APRIL–JULY 2017 Director’s Introduction

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Vienna occupied the heart of a vast empire during the years in which the works in Bernarda Fink and Ensemble Prisma Wien’s programme were conceived. The Habsburg Empire, for all its faults, provided ideal conditions for a remarkable flourishing of music and musicians. Prisma Wien, founded in 2006 as a flexible ensemble, makes its Wigmore Hall debut under the direction of violinist Thomas Fheodoroff. Their programme is cut from rich material, complete with Haydn’s dramatic scena Arianna a Naxos and Dvorˇák’s Biblical Songs.

Wigmore Hall continues to play host to Schubert’s songs, presenting all 600-plus of the composer’s timeless contributions to the art form. Over sixty of the world’s finest interpreters have taken part in Schubert: The Complete Songs, a major landmark in the Hall’s history, which is set to conclude 31 January 2018, Schubert’s birthday.

Leading composers and conductors are among those in the queue hoping to collaborate with Patricia Kopatchinskaja. The iconoclastic Moldovan-Austrian violinist’s artistry erupts from the uncompromising courage of her breath-taking interpretations. Her season as Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence concludes with two compelling concert programmes, both rich in repertoire range, and an enlightening pre-concert talk.

Four composers central to Sir András Schiff’s artistic DNA provide the focus for the pianist’s unfolding Wigmore Hall concerts this season. His careful selection of works offers the chance to hear each piece from a fresh perspective, while his related masterclass series provides further insights into Schiff’s creative process.

The exceptional encounter at Wigmore Hall between two stars of bel canto, Cecilia Bartoli and Philippe Jaroussky, is enhanced by their enduring friendship and strong musical bond. Following an acclaimed

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© Giulio Cesare in Salzburg and mutual guest appearances on several of sets the creative benchmark for a programme that includes one of their recording projects, they finally share a concert in company with Purcell’s earliest Odes for St Cecilia’s Day, complete with the haunting the virtuoso Ensemble Artaserse, founded by Jaroussky in 2003. countertenor aria, ‘Here the deities approve’, and the wonderful verse anthem ‘In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust’. The Sixteen also explores the Once self-described in three words as ‘mercurial, stoical and giggly’, intense chromatic harmonies of ‘Plung’d in the confines of despair’, an Tansy Davies’s music jolts and pulses, with a rhythmical, almost mechanical, inspired setting of a psalm paraphrase by the clergyman and religious edge. She draws on inspiration from architecture, often using the controversialist, John Patrick. orchestra to build her structures, and it is this way of thinking that creates new worlds, bridging contemporary idioms such as jazz and rock. Christoph Pohl began his singing career as a member of the Hanover Boys’ Choir. The German baritone has achieved international acclaim Violeta Urmana makes a highly anticipated return visit to us. The as a member of the Semperoper Dresden ensemble in roles as diverse phenomenal range and richness of the Lithuanian artist’s voice are as Mozart’s Count Almaviva, Rossini’s Figaro and Wagner’s Wolfram. ideally suited to the dramatic contrasts at work in her Schubert Following the success of his Royal Opera House debut in Georg Friedrich programme. She and regular duo partner Jan Philip Schulze open with Haas’s Morgen und Abend in 2015, Pohl marks his first appearance Schubert’s first complete vocal work and embrace everything from the at Wigmore Hall with a compelling programme of songs to poetry by romantic reflections of ‘Himmelsfunken’ to the operatic excesses of Goethe, Heine and Schiller. ‘Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz’. Wigmore Lates make the ideal start to the weekend. This season’s run Five-star reviews and a clutch of international prizes, a GRAMMY and opens with virtuoso Baroque sonatas from Arcangelo, and includes a Gramophone Award among them, underline the towering achievement trumpet double bill from Alison Balsom and Guy Barker, mesmeric of the Takács Quartet’s recordings of Beethoven’s complete string original cabaret numbers from Miss Hope Springs, and a genre-crossing quartets. Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists present their latest thoughts evening with classical mandolinist Avi Avital and jazz bassist and oud on these timeless artworks. player Omer Avital.

Pavel Kolesnikov made his BBC Proms debut with a thrilling account of Bach’s Partitas, issued in separate editions between 1726 and 1730, Tchaikovsky’s monumental Second Piano Concerto, and soon earned formed the composer’s first major publication, offered to ‘music-lovers, further rave reviews for his second recording for Hyperion, an album to delight their spirits’. Angela Hewitt explores the diverse delights of of Chopin’s complete Mazurkas. The Russian pianist explores the three of Bach’s suites together with the Sonata BWV964, the composer’s fantasy worlds of CPE Bach and Schumann together with the song- virtuoso transcription for keyboard of his Sonata for solo violin in A minor. without-words that is Schubert’s A minor Sonata. Igor Levit concludes his intense season-long Beethoven Cycle with the Poetry of rich expressivity conditions each song in Christina Landshamer’s composer’s final piano sonatas. ‘Beethoven’s pianistic imagination is Wigmore Hall recital. The Munich-born soprano made her international stamped on every page of these three [works]’, observes the veteran breakthrough in 2009 in Haydn’s Il mondo della luna under Nikolaus American scholar Lewis Lockwood. Each sonata reveals fresh facets of Harnoncourt, and has secured an enviable reputation since as an artist invention, with jaw-dropping pianistic effects allied to formal structures equally at home in opera, oratorio and song. Her programme includes of extraordinary ingenuity. Schumann’s settings of poems from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister and Victor Ullmann’s cycles of sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rilke and For over 20 years Wigmore Hall’s renowned Learning programme has Louise Labé, an extraordinary figure of the French Renaissance. been giving people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities opportunities to take part in creative music making, engaging a broad and diverse Stile Antico, among the world’s finest vocal ensembles, explores music audience through innovative creative projects, concerts, events and of mourning and commemoration from Austria and Germany in its latest online resources. All of this is celebrated in two gala concerts on 24 and Wigmore Hall concert. The journey begins with a late motet by the 25 July featuring Joshua Bell, Amihai Grosz, Rachel Roberts, Arisa Fujita, remarkably prolific, consistently inventive Lassus, who finished his Steven Isserlis and Dénes Várjon. illustrious career as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Bavaria. It continues with Schütz’s sublime Musicalische Exequien, written during the Thirty Please enjoy reading through the brochure yourself, and I hope to see Years War for the funeral of Prince Heinrich of Reuss, and finally arrives you at Wigmore Hall during our Summer Series. at Bach’s peerless funeral motet for the wife of Leipzig’s postmaster.

Harry Christophers directs an ace ensemble of singers and instrumentalists in a concert of masterworks from Restoration London. Hear my prayer, O Lord, memorably described by one scholar as a ‘noble fragment’, SERIES ATA GLANCE APRIL – JULY 201 7

See pages 6–82for full details of these concerts and page 83 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for… Chamber Music Season Sun 16 Jul Quatuor Mosaïques Page 69 Sun 23 Jul Tai Murray/Elena Urioste 72 EXAUDI Page 7 Sun 2 Apr Nikolaj Znaider/Piotr Anderszewski Page 6 Jennifer Stumm/Laura van der Heijden Tom Poster Nikolaj Znaider & Piotr Anderszewski 6 Fri 7 Apr Jean-Guihen Queyras/Sokratis Sinopoulos 8 Bijan Chemirani/Keyvan Chemirani Mon 24 Jul Joshua Bell/Arisa Fujita/Amihai Grosz 73 Alexander Melnikov 8 Rachel Roberts/Steven Isserlis Thu 13 Apr Sergey Khachatryan/Lusine Khachatryan 15 Bernarda Fink & Ensemble Prisma Wien 9 Dénes Várjon Sat 15 Apr Steven Isserlis/Dénes Várjon 15 Tue 25 Jul Joshua Bell/Arisa Fujita/Amihai Grosz 73 Jean-Guihen Queyras, Chemirani Brothers & 8 Tue 18 Apr Basel Chamber Orchestra/Daniel Hope 16 Sokratis Sinopoulos Rachel Roberts/Steven Isserlis Wed 19 Apr Britten Sinfonia 17 Dénes Várjon Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset 11 Sat 22 Apr Soloists of the London Philharmonic 18 Schubert: 12–13, 28, 30, 32, 36, 49, 50, Orchestra London Pianoforte Series The Complete Songs 53, 62, 64, 65, 66, 70, 74, 75 Wed 26 Apr Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Sol Gabetta 21 Le Concert Spirituel 14 Sat 29 Apr Hagen Quartet 22 Wed 5 Apr Alexander Melnikov 8 Thomas Dunford 17 Sun 30 Apr Hagen Quartet 23 Wed 19 Apr Piers Lane 17 Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Artist in Residence 21, 29 Fri 5 May Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 24 Sun 23 Apr Andreas Haefliger 19 Milan Siljanov & Nino Chokhonelidze 22 Sun 7 May Patricia Kopatchinskaja 29 Tue 25 Apr Janina Fialkowska 20 Anthony Romaniuk Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók 25 Tue 2 May Sir András Schiff 25 Mon 8 May Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists 29 Thu 4 May Francesco Piemontesi 24 Francesco Piemontesi Mozart Cycle 24 Clio Gould Fri 12 May Joanna MacGregor 30 Wigmore Lates 26–27, 40, 49, 53, 56, 68, 70 Thu 11 May Elias String Quartet/Benjamin Frith 30 Sat 20 May Llyˆr Williams 37 Karita Mattila & Ville Matvejeff 28 Sat 13 May RNCM Study Day: Tansy Davies 31 Wed 24 May Nikolai Lugansky 39 Bracing Change: New String Commissions 30 Sun 14 May Takács Quartet 34 Sat 27 May Pavel Kolesnikov 41 Tansy Davies Study Day 31 Mon 15 May Takács Quartet 34 Sun 4 Jun Christian Ihle Hadland 47 Violeta Urmana & Jan Philip Schulze 32 Wed 17 May Takács Quartet 35 Fri 9 Jun Yevgeny Sudbin 49 Thu 18 May Alison Balsom/Lucy Crowe 36 Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle 34, 35 Sat 10 Jun Angela Hewitt 50 The Balsom Ensemble Tue 13 Jun Igor Levit 52 Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ 36,49 Sun 21 May Jerusalem Quartet 38 Tue 27 Jun Inon Barnatan 59 Christoph Pohl & Marcelo Amaral 38 Tue 23 May The Endellion String Quartet 39 Tue 4 Jul Håvard Gimse 63 Phantasm & Elizabeth Kenny 38 Fri 26 May Escher String Quartet 40 Sat 8 Jul Martin Roscoe 65 Pavel Kolesnikov 41 Thu 1 Jun Borodin Quartet 44 Thu 27 Jul Cédric Tiberghien 74 Christina Landshamer & Gerold Huber 43 Fri 2 Jun Janine Jansen/Martin Fröst 45 Torleif Thedéen/Lucas Debargue Stile Antico 42 Sat 3 Jun Borodin Quartet 46 Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Borodin Quartet: Beethoven & Shostakovich Cycle 44, 46 Tue 6 Jun Razumovsky Ensemble 47 Thu 20 Jul Vijay Iyer Trio 70 Janine Jansen Perspectives 45 Mon 12 Jun Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: 51 Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey 50 Michael Petrov/Erdem Misirliogˇlu Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit 52 Wed 14 Jun Arditti Quartet/Eliot Fisk 52 Wigmore Lates Thu 15 Jun Nicolas Altstaedt/Alexander Lonquich 52 Cecilia Bartoli & Philippe Jaroussky 57 Fri 5 May Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen 27 Fri 16 Jun Jasper String Quartet 53 Edgar Moreau & Pierre-Yves Hodique 59 Fri 26 May Danish String Quartet 40 Sun 18 Jun Quatuor Ebène 54 The Sixteen 61 Fri 9 Jun Alison Balsom/Guy Barker 49 Tue 20 Jun Ensemble intercontemporain 55 Ross Stanley/Chris Hill Vijay Iyer Jazz Residence 70 Mon 26 Jun Vienna Piano Trio/Mark Padmore 58 Fri 16 Jun Miss Hope Springs 53 Arcangelo Baroque Ensemble in Residence 71 Wed 28 Jun Edgar Moreau/Pierre-Yves Hodique 59 Fri 23 Jun Avi Avital/Omer Avital 56 Wigmore Hall Learning Gala Celebrations 73 Sat 1 Jul Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson 60 Yonathan Avishai/Itamar Doari A Serenade to Music 75 Thu 6 Jul Andreas Ottensamer/José Gallardo 63 Fri 14 Jul Laura Jurd/Dinosaur 68 Contemporary Music Series 76 Mon 10 Jul Gould Piano Trio 66 Fri 21 Jul Edicson Ruiz/Yu Kosuge 70

2 Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Mon 5 Jun Mahan Esfahani Page 47 Contemporary Music Series Mon 12 Jun Antoine Tamestit/Cédric Tiberghien 51 Sun 2 Apr Dante Quartet Page 6 Mon 19 Jun Carducci String Quartet 54 Sat 1 Apr EXAUDI Page 7 Sun 9 Apr Colin Carr/Thomas Sauer 10 Mon 26 Jun Clara Mouriz/Joseph Middleton 58 Fri 7 Apr Jean-Guihen Queyras 8 Sun 16 Apr Castalian String Quartet 15 Mon 3 Jul Maurice Steger/Jean Rondeau 62 Sokratis Sinopoulos/Bijan Chemirani Keyvan Chemirani Sun 23 Apr Ivana Gavric´ 19 Mon 10 Jul Hanno Müller-Brachmann 66 Sun 30 Apr Caroline Goulding/Danae Dörken 23 Hendrik Heilmann Wed 19 Apr Britten Sinfonia 17 Sun 7 May Saleem Ashkar 28 Wed 26 Apr Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Sol Gabetta 21 Sun 14 May Jakob Koranyi/Juho Pohjonen 33 Sun 7 May Patricia Kopatchinskaja 29 Sun 21 May Armida Quartet 37 Song Recital Series Anthony Romaniuk Sun 28 May Schumann Quartet 42 Thu 11 May Elias String Quartet/Benjamin Frith 30 Sun 4 Jun Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch 46 Thu 6 Apr Bernarda Fink/Ensemble Prisma Wien 9 Sat 13 May Tansy Davies Study Day 31 Sun 11 Jun Natalia Prischepenko/Thomas Hoppe 50 Sat 8 Apr Toby Spence/Julian Milford 10 Wed 14 Jun Arditti Quartet/Eliot Fisk 52 Sun 18 Jun Michelangelo Quartet 54 Tue 11 Apr Henk Neven/Imogen Cooper 12 Fri 16 Jun Jasper String Quartet 53 Sun 25 Jun Vienna Piano Trio 56 Fri 21 Apr Benjamin Appl/James Baillieu 18 Tue 20 Jun Ensemble intercontemporain 55 Sun 2 Jul Doric String Quartet 60 Fri 21 Apr Michael Fabiano/Julius Drake 18 Fri 23 Jun Fretwork 56 Sun 9 Jul Navarra String Quartet 65 Thu 27 Apr Milan Siljanov/Nino Chokhonelidze 22 Mon 26 Jun Vienna Piano Trio/Mark Padmore 58 Sun 16 Jul Quatuor Zaïde 68 Mon 1 May Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Huber 24 Sat 1 Jul Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson 60 Sun 23 Jul Chloë Hanslip/Danny Driver 72 Sat 6 May The Myrthen Ensemble 28 The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Sun 30 Jul Gemma Rosefield/Tim Horton 74 Sat 6 May Karita Mattila/Ville Matvejeff 28 Wed 10 May Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt 30 Early Music and Baroque Series Sat 13 May Violeta Urmana/Jan Philip Schulze 32 Wigmore Hall Learning Sun 14 May Simon Bode/Igor Levit 33 Sat 1 Apr EXAUDI 7 Fri 19 May Julian Prégardien/Christoph Schnackertz 36 Fri 7 Apr Music for the Moment 8, 77 Sun 9 Apr Les Talens Lyriques 11 Sun 21 May Christoph Pohl/Marcelo Amaral 38 Thu 20 Apr RNIB Study Day 77 Mon 10 Apr Ensemble Plus Ultra 11 Sun 28 May Christina Landshamer/Gerold Huber 43 Tue 25 Apr SEN Schools Concert: Juice 77 Wed 12 Apr Le Concert Spirituel 14 Wed 31 May Christopher Maltman/Malcolm Martineau 44 Thu 27 Apr Young Producers Present ... 20, 78 Mon 17 Apr London Handel Players/Rowan Pierce 16 Sun 4 Jun Jongmin Park/Simon Lepper 46 Sat 29 Apr Come and Sing 22, 78 Thu 20 Apr Thomas Dunford 17 Thu 8 Jun Anna Lucia Richter/Michael Gees 49 Wed 3 May Sir András Schiff Masterclass 25 Tue 16 May Classical Opera/Ian Page 35 Kristian Bezuidenhout/Soraya Mafi Sun 11 Jun Ben Johnson/Graham Johnson 50 Sun 7 May Artists in Conversation 29 Tue 30 May Stile Antico 42 Sat 17 Jun Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau 53 Tue 9 May For Crying Out Loud! 29, 78 Wed 7 Jun The English Concert 48 Mon 19 Jun Andrè Schuen/Daniel Heide 55 Fri 12 May Chamber Tots 30, 79 Wed 21 Jun The King’s Consort 55 Sun 2 Jul Markus Schäfer/Piers Lane 62 Wed 17 May Dementia Awareness Week: 79 Come and Sing Fri 23 Jun Fretwork/Simon Callow 56 Wed 5 Jul Simon Keenlyside/Malcolm Martineau 63 Fri 19 May Side by Side 35, 79 Sat 24 Jun Cecilia Bartoli/Philippe Jaroussky 57 Fri 7 Jul Louise Alder/Ruby Hughes 64 Ensemble Artaserse Katie Bray/Anna Huntley Sat 20 May Family Concert: Search for the 37, 79 Sun 25 Jun Florilegium 58 Clara Mouriz/Sholto Kynoch Starlight Squid Thu 29 Jun Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 60 Sun 9 Jul Ben Johnson/Nicky Spence 65 Tue 23 May Voiceworks 39, 80 Isabelle Faust Benjamin Appl/Gavan Ring Tue 30 May Family Day: Cavendish Winds 42, 80 Fri 30 Jun The Sixteen/Harry Christophers 61 Sholto Kynoch Thu 1 Jun RNIB Family Day 80 Tue 18 Jul The Cardinall’s Musick 69 Sun 9 Jul Ian Bostridge/Graham Johnson 66 Fri 2 Jun Artists in Conversation 45 Fri 21 Jul Arcangelo/Sophie Junker 71 Wed 12 Jul Aida Garifullina/Lech Napierala 67 Sat 3 Jun Alfred Brendel Lecture 44 Thu 13 Jul Sophie Bevan/Allan Clayton 67 Wed 7 Jun Chamber Tots 48, 79 Christopher Glynn BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Thu 8 Jun Introduction to Music commences 48 Fri 14 Jul Ailish Tynan/Adam Walker 67 Mon 12 Jun Wigmore Study Group commences 51 Alasdair Tait/James Baillieu Mon 3 Apr Apollon Musagète Quartet 6 Wed 14 Jun Carers’ Week: Relaxed Concert 81 Sat 15 Jul 68 Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber Thu 15 Jun For Crying Out Loud! 52, 78 Mon 10 Apr Sarah Connolly/Joseph Middleton 10 Ulrich Tukur Mon 17 Apr Alessio Bax 16 Wed 28 Jun Chamber Tots 59, 79 Wed 19 Jul Elizabeth Watts/Simon Lepper 70 Mon 24 Apr Louis Lortie 19 Sat 1 Jul Royal Academy of Music Family Day 60, 81 Sat 22 Jul Andrei Bondarenko/Gary Matthewman 72 Mon 1 May Lawrence Zazzo/Daniele Caminiti 23 Tue 4 Jul Chamber Tots 62, 79 Wed 26 Jul 74 Julian Perkins/Jonathan Rees Carolyn Sampson/Joseph Middleton Fri 7 Jul Music for the Moment 64, 81 Mon 8 May Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff 29 Fri 28 Jul Robin Tritschler/Graham Johnson 74 Sat 8 Jul Alfred Brendel Lecture 64 Mon 15 May Tasmin Little/John Lenehan 33 Sat 29 Jul A Serenade to Music 75 Wed 12 Jul KS2 Schools Concert: My Iris 82 Mon 22 May Phantasm 38 We are grateful to The Monument Trust for essential Mon 17 Jul Chamber Tots 69, 79 Mon 29 May Zemlinsky Quartet 42 additional support for our expanded vocal series Mon 24 Jul Musical Portraits commences 82

3 May

Date Start Time Event Page Mon 1 May 1.00 pm Lawrence Zazzo/Daniele Caminiti/Julian Perkins/Jonathan Rees 23 Calendar 7.30 pm Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Huber 24 Tue 2 May 7.30 pm Sir András Schiff 25 Wed 3 May 7.30 pm Sir András Schiff Masterclass 25 Thu 4 May 7.30 pm Francesco Piemontesi 24 Fri 5 May 7.00 pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 24 April 10.00 pm Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen 27

Date Start Time Event Page Sat 6 May 1.00p m The Myrthen Ensemble 28 7.30 pm Karita Mattila/Ville Matvejeff 28 Sat 1 Apr 7.30 pm EXAUDI 7 Sun 7 May 11.30 am Saleem Ashkar 28 Sun 2 Apr 11.30 am Dante Quartet 6 6.00 pm Artists in Conversation 29 7.30 pm Nikolaj Znaider/Piotr Anderszewski 6 7.30 pm Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Anthony Romaniuk 29 Mon 3 Apr 1.00 pm Apollon Musagète Quartet 6 Mon 8 May 1.00 pm Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff 29 Wed 5 Apr 7.30 pm Alexander Melnikov 8 7.30 pm Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists/Clio Gould 29 Thu 6 Apr 7.30 pm Bernarda Fink/Ensemble Prisma Wien 9 Tue 9 May 11.00 am For Crying Out Loud! 29, 78 12.30 pm For Crying Out Loud! 29, 78 Fri 7 Apr 3.00 pm Music for the Moment 8, 77 Wed 10 May 7.30 pm Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt 30 7.30 pm Jean-Guihen Queyras/Sokratis Sinopoulos/Bijan Chemirani 8 Keyvan Chemirani Thu 11 May 7.30 pm Elias String Quartet/Benjamin Frith 30 Sat 8 Apr 7.30 pm Toby Spence/Julian Milford 10 Fri 12 May 10.15 am Chamber Tots 30, 79 Sun 9 Apr 11.30 am Colin Carr/Thomas Sauer 10 11.45 am Chamber Tots 30, 79 7.30 pm Les Talens Lyriques 11 7.00 pm Joanna MacGregor 30 Sat 13 May 10.30 am RNCM Study Day: Tansy Davies 31 Mon 10 Apr 1.00 pm Sarah Connolly/Joseph Middleton 10 12 noon RNCM Study Day: Tansy Davies 31 7.30 pm Ensemble Plus Ultra 11 2.00 pm RNCM Study Day: Tansy Davies 31 Tue 11 Apr 7.30 pm Henk Neven/Imogen Cooper 12 7.30 pm Violeta Urmana/Jan Philip Schulze 32 Wed 12 Apr 7.30 pm Le Concert Spirituel 14 Sun 14 May 11.30 am Jakob Koranyi/Juho Pohjonen 33 3.00 pm Simon Bode/Igor Levit 33 Thu 13 Apr 7.30 pm Sergey Khachatryan/Lusine Khachatryan 15 7.30 pm Takács Quartet 34 Sat 15 Apr 7.30 pm Steven Isserlis/Dénes Várjon 15 Mon 15 May 1.00 pm Tasmin Little/John Lenehan 33 Sun 16 Apr 11.30 am Castalian String Quartet 15 7.30 pm Takács Quartet 34 Mon 17 Apr 1.00 pm Alessio Bax 16 Tue 16 May 7.30 pm Classical Opera/Ian Page/Kristian Bezuidenhout/Soraya Mafi 35 7.30 pm London Handel Players/Rowan Pierce 16 Wed 17 May 10.00 am Dementia Awareness Week: Come and Sing 79 Tue 18 Apr 7.30 pm Basel Chamber Orchestra/Daniel Hope 16 7.30 pm Takács Quartet 35 Wed 19 Apr 12.15 pm Pre-Concert Talk 17 Thu 18 May 7.30 pm Alison Balsom/Lucy Crowe/The Balsom Ensemble 36 1.00 pm Britten Sinfonia 17 Fri 19 May 1.00 pm Side by Side 35, 79 7.30 pm Piers Lane 17 7.30 pm Julian Prégardien/Christoph Schnackertz 36 Thu 20 Apr 10.00 am RNIB Study Day 77 Sat 20 May 11.00 am Family Concert: Search for the Starlight Squid 37, 79 7.30 pm Thomas Dunford 17 7.30 pm Lly ˆr Williams 37 Fri 21 Apr 1.00 pm Benjamin Appl/James Baillieu 18 Sun 21 May 11.30 am Armida Quartet 37 7.30 pm Michael Fabiano/Julius Drake 18 3.00 pm Christoph Pohl/Marcelo Amaral 38 Sat 22 Apr 7.30 pm Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra 18 7.30 pm Jerusalem Quartet 38 Sun 23 Apr 11.30 am Ivana Gavric´ 19 Mon 22 May 1.00 pm Phantasm 38 7.30 pm Andreas Haefliger 19 Tue 23 May 1.00 pm Voiceworks 39, 80 7.30 pm The Endellion String Quartet 39 Mon 24 Apr 1.00 pm Louis Lortie 19 Wed 24 May 7.30 pm Nikolai Lugansky 39 Tue 25 Apr 11.00 am SEN Schools Concert: Juice 77 7.30 pm Janina Fialkowska 20 Thu 25 May 3.00 pm YCAT Finals 2017 40 Wed 26 Apr 1.30 pm Kathleen Ferrier Awards Semi-Final 20 Fri 26 May 7.00 pm Escher String Quartet 40 7.30 pm Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Sol Gabetta 21 10.00 pm Danish String Quartet 40 Thu 27 Apr 5.30 pm Young Producers Present ... 20, 78 Sat 27 May 7.30 pm Pavel Kolesnikov 41 7.30 pm Milan Siljanov/Nino Chokhonelidze 22 Sun 28 May 11.30 am Schumann Quartet 42 Fri 28 Apr 6.00 pm Kathleen Ferrier Awards Final 20 7.30 pm Christina Landshamer/Gerold Huber 43 Sat 29 Apr 10.00 am Come and Sing 22, 78 Mon 29 May 1.00 pm Zemlinsky Quartet 42 7.30 pm Hagen Quartet 22 Tue 30 May 10.30 am Family Day: Cavendish Winds 42, 80 Sun 30 Apr 11.30 am Caroline Goulding/Danae Dörken 23 7.30 pm Stile Antico 42 7.30 pm Hagen Quartet 23 Wed 31 May 7.30 pm Christopher Maltman/Malcolm Martineau 44

4 June July

Date Start Time Event Page Date Start Time Event Page Thu 1 Jun 11.00 am RNIB Family Day 80 Sat 1 Jul 10.30 am Royal Academy of Music Family Day 60, 81 7.30 pm Borodin Quartet 44 7.30 pm Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson 60 Fri 2 Jun 7.30 pm Janine Jansen/Martin Fröst/Torleif Thedéen/Lucas Debargue 45 Sun 2 Jul 11.30 am Doric String Quartet 60 9.45 pm Artists in Conversation 45 7.30 pm Markus Schäfer/Piers Lane 62 Sat 3 Jun 2.30 pm Alfred Brendel Lecture 44 Mon 3 Jul 1.00 pm Maurice Steger/Jean Rondeau 62 7.30 pm Borodin Quartet 46 Tue 4 Jul 10.15 am Chamber Tots 62, 79 Sun 4 Jun 11.30 am Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch 46 3.00 pm Jongmin Park/Simon Lepper 46 11.45 am Chamber Tots 62, 79 7.30 pm Christian Ihle Hadland 47 7.30 pm Håvard Gimse 63 Mon 5 Jun 1.00 pm Mahan Esfahani 47 Wed 5 Jul 7.30 pm Simon Keenlyside/Malcolm Martineau 63 Tue 6 Jun 7.30 pm Razumovsky Ensemble 47 Thu 6 Jul 7.30 pm Andreas Ottensamer/José Gallardo 63 Wed 7 Jun 10.15 am Chamber Tots 48, 79 Fri 7 Jul 3.00 pm Music for the Moment 64, 81 11.45 am Chamber Tots 48, 79 7.30 pm Louise Alder/Ruby Hughes/Katie Bray/Anna Huntley 64 7.30 pm The English Concert 48 Clara Mouriz/Sholto Kynoch Thu 8 Jun 4.45 pm Introduction to Music 48 Sat 8 Jul 2.30 pm Alfred Brendel Lecture 64 7.30 pm Anna Lucia Richter/Michael Gees 49 7.30 pm Martin Roscoe 65 Fri 9 Jun 7.00 pm Yevgeny Sudbin 49 Sun 9 Jul 11.30 am Navarra String Quartet 65 10.00 pm Alison Balsom/Guy Barker/Ross Stanley/Chris Hill 49 3.00 pm Ben Johnson/Nicky Spence/Benjamin Appl/ 65 Sat 10 Jun 7.30 pm Angela Hewitt 50 Gavan Ring/Sholto Kynoch Sun 11 Jun 11.30 am Natalia Prischepenko/Thomas Hoppe 50 7.30 pm Ian Bostridge/Graham Johnson 66 7.30 pm Ben Johnson/Graham Johnson 50 Mon 10 Jul 1.00 pm Hanno Müller-Brachmann/Hendrik Heilmann 66 Mon 12 Jun 1.00 pm Antoine Tamestit/Cédric Tiberghien 51 7.30 pm Gould Piano Trio 66 3.00 pm Wigmore Study Group 51 Wed 12 Jul 11.00 am KS2 Schools Concert: My Iris 82 7.30 pm Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: 51 7.30 pm Aida Garifullina/Lech Napierala 67 Michael Petrov/Erdem Misirliogˇlu Tue 13 Jun 7.30 pm Igor Levit 52 Thu 13 Jul 7.30 pm Sophie Bevan/Allan Clayton/Christopher Glynn 67 Wed 14 Jun 11.00 am Carers’ Week: Relaxed Concert 81 Fri 14 Jul 7.00 pm Ailish Tynan/Adam Walker/Alasdair Tait/James Baillieu 67 3.00 pm Wigmore Study Group 51 10.00 pm Laura Jurd/Dinosaur 68 7.30 pm Arditti Quartet/Eliot Fisk 52 Sat 15 Jul 7.30 pm Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber/Ulrich Tukur 68 Thu 15 Jun 11.00 am For Crying Out Loud! 52, 78 Sun 16 Jul 11.30 am Quatuor Zaïde 68 12.30 pm For Crying Out Loud! 52, 78 7.30 pm Quatuor Mosaïques 69 4.45 pm Introduction to Music 48 7.30 pm Nicolas Altstaedt/Alexander Lonquich 52 Mon 17 Jul 12.30 pm Chamber Tots 69, 79 Fri 16 Jun 7.00 pm Jasper String Quartet 53 2.00 pm Chamber Tots 69, 79 10.00 pm Miss Hope Springs 53 Tue 18 Jul 7.30 pm The Cardinall’s Musick 69 Sat 17 Jun 7.30 pm Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau 53 Wed 19 Jul 7.30 pm Elizabeth Watts/Simon Lepper 70 Sun 18 Jun 11.30 am Michelangelo Quartet 54 Thu 20 Jul 7.30 pm Vijay Iyer Trio 70 7.30 pm Quatuor Ebène 54 Mon 19 Jun 1.00 pm Carducci String Quartet 54 Fri 21 Jul 7.00 pm Arcangelo/Sophie Junker 71 7.30 pm Andrè Schuen/Daniel Heide 55 10.00 pm Edicson Ruiz/Yu Kosuge 70 Tue 20 Jun 3.00 pm Wigmore Study Group 51 Sat 22 Jul 7.30 pm Andrei Bondarenko/Gary Matthewman 72 7.30 pm Ensemble intercontemporain 55 Sun 23 Jul 11.30 am Chloë Hanslip/Danny Driver 72 Wed 21 Jun 7.30 pm The King’s Consort 55 7.30 pm Tai Murray/Elena Urioste/Jennifer Stumm 72 Laura van der Heijden/Tom Poster Thu 22 Jun 4.45 pm Introduction to Music 48 Fri 23 Jun 6.30 pm Fretwork/Simon Callow 56 Mon 24 Jul 11.00 am Musical Portraits 82 10.00 pm Avi Avital/Omer Avital/Yonathan Avishai/Itamar Doari 56 7.30 pm Joshua Bell/Arisa Fujita/Amihai Grosz/Rachel Roberts 73 Steven Isserlis/Dénes Várjon Sat 24 Jun 7.30 pm Cecilia Bartoli/Philippe Jaroussky/Ensemble Artaserse 57 Tue 25 Jul 11.00 am Musical Portraits 82 Sun 25 Jun 11.30 am Vienna Piano Trio 56 7.30 pm Joshua Bell/Arisa Fujita/Amihai Grosz/Rachel Roberts 73 7.30 pm Florilegium 58 Steven Isserlis/Dénes Várjon Mon 26 Jun 1.00 pm Clara Mouriz/Joseph Middleton 58 Wed 26 Jul 11.00 am Musical Portratis 82 7.30 pm Vienna Piano Trio/Mark Padmore 58 7.30 pm Carolyn Sampson/Joseph Middleton 74 Tue 27 Jun 7.30 pm Inon Barnatan 59 Thu 27 Jul 11.00 am Musical Portraits 82 Wed 28 Jun 10.15 am Chamber Tots 59, 79 7.30 pm Cédric Tiberghien 74 11.45 am Chamber Tots 59, 79 Fri 28 Jul 7.30 pm Robin Tritschler/Graham Johnson 74 7.30 pm Edgar Moreau/Pierre-Yves Hodique 59 Thu 29 Jun 4.45 pm Introduction to Music 48 Sat 29 Jul 7.00 pm A Serenade to Music 75 7.30 pm Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Isabelle Faust 60 Sun 30 Jul 11.30 am Gemma Rosefield/Tim Horton 74 Fri 30 Jun 7.30 pm The Sixteen/Harry Christophers 61

5 WIGMORESERIES SUMMER SEASON APRIL – JULY 2017

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Saturday 1 April 7.30 pm Monday 3 April 1.00 pm EXAUDI NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER Apollon Musagète Quartet James Weeks director PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Arensky String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 35 See page opposite for full details Anton Arensky, best known today for his D minor Piano Trio, dedicated the second of his two string Sunday 2 April 11.30 am quartets to the memory of Tchaikovsky and built one of its movements around his late friend’s Dante Quartet ‘Legend’ from Children’s Songs. The Apollon Musagète Quartet prefaces Arensky’s impassioned Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ composition with Haydn’s evergreen ‘Lark’ Quartet. Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 £15 concs £13 Emotional intensity and shrewd programming belong to the Dante Quartet’s checklist of qualities. Nikolaj Znaider Piotr Anderszewski The group, winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Chamber Music Award 2007, sets Haydn’s Sunday 2 April 7.30 pm BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Op. 33 No. 2, with its famous stop-start ending, in company with the inexhaustible invention and Nikolaj Znaider violin creative refinement of Beethoven’s late String Quartet in B flat. Piotr Anderszewski piano

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice kJanácˇe Violin Sonata Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Op. 121 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96 Two outstanding artists perform a programme of compelling contrasts and rich invention, moving from the turbulent energy of Janácˇek’s Violin Sonata of 1914 to Beethoven’s radiant Op. 96 by way of the intense passions of Schumann’s Second Violin Sonata. Nikolaj Znaider was recently hailed by The Arts Desk as ‘a fine thinker among musicians’, while his recital partner Piotr Anderszewski scored a rave review in the Guardian for his Wigmore Hall 25th anniversary recital in February 2016.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Chamber Music Season

Photo of Nikolaj Znaider by Lars Gundersen Photo of Piotr Anderszewski by Ari Rossner Dante Quartet Phillip Pratt Apollon Musagète Quartet Marco Borggreve

6 EXAUDI Saturday 1 April 7.30 pm EXAUDI Since its formation 15 years ago, EXAUDI has expanded the boundaries of repertoire for vocal James Weeks director ensemble and explored compelling combinations of contemporary and early repertoire. The clarity Arcadelt Il primo libro di madrigali (a selection) and focus of the ensemble’s sound, produced by James Weeks New work (world première) outstanding individual singers performing as Monteverdi Ecco mormorar l’onde; Quell’augellin che canta chamber musicians, ideally suits its immersion here Wert Vezzosi augelli in two of Monteverdi’s most expressive madrigals and Salvatore Sciarrino 12 Madrigali (a selection) works by two Franco-Flemish composers who made £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 their reputations in Italy. The madrigal form’s vivacity Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series is also present in EXAUDI’s selections from Salvatore Sciarrino’s 12 Madrigali, settings of nature-themed Japanese haiku created for the 2007 Salzburg Festival, and in James Weeks’s new work for EXAUDI.

Photo by Matthew Andrews

7 April

Thursday 6 April 7.30 pm JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano ALEXANDER Ensemble Prisma Wien SOKRATIS SINOPOULOS Thomas Fheodoroff director, violin BIJAN CHEMIRANI MELNIKOV See page opposite for full details KEYVAN CHEMIRANI

Friday 7 April 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Music for the Moment A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for this informal afternoon Jean-Guihen Queyras François Sechet concert with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and Friday 7 April 7.30 pm coffee from 2.30 pm. Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Free (ticket required) Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts Bijan Chemirani zarb, percussion Keyvan Chemirani zarb, percussion Marco Stroppa Ay, there’s the rub Ross Daly Karsilamas Sokratis Sinopoulos Nihavent Saz Semai Wigmore Hall Learning Event György Kurtág 3 pieces from Signs, Games and Messages Bijan & Keyvan Chemirani Percussion improvisation: ‘7 beat’ Lutosławski Sacher Alexander Melnikov Marco Borggreve Variation Traditional Homayoun Krzysztof Penderecki Capriccio per Wednesday 5 April 7.30 pm Siegfried Palm Franck Leriche 5 beat Traditional Sunday Morning (arr. Sokratis piano Alexander Melnikov Sinopoulos); Hasapiko Debussy Préludes Books I & II Repertoire adventures are key to Jean-Guihen Debussy rose from a humble family to Queyras’s work. The French cellist, who spent become one of the greatest of all French part of his childhood in Algeria, has developed composers, dubbed by the writer and poet a close partnership with the genre-crossing Gabriele D’Annunzio as ‘Claude de France’. Greek musician Sokratis Sinopoulos, master His two books of Préludes for piano reflect of the Byzantine lyra, and percussionists their creator’s openness to visual and Bijan and Keyvan Chemirani. Together they literary imagery, and his uncanny ability to evoke the distinctive sounds, traditional and conjure soundscapes from the keyboard. freshly imagined, of the Aegean and eastern Alexander Melnikov’s interpretations of Mediterranean region. Their rich programme these sublime miniatures have developed is woven together with works for solo cello by over many years and have been informed Stroppa, Penderecki, Lutosławski and Kurtág. by his deep study of the period. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season / London Pianoforte Series Contemporary Music Series Music for the Moment www.benjaminharte.co.uk

8 Bernarda Fink Ensemble Prisma Wien

Thursday 6 April 7.30 pm

Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Ensemble Prisma Wien Thomas Fheodoroff director, violin Schubert 5 Minuets D89 Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1 (arranged for strings by Thomas Fheodoroff ) Haydn Arianna a Naxos Dvorˇák String Quintet in G Op. 77 (mvts 2 & 3) Dvorˇák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs) Op. 99 (arranged for voice, oboe and strings by Christian Mondrup) Vienna occupied the heart of a vast empire during the years in which the works in this programme were conceived, one held together by a curious mix of repression, incompetence and time-honoured traditions. The Habsburg Empire, for all its faults, provided ideal conditions for a remarkable flourishing of music and musicians. Prisma Wien, founded in 2006 as a flexible ensemble dedicated to playfulness, truth and vision, makes its Wigmore Hall debut under the direction of violinist Thomas Fheodoroff. Their programme is cut from rich material, complete with Haydn’s dramatic scena Arianna a Naxos and Dvorˇák’s Biblical Songs performed by Wigmore Hall favourite Bernarda Fink.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall This concert will be followed by the annual Patron Friends dinner. To book for the dinner please contact the Friends Office on 020 7258 8230. Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season

Ensemble Prisma Wien Stefan Schweiger

Photo of Bernarda Fink by Julia Wesely

9 April

Saturday 8 April 7.30 pm Sunday 9 April 11.30 am Monday 10 April 1.00 pm

Toby Spence tenor Colin Carr cello Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Julian Milford piano Thomas Sauer piano Joseph Middleton piano Britten On this Island Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 1 in G BWV1027 Torsten Rasch A Welsh Night (London première) Tippett Boyhood’s End Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 James MacMillan The Children Poulenc Tel jour, telle nuit Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Douglas Wilkie Three Elizabethan Songs Finzi Till Earth Outwears Vaughan Williams Four Last Songs Colin Carr’s Wigmore Hall recitals invariably draw a Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Ireland Earth’s call; If there were dreams to sell; loyal following, such is the power of his artistry. He is My true love hath my heart Toby Spence has secured his place on the joined by Thomas Sauer in a programme of works by international stage as an artist of great refinement, the Three Bs, opening with Bach’s lyrical Sonata in Sarah Connolly’s artistry arises from her feeling for blessed with deep feeling for poetic nuance and a G before embracing Beethoven’s Handel-inspired words and their meaning, allied to deep reserves of voice capable of projecting bold dramatic contrasts. Op. 5 No. 2 and the radiant tonal beauty of Brahms’s emotion and vocal colour. The mezzo-soprano joins His programme explores five major vocal works, late Cello Sonata No. 2. forces with regular duo partner Joseph Middleton for including Poulenc’s crystalline settings of Eluard a fascinating lunchtime programme, complete with £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice and Britten’s heartfelt response to the sonnets the London première of Torsten Rasch’s commission of Michelangelo. Sunday Morning Coffee Concert for the 2016 Three Choirs Festival, and James MacMillan’s haunting The Children. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 £15 concs £13 Song Recital Series Sunday 9 April 7.30 pm Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset director, harpsichord BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Jocelyn Daubigney flute BACH ET LA FRANCE See page opposite for full details

Toby Spence Mitch Jenkins Colin Carr Jo Schofield Sarah Connolly Peter Warren

10 April

Monday 10 April 7.30 pm Ensemble Plus Ultra Victoria O Domine Jesu Christe; Lamentations for LES TALENS LYRIQUES Maundy Thursday; Vere languores nostros; Lamentations for Good Friday; O vos omnes Lobo O quam suavis est, Domine; Lamentations for Holy Saturday CHRISTOPHE ROUSSET Tejeda Miserere mei Deus; Rex autem David Lobo Ave Regina caelorum; Versa est in luctum There’s a mystical quality about Tomás Luis de Victoria’s sacred music, conditioned not least by the composer’s deep commitment to the spiritual life. Ensemble Plus Ultra enters Holy Week with a programme coloured by the Easter season’s heightened emotions, powerfully present in Tejeda’s spellbinding Miserere, Victoria’s Lamentations and the works of his younger contemporary, Alonso Lobo, the 400th anniversary of whose death we mark this year.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

Les Talens Lyriques Eric Larrayadieu

Sunday 9 April 7.30 pm Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset director, harpsichord Jocelyn Daubigney flute BACH ET LA FRANCE Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1059 Leclair Flute Concerto in C Op. 7 No. 3 Christophe Rousset Jocelyn Daubigney Rameau Orchestral Suite from Castor et Pollux Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques have opened countless ears to the rich expressive possibilities and dashing musical vitality of Baroque music over the past quarter of a century. Named after the subtitle of one of Rameau’s operas, Les fêtes d’Hébé, Rousset’s band is famed worldwide for its entrancing interpretations and profound understanding of early French repertoire. The group here turns its acclaimed collective expertise to the French dance rhythms of Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 1 and the Orchestral Suite from Rameau’s opera Castor et Pollux, presenting each work in company with instrumental concertos of terrific virtuosity and spirit.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Supported by Dunard Fund Early Music and Baroque Series Photo of Christophe Rousset by Eric Larrayadieu; photo of Jocelyn Daubigney by Caroline Doutre Ensemble Plus Ultra

11 Schubert: Wigmore Hall has played host to Schubert’s songs over the past two seasons, presenting all 600-plus of the composer’s timeless contributions to the art form. Over sixty of the world’s finest interpreters have taken part in Schubert: The Complete Songs, a bold joint project with the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Hohenems Festival, and a major landmark in the Hall’s history, which is set to conclude on 31 January 2018, Schubert's birthday.

Schubert: The Complete Songs 2016/17 is made possible with additional support from the Voices at Wigmore syndicate and the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

Tuesday 11 April 7.30 pm

Henk Neven baritone Imogen Cooper piano Schubert Die schöne Müllerin Since its first performance at Wigmore Hall in 1903, Die schöne Müllerin has been recognised as one of the great treasures of western music. Henk Neven, among the most imaginative of the younger generation of song recitalists, joins forces with Imogen Cooper, a truly great Schubertian, to offer fresh insights into this enduring masterwork.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

This concert will be aproximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval

Song Recital Series

Portrait of Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder Background painting by Caspar David Friedrich

12 The Complete Songs

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Sunday 2 July 7.30 pm

Saturday 6 May 1.00 pm Markus Schäfer tenor The Myrthen Ensemble Piers Lane piano Mary Bevan soprano Friday 7 July 7.30 pm Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Nicky Spence tenor Louise Alder soprano Marcus Farnsworth baritone Ruby Hughes soprano Joseph Middleton piano Katie Bray mezzo-soprano Wednesday 10 May 7.30 pm Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Ian Bostridge tenor Sholto Kynoch piano Lars Vogt piano Sunday 9 July 3.00 pm Saturday 13 May 7.30 pm Ben Johnson tenor Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano Henk Neven Marco Borggreve Nicky Spence tenor Jan Philip Schulze piano Benjamin Appl baritone Friday 19 May 7.30 pm Gavan Ring baritone Sholto Kynoch piano Julian Prégardien tenor Christoph Schnackertz piano Sunday 9 July 7.30 pm

Thursday 8 June 7.30 pm Ian Bostridge tenor Graham Johnson piano Anna Lucia Richter soprano Michael Gees piano Wednesday 19 July 7.30 pm

Sunday 11 June 7.30 pm Elizabeth Watts soprano Simon Lepper piano Ben Johnson tenor Friday 28 July 7.30 pm Graham Johnson piano tenor Saturday 17 June 7.30 pm Robin Tritschler piano Imogen Cooper Sussie Ahlburg Graham Johnson Florian Boesch baritone Saturday 29 July 7.00 pm Malcolm Martineau piano A Serenade to Music

13 Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet

Wednesday 12 April 7.30 pm Le Concert Spirituel Holy Week was a time for profound reflection and sacred ritual at the court of Louis XIV. Le Concert Hervé Niquet director Spirituel, in its 30th anniversary year, evokes the intense atmosphere of musical worship in LEÇONS DE TÉNÈBRES the era of the Sun King with a programme built around François Couperin’s three Leçons de Couperin Première Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint Ténèbres, written in 1714 for the Abbaye Royale Charpentier Répons: Unus ex discipulis meis H114 de Longchamp near Paris, and Marc-Antoine Lochon Tuere nos mortales (instrumental) Charpentier’s Tenebrae Responses. The concert Couperin Seconde Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint also offers a rare chance to hear part of the Charpentier Répons: Eram quasi agnus innocens H115 Requiem setting by Louis Chein, a chaplain and Chein Introït from Missa pro defunctis (Requiem) chorister at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, and an Couperin Troisième Leçon de Tenébres pour le Mercredi Saint instrumental version of Lochon’s Marian motet Charpentier Répons: Una hora non potuistis H116 Tuere nos mortales. Delalande Miserere mei Deus Secumdum S27

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Lamentation over the Dead Christ (detail) by Sandro Botticelli This concert will be approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in duration, without an interval

Early Music and Baroque Series

14 April

Thursday 13 April 7.30 pm Saturday 15 April 7.30 pm Sunday 16 April 11.30 am

Sergey Khachatryan violin Steven Isserlis cello Castalian String Quartet Lusine Khachatryan piano Dénes Várjon pianoforte Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Thomas Adès The Four Quarters Mozart Violin Sonata in B K454 Hummel Variations alla Monferrina Op. 54 b Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis Liszt Romance oubliée (for cello and piano) S132 ‘Razumovsky’ Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Onslow Cello Sonata in C minor Op. 16 No. 2 Chopin Introduction and polonaise brillante in C Op. 3 Although only performed for the first time in 2011, Regular duo partners Sergey and Lusine Khachatryan Merk Variations on an Original Theme in F Thomas Adès’s The Four Quarters is already firmly are in demand at the world’s leading concert ‘Aux Amateurs No. 3’ Op. 14 established in the chamber music repertoire. The halls, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Théâtre des Franchomme Nocturne Op. 15 No. 1 work, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, occupies the Champs-Élysées, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65 centre of a fascinating programme from the Castalian Carnegie Hall among them. Their latest recording String Quartet, winner of the 2015 Lyon International of Armenian music, ‘My Armenia’, released to Steven Isserlis and Dénes Várjon catch the buoyant Chamber Music Competition. commemorate the centenary of the Armenian spirit of the mid-1800s with a delightful programme genocide, received a coveted prize at the 2016 of works, which reveals the inventive brilliance of £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice ECHO Klassik Awards. Auguste Franchomme’s Nocturne, Liszt’s Romance WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T oubliée and one of Joseph Merk’s many tuneful £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust pieces ‘For Amateurs’. To explore the repertoire in Chamber Music Season this recital, Várjon has specially chosen an 1847 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Streicher pianoforte.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Chamber Music Season

Lusine Khachatryan Marco Borggreve Dénes Várjon Pilvax Studio

Sergey Khachatryan Marco Borggreve Steven Isserlis Jean-Baptiste Millot Castalian String Quartet Kaupo Kikkas

15 April

Monday 17 April 1.00 pm Monday 17 April 7.30 pm Tuesday 18 April 7.30pm

Alessio Bax piano London Handel Players Basel Chamber Orchestra Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D784 Adrian Butterfield director, violin Daniel Hope violin Skryabin Piano Sonata No. 3 in F# minor Op. 23 viola da gamba Bach Concerto in A minor for violin, strings and Ravel La valse Juan Manuel Quintana continuo BWV1041 flute, recorder Alessio Bax, described by The New Yorker as Rachel Brown Mendelssohn Concerto in D minor for violin and strings ‘perhaps the most elegant of today’s young pianists’, Laurence Cummings harpsichord Martin Pavane Couleur du Temps places Skryabin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 at the heart Bartók Divertimento for Strings soprano of his lunchtime recital. He frames the Russian Rowan Pierce Contrasts and coincidences abound in the Basel composer’s dramatic vision of ‘States of the Soul’ HANDEL AND TELEMANN: LONG-DISTANCE Chamber Orchestra’s programme. Daniel Hope with Schubert’s majestic Piano Sonata in A minor MUSICAL FRIENDS play-directs the ensemble in Mendelssohn’s youthful D784 and Ravel’s virtuoso transcription for solo D minor Violin Concerto, written for the composer’s piano of La valse. Telemann Sonata à 4 TWV43:A1 ‘Paris’ Handel Cantata: Un alma innamorata HWV173 childhood friend, Ferdinand David, who also led the £15 concs £13 Telemann Cantata: Wandelt in der Liebe TWV1:1498 orchestra in his famous revival of Bach’s St Matthew Telemann Quartet in E minor TWV43:e4 ‘Paris’ Passion. Bartók’s Divertimento, written for the BCO Handel Cantata: Tra le fiamme HWV170 in 1939, is prefaced by Frank Martin’s lyrical Pavane in its version for strings. Rising-star soprano Rowan Pierce, a Samling Artist, BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert joins the London Handel Players for a programme £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 of exquisite cantatas and chamber music by Chamber Music Season Handel and Telemann, friends and colleagues who corresponded frequently and borrowed extensively from each other in a long-distance friendship that lasted for more than half a century.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

Alessio Bax Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Daniel Hope Harald Hoffmann

London Handel Players Chris Christodoulou Basel Chamber Orchestra Christian Flierl

16 April

Wednesday 19 April 12.15 pm Wednesday 19 April 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Piers Lane piano THOMAS DUNFORD Brian Elias discusses his new work with Chopin Impromptu No. 1 in Ab Op. 29; Fantaisie Dr Kate Kennedy. in F minor Op. 49; Étude in E Op. 10 No. 3; Ballade No. 3 in A Op. 47; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54; Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required) b Polonaise in F# minor Op. 44; Mazurka in A minor Op. 17 No. 4; Nocturne in B Op. 62 No. 1; Nocturne in E Op. 62 No. 2; Barcarolle in F Op. 60 Wednesday 19 April 1.00 pm # Technical bravura, poetic reflection and heart-melting Britten Sinfonia lyricism are just some of the many qualities present in Piers Lane’s all-Chopin programme, a feast of Nicholas Daniel oboe pianism comprising such exquisite miniatures as Finzi Interlude for oboe and string quartet Op. 21 the two Op. 62 Nocturnes and the spectacular Brian Elias Oboe Quintet* (world première) Barcarolle in F# Op. 60, among the composer’s final Mozart String Quintet in C minor K406 and finest compositions. *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, London Pianoforte Series Thomas Dunford Charles Plumey a Swiss grant-making foundation

This programme, centred on the artistry of renowned Thursday 20 April 7.30 pm oboist Nicholas Daniel, features a new work by Brian Elias, commissioned by Wigmore Hall, together with Thomas Dunford lute Finzi’s intimate yet cinematic Interlude and Mozart’s LACHRIMAE String Quintet in C minor, in which the oboe takes the role of first violin. Dowland Preludium; Fortune; A fancy; Semper Dowland semper dolens; Mrs Winter’s Jump; £13 concs £11 A Dream; The King of Denmark’s Galliard Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Kapsberger Toccatas Nos. 6 & 1 from Libro primo d’intavolatura di lauto Dalza Calate ala spagnola Dowland Melancholy Galliard; Round Battle Galliard; La mia Barbara; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; Farewell; Frog Galliard; Lachrimae A wealth of critical superlatives bear witness to Thomas Dunford’s star status. His debut disc prompted BBC Music Magazine to describe him as ‘the Eric Clapton of the lute’. Following studies at the Paris Conservatoire and Schola Cantorum in Basel, his career has gathered momentum in company with many of the world’s leading Early Music ensembles and soloists. Dunford’s Wigmore Hall solo debut places Dowland’s highly charged works at the core of a captivating programme of Renaissance showpieces.

All seats £20 This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Early Music and Baroque Series Nicholas Daniel Eric Richmond Piers Lane Eric Richmond

17 April

Friday 21 April 1.00 pm Friday 21 April 7.30 pm Saturday 22 April 7.30 pm

Benjamin Appl baritone Michael Fabiano tenor Soloists of the London James Baillieu piano Julius Drake piano Philharmonic Orchestra HEIMAT Programme to include songs by Duparc, Liszt, Brahms Trio in Eb Op. 40 Toscanini, Puccini, Strauss, Tchaikovsky Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ Programme to include Lieder by Schubert, and Beach Schumann, Brahms and Wolf, and selected Brahms composed his Horn Trio in the aftermath English songs by Britten, Ireland, Warlock and Michael Fabiano captivated audiences at the of his mother's death, making it one of his most Vaughan Williams. Royal Opera House with his debut as Lensky in profoundly personal works. Its moving blend of Eugene Onegin in 2015. ‘I can’t think of a Lensky tenderness and sorrow is the ideal foil for the sunlit Images of home and of belonging run as themes at Covent Garden who has held the audience so melodies of Schubert’s evergreen ‘Trout’ Quintet, the through Benjamin Appl’s latest recital. The German spellbound in forty years of Onegin-going’, observed music of friends performed here by five colleagues baritone, named Gramophone 2016 Young Artist The Sunday Times. The American tenor is joined from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. of the Year, launches Heimat, his latest recording by Julius Drake for his first Wigmore Hall recital. on the Sony label, with a programme shot through £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 with nostalgia, yearning and joy inspired by those Chamber Music Season places or surroundings that make us feel at home. Song Recital Series £15 concs £13 Song Recital Series

Benjamin Appl Falk Kastell Michael Fabiano Arielle Doneson Soloists of the LPO Benjamin Ealovega

18 April

Sunday 23 April 11.30 am Sunday 23 April 7.30 pm Monday 24 April 1.00 pm

Ivana Gavric´ piano Andreas Haefliger piano Louis Lortie piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2 George Benjamin Shadowlines: 6 Canonic Preludes No. 2 ‘The Tempest’ Berio Erdenklavier; Wasserklavier Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 Chopin 4 Mazurkas Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Louis Lortie recently succeeded Maria João Pires Liszt 3 Petrarch Sonnets S158; Rhapsodie Berio Luftklavier; Feuerklavier as Master in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth espagnole S254 Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Music Chapel in Brussels, further underlining his Ivana Gavric´ secured the BBC Music Magazine For the latest in his acclaimed Perspectives status among the world’s leading pianists. The Newcomer Award in 2011 with revelatory readings programmes at Wigmore Hall, Andreas Haefliger French-Canadian musician’s lunchtime programme of works by, among others, Janácˇek and Liszt. offers landmarks of the keyboard repertoire – comprises works sure to reveal every facet of his The Sarajevo-born British musician’s soulful artistry Beethoven’s intimate Piano Sonata No. 30 in E acclaimed artistry and the limitless scope of his has matured since, drawing rave reviews and keen Op. 109 and Schumann’s Beethoven tribute, the aesthetic imagination. interest from piano connoisseurs. She returns to Fantasie in C Op. 17 – together with vibrant, virtuoso £15 concs £13 Wigmore Hall with a recital programme infused with miniatures by Berio inspired by the four elements, striking expressive contrasts and poetic imagery. earth, water, air and fire.

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert London Pianoforte Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Ivana Gavric´ Sussie Ahlburg Andreas Haefliger Marco Borggreve Louis Lortie ELIAS

19 April

Tuesday 25 April 7.30pm Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm KATHLEEN FERRIER Janina Fialkowska piano Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Chopin Polonaise in Eb minor Op. 26 No. 2; AWARD 2017 Sol Gabetta cello Nocturne in B Op. 9 No. 3; Impromptu No. 3 in G b Wednesday 26 April See page opposite for full details Op. 51; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Waltz in B minor 1.30 pm Op. 69 No. 2; Waltz in Ab Op. 42; Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54; Prelude in SEMI-FINAL E minor Op. 28 No. 14; Prelude in D Op. 28 No. Thursday 27 April 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm b b Friday 28 April 15 ‘Raindrop’; 3 Mazurkas Op. 50; Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20 6.00 pm Young Producers Present… FINAL Widely acknowledged as one of today’s foremost What happens when a group of young people from interpreters of Chopin, Janina Fialkowska appears to The annual auditions London secondary schools programme their own be reborn every time she performs the composer’s concert at Wigmore Hall? What theme will inspire for this famous singing music. The natural spontaneity and immediacy of them? What music will they choose? her playing rests on almost five decades of competition, founded experience and deep foundations of impeccable in memory of one of Find out more about this unique project at musicianship, unshakeable focus and intense the UK’s best loved www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/young-producers. musical creativity. contraltos, attract Free (ticket required) £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 capacity houses from Wigmore Hall Learning is a proud supporter of Arts Award, both devoted lovers of vocal art and as part of this project our Young Producers work London Pianoforte Series and students of singing. towards achieving their Silver Arts Award.

26 April All seats £15 students £10

28 April £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Supported by the London Stock Exchange Group Foundation

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Janine Fialkowska Julien Faugère Young Producers www.benjaminharte.co.uk

20 Patricia Kopatchinskaja Artist in Residence

Leading composers and conductors are among those in the queue hoping to collaborate with Patricia Kopatchinskaja. The iconoclastic Moldovan-Austrian violinist’s artistry erupts from the uncompromising courage of her breath-taking interpretations. Her season as Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence concludes with two compelling concert programmes, both rich in repertoire range, and an enlightening pre-concert talk.

Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Sol Gabetta cello Xenakis Dhipli zyia Jörg Widmann 24 Duos for violin and cello (a selection) Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Sol Gabetta Marco Borggreve Ligeti Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg Peter Eötvös ‘Now, Miss!’* (world première of arrangement for violin and cello) Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 Interspersed with works by CPE Bach, JS Bach and Scarlatti

*Commissioned by Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Two kindred spirits join forces for a programme packed with high energy, dramatic twists and turns, and lyrical beauty. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta offer fresh perspectives on modernity and post-modernity, complete with a new version of Peter Eötvös’s Beckett-inspired ‘Now, Miss!’, a selection of Jörg Widmann’s coruscating Duos and Kodály’s Duo for violin and cello.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Forthcoming Events in this Series

Sunday 7 May 6.00 pm Artists in Conversation

Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano

Photo of Patricia Kopatchinskaja by Marco Borggreve 21 April

Saturday 29 April 10.00 am – 3.30 pm Saturday 29 April 7.30 pm MILAN SILJANOV Come and Sing: Hagen Quartet NINO CHOKHONELIDZE World Folk Music Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73; String Quartet No. 14 in F Op. 142; String Quartet Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults # No. 15 in E minor Op. 144 exploring folk music, popular music, and other b forms from around the world. Get to know the Any list of the world’s leading chamber ensembles music from the inside, develop your singing skills would be incomplete without the Hagen Quartet, and finish the day with a performance on decisive in its contributions to the modern history of the Wigmore Hall stage. string quartet playing. The group turns to Shostakovich for its latest Wigmore Hall concert, £25 concs £19 opening with the composer’s post-war reflections on the victims of tyranny and embracing his elegiac final quartets.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Chamber Music Season Milan Siljanov Nino Chokhonelidze

Thursday 27 April 7.30 pm

Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Nino Chokhonelidze piano WIGMORE HALL / KOHN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION WINNER’S RECITAL Schubert Der Einsame; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Aufenthalt; Der Doppelgänger; Schäfers Klagelied; Auf der Brücke Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Rheinlegendchen; Lob des hohen Verstandes

Schumann Tragödie I (Entflieh mit mir); Come and Sing www.benjaminharte.co.uk Tragödie II (Es fiel ein Reif); Der Schatzgräber; Mein Wagen rollet langsam; Der Nussbaum; Die Löwenbraut Schoenberg Warum bist du aufgewacht (Nachtblumen); Warnung; Dank Around 140 fine young singers entered the 2015 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition. Milan Siljanov emerged as the biennial event’s winner, whilst his wife Nino took the Pianist’s Prize, thanks to their final performance of great wit and panache. The duo makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a full recital programme sure to project an innate artistry and delight in bringing words and poetic phrases to life.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series Hagen Quartet Harald Hoffmann

22 April/May

Sunday 30 April 11.30 am Sunday 30 April 7.30 pm Monday 1 May 1.00 pm

Caroline Goulding violin Hagen Quartet Lawrence Zazzo countertenor Danae Dörken piano Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87 Daniele Caminiti archlute, baroque guitar Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 Schubert Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 bass viol, viola da gamba Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death Jonathan Rees Enescu Impressions d’enfance Op. 28 and the Maiden’ harpsichord, organ Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Julian Perkins By the time young Schubert created his String Each of the pieces in Caroline Goulding’s Wigmore WEEPING PHILOSOPHERS Quartet in E flat in 1813, the teenager had already Hall debut programme seduces the ear with melodic Con l’angelico riso completed nine other works for string quartet. Verdelot beauty. The young American violinist, joined by Piangono al pianger mio The Hagen Quartet presents the composer’s tuneful D’India regular duo partner Danae Dörken, moves from No, no mio core early piece in company with Beethoven’s final Carissimi Schubert’s charming ‘Sonatina’ by way of Enescu’s Dalla porta d’oriente; Sfogava con le stelle complete quartet and Schubert’s ‘Death and the Caccini delightful suite of childhood impressions to the Toccata decima (Libro Primo); Maiden’, a shattering confrontation with despair and Frescobaldi impassioned romanticism of Schumann’s Violin Canzona quarta (Libro Secondo); Se l’aura spira; human suffering. Sonata in D minor of 1853. Così mi disprezzate £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Strozzi L’Eraclito amoroso Chamber Music Season Piccinini Toccata XIII Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Durante Seneca funato ossia la crudelta di Nerone Italy’s city-states and principalities proved a hotbed of creativity in the early 1600s, cultivating a vast repertoire of solo songs and encouraging virtuoso instrumentalists of the calibre of Piccinini and Frescobaldi. Lawrence Zazzo, hailed by The New York Times as ‘a countertenor of gorgeous tone’, leads a glorious lunchtime exploration of the Italian Baroque.

£15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Danae Dörken Martin Teschner Hagen Quartet

Caroline Goulding Jamie Jung Lawrence Zazzo Justin Hyer

23 May

Monday 1 May 7.30 pm Friday 5 May 7.00 pm NB starting time Maximilian Schmitt tenor FRANCESCO Chamber Music Society of Gerold Huber piano Lincoln Center Brahms Vom verwundeten Knaben; Vergangen ist Benjamin Beilman violin PIEMONTESI Yura Lee viola mir Glück und Heil; Sehnsucht (Op. 14 No. 8); Ich schell mein Horn ins Jammertal; Der Überläufer Jakob Koranyi cello Hindemith Lustige Lieder in Aargauer Mundart Wu Han piano Brahms O kühler Wald; Anklänge; Es schauen die Alessio Bax piano Blumen; Schwermut; Ach, wende diesen Blick; Auf dem Kirchhofe Hindemith Image; Beauty touch Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb K493 me Schubert Bei dir allein!; Ständchen (D889); Schubert Allegro in A minor D947 ‘Lebensstürme’ An Silvia; Sei mir gegrüßt; Adelaide; An die Laute; Dvorˇák Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 87 Dass sie hier gewesen; An den Mond (D193); Wu Han and Alessio Bax join a trio of string players Nachtviolen; Nachtstück for what promises to be a celebration of the best Maximilian Schmitt and Gerold Huber explore the in chamber music-making. Their programme gets breadth of Brahms’s song-writing art in their recital’s underway with Mozart’s K493, a gem fashioned first half, embracing everything from austere in Vienna in 1786 soon after the completion of reflections on happiness lost to the tender lyricism Le nozze di Figaro, and prefaces Dvorˇák’s inspired of ‘Es schauen die Blumen’. Two sublime songs by Op. 87 with the imposing presence of Schubert’s Hindemith preface a second half devoted to ten of late piano duet in A minor. Schubert’s best-known vocal works, including settings All seats £15 of Shakespeare, Rückert, Hölty and Mayrhofer. This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 without an interval Song Recital Series Chamber Music Season Francesco Piemontesi Benjamin Ealovega Tuesday 2 May 7.30pm Thursday 4 May 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff piano Francesco Piemontesi piano See page opposite for full details Mozart 9 Variations on a Minuet by Duport K573; Piano Sonata in Bb K570; Piano Wednesday 3 May 7.30 pm Sonata in C K309; Piano Sonata in C K330; Piano Sonata in A minor K310 Sir András Schiff Masterclass Francesco Piemontesi launched his complete See page opposite for full details cycle of Mozart’s piano sonatas at the end of last season, introducing his series by neatly Benjamin Beilman & Alessio Bax Tristan Cook dovetailing with the close of Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odyssey. The Italian pianist, universally recognised among today’s finest Mozarteans, opens his latest programme with the splendid Variations on a Minuet by Frederick the Great’s court cellist and continues with the composer’s penultimate sonata, a work considered by Alfred Einstein to be ‘perhaps the most completely rounded of them all’.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 London Pianoforte Series

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Monday 23 October 7.30 pm Maximilian Schmitt Christian Kargl Wu Han Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

24 Sir András Schiff Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók

Four composers central to Sir András Schiff’s artistic DNA provide the focus for the pianist’s unfolding Wigmore Hall concerts this season. His careful selection of works offers the chance to hear each piece from a fresh perspective, while his related masterclass series provides further insights into Schiff’s creative process.

Tuesday 2 May 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff piano Bach Capriccio in Bb BWV992 (Capriccio on the Departure of his Most Beloved Brother) Bartók 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm from Mikrokosmos Book VI Bach 4 Duettos from Clavier-Ubung (Book III) BWV802–805 Bartók Piano Sonata Janácˇek In the Mists Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Sir András Schiff offers a programme of true character pieces, works nourished by their association with individuals close to their composers, events or particular performers. In the Mists, for instance, was influenced by memories of Janácˇek’s deceased daughter, while Bartók wrote his 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm for the English pianist Harriet Cohen.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by an anonymous donor

London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 3 May 7.30 pm Sir András Schiff Masterclass Sir András Schiff leads a masterclass working with outstanding students chosen by Sir András himself on repertoire closely related to the previous evening’s concert. Participants and their audience can expect to discover profound interpretative insights from one of the world’s great musicians, recently hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his ‘impeccable technique’, ‘intense concentration’ and ‘acute sense of being’.

This event will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

All seats £20 Supported by an anonymous donor

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Photo by Nadia F. Romanini/ECM Records

25 Wigmore Lates

Wigmore Lates, firm fixtures in the Hall’s summer calendar, make the ideal start to the weekend. This season’s run opens with virtuoso Baroque sonatas from Arcangelo, and includes a trumpet double bill from Alison Balsom and Guy Barker, mesmeric original cabaret numbers from Miss Hope Springs, and a genre-crossing evening with classical mandolinist Avi Avital and jazz bassist and oud player Omer Avital. Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/lates for full details.

26 Friday 5 May 10.00 pm Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Arcangelo* Friday 26 May 10.00 pm Jonathan Cohen harpsichord, organ Sophie Gent violin Danish String Quartet Jonathan Manson viola da gamba Thomas Dunford lute Friday 9 June 10.00 pm Biber Sonata No. 6 in C minor C143; Mystery Sonata No. 1 ‘The Annunciation’ Buxtehude Trio Sonata in A minor BuxWV272 Alison Balsom trumpet Schmelzer Sonata No. 3 in G minor from Sonatae Unarum Fidium Guy Barker trumpet Kühnel Sonata No. 7 in G Schmelzer Sonata No. 4 in D from Sonatae Unarum Fidium Ross Stanley piano Music by two outstanding Austrian composers, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Chris Hill double bass and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, sets the mood for the first of this season’s Wigmore Lates. Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo’s programme explores the Friday 16 June 10.00 pm powerful rhetoric of their violin sonatas together with other thrilling instrumental works from the seventeenth century. Miss Hope Springs All seats £15 Friday 23 June 10.00 pm * WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Avi Avital mandolin Wigmore Lates /Arcangelo Baroque Ensemble in Residence Omer Avital oud Yonathan Avishai piano Itamar Doari percussion

Friday 14 July 10.00 pm Dinosaur Laura Jurd trumpet Elliot Galvin piano Conor Chaplin acoustic bass Jonathan Cohen Marco Borggreve Sophie Gent Marco Borggreve Corrie Dick drums, percussion

Friday 21 July 10.00 pm

Edicson Ruiz double bass Yu Kosuge piano

Photo of Wigmore Hall by Benjamin Ealovega

Jonathan Manson Marco Borggreve Thomas Dunford Gerard-Collett

27 May

Saturday 6 May 1.00 pm Sunday 7 May 11.30 am

The Myrthen Ensemble KARITA MATTILA Saleem Ashkar piano Mary Bevan soprano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz Piano Sonata No. 26 in Eb Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’; Nicky Spence tenor Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 Marcus Farnsworth baritone ‘Appassionata’ Joseph Middleton piano Saleem Ashkar’s interpretations of the core German Schubert Gott im Ungewitter; Gott der Weltschöpfer; repertoire have won critical plaudits and the Hymne an den Unendlichen; Die Sterne (D313); admiration of piano connoisseurs, not least for their Idens Schwanenlied; Schwanengesang (D318); sense of risk allied to clear-sighted understanding of Luisens Antwort; Licht und Liebe; Morgenlied (D381); form and phrasing. His all-Beethoven programme Abendlied (D382); An die Sonne (D439); Die Liebe; moves from the fecund invention of the early Abschied (D578); Die Geselligkeit (Lebenslust); Op. 10 No. 2 to the revolutionary fire of the Singübungen für zwei Stimmen; Kantate zum ‘Appassionata’ sonata. Geburtstag des Sängers Johann Michael Vogl; Des Tages Weihe (Schicksalslenker); Gebet; £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Der Tanz (D826) Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Echoes of Bach and Handel sound at the opening of The Myrthen Ensemble’s Schubert programme. There are traces, too, of Beethoven in the quartet ‘Hymne an den Unendlichen’, a rousing setting of words by Schiller. The ‘Morgenlied’ and its companion ‘Abendlied’, both written on the same day, appear to have been composed in February 1816, while Karita Mattila Marica Rosengard Schubert was still working as a schoolteacher.

All seats £15 Saturday 6 May 7.30 pm This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval Karita Mattila soprano Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Ville Matvejeff piano Brahms Zigeunerlieder Op. 103 Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Berg Vier Lieder Op. 2 Strauss Der Stern; Wiegenlied; Meinem Kinde; Ach Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten; Allerseelen; Cäcilie With her irresistible onstage presence, dramatic persona and voice of jaw-dropping flexibility and beauty, Karita Mattila belongs to the company of today’s finest singers. The Finnish lyric soprano, among the great interpreters of Richard Strauss, prefaces a selection of the composer’s impassioned songs with Alban Berg’s innovative Vier Lieder Op. 2, works which stretch the bounds of tonality in search of heightened emotional expression. She opens her recital with Brahms’s high-spirited Zigeunerlieder and Wagner’s sublime Wesendonck Lieder.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Song Recital Series The Myrthen Ensemble John Alexander Saleem Ashkar Luidmila Jermies

28 May

Sunday 7 May 6.00 pm Monday 8 May 1.00 pm Monday 8 May 7.30 pm

Artists in Conversation Véronique Gens soprano Sainsbury Royal Academy Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence, Patricia Susan Manoff piano Soloists Kopatchinskaja, discusses her residency and life Hahn Néère; Trois jours de vendange director, violin as a performer ahead of the evening concert. Clio Gould Duparc Chanson triste; Romance de Mignon Schubert/Mahler String Quartet in D minor £4 Chausson Le Charme; Les papillons; Hébé ‘Death and the Maiden’ (for string ensemble) Hahn Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Le rossignol des Wigmore Hall Learning Event Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op. 70 lilas; A Chloris Chausson La chanson bien douce; Le temps des lilas Directed by Clio Gould, distinguished soloist and Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm Hahn Lydé; Tyndaris; Pholoé; Phyllis; Le printemps leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists comprises the Elegant and expressive by turn, Reynaldo Hahn’s violin finest young string players from the Royal Academy Patricia Kopatchinskaja songs reflect the sophistication of the Caracas-born of Music. Their programme pairs Mahler’s shrewdly harpsichord, piano French composer’s personality. Véronique Gens, Anthony Romaniuk judged arrangement of Schubert’s ‘Death and the winner of the 2016 Gramophone Solo Vocal Award, CPE Bach Fantasie in F# minor Wq. 80 (arr. of Maiden’, created in 1896, with the folk-like charm and Susan Manoff evoke the world of Belle Époque Fantasia for keyboard solo Wq. 67) and energy of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence. Paris with help from Hahn and a selection of George Crumb Four Nocturnes Ligeti Hungarian Rock chansons by his older contemporaries Ernest £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 György Kurtág Tre pezzi Op. 14e Biber Sonata Chausson and Henri Duparc. representativa for solo violin and continuo Chamber Music Season Pandolfi Mealli Violin Sonata Op. 3 No. 3 ‘La Melana’ All seats £15 Salvatore Sciarrino Capriccio No. 2 for solo violin Tuesday 9 May 11.00am – 11.45 am Beethoven Scherzo from Violin Sonata No. 5 in F (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm) Op. 24 ‘Spring’ Vanessa Lann Springs Eternal Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert violin BWV1004 with improvised accompaniment For Crying Out Loud! Convention is unlikely ever to obstruct Patricia Hear outstanding performances by musicians from Kopatchinskaja’s path. The violinist’s term as Wigmore the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts Hall’s Artist in Residence continues with a typically presented especially for parents or carers and bold and utterly engaging choice of works, set in babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and train by the fantasy of CPE Bach’s imagination and accommodating environment. fuelled throughout by the twin spirits of improvisation Adults £7.50 (babies come free) and originality.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Early Music and Baroque Series/ Wigmore Hall Learning Event Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Artist in Residence For Crying Out Loud! Benjamin Ealovega

P. Kopatchinskaja & A. Romaniuk Marco Borggreve Véronique Gens Franck Juery Clio Gould Hana Zushi-Rhodes

29 May

Wednesday 10 May 7.30 pm Friday 12 May 10.15 am – 11.15 am (for 1 – 2 year olds) Ian Bostridge tenor BRACING CHANGE 11.45 am – 12.45 pm (for 3 – 5 year olds) NEW STRING COMMISSIONS Lars Vogt piano Chamber Tots Schubert Schwanengesang Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte BEAR HUNT Join us for these one-hour interactive music-making Beethoven established the song cycle as a serious sessions for young children and their parents and genre with the creation of An die ferne Geliebte in 1816. Ian Bostridge and Lars Vogt present the carers, featuring songs, percussion playing and the work’s diverse reflections on love in company with chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, the dramatic contrasts of Schubert’s settings of presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music poems by Heine, Rellstab and Seidl, complete with leaders alongside emerging musicians. the composer’s final song, written a month before Elias String Quartet Benjamin Ealovega Children £5 Adults £3 his death in November 1828. Wigmore Hall Learning Event £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Friday 12 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

Joanna MacGregor piano ‘CANONS BURIED IN FLOWERS’: Benjamin Frith Chris Stock THE COMPLETE CHOPIN MAZURKAS Chopin Mazurkas (complete) Thursday 11 May 7.30 pm Schumann called Chopin’s fifty-eight mazurkas ‘canons Elias String Quartet buried in flowers’, a synthesis of Polish folk culture, nostalgia, poetry and political defiance. Performed Benjamin Frith piano chronologically they portray a subtle and confessional kDvorˇá String Quartet in Eb Op. 51 diary of a transcendent, innovative composer. Paul Newland New commission* (world première) £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44 This concert will be approximately 3 hours in duration, including 2 intervals *Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, Carnegie Hall, and by Wigmore Hall with London Pianoforte Series the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Lars Vogt Neda Navaee Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Wigmore Hall’s commitment to contemporary music is clear in its programme of special commissions and first performances. Bracing Change: New String Commissions, a co-commissioning partnership with The Radcliffe Trust and NMC Recordings, has produced a succession of fine works since its launch in 2014, including scores by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Anthony Gilbert and Donnacha Dennehy. The series continues with a new piece for the Elias String Quartet by Paul Newland, Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Trinity Laban.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series Ian Bostridge Sim Canetty-Clarke Joanna MacGregor Pal Hansen

30 Tansy Davies Study Day

Saturday 13 May Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music Clark Rundell, Orr Guy conductors

Once self-described in three words as ‘mercurial, stoical and giggly’, Tansy Davies’s music jolts and pulses, with a rhythmical, almost mechanical, edge. She draws on inspiration from architecture, often using the orchestra to build her structures, and it is this way of thinking that creates new worlds, bridging contemporary idioms such as jazz and rock. This study day will feature chamber music and songs personally selected by the composer for performance by the students from the RNCM.

10.30 am Tansy Davies Forgotten Game 2 for oboe and piano; Loopholes and Lynchpins for solo piano; Aquatic for saxophone and percussion; Dark Ground for solo percussion

12 noon In conversation: a glimpse into the life and works of Tansy Davies

2.00 pm Tansy Davies grind show (electric) for chamber ensemble and electronics; Troubairitz for soprano and percussion; Iris for soprano saxophone and ensemble

All tickets £5 concs £3 (each event) or Day ticket £10 concs £7

In partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Photo by Rikard Österlund

31 Violeta Urmana

Saturday 13 May 7.30 pm

Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano Jan Philip Schulze piano

Schubert Hagars Klage; Atys; Das war ich; Die Gestirne; Himmelsfunken; Die Sternennächte; Dem Unendlichen; Im Walde; Geheimes; Suleika I; Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz; Der Zwerg; Wehmut; Die Allmacht

Violeta Urmana makes a highly anticipated return visit to Wigmore Hall for one of the highlights of Schubert: The Complete Songs. The phenomenal range and richness of the Lithuanian artist’s voice are ideally suited to the dramatic contrasts at work in her Schubert programme. She and regular duo partner Jan Philip Schulze open with Schubert’s first complete vocal work and embrace everything from the romantic reflections of ‘Himmelsfunken’ to the operatic excesses of ‘Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz’.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Jan Philip Schulze Schulze

Photo of Violeta Urmana by Christian Schneider

32 May

Sunday 14 May 11.30 am Sunday 14 May 3.00 pm Sunday 14 May 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Jakob Koranyi cello Simon Bode tenor Juho Pohjonen piano Igor Levit piano Takács Quartet Grieg Elsk Op. 67 No. 5; Vond dag Op. 67 No. 7; Mendelssohn Frühlingslied; Das erste Veilchen; See page overleaf for full details Ved gjaetle-bekken Op. 67 No. 8 Winterlied; Neue Liebe; Gruß!; Reiselied Sibelius Malinconia Op. 20 Korngold Angedenken; Aussicht; Das Mädchen; Monday 15 May 1.00 pm Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Der Friedensbote; Reiselied; Sangesmut; Vesper; Vom Berge; Die Geniale Swedish cellist Jakob Koranyi, an ECHO Rising Star violin Wolf Er ist’s; Fußreise; Zitronenfalter im April; Tasmin Little in 2011/12, has earned critical plaudits for the Auf einer Wanderung; Gebet; Lied eines Verliebten; visionary nature of his interpretations and the John Lenehan piano Der Feuerreiter breadth of his repertoire. He and Juho Pohjonen Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 probe the deceptive simplicity of three songs from An inspired mix of songs from Simon Bode brings Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18 Grieg’s Haugtussa cycle before plunging into the together Mendelssohn’s romantic Op. 19a collection Brahms wrote one of his most lyrical and radiant turbulent emotional world of Shostakovich’s Cello from the early 1830s with a selection of Korngold’s chamber works during a summer break in Switzerland Sonata in D minor. Eichendorff settings and Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder. The in 1886. The Violin Sonata No. 2, although concise, German tenor, who refined his craft as a member of £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice calls for great virtuosity and empathy from both the Frankfurt Opera ensemble, returns to Wigmore participants. Long-time duo partners Tasmin Little Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Hall with his regular duo partner Igor Levit. and John Lenehan also explore the unrestrained All seats £15 romanticism of Strauss’s no less demanding Violin Song Recital Series Sonata Op. 18. All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Juho Pohjonen Marco Borggreve Igor Levit Felix Broede John Lenehan

Jakob Koranyi Anna-Lena Ahlström Simon Bode Kroeger-Photography.com Tasmin Little Benjamin Ealovega

33 Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle

Five-star reviews and a clutch of international prizes, a GRAMMY and Gramophone Award among them, underline the towering achievement of the Takács Quartet’s recordings of Beethoven’s complete string quartets. Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists present their latest thoughts on these timeless artworks.

Sunday 14 May 7.30 pm Takács Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in Eb Op. 127 Beethoven bought an expensive hardbound book of manuscript paper in which to draft his first string quartet, later published as his Op. 18 No. 3. The young composer’s serious investment in the medium, also measurable in terms of time and creativity, remained high throughout his lifetime, as the Takács Quartet’s gripping programme of early, middle and late works shows.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season

Monday 15 May 7.30 pm Takács Quartet

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6; String Quartet in F Op. 135; String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ ‘Despite the good nature that prevails, Beethoven’s genius is in the last analysis serious,’ wrote ETA Hoffmann in a perceptive review of the composer’s Op. 70 piano trios. The point applies equally to the three works in the Takács Quartet’s concert, which counterpoise playfulness with profound reflections on the usually dark and hidden depths of human psychology.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Wednesday 17 May 7.30 pm

Portrait of Beethoven by Christian Horneman, 1803

34 May

Tuesday 16 May 7.30pm Wednesday 17 May 7.30 pm Friday 19 May 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Classical Opera Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Side by Side Ian Page conductor Takács Quartet The Prince Consort and Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 Musicians from the ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Soraya Mafi soprano Große Fuge Op. 133 Guildhall School MOZART 250 In his book Beethoven for a Later Age, the Takács Programme to include: Mozart Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in F K37; Recitative Quartet’s first violinist Edward Dusinberre describes Schumann Spanische Liebeslieder Op. 138 & Aria: A Berenice ... Sol nascente in questo giorno; the power of the Große Fugue and its razor-edged Cheryl Frances-Hoad Invoke Now the Angels themes to ‘threaten and chase me … eroding Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in Bb K39; Keyboard The Prince Consort is renowned for its imaginative sanity’. The monumental composition is performed Concerto No. 3 in D K40; Aria: Ein ergrimmter Löwe programming, world-class performances and its here as the finale to the String Quartet in B flat, for brüllet from Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots; original approach to commissioning new works. which it was originally written. Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in G K41 The ensemble is also passionate about supporting Award-winning keyboard virtuoso Kristian Bezuidenhout £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 the development of the next generation of singers and pianists. and acclaimed soprano Soraya Mafi join Ian Page Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major and Classical Opera for a fascinating programme of contribution to the 2016/17 Wigmore Series For this project, members of the ensemble have Mozart works dating from 1767. This concert is part Chamber Music Season worked with students from the Guildhall School of of the company’s ground-breaking MOZART 250 Music & Drama towards this performance, in which project, a survey presented in chronological order the students and ensemble perform side by side. of the composer’s life, works and influences. Thursday 18 May 7.30 pm All seats £5 £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series Alison Balsom trumpet Lucy Crowe soprano The Balsom Ensemble BAROQUE DUET Wigmore Hall Learning Event See page overleaf for full details

Kristian Bezuidenhout Marco Borggreve

Ian Page Sheila Rock Takács Quartet Keith Saunders The Prince Consort Richard Ecclestone

35 May

Friday 19 May 7.30 pm

Julian Prégardien tenor ALISON BALSOM Christoph Schnackertz piano Schubert Am See (D124); Die Nacht (D358); Gott im Frühlinge; An Chloen (D363) (fragment); ‘THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND’ Der gute Hirt; Alte Liebe rostet nie; Geheimnis; Schlaflied; Sehnsucht (D516); Atys; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren BILDER AUS OSTEN Schubert Mahomets Gesang (D549) (fragment); Versunken; Geheimes; Sei mir gegrüßt; Dass sie hier gewesen; Im gegenwärtigen Vergangenes; Auf dem Strom Heightened emotional states erupt throughout the first half of Julian Prégardien’s recital, disturbing the peace of ‘Die Nacht’ and the gentle simplicity of ‘Gott im Frühlinge’. The German tenor turns to the exoticism of distant lands, as evoked by Schubert’s settings of Goethe and Rückert, before unlocking the titanic spirit of the composer’s Beethoven-inspired ‘Auf dem Strom’.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Alison Balsom Jason Joyce

Thursday 18 May 7.30 pm

Alison Balsom trumpet Lucy Crowe soprano The Balsom Ensemble BAROQUE DUET Programme to include: Bach Cantata: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen BWV51 Handel Eternal source of light divine Ode for The Birthday of Queen Anne HWV74; Let the bright Seraphim from Samson HWV57 Lucy Crowe Marco Borggreve Purcell Duets from The Indian Queen Z630 Alison Balsom’s Wigmore Hall residency continues with a Forthcoming Concert in this Series joyful celebration of music for trumpet and voice. She is joined by the charismatic Lucy Crowe in Bach’s only cantata Friday 9 June 10.00 pm for solo soprano and trumpet, and Handel’s exquisite Alison Balsom trumpet ‘Eternal source of light divine’, written in honour of Queen Anne, one of England’s greatest patrons of the arts. Guy Barker trumpet £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Ross Stanley piano Chamber Music Season/Early Music and Baroque Series Chris Hill double bass Julian Prégardien Marco Borggreve

36 May

Saturday 20 May 11.00 am – 12 noon Saturday 20 May 7.30 pm Sunday 21 May 11.30 am

Family Concert Llyˆr Williams piano Armida Quartet SEARCH FOR THE STARLIGHT SQUID Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 Piano Sonata No. 31 in A Op. 110; Piano Sonata Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 33 No. 6 For ages 5 plus b No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Dive down into the deep blue sea and join the Op. 80 Llyˆr Williams launched his latest complete cycle of Lawson Piano Trio and presenter Jessie Maryon Davies Beethoven’s piano sonatas and major keyboard Classical poise, contrapuntal logic and emotional for an aquatic adventure to find the starlight squid! works at Wigmore Hall in October 2014. The Welsh turbulence coalesce in Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 6, the This underwater journey features music from works pianist’s series reaches its zenith with the composer’s centrepiece of the Armida Quartet’s programme. by Sibelius to sea shanties, and even a stormy piece final three sonatas, moving from the introspection of The Berlin-based ensemble, BBC New Generation created by you, the audience. Op. 109 to the formal ingenuity and jaw-dropping Artists from 2014–16, begins with the striking Children £8 Adults £10 invention of Op. 110 and the cosmic emotional and contrasts of Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue, another intellectual span of Op. 111. masterwork of stylistic synthesis, and concludes Wigmore Hall Learning Event with Mendelssohn’s final string quartet, an £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 impassioned response to his sister’s death. This concert will be approximately 70 minutes in duration, without an interval £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice London Pianoforte Series Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Llyˆr Williams Evy Ottermans

Family Concert www.benjaminharte.co.uk Armida Quartet Felix Broede

37 May

Sunday 21 May 7.30 pm CHRISTOPH POHL Jerusalem Quartet PHANTASM Dvorˇák Terzetto in C Op. 74 Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1 in B minor Op. 50 ELIZABETH KENNY Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106 Dvorˇák’s Terzetto for two violins and viola, written within a week’s span in 1887, provides a novel opening for a string quartet concert. The work’s folk-like tunes ideally complement the melodious classicism of Prokofiev’s First String Quartet, commissioned by the Washington Library of Congress in 1930. The Jerusalem Quartet concludes with Dvorˇák’s sonorous Op. 106, a work of dazzling Phantasm Marco Borggreve inventive genius.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

Chamber Music Season Elizabeth Kenny Benjamin Ealovega

Monday 22 May 1.00 pm Christoph Pohl René Limbecker Phantasm Sunday 21 May 3.00 pm Laurence Dreyfus director, treble viol Emilia Benjamin treble viol Christoph Pohl baritone Jonathan Manson tenor viol Marcelo Amaral piano Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol BALLADEN Elizabeth Kenny lute Liszt Der Fischerknabe; Im Rhein, im Lawes Royall Consort No. 10 in Bb schönen Strome; Die Loreley Locke Consort of 4 Parts No. 5 in G minor Schubert Der Jüngling am Bache (D638); Lawes Royall Consort No. 5 in D Der Taucher Locke The Flat Consort ‘for my cousin Kemble’ Loewe Wandrers Nachtlied II; Erlkönig Lawes Royall Consort No. 6 in D Wolf Ganymed; Der Rattenfänger William Lawes died in September 1645 fighting Christoph Pohl began his singing career as on the royalist side during the Siege of Chester. a member of the Hanover Boys’ Choir. The ‘Will Lawes was slain by those whose wills German baritone has achieved international were laws’, wrote one anti-Puritan poet, and acclaim as a member of the Semperoper many other fine literary laments testify to the Dresden ensemble in roles as diverse as admiration in which the composer was held at Mozart’s Count Almaviva, Rossini’s Figaro court. Phantasm and Elizabeth Kenny garnered and Wagner’s Wolfram. Following the success rave reviews with their recording of the cavalier of his Royal Opera House debut in Georg composer’s Royal Consorts. Their lunchtime Friedrich Haas’s Morgen und Abend in 2015, programme also includes works by Matthew Pohl marks his first appearance at Wigmore Locke, England’s leading composer at the Hall with a compelling programme of songs time of the Restoration. to poetry by Goethe, Heine and Schiller. £15 concs £13 All seats £15 BBC Radio 3 Song Recital Series Lunchtime Concert Jerusalem Quartet Felix Broede

38 May

Tuesday 23 May 1.00pm – 2.00 pm Tuesday 23 May 7.30pm Wednesday 24 May 7.30 pm

Voiceworks The Endellion String Quartet Nikolai Lugansky piano A CONCERT OF NEW WORKS FOR VOICE Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op. 37b Webern Fünf Sätze Op. 5 Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in A Op. 61 Now in its eleventh year, Voiceworks is a unique b Mozart String Quartet in D K575 ‘Prussian’ Chopin Mazurkas: in B Op. 56 No. 1; in D Op. 30 collaboration between writers, composers, singers b Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 No. 3; in A Op. 41 No. 3; in C# minor Op. 50 No. 3 and instrumentalists from the Guildhall School of b Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60; Ballade No. 4 in F Music & Drama, brought together by Wigmore Haydn’s Op. 54 No. 2 contains a most extraordinary minor Op. 52 Hall Learning. slow movement inspired by melismatic, improvised gypsy violin music. Webern’s extremely affecting Known for his fearless virtuosity, artistic refinement Free (ticket required) short pieces, meanwhile, compress the emotions of and strikingly individual musicianship, Nikolai a symphony into a few minutes, whereas Mozart’s Lugansky stands at the height of his powers. K575 is hallmarked by its expansive melodious His interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons, warmth and relaxation. Wistful, heartfelt beauty, hailed by The New York Times for its entrancing perhaps inspired by Schubert, belongs to Brahms’s mix of ‘roomy expressive freedom’ and ‘textural A minor String Quartet. clarity’, is presented in company with an equally Wigmore Hall Learning Event rich selection of characterful Chopin. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season London Pianoforte Series

The Endellion String Quartet Eric Richmond Nikolai Lugansky Jean-Baptiste Millot

39 May

Friday 26 May 7.00 pm NB starting time Friday 26 May 10.00 pm Escher String Quartet Danish String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 76 No. 6 NORDIC FOLK MUSIC Bartók String Quartet No. 3 BB93 Ancient ancestral spirits and the intoxicating sounds Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27 of Nordic folk music flow through this hour-long Musical excellence and its pursuit drove Grieg as he late date with the Danish String Quartet, based composed his String Quartet in G minor, leading him on material from the group’s latest album. The to quote from one of his own most tuneful songs and ensemble, winner of the eleventh London YCAT Public Final emulate the energy of Norwegian folk music. The International String Quartet Competition in 2009, Escher String Quartet opens with two works touched recently featured as BBC Radio 3 New Generation Auditions 2017 by contrapuntal echoes of the past yet strikingly Artists and concluded a three-year spell with innovative in nature. Lincoln Center’s prestigious CMS Two Program.

Thursday 25 May £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 All seats £15 3.00pm & 7.00pm Chamber Music Season Wigmore Lates

Young Classical Artists Trust: the destination point for emerging talent YCAT Artists are selected through a rigorous annual auditions process. In this third and final round, outstanding young soloists and chamber ensembles, selected from over 100 applicants in the preliminary rounds, audition before a panel of distinguished judges. Join YCAT in celebrating the very best emerging talent in the UK at this unique event. Escher String Quartet Sophie Zhai Previous artists include Ian Bostridge, Alison Balsom, Joanna MacGregor and the Heath, Doric and Belcea Quartets.

£16 for both sessions or £10/£8 (concs) for individual sessions

YCAT Registered Charity No. 326490

Danish String Quartet Caroline Bittencourt

40 Pavel Kolesnikov Saturday 27 May 7.30 pm

Pavel Kolesnikov made his BBC Proms debut piano Pavel Kolesnikov with a thrilling account of Tchaikovsky’s CPE Bach Andante con tenerezza from Sonata in A Wq. 65/32 monumental Second Piano Concerto, and soon CPE Bach Sonata in A Wq. 55/4 earned further rave reviews for his second Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D537 recording for Hyperion, an album of Chopin’s Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26; Nachtstücke Op. 23 complete Mazurkas. The Russian pianist explores the fantasy worlds of CPE Bach and £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Schumann together with the song-without-words London Pianoforte Series that is Schubert’s A minor Sonata.

Photo by Colin Way

41 May

Sunday 28 May 11.30 am Monday 29 May 1.00 pm Schumann Quartet Zemlinsky Quartet STILE ANTICO Mozart String Quartet in F K590 ‘Prussian’ Zemlinsky String Quartet No. 1 in A Op. 4 Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1 Janácˇek Mládi (arr. Kryštof Marˇatka) The Schumann Quartet embraces the notion that Prague-born, Paris-based composer Kryštof uncertainty, life’s only certainty, supplies the ground Marˇatka, who studied with Petr Eben at the Prague on which every memorable performance stands. The Conservatory, has made a high-spirited arrangement attitude is open to the excitement and spontaneity of Janácˇek’s wind sextet Mládí for string quartet. of music made in the moment: ‘we really want to take The four-movement piece complements the rhythmic things to extremes’, observes one of the quartet’s energy, folk-like boldness and passion of Zemlinsky’s three Schumann brothers. First String Quartet of 1896, a ravishing masterwork of late Romantic music. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice £15 concs £13 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 28 May 7.30 pm BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Christina Landshamer soprano Gerold Huber piano Tuesday 30 May 10.30am – 3.30 pm Stile Antico Marco Borggreve See page opposite for full details Cavendish Winds Tuesday 30 May 7.30 pm FAMILY DAY For ages 5 plus Stile Antico Join music leader Julian West and the Wigmore ‘DIVINE CONSOLATIONS’: Hall Learning/Open Academy Fellowship MUSIC OF REFLECTION AND Ensemble, Cavendish Winds, on a marvellous HOPE BY BACH AND HIS music-making adventure. Take your seat within PREDECESSORS your very own chamber ensemble, create your Lassus Justorum animae own brand new pieces of music and perform Schütz Musicalische Exequien together on the Wigmore Hall stage. Handl Ecce quomodo moritur justus Children £10 Adults £15 Hassler Ego sum resurrectio Wigmore Hall Learning Event Daser Media Vita Knöfel In te Domine speravi Bach Motet: Jesu, meine Freude BWV227 Stile Antico, among the world’s finest vocal Schumann Quartet Kaupo Kikkas ensembles, explores music of mourning and commemoration from Austria and Germany in its latest Wigmore Hall concert. The journey begins with a late motet by the remarkably prolific, consistently inventive Lassus, who finished his illustrious career as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Bavaria. It continues with Schütz’s sublime Musicalische Exequien, written during the Thirty Years War for the funeral of Prince Heinrich of Reuss, and finally arrives at Bach’s peerless funeral motet for the wife of Leipzig’s postmaster.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series Zemlinsky Quartet Family Day Benjamin Ealovega

42 Christina Landshamer Sunday 28 May 7.30 pm

Christina Landshamer soprano Gerold Huber piano Schumann Aufträge; Röselein, Röselein!; Lied der Suleika; Aus den östlichen Rosen; Liebeslied Ullmann 3 Sonnets Op. 29 Schumann Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land? Ullmann 6 Sonnets Op. 34 Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 and Requiem

Poetry of rich expressivity conditions each song in Christina Landshamer’s Wigmore Hall recital. The Munich-born soprano made her international breakthrough in 2009 in Haydn’s Il mondo della luna under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and has secured an enviable reputation since as an artist equally at home in opera, oratorio and song. Her programme includes Schumann’s settings of poems from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister and Victor Ullmann’s cycles of sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rilke and Louise Labé, an extraordinary figure of the French Renaissance.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Gerold Huber Gunar Streu

Photo of Christina Landshamer by Marco Borggreve

43 May/June

Wednesday 31 May 7.30 pm Friday 2 June 7.30 pm

Christopher Maltman baritone Janine Jansen violin Malcolm Martineau piano BORODIN Torleif Thedéen cello Ravel Histoires naturelles Martin Fröst clarinet Poulenc Le bestiaire Songs by Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Brahms Lucas Debargue piano and Korngold QUARTET See page opposite for full details In the two decades since winning the Lieder Prize at the 1997 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, BEETHOVEN AND Friday 2 June 9.45 pm Christopher Maltman has risen to the top of his SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE profession. The British baritone, whose last Wigmore Artists in Conversation Hall recital inspired a five-star review from the Guardian, is joined by regular duo partner Malcolm See page opposite for full details Martineau for an exploration of the animal kingdom through song. Saturday 3 June 2.30 pm £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series Alfred Brendel Lecture BEETHOVEN’S LAST SONATAS Beethoven’s late piano sonatas are the magnificent conclusion of a series of works that covered most of the composer’s lifetime. What happens when a composer creates three major works side by side? How can one define Beethoven’s late style? How do these works relate to Beethoven the man? How were these sonatas received, and what do they mean to us today? Borodin Quartet Keith Saunders This event will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval Thursday 1 June 7.30 pm All seats £20 Borodin Quartet Wigmore Hall Learning Event Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 12 in Db Op. 133 The Borodins continue their survey of the complete quartets of Beethoven and Shostakovich, composers essential to the ensemble’s artistic identity since its formation in 1945. They open with the most innovative and introspective of Beethoven’s Op. 18 quartets, placing it in company with Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 12, another work of visionary imagination and originality.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Saturday 3 June 7.30 pm Christopher Maltman Pia Clodi Alfred Brendel Pascal Saez

44 Janine Jansen Perspectives

Janine Jansen concludes her Perspectives series at Wigmore Hall, underlining her passion for chamber music in works by Schubert and Messiaen. The Dutch violinist can also be heard in post-concert conversation, when she will reflect on her life and career as a performer as well as the repertoire in her programme.

Friday 2 June 7.30 pm

Janine Jansen violin Torleif Thedéen cello Martin Fröst clarinet Lucas Debargue piano Messiaen Theme and Variations Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time (Quatuor pour la fin du temps) Janine Jansen closes her Perspectives series with a recital programme of deep emotion and virtuosity. The evening begins with Messiaen’s Theme and Variations, originally written as a wedding present for his first wife, the violinist Claire Delbos. Schubert’s Fantasy for violin and piano was inspired by Josef Slavík, hailed as ‘a second Paganini’ by Chopin. Jansen welcomes three close musical friends in Messiaen’s haunting Quartet for the End of Time, written and first performed in a German prisoner-of-war camp.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season

Friday 2 June 9.45 pm Artists in Conversation Following her recital, Janine Jansen discusses the evening programme and her life as a performer.

Free to concert ticket holders (no separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

In partnership with the LSO Janine Jansen’s Wigmore Hall recitals are interspersed with concerts at the Barbican with the LSO as its Artist Portrait this season. www.lso.co.uk

Sunday 5 February 7.00 pm – Barbican Sunday 12 March 7.00 pm – Barbican Thursday 6 April 7.30 pm – Barbican London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Valery Gergiev conductor Gianandrea Noseda conductor Janine Jansen violin Janine Jansen violin Janine Jansen violin Bernstein Serenade Brahms Violin Concerto Berg Violin Concerto

Photo of Janine Jansen by Marco Borggreve

45 June

Saturday 3 June 7.30 pm Sunday 4 June 11.30 am Sunday 4 June 3.00 pm

Borodin Quartet Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Jongmin Park bass Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 Simon Lepper piano Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in E minor Dvorˇák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ b Schumann Dichterliebe (original version) Op. 144 ‘I should like to compose a couple of good trios’, F Mendelssohn Song without words Op. 8 No. 3 Shostakovich’s intimate final string quartet, Mendelssohn wrote to his sister in 1832, an Hyo Gun Kim Nun (Snow) completed in a hospital bed little over a year before ambition partly fulfilled seven years later with the Soon Ae Kim Geudae iteume (Because you are here) his death in 1975, addresses the end of life and creation of his Op. 49. Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch, Du Nam Cho Baetnorae (Boat song) the nature of existence in music of profound known for its subtle artistry and refined Jongmin Park, winner of the Song Prize at Cardiff reflection and melancholy. The Borodin Quartet musicianship, follows the composer’s exhilarating Singer of the World 2015, makes his Wigmore Hall also reveals Beethoven’s contemplation of mortality work with Dvorˇák’s fifth and final piano trio, the debut with works ideally matched to the power in his Op. 132, completed in 1825 on recovery ebullient, folk-inspired ‘Dumky’. and richness of his sonorous bass voice. The from serious illness. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice South Korean artist charts the turbulent emotional £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 course of Schumann’s Dichterliebe, in its original Sunday Morning Coffee Concert version of 20 songs, before exploring other vibrant Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: musical destinations. Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle All seats £15 Song Recital Series

Borodin Quartet Ny Che Goyang/Aram Nuri Arts Center Simon Lepper Robert Workman

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Hagai Shaham Jongmin Park

46 June

Sunday 4 June 7.30 pm Monday 5 June 1.00 pm Tuesday 6 June 6.00pm

Christian Ihle Hadland piano Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Pre-Concert Event Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor K310 Tomkins Pavan in A minor RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Farnaby Woody-Cock YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL Webern Variations Op. 27 Cowell Set of Four The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment in Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958 WF Bach Sonata in Eb Steve Reich Piano Phase (arr. Esfahani) which exceptionally gifted young musicians collaborate Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland, born in closely with some of the world’s finest artists and Stavanger in 1983, is among the most interesting Mahan Esfahani’s programme explores multiple teachers. This concert offers the chance to hear and insightful artists of his generation, known not approaches to creative fantasy, from the imposing potential future stars at an early stage of their careers. least for the depth of his repertoire and breadth of Pavan by Thomas Tomkins to Henry Cowell’s virtuosic his artistic collaborations. His programme pairs Set of Four, written in 1960 for Ralph Kirkpatrick Free (ticket required) minor-key sonatas by Mozart and Schubert with and complete with a left-hand trill in octaves. There’s Brahms’s gnomic Fantasien and Webern’s wit, too, in the form of WF Bach’s Sonata and meditative Variations. unstoppable rhythmic energy in Reich’s pulsating Tuesday 6 June 7.30pm Piano Phase. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Razumovsky Ensemble £15 concs £13 London Pianoforte Series Oleg Kogan artistic director, cello Kolja Blacher violin BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Bach Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violin BWV1001 Beethoven String Trio in C minor Op. 9 No. 3 Schubert String Quintet in C D956 One of the great landmarks of western classical music, Schubert’s String Quintet in C stands at the heart of the Razumovsky Ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall programme. The work’s first movement, inspired by the poem ‘Hymn to the Holy Spirit’, sets the intense tone for its sublime Adagio, among the most requested of all Desert Island Discs.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season

Christian Ihle Hadland Anders Bergersen

Mahan Esfahani Bernhard Musil/DG Oleg Kogan Robert Cassen

47 June

Wednesday 7 June Wednesday 7 June 7.30 pm 10.15 am – 11.15 am (for 1 – 2 year olds) 11.45 am – 12.45 pm (for 3 – 5 year olds) The English Concert INTRODUCTION Chamber Tots Harry Bicket director, harpsichord TO MUSIC Nadja Zwiener violin MINIBEASTS Joseph Crouch cello Join us for these one-hour interactive music-making JAZZ sessions for young children and their parents and James Hall countertenor carers, featuring songs, percussion playing and the ESNOGA: JERUSALEM OF THE NORTH chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music Programme to include: leaders alongside emerging musicians. Cervetto Cello Concerto in G (world première) Uccellini Violin Sonata ‘La ebrea marinata’ Children £5 Adults £3 Op. 4 No. 3 Wigmore Hall Learning Event Marcello Psalm 21 ‘Volgi mio Dio, deh volgi’ Inspired by the diasporic communities of Amsterdam, known as the ‘Jerusalem of the North’ not least because of its vast Sephardic synagogue, the ‘Esnoga’, The English Concert sets out to explore the fusion of cultures and the haunting beauty of Jewish musical life and creativity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

Thursday 8 June 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 15 June 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 22 June 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 29 June 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm Chamber Tots Benjamin Ealovega Led by Roy Stratford alongside saxophonist Katie Brown, this series explores the language of the music of jazz, its history, ethics and influence on twentieth-century symphonic music. Tackling questions such as ‘is jazz instinctive or learned?’, ‘what is improvisation and how do jazz musicians think about it?’, and ‘is all music really jazz?’, this series of talks unravels and explores this fascinating genre of music. Louis Armstrong said ‘if you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know …’ let’s put that remark aside and do some digging!

Series ticket price £30 Wigmore Hall Learning Event The English Concert Richard Haughton

48 June

Thursday 8 June 7.30 pm Friday 9 June 7.00 pm NB starting time Friday 9 June 10.00 pm

Anna Lucia Richter soprano Yevgeny Sudbin piano Alison Balsom trumpet Michael Gees piano Skryabin Vers la flamme ‘Poème’ Op. 72 Guy Barker trumpet Tchaikovsky Nocturne in F Op. 10 No. 1 Schubert Hoffnung (D637); Suleika II double bass Tchaikovsky From The Seasons: June & November Chris Hill Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister: Liszt Transcendental Study No. 11 in D S138 piano Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiß mich nicht reden; b Ross Stanley ‘Harmonies du soir’ So laßt mich scheinen A programme of arrangements by Guy Barker and Scarlatti 6 Sonatas Schubert Romanze zum Drama Rosamunde; Alison Balsom: Medtner Sonata tragica Op. 39 No. 5 Nachtviolen; Viola; Erster Verlust; An mein Herz; Chano Pozo/Dizzy Tin Tin Deo An den Mond (D259); Der Zwerg; Strophe aus Melodic simplicity and harmonic complexity Bonfá Manhã de Carnaval ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Das Heimweh (D456); combine in Skryabin’s late Vers la flamme to create Piaf La Vie en Rose Totengräbers Heimweh; Ellens Gesänge I, II & III; a metaphysical meditation on the purifying power Beiderbecke Davenport Blues Abschied von der Erde of fire. Yevgeny Sudbin’s scintillating programme Brown Joy Spring embraces other works of transcendent eloquence, Johnson Since I Fell For You Anna Lucia Richter, winner of the 2012 Internationaler from Tchaikovsky’s rhapsodic little Nocturne, written Wheeler Everybody’s Song But My Own Robert Schumann Wettbewerb, brings a refreshing in Nice in the winter of 1871/72, to Medtner’s Davis If I were a Bell lightness of spirit to her Schubert interpretations. dramatic Sonata tragica Op. 39 No. 5. Kern The way you look tonight The young German soprano directs her passionate affection for the composer’s songs to a programme £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Two great names in trumpet playing join forces complete with radiant settings of poems by Schiller for a red-letter Wigmore Lates date. Alison Balsom, London Pianoforte Series and Goethe, and the exquisite ‘Romanze’ from described as ‘simply divine’ by The Sunday Helmina von Chézy’s play Rosamunde. Telegraph, and Guy Barker, a legend of the British jazz scene, continue a collaboration that began £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 with a trip to Uganda for the Brass for Africa charity Voices at Wigmore and flourished with Barker’s 2015 Proms concerto Supporting Schubert: The Complete Songs 2015/16 for Balsom. and 2016 /17 All seats £15 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Wigmore Lates/ Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’

Yevgeny Sudbin Peter Rigaud

Anna Lucia Richter Jessy Lee Alison Balsom Maker Guy Barker

49 June

Sunday 11 June 11.30 am Sunday 11 June 7.30 pm

ANGELA HEWITT Natalia Prischepenko violin Ben Johnson tenor THE BACH ODYSSEY Thomas Hoppe piano Graham Johnson piano Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Schubert Trost: An Elisa; Erinnerungen; Andenken; Scharwenka Suite in G minor for violin and piano Lied der Liebe; Der Mondabend; Das Bild (D155); Op. 99 Die Sterne (D176); Alles um Liebe; An den Frühling Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 (D283); Entzückung an Laura I; Entzückung an Laura II (fragment); An den Frühling (D587); Natalia Prischepenko has firm roots in the great Sonette I, II & III; Der 13. Psalm (fragment); Russian tradition of violin playing, schooled from Die Allmacht; Fröhliches Scheiden; Vor meiner an early age by her mother, Tamara Prischepenko, Wiege; Der Winterabend; Die Sterne (D939) among the leading teachers of the Soviet music education system. She crowns her recital with Ben Johnson and Graham Johnson open this recital Prokofiev’s First Violin Sonata, conceived in the late with four early songs, including the recitative-like 1930s to the harrowing background noise of Stalin’s ‘Trost: An Elisa’ and lilting ‘Lied der Liebe’. Their Great Terror. programme reveals Schubert’s genius for projecting expressive light and shade into everything from £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice simple strophic songs to the complex rhyme Sunday Morning Coffee Concert schemes of translations by Schlegel and Gries of three Petrach sonnets.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Angela Hewitt Bernd Eberle

Saturday 10 June 7.30 pm Angela Hewitt piano Bach Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825; Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826; Thomas Hoppe Frank Jerke Graham Johnson Clive Barda Sonata in D minor BWV964; Partita No. 4 in D BWV828 Bach’s Partitas, issued in separate editions between 1726 and 1730, formed the composer’s first major publication, offered to ‘music-lovers, to delight their spirits’. Angela Hewitt explores the diverse delights of three of Bach’s suites together with the Sonata BWV964, the composer’s virtuoso transcription for keyboard of his Sonata for solo violin in A minor.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

London Pianoforte Series This series will continue over the following three seasons Natalia Prischepenko Ben Johnson Chris Gloag

50 June

Monday 12 June 1.00 pm Monday 12 June 7.30 pm Antoine Tamestit viola WIGMORE Cédric Tiberghien piano Michael Petrov cello Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 STUDY GROUP Brahms Nachtigall Op. 97 No. 1 FRENCH CHAMBER MUSIC Erdem Misirliogˇlu Berg Die Nachtigall from Seven Early Songs piano Vieuxtemps Elégie Op. 30 Brahms Viola Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 GUILDHALL WIGMORE Late Romanticism’s red-hot passion fuels Berg’s RECITAL PRIZE single-movement Piano Sonata No. 1, inspired by Stravinsky its composer’s studies with Schoenberg. Antoine Suite italienne for cello Tamestit joins Cédric Tiberghien for wordless and piano performances of Brahms’s ‘Nachtigall’ and Berg’s Dutilleux lyrical ‘Die Nachtigall’. Their lunchtime programme Trois Strophes sur closes with Brahms’s contemplative F minor Sonata, le nom de Sacher originally written in 1894 for clarinet and piano. Debussy £15 concs £13 Cello Sonata Carter Figment for solo cello Poulenc BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Cello Sonata

The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional ‘The Water-Lily Pond’ Claude Monet, 1899 Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Rising star cellist Michael Petrov, Monday 12 June 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm described by The Telegraph as playing ‘with Wednesday 14 June 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm the bravura and calm assurance Tuesday 20 June 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm of a long-established maestro’, is this year’s recipient, accompanied Come and immerse yourself in the immensely by pianist Erdem Misirliogˇlu. rich world of French chamber music. From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, French £15 concs £13 composers produced a vast array of master- Photo by Kaupo Kikkas pieces within this genre, ranging in style from the Wagnerism of César Franck’s Piano Quintet, the Viennese inspiration of piano trios by Saint-Saëns, the modal harmonies of Fauré’s chamber music, the neo-classical elegance of works by Debussy and Ravel, and the wit and pathos of late woodwind sonatas by Poulenc, to the unique musical language of Olivier Messiaen in his Quatuor pour la fin du temps. These afternoons are hosted by composer Julian Philips with pianist Laura Roberts, alongside invited guest speakers and students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by Ensemble intercontemporain on 20 June.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Antoine Tamestit Eric Larrayadieu Cédric Tiberghien Jean-Baptiste Millot

51 June

Wednesday 14 June 7.30 pm Thursday 15 June 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm) Arditti Quartet BEETHOVEN For Crying Out Loud! Eliot Fisk guitar Hear outstanding performances by musicians from Hugues Dufourt String Quartet No. 3* (UK première) the Royal Academy of Music in these concerts CYCLE Berio Sequenza XI for solo guitar presented especially for parents or carers and Wolfgang Rihm Quintet for guitar and string quartet** babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and (UK première) accommodating environment. IGOR LEVIT *Co-commissioned by Konzerthaus Wien, Philharmonie Adults £7.50 (babies come free) de Paris, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss Wigmore Hall Learning Event grant-making foundation **Co-commissioned by Library of Congress, musica viva des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and by Wigmore Hall with Thursday 15 June 7.30 pm the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation cello Two new works for the legendary Arditti Quartet, Nicolas Altstaedt co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, receive their first Alexander Lonquich piano UK outings in a programme interleaved with Luciano Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1; Berio’s Sequenza XI, written in 1986–87 for Eliot Fisk. Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2; The American classical guitarist joins the Ardittis in Cello Sonata in A Op. 69; Cello Sonata in C Wolfgang Rihm’s Quintet, while the quartet takes Op. 102 No. 1; Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 centre stage in the Third String Quartet by French composer and philosopher Hugues Dufourt. In tune with social and political changes sweeping through Europe during his youth, Beethoven £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 invested his compositions with revolutionary energy Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series and ground-breaking originality. His two Op. 5 pieces, widely considered to be among his finest early works, launch Nicolas Altstaedt and Alexander Igor Levit Gregor Hohenberg Lonquich’s survey of the composer’s complete sonatas for cello and piano. Tuesday 13 June 7.30 pm £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Igor Levit piano Chamber Music Season Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Igor Levit concludes his intense season-long Beethoven Cycle with the composer’s final piano sonatas. ‘Beethoven’s pianistic imagination is stamped on every page of these three [works]’, observes the veteran American scholar Lewis Lockwood. Each sonata reveals fresh facets of invention, with jaw-dropping pianistic effects allied to formal structures of extraordinary ingenuity.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by Simon Ludlam, William de Winton and the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2016/17 Wigmore Series

London Pianoforte Series Arditti Quartet Astrid Karger Nicolas Altstaedt Marco Borggreve

52 June

Friday 16 June 7.00 pm NB starting time Friday 16 June 10.00 pm Saturday 17 June 7.30 pm

Jasper String Quartet Miss Hope Springs Florian Boesch baritone Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 London cabaret sensation, lounge-tastic ex-Vegas Malcolm Martineau piano Aaron Jay Kernis String Quartet No. 3 ‘River’* nightclub chanteuse Miss Hope Springs – the Schubert Prometheus; Grenzen der Menschheit; (UK première) towering blonde alter ego of composer, lyricist, Der Weiberfreund; Bundeslied; Lachen und Weinen; Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 pianist and comic actor Ty Jeffries – presents her Pilgerweise; An den Mond (D296); An den Mond ‘laugh-out-loud-move-you-to-tears’ one-woman *Co-commissioned by Caramoor, Carnegie Hall, Classic (D468); Grablied für die Mutter; Der Zufriedene; show. Featuring her award-winning repertoire of Chamber Concerts (Naples, FL), Chamber Music Monterey An die Natur; An den Schlaf; Abendstern; Die Mutter catchy original songs, the show has been described Bay (CA), Chamber Music Northwest (OR), Chamber Music Erde; Der Wanderer (D493); Der Wanderer (D649); by Julian Clary as ‘Tragic-comic genius’. America, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Der Wanderer an den Mond; Im Frühling; Der Sieg; Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss All seats £15 Frühlingsglaube grant-making foundation. Wigmore Lates Winners of the Cleveland Quartet Award, the Jasper Florian Boesch launched Wigmore Hall’s grand String Quartet marks its Wigmore Hall debut with the survey of Schubert’s complete songs in September Guardian. UK première of ‘River’ by Aaron Jay Kernis, specially 2015, earning a five-star review in the He returns in company with Malcolm Martineau written for the group in 2015. The programme for a programme chiefly comprising songs to poems also includes Debussy’s pioneering String Quartet by Goethe, the majestic ‘Grenzen der Menschheit’ in G minor, a work of the early 1890s influenced and ‘Prometheus’ among them, together with such by recent developments in Impressionist art and little-known gems as the rousing ‘Bundeslied’ and Symbolist literature. ‘Der Weiberfreund’. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Miss Hope Springs Richard Truscott

Jasper String Quartet Vanessa Brinceno Florian Boesch Wiener Konzerthaus/Lukas Beck

53 June

Sunday 18 June 11.30 am Sunday 18 June 7.30 pm Monday 19 June 1.00 pm Michelangelo Quartet Quatuor Ebène Carducci String Quartet Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Philip Glass String Quartet No. 3 ‘Mishima’ Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Arvo Pärt Summa my life’ Ravel String Quartet in F Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ Formed by four distinguished soloists and chamber Slovenly traditions are swept aside by Quatuor Ebène Philip Glass originally wrote the music of his Third musicians in 2002, the Michelangelo Quartet returns in its life-enhancing performances. The French String Quartet for Paul Schrader’s film Mishima, to Wigmore Hall to perform the sixth of Mozart’s ensemble’s approach to Mozart and Beethoven a cinematic treatment of the life and literature of so-called ‘Haydn’ Quartets, with its daring, dissonant challenges, stimulates and inspires, while its profound Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The Carducci slow introduction, and Smetana’s semi-autobiographical interpretation of Ravel’s String Quartet confirms why String Quartet moves from an American composer’s String Quartet No. 1. ‘My intention’, noted Smetana, Debussy told its young composer to ignore critics creative response to Japanese culture to a Czech ‘was to paint a tone picture of my life’. and change not a single note of it. composer’s decidedly European take on his years in America. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 £15 concs £13 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Supported by the Chamber Music Circle Chamber Music Season

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Michelangelo Quartet Marco Borggreve

Quatuor Ebène Julien Mignot Carducci String Quartet Tom Barnes

54 June

Monday 19 June 7.30 pm Tuesday 20 June 7.30pm Wednesday 21 June 7.30 pm

Andrè Schuen baritone Ensemble intercontemporain The King’s Consort Daniel Heide piano Sophie Cherrier flute Robert King conductor Jérôme Comte clarinet Schubert Auf der Brücke; Der Wanderer an den BACH: THE FOUR ORCHESTRAL SUITES Hidéki Nagano piano Mond; Nachtstück; Die Sterne (D939) Bach Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D BWV1069; Dapoz Ben danter mile steres Jeanne-Marie Conquer violin Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066; Orchestral Frontull Nos salvans Dapoz Alalt al ci Odile Auboin viola Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067; Orchestral Suite Schubert Der Wanderer (D649); Wandrers Éric-Maria Couturier cello No. 3 in D BWV1068 Nachtlied II; Auf der Donau; Willkommen und Debussy Première rapsodie for clarinet and piano Abschied Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca S270/1 Maderna Viola Bach’s four orchestral suites create a programme Tosti Quattro canzoni d’Amaranta; L’ultima canzone Messiaen Le merle noir for flute and piano filled with vivid instrumental colours and timbres, embracing everything from the grand fourth suite Flowing melodies run throughout Andrè Schuen’s Philippe Schoeller Madrigal for piano quintet and oboe-dominated first suite to the pure chamber recital, spanning everything from the headlong dash Berio Sequenza I for solo flute music of the second ‘flute’ suite – complete with of Schubert’s ‘Auf der Brücke’ to the charming Ravel Violin Sonata No. 2 in G famous Badinerie – and the exultant trumpets and folksongs of Felix Dapoz and Jepele Frontull. The Matteo Franceschini ‘Les Excentriques’ Traité timpani that command the third suite. baritone, winner of Young Artist of the Year at the physionomique à l’usage (UK première)* 2016 ECHO Klassik awards, was raised in Italy’s *Co-commissioned by Ensemble intercontemporain and by £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 South Tyrol. He performs here in his three native Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president Early Music and Baroque Series languages – Italian, German and Ladin. of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Ensemble intercontemporain’s stellar line-up of contemporary music specialists returns to Wigmore Song Recital Series Hall with a programme of great virtuosity and variety, highlighting contrasts and correspondences between the musical cultures of France and Italy. The ensemble’s concert includes the UK première of ‘Les Excentriques’ by the young Italian composer Matteo Franceschini, co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Ensemble intercontemporain.

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Daniel Heide Alexander Busch The King’s Consort Keith Saunders

Andrè Schuen Guido Werner Ensemble intercontemporain Franck Ferville

55 June

Friday 23 June 6.30 pm NB starting time Friday 23 June 10.00 pm Saturday 24 June 7.30 pm

Fretwork Avi Avital mandolin Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano Emily Ashton viol Richard Boothby viol Omer Avital oud Philippe Jaroussky countertenor David Hatcher viol Reiko Ichise viol piano Asako Morikawa viol Sam Stadlen viol Yonathan Avishai Ensemble Artaserse percussion See page opposite for full details Simon Callow narrator (subject to availability) Itamar Doari THE WORLD ENCOMPASSED AVITAL MEETS AVITAL Wigmore Lates presents a dialogue between two Sunday 25 June 11.30 am Orlando Gough Leaving Plymouth artists from different worlds who share a rich musical Parsons The Song Called Trumpets heritage. Grammy-nominated classical mandolinist Anon Preserve us Lord Orlando Gough Mogador Vienna Piano Trio Avi Avital and award-winning jazz bassist, composer Taverner In Nomine Orlando Gough Maio Santiago Sonatensatz in B D28; Notturno in and oud player Omer Avital draw from Moroccan and Schubert b Fogo; Fortune my Foe; Port Desire White In Nomine E D897; Piano Trio No. 1 in B D898 North African sounds, folk and classical traditions, b b Orlando Gough Terra Incognita Anon The Humble Israeli harmonies and Mediterranean rhythms to Schubert’s late piano trios, the Notturno in E flat and Suit of a Sinner Parsons De la Court Anon Preserve create a musical melting pot filled with the finesse of Piano Trio No. 1 among them, contain some of the us Lord Orlando Gough The Spanish Main; Albion; chamber music and raw emotional energy of jazz. composer’s most profound and tender reflections on 180 degrees; Ternate Alberti Pavin of Albarti existence. The Vienna Piano Trio has lived with these Picforth In Nomine Orlando Gough Java; Fortune All seats £15 works for almost 30 years, bringing penetrating insight my Foe Anon Psalm 100 Supported by the and a wealth of experience to every performance. Parsons The Song Called Trumpets Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice ‘Fretwork came to me with a proposition which I Wigmore Lates considered for about half a second before accepting Sunday Morning Coffee Concert – to create a piece for them about Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the world in 1577–80’, recalls Orlando Gough. Terra Incognita, or The World Encompassed, the composer’s rich response to Fretwork’s call, combines original composition and existing repertoire of the period, as part of a dramatic reflection on Drake, the music of his time and the eternal spirit of musical adventure.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval Early Music and Baroque Series/ Contemporary Music Series

Omer Avital and Avi Avital Christie Goodwin/DG Vienna Piano Trio Nancy Horowitz

Fretwork Wendy Gillespie Simon Callow

56 Cecilia Bartoli Philippe Jaroussky

Saturday 24 June 7.30 pm

Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano Philippe Jaroussky countertenor Ensemble Artaserse IDOLO MIO This exceptional encounter between two stars of bel canto is enhanced by the enduring friendship and strong musical bond between Cecilia Bartoli and Philippe Jaroussky. Following an acclaimed Giulio Cesare in Salzburg and mutual guest appearances on several of their recording projects, they finally share a concert in company with the virtuoso Ensemble Artaserse, founded by Jaroussky in 2003.

£100 £75 £50 £30 £15 Early Music & Baroque Series

Photos: Cecilia Bartoli by Decca/Uli Weber; Phiippe Jaroussky by Simon Fowler

57 June

Sunday 25 June 7.30 pm Monday 26 June 1.00 pm Monday 26 June 7.30 pm

Florilegium Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Vienna Piano Trio Ashley Solomon director Joseph Middleton piano Mark Padmore tenor Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano SONGS OF THE ANTIQUE Bennett Tom O’Bedlam’s Song Schubert Gesänge des Harfners I–III Purcell/Britten Alleluia Scarlatti Son tutta duolo TELEMANN 250TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Thomas Larcher Scenes from the Hunting Gun* Anchieta Con Amores, la mi madre (arr. Dørumsgaard) Telemann Ouverture in E minor from Tafelmusik I; (UK première) Schubert Herbst; Auf dem Strom Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Solo fantasie; Cantata: Ihr Volker, hört; Quartet in Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in E D929 Duparc La vie anterieure b E minor from the Paris Quartets (1738 collection); Hahn Tyndaris *Co-commissioned by Wiener Konzerthaus, supported by the Trio Sonata in A TWV 42:A5; Trio Sonata in B b Ravel Kaddisch from Deux mélodies hébraïques Ernst von Siemens Foundation, Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, TWV 42:B4; Conclusion in E minor from Tafelmusik I Falla 7 canciones populares españolas Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, and by Wigmore Hall with the To mark the 250th anniversary of Telemann’s death, support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Clara Mouriz and her regular duo partner, Joseph Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Florilegium showcases the exceptional variety of his Middleton, offer a programme guaranteed to project compositions, from an intimate solo fantasie to the Compassion runs as a theme throughout this concert, the mezzo-soprano’s rich register of expression and extraordinary collections of chamber music from present in Schubert’s visionary response to Goethe’s powerful stage presence. They open with Britten’s his Tafelmusik, Essercizii Musici and Paris Quartets. Gesänge des Harfners and in Richard Rodney realisation of a Purcell masterwork before venturing Mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson joins Florilegium Bennett’s Tom O’Bedlam’s Song, works of searing into the titanic realm of Liszt’s Tre sonetti di Petrarca, in one of the virtuosic cantatas from his expressive power written for and dedicated to Peter virtuosic works of impassioned emotions. Harmonischer Gottesdienst cycle of 1725–6. Pears. Schubert’s Second Piano Trio offers a gentle £15 concs £13 summation of the composer’s compassionate £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 engagement with life. Early Music and Baroque Series £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Clare Wilkinson Stefan Schweiger Clara Mouriz Jose Manuel Bielsa Mark Padmore Marco Borggreve

Florilegium John Yip Brandies Vienna Piano Trio Nancy Horowitz

58 June

Tuesday 27 June 7.30pm Wednesday 28 June 10.15 am – 11.15 am (for 1 – 2 year olds) EDGAR MOREAU Inon Barnatan piano 11.45 am – 12.45 pm (for 3 – 5 year olds) PIERRE-YVES HODIQUE VARIATIONS ON A SUITE Chamber Tots Handel Chaconne in G HWV435 MINIBEASTS Bach Allemande from Partita No. 4 in D BWV828 Rameau Courante from Premier livre de pièces Join us for these one-hour interactive music-making de clavecin sessions for young children and their parents and Couperin L’Atalante from Second livre de pièces carers, featuring songs, percussion playing and the de clavecin 12e ordre chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, Ravel Rigaudon from Le tombeau de Couperin presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music Thomas Adès Blanca Variations (UK première) leaders alongside emerging musicians. Ligeti Musica Ricercata Nos. 11 & 10 Children £5 Adults £3 Barber Piano Sonata in Ebminor Op. 26 (fourth movement) Wigmore Hall Learning Event Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op. 24 Edgar Moreau Pierre-Yves Hodique Inon Barnatan’s formidable musicianship is matched by his intellectual curiosity and determination to Wednesday 28 June 7.30 pm demolish conventional boundaries between works from different periods. The pianist’s programme Edgar Moreau cello explores multiple approaches to the idea of variations in music, opening with Handel’s Chaconne, built Pierre-Yves Hodique piano around an eight-bar theme, and including the UK Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 première of Thomas Adès graceful Blanca Variations, Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor written for the 2015 Clara Haskil International Op. 40 Piano Competition. Poulenc Cello Sonata £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Schumann Adagio and Allegro in Ab Op. 70 Saint-Saëns Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix London Pianoforte Series from Samson et Dalila Paganini Variation on a theme by Rossini The four-year-old Edgar Moreau fell in love with the cello when he heard a girl playing the instrument in an antique shop he was visiting with his father. The young Parisian, born in 1994, received his first lessons Inon Barnatan Marco Borggreve soon after and made prodigious progress, entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 13 and winning the prestigious Rostropovich Cello Competition two years later. He makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a programme that includes three contrasting cello sonatas and a trio of exquisite salon pieces for cello and piano.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall Chamber Music Season

Photo of Edgar Moreau by Matt Dine Photo of Pierre-Yves Hodique by Caroline Doutre Chamber Tots Benjamin Ealovega

59 June/July

Thursday 29 June 7.30 pm Friday 30 June 7.30 pm Saturday 1 July 7.30 pm

Isabelle Faust violin The Sixteen Doric String Quartet Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Harry Christophers conductor Alasdair Beatson piano Bernhard Forck leader, violin See page opposite for full details Thomas Adès Piano Quintet Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 JS Bach Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV1067a; Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84 Concerto in E for violin BWV1042; Concerto in Saturday 1 July 10.30 am – 3.30 pm A minor for violin BWV1041 Alasdair Beatson joins the Doric String Quartet in CPE Bach String Symphony in B minor Wq. 182/5 Thomas Adès’s single-movement Piano Quintet, JS Bach Concerto for 2 violins in D minor BWV1043 Royal Academy of Music a virtuosic modern take on classical sonata form, and Elgar’s dramatically intense Piano Quintet in Isabelle Faust’s long association with the Akademie Family Day A minor. Peter Pears described Britten’s late Third für Alte Musik Berlin continues to deepen in company For ages 5 plus String Quartet as being ‘of a profound beauty more with members of the Bach dynasty. The German touching than anything else, radiant, wise, new, violinist, who received five-star reviews for her survey Discover the hidden gems at the Royal Academy mysterious – overwhelming’. of JS Bach’s six sonatas at Wigmore Hall last year, of Music Museum with Academy students and joins the period-instrument ensemble’s leader, workshop leader Hannah Opstad. Blow away the £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Bernhard Forck, in the Double Concerto in D minor, dust, get up close to the museum’s treasures, and Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series and also explores the composer’s two concertos write your very own music to perform at Wigmore for solo violin. Hall at the end of the day.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Children £10 Adults £15 Sunday 2 July 11.30 am Wigmore Hall Learning Event Early Music and Baroque Series Doric String Quartet Mozart String Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’ Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 Brahms, conscious of comparisons with Beethoven, pushed his creativity to new heights with his Op. 51 string quartets. He began Op. 51 No. 1 in the early 1850s but did not complete the work until 1873. The Doric String Quartet prefaces the composer’s heroic score with the second of Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ quartets, a judicious blend of flowing lyricism and rhythmic high spirits.

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Isabelle Faust Felix Broede Family Day Benjamin Ealovega

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Kristof Fischer Doric String Quartet George Garnier

60 The Sixteen Friday 30 June 7.30 pm The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor Purcell Hear my prayer, O Lord; O solitude, my sweetest choice; Plung’d in the confines of despair; Pavan a4 in G minor; Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day); In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; From silent shades; Of all the instruments that are; From hardy climes (Welcome song for the Wedding of Prince George and Princess Anne 1683)

Harry Christophers directs an ace ensemble of singers and instrumentalists in a concert of masterworks from Restoration London. Hear my prayer, O Lord, memorably described by one scholar as a ‘noble fragment’, sets the creative benchmark for a programme that includes one of Purcell’s earliest Odes for St Cecilia’s Day, complete with the haunting countertenor aria, ‘Here the deities approve’, and the wonderful verse anthem ‘In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust’. The Sixteen also explores the intense chromatic harmonies of ‘Plung’d in the confines of despair’, an inspired setting of a psalm paraphrase by the clergyman and religious controversialist, John Patrick.

£60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

61 July

Sunday 2 July 7.30 pm Monday 3 July 1.00 pm Tuesday 4 July

10.15 am – 11.15 am (for 1 – 2 year olds) tenor recorder Markus Schäfer Maurice Steger 11.45 am – 12.45 pm (for 3 – 5 year olds) Piers Lane piano Jean Rondeau harpsichord Chamber Tots SETTINGS OF THEODOR KÖRNER Hasse Cantata in D for flute and basso continuo Schubert Sängers Morgenlied I; Liebesrausch I Falconieri La suave melodia DINOSAURS (fragment); Sängers Morgenlied II; Liebesrausch II; Storace Ciaccona Join us for these one-hour interactive music-making Sehnsucht der Liebe; Liebeständelei; Castrucci Sonata for recorder and basso continuo sessions for young children and their parents and Das gestörte Glück (after the Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 8 by Corelli) carers, featuring songs, percussion playing and the Scarlatti Sonata in D minor Kk213; Sonata in D Kk119 SETTINGS OF FRIEDRICH VON MATTHISSON chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, Sammartini Sonata in G for recorder and basso Schubert Entzückung; Stimme der Liebe (D418); presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music continuo Op. 2 No. 4 Lebenslied; Skolie (D507); Vollendung; Die Erde leaders alongside emerging musicians. Maurice Steger has worked as soloist and director SETTINGS OF THE BROTHERS FRIEDRICH AND Children £5 Adults £3 with many of the world’s leading period-instrument AUGUST VON SCHLEGEL ensembles. He leads a whistle-stop tour to major Wigmore Hall Learning Event Schubert Abendröte; Die Berge; Der Knabe; landmarks of the recorder repertoire, including Der Fluß; Der Schmetterling; Die Sterne (D684); Hasse’s joyful Cantata and the Sonata in G by Die Gebüsche; Lob der Tränen; Die gefangenen Giuseppe Sammartini, oboist to the Prince of Sänger; Wiedersehn; Abendlied für die Entfernte; Wales and music master to his wife and children. Ständchen (D889) Award-winning young harpsichordist Jean Rondeau Young Schubert idolised Theodor Körner, the dashing completes the programme with jewels of the scion of a Dresden literary family. The poet inspired keyboard repertoire. the teenager to exchange life as a school teacher for £15 concs £13 that of a composer. Markus Schäfer’s programme casts light on writers who influenced Schubert at decisive moments in his artistic development, including August Wilhelm von Schlegel, best known BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert today for his German translations of Shakespeare.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Chamber Tots Benjamin Ealovega

Markus Schäfer Werner Kmetitsch Maurice Steger Molina Visuals

62 July

Tuesday 4 July 7.30pm Wednesday 5 July 7.30 pm Thursday 6 July 7.30 pm

Håvard Gimse piano Simon Keenlyside baritone Andreas Ottensamer clarinet Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 54 Malcolm Martineau piano José Gallardo piano Debussy Images oubliées Vaughan Williams 5 Mystical Songs Weber Grand Duo Concertant in E Op. 48 Janácˇek In the Mists b Finzi Fear no more the heat o’ the sun from Baermann Adagio in D Rachmaninov Morceaux de fantaisie Op. 3 b Let us Garlands bring Danzi Fantasy on ‘Là ci darem la mano’ Sibelius Impromptu in B minor Op. 5 No. 5; Sibelius Romeo; Illalle (To Evening); Kaiutar (The Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen; Impromptu in E Op. 5 No. 6; Björken (The Birch) Echo Nymph); Svarta rosor (Black Roses); Im Feld Rheinlegendchen Op. 75 No. 4; Granen (The Spruce) Op. 75 No. 5; ein Mädchen singt; Die stille Stadt Cimarosa Oboe Concerto (arr. for clarinet by Pièce enfantine Op. 76 No. 8; Elegiaco Op. 76 Poulenc From Chansons Gaillardes: La maîtresse A Benjamin) Brahms Wie Melodien zieht es mir No. 10; Arabesque Op. 76 No. 9 volage; Chanson à boire; Madrigal; Invocation aux Bassi Concert Fantasia on themes from Verdi’s Among his many honours, Norwegian pianist Håvard Parques; L’offrande; La belle jeunesse; Sérénade Rigoletto Gimse has received the Grieg and Sibelius Prizes in Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Verlorne Austrian clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer’s sumptuous recognition of his deep feeling and affinity for the Müh; Ablösung im Sommer; Wer hat dies Liedlein tone and thrilling virtuosity have won admirers world- music of both composers. He presents a colourful erdacht?; Das irdische Leben; Des Antonius von wide. He is joined by José Gallardo in a programme selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and virtuoso pieces Padua Fischpredigt; Der Tamboursg’sell; Revelge that explores some of the most celebrated Romantic by Sibelius together with evocative works by Debussy, Simon Keenlyside made his career breakthrough works in his instrument’s repertoire, alongside an Janácˇek and Rachmaninov. thirty years ago while a student at the Royal indulgent collection of Lieder transcriptions. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Northern College of Music and has subsequently £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 established his place among Britain’s finest singers, London Pianoforte Series equally at home on the opera stage and in the Chamber Music Season concert hall. His recital partnership with Malcolm Martineau is hallmarked by breathtaking insight and daring artistry.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series

Håvard Gimse John Andresen José Gallardo

Simon Keenlyside Uwe Arens Malcolm Martineau Alessandro Moggi Andreas Ottensamer Lars Borges

63 July

Friday 7 July 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Friday 7 July 7.30 pm Saturday 8 July 2.30 pm

Music for the Moment Louise Alder soprano Alfred Brendel Lecture A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH Ruby Hughes soprano ON PLAYING MOZART DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, Katie Bray mezzo-soprano In his final lecture of the season, Alfred Brendel FAMILY AND CARERS explores the life and works of Mozart. How was the Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano If you are, or someone you know is, living with composer perceived by his contemporaries? How dementia, please join us for this informal afternoon Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano literally does one need to take his notation? How do his few works in minor keys compare to the many concert with musicians from the Royal Academy of Sholto Kynoch piano Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and in major, and his concertos to his sonatas? SCHUBERT AND WOMEN’S VOICES coffee from 2.30 pm. This event will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, Free (ticket required) Schubert Quell’innocente figlio; Misero pargoletto; without an interval Thekla: eine Geisterstimme (D73); Gott! Höre meine All seats £20 In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music Stimme; Das Abendrot (D236); Das Leben; Lilla an and Westminster Arts die Morgenröte; Lied (D284); Vaterlandslied; Wigmore Hall Learning Event Lambertine; Lorma I; Lied ‘Mutter geht durch ihre Kammer’; Lorma II; Daphne am Bach; Aus Diego Manzanares (Almerine); Wiegenlied (D498); Phidile; Vedi quanto adoro; Blanka (Das Mädchen); Wigmore Hall Learning Event Das Mädchen (D652); Psalm 23 (D706); Johanna Sebus; Gott in der Natur; Lied der Anne Lyle; Coronach; Ständchen (D920b) Schubert’s songs for female vocal ensemble contain some of his most inspired invention, spanning everything from the ethereal harmonies of Psalm 23 to the sublime part-writing of ‘Gott in der Natur’. Sholto Kynoch, founder and director of the Oxford Lieder Festival, is joined by an outstanding team of young singers in a programme guaranteed to deliver musical surprises and delights.

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Music for the Moment www.benjaminharte.co.uk Alfred Brendel Benjamin Ealovega

Louise Alder Will Alder Anna Huntley Kaupo Kikkas Sholto Kynoch Raphaëlle Photography

64 July

Saturday 8 July 7.30 pm Sunday 9 July 11.30 am Sunday 9 July 3.00 pm

Martin Roscoe piano Navarra String Quartet Ben Johnson tenor MARTIN ROSCOE Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Nicky Spence tenor Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 65TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT baritone Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Benjamin Appl Schubert 2 Scherzos D593; Piano Sonata in G D894 baritone Beethoven applied the subtitle ‘Serioso’ to his Op. 95, Gavan Ring ‘Fantasie’; Piano Sonata in Bb D960 a mark of its specific gravity and a reflection of the Sholto Kynoch piano ‘What better way to celebrate one’s 65th birthday’, composer’s increasingly difficult personal asks Martin Roscoe, ‘than by playing two of the circumstances. The Navarra String Quartet prefaces SCHUBERT: PARTSONGS FOR most sublime piano sonatas ever written at London’s Beethoven’s concise masterwork with two MALE VOICES top recital venue?’ With the delicious aperitif of the compositions of contrasting emotions, opening with Schubert Die Advokaten; Trinklied (D75); two Scherzi this all-Schubert programme amounts Haydn’s sonorous Op. 20 No. 2 before plunging into Trinklied (D267); Naturgenuss (D422); Mailied; to what the acclaimed British pianist calls his the highly dramatic flow of Schubert’s Quartettsatz. Leiden der Trennung; La pastorella al prato (D513); ‘idea of heaven’. £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Das Lied vom Reifen; Hänflings Liebeswerbung; £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Das Dörfchen; Widerschein; Die Nachtigall; Sunday Morning Coffee Concert London Pianoforte Series Geist der Liebe (Der Abend schleiert Flur und Hain); Gondelfahrer (D809) The songs in this recital catch the fervour and joy of Schubert’s works for male-voice ensemble. Four fabulous young artists join Sholto Kynoch to explore a selection complete with two rousing drinking songs and the irresistible ‘Geist der Liebe’. The programme also includes rich solo songs, ‘Leiden der Trennung’ and the carol-like ‘Das Lied vom Reifen’ among them.

All seats £15 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Martin Roscoe Eric Richmond Nicky Spence Raphaëlle Photography

Navarra String Quartet Sussie Ahlburg Benjamin Appl Falk Kastell

65 July

Sunday 9 July 7.30 pm Monday 10 July 1.00 pm Monday 10 July 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Hanno Müller-Brachmann Gould Piano Trio bass-baritone Graham Johnson piano Beethoven Piano Trio in Eb Op. 1 No. 1; Variations piano in G Op. 121a ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’; SONGS 1815–1816 Hendrik Heilmann Piano Trio in Eb Op. 70 No. 2 Schubert Der Geistertanz; Als ich sie erröten sah; Mahler Kindertotenlieder Die Mainacht; Seufzer; Die Fröhlichkeit; Der Jüngling Mahler Rückert Lieder In 1795 Beethoven concluded his formal studies in Vienna, made his debut in his new home city as a an der Quelle; An mein Klavier; Am Tage aller Seelen Hanno Müller-Brachmann and Hendrik Heilmann pianist and saw the publication of his Op. 1 piano (Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen); Pflügerlied; venture into the complex emotional territories of trios. The Gould Piano Trio conjures up the brilliance Die Knabenzeit; Winterlied; Stimme der Liebe Mahler’s song cycles to poems by Friedrich Rückert. of the Op. 1 set’s first piece and the popular ‘Kakadu’ Kindertotenlieder, first performed in 1905, deals THE SPIRITUAL QUEST, 1819 Variations of 1794, together with the genial E flat trio with the grief unlocked by the death of two of the Schubert Abendbilder; Hymne I ‘Wenige wissen from the summer of 1808. das Geheimnis’; Hymne II ‘Wenn ich ihn nur habe’; poet’s children, while the five Rückert Lieder reveal Hymne III ‘Wenn alle untreu werden’; Hymne IV the psychological insight and captivating beauty of £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Mahler’s intensely romantic music. ‘Ich sag’ es jedem’; Nachthymne Chamber Music Season SONGS 1822–1823 (In the shadow of the Müllerin) £15 concs £13 Schubert Schwestergruß; Drang in die Ferne; Der zürnende Barde; Das Geheimnis; Auf dem Wasser zu singen BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Schubert’s creative quest drew energy and inspiration from poetry’s potential to unlock fresh ways of being. Ian Bostridge and Graham Johnson begin by exploring the diverse styles present in the young composer’s songs of 1815–16 before fathoming his striking experiments with the spiritual poetry of Novalis’s Hymnen and closing with five sublime masterworks from the early 1820s.

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Hanno Müller-Brachmann Monika Rittershaus Hendrik Heilmann Monika Rittershaus

Ian Bostridge Sim Canetty-Clarke Gould Piano Trio Jake Morley

66 July

Wednesday 12 July 7.30 pm Thursday 13 July 7.30 pm Friday 14 July 7.00 pm NB starting time

Aida Garifullina soprano Sophie Bevan soprano Ailish Tynan soprano Lech Napierala piano Allan Clayton tenor Adam Walker flute Rimsky-Korsakov Not the wind, blowing from Christopher Glynn piano Alasdair Tait cello the heights; Hymn to the Sun; The Rose and the piano Nightingale A SHAKESPEARE SONGBOOK James Baillieu Tchaikovsky Maria’s lullaby; Was I not a little blade Morley It was a lover and his lass Caplet Viens! Une flûte invisible soupire ... of grass?; Serenada Arne When daisies pied Ravel Chansons madécasses Dvorˇák Songs my mother taught me; Song to the Haydn She never told her love Schubert An Silvia Caplet 2 petites pièces: Rêverie & Petite valse Moon from Rusalka Ireland When daffodils begin to peer Saint-Saëns Une flûte invisible Leoncavallo Mattinata Coleridge-Taylor The Willow Song Warlock Sigh no Martin Ballade for flute and piano Donizetti Quel guardo il cavaliere from Don Pasquale; more, Ladies Harrison I know a bank; Philomel Judith Weir Nuits d’Afrique for soprano, piano, Prendi, per me sei libero from L’elisir d’amore Britten Tell me where is Fancy bred Head How sweet flute and cello* (world première) Verdi Sul fil d’un soffio etesio from Falstaff the moonlight sleeps Foster Under the greenwood tree Berlioz La captive, orientale Caccini Ave Maria Quilter Blow, blow, thou winter wind Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ Lehár Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden from Paganini; Handel As steals the morn Tippett Songs for Ariel Gaubert Soir Païen; Nocturne et allegro scherzando Dein ist mein ganzes Herz from Das Land des Dankworth Our revels now are ended *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of Lächelns Finzi Come away, come away, death; O mistress mine André Hoffmann, president of Fondation Hoffmann, Russian soprano Aida Garifullina was raised in the Korngold Adieu, Good Man Devil; Hey, Robin; a Swiss grant-making foundation For the rain, it raineth every day Republic of Tatarstan. She studied with Siegfried Judith Weir’s Nuits d’Afrique, specially commissioned Vaughan Williams Orpheus with his lute Jerusalem and at Vienna’s University of Music and by Wigmore Hall, offers a contemporary take on Bridge When most I wink Performing Arts before making her debut at the the great legacy of French song. Adam Walker and Vaughan Williams Fear no more the heat o’ the sun Mariinsky Theatre and winning Plácido Domingo’s Alasdair Tait join Ailish Tynan and James Baillieu Quilter It was a lover and his lass Operalia competition in 2013. Her Wigmore Series for the work’s world première, part of a programme debut spans the broad range of this acclaimed Sophie Bevan and Allan Clayton open their that includes the shimmering Ballade by the young artist’s repertoire. Shakespeare Songbook to reveal 25 delightful Francophone Swiss composer Frank Martin and settings of the Bard. Their recital includes everything £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Philippe Gaubert’s languid ‘Soir Païen’. from Morley’s ‘It was a lover and his lass’, written Song Recital Series during Shakespeare’s lifetime, and the high Victoriana £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 of Myles Birket Foster to John Dankworth’s Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season hauntingly beautiful ‘Our revels now are ended’.

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Aida Garifullina Decca/Simon Fowler Sophie Bevan Sussie Ahlburg Ailish Tynan Benjamin Ealovega

67 July

Friday 14 July 10.00 pm Saturday 15 July 7.30 pm Sunday 16 July 11.30 am

Dinosaur Christian Gerhaher baritone Quatuor Zaïde Laura Jurd* trumpet Gerold Huber piano Wolf Italian Serenade in G Elliot Galvin piano Schubert String Quartet in G D887 actor Conor Chaplin acoustic bass Ulrich Tukur Quatuor Zaïde makes a very welcome return to Brahms Die schöne Magelone Corrie Dick drums, percussion Wigmore Hall with a quartet movement by Hugo Award-winning trumpeter, composer and bandleader Christian Gerhaher and his regular duo partner, Wolf drenched in Italian sunshine. The stellar Laura Jurd and her recently rechristened band Gerold Huber, return to Wigmore Hall to survey ensemble completes its coffee concert programme Dinosaur scored rave reviews with their debut Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone, a cycle of 15 songs with the expansive lyricism and drama of album, Together, As One. Laura, winner of the rooted in themes from medieval legend to poetry Schubert’s String Quartet in G, a masterwork in 2015 Parliamentary Jazz Award for ‘Instrumentalist taken from Ludwig Tieck’s Romantic novella about four movements. the beautiful Magelone, a Neapolitan princess, and of the Year’ and a current BBC Radio 3 New £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Generation Artist, gives the full Dinosaur treatment her love for Count Peter of Provence. The songs are to Wigmore Lates. interwoven with descriptive prose, read in English Sunday Morning Coffee Concert translation by actor Ulrich Tukur. All seats £15 £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 *Laura Jurd is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme Song Recital Series

Wigmore Lates

Christian Gerhaher Thomas Egli Gerold Huber Marion Koell /Avi-Service for music

Laura Jurd and Dinosaur Dave Stapleton Quatuor Zaïde Marco Borggreve

68 July

Sunday 16 July 7.30 pm Monday 17 July Tuesday 18 July 7.30pm 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm (for 1 – 2 year olds) Quatuor Mosaïques 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm (for 3 – 5 year olds) The Cardinall’s Musick Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 Andrew Carwood director Mozart String Quartet in G K387 Chamber Tots OUT OF THE DEEP Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D BEAR HUNT Morales Missa pro defunctis Performing with gut strings since its foundation in Join us for these one-hour interactive music-making Tallis Incipit lamentatio 1985, Quatuor Mosaïques has matured into one sessions for young children and their parents and Plainsong Ego sum resurrectio et vita; Benedictus of the world’s finest period-instrument quartets. carers, featuring songs, percussion playing and the Tye Nunc dimittis The ensemble explores Mozart’s debt to Haydn chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, Byrd Tristitia et anxietas before closing with Borodin’s popular Second presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music Plainsong Si iniquitatis observaveris; Psalm 129 String Quartet, an inspired attempt by its composer leaders alongside emerging musicians. Nunc dimittis ‘to conjure up an impression of a light-hearted Morley De lamentatione evening in one of the suburban pleasure gardens Children £5 Adults £3 Tallis of St Petersburg’. Wigmore Hall Learning Event The destinies of Spain and England were closely intertwined in the 1500s, brought together by £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 dynastic marriages and forced apart by religious Chamber Music Season strife, colonial rivalry and ruinous wars. The Cardinall’s Musick and Andrew Carwood give voice to the austere beauty of Morales’s Requiem mass, written after the Spanish composer’s homecoming following more than a decade as a member of the papal chapel in Rome.

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Chamber Tots www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Quatuor Mosaïques Wolfgang Krautzer The Cardinall’s Musick Dmitri Gutjahr

69 July

Wednesday 19 July 7.30 pm Friday 21 July 7.00 pm

Elizabeth Watts soprano Arcangelo Simon Lepper piano VIJAY IYER Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord Schubert Des Mädchens Klage (D6); Thekla: eine JAZZ RESIDENCY Sophie Gent violin Geisterstimme (D73); Das Mädchen aus der ˇ violin Fremde (D117); Des Mädchens Klage (D191); Bojan Cicˇic´ An den Frühling (D283); Klage der Ceres; Der König Jonathan Manson viola da gamba in Thule; Des Mädchens Klage (D389); Auf dem theorbo See (D543); An den Frühling (D587); Liebhaber in Thomas Dunford allen Gestalten; Gretchen im Zwinger (Gretchens Georgia Browne flute Bitte); Thekla: eine Geisterstimme (D595); An den soprano Mond (D296); Der Jüngling am Bache (D638); Sophie Junker Suleika I & II See page opposite for full details Schubert discovered Schiller’s poetry in his early teens and was moved to create his first setting of Friday 21 July 10.00 pm ‘Des Mädchens Klage’ soon after. Elizabeth Watts surveys a selection of the composer’s Schiller songs Edicson Ruiz double bass before exploring works to poems by another titan of the Romantic era, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Yu Kosuge piano and concluding with Schubert’s passionate evocations Vijay Iyer Barbara Rigon Dittersdorf Concerto No. 2 in Eb with cadenza by of love and desire in his settings of Suleika. J M Sperger Efrain Oscher Soledad GRAMMY-nominated jazz pianist, bandleader, £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Roland Moser ... sehr mit Bassstimme sanft ... composer and writer Vijay Iyer became curator (Hommage à Friederike Mayröcker) Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs of Wigmore Hall’s Jazz Series in January 2017. Sperger Concerto No. 15 with cadenza by Iyer, who studied maths and physics at Yale Anner Bylsma University, made his name as a performer in the 1990s while studying for a doctorate in Caracas-born Edicson Ruiz began playing double bass music cognition at the University of California, at the age of 11 and was nurtured by Venezuela’s Berkeley. His endlessly inventive music, ‘El Sistema’ music education programme. He described by The New Yorker as ‘jubilant and launches this Wigmore Late with the thrusting dramatic’, covers a vast creative landscape. energy of Dittersdorf’s Concerto before presenting the mind-bending sonorities of Roland Moser’s Thursday 20 July 7.30 pm ... sehr mit Bassstimme sanft ... and heart-melting The Vijay Iyer Trio melody of Efrain Oscher’s Soledad. All seats £15 Vijay Iyer piano Stephen Crump double bass Wigmore Lates Tyshawn Sorey drums For the second instalment of his Jazz Residency, Vijay Iyer brings his critically acclaimed piano trio to Wigmore Hall. Renowned for pushing boundaries, exploring radiating grooves and innovative polyrhythms, the trio’s music is pioneering yet firmly rooted in tradition. Influential albums, along with countless glowing reviews, have helped boost its reputation as one of the pivotal jazz bands of the twenty-first century.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Forthcoming Concert in this Series Friday 13 October 7.30 pm Elizabeth Watts Marco Borggreve Edicson Ruiz Nohely Oliveros

70 Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen Baroque Ensemble in Residence

Friday 21 July 7.00 pm NB starting time

Arcangelo* Arcangelo’s final concert as Wigmore Hall’s Baroque Ensemble in Residence closes with a dramatic invocation of post-war peace by Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, the musician who introduced the Sophie Gent violin double bass to the Paris Opéra orchestra. Two sonatas from François ˇ Couperin’s ambitious portrait of four Catholic nations underline the Bojan Cicˇic´ violin inventive wealth of French music during the early 1700s. Jonathan Manson viola da gamba Thomas Dunford theorbo Georgia Browne flute Sophie Junker soprano

Clérambault Cantata: Léandre et Héro Couperin La Françoise & L’impériale from Les Nations Montéclair Le retour de la paix £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Sophie Junker Christina Raphaelle Jonathan Cohen Marco Borggreve Early Music and Baroque Series Other Concert in this Series Friday 5 May 10.00 pm

Photo of Arcangelo by Simon Jay Price

71 July

Saturday 22 July 7.30 pm Sunday 23 July 11.30 am Sunday 23 July 7.30 pm

Andrei Bondarenko baritone Chloë Hanslip violin Tai Murray violin Gary Matthewman piano Danny Driver piano Elena Urioste violin Ibert Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Jennifer Stumm viola Fauré Les berceaux; Après un rêve; Fleur jetée Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ cello Massenet Elégie Ravel Sainte Laura van der Heijden Although written for George Bridgetower, the Saint-Saëns Si vous n’avez rien à me dire piano exceptionally gifted Polish-born son of a West Indian Tom Poster Duparc Le manoir de Rosemonde father, Beethoven dedicated his Op. 47 to the French Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée CHARITY CONCERT FOR PARKINSON’S UK composer and violinist Rudolphe Kreutzer following Tchaikovsky Amid the din of the ball; I should like in Na památku VIII/9 what Bridgetower recalled as ‘a silly quarrel about Janácˇek a single word; The nightingale; My genius, my angel, Duos for 2 violins BB104 (a selection, a girl’. Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver preface Bartók my friend; Why?; We sat together; I bless you, forests; transcribed for violin and viola) the ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata’s virtuoso fire and dramatic Reconciliation; A tear trembles; Not a word, O my String Trio in G minor (Variations on a momentum with Schubert’s tuneful Sonatina. Borodin friend; Again, as before, alone; Don Juan’s serenade Russian theme) £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 1 Andrei Bondarenko, born in 1987, has forged a stellar Suk Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 international career in the decade since he joined the Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Dvorˇák Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. The This programme, with its Eastern European, folkish Ukrainian baritone, Song Prize-winner at the 2011 flavour, follows an unusual format by opening with Cardiff Singer of the World, revels in French mélodies a solo, moving through a duo, trio and quartet, in his recital’s first half before mining the vital emotions and finishing with an acknowledged masterpiece, of Tchaikovsky’s Russian romances and songs. Dvorˇák’s glorious Piano Quintet in A. Five world-class musicians have chosen to perform without fee £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 and donate the proceeds from their concert to Song Recital Series Parkinson’s UK.

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Tai Murray Marco Borggreve

Andrei Bondarenko Juriy Sheftsoff Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver Raphael Mouterde

72 Wigmore Hall Learning Gala Celebrations

CONNECTING PEOPLE THROUGH MUSIC Monday 24 July 7.30 pm Tuesday 25 July 7.30 pm

For over 20 years Wigmore Hall’s renowned Learning programme Joshua Bell violin Joshua Bell violin has been giving people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities opportunities to take part in creative music making, engaging a Arisa Fujita violin Arisa Fujita violin broad and diverse audience through innovative creative projects, Amihai Grosz viola Amihai Grosz viola concerts, events and online resources. The spirit of chamber Rachel Roberts viola Rachel Roberts viola music lies at the heart of all that we do: making music together as an ensemble, with every voice heard and equally valued. Steven Isserlis cello Steven Isserlis cello We collaborate with a range of community, health, social care Dénes Várjon piano Dénes Várjon piano and education organisations, working together to engage people Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F (1838); who might not otherwise have the opportunity to take part. In Op. 58; Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66; Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49; the 2015/16 Season we led 539 Learning events, and engaged String Quintet No. 1 in A Op. 18 String Quintet No. 2 in Bb Op. 87 11,532 people with 22,364 visits to the programme. Mendelssohn projected his youthful genius A world-class roster of artists assembles All proceeds from these concerts will go towards Wigmore Hall Learning into the String Quintet in A Op. 18, a work for a second successive summer evening influenced by the form and instrumentation of Mendelssohn. Joshua Bell and Dénes of Mozart’s string quintets. Steven Isserlis Várjon launch proceedings with the Violin and friends also perform the composer’s Sonata in F, a work lost until it was C minor Piano Trio and impassioned Second revived in the 1950s by Yehudi Menuhin, Cello Sonata, the brilliant product of a year and are joined by Steven Isserlis in of personal upheaval. Op. 49, which Schumann described as ‘the master trio of the age’. £60 £50 £40 £30 £15 £60 £50 £40 £30 £15 Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Chamber Music Season Chamber Music Season

Joshua Bell Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Steven Isserlis Jean-Baptiste Millot

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Wednesday 26 July 7.30 pm Thursday 27 July 7.30 pm Friday 28 July 7.30 pm

Carolyn Sampson soprano Cédric Tiberghien piano Robin Tritschler tenor Joseph Middleton piano Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 Graham Johnson piano ‘Funeral March’ Erinnerung; Die Betende; Der Geistertanz (D116); REASON IN MADNESS Liszt Csárdás macabre S224; Bagatelle sans tonalité Nachtgesang (D119); Nähe des Geliebten; Schumann Herzeleid Brahms Ophelia-Lieder S216a; Mephisto Waltz No. 4 S696; La lugubre Wandrers Nachtlied I; Morgenlied (D266); Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia Wolf Mignon Lieder gondola; Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Abendlied (D276); Auf den Tod einer Nachtigall Duparc Romance de Mignon Fauré Mélisande’s Song Cédric Tiberghien’s pianism rests on foundations set (D399); An die Nachtigall (D497); Ganymed; Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Saint-Saëns La mort as a prodigious teenager and developed since over a Entzückung an Laura II (fragment); Elysium; d’Ophélie Chausson Chanson d’Ophélie from career spanning the past quarter century. His recital Evangelium Johannis VI; Einsamkeit; Über allen ‘Chansons de Shakespeare’ Op. 28 Duparc Au pays contains two of the most influential and enduring of Zauber Liebe; Nachtstück; Der Musensohn; où se fait la guerre Poulenc La dame de Monte Carlo nineteenth-century piano sonatas and a quartet of Am Fluße; Willkommen und Abschied Strikingly individual musical responses to the late Liszt masterworks, the fourth Mephisto Waltz Robin Tritschler and Graham Johnson begin with androgynous Mignon and tormented Ophelia, and hypnotic Bagatelle sans tonalité among them. an evocation of heightened sensual experience in respective creations of Goethe and Shakespeare, £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 settings of poems by Matthison and Goethe before occupy the heart of Carolyn Sampson’s programme moving through a series of hymns to nature and of German and French songs. She and Joseph London Pianoforte Series the realms of myth. Their programme also includes Middleton include Strauss’s breath-taking mad songs Schubert’s churchly setting of words from St John’s and close with Poulenc’s monologue on the theme Gospel and beguiling ‘Über allen Zauber Liebe’, of suicidal despair played out at the gaming tables a little-known masterwork. of Monte Carlo. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Song Recital Series

Saturday 29 July 7.00 pm A Serenade to Music See page opposite for full details

Sunday 30 July 11.30 am

Gemma Rosefield cello Tim Horton piano Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO. 45 Carolyn Sampson Marco Borggreve Cédric Tiberghien Jean-Baptiste Millot Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Martin Variations on a theme by Rossini Gemma Rosefield, whose Wigmore Hall debut was described by The Strad as ‘a mesmerising musical treasure’, returns in partnership with Tim Horton. The sumptuous textures and serious dialogue of Brahms’s First Cello Sonata provide contrast with Beethoven’s ebullient Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ and Martin’s Rossini Variations, written in 1942 for Gregor Piatigorsky.

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Robin Tritschler Garreth Wong Gemma Rosefield Marco Borggreve

74 A Serenade to Music Final Song Recital of the Season

Saturday 29 July 7.00 pm NB starting time

Elizabeth Watts soprano Schubert Viel tausend Sterne prangen; Klaglied; Trost in Tränen; Nun laßt uns den Leib begraben (Begräbnislied); Jesus Christus unser Heiland (Osterlied); Mary Bevan soprano Das Mädchen von Inistore; Am ersten Maimorgen; Der Entfernten; Klage (D371); Eleanor Dennis soprano Lied in der Abwesenheit; Lied ‘Ferne von der großen Stadt’; Nur wer die Liebe kennt (fragment); Trost (D523); Der Kreuzzug; Das große Halleluja; Mirjams Siegesgesang; soprano Ruby Hughes Kantate für Irene Kiesewetter Gemma Summerfield soprano Purcell Music for a while (arr. Tippett/Bergmann) Croft A Hymn on Divine Musick (realised by Britten) Tara Erraught mezzo-soprano Purcell If music be the food of love (realised by Britten) Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Schubert An die Musik D547 Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano Chabrier Ode à la musique Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano Wigmore Hall crowns its acclaimed Schubert: The tenor Benjamin Hulett Complete Songs series, among the most ambitious Nick Pritchard tenor projects in the venue’s history, with a gala concert Nicky Spence tenor featuring performances by stars of the younger generation and overseen by Graham Johnson, one of the truly Robin Tritschler tenor great Schubertians. Chabrier’s Ode and Vaughan Benjamin Appl baritone Williams’s Serenade pay tribute to Music for her role in Schubert’s peerless achievement. Marcus Farnsworth baritone This concert will be approximately 2 hours 15 minutes baritone Gavan Ring in duration, including an interval Milan Siljanov bass-baritone £60 £50 £40 £30 £15 Graham Johnson piano Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Eugene Asti piano

‘Woman before the Rising Sun’ by Caspar David Friedrich c. 1818

75 Contemporary Music Series Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, and as a commissioner of new works and a champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least through its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London premières. ‘Our commissioning scheme is already the most extensive in Europe for chamber music’, comments Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly, ‘and in recent years Wigmore Hall has become one of the world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’

Helen Grime, Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, is supported by The Marchus Trust Full details of these concerts are provided throughout the brochure in chronological order.

Saturday 1 April 7.30 pm Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm Friday 16 June 7.00 pm EXAUDI Patricia Kopatchinskaja Jasper String Quartet violin James Weeks & Salvatore Sciarrino Aaron Jay Kernis* Anthony Romaniuk Friday 7 April 7.30 pm harpsichord, piano Tuesday 20 June 7.30 pm George Crumb, Ligeti, György Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Kurtág, Salvatore Sciarrino & Ensemble intercontemporain Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Vanessa Lann Philippe Schoeller, Maderna, Berio & Matteo Franceschini Chemirani Brothers zarb Thursday 11 May 7.30 pm Marco Stroppa, Ross Daly, Sokratis Friday 23 June 7.30 pm Sinopoulos, György Kurtág, Krzysztof Elias String Quartet Penderecki & Franck Leriche Paul Newland* Fretwork Orlando Gough Wednesday 19 April 1.00 pm Saturday 13 May Monday 26 June 7.30 pm Britten Sinfonia Tansy Davies Study Day oboe Nicholas Daniel Tansy Davies Vienna Piano Trio Brian Elias* Mark Padmore tenor Wednesday 14 June 7.30 pm Thomas Larcher* Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm Arditti Quartet Saturday 1 July 7.30 pm Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Eliot Fisk guitar Sol Gabetta cello Doric String Quartet Hugues Dufourt*, Berio & Xenakis, Jörg Widmann, Ligeti & Wolfgang Rihm* Alasdair Beatson piano Peter Eötvös* Thomas Adès

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

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by

76 EVENTS FOR FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS

All events listed on pages 77 – 81 are included in Priority Booking for Friends and Mailing List Subscribers, with the exception of the RNIB Study Day on 20 April, the RNIB Family Day on 1 June, and Musical Portraits on 24 – 27 July, which open for booking on 7 February. The Schools Concerts on 25 April and 12 July are already open for booking.

Friday 7 April 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Music for the Moment A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for this informal afternoon concert with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm.

Free (ticket required)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts

Juice Morag Galloway

Thursday 20 April 10.00 am – 4.30 pm Tuesday 25 April 11.00am – 12 noon RNIB Study Day Juice PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY SEN SCHOOLS CONCERT FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED Explore the voice alongside vocal ensemble Juice MUSICIANS and presenter Sam Glazer in a dynamic and This practical study day is an opportunity for blind engaging concert. Expect a wide range of classical, and partially sighted musicians to explore pathways contemporary and folk music, with lots of audience into the classical music industry and career participation in both singing and body percussion. development, including how to make the most out This concert is ideal for SEN students of all ages of opportunities for sponsorship. The day will include and bookers will receive a teachers’ resource pack discussion, talks and the opportunity to perform on in advance of the concert. the Wigmore Hall stage. £3.50 Free (application required) Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240 For more information and to book, contact James www.benjaminharte.co.uk Risdon, RNIB Music Officer on 020 7391 2273 or [email protected].

In partnership with RNIB www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

77 Study Programme

We have an extensive programme of study events including Masterclasses, Pre-Concert Talks and Study Days.

For a list of all our events see Wigmore Hall Learning section of At a Glance on page 3.

Benjamin Ealovega

Thursday 27 April 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm Tuesday 9 May 11.00am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm) Young Producers Present… Thursday 15 June 11.00 am – 11.45 am What happens when a group of young people from (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm) London secondary schools programme their own concert at Wigmore Hall? What theme will inspire For Crying Out Loud! them? What music will they choose? Hear outstanding performances by musicians from Find out more about this unique project at the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/young-producers. presented especially for parents or carers and Benjamin Ealovega Free (ticket required) babies under 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment. Wigmore Hall Learning is a proud supporter of Arts Award, and as part of this project our Young Producers work Adults £7.50 (babies come free) towards achieving their Silver Arts Award.

Supported by the London Stock Exchange Group Foundation

Saturday 29 April 10.00 am – 3.30 pm Come and Sing: World Folk Music Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring folk music, popular music, and other forms from around the world. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.

£25 concs £19 www.benjaminharte.co.uk Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

78 Friday 19 May 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Side by Side The Prince Consort and Musicians from the Guildhall School Programme to include: Schumann Spanische Liebeslieder Op. 138 Cheryl Frances-Hoad Invoke Now the Angels The Prince Consort is renowned for its imaginative programming, world-class performances and its original approach to commissioning new works. The ensemble is also passionate about supporting the development of the next generation of singers and pianists. For this project, members of the ensemble have worked with students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama towards this performance, in which the students and ensemble perform side by side.

All seats £5

Benjamin Ealovega

Chamber Tots Wednesday 17 May 10.00 am – 2.00 pm BEAR HUNT Dementia Awareness Week: Friday 12 May 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds) Come and Sing Isabelle Adams leads a day to celebrate the launch Monday 17 July of our new community choir for families living with 12.30 pm (1–2 year olds) & 2.00 pm (3–5 year olds) dementia. If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for a session MINIBEASTS exploring and creating music together followed by Wednesday 7 June some lunch, tea and coffee. 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds) Free (ticket required) Wednesday 28 June 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds) www.benjaminharte.co.uk

DINOSAURS Saturday 20 May 11.00 am – 12 noon Tuesday 4 July 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds) Search for the Starlight Squid FAMILY CONCERT Join us for these one-hour interactive music-making sessions for young children and their parents and For ages 5 plus carers, featuring songs, percussion playing and the Dive down into the deep blue sea and join the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, Lawson Piano Trio and presenter Jessie Maryon Davies presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music for an aquatic adventure to find the starlight squid! leaders alongside emerging musicians. This underwater journey features music from works Children £5 Adults £3 by Sibelius to sea shanties, and even a stormy piece created by you, the audience. Chamber Tots also takes place as a six-month project in schools across London. Children £8 Adults £10 Rob Stothard

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79 Tuesday 23 May 1.00pm – 2.00 pm Voiceworks A CONCERT OF NEW WORKS FOR VOICE In the Community Now in its eleventh year, Voiceworks is a unique collaboration between writers, composers, singers Our Learning projects reach out across London and further afield, including and instrumentalists from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, brought together by an extensive schools and early years programme, a community programme Wigmore Hall Learning. working with children, young people and adults in challenging circumstances, and Music for Life, in which we lead creative music workshops with people Free (ticket required) living with dementia.

Tuesday 30 May 10.30am – 3.30 pm Cavendish Winds FAMILY DAY For ages 5 plus Join music leader Julian West and the Wigmore Hall Learning/Open Academy Fellowship Ensemble, Cavendish Winds, on a marvellous music-making adventure. Take your seat within your very own chamber ensemble, create your own brand new pieces of music and perform together on the Wigmore Hall stage.

Children £10 Adults £15 Rob Stothard

Thursday 1 June 11.00 am – 4.00 pm RNIB Family Day FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED CHILDREN AGED 6 –12 YEARS AND THEIR FAMILIES Be inspired by art and music at The Wallace Collection and Wigmore Hall, and create your own masterpieces in this interactive multi-sensory workshop for blind and partially sighted children and their families. Free (application required) For more information and to book, contact James Risdon, RNIB Music Officer on 020 7391 2273 or [email protected].

In partnership with RNIB and The Wallace Collection

Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

80 Wednesday 14 June 11.00 am – 12 noon Saturday 1 July 10.30 am – 3.30 pm Carers’ Week: Relaxed Concert Royal Academy of Music

Marcus Farnsworth baritone Family Day For ages 5 plus James Baillieu piano Discover the hidden gems at the Royal Academy This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides of Music Museum with Academy students and a special opportunity to explore music in an informal workshop leader Hannah Opstad. Blow away the setting. We invite carers, and anyone who would dust, get up close to the museum’s treasures, and benefit from a more relaxed performance environment, write your very own music to perform at Wigmore to join award-winning musicians Marcus Farnsworth Hall at the end of the day. and James Baillieu for a diverse range of song, and to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee after the concert. Children £10 Adults £15

£5

Celebrating Carers’ Week www.carersweek.org Marcus Farnsworth Benjamin Ealovega

Partner Schools Programme The Partner Schools Programme is a new approach to working with schools; in partnership with our four partner music hubs we are collaborating with four primary schools keen to develop their cultural offer, co-creating a programme of opportunities which meets their needs and places music at the heart of their ethos, empowering them to become culturally engaged, proactive schools.

Benjamin Ealovega

Friday 7 July 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Music for the Moment A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS If you are, or someone you know is, living with dementia, please join us for this informal afternoon concert with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm.

Free (ticket required)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts

Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

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FREE CONCERT TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOL GROUPS Benjamin Ealovega Over the last nine years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticket scheme Wednesday 12 July 11.00 am – 12 noon Chamber Zone has reached over 7,000 young people My Iris aged 8 –25 years. KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT This is Trish Clowes’s jazz organ quartet with a twist! CAVATINA Come and experience music that conjures vivid Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net colour and imagery, with links to literature and history, in this concert presented by Pete Letanka. Trish’s Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from pieces juxtapose startling melodies and ethereal whispers with intricate textures and earthy grooves. John Lyon’s Charity This concert is the perfect way to celebrate the end of the school year. For details on the concerts included in the Chamber Zone scheme and how to book visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk /chamberzone £3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

Monday 24 – Thursday 27 July 11.00 am – 3.30 pm Musical Portraits SUMMER COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS We invite young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders to be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, and to create their own works of art and music with inspiring visual artists alongside Wigmore Hall Learning Associate Artists Ignite. For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Ceri Black at Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or [email protected].

Free (application required)

In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts

Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

82 BOOKING INFORMATION

Booking Dates Telephone Bookings Car Parking 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm. There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm (Mon– Sat) Days without an evening concert: and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively Booking Period 3 10.00am–5.00pm. There is a non-refundable there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Saturday 1 April – Sunday 30 July 2017 £3.00 administration charge for each transaction. Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less This includes the return of your tickets by post than a five-minute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall Priority Booking opens to Friends and Mailing List if time permits. participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which Subscribers on Tuesday 20 December 2016 gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on Friends – Request to be submitted by Postal Bookings their parking when using the Cavendish Square (Q Park Thursday 12 January 2017 Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Hall Oxford Street) car park. Please contact the Box Office Mailing List – Request to be submitted by with the amount left open but stating an upper for further details or visit our website. Thursday 19 January 2017 limit, and add an administration charge of £3.00. Disabled Access and Facilities General Public – By telephone/online from Tickets will then be sent by post. Tuesday 7 February 2017 Full details from 020 7935 2141 Online Bookings or [email protected] We strongly recommend early booking for Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk to book seats. Pre-Concert Talks, Artists in Conversation There is a non-refundable administration and Study Events. charge of £2.00. Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze Wigmore Hall Box Office Tickets for Concessions Charter Mark from Attitude is Everything 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Where a concession (concs) ticket price is listed these are available to students, senior Tel: 020 7935 2141 citizens and the unemployed. For full details Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/concessions. Email (not for bookings): [email protected] Under 35s Ticket Scheme Ticket buyers under the age of 35 are entitled to Tickets reduced price tickets for selected concerts. For Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided full details visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/u35. into five price ranges: Stalls C – M: Highest price Facilities for Families Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price Wigmore Hall is proud to meet the Family Arts Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price Standards reflecting its commitment to offering Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd highest price family-friendly events and spaces. Stalls AA, T – V: 4th highest price OXFORD Stalls W – X: Lowest price CIRCUS

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83 SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALL

With £1.7 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend, joining a Circle of Giving, or by supporting a concert or the Learning programme, please call 020 7258 8230 or email [email protected] 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 and Learning programmes:

Honorary Patrons Julia Schottlander* The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation George MeyerL Gill and Keith Stella* Dr C Endersby and Prof D Cowan OBE Milton Damerel TrustL Aubrey Adams In memory of Robert Streit Caroline Erskine The Monument Trust André and Rosalie Hoffmann John and Ann Tusa Felicity FairbairnL Amyas and Louise Morse* Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn Gerry Wakelin* Philip and Susan Feakin A C and F A Myer Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Susan Ward Peter and Sonia FieldL Valerie O’ConnorL David and Frances Waters* Deborah Finkler and Allan Murray-Jones Celia and Roy Palmer Season Patrons 2016/17 Anne and David Weizmann John and Amy Ford P Parkinson David Evan Williams The Foyle Foundation The Peter Stebbings Memorial CharityL Aubrey Adams* S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3L The Piano Fund Tony and Marion Allen* Neil and Deborah Franks* The du Plessis Family Foundation American Friends of Wigmore Hall Corporate Supporters Michael Freegard Isabel and Jonathan Popper ‡ Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne Capital Group (corporate matched giving) Friends of Wigmore Hall Oliver and Helen Prenn Karl Otto Bonnier* Complete Coffee Ltd Jonathan Gaisman* Nick and Claire Prettejohn* Henry and Suzanne Davis The Howard de Walden Estate The Garfield Weston Foundation The Radcliffe Trust † Dunard Fund John Lewis Partnership – Oxford Street John Gilhooly* Stuart and Bianca RodenL Alexis Gregory Foundation and the London Stock Exchange Group Foundation John and Lauren Goldsmith* Charles Rose* Vendome Prize Martin Randall Travel Ltd Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM* The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Rothschild & Co Peter Goodwin The Rubinstein Circle Pauline and Ian Howat Charles Green The Sampimon TrustL Harry Lee and Clive Potter* Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Julia Schottlander* Simon and Sophie Ludlam* Donors and Sponsors ‡ Elaine and Peter Hallgarten Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* The Marchus Trust The 29th May 1961 Charitable TrustL Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* Rhona Shaw The Monument Trust Mr Eric Abraham* The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Valerie O’Connor Neville and Nicola Abraham The Harold Hyam Wingate FoundationL Jo and Barry Slavin Hamish Parker Elaine Adair The Headley TrustL Sir Martin and Lady Smith*† Victoria and Simon Robey* Ian Allan Malcolm Herring* Michael Smith and Nicholas Bartlett* † David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma* David and Jacqueline Ansell* André and Rosalie Hoffmann‡ Spencer Hart Charitable Trust Cita and Irwin Stelzer* Arts Council England Peter and Carol Honey* Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* William and Alex de Winton* Ms J A Attias Gay Huey Evans* John Stephens OBE, Hon FTCL* and several anonymous donors Mrs Arlene Beare Graham and Amanda Hutton* The Stewarts Law FoundationL Alan Bell-Berry Hyde Park Place Estate CharityL Anne and Paul Swain* Chamber Music Circle Mr Nicholas J Bez Simone Hyman* Alisa and Joshua Swidler* Mrs Arline Blass J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust Katja and Nicolai Tangen* Karl Otto Bonnier* David and Mary Bowerman* Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Professor Christopher Thompson Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Sir John and Lady Boyd* Peter and Nikki Jeffcote The Three Monkies TrustL Margery Gray Alan Bradley* John Lyon’s CharityL Robin Vousden* Pauline and Ian Howat Clive Butler Marc Jourdren* Andrew and Hilary Walker* Lord and Lady Lloyd A bequest from the late Peter Cain In memory of Donald Kahn Professor Janet Walker CD and The Tertis Foundation Donald Campbell Su and Neil Kaplan* Professor Doug Jones AO* Marina Vaizey CAVATINA Chamber Music TrustL Jerome Karet* Dame Fanny Waterman* Kathleen Verelst* Charities Advisory TrustL David and Louise Kaye* Michael Watson Charitable Trust Mary and Robert Childs Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn* The Welton Foundation Voices at Wigmore: Colin Clark Kohn Foundation David and Martha Winfield* John Crisp* Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Tony Wingate The Schubert Song Project Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Maryly La Follette* Philip and Emeline Winston* Tony and Marion Allen* Michael and Felicia Crystal* Gabor Lacko The Wolfson Foundation Anthony Austin Celia and Andrew Curran Alan Leibowitz and Barbara WeissL Youth MusicL Geoffrey Barnett Anthony Davis* Rose and Dudley Leigh and several anonymous donors Karl Otto Bonnier* In memory of Margaret Dewhirst The Leverhulme TrustL Tim Llewellyn * Rubinstein Circle members Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair James Dooley L Michael Brind Dame Felicity Lott Learning Programme supporters The Dorset Foundation – in memory of † Nicola Coldstream Harry M Weinrebe The Loveday Charitable TrustL Early Music and Baroque Series supporters ‡ Pauline Del Mar Nina Drucker Mr H Lucas Contemporary Music Series supporters J L Drewitt In memory of Robert Easton David Lyons* Alan and Joanna Gemes* Douglas and Janette Eden Anne and Brian Mace Benjamin Hargreaves Mr Martin and Dr Mina Edwards The Estate of Pamela Majaro MBE Details correct as of October 2016 Julia MacRae* The Eldering/Goecke Family Simon Majaro MBE Edith Randall Annette Ellis* Mayfield Valley Arts Trust THE WIGMORE HALL TRUST Louise Scheuer The Elton Family Michael and Lynne McGowan* Registered Charity Number 1024838

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Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM, HonFRIAM 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity Number 1024838