Wigmore Hall February 2015 Diary

February 2015

Miloš Karadaglic´ INSIDE: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | Lisa Batiashvili & Paul Lewis Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien | Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Early Opera Company | Imogen Cooper | Martin Fröst | Christiane Karg Steven Osborne | Maria João Pires | and many more

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Benjamin Ealovega

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Wigmore Hall • John Gilhooly OBE Director The Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No.1024838

Cover: Miloš Karadaglic´ © Lars Borges /Mercury Classics

Bea Levine-Humm

Richard Hosford

Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 The Nash Ensemble’s renowned string players present Haydn’s much-loved ‘Sunrise’ Quartet, so called because of its gently rising opening theme, a work infused with the bold gestures and effects he cultivated during his time in London. The ensemble is joined by its long-serving clarinettist Richard Hosford in Brahms’s autumnal chamber masterwork.

Brahms created his Clarinet Quintet in B minor to suit the burnished playing of Richard Mühlfeld, who first introduced the composition to London audiences in the 1890s.

Marianne Thorsen

Laura Samuel Jack Liebeck

Nash Ensemble Richard Hosford clarinet Marianne Thorsen violin Laura Samuel violin Lawrence Power viola Adrian Brendel cello

Jack Liebeck

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Keith Saunders

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Sunday 1 February 11.30 am

Lawrence Power

Adrian Brendel

Returns only

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Sunday 1 February 3.00 pm

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle SCHUBERT’S HIDDEN GEMS Schubert Am Flusse (D766); Am Flusse (D160); Das Lied vom Reifen; Der Fluss; Der Jüngling am Bache; Gondelfahrer; Des Mädchens Klage; Die Knabenzeit; Herbst; Herbstlied; Liane; Licht und Liebe; Nach einem Gewitter; Marie; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Rückweg; Vollendung; Winterlied; Die Erde; Heiss mich nicht reden When Max Friedlaender was preparing the final volume of his Schubert Lieder Edition for Peters, many songs (such as ‘Herbst’) were unknown to him. The Royal Academy of Music Song Circle presents twenty such gems that are not included in the seven Lieder volumes of the Peters Editions and are still too rarely performed. £15 concs £12.50

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

Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle

Song Recital Series

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Garreth Wong

Robin Tritschler tenor Graham Johnson piano

Clive Barda

Sunday 1 February 7.30 pm

Schumann Kernerlieder Op. 35 SONGS FROM THE (BARD’S) SHOWS Vaughan Williams Orpheus with his lute Leveridge Who is Silvia?

Anon. (17th century) Jog on, jog on the footpath way Moeran The sweet o’ the year Eisler Horatios Monolog Castelnuovo-Tedesco The clown in the churchyard Finzi Songs of Hiems and Ver Robin Tritschler Graham Johnson Castelnuovo-Tedesco Caliban Tippett Songs for Ariel Gurney Under the greenwood tree Korngold Blow, blow thou winter wind Quilter It was a lover and his lass Castelnuovo-Tedesco The Fool Dale O Mistress Mine Finzi Come away, come away, death Korngold Adieu, Good Man Devil Robin Tritschler and Graham Johnson present a treat for song-lovers with their captivating programme. Schumann’s Kernerlieder, like so many of the songs he created in 1840, convey the strength of his fervent love for Clara Wieck.

He completed his ‘song sequence’ soon after their marriage, a union contracted against her father’s wishes. For the second half, the duo performs settings of Shakespeare from a selection of his most celebrated plays. £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

Steven Osborne piano

Benjamin Ealovega

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Monday 2 February 1.00 pm

Rachmaninov Études-tableaux (a selection) Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition Poetic pianism, richly conceived in tonal and expressive nuance, distinguishes Steven Osborne’s interpretations of the great works of the keyboard literature. His receptivity to the romantic depths of the Slavic soul invariably rises to the surface in his acclaimed interpretations of Russian music. ‘This may well be the most lucid and musicianly Pictures on record,’ observed Gramophone following the release of his recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition. £13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Steven Osborne

Takács Quartet Lecture-Recital Lecture-Recital on Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’

Keith Saunders

Monday 2 February 7.30 pm

The Takács Quartet presents a rare opportunity to hear its highly developed thoughts about a seminal work of the string quartet repertoire. This lecture-recital opens with a discussion of the String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’, illustrated with excerpts from the work.

The evening’s second half contains a complete performance of Beethoven’s pioneering score. £30 £25 £20 £15

Takács Quartet

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Chamber Music Season/ Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

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Tuesday 3 February 1.00 pm

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Kaupo Kikkas

YCAT Lunchtime Series 2014/15

Trio Isimsiz Takemitsu Between Tides Beethoven Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Trio Isimsiz was formed in 2009 at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, under the guidance of Louise Hopkins, Carole Presland and Alasdair Tait. Engagements this season include a residency in Aldeburgh and return visits to the Purcell Room and Colston Hall Bristol. £12.50 concs £10 Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490)

YCAT is grateful for support for this series from the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund, the Goulding Murray Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake.

Trio Isimsiz

Tuesday 3 February 7.30 pm

EXAUDI James Weeks director Leonin Organum Scelsi Tre Canti Sacri Heinz Holliger nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts (excerpts) (UK première) Machaut La Messe de Nostre Dame (excerpts) Ciconia Le ray au soleyl Rodericus Angelorum psalat Michael Finnissy Kelir Worlds collide in this scintillating programme, devised by Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence Julian Anderson and EXAUDI’s director James Weeks: medieval and modern, sacred and profane, European and Eastern. Twelfth-century Parisian polyphony elides with the drone-rich imagination of Giacinto Scelsi; Heinz Holliger’s fascination with Machaut can be heard in the luminous Angelus Silesius settings of nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts; and the intricate rhythmic world of the Ars Subtilior finds a parallel in the ardent, tangled vocality of Finnissy’s dramatic Kelir. £30 £25 £20 £15

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

Matthew Andrews

Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series/Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

EXAUDI

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Wednesday 4 February 12.15 pm

Pre-Concert Talk An introduction to the lunchtime concert with Ben Comeau, the Winner of the Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop.

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series

Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin Miranda Dale violin Clare Finnimore viola Catherine Musker viola Caroline Dearnley cello

Harry Rankin

Wednesday 4 February 1.00 pm

Beethoven String Quintet in C Op. 29 Ben Comeau New work* (world première) Vaughan Williams Phantasy String Quintet * Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support from donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Britten Sinfonia

Vaughan Williams’s Phantasy for string quintet was dedicated to William Wilson Cobbett, whose celebrated competition encouraged young composers to write new chamber works. Winner of Britten Sinfonia’s Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop, Ben Comeau’s work receives its première in this concert, alongside Beethoven’s transitional tumultuous String Quintet of 1801, popularly known as ‘The Storm’. £12.50 concs £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Ben Comeau

Sussie Ahlburg

Christiane Karg soprano Joseph Middleton piano

Gisela Schenker

Wednesday 4 February 7.30 pm

Mozart Das Veilchen; An Chloe; Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte; Der Zauberer; Dans un bois solitaire Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade; Heiss mich nicht reden; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Hoffnung; Der Jüngling am Bache; Des Mädchens Klage; Thekla; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Elysium Christiane Karg’s vitality connects directly with the Joseph Middleton Christiane Karg works in her repertoire, sparking words and music to life. The Bavarian soprano’s programme includes settings of verse by one of the titans of world literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, among them Mozart’s exquisite treatment of ‘Das Veilchen’ and Mignon’s songs of yearning for her Italian homeland, ‘Kennst du das Land’ and ‘Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt’. £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

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Lisa Peacock Presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases

Lisa Friend flute Mark Kinkaid piano

Caroline Friend

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Thursday 5 February 1.00 pm

Reinecke Undine Sonata Op. 167 Andersen Romance ‘Le Calme’ from Trois Morceaux Op. 57 No. 1 Gaubert Sonata No. 1 Chaminade Concertino British flautist, Lisa Friend, performs a captivating programme of romantic works featured from her latest album ‘Luminance’.

Lisa Friend

Mark Kinkaid

‘Beautiful playing’ BBC Music Magazine ‘Stand-out offerings elsewhere include Cécile Chaminade’s ravishing Concertino’ Classical Ear £12.50 concs £10

20% discount when you book for all remaining concerts in this series (see dates below)

Tickets also on sale for Thursday Lunchtime Showcase Recitals on 19 March (Madeleine Mitchell & Nigel Clayton) and 16 April (Alexei Grynyuk) Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd

Anthony Marwood violin Aleksandar Madžar piano Janácˇek Violin Sonata Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 Ravel Violin Sonata in A minor (Sonate Posthume) Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis

Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 5 February 7.30 pm

Beethoven’s Violin Sonata in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 was written in 1802, the fateful year when he first experienced the sharp despair of deafness. Anthony Marwood and Aleksandar Madžar survey the equally personal emotions of Janácˇek’s Violin Sonata, composed in the early months of the First World War, together with the classical elegance of works by Ravel and Prokofiev. £30 £25 £20 £15 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Anthony Marwood and Aleksandar Madzˇar

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

For Crying Out Loud!

FOR PARENTS AND BABIES UP TO 1 YEAR OLD A series of concerts with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, presented in an accommodating environment for parents or carers and their babies. Although the music will be appropriate for babies, these concerts are not interactive.

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Friday 6 February 11.00 am – 11.45 am Repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm

£7.50 per adult – babies come free

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Vivaldi Sinfonia from Giustino RV717; Cello Concerto in G minor RV416; Concerto for strings in C RV114; Concerto in G minor for oboe, cello and strings RV812; Concerto in D minor for 2 violins and cello Op. 3 No. 11 from L’estro armonico RV565; Sinfonia from Dorilla in Tempe RV709; Cello Concerto in F RV412 Caldara Sinfonia No. 6 in G minor from San Elena al Calvario Vivaldi Oboe Concerto in C RV450; Cello Concerto in A minor RV419

Daniel Maria Deuter

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Xenia Löffler oboe

Marco Borggreve

Friday 6 February 7.30 pm

Jean-Guihen Queyras

Xenia Löffler

Period instrument performances have been raised to the highest levels of technical virtuosity and insight thanks to the work of ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and artists of the calibre of Jean-Guihen Queyras and Xenia Löffler. Their thrilling programme reflects Vivaldi’s passion for the cello, a comparative newcomer in the composer’s day, and the jaw-dropping virtuosity of his writing for solo oboe and strings. £40 £35 £25 £15

Kristof Fischer

Early Music and Baroque Series

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Come and Sing: Early Opera As part of our Henry Purcell: A Retrospective series, come and sing some of the composer’s operatic work and have a go at some of the movements and gestures which accompany the words and music. Isabelle Adams leads this workshop day for adults, which includes the opportunity to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day. £24 concs £16

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

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Saturday 7 February 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Nash Ensemble Philippa Davies flute Lawrence Power viola Lucy Wakeford harp

John Batten

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 7 February 6.00 pm

Roderick Williams baritone NASH COMMISSIONS Debussy Syrinx Bennett Sonata after Syrinx for flute, viola and harp Julian Anderson Prayer for solo viola Maw Roman Canticle for baritone, flute, viola and harp

Roderick Williams

Julian Anderson

The works will be introduced from the stage by Julian Anderson.

Free (ticket required)

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

Nash Ensemble Ian Brown conductor Lawrence Power viola Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Mozart Quintet in E b for piano and winds K452 Mahler Rückert Lieder (arr. D Matthews for voice & ensemble) Brahms 2 Songs with viola Op. 91 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34

Nash Ensemble

This programme is bookended by two contrasting works for five instrumentalists, Mozart’s perfectly finished Quintet for piano and winds and Brahms’s passionate Quintet for piano and strings. Sarah Connolly also sings Mahler’s lyrical settings of poems by Rückert and Brahms’s eloquent songs with viola and piano, ‘Gestillte Sehnsucht’ (‘Stilled Desire’) and ‘Geistliches Wiegenlied’ (‘Sacred Lullaby’).

Peter Warren

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Hanya Chlala /Arena PAL

Saturday 7 February 7.30 pm

£35 £30 £25 £18

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

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1 Bartók Violin Sonata No. 1 Sz. 75 Ravel Tzigane

Daniil Rabovsky

Valeriy Sokolov violin Evgeny Izotov piano

Simon Fowler/EMI Classics

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Sunday 8 February 11.30 am

Valeriy Sokolov’s recent recording of violin concertos by Tchaikovsky and Bartók received rave reviews, reinforcing his status among the finest artists of his generation. The young Ukrainian violinist, partnered by Evgeny Izotov, opens his recital with the Violin Sonata Op. 30 No. 1, Beethoven’s spiritually serene and noble response to encroaching deafness.

Valeriy Sokolov

Evgeny Izotov

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

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Schubert Abendlied für die Entfernte Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Wolfgang Rihm Das Rot Schubert Dass sie hier gewesen Beethoven Adelaide; Wonne der Wehmut; Neue Liebe, neues Leben

Wolfgang Runkel

Simon Bode tenor Igor Levit* piano

Felix Broede

Sunday 8 February 3.00 pm

Distant love and unfulfilled desires combine in this programme, projected with overwhelming fervour by Beethoven in the half dozen songs of An die ferne Geliebte and focused with sustained Simon Bode Igor Levit introspection by Schubert in his ‘Abendlied für die Entfernte’.

Wolfgang Rihm’s song cycle Das Rot (1990), a setting of six texts by the German Romantic poet Karoline von Günderrode, explores the shifting borderlands between illusion and reality, darkness and light. £15 concs £12.50

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

Song Recital Series /Introducing Igor Levit

Eggner Trio Mozart Piano Trio in C K548; Piano Trio in Bb K502 Hummel Piano Trio in G Op. 65 Mozart Piano Trio in G K564

Keith Saunnders

Sunday 8 February 7.30 pm

The Austrian Eggner Trio, a family ensemble of three brothers, performs works by Mozart which helped to define the piano trio genre. The programme begins with the Piano Trio in C, simple in its design and harmony yet emotionally complex.

The composer’s final piano trio is prefaced with a score by the hugely gifted Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a child prodigy who became Mozart’s only full-time pupil in 1786. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/The Mozart Odyssey Monday 9 February 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Olena Tokar soprano Igor Gryshyn piano Brahms Botschaft; Sommerabend; Über die Heide; Es träumte mir, ich sei dir teuer Strauss Der Stern; Schlechtes Wetter; Allerseelen; Morgen Rimsky-Korsakov Of what I dream in the quiet night; Cool and fragrant is thy garland; Not the wind, blowing from the heights; The lark sings louder Dvorˇák Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs)

Dorothee Falke

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Eggner Trio

Olena Tokar

Igor Gryshyn

Ukrainian soprano Olena Tokar made her breakthrough in 2011 with the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project.

She won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich the following year and went on to represent her homeland as a finalist in the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. She makes her Wigmore Hall debut with an enchanting programme of German, Russian and Czech songs. £13 concs £11

Olena Tokar is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Florilegium Ashley Solomon director, flute Bojan Cˇ icˇic´ violin Reiko Ichise viola da gamba Jennifer Morsches cello Terence Charlston harpsichord

Amit Lennon

Monday 9 February 7.30 pm

Telemann Quartet in D from the ‘Paris Quartets’ (1738 collection) Forqueray La Rameau; La Leclair Leclair Deuxième recréation de musique Op. 8 Rebel Les caractères de la danse Marais Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevièvedu-Mont de Paris Telemann Quartet in E minor from the ‘Paris Quartets’ (1738 collection) Florilegium

Florilegium’s programme includes works by some of the greatest French chamber music composers employed by the courts of Louis XIV and XV. Rebel’s Les caractères de la danse is one of the first choreographed ‘symphonies’, a popular genre in eighteenth-century France. Two of Telemann’s celebrated ‘Paris Quartets’ frame this concert and bear witness to the international reach of French musical fashions three centuries ago. £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

Rosenblatt Recital Series 2014/15

Saimir Pirgu tenor Simon Lepper piano

Fadil Berisha

Bononcini Per la gloria d’adorarvi from Griselda Gluck O del mio dolce ardor from Paride ed Elena Scarlatti Gia il sole dal Gange Cilea È la solita storia del pastore from L'arlesiana Mozart Dalla sua pace from Don Giovanni; Fuor del mar from Idomeneo Verdi Questa o quella from Rigoletto; Ah, la paterna mano from Macbeth Gounod Ah! lève toi soleil from Roméo et Juliette Massenet Pourquoi me réveiller from Werther Verdi La mia letizia infondere from I Lombardi Saimir Pirgu is ‘one of the world’s most important interpreters of lyric tenor roles’ Opera Today. Star of the Royal Opera House’s Rigoletto in September 2014, Pirgu’s singing ‘sounds spontaneous and unforced, graced by an intuitive play of light and shade and a silken touch’ New York Times

Saimir Pirgu Jaqui McSweeney

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Tuesday 10 February 7.30 pm

‘His technique is superb, and the lyric quality of his voice is so beautiful’ Placido Domingo £30 £25 £20 £15

Simon Lepper

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Katie Glastonbury

Mhairi Lawson

Samuel Boden

Purcell King Arthur

John Dryden’s King Arthur was among the most successful of his ‘Dramatick Operas’, where play, ballet and music were combined much as they are in present day West End musical theatre.

Purcell’s exquisite music, the work’s chief glory, Nick Pritchard George Humphreys heightens the plot’s depictions of Druid sacrifices, drunken farmers, Evil Spirits and, in the shivering frost scene, a very chilly Cupid!

Benjamin Ealovega

Joélle Harvey Mark Whitehouse

Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn director, harpsichord Joélle Harvey soprano Mhairi Lawson soprano Samuel Boden tenor Nick Pritchard tenor George Humphreys bass

James Bellorini Photography

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Wednesday 11 February 7.30 pm

Christian Curnyn

£40 £35 £30 £20

Early Music and Baroque Series /Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

King Arthur KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT Join instrumentalists and singers from the Early Opera Company and presenter Isabelle Adams for a magical musical story featuring King Arthur, Merlin, Guinevere and England’s Patron Saint, George. Adapted from Purcell’s opera and using extracts of the original music, we tell an alternative tale of King Arthur on an adventure through golden fields, icy forests and epic battles.

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Thursday 12 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

£3.50

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

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective Isabelle Adams

Sussie Ahlburg

Lawrence Power viola, violin Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Jack Liebeck

Thursday 12 February 7.30 pm

Britten Suite for violin and piano Op. 6 Colin Matthews Four Moods for viola and piano Bowen Phantasy for viola and piano Op. 54 Huw Watkins Fantasy for viola and piano Mark-Anthony Turnage Powerplay* (world première) *Co-commissioned by De Doelen Rotterdam, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Lawrence Power

Simon Crawford-Phillips

Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Powerplay, complete with punning title and vigorous virtuosity, receives its world première.

The work was written to complement the phenomenal artistry of Lawrence Power and his regular duo partner Simon Crawford-Phillips. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

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Martin Fröst Masterclass The relationship between music and movement falls within the spread of subjects on Martin Fröst’s masterclass agenda. He will work with postgraduate students from London’s four conservatoires and introduce them to ideas already tested on outstanding young clarinettists in his home city of Stockholm.

‘We must not lose the human connection or the physical part of music-making’, he observes. ‘That connection has existed forever. Now is the right time to highlight its place in classical music.’

Mats Bäcker

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Friday 13 February 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm

£7 concs £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Martin Fröst Artist in Residence

Martin Fröst

Imogen Cooper piano 1836 –1846 – PARALLEL PATHS

Sussie Ahlburg

Friday 13 February 7.30 pm

Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60; Nocturne in E b Op. 55 No. 2 Schumann Humoreske in Bb Op. 20; Novellette in F# minor Op. 21 No. 8; Novellette in D Op. 21 No. 2 Chopin Nocturne in B Op. 62 No. 1; Nocturne in E Op. 62 No. 2; Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23 A regular guest at Wigmore Hall since her acclaimed debut at the BBC Proms forty years ago, Imogen Cooper explores the parallel paths of Chopin and Schumann, who were both born in 1810. Her programme embraces the fleeting moods and wit of Schumann’s Humoreske, the delicate shadings of Chopin’s Op. 62 Nocturnes and the wistful nostalgia of the Polish composer’s youthful Ballade in G minor. £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series

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Imogen Cooper

Saturday 14 February 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Study Afternoon with Andrew Pinnock PURCELL’S KING ARTHUR – THE ORIGINAL ROYAL OPERA Interest in royal opera increased towards the end of King Charles II’s reign, as the 25th anniversary of the Restoration approached. A number of ambitious works were commissioned, King Arthur among them, but Charles’s unexpected death in February 1685 threw plans for a national celebration off course, and King Arthur had to wait until 1691 to receive its première. By then, the political climate had changed radically, and to ensure its acceptability to the new regime, King Arthur needed a political makeover. Andrew Pinnock, Professor of Music at the University of Southampton and a much-published Purcellian, presents this study afternoon which draws on recent research to explore the opera’s masque precursors, its complicated production history and its hidden message – prophesying endless British prosperity under Stuart rule.

Painting of Henry Purcell by John Closterman

£12 concs £8

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

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George Garnier

Doric String Quartet Andreas Haefliger piano

Marco Borggreve

Saturday 14 February 7.30 pm

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57

Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger joins the Doric String Quartet for a performance of one of the last Andreas Haefliger Doric String Quartet century’s most powerful and uplifting chamber music compositions. While Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor includes irony and melancholy, it stands above all for optimism in an age of bloodshed and brutality, as meaningful today as it was at the time of its composition in 1940. £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

Andreas Ottensamer clarinet José Gallardo piano

Anatol Kotte Mercury Classics

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Sunday 15 February 11.30 am

Weber Grand Duo Concertant in Eb Op. 48 A selection of Hungarian and Romanian dances and folk songs Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1

Known for his beautiful sound and beguiling artistry, Andreas Ottensamer became the first clarinettist to sign an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon in 2013. The Andreas Ottensamer José Gallardo Austrian musician’s programme touches on the folk allegiances of his instrument before closing with the tonal radiance and tender melancholy of Brahms’s F minor Clarinet Sonata. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Mozart Serenade in G K525 ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’; Clarinet Concerto in A K622 Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies Op. 34 Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 (Nos. 1, 2 & 5) (arr. for clarinet and strings by Rolf Martinsson) Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 12, 13 & 21 (arr. for clarinet and strings by Göran Fröst) Traditional 3 Klezmer Dances (arr. for clarinet and strings

by Göran Fröst)

Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Martin Fröst’s mature vision of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto evokes mystical imagery with its hypnotic lyricism and joyful spontaneity. He has performed the piece many times with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, establishing an artistic relationship based on mutual respect and emotional engagement. Their programme also includes works arranged by Fröst’s brother Göran, crowned by his evocative treatment of three Klezmer dances.

Mats Bäcker

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Martin Fröst clarinet

Chris Christodoulou

Sunday 15 February 7.30 pm

£35 £30 £25 £18

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

Chamber Music Season/Martin Fröst Artist in Residence

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Martin Fröst

Bach Violin Sonata No. 2 in A BWV1015 Bach Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016 Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526

Marco Borggreve

Giuliano Carmignola violin Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano

Anna Carmignola

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Monday 16 February 1.00 pm

Over the course of a career spanning more than four decades, Giuliano Carmignola has given poetic expression to the full range of human emotions on modern and period instruments. He is partnered by Kristian Bezuidenhout for a recital rooted in the soundworld of the eighteenth century yet alive to the spirit of the present moment.

Giuliano Carmignola

Kristian Bezuidenhout

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sussie Ahlburg

Susan Tomes piano Erich Höbarth violin

Robert Philip

Monday 16 February 7.30 pm

Schubert Sonata in A minor (Sonatina) for piano and violin D385; Sonata in A (Duo) for piano and violin D574 Schubert Moments Musicaux D780: No. 1 in C; No. 2 in A b; No. 3 in F minor Schubert Fantasy in C for piano and violin D934 Two seasoned chamber music artists and close friends turn to the works of Schubert. Susan Tomes and Erich Höbarth, who received ovations for their Mozart recitals at Wigmore Hall two years ago, begin with the striking Susan Tomes Erich Höbarth rhetoric and pathos of Schubert’s ‘Sonatina’. Tomes occupies centre stage as soloist in three of the composer’s Moments Musicaux before partnering Höbarth in the majestic Fantasy in C. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Too Hot to Handel FAMILY DAY For ages 6 plus Travel back to the year 1749 to explore the great composer George Frideric Handel’s home, where he is busy writing his Music for the Royal Fireworks. After our morning visit to Handel House Museum, join workshop leader Kate Mapp to discover your inner composer, and create some explosive music of your own to perform on stage at the end of the day.

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Tuesday 17 February 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Adults £15 Children £10

In partnership with Handel House Museum Wigmore Hall’s Family Programme is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Michala Petri recorder Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

Sven Withfelt

Tuesday 17 February 7.30 pm

Corelli Sonata in G (transcription of Violin Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 10); Sonata in G minor (transcription of Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 5 No. 12 ‘La Folia’) Bach Flute Sonata in B minor BWV1030; Sonata in G minor (transcription of Flute Sonata in E minor BWV1034) Borup-Jørgensen Fantasia Daniel Kidane Tourbillion Jacob Sonatina Music both ancient and modern appeals to Michala Petri and Mahan Esfahani, virtuoso artists ever ready to bring new works to life and challenge received wisdom about the repertoires of their respective instruments. Their programme explores the baroque Mahan Esfahani and Michala Petri art of transcription in company with twentieth-century works for recorder and harpsichord. It also includes Tourbillion by 28-year-old British composer Daniel Kidane, whose music has been described by the Financial Times as ‘quietly impressive’. £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Early Music and Baroque Series /Contemporary Music Series

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Pavel Haas Quartet Colin Currie percussion Dvorˇák Miniatures Op. 75a Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Jirˇ í Gemrot Quintet for two violins, viola, cello and marimba (UK première) Haas String Quartet No. 2 Op. 7 ‘From the Monkey Mountains’ with percussion

Marco Borggreve

Wednesday 18 February 7.30 pm

Jirˇí Gemrot, Prague-based Director in Chief of Czech Radio, composed his Quintet for the Pavel Haas Quartet and Colin Currie in 2014. They place the score’s individual sounds and lyrical melodies at the heart of a programme of works by Czech composers, complete with the white-hot creative energy of Janácˇek’s ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ and Pavel Haas’s innovative and atmospheric ‘From the Monkey Mountains’. £30 £25 £20 £15

Marco Borggreve

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series /Bohemia

Pavel Haas Quartet

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Colin Currie

Dante Quartet Haydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 33 No. 1 Bartók String Quartet No. 4 Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

Phillip Pratt

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Thursday 19 February 7.30 pm

Bartók’s synthesis of folk and art music went further and deeper than anything attempted before. His Fourth String Quartet encapsulates the composer’s experiments in form and content, texture and timbre. The Dante Quartet frames Bartók’s work with the pathos and dark wit of Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 1 and Debussy’s iconoclastic String Quartet in G minor. £30 £25 £20 £15 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Dante Quartet

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

Colin Wey

Maria João Pires piano Pavel Kolesnikov piano

Felix Broede /DG

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Friday 20 February 7.30 pm

Schubert 6 Moments Musicaux D780 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Schubert Fantasy in F minor D940 Late masterworks by Beethoven and Schubert form the core of this recital. Pavel Kolesnikov performs Schubert’s 6 Moments Musicaux before offering up the stage to his teacher, Maria João Maria João Pires Pavel Kolesnikov Pires, for Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 110. Kolesnikov’s Wigmore Hall debut in January 2014, greeted by five-star reviews, set the seal on the remarkable opening phase of the young Russian-born pianist’s career. He opens the recital’s second half with Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 111 before the pair unite to perform Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor for piano four-hands.

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Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Pavel Kolesnikov is a soloist of the Music Chapel and this concert forms part of the Partitura Project. Initiated by Maria João Pires, the aim of this project is to create an altruistic dynamic between artists of different generations and to offer an alternative in a world too often focused on competitiveness. www.musicchapel.org

London Pianoforte Series /Maria João Pires Portrait Series

King Arthur FAMILY CONCERT For ages 5 plus Join instrumentalists and singers from the Early Opera Company and presenter Isabelle Adams for a magical musical story featuring King Arthur, Merlin, Guinevere and England’s Patron Saint, George. Adapted from Purcell’s opera and using extracts of the original music, we tell an alternative tale of King Arthur on an adventure through golden fields, icy forests and epic battles.

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Saturday 21 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Adults £9 Children £7

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

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

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Pavel Haas Quartet Schulhoff String Quartet No. 1 Dvorˇák String Quartet in E b Op. 51 Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’

Marco Borggreve

Saturday 21 February 7.30 pm

The Pavel Haas Quartet’s programme features works influenced by the composers’ personal circumstances and shared concerns. Smetana, whose autobiographical quartet presents scenes ‘From my life’, wrote that its four players ‘should converse together in an intimate circle about the things which so deeply trouble me’. Erwin Schulhoff’s String Quartet No. 1, meanwhile, dates from the short-lived Czechoslovak Republic’s hugely creative interwar years. £30 £25 £20 £15 CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Pavel Haas Quartet

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/Bohemia Sunday 22 February 11.30 am

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Calidore String Quartet Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Felix Mendelssohn wrote his first complete string quartet within months of Beethoven’s death in 1827. The work, later published as the prodigiously gifted young composer’s Second String Quartet, was inspired by the example of Beethoven’s string quartets, which Mendelssohn knew well. The Calidore String Quartet’s Coffee Concert concludes with Beethoven’s emotionally complex Second ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, in which silence serves to articulate and intensify the musical argument. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice

Jeffrey Fasano

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Calidore String Quartet

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Miloš Karadaglic´ guitar Sor Variations on a Theme of Mozart; Regondi Rêverie nocturne Op. 19 Granados Danza española No. 2: Orientale Bach Chaconne in D minor BWV1004 (arr. for guitar) Falla Danza del Molinero (arr. Michael Lewin); Homenaje: pièce de guitare écrite pour ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’; Danza española No.1 (arr. Michael Lewin) Rodrigo Invocación y danza Velázquez Bésame Mucho (arr. Assad) Jorge Ben Jor Mas Que nada Ginastera Sonata for solo guitar Op. 47

Margaret Malandruccolo/DG

Sunday 22 February 7.30 pm

Since moving to London from Montenegro in his late teens to study at the Royal Academy of Music, Miloš Karadaglic´ has emerged as one of the finest classical guitarists of our time. He returns to Wigmore Hall with a typically zestful programme, which includes Fernando Sor’s eternally delightful Variations on a Theme of Mozart, first published in London in 1821. £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by an anonymous donor

Miloš Karadaglic´

Chamber Music Season

Louis Schwizgebel piano Haydn Piano Sonata in E b HXVI:49 Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A b Op. 47; Étude in C# minor Op. 25 No. 7; Waltz in C# minor Op. 64 No. 2; Fantaisie-impromptu in C# minor Op. 66 Liszt Consolation No. 3 in D b S172; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D b S244 Born in Geneva in 1987, Swiss-Chinese pianist Louis Schwizgebel has been described by the Guardian as ‘a pianist with a profound gift’, a view consistently underlined by the refinement and searching intelligence of his performances.

His BBC Lunchtime programme spans the gamut from Classical Haydn to the expressive extremes and technical challenges of Liszt’s virtuosic art. £13 concs £11

Louis Schwizgebel is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Louis Schwizgebel

Monday 23 February 7.30 pm Josep Molina/Harmonia Mundi

Lisa Batiashvili violin Paul Lewis piano

Anja Frers/DG

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Monday 23 February 1.00 pm

Schubert Violin Sonata (Duo) in A D574 Schubert Rondo in B minor D895 Bach Violin Sonata in E minor BWV1023 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96 Following the artistic success of their collaboration in 2013, Lisa Batiashvili and Paul Lewis formed a duo partnership that has flourished with a succession of recital tours. Their latest project opens with Schubert’s Violin Sonata in A, posthumously dubbed ‘Duo’ by its publisher to signify the equal status of the work’s violin and piano parts.

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Lisa Batiashvili

Paul Lewis

Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall

Chamber Music Season/Paul Lewis: A Celebration

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Tuesday 24 February 6.00 pm

Artists in Conversation Members of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in conversation before the evening concert. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Gillian Keith soprano Rebecca von Lipinski soprano Jonathan Berman conductor

Clive Barda

Tuesday 24 February 7.30 pm

Harvey You Babbitt Quatrains Gerald Barry New work (BCMG commission) (world première) Thomas Adès Life Story Op. 8 Kurt Schwertsik Human Existence; Der Herr weis was der Wil; Singt meine Schwäne Sir Harrison Birtwistle Three Settings of Celan: White and Light; Night; Tenebrae Olga Neuwirth The Cartographer Song Poul Ruders Alone Osvaldo Golijov Sarajevo Detlev Glanert Contemplated by a Portrait of a Divine Castiglioni Vallis clausa Salvatore Sciarrino Due risvegli e il vento A Clementi Wiegenlied Donatoni An Angel within my Heart

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Since its foundation in 1987, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group has premièred over 150 works. The chamber ensemble’s pioneering Sound Investment commissioning scheme, admired and emulated worldwide, has funded the creation of many new scores by emerging talents and established composers. This programme includes the world première of the BCMG’s fourth commission from Irish composer Gerald Barry, alongside a selection of songs from the remarkable collection commissioned

by John Woolrich for Mary Wiegold’s Songbook.

Gillian Keith

Rebecca von Lipinski

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Contemporary Music Series Wednesday 25 February 7.30 pm

Llyˆr Williams piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Op. 14 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2; 6 Variations on an Original Theme in F Op. 34; Fantasia in G minor Op. 77; Piano Sonata No. 13 in E b Op. 27 No. 1 ‘Quasi una fantasia’; Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’

Benjamin Ealovega

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Jonathan Berman

Llyˆr Williams charts the evolution of Beethoven’s music in this recital, opening with the strikingly different characters of the composer’s early Op. 14 piano sonatas, the former full of bold dramatic contrasts, the latter praised by the critic and scholar Llyˆr Williams Donald Tovey as ‘an exquisite little work’. The improvisatory Fantasia in G minor, perhaps inspired by Bach, prepares the atmosphere for Beethoven’s radical Op. 27 piano sonatas.

The next concert in Llyˆr Williams’s Beethoven piano sonata cycle is on 30 May 2015. £35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series

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Introduction to Music 1 HOW MUSIC WORKS Aimed at music-lovers who do not possess an intimate knowledge of the ‘nuts and bolts’ of music and would like to know a little more. Listening to music is greatly enriched by understanding, and many aspects of the construction of music are easily explained given a little time and the assistance of musical examples to put the ideas in context.

Harmony, melody and rhythm are among the fundamental elements of music, but how do they work and what are the rules that govern their use? These four lectures (26 February, 5, 12 & 19 March) with Roy Stratford demystify what can be an intimidating subject, and help you to gain a better understanding of these key areas.

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Thursday 26 February 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm

Series ticket price £30

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Thursday 26 February 7.30 pm Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton leader Amy Dickson saxophone Glazunov Saxophone Concerto Op. 109 Shostakovich Chamber Symphony in C minor Op. 110a Giya Kancheli Night Prayers Tchaikovsky Serenade in C for strings Op. 48

Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Scottish Ensemble

Amy Dickson, the young Classic BRIT Award-winning saxophonist, joins the Scottish Ensemble in two powerful pieces for classical saxophone – Glazunov’s lyrical yet scintillatingly virtuosic Saxophone Concerto, and the profound spirituality of Georgian composer Giya Kancheli’s captivating Night Prayers. The programme’s transformative journey from darkness to light contrasts Shostakovich’s deeply personal Chamber Symphony, a transcription by Rudolf Barshai of the composer’s monument to ‘the victims of fascism and war’, his autobiographical String Quartet No. 8, with Tchaikovsky’s radiant Serenade for Strings.

Jonathan Morton

Amy Dickson

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ Op. 58 Lekeu Trois Poèmes Hahn Offrande; D’une prison; L’heure exquise; Fêtes galantes Koechlin Menuet; La pêche; La lune; L’hiver; Si tu le veux Debussy From Fêtes galantes Book II: Les ingénus; Le faune; Colloque sentimental Duparc L’invitation au voyage; La vie antérieure; Sérénade florentine; Phidylé

Benjamin Ealovega

Marie-Nicole Lemieux contralto Roger Vignoles piano

Denis Rouvre

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Friday 27 February 7.30 pm

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, a native of Québec, made her mark in Marie-Nicole Lemieux Roger Vignoles 2000 as winner of the Prix de la Reine Fabiola and Prix du Lied at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Belgium. The unique colours of her sonorous contralto voice and probing artistry, in demand worldwide, are directed in this recital to an exquisite programme of chansons from the golden age of French song. £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

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Saturday 28 February

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Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day

Marco Borggreve

Manu Theobald

Ant Clausen

In the 1970s the young Wolfgang Rihm was at the vanguard of a movement to restore expressivity to contemporary German music and open a modern dialogue with the past. While his strikingly original works often connect with the aesthetics of Romanticism, they do so without trace of nostalgia or sentimental yearning for styles overturned by the cataclysmic upheavals of the last century. Wigmore Hall’s Composer Focus Day, featuring performances by artists closely associated with Wolfgang Rihm, touches on the myriad ways in which his art draws pulsating life from the abiding energy of music and poetic images of an earlier age.

Quatuor Danel

Christoph Prégardien

Ulrich Eisenlohr

Arditti Quartet

Bruno Schneider

Tanja Tetzlaff

Teodoro Anzellotti

11.30 am

6.00 pm

Quatuor Danel Jörg Widmann clarinet Bruno Schneider horn

Artists in Conversation

Wolfgang Rihm Sextet* (UK première); Vier Male for clarinet in A; 4 Studien zu einem Klarinettenquintett * Co-commissioned by Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam with the support of the AMMODO Foundation; Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation, and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center This concert will be approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in duration, without an interval £12.50 concs £10

2.00 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Ulrich Eisenlohr piano Schubert Songs on poems by Ernst Schulze Wolfgang Rihm Songs from Ende der Handschrift Wolfgang Rihm Das Rot Schubert Heine Lieder from Schwanengesang This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, with an interval £12.50 concs £10

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Jörg Widmann Alexandra Vosding

Marco Borggreve

Wolfgang Rihm

Join composer Wolfgang Rihm as he discusses his life and works. £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event 7.30 pm

Arditti Quartet Tanja Tetzlaff cello Teodoro Anzellotti accordion Wolfgang Rihm Grave in memoriam Thomas Kakuska; Fetzen for accordion and string quartet; String Quartet No. 10; Epilog for string quintet This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, with an interval £30 £25 £20 £15

All Day Ticket £30

Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series /Song Recital Series

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REGISTERED CHARITY NO. 1024838

Today, Wigmore Hall remains the recital venue of choice for many of the world’s greatest artists and is universally recognised as the international custodian of chamber music and song. It is through nurturing and supporting artists that the Hall is able to remain a venue much loved by audiences and performers alike. Wigmore Hall is increasingly dependent on voluntary donations. It is only with your help that the Hall can develop emerging talent and support the most distinguished artists in the world today and for many years to come.

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Sir András Schiff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Benjamin Ealovega

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