Jun/ Jul 2017/18 Season

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Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk June 28 Jun 10.15am Chamber Tots 17 11.45am Chamber Tots 17 1 Jun 7.00pm 4 Birgid Steinberger/Julius Drake 4.45pm Introduction to the String Quartet commences 17 10.00pm 4 How to Book Chineke! Orchestra 7.30pm Elizabeth Watts/Roderick Williams/ 17 2 Jun 1.00pm Yuki Ito/Sofya Gulyak 4 Roger Vignoles 7.30pm 5 Carolyn Sampson/Iestyn Davies/ 29 Jun 7.00pm Pupils of the Yehudi Menuhin School 18 Joseph Middleton 10.00pm Lucy Schaufer/Huw Watkins 18 3 Jun 11.30am 5 Kuss Quartet 30 Jun 11.00am Family Concert: Butterfly Brain 18 7.30pm 5 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/ 7.30pm Sophie Bevan/Ryan Wigglesworth 18 Anna Prohaska 4 Jun 1.00pm Toby Spence/Christopher Glynn 6 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals 6 July 1 Jul 11.30am Veronika Eberle/Alban Gerhardt/ 19 5 Jun 10.30am Come and Sing 6 Edicson Ruiz/José Gallardo 7.30pm Stéphane Degout/Simon Lepper 6 3.00pm RCM Junior Department 19 6 Jun 7.30pm The Prince Consort/Laura Mucha 6 7.30pm RCM String Showcase Concert 19 7 Jun 1.00pm Voiceworks 7 2 Jul 1.00pm Adam Walker/Cédric Tiberghien 19 7.30pm Finghin Collins 7 7.30pm Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff 20 8 Jun 7.00pm Alim Beisembayev 7 3 Jul 7.30pm David Hansen/Academia Montis Regalis/ 20 10.00pm Onyx Brass 7 Alessandro De Marchi 9 Jun 11.30am Purcell School Chamber Concert 8 4 Jul 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals 20 7.30pm 8 Django Bates Belovèd 5 Jul 1.00pm Ensemble of the European Union 20 10 Jun 11.30am Christian Ihle Hadland 8 Youth Orchestra/Kian Soltani 3.00pm The Children of Willesden Lane 8 7.30pm Tana String Quartet 21 7.30pm Tetzlaff Quartet/Jörg Widmann 9 6 Jul 7.00pm Sandrine Piau/Susan Manoff 21 11 Jun 1.00pm Trio Wanderer/Christophe Gaugué 9 10.00pm David Orlowsky Trio 21 7.30pm Collegium Vocale Gent 9 7 Jul 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 21 12 Jun 5.30pm Diphonon Duo 9 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 21 7.30pm Belcea Quartet/Antoine Tamestit 9 7.30pm Steven Osborne 22 13 Jun 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group commences 11 8 Jul 11.30am Formosa Quartet/Richard Lester 22 7.30pm Jakub Józef Orliński/Michał Biel 10 7.30pm ATOS Trio 22 14 Jun 12.30pm Chamber Tots 11 9 Jul 1.00pm Chloë Hanslip/Danny Driver 22 2.00pm Chamber Tots 11 7.30pm Dame Felicity Palmer/Simon Lepper 22 7.30pm Hiroshi Amako/Yi-Shing Cheng/ 11 10 Jul 7.30pm Veronika Eberle/Tatjana Masurenko/ 22 Anna Geniushene Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/Martin Helmchen 15 Jun 6.00pm Razumovsky Academy 12 11 Jul 7.30pm Ensemble Variances/Anssi Karttunen/ 23 Young Artists Recital Thierry Pécou 7.30pm Razumovsky Ensemble 12 12 Jul 7.30pm Carducci String Quartet 23 16 Jun 11.00am RNIB Family Day 12 13 Jul 7.00pm 23 7.30pm Heath Quartet/Mary Bevan 12 Bennewitz Quartet 10.00pm The Prince Consort/Jason Rebello 23 17 Jun 11.30am Apollon Musagète Quartet 13 14 Jul 7.30pm 24 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 13 Evelyn Glennie/Philip Smith/Huw Edwards 15 Jul 11.30am Sitkovetsky Trio 25 18 Jun 1.00pm Christine Rice/Julius Drake 13 7.30pm Robin Tritschler/Jonathan Ware 25 7.30pm Peter Donohoe 13 16 Jul 3.00pm Music for the Moment 25 19 Jun 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 13 7.30pm The Monday Platform 25 20 Jun 7.30pm Edgar Moreau/David Kadouch 14 17 Jul 7.30pm Sergei Babayan 26 21 Jun 7.30pm Dunedin Consort 14 18 Jul 10.15am Chamber Tots 26 22 Jun 7.00pm Elias String Quartet 14 11.45am Chamber Tots 26 10.00pm Donald Grant 14 7.30pm Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Huber 26 23 Jun 11.00am Relaxed Concert: Diphonon Duo 14 19 Jul 7.30pm Gabriela Montero 26 7.30pm 15 The Sixteen 20 Jul 7.00pm Members of Britten Sinfonia 27 24 Jun 11.30am Amaryllis Quartet 15 10.00pm Heath Quartet/Ruth Gibson/Marie Bitlloch 27 3.00pm Samuel Hasselhorn/Renate Rohlfing 15 21 Jul 1.00pm Principality Only Boys Aloud 27 7.30pm Quatuor Ebène 15 Academi 2017 25 Jun 1.00pm Elias String Quartet/ 15 21 Jul 7.30pm Igor Levit 28 Navarra String Quartet 7.30pm Quatuor Ebène/Martin Fröst 15 22 Jul 11.30am Zorá String Quartet 28 7.30pm Pavol Breslik/Amir Katz 28 26 Jun 4.00pm Jenny Q Chai: Lecture-Recital 16 7.30pm Imogen Cooper 16 23 Jul 7.30pm Alban Gerhardt/Vikingur Olafsson 28 27 Jun 11.00am Schools Concert: Butterfly Brain 16 24 Jul 7.30pm Julia Fischer/Aris Alexander Blettenberg 29 1.00pm Schools Concert: Butterfly Brain 16 25 Jul 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet 29 7.30pm Ming Xie 16 26 Jul 7.30pm Angela Hewitt 29 30 Jul 11.00am Musical Portraits 29 4 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Friday 1 June 10.00pm 7.00pm NB time Chineke! Orchestra Birgid Steinberger soprano Beethoven Septet in E flat Op. 20 Julius Drake piano Florence Price String Quartet in G (European première) Schubert Suleika I; Das Mädchen (D652); Strauss Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders Lied der Anne Lyle; Liane; Thekla: eine (arr. Hasenöhrl) Geisterstimme (D595); Die junge Nonne; Mignon (Kennst du das Land); Nur wer die All seats £15 Liebe kennt (fragment); Heiss mich nicht reden (D726); So lasst mich scheinen (D727) Brahms Saturday 2 June Feinsliebchen; Dort in den Weiden; All mein 1.00pm Gedanken; Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr; Da Avex Classics International Wigmore Series unten im Tale; Schwesterlein, Schwesterlein; In stiller Nacht Wolf From Spanisches Liederbuch: Yuki Ito cello Klinge, klinge, mein Pandero; In dem Schatten Sofya Gulyak piano meiner Locken; Dereinst, dereinst, Gedanke mein; Bedeckt mich mit Blumen; Mögen alle Rachmaninov Two Pieces Op. 2: Prélude & bösen Zungen; Sagt ihm, dass er zu mir Danse orientale; from Morceaux de fantaisie komme; Geh, Geliebter, geh jetzt Op. 3: Elégie, Mélodie & Sérénade; Prelude in G flat Op. 23 No. 10; Lied; Morning; In the £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 silent night; Lilacs; How fair this spot; Spring waters; Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 All seats £20 Promoted by Avex Classics International Sponsored by Tarisio

Birgid Steinberger Chineke! Orchestra Yuki Ito © Eric Richmond www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 5

7.30pm 7.30pm

Carolyn Sampson soprano Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin Iestyn Davies countertenor Georg Kallweit director Joseph Middleton piano Anna Prohaska soprano Purcell Sound the trumpet; Lost is my quiet; Shakespeare and Music Music for a while; If music be the food Shakespeare Wenn die Musik der Liebe Nahrung of love; No, resistance is but in vain (arr. ist from Twelfth Night (recitation) Britten) Mendelssohn Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ Purcell Fantasia upon one note in F Z745; Mark, ergösse sich; Gruss; Volkslied; Maiglöckchen how readily each pliant string from Raise the und die Blümelein; Scheidend; Neue Liebe; voice Z334 Sonntagsmorgen; Das Ährenfeld; Lied aus Ruy Locke Suite from The Tempest Blas Schumann Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär; Purcell Largo from Sonata in Three Parts No. 6 Herbstlied; Schön Blümelein; Nachtlied; Stille in C Z795; Sing, sing ye Druids from Bonduca or Liebe; Der Einsiedler; Aufträge; So wahr die the British Heroine Z574; Suite from King Arthur Sonne scheinet Quilter It was a lover and his Shakespeare Farewell! God knows when we lass; Weep you no more; Music, when soft voices shall meet again, from Romeo and Juliet die; Drink to me only with thine eyes; Love’s Purcell The Plaint from The Fairy Queen Z629 philosophy; Love calls through the summer night Shakespeare Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to Returns Only a summer’s day? (recitation with improvisation) Dowland Come again, sweet love doth now invite Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Purcell Suite from The Gordion Knot Unty’d Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts. To book, please Z597; Oh, the sweet delights of love from contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Dioclesian Z627; Music for a while; Let each gallant heart Sunday 3 June Blow Suite from Venus and Adonis 11.30am Purcell If music be the food of love Z379c Kuss Quartet £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/ sherry/juice

Carolyn Sampson Kuss Quartet Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin © Marco Borggreve © Molina Visuals © Uwe Arens 6 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Monday 4 June 7.30pm 1.00pm Stéphane Degout baritone Toby Spence tenor Simon Lepper piano Christopher Glynn piano Fauré Aurore; Poème d’un jour; Automne Schubert The Beautiful Maid of the Mill Brahms O kühler Wald; Die Mainacht; Auf dem (Die schöne Müllerin) Kirchhofe; Feldeinsamkeit; Alte Liebe; Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen; Willst du, dass ich geh? All seats £15 Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 7.30pm With grateful thanks to the Voices at Wigmore Circle

Cuarteto Casals Wednesday 6 June Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5 7.30pm Lucio Franco Amanti String Quartet ‘ReSolUtIO’ (UK première) The Prince Consort Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Op. 74 Alisdair Hogarth director, piano ‘Harp’; String Quartet in E flat Op. 127 Verity Wingate soprano £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Andrew Staples tenor Laura Mucha poet Tuesday 5 June Interspersed with poetry and recitations 10.30am – 1.30pm Songs to include: Come and Sing Vaughan Williams Silent Noon Britten As it is, plenty For families living with dementia Michael Anderson Now sleeps the crimson petal Join Isabelle Adams for a session of group Bart Where is Love from Oliver! singing exploring a mixture of music from Dunhill The Cloths of Heaven across the ages, followed by tea and coffee. Vaughan Williams Is my team ploughing We welcome people living with dementia and Finzi The Sigh Britten O Waly, Waly their families, friends and carers. No previous Cheryl Frances-Hoad Love (of the sort that experience needed, just an enthusiasm to sing! I’m after) Graham Ross New commission (world première) Free (booking required) Book through the Wigmore Hall Learning £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 department on 020 7258 8246. Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts. To book, please In partnership with Resonate Arts contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

Toby Spence Cuarteto Casals Stéphane Degout Alisdair Hogarth © Mitch Jenkins © Molina Visuals © Julien Benhamou www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 7

Thursday 7 June Friday 8 June 1.00pm – 2.00pm 7.00pm NB time Voiceworks Jaques Samuel Pianos Intercollegiate Competition Winner’s Concert Join us for this lunchtime concert featuring brand new works for the voice, the result Alim Beisembayev piano of a unique collaboration between poets, Scarlatti 2 Sonatas: in G Kk13 & in B minor Kk87 composers, singers and instrumentalists from Beethoven Piano Sonata in D Op. 10 No. 3 Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini Free (ticket required) (Book I) Op. 35 Chopin 3 Mazurkas: in B flat minor Op. 24 No. 4; in G sharp minor Op. 33 No. 1 & in B Op. 56 No. 1 Schumann Études symphoniques Op. 13 7.30pm All seats £15 Finghin Collins piano Jaques Samuel Pianos Janáček Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ Sponsored by Fazioli and S. W. Mitchell Capital LLP Rachmaninov Preludes Nos. 1 – 7 Op. 23 10.00pm Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat D960 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Onyx Brass Kenny Wheeler 1 for 5 Jason Rebello Inevitable Outcome Trish Clowes The Mighty Pencil Mark Nightingale For Rosie Laurence Cottle Holy Chalcedony Guy Barker Onyx Noir Mike Walker Let her go Gwilym Simcock Stomper All seats £15

Voiceworks Finghin Collins Alim Beisembayev Onyx Brass © Benjamin Ealovega © Frances Marshall 8 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 9 June Sunday 10 June 11.30am 11.30am

Purcell School Chamber Concert Christian Ihle Hadland piano Young musicians from The Purcell School Brahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 perform an eclectic hour-long programme Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58 of chamber works. The school holds the £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/ UNESCO Mozart Gold Medal in recognition of sherry/juice its unique contribution to music, education and international culture. 3.00pm ‘…it gives me great hope for the future of the The Children of Willesden Lane music profession when I hear what these young people are capable of’ Sir Simon Rattle CBE Mona Golabek piano £13 concs £11 In 1938, a 14-year-old prodigy pianist named The Purcell School Lisa Jura boarded a train in Vienna to travel to London. On the station platform, her mother 7.30pm bade her farewell, telling her, ‘Hold on to your music. It will be your best friend.’ Minutes Django Bates Belovèd later, Lisa was on the Kindertransport – the Django Bates piano scheme that saved thousands of Jewish Petter Eldh double bass children from the Nazis between 1938 and 1940 Peter Bruun drums – with no idea whether she would ever see her family again. Her daughter, Mona Golabek, will Claire Huguenin voice perform a one-woman show, telling the story Marius Neset saxophone of Lisa’s survival and the strength her music brought her throughout her traumatic youth. Praised by the Financial Times for its ‘strong emotions and in-depth improvisation’, the group £60 £50 £40 £30 £15 unites here with Claire Huguenin, celebrated for This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration her expressive and daring vocals, and saxophonist without an interval Marius Neset, known for his unlimited imagination The Holocaust Educational Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1092892) and soulful spontaneity. The net proceeds from this concert will benefit the Holocaust Educational Trust £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration without an interval Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

Purcell School Django Bates Christian Ihle Hadland Mona Golabek © Nick White © Kim Laland www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 9

7.30pm Tuesday 12 June Tetzlaff Quartet 5.30pm – 6.15pm Jörg Widmann clarinet Diphonon Duo Sibelius String Quartet in D minor Op. 56 Michael Iskas viola ‘Voces Intimae’ Jörg Widmann Three Shadow Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade accordion Dances for solo clarinet Weber Clarinet Quintet The Wigmore Hall/Royal Academy of Music in B flat Op. 34 Fellowship Ensemble, Diphonon Duo, performs a £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 range of repertoire including the world première Jörg Widmann’s residency is made possible thanks to of a new work by Edmund Hunt, the 2017/18 Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community RPS/Wigmore Hall Apprentice Composer. Foundation, with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund Free (ticket required)

Monday 11 June 1.00pm 7.30pm Trio Wanderer Belcea Quartet Christophe Gaugué viola Antoine Tamestit viola Haydn Piano Trio in A flat HXV:14 Mozart String Quintet in C K515 Shostakovich Fauré Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 £15 concs £13 Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 7.30pm Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major Collegium Vocale Gent contribution to the 2017/18 Wigmore Series Philippe Herreweghe director Hathor Consort O Tempo, O Ciel! Lassus Madrigali novamente composti a 5 voci; Madrigali a 4-5-6 voci, novamente composti £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Tetzlaff Quartet Trio Wanderer Diphonon Duo Belcea Quartet © Georgia Bertazzi © Marco Borggreve © Marco Borggreve 10 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Celebrating 100 Years of Poland Regaining Independence

Wednesday 13 June 7.30pm

Jakub Józef Orliński countertenor Michał Biel piano Handel Inumano fratel... Stille amare from Tolomeo Purcell Music for a while; If music be the food of love Z379c; What power art thou (Cold Genius aria); Strike the viol Schubert Auf der Donau; Die Stadt from Schwanengesang; Nachtstück Hahn A Chloris; Mai; Paysage; Fêtes galantes; L’heure exquise Szymanowski From Kurpie Songs: Lecioły zórazie; Wysła burzycka; Uwoz mamo; U jeziorecka Baird Four Love Sonnets Paweł Łukaszewski Jesien Handel Agitato da fiere tempeste from Riccardo Primo, Re d’Inghilterra £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London

Jakub Józef Orliński © Anita Wasik www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 11

Thursday 14 June Wigmore Study Group: 12.30pm and 2.00pm

Wednesday 13 June Chamber Tots 3.00pm – 6.00pm Under the Sea Tuesday 19 June We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their 3.00pm – 6.00pm parents/carers to join us as we dive deep Thursday 21 June under the sea! This interactive music-making 3.00pm – 6.00pm workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up Big Ideas for a Small Stage close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots Within two years of Bach establishing music leaders alongside emerging ensembles. himself in the illustrious post of Kantor at the 12.30pm – 1.30pm (1–2 year-olds) & Thomasschule and civic director of music in 2.00pm – 3.00pm (3–5 year-olds) Leipzig he had composed two complete annual cycles of cantatas, and presented the Magnificat Children £6 Adults £4 and the St John Passion. In his sacred dramas, Bach showed an innate sense of the theatrical, 7.30pm combining with extraordinary skill the dramatic narrative, religious commentary and emotional Royal Academy of Music Patrons Award response, whilst giving the congregation, Winner’s Recital 2018 through his chorale settings, an active role in tenor the performance. Join us for this series hosted Hiroshi Amako by Guildhall School of Music & Drama Head of Yi-Shing Cheng piano Composition Julian Philips and Professor of Anna Geniushene solo piano Piano Laura Roberts, alongside invited guest speakers and musicians from the School. Peter Dickinson Look, stranger, on this island now Dring The Enchantment Strauss Sechs Lieder Op. Series ticket price £66 including 3 study 17 Quilter Go, lovely rose Head When Sweet Ann sessions and a ticket for the evening Sings Shinichi Takada Carriage Atsutada Otaka concert on 21 June On the stone path Chausson Quatre Mélodies Op. 13 Hirao A Song to the Sea Nakada Song of Spring Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue No. 24 J. S. Bach © Elias Gottlob Hausmann in D minor Op. 87 Mozart Allegro in B flat K400 Schumann Humoreske in B flat Op. 20 All seats £15, £5 for staff and students of the Royal Academy of Music Royal Academy of Music

Hiroshi Amako Yi-Shing Cheng 12 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Friday 15 June Saturday 16 June 6.00pm 11.00am – 4.00pm Razumovsky Academy Young RNIB Family Day Artists Recital For blind and partially sighted children aged The Razumovsky Academy provides an 6 – 12 years and their families environment in which exceptionally gifted Be inspired by art and music at The Wallace young musicians collaborate closely with some Collection and Wigmore Hall, and create of the world’s finest artists and teachers. This your own masterpieces in this interactive concert offers the chance to hear potential multi-sensory workshop for blind and partially future stars at an early stage of their careers. sighted children and their families. £5 For more information and to book contact Supported by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848) Sally-Anne Zimmerman, RNIB Music Adviser at [email protected] or 7.30pm on 020 7391 2273. Razumovsky Ensemble Free (application required) In partnership with RNIB Daishin Kashimoto violin and The Wallace Collection Oleg Kogan cello Eric Le Sage piano 7.30pm Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat D929 Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 Heath Quartet £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Mary Bevan soprano Promoted by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848) Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 71 No. 2 Jörg Widmann String Quartet No. 5 ‘Versuch über die Fuge’ Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Jörg Widmann’s residency is made possible thanks to Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation, with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

Razumovsky Young Artists Oleg Kogan Family Day Mary Bevan © Robert Cassen © Benjamin Ealovega © Victoria Cadisch www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 13

Sunday 17 June Monday 18 June 11.30am 1.00pm

Apollon Musagète Quartet Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Bach Contrapunctus I from The Art of Fugue Julius Drake piano BWV1080 Poulenc La voix humaine Schubert String Quartet in G D887 £15 concs £13 £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/ Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: sherry/juice Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote 7.30pm ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

Ian Bostridge tenor 7.30pm Julius Drake piano Peter Donohoe piano Wolf Aus meinen grossen Schmerzen; 65th Birthday Concert Spätherbstnebel; Du bist wie eine Blume; Mädchen mit dem roten Mündchen; Mein Skryabin Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor Liebchen, wir sassen beisammen; Wenn ich in Op. 19 deine Augen seh’; Mit schwarzen Segeln; Wie Ravel Miroirs des Mondes Abbild zittert; Frech und Froh I & Mozart Piano Sonata in C K279 II; Der Rattenfänger; Gutmann und Gutweib; Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959 Ganymed; Grenzen der Menschheit; Der £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Genesene an die Hoffnung; Der Knabe und das Immlein; Jägerlied; Der Tambour; Begegnung; Tuesday 19 June Nimmersatte Liebe; Verborgenheit; Auf ein altes 7.30pm Bild; In der Frühe; Gebet; Peregrina I & II; Der Feuerreiter; Abschied Mahan Esfahani harpsichord £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Bach Toccata in E minor BWV914; 3 Minuets BWV841–843; Toccata in D minor BWV913; Capriccio in B flat BWV992 (Capriccio on the Departure of his Most Beloved Brother); 5 Preludes BWV939–943; English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV811 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Apollon Musagète Quartet Ian Bostridge Christine Rice Peter Donohoe © Sim Canetty-Clarke © Patricia Taylor © Mark Allan 14 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wednesday 20 June 10.00pm 7.30pm Donald Grant violin Edgar Moreau cello Traditional and Contemporary Scottish Folk Music David Kadouch piano Born and bred in the Highlands of Scotland, Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano Donald Grant was raised on Gaelic music. He Poulenc Cello Sonata has toured worldwide as a member of the Elias Strohl Sonate dramatique ‘Titus et Bérénice’ String Quartet and worked on diverse musical projects. His late-night set mixes tunes from £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 childhood with his own music. Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 All seats £15 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. To book, please contact the Box Office Saturday 23 June and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ 11.00am – 12 noon Thursday 21 June Relaxed Concert: 7.30pm Diphonon Duo Dunedin Consort Michael Iskas viola John Butt director Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade accordion Lucy Drever presenter Bach Mass in B minor BWV232 This relaxed concert is open to everyone Returns Only and provides a special opportunity to explore music in an informal environment. Join the Friday 22 June dynamic Diphonon Duo, alongside presenter 7.00pm NB time Lucy Drever, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee Elias String Quartet afterwards. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement, and house lights will remain After Beethoven: National voices up. Audience members are able to move in Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp and out of the auditorium as they need to, and minor Op. 108 Ravel String Quartet in F Smetana there is a designated quiet area. String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ All seats £5 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

Edgar Moreau Dunedin Consort Elias String Quartet Donald Grant © Julien Mignot © David Barbour © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 15

7.30pm 7.30pm The Sixteen Quatuor Ebène Handel Acis and Galatea Please note change of programme £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 Dutilleux Ainsi la nuit Sunday 24 June Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 11.30am ‘Razumovsky’ Amaryllis Quartet £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 Monday 25 June ‘The Lark’ 1.00pm Brahms String Quartet in B flat Op. 67 £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/ Elias String Quartet sherry/juice Navarra String Quartet

3.00pm Sally Beamish String Quartet No. 3 ‘Reed Stanzas’ Mendelssohn Octet in E flat Op. 20 Samuel Hasselhorn baritone £15 concs £13 Renate Rohlfingpiano

Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Wolf Der Feuerreiter 7.30pm Schubert Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen Quatuor Ebène Poulenc Le disparu; Priez pour paix; Le retour du sergent Martin Fröst clarinet Schubert Erlkönig; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Beethoven String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2 Nachtstück; Der blinde Knabe Fauré String Quartet in E minor Op. 121 Brahms O Tod, o Tod, wie bitter bist du Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 All seats £15 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

The Sixteen Amaryllis Quartet Samuel Hasselhorn Quatuor Ebène © Molina Visuals © Christian Steiner © Julien Mignot 16 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Tuesday 26 June Wednesday 27 June 4.00pm – 5.15pm 11.00am & 1.00pm

Lecture-Recital: World Première: Sonorous Brushes Butterfly Brain Professional pianist and amateur painter Key Stage 2 Schools Concert Jenny Q Chai has discovered a personal form ‘STOP LEANING BACK ON YOUR CHAIR!’ are of synaesthesia – a melding of senses – with the same six words, in the same particular regards to how she experiences music. In order, that Gus is told every day from his this French-inspired programme, featuring teacher, his Dad and granny, but NEVER repertoire which lives at the intersection of EVER hears. Until one day, something rather colour and sound, Jenny seeks to translate her extraordinary happens... mental imagery into the real world, both through her musical performance and on canvas. In an exhilarating flight of fantasy and magic written by Laura Dockrill with music composed All seats £15 by Kerry Andrew, this cautionary tale explores 7.30pm all the curiously obscure, brilliant and bizarre dreams, thoughts, ideas and fears inside a brain Imogen Cooper piano and how one little boy takes those wonderful things for granted. Butterfly Brain is a wild Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50 explosion of colour, sound and the imagination. Beethoven 11 Bagatelles Op. 119 Schoenberg 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 Children £4 Beethoven 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Accompanying Adults Free (ticket required) Diabelli Op. 120 7.30pm £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Ming Xie piano Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize Granados From Goyescas: El Amor y la muerte & El fandango del candil Ravel Gaspard de la nuit Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 £15 concs £13

Jenny Q Chai Imogen Cooper Kerry Andrew Ming Xie © Sim Canetty-Clarke © Urszula Sołtys www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 17

Thursday 28 June 10.15am & 11.45am Introduction to the String Quartet

Chamber Tots Thursday 28 June In Space 4.45pm – 6.00pm We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their Thursday 5 July parents/carers to join us on a rocket into 4.45pm – 6.00pm space! This interactive music-making Thursday 12 July workshop features songs, percussion and the 4.45pm – 6.00pm chance to meet some exciting instruments up Thursday 19 July close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots 4.45pm – 6.00pm music leaders alongside emerging ensembles. The string quartet, a combination of 10.15am - 11.15am (1-2 year-olds) & two upper voices, one middle and one 11.45am - 12.45pm (3-5 year-olds) lower, gives the composer the minimum Children £6 Adults £4 requirement for four-part harmony. This idea of a bare minimum has entranced composers from Haydn – who started it all – right Thursday 28 June through to the present day, and the attention 7.30pm that so many great composers have given the genre has created an almost unrivalled Elizabeth Watts soprano succession of masterful works; Beethoven’s Roderick Williams baritone seventeen quartets acting almost as benchmarks, with Schubert, Brahms, Bartók piano Roger Vignoles and Shostakovich pitching in too. Join Roy Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch Stratford to explore how the string quartet £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 has adapted to changing musical styles and become arguably the most significant and With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall fertile chamber music combination. Series ticket price £33

Chamber Tots Elizabeth Watts © Benjamin Ealovega © Marco Borggreve 18 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Friday 29 June Saturday 30 June 7.00pm NB time 11.00am – 12 noon

Pupils of The Yehudi Family Concert Menuhin School Butterfly Brain Programme to include: For ages 7 plus Strauss Metamorphosen for string septet ‘STOP LEANING BACK ON YOUR CHAIR!’ are Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 S244 the same six words, in the same particular Pupils of The Yehudi Menuhin School give their order, that Gus is told every day from his annual concert, providing a platform for their teacher, his Dad and granny, but NEVER leavers. The programme includes the arrangement EVER hears. Until one day, something rather for septet of Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen. extraordinary happens... £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 In an exhilarating flight of fantasy and magic The Yehudi Menuhin School written by Laura Dockrill with music composed by Kerry Andrew, this cautionary tale explores 10.00pm all the curiously obscure, brilliant and bizarre dreams, thoughts, ideas and fears inside a brain Lucy Schaufer mezzo-soprano and how one little boy takes those wonderful Huw Watkins piano things for granted. Butterfly Brain is a wild explosion of colour, sound and the imagination. The Class of 1938 Children £10 Adults £12 A celebration of works by composers born in that year William Bolcom Minicabs Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 12; Ghost Rag No. 1: Graceful Ghost Rag Joan 7.30pm Tower Up High (UK première); Or like a... an Engine John Harbison Late Air Charles Sophie Bevan soprano Wuorinen Twang West Five Hundred Miles Ryan Wigglesworth piano (world première) John Corigliano The Musorgsky The Nursery Passionate Shepherd to His Love* (world Ryan Wigglesworth New work* (world première) première) Frederic Rzewski War Songs No. Stravinsky Three Little Songs (Recollections of 1 Gordon Lightfoot Black Day in July (world my Childhood) première) Peter Yarrow Sweet Survivor (world Messiaen Poèmes pour Mi première) John Corigliano Metamusic *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André *Co-commissioned by Wild Plum Arts and Wigmore Hall Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss All seats £15 grant-making foundation £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Pupils of The Yehudi Menuhin School Lucy Schaufer Laura Dockrill Sophie Bevan © Sonny Malhotra © Sussie Ahlburg www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 19

Sunday 1 July Sunday 1 July 11.30am 7.30pm

Veronika Eberle violin RCM String Showcase Concert Alban Gerhardt cello Anna Lee, Yume Fujise, Katherine Yoon violin Ana Teresa de Braga e Alves, Nazlı Erdoğan, Edicson Ruiz double bass Joanna Patrick, Marsailidh Groat Hardy, José Gallardo piano Duncan Commin viola Romantic Grand Duos of the 19th Century Kristiana Ignatjeva, Anna Litvinenko cello Jennifer Hughes, Martin James Bartlett piano Bottesini Gran duo concertante for violin, Jack Hancher guitar double bass and piano Artha Quartet Servais Grand Duo de Concert sur deux airs nationaux anglais for violin and cello Paganini Variations on ‘God Save the King’ Op. 9 Ernst Elegy (arr. for double bass) Albéniz Cataluña in G minor Op. 47 No. 2; Bottesini Duo concertante for double bass and Capricho Catalan in E flat Op. 165 No. 5 cello on themes of I Puritani by Bellini Bowen Fantasia in E minor for four violas Op. 41 No. 1 £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/ Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘ Emperor’ sherry/juice Martinů Variations on a Slovak Folksong 3.00pm Dvořák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Royal College of Music Junior Royal College of Music Department 2018 The RCM Junior Department offers advanced Monday 2 July training to young musicians aged 8 – 18, 1.00pm providing individually-tailored programmes of flute instrument/voice/composition lessons, supported Adam Walker by chamber music, orchestra, choir and Cédric Tiberghien piano musicianship classes. This concert will feature Enescu Cantabile et presto performances from some of the RCMJD’s leading Prokofiev 5 Melodies Op. 35bis; Flute Sonata soloists together with the winners of the RCMJD in D Op. 94 2018 Chamber Music Prize. £15 concs £13 £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Royal College of Music Junior Department

Veronika Eberle RCM Juniors RCM Strings Artha Quartet Adam Walker © Felix Broede © Kaupo Kikkas 20 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Monday 2 July Wednesday 4 July 7.30pm 7.30pm

Véronique Gens soprano Cuarteto Casals Susan Manoffpiano Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 Gounod Où voulez-vous aller?; Départ; O ma ‘Serioso’ belle rebelle; Sérénade; Mignon; Viens, les Benet Casablancas String Quartet No. 4 gazons sont verts Polignac Lamento Massenet ‘Widmung’* (UK première) Nuit d’Espagne; Chant provençal; Elégie Duparc Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Op. 130 Chanson triste; La vie antérieure; Extase; with Grosse Fuge Op. 133 Lamento Hahn Mai; Les cygnes; Infidélité; *Commissioned by Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid Rêverie Offenbach La laitière et le pot au lait; Le £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 rat de ville et le rat des champs; Le corbeau et le Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle renard (from 6 fables de Lafontaine) £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Thursday 5 July 1.00pm Tuesday 3 July Concert to Celebrate the Austrian Presidency 7.30pm of the Council of the European Union David Hansen countertenor Ensemble of the European Union Academia Montis Regalis Youth Orchestra Alessandro De Marchi conductor, Kian Soltani cello harpsichord Mozart Divertimento in D K136 Handel From Giulio Cesare: Overture & Se in Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major HVIIb:1 fiorito ameno prato Gabriele Proy Ma (UK première)* Hasse Overture to Cleofide Handel From Alcina: Overture, Bramo di £15 concs £13 trionfar, Verdi prati, Di te mi rido, La bocca *commissioned by the Wiener Concert-Verein and the vaga & Mi lusinga il dolce affetto; Crude furie chamber orchestra of the Wiener Symphoniker. from Serse £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Véronique Gens David Hansen Cuarteto Casals Kian Soltani © Franck Juery © Tonje Thilesen © Molina Visuals © Juventino Mateo www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 21

7.30pm 10.00pm Tana String Quartet David Orlowsky Trio Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 David Orlowsky clarinet Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 ‘Métamorphoses Jens-Uwe Popp guitar nocturnes’ Bartók String Quartet No. 4 BB95 Florian Dohrmann double bass Yann Robin String Quartet No. 3 ‘Shadows’ David Orlowsky Lyra; Sababa; Bucovina (UK première)* Jens-Uwe Popp Satin *Co-commissioned by Philharmonie de Paris, Abe Schwartz Lebedig un Freylach/Odessa Bulgar Muziekgebouw Brugge, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Jens-Uwe Popp Night Train to Odessa; Jodaeiye Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Velvl Zbarzher Kum aher Du Filozof Florian Dohrmann Ultimate Bulgar; Taxi Bucuresti £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 All seats £15 Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Saturday 7 July Chamber Music Trust. To book, please contact the Box Office 11.00am and 12.30pm and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ For Crying Out Loud! Friday 6 July Duo Pavoni Belli-Grasso violin and piano 7.00pm NB time Hear outstanding performances by musicians Sandrine Piau soprano from the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially for parents or Susan Manoffpiano carers and babies under 1 to enjoy together in Chimère a relaxed and accommodating environment. Loewe Ach neige, du Schmerzensreiche Approximately 45 minutes in duration Schumann Kennst du das Land?; Dein Angesicht; Die Lotosblume Debussy Apparition; Adults £8.50 (babies come free) Fêtes galantes Book I Wolf Verschwiegene In partnership with the Liebe; Nixe Binsefuss; Das verlassene Royal Academy of Music Mägdlein; Lied vom Winde Berg From Sieben frühe Lieder: Nacht; Schilflied; Die Nachtigall Gurney Sleep Robert Baksa Heart! we will forget him! Poulenc Banalités; C’est ainsi que tu es Barber Solitary Hotel André Previn As imperceptibly as grief; Will there really be a morning?; Good morning midnight £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Tana String Quartet Sandrine Piau David Orlowsky Trio For Crying Out Loud! © Nicolas Draps © Sandrine Expilly Naïve © Christian Debus © Benjamin Ealovega 22 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 7 July Monday 9 July 7.30pm 1.00pm

Steven Osborne piano Chloë Hanslip violin Debussy La cathédrale engloutie Danny Driver piano Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat Op. 83 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Debussy Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir £15 concs £13 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 82 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 7.30pm

Sunday 8 July Dame Felicity Palmer mezzo-soprano 11.30am Simon Lepper piano Formosa Quartet Britten Mad Bess Schumann 5 Lieder der Maria Stuart cello Richard Lester Tchaikovsky None but the lonely heart; Night; Why? Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703; String Joseph Horovitz Lady Macbeth – a Scena Quintet in C D956 Poulenc Violon; Mon cadavre est doux comme £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/ un gant; La Souris; Berceuse sherry/juice Dring Song of a nightclub proprietress Janis Ian At seventeen Stephen Sondheim From 7.30pm Follies: Losing my Mind & Could I leave you? ATOS Trio £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Korngold Piano Trio in D Op. 1 Tuesday 10 July Richard Baker New work (world première)* 7.30pm Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall Veronika Eberle violin £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Tatjana Masurenko viola

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Marie-Elisabeth Hecker cello Free tickets for schools and 8–25 piano year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Martin Helmchen Chamber Music Trust. To book, please contact the Box Office Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 26 and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Steven Osborne Formosa Quartet Chloë Hanslip Dame Felicity Palmer © Benjamin Ealovega © Sam Zauscher © Kaupo Kikkas © Christian Steiner www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 23

Wednesday 11 July Friday 13 July 7.30pm 7.00pm NB time Ensemble Variances Bennewitz Quartet Anssi Karttunen cello Haydn String Quartet in E flat Op. 1 No. 2; Thierry Pécou composer String Quartet in G Op. 17 No. 5; String Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Quartet in F Op. 50 No. 5 ‘The Dream’; String (arr. Michael Webster) Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 François-Bernard Mâche Sopiana £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Takemitsu Toward the Sea III 10.00pm Thierry Pécou Méditation sur la fin de The Prince Consort l’espèce* (UK première) *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Alisdair Hogarth director, piano Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano grant-making foundation Nicholas Mulroy tenor £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Jason Rebello piano Brahms Von ewiger Liebe Schubert Erlkönig Thursday 12 July Fauré Clair de lune Schubert An den Mond 7.30pm Beethoven Adelaide Carducci String Quartet Debussy Beau soir Strauss Morgen Schubert Du bist die Ruh Britten O Waly, Waly Haydn String Quartet in E Op. 17 No. 1; String Quartet in C Op. 50 No. 2 All seats £15 Bartók String Quartet No. 2 BB75 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

Ensemble Variances Carducci String Quartet Bennewitz Quartet Jason Rebello © Charlotte Abramow © Tom Barnes © Kamil Ghais 24 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 14 July 7.30pm Dame Evelyn Glennie percussion Philip Smith piano Huw Edwards presenter Artists in Conversation and Concert Percussion pioneer Dame Evelyn Glennie, one of the world’s most prominent percussion soloists, is a champion of communication. She is joined by celebrated pianist Philip Smith for an extraordinary event, in which conversations with Huw Edwards will be illustrated by performances of a range of works – either in full or in part – each introduced from the stage. Evelyn invites all to listen in new ways and to experience music as an embodied element of human life. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 25

Sunday 15 July Monday 16 July 11.30am 3.00pm – 4.00pm Sitkovetsky Trio Music for the Moment Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 A concert for people living with dementia and Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 their friends, family and carers £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/ If you are, or someone you know is, living sherry/juice with dementia, please join us for this informal afternoon concert with musicians from the Royal 7.30pm Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30pm. Robin Tritschler tenor Free (ticket required) Jonathan Ware piano In partnership with the Family Ties Royal Academy of Music and Resonate Arts Haydn She never told her love; Sailor’s song Michael Haydn Abendlied; Die Vergänglichkeit Monday 16 July aller Dinge Clara Schumann Ich stand in dunkeln 7.30pm Träumen; Lorelei Robert Schumann Der arme Peter Felix Mendelssohn Erntelied; Maienlied; The Monday Platform Abendlied; Im Grunen Fanny Mendelssohn Italien; Das Heimweh Lili Boulanger Les lilas qui Solem Quartet avaient fleuri; Deux ancolies Nadia Boulanger Matilda Lloyd trumpet Roses de Juin Michael Berkeley Nettles Lennox Cameron Richard-Eames piano Berkeley Five Housman Songs Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Bach Concerto for trumpet and piano in D BWV972 (arr. Alan Chen) £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Castérède Sonatine for trumpet and piano Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools Bartók String Quartet No. 6 BB119 and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Enescu Légende for trumpet and piano Deborah Pritchard Seven Halts on the Somme Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Park Lane Group (Reg. Charity No. 52209)

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Tuesday 17 July 7.30pm 7.30pm Maximilian Schmitt tenor Sergei Babayan piano Gerold Huber piano Vladimir Ryabov Fantasia in C minor Op. 21, in Schumann From Myrthen: Freisinn; memory of Maria Yudina Venetianisches Lied I & II; Du bist wie eine Blume; Rameau From Nouvelles suites de pièces de Aus den östlichen Rosen; Was will die einsame clavecin: Suite in E minor; Suite in G minor; Träne?; Zum Schluss Schumann Liederkreis Op. Suite in A minor (excerpts) 39 Fauré Les berceaux; Mandoline; Adieu; Les Mozart Andante in F for mechanical organ roses d’Ispahan; Clair de lune; Fleur jetée Strauss K616; Piano Sonata in F K332; Piano Sonata in Morgen; Die Nacht; Wer hat’s getan?; Ach Lieb, A minor K310 ich muss nun scheiden; Wozu noch, Mädchen, £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 soll es Frommen; Breit uber mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar; Wie sollten wir geheim sie Wednesday 18 July halten; Ich trage meine Minne 10.15am and 11.45am £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Chamber Tots Friends of Wigmore Hall In Space Thursday 19 July We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us on a rocket into 7.30pm space! This interactive music-making Gabriela Montero piano workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up Mozart Piano Sonata in C K330 close, led by our experienced Chamber Tots Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 music leaders alongside emerging ensembles. ‘Waldstein’ Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16 10.15am - 11.15am (1-2 year-olds) & 11.45am - 12.45pm (3-5 year-olds) £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Children £6 Adults £4

Sergei Babayan Chamber Tots Maximilian Schmitt Gabriela Montero © Marco Borggreve © Benjamin Ealovega © Christian Kagl © Shelley Mosman www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 27

Friday 20 July Saturday 21 July 7.00pm NB time 1.00pm

Members of Britten Sinfonia Principality Only Boys Nicholas Daniel oboe Aloud Academi 2017 Michael Berkeley 70th Birthday Concert Tim Rhys-Evans conductor Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 Jonathan Butterell director Beethoven Grosse Fuge in B flat Op. 133 Des Prez Absalon, Fili Mi Michael Berkeley New work for solo oboe Saint-Saëns Saltarelle Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Sibelius Hymn Op. 21 No. 2 Michael Berkeley Into the Ravine Jaakko Mäntyjärvi Pseudo-Yoik Strauss Metamorphosen for string septet Rosephanye Powell The Word Was God £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Bob Chilcott Five Ways To Kill a Man Trad Indian Ramkali (arr. E Sperry) 10.00pm Trad Loch Lomond (arr. J Quick) Heath Quartet All seats £10 Ruth Gibson viola Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval Marie Bitlloch cello Bach Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein BWV641; Das alte Jahr vergangen ist BWV614; O Mensch, bewein dein Sunde gross BWV622 Jörg Widmann String Quartet No. 2 ‘Choralquartett’ Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 All seats £15 Jörg Widmann’s residency is made possible thanks to Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation

Nicholas Daniel Heath Quartet Only Boys Aloud © Eric Richmond © Simon Way 28 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 21 July 7.30pm 7.30pm Pavol Breslik tenor Igor Levit piano Amir Katz piano Brahms Chaconne by JS Bach for piano left Schubert Die schöne Müllerin hand (arr. of Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval minor for solo violin BWV1004) Busoni Fantasia after JS Bach BV253 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Schumann Geistervariationen (Ghost Supported by the Variations) WoO 24 Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Wagner Parsifal ‘Solemn March to the Holy Grail’ (arr. Liszt) Monday 23 July Liszt Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale ‘Ad 7.30pm nos, ad salutarem undam’ (arr. Busoni) S259 Alban Gerhardt cello £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Vikingur Olafsson piano Supported by an anonymous donor Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor Sunday 22 July BWV1029 11.30am Anders Hillborg Duo for cello and piano (UK première) Zorá String Quartet Debussy Cello Sonata Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 Stravinsky Suite italienne for cello and piano Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/ sherry/juice

Igor Levit Zorá String Quartet Pavol Breslik Alban Gerhardt © Robbie Lawrence © Matt Dine © Anton Karpita © Sim Canetty-Clarke Hyperion Records www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 29

Tuesday 24 July Monday 30 July – Thursday 2 August 7.30pm 11.00am – 3.30pm

Julia Fischer violin Musical Portraits Aris Alexander Blettenberg piano At St Martin-in-the-Fields Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat K454 Musical Portraits is a collaborative project led Schubert Rondo in B minor D895 by Wigmore Hall, the National Portrait Gallery Dvořák Romance in F minor Op. 11 and Turtle Key Arts for young people aged Szymanowski Sonata in D minor for violin and 10 – 14 with Autism Spectrum Conditions. piano Op. 9 Participants create their own works of art and £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 music inspired by paintings at the National Portrait Gallery, culminating in a performance Wednesday 25 July at St Martin-in-the-Fields alongside musicians from Ignite, Wigmore Hall Learning’s 7.30pm Associate Artists. Castalian String Quartet Musical Portraits encourages young people Haydn String Quartet in B flat Op. 76 No. 4 to develop their existing artistic and ‘Sunrise’; String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5; musical interests by providing meaningful String Quartet in E flat Op. 76 No. 6 opportunities to engage with art and music making, and to make social connections with £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 other young people. Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 Free (application required) year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA For more information, and to apply for a Chamber Music Trust. To book, please contact the Box Office place, contact Charlotte Cunningham at and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email [email protected] Thursday 26 July In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery 7.30pm and Turtle Key Arts Final Concert of the 2017/18 Season

Angela Hewitt piano 60th Birthday Concert Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 Returns Only Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval

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The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s West Restaurant and Bars annually awards an exceptional Guildhall End and is easily accessible by public transport or car. Full information on pre-concert and interval refreshments School musician with a Wigmore Hall can be found at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or recital. Described by Martha Argerich Tubes by calling 020 7258 8292. Table reservations can be as ‘phenomenal’, young Chinese pianist Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and Oxford made by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141. Ming Xie is fast establishing himself as a Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines) tube rising star in classical music. As this year’s stations are both close by. Disabled Access and Facilities recipient, he presents a thrilling programme Full details from 020 7935 2141 of piano music taking in pieces from Buses or [email protected] Granados’ masterful Goya-inspired piano A large number of buses travel along Oxford Street, suite, charming Chopin preludes and Ravel’s which is approximately a five-minute walk from virtuosic Gaspard de la nuit, considered one Wigmore Hall. of the most technically-challenging solo piano pieces of all time. Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Car Parking Bronze Charter Mark from Attitude is Everything Tickets: £15 (£13 concessions), available from There is limited street parking after 6.30pm (Mon – Sat) Wigmore Hall Box Office: 020 7935 2141 and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively wigmore-hall.org.uk there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less This brochure is available in alternative formats. than a five-minute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall If this would be of assistance to you, please participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which email [email protected] or call gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their 020 7935 2141. parking. Please contact the box office for further details or visit our website. Front cover photos: Steven Osborne © Benjamin Ealovega | Pavol Breslik © Anton Karpita Sandrine Piau © Sandrine Expilly Naïve | Evelyn Glennie © Jim Callaghan

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Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize

Ming Xie piano

Granados El Amor y la muerte El fandango de candil from Goyescas Ravel Gaspard de la nuit Chopin 24 Preludes, Op. 28

The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Described by Martha Argerich as ‘phenomenal’, young Chinese pianist Ming Xie is fast establishing himself as a rising star in classical music. As this year’s recipient, he presents a thrilling programme of piano music taking in pieces from Granados’ masterful Goya-inspired piano suite, charming Chopin preludes and Ravel’s virtuosic Gaspard de la nuit, considered one of the most technically-challenging solo piano pieces of all time.

Tickets: £15 (£13 concessions), available from Wigmore Hall Box Office: 020 7935 2141 wigmore-hall.org.uk

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