Wigmore Hall Diary October 2016

October 2016 Barbara Hannigan INSIDE: Alison Balsom Jamie Barton Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Christian Gerhaher Janine Jansen Igor Levit Pavel Haas Quartet Phantasm Christoph PrĂŠgardien Nathalie Stutzmann & Orfeo 55 And many more

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Wigmore Hall • HRH The Duke of Kent, KG Royal Patron The Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No.1024838

Cover: Barbara Hannigan © Elmer de Haas

Wigmore Hall Debut †

Barbara Hannigan Calder Quartet

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Raphael Brand

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Saturday 1 October 7.30 pm

soprano

Peter Eötvös Korrespondenz (String Quartet No. 1) Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Peter Eötvös The sirens cycle* (world première)

Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan performs like a force of nature, captivating audiences with her artistry’s presence and expressive vitality.

She joins the Calder Quartet, winner of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, for the world première of The sirens cycle by Peter Eötvös. The Hungarian composer’s new score for Wigmore Hall explores the full range of Hannigan’s striking coloratura voice. The programme opens with Korrespondenz, a series of three vivid ‘scenes’ for string quartet completed in 1993.

Barbara Hannigan Autumn de Wilde

* Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation; Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich; Alte Oper Frankfurt; Centro Nacional de Difusion Musical, Madrid; Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Paris, ProQuartet-Centre européen de musique de chambre, Paris and by the Südwestrundfunk (Kompositionsauftrag des Südwestrundfunks)

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music Series Sunday 2 October 11.30 am

Van Kuijk Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 The Van Kuijk Quartet, winner of the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, presents an ideal pairing of works.

Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’ Quartet stands here as companion to Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, a work rooted in the great Classical tradition yet strikingly original in musical substance and complexity. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Van Kuijk Quartet

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 2 October 12.00 noon – 4.30 pm

Silver Sunday: Musical Pictures As part of Silver Sunday, we invite people living with dementia and their family, friends and carers to join us in the beautiful spaces of The Wallace Collection and Wigmore Hall. Meet at The Wallace Collection at 12.00 noon for tea and sandwiches before exploring the gallery, then turn pictures into music at Wigmore Hall with Julian West and students from the Royal Academy of Music.

© Silver Sunday

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Calder Quartet

Free (booking required)

In partnership with The Wallace Collection, Westminster Arts and the Royal Academy of Music

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Sunday 2 October 7.30 pm

Nathalie Stutzmann director, contralto Orfeo 55 Please note change of programme

HANDEL: HEROES FROM THE SHADOWS Handel Overture from Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Sinfonia (Act 3) from Poro; L’aure che spira from Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Sinfonia (Act 3) from Serse; Larghetto from Concerto Grosso in E minor Op. 6 No. 3; Son qual stanco Pellegrino from Arianna in Creta; Allegro from Concerto Grosso in E minor Op. 6 No. 3; Sinfonia (Act 3) from Orlando; Pena tiranna from Amadigi di Gaula; Allegro from Sinfonia in Bb HWV338; Sinfonia (Act 3) from Partenope; Son contenta di morire from Radamisto; Voi che udite il mio lamento from Agrippina; Concerto Grosso in D minor Op. 3 No. 5 (Mvts 3– 5 Adagio, Allegro ma non troppo and Allegro only); Non so, se sia la speme from Serse; Allegro from Concerto Grosso in G minor Op. 6 No. 6; Saro qual vento from Alessandro One of the most charismatic musical personalities of our time, Nathalie Stutzmann’s work as contralto and conductor has won countless admirers in recent years, especially in partnership with her own versatile ensemble, Orfeo 55.

This programme, entitled ‘Heroes from the Shadows’, makes stars of Handel’s unfairly overlooked roles as we explore glorious arias performed by Arsamene, Zenobia and Cornelia, among others. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Simon Fowler

DR – VG

Early Music and Baroque Series

Nathalie Stutzmann

Steven Isserlis cello Olli Mustonen piano Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94 Olli Mustonen Frei, aber einsam* (UK première) Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40

Outi Montosen

Monday 3 October 1.00 pm Jean-Baptiste Millot

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Orfeo 55

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

Frei, aber einsam – ‘Free, but alone’ – connects with the abbreviated title of the collaborative F-A-E Sonata by Schumann, his pupil Albert Dietrich and the young Brahms.

Steven Isserlis Olli Mustonen Olli Mustonen’s work, a short Invention for solo cello written for Steven Isserlis, serves as a bridge between the flowing melodies of Schumann’s Three Romances and the turbulent emotions of Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in D minor.

All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Monday 3 October 7.30 pm Mathias Bothor/DG

Jan Lisiecki piano Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826 Schumann Klavierstücke Op. 32 Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20; 2 Nocturnes Op. 48 Schubert 4 Impromptus D935 Born in Canada to Polish parents in 1995, Jan Lisiecki made his international breakthrough at the age of fifteen when Warsaw’s Fryderyk Chopin Institute released his debut recording of Chopin’s piano concertos. He returns to Wigmore Hall for a recital complete with Chopin’s virtuosic Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20 and Schubert’s evergreen Four Impromptus D935. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Jan Lisiecki

London Pianoforte Series

YCAT Wigmore Lunchtime Series 2016/17

Sean Shibe guitar Dowland Forlorn Hope Fancy; Fantasia No. 7 Walton Five Bagatelles Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland Op. 70

Benjamin Ealovega

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Tuesday 4 October 1.00 pm

Born in Edinburgh in 1992, Sean Shibe studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and currently with Paolo Pegoraro in Italy. He is the first guitarist to be admitted to the prestigious BBC New Generation Artists scheme and the only solo guitarist to have received a Borletti–Buitoni Trust Fellowship.

Sean Shibe

‘From the very first note he plays, Sean Shibe immediately draws in the attention of the audience … Sean Shibe created a magical atmosphere; he seems to intimately understand the meaning behind every note which he plays.’ Classical Guitar Magazine, Wigmore Hall, February 2014 £13 concs £11 Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490)

YCAT is grateful for support from the Fresh Leaf Charitable Foundation, the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake for this series.

Tuesday 4 October 7.30 pm

Kirckman Concert Society Series

Tim Lowe cello Andrew Brownell piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Fauré Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 117 Sibelius Malinconia Op. 20 Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano Outstanding young British cellist Tim Lowe returns to Wigmore Hall with an exciting programme celebrating the lyric voice of the cello, ranging from Beethoven’s Tim Lowe Andrew Brownell exploration to Fauré and Franck, both heirs to his discoveries. Juxtaposed with these masterpieces is Sibelius’s dark lamentation on the death of his child. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Kirckman Concert Society

Supported by The LankellyChase Foundation

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Wigmore Hall Debut *

Frank Bonitatibus

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Wednesday 5 October 7.30 pm

Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano Collegium 1704* Václav Luks conductor SEMIRAMIDE ‘LA SIGNORA REGALE’ Caldara Introduzione & Povera navicella from Semiramide in Ascalona Handel/Vinci Fuggi dagl’occhi miei from Semiramide riconosciuta Jommelli Barbaro, non dolerti ...Tradita, sprezzata from Semiramide riconosciuta Gluck Ballet Suite from Semiramis; Fuggi dagl’occhi miei from La Semiramide riconosciuta Bertoni Non so se più t’accendi from Semiramide riconosciuta Bianchi Sinfonia from La vendetta di Nino Paisiello Serbo in seno il cor piagato from La Semiramide in villa Nasolini Deh sospendi a’ pianti miei…

Serbo ancora un’alma altera from La morte di Semiramide Catel Dances Nos. 1 & 2 from Sémiramis Rossini Bel raggio lusinghier from Semiramide García Semiramis Petra Hajská

Anna Bonitatibus

Collegium 1704 is joined by Italian mezzosoprano Anna Bonitatibus, recently hailed for her performance alongside Juan Diego Flórez in Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri at the Vienna State Opera. Václav Luks and his Collegium 1704 Prague-based ensemble have secured rave reviews for their recordings, Bach’s Mass in B minor among them. Collegium 1704 makes its UK debut at Wigmore Hall with a programme of arias, songs and other works inspired by the legendary Assyrian queen Semiramis. Her mythical story, retold by Metastasio in an opera libretto that received 30 settings between 1729 and 1819, involves the queen’s disguise as king, an unsuccessful poisoning plot and the final triumph of Semiramis. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by Dunard Fund

Early Music and Baroque Series

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Winfried Rademacher violin Sini Simonen violin Jenny Lewisohn viola Julian Arp cello István Várdai cello Matthew Hunt clarinet

Lehtikuva

IMS Prussia Cove

Julia Wesley

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Thursday 6 October 7.30 pm

Elisabeth Leonskaja

Winfried Rademacher

Sini Simonen

Jenny Lewisohn

Julian Arp

István Várdai

Matthew Hunt

This year’s annual IMS Prussia Cove autumn tour unites Elisabeth Leonskaja, Winfried Rademacher and Matthew Hunt with young musicians who have progressed through the IMS seminars. Founded over 40 years ago by the great Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh, IMS continues to nurture outstanding chamber music performers under the artistic directorship of cellist Steven Isserlis.

Pilvax Studio

Hummel Variations on ‘God Save the King’ Op. 10 (arr. Isserlis) Glinka Trio pathétique Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 60

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season

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Ensemble 360 & Polly Ives: Sir Scallywag and the Battle of Stinky Bottom

Simon Jay Price

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Friday 7 October 11.00 am – 12 .00 noon Repeated 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

RECEPTION & KEY STAGE 1 SCHOOLS CONCERT When King Colin sets his sights on finding the famous Golden Sausage, there’s only ONE person for the job: Sir Scallywag!

But will the six-year-old knight be mighty enough to defeat the filthy trolls and win the Stinkiest Battle Ever?

Join Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives for this new children’s Ensemble 360 concert, based on Giles Andreae’s latest Sir Scallywag story, illustrated by Korky Paul (Penguin 2015). With music by award-winning composer Paul Rissmann, it’s packed with irresistibly memorable songs, vivid story-telling, illustrations and lots of audience participation. £3.50 Please book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Webern Fünf Sätze Op. 5 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Schubert String Quintet in C D956

Marco Borggreve

Pavel Haas Quartet Harriet Krijgh cello

Marco Borggreve

Friday 7 October 7.30 pm

Sound and silence share equal importance in Webern’s Fünf Sätze, exquisitely crafted miniatures for string quartet. The Pavel Haas Quartet also performs Shostakovich’s Second Harriet Krijgh Pavel Haas Quartet String Quartet Op. 68, dedicated to Vissarion Shebalin, one of the few composers who stood by him after his denunciation for ‘bourgeois formalism’ in the newspaper Pravda in 1936, and is joined by young Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh in Schubert’s sublime String Quintet. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season

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Saturday 8 October 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Ensemble 360 & Polly Ives: Sir Scallywag and the Battle of Stinky Bottom FAMILY CONCERT For ages 4 plus When King Colin sets his sights on finding the famous Golden Sausage, there’s only ONE person for the job: Sir Scallywag! But will the six-year-old knight be mighty enough to defeat the filthy trolls and win the Stinkiest Battle Ever?

Join Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives for this new children’s concert, based on Giles Andreae’s latest Sir Scallywag story, illustrated by Korky Paul (Penguin 2015).

With music by award-winning composer Paul Rissmann, it’s packed with irresistibly memorable songs, vivid story-telling, illustrations and lots of audience participation.

Illustration by Korky Paul Reproduced by courtesy of Penguin Books

Children £8 Adults £10

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Poulenc Violin Sonata Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis

Harald Hoffmann/Decca

Janine Jansen violin Alexander Gavrylyuk piano

Mika Bovan

Saturday 8 October 7.30 pm

Janine Jansen opens her Wigmore Hall series with a recital programme of great sophistication and nuance.

Poulenc’s Violin Sonata was inspired by García Lorca’s famous metaphor ‘The guitar makes dreams weep’ and also by the violin sonatas of Brahms. Szymanowski’s Janine Jansen Myths and Prokofiev’s Second Violin Sonata, creations of the two world wars, harness virtuosity to the expression of poetic musical gestures.

Alexander Gavrylyuk

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season

Scottish Ensemble Brahms String Sextet in Bb Op. 18 Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4

Peter Dibdin

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Sunday 9 October 11.30 am

Brahms turned to models from the past, including the late instrumental works of Schubert and the famous Baroque theme ‘La folia’, for his String Sextet in B flat, completed in the summer of 1860.

Scottish Ensemble pairs the work with the sensual lyricism and intense late-Romanticism of Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht of 1899. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Scottish Ensemble

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Igor Levit piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78; Piano Sonata No. 4 in E b Op. 7; Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Op. 14 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 26 in E b Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’

Gregor Hohenberg

Sunday 9 October 7.30 pm

First published in London in 1810, Beethoven’s lyrical Piano Sonata No. 24 reflects recent lessons learned by the composer in creating his Fifth Piano Concerto, Sixth Symphony and Violin Concerto. Igor Levit’s programme also includes Op. 81a, described by Beethoven as a ‘sonata characterising departure, absence and reunion’, and the Piano Sonata No. 4, an early masterwork. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton

London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

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Igor Levit

Stéphane de Bourgies

Nicholas Angelich piano Programme to include: Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 59 Following early studies in the United States with his mother, Nicholas Angelich gave his concerto debut at the age of seven and made meteoric progress after his graduation from the Paris Conservatoire in the late 1980s. Virtuosity and romantic intensity are among the hallmarks of his pianism, qualities ideally suited to Liszt’s monumental Piano Sonata in B minor. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Nicholas Angelich

Monday 10 October 7.30 pm

Rosenblatt Recitals 2016 /17

Eleonora Buratto soprano Nazzareno Carusi piano Mozart Dove sono I bei momenti from Le nozze di Figaro Rossini Giusto ciel! in tal periglio from Le siège de Corinthe Mozart Fantasia in D minor K397 (piano solo) Bellini Casta diva from Norma Verdi Tutte le feste al tempio from Rigoletto Puccini Mi chiamano Mimì from La bohème Tosti Malinconia: Dorme la selva; Quand’io ti guardo; L’ora è tarda; Or dunque addio; Chi sei tu che mi parli Alfano Parlami, amor mio from Tre poemi di Tagore Wagner/Liszt Isoldes Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (piano solo) Tosti Quattro canzoni d’Amaranta: Lasciami! Lascia ch’io respiri; L’alba sepàra dalla luce l’ombra; In van preghi; Che dici, o parola del Saggio Eleonora Buratto

A student of Luciano Pavarotti, Italian soprano Eleonora Buratto has performed under the baton of Riccardo Muti on several occasions; ‘bright-voiced’ and ‘vivacious’ (The New York Times), she has won international acclaim for her ‘full high tones, outstanding dynamics and lovely pianissimi’ (Bachtrack). Buratto’s 2016/17 season includes performances at Opernhaus Zürich and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.

Cesare Bellafronte

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Monday 10 October 1.00 pm

‘In the crucial role of Alice Ford, who masterminds all the intrigues and shenanigans, creamy-voiced Eleonora Buratto was outstanding’ Financial Times £30 £26 £22 £18 £16

Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 26 September (Alek Shrader & Roger Vignoles) 1 November (Simone Piazzola & Giuseppe Vaccaro) 10 January (Maria Katzarava, Stefano La Colla & Simon Lepper)

Nazzareno Carusi

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Llyˆr Williams piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor Op. 10 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Op. 10 No. 3; 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120

Evy Ottermans

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Tuesday 11 October 7.30 pm

Two seasons ago, Llyˆr Williams embarked on a monumental survey of Beethoven’s complete piano works at Wigmore Hall. His latest recital encompasses the vivid stylistic contrasts and fruitful thematic ideas of the three Op. 10 piano sonatas and the elemental Diabelli Variations, remarkable even by Beethoven’s standards for their invention and blend of disciplined craft and individual spontaneity. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Dvorˇák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs) Schumann Sechs Gedichte und Requiem Op. 90; Resignation; Die Blume der Ergebung; Der Einsiedler Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35

Marion Koell/Avi-Service for music

Wednesday 12 October 7.30 pm Jim Rakete /Sony Classical

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Llyˆr Williams

Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber readily access areas of imagination and insight that are off-limits to all but the most enlightened artists. Their latest Wigmore Hall recital opens with Dvorˇák’s Biblical Songs, ten uplifting settings Christian Gerhaher Gerold Huber in Czech of Psalms extracted from the Bible of Kralice, a landmark of the Protestant Reformation. Matters spiritual also arise in Schumann’s ‘Requiem’, the ‘old Catholic poem’, which the composer added to his settings of six poems by Nikolaus Lenau. The programme’s second half includes three mature Schumann Lieder and his early sequence of a dozen songs to poems by Justinus Kerner.

Following this concert, Christian Gerhaher will be presented with The Wigmore Medal, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Wigmore Hall over the past 15 years.

Returns only

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2016/17 Wigmore Series

Song Recital Series

Lisa Peacock Presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases

Florian Heinisch piano Beethoven Piano Sonata in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Schoenberg Fünf Klavierstücke Op. 23 Liszt Rhapsodie espagnole

Jörg Singer, Leipzig

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Thursday 13 October 1.00 pm

Florian Heinisch, born 1990 in Eisenach, started playing the piano at the age of five. He is a prize winner in several international competitions and made his debut recital for the international piano foundation The Keyboard Charitable Trust last year. In addition to many recitals in Germany, Florian Heinisch has performed in Austria, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, Iraq and the United States.

‘Unforgettable performance’ Süddeutsche Zeitung. ‘He enchanted with atmosphere and poetry of sound’ Badische Neueste Nachrichten £15 concs £13 Florian Heinisch

Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd.

Tickets also on sale for Thursday Lunchtime Showcases on 15 September (Australia Piano Quartet), 24 November (Trio from London International Players), 19 January (Mariam Batsashvili), 16 February (Trio Gewandt) and 16 March (Sophie Rosa & Benjamin Powell)

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Thursday 13 October 7.30 pm Sheila Rock

Melvyn Tan 60th Birthday Concert

Melvyn Tan piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 Czerny Variations on a theme of Rode ‘La Ricordanza’; Marcia funebre sulla morte di Luigi van Beethoven Op. 146 Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Melvyn Tan celebrates his 60th birthday with a programme richly infused with virtuosity and underpinned by the adamantine musical substance of Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor, among the great monuments of nineteenth-century art. His recital includes the Marcia funebre, Carl Czerny’s heartfelt memorial tribute to his former teacher and friend, completed within days of Beethoven’s death in March 1827. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Melvyn Tan

London Pianoforte Series Friday 14 October 7.30 pm

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The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director Arvo Pärt Da pacem Domine; Morning Star; I Am the True Vine; Most Holy Mother of God Byrd Mass for Four Voices Gibbons Hosanna to the son of David; O Lord in Thy Wrath; Lift up your heads; Nunc dimittis (short service); O clap your hands Nico Muhly New work* (world première) Tavener The Lamb; Funeral Ikos; Love bade me welcome * Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Music has been used to outline and enhance sacred space and time for millennia. The Cardinall’s Musick and Andrew Carwood explore sacred compositions from two periods, past and present, rich in works informed by a profound feeling for something greater than the individual self. Their programme pairs the pristine soundworlds of Arvo Pärt and Byrd, Gibbons and Tavener, and presents a new score by Nico Muhly. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Dmitri Gutjahr

Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series

The Cardinall’s Musick

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Saturday 15 October

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HELEN GRIME DAY Wigmore Hall marks the start of Helen Grime’s term as its first female Composer in Residence with a day devoted to her art. The Scottish composer, born in 1981, is known not least for her distinctive creative voice and her music’s lyrical beauty. Helen Grime Day offers the chance to become deeply immersed in her chamber compositions.

Alexandra Wood

Rachel Roberts

Huw Watkins

Philip Higham

Nicholas Daniel

Mark van de Wiel

Geoffrey Paterson

Guy Wigmore

Clive Barda

Benjamin Ealovega

Helen Grime

Eric Richmond

Jonathan Wrather

Kaupo Kikkas

Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence is supported by The Marchus Trust

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

1.00 pm

6.00 pm

Alexandra Wood violin Rachel Roberts viola Philip Higham cello Nicholas Daniel oboe Huw Watkins piano

Artists in Conversation

Helen Grime Three Whistler Miniatures for piano trio; Aviary Sketches for string trio (after Joseph Cornell)*; To see the summer sky for violin and viola; Five North Eastern Scenes for oboe and piano (UK première); Oboe Quartet * Co-commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center funded by a generous grant from Linda and Stuart Nelson in honour of Wu Han and David Finckel, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Chamber music occupies the centre ground of Helen Grime’s work, embracing everything from pieces for solo oboe to scores conceived for small ensemble.

Three Whistler Miniatures draw inspiration from chalk and pastel pieces exhibited at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Museum, while Aviary Sketches comprises five miniatures influenced by the alluring ‘assemblage boxes’ of American artist and sculptor Joseph Cornell.

All seats £10

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

All day concert ticket: £20

Helen Grime discusses her life as a composer and her plans during her time as Wigmore Hall Composer in Residence. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Mark van de Wiel clarinet Geoffrey Paterson conductor Helen Grime Embrace for clarinet and trumpet; Seven Pierrot Miniatures Oliver Knussen Songs without Voices Helen Grime Clarinet Concerto Carter Au Quai for bassoon and viola Helen Grime Luna Janácˇek Concertino Helen Grime’s Seven Pierrot Miniatures project the composer’s uncanny feeling for instrumental tone colours and textural contrasts, whilst her Clarinet Concerto is a study in virtuosity that grows more meditative as it unfolds.

Knussen and Carter have been formative influences in Grime’s career; her duo Embrace picks up the duos in Knussen’s delightful Songs without Voices, and the Carter duo, written for Knussen’s 50th birthday, mirrors this.

All seats £15

Tickets to the Artists in Conversation event sold separately

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series /Helen Grime Composer in Residence

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Sunday 16 October 11.30 am

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Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Dover Quartet Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Smetana and Dvorˇák were pioneers of Czech music when their homeland fell under Austro-Hungarian rule. Their works helped shape a distinctive national cultural identity and attracted worldwide interest.The Dover Quartet, winner of the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, pairs Dvorˇák’s String Quartet in F Op. 96 with Smetana’s autobiographical String Quartet No. 1 in E minor. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Dover Quartet

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 16 October 7.30 pm Giorgia Bertazzi

Christian Tetzlaff violin Tanja Tetzlaff cello Lars Vogt piano Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101; Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87; Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 (revised version) Brahms’s Piano Trios contain some of the composer’s most memorable music, rich in invention and propelled by what feels like an irresistible flood of lyrical melody. Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff are joined by long-term collaborator Lars Vogt in a programme complete with the composer’s radiant late revision of his Op. 8 Piano Trio. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Lars Vogt, Tanja & Christian Tetzlaff

Chamber Music Season Monday 17 October 1.00 pm

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Vilde Frang violin Aleksandar Madžar piano Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Vilde Frang, born in Norway in 1986, made her debut with the Oslo Philharmonic and Mariss Jansons at the age of twelve.

Hailed by the Guardian as ‘a new star in the violin firmament’, she makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall to perform a programme of Brahms and Schubert guaranteed to display her all-encompassing emotional range and virtuosity. £13 concs £11

Marco Borggreve

Keith Saunders

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Vilde Frang

Aleksandar Madžar

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Monday 17 October 7.30 pm

The Monday Platform

Emily Sun violin Jennifer Hughes piano Jonathan Radford saxophone Kaoli Ono piano Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Mendelssohn Rondo Capriccioso in E Op. 14 Falla Danza española No. 1 from La vida breve Caplet Impressions d’automne Christian Lauba Jungle Bizet Ouvre ton cœur (arr. for saxophone and piano) Jean Matitia Devil’s Rag Debussy Rhapsody for saxophone and piano Berio Sequenza VIIb for soprano saxophone Villa-Lobos Très animé from Fantasia Stravinsky Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée (transcr. by Igor Stravinsky and Samuel Dushkin)

Emily Sun

Jennifer Hughes

Australian violinist Emily Sun and British saxophonist Jonathan Radford combine to offer a programme of works with an impressionist flavour. Award-winning Emily Sun will perform violin works by Stravinsky, Debussy and Mendelssohn. Jonathan Radford, described as ‘the most gifted saxophonist of his generation’ by Scottish saxophonist and composer Jonathan Radford Richard Ingham, will perform a more contemporary programme of saxophone works by several French, Spanish and Brazilian composers.

Kaoli Ono

£20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Musicians’ Company Concerts (Reg. Charity No. 264303) Maisie Lewis Young Artist Fund

London Music Masters Award Winner’s Concert

Marc Bouchkov violin Katia Skanavi piano

Nikolaj Lund

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Tuesday 18 October 1.00 pm

Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in G Op. 27 No. 5 (à Mathieu Crickboom) Tchaikovsky Valse-scherzo Op. 34 Exceptionally talented violinist Marc Bouchkov has recently been selected by London Music Masters as an LMM Award Holder, through which he will receive financial support, mentoring, and high-profile Marc Bouchkov Katia Skanavi performing opportunities, including this recital.

The LMM Awards seek to help gifted young artists further their professional careers, while serving as positive role models, reaching new audiences and enriching their communities.

‘He plays with passion and combines musical energy with expressive gravity…’ Rhein Main Presse All seats £10 Presented by London Music Masters (Reg. Charity No. 1119372)

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Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concert 2016

NEXUS Reed Quintet Rameau Suite in A minor ‘La triomphante’ (arr. Raaf Hekkema) Stefan Wirth Nachtschnee mit Wölfen (UK première) Elgar Variations on an Original Theme ‘Enigma’ Op. 36 (arr. Marita Kohler)

Tomasz Trzebiatowski

Tuesday 18 October 7.30 pm

The award goes to the NEXUS Reed Quintet, an innovative woodwind ensemble from Switzerland.

NEXUS brings together five reed instruments: oboe, bassoon, saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet.

NEXUS Reed Quintet The quintet’s unique programming, fresh and in-depth interpretation, precise interaction and youthful enthusiasm fascinate audiences and open up new dimensions in chamber music. NEXUS Reed Quintet was founded in 2010 and has since won awards in Switzerland and across Europe.

An exclusive programme has been put together for this concert, including the UK première of a new work written for the quintet by Swiss composer Stefan Wirth.

All seats £12 including programme and a complimentary glass of sparkling Swiss wine at the interval

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

For Crying Out Loud!

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

Benjamin Ealovega

Adults £7.50 (babies come free)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Wednesday 19 October 7.30 pm

Leon McCawley piano Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 Schubert Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ Schubert/Liszt Die junge Nonne; Du bist die Ruh; Auf dem Wasser zu singen Mendelssohn Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words) Op. 19 Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23

Sheila Rock

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Wednesday 19 October 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm)

Leon McCawley, recently praised by the Washington Post as a ‘thoughtful and lyrical pianist’, performs the virtuosic ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy, the first of Schubert’s larger works to be published during his lifetime, and three song arrangements by Liszt that helped secure Schubert’s posthumous reputation. His recital closes with Chopin’s Ballade in G minor, a showpiece of unstoppable momentum. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Leon McCawley

London Pianoforte Series

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Thursday 20 October 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm

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Study Afternoon SCHUBERT IN ENGLISH Writer and musician Amanda Holden is joined by pianist Christopher Glynn and singer Toby Spence to discuss Schubert’s three great song-cycles and their transformations into English. How do writers approach the specialist task of translating song texts? And for singers, what are the challenges of performing in translation? These questions and many more are explored in this illuminating study event. £7

The Beautiful Maid of the Mill (18th-century engraving)

Toby Spence and Christopher Glynn will give the London première of Jeremy Sams’s new English translation of Schubert’s The Beautiful Maid of the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin) on Sunday 23 October at 3.00 pm. See page 18 for details.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Thursday 20 October 7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Christoph Schnackertz piano Schubert Tischlied; Der Rattenfänger; Wer kauft Liebesgötter?; Tischlerlied; Der Entfernten; An die Harmonie; Die Herbstnacht; Der Herbstabend; Abschied von der Harfe; Die gefangenen Sänger; Die Mutter Erde; Des Sängers Habe Britten Winter Words Bruch Lausche, lausche!; Goldne Brücken; Frisch gesungen; Russisch; Um Mitternacht; Zweites Kophtisches Lied; Kophtisches Lied Christoph Prégardien makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with Christoph Schnackertz to perform Britten’s evocative Hardy cycle, Winter Words, and a group of the ever-inventive strophic songs by Schubert. Although best known today for his G minor Violin Concerto, Max Bruch was a prolific songwriter whose output includes fine settings of Geibel, Goethe and Mörike, a selection of which is presented in this recital. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Hans Morren

Clärchen & Hermann Baus

Song Recital Series /Schubert: The Complete Songs

Christoph Prégardien

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Christoph Schnackertz

Le Poème Harmonique Claire Lefilliâtre soprano Isabelle Druet mezzo-soprano Mira Glodeanu violin Lucas Peres viol Françoise Enock violone Marie Bournisien harp Thomas Boysen guitar Thor-Harald Johnsen guitar Joël Grare percussion

Guy Vivien

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Friday 21 October 7.30 pm

Vincent Dumestre conductor, guitar

Le Poème Harmonique

Briceño Españoleta; Ay ay ay, todos se burlan de mi; Andalo çaravanda; Danza de la Hacha; Venteçillo murmurador; Ay amor loco; El caballo del marqués; Folia; Dime de que te quexas Anonymous El baxel esta en la playa; Lloren mis ojos (Libro de tonos humanos); Ruggiero; Passacalle; Gaytas; Para tener Nochebuena; No so yo (Cancionero de Uppsala); Canario Berxes Ay! Qué rabia Luis de Briceño, active around 1610–30, spread the Spanish guitar’s popularity beyond its homeland. He made his name in France with a collection of pieces intended for students of guitar. Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre have recorded Briceño’s works for the Alpha label and continue to explore them within the context of early seventeenth-century Spanish music, offering vivid instrumental arrangements of works that capture the vitality and verve of popular dances, villancicos and romances.

This concert will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Benjamin Ealovega

A Knight’s Quest FAMILY DAY For ages 5 plus Discover the stories hidden in The Wallace Collection and create your own medieval knight’s quest. Try on armour and create a puppet; will you be a knight or a squire? Then write your own travelling music for the journey and perform it onstage at Wigmore Hall.

Children £10 Adults £15

In partnership with The Wallace Collection

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Saturday 22 October 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble

K. Leighton

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Saturday 22 October 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 for string sextet Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ The Nash Ensemble launches its Viennese series with works by three composers closely associated with ‘the city of music’. Mahler’s only surviving chamber work dates from his precocious teenage years at the Vienna Conservatoire, while Schoenberg’s romantically charged ‘Transfigured Night’ dates from the same year as Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. Schubert’s much-loved ‘Trout’ Quintet, a score of sunny relaxation, was written during a country vacation from his native city. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Nash Ensemble

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Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Johann Strauss II Kaiser-Walzer Op. 437 (Emperor Waltz) (arr. by Schoenberg for flute, clarinet, string quartet and piano) Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25

Hanya Chlala /ArenaPAL

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Sunday 23 October 11.30 am

The apparent political and social stability of Austria-Hungary, more illusion than reality, informs Johann Strauss the younger’s famous Emperor Waltz, performed by the Nash Ensemble in an ensemble arrangement by Arnold Schoenberg. Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25, with its exuberant Hungarian-style finale, was performed in Vienna in 1862 shortly before the composer made his permanent home there.

Nash Ensemble

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/ Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Mitch Jenkins

Toby Spence tenor Christopher Glynn piano

Joanna Bergin

Sunday 23 October 3.00 pm

Schubert The Beautiful Maid of the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin) (London première of new English translation) Toby Spence, one of the finest lyric tenors of his generation, presents Jeremy Sams’s new translation of Die schöne Müllerin as part of Wigmore Hall’s innovative Learning programme.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in duration, without an interval Toby Spence

All seats £15

Christopher Glynn

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.

To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

Song Recital Series /Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Jamie Barton* mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano

Rebecca Fay

Wigmore Hall Debut*

Kaupo Kikkas

Sunday 23 October 7.30 pm

Turina Homenaje a Lope de Vega Brahms Ständchen; Meine Liebe ist grün; Unbewegte laue Luft; Von ewiger Liebe Dvorˇák Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs) Op. 55 Ives The things our fathers loved; Grantchester; Immortality; The Housatonic at Stockbridge; The Cage; Old Home Day Sibelius Svarta rosor; Säv, säv, susa; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte; Kyssens hopp; Marssnön; Var det en dröm?

Jamie Barton

James Baillieu

Since winning the First and Song Prizes at the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Jamie Barton has scored notable successes at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and with her BBC Proms debut in Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody. The American mezzo-soprano marks her Wigmore Hall debut with a programme of songs ideally matched to her vocal warmth and sumptuous tone. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by American Friends of Wigmore Hall Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.

To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

Song Recital Series

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Nelson Goerner piano Debussy From Préludes Book II: Brouillards; Feuilles mortes; La puerta del vino; Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses; La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune; Feux d’artifice Albéniz From Iberia: Evocación; El puerto; Triana Ravel La valse

Jean-Baptiste Millot

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Monday 24 October 1.00 pm

Nelson Goerner charts the creative crosscurrents that connected the diverse musical worlds of early twentieth-century Europe in his latest Wigmore Hall recital. The Argentine pianist, celebrated for his Debussy interpretations, offers a selection from the French composer’s Préludes Book II before probing Albéniz’s Iberia and concluding with La valse, Ravel’s heady evocation of an Austrian imperial ball of the mid-1800s.

Nelson Goerner

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Phantasm Laurence Dreyfus director Emilia Benjamin treble viol Jonathan Manson tenor viol Mikko Perkola tenor viol Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol Jonathan Rees bass viol

Marco Borggreve

Monday 24 October 7.30 pm

THE WORLD OF ORLANDO GIBBONS Gibbons A selection of Fantasies a 2, a 3, a 4 and a 6 Gibbons A selection of In Nomines Gibbons Peascod Time (The Hunt’s Up); Pavan Lord Salisbury; The silver swanne; Pavan and Galliard a 6; Go from my window; O Lord in Thy Wrath; Hosanna to the son of David Orlando Gibbons, a talented chorister of King’s College, Phantasm Cambridge, who became organist at Westminster Abbey during the time of James I, contributed outstanding works to the English tradition of music for viol consort. Phantasm celebrates the art of a composer whose sudden death robbed Jacobean England of one of her brightest talents. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunwook Kim piano

Doh Lee

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Tuesday 25 October 7.30 pm

Mozart Rondo in A minor K511 Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894 ‘Fantasie’ Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ London-based Sunwook Kim secured international attention as winner of the 2006 Leeds International Piano Competition. His latest Wigmore Hall recital programme recalls the extraordinary creative energy that swept through Vienna from the time of Mozart’s arrival in the Habsburg imperial capital in the early 1780s to Schubert’s death in November 1728. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Sunwook Kim

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Wednesday 26 October 7.30 pm

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Bibi Basch

Florilegium Ashley Solomon director Dame Emma Kirkby soprano LONDON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Arne Overture No. 8 in G minor from Judgement of Paris; Cantata: The Morning Handel Trio Sonata in E minor Op. 5 No. 3; Sweet Bird from L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato; Gentle Morpheus, son of night from Alceste Chilcot Orpheus with his lute from Henry VIII Handel Organ Concerto in Bb Op. 4 No. 6 HWV294 Lampe Pretty Warblers from Dione

Dame Emma Kirkby

Florilegium returns to Wigmore Hall for its 25th anniversary season with Dame Emma Kirkby in a programme showcasing rarely performed works by Lampe, Chilcot and Arne. The programme also contains some of the acclaimed ensemble’s favourite Handel, including well-known arias from two of his operas and the haunting Trio Sonata in E minor. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

John Yip Bradies

Early Music and Baroque Series

Florilegium

Musical Portraits Band HALF TERM COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS

Benjamin Ealovega

Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 October 11.00 am – 3.30 pm

We invite young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders to be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, and to create their own works of art and music with inspiring visual artists alongside Wigmore Hall Learning Associate Artists Ignite.

For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email ruth@turtlekeyarts.org.uk.

Free (application required) Ignite

Musical Portraits is supported by Stuart and Bianca Roden, and The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Robin Fuchs

Thomas Zehetmair violin Ruth Killius viola

Heimo Binder

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Thursday 27 October 7.30 pm

Klein Duo for violin and viola Zimmermann Sonata for solo violin Bartók Selection of duos for 2 violins (arranged for violin and viola) Zimmermann Sonata for solo violin Mozart Duo in Bb K424 Gideon Klein, a victim of the Nazi Holocaust, wrote his Duo for violin and viola shortly before his deportation Thomas Zehetmair Ruth Killius to the Terezín concentration camp in 1941. Thomas Zehetmair and Ruth Killius present the piece in company with the two Sonatas for solo violin by Klein’s near-contemporary Bernd Alois Zimmermann and a selection of Bartók’s folksong-inspired Duos. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season

The Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards 2016 The final of the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards (First Prize £2,000) celebrates performances by some of the most talented young singers in the country today.

The competition is organised by Jackdaws, recipient of the 2016 Music Teacher Magazine Award for Excellence for ‘Best Classical Music Education Initiative’.

The judging panel, chaired by Saffron van Zwanenberg, includes Rosemary Joshua and Julian Jacobson. Each contestant will perform four pieces, including works by Handel, and Peter Wishart, with two of their own choice.

All seats £12 Promoted by Jackdaws

Maureen Lehane

Friday 28 October 7.30 pm

Stephen Hough Herbstlieder; Dappled Things (world première); Three Grave Songs; Other Love Songs Stephen Hough, named by The Economist as one of twenty living polymaths, has achieved distinction not only as a concert pianist but also as a composer, poet, essayist and writer.

His collaboration with The Prince Consort has yielded an acclaimed recording and continues with this programme of new works, including the first performance of Hough’s Dappled Things. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10

The Prince Consort Sim Canetty-Clarke

The Prince Consort Stephen Hough piano

Richard Ecclestone

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Friday 28 October 1.00 pm

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series Stephen Hough

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Philippe Cassard piano DEBUSSY PERSPECTIVES II: DEBUSSY & OTHERS – ‘WATER MUSICS’ Ravel Jeux d’eau Liszt Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este from Années de pèlerinage, troisième année S163; Au bord d’une source from Années de pèlerinage S160 Debussy Acte 2 from Pelléas et Mélisande (transcr. Cassard); La cathédrale engloutie from Préludes Book I; Ce qu’a vu le vent de l’ouest from Préludes Book I; Brouillards from Préludes Book II; The Snow is Dancing from Children’s Corner; Des pas sur la neige from Préludes Book I; Quelques aspects de ‘Nous n’irons plus au bois parce qu’il fait un temps insupportable’ from Images oubliées; Jardins sous la pluie from Estampes; Ondine from Préludes Book II; Poissons d’or from Images Series 2; Voiles from Préludes Book I; Reflets dans l’eau from Images Series 1 Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60 Debussy L’isle joyeuse

Jean-Baptiste Millot

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Saturday 29 October 7.30 pm

Philippe Cassard

Philippe Cassard has lived with the works in this recital for over three decades, during which time he has developed personal interpretations of the utmost eloquence and sensuous beauty.

The blend of fleeting display and inward reflection to be found in Cassard’s captivating transcription of music from Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and L’isle joyeuse also surface in the water-inspired pieces of Liszt and Ravel. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Carducci String Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in E b Op. 117 Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ The Carducci String Quartet marked the 40th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death in 2015 with a marathon day-long performance of his fifteen quartets at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. The group returns to the composer’s edgy Ninth String Quartet for this recital, setting it in company with the third of Beethoven’s remarkable ‘Razumovsky’ quartets.

Andy Holdsworth Photography

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Sunday 30 October 11.30 am

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Molina Visuals

Sophie Karthäuser soprano Eugene Asti piano

Molina Visuals /Harmonia Mundi

Sunday 30 October 7.30 pm

Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister: Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Wolf Heiß mich nicht reden; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; So laßt mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land; MausfallenSprüchlein; Das verlassene Mägdlein; Bei einer Trauung; Agnes; Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens Fauré Automne; Le secret; Prison; Notre amour Satie Trois Mélodies: La Sophie Karthäuser statue de bronze; Daphénéo; Le chapelier Honegger Petits cours de morale Chabrier Les cigales; Villanelle des petits canards; Chanson pour Jeanne; Lied

Eugene Asti

Feted as a supremely gifted Mozartean and recognised worldwide for the brilliance of her lyric voice, Belgian soprano Sophie Karthäuser first beguiled Wigmore Hall as a prize winner at its 2003 International Song Competition. Her latest recital programme, given with regular duo partner Eugene Asti, embraces the two languages in which she was raised, German and French. She opens with Schubert and Wolf’s sublime Goethe settings, before unlocking the exquisite colours of mélodies by Fauré and Chabrier. Karthäuser’s repertoire choice also includes Satie’s witty Trois Mélodies, completed exactly a century ago as the First World War raged. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

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Kelemen Quartet Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52 Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 S514 The Kelemen Quartet, winner of the 2014 Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition, has made meteoric progress since its foundation six years ago in Budapest. Known for its white-hot commitment in performance, the ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall recital explores the refinement of Bartók’s First String Quartet alongside the single sonata-form movement of Schubert’s Quartettsatz.

Balazs Borocz /Pilvax Studio

£13 concs £11 Kelemen Quartet

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Monday 31 October 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Alison Balsom discusses her life and career, as well as her residency at Wigmore Hall this season, with broadcaster and presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Alison Balsom trumpet Peter Moore trombone Tom Poster piano

Maker

Monday 31 October 7.30 pm

ALISON BALSOM ‘THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND’ Honegger Intrada Hindemith Trumpet Sonata Schubert Impromptu in G b D899 No. 3 for solo piano Enescu Légende Tom Poster & Alison Balsom The Thoughts of Dr May Brahms Trio in E b Op. 40 (transcr. Alison Balsom for trumpet, trombone and piano)

Hanya Chlala

Alison Balsom launches her Wigmore Hall Residency in company with regular partner Tom Poster. Their co-composition, The Thoughts of Dr May, takes its place alongside such fine original works as Hindemith’s Trumpet Sonata and Enescu’s Légende and inventive arrangements of existing pieces, crowned by Balsom’s transcription for Brahms’s Trio Op. 40, originally conceived for horn, violin and piano.

Alison Balsom Kaupo Kikkas

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Monday 31 October 1.00 pm

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Peter Moore

Tom Poster

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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, HonFRIAM The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity No. 1024838 Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s West End and is easily accessible by public transport or car.

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

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

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

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

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

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

OXFORD CIRCUS

Benjamin Ealovega

BOND STREET