makes his Wigmore Hall debut with a programme packed with rousing rhythms and lyrical melodies. The Hungarian cellist opens with music by fellow countryman Bartók, before exploring masterworks by Brahms and Beethoven. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday 27 May 7.30pm

Simon Keenlyside

baritone

Malcolm Martineau piano Schubert From Schwanengesang: Liebesbotschaft, Kriegers Ahnung, Der Atlas, Am Meer, Der Doppelgänger, Ständchen, Die Stadt & Das Fischermädchen Interspersed with Schubert An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht; Dass sie hier gewesen; Im Abendrot; Abschied (D475) Poulenc Tel jour, telle nuit; Pavane from Suite française (solo piano); Mazurka; Paganini; L’anguille; Carte postale; Avant le cinema; 1904 Fauré Rêve d’amour; Spleen; Poème d’un jour Whether in the opera house, concert hall or recital room, Simon Keenlyside is in high demand worldwide. The Londonborn baritone, recently awarded the prestigious title of Austrian Kammersänger, returns to Wigmore Hall for an unmissable evening of song. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Doric String Quartet © George Garnier

István Várdai © Nagy Felbontású

Simon Keenlyside © Robert Workman

58 • MAY

Wigmore Lates Wigmore Lates, firm fixtures in the Hall’s summer calendar, make the ideal start to the weekend. This season’s run kicks off with the genre-defying Erlkings, and includes a jazz date with Onyx Brass, praised by BBC Music Magazine as ‘the classiest brass ensemble in Britain’, an intimate concert of Scottish folk music, a celebration of ‘The Class of 1938’, and much more!

Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/lates for full details.

The Wigmore Lates series is made possible with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund and an anonymous donor

Friday 25 May 10.00pm

The Erlkings Bryan Benner voice, guitar Ivan Turkalj cello Gabriel Hopfmüller tuba, trombone Thomas Toppler drums, vibraphone Schubert Der Musensohn; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Die Forelle; Der Jüngling am Bache (D192); Erlkönig; Der König in Thule; Drang in die Ferne; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Totengräbers Heimweh; Fischerweise Schubert From Die schöne Müllerin: Das Wandern, Halt!, Der Neugierige, Mein! & Trockne Blumen Billed as ‘the only band that sets its audience dancing to Goethe and Schiller’, genre-defying The Erlkings apply the high-octane energy of folk/rock to brilliant arrangements of Schubert’s songs. The group’s Wigmore Hall debut offers a scintillating set of Erlking hits.

All seats £15 The Erlkings © Andrej Grilc

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 1 June 10.00pm

Friday 6 July 10.00pm

Chineke! Orchestra

David Orlowsky Trio

Friday 8 June 10.00pm

Friday 13 July 10.00pm

Onyx Brass

The Prince Consort Alisdair Hogarth artistic director, piano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Nicholas Mulroy tenor Jason Rebello piano

Friday 22 June 10.00pm Donald Grant violin Friday 29 June 10.00pm Lucy Schaufer mezzo-soprano Huw Watkins piano

Friday 20 July 10.00pm Heath Quartet Ruth Gibson viola Marie Bitlloch cello

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Monday 28 May 1.00pm

Monday 28 May 7.30pm

Wednesday 30 May 10.15am and 11.45am

Danish String Quartet

Trio Tre Voci

Chamber Tots

Haydn String Quartet in B flat Op. 1 No. 1 ‘La chasse’ Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13

Marina Piccinini flute Kim Kashkashian viola Sivan Magen harp

Bear Hunt

When the Danish String Quartet makes music there’s always a sense of magic in the air. The ensemble’s natural artistry conveys a feeling of infinite space beyond our everyday world, ideally matched here to exuberant early works by Haydn and Mendelssohn. £15 concs £13

Rameau Cinquième piece de clavecin en concert: Fugue, La Forqueray; La Cupis; La Marais Takemitsu And then I knew ’twas wind for flute, viola and harp Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp Ravel Sonatine (arr. for flute, viola and harp by Salzedo) Toshio Hosokawa New work (world première)* Prokofiev Suite from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (arr. Cohen) *Commissioned by Trio Tre Voci

We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us on a bear hunt! This interactive music-making workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging ensembles.

10.15am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45am (3–5 year olds) Approximately 1 hour in duration Children £6 Adults £4

Three artists, who have each been acknowledged for bringing a unique voice to their instruments, join forces on the Wigmore Hall stage. Trio Tre Voci explores the influence of Debussy’s Sonata on Takemitsu’s trio for flute, viola and harp. The ensemble’s Wigmore Hall debut includes the world première of Toshio Hosokawa’s latest work. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Danish String Quartet © Caroline Bittencourt

Marina Piccinini © Marco Borggreve

Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

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Haydn String Quartet Series

Haydn String Quartet Series

Wednesday 30 May 7.30pm

Thursday 31 May 10.00am – 4.30pm

Thursday 31 May 7.30pm

Quatuor Mosaïques

RNIB Study Day

Quatuor Mosaïques

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 33 No. 6; String Quartet in E flat Op. 71 No. 3 Mozart String Quartet in E flat K428

Professional Development Day for Blind and Partially Sighted Musicians

Haydn String Quartet in C minor Op. 17 No. 4 Wölfl String Quartet in G Op. 10 No. 4 Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 74 No. 2

Period-instrument group Quatuor Mosaïques is famed for revelatory performances of the Viennese classics. The ensemble’s latest programme offers a flavour of Haydn’s inventive genius with two exceptionally fine works, presented alongside Mozart’s String Quartet K428, inspired by and dedicated to Haydn.

This practical study day is an opportunity for blind and partially sighted musicians to focus on career development and explore pathways into the classical music industry. The day will include discussion, talks and the opportunity to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

For more information and to book contact Sally-Anne Zimmerman, RNIB Music Adviser at sally.zimmerman@rnib.org.uk or on 020 7391 2273.

With grateful thanks to The Haydn String Quartet Circle

Free (application required)

Hailed by the Herald as ‘magicians of unquantifiable skill and experience’, Quatuor Mosaïques turns its collective wisdom to two fabulous Haydn quartets – one youthful, the other fully mature – together with the genial String Quartet by Mozart’s Salzburg protégé Joseph Wölfl. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

In partnership with RNIB

Quatuor Mosaïques © Wolfgang Krautzer

RNIB Study Day © Benjamin Ealovega

Joseph Haydn

By Thomas Hardy

62 • JUNE

Wigmore Lates Friday 1 June 10.00pm

Chineke! Orchestra Beethoven Septet in E flat Op. 20 Florence Price String Quartet in G (European première) Strauss Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders (arr. Hasenöhrl) Chineke! stormed last summer’s BBC Proms with a sensational debut, one of many opportunities it creates for young Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) classical musicians. Its Wigmore debut includes impassioned music by Florence Price, the first African-American woman to break through as a symphonic composer.

All seats £15

Chineke! Orchestra © Eric Richmond

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Friday 1 June 7.00pm NB starting time

Saturday 2 June 7.30pm

Sunday 3 June 11.30am

Birgid Steinberger

Carolyn Sampson soprano Iestyn Davies countertenor Joseph Middleton piano

Kuss Quartet

soprano

Julius Drake piano Schubert Suleika I; Das Mädchen (D652); Lied der Anne Lyle; Liane; Thekla: eine Geisterstimme (D595); Die junge Nonne; Mignon (Kennst du das Land); Nur wer die Liebe kennt (fragment); Heiß mich nicht reden (D726); So laßt mich scheinen (D727) Brahms Feinsliebchen; Dort in den Weiden; All mein Gedanken; Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr; Da unten im Tale; Schwesterlein, Schwesterlein; In stiller Nacht Wolf From Spanisches Liederbuch: Klinge, klinge, mein Pandero; In dem Schatten meiner Locken; Dereinst, dereinst, Gedanke mein; Bedeckt mich mit Blumen; Mögen alle bösen Zungen; Sagt ihm, dass er zu mir komme; Geh, Geliebter, geh jetzt

Purcell Sound the trumpet; Lost is my quiet; Music for a while; If music be the food of love; No, resistance is but in vain (arr. Britten) Mendelssohn Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergöße sich; Gruß; Volkslied; Maiglöckchen und die Blümelein; Scheidend; Neue Liebe; Sonntagsmorgen; Das Ährenfeld; Lied aus Ruy Blas Schumann Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär; Herbstlied; Schön Blümelein; Nachtlied; Stille Liebe; Der Einsiedler; Aufträge; So wahr die Sonne scheinet Quilter It was a lover and his lass; Weep you no more; Music, when soft voices die; Drink to me only with thine eyes; Love’s philosophy; Love calls through the summer night

Three giants of German song fall under the spotlight. Birgid Steinberger, an audience favourite at Vienna’s Staatsoper and Volksoper, is famed her for profound and passionate Lieder interpretations.

Three stellar artists bring to life a seductive programme from their album, Lost is my quiet.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Birgid Steinberger

Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Beethoven’s radical art rocked the foundations of music two centuries ago. The Kuss Quartet, known for its revelatory performances, probes the individuality of his Shakespeareinspired String Quartet in F and the wonderful second ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, an avantgarde masterwork. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Carolyn Sampson © Marco Borggreve

Kuss Quartet © Molina Visuals

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Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle Barcelona-based Cuarteto Casals continues its 20th anniversary celebrations with two compelling concerts built from Beethoven’s soul-exposing, revolutionary string quartets and new works by contemporary European composers.

Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle is supported by Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement

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Monday 4 June 7.30pm

Cuarteto Casals Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5 Lucio Franco Amanti String Quartet ‘ReSolUtIO’ (UK première) Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Op. 74 ‘Harp’; String Quartet in E flat Op. 127 Lucio Amanti’s ‘ReSolUtIO’, a bridge leading to Beethoven’s ‘Harp’ Quartet, weaves strands of jazz improvisation, street songs and folk tunes into the classical quartet genre. Cuarteto Casals sets the composition’s UK première in company with three boundary-pushing Beethoven masterworks. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Wednesday 4 July 7.30pm

Cuarteto Casals © Molina Visuals

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Sunday 3 June 7.30pm

Monday 4 June 1.00pm

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Georg Kallweit director Anna Prohaska soprano

Toby Spence tenor Christopher Glynn piano

Shakespeare and Music Recitation Shakespeare Wenn die Musik der Liebe Nahrung ist from Twelfth Night Purcell Fantasia upon one note in F Z745; Mark, how readily each pliant string from Raise The Voice Z334 Locke Suite from The Tempest Purcell Largo from Sonata in Three Parts No. 6 in C Z795; Sing, sing ye Druids from Bonduca or the British Heroine Z574; Suite from King Arthur Recitation Shakespeare Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again, from Romeo and Juliet Purcell The Plaint from The Fairy Queen Z629 Recitation with improvisation Shakespeare Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Dowland Come again, sweet love doth now invite Purcell Suite from The Gordion Knot Unty’d Z597; Oh, the sweet delights of love; Music for a while; Let each gallant heart Blow Suite from Venus and Adonis Purcell If Music be the food of love

Schubert The Beautiful Maid of the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin) Toby Spence gives life and meaning to every word he sings.

His expressive artistry is sure to provide fresh insights into one of the greatest of all song-cycles, presented here in Jeremy Sams’s new English translation.

All seats £15

Shakespeare used music to sound alarms, soothe savage breasts and produce magic. Anna Prohaska, praised by BBC Music Magazine for her ‘tremendous expressive vitality’, joins Berlin’s Akademie für Alte Musik in theatre songs and other pieces inspired by the Bard. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin © Uwe Arens

Toby Spence © Mitch Jenkins

66 • JUNE

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MUSIC FOR LIFE: YOUNG ONSET Music for Life is a pioneering music programme for people living with dementia and their families, friends and carers, encompassing a wide range of projects and events in care settings, community settings and at Wigmore Hall itself.

We are delighted to have launched a new project alongside families living with young onset dementia in partnership with Dementia Pathfinders. In each session, professional musicians invite group members to connect and communicate through music, creating improvisations together that reflect those involved.

‘It was so touching to see not only Ray*, but others with dementia open up and feel comfortable enough to just play what their hearts felt. He could feel it and talked about it for a few days after each session, it was one of the few times in his life now that he was in control of something. It was magic for me too. Just to feel the energy in the room. Very, very special, I know that we all felt it.

Thank you.’

Tuesday 5 June 10.30am – 1.30pm

Come and Sing

For families living with dementia Join Isabelle Adams for a session of group singing exploring a mixture of music from across the ages, followed by tea and coffee. We welcome people living with dementia and their families, friends and carers.

No previous experience needed, just an enthusiasm to sing!

Free (booking required) Book through the Wigmore Hall Learning department on 020 7258 8246.

In partnership with Westminster Arts

Family member

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*name changed Come and Sing © James Berry

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JUNE • 67

Tuesday 5 June 7.30pm

Wednesday 6 June 7.30pm

Thursday 7 June 1.00pm – 2.00pm

Stéphane Degout baritone Simon Lepper piano

The Prince Consort

Voiceworks

Fauré Aurore; Poème d’un jour; Automne Brahms O kühler Wald; Die Mainacht; Auf dem Kirchhofe; Feldeinsamkeit; Alte Liebe; Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen; Willst du, dass ich geh?

Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35 Renowned for his deep love for words and sensitive, profoundly expressive voice, Stéphane Degout joins regular duo partner Simon Lepper for a programme of French melody and German Lieder rich in contrasting emotions and turbulent states of mind. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 With grateful thanks to the Voices at Wigmore Circle

Alisdair Hogarth director, piano Verity Wingate soprano Andrew Staples tenor Laura Mucha poet Vaughan Williams Silent Noon Britten As it is, plenty Michael Anderson Now sleeps the crimson petal Bart Where is Love from Oliver!

Dunhill The Cloths of Heaven Vaughan Williams Is my team ploughing Finzi The Sigh Britten O Waly, Waly Cheryl Frances-Hoad Love of the sort that I’m after Graham Ross New commission (world première) Interspersed with poetry recitations

Join us for this lunchtime concert featuring brand new works for the voice, the result of a unique collaboration between poets, composers, singers and instrumentalists from Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Free (ticket required)

Award-winning voice and piano ensemble The Prince Consort, recently appointed Associate Artists of the Guildhall School of Music, chases the spirit of England through this programme, from the heart of the countryside to Lionel Bart’s London. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Stéphane Degout © Julien Benhamou

Alisdair Hogarth

Voiceworks © Benjamin Ealovega

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Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Thursday 7 June 7.30pm

Friday 8 June 10.00pm

Saturday 9 June 7.30pm

Finghin Collins piano

Onyx Brass

Django Bates Belovèd

Janáček Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ Rachmaninov Preludes Nos. 1 – 7 Op. 23 Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat D960

Kenny Wheeler 1 for 5 Jason Rebello Inevitable Outcome Trish Clowes The Mighty Pencil Mark Nightingale For Rosie Laurence Cottle Holy Chalcedony Guy Barker Onyx Noir Mike Walker Let her go Gwilym Simcock Stomper

Claire Huguenin voice Marius Neset saxophone

Dublin-born Finghin Collins, one of Ireland’s finest classical performers, is known for music-making shaped by great intelligence, limitless imagination and profound emotional intuition, qualities demanded by each of the poetic works in his latest Wigmore Hall recital. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Crossing genre boundaries comes as standard with Onyx Brass.

The quintet, described by BBC Music Magazine as ‘easily the classiest brass ensemble in Britain’, performs pieces from its brilliant Jazz Project, and tops the evening with Gwilym Simcock’s aptly named Stomper.

All seats £15

Django Bates piano Petter Eldh double bass Peter Bruun drums

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Django Bates returns to Wigmore Hall as part of his trio, Django Bates Belovèd, praised by the Financial Times for its ‘strong emotions and in-depth improvisation’.

The group unites with Claire Huguenin, celebrated for her expressive and daring vocals, and saxophonist Marius Neset, known for his unlimited imagination and soulful spontaneity. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration without an interval

Finghin Collins © Frances Marshall

Onyx Brass

Django Bates © Nick White

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JUNE • 69 Christian Tetzlaff Focus/Jörg Widmann as Composer-Performer

Sunday 10 June 11.30am

Sunday 10 June 7.30pm

Monday 11 June 1.00pm

Christian Ihle Hadland

Tetzlaff Quartet Jörg Widmann clarinet

Trio Wanderer Christophe Gaugué viola

Sibelius String Quartet in D minor Op. 56 ‘Voces Intimae’ Jörg Widmann Three Shadow Dances for solo clarinet Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat Op. 34

Haydn Piano Trio in A flat HXV:14 Fauré Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45

piano

Brahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58 Ever inventive and prodigiously gifted, Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland’s artistry flows from the intensity of his interpretations.

He makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a charming programme of Brahms and Chopin. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Tragedy and triumph colour the emotions of a compelling programme, amplified by Jörg Widmann in his mind-blowing Three Shadow Dances. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Haydn’s trademark charm and wit are supplemented by grandeur in his A-flat Piano Trio. Trio Wanderer, among the world’s top piano trios, possesses the sensitive artistry the piece demands. Regular collaborator Christophe Gaugué joins the Wanderers in Fauré’s passionate Second Piano Quartet. £15 concs £13

Christian Ihle Hadland © Anders Bergersen

Tetzlaff Quartet © Georgia Bertazzi

Trio Wanderer © Marco Borggreve

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Monday 11 June 7.30pm

Tuesday 12 June 5.30pm – 6.15pm

Tuesday 12 June 7.30pm

Collegium Vocale Gent

Diphonon Duo

O TEMPO, O CIEL! Lassus Madrigali novamente composti a 5 voci; Madrigali a 4-5-6 voci, novamente composti

Michael Iskas viola Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade accordion

Belcea Quartet Antoine Tamestit viola

Collegium Vocale Gent has pioneered period performance since the early 1970s. The group’s soloists summon up the seamless sounds and melancholy echoes in the 16th-century composer Lassus’s exquisite Italian madrigals.

The Wigmore Hall/Royal Academy of Music Fellowship Ensemble, Diphonon Duo, performs a range of repertoire including the world première of a new work by the 2017/18 RPS/Wigmore Hall Apprentice Composer.

Free (ticket required)

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Mozart String Quintet in C K515 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111 Three mature masterpieces form this irresistible programme from the Belcea Quartet and Antoine Tamestit. The ensemble opens with Mozart’s String Quintet in C, a work of terrific poise and poignancy, before turning to the sombre soundscapes of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Collegium Vocale Gent © Michiel Hendrickx

Diphonon Duo

Belcea Quartet © Marco Borggreve

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Wednesday 13 June 7.30pm

Jakub Józef Orliński countertenor

Michał Biel piano Handel Inumano fratel... Stille amare from Tolomeo Purcell Music for a while; If Music be the food of love; What power art thou (Cold Genius aria); Strike the viol Schubert Auf der Donau; Die Stadt from Schwanengesang; Nachtstück Hahn A Chloris; Mai; Paysage; Fêtes galantes; L’heure exquise Szymanowski From Kurpie Songs: Lecioły zórazie; Wysła burzycka; Uwoz mamo; U jeziorecka Baird Four Love Sonnets Paweł Łukaszewski Jesien Handel Agitato da fiere tempeste from Riccardo Primo, Re d’Inghilterra Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, praised for his tonal beauty, captured international attention as winner of the 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He underlines his risingstar status with a Wigmore Hall debut recital of personal favourite songs and arias, including Paweł Łukaszewski’s beautiful setting of Maria PawlikowskaJasnorzewska’s poetry. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Jakub Józef Orliński © Anita Wasik

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Wigmore Study Group: Big Ideas for a Small Stage Wednesday 13 June 3.00pm – 6.00pm Tuesday 19 June 3.00pm – 6.00pm Thursday 21 June 3.00pm – 6.00pm Within two years of Bach establishing himself in the illustrious post of Kantor at the Thomasschule and civic director of music in Leipzig he had composed two complete annual cycles of cantatas, and presented the Magnificat and the St John Passion.

In his sacred dramas, Bach showed an innate sense of the theatrical, combining with extraordinary skill the dramatic narrative, religious commentary and emotional response, whilst giving the congregation, through his chorale settings, an active role in the performance. Join us for this series hosted by Guildhall School of Music & Drama Head of Composition Julian Philips and Professor of Piano Laura Roberts, alongside invited guest speakers and musicians from the School.

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Thursday 14 June 12.30pm and 2.00pm

Friday 15 June 6.00pm

Chamber Tots

Pre-Concert Event

Under the Sea

We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us as we dive deep under the sea! This interactive musicmaking workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging ensembles.

12.30pm – 1.30pm (1–2 year olds) & 2.00pm – 3.00pm (3–5 year-olds)

RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment in which exceptionally gifted young musicians collaborate closely with some of the world’s finest artists and teachers. This concert offers the chance to hear potential future stars at an early stage of their careers. £5

Approximately 1 hour in duration Children £6 Adults £4

Series ticket price £66 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 21 June Portrait of JS Bach

Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

Razumovsky Academy Young Artists

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JUNE • 73

Jörg Widmann as Composer-Performer/Haydn String Quartet Series

Friday 15 June 7.30pm

Saturday 16 June 11.00am – 4.00pm

Saturday 16 June 7.30pm

Razumovsky Ensemble

RNIB Family Day

Heath Quartet Mary Bevan soprano

Oleg Kogan artistic director, cello Lukas Geniušas piano

For blind and partially sighted children aged 6 – 12 years and their families

Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat D929 Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67

Be inspired by art and music at The Wallace Collection and Wigmore Hall, and create your own masterpieces in this interactive multi-sensory workshop for blind and partially sighted children and their families.

Chamber music’s finest traditions and outstanding performers combine in the form of Oleg Kogan’s Razumovsky Ensemble, a meeting place for dynamic musicians from around the world.

Their latest Wigmore Hall outing includes Schubert’s gorgeous Second Piano Trio, among the most moving pieces ever written. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Oleg Kogan © Robert Cassen

For more information and to book contact Sally-Anne Zimmerman, RNIB Music Adviser at sally.zimmerman@rnib.org.uk or on 020 7391 2273.

Free (application required) In partnership with RNIB and The Wallace Collection

Family Day © Benjamin Ealovega

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 71 No. 2 Jörg Widmann String Quartet No. 5 ‘Versuch über die Fuge’ Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 The Heath Quartet’s exploration of Jörg Widmann’s string quartets continues with ‘Versuch über die Fuge’, a spellbinding counterpoint for strings and soprano ignited by a Bible quotation: ‘That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?’ £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Mary Bevan © Victoria Cadisch

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Sunday 17 June 11.30am

Sunday 17 June 7.30pm

Monday 18 June 1.00pm

Apollon Musagète Quartet

Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano

Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano

Bach Contrapunctus 1 from The Art of Fugue BWV1080 Schubert String Quartet in G D887

Wolf Aus meinen grossen Schmerzen; Spätherbstnebel; Du bist wie eine Blume; Mädchen mit dem roten Mündchen; Mein Liebchen, wir sassen beisammen; Wenn ich in deine Augen seh’; Mit schwarzen Segeln; Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert; Frech und Froh I & II; Der Rattenfänger; Gutmann und Gutweib; Ganymed; Grenzen der Menschheit; Der Genesene an die Hoffnung; Der Knabe und das Immlein; Jägerlied; Der Tambour; Begegnung; Nimmersatte Liebe; Verborgenheit; Auf ein altes Bild; In der Frühe; Gebet; Peregrina I & II; Der Feuerreiter; Abschied

Poulenc La voix humaine

Tonal power and heft help propel the Apollon Musagète Quartet’s searing performances. The charismatic Polish ensemble contrasts Contrapunctus 1 from Bach’s masterful The Art of Fugue with the Romantic intensity of Schubert’s final quartet. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Modern technology meets an age-old story in Poulenc’s La voix humaine. The French composer’s opera in one act, based on Jean Cocteau’s play of the same name, presents a woman’s heartbreaking, utterly absorbing final phone call to her lover. £15 concs £13

Hugo Wolf connected with the sense and sensibility of great poetry, translating the emotions of words into music that enhances verse. Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake span the Austrian composer’s creative world, from his early songs to sublime late Lieder. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Apollon Musagète Quartet

Ian Bostridge © Sim Canetty-Clarke

Christine Rice © Patricia Taylor

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JUNE • 75 Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works

Monday 18 June 7.30pm

Tuesday 19 June 7.30pm

Wednesday 20 June 7.30pm

Peter Donohoe piano

Mahan Esfahani

Edgar Moreau cello David Kadouch piano

65th Birthday Concert Skryabin Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor Op. 19 Ravel Miroirs Mozart Piano Sonata in C K279 Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959 Peter Donohoe secured his place among world-class pianists in the early 1980s and has held it ever since. He celebrates his 65th birthday with a programme tailored to show his extraordinary stylistic versatility, superb technical command and captivating musicianship. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

harpsichord

Bach Toccata in E minor BWV914; 3 Minuets BWV841–843; Toccata in D minor BWV913; Capriccio in B flat BWV992 (Capriccio on the Departure of his Most Beloved Brother); 5 Preludes BWV939– 943; English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV811 Mahan Esfahani’s thrilling exploration of Bach’s harpsichord works continues. The BBC Music Magazine Award-winning artist opens with a piece that sounds like an improvisation and includes the teenaged composer’s Capriccio, possibly written to bid fond farewell to a friend.

Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano Poulenc Cello Sonata Strohl Sonate dramatique ‘Titus et Bérénice’ Edgar Moreau’s physical commitment contributes to the white-hot passion of his performances. The Parisian cellist, now in his early twenties, recalls the creative energy of Belle Époque France with Rita Strohl’s dramatic sonata, inspired by a tale of love and betrayal. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Peter Donohoe © Mark Allan

Mahan Esfahani © Bernhard Musil / DG

Edgar Moreau © Julien Mignot

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Dunedin Consort: Big Ideas for a Small Stage

Wigmore Lates

Thursday 21 June 7.30pm

Friday 22 June 7.00pm NB starting time

Friday 22 June 10.00pm

Dunedin Consort John Butt director

Elias String Quartet

Donald Grant violin

After Beethoven: National voices

Bach Mass in B minor BWV232

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor Op. 108 Ravel String Quartet in F Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’

Traditional and Contemporary Scottish Folk Music

Bach’s Mass in B minor stands as one of the greatest works of sacred art, solemn, joyful, heart-breaking and consoling.

John Butt and his Gramophone Award-winning Dunedin Consort, using one voice per part, reveal the music’s intimate emotions and passionate intensity. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Following its deep immersion in Beethoven’s quartets, the Elias String Quartet turns to musical reflections of national identity and autobiography. Shostakovich’s Seventh Quartet was written in memory of his first wife, while ‘From my life’ captures the trauma of Smetana’s deafness.

Born and bred in the Highlands of Scotland, Donald Grant was raised on Gaelic music. He has toured worldwide as member of the Elias String Quartet and worked on diverse musical projects. His late-night set mixes tunes from childhood with his own music.

All seats £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Dunedin Consort © David Barbour

Elias String Quartet © Benjamin Ealovega

Donald Grant

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JUNE • 77

Saturday 23 June 11.00am – 12 noon

Saturday 23 June 7.30pm

Sunday 24 June 11.30am

Relaxed Concert: Diphonon Duo

The Sixteen

Amaryllis Quartet

Handel Acis and Galatea

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Brahms String Quartet in B flat Op. 67

Michael Iskas viola Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade accordion Lucy Drever presenter This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides a special opportunity to explore music in an informal environment. Join the dynamic Diphonon Duo, alongside presenter Lucy Drever, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee afterwards.

Superb solo singers and period instrumentalists from The Sixteen recreate Handel’s ‘little opera’ Acis and Galatea – a tale complete with a jealous giant and amorous nymphs and shepherds – as it might have sounded when first performed in the summer of 1718! £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement, and house lights will remain up. Audience members are able to move in and out of the auditorium as they need to, and there is a designated quiet area.

With their light, refined string playing and eloquent artistry, the members of the Berlin-based Amaryllis Quartet are ideal companions for a midsummer’s morning. Their programme moves from the classical invention of Haydn to the romantic lyricism of Brahms. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

All seats £5

Relaxed Concert © Benjamin Ealovega

The Sixteen © Molina visuals

Amaryllis Quartet

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Sunday 24 June 3.00pm

Sunday 24 June 7.30pm

Monday 25 June 1.00pm

Samuel Hasselhorn

Quatuor Ebène

Elias String Quartet Navarra String Quartet

baritone

Renate Rohlfing piano Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Wolf Der Feuerreiter Schubert Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen Poulenc Le disparu; Priez pour paix; Le retour du sergent Schubert Erlkönig; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Nachtstück; Der blinde Knabe Brahms O Tod, o Tod, wie bitter bist du Wild passions and nerve-racking fears are among the emotions stirred by the works in Samuel Hasselhorn’s recital. The German baritone, born in 1990, returns to Wigmore Hall as winner of the prestigious 2017 Das Lied international song competition.

Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 Bartók String Quartet No. 4 BB95 Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ Over the past two decades Quatuor Ebène has explored everything from Beethoven and Bartók to Astor Piazzolla and Wayne Shorter. The ensemble’s telepathic understanding, artistic daring and musical individuality make for edge-of-the-seat concert experiences, intensely focused and touched by visionary insights. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Sally Beamish String Quartet No. 3 ‘Reed Stanzas’ Mendelssohn Octet in E flat Op. 20 Two fantastic British-based quartets, both formed at the Royal Northern College of Music, join forces in Mendelssohn’s Octet, the teenage prodigy’s miraculous masterpiece. The Elias String Quartet opens with Sally Beamish’s beautiful work for the ensemble, inspired by Hebridean landscapes and poetic imagery. £15 concs £13

All seats £15

Samuel Hasselhorn © Christian Steiner

Quatuor Ebène © Julien Mignot

Elias String Quartet © Benjamin Ealovega

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JUNE • 79

Monday 25 June 7.30pm

Tuesday 26 June 4.00pm – 5.15pm

Tuesday 26 June 7.30pm

Quatuor Ebène Martin Fröst clarinet

Lecture-Recital: Sonorous Brushes

Imogen Cooper piano

Beethoven String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2 Fauré String Quartet in E minor Op. 121 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 Quatuor Ebène’s recording of Fauré’s yearning String Quartet in E minor introduced the composer to new audiences, opening hearts to his music’s transcendent beauty. Kindred spirit Martin Fröst, the boundary-pushing Swedish clarinettist, joins the ensemble in Brahms’s elegiac Clarinet Quintet.

Professional pianist and amateur painter, Jenny Q Chai, has discovered a personal form of synaesthesia – a melding of senses – with regards to how she experiences music. In this French inspired programme, featuring repertoire which lives at the intersection of colour and sound, Jenny seeks to translate her mental imagery into the real world, both through her musical performance and on canvas.

All seats £15

Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50 Beethoven 11 Bagatelles Op. 119 Schoenberg 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 Beethoven 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 A true poet of the piano, Imogen Cooper allows her instrument to express her innermost thoughts.

This programme traces strands of classicism and romanticism, revealing both in Schoenberg’s aphoristic Little Piano Pieces before offering her vision of Beethoven’s monumental Diabelli Variations. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Martin Fröst © Mats Backer

Jenny Q Chai

Imogen Cooper © Sim Canetty-Clarke

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PARTNER SCHOOLS PROGRAMME: RECHARGED Inspired by the creative activity of our Partner Schools Programme, Lansbury Lawrence Primary School in Tower Hamlets wanted to create their own end of year show, rather than buy in a pre-written piece.

Years 5 and 6 worked with music and theatre leaders, alongside their art and drama teachers, to create and perform their very own opera, with pupils across the school creating every element, from the set, to the libretto and the music.

We gave pupils complete creative freedom on the opera’s topic, and their overwhelming response was that it should explore themes of racism, inequality and the will to power. Recharged centred on a society in which power, or ‘charge’, is unequally distributed across a kingdom of robots.

I would like to take this opportunity to say a GARGANTUAN thank you for allowing us to perform our Year 6 leaving performance at such a well-known and beautiful venue, Wigmore Hall… the fact that you have allowed 10–11 year olds to perform in this glorious hall is absolutely unbelievable.’

Year 6 pupil, Lansbury Lawrence Primary School

© Benjamin Ealovega

We are delighted that as a result of this school embracing the creative arts at the heart of their school, they have recently achieved Artsmark Gold status, an award from Arts Council England.

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Wednesday 27 June 11.00am and 1.00pm

Wednesday 27 June 7.30pm

Thursday 28 June 10.15am and 11.45am

World Première: Butterfly Brain

Ming Xie piano

Chamber Tots: In Space

Key Stage 2 Schools Concert

Granados From Goyescas: El Amor y la muerte & El fandango del candil Ravel Gaspard de la nuit Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28

‘STOP LEANING BACK ON YOUR CHAIR!’ are the same six words, in the same particular order, that Bruno is told every day from his teacher, his Dad and granny, but NEVER EVER hears. Until one day, something rather extraordinary happens...

In an exhilarating flight of fantasy and magic written by Laura Dockrill with music composed by Kerry Andrew, this cautionary tale explores all the curiously obscure, brilliant and bizarre dreams, thoughts, ideas and fears inside a brain and how one little boy takes those wonderful things for granted.

Butterfly Brain is wild explosion of colour, sound, and the imagination.

11.00am – 12 noon Repeated 1.00pm – 2.00pm

Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize

The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Described by the legendary Martha Argerich as ‘phenomenal’, pianist Ming Xie, this year’s recipient, is fast establishing himself as a rising star in classical music. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he enjoys a busy international concert diary and makes his Wigmore Hall debut with a colourful and charming programme.

We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us on a rocket into space! This interactive music-making workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging ensembles.

10.15am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45am (3–5 year olds) Approximately 1 hour in duration Children £6 Adults £4

£15 concs £13

Children £4 Accompanying Adults Free (ticket required) Kerry Andrew © Urszula Sołtys

Ming Xie

Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

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Introduction to the String Quartet

Wigmore Lates

Thursday 28 June 4.45pm – 6.00pm Thursday 5 July 4.45pm – 6.00pm

Thursday 28 June 7.30pm

Friday 29 June 10.00pm

Elizabeth Watts soprano Roderick Williams

Lucy Schaufer

Roger Vignoles piano

The Class of 1938

baritone

Thursday 12 July 4.45pm – 6.00pm

Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch

Thursday 19 July 4.45pm – 6.00pm The string quartet, a combination of two upper voices, one middle and one lower, gives the composer the minimum requirement for fourpart harmony. This idea of a bare minimum has entranced composers from Haydn – who started it all – right through to the present day, and the attention that so many great composers have given the genre has created an almost unrivalled succession of masterful works; Beethoven’s seventeen quartets acting almost as benchmarks, with Schubert, Brahms, Bartók and Shostakovich pitching in too.

Join Roy Stratford to explore how the string quartet has adapted to changing musical styles and become arguably the most significant and fertile chamber music combination.

Limitless journeys of the imagination spring from the Italienisches Liederbuch, forty-six settings of exquisite love songs.

An irresistible trio of British artists lead the voyage through Hugo Wolf’s sublime miniatures, little snapshots of life that leave lasting impressions. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall

Series ticket price £33

mezzo-soprano

Huw Watkins piano William Bolcom MiniCab Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 12; Ghost Rags No. 1: The Graceful Ghost Joan Tower Up High (UK première); Or like a... an Engine John Harbison Late Air Charles Wuorinen Twang Hedy West Five Hundred Miles (world première) John Corigliano The Passionate Shepherd to His Love* (world première) Frederic Rzewski War Songs No. 1 Gordon Lightfoot Black Day in July (world première) Peter Yarrow Sweet Survivor (world première) John Corigliano Metamusic *Co-commissioned by Wild Plum Arts and Wigmore Hall One link connects the composers in Lucy Schaufer’s show – they were all born in 1938. The American mezzo celebrates their 80th birthdays and their music’s dazzling diversity, complete with a John Corigliano world première.

All seats £15

Elizabeth Watts © Marco Borggreve

Lucy Schaufer

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JULY • 83

Saturday 30 June 11.00am – 12 noon

Saturday 30 June 7.30pm

Sunday 1 July 11.30am

Family Concert: Butterfly Brain

Sophie Bevan soprano Ryan Wigglesworth piano

For ages 5 plus

Musorgsky The Nursery Ryan Wigglesworth New work* (world première) Stravinsky Three Little Songs (Recollections of my Childhood) Messiaen Poèmes pour Mi

Veronika Eberle violin Alban Gerhardt cello Edicson Ruiz double bass José Gallardo piano

‘STOP LEANING BACK ON YOUR CHAIR!’ are the same six words, in the same particular order, that Bruno is told every day from his teacher, his Dad and granny, but NEVER EVER hears. Until one day, something rather extraordinary happens...

In an exhilarating flight of fantasy and magic written by Laura Dockrill with music composed by Kerry Andrew, this cautionary tale explores all the curiously obscure, brilliant and bizarre dreams, thoughts, ideas and fears inside a brain and how one little boy takes those wonderful things for granted.

Butterfly Brain is wild explosion of colour, sound, and the imagination.

*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Composer-performer Ryan Wigglesworth’s new work for Sophie Bevan adds to the attraction of a programme crowned by Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi, an ecstatic celebration of the spiritual dimension of marriage that sounds as fresh today as it did eighty years ago. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Children £10 Adults £12

Romantic Grand Duos of the 19th Century Bottesini Gran duo concertante for violin, double bass and piano Servais Grand Duo de Concert sur deux airs nationaux anglais for violin and cello Ernst Elegy (arr. for double bass) Bottesini Duetto Concertante for double bass and cello on themes of I Puritani by Bellini Grand duos don’t come much grander than Bottesini’s for double bass and other instruments.

Venezuelan double bass player Edicson Ruiz, the youngest musician to join the Berliner Philharmoniker since the 1800s, and three close musical friends illuminate their dazzling virtuosity. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Laura Dockrill © Sonny Malhotra

Sophie Bevan © Sussie Ahlburg

Veronika Eberle © Felix Broede

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Monday 2 July 1.00pm

Monday 2 July 7.30pm

Tuesday 3 July 7.30pm

Adam Walker flute Cédric Tiberghien piano

Véronique Gens soprano Susan Manoff piano

Enescu Cantabile et presto Prokofiev 5 Melodies Op. 35bis; Flute Sonata in D Op. 94

Gounod Où voulez-vous aller?; Départ; O ma belle rebelle; Sérénade; Mignon; Viens, les gazons sont verts de Polignac Lamento Massenet Nuit d’Espagne; Chant provençal; Elégie Duparc Chanson triste; La vie antérieure; Extase; Lamento Hahn Mai; Les cygnes; Infidélité; Rêverie Offenbach La laitière et le pot au lait; Le rat de ville et le rat des champs; Le corbeau et le renard

David Hansen countertenor Academia Montis Regalis Alessandro De Marchi

Adam Walker, appointed principal flute of the London Symphony Orchestra in 2009 at the age of 21, joins Cédric Tiberghien to perform works that reveal his instrument’s virtuosity and strength of character, crowned by Prokofiev’s light-hearted Flute Sonata. £15 concs £13

Following an acclaimed recital of French mélodies last season, Véronique Gens, an artist at the height of her powers, and regular duo partner Susan Manoff make a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with an enchanting programme of Duparc, Hahn, Massenet and more. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

conductor, harpsichord

Handel From Giulio Cesare: Overture & Se in fiorito prato Hasse Overture to Cleofide Handel From Alcina: Overture, Bramo di trionfar, Verdi prati, Di te mi rido, La bocca vaga & Mi lusinga il dolce affetto; Crude furie from Serse In today’s golden age of countertenors, David Hansen stands out as a gloriously individual, utterly compelling artist. The Australian’s highoctane performances have been acclaimed for their vocal acrobatics and jaw-dropping beauty. He makes his eagerly awaited Wigmore Hall debut as he explores spectacular arias from Handel’s celebrated Giulio Cesare, Alcina and Serse. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Adam Walker © Kaupo Kikkas

Véronique Gens © Franck Juery

David Hansen © Tonje Thilesen

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Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle Wednesday 4 July 7.30pm

Thursday 5 July 7.30pm

Friday 6 July 7.00pm NB starting time

Cuarteto Casals

Tana String Quartet

Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Benet Casablancas String Quartet No. 4 ‘Widmung’* (UK première) Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’ Bartók String Quartet No. 4 BB95 Yann Robin String Quartet No. 3 ‘Shadows’ (UK première)*

Sandrine Piau soprano Susan Manoff piano

*Commissioned by Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid

*Co-commissioned by Philharmonie de Paris, Muziekgebouw Brugge, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

A newly commissioned work by Benet Casablancas, Widmung, crowns Cuarteto Casals’s season-long sequence of new quartets, along with Beethoven masterworks. The Spanish composer’s new work stands between the symphonic intensity of Beethoven’s Op. 95 and the Everest-like Grosse Fuge. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

Yann Robin’s music conjures with extremes, drawing listeners into strikingly original soundworlds.

The French composer wrote ‘Shadows’ for the Tana String Quartet, who give its UK première, in company with other innovative compositions. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Chimère Loewe Ach neige, du Schmerzensreiche Schumann Kennst du das Land?; Dein Angesicht; Die Lotosblume Debussy Apparition; Fêtes galantes Book I Wolf Verschwiegene Liebe; Nixe Binsefuss; Das verlassene Mägdlein; Lied vom Winde Berg From Sieben frühe Lieder: Nacht; Schilflied; Die Nachtigall Gurney Sleep Robert Baksa Heart! We will forget him!

Poulenc Banalités; C’est ainsi que tu es Barber Solitary Hotel André Previn As imperceptibly as grief; Will there really be a morning?; Good morning midnight Sandrine Piau’s programme, built with terrific imagination to reflect on different states of mind and responses to life, love and nature, opens with Gretchen’s heart-rending soliloquy from Goethe’s great drama Faust before journeying through a sequence of deeply moving songs. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Cuarteto Casals © Molina Visuals

Tana String Quartet © Nicolas Draps

Sandrine Piau © Sandrine Expilly / Naïve

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Wigmore Lates Friday 6 July 10.00pm

Saturday 7 July 11.00am and 12.30pm

Saturday 7 July 7.30pm

David Orlowsky Trio

For Crying Out Loud!

Steven Osborne piano

David Orlowsky clarinet Jens-Uwe Popp guitar Florian Dohrmann double bass

Duo Pavoni Belli-Grasso violin and piano

David Orlowsky Lyra; Sababa; Bucovina Jens-Uwe Popp Satin Abe Schwartz Lebedig un Freylach / Odessa Bulgar Jens-Uwe Popp Night Train to Odessa Jens-Uwe Popp Jodaeiye Velvl Zbarzher Kum aher Du Filozof Florian Dohrmann Ultimate Bulgar; Taxi Bucuresti

Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment.

Debussy La cathédrale engloutie Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat Op. 83 Debussy Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 82

Approximately 45 minutes in duration Adults £8.50 (babies come free) In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Clarinettist David Orlowsky and his classical chart-topping Trio, purveyors of ‘weightless music of the moment’, take the train from cosmopolitan Odessa to Paris with compositions touched by echoes of lost ancestors, the kings of klezmer, contemporary jazz and world music, and sacred polyphony.

Steven Osborne turns to his beloved French and Russian repertoire, combining the shimmering sounds of Debussy’s ‘Sunken Cathedral’ and ‘Evening Harmonies’ and the rhythmic drive and bitter-sweet emotions of two of Prokofiev’s ‘War Sonatas’. He also performs Berg’s haunting Sonata Opus 1. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

All seats £15

David Orlowsky Trio © Christian Debus

© Benjamin Ealovega

Steven Osborne © Benjamin Ealovega

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Sunday 8 July 11.30am

Sunday 8 July 7.30pm

Monday 9 July 1.00pm

Formosa Quartet Richard Lester cello

ATOS Trio

Chloë Hanslip violin Danny Driver piano

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703; String Quintet in C D956 Schubert’s biography, uneventful and humble, contrasts with the god-like power of his creative genius. The Formosa Quartet catches the composer on divine form in his fiery Quartettsatz and again in the sublime String Quintet, performed in company with cellist Richard Lester. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Formosa Quartet © Sam Zauscher

Korngold Piano Trio in D Op. 1 Richard Baker New work (world première)* Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall

Berlin-based ATOS Trio owns an international reputation as one of today’s finest piano trios. The ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall with an enthralling programme, including the lyrical late romanticism of Korngold’s Piano Trio and a new work by Richard Baker. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

ATOS Trio © Frank Jerke

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver never hold back in pursuit of the deepest expression in everything they perform, revealing hidden depths and meanings even in familiar repertoire. They let loose with two dark-toned violin sonatas of staggering intensity. £15 concs £13

Chloë Hanslip © Kaupo Kikkas

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Monday 9 July 7.30pm

Tuesday 10 July 7.30pm

Wednesday 11 July 7.30pm

Dame Felicity Palmer

Veronika Eberle violin Tatjana Masurenko viola Marie-Elisabeth Hecker

Ensemble Variances

mezzo-soprano

Simon Lepper piano Programme to include: Britten Mad Bess Schumann 5 Lieder der Maria Stuart Tchaikovsky None but the lonely heart; Night; Why? Joseph Horovitz Lady Macbeth – a Scena Poulenc Violon No. 5; Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant; La Souris; Berceuse Dring Song of a nightclub proprietress Janis Ian At seventeen Stephen Sondheim From Follies: Losing my Mind & Could I leave you?

Dame Felicity Palmer made her professional debut in 1971 and has since achieved stellar status as soprano and mezzo-soprano.

She and Simon Lepper build their programme around Lady Macbeth – a scena by Joseph Horovitz, a psychological portrait of Shakespeare’s terrifying, tragic character.

cello

Martin Helmchen piano Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 26 Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47 Four charismatic musicians join forces to perform two of the greatest piano quartets in the book. Schumann famously described young Brahms as ‘a chosen one’, the future of German music, a prophesy soon underlined by works such as his Second Piano Quartet. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Anssi Karttunen cello Thierry Pécou composer Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (arr. Michael Webster) François-Bernard Mâche Sopiana Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Takemitsu Toward the Sea III Thierry Pécou Méditation sur la fin de l’espèce* (UK première) *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

‘Every concert we embark on a new adventure with our audience: welcome on board’, notes Ensemble Variances. Processed whale sounds, electric piano and a combination of strings and wind instruments belong to Thierry Pécou’s Méditation, a thrilling addition to his Paris-based ensemble’s repertoire. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Dame Felicity Palmer © Christian Steiner

Tatjana Masurenko © Carmen Jasmyn Hoffmann

Ensemble Variances © Charlotte Abramow

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Haydn String Quartet Series

Haydn String Quartet Series

Wigmore Lates

Thursday 12 July 7.30pm

Friday 13 July 7.00pm NB starting time

Friday 13 July 10.00pm

Carducci String Quartet

Bennewitz Quartet

The Prince Consort

Haydn String Quartet in E Op. 17 No. 1; String Quartet in C Op. 50 No. 2 Bartók String Quartet No. 2 BB75

Haydn String Quartet in E flat Op. 1 No. 2; String Quartet in G Op. 17 No. 5; String Quartet in F Op. 50 No. 5 ‘The Dream’; String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2

Alisdair Hogarth director, piano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Nicholas Mulroy tenor

Praised by Gramophone for its ‘clarity, focus and precision’ and for playing ‘full of life and vitality’ by the Washington Post, the Carducci String Quartet showcases Haydn’s invention before turning to the deeply meditative sounds of Bartók’s Second String Quartet.

The great Czech string quartet tradition still flourishes thanks to groups like the Bennewitz Quartet.

The ensemble directs its fiery characters and ardent collective voice to Haydn, opening with a genial early quartet and exploring the rhapsodic mood of his ‘Dream’ Quartet.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Jason Rebello piano

Brahms Von ewiger Liebe Schubert Erlkönig Fauré Clair de lune Schubert An den Mond Beethoven Adelaide Debussy Beau soir Strauss Morgen Schubert Du bist die Ruh Britten O Waly, Waly Interspersed with improvisations based on the above works Jason Rebello made his name in the late 1980s as a jazz pianist before joining Sting’s band and working with Jeff Beck. He joins The Prince Consort for a lateevening mix of favourite art songs with exciting jazz improvisations.

All seats £15

Carducci String Quartet © Tom Barnes

Bennewitz Quartet © Kamil Ghais

Jason Rebello

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Saturday 14 July 7.30pm

Evelyn Glennie percussion Philip Smith piano Huw Edwards presenter Artists in Conversation and Concert

Percussion pioneer Evelyn Glennie, one of the world’s most prominent percussion soloists, is a champion of communication. She is joined by celebrated pianist Philip Smith for an extraordinary event, in which conversations with Huw Edwards will be illustrated by performances of a range of works – either in full or in part – each introduced from the stage. Evelyn invites all to listen in new ways, and to experience music as an embodied element of human life. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Evelyn Glennie © Jim Callaghan

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Sunday 15 July 11.30am

Sunday 15 July 7.30pm

Monday 16 July 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Sitkovetsky Trio

Robin Tritschler tenor Jonathan Ware piano

Music for the Moment

Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 The fabulous Sitkovetsky Trio, rising stars of chamber music, opens with Beethoven’s breakthrough piece. Its confident swagger contrasts with the turbulent emotions of Schumann’s First Piano Trio, which surge throughout its first movement’s yearning string melodies and stormy piano writing. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Family Ties Haydn She never told her love; Sailor’s song Michael Haydn Abendlied; Die Vergänglichkeit aller Dinge Clara Schumann Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen; Lorelei Robert Schumann Der arme Peter Felix Mendelssohn Erntelied; Maienlied; Abendlied; Im Grünen Fanny Mendelssohn Italien; Das Heimweh Lili Boulanger Les lilas qui avaient fleuri; Deux ancolies Nadia Boulanger Roses de Juin Michael Berkeley Nettles Lennox Berkeley Five Housman Songs Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo

A concert for people living with dementia and their friends, family and carers If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for this informal afternoon concert with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30pm.

Free (ticket required) In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts

Songs by Clara Schumann and her husband Robert, Fanny Mendelssohn and her brother Felix, Michael Berkeley, his father Lennox and godfather Britten, forge the ‘Family Ties’ present in Robin Tritschler’s programme. The Irish tenor’s repertoire adventures close with Britten’s sensuous Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Sitkovetsky Trio

Robin Tritschler © Garreth Wong

Music for the Moment © www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Tuesday 17 July 7.30pm

Wednesday 18 July 10.15am and 11.45am

Wednesday 18 July 7.30pm

Sergei Babayan piano

Chamber Tots: In Space

Maximilian Schmitt tenor Gerold Huber piano

Vladimir Ryabov Fantasia in C minor Op. 21, in memory of Maria Yudina Rameau From Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin: Suite in E minor; Suite in G minor; Suite in A minor (excerpts) Mozart Andante in F for mechanical organ K616; Piano Sonata in F K533/494; Piano Sonata in A minor K310 With apparently boundless expressive intensity and tonal nuance, Sergei Babayan penetrates the heart of the works in his vast repertoire. The ArmenianAmerican pianist performs Vladimir Ryabov’s fervent tribute to Soviet pianist Maria Yudina, mesmerising Rameau and Mozart’s delightful Andante, originally for barrel organ.

We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us on a rocket into space! This interactive music-making workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging ensembles.

10.15am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45am (3–5 year olds) Approximately 1 hour in duration Children £6 Adults £4

Schumann From Myrthen: Freisinn; Venetianisches Lieder I & II; Du bist wie eine Blume; Aus den östlichen Rosen; Was will die einsame Träne?; Zum Schluß Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Fauré Les berceaux; Mandoline; Adieu; Les roses d’Ispahan; Clair de lune; Fleur jetée Strauss Morgen; Die Nacht; Wer hat’s getan?; Wozu noch, Mädchen, soll es Frommen; Ach Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden; Breit über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten; Ich trage meine Minne German tenor Maximilian Schmitt returns to Wigmore Hall with one of the world’s leading song pianists for a recital of heart-melting melodies and passionate Lieder. Their programme includes compositions inspired by silence, sadness, and the bliss of young love.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall Sergei Babayan © Marco Borggreve

Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega

Maximilian Schmitt © Christian Kagl

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Thursday 19 July 7.30pm

Friday 20 July 7.00pm NB starting time

Friday 20 July 10.00pm

Gabriela Montero piano Mozart Piano Sonata in C K330 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition

Members of Britten Sinfonia Nicholas Daniel oboe

Heath Quartet Ruth Gibson viola Marie Bitlloch cello

Michael Berkeley 70th Birthday Concert

Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero’s artistry combines pulsing rhythmic energy, thrilling spontaneity and true heart. She performs three works of stunning invention, from the classical poise of Mozart and technical demands of Beethoven’s ‘Waldstein’ Sonata to Musorgsky’s vibrant Pictures from an Exhibition.

Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 Beethoven Grosse Fuge in B flat Op. 133 Michael Berkeley New work for solo oboe Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Michael Berkeley Into the Ravine Strauss Metamorphosen for string septet

Bach Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein BWV641; Das alte Jahr vergangen ist BWV614; O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross BWV622 Jörg Widmann String Quartet No. 2 ‘Choralquartett’ Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Composer and broadcaster Michael Berkeley has delighted millions with his award-winning Private Passions series on BBC Radio 3 and been an eloquent champion of British music and musicians. Wigmore Hall celebrates his 70th birthday with an evening of his chamber works.

The Heath Quartet opens with pieces from Bach’s Little Organ Book, which flow into Jörg Widmann’s ‘Choralquartett’, with its ghostly, disruptive mix of sound and silence. Schoenberg’s richly chromatic Verklärte Nacht, a symphonic poem for string sextet, completes this compelling programme.

All seats £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Gabriela Montero © Shelley Mosman

Nicholas Daniel © Eric Richmond

Heath Quartet © Simon Way

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Saturday 21 July 1.00pm

Principality Only Boys Aloud Academi 2017 Tim Rhys-Evans conductor Jonathan Butterell director

Desprez Absalon, Fili Mi Saint-Saëns Saltarelle Sibelius Hymn Op. 21 No. 2 Jaakko Mäntyjärvi Pseudo-Yoik Rosephanye Powell The Word Was God Bob Chilcott Five Ways To Kill a Man Trad Ramkali (arr. E Sperry) Trad Loch Lomond (arr. J Quick)

Following its Wigmore Hall debut in 2017, the Principality Only Boys Aloud Academi makes a welcome return. Only Boys Aloud, coordinated by The Aloud Charity, uses choral singing to effect positive change amongst teenage boys across Wales, promoting self-belief and self-confidence, and developing a sense of community.

The Academi comprises 32 of the older OBA boys who show particular musical promise: this performance is the result of a residential summer school where the boys are challenged, encouraged, and supported to do more and better.

All seats £10

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Saturday 21 July 7.30pm

Sunday 22 July 11.30am

Sunday 22 July 7.30pm

Igor Levit piano

Zorá String Quartet

Brahms Chaconne by JS Bach for piano left hand (arr. of Chaconne in D minor for solo violin BWV1004) Busoni Fantasia after JS Bach BV253 Schumann Geistervariationen (Ghost Variations) WoO 24 Wagner Parsifal ‘Solemn March to the Holy Grail’ (arr. Liszt) Liszt Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’ (arr. Busoni) S259

Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13

Pavol Breslik tenor Amir Katz piano

Igor Levit’s recital combines mighty transcriptions by Brahms and Liszt with an entrancing mix of counterpoint and romantic melody. It culminates with the bell-like sounds of Wagner’s ‘Solemn March’ and Busoni’s spectacular piano arrangement of Liszt’s organ Fantasy and Fugue.

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Graduate quartet in residence at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, the Zorá String Quartet – described by The Strad as ‘utterly fantastic’ – makes its Wigmore Hall debut with youthful and charming masterworks by Haydn and Mendelssohn.

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval Royal Opera House regular Pavol Breslik has forged a glittering career since he was named ‘Most Promising Singer of the Year’ by Opernwelt in 2005. The Slovakian tenor marks his Wigmore Hall debut with Schubert’s tale of the fair miller-maid. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Supported by an anonymous donor

Igor Levit © Robbie Lawrence

Zorá String Quartet © Matt Dine

Pavol Breslik © Anton Karpita

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Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Haydn String Quartet Series

Monday 23 July 7.30pm

Tuesday 24 July 7.30pm

Wednesday 25 July 7.30pm

Alban Gerhardt cello Vikingur Olafsson piano

Julia Fischer violin Aris Alexander Blettenberg piano

Castalian String Quartet

Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor BWV1029 Anders Hillborg Duo for cello and piano (UK première) Debussy Cello Sonata Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 Stravinsky Suite italienne for cello and piano German cellist Alban Gerhardt, described by Tagesspiegel as ‘a magician of cantabile playing and a master of virtuosic panache’, turns his charismatic artistry to a strikingly rich programme, including Debussy’s hauntingly beautiful Cello Sonata and Anders Hillborg’s new Duo.

Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat K454 Schubert Rondo in B minor D895 Dvořák Romance in F minor Op. 11 Szymanowski Sonata in D minor for violin and piano Op. 9 One of today’s finest violinists, Julia Fischer, acclaimed for her virtuosity and soulful musicianship, joins young pianist, conductor and composer Aris Alexander Blettenberg to cross the continents of creative invention contained within four beautifully crafted works for violin and piano.

Haydn String Quartet in B flat Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’; String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5; String Quartet in E flat Op. 76 No. 6 Haydn achieved perfection in his six Opus 76 string quartets.

The magnificent young Castalian String Quartet, praised by The Strad for its ‘romantic energy and passion’, completes its survey of the composer’s set and brings Wigmore’s Haydn series to a thrilling conclusion. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Alban Gerhardt © Sim Canetty-Clarke Hyperion Records

Julia Fischer © Felix Broede

Castalian String Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas

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Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Thursday 26 July 7.30pm

Angela Hewitt piano 60th Birthday Concert Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 The Guardian greeted Angela Hewitt’s most recent recording of the Goldberg Variations as ‘arguably the best … since Glenn Gould’s’, praising her ‘remarkable achievement’.

The Canadian pianist celebrates her birthday by sharing her latest insights into Bach’s awe-inspiring variations. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval

Angela Hewitt © Keith Saunders

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Contemporary Music Series

98 • Contemporary music

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Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, and as a commissioner of new works and a champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least through its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London premières.

‘Our commissioning scheme is already the most extensive

Tuesday 10 April 7.30pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Paul Huang violin Richard O’Neill viola Paul Watkins cello Gilles Vonsattel piano Huw Watkins* Wednesday 11 April 7.30pm JACK Quartet Amy Williams, Marcos Balter, Julian Anderson* & Brian Ferneyhough

in Europe for chamber music’,

Friday 13 April 7.30pm

comments Wigmore Hall

Igor Levit piano

Director, John Gilhooly, ‘and

Frederic Rzewski

in recent years Wigmore

Monday 16 April 7.30pm

Hall has become one of the

Yefim Bronfman piano

world’s foremost centres for

Jörg Widmann

contemporary chamber music.’

Wednesday 18 April 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia Thomas Gould violin Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Tom Poster piano

Friday 6 April 7.30pm

Caroline Shaw*

Elias String Quartet

Saturday 5 May

György Kurtág

In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music Clark Rundell conductor

Saturday 7 April 10.00pm Svante Henryson electric guitar Leandro Mancini-Olivos percussion Henrik Måwe piano Baba Israel rapper Samuel West narrator Henrik Måwe & Svante Henryson

Mark-Anthony Turnage Tuesday 8 May 7.30pm Sacconi String Quartet Jonathan Dove

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Saturday 12 May 7.30pm

Sunday 10 June 7.30pm

Friday 6 July 7.00pm

Jörg Widmann clarinet Sir András Schiff piano

Jörg Widmann clarinet

Sandrine Piau soprano Susan Manoff piano

Jörg Widmann Friday 25 May 7.00pm

Jörg Widmann Wednesday 13 June 7.30pm

Inon Barnatan piano

Jakub Józef Orliński countertenor Michał Biel piano

Avner Dorman

Paweł Łukaszewski

Monday 28 May 7.30pm

Saturday 16 June 7.30pm

Trio Tre Voci

Heath Quartet

Takemitsu & Toshio Hosokawa

Jörg Widmann

Friday 1 June 10.00pm Chineke! Orchestra Florence Price Monday 4 June 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals Lucio Franco Amanti Wednesday 6 June 7.30pm The Prince Consort Alisdair Hogarth director, piano Verity Wingate soprano Andrew Staples tenor Laura Mucha poet Michael Anderson, Cheryl Frances-Hoad & Graham Ross Friday 8 June 10.00pm Onyx Brass Kenny Wheeler, Jason Rebello, Trish Clowes, Mark Nightingale, Laurence Cottle, Guy Barker, Mike Walker & Gwilym Simcock

Monday 25 June 1.00pm Elias String Quartet Sally Beamish Friday 29 June 10.00pm Lucy Schaufer mezzo-soprano Huw Watkins piano William Bolcom, Joan Tower, John Harbison, Charles Wuorinen, Hedy West, John Corigliano*, Frederic Rzewski, Gordon Lightfoot & Peter Yarrow Saturday 30 June 7.30pm Sophie Bevan soprano Ryan Wigglesworth piano Ryan Wigglesworth* Wednesday 4 July 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals Benet Casablancas Thursday 5 July 7.30pm Tana String Quartet Yann Robin*

Robert Baksa & André Previn Friday 6 July 10.00pm David Orlowsky Trio David Orlowsky, Jens-Uwe Popp, Abe Schwartz, Velvl Zbarzher & Florian Dohrmann Sunday 8 July 7.30pm ATOS Trio Richard Baker* Wednesday 11 July 7.30pm Ensemble Variances Anssi Karttunen cello François-Bernard Mâche, Toru Takemitsu & Thierry Pécou* Tuesday 17 July 7.30pm Sergei Babayan piano Vladimir Ryabov Friday 20 July 7.00pm Members of Britten Sinfonia Nicholas Daniel oboe Michael Berkeley Friday 20 July 10.00pm Heath Quartet Jörg Widmann

*Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Helen Grime, Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, is supported by The Marchus Trust Jörg Widmann’s residency is made possible thanks to Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation, with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

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Booking information Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Booking Dates

Wigmore Hall Box Office

Booking Period 3

36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

Sunday 1 April – Thursday 26 July 2018 Priority Booking opens on Tuesday 19 December 2017 Season Patrons, Season Benefactors and Rubinstein Circle: Requests to be submitted by Monday 8 January 2018 Patron, Benefactor, Supporter and Member Friends: Request to be submitted by Thursday 11 January 2018 Mailing List: Requests to be submitted by Thursday 18 January 2018 General Public: By telephone/online from Tuesday 6 February 2018 We strongly recommend early booking for Pre-Concert Talks, Artists in Conversation and Study Events.

Wigmore Hall Seating Plan AA AA AA BB CC A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X

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Tel: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Email (not for bookings): boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tickets Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into five price ranges: ■ Stalls C – M: Highest price ■ Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price ■ Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price ■ Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd highest price ■ Stalls AA, T – V: 4th highest price ■ Stalls W – X: Lowest price

Telephone Bookings 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm.

Days without an evening concert: 10.00am–5.00pm.

There is a non-refundable £3.00 administration charge for each transaction.

Online Bookings Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk to book seats. There is a non-refundable administration charge of £2.00.

Tickets for Concessions Where a concession (concs) ticket price is listed these are available to students, senior citizens and the unemployed. Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/ concessions for full details.

Under 35s Ticket Scheme Ticket buyers under the age of 35 are entitled to reduced price tickets for selected concerts. Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/u35 for full details.

Facilities for Families Wigmore Hall is proud to meet the Family Arts Standards reflecting its commitment to offering family-friendly events and spaces.

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Transport Tubes: Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines), Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines).

Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford Street.

Car Parking There is limited street parking after 6.30pm (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 fiveminute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their parking when using the Cavendish Square (Q Park Oxford Street) car park. Please contact the Box Office for further details.

Disabled Access and Facilities Full details from 020 7935 2141 or access@wigmore-hall.org.uk

Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze Charter Mark from Attitude is Everything

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If this would be of assistance to you, please email access@wigmore-hall.org.uk or call 020 7935 2141.

Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary.

Wigmore Hall Restaurant & Bar Join us for our Express Lunch Menu, with a range of modern and traditional options.

2 or 3 course menus available Weekdays 12 noon – 2.30pm Table reservations: 020 7935 2141 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant

Supporting Wigmore Hall With over £1.8 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend or making a donation towards our Artistic Series or Learning programme, please call 020 7258 8230 or email friends@wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information.

The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert and Learning programmes: Royal Patron HRH The Duke of Kent, KG Honorary Patrons Aubrey Adams OBE André and Rosalie Hoffmann Kohn Foundation Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Season Patrons 2017/18 Aubrey Adams OBE* Tony and Marion Allen* American Friends of Wigmore Hall Karl Otto Bonnier* Henry and Suzanne Davis The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Pauline and Ian Howat* Harry Lee and Clive Potter* Valerie O’Connor Hamish Parker Victoria and Simon Robey David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma* Julia Schottlander* Cita and Irwin Stelzer* William and Alex de Winton* and several anonymous donors Season Benefactors 2017/18 Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Mark Echlin and Victoria Gath Lord and Lady Lloyd Julia MacRae* The Tertis Foundation Kathleen Verelst* Philip and Emeline Winston* Early Music and Baroque Circle Geoffrey Barnett Sandra Carlisle Dr C Endersby and Prof. D Cowan OBE Dr M T A Evans Deborah Finkler and Allan Murray-Jones David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma* Philip T Smith Professor Christopher Thompson Marina Vaizey* Anne and David Weizmann and an anonymous donor The Haydn String Quartet Circle Nicola Coldstream Katherine Douglas Nina Drucker Felicity Fairbairn Margery Gray Benjamin Hargreaves Pauline and Ian Howat* Harriet and Michael Maunsell Roy and Celia Palmer Louise Scheuer Michael and Claudia Spies In Memory of Robert Streit Marina Vaizey* Gerry Wakelin*

Piano Circle Clive Butler Mr Martin and Dr Mina Edwards Philip and Susan Feakin Charles Green Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Edith Randall Grace Yu Voices at Wigmore Geoffrey Barnett Katie Bradford Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair Michael Brind Nicola Coldstream Pauline Del Mar J L Drewitt Margery Gray In memory of Ray Hall Benjamin Hargreaves Dame Felicity Lott Julia MacRae* John and Ann Tusa Susan Ward David and Frances Waters* David Evan Williams and an anonymous donor Corporate Supporters Capital Group (corporate matched giving) Complete Coffee Ltd Dawood & Tanner Specialist Dental Practice The Howard de Walden Estate Kirker Holidays Martin Randall Travel Ltd Rothschild & Co Steinway & Sons Donors and Sponsors The 29th May 1961 Charitable TrustL Mr Eric Abraham* Neville and Nicola Abraham Elaine Adair Ralph and Elizabeth Aldwinckle Alexis Gregory Foundation and the Vendome Prize Ian Allan The Andor Charitable TrustL Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation David and Jacqueline Ansell* Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne‡ Arts Council England Mrs Arlene Beare Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez Mrs Arline Blass David and Mary Bowerman* John and Julia Boyd* Alan Bradley* Donald Campbell A bequest from the late Peter Canter Cavatina Chamber Music TrustL Lord and Lady Chadlington* Charities Advisory TrustL Mary and Robert Childs Colin Clark Sheila Clarke*

Cockayne - Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation‡ John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Michael and Felicia Crystal* Celia and Andrew Curran Anthony Davis* In memory of Margaret Dewhirst James Dooley The Dorset Foundation – in memory of Harry M Weinrebe In memory of Robert Easton Douglas and Janette Eden The Eldering/Goecke Family Annette Ellis* The Elton Family The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation Caroline Erskine The Fidelio Charitable Trust Patricia and Jeffrey Fine John and Amy Ford The Foyle Foundation Neil and Deborah Franks* Michael Freegard Friends of Wigmore Hall Jonathan Gaisman* The Garfield Weston Foundation Alan and Joanna Gemes* John Gilhooly* John and Lauren Goldsmith* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Peter Goodwin Elaine and Peter Hallgarten Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* The Harbour FoundationL The Hargreaves and Ball Trust The Harold Hyam Wingate FoundationL Malcolm Herring* Simon Hillary Nicholas Hodgson André and Rosalie Hoffmann‡ Gay Huey Evans* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Hyde Park Place Estate CharityL Simone Hyman* Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust Peter and Nikki Jeffcote John Lyon’s CharityL Marc Jourdren* In memory of Donald Kahn Su and Neil Kaplan* David and Louise Kaye* Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Maryly La Follette* Gabor Lacko Alan Leibowitz and Barbara Weiss The Leverhulme TrustL The Linbury TrustL Tim Llewellyn The Loveday Charitable Trust Simon and Sophie Ludlam* Marianne and Andy Lusher* David Lyons* Anne and Brian Mace Julia MacRae*L The Estate of Pamela Majaro MBE Simon Majaro MBE

The Marchus Trust‡ Selina and David Marks* Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Michael and Lynne McGowan* George MeyerL Michael Watson Charitable Trust Milton Damerel TrustL David Moldon in memory of his brother Peter L Moldon The Monument Trust Amyas and Louise Morse* A C and F A Myer Sara Naudi Valerie O’ConnorL Paxos Festival Trust The du Plessis Family Foundation Isabel and Jonathan Popper Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Radcliffe Trust Stuart and Bianca RodenL Charles Rose* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM* The Rubinstein Circle S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3L The Sampimon TrustL Annette Scawen Morreau Julia Schottlander*L Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Rhona Shaw Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Serena Simmons and Michael Thomas* Jo and Barry Slavin Sir Martin and Lady Smith* Michael Smith and Nicholas Bartlett* Spencer Hart Charitable TrustL Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* In memory of Colin Steele Gill and Keith Stella* John Stephens OBE, HonFTCL* Anne and Paul Swain* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* Coen Teulings The Three Monkies TrustL Robin Vousden* Andrew and Hilary Walker* David and Margaret Walker* Professor Janet Walker CD and Professor Doug Jones AO* Dame Fanny Waterman* Michael and Rosemary Warburg The Welton Foundation David and Martha Winfield* William and Alex de Winton*L The Wolfson Foundation Youth MusicL and several anonymous donors * Rubinstein Circle members ‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters L Learning Programme supporters Details correct as of October 2017 The Wigmore Hall Trust Registered Charity No. 1024838

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CHAMBER ZONE Free concert tickets for young people and school groups Wigmore Hall and CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust have been offering free tickets to young people since 1999.

This year we are delighted to offer over 2,000 free tickets to young people aged 8 – 25 and school groups, as well as free pre-concert workshops for schools.

Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/chamberzone or check our Learning brochure for forthcoming concert dates.

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust

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Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonRCM, HonFGS, HonFRIAM 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity Number 1024838

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