Wigmore Hall Diary January 2016

January 2016

Sir Simon Rattle Magdalena Kozˇena´ INSIDE: Lisa Batiashvili | James Ehnes | Heath Quartet Simon Keenlyside | La Serenissima | Christopher Maltman Nash Ensemble | Mark Padmore | Luca Pisaroni Renaud Capuçon & Nicholas Angelich | and many more

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Cover: Sir Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožena´ © Jirˇí Sláma

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Friday 1 January No performances Box Office closed

Christian Ihle Hadland piano

Anders Bergersen

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Saturday 2 January 7.30 pm

Bach Italian Concerto in F BWV971 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A Op. 2 No. 2 Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54 Brahms 2 Rhapsodies Op. 79 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 14 Since making his concerto debut with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra at the age of fifteen, Christian Ihle Hadland has gained a reputation for pianism of the highest insight and imagination. The young Norwegian artist returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme crowned by the fiery passion of Prokofiev’s youthful Second Piano Sonata. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Christian Ihle Hadland

London Pianoforte Series

Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C Op. 119 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 The Moser brothers, joint recipients of the 2014 Brahms Prize, come to Wigmore Hall with a programme ideally matched to their virtuosity and poetic artistry. Prokofiev created his Cello Sonata in C against the dark background of his denunciation by the Soviet authorities in 1948.

The piece stands with Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata among the great masterworks for cello and piano.

Uwe Arens a& Die Hoffotographen

Johannes Moser cello Benjamin Moser piano

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Maximilian Schmitt tenor Gerold Huber piano

Marion Koell/Avi Service for music

Sunday 3 January 3.00 pm Christian Kagl

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Sunday 3 January 11.30 am

Robert Schumann Der arme Peter Clara Schumann Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen; Sie liebten sich beide; Lorelei Beethoven Marmotte; Wonne der Wehmut; Der Kuss; Resignation; Adelaide Robert Schumann Dichterliebe Maximilian Schmitt

Gerold Huber

Maximilian Schmitt gained his early musical experience as a member of the famous Regensburger Domspatzen. He moved effortlessly from boy chorister to solo tenor, serving as a member of Bavarian State Opera’s Young Ensemble before launching his solo career a decade ago. His programme includes Clara Schumann’s captivating ‘Lorelei’ and her husband’s timeless Dichterliebe.

All seats £15

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

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

Song Recital Series

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Sunday 3 January 7.30 pm

Winner of the 2012 New Orleans International Piano Competition

Viktor Valkov piano Bach/Busoni Prelude and Fugue in D BWV532 Schumann Études symphoniques Op. 13 Wagner Isoldes Liebestod Chopin Nocturne in C# minor Op. posth.; Nocturne in F# minor Op. 48 No. 2 Liszt Valse-impromptu S213; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9 in E b S244 The highly acclaimed young Bulgarian Pianist, Viktor Valkov, studied in the USA at the Juilliard School and at Rice University Houston. A gold medallist at several international piano competitions, he was awarded First Prize at the New Orleans International Piano Competition in 2012. This concert marks his London debut. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Nigel Grant Rogers Musical Artists Management

Sponsored by the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans

Monday 4 January 1.00 pm

Benjamin Appl* baritone Graham Johnson piano

David Jerusalem

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Viktor Valkov

Schumann Frühlingsfahrt; Der Einsiedler; Der frohe Wandersmann Mendelssohn Pagenlied; Nachtlied; Wanderlied Brahms In der Fremde; Mondnacht; Parole; Anklänge Pfitzner In Danzig; Der Gärtner; Zum Abschied meiner Tochter Wolf Nachruf; Das Ständchen; Der Musikant; Der Scholar; Der Freund

£13 concs £11

Benjamin Appl Malcolm Crowthers

Superlatives are a common feature in reviews of Benjamin Appl’s artistry.

The young German baritone, a current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, first made his mark at Wigmore Hall in recital with Graham Johnson in 2013.

They appear together again, directing their artistic partnership to a programme certain to delight and beguile.

* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Benjamin Appl is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Graham Johnson

Giorgia Bertazzi

Christian Tetzlaff violin Tanja Tetzlaff cello

Giorgia Bertazzi

Monday 4 January 7.30 pm

Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Jörg Widmann 24 Duos for violin and cello Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 Jörg Widmann’s artistry as composer and performer is already familiar to Wigmore Hall audiences. He began composing as a child and completed his studies with Wolfgang Christian Tetzlaff Tanja Tetzlaff Rihm in Karlsruhe. Alongside masterworks by Ravel and Kodály, Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff present a recent Widmann score. His 24 Duos, completed in 2008, allude to past styles and weave familiar melodies, the James Bond theme among them, into a richly complex musical tapestry. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

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Tuesday 5 January 7.30 pm

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Heath Quartet James Baillieu piano Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K 546; Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414 Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84 Mozart described the music of his Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414, conceived for performance either with small orchestra or string quartet, as ‘very brilliant, pleasing to the ear, and natural’. James Baillieu moves from concerto soloist to chamber music partner in the second half, joining the Heath Quartet in Elgar’s Piano Quintet, which received its first public performance at Wigmore Hall in May 1919. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity.

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

Kaupo Kikkas

Kaupo Kikkas

Chamber Music Season/Introducing James Baillieu

James Baillieu

Heath Quartet

Werner Mokesch

Birgid Steinberger soprano Daniel Johannsen tenor Benjamin Appl* baritone Graham Johnson piano SONGS AND BALLADS OF GOTHIC HORROR Schubert Der Geistertanz (D15) (fragment); Der Geistertanz (D15a) (fragment); Minona; Adelwold und Emma

Daniel Johannsen Clive Barda

Birgid Steinberger

In 1812 Schubert made two bold attempts to set ‘Der Geistertanz’, Friedrich von Matthisson’s vivid depiction of nocturnal spirits at play in a graveyard. The young composer’s feeling for supernatural scenes and Gothic romance also flows through his dramatic setting of the 38 verses of ‘Adelwold und Emma’, remarkable even by the near-miraculous standards of Schubert’s songs from 1815.

Falk Kastel

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Wednesday 6 January 6.00 pm

This concert will be approximately 45 minutes in duration, without an interval All seats £5

* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Benjamin Appl

Graham Johnson

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

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

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

Song Recital Series /Schubert: The Complete Songs

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Wednesday 6 January 7.30 pm Clive Barda

Pia Clodi

Christopher Maltman baritone Graham Johnson piano Schubert Szene aus Goethes ‘Faust’; An den Mond (D193); An die Nachtigall (D196); An die Apfelbäume, wo ich Julien erblickte; Auf den Tod einer Nachtigall (D201); Die Nonne; Die Bürgschaft; Liane; Fragment aus dem Aeschylus; Liedesend; Rückweg; Alte Liebe rostet nie; Zum Punsche

FROM THE BATTLEFIELD Schubert An die Leier; Normans Gesang; Das Heimweh (D851); Romanze des Richard Löwenherz; Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk

Christopher Maltman

Graham Johnson

The teenaged Schubert was inspired by the first part of Goethe’s Faust, which appeared in print in 1808, to create an operatic scene depicting Gretchen’s downfall. This programme also includes an exploration of songs of battle and the romance of chivalry, and concludes with a campaign-hardened knight’s rollicking drinking song. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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

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

Song Recital Series / Schubert: The Complete Songs

Michael Roll piano

Mary Robert

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Thursday 7 January 7.30 pm

Beethoven 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 Brahms Klavierstücke Op. 76 Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960 Michael Roll made his mark as winner of the inaugural Leeds International Piano Competition in 1963 and went on to collaborate with, among others, Adrian Boult, Benjamin Britten and Pierre Boulez. He continues to astonish and delight audiences with a mind keenly aware of the poetic nuances and dramatic contrasts of the works in this programme. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

London Pianoforte Series Friday 8 January 7.30 pm

The English Concert Kristian Bezuidenhout guest director, fortepiano

Richard Haughton

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Michael Roll

J C Bach Symphony in E b Op. 6 No. 3 C P E Bach Concerto in C for fortepiano and strings Wq. 20 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 in E b K271 Mozart Symphony No. 15 in G K124 Marco Borggreve

The English Concert

Described by the Boston Globe as ‘a vigorously intelligent musician, well equipped with the technique to back up some extraordinary new ideas about old music’, Kristian Bezuidenhout, virtuoso pianist and director, launches The English Concert’s year with a thrilling whistle-stop tour of Europe in the 1770s, a period of transition and experiment, musically speaking, in which the new classical style was created. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series Kristian Bezuidenhout

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Come and Sing: Early Italian Music Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring Italian madrigals, oratorio and early opera.

Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Saturday 9 January 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

£25 concs £19

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

A Celebration Concert for Marie Curie

Leonore Piano Trio Benjamin Nabarro violin Gemma Rosefield cello Tim Horton piano

Eric Richmond

Saturday 9 January 7.30 pm

Krzysztof Chorzelski viola Laurène Durantel double bass Beethoven Piano Quartet in E b Op. 16 Lalo Piano Trio No. 3 in A minor Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ The Leonore Piano Trio joins forces with Belcea Quartet violist, Krzysztof Chorzelski, and Ensemble 360 bassist, Laurène Durantel, for A Celebration Concert for Marie Curie. Featuring Schubert’s Trout Quintet, the concert coincides with the release of the Trio’s latest recording on Hyperion, of Lalo’s piano trios – its last disc was critically acclaimed for their ‘revelatory playing’ (Observer).

Leonore Piano Trio

£25 £23 £20 £18 £15

All proceeds will go to Marie Curie Cancer Care Charity (Reg. Charity No. 207994) Krzysztof Chorzelski

Sunday 10 January 11.30 am

Daniel-Ben Pienaar piano Chopin 3 Nouvelles Études; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 Schubert From Moments Musicaux D780: No. 3 in F minor; Impromptu in Ab D935 No. 2; Piano Sonata in A D959

Ondrej Bires

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Laurène Durantel

Rave reviews have followed Daniel-Ben Pienaar’s complete recordings of the piano sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven and Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues.

The South African-born pianist, currently Curzon Lecturer in Performance Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, presents a programme rich in romantic imagery, technical virtuosity and sublime invention. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Daniel-Ben Pienaar

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Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano Brahms Ständchen (Op. 106 No. 1); Spanisches Lied; O kühler Wald; Von ewiger Liebe Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Gibbs Five eyes Vaughan Williams The water mill Trad (arr. Hughes) She moved through the fair Vaughan Williams Silent noon Weill The Saga of Jenny Flanders and Swann The Warthog William Bolcom Lime jello marshmallow cottage cheese surprise Grand What’s a lady like me

Kaupo Kikkas

Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Voice Fellowship Recital

Kaupo Kikkas

Sunday 10 January 3.00 pm

Anna Huntley

James Bailieu

Anna Huntley, recipient of the 2011 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Voice Fellowship, has developed a close artistic partnership with James Baillieu in recent seasons. Their programme embraces everything from songs of love lost and love found, ‘O kühler Wald’ and ‘The Warthog’ among them, to the taste-bud paralysing excesses of William Bolcom’s ‘Lime jello marshmallow cottage cheese surprise’.

All seats £15

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

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

Song Recital Series/Introducing James Baillieu

Bartók Rhapsody No. 2 BB96a; Sonata for solo violin BB124; Sonatina for violin and piano (arr. E. Gertler with Bartók) BB102a; Violin Sonata No. 1 BB84

Benjamin Ealovega

James Ehnes violin Andrew Armstrong piano

Olivier Wilkins

Sunday 10 January 7.30 pm

Bartók created his Violin Sonata No. 1 with the exceptional talents of the London-based Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi in mind. The piece, which boldly evokes Hungarian and Romanian folksong, unleashes just about every string technique in the book. Canadian virtuoso James Ehnes also performs the fiendishly difficult Sonata for solo violin, written for Yehudi Menuhin in 1944, and the folk-inspired Second Rhapsody and Sonatina.

James Ehnes

Andrew Armstrong

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Bartók Chamber Music

Pavel Kolesnikov piano Debussy Préludes Book I; L’isle joyeuse

Colin Way

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Monday 11 January 1.00 pm

Five-star reviews greeted Pavel Kolesnikov’s Wigmore Hall debut recital in 2014, secured not least thanks to his interpretation of Debussy’s first set of Images.

The young Russian-born pianist turns to Debussy once again, exploring the dozen characterful pieces of the composer’s Préludes Book I and devoting his highly developed feeling for tonal colours and textures to L’isle joyeuse. £13 concs £11

Pavel Kolesnikov is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Pavel Kolesnikov

Schubert Pensa, che questo istante; Schäfers Klagelied; Erlkönig; An Schwager Kronos; Wie Ulfru fischt; Fahrt zum Hades; Der Schiffer (D536); Auf dem See; Auf der Donau; Das Abendrot (D627); Grenzen der Menschheit; Heliopolis I & II; L’incanto degli occhi; Il modo di prender moglie; Il traditor deluso Schubert From Schwanengesang : Der Atlas; Ihr Bild; Das Fischermädchen; Die Stadt; Am Meer; Der Doppelgänger

Daniel Pasche

Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone Wolfram Rieger piano

Marco Borggreve

Monday 11 January 7.30 pm

Wolfram Rieger

Luca Pisaroni

This programme ideally suits the sonorous warmth and operatic intensity of Luca Pisaroni’s voice. The Italian bass-baritone opens with a song in his native language from 1813 before tackling the tragic drama of ‘Erlkönig’ and addressing mankind’s insignificance in ‘Grenzen der Menschheit’. The recital ends with six matchless Heine settings from Schwanengesang, completed shortly before Schubert’s death. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.

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

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Rosenblatt Recitals 2015 /16

Kaupo Kikkas

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Tuesday 12 January 7.30 pm

Gianluca Buratto bass James Baillieu piano Monteverdi La Morte di Seneca from L’incoronazione di Poppea Cazzati In Calvaria rupe Handel Sorge infausta una procella from Orlando Vivaldi Se il cor guerriero from Tito Manilo Mozart Madamina, Il catalogo è questo from Don Giovanni; O Isis und Osiris from Die Zauberflöte Rossini La calunnia from Il barbiere di Siviglia Bellini Cinta di Fiori from I puritani Verdi Il lacerato spirito from Simon Boccanegra

Gianluca Buratto

James Baillieu

Following a 2015 season that has included concerts of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Vespers with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir in the US, and in London at the BBC Proms, Italian bass Gianluca Buratto gives the first Rosenblatt Recital of 2016. A former winner of the International Ferruccio Tagliavani Singing Competition, Buratto made his opera stage debut in 2009 at the Giuseppe Verdi Theatre in Italy. ‘An Italian bass to watch’ The Sunday Times

Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 1 December (Dorottya Láng), 25 February (Bryan Hymel & Irene Roberts), 16 March (Ekaterina Siurina & Charles Castronovo), 14 April (Javier Camarena) and 14 June (Mariella Devia) £30 £26 £22 £18 £16

Llyˆr Williams piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 12 in Ab Op. 26 ‘Funeral March’; Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’; Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor Op. 49 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 20 in G Op. 49 No. 2; 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme in E b ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35

Benjamin Ealovega

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Wednesday 13 January 7.30 pm

In 1805, Beethoven, in search of much-needed income, chose to publish two early piano sonatas as his Op. 49. These brief pieces stand at the centre of the latest recital in Llyˆ r Williams’s Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle, creating space for contemplation and repose between the impassioned romanticism of the ‘Pathétique’ and the Promethean striving and energy of the ‘Eroica Variations’. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series/Llyˆr Williams Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle

Llyˆr Williams

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Renaud Capuçon violin Guillaume Chilemme violin Adrien La Marca viola Edgar Moreau cello

Caroline Doutre

Quatuor Renaud Capuçon

Francçois Darmigny

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Thursday 14 January 7.30 pm

THE BUSCH PROJECT Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 Schubert String Quartet in G D887

Renaud Capuçon

Guillaume Chilemme Matt Dine

Four of today’s exceptional chamber musicians join forces to perform two of the greatest of all string quartet works, commemorating the concert given at Wigmore Hall in March 1933 by the Busch Quartet. Beethoven’s late String Quartet in C sharp minor was written following his nephew’s failed suicide attempt, its seven movements reflecting on the miracle of life and its fleeting impermanence. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Adrien La Marca

Edgar Moreau

Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity.

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

Chamber Music Season

La Serenissima Adrian Chandler director, violin Peter Whelan bassoon

Eric Richmond

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Friday 15 January 7.30 pm

VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS Vivaldi Concerto in D for violin ‘in tromba marina’, strings and continuo RV221; Concerto in G minor for bassoon, strings and continuo RV496; Concerto in G for violin ‘in tromba marina’, strings and continuo RV311; Concerto in B b for bassoon, strings and continuo RV501 ‘La notte’ Vivaldi Le Quattro Stagioni – The Four Seasons (Manchester version): Concertos for violin, strings and continuo: in E ‘La Primavera’ RV269; in G minor ‘L’Estate’ RV315; in F ‘L’Autumno’ RV293; in F minor ‘L’Inverno’ RV297 Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima have built an all-Vivaldi programme complete with ‘ghosts, birds, unrequited love, guns, drunks, dogs … and a pimped-up violin’. Their 21st anniversary concert presents the Venetian composer’s famous ‘Four Seasons’ in an edition based on the work’s only surviving manuscript copy. Vivaldi’s adventurous spirit can also be heard in two concertos for the tromba marina, a single-stringed instrument that sounds like a trumpet. Adrian Chandler, luthier David Rattray and Vivaldi expert Michael Talbot have teamed up to recreate this curious and loud instrument from evidence Adrian Chandler surviving in the archives of the Ospedale della Pietà, the famous foundling institution with which Vivaldi was associated for much of his career. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Martin Usborne

Benjamin Harte

La Serenissima

Peter Whelan

Musical Explorers FAMILY DAY For ages 5 plus An unmissable opportunity to explore improvisation inspired by musical genres from around the world, with music leader and violinist Alison Blunt alongside students from the Royal Academy of Music. The day is linked to the centenary of the birth of the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who was himself fascinated with improvisation and music from different cultures. Work with Alison and create new music to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day.

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Saturday 16 January 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

This day is delivered in partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and with London Music Masters Children £10 Adults £15

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Nash Ensemble Roderick Williams baritone

K. Leighton

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 16 January 7.30 pm

Boccherini String Quintet in C Op. 28 No. 4 Wolf Italian Serenade in G for string quartet Mendelssohn Songs with piano Mozart String Quintet in G minor K516 One of the graceful quintets with two cellos by the Italian-born, Spanish-based Luigi Boccherini opens this programme; the most dramatic and intense of Mozart’s quintets with two violas closes it. In between come a quartet movement by Hugo Wolf drenched in Italian sunshine and a group of Mendelssohn songs sung by Roderick Williams.

Nash Ensemble

Roderick Williams

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians

Endymion Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581

Eamonn McCabe

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Sunday 17 January 11.30 am

Many of Radio 4’s desert island castaways have named Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A K581 among their essential recordings.

The work, written to display the talents of the composer’s fellow freemason, Anton Stadler, is prefaced by Endymion’s interpretation of the Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, among the genre’s earliest and finest works. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Endymion

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Sunday 17 January 3.00 pm

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle Emily Garland soprano Claire Barnett-Jones mezzo-soprano Henry Neill baritone Božidar Smiljanic´ bass-baritone Jâms Coleman piano Jonathan Lakeland piano THE BALLADS OF CARL LOEWE AND FRANZ LISZT Liszt Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Freudvoll und leidvoll Loewe Tom der Reimer; Die wandelnde Glocke; Spirito santo; Gutmann und Gutweib Liszt Comment, disaient-ils; Oh! quand je dors Loewe Edward; Hinkende Jamben Liszt Es war ein König in Thule; Der du von dem Himmel bist Loewe Meine Ruh ist hin Liszt Die drei Zigeuner; Die Loreley Loewe Erlkönig Six outstanding young performers from the Royal Academy of Music evoke the vivid images and supernatural narratives of songs and ballads by Loewe and Liszt. Their programme includes Liszt’s early settings of verse by Goethe and Heine, ‘Es war ein König in Thule’ and ‘Die Loreley’ among them, and Loewe’s engrossing ‘Erlkönig’, written in 1817/18 during the composer’s student years.

All seats £15

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.

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

Song Recital Series

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle

THE BUSCH PROJECT

Stéphane de Bourgies

Renaud Capuçon violin Nicholas Angelich piano

Mat Hennek

Sunday 17 January 7.30 pm

Busoni Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 36a Mozart Violin Sonata in G K379 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 Acclaimed by the Guardian as ‘one of the world’s outstanding violinists’, Renaud Capuçon appears Renaud Capuçon Nicholas Angelich in company with his regular chamber music partner and close friend, Nicholas Angelich, to pay homage to the concert given at Wigmore Hall in March 1934 by Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin. In addition to performing masterworks by Mozart and Beethoven, they are set to reveal the exceptional qualities of Busoni’s Violin Sonata No. 2, which includes majestic variations on the melody of a Bach chorale. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

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Dejan Lazic´ piano Haydn Piano Sonata in Eb HXVI:52 Shostakovich Three Fantastic Dances Op. 5 Schumann Waldszenen Op. 82 Dejan Lazic´ 3 Istrian Dances Op. 15a

Susie Knoll

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Monday 18 January 1.00 pm

Zagreb-born pianist Dejan Lazic´ is increasingly making his name as a composer, recognised not least for the melodic eloquence of his musical language. His trio of Istrian Dances makes a strong companion to the nine short movements of Schumann’s Waldszenen Op. 82 and ideally complements the breathtaking invention of Haydn’s final piano sonata, written in London in 1794. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Dejan Lazic´

The Endellion String Quartet Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Haydn String Quartet in A Op. 20 No. 6 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

Eric Richmond

Monday 18 January 7.30 pm

Schubert’s dramatic and lyrical ‘Quartettsatz’ opens this programme, followed by a work charged with Haydn’s inventive mastery, complete with a whispered fugue.

The Endellion String Quartet also explores the expressive range and tremendous power of Beethoven’s Op. 95, before turning, in contrast, to Debussy’s early masterpiece and revealing his extraordinary imagination for colour and texture. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

The Endellion String Quartet

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

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Tuesday 19 January 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Leading Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen, Professor at King’s College, London and editor of a forthcoming new critical edition and English-language translation of the Mozart family correspondence, discusses the young Mozart’s travels in 1766 and introduces some of the music being performed in the concert. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Tuesday 19 January 7.30 pm

Classical Opera Ana Maria Labin soprano Benjamin Hulett tenor Ian Page conductor ‘MOZART 250’: 1766 – A RETROSPECTIVE Mozart Symphony No. 5 in Bb K22 Jommelli Aria from Il Vologeso Mozart Per pietà, bell’idol mio K78; Ana Maria Labin Benjamin Hulett Ian Page O temerario Arbace ... Per quel paterno amplesso K79 Vanhal Symphony in G minor Haydn Et incarnatus est from Missa Cellensis Guglielmi Aria from Lo spirito di contradizione Beck Symphony in D Op. 4 No. 1 (1st movement) J C Bach Ah, why shou’d love with tyrant sway Mozart Or che il dover ... Tali e cotanti sono K36; Symphony in G K45a ‘Lambach’ Following last season’s triumphant launch of MOZART 250, Classical Opera continues its unique traversal of the fertile musical landscape of 250 years ago with a fascinating programme of works either written or premièred in the year 1766. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Wednesday 20 January 12.15 pm

Pre-Concert Talk An introduction to the lunchtime concert with composer Anna Clyne and Dr Kate Kennedy.

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Julia Doyle soprano Marios Argiros oboe Jacqueline Shave violin Miranda Dale violin Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Maggie Cole harpsichord

Harry Rankin

Britten Sinfonia

Raphaelle Photography/Baixa

Wednesday 20 January 1.00 pm

Julia Doyle

Marios Argiros

Miranda Dale

Clare Finnimore

Caroline Dearnley

Maggie Cole

Sussie Ahlburg

Preoccupation with texture permeates this programme, arising with two arias from J S Bach. Ligeti’s Continuum tests the exhilarating knife-edge between identifying individual notes and hearing continuous sound.

A London première from Grammy-nominated composer, Anna Clyne, whose music seeks to explore resonant soundscapes and propelling textures, completes the journey from the baroque to the present.

Jacqueline Shave Harry Rankin

Bach Gott versorget alles Leben from Cantata BWV187; Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not from Cantata BWV21 Ligeti Continuum Anna Clyne This Lunar Beauty* (London première) Arvo Pärt Fratres Salvatore Sciarrino Due arie notturne dal campo (arr. of two arias

by A. Scarlatti)

*Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support from donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £13 concs £11

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Arensky Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 32 Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor Op. posth Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87

Hagai Shaham

Wednesday 20 January 7.30 pm

Beethoven, as with other genres, raised the bar for the piano trio. ‘Despite the good nature that prevails’, noted E TA Hoffmann in his review of the composer’s Op. 70, ‘Beethoven’s genius is in the last analysis serious’. The Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch sets the famous ‘Ghost’ Trio in company with Arensky’s formidable First Piano Trio and two contrasting works, Rachmaninov’s early Trio élégiaque and Brahms’s genial Second Piano Trio. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch

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Sussie Ahlburg

Jack Liebeck

Lawrence Power viola, violin Adrian Brendel cello Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Giorgia Bertazzi

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Thursday 21 January 7.30 pm

Hahn Soliloque et forlane Vierne Le Soir Op. 5 No. 1 Büsser Appassionato Op. 34 Brahms Trio in A minor for viola, cello and piano Op. 114 Suk Elegie Op. 23 Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 Lawrence Power

Adrian Brendel

Simon Crawford-Phillips

Technical mastery, tonal warmth and mesmerising musicianship are among the many qualities that make Lawrence Power’s artistry so compelling. Revered by chamber music connoisseurs worldwide for the life-enhancing insights and depth of his playing, he stands both as a wholehearted champion of contemporary work and a grand master of his instrument’s classical repertoire. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season

ECMA Showcase Friday 22 January 1.00 pm Mettis String Quartet and Stratos Quartet (piano quartet) Saturday 23 January 11.00 am Masterclass: Johannes Meissl with the Mettis String Quartet Saturday 23 January 3.00 pm Arcis Saxophone Quartet and Stratos Quartet (piano quartet) Sunday 24 January 3.00 pm Meta4 The European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) was established in 2004 by Hatto Beyerle, co-founder and violist of the Alban Berg Quartet. Its mission is to promote and nurture today’s aspiring chamber music ensembles.

The Academy, which stands as an association of leading European music education institutions and festivals, provides ongoing training opportunities for its young ensembles and offers students an inspiring mix of theoretical tuition and practical instruction.

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

Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase Friday 22 January 1.00 pm

European Chamber Music Academy Showcase

Mettis String Quartet Stratos Quartet piano quartet

Lukas Beck

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Bartók String Quartet No. 2 Op. 17 Schumann Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47 Since its foundation in 2004, the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) has forged a fruitful partnership with Wigmore Hall. The organisation’s annual showcase opens with performances given by two strikingly accomplished young ensembles, the Mettis String Quartet from Lithuania and the Stratos Quartet, comprising musicians from Austria, the Czech Republic and Finland.

Mettis String Quartet

All tickets £5

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

Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase

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Josep Molina

Mark Padmore tenor Paul Lewis piano

Marco Borggreve

Friday 22 January 7.30 pm

Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Brahms Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze; Sommerabend; Mondenschein; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht; Es schauen die Blumen; Meerfahrt Schubert An den Mond (D296); Meeres Stille; Gesänge des Harfners; An Schwager Kronos Wolf Der Rattenfänger; Spottlied aus Wilhelm Meister; Blumengruss; Gleich und gleich; Phänomen; Mark Padmore Paul Lewis Anakreons Grab; Ob der Koran von Ewigkeit; Trunken müssen wir allen sein!; So lang man nüchtern ist; Sie haben wegen der Trunkenheit; Was in der Schenke waren heute Described by Gramophone as ‘two deeply thoughtful artists pushing each other ever onwards’, Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis have cultivated one of today’s most visionary and spiritually rewarding Lieder recital partnerships. Their programme charts the development of German romantic song and celebrates the vital relationship between verse and music in works by four of the greatest ever songwriters. £45 £35 £30 £25 £15

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Saturday 23 January 11.00 am – Masterclass

European Chamber Music Academy Showcase

ECMA Masterclass Violinist Johannes Meissl, ECMA’s Artistic Director and a member of Vienna’s Artis Quartet, shares his long experience as performer and pedagogue with the Mettis String Quartet in a session that promises to cast fresh light on the fine art of quartet playing and offer profound insights into advanced musical interpretation.

Free admission to masterclass (ticket required)

Johannes Meissl

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

Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase/Wigmore Hall Learning Event Saturday 23 January 3.00 pm

European Chamber Music Academy Showcase

Arcis Saxophone Quartet Stratos Quartet piano quartet Ligeti Six Bagatelles Farkas Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th century Fabien Lévy Durch, in memoriam G. Grisey Strauss Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 13 Arcis Saxophone Quartet Vipin Mayer

This concert rejoices in the diversity of repertoire for two contrasting ensembles, the piano quartet and saxophone quartet. Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles, originally written for piano, launch the Arcis Saxophone Quartet’s dynamic programme, while the Stratos Quartet takes on the young Richard Strauss’s Brahmsian Piano Quartet Op. 13, a work of monumental scope and rousing audacity.

All tickets £5

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

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Stratos Quartet

Alexander Melnikov piano Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 Skryabin Fantasie Op. 28; Deux poèmes Op. 32; Piano Sonata No. 3 in F# minor Op. 23; Cinq préludes Op. 74

Martin Lengemann

Saturday 23 January 7.30 pm

Alexander Melnikov’s pianism is securely rooted in a deep knowledge of his instrument and the evolution of its repertoire. The Russian artist’s Skryabin interpretations reflect the composer’s early debt to Chopin as well as the individuality of his mature musical language.

Melnikov opens with one of the great monuments of nineteenth-century music, Chopin’s 24 Preludes Op. 28. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Alexander Melnikov

London Pianoforte Series

Mozart String Quartet in F K590 ‘Prussian’ Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Cecilia String Quartet Named after music’s patron saint, the Cecilia String Quartet has delighted admirers worldwide with the polish and panache of its artistry. The ensemble, which won the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2010, makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with two works famed for their brilliance, classical poise and life-enhancing energy. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Cecilia String Quartet

Sunday 24 January 3.00 pm

European Chamber Music Academy Showcase

Meta4

Noora Isoeskeli

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Sunday 24 January 11.30 am

Webern String Quartet Op. 28 Sebastian Fagerlund Scherzic for viola and cello Jouni Kaipainen Sonata for two violins Op. 94 (second movement) Jaakko Kuusisto Play III Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 Meta4 has consistently broadened the string quartet repertoire since its foundation almost fifteen years ago.

The ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall to take part in this year’s ECMA Showcase, interleaving two Viennese masterworks with a trio of contemporary pieces by Meta4’s fellow Finns, Sebastian Fagerlund, Jouni Kaipainen and the violinist-composer Jaakko Kuusisto.

All tickets £5

The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton Meta4

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Sunday 24 January 7.30 pm Laurie Lewis

Lisa Batiashvili violin Valeriy Sokolov violin Gérard Caussé viola Gautier Capuçon cello Frank Braley piano DUTILLEUX 100TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Dutilleux Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher Dutilleux 3 Préludes: D’ombre et de silence; Sur un même accord; Le jeu des contraires Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Dutilleux String Quartet ‘Ainsi la nuit’

Henri Dutilleux, who died in May 2013, nearly lived to celebrate his hundredth birthday. This concert marks the French composer’s Henri Dutilleux (1916 – 2013) centenary almost to the day, its contents chosen to chart the exquisite beauty and refinement of his feeling for sound and to open windows into his radiant imaginary world. The programme begins with Dutilleux’s tribute to the Swiss conductor and musical philanthropist Paul Sacher and includes his 3 Préludes of 1973–88, works that probe the usually hidden recesses of silence and musical simplicity. Five artists with an innate empathy for tonal light and shade offer their tribute to Dutilleux and also explore the influences of Debussy and Ravel on his distinctive music. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Lisa Batiashvili

Valeriy Sokolov

Marc Ribes

Michael Tammaro/Virgin Classics

Gérard Caussé

Gautier Capuçon

Monday 25 January 1.00 pm

Armida Quartet Mozart String Quartet in G K80 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’

Felix Broede

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David Arranz

Simon Fowler/EMI Classics

Anja Frers /DG

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

The Berlin-based Armida Quartet captivated the hall at the ARD International Music Competition in 2012, where it received first prize, the audience prize and six other special awards. Its successes since, including selection for BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist scheme, rest on the group’s intense preparation and the enchanting spontaneity of its performances. £13 concs £11 Armida Quartet

The Armida Quartet is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Frank Braley

Monday 25 January 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Mozart scholar Professor John Irving introduces the first concert in Francesco Piemontesi’s complete cycle of Mozart’s piano sonatas. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/The Mozart Odyssey

Francesco Piemontesi piano THE MOZART ODYSSEY

Julien Mignot

Monday 25 January 7.30 pm

Mozart Fantasia in D minor K397; Piano Sonata in D K284; Rondo in A minor K511; Piano Sonata in A K331 Francesco Piemontesi launches his Wigmore Hall survey of Mozart’s piano sonatas and solo keyboard works with the Fantasia in D minor, a work charged with dramatic pauses, sudden silences and fiery outbursts. The programme also pairs the Rondo in A minor of 1787, audacious and forward-looking in its harmonies, with the equally unconventional Piano Sonata in A K331, famed for its iconoclastic Minuet and ‘Turkish’ Rondo. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series / The Mozart Odyssey Francesco Piemontesi

Tuesday 26 January 11.00 am – 11.45 am Repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm

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For Crying Out Loud!

FOR PARENTS AND BABIES UP TO 1 YEAR OLD Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music presented especially for parents or carers and their babies in a relaxed and accommodating environment. Although these concerts are not interactive, the programmes are designed for adults and babies to enjoy together. £7.50 per adult – babies come free

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Tuesday 26 January 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Writer Nigel Simeone introduces Simon Keenlyside’s evening programme of popular song from the mid-twentieth century. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Simon Keenlyside baritone Howard McGill woodwind Gordon Campbell trombone Richard Pryce double bass Mike Smith drums Matthew Regan piano

Uwe Arens

Tuesday 26 January 7.30 pm

Songs by Emmerich Kalman, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Jerome Kern and George Gershwin

Simon Keenlyside

Howard McGill

Gordon Campbell

Richard Pryce

Mike Smith

Matthew Regan

The patterns of music history show that the most creative artists often cluster in particular places at particular times. Simon Keenlyside and five British jazz musicians unlock the energy and heart of songs penned for New York’s Broadway stages and reflect their debt to European traditions of operetta and cabaret. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Song Recital Series

Rob Moore

Michael Collins director, clarinet City of London Sinfonia London Winds Christine Rice mezzo-soprano

Benjamin Ealovega

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Wednesday 27 January 7.30 pm

MOZART BIRTHDAY CONCERT Michael Collins

Michael Collins and friends celebrate Mozart’s birthday in style, starting with the ‘Gran Partita’, perhaps commissioned by Anton Stadler, for whom Mozart later composed his Clarinet Concerto. Christine Rice joins the party to perform ‘Parto, parto’, one of the glories of Mozart’s final opera, La clemenza di Tito.

City of London Sinfonia

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

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Christine Rice Eric Richmond

Mozart Serenade in Bb for 13 wind instruments K361 ‘Gran Partita’; Parto, parto from La clemenza di Tito; Clarinet Concerto in A K622

London Winds

Thomas Gould violin Ana-Maria Vera piano

Toby Amies

Lisa Peacock Thursday Lunchtime Showcase Recitals

Aga Tomaszek

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Thursday 28 January 1.00 pm

Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454 Ravel Violin Sonata Thomas Gould performs as soloist with orchestras worldwide and with many of the leading conductors of today. He appears regularly at the main UK venues, and in recent seasons has performed in London at the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Centre Thomas Gould Ana-Maria Vera and Royal Festival Hall; in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall and Manchester Evening News Arena, and Birmingham’s Symphony Hall and National Indoor Arena. Ana-Maria Vera has appeared as soloist with Orchestras including the Philadelphia, London Philharmonic, Australian Chamber, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Tokyo Symphony, under conductors including Muti, Zinman, de Waart, Inbal and Conlon. She has performed in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Concertgebouw, Salle Gaveau and Wigmore Hall, and maintains close duo partnerships with Ivry Gitlis, Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis. Ana-Maria Vera is the founder and director of Bolivia Clásica, a charitable organization which promotes cultural exchanges between Bolivia and the rest of the world. £13 concs £11 20% discount when you book for 3 or more concerts in this series (see further dates below)

Tickets also on sale for Thursday Lunchtime Showcase Recitals on 26 November (Konstantin Scherbakov), 25 February (Rivka Golani & Michael Hampton) and 17 March (Hélène Dautry & Bruno Rigutto) Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd

Sir Simon Rattle

Daishin Kashimoto Alfred Steffen

Magdalena Kožená

Matthias Creutziger

Jim Rakete

Mathias Bothor/DG

Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano Sir Simon Rattle piano Daishin Kashimoto violin Rahel Maria Rilling violin Amihai Grosz viola Dávid Adorján cello Kaspar Zehnder flute Andrew Marriner clarinet

Alfred Steffen

CELEBRATING MAGDALENA KOŽENÁ

Amihai Grosz

Dávid Adorján Benjamin Ealovega

Chausson Chanson perpétuelle Stravinsky Three Songs from William Shakespeare Ravel Chansons madécasses Rahel Maria Rilling Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia Brahms Ophelia-Lieder; 2 Songs with viola Op. 91 Janácˇek Rikadla (Nursery Rhymes) Dvorˇák My song of love rings through the dusk; The gypsy songman; In pain, my heart often broods; When a maiden was a-mowing; Songs my mother taught me; Come and join the dancing

Guy Perrenoud

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Friday 29 January 7.30 pm

Sir Simon Rattle makes his Wigmore Hall debut as pianist in company with Magdalena Kožená and outstanding musicians from Berlin, Bern Kaspar Zehnder Andrew Marriner and London. Their programme opens with Chausson’s last completed work, offers contrasting responses to Shakespeare’s troubled Ophelia, and embraces songs of Kožená’s Czech homeland, Dvorˇák’s evergreen ‘Songs my mother taught me’ and Janácˇek’s irresistible ‘Rikadla’ among them. £100 £75 £50 £30 £15

Booking limited to two tickets per person.

We expect exceptionally high demand for this concert.

Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season/Celebrating Magdalena Kozˇená

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Saturday 30 January 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

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CAVATINA Family Concert Magnard Ensemble For ages 5 plus Formed in 2012 at the Royal Academy of Music, the Magnard Ensemble is a vibrant young chamber group committed to delivering high-quality performances and inspirational Learning projects. In this interactive family concert, the ensemble takes you on a tour around the wind quintet, exploring the colours and textures of the different instruments through the music of Haydn, Ibert, Hindemith, Malcolm Arnold and Paul Patterson.

Children £8 Adults £10 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringing chamber music to young people and young people to chamber music, is delighted to present this concert in association with Wigmore Hall.

Joseph Shiner

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Magnard Ensemble

Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano

Sussie Ahlburg

Saturday 30 January 7.30 pm

Mozart Violin Sonata in E b K380; Violin Sonata in A K12; Violin Sonata in G K11; Sonata in Bb K570 (version for violin and piano); Violin Sonata in Eb K302; 12 Variations in G K359 ‘La bergère Célimène’; Violin Sonata in A K526 Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien complete their five-concert survey of Mozart’s sonatas for violin and piano, presenting two of his earliest works in the genre together with the dramatic twists and turns of the Violin Sonata in E flat K380. They conclude with the Violin Sonata in A K526, widely considered to be the greatest of Mozart’s works for violin and piano.

This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes in duration, including an interval Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity.

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

Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

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Alexandra Dariescu piano Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54 Fauré Prélude in F Op. 103 No. 4; Prélude in G minor Op. 103 No. 3; Prélude in C # minor Op. 103 No. 2 Chopin Prelude in C# minor Op. 45 Szymanowski Prelude in C minor Op. 1 No. 7; Prelude in Eb minor Op. 1 No. 8; Prelude in B minor Op. 1 No. 9 Tchaikovsky/Pletnev The Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a Chopin Scherzo No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 31

Adrian Stoicoviciu

Sunday 31 January 11.30 am

International Piano Magazine recently named Alexandra Dariescu as ‘one of 30 pianists under 30 destined for a spectacular career’, an accolade underpinned by the Romanian-born artist’s increasingly busy schedule. She returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme designed to project her technical brilliance, open-hearted communication and sensitivity to poetic nuance. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Alexandra Dariescu

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 31 January 7.30 pm

Simon Keenlyside baritone Malcolm Martineau piano SCHUBERT BIRTHDAY CONCERT Schubert Alinde; Geheimes; Seligkeit; Bei dir allein!; Nachtstück; Der Wanderer (D649); An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht; Herbstlied; Im Haine; Im Walde (D708); L’incanto degli occhi; Pensa, che questo istante; Der Jüngling und der Tod; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Des Fischers Liebesglück (2 verses); Die Sterne (D939); Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz; Fischerlied; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Abschied from Schwanengesang More than two decades have passed since Simon Keenlyside made his solo recording debut in partnership with Malcolm Martineau with an album of Schubert songs. He was hailed by Gramophone at the time as ‘the best baritone singer and interpreter of Schubert this country has ever had’. This programme offers an unmissable feast for anyone eager to hear Schubert interpretation at its best. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Voices at Wigmore Supporting Schubert: The Complete Songs 2015/16 and 2016 /17

Benjamin Ealovega

Russell Duncan

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Simon Keenlyside

Malcolm Martineau

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OXFORD CIRCUS

Benjamin Ealovega

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