Wigmore Hall October 2013 Concert Diary

Wigmore Hall Concert Diary OCTOBER 2013

Steven Osborne Inside: Juliane Banse • The English Concert Isabelle Faust • Christian Gerhaher Benjamin Grosvenor • Janine Jansen L’Arpeggiata • Viktoria Mullova Quatuor Ebène • Daniil Trifonov And many more

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TUESDAY 1 OCTOBER 1.00 PM YCAT Lunchtime Series 2013/ 14

£8 concessions £6

Michael Petrov cello Rosie Richardson piano Benjamin Baker violin Petr Limonov piano Michael Petrov (cello) and Benjamin Baker (violin), newly selected artists at the YCAT 2013 final auditions, perform, with piano, works by Beethoven, Ravel, Stravinsky and Paganini.

Michael Petrov

Rosie Richardson

Benjamin Baker

Petr Limonov

Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490) YCAT is grateful for support from The Paul Woodhouse Fund and the Anthony Nesbitt Fund for this series

TUESDAY 1 OCTOBER 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

Beethoven 7 Bagatelles Op. 33 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ Beethoven 11 Bagatelles Op. 119 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111

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Steven Osborne piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

Poetic pianism, richly conceived in tonal and expressive nuance, distinguishes Steven Osborne’s interpretations of the great works of the keyboard literature. In addition to taking a prominent part in Wigmore Hall’s ‘Tippett: A Retrospective’ series this Season, he gives two solo recitals built from music by the composers with whom he is most closely associated.

Steven Osborne launches his Wigmore Hall Residency with a programme chosen to reflect Beethoven’s experimental daring and unique creative genius. He pairs two of the greatest piano sonatas ever written with the Bagatelles Op. 33, written in 1802, and the Bagatelles Op. 119, a group of pieces brought together by their composer in 1822 and first published in London the following year.

The Spotlight on Steven Osborne series is supported by Dunard Fund

Spotlight on Steven Osborne

Steven Osborne

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WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Daniel Pasche

Susi Knoll

Juliane Banse soprano Wolfram Rieger piano Mendelssohn Frühlingslied (Op. 47 No. 3); Suleika (Op. 34 No. 4); Der Mond; Suleika (Op. 57 No. 3); Schilflied; And’res Maienlied Liszt Mignons Lied (Kennst du das Land); Freudvoll und leidvoll; Der du von dem Himmel bist; Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Anfangs wollt’ ich fast verzagen; Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh; Die Loreley Schubert Ganymed; An die Nachtigall; Daphne am Bach; Frühlingsglaube; Naturgenuss; Freiwilliges Versinken; An den Mond; Der liebliche Stern; Der Wanderer an den Mond Britten On this Island

£18 £25 £30 £35

Juliane Banse

Wolfram Rieger

Exquisite verses by Goethe, Geibel, Heine, Mayrhofer and Schulze in musical settings of the greatest depth and beauty occupy the core of Juliane Banse’s programme. The German soprano and her regular recital partner take an imaginative journey through Romantic Lieder by Mendelssohn and Liszt before turning to a compelling sequence of great Schubert songs and crowning their performance with Britten’s first published group of songs, five settings of poems from Auden’s Look, Stranger!

THURSDAY 3 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

£15 £20 £25 £30

IMS Prussia Cove James Clark violin Krysia Osostowicz violin Oscar Perks viola Rosalind Ventris viola Steven Doane cello Alec Frank-Gemmill horn Herbert Schuch piano Schubert Overture in C minor D8a Brahms Horn Trio in E b Op. 40 Mozart Horn Quintet in E b K407 Fauré Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 The IMS Autumn Tour showcases the work of the Open Chamber Music Seminar in Cornwall. This year’s programme, rich in musical content and variety, features rising star Alec Frank-Gemmill on horn together with the exciting young German pianist Herbert Schuch and renowned British violinist James Clark.

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Herbert Schuch

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FRIDAY 4 OCTOBER 11.00 AM – 12 NOON Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Watch This Space Join principal players from Aurora Orchestra for a musical journey to outer space! John Barber presents a programme of interplanetary music including extracts from Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ Symphony and Holst’s The Planets, as well as brand new music created by you, the audience, during the course of the concert.

Wigmore Hall’s Schools Programme is supported by The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust, The Monument Trust, City Bridge Trust and the Clifford Chance Foundation

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Key Stage 2 Schools Concert

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FRIDAY 4 OCTOBER 7.00 PM NB starting time Chamber Music Season

£15 £20 £25 £30 Felix Broede

Isabelle Faust violin Bach Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor BWV1001; Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV1002 Sonata No. 2 in A minor BWV1003; Partita No. 3 in E BWV1006 Sonata No. 3 in C BWV1005; Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004 Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin range far beyond formidable technical demands to draw their interpreters and audiences into rarely encountered realms of imagination and contemplation. Isabelle Faust performs the complete cycle of works at Wigmore Hall in a single evening, the latest stage in her long journey of discovery of Bach’s music for unaccompanied violin.

Isabelle Faust

This concert will be approximately 3 hours in duration, with an interval

SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER 11.00 AM – 12 NOON Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Family Concert Watch This Space A repeat of the Watch This Space schools’ concert, for families (see page opposite for full details).

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

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£7 Adults £5 Children

SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Wiener Konzerthaus/ Lukas Beck

Songlives: Schumann

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Miah Persson soprano Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

Schumann Sehnsucht; Gesanges Erwachen; Der Fischer; Waldesgespräch; Mondnacht; Schöne Fremde; Frühlingsnacht; Dein Angesicht; Songs from Frauenliebe und -leben; Wanderlied; Sehnsucht nach der Waldgegend; Stille Tränen; Belsazar; Miah Persson Florian Boesch Die Kartenlegerin; Songs from Lieder-Album für die Jugend; Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß; An die Türen will ich schleichen; Liebeslied; Es stürmet am Abendhimmel; Nachtlied; Geisternähe; Aufträge; Die Sennin; Meine Rose; Requiem; Herzeleid; Abendlied; Warnung; Abschied von der Welt; Gebet Fifteen years since making her operatic debut, Swedish soprano Miah Persson is in demand today at the world’s leading opera houses. She returns to Wigmore Hall in company with Austrian baritone Florian Boesch. Five-star reviews greeted his electrifying interpretation of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with Malcolm Martineau in March 2012.

Songlives

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SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Guy Vivien

£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Prazˇák Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 71 No. 1 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Founded by a group of students at the Prague Conservatory in 1972, the Prazˇák Quartet has consistently flown the flag at home and abroad for the artistic virtues and timeless values of the Czech tradition of string quartet playing. For this Coffee Concert they turn to a pair of works blessed with an apparently inexhaustible supply of melodic invention and stimulating structural ingenuity.

Prazˇák Quartet

SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Jazz Series Bob Wolfenson

Luciana Souza voice Patrick Zimmerli saxophone Gary Versace piano

£15 £20 £25 £30

Sappho: Desire Patrick Zimmerli’s finely balanced mix of jazz and classical styles illuminates his Sappho: Desire, a bewitching song-cycle about love and longing. Grammy Award-winning vocalist Luciana Souza, acclaimed for her collaborations with, among others, Herbie Hancock, James Taylor, Bobby McFerrin and Osvaldo Golijov, presents the work’s world première in company with songs from her native Brazil.

Luciana Souza

Patrick Zimmerli

Gary Versace

Joshua Redman Jazz Series MONDAY 7 OCTOBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Two acclaimed members of Wigmore Hall’s family of artists join forces for what promises to be a spell-binding recital. Their programme includes Stephen Hough’s new Sonata for cello and piano left hand and Grieg’s evergreen cello sonata. Isserlis and Hough open with two little-known gems from the 1890s by Josef Suk, Dvorˇák’s star pupil and son-in-law.

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Grant Hiroshima

Suk Ballade in D minor Op. 3 No. 1; Serenade in A Op. 3 No. 2 Stephen Hough Sonata for cello and piano left hand (London première) Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36

Satoshi Aoyagi

Steven Isserlis cello Stephen Hough piano

£12.50 concessions £10

Steven Isserlis

Stephen Hough

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MONDAY 7 OCTOBER 7.30 PM The Monday Platform Lars Schlereth / Saga-Images

Jayson Gillham piano Aurora Percussion Duo: Delia Stevens & Yu Le

£8 £10 £13 £15

Chopin Introduction and Rondo E b Op. 16; Polonaise-fantaisie in A b Op. 61 Nebojsa Joran Zivkovic Trio per uno (arr. D Stevens) Bach Prelude from English Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV807 (arr. D Stevens/Yu Le) Casey Cangelosi Plato’s Cave Piazzolla Tango Suite (arr. D Stevens/Yu Le) Chopin Étude No. 1 in C Op. 10 (arr. D Stevens/Yu Le) Jayson Gillham Avner Dorman Udacrep Akubrad Christopher Theofanidis Birichino (UK première) Ligeti 2 Études from Book 1: No. 6 Automne à Varsovie; No. 2 Cordes à vide Debussy L’Isle joyeuse

Aurora Percussion Duo

Jayson Gillham, winner of the 2012 ROSL Annual Music Competition Gold medal, joins an illustrious ROSL alumni including Melvyn Tan, Barry Douglas, Paul Lewis and fellow Australians Geoffrey Parsons and Piers Lane. The concert also showcases the dynamic and accomplished Aurora Percussion Duo from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

Royal Over-Seas League ROSL Golden Jubilee Trust (Reg. Charity)

TUESDAY 8 OCTOBER 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

£15 £20 £25 £30

Daniil Trifonov piano Stravinsky Serenade in A Ravel From Miroirs: Noctuelles; Oiseaux tristes; Une barque sur l’océan; Alborada del gracioso Schoenberg Drei Klavierstücke Op. 11 Schumann Études symphoniques Op. 13 (with posthumous Études) Daniil Trifonov’s triumph in the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition flashed around the musical world in 2011. Nine months later, the 21-year-old Russian pianist brought his outstanding talent to London Daniil Trifonov for a Wigmore Hall debut recital that prompted a standing ovation for his sensational bravura and myriad imaginative touches. Trifonov’s account of Chopin’s Op. 10 Études, observed Michael Church in the Independent, ‘blew us away. The cantabile [pieces] were a delight, and I have never heard the finger-twisters delivered with more nonchalant ease.’

Daniil returns to Wigmore Hall on 2 December to join the Pavel Haas Quartet for Shostakovich’s piano quintet.

WEDNESDAY 9 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season cello

Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007; Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008; Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012

Sussie Ahlburg

Philip Higham

£15 £20 £25 £30

Philip Higham is rapidly emerging as one of the most prominent young cellists from the UK. He returns to the Wigmore stage to share his thoughts on three Bach cello suites, true masterworks of the repertoire.

Supported by Edwin C Cohen

Philip Higham

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Teacher Training Chamber Tots: An Introduction to Early Years Music-Making Suitable for all practitioners working with Early Years and Foundation Stage

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THURSDAY 10 & THURSDAY 24 OCTOBER 9.30 AM – 3.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event £100 for both days, including lunch

This annual sell-out training day is an introduction to early years music-making, ideal for those working with nursery, reception and foundation stage children, who are looking to develop confidence in creative music-making. Led by Chamber Tots workshop leaders John Webb and Isabelle Adams, participants will explore the value of music in early years development and make connections between musical creativity and the EYFS curriculum. Participants will develop skills in leading confident singing and percussion activities, and explore free play activities and the benefits of child-led creative play. All participants will receive a resource pack and accompanying CD. Supported by The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust and The Monument Trust

THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series

£15 £20 £25 £30

L’Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Raquel Andueza soprano Vincenzo Capezzuto male soprano Anna Dego dancer Mediterraneo Cazzati Ciaccona Strozzi L’Eraclito amoroso Traditional (Italy) Stu’ criatu (Tarantella del Gargano) Kircher Tarantella napolitana, Tono hypodorico Traditional (Italy) Pizzicarella mia (Pizzica); La Carpinese (Tarantella del Carpino) L’Arpeggiata Traditional (Greek-Salentino) Are mou Rindineddha Ferrari Son ruinato, appasionato Vitale Tarantella Maria di Nardò Improvisation La Dia Spagnola Traditional (Italy) Tu bella ca’ lu tieni (Tarantella) Anon. (17th century) Tres Sirenas Traditional (Italy) Tarantella Italiana; Ninna, nanna sopra la Romanesca Le Bailly Yo soy la locura Kapsberger Toccata arpeggiata Pisador Los delfines Traditional (Greek-Salentino) Oriamu Pisulina Traditional (Italy) Pizzica di San Vito (Tarantella) Improvisation Sfessania Anon. (17th century) Homo fugit velut umbra (Tarantella) Falconieri La Suave Melodia Traditional (Italy) Silenziu d'amuri; Lu Passariellu (Tarantella Pugliese) Boundary breaking comes naturally to Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata. Their fusions of jazz and folk elements with early music styles invariably set creative sparks flying, opening minds to new ways of hearing works by composers such as Monteverdi, Luigi Rossi, Barbara Strozzi and Cavalieri. Wigmore Hall’s audience rose to its feet at the end of L’Arpeggiata’s last visit, propelled not least by the terrific energy and verve of their collective artistry. Their ‘Mediterraneo’ programme is driven by the energy of the Tarantella, the wild dance believed to cure the tarantula spider’s toxic bite, and shot through with unforgettable melodies from Italy, Spain and Greece set by the 16th- and 17th-century composers of this programme.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, with no interval Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall

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FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Schubert Abendbilder; Im Abendrot; Bei dir allein!; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Am Fenster Britten At the mid hour of night Beethoven Ich liebe dich; Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel Brahms Wiegenlied; Abenddämmerung Purcell Evening Hymn (arr. Britten) Britten The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35

Mitch Jenkins

Toby Spence tenor Julian Milford piano

Patrick Allen

£18 £25 £30 £35

Toby Spence

Julian Milford

Through his experience of battling serious illness, a tough recovery process and personal introspection, Toby Spence has gained profound insights into the human condition. The tenor’s mature music-making conveys the extra depth of his engagement with the spiritual and expressive dimensions of song, directed in this recital into Britten’s sublime Holy Sonnets of John Donne.

SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Please note change of artist

Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

Chris Gloag

£15 £20 £25 £30

Nash Ensemble; Renata Pokupic´ mezzo-soprano Smetana The Bartered Bride Overture (arr. for wind quintet, strings and piano

by David Matthews) Smetana From the Homeland for violin and piano Dvorˇák Love Songs Op. 83 (arr. for voice and strings by David Matthews) Schubert Octet in F D803

Renata Pokupic´

Nash Ensemble

As a prelude to the Nash Ensemble’s American Series, this concert includes the Love Songs that Dvorˇák composed a few years before his American visit, adaptations of songs from his youthful cycle Cypresses. These are complemented with music from Dvorˇák’s Czech colleague Smetana; and the second half consists of a Nash favourite, Schubert’s evergreen Octet.

Andreas Brantelid cello Peter Friis Johansson piano Kodály Sonata for cello and piano Op. 4 Dohnányi Cello Sonata in Bb minor Op. 8 Grainger Scandinavian Suite

Mattias Ahlm/ Sveriges Radio

£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice Sussie Ahlburg

SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

Andreas Brantelid, born in 1987, launched his solo career at the age of fourteen with a strikingly mature performance of Elgar’s cello concerto with the Royal Danish Orchestra. Since winning Eurovision Young Musicians in 2006, he has Andreas Brantelid Peter Friis Johansson appeared at many of the world’s leading concert halls. His Coffee Concert offers a compelling mix of works written between 1899 and 1910, including the folk-tinged melodies of Kodály’s sonata and Grainger’s distinctive Scandinavian Suite.

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SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

*Co-commissioned by Auditorium du Louvre, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Académie de France à Rome and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Julien Mignot

Mozart String Quintet in C K515 Bruno Mantovani String Quintet (UK première)* Mozart String Quintet in G minor K516

Eric Larrayadieu/ Naïve

Quatuor Ebène; Antoine Tamestit viola

£15 £20 £25 £30

French composer Bruno Mantovani has forged a major international career Antoine Tamestit Quatuor Ebène since graduating from the Paris Conservatoire in the late 1990s. His String Quintet receives its UK première in this concert. Mozart’s String Quintet in G minor K516, completed in May 1787, distils the restless energy of its composer’s professional setbacks to deliver a transcendent response to personal cares.

Contemporary Music Series MONDAY 14 OCTOBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83

Marco Borggreve

Quatuor Apollon Musagète

£12.50 concessions £10

Four Polish-born musicians chose the title of a Stravinsky ballet to name their new quartet in 2006. The Apollon Musagète Quartet made its mark two years later by winning the ARD International Music Competition and was chosen by Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein as 2010 /11 ECHO Rising Stars. The quartet brings two of its signature works to Wigmore Hall for this BBC Lunchtime recital.

Quatuor Apollon Musagète is a member of Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Quatuor Apollon Musagète

MONDAY 14 OCTOBER 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

Mendelssohn Rondo Capriccioso in E Op. 14 Schubert Impromptu in Gb D899 No. 3 Schumann Humoreske in Bb Op. 20 Medtner 2 Fairy Tales Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales Gounod/Liszt Valse from Faust Two Gramophone Awards and other major recording prizes were among the emblems of Benjamin Grosvenor’s remarkable achievements in 2012. The young British pianist’s career continues to unfold naturally, led by his desire to explore new repertoire and dig deep beneath the shimmering surface and technical wizardry required to perform works such as Mendelssohn’s Rondo Capriccioso and Liszt’s waltz on themes from Gounod’s Faust.

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Sussie Ahlburg

Benjamin Grosvenor piano

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Benjamin Grosvenor

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TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series Richard Haughton

The English Concert Trevor Pinnock director, harpsichord Nadja Zwiener violin

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Handel Concerto Grosso in B b Op. 3 No. 2 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1052 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 4 No. 2 from La stravaganza RV279 Handel Concerto Grosso in G minor Op. 6 No. 6

The English Concert

Trevor Pinnock founded The English Concert in 1973, and to mark its 40th Anniversary he returns to direct the ensemble at Wigmore Hall for the first time in over ten years. Two brilliant solo concertos and a pair of Handel’s Concerti Grossi amount to a programme sure to display this renowned period instrument orchestra at its virtuosic best.

The English Concert 40th Anniversary Celebration WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 6.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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Artists in Conversation Irvine Arditti in conversation with Tom Service before the evening concert marking his 60 th birthday.

WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Brian Ferneyhough Intermedio alla ciaccona (for solo violin) Robert HP Platz strings (Echo VII) (UK première) Hilda Paredes Cuerdas del destino (UK première) Francisco Guerrero Zayin I + II (for string trio) John Cage Eight Whiskus (for solo violin) Akira Nishimura Quartet No. 5 (UK première)

Philippe Gontier

Arditti Quartet

£15 £20 £25 £30

To celebrate his 60th birthday, Irvine Arditti has assembled a captivating collection of works to demonstrate the Arditti Quartet’s brilliance, artistic vitality and uncanny understanding of contemporary chamber music. The programme offers three UK premières and two modern masterpieces for solo violin, opening the concert with Brian Ferneyhough’s hypnotic Intermedio alla ciaccona, first performed by Irvine Arditti in 1986.

Arditti Quartet

Contemporary Music Series CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust supports free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

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THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 1.00 PM – 4.00 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Olaf Bär Masterclass Olaf Bär has long been regarded as one of the foremost Lieder interpreters of his generation.

In 1985 the German baritone began a long association with EMI which produced a discography encompassing most of the core Lieder repertoire including Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Kernerlieder Op. 35 and Liederkreis Opp. 24 and 39, a Gramophone Award-winning recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise and Schwanengesang, and Wolf’s Mörike Lieder, all with the late Geoffrey Parsons.

Matthias Creutziger

£7 concessions £4

Although his reputation was originally established as a concert and Lieder singer, he is also renowned for his large and varied operatic repertoire, including roles by Wagner, Weber, Mozart, Olaf Bär Richard Strauss and Korngold. He has performed at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opéra National de Paris and at the Festivals of Salzburg, Bayreuth, Aix-en-Provence, Vienna and Glyndebourne.

He returns to Wigmore Hall to give a masterclass to postgraduate music students from the four London music colleges.

THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series Russell Duncan

Harald Hoffmann

Songlives: Richard Strauss

Gisela Schenker

Christiane Karg soprano Michael Schade tenor Malcolm Martineau piano

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Boyhood and Early Career in Munich & Meiningen 1864 –1885 Weihnachtslied; Die Drossel; Ein Röslein zog ich mir im Garten; Waldesgang From the Earliest ‘Music of the Future’ Days to Marriage to Pauline de Christiane Karg Michael Schade Malcolm Martineau Ahna 1885 –1898 Zueignung; Ständchen; Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne; Breit über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar; Ruhe, meine Seele; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Hat gesagt – bleibt’s nicht dabei; Himmelsboten; Leises Lied; Befreit The Opera Composer 1898 –1916 Wiegenlied; Am Ufer; Freundliche Vision; Winterweihe; Waldseligkeit; Junggesellenschwur; Ach, was Kummer, Qual und Schmerzen World War I, Vienna, and The Weimar Era Einst kam der Bock als Bote; Drei Lieder der Ophelia; Schwung from Gesänge des Orients The Late Strauss September and Im Abendrot from Four Last Songs; Malven Christiane Karg scored a conspicuous critical hit with her title-role debut in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande last November for Frankfurt Opera. For the second recital in the Songlives series, the German soprano shares the Wigmore Hall stage with Michael Schade, established among the world’s leading Mozarteans ever since making his European debut in 1991 as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte.

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2013 / 14 Wigmore Series

Songlives

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FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series

£18 £25 £30 £35 Walter Capelli

Viktoria Mullova violin Accademia Bizantina Ottavio Dantone director, harpsichord Bach Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041; Concerto in C minor for violin and harpsichord (transcription of BWV1060); Concerto in D for violin (transcription of BWV1053); Concerto in E for violin BWV1042

Viktoria Mullova’s recent explorations of historically informed performance practices and use of gut strings have strengthened her already formidable arsenal of musical Viktoria Mullova and technical gifts. She joins Ottavio Dantone and his characterful Accademia Bizantina for an all-Bach programme, complete with the composer’s beguiling Violin Concerto in E BWV1042.

SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER 4.00 PM Chamber Music Season

Brian Ferneyhough String Quartet No. 2 Jean Barraqué Quartet (UK première) Toshio Hosokawa New work (UK première)* Bartók String Quartet No. 3

£12.50 concessions £10 Molina Visuals

Quatuor Diotima

Ottavio Dantone

*Co-commissioned by Alois Lageder / VIN-o-TON, Kunstfest Weimar, Wigmore Hall and Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo, with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Quatuor Diotima

Quatuor Diotima’s commitment to new work stems from its choice of name, inspired by the title of Luigi Nono’s Fragmente: Stille an Diotima. The Paris-based quartet’s Wigmore Hall programme, complete with UK premières of two important new works, embraces the vast textural and timbral soundscapes of Brian Ferneyhough’s second string quartet of 1980 and the harmonic and thematic intricacies of Bartók’s third string quartet.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, with no interval

Contemporary Music Series SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER 7.00 PM NB starting time London Pianoforte Series

Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958; Piano Sonata in A D959; Piano Sonata in B b D960

Sussie Ahlburg

Imogen Cooper piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

Imogen Cooper concludes her complete survey of Schubert’s piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall with the composer’s last three works in the genre. Schubert wrote these pieces in the final year of his short life, directing his individual mastery of formal structure to provide the support for music that charts just about every conceivable emotional state and probes deep into the human psyche.

This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes in duration, with two intervals

Imogen Cooper

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SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

Vanbrugh Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 Janácc˘ek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ The Vanbrugh Quartet, praised by the Washington Post for its ‘innate feel for the natural ebb and flow of musical lines’, has lived with both works in this Coffee Concert for many years. Its recently reissued recording of Janácˇek’s first string quartet stands among the finest in the catalogue, noted for its intensity and drama.

Vanbrugh Quartet

SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER 2.30 PM NB starting time

£8 £9 £11 £13

Jaques Samuel Pianos ‘Junior Department Festival’ Winners’ Concert Students from the four London music institutions (Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance) have been selected to perform in this recital. Up to 20 outstanding students will delight the audience with works from many different composers.

This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, with no interval Sponsored by Fazioli

SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER 7.30 PM

Brahms Variations on an Original Theme Op. 21 No. 1 Clara Schumann Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann Op. 20 Helmut Lachenmann 5 Variations on a Theme of Schubert Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 8 in B b Op. 84

Frances Marshall

Jaques Samuel Pianos Intercollegiate Piano Competition Winner: Fiachra Garvey piano

£8 £10 £13 £15

Winner of the 2012 Jaques Samel competition, Irish pianist Fiachra Garvey has been a prize-winner at many international competitions with performances in Europe, the USA and Asia. Fiachra’s debut CD For the Piano ‘brings a deep and infectious enthusiasm, combined with insight and technical comfort’ (Sunday Times). Fiachra completed his postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music under doyen Hamish Milne.

Fiachra Garvey

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MONDAY 21 OCTOBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Haydn String Quartet in A Op. 20 No. 6 Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3

George Garnier

Doric String Quartet

£12.50 concessions £10

Schumann and Haydn belong to the core of the Doric String Quartet’s extensive repertoire. Haydn’s status as ‘the father of the string quartet’ was guaranteed following the publication of his Op. 20 collection in the 1770s. The quartet’s eloquence in Schumann’s String Quartet in A flows from each player’s empathy with the work’s expressive lines and collective feeling for the powerful emotions they convey.

Doric String Quartet

MONDAY 21 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Rosenblatt Recitals

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Angel Blue soprano Catherine Miller piano Mozart Alleluia (Exsultate Jubilate K165) Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung; Die Nacht; Allerseelen; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten; Befreit Rachmaninov Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne; Vocalise; Zdes’khorosho; Vesenniye vodi Gershwin Summertime (Porgy and Bess) Chapí Las Carceleras (Las hijas de Zebedeo) Leoncavallo Stridono lassù (I pagliacci ) Gounod Dieu que frisson ... Amour ranime mon courage (Roméo et Juliette) Cilea Io son l’umile ancella ( Adriana Lecouvreur ) Verdi É strano! ... Ah, fors’è lui ... Sempre libera (La traviata) Angel Blue

Catherine Miller

Following a ‘knockout debut’ (Metro) with ENO one of opera’s most exciting young talents, Californian soprano Angel Blue makes her London recital debut. With her rich, velvety voice, Ms Blue earned lavish praise as Clara in San Francisco Opera’s Porgy and Bess: ‘Summertime’ forms the centrepiece of her Rosenblatt Recital.

‘She has killer high notes and killer theatrical instincts!’ Los Angeles Times Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 16 September (Celso Albelo), 7 November (Giorgio Berrugi) and 9 January (Rosa Feola). See Wigmore Hall website for more details.

For Crying Out Loud!

For parents and babies up to 1 year old A popular programme for new parents and their babies, with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. Each lasting 45 minutes, parents can enjoy a programme of beautiful chamber music in a calm and accommodating environment. Although the music will be appropriate for babies, these concerts are introduced for parents and are not interactive.

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TUESDAY 22 OCTOBER 11.00 AM – 11.45 AM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

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TUESDAY 22 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concert

£12 inc. prog. & glass of Swiss sparkling wine at interval Neda Navaee

Joseph-Maurice Weder piano Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D784 Heinz Holliger Elis Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5 In 1998 the Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concert was established in the UK with the aim of presenting some of the most talented young Swiss musicians or ensembles in a concert at Wigmore Hall. The annual event is organised by the Embassy of Switzerland and the Swiss Cultural fund in Britain (SCFB), a charity promoting Swiss artistic excellence in the UK. The musician selected to perform in the 2013 concert is Joseph-Maurice Weder, a gifted young pianist.

Promoted by Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain SCFB (Reg. Charity) Supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Presence Switzerland & JTI

Joseph-Maurice Weder

Toddler Bop For 1 – 2 year olds Interactive music, movement and play workshops for young children and their parents with Chamber Tots in the Community workshop leader Esther Sheridan and guest musicians.

WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series

Telemann Suite in A minor TWV55: A3 Bach Cantata BWV170 ‘Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust’ Handel Sonata a 5 in Bb HWV288 Pergolesi Salve Regina in F minor Telemann Concerto in E for flute, oboe d’amore and viola d’amore TWV53: E1

£15 £20 £25 £30 Amit Lennon

Dorothea Heise

Florilegium Ashley Solomon director Robin Blaze countertenor

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WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 10.15 AM – 11.00 AM rep. 11.45 AM – 12.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Robin Blaze

Florilegium

Florilegium, in company with Robin Blaze, presents two sacred vocal works for solo countertenor from their critically acclaimed recording of Bach’s heart-melting cantata Vergnügte Ruh and Pergolesi’s Salve Regina. The programme begins and ends with works by Telemann, including his Recorder Suite in the French style and his strikingly scored Italianate concerto.

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THURSDAY 24 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Matthew Barley cello Dai Fujikura The Spirit of Beings (with electronics) (London première) Gavin Bryars Tre Laude Dolce Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 Britten Cello Suite No. 3 Op. 87 (with visuals by Yeast Culture) Jan Bang/Barley Noticing Things (remix of Dai Fujikura work, with improvised cello) (London première) James MacMillan And he rose (London première)

Nick White

£15 £20 £25 £30

Dai Fujikura’s The Spirit of Beings and its remix, Noticing Things, underpin a recital that turns its sustained focus on music of a meditative nature. Matthew Barley builds his solo programme around masterworks by Bach and Britten and gives the London première of James MacMillan’s And he rose, written for the cellist and first performed by him last January.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, with no interval Matthew Barley

Contemporary Music Series

FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER 7.30 PM London Pianoforte Series

£15 £20 £25 £30 Heinz Wazl

Oleg Maisenberg piano Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op. 37b Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Tchaikovsky’s ‘Twelve characteristic scenes’, published as The Seasons, were created between December 1875 and the following May. The pieces fashion impressions of each month of the year, just as Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition of 1874 drew their inspiration from the evocative imagery of Viktor Hartmann paintings. Oleg Maisenberg first studied these works as a child prodigy in the 1950s, constructing the foundations for his acclaimed mature interpretations.

SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season

Martin Suckling Musical Postcards (Nos. 1– 4) Walton Sonata for Strings Leopold Hurt Dead Reckoning Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111 (arr. J Morton)

£15 £20 £25 £30 Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Scottish Ensemble; Jonathan Morton artistic director

Oleg Maisenberg

‘This is one set of musicians you really need to see live to fully appreciate’ The Scotsman Following major tours to the United States and China, the UK’s only professional string orchestra returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme contrasting British Scottish Ensemble and German approaches to string writing, including an arrangement of Brahms’s String Quintet in G made for the Scottish Ensemble’s full forces by its Artistic Director and Leader, Jonathan Morton.

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SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER 11.30 AM Coffee Concert

£12.50 concessions £10 inc. programme & coffee/sherry/juice Giorgia Bertazzi

Musicians from the Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton leader Alasdair Beatson piano Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ Jonathan Morton and musicians from the Scottish Ensemble are joined by Alasdair Beatson, one of the most established chamber pianists of his generation. The concert features Schubert’s lyrical ‘Trout’ quintet, a work which takes its name from the fourth movement – a set of variations on Schubert’s Lied ‘Die Forelle’ or ‘The Trout’.

Alasdair Beatson

SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

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Singers from the Mariinsky Academy Maria Bayankina soprano Ekaterina Sergeyeva mezzo-soprano Dmitri Voropaeyev tenor Grigory Chernetsov baritone

Larissa Gergieva piano Songs by Glinka, Balakirev, Dargomyzhsky, Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Varlamov, Rachmaninov, Borodin, Sviridov and Musorgsky

Maria Bayankina

Ekaterina Sergeyeva

Dmitri Voropaeyev

Grigory Chernetsov

Larissa Gergieva

Larissa Gergieva’s tireless work as Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers has helped nurture many of the foremost artists of our time, Sergei Murzaev, Anna Netrebko, Daniil Shtoda, Ekaterina Semenchuk and Olga Trifonova among them.

She introduces some of the Mariinsky Academy’s finest young singers in this recital with a programme of Russian songs.

MONDAY 28 OCTOBER 1.00 PM BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Few pianists can match Alexandre Tharaud’s intellectual curiosity and sense of style. He appeared on the big screen last year in performance and as an actor in Michael Haneke’s award-winning film Amour. His BBC Lunchtime Recital includes works by the artist’s signature composers. Tharaud’s sensitivity of touch and cultured feeling for the singing line are ideally suited to the works in this programme.

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Marco Borggreve

Alexandre Tharaud piano Bach Concerto in D minor BWV974 Schubert 6 Moments Musicaux D780 Chopin Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49

£12.50 concessions £10

Alexandre Tharaud

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MONDAY 28 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Fauré Le papillon et la fleur; Les berceaux; A Clymène; Clair de lune; Spleen; Notre amour; Danseuse Schumann Dichterliebe; Herzeleid; Die Fensterscheibe; Der Gärtner; Die Spinnerin; Im Wald; Abendlied Jörg Widmann Song cycle for baritone and piano (UK première)* * Co-commissioned by Wiener Konzerthaus, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Wigmore Hall, and Alte Oper Frankfurt, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

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Christian Gerhaher’s total immersion in the musical and spiritual life of the works he performs Gerold Huber and Christian Gerhaher prompted the Daily Telegraph’s Rupert Christiansen to observe that his ‘instrument and technique are faultless, yet Gerhaher is no showman ... he is just delivering what the composer asks, in all humility.’

Contemporary Music Series

TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER 10.30 AM – 3.30 PM Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Half-Term Family Day Songlives for age 5 plus Have you ever wondered about the real life stories behind songs? Work together as a family under the expert guidance of vocalist and workshop leader, Isabelle Adams, to uncover inspiration from people, places and events in your own life and create lyrics and music to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage.

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£12 Adults £8 Children

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

TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Song Recital Series

Debussy Nuit d’étoiles; En sourdine (1st version); Coquetterie posthume; Apparition; Chevaux de bois; Le balcon; En sourdine from Fêtes galantes Book I; Chansons de Bilitis; Fêtes galantes Book II; Auprès de cette grotte sombre; Trois ballades de Villon; Crois mon conseil; Je tremble en voyant ton visage; Trois poèmes de Mallarmé; Noël des enfants qui n’ont pas de maison

Pia Clodi

Songlives: Debussy

Marco Borggreve

Lucy Crowe soprano Christopher Maltman baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

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Lucy Crowe

Christopher Maltman

Last year Lucy Crowe made her debut at the Royal Opera House, performing Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto at short notice and winning critical plaudits for the dramatic vision and bell-like vocal clarity of her interpretation.

For the third recital in the Songlives series, the lyric soprano is united with Christopher Maltman and Malcolm Martineau, creating a partnership guaranteed to strike sparks of white-hot invention and thrilling artistry.

Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle

Songlives

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Half-Term Course Ignition for ages 11 to 16 Calling all young musicians: Join Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble Ignite and fire up your creativity! Our Ignition half-term course will offer you the opportunity to create new music with your instrument, as well as bringing out your inner composer to write a soundtrack for film clips, and much, much more. Meet new friends, play with professional musicians and perform your new works on the Wigmore Hall stage!

£40 for the 2 days

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WEDNESDAY 30 & THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER 10.00 AM – 3.30 PM both days Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Ignition is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Early Music and Baroque Series Peer Lindgreen

£15 £20 £25 £30

Trevor Pinnock harpsichord Journeys through music

Cabezón Differencias sobre el canto del Caballero from Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela Byrd The Bells Tallis O ye tender babes Bull The King’s Hunt Frescobaldi Toccata Sesta; Balletti I & II Bach French Suite No. 5 in G BWV816 Handel Suite in D minor HWV436 Scarlatti Sonata in D Kk490; Sonata in D Kk491; Sonata in D Kk492 Soler Sonata in F# Since stepping down as Artistic Director of The English Concert a decade ago, Trevor Pinnock has Trevor Pinnock balanced his time between guest conducting engagements, performances as harpsichord soloist and chamber musician, and education work. This recital programme ranges over two and a half centuries of keyboard music and embraces a thrilling variety of styles, from dazzling pieces by Tallis, Byrd and Bull to the piquant sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti.

The English Concert 40th Anniversary Celebration THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER 7.30 PM Chamber Music Season Sara Wilson/ Decca

Janine Jansen violin Torleif Thedéen cello Itamar Golan piano Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor Op. 8 Weinberg Piano Trio Op. 24 Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8

£15 £20 £25 £30

Three outstanding artists, universally admired for the perspicacity of their music-making and powerful emotional engagement with audiences, share here in the performance of works fuelled by youthful energy and inventive Janine Jansen Torleif Thedéen Itamar Golan audacity. Shostakovich’s Piano Trio Op. 8, a remarkably assured product of his student years in Petrograd, was inspired by the composer’s affections for the daughter of an eminent Moscow academic.

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

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CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust supports free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts. To book for this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Imaginative and inspiring family concerts this autumn For age 5 plus

Watch This Space Saturday 5 October 11.00 am – 12 noon Join principal players of Aurora Orchestra and presenter John Barber for a musical journey into outer space!

Adults £7 Children £5

Brass Jaw – Jazz Unravelled Saturday 16 November 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

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Meet the dynamic ensemble Brass Jaw and explore how jazz is put together featuring a mixture of jazz tradition and exciting new music.

Adults £7 Children £5 In partnership with London Jazz Festival

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Wigmore Hall is also part of the Family Friendly Arts Festival

Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts The perfect way to start your Sunday morning – a cup of coffee or a glass of sherry preceded by an hour of world-class classical music.

All concerts start at 11.30 am Sun 8 Sep Škampa Quartet Sun 15 Sep Philippe Graffin /Claire Désert Sun 22 Sep Arcanto Quartet Sun 29 Sep Jan Lisiecki Sun 6 Oct Prazˇ ák Quartet Sun 13 Oct Andreas Brantelid/Peter Friis Johansson Sun 20 Oct Vanbrugh Quartet Sun 27 Oct Musicians from the Scottish Ensemble Alasdair Beatson Sun 3 Nov Arcadia Quartet Sun 10 Nov Julian Bliss/Robert Bottriell Sun 17 Nov Natalie Clein /Tamara Stefanovich Sun 24 Nov Nash Ensemble Marianne Thorsen/Ian Brown Sun 1 Dec Spencer Myer Sun 8 Dec Raphael Wallfisch/John York Sun 15 Dec Mandelring Quartet Sun 22 Dec Gould Piano Trio Sun 29 Dec Quartetto di Cremona

Natalie Clein © Sussie Ahlburg

Contemporary Music Series SEP – DEC 13 Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, as commissioner of new works and champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least through its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London premières.

Wednesday 18 September 7.30 pm

Monday 28 October 7.30 pm

Sunday 3 November 7.30 pm

Inon Barnatan

Christian Gerhaher Gerold Huber piano

Xuefei Yang guitar

piano

Matthias Pintscher* & Ronald Stevenson

baritone

Chen Yi*

Jörg Widmann*

Wednesday 6 November 7.30 pm

Sunday 13 October 7.30 pm

Saturday 2 November 1.00 pm & 7.30 pm

EXAUDI

Quatuor Ebène Antoine Tamestit viola

Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor Claire Booth soprano Adam Walker flute Mark Simpson clarinet András Keller violin Paul Silverthorne viola Cédric Tiberghien piano

Michael Finnissy*, Christopher Fox* & Stefano Gervasoni*

Julian Anderson, Gérard Grisey, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Hans Abrahamsen & Salvatore Sciarrino

Sally Beamish*

Bruno Mantovani* Wednesday 16 October 7.30 pm

Arditti Quartet Brian Ferneyhough, Hilda Paredes, John Cage & more Saturday 19 October 4.00 pm

Quatuor Diotima Brian Ferneyhough, Jean Barraqué & Toshio Hosokawa*

Friday 22 November 7.30 pm

The Prince Consort Cheryl Frances-Hoad* & Gwilym Simcock* Wednesday 11 December 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia

Thursday 24 October 7.30 pm

Matthew Barley cello Dai Fujikura, James MacMillan, John Tavener & Jan Bang / Barley

* Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

HOW TO GET HERE

Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 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 OX F O R D CIRCUS

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BOND STREET

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 participates 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 Wigmore Hall has its own restaurant and bars serving pre-concert and interval refreshments. The menu ranges from light snacks to a full three course à la carte meal.

Our bars offer a range of hot, cold and alcoholic beverages alongside a selection of snacks.

Please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or call 020 7258 8292 for further information.

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