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2017 / 18 SEASON PREVIEW CREATING A NEW SEASON CREATING A NEW SEASON

JOHN GILHOOLY REVEALS THE CREATIVE PROCESS AND HIS THINKING BEHIND THE 2017/18 SEASON, IN CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW STEWART

Firstly and most importantly, I want to thank our supporters for their generosity and heartfelt commitment. It is because of them that we are where we are, and that we can plan for ’s future. I hope this preview of everything to come in the 2017/18 Season demonstrates the great things we can achieve with their ongoing support. We have enjoyed an exceptional decade at Wigmore Hall and now promote almost 500 concerts every season. That’s great news for our audiences, and for musical life in . Thanks to regular and sustained long-term investment from all of our supporters, our artistic programme remains in good health and its content is rich, diverse and adventurous.

John Gilhooly, Director, Wigmore Hall © FRANCES MARSHALL PHOTOGRAPHY Our partnerships with artists meanwhile have never been stronger. Musicians love the “Musicians love the atmosphere atmosphere in the Hall, they love the intimacy, they love being able to communicate with in the Hall, they love the everyone in the audience. This is reflected in the number of projects they are prepared to intimacy, they love being take on specifically for Wigmore Hall. As well as a great testament to everything we have able to communicate with collectively achieved here, this sets Wigmore Hall apart as an internationally leading venue. everyone in the audience.” This Hall is a place of discovery, open to new names and young artists, fresh interpretations and a constant exploration of all that the repertoire offers. It is also tremendously important that, through our Learning programme and innovative use of digital technology, we can share so much of what we have with the widest possible audience. With this in mind, I hope that lovers around the world can enjoy everything that our 2017/18 Season has to offer.

SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 1 MAPPING THE FUTURE Plans are shaped and evolve all the time, and our Isabelle “We know the scope of artistic programme for the next five years is will focus on the repertoire we intend already much more complete than many might Mozart’s expect. The ongoing support from our donors and sonatas for to cover until the end audiences means that we can everything and of the 2020/21 Season” from Haydn to Jörg Widmann next season, and in three can look beyond as far as 2020/21. Of course concerts with there are lots of gaps to fill as well, which is an Alexander exciting part of being a programmer. Melnikov. Isabelle Faust has been a regular here Wigmore Hall’s five-year programming over the past decade and people have taken structure is invaluable. It will allow us to devise her to their hearts. We welcome her back for series devoted to themes such as the chamber a four-concert residency across the season with music and songs of Brahms and Mendelssohn a wide variety of repertoire. Isabelle will focus and an American retrospective including the string on a selection of Mozart’s sonatas for violin and REVISITING THE quartets of Ives, Barber and . We also piano in three concerts over one weekend in WITH HAYDN LEADING THE WAY turn to for the seventeen string quartets of October 2017, in partnership with her close We last looked at Haydn’s chamber and Mieczysław Weinberg. While we have yet to decide collaborator, Alexander Melnikov. instrumental music in 2009, when we these series in detail, we know the scope of the Christian Tetzlaff will be our other programmed his string quartets and piano trios, repertoire we intend to cover until the end of the resident violinist next season. He, too, has a long and Sir András Schiff performed his piano 2020/21 Season. association with Wigmore Hall and is regarded sonatas. Now it feels right to revisit Haydn’s work For example, we are already planning ahead to as one of the great male violinists to come out as the father of the string quartet. The 2017/18 the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in 2020, of Germany. We will hear him in duo repertoire Season will feature the string quartets from Op. 20 which will be marked with a host of celebrations and as a chamber musician in string and through to the late Op. 103, as well as several of including lecture-recitals on the ’s piano quartets. the early quartets, Op. 1 among them. thirty-two piano sonatas given by Sir András Schiff. Sonia Prina returns for a three-concert In the way that Schubert’s songs test a young These will be streamed live online, and I hope that Isabelle Faust © FELIX BROEDE residency, comprising two programmes of music singer, so too do Haydn’s string quartets test their millions who love Beethoven will enjoy these videos from the Italian Baroque and a recital with a performers at every stage in their progression. for years to come. RESIDENCIES French flavour as part of our wider survey of We’ve asked the Castalian String Quartet, The conversations we have with our resident the music of next season. The Nash which I believe is among the best young emerging THIS SEASON IN NUMBERS, SO FAR: artists and those involved in special projects often Ensemble also explores this repertoire with quartets on today’s scene, to perform the Op. 76 extend over several years. The idea of an artist programmes including chamber works by string quartets. I believe the ensemble will achieve 70 Song recitals being resident here is that they should be involved Debussy, Ravel, Fauré and Poulenc. great things in the coming years and want our in every aspect of the Hall’s work, including our and Iain Burnside audience to share in its development. 50 London Pianoforte Series concerts Learning programme. will perform the three Schubert song cycles in We have so many groups with something Sir András Schiff’s association with Wigmore 2017/18. This is a landmark event, not least special to say about this wonderful body of string 42 BBC Radio 3 lunchtime concerts Hall extends back to 1978, when he made his because Roddy will learn them specially for us. quartets. This includes the and debut here with Bach’s . He It is a mark of his generosity of spirit that he has Quatuor Mosaïques, who have been performing recitals 120 is making a huge contribution in 2016/17, not decided to explore them with students from the Haydn for many decades, alongside others from 45 Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts least with the masterclasses he’s giving to Guildhall School of Music & Drama. As he learns the younger generation, such as the Doric, exceptional students from around the world at each piece he will share the experience with the Elias and the Heath Quartets. 50 Early Music and various stages of their development. Next season singers and song at the Guildhall, and Baroque Series perfomances he will revisit works by Mendelssohn, Brahms, the students will have the opportunity to discuss WIGMORE HALL INTERNATIONAL Bach and Beethoven in three concerts. He their thoughts on his performances. He will write STRING QUARTET COMPETITION 10 Jazz Series and Late Night concerts personifies the spirit of the Hall in so many ways, a blog about the learning and performance We look forward to the next Competition in coming to us first as a young artist to earn his experience as it unfolds, and the entire process, April 2018 when we will welcome leading 10 Contemporary Series concerts chamber music and recital credentials, and which represents a huge investment from Roddy, young ensembles from around the globe. developing his artistry through many concerts since. will culminate here with these three concerts.

2 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 3 LONDON PIANOFORTE SERIES The piano series here has grown from around 20 to 70 recitals a season. There’s a huge appetite for the widest scope of piano repertoire The Heath Quartet will In 2017/18, and pianists at all stages in their careers. perform Jörg Widmann’s Francesco That expansion is underpinned by the generosity cycle of five string quartets Piemontesi will and commitment of many piano-enthusiasts for our focus on his work continue his Mozart in our audience. in 2017/18. piano sonata cycle. We have three outstanding pianists in their twenties among our regular artists. Francesco Piemontesi will continue his Mozart piano sonata cycle, Igor Levit returns with works we have not heard from him before, including Shostakovich, and Daniil Trifonov will perform Rachmaninov and Chopin. We’re lucky to have these three young pianists with different approaches, all filling the house and creating a huge sense of excitement around piano recitals at Wigmore Hall. Igor Levit came to audition for us when he was twenty. We waited until he was a little older to put him in our London Pianoforte Series, and now he is attracting capacity audiences and receiving five-star reviews for his complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall this season. We’re thrilled to be the first major concert venue in the UK to present Igor’s interpretations Jörg Widmann © MARCO BORGGREVE Francesco Piemontesi © BENJAMIN EALOVEGA of the Beethoven sonatas and to help in his development as an artist. He has a close affinity JÖRG WIDMANN HELEN GRIME – COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE with the music of Frederic Rzewski and will mark Jörg Widmann represents the tradition of the compositions and readily agreed. It has been a great pleasure to welcome the composer’s 80th birthday in 2018 with a composer-performer at Wigmore Hall. Busoni Jörg’s music has been programmed at Helen Grime as our first female Composer in performance of his remarkable set of variations for and Ysaÿe were among the first artists to take Wigmore Hall before, but the breadth of next Residence. Known for the outstanding quality of solo piano, The People United Will Never to the stage here and there have been so many season’s series means that we can explore and her work, Helen, who recently became a mother, Be Defeated! We have a new commission from others since, from Britten and Poulenc to celebrate the full spectrum of his work. Christian suggested that she might look at aspects of Frederic to complement this work, and we look Thomas Adès and . Jörg’s music Gerhaher gave the world première here of the motherhood during her residency. That got me forward to celebrating his birthday in the company is a very significant part of the modern German song cycle Das heiße Herz, which Jörg wrote for thinking about the role of the parent and the of his young protégé. voice in composition. It is so telling that Tabea him. We’ll bring that back, as well as reflecting diverse nature of families today. She will write a Nelson Freire, who is a rare visitor here Zimmerman, Sir András Schiff, Yefim Bronfman, on the inspiration that his chamber music has song cycle based on the experience of mother- these days, will mark the 50th anniversary of his the Hagen, Heath and Tetzlaff Quartets, taken from Schubert, Schumann and Haydn. hood, from conception and the trials of giving birth Wigmore Hall debut with a recital on the exact day among so many other artists, want to take part in to the developing relationship between mother in February 2018. It’s wonderful that he wants to celebrating Jörg Widmann’s chamber music. and child, working closely with our Learning celebrate this with us. It was easy to have conversations with these “New music goes from strength to department during the compositional process. Following on from sell-out concerts in artists about their involvement in this project and strength at Wigmore Hall. We will 2016/17, ’s Bach Odyssey their help in shaping this series. When I asked continues next season and beyond, as does the members of the Heath Quartet, for example, continue to commission up to 20 “We now have three outstanding Mahan Esfahani’s Bach series. It’s fascinating to if they would learn Jörg Widmann’s cycle of five new works a year from the great pianists in their twenties among offer these series in parallel. Angela is one string quartets for our focus on his work in of the great Bach interpreters, while Mahan 2017/18, they saw the great depth of these of our time.” our regular artists.” is a wizard at the .

4 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 5 Many outstanding ensembles will Florian Boesch has also become a firm Our 2017/18 season appear at the Hall next season, favourite with the audience here over the past will be opened by including The Cardinall’s Musick (below), decade. After his first recital, someone came to Stile Antico and The Sixteen. me and said that we shouldn’t ask him back! in company with We’ll see about that, I thought. And here he is . now, as one of the great song recitalists of our time. We’re delighted to welcome him to present programmes including Wolf songs and Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39. By the end of this season, we will have completed our exploration of Schubert’s complete songs. We now want to look at the songs of and the wider song repertoire. Next season’s Song Recital Series will also include performances by Dorothea Röschmann, Lucy Crowe, the Slovakian tenor Pavol Breslik, who makes his Wigmore Hall debut, and Allan Clayton, along with around 70 other artists.

THE 2017 WIGMORE HALL/ KOHN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION The 2017 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition takes place in September, sadly for the first time since the death of its founder, Sir Ralph Kohn. Ralph and his The Cardinall’s Musick © DMITRI GUTJAHR Gerald Finley © SIM CANETTY-CLARKE have underpinned the competition with over £1 million since it began in 1997. Next year’s EARLY MUSIC AND BAROQUE SERIES We have two recitals from the lutenist VOCAL MUSIC competition will be a tribute to this great man and There has been an astonishing interest in our Paul O’Dette, who began by playing electric The human voice is an essential element in his huge contribution to medical science and Early Music and Baroque programme in recent guitar in a rock band in California, and a recital Wigmore Hall’s programme. We are committed to philanthropy, and as a musician and much-loved years, and it has been a joy to see it expand by the exciting young lutenist Thomas Dunford, introducing new audiences to the song recital and Wigmore Hall trustee. The competition, thanks to from around 10 concerts each season to over whose recent concert here with cultivating the art of song. Many great singers of Ralph’s vision and determination, is known 50 concerts in 2017/18. I was encouraged when confirmed why he’s known as a rock star of the early repertoire will take part in the 2017/18 worldwide and attracts outstanding young singers, a very distinguished performer told me that he lute. There’s a serious interest in this repertoire, Season, Ann Hallenberg, Roberta Invernizzi many of whom now appear regularly in recital here. thought it was one of the best Early Music series and I can see a solo lute recital becoming the and among them. We look forward in Europe. So many outstanding ensembles norm every season. to a recital by Sarah Connolly, and welcome back will appear here next season, including John Butt is an outstanding musicologist , The Cardinall’s Musick, Stile Antico and and musician. It’s been a thrill to get to know and , who are so loved by The Sixteen; something that would not be him and work with him in the last few years, our audiences. possible without the financial support that is and to invite his Dunedin Consort to present going into our Early Music and Baroque Series. landmark projects in the 2017/18 Season. Vox Luminis makes a very welcome return, when They will perform works that you would not “We are committed to it brings its characteristic freshness and vitality expect to hear on a stage of our size, beginning to works by Bach and Buxtehude. We’re also with Bach’s Christmas next December, introducing new audiences delighted that James Ehnes will be joining us Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Holy Week, to the song recital and next season to perform Bach’s sonatas and and the towards the end partitas for solo violin. of the season. cultivating the art of song.” Ann Hallenberg © ÖRJAN JAKOBSSON

6 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 7 performance on 11 December 2017. They Countertenor The concepts of believe so passionately in Wigmore Hall that parenthood, the seven they have also kindly decided to waive their fees, will return with an ages of mankind, and in order to support our need to raise £1.7 million all-Handel programme the human journey this year. I am very touched that both artists, Last year we led 539 Learning events, and next November. lead our Learning work who wanted to work together, have chosen engaged 11,532 people with 22,364 visits in the 2017/18 Season to do this. to the programme.

Reaching out to new audiences is central children, young people and to our plans for the next five years. Nobody does 3,073 teachers took part in the Schools and that better than Joyce DiDonato. In addition to Early Years Programme. performing, she will also give masterclasses here in 2017/18. We will broadcast these live and 1,206 free concert tickets for school groups share as free downloads on our own website, and young people aged 8 to 25 were and are very excited at the prospect of reaching provided under The Chamber Zone young singers and audiences around the world. scheme.

Elı¯na Garanc˘a made her debut here last pupils from schools in Tower Hamlets and season and will be back with us in 2017/18. 20 the Tri-borough took part in Young Producers. She brings huge operatic experience across many different roles, and loves the intimacy 96 children and young people took part in our of the song recital. Hospital Schools, Cardinal Hume and Musical We also welcome , Steven Portraits projects.

Isserlis, , Miklós Perényi and 349 people living with dementia and Midori, and we say farewell to the great Dutch 131 care staff took part in Music for Life. bass- Robert Holl, who will join us for his final recital at Wigmore Hall in company 1,500 people viewed our very first Wigmore with Sir András Schiff. Hall Learning live stream. Philippe Jaroussky © SIMON FOWLER / WARNER CLASSICS Wigmore Hall Learning © BENJAMIN EALOVEGA

CELEBRITY GUESTS LEARNING IS EVERYTHING ENSURING THE HALL’S CONTINUED SUCCESS Elı¯na Garanc˘a The new season is rich in well-known names, Our Learning department, and indeed our wider It is phenomenal that we are able to present made her debut many of whom have been coming to the Hall concert programme, has been inspired to look so many concerts each season, but we would here last season over the years and others who we are delighted at life itself and at the seven ages of mankind in not be able to afford some of our major artistic and returns to welcome for the first time. The countertenor 2017/18. These stages of life are already central to projects without the ongoing support of our in November. Philippe Jaroussky, who made such an the projects offered by our Learning programmes core audience and donors. We need to keep impression with his concert here in December for babes in arms, nursery-age children, schools, investing in our concert and Learning 2016, will return with a terrific all-Handel young people and adults. Our engagement with programmes, and continue to build our programme next November. It’s great that people of all ages in the wider community remains audiences by encouraging people of all ages an artist of his calibre, who can easily fill a of great importance, including our pioneering to develop their passion for chamber music 3,000-seat hall anywhere, wants to come programme for people living with dementia, and song. here to perform to 550 people. He tells us that Music for Life, which takes place in care homes The task of fundraising doesn’t stop here. he loves the intimacy of this place and that it throughout London and beyond. Quite simply, it cannot stop: nearly a quarter of allows him to take vocal risks he wouldn’t The concepts of parenthood, the seven the Hall’s annual income is generated through take elsewhere. ages of mankind and the human journey grants and your gifts. Without your direct Leonidas Kavakos returns for his first from beginning to end will lead our Learning involvement in this way – by donating in addition recital here since 2012 and will be joined by work in the 2017/18 Season. We’ll look at to your ticket purchases – four out of every ten Yuja Wang, making her Wigmore Hall debut. what life brings, and will tie that in with all that concerts would simply not happen. and will Wigmore Hall Learning offers across its diverse So thank you once again for everything Elı¯na Garanc˘a give what promises to be a special SCHIRNHOFER/DG © PAUL programme. I believe it could be an inspiration! that you do for us.

8 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 9 MON 11 DEC Gala Concert: Mark Padmore tenor 2017/18 Mitsuko Uchida piano MON 18 DEC Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano SEASON PREVIEW THU 21 DEC Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano Our 2017/18 season is an exciting one and we’re thrilled that it will be opened TUE 9 JAN Allan Clayton tenor by Gerald Finley in company with Julius Drake. This is both a reflection and James Baillieu piano a celebration of Gerald’s stature as a performer of Lieder, and oratorio, SUN 14 JAN Alessandro Fisher tenor and of his great contribution to the world of vocal art. He has been singing at Ashok Gupta piano SAT 20 JAN Wigmore Hall for twenty years, so it’s about time for us to honour him by inviting Dorothea Röschmann soprano piano him to perform the opening concert. Just a few days later, the Casals Quartet SUN 21 JAN Roderick Williams © BENJAMIN EALOVEGA will begin a Beethoven string quartet cycle and the Doric String Quartet will Richard Lewis Song Circle SAT 31 MAR SUN 27 MAY launch our season-long exploration of Haydn’s string quartets. I hope you enjoy THU 25 JAN Sylvia Schwartz soprano Simon Keenlyside baritone browsing through a selection of next season’s concerts. Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Malcolm Martineau piano SAT 27 JAN SAT 21 APR FRI 1 JUN Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano Venera Gimadieva soprano Birgid Steinberger soprano piano baritone SUN 28 JAN Pavel Nebolsin Julius Drake piano Ilker Arcayürek tenor TUE 24 APR Simon Lepper piano Matthias Goerne baritone SAT 2 JUN soprano WED 31 JAN WED 25 APR Schubert: The Complete Songs: The Awards Iestyn Davies countertenor 2018 Semi-Final piano mezzo-soprano TUE 5 JUN THU 26 APR Julius Drake piano Stéphane Degout baritone Matthias Goerne baritone Christiane Karg soprano Florian Boesch Sarah Connolly Joyce DiDonato THU 1 FEB © SIMON JAY PRICE © SIMON JAY © PETER WARREN © SIMON PAULY FRI 27 APR Simon Lepper piano Mark Padmore tenor The Kathleen Ferrier Awards Roderick Williams baritone WED 6 JUN 2018 Final MON 2 OCT TUE 14 NOV Julius Drake piano The Prince Consort Anne Schwanewilms soprano Elı¯na Garanc˘a mezzo-soprano TUE 1 MAY WED 7 FEB Song Recital Charles Spencer piano Malcolm Martineau piano Sonia Prina Residency: WED 13 JUN Robin Tritschler tenor Jakub Józef Orlin´ski countertenor Sonia Prina contralto THU 26 OCT SUN 19 NOV piano and Vocal Series SUN 17 JUN baritone Ludwig Mittelhammer baritone FRI 4 MAY SUN 25 FEB tenor Graham Johnson piano Jonathan Ware piano Lucy Crowe soprano SAT 9 SEP Johannes Kammler baritone Julius Drake piano Anna Tilbrook piano Gerald Finley bass-baritone FRI 27 OCT THU 23 NOV piano TUE 3 JUL Julius Drake piano Max Raabe singer Christian Gerhaher baritone FRI 11 MAY FRI 9 MAR David Hansen countertenor Christoph Israel piano James Cheung piano Christian Gerhaher baritone SAT 16 SEP Florian Boesch baritone Gerold Huber piano SUN 15 JUL soprano THU 2 NOV FRI 24 NOV Malcolm Martineau piano Christiane Karg Robin Tritschler tenor James Gilchrist tenor Joyce DiDonato Masterclass SUN 13 MAY Malcolm Martineau piano SUN 18 MAR Anna Tilbrook piano Morgan Pearse baritone WED 18 JUL THU 28 SEP MON 27 NOV Soraya Mafisoprano FRI 3 NOV Schubert: The Complete Songs: Simon Lepper piano Maximilian Schmitt tenor Schubert: The Complete Songs: THU 29 MAR Gerold Huber piano Miah Persson soprano Roderick Williams baritone WED 16 MAY Robert Holl baritone Roderick Williams baritone Iain Burnside piano Roderick Williams baritone SUN 22 JUL Sir András Schiff piano THU 9 NOV Iain Burnside piano Samling Showcase WED 6 DEC Iain Burnside piano Pavol Breslik tenor FRI 29 SEP Amir Katz piano Schubert: The Complete Songs: WED 23 MAY Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano FRI 10 NOV Alice Coote mezzo-soprano mezzo-soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Florian Boesch baritone Karen Cargill Julius Drake piano Justus Zeyen piano Simon Lepper piano

10 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 11 MON 13 NOV Takács Quartet Louise Williams viola WED 15 NOV Academy of St Martin in the Fields Joshua Bell violin FRI 17 NOV Academy of St Martin Angela Hewitt in the Fields © KEITH SAUNDERS Joshua Bell violin SAT 18 NOV Solo Bach: London James Ehnes violin Pianoforte Series SUN 19 NOV Solo Bach: SAT 23 SEP James Ehnes violin Sir András Schiff piano ingrid Fliter Doric String Quartet WED 22 NOV TUE 26 SEP © SUSSIE AHLBURG © GEORGE GARNIER Sir András Schiff piano THU 23 NOV FRI 5 JAN SAT 28 APR SAT 7 OCT SUN 15 OCT Hagen Quartet Sir András Schiff piano Nikolai Lugansky piano Isabelle Faust Residency: Roman Rabinovich piano Chamber Music Isabelle Faust violin SAT 25 NOV SUN 7 JAN MON 30 APR MON 16 OCT Alexander Melnikov Vadim Gluzman violin Sir András Schiff piano Pavel Kolesnikov piano Season Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Johannes Moser TUE 10 OCT MON 8 JAN WED 2 MAY Yevgeny Sudbin piano WED 18 OCT MON 11 SEP piano Simon Trpc˘eski piano The Bach Odyssey: Beethoven Cycle: Pavel Nikl viola TUE 28 NOV Angela Hewitt piano WED 17 JAN TUE 15 MAY Soloists of the London WED 11 OCT Alexander Melnikov piano Sir András Schiff piano Philharmonic MON 23 OCT WED 13 SEP The Endellion String Quartet Mozart Cycle: SUN 21 JAN FRI 18 MAY Haydn String Quartet Series: THU 30 NOV THU 12 OCT Francesco Piemontesi piano piano piano Doric String Quartet Ning Feng violin Simon Trpc˘eski Richard Goode Haydn & Dvor˘ák Trios: Daniel Müller-Schott cello SUN 5 NOV FRI 26 JAN FRI 25 MAY FRI 15 SEP Eggner Igor Levit piano Cédric Tiberghien piano The Bach Odyssey: Inon Barnatan piano Daniel Müller-Schott cello SAT 14 OCT Angela Hewitt piano Simon Trpc˘eski piano TUE 5 DEC SAT 11 NOV THU 7 JUN Polish Music Day Christian Tetzlaff Residency: Kirill Gerstein piano SAT 17 FEB Finghin Collins piano WED 20 SEP SAT 21 OCT Christian Tetzlaff violin Nelson Freire piano Nash Inventions: MON 20 NOV MON 18 JUN Nash Ensemble Solo Bach: Lars Vogt piano piano SAT 3 MAR piano cello Peter Donohoe Philip Higham SAT 9 DEC piano SUN 24 SEP WED 22 NOV TUE 26 JUN Haydn String Quartet Series: SAT 28 OCT Nash Ensemble Jonathan Biss piano MON 12 MAR Imogen Cooper piano Nash Ensemble Heath Quartet SUN 10 DEC Nelson Goerner piano SAT 2 DEC SAT 7 JUL Hannes Minnaar piano TUE 31 OCT Gould Piano Trio Imogen Cooper piano SAT 17 MAR piano Steven Osborne SAT 30 SEP Elias String Quartet TUE 12 DEC Imogen Cooper piano THU 7 DEC SAT 21 JUL Tasmin Little violin WED 1 NOV Beethoven Cycle: Daniil Trifonov piano WED 4 APR Igor Levit piano Piers Lane piano Augustin Dumay violin Cuarteto Casals Bertrand Chamayou piano Louis Lortie piano SUN 17 DEC THU 26 JUL SUN 1 OCT THU 14 DEC Ingrid Fliter piano FRI 13 APR The Bach Odyssey: Leila Josefowicz violin SAT 4 NOV Jerusalem Chamber Music Igor Levit piano Angela Hewitt piano John Novacek piano Alisa Weilerstein cello Festival Ensemble THU 28 DEC Inon Barnatan piano Elena Bashkirova piano Ivana Gavric´ piano MON 16 APR TUE 3 OCT Yefim Bronfmanpiano 100: Northern Lights WED 8 NOV FRI 15 DEC Symphony Orchestra Haydn String Quartet Series: Heath Quartet WED 18 APR Doric String Quartet Anthony Marwood violin Yevgeny Sudbin piano WED 4 OCT Isabelle van Keulen violin Beethoven Cycle: SUN 12 NOV MON 23 APR Lawrence Power viola Cuarteto Casals Takács Quartet Cédric Tiberghien piano Richard Lester cello THU 5 OCT IMS Prussia Cove

12 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 13 THU 22 FEB TUE 10 APR Haydn String Quartet Series: Chamber Music Society Doric String Quartet of Lincoln Center Sunday Morning SUN 25 FEB WED 11 APR Coffee Concerts cello JACK Quartet Alasdair Beatson piano SUN 10 SEP THU 12 APR Castalian String Quartet WED 28 FEB Haydn String Quartet Series: SUN 17 SEP TUE 17 APR Doric String Quartet Haydn String Quartet Series: Yossif Ivanov violin Christian Tetzlaff Cuarteto Casals Castalian String Quartet © GIORGIA BERTAZZI © GIORGIA BERTAZZI © JOSEP MOLINA THU 1 MAR Castalian String Quartet © KAUPO KIKKAS SUN 24 SEP Michelangelo Quartet Nash Ensemble WED 18 APR TUE 19 DEC FRI 19 JAN Emma Johnson SUN 10 JUN Britten Sinfonia SUN 1 OCT Leonidas Kavakos violin Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Jörg Widmann Artist in Residence SUN 4 MAR Natasha Paremski piano Yuja Wang piano Alexandre Tharaud piano FRI 20 APR and Christian Tetzlaff Residency: Joshua Bell violin Alina Ibragimova violin Tetzlaff Quartet SUN 8 OCT FRI 22 DEC WED 24 JAN WED 7 MAR Cédric Tiberghien piano Jörg Widmann clarinet Isabelle Faust Residency: Renaud Capuçon violin Britten Sinfonia Piano Trio Isabelle Faust violin David Fray piano WED 25 APR FRI 15 JUN WED 24 JAN Alexander Melnikov fortepiano SAT 10 MAR Haydn String Quartet Series: Razumovsky Ensemble WED 27 DEC Julia Fischer Quartet Nash Ensemble Vertavo String Quartet SUN 15 OCT Arcadia Quartet SAT 16 JUN MON 29 JAN Scottish Ensemble SUN 11 MAR SAT 5 MAY Haydn String Quartet Series: SAT 30 DEC Heath Quartet SUN 22 OCT violin TUE 30 JAN Mary Bevan soprano Roman Rabinovich piano Jörg Widmann WED 14 MAR THU 10 MAY Haydn String Quartet Series: Pavel Haas Quartet FRI 22 JUN SUN 29 OCT TUE 2 JAN Artist in Residence: Heath Quartet Elias String Quartet cello Miklós Perényi cello Hagen Quartet SAT 12 MAY Nils Mönkemeyer viola Olli Mustonen piano Jörg Widmann clarinet Jörg Widmann SUN 24 JUN WED 3 JAN FRI 16 MAR Artist in Residence: Quatuor Ebène SUN 5 NOV Haydn String Quartet Series: FRI 2 FEB Haydn String Quartet Series: Jörg Widmann clarinet Leonore Piano Trio Schumann Quartet The Endellion String Quartet MON 25 JUN Kuss Quartet Sir András Schiff piano Quatuor Ebène SUN 12 NOV THU 4 JAN SAT 3 FEB SUN 18 MAR SUN 13 MAY Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Jörg Widmann Ensemble 360 THU 28 JUN Gautier Capuçon cello The Endellion String Quartet Huw Watkins piano Artist in Residence: Martin Fröst clarinet TUE 6 FEB Jerome Ducros piano Jörg Widmann clarinet SAT 19 MAY SUN 19 NOV Henning Kraggerud violin WED 4 JUL Tabea Zimmermann viola TUE 20 MAR Takács Quartet & guests Eric Le Sage piano cello Beethoven Cycle: Dénes Várjon piano Nash Ensemble Christian Ihle Hadland piano SUN 20 MAY Cuarteto Casals SUN 26 NOV Christine Rice mezzo-soprano WED 10 JAN Christian Tetzlaff Residency: Trio Isimsiz SAT 10 FEB THU 5 JUL Isabelle Faust Residency: WED 21 MAR Tetzlaff Quartet Nash Ensemble Tana String Quartet SUN 3 DEC Isabelle Faust violin The Schubert Ensemble MON 21 MAY Cyprien Katsaris piano Anne Katharina Schreiber violin SUN 11 FEB SUN 8 JUL SAT 24 MAR Takács Quartet & guests Yoshiko Morita viola Christian Tetzlaff Residency: Beethoven Cycle: ATOS Trio SUN 10 DEC Emmanuel Balssa cello Christian Tetzlaff violin SAT 26 MAY Haydn String Quartet Series: Cuarteto Casals WED 11 JUL clarinet Haydn String Quartet Series: Heath Quartet Lorenzo Coppola & guests Ensemble Variances MON 2 APR Doric String Quartet FRI 12 JAN MON 12 FEB SUN 17 DEC Narek Hakhnazaryan cello Sir baritone FRI 13 JUL Haydn String Quartet Series: Elias String Quartet Haydn String Quartet Series: Haydn String Quartet Series: FRI 6 APR MON 28 MAY Novus String Quartet SAT 13 JAN Bennewitz Quartet Elias String Quartet Marina Piccinini Nash Ensemble WED 14 FEB SUN 31 DEC Kim Kashkashian viola SAT 14 JUL Stephanie d’Oustrac mezzo-soprano SAT 7 APR Gary Hoffman cello Sivan Magen harp Evelyn Glennie percussion O/Modernt David Selig piano SUN 14 JAN FRI 16 FEB Philip Smith piano Hugo Ticciati violin WED 30 MAY Haydn String Quartet Series: Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Haydn String Quartet Series: Huw Edwards presenter SUN 7 JAN Polina Leschenko piano SUN 8 APR Szymanowski Quartet O/Modernt Quatuor Mosaïques WED 25 JUL TUE 16 JAN SUN 18 FEB Haydn String Quartet Series: SUN 14 JAN Hugo Ticciati violin THU 31 MAY Midori violin Škampa Quartet Haydn String Quartet Series: Castalian String Quartet Benjamin Beilman violin Antoine Lederlin cello Melvyn Tan piano MON 9 APR Quatuor Mosaïques SUN 21 JAN Jonathan Biss piano Isabelle Faust Residency: WED 21 FEB Navarra String Quartet Isabelle Faust violin MON 4 JUN THU 18 JAN Steven Isserlis cello Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord Beethoven Cycle: SUN 28 JAN Quatuor Diotima Alexander Melnikov piano Cuarteto Casals Lara Melda piano

14 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 15 SUN 29 OCT TUE 20 FEB lyra, , director Phantasm Hespèrion XXI MON 26 FEB TUE 7 NOV Les Talens Lyriques Alina Ibragimova violin THU 8 MAR Il Pomo d’Oro Florilegium SUN 26 NOV THU 22 MAR Philippe Jaroussky countertenor Ensemble Artaserse London Handel Orchestra Sonia Prina Dunedin Consort SUN 25 MAR Mahan Esfahani Paul O’Dette © RIBALTALUCE STUDIO © RIBALTALUCE BARBOUR © DAVID WED 29 NOV Dunedin Consort Residency: © BERNHARD MUSIL / DG © JENNIFER GIRARD Dunedin Consort SUN 4 FEB SUN 24 JUN Alison Balsom trumpet MON 8 JAN Ensemble 360 Amaryllis Quartet MON 26 MAR Isabelle van Keulen violin FRI 1 DEC BBC Lunchtime Paul O’Dette lute Ronald Brautigam piano SUN 11 FEB SUN 1 JUL L’Arpeggiata Pavel Haas Quartet Edicson Ruiz WED 28 MAR Concerts MON 15 JAN MON 4 DEC Fatma Said soprano SUN 18 FEB SUN 8 JUL Les Folies françoises The Cardinall’s Musick MON 11 SEP Quatuor Zaïde Formosa Quartet TUE 3 APR MON 22 JAN FRI 8 DEC soprano Richard Lester cello Theatre of the Ayre Daniel Müller-Schott cello SUN 25 FEB Early Opera Company Sebastian Wybrew piano Elizabeth Kenny lute Francesco Piemontesi piano Joseph Moog piano SUN 15 JUL WED 13 DEC MON 18 SEP Sitkovetsky Trio THU 5 APR MON 29 JAN SUN 4 MAR Fretwork Trio Mediæval Le Concert d’Astrée Apollon Musagète Quartet Ronan O’Hora piano SUN 22 JUL Nils Økland violin Emmanuelle Haïm director, MON 25 SEP Zora Quartet MON 5 FEB SUN 11 MAR SAT 16 DEC harpsichord, organ Amatis Piano Trio Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Bennewitz Quartet Dunedin Consort Residency: SAT 7 APR MON 2 OCT Dunedin Consort MON 12 FEB SUN 18 MAR Early Music and La Nuova Musica Paul O’Dette lute SCO Winds Gould Piano Trio WED 20 DEC THU 19 APR MON 9 OCT Ensemble Plus Ultra MON 19 FEB SUN 25 MAR Baroque Series Lise de la Salle piano The English Concert Ashley Riches bass-baritone Andreas Ottensamer clarinet FRI 29 DEC SUN 10 SEP SUN 6 MAY MON 16 OCT Alessandrini MON 26 FEB SUN 1 APR Sonia Prina Residency: director, violin Anne Queffélec piano Aleksandar Madz˘ar piano Zemlinsky Quartet Sonia Prina contralto & Concerto Italiano RAM Baroque Soloists MON 23 OCT SUN 31 DEC 7.00PM MON 5 MAR SUN 8 APR TUE 12 SEP WED 9 MAY Trio Jean Paul piano trio Leon McCawley piano Atrium Quartet Bach Project: Arcangelo Bach Project: Louise Alder soprano MON 30 OCT Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Mahan Esfahani harpsichord MON 12 MAR SUN 15 APR Florilegium SAT 6 JAN Calidore Quartet Arcadia Quartet THU 14 SEP MON 14 MAY Helsinki MON 6 NOV The English Concert Phantasm MON 19 MAR SUN 22 APR soprano Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad viola Kristian Bezuidenhout director, Carolyn Sampson Stile Antico Modigliani Quartet THU 17 MAY David Meier piano fortepiano THU 11 JAN Thomas Dunford lute MON 26 MAR SUN 29 APR Sonia Prina Residency: MON 13 NOV MON 18 SEP Danny Driver piano Smetana Trio piano trio Classical Opera Sonia Prina contralto TUE 22 MAY Gabriela Montero piano MON 2 APR SUN 6 MAY Akademie für Alte Musik La Nuova Musica MON 20 NOV TUE 19 SEP Laura van der Heijden cello Borodin Quartet Vox Luminis MON 22 JAN SUN 3 JUN Meccore String Quartet MON 9 APR SUN 13 MAY The Sixteen Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin MON 27 NOV MON 9 OCT Anna Prohaska soprano Javier Perianes piano TUE 23 JAN Andrei Ionita cello Xavier Sabata countertenor Classical Opera MON 11 JUN Itamar Golan piano MON 16 APR SUN 20 MAY Armonia Atenea Collegium Vocale Gent Christoph Prégardien tenor Peter Hill piano SUN 4 FEB MON 4 DEC FRI 20 OCT Julius Drake piano tenor TUE 19 JUN Céline Moinet SUN 27 MAY Roberta Invernizzi soprano Florian Uhlig piano MON 23 APR István Várdai cello Accademia Hermans Armonia Atenea Bach Project: Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Sophie Gent violin Vikingur Olafsson piano THU 8 FEB MON 11 DEC SUN 22 OCT Matthew Truscott violin The English Concert THU 21 JUN Armida Quartet SUN 3 JUN Phantasm bass viol, cello Dunedin Consort Residency: Kuss Quartet FRI 9 FEB MON 18 DEC harpsichord, organ WED 25 OCT Dunedin Consort Bach Project: Alina Ibragimova violin SUN 10 JUN The King’s Consort MON 30 APR harpsichord SAT 23 JUN Cédric Tiberghien piano Christian Ihle Hadland piano Carolyn Sampson soprano Mahan Esfahani Hille Perl viola da gamba The Sixteen SUN 17 JUN Apollon Musagète Quartet

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MON 7 MAY Sabine Devieilhe soprano Anne Le Bozec piano MON 14 MAY Schumann Quartet MON 28 MAY Danish String Quartet Dianne Reeves © JERRIS MADISON MON 25 JUN Elias String Quartet SUN 12 NOV MON 2 JUL Takács Quartet flute Contemporary Adam Walker TUE 12 DEC Cédric Tiberghien piano Music Series Cuarteto Casals MON 9 JUL THU 4 JAN Chloë Hanslip violin WED 20 SEP Tabea Zimmermann viola Danny Driver piano Nash Inventions: Jörg Widmann clarinet Nash Ensemble Dénes Várjon piano MON 30 OCT Jazz Series THU 18 JAN mobius Quatuor Diotima FRI 13 OCT THU 15 FEB TUE 30 JAN Vijay Iyer Jazz Series: Helen Grime Song Cycle Hagen Quartet Vijay Iyer Sextet Ruby Hughes mezzo-soprano Jörg Widmann clarinet Joseph Middleton piano FRI 23 MAR WED 14 MAR Dianne Reeves singer FRI 2 MAR Heath Quartet Ensemble SAT 9 JUN Nils Mönkemeyer viola intercontemporain Django Bates Belovèd FRI 13 APR Claire Huguenin voice SUN 11 MAR Igor Levit piano Marius Neset tenor saxophone Arditti Quartet SAT 16 JUN WED 11 APR Heath Quartet JACK Quartet Did you know that a gift in your Will can helping us ensure that current and future Late Night Series Mary Bevan soprano THU 5 JUL help us to secure Wigmore Hall’s future? generations can experience what you enjoy FRI 8 JUN Tana String Quartet Details of artists and dates Legacy gifts provide essential funding for most about the Hall. Onyx Brass WED 11 JUL are correct at time of printing our concert and Learning programmes. If this is something you would like to do, FRI 22 JUN Ensemble Variances but may be subject to change. We are committed to offering memorable please contact us for further information. Donald Grant fiddle & guests MON 11 SEP performances and artistic projects of Thank you. Cuarteto Casals distinction. With your help, Wigmore Hall FRI 6 JUL David Orlowsky Trio SUN 24 SEP can remain a place where artists of the Call or write to: Heath Quartet FRI 13 JUL highest calibre explore, create, and Marie-Hélène Osterweil The Prince Consort WED 4 OCT with audiences of all ages. Director of Development Cuarteto Casals Alisdair Hogarth piano Anyone can make a legacy gift, and it can [email protected] Jason Rebello piano THU 2 NOV be a gift of any size. The Hall has already 020 7258 8220 James Gilchrist tenor FRI 20 JUL benefitted from many bequests which are Registered Charity No. 1024838 Heath Quartet Anna Tilbrook piano © BENJAMIN EALOVEGA

18 SEASON PREVIEW 2017/18 The Elton Family George MeyerL WIGMORE HALL The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation Milton Damerel Trust L ENDOWMENT FUND Dr C Endersby and David Moldon in memory Arts Council Prof. D Cowan obe of his brother Peter L. Moldon THANK YOU Caroline Erskine The Monument Trust AKO Foundation Felicity Fairbairn Amyas and Louise Morse* Aubrey Adams Philip and Susan Feakin A C and F A Myer André and Rosalie Hoffmann The Charitable Trust Valerie O’Connor L and an anonymous donor THE WIGMORE HALL TRUST WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND THANK Peter and Sonia Field L Celia and Roy Palmer Deborah Finkler and Allan P Parkinson Tony and Marion Allen THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS FOR THEIR GENEROUS Murray-Jones The Peter Stebbings Memorial American Friends of Wigmore Hall John and Amy Ford Charity L Karl Otto Bonnier SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE 2016/17 SEASON. The Foyle Foundation The Piano Fund Clive and Helena Butler S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 L The du Plessis Family Foundation The John S Cohen Foundation Neil and Deborah Franks* Isabel and Jonathan Popper Columbia Foundation Fund of the Michael Freegard Oliver and Helen Prenn London Community Foundation Friends of Wigmore Hall Nick and Claire Prettejohn* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning Jonathan Gaisman* The Radcliffe Trust Nicholas and Judith Goodison Stuart and Bianca Roden L The Hargreaves and Ball Trust ROYAL PATRON VOICES AT WIGMORE: DONORS AND SPONSORS The Garfield Weston Foundation John Gilhooly* Charles Rose* Graham and Amanda Hutton The Duke of Kent, KG THE SCHUBERT SONG PROJECT The 29th May 1961 Tony and Marion Allen* Charitable Trust L John and Lauren Goldsmith* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, Hon. RCM* Hamish Parker The Rubinstein Circle Michael and Rosemary Warburg HONORARY PATRONS Anthony Austin Mr Eric Abraham* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Peter Goodwin The Sampimon Trust L William and Alex de Winton Aubrey Adams Geoffrey Barnett Neville and Nicola Abraham Charles Green Julia Schottlander* and an anonymous donor André and Rosalie Hoffmann Karl Otto Bonnier* Elaine Adair Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Richard Sennett and Saskia Kohn Foundation Wolf-Reiner Braun and Ian Allan Elaine and Peter Hallgarten Sassen* Colin Clark Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan John Sinclair The Andor Charitable Trust L Michael Brind Angus Allnatt Charitable Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* Rhona Shaw Celia and Andrew Curran Michael and Rosemary Warburg Dr Carole Endersby and SEASON PATRONS 2016/17 Nicola Coldstream Foundation The Hargreaves and Ball Trust The Harold Hyam Wingate Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Prof. David Cowan OBE Aubrey Adams* Pauline Del Mar David and Jacqueline Ansell* Foundation L Voluntary Settlement A bequest from the late Tony and Marion Allen* J L Drewitt Arts Council England The Headley Trust L Jo and Barry Slavin Mr J L Hutchinson American Friends of Wigmore Hall Alan and Joanna Gemes* Ms J A Attias Malcolm Herring* Sir Martin and Lady Smith*† In memory of Patricia Karet Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne‡ Benjamin Hargreaves Mrs Arlene Beare André and Rosalie Hoffmann‡ Michael Smith and Nicholas A bequest from the late Karl Otto Bonnier* Julia MacRae* Alan Bell-Berry Gay Huey Evans* Bartlett* Dr Naomi Michaels Henry and Suzanne Davis Edith Randall Mr Nicholas J Bez Graham and Amanda Hutton* Spencer Hart Charitable Trust The Tertis Foundation Dunard Fund† Louise Scheuer Mrs Arline Blass Hyde Park Place Estate Charity L Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* and an anonymous donor Alexis Gregory Foundation and Julia Schottlander* David and Mary Bowerman* Simone Hyman* John Stephens OBE, Hon. FTCL* the Vendome Prize Gill and Keith Stella* Sir John and Lady Boyd* J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust The Stewarts Law Foundation L Grateful thanks to all those who The Hargreaves and Ball Trust In memory of Robert Streit Alan Bradley* Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Anne and Paul Swain* have already contributed to the Pauline and Ian Howat John and Ann Tusa Clive Butler Peter and Nikki Jeffcote Alisa and Joshua Swidler* fund who for reasons of space Harry Lee and Clive Potter* Gerry Wakelin* A bequest from the late Peter Cain John Lyon’s Charity L Katja and Nicolai Tangen* we are unable to list here. Simon and Sophie Ludlam* Susan Ward Donald Campbell Marc Jourdren* Professor Christopher Thompson The Marchus Trust‡ David and Frances Waters* Cavatina Chamber Music Trust L In memory of Donald Kahn The Three Monkies Trust L * Rubinstein Circle members The Monument Trust Anne and David Weizmann Charities Advisory Trust L Su and Neil Kaplan* Robin Vousden* † Early Music and Baroque Series Valerie O’Connor David Evan Williams Mary and Robert Childs Jerome Karet* Andrew and Hilary Walker* supporters Hamish Parker Colin Clark David and Louise Kaye* Professor Janet Walker CD and ‡Contemporary Music Series Victoria and Simon Robey* CORPORATE SUPPORTERS John Crisp* Kohn Foundation* Professor Doug Jones AO* supporters David Rockwell and Capital Group Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Dame Fanny Waterman* L Learning Programme supporters Zsombor Csoma*† (corporate matched giving) Michael and Felicia Crystal* Maryly La Follette* Michael Watson Charitable Trust Cita and Irwin Stelzer* Complete Coffee Ltd Celia and Andrew Curran Gabor Lacko The Welton Foundation William and Alex de Winton* The Howard de Walden Estate Anthony Davis* Alan Leibowitz and Barbara WeissL David and Martha Winfield* To discuss making a gift and several anonymous donors John Lewis Partnership – In memory of Margaret Dewhirst Oxford Street James Dooley Rose and Dudley Leigh Tony Wingate to Wigmore Hall please contact: L Philip and Emeline Winston* CHAMBER MUSIC CIRCLE London Stock Exchange Group The Dorset Foundation – The Leverhulme Trust Tim Llewellyn The Wolfson Foundation Marie-Hélène Osterweil, Karl Otto Bonnier* Foundation in memory of Harry M Weinrebe Dame Youth Music L Director of Development Judy Davies and Martin Randall Travel Ltd Nina Drucker The Loveday Charitable Trust L and several anonymous donors on 020 7258 8220 Kingsley Manning* Rothschild & Co In memory of Robert Easton Mr H Lucas Margery Gray Steinway & Sons Douglas and Janette Eden David Lyons* Pauline and Ian Howat Mr Martin and Dr Mina Edwards Anne and Brian Mace Lord and Lady Lloyd The Eldering/Goecke Family The Estate of Pamela Majaro mbe Details correct as of December 2016 The Tertis Foundation Annette Ellis* Simon Majaro mbe The Wigmore Hall Trust Marina Vaizey Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Registered Charity No. 1024838 Kathleen Verelst* Michael and Lynne McGowan*

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