Wigmore Hall October 2014 Concert Diary

October 2014

Nash Ensemble INSIDE:

Florian Boesch | Ensemble Modern | Angela Hewitt Katarina Karnéus | Simon Keenlyside & Emanuel Ax Elisabeth Leonskaja | Maria João Pires | quartet-lab Vox Luminis | And many more

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Wednesday 1 October 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk French Baroque Music expert Graham Sadler provides insights into Les Paladins’ diverse programme of Rameau’s music. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 1 October 7.30 pm Sandrine Expilly

Les Paladins Jérôme Correas director Sandrine Piau soprano LES SURPRISES DE L’AMOUR Rameau Ouverture from Les Indes galantes; Règne Amour from Les surprises de l’Amour; Ouverture from Les fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour; Tristes apprêts from Castor et Pollux; Chaconne from Platée; Brillez, astres nouveaux from Castor et Pollux; Loure, menuet, tambourin, contredanse from Les surprises de l’Amour; Je vole, amour from Les Paladins; Air pour des fous gais et des fous tristes from Platée; Formons les plus brillants ... Aux langueurs d’Apollon from Platée Rameau, in addition to creating many operatic masterworks, made standout contributions to the new form of vocal music that emerged in France in the early 1700s. Sandrine Piau’s feeling for the composer’s art runs deep. To mark the 250th anniversary of Rameau’s death, the French soprano joins Les Paladins and the ensemble’s charismatic Artistic Director Jérôme Correas for a concert designed to reveal the close harmony between the composer’s music and his choice of texts.

Xavier-Antoinet

Sandrine Piau

£40 £35 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series Les Paladins

IMS Prussia Cove Pekka Kuusisto violin Yura Lee violin, viola David McCarroll violin Hannah Dawson violin Rachel Roberts viola Caroline Henbest viola Amy Norrington cello David Waterman cello

Kaapo Kamu

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Thursday 2 October 7.30 pm

Beethoven String Quintet in C Op. 29 Martinu˚ String Quartet No. 5 Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 in Bb Op. 87 This year’s annual IMS Prussia Cove autumn tour brings together the violinist Pekka Kuusisto and the Endellion String Quartet’s David Waterman with younger musicians who have progressed through the IMS seminars.

IMS was founded over 40 years ago by the great Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh, and is now under the artistic directorship of cellist Steven Isserlis. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Pekka Kuusisto

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Llyˆr Williams piano

John Farro Sims

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Friday 3 October 7.30 pm

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 2 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Op. 2 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Llyˆr Williams’s affinity for Beethoven continues to deepen thanks to his prolonged immersion in the composer’s music in recent seasons. In the first concert of his complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas, he traces the evolution of Beethoven’s early Op. 2 piano sonatas, works of youthful brilliance dedicated to Joseph Haydn, before crowning his recital with the tempestuous emotions and volcanic musical invention of the ‘Appassionata’.

The next concert in Llyˆr’s Williams’s Beethoven piano sonata cycle is on 25 February 2015. £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Saturday 4 October 2.00 pm

Lecture-Recital WAGNER AND DEBUSSY: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

Michael Leis

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Llyˆr Williams

Duo Tal & Groethuysen Yaara Tal piano Andreas Groethuysen piano While the topic of Wagner and France has been frequently explored, the impact of his music on Debussy and fellow French contemporaries is less well-known. This unique lecture-recital programme explores Wagnérisme (Wagnerism) which existed in France at the end of the 19th century, and presents rarely performed, nevertheless exciting arrangements of Wagner’s music, transcribed for two pianos by Debussy, Dukas and Alfred Pringsheim (the father-in-law of the great writer Thomas Mann).

This event will be approximately 2 hours in duration £12 concs £8

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Andreas Groethuysen & Yaara Tal

Augustin Hadelich violin Charles Owen piano

Rosalie O’Connor

Wigmore Hall Debut

John Batten

Saturday 4 October 7.30 pm

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Op. 30 No. 3 Schnittke Violin Sonata No. 1 Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 27 No. 3 (à Georges Enescu) Stravinsky Divertimento Sarasate Carmen Fantasy Op. 25 Augustin Hadelich

Charles Owen

Acclaimed for the coruscating beauty of his tone and subtle phrasing, Augustin Hadelich makes his eagerly awaited Wigmore Hall debut. The young German violinist, who plays on the 1723 ‘ex-Kiesewetter’ Stradivarius, presents a programme teeming with contrasts and allusions. He and regular duo partner Charles Owen open with Beethoven’s serene Violin Sonata No. 8 in G before fathoming the myriad ideas of Schnittke’s Shostakovich-influenced First Violin Sonata. Hadelich’s technical wizardry will also be on display in Ysaÿe’s fiendishly difficult Violin Sonata in D minor and Sarasate’s evergreen Carmen Fantasy. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

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Frith Piano Quartet Lekeu Piano Quartet in B minor Mendelssohn Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor Op. 3

Chris Nottingham

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Sunday 5 October 11.30 am

In the year 2000, pianist Benjamin Frith formed the piano quartet that bears his name, in company with violinist Robert Heard, violist Louise Williams and cellist Richard Jenkinson. Their partnership has always been open to works that deserve wider exposure, Guillaume Lekeu’s darkly romantic Piano Quartet in B minor of 1893 not least among them. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Frith Piano Quartet

Sunday 5 October 7.30 pm Elizabeth Novick

Melvyn Tan piano Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 Field Nocturnes: No. 4 in A, No. 9 in Eb ‘Romance’, No. 6 in F Chopin Nocturnes Op. 9: No. 1 in Bb minor; No. 2 in Eb; No. 3 in B Liszt Trois études de concert S144 Chopin Scherzo No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 31 Melvyn Tan’s sensibility for keyboard nuance, tonal shadings and the singing line are ideally matched to the works in this recital. He begins by devoting his insightful artistry to the poetic qualities of Chopin’s 24 Preludes Op. 28. The programme’s second half ventures into the evocative Nocturnes of Field and Chopin. £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series Melvyn Tan

Wolf From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ihr seid die Allerschönste; Gesegnet sei, durch den die Welt; Der Mond hat eine schwere Klag’ erhoben; Geselle, woll’n wir uns in Kutten hüllen; Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen; Hoffärtig seid Ihr, schönes Kind, und geht; Schon streckt’ ich aus im Bett; Und steht Ihr früh am Morgen auf; Benedeit die sel’ge Mutter; Wie viele Zeit verlor ich; Nicht länger kann ich singen, denn der Wind; Sterb’ ich, so hüllt in Blumen Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Der Tamboursg’sell; Trost im Unglück; Nicht wiedersehen!; Urlicht

Marco Borggreve

Henk Neven baritone Hans Eijsackers piano

Marco Borggreve

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Monday 6 October 1.00 pm

Henk Neven

Hans Eijsackers

Critics have praised all aspects of Henk Neven’s work, from the tonal warmth and flexibility of his voice to the imagination he brings to poetic texts. The Dutch baritone joins his regular duo partner for a BBC Lunchtime programme woven from the songs of Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch and Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, works that transcend mundane cares to touch the sublime. £12.50 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Monday 6 October 7.30 pm Rosenblatt Recital Series 2014 /15

Carmen Giannattasio soprano Jonathan Papp piano Tosti Quattro canzoni d’Amaranta: Lasciami! Lascia ch’io respiri; L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra; In van preghi; Che dici, o parola del Saggio?

Verdi Tacea la notte placida from Il trovatore Granados La maja dolorosa I & II from Tonadillas en un estilo antiguo ; La maja y el ruiseñor from Goyescas Falla Songs from 7 canciones populares españolas Turina Songs from Poema en forma de canciones Op. 19 Neopolitan songs Verdi Tu che le vanità from Don Carlos

Carmen Giannattasio Joseph Penn

Possessing a beautiful, versatile, full lyric soprano voice, Operalia 2002 winner Carmen Giannattasio ‘is the most talented of the younger Italian sopranos’ (Daily Telegraph). A noted exponent of bel canto repertory, Giannattasio’s Rosenblatt Recital follows a star turn opposite Joyce DiDonato in the Royal Opera House’s Maria Stuarda.

‘Blessed with a larger than life star quality ... she can flip from vibrant light coloratura to dark smouldering mezzo tones with an elegant, clean technique and powerfully intense phrasing’ Opera Now £30 £25 £20 £15

Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 23 September (Stephen Costello), 6 November (Belén Elvira & Jorge de León) and 3 December (Aida Garifullina)

Jonathan Papp

YCAT Lunchtime Series 2014 /1 5

Ji Liu piano

Kaupo Kikkas

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Tuesday 7 October 1.00 pm

Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 Born in 1990, Ji Liu studied in Shanghai, Madrid and London. His debut CD ‘Piano Reflections’ was released

by Classic FM in January 2014 and was No. 1 in the classical charts. This season he makes his debut with the Philharmonia orchestra. £12.50 concs £10

Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490)

YCAT is grateful for support from the Paul Woodhouse Fund and the Anthony Nesbitt Fund for this series

Ji Liu

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Mendelssohn Octet in E b Op. 20 Enescu String Octet in C Op. 7 Fizzing energy and entrancing lyricism belong to these two works, both created by prodigiously talented composers in their teens. Anthony Marwood and friends are certain to realise Mendelssohn’s desire for a ‘symphonic orchestral style’ of playing in his Octet.

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Sussie Ahlburg

Isabelle van Keulen

Lawrence Power

Richard Lester

Sussie Ahlburg

£30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

Anthony Marwood Jack Liebeck

Anthony Marwood and Friends Anthony Marwood violin Isabelle van Keulen violin Lawrence Power viola Richard Lester cello Heath Quartet

Daniel J. Ashes

Tuesday 7 October 7.30 pm

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/Anthony Marwood and Friends Heath Quartet

Choir of The King’s Consort Robert King conductor

Keith Saunders

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Wednesday 8 October 7.30 pm

FAIRE IS THE HEAVEN Masterpieces of the English Romantics Naylor Vox dicentis: Clama Stanford Three Latin Motets Bairstow Let all mortal flesh keep silence Walton Set me as a seal upon thine heart; Where does the uttered music go?

Harris Faire is the heaven Britten Hymn to St Cecilia Leighton Drop, drop, slow tears Bairstow I sat down under his shadow Walton A Litany: Drop, drop slow tears Stanford I heard a voice from heaven Harris Bring us O Lord God Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing

Choir of The King’s Consort

A sumptuous choral programme from the acclaimed Choir of The King’s Consort presents some of the finest of all English Romantic music, including masterworks by Stanford, Walton and Britten, two glorious double-choir settings by William Harris, a handful of hidden jewels, and Herbert Howells’s desolately poignant motet on the death of President Kennedy. £35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

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Elias String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’; String Quartet in Bb Op. 130

Benjamin Ealovega

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Thursday 9 October 7.30 pm

The Elias String Quartet’s Beethoven Cycle at Wigmore Hall continues with works that span more than a quarter of a century of creative development. Beethoven made the first sketches for his introspective String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 in January 1799. His String Quartet in B flat Op. 130, completed at the end of 1825, reflects what one contemporary described as the composer’s ‘inexhaustible fantasy’.

Elias String Quartet

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle

Wigmore Series Debut

Ensemble Modern Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 Johannes Schöllhorn New work for string sextet* (world première) Janis Petraskevics New work for string octet* (world première) Friedrich Cerha Acht Sätze nach Hölderlin-Fragmenten

Manu Theobald

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Friday 10 October 7.30 pm

With its unique collective approach to everything from repertoire choice to project organisation, Ensemble Modern is known as one of the world’s leading Ensemble Modern champions of contemporary music. The group, founded in 1980 and based for almost three decades in Frankfurt, comprises extraordinary musicians with the artistry, virtuosity and curiosity required to explore and perform around 70 new pieces every season, from opera and music theatre to orchestral and chamber music scores. Ensemble Modern’s tally of prestigious world premières rises each year on average by 20 pieces, which are brought to life in close collaboration with their composers. *Co-commissioned by Ensemble Modern, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation

Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series

Ba’ROCK Opera FAMILY DAY For ages 6 plus Make an opera in a day with music leader Luke Crookes and artist Marc Woodhead. Explore the characters from the baroque paintings in the newly refurbished Great Gallery at The Wallace Collection and then take your inspiration back to Wigmore Hall to create a ‘Ba’ROCK’ opera to perform on the Wigmore stage.

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Saturday 11 October 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Adults £15 Children £10

In partnership with The Wallace Collection

Wigmore Hall’s Family Programme is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Saturday 11 October 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Hear more about Colin Carr’s life as a performer and his reflections on the evening concert programme. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Colin Carr cello Thomas Sauer piano Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58 Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Thomas Adès Lieux retrouvés Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69

Courtesy of The Banff Centre

Saturday 11 October 7.30 pm

Colin Carr’s contemplative interpretations rest on exhaustive studies of every work in his repertoire and an unshakeable desire to connect with music at the deepest spiritual level.

His latest recital includes Lieux retrouvés, Thomas Adès’s visionary score for cello and piano, and Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in A Op. 69, a radiant celebration of melody.

Colin Carr

Thomas Sauer

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series

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Sunday 12 October 11.30 am

Vertavo String Quartet Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Founded three decades ago in Norway, the Vertavo String Quartet’s dynamic performances and searching artistry have attracted admirers worldwide. The ensemble’s Coffee Concert programme places Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’ Quartet alongside the autobiographical String Quartet No. 1 ‘From my life,’ in which Smetana requests performers to ‘converse together in an intimate circle about the things which so deeply trouble me’. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Vertavo String Quartet

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Sussie Ahlburg

Katarina Karnéus mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Mats Bäcker

Sunday 12 October 7.30 pm

NORTHERN LIGHTS Peterson-Berger Marits visor: Kom bukken; Solen skinner; Holder du av mej Peterson-Berger Intet är som väntanstider; När jag för mig själv; Som stjärnorna på himmelen; Aspåkers-polska Brahms Ophelia-Lieder Chausson Chanson d’Ophélie from Chansons de Shakespeare Berlioz La mort d’Ophélie Schumann Herzeleid Saint-Saëns La mort d’Ophélie Katarina Karnéus Joseph Middleton Delius In the Seraglio Garden; Young Venevil; Summer Nights; The Bird’s Story; Twilight Fancies Nystroem Själ och landskap (Soul and Landscape) Koch Af lotusdoft och månens sken; I månaden Tjaitra; De vilda svanarna Love, death and scenes from the natural world occupy Katarina Karnéus and Joseph Middleton in this delightfully diverse recital programme. The Swedish mezzo-soprano begins with seven charming songs by her countryman, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, before exploring heart-breaking responses by Brahms, Chausson, Berlioz, Schumann and Saint-Saëns to the death of Shakespeare’s Ophelia. £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

Monday 13 October 1.00 pm

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Cremona Quartet Webern Langsamer Satz Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 The String Quartet in C sharp minor conveys what the critic Martin Cooper memorably described as ‘a kind of awe, that sense of wonder that [Beethoven] shares with the great poets and mystics and never lost at the end of his life’.

The Cremona Quartet, hailed by The Strad for its ‘extremely mature and lyrical sound’, prefaces this lunchtime performance with Webern’s Brahmsian Langsamer Satz. £12.50 concs £10

Elisa Caldana

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Cremona Quartet

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Monday 13 October 7.30 pm The Monday Platform

Huw Wiggin saxophone James Sherlock piano Tempest flute trio Edward McGuire Celtic Knotwork Tizol Caravan (arr. Helen Wilson) Mark Simpson Flute Trio Stockhausen In Freundschaft Maurice From Tableaux de Provence: Dis alyscamps l’amo souspire; Lou Cabridan Andy Scott Three Letter Word Falla 7 canciones populares españolas (for saxophone and piano) Andy Scott My Mountain Top Kuhlau Grand Trio in G minor Op. 13 (movements 1 & 2) Strayhorn Take the A Train (arr. Helen Wilson)

Huw Wiggin

James Sherlock

This concert brings together Royal Over-Seas League major prizewinners, flute trio Tempest and saxophonist Huw Wiggin with pianist James Sherlock, who will amaze and beguile in a programme showcasing their performance flair and artistry. £18 £16 £12 £10

Presented by Royal Over-Seas League Tempest

Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concert

Trio Rafale Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 Jannik Giger Caprice Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87

Hannes Schüpbach

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Tuesday 14 October 7.30 pm

In 1998 the Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concert was established in the UK with the aim of presenting some of the most talented young Swiss musicians or ensembles in a concert at Wigmore Hall.

The annual event is organised by the Embassy of Switzerland and the Swiss Cultural Fund, a charity promoting Swiss artistic excellence in the UK. Trio Rafale, three gifted young musicians, has been chosen to perform in the 2014 concert.

Trio Rafale

Trio Rafale was founded in Zurich in 2009

by Maki Wiederkehr (piano), Daniel Meller (violin) and Flurin Cuonz (cello), and has already won numerous international awards and prizes including First Prize at the 8th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in May this year. The name Rafale was inspired by the French expression for ‘a gust of wind’. ‘… a luscious and captivating blend’ Limelight Magazine, Melbourne £12 incl. programme & glass of Swiss sparkling wine at interval

Supported by Swiss Cultural Fund UK, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Presence Switzerland & JTI

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Danny Driver piano Handel Suite No. 5 in E HWV430 CPE Bach Fantasia in F# minor Wq. 67 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101 Thomas Adès Mazurkas Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 17

Richard Haughton

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Wednesday 15 October 7.30 pm

Danny Driver’s virtuosity, vibrant imagination and élan have helped position him among the leading British pianists of his generation. He presents a characteristically broad programme, including Thomas Adès’s Chopin-inspired Mazurkas and Beethoven’s intimate Piano Sonata No. 28 in A, in which lyrical fantasy and introspection are balanced by flashes of fiery temperament. £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series /Contemporary Music Series Danny Driver

Lisa Peacock Presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases

Avi Avital mandolin

Uwe Arens/DG

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Thursday 16 October 1.00 pm

Bach Sonata No.1 in G minor BWV1001 Filippo Sauli Partita No. 3 in C for solo mandolin Bloch Nigun from Baal-Shem arranged for solo mandolin Yasuo Kuwahara Improvised Poem for solo mandolin Bach Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004 Avi Avital Kedma for retuned mandolin Recognized by The New York Times for his ‘exquisitely sensitive Avi Avital playing’ and ‘stunning agility’, Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital is one of the world’s most exciting and entrepreneurial musicians. He is deeply committed to building a fresh legacy for the mandolin through virtuosic performance and commissioning new works in a range of genres. £12.50 concs £10 10% 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 25 September (Chloe Hanslip & Igor Tchetuev), 27 November (Kotaro Fukuma), 5 February (Lisa Friend & Mark Kinkaid), 19 March (Madeleine Mitchell & Nigel Clayton) and 16 April (Alexei Grynyuk) Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd

Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier artistic director

Ola Renska

Thursday 16 October 7.30 pm

Programme to include: Pachelbel Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan; Christ lag in Todesbanden Buxtehude Jesu, meines Lebens Leben BuxWV62 Bach Cantata BWV106 ‘Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit’ (Actus Tragicus); Cantata BWV131 ‘Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir’ Every performance by Vox Luminis blends meticulous preparation and enlightened scholarship with spine-tingling spontaneity and excellence. The Belgian ensemble and its inspirational Artistic Vox Luminis Director, Lionel Meunier, return to Wigmore Hall with a programme rooted in the vibrant sacred choral tradition cultivated in northern Germany in the late 1600s and early 1700s.

Cantatas by Pachelbel and Buxtehude provide the colourful context for Bach’s Actus Tragicus, a moving meditation on the impermanence of earthly life most likely written during its young composer’s year as organist in the Thuringian town of Mühlhausen, and its near contemporary, the church cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by donors to Voices at Wigmore: champions of vocal music in all its forms throughout the 2014/15 Season

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Nathalie Stutzmann director, contralto Orfeo 55

Simon Fowler

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Friday 17 October 7.30 pm

Vivaldi Sinfonia; Gemo in un punto e fremo from L’Olimpiade; Concerto for strings; Sento in seno from Giustino; Vedro con mio diletto from Giustino Handel Overture; Se fiera belva ha cinto from Rodelinda; Concerto Grosso; Scherza infida from Ariodante; Non so, se sia la speme from Serse Words and shades of meaning invariably shape Nathalie Stutzmann’s emotionally intense interpretations of everything from grand opera to arias

by Bach and Handel. She returns to Wigmore Hall as soloist with and director of Orfeo 55, the chamber orchestra she founded in 2009. The group’s versatility extends from using period instruments to performing contemporary scores on modern instruments. Under Stutzmann’s charismatic leadership, Orfeo 55 seeks to extract the greatest range of tone colours and expression in pursuit of revelatory music-making. £40 £35 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Family Sing with Dominic Harlan For ages 7 plus In the lead-up to his half term concert on Thursday 30 October, the inspirational Dominic Harlan leads a fun and accessible workshop for families to come and sing together. Join in with songs you might know and some you probably won’t, and we guarantee you’ll all go away singing them for the rest of the day (at least!).

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Saturday 18 October 10.00 am – 12.30 pm Repeated 1.30 pm – 4.00 pm

Adults £9 Children £7

Wigmore Hall’s Family Programme is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Saturday 18 October 6.00 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Philippa Davies flute Richard Hosford clarinet Richard Watkins horn

Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

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Nathalie Stutzmann

NASH COMMISSIONS David Matthews Horn Quintet Gordon Crosse Three Inventions for flute and clarinet Mark-Anthony Turnage Slide Stride The works will be introduced by the composers in conversation from the stage.

Nash Ensemble

Free (ticket required)

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

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Nash Ensemble Paul Watkins conductor Kate Royal soprano

Paul Marc Mitchell

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Esther Haase /EMI Classics

Saturday 18 October 7.30 pm

Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (arr. David Walter) Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15 Ravel Introduction and Allegro Berlioz Les nuits d’été Op. 7 for voice and ensemble (arr. David Matthews) The Nash Ensemble, renowned for its performances Paul Watkins Kate Royal of French music, celebrates the month of its 50th anniversary with a delectable all-French programme, in which favourite works by Fauré and Ravel are framed by chamber-scale arrangements of a Debussy classic and Berlioz’s nocturnal song cycle, sung by Kate Royal. £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season / Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Wigmore Hall Debut

Joseph Moog piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ Liszt Valse-impromptu S213; Valse mélancolique S210; Ballade No. 2 S171 Rachmaninov Etude-tableau in G minor Op. 33 No. 8; Etude-tableau in A minor Op. 39 No. 6; Etude-tableau in C minor Op. 33 No. 3; Etude-tableau in C minor Op. 39 No. 1 Rubinstein Fantasy on Hungarian melodies (arr. Joseph Moog)

Paul Marc Mitchell

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Sunday 19 October 11.30 am

Described by Pianist magazine as a young artist ‘who in every respect is in a class above his colleagues’, Joseph Moog has won critical plaudits for the dazzling virtuosity, formidable musicianship and rich imagination of his performances. He makes his Wigmore Hall debut with a programme crowned by his own scintillating arrangement of Anton Rubinstein’s Fantasy on Hungarian melodies. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee /sherry / juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Joseph Moog

Angela Hewitt piano Scarlatti Sonatas Granados Danzas españolas Nos. 4, 5 & 6 Granados From Goyescas: Quejas, o La maja y el ruiseñor Op. 11 No. 4; El Pelele Op. 11 No. 7 Albéniz From Suite española: Asturias; Sevilla; Castilla Falla Fantasia Baetica

Bernd Eberle

Sunday 19 October 7.30 pm

The spirit of the dance is never far from Angela Hewitt’s interpretations of everything from Bach to the works in her latest recital. She turns to the vibrant art of Spain, evoking strong images of the Iberian Peninsula with Domenico Scarlatti’s effervescent keyboard pieces and later compositions by three great names in the story of Spanish music. £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series

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Angela Hewitt

Carole Bellaiche

Lise Berthaud viola Adam Laloum piano

Neda Navaee

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Monday 20 October 1.00 pm

Philippe Hersant Pavane pour alto seul Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A b Op. 70 Shostakovich Viola Sonata Op. 147 Lise Berthaud, named as a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist scheme in September 2013, joins forces with her regular duo partner for this BBC Lunchtime concert. Their programme includes Shostakovich’s final composition, the viola sonata, completed shortly before his death and recognised among his finest late masterworks.

Lise Berthaud

Adam Laloum

£12.50 concs £10

Lise Berthaud is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 20 October 7.30 pm Pierre Fournier Award Winner’s Recital

Chiara Enderle cello Keiko Tamura piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Krzysztof Penderecki Capriccio per Siegfried Palm Poulenc Cello Sonata Outstanding young cellist Chiara Enderle is the latest recipient of the prestigious Pierre Fournier Award.

As part of the prize, alongside pianist Keiko Tamura, Chiara plays a programme including Beethoven, Poulenc and Schumann.

Chiara Enderle

Keiko Tamura

£22 £18 £14 £10

Pierre Fournier Award (Reg. Charity No. 1062846)

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Tuesday 21 October 1.30 pm – 6.00 pm

Final of the Jaques Samuel Pianos Competition 2014 The four finalists of this year’s competition will perform a 45–50 minute programme of their own choice including the compulsory work – Liszt Au lac de Wallenstadt from Années de pèlerinage, Suisse.

The Jaques Samuel Pianos Competition has taken place annually since 1996 and is open to all students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance. £8

Sponsored by Fazioli and S. W. Mitchell Capital LLP

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quartet-lab Pekka Kuusisto violin Patricia Kopatchinskaja Lilli Maijala viola Pieter Wispelwey cello

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Mozart Musikalisches Würfelspiel (arr. for string quartet) Biber Battalia (arr. for string quartet) Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Cage Living Room Music George Crumb Black Angels: 13 Images from the Dark Land

The musicians of quartet-lab will perform additional works, to be announced from the stage

quartet-lab member’s photos by Chris Dodd

Tuesday 21 October 7.30 pm

Pekka Kuusisto

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Lilli Maijala

Pieter Wispelwey

Four outstanding soloists formed quartet-lab to explore the string quartet repertoire and develop innovative approaches to musical communication. This concert plays Mozart’s ‘musical dice game’, employs the household instruments required for John Cage’s Living Room Music and delves into the mystical soundworld of George Crumb’s Black Angels. £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by the Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series

Schubert Winterreise

Lisa Marie Mazzucco

Simon Keenlyside baritone Emanuel Ax piano

Uwe Arens

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Wednesday 22 October 7.30 pm

Two towering musical figures come together to perform Schubert’s late song cycle. Simon Keenlyside and Emanuel Ax share a profound love for the composer’s music. They embark here on the haunting spiritual and emotional journey of Winterreise, settings of two dozen poems by Wilhelm Müller that contemplate a solitary wanderer’s yearning for death and final reconciliation to his eternal loneliness. Schubert spoke of these ‘spine-chilling songs’ and told his friend Josef von Spaun that they ‘have Simon Keenlyside Emanuel Ax affected me more than has been the case with any other of my Lieder’. These performers are blessed with the artistic insights and life experience required to create an unforgettable interpretation of Schubert’s masterwork.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval Returns only

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

Song Recital Series

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Andreas Staier fortepiano Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1; Moment musical in F minor D780 No. 3; Impromptu in A b D935 No. 2 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 12 Beethoven 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 Schumann 3 Fantasiestücke Op. 111

Josep Molina

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Thursday 23 October 7.30 pm

Since launching his solo career in 1986, Andreas Staier has helped define benchmark levels of quality, refinement and taste in fortepiano and harpsichord performance. His latest recital surveys a group of works influenced by the practice of improvisation at the keyboard, Romantic evocations of fantasy and the contest between head and heart. £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series Andreas Staier

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Friday 24 October 7.30 pm

Simon Keenlyside baritone Emanuel Ax piano Repeat of concert on 22 October This concert will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval Returns only

Song Recital Series 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’.

Capturing a Moment: The Art of Photographing Music

Sylvain Guenot

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Saturday 25 October 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

STUDY DAY WITH CLIVE BARDA Over the course of his extraordinary 40-year career, Clive Barda has photographed the world’s greatest classical musicians, and his ability to capture not only the spirit of the performer but also a moment in the music has been celebrated in exhibitions of his work around the world, including the permanent exhibition in the Bechstein Room at Wigmore Hall.

Clive will be joined by chamber ensemble Mobius to offer an insight into his approach, and filmmaker Philippe Monnet will present his 2012 documentary about the photographer’s life and work. The day will be hosted by Graeme Kay, former editor of Classical Music, Opera Now and BBC Music Magazine, and currently Multiplatform Producer for BBC Radio 3.

Clive Barda

£24 concs £16

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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BRAHMS AND FRIENDS

Marco Borggreve

Steven Isserlis cello Kirill Gerstein piano

Satoshi Aoyagi

Saturday 25 October 7.30 pm

Dvorˇák Klid (Silent Woods) Op. 68 No. 5 Zemlinsky Sonata for cello and piano Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Bargiel Adagio Op. 38 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Steven Isserlis and Kirill Gerstein build their beguiling programme around Brahms’s two cello sonatas, the first directly inspired by Bach’s Steven Isserlis Kirill Gerstein The Art of Fugue, the second striking in its terse thematic development. They also include the rarely heard yet exquisite Adagio by Clara Schumann’s half-brother, Woldemar Bargiel, and works by Dvorˇák and Zemlinsky, two composers supported and encouraged by Brahms. £35 £30 £25 £18 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

Sunday 26 October 11.30 am

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Kelemen Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 ‘Fifths’ Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Within a year of its foundation in 2010, the Kelemen Quartet won three prizes at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and went on to take first place at the International Sándor Végh String Quartet Competition in the ensemble’s native Budapest. The quartet performs a programme of Haydn’s ‘Fifths’ Quartet, so called for the intervals heard at its opening, and Brahms’s Hungarian-influenced String Quartet in A minor. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee /sherry/juice

Tamas Dobos

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Kelemen Quartet

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Benjamin Hulett tenor Christopher Glynn piano

Hans Lebbe

Sunday 26 October 3.00 pm

AN DIE FRAUEN Clara Schumann Sechs Lieder Op. 13: Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen; Sie liebten sich beide; Liebeszauber; Der Mond kommt still gegangen; Ich hab’ in deinem Auge; Die stille Lotosblume Emilie Zumsteeg Sängers Trost; Schilflied; Der Abend Ethel Smyth Lieder Op. 4: Tanzlied; Schlummerlied; Mittagsruh; Nachtreiter; Nachtgedanken Fanny Mendelssohn Sechs Lieder Op. 7: Nachtwanderer; Erwin; Frühling; Du bist die Ruh; Bitte; Dein ist mein Herz Clara Schumann Der Abendstern; Beim Abschied

Christopher Glynn

Benjamin Hulett

Young British tenor Benjamin Hulett’s musicianship and artistry were developed during his time as a choral scholar at Oxford’s New College and refined on the opera course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. His commitment to song runs deep, while his recitals have attracted critical superlatives and audience ovations. He joins fellow New College alumnus Christopher Glynn for this afternoon recital. £12.50 concs £10

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

Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65

Michael Tammaro /Virgin Classics

Gautier Capuçon cello Frank Braley piano

King Records

Sunday 26 October 7.30 pm

Wit, verve, tonal refinement and eloquent expression are essential ingredients in the performance styles of Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley. Their chamber music partnership, forged over many years, is blessed with near-telepathic powers of communication Gautier Capuçon Frank Braley and the rarest degree of empathy. For this recital they turn to four cornerstone works of the repertoire for cello and piano, including mature masterworks by Schubert and Debussy. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Beethoven Fantasia in G minor Op. 77 Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’

Jo Schwartz

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Monday 27 October 1.00 pm

A true pianists’ pianist, admired by audiences and fellow performers alike, Elisabeth Leonskaja is heir to the great legacy of the Russian school of pianism. Her interpretations, driven by the search for musical perfection, invariably reach far beneath the surface of each piece to reveal profound truths about the compassionate nature of reality. £12.50 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Elisabeth Leonskaja

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Maria João Pires piano Augustin Dumay violin Antonio Meneses cello

Felix Broede /DG

Monday 27 October 7.30 pm

Beethoven Piano Trio in Bb WoO. 39; Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’; Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Maria João Pires’s levels of compassion and empathy are rare even among the greatest of artists. The Portuguese pianist’s acclaimed interpretations – eloquent, expressive and strikingly spontaneous – transcend elements of personal display to draw listeners into the spiritual dimension of the works in her repertoire. Wigmore Hall marks her 70th birthday year in October with a Portrait Series in which Pires is joined by two kindred spirits, Augustin Dumay and Antonio Meneses, to perform a selection of Beethoven’s piano trios. She returns to the Hall in February to give a solo recital, adding yet another vital date to London’s 2014/15 concert calendar.

Returns only Maria João Pires

ELIAS

Marco Borggreve

Chamber Music Season / Maria João Pires Portrait Series

Augustin Dumay

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Antonio Meneses

Tuesday 28 October 7.30 pm

Maria João Pires piano Augustin Dumay violin Antonio Meneses cello Repeat of programme on 27 October.

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Supported by the Chamber Music Circle 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 / Maria João Pires Portrait Series

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Russell Duncan

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Lukas Beck

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Wednesday 29 October 7.30 pm

Strauss Breit über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar; All' mein Gedanken; Die Nacht; Ruhe, meine Seele; Allerseelen Songs by Mahler Schubert Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Abschied; Nachtviolen; An die Musik Song played a vital part in the creative development of each of the composers in Florian Boesch’s recital. Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss explored poetic and expressive ideas in their songs that set lasting models for the modern German Lied, shot through with descriptive writing for voice and piano that induces performers and audiences to share vivid journeys of the imagination.

Florian Boesch

Malcolm Martineau

£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

Dominic Harlan: Solitary Hotel HALF TERM FAMILY CONCERT For ages 7 plus

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Thursday 30 October 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Pianist and presenter Dominic Harlan returns to Wigmore Hall to take you on a thrilling journey into the world of song. Convicts, smugglers, young violinists, hotel guests and a nine-year-old boy share their stories in this interactive concert that includes music by Schumann, Britten, Sibelius and Barber. Featuring performances by singers, including Sarah Gabriel, Dominic invites audiences young and old to go behind the music using his unique mix of live theatre and audience participation.

For footage from Dominic’s last concert, filmed live at Wigmore Hall, visit www.dominicharlan.com.

Adults £9 Children £7

Wigmore Hall’s Family Programme is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Thursday 30 October 7.30 pm Giorgia Bertazzi

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton artistic director, violin Alasdair Beatson piano Mozart Divertimento in D K136 Arvo Pärt Mozart-Adagio Haydn Concerto for violin and piano with string orchestra in F HXVIII:6 Schnittke Moz-Art à la Haydn Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414

The UK’s only professional string orchestra returns to Wigmore Hall with Alasdair Beatson regular collaborator, pianist Alasdair Beatson. The programme features Viennese classics and two contemporary twists on classical forms. The concert ends with an early Mozart piano concerto, a work of intricate and exhilarating piano writing strikingly mature for its young composer’s years. £30 £25 £20 £15

Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Chamber Music Season

Scottish Ensemble

Schumann Märchenerzählungen Op. 132; Fantasiestücke Op. 73 György Kurtág Hommage à Robert Schumann Op. 15d Schumann Märchenbilder Op. 113 Mozart Clarinet Trio No. 2 in Eb K498 ‘Kegelstatt’

Marco Borggreve

Jörg Widmann clarinet Tabea Zimmermann viola Dénes Várjon piano

Jörg Widmann

Tradition and innovation are keywords to each of the Widmann Trio’s members. Their shared passion for chamber music is nourished by deep roots of experience and an unfailing sense of the creative energy that lies at the heart of great works from past and present. Jörg Widmann’s all-round artistry as composer, clarinet soloist and conductor is richly complemented by the virtuosity and vision of Tabea Zimmermann, one of the world’s leading violists, and by the life-enhancing beauty of Dénes Várjon’s pianism.

Tabea Zimmermann Pilvax Studio

Widmann Trio

Marco Borggreve

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Friday 31 October 7.30 pm

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

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Dénes Várjon

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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.

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OXFORD CIRCUS

Benjamin Ealovega

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