Wigmore Hall Concert Diary January 2015

January 2015

Jonas Kaufmann INSIDE: Nicola Benedetti | Florian Boesch | Hagen Quartet Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien Roberta Invernizzi & Sonia Prina | Janine Jansen | Igor Levit Sir András Schiff | Takács Quartet | and many more

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Thursday 1 January No performances.

Box Office closed.

Please note change of artist and programme

The Busch Ensemble

Kaupo Kikkas

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Friday 2 January 7.30 pm

Schubert Sonatensatz in Bb D28 Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor Op. 50 After a critically acclaimed performance at Wigmore Hall last March, the captivating Busch Ensemble presents a programme including Beethoven’s ‘Ghost’ trio and Tchaikovsky’s vast A minor piano trio. Formed in 2012, the Ensemble has gone on to win many international prizes and establish itself as one of the most exciting young groups on the UK classical music scene.

Kirckman Concert Society / Sarah Gordon Concert Management

Supported by LankellyChase Foundation £13 £11 £9 £8

Roberta Invernizzi soprano Sonia Prina contralto Ensemble Claudiana Luca Pianca director, lute Marco Frezzato cello Margret Köll harp

Ribaltaluce Studio

Saturday 3 January 7.30 pm Ribaltaluce Studio

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The Busch Ensemble

AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE Monteverdi Vorrei baciarti; Ohimè dov’è il mio ben?

Doni Toccata – Passacaglia (for solo lute) Monteverdi Mentre vaga angioletta Gabrielli Sonata No. 1 (for lute, cello and harp) Handel Sono liete, fortunate Roberta Invernizzi Lotti Poss’io morir Durante Son io, barbara donna Bach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in Eb BWV998 (for lute and harp) Handel Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi

Sonia Prina

Sonia Prina and Luca Pianca’s Ensemble Claudiana held their Wigmore Hall audience spellbound at the end of 2013.

They are joined by Roberta Invernizzi, one of the world’s leading interpreters of baroque opera, in a programme seasoned with duet madrigals and chamber cantatas. Their choice of repertoire confronts the often closely related conditions, death and love, and digs deep into the expressive material of works chiefly written in or inspired by Venice. The Italian city, a magnet for itinerant musicians and students such as Handel and Lotti, became the intense focal point for international cultural exchange during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. £50 £35 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Sunday 4 January 11.30 am

Guarneri Trio Prague Suk Piano Trio in C minor Op. 2 Bloch Three Nocturnes Dvorˇák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’

Tomasz Trzebiatowski

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Czech music courses through the veins of the Guarneri Trio Prague, nourished by a collective experience developed since the group’s foundation in 1986. The Trio opens this Coffee Concert with a youthful gem by Josef Suk, which includes revisions made at the suggestion of his teacher and future father-in-law, Antonín Dvorˇák.

Guarneri Trio Prague

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry/juice CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Adam Plachetka bass-baritone Gary Matthewman piano

Johan Persson

Wigmore Hall Debut

Ilona Sochorová

Sunday 4 January 3.00 pm

Dvorˇák Biblické písneˇ (Biblical Songs) Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung; Die Nacht; Nachtgang; Du meines Herzens Krönelein; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Zueignung Dvorˇák Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs) In the decade since making his debut, Czech bass-baritone Adam Plachetka Gary Matthewman Adam Plachetka has drawn critical acclaim for his interpretations of Mozart’s operatic anti-heroes and villains. For his Wigmore Hall debut, he turns his glorious voice and incisive dramatic imagination to this captivating programme, moving from Dvorˇák’s Biblical Songs, colourful settings of ten psalms, to his evocative Gypsy Songs, by way of a fine selection of Lieder by Strauss. £15 concs £12.50

Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Song Recital Series

Jonas Kaufmann tenor Helmut Deutsch piano

Regina Recht

Sunday 4 January 7.30 pm

Schumann Kernerlieder Op. 35; Songs by Strauss Critical superlatives and audience ovations have become part of life for Jonas Kaufmann. The German tenor’s vocal and musical versatility, allied to his full emotional commitment in performance, would be remarkable enough. But it is the power of Kaufmann’s artistry to transcend the ordinary and Jonas Kaufmann Helmut Deutsch to move the spirit that sets him in company with the great singers of past and present. In short, he owns a precious gift for revealing profound insights into the human condition.

His recital partnership with Helmut Deutsch has delivered exceptional performances, endorsed by five-star reviews and treasured memories for anyone fortunate enough to hear their visionary interpretations. £100 £80 £60 £40 Booking limited to two tickets only per person

Song Recital Series

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Alisa Weilerstein cello Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 Kodály Sonata for solo cello Op. 8

Jamie Jung

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Monday 5 January 1.00 pm

Everyone will have a different understanding of the word ‘heartfelt’. And yet Alisa Weilerstein’s playing comes as close as possible to defining the physical and emotional experience through the sheer intensity of her music making. Her latest programme includes the Sonata for solo cello Op. 8, completed exactly a century ago under the influence of Kodály’s study of the music of Debussy. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Alisa Weilerstein

Monday 5 January 7.30 pm

Guillermo Klein piano Aaron Goldberg piano Mark Turner tenor saxophone Chris Cheek baritone saxophone Argentine pianist and composer Guillermo Klein returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme infused with the sounds of contemporary music, jazz and folksong.

Shades of Messiaen and Ligeti, and of Minimalism will collide and coalesce with white-hot improvisation and instantly memorable tunes. Two pianos and two saxophones, Guillermo explains, offer ample room to explore the ‘unique, engaging and challenging sounds of symmetry’.

Guillermo Klein

Aaron Goldberg

Mark Turner

Chris Cheek

£30 £25 £20 £15

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Garrick Ohlsson piano Skryabin Prelude in A minor Op. 11 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 2 in G# minor Op. 19; Étude in Bb minor Op. 8 No. 11; Étude in D b Op. 8 No. 10; Piano Sonata No. 4 in F# Op. 30; Piano Sonata No. 7 in F# Op. 64 ‘White Mass’; Désir Op. 57 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 6 in G Op. 62; Étude in Db Op. 42 No. 1; Étude in C# minor Op. 42 No. 5; Fragilité Op. 51 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 5 in F# Op. 53

Paul Body

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Tuesday 6 January 7.30 pm

Marking 100 years since the death of the Russian composer and pianist Aleksandr Skryabin, Garrick Ohlsson presents the first of two recitals of his solo piano works. The composer’s all-embracing interest in the occult and mysticism conditioned many of his works, the ‘White Mass’ Sonata and the Fifth Piano Sonata among them.

This programme takes listeners on a journey through the composer’s unique imaginary soundscape, ranging from the early Op. 8 Études to the sounds of such sublime miniatures as Désir and Fragilité.

Garrick Ohlsson

Garrick Ohlsson performs the remaining five piano sonatas on Monday 27 April 2015. £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series /Skryabin Focus

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Brentano String Quartet Mozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’ Bartók String Quartet No. 3 Brahms String Quartet in Bb Op. 67

Christian Steiner

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Wednesday 7 January 7.30 pm

Folk idioms surface in each of the works in this programme.

The Brentano String Quartet, hailed by The Independent for its ‘passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding’ performances, opens with Mozart’s lyrical ‘Hunt’ Quartet, named for the horn-call character of its opening theme, before exploring the tightly woven construction of Bartók’s Third String Quartet and the Romantic contrasts of Brahms’s Op. 67. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Thursday 8 January 7.30 pm

Rafał Blechacz piano Mozart Piano Sonata in D K311 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 56; 3 Waltzes Op. 64; Polonaise in F# minor Op. 44

Marco Borggreve

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Brentano String Quartet

Rafał Blechacz’s innate musical talent became clear soon after he began to study the piano at the age of five. He developed naturally with lessons in his native Poland before catching international attention in 2005 as the first Polish musician to win the International Chopin Piano Competition since Krystian Zimerman thirty years earlier. His interpretations, noted not least for their refinement, grace and mature insight, draw listeners deep into the contemplation of sound and silence. £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series Friday 9 January 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff fortepiano Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894; Piano Sonata in B b D960 Sir András Schiff presents his mature interpretations of two of Schubert’s late sonatas. The Piano Sonata in G D894, the last to be published during its composer’s lifetime, reflects the lightness of bliss tinged with shades of darkness. Its character ideally prefigures the spiritual depths of the Piano Sonata in B flat D960, completed weeks before Schubert’s death.

Nadia F Romanini

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Rafał Blechacz

This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval £45 £40 £35 £25

London Pianoforte Series/ Sir András Schiff: A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

Sir András Schiff

Friday 9 January 9.20 pm

Post-Concert Talk Sir András Schiff discusses his nineteenth-century fortepiano. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Sir András Schiff: A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

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Elias String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5; String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131

Benjamin Ealovega

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Saturday 10 January 7.30 pm

The Elias String Quartet continues its Beethoven journey with a programme of early, middle and late works, capped by an exploration of the universe contained within the composer’s Op. 131. Although Beethoven joked that his C sharp minor quartet was ‘cobbled together out of various things stolen from here and there’, the piece ranks among the finest works of Western art.

Elias String Quartet

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle

Outi Montosen

Emmer Rovid

Barnabás Kelemen violin Olli Mustonen piano Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 3 in E b Op. 12 No. 3 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Hungarian violinist Barnabás Kelemen, praised by the Guardian for his ‘innate musicality’, joins forces with Olli Mustonen for a Coffee Concert sure to display the compassionate humanity of their artistry. The vitality of Beethoven’s Third Violin Sonata contrasts here with the melancholy introspection of Prokofiev’s F minor Violin Sonata, written during the deathly years of Stalin’s Great Terror and the Second World War.

Barnabás Kelemen

Olli Mustonen

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 11 January 3.00 pm

Wigmore Series Debut

Sam Furness tenor Matthew Fletcher piano

Maximilan Van London

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Sunday 11 January 11.30 am

Schubert An die Leier Schumann Dichterliebe Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Since winning the prestigious Royal Academy of Music Club Prize in 2012, Sam Furness has delivered a succession of fine performances on the opera stage and in concert.

His Wigmore Series debut recital embraces songs of love, Sam Furness Matthew Fletcher from the tender lyricism of Schubert’s ‘An die Leier’ and the autobiographical projections of Schumann’s Dichterliebe to the potent musical imagery of Liszt’s Petrarch settings. £15 concs £12.50

Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Song Recital Series

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Loewe Herr Oluf; Tom der Reimer; Edward Brahms Auf dem See; O kühler Wald; Über die Heide; O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück; Ständchen; Sonntag; Verrat; Da unten im Tale Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39

Jaqui McSweeney

Stephan Loges bass-baritone Simon Lepper piano

Ana Alvarez Prada

Sunday 11 January 7.30 pm

Voice and piano work in tandem to heighten poetic expression in Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39. The song cycle, which sets a dozen texts by Joseph von Eichendorff, reinforces the spirit of Romantic metaphors Stephan Loges Simon Lepper of separation, longing and loneliness. Stephan Loges and Simon Lepper launch their recital with a sequence of evocative ballads and songs by Loewe and Brahms. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454 Enescu Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor Op. 25 ‘dans le caractère populaire roumain’ Scintillating energy and shimmering creative sparks stand among the many attributes of Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s art. The Moldovan violinist was named as Instrumentalist of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2014, an award determined by the life-affirming power of her recent performances in the UK. She is joined by Polina Leschenko for a lunchtime programme complete with Enescu’s folk-inspired Third Violin Sonata.

Marco Borggreve

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Polina Leschenko piano

Marco Borggreve

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Monday 12 January 1.00 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Polina Leschenko

Janine Jansen

Itamar Golan

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Janine Jansen violin Itamar Golan piano Shostakovich Violin Sonata Op. 134 Ravel Violin Sonata; Tzigane

Harald Hoffmann/Decca

Monday 12 January 7.30 pm

Ravel wrote Tzigane for the Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi and accompanied her in its first performance in London in 1924. ‘This Tzigane must be a piece of great virtuosity’, he wrote while working on the score.

In company with the Violin Sonatas of Shostakovich and Ravel, Tzigane amounts to a work of true musical substance, perfectly matched to the essential talents of Janine Jansen and Itamar Golan. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season

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Sir András Schiff fortepiano Beethoven 6 Bagatelles Op. 126; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111; 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120

Birgitta Kowsky

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Tuesday 13 January 7.30 pm

Driven by a desire to understand the evolution of his instrument and its music, Sir András Schiff was naturally inspired to explore the fortepiano. His recent recording of the Diabelli Variations, made on his Franz Brodmann fortepiano in the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, casts fresh light on a work of protean complexity and profound contrasts. He presents the composition in company with two other late masterworks. £45 £40 £35 £25

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2014 /15 Wigmore Series

London Pianoforte Series /Sir András Schiff: A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration Sir András Schiff

Pre-Concert Talk An introduction to the lunchtime concert with composer Kaija Saariaho.

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series

Wednesday 14 January 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano Kaija Saariaho Nocturne Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Kaija Saariaho Light and Matter* (London première) Fauré Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120 *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

Caroline Dearnley Priska Ketterer

Kaija Saariaho conjures sonic images of magnetic force in her music, while the power of suggestion and gifts of lyricism, colour and rhythm of the French composers Fauré and Debussy result in soundworlds that are both luminous and dazzling.

In this programme we hear one of Debussy’s finest chamber works and Fauré’s profound Piano Trio in company with Saariaho’s Nocturne for solo violin and her new piano trio.

Jacqueline Shave Hanya Chlala

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Wednesday 14 January 12.15 pm

£12.50 concs £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Huw Watkins

Kaija Saariaho

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Gould Piano Trio Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101 James MacMillan Piano Trio No. 2 Beethoven Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

Chris Stock

Wednesday 14 January 7.30 pm

High critical praise for the Gould Piano Trio has included comparisons to the legendary Beaux Arts Trio, plaudits for the ensemble’s commitment to new work, and acclaim for its devotion to reaching the widest possible audience. The Trio’s latest Wigmore Hall recital includes James MacMillan’s succinct, intensely focused Piano Trio No. 2, written for and first performed by the Gould Piano Trio in May 2014. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Thursday 15 January 7.30 pm

Beethoven Mailied; Neue Liebe, neues Leben; Adelaide Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

Birgitta Kowsky

Mark Padmore tenor Sir András Schiff fortepiano

Marco Borggreve

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Gould Piano Trio

Every word and poetic phrase finds its quintessential expression in Mark Padmore’s interpretations, used to illuminate a song’s rich blend of verbal and musical imagery. He joins forces with Sir András Schiff for a programme touched by emotional turbulence and professional setbacks in the lives of Beethoven and Schubert, clearly mirrored in their song cycles An die ferne Geliebte and Die schöne Müllerin.

Mark Padmore

Sir András Schiff

£45 £40 £35 £25

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

Song Recital Series /Sir András Schiff: A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

François Le Roux Masterclass

Philippe Delacroix

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Friday 16 January 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

François Le Roux’s vast reserve of experience includes lasting lessons learned from François Loup, Vera Rósza and Elisabeth Grümmer and the fruits of a distinguished opera and concert career.

The baritone, known for the breadth and depth of his repertoire and the sheer beauty of his voice, emerged during the 1980s as the natural heir to Gérard Souzay in French song. His latest masterclass with young singers from London music colleges is set to deliver invaluable artistic insights to its participants and audience alike. £7 concs £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

François Le Roux

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Friday 16 January 7.30 pm Eric Richmond

The Endellion String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Schubert String Quartet in G D887

Schubert’s late G major String Quartet reveals its composer’s profoundly moving creative maturity. Symphonic in conception and proportions, it encompasses extreme contrasts of character and emotion to propel performers and listeners on a momentous journey. More concentrated yet equally vast in expressive range, Janácˇek’s First String Quartet feels like an entire opera distilled The Endellion String Quartet into fifteen minutes. The programme opens with Haydn’s radiant String Quartet Op. 76 No. 5, among the first works learned by the Endellions thirty-five years ago. £30 £25 £20 £15

The Endellion String Quartet concert series at Wigmore Hall is sponsored by Lark Insurance Group

Chamber Music Season

Chris Christodoulou

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor

Tom Bangbala

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Maurice Foxall

NASH COMMISSIONS Alexander Goehr ... around Stravinsky for violin and wind quartet John Casken Infanta Marina Judith Weir Airs from Another Planet for wind quintet and piano.

Alexander Goehr

John Casken

Judith Weir

The works will be introduced by the composers in conversation from the stage.

Free (ticket required)

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series /Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Sally Matthews soprano

Hanya Chlala /Arena PAL

Saturday 17 January 7.30 pm

Wagner Siegfried Idyll Mozart String Quintet in C K515 Strauss Prelude to Capriccio for string sextet; Moonlight Music and Last scene from Capriccio for voice and ensemble (arr. D Matthews) Nash Ensemble Johan Persson

Wagner’s intimate birthday gift to his wife Cosima, the Siegfried Idyll, and Mozart’s masterly C major Quintet precede excerpts from Richard Strauss’s magical late opera Capriccio. Sally Matthews sings the part of the Countess Madeleine, giving life to music that blends Mozartean classicism with the overwhelming romantic impulses of Wagner.

Sasha Gusov

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Saturday 17 January 6.00 pm

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Martyn Brabbins

Sally Matthews

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Sunday 18 January 11.30 am

Trio Mondrian Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87 Haydn, present at the first performance of Beethoven’s three Op. 1 Piano Trios in 1795, was reported to be surprised that the set’s C minor work was ‘so rapidly and easily grasped, and so favourably taken up by the public’. Trio Mondrian explores the composition’s emotional extremes in company with the formal perfection and compelling energy of Brahms’s Second Piano Trio. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Trio Mondrian

Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Kaupo Kikkas

Elizabeth Watts soprano Mary Bevan soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Marcus Farnsworth baritone Jonathan Lemalu bass-baritone Audrey Hyland piano

Marco Borggreve

Songsmiths

Christina Haldane

Sunday 18 January 3.00 pm

SECRETS AND OBSESSIONS Elizabeth Watts

Mary Bevan

Anna Huntley

Sussie Ahlburg

Benjamin Ealovega

Balfe Trust her not Messager J’ai deux amants from L’amour masqué Mendelssohn Hüt du dich!

Hahn Néère Granados El majo discreto from Tonadillas en un estilo antiguo Rodrigo Adela Gurney Epitaph in old mode Brahms Da unten im Tale Weill Je ne t’aime pas Marcus Farnsworth Jonathan Lemalu Audrey Hyland Loewe Edward Wolf Heiss mich nicht reden Schoenberg Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm Brahms Walpurgisnacht Loewe Ach neige, du Schmerzensreiche Britten A Poison Tree from Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Schubert Der Doppelgänger from Schwanengesang Butterworth Is my team ploughing from A Shropshire Lad Strauss Morgen Schubert Abschied von der Erde Established singers and fast-rising talents join forces in Audrey Hyland’s outstanding ensemble, representing the best of British-trained singers. Their programme’s captivating diversity of musical styles, selected from almost two centuries of song, guides listeners on a journey through the high mountains and deep valleys of human emotion. £15 concs £12.50

Supported by Voices at Wigmore: champions of vocal music in all its forms throughout the 2014 /15 Season Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Song Recital Series

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Jerusalem Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’ Brian Elias String Quartet Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3

Felix Broede

Sunday 18 January 7.30 pm

‘We feel that it is of the utmost importance to collaborate with composers and perform contemporary music,’ says the Jerusalem Quartet’s violist, Ori Kam. He and his colleagues gave the première of British composer Brian Elias’s vibrant String Quartet in 2013 and bring the work to Wigmore Hall for the first time. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by an anonymous donor

Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series Jerusalem Quartet

Sussie Ahlburg

Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Natalie Watts

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Monday 19 January 1.00 pm

Schumann Die Löwenbraut; Die Kartenlegerin; Die rote Hanne Schumann Fünf Lieder Op. 40 Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Kitty Whately gained an army of admirers as winner of the 2011 Kathleen Ferrier Award.

She has made rapid progress since with acclaimed debuts at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and English National Opera. Her BBC Lunchtime recital explores the emotional extremes, dramatic intensity and romantic yearning of Schumann’s Lieder.

Kitty Whately

Joseph Middleton

£13 concs £11

Kitty Whately is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 19 January 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Writer and lecturer Ivan Hewett in conversation with composer Simon Holt before the première of his new work. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series /Bracing Change: New British String Commissions

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JACK Quartet Georg Friedrich Haas String Quartet No. 8 (UK première) Simon Holt 3rd Quartet* (world première) Carter String Quartet No. 3

Henrik Olund

Monday 19 January 7.30 pm

* Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, Heidelberger Frühling, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Modernism, post-modernism and the limitless scope of creative imagination are among the hallmarks of the JACK Quartet’s programme. It opens with Georg Friedrich Haas’s recently completed String Quartet No. 8, the JACK Quartet latest in a remarkable series of works that examines the kaleidoscopic qualities of string sound. In addition to the polyrhythmic complexities and textural collisions of Elliott Carter’s String Quartet No. 3, a product of the early 1970s, the concert includes the world première of Simon Holt’s new work for string quartet – the latest addition to Wigmore Hall’s collection of ‘New British String Commissions’. £30 £25 £20 £15

This concert will be approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes in duration, with an interval Supported by Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series /Bracing Change: New British String Commissions

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Tuesday 20 January 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Event 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 in their careers. £6 or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)

Supported by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848)

Ida Haendel with students from the Razumovsky Academy

Razumovsky Ensemble Mozart Divertimento in E b K563; Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478

Robert Cassen

Tuesday 20 January 7.30 pm

Mozart completed his Divertimento in E flat in the summer of 1788, soon after finishing work on his final three symphonies. The piece, for violin, viola and cello, marks the birth of the modern string trio, conceived with complete assurance and delivered with astonishing ingenuity. The Razumovsky Ensemble’s all-Mozart programme also includes the sonorous and lyrical Piano Quartet in G minor. £35 £30 £25 £15 Promoted by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848)

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Oleg Kogan Director of the Razumovsky Ensemble

KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT A very special opportunity to hear the celebrated young violinist, Nicola Benedetti, in a concert presented especially for schools.

Accompanied by pianist Alexei Grynyuk, Nicola will perform a programme which includes works by Beethoven.

Kevin Westenberg

Nicola Benedetti

£3.50

In partnership with London Music Masters Bridge Project

Nicola Benedetti

Wigmore Hall’s Schools Programme is supported by The Monument Trust, John Lyon’s Charity and The Loveday Charitable Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Wednesday 21 January 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Friday 23 January 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Tuesday 27 January 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group MOZART’S CHAMBER MUSIC FOR PIANO AND STRINGS Mozart’s piano trios and violin sonatas span his creative life and show him gradually emancipating the violin and cello from subordinate roles to develop a more equal dialogue with the piano. As a child Mozart wrote these works to perform himself, but later they were intended for publication in Vienna where they satisfied a domestic market for chamber music. However, Mozart’s keyboard writing outstripped the capabilities of amateurs in such masterpieces as the G minor piano quartet, which came close to the world of the piano concerto whilst maintaining the intimacy of chamber music. These study sessions are hosted by composer Julian Philips and pianist Laura Roberts with contributions from distinguished visiting musicians and students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

W A Mozart Painting by Savario della Rosa, 1770

Series ticket price £60 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien on 27 January.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/The Mozart Odyssey

Christopher Ainslie countertenor James Baillieu piano Gary Pomeroy viola

Sussie Ahlburg

Please note change of artist and programme

Kaupo Kikkas

Wednesday 21 January 7.30 pm Denis Jouglet

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Wednesday 21 January 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

SONGS OF NIGHT AND TRAVEL Purcell See, even Night from The Fairy Queen Gurney All night under the moon; Sleep Christopher Ainslie James Baillieu Gary Pomeroy Quilter The Night Piece; At Close of Day Schubert Die Sterne; Nacht und Träume Mendelssohn Nachtlied Strauss Die Nacht Wolf Storchenbotschaft; Abschied Brahms 2 Songs with viola Op. 91 Anonymous I am a poor wayfaring stranger Bridge Three Songs with viola Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Metaphors of dark journeys and night-time pilgrimages towards the light of day are deeply rooted in the great heritage of world literature, art and music. Christopher Ainslie’s programme explores the many layers of meaning contained within everything from the simple folk poetry of ‘I am a poor wayfaring stranger’ to the sublime spirit of Schubert’s ‘Die Sterne’. £30 £25 £20 £15

Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Song Recital Series

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Thursday 22 January 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Leading Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen presents an overview of the musical scene across Europe in 1765, and introduces music featured in the evening concert. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Studio 52

Classical Opera Anna Devin soprano Sarah Fox soprano John Mark Ainsley tenor Ian Page conductor

Graham Mallanby

Thursday 22 January 7.30 pm

‘MOZART 250’ LAUNCH CONCERT: 1765 – A RETROSPECTIVE Mozart Symphony No. 1 in E b K16; Va, dal furor portata K21 Gluck In mezzo a un mar crudele from Telemaco JC Bach Cara la dolce fiamma from Adriano in Siria Philidor Scene from Tom Jones Gluck Di questa cetra in seno from Il Parnaso confuso Mozart Conservati fedele K23 Sacchini Al tuo valor m’accendo from Il Creso Haydn Symphony No. 39 in G minor JC Bach Ah, genitore amato from Adriano in Siria

Anna Devin

Sarah Fox

John Mark Ainsley

Ian Page

Classical Opera explores the chronology and trajectory of Mozart’s career with a ground-breaking new project, Mozart 250.

The journey begins in 2015, the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s childhood sojourn in London, and launches with this fascinating retrospective of the year 1765, featuring music written in London, Paris, Vienna, Eisenstadt and in Italy, complete with Mozart’s first symphony and concert arias. £35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series

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European Chamber Music Academy Showcase Friday 23 January 1.00 pm Giocoso String Quartet and Trio AlbaNord Saturday 24 January 11.00 am – Masterclass. Hatto Beyerle with the Giocoso String Quartet Saturday 24 January 3.00 pm Stefan Zweig Trio Sunday 25 January 3.00 pm Galatea Quartet The European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) was established in 2004 by Hatto Beyerle, co-founder and violist of the Alban Berg Quartet. Its mission is to promote and nurture today’s aspiring chamber music ensembles. The Academy, which stands as an association of leading European music education institutions and festivals, provides ongoing training opportunities for its young ensembles and offers students an inspiring mix of theoretical tuition and practical instruction.

The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton

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European Chamber Music Academy Showcase

Giocoso String Quartet Trio AlbaNord clarinet trio

Vincent Beaume

Friday 23 January 1.00 pm

Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Jörg Widmann Nachtstück for clarinet, cello and piano Beethoven Clarinet Trio in B b Op. 11 Giocoso String Quartet Lars Venner

Trio AlbaNord, comprising current students and alumni of the Norwegian Academy of Music, is the first chamber group with a wind player to be admitted to ECMA. The ensemble shares this showcase concert with the Giocoso String Quartet, formed in Romania in 2003. £5

The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton

Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase

Trio AlbaNord

Friday 23 January 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group MOZART’S CHAMBER MUSIC FOR PIANO AND STRINGS See 21 January 3.00 pm for full details

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/The Mozart Odyssey Friday 23 January 7.30 pm

Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists Clio Gould director, violin Stravinsky Concerto in D Bach Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV1048 Stravinsky Apollon Musagète – a ballet in two scenes With her vast experience as soloist, chamber musician and ensemble leader, and as director of the Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists, Clio Gould is ideally placed to influence and inspire the next generation of professional players.

She leads her thrilling young colleagues in a programme that explores Apollonian qualities of formal logic, grace, beauty and harmony.

Clio Gould

£30 £25 £20 £15

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Saturday 24 January 11.00 am – 1.00 pm European Chamber Music Academy Showcase

ECMA Masterclass Professor Hatto Beyerle’s tireless work with students of ECMA rests on foundations set during his years as violist with the Vienna Soloists, the Alban Berg Quartet and the Vienna Chamber Ensemble. He leads a masterclass with the Giocoso String Quartet, working in close detail on refined aspects of chamber music interpretation.

Free (ticket required)

Hatto Beyerle

The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ECMA Showcase

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European Chamber Music Academy Showcase

Please note change of artist and programme

Stefan Zweig Trio piano trio

Georgi Kalojanov

Saturday 24 January 3.00 pm

Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2 Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101 The Vienna-based Stefan Zweig Trio achieved success in the ARD Competition in Munich within months of its foundation in 2012, and has since become a member of ECMA. £5

The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton

Stefan Zweig Trio

Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase

Celebrating 21 Years of Wigmore Hall Learning

Nicola Benedetti violin Alexei Grynyuk piano

Decca/Simon Fowler

Saturday 24 January 7.30 pm

Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor K304 Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ In the decade since winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, Nicola Benedetti has matured into one of the finest British artists of her generation, in demand worldwide as concerto soloist and respected as a passionate advocate for music education. This recital with her regular chamber music partner, the Russian pianist Alexei Grynyuk, promises to be a highlight of the Wigmore Hall Chamber Music Season.

Nicola Benedetti

Alexei Grynyuk

£50 £35 £25 £15

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Proceeds from this recital will help fund Wigmore Hall Learning’s valuable work at the Hall and in the community.

Chamber Music Season

Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano CPE Bach Rondo in C minor Wq. 59 Mozart Piano Sonata in E b K282; Rondo in D K485; Adagio in B minor K540; Piano Sonata in C K330

Marco Borggreve

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Sunday 25 January 11.30 am

Fantasy played a key role in the development of Classical art, reflected in everything from the transcendent verse of Keats, Blake and Wordsworth to the music of CPE Bach and Mozart. Kristian Bezuidenhout’s fortepiano recital presents the expressive leaps and myriad colours of everything from CPE Bach’s Rondo in C minor to the striking sounds and silences of Mozart’s B minor Adagio. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/The Mozart Odyssey

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Kristian Bezuidenhout

European Chamber Music Academy Showcase

Galatea Quartet

Molina Visuals

Sunday 25 January 3.00 pm

Milhaud String Quartet No. 1 Op. 5 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in E b Op. 117 Galatea, the exquisite mythic statue brought to life by Pygmalion, is an apt name for a group of young chamber musicians devoted to the pursuit of ensemble perfection and tonal beauty. The Galatea Quartet marks its tenth anniversary year with Milhaud’s youthful String Quartet No. 1 and the high-octane energy and tragicomic outbursts of Shostakovich’s Ninth String Quartet of 1964. £5

The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton Galatea Quartet

Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase

Hagen Quartet MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE Mozart String Quartet in G K387; String Quartet in D minor K421; String Quartet in E b K428

Harald Hoffmann

Sunday 25 January 7.30 pm

Revered by chamber music connoisseurs and acclaimed by critics worldwide, the Hagen Quartet is known for performances steeped in psychological insight, dramatic intensity and poetic eloquence. The ensemble joins Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odyssey to share its latest thoughts on three of the composer’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets, enduring monuments to a remarkable artistic friendship. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

Monday 26 January 1.00 pm

Igor Levit piano Tchaikovsky Méditation Op. 72 No. 5; The Seasons Op. 37b

Felix Broede

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Hagen Quartet

Tchaikovsky’s art, often larger than life, contained space for reflection on intimate feelings and subtle contrasts of mood. The dozen miniatures of his The Seasons collectively chart the changing states of the months of the year, presented as they unfolded under Russian skies. Igor Levit opens his BBC Lunchtime recital with the composer’s numinous Méditation Op. 72 No. 5, one of his final works for piano. £13 concs £11 WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/Introducing Igor Levit

Igor Levit

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Monday 26 January 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Journalist and author Jessica Duchen discusses Mozart’s string quartets before the second concert in the Hagen Quartet’s Mozart String Quartet Cycle. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/The Mozart Odyssey

Hagen Quartet MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE Mozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’; String Quartet in A K464; String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’

Harald Hoffmann

Monday 26 January 7.30 pm

The Hagen Quartet concludes its survey of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ quartets, opening this recital with the unstoppable power and captivating musical argument of the ‘Hunt’ Quartet. The remaining two works, completed within four days of one another in January 1785, are shot through with harmonic daring, contrapuntal ingenuity and breathtaking brilliance of invention. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Benefactor Friends of Wigmore Hall

Chamber Music Season/The Mozart Odyssey

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Hagen Quartet

Tuesday 27 January 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group MOZART’S CHAMBER MUSIC FOR PIANO AND STRINGS See 21 January 3.00 pm for full details

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/The Mozart Odyssey

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano MOZART BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Benjamin Ealovega

Tuesday 27 January 7.30 pm

Mozart Violin Sonata in F K376; Violin Sonata in Bb K15; Violin Sonata in A K402 (incomplete); Violin Sonata in C K6; Violin Sonata in D K29; Violin Sonata in G K9; Violin Sonata in D K7; Violin Sonata in A K305 Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien resume their survey of Mozart’s violin sonatas on his birthday, presenting five Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien works from the prodigious composer’s boyhood travels.

Their programme also includes the two miniature movements of the Violin Sonata in A K402, created in Vienna in the early 1780s, and the radiant Violin Sonata in A K305, inspired by the vivid contrasts and galant style developed in Mannheim during the 1770s. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by Lloyds Bank Private Banking

Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

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Hagen Quartet

Harald Hoffmann

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Wednesday 28 January 7.30 pm

MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE Mozart String Quartet in D K499 ‘Hoffmeister’; String Quartet in D K575 ‘Prussian’; String Quartet in B b K589 ‘Prussian’ Mozart wrote his ‘Hoffmeister’ Quartet for the Viennese composer and publisher Anton Hoffmeister, purveyor of chamber music to the imperial city’s music-loving population.

The Hagen Quartet presents it alongside two of the quartets written for King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia. £35 £30 £25 £18

Hagen Quartet

Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall

Chamber Music Season/The Mozart Odyssey

Marco Borggreve

Hagen Quartet Jörg Widmann clarinet MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE Mozart String Quartet in F K590; Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Mozart’s final essay in the string quartet genre, crafted in June 1790, stands among the finest achievements of the Classical period, a masterwork of formal construction, thematic contrasts and melodic invention. Jörg Widmann brings his special qualities as composer and performer to the interpretation of the elegiac Clarinet Quintet in A, one of the earliest and greatest works for solo clarinet and string quartet. £15 concs £12.50

Chamber Music Season/The Mozart Odyssey Jörg Widmann

Florian Boesch baritone Roger Vignoles piano

Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 29 January 7.30 pm Lukas Beck

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Thursday 29 January 1.00 pm

Krenek Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen Ernst Krenek’s formative years coincided with the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, the rise of extreme political ideologies and the emergence of iconoclastic trends in art and music. He absorbed the profusion of new musical styles and put many of them to thought-provoking effect in his Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen, an entrancing song cycle that probes the existential uncertainties of the late 1920s.

This concert will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval

Florian Boesch

Roger Vignoles

£35 £30 £25 £18

Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Song Recital Series / Florian Boesch Residency

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Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Rheinlegendchen; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Lob des hohen Verstandes; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? Mahler Erinnerung; Frühlingsmorgen Duparc Chanson triste; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Extase; L’invitation au voyage Schoenberg Erwartung; Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm; Erhebung; Waldsonne Mahler Rückert Lieder

Russell Duncan

Juliane Banse soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

Stefan Nimmesgern

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Friday 30 January 7.30 pm

Juliane Banse

Malcolm Martineau

Juliane Banse and Malcolm Martineau have worked together over many years to create song interpretations rich in spiritual insight and profound meaning. The German soprano, who recently made her Metropolitan Opera debut, builds her latest Wigmore Hall programme around the mixed emotions and bitter-sweet yearning of Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn and his visionary Rückert songs. £35 £30 £25 £18

Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Song Recital Series

The Music Machine FAMILY DAY For ages 6 plus Create a mechanical musical world with workshop leader Jessie Maryon Davies and musicians from the Royal Academy of Music.

Work together to explore new sounds, hear exciting music by contemporary composers, and build a brand new piece where everyone is a musical cog in a marvellous machine.

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Saturday 31 January 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Adults £15 Children £10

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and London Music Masters Wigmore Hall’s Family Programme is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet

Ellen Appel

Saturday 31 January 7.30 pm

SCHUBERT BIRTHDAY CONCERT Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703; String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’; String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists commemorate Schubert’s birthday with an unmissable celebration of the composer’s mature chamber music masterworks. The Takács Quartet sets the tone with his Quartettsatz in C minor. Its single movement serves as the intense point of departure for the ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet’s contrasting moods and the haunting melancholy of the monumental ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet of 1824. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle

Chamber Music Season/Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

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Takács Quartet

Gala Concert Celebrating 21Years of Wigmore Hall Learning Saturday 24 January 2015 7.30 pm

Nicola Benedetti

violin

Alexei Grynyuk

piano

Join us to celebrate the remarkable success of Wigmore Hall’s internationally acclaimed education and community programme. With over 400 workshops and events each season, at the Hall as well as in schools, hospitals, care homes and community settings, Wigmore Hall Learning reaches a strikingly diverse community, from the babies who attend our For Crying Out Loud! concerts to people living with dementia, whose lives are touched by the pioneering Music for Life programme.

In the decade since winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, Nicola Benedetti has matured into one of the finest British artists of her generation, in demand worldwide as concerto soloist and respected as a passionate advocate for music education. £50 £35 £25 £15

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Proceeds from this recital will help support Wigmore Hall Learning’s far-reaching work. ‘ It was an overwhelmingly positive experience witnessing the transformation in the participants and seeing their beautiful and alive personalities behind the dementia.’

Music for Life Trainee Musician ‘One of the most wonderful things to see is the Hall full of children from our schools having the best time and singing the house down! ’ Photo by Simon Fowler/Universal

Catty Alberman, Primary Music Coordinator, Haringey Music Service

How to get to Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 John Gilhooly OBE Director The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity No. 1024838 Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s West End and is easily accessible by public transport or car.

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

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

Car Parking There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas.

Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a five minute walk from the Hall.

Wigmore Hall par ticipates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their parking. Please contact the box office for further details or visit our website.

Restaurant and Bars Full information on pre-concert and interval refreshments can be found at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or by calling 020 7258 8292. Table reservations can be made by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.

OXFORD CIRCUS

Benjamin Ealovega

BOND STREET