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Keith Saunders

WELCOME TO OUR 110TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON PART THREE

Our celebrations continue right up until Sunday 31 July, so do please read the brochure to learn of all the treats in store!

This is the final brochure for our celebratory 110th anniversary season. Wigmore Hall (then called Bechstein Hall) opened in 1901 with two inaugural concerts on 31 May and 1 June, and to mark our anniversary this year we are very proud to present two special Gala Concerts on the same dates. The first brings together one of the greatest of today’s string quartets, the Takács Quartet, with pianist Stephen Hough, and the following evening we have a chamber ensemble to dream of, including Steven Isserlis, Joshua Bell, Pamela Frank, Tabea Zimmermann and Jeremy Denk.

Vocal recitals have always been central to Wigmore Hall’s profile and this summer we are very pleased to welcome Katarina Karnéus and Julius Drake (in a programme of Scandinavian song), Philippe Jaroussky (in both sacred and secular music by Monteverdi and his school), Robert Holl and András Schiff ( in Winterreise) and Ian Bostridge and Dame Mitsuko Uchida in the same great work. One of the most prominent baritones to be heard today, Christian Gerhaher, brings a Mahler programme, and John Mark Ainsley returns for a BBC lunchtime recital. On 29 May Thomas Quasthoff will be presented with the Wigmore Medal in recognition of his services to the Hall, and will join András Schiff for a programme of late romantic songs by Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler. Throughout the season we have recitals and concerts by Ann Murray DBE, Christopher Maltman, Mark Padmore, Simon Keenlyside, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Hampson, Diana Damrau, Susan Graham and many others.

I am particularly pleased to welcome one of the new crop of vocal groups in early music, Stile Antico, and do also watch out for Jordi Savall and Dimitri Psonis in a rare programme of Christian, Sephardic, Turkish and Mediterranean music of the Middle Ages. 2010 Gramophone Award winners The Cardinall’s Musick join us with music by a wonderful array of Italian composers; other chamber music highlights include the conclusion of Thomas Zehetmair’s residency, Lisa Batiashvili, Adrian Brendel and Till Fellner in piano trios by Haydn, Birtwistle and Beethoven, Joshua Bell and Sam Haywood in recital, and many other celebrated quartets, who will perform for us during the season.

There are numerous highlights in our piano series and I anticipate an especially warm welcome for Daniel Barenboim on 15 June with an all - Schubert programme. Paul Lewis continues his Schubert series, Imogen Cooper joins us for a lunchtime recital, piano fans will be alert to the rise of Danny Driver, who appears on 9 July, and we will also welcome Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Artemis Quartet in chamber music masterpieces. Steven Osborne plays Schubert’s last three piano

sonatas on 9 April, and on 13 April we welcome back Maria João Pires, always a special pleasure. Alexander Melnikov also returns on 26 April after a long absence, and many other popular pianists appear in the season’s lineup – not always playing Schubert!

Our new Friday late night concerts throughout the summer, beginning at 10 pm and finishing at 11 pm, promise to be exciting occasions, and include Retrospect Ensemble, Paco Peña, Quatuor Ebène, Joanna MacGregor, Endymion and Exaudi, and the London Handel Players.

Watch out also for distinguished jazz musicians Diana Torto and John Taylor, and Klaus Gesing and Gwilym Simcock, who join us for concerts later in the series. As always, it is impossible to mention all the great artists we have coming to us in this anniversary season, so I will finish by thanking you all very warmly for your enthusiastic and vital support during our celebratory year, and by looking forward to seeing you at the Hall many times during the summer period.

John Gilhooly Director

AT A GLANCE APRIL – JULY 2011 See pages 5 to 82 for full details of these concerts and pages 83 to 85 for subscription savings and how to book.

Series and Events to look out for ...

Song Recital Series

ANDRÁS SCHIFF Page 22, 23, 40, 41, 62, 63 JAZZ SERIES 28, 29, 30, 45 LATE NIGHT SERIES 33, 34, 45, 55, 59, 67, 75 WIGMORE HALL MEDAL – THOMAS QUASTHOFF 41 WIGMORE HALL ANNIVERSARY GALA CONCERTS 42, 43 PAUL LEWIS/ SCHUBERT SERIES 52, 58 DECADE BY DECADE SERIES– 100 YEARS OF 61, 66, 72 GERMAN SONG CHRISTOPHER RAEBURN MEMORIAL CONCERT 62

Sun 3 Apr

Marcus Farnsworth James Baillieu

Wed 6 Apr

Renata Pokupic´/Alek Shrader Roger Vignoles

Sat 9 Apr Wed 13 Apr Tue 26 Apr Thu 28 Apr Tue 10 May Thu 12 May Fri 27 May Sat 11 Jun Tue 14 Jun Wed 15 Jun Thu 16 Jun Fri 24 Jun Thu 7 Jul Sat 9 Jul Tue 12 Jul Wed 20 Jul Thu 28 Jul

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Steven Osborne Maria João Pires Alexander Melnikov Konstantin Lifschitz Mikhail Rudy Charles Owen András Schiff Stephen Hough Paul Lewis Daniel Barenboim Paul Lewis Joanna MacGregor Lars Vogt Danny Driver Christian Blackshaw David Fray Yevgeny Sudbin

Thu 7 Apr

Katarina Karnéus/Julius Drake Christopher Maltman Malcolm Martineau

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Thu 14 Apr

Ian Bostridge/Dame Mitsuko Uchida

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Wed 27 Apr

Robert Holl/András Schiff

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Sat 14 May

Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber

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Thu 26 May 12 15 22 24 32 33 40 50 52 54 52 34, 59 66 68 70 74 77

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Mon 11 Apr

Mon 23 May Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake

London Pianoforte Series

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Genia Kühmeier/Bernarda Fink Michael Schade/Thomas Quasthoff Malcolm Martineau/Justus Zeyen

Sun 29 May Thomas Quasthoff/András Schiff

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Tue 7 Jun

Andreas Scholl/Tamar Halperin

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Fri 10 Jun

Daniil Shtoda/Larissa Gergieva

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Mon 13 Jun

Thomas Hampson/Wolfram Rieger

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Sun 19 Jun

Ann Murray DBE/Malcolm Martineau

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Tue 21 Jun

Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis

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Thu 23 Jun

Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis

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Tue 28 Jun

Simon Keenlyside/Malcolm Martineau

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Fri 1 Jul

Ruth Ziesak/Michael Collins András Schiff

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Wed 6 Jul

Diana Damrau/Malcolm Martineau

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Fri 8 Jul

Songmakers with Graham Johnson

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Sat 16 Jul

Susan Graham/Malcolm Martineau

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Sat 23 Jul

Alice Coote/Julius Drake

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Chamber Music Season

BBC Lunchtime Concerts

Quatuor Mosaïques Page 5 Quatuor Mosaïques 6 Thomas Zehetmair/Ruth Killius 7 Steven Isserlis/Stephen Hough 9 Lisa Batiashvili/Adrian Brendel 13 Till Fellner Tue 12 Apr Quartetto di Cremona/Adrian Adlam 14 Thomas Hell Wed 13 Apr Britten Sinfonia 15 Sat 16 Apr Joshua Bell/Sam Haywood 17 Tue 19 Apr Elias String Quartet 18 Sat 30 Apr Soloists of the LPO 24 Wed 4 May Razumovsky Young Artist Recital 27 Wed 4 May Razumovsky Ensemble 27 Thu 5 May Michael Collins/Piers Lane 30 Sat 7 May Jerusalem Quartet 31 Wed 11 May The Endellion String Quartet 33 Tue 17 May Artemis Quartet/Elisabeth Leonskaja 36 Tue 31 May Wigmore Hall Gala Concert 1 42 Wed 1 Jun Wigmore Hall Gala Concert 2 43 Fri 3 Jun Paco Peña 34, 45 Sat 4 Jun Vanbrugh Quartet 46 Wed 8 Jun Razumovsky Young Artist Recital 47 Wed 8 Jun Razumovsky Ensemble 47 Thu 9 Jun Vienna Piano Trio 49 Fri 17 Jun Dante String Quartet 55 Fri 17 Jun The Other Ebène 34, 55 Mon 20 Jun Soloists of the LPO 57 ˘ kampa Quartet Wed 22 Jun S 58 Sat 25 Jun Philippe Graffin and Friends 60 Fri 8 Jul Exaudi/Endymion 34, 67 Wed 13 Jul Jupiter Quartet 70 Tue 19 Jul Waldstein Ensemble 73 Thu 21 Jul Alexander Chaushian/Yevgeny Sudbin 74 Sat 23 Jul Memorial Concert for Pauline Mara 76 Sat 30 Jul Jack Quartet 78 Sun 31 Jul Jean-Guihen Queyras 79

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Sol Gabetta Trio Wanderer Miklós Perényi Nicholas Angelich Ashley Wass Alisa Weilerstein John Mark Ainsley/Roger Vignoles Quatuor Ebène Shai Wosner Angela Hewitt Belcea Quartet Benjamin Grosvenor Elisabeth Leonskaja Imogen Cooper Iestyn Davies/Julius Drake

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Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Sun 3 Apr Sun 10 Apr Sun 17 Apr Sun 24 Apr Sun 1 May Sun 8 May Sun 15 May Sun 22 May Sun 29 May Sun 5 Jun Sun 12 Jun Sun 19 Jun Sun 26 Jun Sun 3 Jul Sun 10 Jul Sun 17 Jul Sun 24 Jul Sun 31 Jul

Sharon Kam/Lars Vogt Heath Quartet Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/Martin Helmchen Aviv Quartet/Vladimir Mendelssohn Doric String Quartet Cuarteto Casals Anthony Marwood/Aleksandar Madz˘ar Meta4 Ensemble Pierre Robert Eggner Trio Kit Armstrong Marianne Thorsen/Håvard Gimse Finghin Collins Richard Harwood/Christoph Berner Jack Liebeck/Katya Apekisheva François Chaplin Michelangelo Quartet Jean-Guihen Queyras

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Wigmore Hall Learning

Early Music and Baroque Series Mon 4 Apr Wed 20 Apr Thu 21 Apr Sat 23 Apr Sun 1 May Mon 2 May Fri 13 May Fri 24 Jun Thu 30 Jun Sat 2 Jul Sun 3 Jul Sun 10 Jul Fri 15 Jul Mon 18 Jul Fri 22 Jul

The English Concert Page 7 Maurice Steger/Laurence Cummings 7 Retrospect Ensemble 19 Cappella Mediterranea 19 Anne Sofie von Otter L’Arpeggiata/Philippe Jaroussky 20 London Handel Players 25 Jordi Savall/Dimitri Psonis 26 Retrospect Ensemble/Charles Neidich 33, 34 The Cardinall’s Musick 59 Trevor Pinnock and Friends 63 Carolyn Sampson Florilegium’s 20th Anniversary 64 Florilegium’s 20th Anniversary 64 The Brook Street Band 69 Stile Antico 71 Academy of Ancient Music 73 London Handel Players 34, 75 Alasdair Fraser

Jazz Series Fri 6 May Thu 2 Jun

Diana Torto/John Taylor Klaus Gesing/Gwilym Simcock

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Guitar Series Tue 3 May

David Russell

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Late Night Series Fri 13 May Fri 3 Jun Fri 17 Jun Fri 24 Jun Fri 8 Jul Fri 22 Jul

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Retrospect Ensemble/Charles Neidich Paco Peña The Other Ebène Joanna MacGregor Exaudi/Endymion London Handel Players Alasdair Fraser

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Young People’s Concert: Ignite Page 80 Steven Isserlis Lecture Recital 8 RNCM Study Day: Judith Weir 10, 11 Pre-Concert Talk 13 Pre-Concert Performance 14 Pre-Concert Talk 15 Family Concert: Igor, The Bird Who 30, 80 Couldn’t Sing Sat 14 May Workshops: Family Jam with Ignite 81 37 Sat 21 May British Premières at Wigmore Hall 37 Sat 21 May Wigmore Hall – Past and Present 37 Tue 24 May British Premières at Wigmore Hall 37 Wed 25 May British Premières at Wigmore Hall 39 Thu 26 May Voiceworks Introduction to Music 44 Thu 2 Jun Ignite: Post-concert performance 45 Thu 2 Jun Aurora Schools Concert 81 Wed 8 Jun Introduction to Music 44 Thu 9 Jun 52 Thu 16 Jun Artists in Conversation 44 Thu 16 Jun Introduction to Music Wigmore Study Group 53 Fri 17 Jun Wigmore Study Group 53 Tue 21 Jun 44 Thu 23 Jun Introduction to Music Wigmore Study Group 53 Fri 24 Jun Family Day: Around the World 81 Sat 25 Jun in 80 Songs Tue 28 Jun Study Afternoon 61 63 Thu 30 Jun Pre-Concert Talk Community Project Culmination 82 Wed 6 Jul Concert: Decades – A Sense of Place Fri 15 Jul Pre-Concert Talk 71 73 Mon 18 Jul Pre-Concert Talk 82 Mon 25 Jul Musical Portraits Musical Portraits 82 Tue 26 Jul 82 Wed 27 Jul Musical Portraits Fri 1 Apr Thu 7 Apr Sat 9 Apr Sun 10 Apr Tue 12 Apr Wed 13 Apr Sat 7 May

Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing.

The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary.

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Saturday 2 April 7.30 pm

QUATUOR MOSAÏQUES HAYDN String Quartet in B b Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ MOZART String Quartet in D K575 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 Three masterpieces spanning the high summer of Viennese Classicism will bring out the best from the Mosaïques, an ensemble which has carved a unique niche in the field of period performance. Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’ boasts one of the most beautiful openings in the entire quartet repertoire!

SHARON KAM

Maike Helbig

Sunday 3 April 11.30 am

£12 £16 £22 £26

SHARON KAM clarinet LARS VOGT piano

Chamber Music Season

DEBUSSY Première rapsodie SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke Op. 73 POULENC Sonata for clarinet and piano BRAHMS Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Acclaimed pianist Lars Vogt teams up with virtuoso clarinettist Sharon Kam to explore a conspectus of the clarinet’s most challenging repertoire, ranging from Schumann’s ecstatic lyricism to Poulenc’s brew of piquant melancholy. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert QUATUOR MOSAÏQUES

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Marco Borggreve

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Sunday 3 April 4.00 pm

MARCUS FARNSWORTH baritone JAMES BAILLIEU piano WIGMORE HALL/KOHN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION WINNER’S RECITAL PURCELL/BRITTEN Man is for the woman made; Not all my torments; Sweeter than Roses, BRAHMS Verzagen; Lerchengesang; Bei dir sind meine Gedanken; Unbewegte laue Luft; Willst du, dass ich geh?

WOLF Auf einer Wanderung; Schlafendes Jesuskind; Begegnung; Gebet; Abschied BRITTEN Folksong arrangements: Sally in our Alley; Lord! I married me a wife; Greensleeves; The Plough Boy Winner of the 2009 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition, Marcus Farnsworth here presents a sequence of songs from the heart of the 19th-century Romantic tradition, framing them with Britten’s realisations and arrangements of British folksongs and of the touching music of Purcell. £12 concs £10

Song Recital Series

Sunday 3 April 7.30 pm

QUATUOR MOSAÏQUES HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 DAVID String Quartet in A BRAHMS String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 For their companion concert the Mosaïques pair more mercurial late Haydn with the first of Brahms’s three quartets.

The rarity is a work by Ferdinand David, the violinist who was Mendelssohn’s concertmaster at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the recipient of the composer’s evergreen Violin Concerto. £12 £16 £22 £26

MARCUS FARNSWORTH

Benjamin Ealovega

Monday 4 April 1.00 pm

SOL GABETTA cello pianist to be announced MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58 BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 GINASTERA Pampeana No. 2 Gramophone Magazine’s Young Artist of the Year, Sol Gabetta is making a big splash both on disc and in concert. Her recording of Elgar’s evergreen Cello Concerto has been acclaimed as ‘one of the best around’ and, never one to rest on her laurels, she is now exploring Baroque performing practice on a gut-strung instrument. As fearless in performance as she is compelling on disc, her Wigmore Hall recital is sure to be one of the season’s hot tickets. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Chamber Music Season 6

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Monday 4 April 7.30 pm

THE ENGLISH CONCERT MAURICE STEGER recorders LAURENCE CUMMINGS director, harpsichord CORBETT Alla Milanese from Le bizzarie universali Op. 8 CORELLI Sonata in F for alto recorder Op. 5 No. 4 SCARLATTI/AVISON Concerto Grosso No. 9 in C CORELLI/CASTRUCCI Concerto in E minor for voice flute Op. 5 No. 8 CORELLI/GEMINIANI Chaconne upon a Sarabanda Op. 5 No. 7 CORELLI/GEMINIANI Concerto Gross (La Folia) Op. 5 No. 12 CORELLI/BABELL Concerto in F for soprano recorder Op. 5 No. 10 Recorder virtuoso Maurice Steger, with The English Concert led

by Laurence Cummings, performs a dazzling programme of concertos fashioned by the English adherents of Arcangelo Corelli from the Italian master’s visionary Violin Sonatas Op. 5, plus a tribute to Domenico Scarlatti by Charles Avison.

THOMAS ZEHETMAIR

£15 £20 £25 £30

Tuesday 5 April 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

THOMAS ZEHETMAIR violin RUTH KILLIUS viola

Keith Pattison

SKALKOTTAS Duo MOZART Duo in G K423 HOLLIGER Drei Skizzen MOZART Duo in B b K424 MARTINU ˚ Madrigals for violin and viola The versatile Thomas Zehetmair concludes his mini-residency at Wigmore Hall with this imaginative programme of music for violin and viola ranging from Mozart to the moderns.

Be prepared for an evening of intimacy and virtuosity in equal measure. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season MAURICE STEGER

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Marco Borggreve

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Thursday 7 April 2.00 pm

STEVEN ISSERLIS LECTURE RECITAL

RENATA POKUPIC´

Chris Gloag

Wednesday 6 April 7.30 pm

RENATA POKUPIC´ mezzo-soprano ALEK SHRADER tenor ROGER VIGNOLES piano

Cellist, author, festival director, teacher and musical explorer, Steven Isserlis is a true renaissance man among musicians. For this lecture recital he delves deep into the music of 19th-century Romanticism, one of his particular enthusiasms. Brahms’s First Cello Sonata was his first duo sonata and is imbued with his love of music of the past – especially Bach. Liszt’s Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth is his own arrangement of a song setting a text by Felix Lichnowsky but inspired by the composer’s own sojourns at the Cloister of the title, a half-ruined convent on an island in the Rhine. £10 concs £6 (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

SCHUMANN In der Fremde; Intermezzo; Waldesgespräch; Mondnacht; Schöne Fremde; Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op. 135 BARBER O boundless, boundless evening; A nun takes the veil; The secrets of the old; Sure on this shining night; Solitary hotel; Nocturne DUPARC L’invitation au voyage; Chanson triste; Extase; Le manoir de Rosemonde FAURÉ Aurore; Automne; Le secret; Notre amour ROSSINI La promessa; Il rimprovero; La danza; L’invito; Les amants de Séville A star of Covent Garden’s recent production of Handel’s Tamerlano, Renata Pokupic´ is already talked about as one of the brightest mezzos of the new generation. In partnership with lyric tenor Alek Shrader she explores some of the most richly evocative jewels of the Romantic song repertoire. £15 £20 £25 £30

ALEK SHRADER

Peter Schaaf

Song Recital Series 8

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Friday 8 April 7.30 pm

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello STEPHEN HOUGH piano BACH/SILOTI Adagio from the Toccata in C BUSONI Kultaselle, variations on a Finnish folksong BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 LISZT Elegie No. 1; Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth GRIEG Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36

KATARINA KARNÉUS

Mats Bäcker

Thursday 7 April 7.30 pm

KATARINA KARNÉUS mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano

Steven Isserlis combines an international career of solo and chamber music performances with festival directing and writing children’s books.

Artistic Director of the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, he has also coached countless young musicians and overseen a series of children’s concerts in New York. He concludes his Wigmore Hall residency in partnership with Stephen Hough in a characteristically eclectic programme ranging from Bach to Busoni. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Chamber Music Season/Steven Isserlis Artist in Residence

GRIEG Spillemaend; En svane; Stam-bogsrim; Med en vandlilie; Borte!; En fuglevise RANGSTRÖM Bön till natten; Pan; Flickan under nymånen SIBELIUS Den första kyssen; Lasse liten; Soluppgång; Var det en dröm?; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte GRIEG Haugtussa Op. 67 Katarina Karnéus is one of the most celebrated alumnae of the Cardiff Singer of the World competition. In opera and Lieder alike she has explored a richly varied repertoire and this programme brings to Wigmore Hall highlights from her recent well received disc of Scandinavian song. £15 £20 £25 £30

STEVEN ISSERLIS

Kevin Davis

Song Recital Series 9

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Saturday 9 April 10.00 am

JUDITH WEIR STUDY DAY MUSICIANS FROM THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC CLARK RUNDELL conductor

10.00 am JUDITH WEIR King Harald’s Saga JUDITH WEIR The King of France JUDITH WEIR Unlocked

Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music return to Wigmore Hall for the third in a series of annual Study Days focusing on the chamber music of a prominent living composer.

11.00 am – Study Event ANTHONY BURTON in conversation with JUDITH WEIR

Judith Weir is one of this country’s most distinguished composers. Her broad and varied interests in narrative, folklore and theatre are reflected throughout the day’s programme, which begins with a performance of one of her most important and widely performed works, the opera for solo soprano King Harald’s Saga. Folk music is also prevalent, with traditional melodies from England, Scotland, Spain and America providing the inspiration for a number of solo and chamber works performed during the day. The final concert features works for larger ensemble – Musicians Wrestle Everywhere, based on a poem by Emily Dickinson, and The Consolations of Scholarship, a work with a dramatic narrative written in the form of an early Chinese opera.

The day comprises three concerts which will be interspersed with two study events in the presence of the composer, providing an opportunity to hear Judith Weir speak about her life and music.

Photo by Chris Christodoulou

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12.15 pm JUDITH WEIR Airs from Another Planet JUDITH WEIR I’ve turned the page …

JUDITH WEIR Piano Trio Two 2.00 pm – Study Event PIERS HELLAWELL in conversation with JUDITH WEIR 3.15 pm JUDITH WEIR Musicians Wrestle Everywhere JUDITH WEIR The Consolations of Scholarship All tickets £3 concessions £2 (each event) or Day Ticket £10 concessions £5 (not part of subscription scheme) In partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Sunday 10 April 11.30 am

HEATH QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 71 No. 2 ˘ ÁK String Quartet in E b Op. 51 DVOR Founded at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2002, the Heath Quartet has gone on to win a string of awards and is cementing its reputation in concerts throughout the UK. The quartet pairs the second of Haydn’s ‘Apponyi’ Quartets, composed during his triumphant London period, with a work saturated by the sounds of Dvor˘ák’s Czech heritage. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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

Coffee Concert STEVEN OSBORNE

Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 9 April 7.30 pm

STEVEN OSBORNE piano SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in C minor D958 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A D959 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B b D960 Pianist Steven Osborne has rapidly established a reputation as one of the most searching and sensitive artists of his generation. He now turns his focus on a veritable Everest of the keyboard literature with this traversal of Schubert’s last three piano sonatas. Dating from 1828 and just a few months before the composer’s death, these astonishing works convey a distillation of Schubert’s blend of poise and passion. £15 £25 £30 £35 Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle

HEATH QUARTET

Sussie Ahlburg

London Pianoforte Series

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Sunday 10 April 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK ANNETTE MORREAU on Wigmore Hall ‘newness’ – in conversation with JOHN CUMMING and TONY FELL £3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Sunday 10 April 7.30 pm

LISA BATIASHVILI violin ADRIAN BRENDEL cello TILL FELLNER piano

LISA BATIASHVILI

HAYDN Piano Trio in D HXV:24 BIRTWISTLE New Trio (UK première) BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B b Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

Monday 11 April 1.00 pm

Connoisseurs of chamber music will leap at the chance to hear this group of virtuoso performers, who come together for a special celebrity concert. Haydn’s piano trios – long heinously neglected – are increasingly recognised as a treasure trove of his mature mastery. Beethoven’s ‘Archduke’ Trio needs no introduction and these artists will give a new trio by Sir Harrison Birtwistle as persuasive a première as possible.

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B b Op. 11 BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 (revised version)

£15 £20 £25 £30 Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall

TRIO WANDERER

Long established as one of the most celebrated of international piano trios, the Wanderers return to Wigmore Hall with two works which can be performed in different versions. The trio opts for the violin version of Beethoven’s delicious early Clarinet Trio and follows it with the later revision of Brahms’s youthful and passionate B major masterpiece.

Chamber Music Season £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Tuesday 12 April 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT PERFORMANCE Pre-concert performance by quartets from the London String Quartet Foundation/Chetham’s School of Music National Young String Quartets Weekend in March 2011.

Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN

Levon Biss

Monday 11 April 7.30 pm

Tuesday 12 April 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

QUARTETTO DI CREMONA ADRIAN ADLAM violin THOMAS HELL piano

FAURÉ Cinq mélodies de Venise SCHUMANN Zwei Venetianische Lieder: Leis’ rudern hier, mein Geliebter; Wenn durch die Piazzetta SCHUBERT Gondelfahrer MENDELSSOHN Venetianisches Gondellied HAHN Venezia – Chansons en dialecte vénetien SCHUBERT Du bist die Ruh; Lachen und Weinen; Sei mir gegrüßt; L’incanto degli occhi; Il traditor deluso; Il modo di prender moglie MAHLER Five Rückert Lieder The much-loved baritone Christopher Maltman proves again that he is one of the most versatile singers of our time with this ravishing programme. His first half is a seductive gondola ride through some of the most evocative songs about Venice, starting however with glorious songs simply written there by Fauré. After a Schubert bouquet, he concludes with Mahler’s unforgettable Rückert cycle.

BARTÓK Violin Sonata No. 2 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B b Op. 18 No. 6 CHAUSSON Concert in D Op. 21 for violin, piano and string quartet Synonymous with the home of incomparable string instruments, the young Quartetto di Cremona came together with Thomas Hell and Adrian Adlam as part of the International Freden Festival in Germany, which has long been acclaimed for its innovative and exciting programming. In this concert, they surround Beethoven’s early Bb Quartet with the searing passion of Bartók’s late Violin Sonata, and then join forces for Chausson’s rarely heard Romantic tour de force. £12 £16 £22 £26

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Song Recital Series

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Chamber Music Season

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Wednesday 13 April 12.15 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK MARCELO NISINMAN talks about tango music Free to ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 13 April 1.00 pm

BRITTEN SINFONIA THOMAS GOULD violin CAROLINE DEARNLEY cello STEPHEN WILLIAMS double bass HUW WATKINS piano MARCELO NISINMAN bandoneon MARCELO NISINMAN Hombre Tango OSVALDO TARANTINO (arr. Nisinman) Ciudad Triste ENRICO CHAPELA Nanobots (world première tour)* PIAZZOLLA The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires ‘Las Cuatro Estaciones porteñas’ *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall

At the heart of this tango-inflected programme is Piazzolla’s passionate and thrilling The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

Piazzolla has taken the vigour and virtuosity of the Italian baroque and infused the work with jazz textures and Latin pulse. We welcome virtuoso bandoneon player Marcelo Nisinman who will not only perform in Piazzolla’s work but present some of his own stunning tango arrangements. The programme is completed with a new work by rising Mexican star Enrico Chapela, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall. £12 concs £10

MARIA JOÃO PIRES

Eduardo Gagiero/DG

Wednesday 13 April 7.30 pm

MARIA JOÃO PIRES piano Programme to be announced Acclaimed by Gramophone magazine as ‘one of the master musicians of our time’, Maria João Pires is renowned as much for her unique touch and tone as for the strength and individuality of her interpretations. Her rapturously received discs of music by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann and Brahms have swept up all the international awards, making her recital appearances among the most keenly anticipated in the concert calendar. This rare London appearance is sure to demonstrate her eloquent response to all the expressiveness and inwardness of the repertoire in which she excels. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

London Pianoforte Series

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Sunday 17 April 11.30 am

MARIE-ELISABETH HECKER cello MARTIN HELMCHEN piano BACH Viola da gamba Sonata No. 1 in G BWV1027 JANÁC˘EK Pohádka MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58 Still in her mid-twenties, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker is partnered by the distinguished pianist Martin Helmchen in a fascinating programme which couples Bach with his 19th-century champion Mendelssohn. In between comes Janác˘ek’s charmingly idiosyncratic Fairy Tale. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice IAN BOSTRIDGE

Benjamin Ealovega

Coffee Concert

Thursday 14 April 7.30 pm

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor DAME MITSUKO UCHIDA piano SCHUBERT Winterreise In common with many of his colleagues, Ian Bostridge is here drawn to a partnership with a solo pianist who enjoys a rare reputation for playing Schubert. This collaboration with Dame Mitsuko Uchida will be eagerly awaited by their many fans and should prove a highlight of this Wigmore season. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

Song Recital Series

Saturday 16 April 7.30 pm

JOSHUA BELL violin SAM HAYWOOD piano

DAME MITSUKO UCHIDA

Roger Mastroianni

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Saturday 16 April 7.30 pm

JOSHUA BELL violin SAM HAYWOOD piano BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D934 GRIEG Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Op. 13

Joshua Bell has few peers among today’s phenomenal generation of young violinists and his solo recitals have become red-letter events. Alongside the autumnal mastery of Brahms and the youthful ardour of a late Schubert masterpiece, he then turns to the bracing climate of one of Grieg’s still underrated chamber works. £15 £25 £35 £40 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by the Kohn Foundation Photo by Marc Hom

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Chamber Music Season

Tuesday 19 April 7.30 pm

ELIAS STRING QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ KURTÁG Officium breve Op. 28 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E b Op. 127 The Elias String Quartet has drawn plaudits for its recordings – including a highly lauded Wigmore Hall Live disc – and here cushions two works

by Beethoven, the austere ‘Serioso’ and the Apollonian Op. 127, with the terse and elliptical musical language of Hungarian contemporary master György Kurtág in his 85th year. £12 £16 £22 £26

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T MIKLÓS PERÉNYI

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Chamber Music Season Monday 18 April 1.00 pm

MIKLÓS PERÉNYI cello BACH Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012 BRITTEN Cello Suite No. 2 in D Op. 80 Cello aficionados will want to book early for this rare opportunity to hear Hungarian maestro Miklós Perényi in this feast of D major solo suites. Bach’s Sixth Suite is renowned as one of the most demanding of his set of six, and Mstislav Rostropovich was able to tempt Benjamin Britten to a veritable conspectus of compositional mastery in the fourth of five works specially written for him. £12 concs £10

ELIAS STRING QUARTET

Benjamin Ealovega

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Thursday 21 April 7.30 pm

CAPPELLA MEDITERRANEA ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER mezzo-soprano

LEONARDO GARCIA ALARCÓN director, harpsichord, keyboard Programme to include arias, scenes and interludes by CHARPENTIER, MONTEVERDI and HANDEL Anne Sofie von Otter’s most recent recording featured the French Baroque splendour of the music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Sure to find its ideal home in the surroundings of Wigmore Hall, she couples it this evening with music of equal splendour by Monteverdi and Handel. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme) ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER

Early Music and Baroque Series Mats Bäcker

Wednesday 20 April 7.30 pm

RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE MATTHEW HALLS director BUXTEHUDE Membra Jesu Nostri BUXWV75 A rare opportunity to hear a performance of the first Lutheran Oratorio. Buxtehude’s timeless masterpiece consists of a cycle of seven exquisitely-scored cantatas – each taking as its focal point a different part of Christ’s crucified body. Breathtakingly beautiful music for Passiontide. £12 £16 £22 £24

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Saturday 23 April 7.30 pm

PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY countertenor

L’ARPEGGIATA CHRISTINA PLUHAR director Improvisation on La dia spagnola STROZZI L’Eraclito amoroso CAZZATI Ciaccona SANCES Presso l’onde tranquillo Improvisation on Tarantella napoletana MONTEVERDI Ohimé, ch’io cado BERTALI Chiacona MURCIA Fandango FALCONIERI La suave melodia MONTEVERDI Adagati, Poppea MELLI Dispiegate, guance amate MURCIA Jacaras PANDOLFI MEALLI Sonata Op. 4 No. 6 ‘La Vinciolina’ MONTEVERDI Sí dolce è’l tormento MONTEVERDI Damigella tutta bella KAPSBERGER L’Arpeggiata SANCES Stabat mater MONTEVERDI Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius Lovers of the countertenor voice are guaranteed a rare thrill as the young French star joins forces with period ensemble L’Arpeggiata to explore the richly extravagant world of late-Renaissance Italy.

Straddling the worlds of basilica and piazza, music both sacred and secular by Monteverdi and his school will dazzle and delight in equal measure. £15 £25 £35 £40

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Sunday 24 April 11.30 am

AVIV STRING QUARTET VLADIMIR MENDELSSOHN viola BARTÓK String Quartet No. 4 BRAHMS String Quintet in G Op. 111 Full of folk-inspired special effects, Bartók’s Fourth Quartet expanded his exploitation of string writing and changed the quartet genre forever. Vladimir Mendelssohn joins the quartet for a performance of Brahms’s magisterial yet engagingly relaxed Second Quintet. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

NICHOLAS ANGELICH

Stéphane de Bourgies

Monday 25 April 1.00 pm

NICHOLAS ANGELICH piano SCHUMANN Kreisleriana Op. 16 BACH/BUSONI Chorale Prelude ‘Nun komm der Heiden Heiland’ SCHUMANN Arabeske in C Op. 18 Nicholas Angelich is rapidly developing rare renown as one of the most substantial and thought-provoking pianists active today. He eschews the empty virtuosity of so many who seek the limelight in order to delve deeply into the most intellectually demanding works in the repertoire – an approach which Robert Schumann would surely have applauded. £12 concs £10 AVIV STRING QUARTET

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Wednesday 27 April 7.30 pm Tuesday 26 April 2.00 pm Friday 29 April 6.00 pm

KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARD 2011 The annual auditions for Britain’s foremost singing competition regularly attract capacity houses of vocal art lovers and students of singing, all of whom take up the challenge of spotting the successful candidate to join the list of previous superstar winners.

ROBERT HOLL baritone ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano SCHUBERT Winterreise The dark timbres of Robert Holl’s baritone will bring out a tantalisingly different dimension of Schubert’s universal portrayal of a journey towards the abyss. András Schiff similarly has a unique mastery of this elusive composer’s piano writing and a special insight into the concept of musical partnership. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series

26 April All seats £18 students £10 29 April £18 £24 £28 £32 (not part of subscription scheme)

Tuesday 26 April 7.30 pm

ALEXANDER MELNIKOV piano SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ BRAHMS 7 Fantasien Op. 116 SHOSTAKOVICH Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 (Nos. 1–12) Often seen in partnership with some of the most distinguished instrumentalists on the circuit, it will be a special pleasure to hear the Russian virtuoso in a programme which features one of the monuments of Soviet music, recently recorded by Melnikov to great acclaim. £15 £20 £25 £30

ALEXANDER MELNIKOV

Marco Borggreve

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ANDRÁS SCHIFF Our anniversary celebrations would not be complete without a visit from Wigmore favourite, András Schiff, who joins us in song recitals with Robert Holl, Thomas Quasthoff, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ruth Ziesak and Michael Collins, as well as for an ingenious programme of solo piano variations centred on Beethoven’s ‘Diabelli’ Variations.

Wednesday 27 April 7.30 pm

ROBERT HOLL baritone ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano SCHUBERT Winterreise See page 22 for details Friday 27 May 7.30 pm

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano Variations by MOZART, MENDELSSOHN, HAYDN, SCHUMANN and BEETHOVEN See page 40 for details Sunday 29 May 7.30 pm

THOMAS QUASTHOFF baritone ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano Programme to include MAHLER and STRAUSS songs See page 41 for details Wednesday 29 June 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano CHRISTOPHER RAEBURN MEMORIAL CONCERT See page 62 for details Friday 1 July 7.30 pm

RUTH ZIESAK soprano MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano Songs by SCHUMANN, SCHUBERT and LISZT See page 63 for details

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Thursday 28 April 7.30 pm

KONSTANTIN LIFSCHITZ piano BACH The Art of Fugue BWV1080 Konstantin Lifschitz is rapidly establishing a wide-ranging career in which he relishes the challenge of performing rarely heard masterworks. Concert opportunities to hear Bach’s summation of a lifetime’s obsession with fugue are rare enough as it is but even rarer is the solo pianist who tackles such an Everest of superhuman musicality.

JOHN RYAN

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London Pianoforte Series

Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 30 April 7.30 pm

SOLOISTS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA JOHN RYAN horn MOZART Horn Quintet in E b K407 STRAUSS Sextet from Capriccio SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D956 Mozart’s Quintet for horn and strings (with two violas) is a miniature showpiece with all the melodic appeal of his full-scale horn concertos: the solo part is taken by the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s principal horn player, John Ryan. The Prelude to Richard Strauss’s last opera Capriccio is a self-contained movement for string sextet, rich in texture and full of rococo decoration.

These two works precede and complement the String Quintet (with two cellos) which Schubert composed in the last months of his short life, one of the greatest and most profound masterpieces in the entire chamber music repertoire. £12 £16 £22 £26 KONSTANTIN LIFSCHITZ

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Charles Seton

Chamber Music Season

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Sunday 1 May 11.30 am

DORIC STRING QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 SCHUBERT String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Haydn’s ‘Sun’ Quartets are his earliest chamber works to enjoy regular outings in the concert hall. The life-affirming C major work from the set is contrasted dramatically with the feverish Romanticism of Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet, whose slow-movement variations explore every facet of the haunting song that lends the work its name. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert ASHLEY WASS

Sunday 1 May 7.30 pm

LONDON HANDEL PLAYERS ADRIAN BUTTERFIELD director, violin RACHEL BROWN flute LAURENCE CUMMINGS harpsichord, organ TELEMANN Flute Concerto in E minor with violin, strings and basso continuo HANDEL Organ Concerto in B b Op. 4 No. 2 CPE BACH Flute Concerto in D minor Wq. 22 LECLAIR Violin Concerto in F Op. 7 No. 4 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D BWV1050 Adrian Butterfield directs the London Handel Players in a feast of baroque concertos which features rarely heard virtuoso masterpieces for violin and flute by Leclair and CPE Bach and concludes with the work that first gave the harpsichord the limelight in a concerto, JS Bach’s deservedly popular Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. £15 £20 £25 £30

Monday 2 May 1.00 pm

ASHLEY WASS piano LISZT Années de pèlerinage, première année, Suisse Naxos’s first exclusive artist, Ashley Wass built a strong reputation in British piano music but his sympathies and enthusiasms are unusually wide-ranging and his formidable technique and imagination are sure to find a match in the kaleidoscopic evocations by Liszt based on his travels around Switzerland and which brought a new visual dimension to writing for piano. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Monday 2 May 7.30 pm

JORDI SAVALL lira, vielle, rebab DIMITRI PSONIS santur, moresca, percussion MARE NOSTRUM – PLACE FOR DIALOGUE AND DIVERSITY BETWEEN ORIENT AND OCCIDENT CHRISTIAN, SEPHARDIC, TURKISH, ARABO-ANDALUSIAN and MEDITERRANEAN music Devotees of Jordi Savall will need no persuasion to join him in this rare opportunity to be transported through a range of Christian, Sephardic, Turkish, Arabo-Andalusian and Mediterranean music as he and Dimitri Psonis explore the musical diasporas of the Middle Ages. £18 £25 £30 £35

Early Music and Baroque Series

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Wednesday 4 May 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT EVENT RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTIST RECITAL £6 (not part of subscription scheme) or free with event concert (separate ticket required)

Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 4 May 7.30 pm

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE

DAVID RUSSELL

Tuesday 3 May 7.30 pm

DAVID RUSSELL guitar REGONDI Rêverie nocturne Op. 19 HANDEL (transcr. Russell) Suite No. 7 in G minor HWV:432 BACH (transcr. Russell) Sinfonia from Cantata BWV156; Sinfonia in E b BWV791; Sinfonia in E BWV792; Sinfonia in G minor BWV797 ROUX Le Bourdon de l’âme ALBÉNIZ (transcr. Russell ) Capricho catalan from España; Cuba from Suite española; Granada, serenata from Suite española; Prelude from 12 piezas características; Rumores de la Caleta from Recuerdos de vioje Guitarist David Russell is one of today’s leading ambassadors for the instrument and in this concert contrasts Bach and Handel with music by 19th-century guitar master Giulio Regondi, contemporary Canadian composer Patrick Roux and the authentic Spanish panache of Isaac Albéniz.

ARENSKY String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 35 for violin, viola and 2 cellos KODÁLY Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 BRAHMS String Sextet in G Op. 36 The Razumovsky Ensemble brings together a group of works for less common combinations of strings, from Kodály’s rhapsodic Duo for violin and cello to Brahms’s sumptuous Sextet for violins, violas and cellos in pairs. The concert opens with Arensky’s Second String Quartet, a work conceived for the quirky scoring of single violin, viola and two cellos. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Thursday 5 May 7.30 pm

MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet PIERS LANE piano For full details see page 30

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BRAD MEHLDAU AT WIGMORE HALL Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau is one of the most exciting musicians in his field today, touring and recording extensively with great success.

Having been invited by John Gilhooly to curate Wigmore Hall’s Jazz Series from September 2009, Brad Mehldau brought his inimitable style to bear in a series of concerts over the 2009/10 season. This included a solo performance, appearances with Joshua Redman and the Brad Mehldau Trio, and a programme of both jazz and classical music with the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, including the UK première of a new work co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall and KölnMusik.

Brad Mehldau continues his curatorship this year, inviting friends from across the musical spectrum to participate in a variety of duo performances which will explore the limits of improvisatory and experimental contemporary composition, in addition to more conventional work in the jazz tradition. Italian vocalist Diana Torto joins renowned British pianist John Taylor on 6 May; whilst German reeds player Klaus Gesing joins forces with the ubiquitous British pianist Gwilym Simcock on 2 June. In the autumn, Brad Mehldau himself forms two all-American partnerships, with versatile mandolin player Chris Thile on 16 September, and acclaimed singer Joe Henry on 2 December, concluding what promises to be an extraordinary and thought-provoking series of collaborations. This brings Brad’s tenure as Jazz Series Curator to a close.

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Booking is also open for the concerts on 16 September and 2 December.

Friday 6 May 2011 7.30 pm

DIANA TORTO singer JOHN TAYLOR piano £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Jazz Series

Thursday 2 June 2011 7.30 pm

Eric Richmond

£15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

JOHN TAYLOR

DIANA TORTO Rainer Rygalyk

KLAUS GESING reeds GWILYM SIMCOCK piano

Jazz Series

Friday 16 September 2011 7.30 pm

CHRIS THILE mandolin BRAD MEHLDAU piano

KLAUS GESING

GWILYM SIMCOCK

JOE HENRY

CHRIS THILE

£15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Jazz Series

Friday 2 December 2011 7.30 pm

JOE HENRY singer BRAD MEHLDAU piano £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

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Thursday 5 May 7.30 pm

MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet PIERS LANE piano BRAHMS Clarinet Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2 WEBER Grand Duo Concertant in E b Op. 48 BENJAMIN Le Tombeau de Ravel MILHAUD Scaramouche Op. 165b (arr. for clarinet and piano) POULENC Sonata for clarinet and piano To conclude his year-long Wigmore Hall residency, Michael Collins is in partnership with virtuoso pianist Piers Lane.

Their programme concentrates on arguably the three most often-heard masterworks for clarinet and piano but it will also be fascinating to hear the rarely performed tribute to Ravel by Arthur Benjamin, perhaps better known as Britten’s piano teacher and composer of Jamaican Rumba. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

MICHAEL COLLINS

Chamber Music Season/Michael Collins – Chamber Musician and Soloist

Saturday 7 May 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Eric Richmond

IGOR, THE BIRD WHO COULDN’T SING Friday 6 May 7.30 pm

DIANA TORTO singer JOHN TAYLOR piano Born six years ago, the collaboration between Diana Torto and John Taylor has gradually developed to a perfect balance, where the blend of both artists in music is beautifully defined.

The repertoire is based mainly on their own compositions and music by other contemporary composers, such as Kenny Wheeler and Anders Jormin.

FAMILY CONCERT For age 5 plus Join clarinettist MICHAEL COLLINS and friends for an hour of musical fun, culminating in the story of ‘Igor, The Bird Who Couldn’t Sing’, with new music written by LUKE BEDFORD. Based on the book by Satoshi Kitamura published by Andersen Press.

£15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Lucille Graham Trust and The Charities Advisory Trust

Jazz Series

Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme)

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Saturday 7 May 7.30 pm

JERUSALEM QUARTET LAWRENCE POWER viola ADRIAN BRENDEL cello BRAHMS String Sextet in B b Op. 18 SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 The Jerusalem Quartet is a favourite at Wigmore Hall and for this Chamber Music Season highlight the quartet teams up with friends on viola and cello to perform two of the finest works for string sextet. Brahms’s First has a wealth of radiant melody while Schoenberg’s original version of Transfigured Night is similarly sensuous in its enjoyment of luxurious textures. £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season CUARTETO CASALS

Felix Broede

Sunday 8 May 11.30 am

CUARTETO CASALS MOZART String Quartet in E b K428 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135 This promising young Spanish group couples one of the most intense of Mozart’s six quartets dedicated to his mentor Joseph Haydn with the last of Beethoven’s astonishing late quartets.

But those who love the First Viennese masters will detect more of Haydn than Mozart in Beethoven’s masterly writing. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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Vera Reider

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Tuesday 10 May 7.30 pm

MIKHAIL RUDY piano SKRYABIN 8 Études from Opp. 8, 42 & 65 RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit CHOPIN 2 Nocturnes Op. 27; Nocturne in C # minor Op. posth; Nocturne in C minor Op. 48 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B b minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ At the centre of his dazzling programme, Russian virtuoso Mikhail Rudy includes a pinnacle of the French piano school, which many another composer has attempted to emulate though none has surpassed. A selection of Chopin’s most intimate, dark-hued Nocturnes will lead naturally into the coruscating emotional landscape of the unforgettable ‘Funeral March’ Sonata.

ALISA WEILERSTEIN

Christian Steiner

£15 £20 £25 £30 Supported by the Benefactor Friends of Wigmore Hall

Monday 9 May 1.00 pm

London Pianoforte Series

ALISA WEILERSTEIN cello GOLIJOV Omaramor BACH Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007 KODÁLY Sonata for solo cello Op. 8 The young American cellist enjoyed a rapt Proms debut audience in 2010 with Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto.

For this BBC Lunchtime Concert she tackles two of the most daunting canvases for solo cello ever composed and prefaces them with an aperitif by the eclectic contemporary composer Osvaldo Golijov. £12 concs £10

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MIKHAIL RUDY

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Wednesday 11 May 7.30 pm

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C # minor Op. 131 The Endellions open the final concert in their series with Beethoven’s everlastingly fresh and good-natured Op. 18 No. 3. Mendelssohn’s quartets were profoundly influenced

by Beethoven and Op. 80 is one of the most devastatingly intense works in the repertoire. Op. 131 is unsurpassed in its profundity, extreme inventiveness and range of expression unified into seven continuously-played movements. £12 £16 £22 £26

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET

Eric Richmond

Chamber Music Season Friday 13 May 10.00 pm Thursday 12 May 7.30 pm

CHARLES OWEN piano BACH Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A minor D845 ‘In Bach’s Partita No. 4 we sensed Owen exulting in his physical virtuosity: there was a bright brilliance to his sound, an expressive warmth and clarity of articulation; this was a stunning performance’ Independent

RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE CHARLES NEIDICH clarinet MATTHEW HALLS director BACH Goldberg Variations BWV988 (version for small ensemble)

For this recital Charles Owen has chosen three keyboard masterpieces culminating in one of Schubert’s most dramatic sonatas.

Bach’s Goldberg Variations were written, astonishingly, as a cure for his patron’s insomnia.

No chance of dropping off during this performance, though, as the Retrospect Ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall with the legendary New York clarinettist Charles Neidich for a special chamber presentation of the work.

£12 £16 £22 £26

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London Pianoforte Series

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LATE NIGHT SERIES Following the success of the Artemis Quartet and Jacques Ammon’s sell-out late night Piazzolla concert in June 2009, Wigmore Hall launches a summer series of hour-long late night concerts offering a wide range of programmes from Bach to Arvo Pärt, classical guitar to hurdy-gurdy, and improvisations on jazz, film and pop music for string quartet, drums and sound engineer.

Friday 13 May 10.00 pm

Friday 24 June 10.00 pm

RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE CHARLES NEIDICH clarinet MATTHEW HALLS director

JOANNA MACGREGOR piano

An arrangement for chamber ensemble of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

See page 33 for details

Friday 3 June 10.00 pm

PACO PEÑA guitar A rare opportunity to hear one of the most prodigious solo guitarists of our time.

See page 45 for details

Friday 17 June 10.00 pm

THE OTHER EBÈNE An exciting programme of arrangements and improvisations on jazz, film soundtracks and pop music.

See page 55 for details

Internationally renowned classical, jazz and contemporary pianist imaginatively couples preludes and fugues by Bach and Shostakovich.

See page 59 for details

Friday 8 July 10.00 pm

ENDYMION EXAUDI Instrumentalists of Endymion and vocalists Exaudi come together to explore a range of works by Arvo Pärt.

See page 67 for details

Friday 22 July 10.00 pm

LONDON HANDEL PLAYERS ALASDAIR FRASER fiddle A typically eclectic and vivacious selection of music by contemporaries of this ensemble’s namesake.

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Saturday 14 May 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER baritone GEROLD HUBER piano MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; from Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht; Ablösung im Sommer; Ich ging mit Lust; Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen; Rheinlegendchen; Der Schildwache Nachtlied; Lied des Verfolgten im Turm; Das irdische Leben; Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Kindertotenlieder One of the most prominent baritones to be heard today, Christian Gerhaher’s rich and sensitive instrument will be ideally suited to this veritable cornucopia from Mahler’s vocal treasury. He will frame the early Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with delights from Des Knaben Wunderhorn but close with the heart-rending tragedy of Kindertotenlieder which had such a deeply personal relevance for Mahler himself. £18 £25 £30 £35

ANTHONY MARWOOD

Sussie Ahlburg

Sunday 15 May 11.30 am

Song Recital Series

ANTHONY MARWOOD violin ALEKSANDAR MADZ˘ AR piano BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D934 For their third Coffee Concert of the season, Wigmore Hall favourite Anthony Marwood with pianist Aleksandar Madz˘ar conclude their traversal of the three violin sonatas of Brahms and Schumann respectively. Their other featured composer, Schubert, is represented by his late and glorious Fantasy. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert GEROLD HUBER AND CHRISTIAN GERHAHER

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Alexander Basta/Sony BMG

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Tuesday 17 May 7.30 pm

ARTEMIS QUARTET ELISABETH LEONSKAJA piano KANCHELI In I’istesso tempo SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 A feast for lovers of piano chamber music!

Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Artemis Quartet pair Giya Kancheli’s piano quartet, In l’istesso tempo, with one of Shostakovich’s best known chamber works. This is followed by another masterpiece of the chamber music repertoire, Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34.

JOHN MARK AINSLEY

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Chamber Music Season Monday 16 May 1.00 pm

JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor ROGER VIGNOLES piano BRITTEN Let the florid music praise! from On This Island; Canticle I: My beloved is mine PURCELL/BRITTEN Music for a while; Sweeter than roses POULENC C; Fêtes galantes; Bleuet; Priez pour paix BRITTEN Winter Words John Mark Ainsley is now arguably the doyen of British tenors and a natural successor in repertoire indelibly associated with Peter Pears. This recital pairs some of the earliest music from his partnership with Benjamin Britten with the mature Winter Words and music by their great friend Francis Poulenc, written for his vocal partner Pierre Bernac. £12 concs £10

ARTEMIS QUARTET

Boris Streubel

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Friday 20 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm

YCAT PUBLIC FINAL AUDITIONS 2011 YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS TRUST ( YCAT): IDENTIFYING, NURTURING, PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING EXCEPTIONAL YOUNG ARTISTS

Saturday 21 May 1.00 – 2.00 pm Tuesday 24 May 1.00 – 2.00 pm Wednesday 25 May 1.00 – 2.00 pm

BRITISH PREMIÈRES AT WIGMORE HALL In celebration of the 110th anniversary season and inspired by the Wigmore Hall archive, performers from the Royal College of Music present this series of 3 lunchtime concerts of British works premièred at Wigmore Hall. £10 concs £5 per concert In Partnership with the Royal College of Music

Set up in 1984, YCAT provides a unique stepping stone for exceptional young artists who have the potential for international performing careers. YCAT artists are identified through a rigorous annual audition process. In this third and final round, outstanding young soloists and ensembles, selected from over 100 applicants in the preliminary and semi-final rounds, audition before a distinguished panel of judges.

At a critical time in their development YCAT offers guidance and advice alongside a full artist management service to selected artists for 3– 5 years. Current and previous artists include Ian Bostridge (tenor), Joanna MacGregor (piano), Alison Balsom (trumpet), the Belcea and Heath Quartets, O Duo, Leopold String Trio and Adam Walker (flute). £10 concs £8 per session (not part of subscription scheme)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Saturday 21 May 3.00 – 6.00 pm

STUDY AFTERNOON WIGMORE HALL – PAST AND PRESENT For nearly 110 years Wigmore Hall has set the highest of standards for excellence in performance, with many of the world’s greatest artists appearing to capacity houses and the most discerning of audiences. The Hall has also become the most noted venue in London for challenge and innovation. This study afternoon explores the archive collections of both the Hall and the Royal College of Music, offering exciting insights into its rich history as a concert hall and of concert-going in London. Led by Professor Paul Banks, from the Royal College of Music’s Centre for Performance History, and Paula Best, Head of Publications & Archive at Wigmore Hall. £10 concs £6

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Monday 23 May 1.00 pm

QUATUOR EBÈNE MOZART String Quartet in D minor K421 BORODIN String Quartet No. 2 in D The French ensemble Quatuor Ebène won Gramophone magazine’s highly coveted Record of the Year in 2009 for a disc of core French repertoire. For its BBC Lunchtime Concert, however, the quartet explores the Sturm und Drang of Mozart’s D minor Quartet alongside the Russian nostalgia of Borodin’s ever-popular Second Quartet. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert META4

Antti Hannuniemi

Sunday 22 May 11.30 am

META4 HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Emperor’ BERG Lyric Suite KAIPAINEN New work (UK première)* *Co-commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and Royal Philharmonic Society

Finnish string quartet Meta4 is currently wowing audiences around the world but most particularly is among the most impressive of the current crop of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists. For its Coffee Concert the quartet showcases the Viennese schools as represented by Haydn’s glowing ‘Emperor’ Quartet and Berg’s richly expressive Lyric Suite. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice QUATUOR EBÈNE

J. Mignot

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Thursday 26 May 6.00 pm

VOICEWORKS Voiceworks is a unique collaboration between poets from the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck, University of London, and composers, singers and instrumentalists from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. New works for voice have been created through a long process of exchange, improvisation and practice.

Find out more at www.voiceworks.org.uk Free (ticket required) IAN BOSTRIDGE

Simon Fowler/EMI

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Monday 23 May 7.30 pm

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor JULIUS DRAKE piano PURCELL/TIPPETT Music for a while BACH/BRITTEN Five Spiritual Songs HAYDN Content; Sailor’s song; She never told her love; The wanderer; Fidelity PURCELL/BRITTEN The Queen’s Epicedium BRITTEN From Who are these Children? Op. 84: Nightmare; Slaughter; Who are these Children?; The Children WEILL Beat! Beat! Drums!; O captain! My captain!; Come up from the fields, father; Dirge for two veterans This special recital from Ian Bostridge with his regular partner Julius Drake contains a rich range of song in English, from Purcell and Bach as sensitively realised by Tippett and Britten to four of the William Soutar settings Britten wrote for Peter Pears in 1969. Both Haydn and Weill were away from home when they wrote their songs and the evening will have a special resonance in marking Sir John Tusa’s last day as Chairman of the Wigmore Hall Trust. £18 £25 £30 £35

Thursday 26 May 7.30 pm

GENIA KÜHMEIER soprano BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano MICHAEL SCHADE tenor THOMAS QUASTHOFF baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano JUSTUS ZEYEN piano SCHUMANN Spanische Liebeslieder Op. 138 BRAHMS Liebeslieder, Waltzes Op. 52; An die Heimat; Der Abend; O schöne Nacht; Abendlied; Neue Liebeslieder, Waltzes Op. 65 It would be difficult to construct a starrier cast of singers and pianists to bring Brahms’s glorious waltzes of love to the stage of Wigmore Hall.

These works always invoke a party atmosphere and the sense of being with friends will be deepened by Schumann’s late Spanish love songs. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

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Sunday 29 May 11.30 am

ENSEMBLE PIERRE ROBERT DE VISÉE Tombeau de Francisque Corbet CHARPENTIER Seconde leçon de ténèbres du mercredi; Répons: ‘Amicus meus’ L COUPERIN Tombeau de Monsieur Blancrocher CHARPENTIER Seconde leçon de ténèbres du jeudi; Répons: ‘Seniores populi’ MARAIS Tombeau pour Sieur de Sainte-Colombe CHARPENTIER Seconde leçon de ténèbres du vendredi

ANDRÁS SCHIFF

Birgitta Kowsky/Leipzig

Friday 27 May 7.30 pm

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano MOZART 12 Variations in Bb on an Allegretto K500 MENDELSSOHN Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54 HAYDN Variations in F minor HXVII:6 SCHUMANN Variations on an original theme in E b Op. posth.

‘Geister Variations’ BEETHOVEN 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 András Schiff’s army of admirers will need no extra persuasion to attend his long-awaited interpretation of Beethoven’s great ‘Diabelli’ Variations. With characteristic ingenuity he prepares the ground with outstanding sets of variations by two groups of intimate musical friends, Mozart and Haydn, Mendelssohn and Schumann, whose final set of variations was inspired by a theme he thought was dictated to him by the ghost of Schubert.

András Schiff dedicates this concert to the memory of Christopher Raeburn.

The celebrated Ensemble Pierre Robert will take a Coffee Concert audience back to the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Holy Week as conjured in the deeply moving Leçons de ténèbres of Marc-Antoine Charpentier. The French masters revelled in works of memory and tribute, and three touching examples will complement Charpentier’s Responses. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

Sunday 29 May 7.30 pm

THOMAS QUASTHOFF baritone ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano See feature page opposite

Monday 30 May 1.00 pm

SHAI WOSNER piano

£18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

London Pianoforte Series

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Sunday 29 May 7.30 pm

THOMAS QUASTHOFF baritone ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano The Wigmore Medal, inaugurated in 2007, recognises major international artists and significant figures in the classical music world. Awarded at the discretion of the Director of the Hall, the medal honours figures who have made a significant contribution to Wigmore Hall, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading chamber music and song recital venues.

His Excellency the German Ambassador will present the medal to Thomas Quasthoff on the stage of Wigmore Hall on 29 May 2011 in recognition of the many wonderful performances he has given there.

Programme to include MAHLER Rückert Lieder STRAUSS Songs András Schiff joins the inimitable Thomas Quasthoff, who returns to Wigmore Hall a matter of days after singing Schumann and Brahms. For this programme the two great artists move on to the richer, late-Romantic songs of Richard Strauss and the Rückert songs of his friend and colleague Gustav Mahler. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle

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110TH ANNIVERSARY GALA Tuesday 31 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

TAKÁCS QUARTET STEPHEN HOUGH piano HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 71 No. 2 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135 ˘ ÁK Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 DVOR

Christian Steiner

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Wigmore Hall opened with two inaugural concerts on 31 May and 1 June 1901, when it was known as Bechstein Hall. To mark our 110th anniversary we are proud to present two Anniversary Gala Concerts.

The first brings together one of the greatest of today’s string quartets with favourite pianist Stephen Hough. Haydn’s D major work was one of his first to be written for public performance in London and is followed here by the last of Beethoven’s masterpieces of the genre. Fun and games for all, finally, in a sunny score by Dvor˘ák. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme) Includes interval reception for all audience members Supported by the Anniversary Patrons who are providing vital support throughout the 2010 – 11 season

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JOSHUA BELL violin PAMELA FRANK violin TABEA ZIMMERMANN viola STEVEN ISSERLIS cello JEREMY DENK piano

A chamber ensemble to dream of comes together for a richly imagined feast of works ideally chosen to celebrate Wigmore Hall’s 110th anniversary. Beethoven’s ‘Eyeglass’ Duet is a rarely heard treat and the same could be said for Dvor˘ák’s Romantic miniatures, here arranged for two violins and viola.

Schubert’s last great Trio needs no introduction but perhaps it is worth pointing out that Elgar’s magisterial Piano Quintet was first performed in this hall in 1919.

Marco Borggreve

BEETHOVEN Duet in E b WoO. 32 ‘Augengläsern’ SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 2 in E b D929 ˘ ÁK Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 DVOR (arr. for 2 violins and viola) ELGAR Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84

JOSHUA BELL

PAMELA FRANK Tom Miller

Wednesday 1 June 7.00 pm NB starting time

Marc Hom

CELEBRATIONS

TABEA ZIMMERMANN

STEVEN ISSERLIS

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Monday 30 May 1.00 pm

SHAI WOSNER piano HANDEL Suite in B b HWV434 KNUSSEN Variations Op. 24 BEETHOVEN 6 Variations on an Original Theme in F Op. 34 BRAHMS Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op. 24

INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC

Young pianist-to-watch Shai Wosner brings a beautifully constructed programme of themes and variations to this BBC Lunchtime Concert. Brahms creates a monumental edifice from a limpid tune by Handel and it will be good to hear the rarely played F major Variations by Beethoven as well as Oliver Knussen’s characteristically sinuous set, Op 24.

A SCHUBERT EVENING

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£12 concs £10

Thursday 2 June 5.00 – 6.15 pm Thursday 9 June 5.00 – 6.15 pm Thursday 16 June 5.00 – 6.15 pm Thursday 23 June 5.00 – 6.15 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

SCHUBERT’S SONG CYCLES The early 19th century saw composers beginning to use music to paint the pictures that poetry suggested. Beethoven was the first to group a set of songs together to tell a story and Schubert wrote two sets which can truly be called song cycles. Through the songs of Die schöne Müllerin this study series will explore how often simple vocal tunes and piano accompaniments do everything from setting the scene to communicating emotions, from joy to despair.

With PAULINE GREENE. Linked to the Paul Lewis concerts on 21 and 23 June.

Series ticket price £24 – Tickets for Paul Lewis concerts to be purchased separately (not part of subscription scheme) SHAI WOSNER

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Thursday 2 June 7.30 pm

KLAUS GESING reeds GWILYM SIMCOCK piano Original material by GWILYM SIMCOCK and KLAUS GESING mixed with jazz standards.

Young virtuoso jazz pianist and composer Gwilym Simcock was born in Bangor, North Wales, and studied at Chetham’s School of Music. On becoming a BBC New Generation Artist his rise to stardom was complete and he has developed an individual strand of improvised composition which continues to break new ground and dazzle audiences all over the world.

His partnership with reed player Klaus Gesing is sure to excite all jazz-lovers. £15 £20 £25 £30 (not part of subscription scheme)

Jazz Series See feature on page 28

PACO PEÑA

Friday 3 June 10.00 pm Thursday 2 June 10.00 pm

PACO PEÑA guitar

IGNITE

Programme to be announced

Supported by Arts Council England, a bequest from Dr. Patricia L. Baker and Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour

Paco Peña has long been established as the king of flamenco guitarists and his multifarious ensembles of singers, dancers and other instrumentalists have enchanted audiences for several decades. He is at the same time one of the most prodigious solo guitarists and this opportunity to hear him in this guise will be warmly welcomed.

Free

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Chamber Music Season/Late Night Series

Ignite is an ensemble created by Wigmore Hall Learning with musicians from different musical backgrounds including jazz and contemporary classical music. The ensemble presents a late night concert of new works and improvised pieces in the informal setting of the Wigmore Hall restaurant.

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Sunday 5 June 11.30 am

EGGNER TRIO HAYDN Piano Trio in C HXV:27 ˘ ÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 DVOR The Austrian Eggner Trio is a young and vibrant ensemble currently building a formidable reputation in Europe and will be warmly welcomed at this Wigmore Hall Coffee Concert.

Haydn’s piano trios remain among his best-kept secrets and the late C major Trio is a score particularly rich in surprise and fantasy.

The odd touch of rustic Bohemia will then find an echo in Dvor˘ák’s powerfully coloured F minor Trio.

VANBRUGH QUARTET

Miki Barlok

£12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Saturday 4 June 7.30 pm

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T

VANBRUGH QUARTET

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Coffee Concert

25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT HAYDN String Quartet in D minor Op. 42 LERA AUERBACH String Quartet No. 3 ‘Cetera desunt’ (London première) SCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887 Celebrated Irish ensemble the Vanbrugh Quartet has long been a favourite on the British music scene and this season celebrates its 25th anniversary. The quartet returns to Wigmore Hall with a typically varied and searching programme. Schubert’s G major final Quartet is still all too rarely performed but has a mastery only surpassed in the later and more popular String Quintet.

Haydn’s genial Op. 42 Quartet stands alone between his groundbreaking Op. 33 set and the later Op. 50, while the Third Quartet by Urals-born but New York-based Lera Auerbach comes to London having been first performed less than five years ago. £12 £16 £22 £26

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Tuesday 7 June 7.30 pm

ANDREAS SCHOLL countertenor TAMAR HALPERIN piano For details see feature on page 48

Wednesday 8 June 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT EVENT RAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTIST RECITAL £6 (not part of subscription scheme) or free with evening concert (separate ticket required) ANGELA HEWITT

James Cheadle

Chamber Music Season

Monday 6 June 1.00 pm

ANGELA HEWITT piano

Wednesday 8 June 7.30 pm

BACH French Suite in C minor BWV813; French Suite in B minor BWV814 CHOPIN Nocturne in A b Op. 32 No. 2; Waltz in G b Op. 70 No. 1; Mazurka in D Op. 33 No. 2; Mazurka in C Op. 67 No. 3; Prelude in A Op. 28 No. 7; Waltz in C # minor Op. 64 No. 2; Grande valse brillante in E b Op. 18

RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE CHARLES NEIDICH clarinet

It is well documented that Bach was Chopin’s musical god and so Angela Hewitt has coupled their works to make an imaginative and well contrasted programme. Bach’s French Suites are full of idealised dances, by turn elegant and melancholy, and similar characteristics will surely emerge from a group of dances and idealised salon music which Chopin wrote, appropriately, in the French capital – a city Bach however never visited in person! £12 concs £10

MARTINU ˚ Serenade for 2 clarinets, violin, viola and cello WEBER Clarinet Quintet in B b Op. 34 BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 The Razumovsky Ensemble takes its name from Beethoven’s Russian patron and consists of a fluid and versatile group of musicians. The clarinet is the star of this concert, which opens with the piquancy of Martinu˚ ’s Serenade before juxtaposing quintets from either end of the 19th century, both inspired by the playing of the leading clarinettists of their times. £15 £20 £25 £30

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Tuesday 7 June 7.30 pm

ANDREAS SCHOLL countertenor TAMAR HALPERIN harpsichord, piano PURCELL Music for a while; Sweeter than Roses PURCELL Round O (for solo harpsichord) DOWLAND I saw my lady weep; Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears; Say, love if ever thou didst find PURCELL Suite No. 2 in G minor (for solo harpsichord) JOHNSON Have you seen the bright lily grow?

CAMPION I care not for these ladies PURCELL O solitude, my sweetest choice; Man is for the woman made Songs by SCHUBERT HAYDN The Wanderer; Recollection; Despair HAYDN Piano Sonata in A HXVI:12 (for solo piano) Songs by MOZART MOZART Rondo in F K494 (for solo piano) ANONYMOUS I will give my love an apple; Waly, waly; My love is like a red, red rose There is surely no more celebrated purveyor of the art of the countertenor than Andreas Scholl, so expect an early rush to buy these tickets! His programme concentrates on the English repertoire and will be punctuated by suitable works for solo keyboard with a welcome wander into the orchards of Vienna before returning to England for some traditional folksongs and a final foray to Scotland in the company of Robert Burns. £15 £25 £35 £40

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Thursday 9 June 7.30 pm

Friday 10 June 7.30 pm

VIENNA PIANO TRIO

DANIIL SHTODA tenor LARISSA GERGIEVA piano

MOZART Piano Trio in G K496 BERNSTEIN Piano Trio (1937) BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 Never content to rest on its well-earned laurels, the Vienna Piano Trio explores a rarely heard work by the teenage Leonard Bernstein – listen out for melodies he later pressed into service on Broadway. It will sit alongside a similarly early trio by the young firebrand Johannes Brahms, a work to which he returned several decades later to polish and perfect. No need to perfect Mozart’s K496 – perfect already! £12 £16 £22 £26

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GLINKA I remember that wonderful moment; Barcarolle; I am here, Inezilla; To Molly; Venetian night; The conqueror CUI The burnt letter; Desire; I loved you; The fountain statue at Tsarskoye Selo DARGOMÏZHSKY I am sad; I am in love, my maiden, my beauty BALAKIREV Embrace, kiss; Spanish song TCHAIKOVSKY In the midst of the ball; Again, as before, alone; It was in the early spring; We sat together; Does the day reign?

RACHMANINOV Sing not to me, beautiful maiden; Beloved, let us fly; They answered; Night is mournful; Believe me not, friend GLIÈRE O, if my mourning; In an outpouring of kindness SVIRIDOV My friend has married, but I am not sad; There is a beautiful song sung by the little nightingale; The Russian girl Daniil Shtoda has been described as a ‘Wunderkind’ with comparisons to Gedda, Wunderlich and other noted lyric tenors of the past. He is a principal soloist at the prestigious Mariinsky Theatre and has appeared at many great venues such as Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Carnegie Hall, Salzburg Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Canadian Opera, BBC Proms, Edinburgh Festival, Wigmore Hall and St John’s, Smith Square. £15 £20 £25 £30

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Saturday 11 June 7.30 pm

STEPHEN HOUGH piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 14 in C # minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’ HOUGH Sonata for Piano (broken branches) (world première) SKRYABIN Piano Sonata No. 4 in F # Op. 30; Piano Sonata No. 5 in F # Op. 53 LISZT Piano Sonata in B minor S. 178 Who can forget the astonishing painting of Liszt sitting enraptured at the piano and gazing out at the moon surrounded by adoring females? He was probably playing Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, just as Stephen Hough will cast a spell in opening this recital. He will then turn to a brand new work of his own before plunging into the hallucinatory whirlwind world of Skryabin. Liszt himself is represented by the undoubted pinnacle of his piano output.

KIT ARMSTRONG

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Sunday 12 June 11.30 am

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KIT ARMSTRONG piano

London Pianoforte Series

BACH/LISZT Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV542 LISZT Variations on Bach’s Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen S. 180; Les cloches de Genève from Années de pèlerinage (Book I); Transcendental Study No. 10 in F minor S. 138; St François d’Assise: la prédication aux oiseaux from Deux legends S. 175 Still only in his teens, California piano sensation Kit Armstrong was already astonishing audiences having composed a number of original works by the age of ten. Now a piano protégé of Alfred Brendel, he combines a musical career with mathematics studies in Paris and is sure of an enthusiastic welcome at Wigmore Hall. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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Monday 13 June 1.00 pm

BELCEA QUARTET ˘ ÁK String Quartet in E b Op. 51 DVOR JANÁC˘EK String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Wigmore Hall favourites the Belcea Quartet will surely be on coruscating form in the emotionally charged atmosphere of Janác˘ek’s late quartet as imbued by his unrequited infatuation for Kamila Stösslová. Dvor˘ák’s relatively early E b Quartet is far less well known and thus a welcome start to this BBC Lunchtime Concert. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

THOMAS HAMPSON

Dario Acosta

Monday 13 June 7.30 pm

THOMAS HAMPSON baritone WOLFRAM RIEGER piano Songs by MAHLER Commemorations marking the centenary of Mahler’s death in 1911 surely come no more eloquently to London than in this recital by baritone Thomas Hampson. Although Mahler will enjoy blockbuster symphonic presentations aplenty, it is nevertheless salutary to be reminded that at the heart of his expression there will always be song. £15 £25 £35 £40 (not part of subscription scheme)

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PAUL LEWIS/SCHUBERT SERIES Among the highlights of Wigmore Hall’s 110th anniversary season is the beginning of a two-year Schubert cycle from much-loved pianist Paul Lewis.

Presented in eight (repeated) concerts over three seasons, this series will encompass all of Schubert’s piano works as well as the three great song-cycles in partnership with Mark Padmore.

Tuesday 14 June 7.30 pm (repeated on 16 June 7.30 pm)

PAUL LEWIS piano SCHUBERT 12 Waltzes D145 SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus D899 SCHUBERT Hungarian Melody in B minor D817 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in G D894 This second concert in Paul Lewis’s two-year Schubert pilgrimage centres upon the four Impromptus which crystallised the composer’s mastery of the miniature.

Far from miniature, however, is the astonishing breadth of his great G major Piano Sonata, which was originally published as a single first movement with the helpful title ‘Fantasy’! But this is as disciplined a structure as Schubert ever conjured and to which Schumann’s inspired term ‘heavenly length’ surely applies. £18 £25 £30 £35

London Pianoforte Series & Paul Lewis/Schubert Series

Tuesday 21 June 7.30 pm (repeated on 23 June 7.30 pm)

MARK PADMORE tenor PAUL LEWIS piano SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin For details see page 58

Forthcoming dates in the Series * 15 & 17 November 2011

PAUL LEWIS 14 & 16 February 2012

MARK PADMORE & PAUL LEWIS 17 & 19 April 2012

Thursday 16 June 6.00 pm

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION PAUL LEWIS in conversation with GEOFFREY NORRIS

PAUL LEWIS 12 & 14 June 2012

MARK PADMORE & PAUL LEWIS 13 & 15 November 2012

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Wednesday 15 June 7.30 pm

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

DANIEL BARENBOIM piano For full details see feature on page 54

Friday 17 June 3.00 – 6.00 pm Tuesday 21 June 3.00 – 6.00 pm Friday 24 June 3.00 – 6.00 pm

Thursday 16 June 6.00 pm

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION

DEBUSSY’S ‘PRÉLUDE A L’APRÈS-MIDI D’UN FAUNE’

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Thursday 16 June 7.30 pm

PAUL LEWIS piano Repeat of concert on 14 June (see feature left ) £18 £25 £30 £35

London Pianoforte Series & Paul Lewis/Schubert Series

To many, Debussy’s Prélude a L’après-midi d’un faun composed in 1894 heralds a whole new era of sonorous and expressive possibility.

This final Wigmore Study Group of the season devotes three afternoons to exploring its elusive poetry. Tied to Philippe Graffin’s ‘Consonances in Miniature’ on 25 June – which features a chamber reorchestration of the Debussy by British Composer David Matthews – participants will not only explore the work in relation to the development of Debussy’s compositional language but also the broader context of late 19th-century Parisian culture. Hosted by composer JULIAN PHILIPS with contributions from distinguished musicologists and musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Series ticket price £53 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 25 June.

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Wednesday 15 June 7.30 pm

DANIEL BARENBOIM piano WORKS BY SCHUBERT In Wigmore Hall’s 110th anniversary celebrations, Daniel Barenboim, who first appeared here at the age of 15, will be welcomed back with great warmth.

Renowned for his Beethoven performances, which have thrilled audiences in London and around the world in recent years, he now turns to the fierce German’s younger Viennese contemporary, Franz Schubert. Every bit as much of a pioneer of Romantic pianism as Beethoven, Schubert excelled both in miniatures and in large-scale sonatas. His late music, composed as he grew aware of his imminent death from syphilis, the scourge of the Romantic artist, reaches levels of almost heart-breaking intensity. £30 £40 £50 £60 (not part of subscription scheme) Booking limited to two tickets only per person Supported by Aubrey Adams

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Friday 17 June 10.00 pm

THE OTHER EBÈNE QUATUOR EBÈNE RICHARD HÉRY drums FABRICE PLANCHAT sound engineer Gramophone Record of the Year winner Quatuor Ebène is nothing if not versatile and vivacious, and this programme presents the group as ‘The Other Ebène’ in tandem with drummer Richard Héry while Fabrice Planchat engineers a new world of sound for them in repertoire drawn from a plethora of sources. Listen out for jazz improvisations, film soundtracks and popular musics of all sorts.

DANTE STRING QUARTET

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DANTE STRING QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in D minor Op. 103 (unfinished) SCHUMANN String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 SIBELIUS String Quartet in D minor Op. 56 ‘Voces Intimae’ The Dante String Quartet has been gathering plaudits for its richly varied repertoire on disc and has rapidly gained a wide fan base from festival appearances throughout the UK and beyond. Here, for Wigmore Hall, the quartet opens with Haydn’s very last work in the genre, only the second and third movements of which he completed. Schumann turned to Haydn for inspiration when he composed three quartets in the remarkable ‘year of chamber music’, 1842. Sibelius’s only string quartet is far too rarely heard in public but its intimate sounds come from the heart. £12 £16 £22 £26

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Sunday 19 June 7.30 pm

ANN MURRAY DBE mezzo-soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

ANN MURRAY DBE

Sian Trenberth

Sunday 19 June 11.30 am

MARIANNE THORSEN violin HÅVARD GIMSE piano MOZART Violin Sonata in B b K454 FAURÉ Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Marianne Thorsen will be no stranger to Wigmore Hall regulars from her appearances with the Nash Ensemble and the Leopold String Trio. With fellow Norwegian pianist Håvard Gimse she moves from one of Mozart’s most genial and ambitious violin sonatas to the youthful ardour and lyrical abundance of Fauré’s first instrumental masterpiece.

PURCELL Music for a while; I attempt from love’s sickness to fly from The Indian Queen; Fairest Isle from King Arthur; One charming night SCHUMANN Kennst du das Land?; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiß mich nicht reden; Singet nicht in Trauertönen; So laßt micht scheinen BRAHMS Ständchen; Wie Melodien zieht es mir; Der Schmied; Wir wandelten; Dein blaues Auge hält so still; Meine Liebe ist grün FAURÉ Le papillon et la fleur; Au bord de l’eau; Chanson d’amour; Après un rêve; Clair de lune; Green POULENC Fancy; La grenouillère; L’anguille; Carte postale; Avant le cinéma; 1904 MOZART Voi che sapete from Le nozze di Figaro HANDEL Ombra mai fu from Serse; Scherza infida from Ariodante It is difficult to imagine a singer who inspires greater affection and admiration than Ann Murray DBE. With Malcolm Martineau at the piano, this beautifully balanced programme delves into every corner of her recital repertoire, from Purcell favourites to a collection of Poulenc’s best-loved mélodies. But her listeners will be especially alert to the richly nuanced selection from the Lieder of Schumann and Brahms.

As for Fauré, she has chosen some of his very finest settings and there are bound to be encores aplenty! £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series

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Monday 20 June 7.30 pm

SOLOISTS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA NICHOLAS CARPENTER clarinet JOHN RYAN horn KATYA APEKISHEVA piano BRAHMS Horn Trio in E b Op. 40 MARTINU ˚ Sextet for piano and wind BEETHOVEN Wind Sextet in E b Op. 71 BRAHMS Clarinet Trio in A minor Op. 114 BENJAMIN GROSVENOR

Monday 20 June 1.00 pm

BENJAMIN GROSVENOR piano SCARLATTI 2 Sonatas MOMPOU Cancion y danza No. 1; Cancion y danza No. 3; Cancion y danza No. 6 LISZT Rhapsodie espagnole ALBÉNIZ Iberia (Book 1) MOSZKOWSKI Chanson bohème

The soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra are joined by up-and-coming pianist Katya Apekisheva for two of Brahms’s greatest chamber works, in which his abiding love for the horn is followed by a later love-affair with Richard Mühlfeld’s clarinet. The versatility of this ensemble also enables them to programme rarely heard sextets by Beethoven and Martinu˚ . £12 £16 £22 £26

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Already acclaimed at the age of 18 as a ‘master-pianist’ by Gramophone magazine, Benjamin Grosvenor enjoyed early stardom as winner of the Keyboard final of the BBC Young Musician competition in 2004. For this BBC Lunchtime Concert he has constructed an ingenious selection of music by Spanish composers and others inspired by the magic of Iberia. £12 concs £10 Benjamin Grosvenor is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

KATYA APEKISHEVA

Rosaleen Sarkic

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Wednesday 22 June 7.30 pm

˘ KAMPA QUARTET S SCHUBERT Quartettsatz in C minor D703 SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 ˘ ÁK String Quartet No. 14 in A b Op. 105 DVOR

˘kampa Quartet from Wigmore Hall regulars the S the Czech Republic fly their national flag by performing one of Dvor˘ák’s late masterworks, which is imbued with a natural love of his native music allied to an innate understanding of the genre. Shostakovich’s Third Quartet has proved to be one of his enduring masterpieces and lovers of Schubert will still regret that he failed to finish his C minor Quartet of which the first movement is a tantalising taster. £12 £16 £22 £26 MARK PADMORE

Chamber Music Season Marco Borggreve

Tuesday 21 June 7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor PAUL LEWIS piano SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin In an increasingly crowded field, there can nevertheless be few more welcome partnerships than that of tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Paul Lewis. Together they bring a masterly and refreshing insight to the world of Schubert’s groundbreaking song cycles which continue to cast an unrivalled spell on singers and audiences alike. This recital forms part of Paul Lewis’s two-year Schubert residency at Wigmore Hall.

Thursday 23 June 7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor PAUL LEWIS piano Repeat of concert on 21 June £18 £25 £30 £35

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Friday 24 June 7.00 pm NB starting time

THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK ANDREW CARWOOD director PLAINSONG Antiphon: Assumpta est Maria PALESTRINA Motet: Assumpta est Maria; Missa Assumpta est Maria ALLEGRI Gustate et videte QUAGLIATI Ego dormio ALLEGRI Miserere mei CASCIOLINI Angelus Domini FRESCOBALDI O mors illa PALESTRINA Canite tuba Fresh from the triumphant conclusion of their Byrd Edition, the final volume of which is Gramophone magazine’s Record of the Year 2010, The Cardinall’s Musick explore some central canonic works of the Italian Renaissance. Palestrina’s immaculate counterpoint will be heard to mellifluous effect in the Mass and motet Assumpta est Maria while Allegri’s heart-stopping Miserere will remind many of Ash Wednesday broadcast services from St John’s College, Cambridge, in whose unique choir Andrew Carwood once sang. £15 £20 £25 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series

JOANNA MACGREGOR

Peter Williams

Friday 24 June 10.00 pm

JOANNA MACGREGOR piano BACH 5 Preludes and Fugues from The Welltempered Clavier Book I: in C BWV846; in C minor BWV847; in E b minor BWV853; in G BWV860; in B minor BWV869 Interspersed with SHOSTAKOVICH 5 Preludes and Fugues from Op. 87: No. 1 in C; No. 19 in E b; No. 15 in D b; No. 5 in D; No. 8 in F# minor Joanna MacGregor is well known for her exploration of the piano’s rich hinterland.

On this occasion, however, she turns to the keyboard ‘Old Testament’ for five preludes and fugues by Bach, which she imaginatively couples with related selections from Shostakovich’s Bach-inspired collection, Op. 87. £12 concs £10

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Sunday 26 June 11.30 am

FINGHIN COLLINS piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 18 in E b Op. 31 No. 3 DEBUSSY Images, Series 1; Images, Series 2; L’isle joyeuse

PHILIPPE GRAFFIN

Marco Borggreve

Irish pianist Finghin Collins takes a break from his highly acclaimed traversal of Schumann’s piano output to give us a mellow early sonata by Beethoven followed by seven of Debussy’s most vivid and brilliantly realised musical pictures.

Saturday 25 June 7.30 pm

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PHILIPPE GRAFFIN violin TRULS MØRK cello JULIETTE HUREL flute CHEN HALEVI clarinet STEPHEN KOVACEVICH piano CLAIRE DÉSERT piano

Coffee Concert

CONSONANCES IN MINIATURE BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101 BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 SCHOENBERG Phantasy Op. 47 SCHOENBERG/WEBERN Kammersymphonie No. 1 Op. 9 DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (arr. D Matthews) Philippe Graffin, Artistic Director of the Consonances de SaintNazaire chamber music festival, gathers together a galaxy of instrumental stars to join him in a feast of varied repertoire to mark the 20th anniversary of the festival. The programme concludes with Debussy’s renowned symphonic poem, arranged by David Matthews for piano 4 hands, violin, cello, flute and clarinet. £15 £20 £25 £30

Monday 27 June 1.00 pm

ELISABETH LEONSKAJA piano SCHUBERT Allegretto in C minor D915 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A D664 SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ No BBC Lunchtime Concert series would be complete without an appearance by Elisabeth Leonskaja, protégée and friend of the great Sviatoslav Richter. She is especially renowned for her interpretations of Schubert and on this occasion will follow the lyrical and relaxed ‘Little’ A major Sonata with the racy rhetoric of the virtuoso ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy. £12 concs £10

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Tuesday 28 June 7.30 pm

SIMON KEENLYSIDE baritone MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1880 –1890

SIMON KEENLYSIDE

Uwe Arens

Tuesday 28 June 2.00 – 5.00 pm

STUDY AFTERNOON DECADE BY DECADE: 100 YEARS OF GERMAN SONG 1810 –1910 With SUSAN YOUENS and MALCOLM MARTINEAU In the 1,382 pages of Ernst Challier’s Great Song Catalogue of 1885, thousands of 19th-century songs are listed – and it is an incomplete catalogue. The rise of commercial music publishing, great poets who wrote of subjective experience and visionary worlds, and great composers interested in new relationships between poetry and music were all factors in the creation of a rich and evolving genre. This study afternoon will trace the history of familiar and unfamiliar songs, discovering the poets favoured by composers from Beethoven to Berg and exploring how composers responded to one another’s songs over the span of 100 years.

BRAHMS Kein Haus, keine Heimat; Schön war, das ich dir weihte; Ständchen; Wir wandelten; Auf dem Kirchhofe PFITZNER Nachtwanderer; Lockung; Im Herbst; Der Kühne STRAUSS Zueignung; Allerseelen; Winternacht; Heimkehr; Seitdem dein Aug’ in meines schaute; Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne; Ständchen; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten WOLF Lieder to texts by Mörike and Goethe Malcolm Martineau continues his fascinating traversal of the 19th-century song repertoire ‘Decade by Decade’ and here reaches the 1880s. Who better to join him in riches by Brahms, Strauss, Wolf and the lesser-known Pfitzner than one of England’s finest baritones, Simon Keenlyside? Few singers are as comfortable on operatic stage as well as concert platform and Keenlyside’s unique sensitivity to text and nuance allows him a rich interpenetration of both. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by the Decade by Decade Song Syndicate

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CHRISTOPHER RAEBURN MEMORIAL CONCERT Wednesday 29 June 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano Programme to include BRAHMS Volkslieder Songs by SCHUMANN to include Der Nussbaum; Requiem; Der Einsiedler Solo piano works to be announced £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

Record-lovers will forever be indebted to the late Christopher Raeburn whose legacy as a producer is thankfully available for all to hear. Some of his favourite artists continue to revere his memory and this concert brings together two of today’s stellar performers to present a memorial concert of solo piano repertoire and song. Wigmore Hall meant a great deal to Christopher Raeburn and he was held in similarly high affection by all at Wigmore Hall, therefore the staff and management are very proud to be able to honour his memory in this way.

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Thursday 30 June 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK SIR NICHOLAS KENYON on Bach, Handel, Purcell and the rise of early music £3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event TREVOR PINNOCK

Peer Lindgreen

Thursday 30 June 7.30 pm

TREVOR PINNOCK harpsichord CAROLYN SAMPSON soprano BEATRIX HUELSEMANN violin JANE GORDON violin CHRISTIAN GOOSSES viola RICHARD LESTER cello JAMES MUNRO violone KATY BIRCHER flute TREVOR PINNOCK AND FRIENDS WITH CAROLYN SAMPSON PURCELL Airs and Dances from The Fairy Queen BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D BWV1050 BACH Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 HANDEL Ma quando tornerai from Alcina; My father from Hercules; Myself I shall adore from Semele Trevor Pinnock is one of Britain’s most accomplished harpsichord virtuosos with an enviable ability to turn his hand to conducting.

In this programme he demonstrates both gifts in music by three Baroque giants in company with the irrepressible Carolyn Sampson and a group of hand-picked instrumental soloists.

Friday 1 July 7.30 pm

RUTH ZIESAK soprano MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano SCHUMANN From Myrthen: Widmung; Der Nußbaum; Jemand; Lied der Braut I & II; Rätsel; Die Hochländer-Witwe; Hochländisches Wiegenlied; Liederkreis Op. 39 SCHUMANN Kinderscenen (solo piano) SCHUBERT Suleika I; Wonne der Wehmut; Geheimes; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Suleika II LISZT Der du von dem Himmel bist; Du bist wie eine Blume; Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Freudvoll und leidvoll; Die Loreley SCHUBERT Der Hirt auf dem Felsen ( The Shepherd on the Rock)

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András Schiff continues his Wigmore Hall association by this welcome teaming-up with clarinettist Michael Collins and soprano Ruth Ziesak for a concert in his series ‘Songs – With and Without Words’.

Supported by Huttons Collins Partners LLP

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Sunday 3 July 7.30 pm

FLORILEGIUM ASHLEY SOLOMON director, flute, recorder

RACHEL PODGER violin, guest director ALEXANDRA BELLAMY oboe RICHARD FOMISON trumpet DAME EMMA KIRKBY soprano FLORILEGIUM

Amit Lennon

FLORILEGIUM’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY To celebrate Florilegium’s 20th anniversary, the ensemble presents a weekend of music by JS Bach. Rachel Podger returns to the ensemble of which she was a founding member as guest director in these performances of the complete Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites. Vocal and instrumental soloists include Dame Emma Kirkby for part of the famous ‘Coffee’ Cantata, and tenor Julian Podger in arias from Cantata No. 55.

BACH Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066 BACH Aria: Ei, wie schmeckt der Coffee süße from ‘Coffee Cantata’ BWV211 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV1048 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F BWV1047 BACH Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 BACH Aria: Ich habe genug from Cantata BWV82 Ich habe genug BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F BWV1046 £20 £30 £35 £40

Early Music and Baroque Series

Saturday 2 July 7.30 pm

FLORILEGIUM ASHLEY SOLOMON director, flute, recorder RACHEL PODGER violin, guest director JULIAN PODGER tenor BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV1068 BACH Arias from Cantata BWV55 Ich armer Mensch BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D BWV1050 BACH Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D BWV1069 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B b BWV1051 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G BWV1049 £20 £30 £35 £40

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Chris Stock Photography

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Sunday 3 July 11.30 am

RICHARD HARWOOD cello CHRISTOPH BERNER piano BEETHOVEN 12 Variations in F on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 BRIDGE Cello Sonata in D minor Gifted young British cellist Richard Harwood pairs two D minor cello sonatas, one by Frank Bridge, friend and teacher of Benjamin Britten, who persuaded the great Rostropovich to record the Bridge sonata; it was for Rostropovich that Shostakovich wrote his equally impassioned Soviet-era Sonata. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

IMOGEN COOPER

Sussie Ahlburg

Coffee Concert Monday 4 July 1.00 pm

IMOGEN COOPER piano BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata in D Op. 10 No. 3 CHOPIN Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Nocturne in D b Op. 27 No. 2; Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23 Imogen Cooper revisits an early Beethoven sonata which she recorded at the outset of her career and then turns her attention to some of Chopin’s most Beethovenian inspirations. Even though Chopin was a little grudging in his admiration for the Viennese giant, his shadow nevertheless can be felt in the powerful rhetoric of the G minor Ballade and the wondrous structure of the F minor Fantaisie. £12 concs £10

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Thursday 7 July 7.30 pm

LARS VOGT piano JANÁC˘EK In the Mists SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in G D894 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 DIANA DAMRAU

Tanja Niemann

Wednesday 6 July 7.30 pm

DIANA DAMRAU soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

Lars Vogt begins with Janác˘ek’s impressionistic piano cycle In the Mists, which leads into Schubert’s most serene Sonata in G major, and the concentrated mastery of Beethoven’s last piano sonata. £15 £20 £25 £30

1890 –1900 WOLF From Italienisches Liederbuch: Du denkst mit einem Fädchen mich zu fangen; Wie lange schon; Mein Liebster ist so klein; Ihr jungen Leute, die ihr zieht ins Feld; Mein Liebster hat zu Tische mich geladen; Schweig’ einmal still; Verschling der Abgrund; Ich hab in Penna einen Liebsten ZEMLINSKY Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Volksliedern HUMPERDINCK Die Lerche; Romanze; Wiegenlied; Die Schwalbe; Unter der Linden STRAUSS Schlagende Herzen; Cäcilie; Hat gesagt – bleibt’s nicht dabei; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Leises Lied; Das Rosenband; Ruhe, meine Seele; Herr Lenz; Leise Lieder; Die sieben Siegel; Ich trage meine Minne; Himmelsboten; Nachtgang

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Malcolm Martineau continues his song recital series ‘Decade

by Decade: 100 Years of German Song’ with this compendium from the 1890s. Dominated by the full flowering of Richard Strauss’s genius and Wolf’s final decade of tragic expression, the programme also finds space for some gems by Engelbert Humperdinck and Alexander von Zemlinsky. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by the Decade by Decade Song Syndicate

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LARS VOGT

Felix Broede

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Friday 8 July 7.00 pm NB starting time

YOUNG SONGMAKERS MARTHA GUTH soprano JOANNE THOMAS mezzo-soprano BEN JOHNSON tenor MARCUS FARNSWORTH baritone GRAHAM JOHNSON piano A NIGHT IN VENICE – A SERENADE TO SERENISSIMA VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Serenade to Music (excerpts) MONTEVERDI Ardo e scoprir VIVALDI Laudamus te from Gloria ROSSINI Scene e barcarola from Otello SCHUBERT Gondelfahrer SCHUMANN Zwei Venetianische Lieder J STRAUSS II Duets from Eine Nacht in Venedig MENDELSSOHN Venetianisches Gondellied SULLIVAN When a merry maiden marries from The Gondoliers ROSSINI Anzoletta co passa la regatta; La regata veneziana OFFENBACH Barcarolle from Les contes d’Hoffmann GOUNOD Venise FAURÉ A Clymène MASSENET Souvenir de Venise POULENC Toréador; Fancy BRITTEN Fancie; Excerpts from The Turn of the Screw and Death in Venice STRAVINSKY Baba the Turk scene from The Rake’s Progress HEAD St. Mark’s Square Venice or ‘La Serenissima’ has long been regarded as one of the most romantic cities in the world and provided a source of inspiration for numerous composers. In this programme, specially devised by Graham Johnson, he brings together four Young Songmakers in a musical salute to Venice. £15 £20 £25 £30

GRAHAM JOHNSON

Clive Barda

Friday 8 July 10.00 pm

ENDYMION EXAUDI PÄRT Fratres PÄRT Summa PÄRT Ein Wallfahrtslied (Pilgrims’ Song) PÄRT Stabat mater Luxury casting brings together the instrumentalists of Endymion and vocalists Exaudi to explore a range of Arvo Pärt’s output. Fratres and Summa exemplify his unique brand of mesmeric repetition and will be known to many from films and television, while the Stabat mater combines voices and strings to hypnotic effect. £12 concs £10

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Sunday 10 July 11.30 am

JACK LIEBECK violin KATYA APEKISHEVA piano BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 3 in E b Op. 12 No. 3 SZYMANOWSKI Three Myths Op. 30 SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105 With his regular partner Katya Apekisheva on the piano, rising violin star Jack Liebeck consolidates his classical reputation with the iconic sonatas

by Beethoven and Schumann. In between he turns to the heady, perfumed world of Polish genius Karol Szymanowski, whose Three Myths are rapidly becoming part of the established violin repertoire.

DANNY DRIVER

Richard Haughton

Saturday 9 July 7.30 pm

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Coffee Concert

DANNY DRIVER piano C P E BACH Piano Sonata in B b H25 SCHUMANN Symphonic Studies Op. 13 DEBUSSY Images, Series 2 DALE Night Fancies – Impromptu in D b for piano Op. 3 BOWEN Piano Sonata in B b minor Op. 160 Piano-fanciers will already be alert to the starry rise of Danny Driver, partly through his championing on disc of the piano music of York Bowen. For this Wigmore Hall recital he leads up to a performance of Bowen’s B b minor Sonata by way of a father of classical keyboard music in C PE Bach and Schumann’s monumental Symphonic Studies. Germanic fantasy then gives way to some of Debussy’s most evocative musical paintings and with typical imagination Driver gives us a sampling of Benjamin Dale’s piano music. £15 £20 £25 £30

JACK LIEBECK

Tim Meara

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Monday 11 July 1.00 pm

IESTYN DAVIES countertenor JULIUS DRAKE piano MACRAE The Lif of this world POULENC Le bestiaire KINDSDOTTIR Haiku FAURÉ Clair de lune PHIBBS The moon’s funeral DOWLAND In darkness let me dwell MAHLER Um Mitternacht VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Orpheus with his lute; The water mill; The sky above the roof FAURÉ Prison ROE To God DUNHILL The Cloths of Heaven RUBBRA Psalm 150 THE BROOK STREET BAND

Kate Mount

Sunday 10 July 7.30 pm

THE BROOK STREET BAND Programme to include LECLAIR Première recréation de musique d’une exécution facile Op. 6; Sonata in D Op. 2 No. 8 COUPERIN 8e concert dans le goût théatral HANDEL Trio Sonata in G Op. 5 No. 4 HWV399 In anticipation of Bastille Day, The Brook Street Band travels to France, delving into its rich and distinct musical heritage and exploring the impact Handel and his French contemporaries had on each other. Join the Band on its sensual Gallic chamber music journey with composers including Handel, Leclair and Couperin.

Iestyn Davies’s mellifluous voice first came to general prominence as a member of the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, from where he immediately graduated to the top grade in his profession. Acclaimed in the opera house, he is an equally powerful presence on the concert platform. This programme will surprise many in tackling repertoire rarely heard from a countertenor and includes two new works from Stuart MacRae and Joseph Phibbs. £12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

‘... the Band is as deliciously poised and pertinent as ever ’ BBC Music Magazine £12 £16 £22 £24

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Tuesday 12 July 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW piano MOZART Piano Sonata in F K533/494 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in C minor D958 SCHUMANN Fantasy in C Op. 17 Christian Blackshaw has enjoyed a long and varied career, studying both in Leningrad and later with Sir Clifford Curzon in London. He brings three pillars of the piano repertoire to this Wigmore Hall recital. When Schumann heard the news of Schubert’s death in 1828 he was reputed to have wept all night. The C minor Sonata was one of Schubert’s final triptych and Schumann’s Fantasy, although designed originally as a tribute to Beethoven, also seems haunted by Schubert’s lyrical genius. £15 £20 £25 £30

JUPITER QUARTET

Merri Cyr

Wednesday 13 July 7.30 pm

JUPITER QUARTET WEBERN Langsamer Satz BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3 KURTÁG Hommage à Mihály András (12 Microludes) Op. 13 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B b Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

London Pianoforte Series

The Jupiter Quartet is so named because the planet dominated the skies when it was formed ten years ago and is also an astrological symbol for the number four. They tackle a work which is arguably the brightest in the quartet repertoire’s constellation of masterworks – Beethoven’s late B b Quartet, which they will perform as originally intended, with the Grosse Fuge as finale. The challenge of late Beethoven was suitably met in Bartók’s pioneering single-movement Third Quartet and will also echo through the pages of Webern and Kurtág. £12 £16 £22 £26

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STILE ANTICO One of the brightest of the new crop of vocal groups specialising in early music, Stile Antico won a Gramophone Award in 2009 for its collection ‘Song of Songs’. This typically resourceful programme for Wigmore Hall’s Early Music and Baroque Series contrasts English sacred masterpieces from the Elizabethan and Stuart eras with contemporary works from the European continent, and will also demonstrate rare versatility in introducing a piece by leading British composer John McCabe.

Friday 15 July 6.00 pm

Friday 15 July 7.30 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK

PASSION AND RESURRECTION

MICHAEL WHITE on ‘Passion and Resurrection – A musical journey through the events of Holy Week’

CORNYSH Woefully arrayed GIBBONS Hosanna to the son of David TALLIS O Sacrum convivium DE LASSUS In monte Oliveti VICTORIA O vos omnes MORALES O crux, ave MCCABE Woefully arrayed TAVERNER Dum transisset sabbatum GOMBERT Tulerunt Dominum meum LOBO Maria Magdalene GIBBONS I am the resurrection CRECQUILLON Congratulamini mihi LHÉRITIER Surrexit pastor bonus BYRD In resurrectione tua

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Sunday 17 July 11.30 am

FRANÇOIS CHAPLIN piano CHOPIN Nocturne in B b minor Op. 9 No. 1 FAURÉ Nocturne No. 1 in E b minor Op. 33 No. 1 CHOPIN Barcarolle in F # Op. 60; Nocturne in C # minor Op. posth; Étude in A b Op. 25 No. 1 DEBUSSY No. 11 from Études Book II: Pour les arpèges composés; from Préludes Book 1: Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir; La cathédrale engloutie; from Préludes Book II: Feux d’artifice CHOPIN Waltz in A b Op. 69 No. 1; Waltz in A b Op. 34 No. 1 DEBUSSY L’isle joyeuse SUSAN GRAHAM

Dario Acosta

Saturday 16 July 7.30 pm

SUSAN GRAHAM mezzo-soprano MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano 1900 –1910

The exciting young French pianist François Chaplin brings together some of Chopin’s most memorable pieces and extends his hands across the decades to embrace the contrasted worlds of Fauré and Debussy. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

Songs by REGER and LEHÁR MAHLER Rückert Lieder BERG Sieben frühe Lieder SCHOENBERG Cabaret songs To conclude the survey ‘Decade by Decade: 100 Years of German Song’, American diva Susan Graham joins Malcolm Martineau for a programme which finds Europe on the cusp of a new century and a new style. Mahler was to die in 1911 and was a powerful influence on a group of Viennese composers led by Schoenberg, who would eventually take them over the abyss of World War I into serialism and beyond. Such concerns, however, left Reger and Lehár untouched. £18 £25 £30 £35 Supported by the Decade by Decade Song Syndicate

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FRANÇOIS CHAPLIN

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Tuesday 19 July 7.30 pm

WALDSTEIN ENSEMBLE MOZART Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25

With RICHARD EGARR

Composers of piano quartets seem for some reason to love the key of G minor and Mozart, Brahms and Fauré alike have conjured some of their most felicitous textures for this instrumental combination in this key. And yet this extraordinary musical canvas will touch upon three completely contrasted musical aesthetics, from Viennese Classicism to French Impressionism via the Hungarian-inspired fantasy of Brahms.

Free (ticket required)

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Chamber Music Season

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC

Marco Borggreve

Monday 18 July 6.30 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK

Monday 18 July 7.30 pm

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC RICHARD EGARR director THE BACH DYNASTY: J S BACH’S CANTATAS BACH Cantata BWV20 ‘O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort’ BACH Cantata BWV126 ‘Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort’ BACH Cantata BWV146 ‘Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal’ The AAM and Choir of the AAM bring some of J S Bach’s most inspirational music to the stage of Wigmore Hall as part of The Bach Dynasty series. In the words of Richard Egarr: ‘JS Bach’s cantatas represent the true kernel of his compositional life – they contain simply everything.’

WALDSTEIN ENSEMBLE

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Thursday 21 July 7.30 pm

ALEXANDER CHAUSHIAN cello YEVGENY SUDBIN piano STRAVINSKY Suite italienne from Pulcinella arr. for cello & piano SCHNITTKE Cello Sonata No. 1 (dedicated to Natalia Gutman) RACHMANINOV Vocalise PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C Op. 119 The formidable collaboration of two of today’s most highly acclaimed young performers, Armenian cellist Alexander Chaushian and Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, has attracted much attention and superlative reviews. They return to Wigmore Hall with a programme of Russian masterpieces for cello and piano.

DAVID FRAY

Paolo Roversi/Virgin Classics

Wednesday 20 July 7.30 pm

DAVID FRAY piano

‘Two talents in glorious harmony’ Geoffrey Norris, Daily Telegraph £12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season

MOZART Piano Sonata in D K311 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’ MOZART Fantasia in C minor K475 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ When the young Beethoven travelled from Bonn to Vienna in 1787 with the intention of pressing Mozart into giving him piano lessons, the mercurial maestro was too busy finishing Don Giovanni to give him more than a cursory listen and to proclaim that one day he would make a great noise in the world. The two halves of this recital from David Fray will show how prescient were his remarks. £15 £20 £25 £30

ALEXANDER CHAUSHIAN

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Friday 22 July 10.00 pm

LONDON HANDEL PLAYERS ALASDAIR FRASER fiddle CLARE SALAMAN hurdy-gurdy Programme to include OSWALD Airs for the Seasons VIVALDI/CHÉDEVILLE Spring from The Four Seasons for hurdy-gurdy LECLAIR Violin Sonata in A Op. 1 No. 5 OSWALD Trio Sonatas GEMINIANI Trio Sonatas Scottish Airs by MCGIBBON and OSWALD Music by RAMEAU, LECLAIR and BARSANTI ALICE COOTE

An exciting collaboration between period-instrument ensemble the London Handel Players and the renowned Scottish fiddler, Alasdair Fraser. Fraser’s irrepressible folk-playing together with the stylishness and refinement of the London Handel Players recreates the fusion of these two styles which was so fashionable in the late Baroque and early Classical periods. James Oswald’s tercentenary is celebrated with his popular Airs for the Seasons alongside Spring from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in Chédeville’s intriguing arrangement for hurdy-gurdy, featuring Clare Salaman.

Celtic verve and folk-inspired music by Rameau, Leclair and Barsanti add to the rich tapestry of this unique partnership. £12 concs £10

Early Music and Baroque Series/Late Night Series See Late Night Series feature on page 34

Saturday 23 July 11.00 am

MEMORIAL CONCERT FOR PAULINE MARA

Anne-Marie Le Blé

Saturday 23 July 7.30 pm

ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano JULIUS DRAKE piano LOVE AND LIFE IN FRENCH MÉLODIES Programme to include songs by HAHN, SATIE, POULENC, DEBUSSY and FAURÉ Alice Coote has, over the past decade or so, become one of the country’s best-loved singers, admired as much for her penetrating identification with the characters she portrays as for her rich, handsome mezzo-soprano voice.

The recital platform is central to her musical life, though, and this evening’s sequence of French mélodies is sure to demonstrate her wonderful talents to the full. £18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

Song Recital Series

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Saturday 23 July 11.00 am

MEMORIAL CONCERT FOR PAULINE MARA MARK PADMORE tenor JOSHUA BELL violin STEVEN ISSERLIS cello DAVID WATERMAN cello WILLIAM BENNETT flute MAGGIE COLE harpsichord THOMAS ADÈS piano ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano STEPHEN HOUGH piano Steven Isserlis is joined by musical friends and luminaries for a concert in memory of his wife, Pauline, who died last year following a long battle with cancer.

The programme will include works by BACH, BEETHOVEN, SCHUBERT and FAURÉ, and the London première of ADÈS’s Lieux retrouvés (for cello and piano). £15 £25 £35 £40 In aid of the Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead

JOSHUA BELL Christian Steiner

Maurice Foxall

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MARK PADMORE Birgitta Kowsky, Leipzig

STEVEN ISSERLIS

Marc Hom

Kevin Davis

Marco Borggreve

Chamber Music Season

ANDRÁS SCHIFF

STEPHEN HOUGH

Thursday 28 July 7.30 pm

YEVGENY SUDBIN piano BEETHOVEN 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 LISZT 3 Petrarch Sonnets SHOSTAKOVICH 4 Preludes RACHMANINOV 4 Preludes MEDTNER Sonata tragica Op. 39 No. 5

MICHELANGELO QUARTET

Marco Borggreve

Yevgeny Sudbin has consolidated his international reputation as one of the most significant of today’s young pianists. His recent recordings of Haydn sonatas and Beethoven concertos have met with the acclaim of his previous recordings, and his many recitals throughout the world have included recent debuts in the Southbank International Piano Series and the Master Pianist series at Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. He returns to Wigmore Hall with a typically varied and interesting programme.

Sunday 24 July 11.30 am

‘Any chance to hear him should be snapped up’ Daily Telegraph

MICHELANGELO QUARTET

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BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ ˘ ÁK String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ DVOR

London Pianoforte Series

The Michelangelo Quartet has recently begun a project to record the complete Beethoven string quartets, and for this Coffee Concert pairs the Russian-tinged third ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet with Dvor˘ák’s best known work in the genre, which makes explicit use of the sounds he heard in America, ranging from rousing Spirituals to the rattle of the train that conveyed him to his Iowa retreat. £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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Mark Harrison

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Saturday 30 July 7.30 pm

JACK QUARTET The JACK Quartet has made a splash with its recording of the complete quartets of Iannis Xenakis and its championing of works that exist at the cutting edge of quartet repertoire. They preface Xenakis’s Tetras with modern classics by Ligeti and Cage, along with Matthias Pintscher’s new – and beguilingly hushed – Study IV. LIGETI String Quartet No. 2 MATTHIAS PINTSCHER Study IV for Treatise on the Veil CAGE String Quartet in 4 Parts XENAKIS Tetras £12 £16 £22 £26

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Final Concerts of the 2010 – 11 Season

JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS cello BACH CELLO SUITES A cloud of Icelandic volcanic ash prevented Jean-Guihen Queyras from performing Bach’s six Solo Cello Suites when originally slated to do so – but at last London audiences will have the chance to hear these monuments of the repertoire performed by the young French cellist, who recorded them to great acclaim in 2008.

Sunday 31 July 11.30 am BACH Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007 BACH Cello Suite No. 4 in E b BWV1010 BACH Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 £12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee Concert

Sunday 31 July 2011 4.00 pm BACH Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008 BACH Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009 BACH Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012 £12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme)

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EVENTS FOR FAMILIES AND YOUNG PEOPLE All bookable events on pages 80 to 82 will open for booking on 1 February, with the exception of the family concert on 7 May which will go on sale alongside the other concerts in the April – July Wigmore series.

Family Events are supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Lucille Graham Trust and The Charities Advisory Trust.

Saturday 7 May 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

IGOR, THE BIRD WHO COULDN’T SING FAMILY CONCERT For age 5 plus Join clarinettist MICHAEL COLLINS and friends for an hour of musical fun, culminating in the story of ‘Igor, The Bird Who Couldn’t Sing’, with new music written by LUKE BEDFORD. Based on the book by Satoshi Kitamura published by Andersen Press.

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Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme)

Friday 1 April 5.30 – 6.15 pm

IGNITE – PRESENTED BY WIGMORE HALL YOUNG PRODUCERS YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT 15 young people from St Marylebone School have been working as young producers with Wigmore Hall and the IGNITE ensemble to prepare a unique and exciting concert of improvised and devised material, especially for young people. Regular updates on the process and the final concert programme are available on www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning/schools/youngproducers.

Ticket price to be announced (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by John Lyon’s Charity and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust.

Ignite is supported by Arts Council England, Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour and a bequest from Dr. Patricia L. Baker

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Saturday 25 June 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 SONGS FAMILY DAY For age 5 plus

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Saturday 14 May 11.00 am – 12.30 pm Workshop Repeated 1.30 – 3.00 pm

FAMILY JAM FAMILY WORKSHOPS For age 5 plus

Ahoy there! Bring along your young crew and set sail with singer and animateur KATE MAPP on this colourful tour of songs from across the globe. Sing French folk-songs, perform Russian rounds, dance to Caribbean calypsos, and play along on percussion as you travel. Dock back at Dover after taking part in a ship-shape final performance aboard the Wigmore Hall stage.

Adults £10 Children £8 (not part of subscription scheme)

Join IGNITE for a family jam. Play your part in a brand new piece written especially for you and become part of the ensemble for these fun music making workshops. Beginners welcome!

Adults £8 Children £6 for each workshop (not part of subscription scheme) Supported by Arts Council England, Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour and a bequest from Dr. Patricia L. Baker

Wednesday 8 June 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

AURORA SCHOOLS CONCERT INVITED SCHOOLS ONLY Students will join presenter RACHEL LEACH and musicians from the AURORA ORCHESTRA for this interactive concert for special needs schools.

Tickets by invitation only

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Supported by John Lyon’s Charity and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust.

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Monday 25, Tuesday 26 & Wednesday 27 July 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

MUSICAL PORTRAITS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS Be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, experience the acoustic of Wigmore Hall and create a brand new piece with professional musicians from IGNITE. Finish with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of this 3-day course.

For more information, contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or ruth@turtlekeyarts.org.uk Free, application required Supported by Arts Council England, Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour and a bequest from Dr. Patricia L. Baker

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In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts

Wednesday 6 July 1.00 – 2.00 pm

DECADES – A SENSE OF PLACE COMMUNITY PROJECT CULMINATION CONCERT Inspired by the ‘Decade by Decade’ concert series, this project explores the next 110 years with schools and community groups across Westminster. Exploring local history and culture, Wigmore Hall archives and changing music through this period, project participants have worked with a team of composers and workshop leaders to create new music. This concert features new compositions alongside live and recorded performances.

Tickets by invitation only Supported by John Lyon’s Charity, The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust and The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation.

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Booking Information SUBSCRIPTION BOOKINGS WIGMORE SERIES SUBSCRIPTIONS (excludes Coffee Concerts, BBC Lunchtime Concerts and other events where stated) Subscription I: Book 9 – 11 concerts at a 5% discount Subscription II: Book 12 or more concerts at a 10% discount

BBC LUNCHTIME CONCERT SUBSCRIPTIONS Book 10 or more concerts at a 5% discount Book all concerts in any one booking period at a 10% discount Benjamin Ealovega

BOOKING DATES BOOKING PERIOD 3 Friday 1 April – Sunday 31 July 2011 Friends Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by 7 January Mailing List Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by 21 January General Public By telephone/online from 1 February

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COFFEE CONCERT SUBSCRIPTIONS Book 10 or more concerts at a 5% discount Book all concerts in any one booking period at a 10% discount To qualify for a subscription, the same number of tickets need to be booked for each event.

Any tickets bought in addition to a subscription series must be paid for at the full rate.

Discounts cannot be combined.

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BOOKING INFORMATION 1 April – 31 July 2011

WIGMORE HALL BOX OFFICE 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Tel: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Email: (not for bookings) boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk

TICKETS Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into four price ranges Stalls C – M: Highest price Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd price Stalls AA, T – X: Lowest price

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BOX OFFICE HOURS 7 days a week: 10 .00 am–8.30 pm.

Days without an evening concert 10 .00 am–5.00 pm. No advance booking during the half-hour prior to performance.

TELEPHONE BOOKINGS 7 days a week: 10.00 am–7.00 pm.

Days without an evening concert 10.00 am – 5.00 pm. There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration charge for each transaction. This includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits.

POSTAL BOOKINGS Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Hall with the amount left open but stating an upper limit, and add an administration charge of £2.00. Tickets will then be sent by post.

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Online booking is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There is a £1.00 administration charge online. You can select your own seat and make subscription bookings online.

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Where a concession (concs) ticket price is listed these are available to students, senior citizens and the unemployed.

BOOKING INFORMATION 1 April – 31 July 2011

GROUP BOOKINGS Discounts of 10% are available for groups of 12 or more, subject to availability.

WESTMINSTER RESCARD Westminster ResCard holders may obtain a 10% discount on ticket purchases of ÂŁ3 or above. Two tickets per card (not applicable to subscription bookings).

TRANSPORT Tubes: Bond Street (Central, Jubilee lines), Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines).

Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford Street.

Car Parking: There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm Monday to Saturday 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.

RESTAURANT/BAR Wigmore Hall has its own restaurant and bars serving pre-concert and interval refreshments.

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

FACILITIES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE Full details from 020 7258 8210

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This brochure is available in alternative formats. Please contact the Box Office if this would be of assistance to you.

Telephone: 020 7935 2141 Email: boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary.

Cover photos by Benjamin Ealovega Cover design by aka Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson

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Pick up a leaflet in the foyer or ask at the Box Office Join online at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/friends Call the Friends’ Office on 020 7258 8230 Email friends@wigmore-hall.org.uk Photography: Ben Ealovega

Wigmore Hall Live release Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn, Director Soloists: Lucy Crowe, Anna Stephany, Hilary Summers & Andrew Staples HANDEL Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno

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Supporting Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall’s size brings an unparalleled sense of intimacy to every performance and is loved by audiences and musicians alike. However, the limitation that this places on audience numbers means that ticket sales alone cannot meet all our costs. Additional support from individuals, companies and charitable foundations is vital in order to ensure that the world’s finest musicians, together with promising young performers, continue to appear at Wigmore Hall. If you would like to support the Hall by becoming a Friend, or by sponsoring a concert or Learning event, please call 020 7258 8230 or email friends@wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information.

The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert, learning and community programmes this season: HONORARY PATRONS Aubrey Adams Donald Kahn OBE Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan

DONORS AND SPONSORS Eric Abraham* Aubrey Adams* Lady Alexander of Weedon* Tony and Marion Allen* American Friends of Wigmore Hall † The Anniversary Patrons Arts Council England Anthony Austin Bequest from Dr Patricia Baker Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez In memory of Martin Paul Blake Arline Blass Karl Otto Bonnier*† David and Mary Bowerman* Alan Bradley* Nicolas and Hilary Browne-Wilkinson* Rainer and Doreen Burchett* Gwen and Stanley Burnton* Clive Barda

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Clive Butler Café de Colombia Charities Advisory Trust Eric Clause* The late John Coblenz Edwin C Cohen* Sonia and Harvey Cole Complete Coffee John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Anthony Davis* Decade by Decade Song Syndicate Pauline Del Mar The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust The Dunard Fund The Ellerdale Trust Annette Ellis* Vernon and Hazel Ellis † The Elton Family Dr C A Endersby & Prof D Cowan The Equitable Charitable Trust Mrs Susan Feakin The Fidelio Charitable Trust † Peter and Sonia Field John and Amy Ford Foyle Foundation

Friends of Wigmore Hall Jonathan Gaisman* John and Lauren Goldsmith* The Gordon Foundation C H G Green The Milton Grundy Foundation* Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* The Hobson Charity André and Rosalie Hoffmann Gay Huey Evans* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Hutton Collins Partners LLP Hyde Park Place Estate Charity Simone Hyman* Peter Jervis John Lyon’s Charity Marc Jourdren* Donald and Jeanne Kahn* Jerome Karet* David & Louise Kaye* Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn* The Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Maryly La Follette* Joy and Geoffrey Lawrence Lloyds TSB Private Banking The Lucille Graham Trust Simon and Pamela Majaro Stanley and Eithné Mann Martin Randall Travel Ltd Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Milton Damerel Trust Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Amyas and Louise Morse* Valerie O’Connor and Jeanette McIntosh Lionel and Lynn Persey* The Piano Fund The Porter Foundation Dr Clive Potter* Oliver Prenn

Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Rayne Foundation David B Rockwell* † Conchita Romero* Charles Rose* Rosenblatt Recitals Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Hon RCM* Ruth Rothbarth* † N M Rothschild and Sons Limited The Rubinstein Circle S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Lois Sieff OBE Martin and Elise Smith* Victoria and Richard Sharp* Cita and Irwin Stelzer John Stephens OBE, Hon FTCL* The Tertis Foundation Allen Thomas and Jane Simpson ’Scilla and Tony Thornton*† John and Ann Tusa*† Marina Vaizey* Kathleen Verelst* Robin Vousden* Marie-Luise Waldeck David and Frances Waters* Michael Watson † Anne and David Weizmann* City of Westminster Mrs Mary Weston Tony Wingate † The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation The Wolfson Foundation Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Simon Yates and Kevin Roon* and several anonymous supporters *also Rubinstein Circle members † also Anniversary Patron

The Wigmore Hall Trust, registered charity number 1024838

DIRECTOR JOHN GILHOOLY

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