Wigmore Hall Concert Diary December 2013

Wigmore Hall Concert Diary DECEMBER 2013

Mitsuko Uchida Inside: Les Arts Florissants Britten Sinfonia Angela Hewitt Pavel Haas Quartet Francesco Piemontesi Sonia Prina Andrรกs Schiff Les Talens Lyriques Alisa Weilerstein Pinchas Zukerman And many more

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SUNDAY 1 DECEMBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice Roger Mastroianni

Spencer Myer piano Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959 Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 59 Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60; Polonaise-fantaisie in A b Op. 61 Spencer Myer, gold medallist at the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition, made his Wigmore Hall debut last year and was praised at the time by the Independent as a ‘man to watch’.

The Cleveland native’s refined pianism draws from his wide experience as chamber musician and song accompanist, and from his consummate gift for creating abundant images in sound.

Spencer Myer

SUNDAY 1 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Marco Borggreve

Jörg Widmann Duos (Book I) Kodály Sonata for solo cello Op. 8 Bartók Sonata for solo violin Sz. 117 Ravel Duo sonata for violin and cello

KassKara

Carolin Widmann violin Jean-Guihen Queyras cello

£15 £20 £25 £30

Two solo sonatas and two duos for violin and cello are set to astonish and delight in this recital. Carolin Widmann and Jean-Guihen Queyras have chosen a programme that inhabits intimate spaces of creativity in Jörg Widmann’s Carolin Widmann Duos and encompasses the vast expressive scope of Kodály’s Sonata for solo cello of 1915 and Bartók’s solo violin sonata, written for and dedicated to Yehudi Menuhin in 1944.

MONDAY 2 DECEMBER 1.00 PM BBC Lunchtime Concert

Jeanette Beckman

Janácˇek Violin Sonata Beach Romance Op. 23 Strauss Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18

£12.50 concessions £10 Alessandra Tinozzi

Elena Urioste violin Michael Brown piano

Jean-Guihen Queyras

Over the past decade, Elena Urioste has progressed from studies at the Curtis Institute and Juilliard School of Music to establish a strikingly successful solo career. She was recently named as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and comes to Wigmore Hall as part of the scheme with a compelling programme, complete with an exquisite miniature by Amy Beach and Janácˇek’s turbulent violin sonata.

Elena Urioste is a member of Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Elena Urioste

Michael Brown

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MONDAY 2 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 Britten’s second string quartet received its world première at Wigmore Hall in November 1945 and swiftly established its place at the heart of the chamber music repertoire. The Pavel Haas Quartet unveils its thoughts on the work before joining forces with the thrilling young Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov for a performance of Shostakovich’s flamboyant piano quintet, conceived as a showpiece for the composer to play with the Beethoven Quartet in 1940.

Marco Borggreve

Pavel Haas Quartet; Daniil Trifonov piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Daniil Trifonov

Pavel Haas Quartet

Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust supports free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

£8 concessions £6 Kaupo Kikkas

Bartosz Woroch violin Adam Newman viola Philip Higham cello Robert Thompson piano

Kaupo Kikkas

TUESDAY 3 DECEMBER 1.00 PM YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2013/ 14

Kaupo Kikkas

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb K493 Chausson Piano Quartet in A Op. 30 Mozart’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat was finished in 1786, just a month after he had completed The Marriage of Figaro and when he was at the height of his powers. In Bartosz Woroch Adam Newman Philip Higham Robert Thompson a programme of contrasts, the work is performed alongside Chausson’s Piano Quartet in A, written over a century later in 1897, a year before its composer died in a tragic cycling accident.

YCAT (Reg. Charity No. 326490) YCAT is grateful for support from the Paul Woodhouse Fund and the Anthony Nesbitt Fund for this series

TUESDAY 3 DECEMBER 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£53 for 3 sessions & ticket for 3 Dec (7.30 pm)

Wigmore Study Group The Songs and Chamber Music of Sir Michael Tippett This study group (26 & 28 Nov, 3 Dec) will focus on the three main strands of Tippett’s chamber music – song, sonata and quartet – with visiting Tippett scholars, eminent performers and post-graduate musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. See November Diary (26 Nov) for more details.

Tippett: A Retrospective

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Sir Michael Tippett

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TUESDAY 3 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Tippett: A Retrospective

Sussie Ahlburg

Heath Quartet*; Mark Padmore tenor James Baillieu piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Tippett String Quartet No. 1; The Heart’s Assurance; Boyhood’s End; String Quartet No. 3

Kaupo Kikkas

Heath Quartet Marco Borggreve

A visionary artist who probed deep into the human psyche, Michael Tippett sought to unite apparently conflicting styles and celebrate the vast energy of cultural diversity in his music. Wigmore Hall’s Tippett Series marks the fifteenth anniversary of the composer’s death with a retrospective survey of works central to his creative development, opening with the Beethoven-inspired first string quartet and exploring the cantata Boyhood’s End, first performed at Morley College in 1943 by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten. * WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Mark Padmore

WEDNESDAY 4 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Kirckman Concert Society Series

£8 £9 £11 £13 Alga Ozo

Reinis Zarin‚ s˘ piano Please note change of artist and programme

James Baillieu

Bach/Busoni Nun komm der Heiden Heiland; Chorale Prelude in F minor ‘Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’ BWV639; Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV1004 Messiaen From Vingt regards sur l’enfant Jésus: Première communion de la Vierge; Noël; Je dors, mais mon cœur veille Bach/Reger Christ lag in Todesbanden Georgs Pele˘cis Jaungada muzika (New Year’s music) Busoni Nuit de noël Tchaikovsky/Pletnev The Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a Reinis Zarin, s˘

Acclaimed Latvian pianist Reinis Zarin‚ s˘ makes a welcome return to the Wigmore stage with a uniquely designed Christmas programme. Join him to explore the origin and the different traditions of Christmas celebration among European composers of the past three centuries.

Kirckman Concert Society/Sarah Gordon Concert Management Supported by LankellyChase Foundation

THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER 1.00 PM Lisa Peacock presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases

£12.50 concessions £10

Yu Kosuge piano Beethoven Piano Sonata in F# Op. 78 Akira Nishimura Kalavinka Schumann/Liszt Widmung Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 17 With a superlative technique and sensitivity of touch, Yu Kosuge is an acutely poetic musician, playing with wit, drama and effulgent lyricism. Yu has performed with conductors of the stature of Seiji Ozawa, Lawrence Foster, Philippe Herreweghe and Vasily Petrenko. She has recorded 13 CDs for SONY. Lisa Peacock Concert Management Limited

Yu Kosuge

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THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

£18 £25 £30 £35

Michelle Breedt mezzo-soprano Nina Schumann piano Seasons Schubert An die Natur Summer – Schubert Morgenlied; Lilla an die Morgenröte; Blumenlied; Der Schmetterling; Heidenröslein; Die Rose; Die Sommernacht Autumn – Schubert Herbstlied; Erntelied; Herbst; Der Herbstabend; An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht Winter – Schubert Der stürmische Morgen; Winterlied; Das Lied vom Reifen; Der Winterabend Spring – Schubert Viola

Michelle Breedt and Nina Schumann

Following studies in her native South Africa and London, Michelle Breedt learned the art and craft of singing at the Opera Studio in Cologne and as an ensemble member of the Braunschweig State Theatre. She has appeared regularly at the Bayreuth Festival since making her debut there in 2000 and is also an acclaimed interpreter of Lieder. Her Wigmore Hall recital offers an irresistible journey through the four seasons as mirrored in Schubert’s songs.

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset director, harpsichord

£18 £25 £30 £35

Louis Castelain

FRIDAY 6 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series

Les Apothéoses Couperin Sonata from Premier Ordre: La Françoise ‘Les Nations’ Lully Trios pour le coucher du roi (excerpts) Couperin L’Apothéose de Corelli (or Le Parnasse) Corelli Trio Sonata in G Op. 2 No. 12 ‘Ciaccona’ Couperin L’Apothéose de Lully With memories fresh in the mind of their sparkling Les Talens Lyriques Monteverdi recital at Wigmore Hall last summer, there’s sure to be a clamour for tickets to hear Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset. The period instrument ensemble and its dynamic director have contributed massively to the rediscovery of music of the French Baroque and the recreation of its essential spirit for modern ears. Their burgeoning involvement in Wigmore Hall’s Early Music and Baroque Series extends to four concerts in 2013/14, including a tribute to Jean-Philippe Rameau – to mark the 250 th anniversary of his death in 1764 – and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Leçons de ténèbres as part of the Hall’s Holy Week programme. Their series gets underway with François Couperin’s witty and constructive response to the musical style of Italy, then predominant in France, enshrined in his L’Apothéose de Corelli and L’Apothéose de Lully.

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SATURDAY 7 DECEMBER 7.00 PM NB starting time Chamber Music Season Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Marianne Thorsen violin Richard Hosford clarinet Ian Brown piano Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Keith Saunders

Bea Levine-Humm

£15 £20 £25 £30

Americans in Paris Copland Nocturne and Ukulele Serenade for violin and piano Ravel String Quartet in F Gershwin 3 Preludes for solo piano; Promenade (Walking the Dog) for clarinet and piano from the film Shall we Dance Ravel Violin Sonata Gershwin An American in Paris for two pianos The Nash Ensemble’s American Series explores the musical links between Paris and New York in the 1920s, with pieces written by Copland while he was studying in Paris, music written by Ravel which impressed Gershwin in a New York concert, and familiar pieces by Gershwin himself, ending with his musical souvenir of a visit to Paris in its original two-piano version.

Richard Hosford Sussie Ahlnurg

Clive Barda

Marianne Thorsen

Ian Brown

Simon Crawford-Phillips

Nash Ensemble American Series CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust supports free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

SATURDAY 7 DECEMBER 10.00 PM NB starting time Chamber Music Season John Haxby

Claire Martin jazz vocalist Joe Stilgoe singer, pianist

£12.50 concessions £10

I Love Paris Claire Martin, a celebrated exponent of the American songbook, is joined by Joe Stilgoe in Cole Porter’s ‘I love Paris’, Vernon Duke’s ‘April in Paris’, and other songs celebrating the ‘City of Light’.

‘There’s something about Paris that can’t be expressed in guidebook prose. Every street corner feels like a change of key. The architecture harmonises. Everyone falls in love there, if only with the place …’

Claire Martin Nash Ensemble American Series Claire Martin

Joe Stilgoe

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Lekeu Cello Sonata in G (transcription of Violin Sonata) Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2

Neil Cross

Raphael Wallfisch cello John York piano

Benjamin Ealovega

SUNDAY 8 DECEMBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Guillaume Lekeu, who died tragically young at the age of 24, is best known today for the violin sonata he created in 1892 for his fellow Belgian, Eugène Ysaÿe. Raphael Wallfisch and John York present a transcription for cello and piano of the composer’s eloquent work. They turn to Beethoven’s last cello sonata to close the recital.

Raphael Wallfisch

John York

SUNDAY 8 DECEMBER 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

£18 £25 £30 £35 MAIWOLF

Angela Hewitt piano Bach English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV808 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 18 in E b Op. 31 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78 Bach English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV811 Bach and Beethoven provide the mighty repertoire pillars for Angela Hewitt’s alluring recital.

The pianist’s long immersion in the affective states, physical gestures and dance rhythms at the core of Bach’s music shape interpretations of the utmost beauty and life. She pairs two of the composer’s English Suites with Beethoven’s playful Piano Sonata Op. 31 No. 3 and the concise, intensely focused Piano Sonata Op. 78.

Supported by Oliver Prenn

Angela Hewitt

MONDAY 9 DECEMBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Kaupo Kikkas

Howells Clarinet Sonata Gavin Higgins Three Broken Love Songs Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1

Kaupo Kikkas

Mark Simpson clarinet Richard Uttley piano

£12.50 concessions £10

Mark Simpson, born in Liverpool in 1988, was only seventeen when he became the first person to win both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year competitions.

He was subsequently commissioned to write the opening work for the 2012 Last Night of the Proms and joined BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist scheme as a clarinettist.

Mark Simpson is a member of Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

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Mark Simpson

Richard Uttley

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MONDAY 9 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

£15 £20 £25 £30 Hang-Jin Cho

Pieter Wispelwey cello Britten Cello Suite No. 1 Op. 72; Cello Suite No. 2 Op. 80; Cello Suite No. 3 Op. 87 Pieter Wispelwey’s intense devotion to Britten’s cello music can be heard not least in his acclaimed recording of the three cello suites, an outstanding document in their performance history. The Dutch artist shares his latest thoughts on the trilogy, exploring their technical wizardry, compositional ingenuity and enthralling melodic invention.

Pieter Wispelwey

TUESDAY 10 DECEMBER 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series Balazs Borocz/ Pilvax

£15 £20 £25 £30

Roman Rabinovich piano Couperin 4 Pièces de clavecin Ravel Prélude from Le tombeau de Couperin; Minuet on the name of Haydn Haydn Piano Sonata in A b HXVI:46 Ravel Two Movements from Daphnis et Chloé (arr. Rabinovich) Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 Israeli pianist and visual artist Roman Rabinovich rose to worldwide prominence with his top prize-winning performance at the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. The young artist’s Wigmore Hall recital traces the stylistic roots of Ravel’s keyboard hommages to Couperin and Haydn and concludes with one of the great monuments of the piano repertoire, the two dozen aphoristic miniatures that form Chopin’s Op. 28 Preludes.

Roman Rabinovich

Pre-Concert Talk An introduction to the lunchtime concert (see overleaf for details) which opens Britten Sinfonia’s 2013/14 acclaimed At Lunch series and includes the world première of a new string trio by Scottish composer Sally Beamish.

Free to concert ticket holders (separate £15ticket £20 required) £25 £30 Ashley Coombes

TUESDAY 10 DECEMBER WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER 7.3012.15 PM PM London Wigmore Pianoforte Hall Learning Series Event

Sally Beamish

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TUESDAY 10 DECEMBER WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER 7.301.00 PM PM London Chamber Pianoforte Music Series Season

£20 £25 £30 £12.50£15 concessions £10

Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano Mozart Adagio from Violin Sonata in E b K481 Lutosl´awski Bukoliki Sally Beamish New work (world première)* Fauré Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Britten Sinfonia’s acclaimed At Lunch series begins its 2013/14 season with Fauré’s superbly crafted second piano quartet, Britten Sinfonia among the pinnacles of his chamber music output. Renowned for its adventurous, deeply thoughtful interpretations, Britten Sinfonia’s programme includes the ingenious Adagio from Mozart’s Violin Sonata K481 and, to mark his centenary year, Lutosl´awski’s Bukoliki for viola and cello. Three of the performers will also give the world première of a new string trio by the Scottish composer Sally Beamish.

Contemporary Music Series Young people aged for 8 –25 can book free tickets for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme. Please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

The Endellion String Quartet

Eric Richmond

The Endellion String Quartet 35th Anniversary Series

£15 £20 £25 £30

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Mendelssohn String Quartet in E b Op. 44 No. 3 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ An almighty autumnal thunderstorm soaked and almost destroyed Beethoven’s manuscript of the first two movements of his Second ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet. The forces of nature, from violent tempests to the harmony of the spheres, influenced the musical substance of the completed composition, which closes with a joyful sonata-rondo movement. Mendelssohn’s energetic and virtuosic Op. 44 No. 3 is full of warmth and imagination, while Haydn’s soaring ‘Lark’ – recently recorded by the Endellions – deservedly ranks among his best-loved masterpieces.

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The Endellion String Quartet

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THURSDAY 12 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series

Sandra Lousanda

Benjamin Ealovega

Theatre of the Ayre Elizabeth Kenny director, lute Sophie Daneman soprano Anna Starushkevych mezzo-soprano Paul Agnew tenor

£18 £25 £30 £35

Charpentier In Nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Canticum H414 Seasonal Noëls Charpentier Actéon

Sophie Daneman

Elizabeth Kenny Pascal Gely

Elizabeth Kenny’s Theatre of the Ayre scored a critical hit in 2011 with its performance of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, subsequently released on the Wigmore Hall Live label.

The ensemble is joined by three outstanding interpreters of French Baroque vocal music for an Advent programme of sacred and secular pieces by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer to the French dauphin and Molière’s Comédie-Française. The concert includes Charpentier’s pastorale Actéon and one of his grandest dramatic Christmastide motets.

Anna Starushkevych

FRIDAY 13 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series piano

Rückert Lieder

Wilfried Hösl

Michael Volle baritone Helmut Deutsch

Paul Agnew

£15 £20 £25 £30

Schubert Greisengesang; Du bist die Ruh; Lachen und Weinen; Dass sie hier gewesen; Sei mir gegrüsst Mahler Five Rückert Lieder Robert Schumann Widmung; Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint Clara Schumann Liebst du um Schönheit Robert Schumann Mein schöner Stern!; Aus den östlichen Rosen Clara Schumann Warum willst du and’re fragen Robert Schumann Zum Schluss Strauss Vom künftigen Alter; Und dann nicht mehr; Im Sonnenschein

Michael Volle

Helmut Deutsch

Michael Volle, who studied the art of interpretation with Josef Metternich and Rudolf Piernay, was a member of the Zurich Opera ensemble and has returned there to perform roles such as Wagner’s Hans Sachs and Richard Strauss’s Barak. His recital programme explores everything from the emotional contrasts of Schubert’s ‘Lachen und Weinen’ to Strauss’s heart-melting ‘Im Sonnenschein’.

SATURDAY 14 DECEMBER 7.00 PM NB starting time London Pianoforte Series

Bach English Suite No. 1 in A BWV806; English Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV807; English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV808; English Suite No. 4 in F BWV809; English Suite No. 5 in E minor BWV810; English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV811

Yutaka Suzuki

András Schiff piano

Returns only

András Schiff continues his Bach survey with the English Suites This concert will be approximately 2 hours 40 minutes in duration, with an interval.

András Schiff Bach Series

András Schiff

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Mandelring Quartet Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1

Uwe Arens

SUNDAY 15 DECEMBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Hailed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a worthy successor to the Alban Berg Quartet, the Mandelring Quartet closed 2012 with a complete Shostakovich cycle at Berlin’s Radial-System V. The ensemble performs two works guaranteed to benefit from its exquisite tonal blend and characteristic combination of intellectual rigour and expressive spontaneity.

Mandelring Quartet

SUNDAY 15 DECEMBER 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£3

Pre-Concert Talk Gavin Plumley introduces the Joseph Marx Song Series.

Joseph Marx Song Series SUNDAY 15 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Jose Manuel Bielsa

Joseph Marx and Hugo Wolf: An Italian Songbook

Marco Borggreve

Elizabeth Watts soprano Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Roderick Williams baritone Simon Lepper piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

Jaqui Mcsweeney

Benjamin Ealovega

Marx Die Begegnung; Nimm dir ein schönes Weib; Wofür; Am Fenster; Abends; Ständchen Wolf Mein Liebster ist so klein; Mein Liebster hat zu Tische mich geladen; Ich esse nun Elizabeth Watts Clara Mouriz mein Brot nicht trocken mehr; Gesegnet sei das Grün Marx Die Lilie Wolf Wohl kenn ich Euren Stand; O wär dein Haus durchsichtig Marx Wie reizend bist du Wolf Wie lange schon; Ihr seid die Allerschönste; Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen; Du denkst mit einem Fädchen mich zu fangen; Wenn du mich mit den Augen streifst und lachst Marx Der Dichter Wolf Ein Ständchen euch zu bringen; Was für ein Lied soll dir gesungen werden?; Heb’ auf dein blondes Haupt und schlafe nicht; Mein Liebster singt am Haus Marx Venetianisches Wiegenlied Wolf Schweig einmal still; Was soll der Zorn, mein Schatz Roderick Williams Simon Lepper Marx Liebe; Es zürnt das Meer Wolf Verschling der Abgrund; Nun lass uns Frieden schliessen; Nein, junger Herr; Hoffärtig seid Ihr, schönes Kind, und geht; Du sagst mir, dass ich keine Fürstin; Wer rief dich denn?; Ich hab in Penna einen Liebsten; Lass sie nur gehn, die so die Stolze spielt; Wie viele Zeit verlor ich Marx Die Verlassene Simon Lepper’s Marx Song Series begins with a compelling programme performed by three of the most imaginative singers of their generation. Joseph Marx was raised in the cultural borderlands connecting Central and Eastern Europe to Italy.

The Austrian composer’s settings of Paul Heyse’s translations of Italian folksongs offer fascinating points of comparison and contrast to Hugo Wolf’s more familiar Italienisches Liederbuch songs.

Joseph Marx Song Series

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MONDAY 16 DECEMBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Francesco Piemontesi piano Schubert Piano Sonata in B b D960 Debussy Préludes Book I (selection) Subtle tonal shadings, meaningful phrasing and intimacy of expression belong to Francesco Piemontesi’s portfolio of accomplishments. The young Swiss-Italian pianist’s deep affinity for the music of Schubert and Debussy can be heard in the former composer’s spellbinding final piano sonata and a selection of the latter’s first book of Préludes.

Marco Borggreve

£12.50 concessions £10

Francesco Piemontesi

MONDAY 16 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Marco Borggreve

Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Schubert Fantasy D934 (arr. Weilerstein/Barnatan) Shostakovich/Auerbach 10 Preludes Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19

Jamie Jung

Alisa Weilerstein cello Inon Barnatan*piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Critical superlatives and favourable comparisons with great artists from the past have been attached to Alisa Weilerstein’s artistry ever since she made her debut at the age of 13 with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1996. Her passionate commitment in Alisa Weilerstein Inon Barnatan performance is matched by the personality and intensity of Inon Barnatan’s pianism.

Their established duo partnership comes to Wigmore Hall for what promises to be an evening of unforgettable music-making. * WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

TUESDAY 17 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Daishin Kashimoto violin Ludwig Quandt cello Wenzel Fuchs clarinet

Justin Pumfrey

Mitsuko Uchida piano Musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

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Berg Adagio from Chamber Concerto Schubert Notturno in E b D897 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time (Quatuor pour la fin du temps) Messiaen completed his Quartet for the End of Time in Stalag VIIIA in Silesia and joined three fellow prisoners-of-war to give its première there on 15 January 1941. The work’s transcendent beauty held its first audience in rapt silence and, like Berg’s Adagio and Schubert’s Notturno, has lost none of its power to carry minds far beyond concerns of the material world.

Booking limited to two tickets only per person Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2013/14 Wigmore Series

MItsuko Uchida

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WEDNESDAY 18 DECEMBER 7.00 PM NB starting time London Pianoforte Series

Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book II BWV870 – 893 András Schiff’s Bach Series continues with the second book of The Well-tempered Clavier.

Priska Ketterer, Luzern

András Schiff piano

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This concert will be approximately 2 hours 50 minutes in duration, with an interval.

András Schiff Bach Series András Schiff

THURSDAY 19 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series Simon Fowler

Les Arts Florissants; William Christie director Emmanuelle de Negri soprano Anna Reinhold mezzo-soprano Cyril Auvity high tenor Marc Mauillon baritone Lisandro Abadie bass

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Airs Sérieux et à Boire A selection of one to five-part airs de cour by Lambert, Charpentier, Moulinié, Le Camus, Couperin and D’Ambruis.

In the late 1970s William Christie and Les Arts Florissants launched a revolution in the performance of early music and have been at its vanguard ever since. The ensemble and its director have liberated countless wonderful works of the French Baroque from library shelves, bringing long lost scores to vital, vibrant, irresistible life. Their programme explores a rich treasure trove of courtly chamber music.

William Christie

Les Arts Florissants receives financial support from the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, the Ville de Caen and the Région BasseNormandie. They are artists in residence at the Théâtre de Caen. IMERYS and ALSTOM are Principal Sponsors of Les Arts Florissants.

FRIDAY 20 DECEMBER 2.00 PM NB starting time Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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András Schiff Lecture-Recital András Schiff piano, with Dr Michael Ladenburger director and curator of the collections of the Beethoven Haus in Bonn

Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations seen and heard through the autograph manuscript Deep immersion and illumination belong as much to András Schiff’s work as public educator as it does to his profound interpretations of monuments of the keyboard literature. The pianist precedes his 60th birthday concert at Wigmore Hall with a lecture-recital on the Diabelli Variations, providing insights drawn from close study of Beethoven’s autograph manuscript and sharing thoughts on what the composer’s expressive and spontaneous handwriting tells us about his musical intentions in the work.

This lecture-recital will be approximately 2 – 2.5 hours in duration.

András Schiff Bach Series

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FRIDAY 20 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94 Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano Dvorˇák Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 Elgar Études caractéristiques Op. 24 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Op. 12 No. 1

Lisa Kohler

Pinchas Zukerman violin Angela Cheng piano

Paul Labelle

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Pinchas Zukerman’s natural artistry matured with early guidance from, among others, Ivan Galamian, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals, a teaching pedigree that connects his work to an age of expressive subtlety, individuality and transcendent communication in violin playing. He performs a seductive recital programme enriched by César Franck’s peerless Sonata in A and Dvorˇák’s Four Romantic Pieces, first heard in Prague in 1887.

Pinchas Zukerman

SATURDAY 21 DECEMBER 7.00 PM NB starting time London Pianoforte Series

Angela Cheng

Birgitta Kowsky

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60th Birthday Recital

András Schiff piano Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 Beethoven 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 András Schiff celebrates his sixtieth birthday by performing Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and Bach’s Goldberg Variations in one extraordinary Wigmore Hall evening.

This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with an interval.

Booking limited to two tickets only per person

András Schiff Bach Series András Schiff

£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Gould Piano Trio Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1 Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 Beethoven waited until Vienna’s music-loving public knew his name and abilities before publishing several of his ‘more important works’. In May 1795 advertisements for the composer’s Op. 1 piano trios attracted over 120 subscribers; their early audiences, meanwhile, ‘bestowed upon them undivided applause’. The Gould Piano Trio pairs the ebullient first work of Beethoven’s set with Smetana’s Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15, created in despair following the early death of his first-born child.

Chris Stock

SUNDAY 22 DECEMBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Gould Piano Trio

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SUNDAY 22 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Bach Sonata in C for flute and guitar BWV1033 Molino Duo for flute and guitar Op. 16 No. 2; Duo for flute and guitar Op. 16 No. 3 Takemitsu Voice for solo flute Shankar L’Aube Enchantée sur Le Raga ‘todi’ Christian Rivet At Left for solo guitar; Clap for flute and guitar Piazzolla Histoire du Tango Bartók Romanian Folk Dances Sz. 68 (arr. flute and guitar)

Alvaro Yañez

Emmanuel Pahud flute Christian Rivet guitar

Peter Adamik/ EMI Classics

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Emmanuel Pahud and Christian Rivet delight in musical juxtapositions, contrasts and revelations. They have constructed a programme teeming with imagination Emmanuel Pahud Christian Rivet and fantasy for this recital, comprising rarely heard gems by the 19th-century Italian guitarist, violinist and composer Francesco Molino, Ravi Shankar’s hypnotic L’Aube Enchantée and masterworks by Takemitsu and Piazzolla.

MONDAY 23 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series Keith Saunders

The King’s Consort; Robert King conductor Julie Cooper soprano Rebecca Outram soprano Robin Blaze countertenor David Gould countertenor James Oxley tenor David de Winter tenor David Wilson-Johnson baritone Philip Tebb bass

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Wachet Auf! Bach Concerto to Cantata BWV35; Cantata BWV91 ‘Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ’; Sinfonia to Cantata BWV35 Kuhnau Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern; O heilige Zeit Bach Sinfonia after Cantata BWV31; Cantata BWV140 ‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’

The King’s Consort

Glorious works by J S Bach and Johann Kuhnau, Bach’s predecessor as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, mark the transition from Advent to the celebration of Christmas, culminating in Bach’s famous cantata ‘Sleepers, wake!’. The King’s Consort’s magnificent line-up of soloists is accompanied by a large and colourful instrumental ensemble.

‘Bach performance does not come better than this’ The Times TUESDAY 24 TO THURSDAY 26 DECEMBER No performances Box Office closed

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FRIDAY 27 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Kirckman Concert Society Series Dojin Kim/ Podium Studio

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Grace Yeo piano Haydn Piano Sonata in Eb HXVI:52 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Bartók Suite Op. 14 Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Since winning the Beethoven Society of Europe Competition in 2009, the South Korean pianist Grace Yeo has appeared as a soloist in most of the major British concert halls. She returns to Wigmore Hall playing two pinnacles of the piano repertoire, Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata and the Sonata by Liszt.

Kirckman Concert Society/Sarah Gordon Concert Management Supported by LankellyChase Foundation

Grace Yeo

SATURDAY 28 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Marco Borggreve

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Vadim Gluzman violin Angela Yoffe piano Mozart Violin Sonata in F K377 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Stravinsky Suite italienne arr. from Pulcinella for violin & piano Tchaikovsky Souvenir d’un lieu cher Op. 42 Castelnuovo-Tedesco Figaro from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville

Vadim Gluzman, who studied with Zakhar Bron and Dorothy DeLay, returns to Wigmore Hall with his wife and regular duo partner Angela Yoffe following their critically acclaimed recital debut in March 2011. Gluzman’s warm tone, developed Vladimir Gluzman Angela Yoffe out of his miraculous ‘ex-Leopold Auer’ Stradivarius, takes its inspiration from the Golden Age of violin playing and the timeless examples of Mischa Elman, Nathan Milstein and David Oistrakh.

SUNDAY 29 DECEMBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

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Quartetto di Cremona Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ The Strad has written of the quartet’s ‘mature and lyrical sound’ and praised the ensemble’s ‘immaculate voicing’, characteristics ideally suited to the deep interpretation of Haydn’s mature String Quartet in G and the flowing thematic interplay and drama of Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet.

Quartetto di Cremona

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SUNDAY 29 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Webern Six Bagatelles Op. 9 Dvorˇák String Quartet in E b Op. 51

Pavel Ovsik

Bennewitz Quartet

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Anton Webern’s admiration for Schubert was infused into the lyrical flow of his aphoristic scores. The Bennewitz Quartet explores essential masterworks by both Viennese composers, juxtaposing the radiant beauty of Schubert’s ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet with the strikingly original miniatures of Webern’s Op. 9. The concert’s second half presents the String Quartet in E flat, created by Dvorˇák to convey the spirit of Slavonic folk music.

Bennewitz Quartet

MONDAY 30 DECEMBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series

Senesino in Handel’s Opera Opera companies risked ruin to hire Senesino, securing his services with fat salaries and rich material rewards. Handel lured the legendary alto castrato to London in 1720 for a vast fee and tailored more than a dozen lead roles to suit his dazzling talents. Sonia Prina has made a special study of the singer’s life and art, applying her remarkable contralto voice to the revival of the virtuosity and grace that beguiled Senesino’s audiences three centuries ago. We are delighted to welcome back Sonia Prina for this programme, which promises to be a highlight of the season.

Ribaltaluce Studio

Sonia Prina contralto Ensemble Claudiana; Luca Pianca director, lute

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Sonia Prina

TUESDAY 31 DECEMBER 7.00 PM NB starting time Early Music and Baroque Series Graham Mellanby

Classical Opera; Ian Page conductor Sarah Fox soprano Anna Devin soprano Martene Grimson soprano Anthony Gregory tenor Mark Stone baritone Matthew Rose bass

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New Year’s Eve Concert Programme to include: Mozart Symphony No. 1 in Eb K16; Grablied K42; Diggi, daggi, schurry, murry from Bastien und Bastienne; Duet: Se viver non degg’io from Mitridate, re di Ponto K87; Pièta, se irato sei from La Betulia liberate K118; Nach der welschen Art und Weise from Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe K196; Laudamus te from Mass in C minor K427; Ora pro nobis from Regina coeli K108; Liebes Mandel, wo is’s Bandel K441; Io ti lascio, K621a; Laudate Dominum from Vesperae solennes de confessore K339 Mozart/Page The 5-minute Figaro

Sarah Fox

Ian Page and Classical Opera are joined by an outstanding team of soloists for this festive concert of Mozart rarities. The programme blends exquisite gems picked from the prodigiously gifted composer’s childhood years and several of his finest sacred works with fun and surprises, crowned by an audacious attempt to perform The Marriage of Figaro in five minutes.

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Contemporary Music Series SEP – DEC 13 Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, as commissioner of new works and 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.

Wednesday 18 September 7.30 pm

Monday 28 October 7.30 pm

Sunday 3 November 7.30 pm

Inon Barnatan

Christian Gerhaher Gerold Huber piano

Xuefei Yang guitar

piano

Matthias Pintscher* & Ronald Stevenson

baritone

Chen Yi*

Jörg Widmann*

Wednesday 6 November 7.30 pm

Sunday 13 October 7.30 pm

Saturday 2 November 1.00 pm & 7.30 pm

EXAUDI

Quatuor Ebène Antoine Tamestit viola

Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor Claire Booth soprano Adam Walker flute Mark Simpson clarinet András Keller violin Paul Silverthorne viola Cédric Tiberghien piano

Michael Finnissy*, Christopher Fox* & Stefano Gervasoni*

Julian Anderson, Gérard Grisey, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Hans Abrahamsen & Salvatore Sciarrino

Sally Beamish*

Bruno Mantovani* Wednesday 16 October 7.30 pm

Arditti Quartet Brian Ferneyhough, Hilda Paredes, John Cage & more Saturday 19 October 4.00 pm

Quatuor Diotima Brian Ferneyhough, Jean Barraqué & Toshio Hosokawa*

Friday 22 November 7.30 pm

The Prince Consort Cheryl Frances-Hoad* & Gwilym Simcock* Wednesday 11 December 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia

Thursday 24 October 7.30 pm

Matthew Barley cello Dai Fujikura, James MacMillan, John Tavener & Jan Bang / Barley

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

HOW TO GET HERE

Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s West End and is easily accessible by public transport or car.

Tubes Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines) tube stations are both close by.

Buses A large number of buses travel along Oxford Street, which is approximately five minutes walk from Wigmore Hall.

Car Parking OX F O R D CIRCUS

Nick Guttridge

BOND STREET

There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a five minute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their parking.

Please contact the box office for further details or visit our website.

Restaurant and Bars Wigmore Hall has its own restaurant and bars serving pre-concert and interval refreshments. The menu ranges from light snacks to a full three course à la carte meal.

Our bars offer a range of hot, cold and alcoholic beverages alongside a selection of snacks.

Please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or call 020 7258 8292 for further information.

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