February 2017

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Peter Dazeley

2 Thursday 2 February 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm) 2 For Crying Out Loud! Cavendish Winds Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, presented in a relaxed environment for parents or carers and their babies under one to enjoy together.

Adults £7.50 (babies come free) In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Thursday 2 February 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm Introduction to Music 4 THE 48 Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier The idea of two books of preludes and fugues, each moving through all the keys, both major and minor, may sound unpromising at first but begin to listen or play and you encounter a universe of wonders. Bach achieves in this music a wonderful synthesis of highly cultivated technique and direct emotional utterance, the variety of styles and expression is simply breathtaking. Join Roy Stratford on 12, 19 & 26 January and 2 February to explore the techniques of Bach’s extraordinary craft, from double and triple fugue to invertible counterpoint, and unlock this musical treasure that will never cease to delight. Series ticket price £30

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Portrait of J S Bach by Elias Gottlob Haussmann

Thursday 2 February 7.30 pm

Elizabeth Watts soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

Russell Duncan Schubert Nähe des Geliebten; Vergebliche Liebe; Marco Borggreve Liebe schwärmt auf allen Wegen; Das Rosenband; Lambertine; Die verfehlte Stunde; Gott im Frühlinge; Aus Diego Manzanares (Almerine); Pflicht und Liebe; Der Sänger am Felsen; Die Blumensprache; La pastorella al prato; Heiß mich nicht reden (D726); So laßt mich scheinen (D727); Der Blumen Schmerz; Nachtviolen; Du bist die Ruh; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Im Frühling; Über Wildemann; Heimliches Lieben; Frühlingslied (D919)

Aspects of love, nature imagery and the regenerative Elizabeth Watts Malcolm Martineau promise of spring run through Elizabeth Watts’s delightful programme. The soprano and her regular duo partner Malcolm Martineau close their recital with ‘Frühlingslied’, a remarkable song written in March 1826 in which springtime warmth and uplifting optimism clash with dark, disturbing mid-winter memories.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

3 Friday 3 February 7.30 pm 3 Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Takács Quartet

Beethoven String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2; String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’; String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 Beethoven originally created a fugal finale for the String Quartet in B flat Op. 130 before developing it separately as his ‘Great Fugue’. The revised quartet deals in what Vincent d’Indy famously described as ‘open war … between careless merriment and serious thought’. It is prefaced here by the intense concentration of Op. 95 and the graceful elegance of Op. 18 No. 2.

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Chamber Music Season/Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle

Robert Torres

Takács Quartet

Saturday 4 February 10.30 am – 3.30 pm 4 Handel and Hendrix FAMILY DAY For ages 5 plus

Explore the musical worlds of Handel and Jimi Hendrix with the www.benjaminharte.co.uk help of Handel & Hendrix in London Composer in Residence Hunter Coblentz, and guitarist Jack Ross. Visit the former homes of these great musicians and discover what inspired them before creating your own music to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day.

Children £10 Adults £15

In partnership with Handel & Hendrix in London

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

4 Saturday 4 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Takács Quartet

Keith Saunders Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quartet in Eb Op. 74 ‘Harp’; String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 The Takács Quartet begins with the first of Beethoven’s Op. 18 pieces, a mighty four-movement work that contributed to the composer’s emergence as a master of the string quartet. Beethoven’s determination to explore and experiment is also present in the ‘Harp’ Quartet, while the meditative stillness and serenity of Op. 131 reflect the mature artist’s profound sense of wonder about the nature of existence. Takács Quartet Returns only Chamber Music Season/Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle

Sunday 5 February 11.30 am 5 Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Clive Barda

Katie van Dyke Ian Brown piano Philippa Davies flute Dvorˇák Sonatina in G Op.100 (arr. for flute and piano) Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 Dvorˇák String Quintet in Eb Op. 97 Two works from Dvorˇák’s fertile American period, the tuneful Sonatina originally written for violin and piano and the String Quintet with two violas, created during

the idyllic summer the composer spent in Spillville, Ian Brown Philippa Davies Iowa, surround the heartfelt Piano Trio that Smetana wrote in memory of his musically talented infant daughter following her death from scarlet fever.

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Sunday 5 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Takács Quartet MASTERCLASS In his book about Beethoven’s sixteen string quartets, the Takács Quartet’s first violinist Edward Dusinberre describes the exhilaration and spiritual rewards of performing these great works. He and his colleagues pass on their experience and insights into Beethoven’s art to two postgraduate student ensembles in a masterclass certain to enlighten and inspire.

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

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle

5 Monday 6 February 1.00 pm

6 Isabelle Faust violin Andreas Staier piano CPE Bach Fantasie in F# minor Wq. 80 (arr. of Fantasia for keyboard solo Wq. 67) Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 131 Brahms Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 120 No. 2 (arr. of Viola Sonata) Against the scientific revolution’s backdrop, many eighteenth-century writers, artists and composers turned to fantasy as an antidote to the dictates of realism and rationality. CPE Bach’s influential fantasies helped establish a style of rhapsodic composition that was extensively developed in the following century. Isabelle Faust and Andreas Staier explore fantasy pieces by Bach and Schumann in company with the genial lyricism of Brahms’s late Sonata Op. 120 No. 2.

All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Molina Visuals Molina Visuals

Isabelle Faust Andreas Staier

Monday 6 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists

Takács Quartet Ellen Appel Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5; String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4; String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 While shades of Mozart fleet over the surface of Beethoven’s Op. 18 No. 5, the work’s deep originality is never in doubt. Its companion piece, Op. 18 No. 4, inhabits emotional territory comparable to another contemporary C minor masterwork, the ‘Pathétique’ Sonata. The Takács Quartet also mines the infinite possibilities of the String Quartet in A minor Op. 132, complete with its prayer and thanksgiving for the recovery ‘by a convalescent’.

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Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Takács Quartet

CAVATINA Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected Chamber Music Trust concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John www.cavatina.net Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’. Chamber Music Season/Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle

6 Tuesday 7 February 7.30pm 7 YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2016/17 Amy Harman bassoon Castalian String Quartet Kaupo Kikkas Laurène Durantel double bass Mozart Flute Quartet in D K285 Roxana Panufnik Cantator and Amanda for bassoon and string quartet Strauss Das Rosenband; Waldseligkeit; Wiegenlied; Cäcilie (transcr. Amy Harman) Françaix Divertissement for bassoon and strings Amy Harman Laurène Durantel Born in London, in 2011 Amy Harman was appointed Principal Bassoon of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Future engagements include as soloist with the Arch Sinfonia, Kaupo Kikkas recitals at Tbilisi Festival the Mizmorim Festival in Basel. Formed in 2011, the Castalian String Quartet studied with Oliver Wille (Kuss Quartet) at the Hanover University of Music, Dance and Theatre. They were the only European quartet to progress to the live rounds of the 2016 Banff International String Quartet Competition, where they won Third Prize.

£13 concs £11

Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490) Castalian String Quartet

YCAT is grateful for support from the Fresh Leaf Charitable Foundation, the International Music and Art Foundation, the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake for this series.

Tuesday 7 February 7.30pm The English Concert Rachel Podger guest director, violin JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066 Telemann Sonata a 6 in F minor TWV44:32 CPE Bach Symphony in G Wq. 182 No. 1 JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 Telemann Concerto in Bb for 3 oboes, 3 violins and basso continuo TWV44:43 JS Bach Concerto in C minor BWV1060 for oboe and violin (reconst.) Distinguished violinist and director Rachel Podger leads The English Concert in a feast of suites and concertos by JS Bach and his lifelong friend Telemann. Adding spice to the banquet is Bach’s son (and Telemann’s godson) Carl Philipp Emanuel, whose extraordinary symphonies were to subvert the musical conventions of the early 1700s.

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

Jonas Sacks

Richard Haughton

The English Concert Rachel Podger

7 Wednesday 8 February 12.15 pm 8 Pre-Concert Talk Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage discusses the programme for the following lunchtime concert with Dr Kate Kennedy.

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wednesday 8 February 1.00 pm Britten Sinfonia Laura Lucas flute Nicholas Daniel oboe

Joy Farrall clarinet Lucy Wakeford harp Eric Richmond Jacqueline Shave & Miranda Dale violins Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet Laura Lucas Nicholas Daniel Joy Farrall Mark-Anthony Turnage Prayer for a great man Oliver Knussen Cantata (Triptych Part 3) Op. 15 Ravel Introduction and Allegro

Tina Foster Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet Harry Rankin Mark-Anthony Turnage Col* (world première) *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Lucy Wakeford Jacqueline Shave Miranda Dale A composer of truly international stature, Mark-Anthony Turnage is among today’s most direct communicators and significant creators. Turnage has

Harry Rankin

curated a programme of music by composers he respects and of music he Sussie Ahlburg admires, crowned by the world première of his new work, Col, a tribute to composer and friend Colin Matthews.

£13 concs £11 Clare Finnimore Caroline Dearnley Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Wednesday 8 February 7.30 pm

Janine Jansen violin

Daniel Wass Boris Brovtsyn violin Nikolaj Lund Torleif Thedéen cello

Harald Hoffmann/Decca Clara Andrada de la Calle flute Olivier Patey clarinet Janine Jansen Boris Brovtsyn Torleif Thedéen Eldar Nebolsin piano Berg Adagio from Chamber Concerto Schoenberg/Webern Chamber Symphony No. 1 Op. 9

Kirill Bashkirov Korngold Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand Op. 23 Janine Jansen and friends step into the world of fin-de-

siècle Vienna, evoking the creative milieu of compositions Clara Andrada de la Calle Olivier Patey Eldar Nebolsin conceived under the influence of Late Romanticism, and Modernist explorations of the psyche. Their programme includes Webern’s first arrangement of Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Korngold’s Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand, first performed in 1930 by Paul Wittgenstein and the Rosé Quartet.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Residency

8 Thursday 9 February 7.30 pm

9 Jörg Widmann clarinet Mitsuko Uchida piano Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Jörg Widmann Fantasie for solo clarinet Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1 for solo piano Jörg Widmann Idyll und Abgrund – Six Schubert Reminiscences for piano Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Jörg Widmann’s passions include the works of Schubert and Schumann, composers with whom he shares an affinity for lyricism, poetic shading and dramatic contrasts. The German clarinettist and composer joins forces with Mitsuko Uchida for a programme rooted in their shared musical values, spanning everything from the expressive miniatures of Berg’s Op. 5 to the shifting moods of Schumann’s Fantasiestücke of 1849.

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

Marco Borggreve

Justin Pumfrey/Decca

Jörg Widmann Mitsuko Uchida

Friday 10 February 7.30 pm

10 Nikolai Demidenko piano

K Miura Scarlatti 12 Sonatas Schubert 3 Moments Musicaux D780 Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano (transcription for solo piano by Alfred Cortot) A regular presence at Wigmore Hall for almost three decades, Nikolai Demidenko’s pianism combines power and passion, light and shade, and life’s emotional ebb and flow. His latest programme opens with a selection of Domenico Scarlatti’s quicksilver keyboard sonatas and includes Alfred Cortot’s virtuoso transcription of Franck’s A minor Violin Sonata.

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

9 Saturday 11 February 5.30 pm 11 Introductory Talk and Concert An introductory talk on the Second Viennese School by Gillian Moore MBE, Director of Music, Southbank Centre, writer and broadcaster.

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Sven Arnstein Claire Booth soprano Students from the Royal Academy of Music Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Webern Piano Quintet in C Schoenberg Die eiserne Brigade; Ein Stelldichein; Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs); Nachtwandler

All seats £5 Claire Booth Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Saturday 11 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Nash Ensemble Sven Arnstein

Keith Saunders Claire Booth soprano Richard Hosford clarinet Berg Sieben frühe Lieder (arr. by de Leeuw for soprano, piano, harmonium, flute, clarinet, string quartet and bass) Beethoven Clarinet Trio in Bb Op. 11 Claire Booth Richard Hosford Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock) Schubert Octet in F D803

The Nash Ensemble’s Vienna-based series ends with an introductory K Leighton talk and a double bill concert. Berg’s epigrammatic clarinet pieces, Webern’s early Piano Quintet and an engaging selection of little-known miniatures by Schoenberg occupy the first programme and feature senior students from the Royal Academy of Music performing alongside Nash Ensemble players Ian Brown and Gareth Hulse. The main concert presents acclaimed soprano Claire Booth in Berg’s ravishing Seven Early Songs and Schubert’s late cantata ‘The Shepherd on the Rock’, together with two Nash favourites, Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio in B flat and Schubert’s monumental Octet. Nash Ensemble £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Sunday 12 February 11.30 am 12 Trio con Brio Copenhagen Beethoven Piano Trio in Eb Op. 1 No. 1

Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66 Seren Svendsen Founded in Vienna in 1999 and resident in Denmark, the Trio con Brio Copenhagen has inspired rave reviews with performances shot through with rich tonal warmth, refined textural contrasts and wise musicianship. This recital brings together a key work in Beethoven’s early artistic development with Mendelssohn’s Beethoven-inspired Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66.

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Trio con Brio Copenhagen

10 Sunday 12 February 7.30 pm Belcea Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in Eb minor Op. 144 Schubert String Quartet in G D887 Ronald Knapp Shostakovich’s final and longest string quartet, supremely introspective and fully reconciled to the inevitability of death, offers an intimate portrait of the Soviet composer during his last years. The Belcea Quartet has programmed it together with another fifteenth and final string quartet, Schubert’s profound reflection on impermanence and ever-changing reality.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season Belcea Quartet

Monday 13 February 1.00 pm

13 Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano Gary Pomeroy viola Howells Come sing and dance Quilter Go, lovely Rose; Now sleeps the crimson petal; Music, when soft voices die Denis Browne To Gratiana dancing and singing Howells Peacock Pie Gurney Sleep; Most Holy Night; The fields are full; By a Bierside Bridge Three songs with viola English song flourished in the last century’s opening decades, touched by the wealth of native poetry and the trauma of global warfare. Kathryn Rudge joins James Baillieu and Gary Pomeroy on a journey through a programme containing familiar pieces by Howells and Quilter and a rarity by Denis Browne.

£15 concs £13

Kathryn Rudge is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Kaupo Kikkas Kaupo Kikkas

Sussie Ahlburg

Kathryn Rudge James Baillieu Gary Pomeroy

11 Monday 13 February 7.30 pm

The Monday Platform Vickers Bovey Guitar Duo Julian Vickers guitar Daniel Bovey guitar Emily Sun violin Jennifer Hughes piano Scarlatti Sonata in D minor Kk141 Giuliani Grandi Variazioni Concertanti Op. 35 Nikita Koshkin Concertino for two guitars Michael Finnissy New commission for guitar duo (world première) Julian Vickers and Daniel Bovey Piazzolla Tango Suite (1984) Schubert Sonatina in G minor D408 Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18 A showcase for artists selected to join Young Artists’ Platform in Spring 2016. Multiple award winning Vickers Bovey Guitar Duo première a new commission by Michael Finnissy. Emily Sun, winner of all major violin competitions in her native Australia, was awarded the Gold Medal at the 2016 Royal Over-Seas League Competition, the first string player to do so since 1981.

£20 £18 £14 £12 £10

Presented by The Tillett Trust Young Artists Platform Emily Sun Jennifer Hughes

Tuesday 14 February 11.00am – 3.30 pm 14 Wednesday 15 February 11.00 am – 3.30 pm Musical Portraits Band FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS We invite young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders to create their own works of art and music alongside an inspiring visual artist and musicians from Ignite, Wigmore Hall Learning’s Associate Artists. Be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery and perform on the Wigmore Hall stage. For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email [email protected].

Free (application required)

Musical Portraits is supported by Stuart and Bianca Roden, and The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts

Benjamin Ealovega

Ignite

12 Tuesday 14 February 6.00pm Pre-Concert Event RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment in which exceptionally gifted young musicians collaborate closely with some of the world’s finest artists and teachers. This concert offers the chance to hear potential future stars at an early stage of their careers.

Free (ticket required)

Supported by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1111848) Ida Haendel with students from the Razumovsky Academy

Tuesday 14 February 7.30pm Razumovsky Ensemble Ana Chumachenco violin Robert Cassen Oleg Kogan cello, artistic director Haydn String Trio in G Op. 53 No. 1 Mozart String Quintet in G minor K516 Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111 Oleg Kogan’s acclaimed Razumovsky Ensemble is joined by the distinguished violinist Ana Chumachenco, for many years Professor

of Violin at Munich’s University of Music, in a programme complete Ana Chumachenco Oleg Kogan with late masterworks by Mozart and Brahms. The G minor String Quintet, created in 1787, contains some of Mozart’s most personal, tragic and tender music.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Promoted by the Razumovsky Trust (Reg. Charity No.1111848) Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 15 February 7.30 pm

15 Matthew Rose bass

Gary Matthewman piano Lena Kern

Johan Persson in collaboration with Victoria Crowe artist WINTERREISE: A PARALLEL WINTER JOURNEY Schubert Winterreise Early audiences, in thrall to the peace and prosperity that preceded the European revolutions of 1848, rejected the melancholy Matthew Rose Gary Matthewman worldview contained within Winterreise. Schubert’s late, great song cycle is now recognised as one of the most extraordinary creative achievements of the nineteenth century. The composer told a friend how his collection of ‘spine-chilling songs … have affected me more than has been the case with any other of my Lieder’, a feeling shared by millions since the work’s publication in 1828. Matthew Rose has collaborated with painter Victoria Crowe on this multimedia production in which projected images offer a contemplative, extended response to the words and music. This concert will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval

£40 £30 £25 £20 £15 ‘The Shortest Day’ © Victoria Crowe Visuals sponsored by the Royal Society of Arts Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

13 Thursday 16 February 1.00 pm 16 Lisa Peacock Presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases Trio Gewandt Volker Hemken bass clarinet, basset horn Tahlia Petrosian viola Martin Stadtfeld piano Brahms Six Songs for viola, basset horn

and piano (arr. Edward Rushton): Wie bist Volker Hemken Tahlia Petrosian Martin Stadtfeld du meine Königin; Von waldbekränzter Höhe; Wenn du nur zuweilen lächelst; Ach, wende diesen Blick; Dein blaues Auge; Sommerabend Schumann Märchenbilder Op. 113 for viola and piano; Fantasiestücke Op. 73 for bass clarinet and piano Mendelssohn Songs Without Words Op. 63 for viola, basset horn and piano (arr. Timo Jouko Herrmann) Trio Gewandt brings Gewandhaus Orchestra musicians Volker Hemken and Tahlia Petrosian together with pianist Martin Stadtfeld for a programme of Schumann and arrangements of songs by Brahms and Mendelssohn. Bass clarinettist and basset horn player Volker Hemken, viola player Tahlia Petrosian and multiple ECHO-Klassik Award winner Martin Stadtfeld perform internationally as soloists and chamber musicians.

£15 concs £13 20% discount when you book for 3 or more concerts in this series (see further dates below)

Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd Tickets also on sale for Thursday Lunchtime Showcases on 19 January (Mariam Batsashvili) and 16 March (Sophie Rosa & Benjamin Powell)

Thursday 16 February 7.30 pm

Llyˆr Williams piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4 in Eb Op. 7; Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78; Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’; Piano Sonata No. 26 in Eb Op. 81a Benjamin Ealovega ‘Les Adieux’ For the past three seasons Llyˆr Williams has moved through the complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall, the latest milestone in his lifelong commitment to the composer’s music. The Welsh pianist’s penultimate programme includes the graceful Op. 78 and the ‘Farewell’ Sonata, written following the French siege of Vienna in 1809.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series Llyˆr Williams

Friday 17 February 7.30 pm

17 Mauro Peter tenor Helmut Deutsch piano

Schumann Abends am Strand; Dein Angesicht; Lehn deine Benjamin Ealovega Wang; Es leuchtet meine Liebe; Mein Wagen rollet langsam; Belsazar; Fünf Lieder Op. 40 Strauss Schlichte Weisen; Mädchenblumen Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Swiss tenor Mauro Peter studied Lieder singing with Helmut Deutsch at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, and over recent years their recital partnership has developed

leading to international critical acclaim. Peter’s artistry, Helmut Deutsch and Mauro Peter admired worldwide ever since his Lieder recital debut at the 2012 Schubertiade in Hohenems, is reflected in his rapidly growing catalogue of song recordings, including an acclaimed account of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin on the Wigmore Hall Live label. Schumann’s songs, his retelling of Belshazzar’s feast and late Heine settings among them, stand together in this programme with a selection of works by Strauss and Liszt’s heart-breakingly beautiful Petrarch sonnets.

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

14 Saturday 18 February 7.30 pm 18 Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton leader, artistic director Alina Ibragimova violin Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 6 in Eb for strings Arvo Pärt Silouan’s Song ‘My soul yearns after the Lord’ Hartmann Concerto funebre Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 10 in B minor for strings Pe¯teris Vasks Viatore Bach Concerto in E for violin BWV1042 One of the UK’s leading string orchestras is joined by Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova, among the brightest talents of the younger generation, for a varied programme of string pieces featuring Ibragimova as soloist in Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s lyrical Concerto funebre for solo violin and strings, composed in 1939, and Bach’s exuberant E major concerto.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Peter Dibdin

Eva Vermandel

Scottish Ensemble Alina Ibragimova

Sunday 19 February 11.30 am 19 Wigmore Hall Debut Lara Melda piano Please note change of programme

Chopin 2 Nocturnes Op. 27: No. 1 in C# minor; www.benjaminharte.co.uk No. 2 in Db; 4 Mazurkas Op. 33: No. 1 in G# minor; No. 2 in D; No. 3 in C; No. 4 in B minor; 2 Nocturnes Op. 48: No. 1 in C minor; No. 2 in F# minor; Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20 Lara Melda became BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2010 at the age of sixteen and currently studies with Ian Jones at the Royal College of Music. Her Wigmore Hall debut consists of an all-Chopin programme, juxtaposing the gentle melancholy and flowing melodies of his nocturnes

with four of his most interesting mazurkas, a Polish Lara Melda folk dance which he transformed into an entirely new genre. Melda rounds off the concert with his dark and dramatic Scherzo No. 1 in B minor.

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

15 Sunday 19 February 3.00 pm

Louise Alder soprano piano Gary Matthewman William Alder

Johan Persson Sibelius Kyssens hopp (Kiss’s Hope); Vilse (Astray); Säv, säv, susa (Reed, reed, rustle); Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (The girl returned from meeting her lover) Huw Watkins Five Larkin Songs Debussy Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire Puccini A te; Morire? Verdi Stornello; Lo spazzacamino

Following studies as the inaugural Kiri Te Kanawa Scholar at the Royal Louise Alder Gary Matthewman College of Music’s International Opera School, Louise Alder has received glowing reviews as a member of the Frankfurt Opera Ensemble and for her performances at the BBC Proms and Glyndebourne Festival. She is joined by Gary Matthewman to explore the rich variety of European Art Song, from the beauty of Scandinavia via England and France to Italy, in settings by Sibelius, Huw Watkins, Debussy, Puccini and Verdi.

All seats £15 Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

Sunday 19 February 7.30 pm

Isabelle Faust violin Alexander Melnikov piano Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Marco Borggreve Françaix Sonatine (1934) Fauré Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 108 Antheil Sonata for violin, piano and drums Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov have developed an uncanny mutual understanding and empathy as duo partners, refined over the

past decade in the recording studio and in recital. The German violinist Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov and Russian pianist offer interpretations that are faithful to the letter of the score while remaining open to inventive spontaneity and expressive freedom. Their programme mines a deep vein of poetry in music, opening with a work written during the First World War’s initial phase. They also explore the Sonata for violin, piano and drums by the self-styled ‘bad boy of music’, the American avant-gardist George Antheil.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Monday 20 February 1.00 pm 20 Van Kuijk Quartet Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87 Ravel String Quartet in F Winner of The Harry M Weinrebe Prize (first prize at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition) and the HSBC 2014 laureate of the Aix-en-Provence Festival Academy, the Van Kuijk Quartet continues to harvest critical acclaim while boosting its reputation among the most exciting of young ensembles. Schubert and Ravel occupy the four Frenchmen’s lunchtime recital as BBC New Generation Artists.

£15 concs £13 The Van Kuijk Quartet is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme Van Kuijk Quartet WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

16 Monday 20 February 7.30 pm The Sixteen Fretwork Harry Christophers conductor Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri BuxWV75 Scheidt Two dances from Ludi musici Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, composed in 1680, forms a cycle of seven cantatas addressed to different parts of the crucified Christ’s body. The Sixteen Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have lived with this unique work for many years, exploring its meditations on the saviour’s feet, knees, hands,

side, breast, heart and face in concert and on Wendy Gillespie disc. They are joined by Fretwork for their latest interpretation of music that casts light on the nature of suffering, devotion and spiritual transcendence.

£60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series Fretwork

Tuesday 21 February 7.30pm

21 Sir András Schiff piano Bach 5 Sinfonias BWV787–791

Yutaka Suzuki Bartók Suite Op. 14 Bach 5 Sinfonias BWV792–796 Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) BB89 Bach 5 Sinfonias BWV797– 801 Janácˇek Piano Sonata I.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 in F# minor Op. 11 Bach’s Sinfonias, known to generations of piano students as Three-part Inventions, provide the powerful platform for a programme of works bristling with rhythmic energy and songful melody. Janácˇ ek’s Sonata ‘From the Street’ captures the outrage, defiance and despair provoked by the death in 1905 of a worker bayoneted by troops during a protest in favour of a Czech university in Brno. Sir András Schiff Returns only Supported by an anonymous donor London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 22 February 7.30 pm 22 Sir András Schiff Masterclass Sir András Schiff’s eloquence as a teacher and profound insights as a thinker about music make his masterclass sessions irresistible to participants and audiences alike. Through the course of this event an outstanding young musician, chosen by Sir András himself, will explore

some of the repertoire featured in the previous evening’s concert. Nadia F Romanini/ECM Records This event will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval All seats £20

Supported by an anonymous donor

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Sir András Schiff

17 Thursday 23 February 7.30 pm 23 Artemis Quartet Maria João Pires piano Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 Bartók String Quartet No. 3 BB93 Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44 Partnerships with other performers have long been central to the Artemis Quartet’s artistic development. The Berlin- based ensemble, named after the Greek goddess of the hunt, returns to Wigmore Hall in its latest formation to perform Schumann’s fertile creative response to landmarks of the Classical chamber repertoire in company with one of today’s finest pianists, Maria João Pires, recently lauded by The New York Times for her ‘poetic way and lyrical grace’. The Artemis Quartet opens with the earliest of Beethoven’s string quartets, first sketched in January 1799, and Bartók’s folk-inspired, intensely focused third quartet, completed almost 90 years ago in Budapest.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

Felix Broede

Felix Broede/DG

Artemis Quartet Maria João Pires

Friday 24 February 7.30 pm

24 Matthias Goerne baritone Markus Hinterhäuser piano Programme to include: Marco Borggreve Martina Siebenhandl Eisler From Hollywood Songbook: Hotelzimmer 1942; An der kleinen Radioapparat; In den Weiden; Frühling 1942; Auf der Flucht; Über den Selbstmord; Die Flucht; Ostersonntag; L’automne californien; Der Sohn I; Die Heimkehr Eisler Zwei Lieder nach Worten von Pascal; Fünf Elegien; In der Frühe from Anakreontische Fragmente Mahler Der Abschied from Das Lied von der Erde Matthias Goerne Markus Hinterhäuser In constant demand at the world’s leading concert halls and as soloist with the finest orchestras and conductors, Matthias Goerne has inspired critics to dig deep for fresh superlatives and phrases to summarise the breadth and depth of his artistry. The German artist has secured a place among the all-time greats of song thanks to his rare combination of tonal variety, ability to convey multi-hued feelings and emotions, technical mastery and searching musicianship. Those qualities were recently encapsulated by The New York Times, which described Goerne as ‘a masterly singer endowed with an opulent baritone that includes a silky, cello-like high register and penetrating depths’.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Song Recital Series

18 Saturday 25 February 25 XENAKIS DAY Iconoclast, wartime resistance fighter, avant-garde Jane Bown radical and explorer of sound, Iannis Xenakis (1922– 2001) emerged as one of the most inventive and influential of all twentieth-century Modernists. The French composer of Greek parentage, largely self-taught in music, drew from his early experience as an architect in the studio of Le Corbusier to construct works of extraordinary complexity and dazzling conceptual breadth. Wigmore Hall’s Xenakis Day offers the chance to explore a thick slice of his thrilling chamber music for strings. Iannis Xenakis 1.00 pm JACK Quartet Xenakis Ergma for string quartet; Embellie for solo viola; Shervin Lainez Mikka ‘S’ for solo violin; Kottos for solo cello; Hunem-Iduhey for violin and cello; ST/4 –1, 080262 for string quartet The JACK Quartet launches Xenakis Day with Ergma, a typically uncompromising study in homophony, before its individual members perform a group of sonorous solo scores and the haunting Hunem-Iduhey, with its opening study in non-vibrato tones. The musical material of ST/4–1, 080262 was generated by a series of compositional algorithms and shaped by Xenakis into a work of intense drama. JACK Quartet All seats £15 Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

6.00 pm Pre-Concert Talk Join Tom Service in an exploration of the unique sound world of Iannis Xenakis before hearing works for strings and piano in the evening concert.

All seats £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

7.30 pm

JACK Quartet Colin Way Pavel Kolesnikov piano Xenakis Mikka for solo violin; Ikhoor for string trio; Tetora for string quartet; Akea for piano and string quartet; Tetras for string quartet Two of Xenakis’s finest chamber works crown this thrilling programme. The short and concise Akea is followed by Tetras, named after the ancient Greek word ‘four’. With its extreme technical challenges and bold originality, Tetras was hailed as a pioneering addition to the string quartet repertoire following its première in 1983.

All seats £20

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Pavel Kolesnikov

19 Sunday 26 February 11.30 am 26 Quatuor Voce Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52 Praised by The Strad for its ‘refinement, beautiful tone, excellent ensemble, precise chording, fine rhythm and oads of character’, Quatuor Voce regularly appears at the world’s foremost concert halls and festivals. The French ensemble surveys Beethoven’s Op. 18 No. 6, with its visionary blend of classical poise and romantic contrasts, together with Bartók’s Beethoven-inspired first string quartet.

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

Sophie Pawlak

Quatuor Voce

Sunday 26 February 3.00 pm

Nicholas Phan tenor Myra Huang piano

Face Collective Cortesía Cenart MOUNT OLYMPUS Schubert An die Leier; Ganymed; Atys; Der Musensohn KNIGHTS AND KINGS Schubert Der Sänger Brahms Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein Mahler Rheinlegendchen & Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Beethoven Aus Goethes Faust: Es war einmal ein König THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT Schumann Der Sandmann Wolf Der Feuerreiter Schubert Der Zwerg Schumann Waldesgespräch Nicholas Phan Myra Huang Mendelssohn Hexenlied FAIRY TALES Brahms Sandmännchen Wolf Der Rattenfänger; Elfenlied; Storchenbotschaft Myth, according to the scholar Joseph Campbell, provides a bridge from the physical plane to ‘our own innermost being … so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive’. Nicholas Phan’s recital programme evokes ancient myth, heroic adventures, the awesome power of the supernatural, and the vitality of fairy tales, as imagined and reimagined in the hothouse environment of nineteenth-century German culture.

20 Sunday 26 February 7.30 pm

Igor Levit piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’; Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 13 in Eb Op. 27 No. 1 ‘Quasi una fantasia’; Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’ Igor Levit inspired international acclaim in 2013 with his debut recording of Beethoven’s late piano sonatas, setting down enduring markers of artistic maturity and intelligence. He continues his Beethoven odyssey at Wigmore Hall with four essential works from the composer’s middle years, including the fantasy worlds of the Op. 27 sonatas and the genial warmth of the ‘Pastoral’ Sonata.

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Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

Simon Jay Price

Igor Levit

Monday 27 February 1.00 pm

27 David Greilsammer piano Scarlatti Sonatas: in D minor Kk213; in D minor Kk141;

Julien Mignot in E Kk381; in B minor Kk87; in F minor Kk466; in E Kk531; in B minor Kk27; in D Kk492 Interspersed with Cage Sonatas: No. 14; No. 13; No. 12; No. 1; No. 16; No. 11; No. 5 Pianist and conductor David Greilsammer is known not least for his refreshingly imaginative approach to programming and corresponding breadth of his repertoire. His choice of works by Domenico Scarlatti and John Cage highlights the fascination of both composers for tonal and textural contrasts, explored in the former’s keyboard sonatas and the latter’s sonatas for prepared piano.

£15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital David Greilsammer

21 Monday 27 February 7.30 pm

The Monday Platform 2016/17 Barbican String Quartet Tom Allwood Charlotte Ashton flute William Vann piano Bach Flute Sonata in C BWV1033 Schubert Introduction and

Variations on Trock’ne Blumen Barbican String Quartet Charlotte Ashton William Vann from Die schöne Müllerin D802 Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Britten Three Divertimenti for string quartet Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 Webern Fünf Sätze Op. 5 Dutilleux Sonatine Edwin Roxburgh Stardrift Gade Tango Fantasia Hear the Barbican Quartet and flautist Charlotte Ashton in a performance featuring classic string quartets and contemporary flute works. Formed in 2014, the members of the quartet met at the GSMD. A recent RAM graduate, Charlotte performs regularly with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Hallé.

£20 £18 £14 £12 £10 The Musicians’ Company (Reg. Charity)

Tuesday 28 February 7.30pm 28 Theatre of the Ayre Sophie Daneman soprano William Purefoy countertenor

Nicholas Mulroy tenor Giles Underwood baritone Sandra Lousada Richard Haughton Rodolfo Richter violin Emilia Benjamin viol Reiko Ichise viol Jacob Heringman lute, cittern Elizabeth Kenny Sophie Daneman William Purefoy Siobhán Armstrong harp David Miller lute, theorbo Elizabeth Kenny director, lute, theorbo THE MASQUE OF MOMENTS PART I MASQUE Anon The Earl of Essex’s Measure Lupo Shows and nightly revels Nicholas Mulroy Giles Underwood Rodolfo Richter Coprario While dancing rests Anon Steer Hither Campion Now hath Flora robb’d her bowers Ferrabosco Why stayes the bridegroome Anon Masque dance Campion Move now with measured sound

Wendy Gillespie Ferrabosco Galliarde Faraboscho Lanier I was not wearier when I lay Marco Borggreve Anon Les Manches Vertes

ANTIMASQUE Emilia Benjamin Reiko Ichise Jacob Heringman Johnson From the famous Peak of Derby Anon The Bears’ Dance; Tho’ it may seem rude; Tom O’Bedlam; What is’t you lack?; To the old, long life and treasure; The maypole PART II ANTIMASQUE Anon Robin; Lord Zouche his Masque Coleman Did not you once, Lucinda, vow? Siobhán Armstrong David Miller MASQUE Coprario Cuperaree or Grayes inn Masque H Lawes From the Heav’ns now I fly W Lawes Instrumental work H Lawes Sweet Echo W Lawes Valediction; Hence, ye prophane, far hence away; Wherefore do my sisters stay?; Thinke not I could absent myself this night; In envye of the night W Lawes Instrumental work Locke Mercury and Nature in the Elysian Groves A company of standout vocalists and consort players joins Elizabeth Kenny and Theatre of the Ayre for a programme inspired by the Stuart courtly masque and its high-comic counterpart, the antimasque. Popular dances and ditties here rub shoulders with exquisite consort songs by the brothers Lawes, Alfonso Ferrabosco and Giovanni Coprario, alias John Cooper. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor and Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall Early Music and Baroque Series

How to get to Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141

Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM, HonFRIAM The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity No. 1024838

Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s West End and is easily accessible by public transport or car.

Tubes Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines) tube stations are both close by.

Buses A large number of buses travel along Oxford Street, which is approximately five minutes walk from Wigmore Hall.

Car Parking There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a five-minute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their parking. Please contact the box office for further details or visit our website.

Restaurant and Bars Full information on pre-concert and interval refreshments can be found at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or by calling 020 7258 8292. Table reservations can be made by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.

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