2019/20 SEASON

SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2019 2 •

Director’s Introduction • 3

Join us in September for the 2019 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera International Song Competition. This Competition celebrates the art of the song recital and honours the ’s place at the heart of the song repertoire, complemented by Wigmore Hall Learning study events. Early in his career, developed a long-lasting relationship with Wigmore Hall, with the venue hosting several important premières of his works. Opening the season and Wigmore Hall’s Britten focus, Allan Clayton and James Baillieu commemorate the first performance of Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, given by Britten and the tenor in 1942. Allan and James also mark the anniversary of the composer’s death in December, while we celebrate Britten’s birthday with the Doric String Quartet in November. The pre-eminent countertenor Iestyn Davies inaugurates his 2019/20 Residency celebrating his 40th birthday, an occasion heightened with Davies being awarded the prestigious Wigmore Medal; few singers cover his range of activities. The Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Ensemble in Residence, places the music of Schubert at the centre of its annual series, also featuring music by many of his contemporaries, forerunners and successors, ranging from Spohr and Rossini to the Mendelssohns and Schumann. Our 2019/20 Composer in Residence, complementing our Beethoven celebrations this season, is a creative figure of exceptional range and reach, as well as a trained physicist, writer, jazz pianist, composer and Harvard Professor. Vijay Iyer has received numerous awards for work that has seen him shine not only in purely musical genres but also in prestigious collaborations with poets, filmmakers and choreographers. Few composers have left such a rich heritage of music for the recital hall as Johannes Brahms, whose equal mastery in the fields of song, piano music and has continued to reward innumerable listeners and interpreters. The composer is a staple feature of ’s Residency, a pianist whose diverse creativity and intellectual curiosity is matched by few others. This season sees two strands of focus on Mieczysław Weinberg: Quatuor Danel will begin their two-season cycle of the complete string Contents quartets; and on 26 October, violinist Linus Roth will champion his work in three concerts. At a Glance 4 The whole year commences with an opening festival weekend to kick Calendar 8 off the season-long celebrations surrounding the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth in 2020. Leading artists take part in a September 10 wide-ranging weekend, offering an intensive experience of Beethoven’s October 34 music viewed from varied perspectives. November 60 The Hall then continues its celebration of Beethoven through the 2019/20 Season, with highlights including surveys of the composer’s complete December 82 piano, violin and cello sonatas, the complete string quartets, piano trios Contemporary Music Series 102 and string trios, piano variations and many red-letter Beethoven dates. Spring Preview 104 Summer Preview 108 Booking Information 114 At a Glance September - December 2019

See pages 10-101 for full details of these concerts and page 114 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for… Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ 71 Chamber Music Season Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera 10, 11 International Song Competition 2019 Young Soloists of the Kronberg Academy 72 Beethoven Festival Opening Weekend Britten Series 12, 13 Danny Driver 74 Sat 14 Sep 14 Beethoven Festival Opening Weekend 14-17 76 11.30am /Robert Levin 14 Iestyn Davies Residency 18, 19 Andrè Schuen/Daniel Heide 77 2.00pm Tim Horton/ O/Modernt Soloists St. Lawrence String Quartet 22 Brenda Rae/ 78 4.30pm O/Modernt Soloists 14 Schubert Song Cycles: 21 Nelson Goerner 79 7.00pm / 15 Mark Padmore/Kristian Bezuidenhout Fauré Quartet 80 Kristian Bezuidenhout/ Vijay Iyer Residency: Musicality 23 Tenebrae 82 Carolin Widmann/ Michael Collins Residency 25 Bertrand Chamayou 84 Škampa Quartet/ Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo 28 Stephen Hough Residency 83 O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra Schumann Song Series 29 / 85 10.00pm Alina Ibragimova/ 15 Cédric Tiberghien Rachel Podger Residency 32 L’Arpeggiata 90 Sun 15 Sep Beethoven Series 30, 31 Jakub Józef Orliński/Il Pomo d’Oro 92 11.30am Škampa Quartet/Jakub Fišer 16 /Steven Isserlis/ 33 Fretwork: Musick’s Monument 94 2.00pm Soraya Mafi/ 16 Olli Mustonen 93 Les Talens Lyriques O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra 35 Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works 95 : Beethoven String Quartets 4.30pm Cédric Tiberghien/ 17 /Gerold Huber 36 Claron McFadden/Alexander Melnikov 97 Sam West/O/Modernt Soloists Christiane Karg Focus 37 The Soldier’s Tale: 98 7.00pm Janne Thomsen/ 17 Elisabeth Leonskaja/Liza Ferschtman/ 38 Isabelle Faust and friends Michael Collins/Nicholas Daniel/ István Várdai Brahms Plus Series 100 Amy Harman/Alec Frank-Gemmill/ Jess Gillam/Zeynep Özsuca 39 Benjamin Baker/Timothy Ridout/ Ensemble Marsyas Residency 99 Elizabeth Watts/ 40 Isang Enders/Chi-chi Nwanoku/ Florilegium 101 Aleksandar Madžar Borodin Quartet 42 10.00pm Elisabeth Leonskaja 17 Beethoven Violin Sonatas 43 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Nash Ensemble: Around Schubert 44, 45 Tue 17 Sep Stephen Waarts/ 20 Mon 16 Sep Benjamin Appl/ 20 Elias String Quartet 47 Gabriele Carcano Kristian Bezuidenhout Beethoven Cello Sonatas 49 Wed 18 Sep St. Lawrence String Quartet 22 Mon 23 Sep Marlis Petersen/ 27 Mon 23 Sep Michael Collins/ 25 Brahms Series 50, 51 Camillo Radicke Leonard Elschenbroich/ Imogen Cooper 70th Birthday Concert 53 Mon 30 Sep Boris Giltburg 33 Michael McHale Catriona Morison/Malcolm Martineau 52 Mon 7 Oct Jess Gillam/Zeynep Özsuca 39 Wed 25 Sep / 29 Weinberg/Shostakovich Cycle 54 Mon 14 Oct Borodin Quartet/ 47 Raphael Wallfisch/John York Weinberg Focus Day 55 Barry Douglas Tue 1 Oct Sacha Rattle/Irène Duval/ 34 Christoph Prégardien/Julius Drake 58 Mon 21 Oct Lawrence Power/ 52 William Hagen/Clare Finnimore/ Simon Crawford-Phillips William Coleman/Zlatomir Fung/ Colin Currie/ 59 Mon 28 Oct Jean-Guihen Queyras/ 57 Shai Wosner Emmanuelle Haïm Residency 61 Alexandre Tharaud Mon 2 Oct / 34 Recollections of Beethoven 60 Mon 4 Nov The Cardinall’s Musick 64 Mahan Esfahani with Freya Waley-Cohen Mon 11 Nov Joanna MacGregor 68 Sun 6 Oct Elisabeth Leonskaja/ 38 Pavel Haas Quartet 61 Liza Ferschtman/István Várdai Mon 18 Nov James Newby/Simon Lepper 74 Schubert Cycle: Francesco Piemontesi 63 Wed 9 Oct Borodin Quartet 42 Mon 25 Nov Marian Consort 79 Janine Jansen/Sonoko Miriam Welde/ 64 Thu 10 Oct James Ehnes/ 43 Mon 2 Dec Colin Currie/Sam Walton/ 82 Johan Dalene/Ludvig Gudim/ Andrew Armstrong Amihai Grosz/Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad/ Pavel Kolesnikov/ Fri 11 Oct Borodin Quartet 42 Amalie Stalheim/Jens Peter Maintz Samson Tsoy Sat 12 Oct Nash Ensemble: 44, 45 Cédric Tiberghien: Beethoven Variations 66 Mon 9 Dec Nelson Freire 88 Around Schubert Alessandro Fisher/Ashok Gupta 68 Mon 16 Dec Elisabeth Kulman/ 93 Eduard Kutrowatz Sun 13 Oct Vilde Frang/Michail Lifits 46 Lara Melda 69 Mon 14 Oct Elias String Quartet 47 Christian Tetzlaff/Lars Vogt 69 Thu 17 Oct Miklós Perényi/Dénes Várjon 49 Robin Tritschler/Jonathan Ware 70 wigmore-hall.org.uk • 5

Sat 19 Oct Miklós Perényi/Dénes Várjon 52 Sun 29 Sep Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch 30 Sat 9 Nov Cédric Tiberghien 66 Thu 24 Oct Quatuor Danel 54 Sun 6 Oct Dudok Quartet 38 Sun 10 Nov 68 Sat 26 Oct Linus Roth/Ilona Domnich/ 55 Sun 13 Oct Endymion 46 Mon 11 Nov Lara Melda 69 José Gallardo/Janusz Wawrowski/ Sun 20 Oct Castalian String Quartet/ 50 Mon 18 Nov Danny Driver 74 Danjulo Ishizaka Isabel Charisius/Ursula Smith Tue 26 Nov Nelson Goerner 79 Mon 28 Oct Alisa Weilerstein/ 57 Sun 27 Oct Esmé Quartet 56 Mon 2 Dec Bertrand Chamayou 84 Inon Barnatan Sun 3 Nov Lucas Jussen/Arthur Jussen 63 Mon 9 Dec Eric Lu 88 Tue 29 Oct The Endellion String Quartet 57 Sun 10 Nov Isang Enders/Sunwook Kim 67 Tue 10 Dec Mario Häring 88 Thu 31 Oct Colin Currie/Huw Watkins 59 Sun 17 Nov Young Soloists of the 72 Wed 11 Dec Xinyuan Wang 89 Sat 2 Nov Tamsin Waley-Cohen 60 Kronberg Academy Thu 19 Dec Jonathan Biss 96 Sat 2 Nov Albion Quartet 60 Sun 24 Nov Rachel Podger 77 Sat 28 Dec Jonathan Plowright 100 Sat 2 Nov Pavel Haas Quartet 61 Sun 1 Dec Beatrice Rana 82 Mon 4 Nov Janine Jansen/ 64 Sun 8 Dec Van Kuijk Quartet 87 Sonoko Miriam Welde/ Sun 15 Dec Eggner Trio 91 Song Recital Series Johan Dalene/Ludvig Gudim/ Sat 7 – Wigmore Hall/Independent 11 Amihai Grosz/ Sun 22 Dec Modigliani Quartet 97 Wed 11 Sep Opera International Song Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad/ Sun 29 Dec Sheku Kanneh-Mason 100 Competition 2019 Amalie Stalheim/Jens Peter Maintz and friends Fri 13 Sep Louise Alder/Christine Rice/ 12 Tue 5 Nov Takács Quartet 64 Allan Clayton/ Thu 7 Nov Takács Quartet 65 Early Music and Baroque Series Christopher Maltman/ Tue 12 Nov Christian Tetzlaff/Lars Vogt 69 James Baillieu Mon 16 Sep Iestyn Davies/ 18 Wed 13 Nov Wihan Quartet 69 Fri 20 Sep Mark Padmore/ 21 Kristian Bezuidenhout Fri 15 Nov Academy of St Martin in the 71 Thu 19 Sep The Mozartists 22 Fields/Joshua Bell Tue 24 Sep Carolyn Sampson/ 27 Thu 26 Sep Roberta Mameli/Sonia Prina/ 28 Kristian Bezuidenhout Sat 16 Nov Nash Ensemble: 70 Luigi De Donato/laBarocca/ Around Schubert Ruben Jais Wed 25 Sep French Song 27 Exchange Showcase Sun 17 Nov Young Soloists of the 72 Sat 28 Sep Rachel Podger/ 32 Kronberg Academy Brecon Baroque Thu 26 Sep French Song 27 Exchange Showcase Wed 20 Nov Vienna Piano Trio 75 Wed 2 Oct Mahan Esfahani 35 Fri 27 Sep Sasha Cooke/ 29 Fri 22 Nov Doric String Quartet 76 Tue 8 Oct Arcangelo 40 Malcolm Martineau Fri 29 Nov Fauré Quartet 80 Fri 1 Nov Emmanuelle Haïm/ 61 Mon 30 Sep Ian Bostridge/Steven Isserlis/ 33 Le Concert d’Astrée/ Tue 3 Dec Stephen Hough/ 83 Olli Mustonen Steven Isserlis Anna Stéphany Thu 3 Oct Independent Opera 35 Thu 28 Nov The English Concert 80 Wed 4 Dec Sophie Bevan/Allan Clayton/ 84 Scholars’ Recital 2019 Nicolas Fleury/Aurora Orchestra/ Sun 1 Dec Tenebrae 82 Fri 4 Oct Christian Gerhaher/ 36 Brett Dean Fri 13 Dec L’Arpeggiata 90 Gerold Huber Fri 6 Dec Stephen Hough/ 86 Sat 14 Dec Jakub Józef Orliński/ 92 Sat 5 Oct Christiane Karg/ 37 Michael Collins/Andrei Ioniţă Il Pomo d’Oro Sabine Meyer/ Sat 7 Dec Nash Ensemble: 86 Sun 15 Dec Fretwork 94 Malcolm Martineau Around Schubert Tue 17 Dec Les Talens Lyriques 93 Mon 7 Oct Elizabeth Watts/Julius Drake 40 Tue 10 Dec Quatuor Danel 89 Mon 30 Dec Ensemble Marsyas Residency 99 Sun 13 Oct Soraya Mafi/Simon Lepper 46 Wed 11 Dec Melvyn Tan/Calefax/ 91 Wed 23 Oct Catriona Morison/ 52 Signum Quartet Tue 31 Dec Florilegium 101 Malcolm Martineau Mon 16 Dec Martin Fröst/Roland Pöntinen 93 Wed 30 Oct Christoph Prégardien/ 58 Wed 18 Dec Belcea Quartet 95 Pianoforte Series Julius Drake Fri 20 Dec Belcea Quartet 96 Sun 15 Sep Elisabeth Leonskaja 17 Wed 6 Nov / 65 Mon 23 Dec Isabelle Faust and friends 98 Sat 21 Sep Marc-André Hamelin 24 Iain Burnside Fri 27 Dec Schumann Quartet 98 Sun 29 Sep Jonathan Biss 31 Fri 8 Nov Simona Mihai/ 67 Fri 18 Oct Alexander Gavrylyuk 49 Anna Stéphany/Filipe Manu/ Dominic Sedgwick/ Tue 22 Oct Imogen Cooper 53 Sunday Morning Concerts /Somi Kim Sun 15 Sep Škampa Quartet/Jakub Fišer 16 Fri 25 Oct 56 Sun 22 Sep Kuss Quartet 25 Sun 3 Nov Francesco Piemontesi 63 6 • Box Office: 020 7935 2141 At a Glance September - December 2019 £5 TICKETS Sun 10 Nov Alessandro Fisher/ 68 Mon 11 Nov Joanna MacGregor 68 Sun 6 Oct Silver Sunday at the 38 Ashok Gupta Tue 12 Nov Christian Tetzlaff/Lars Vogt 69 Wallace Collection UNDER 35s Thu 14 Nov Robin Tritschler/ 70 Sun 17 Nov Young Soloists of the 72 Thu 10 Oct Chamber Tots: Under the Sea 40 Jonathan Ware Kronberg Academy Sat 12 Oct Family Concert: Giddy Goat 43 Sat 23 Nov Andrè Schuen/Daniel Heide 77 Mon 18 Nov Danny Driver 74 Tue 15 Oct Singing with Friends: 48 Sun 24 Nov Brenda Rae/ 78 Tue 19 Nov EFG London Jazz Festival: 74 Come and Sing Malcolm Martineau Lars Danielsson Group Thu 17 Oct Chamber Tots: Into Space 48 Sat 30 Nov Jamie Barton/Kathleen Kelly 81 Sun 24 Nov Brenda Rae/ 78 Fri 18 Oct Schools Concert: Giddy Goat 48 Wed 4 Dec Sophie Bevan/Allan Clayton/ 84 Malcolm Martineau Thu 24 Oct Relaxed Concert: 56 Nicolas Fleury/ Mon 25 Nov Marian Consort 79 Laura Jurd Trio Aurora Orchestra/Brett Dean Sat 30 Nov Jamie Barton/ 81 Sat 26 Oct Pre-Concert Talk and 55 Thu 5 Dec Thomas Hampson/ 85 Kathleen Kelly Book Launch Wolfram Rieger Sun 1 Dec Tenebrae 82 Wed 30 Oct Chamber Tots: In the Forest 59 Sun 8 Dec Claire Booth/Susan Bickley/ 87 Mon 2 Dec Bertrand Chamayou 84 Thu 31 Oct Bechstein Sessions: 59 Nicky Spence/ Sounding Cities Andrew Matthews-Owen Tue 3 Dec Stephen Hough/ 83 Steven Isserlis Fri 8 Nov Chamber Tots: Autumn 65 Sun 8 Dec Thomas Oliemans/ 87 Malcolm Martineau Wed 4 Dec Sophie Bevan/Allan Clayton/ 84 Sat 9 Nov Family Day: 67 Nicolas Fleury/Aurora Orchestra/ Journey to the Moon Thu 12 Dec /Julius Drake 91 Brett Dean Wed 20 Nov Chamber Tots: In the Forest 75 Sat 21 Dec Graham Johnson 96 Sun 8 Dec Claire Booth/Susan Bickley/ 87 Songmakers’ Almanac Thu 21 Nov For Crying Out Loud! 75 Nicky Spence/ Fri 22 Nov Thomas Quasthoff 76 Sun 22 Dec Claron McFadden/ 97 Andrew Matthews-Owen Alexander Melnikov Masterclass Tue 10 Dec Mario Häring 88 Sun 29 Dec Tara Erraught/James Baillieu 100 Sun 24 Nov Thomas Quasthoff Interview 76 Wed 11 Dec Melvyn Tan/Calefax/ 91 Fri 29 Nov Music for the Moment 80 Signum Quartet Sat 30 Nov Chamber Tots: Under the Sea 81 Jazz Series Mon 16 Dec Martin Fröst/ 93 Sat 30 Nov Family Concert: Beethoven 81 Sun 22 Sep Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn 23 Roland Pöntinen and the Science of Sound Sun 22 Sep Vijay Iyer/Mike Ladd 23 Sun 22 Dec Claron McFadden/ 97 Alexander Melnikov Wed 4 Dec Schools Concert: Beethoven 84 Tue 19 Nov EFG London Jazz Festival: 74 and the Science of Sound Lars Danielsson Group The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Fri 6 Dec Thomas Hampson 85 Masterclass Contemporary Music Series Wed 11 Dec Bechstein Sessions: 89 Sun 22 Sep Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn 23 Wigmore Hall Learning Improviso Sun 22 Sep Vijay Iyer/Mike Ladd 23 Fri 6 Sep Song Competition: 11 Wed 18 Dec Exploring Beethoven’s Piano 95 Come and Sing Sonatas with Jonathan Biss Mon 30 Sep Ian Bostridge/Steven Isserlis/ 33 Olli Mustonen Sat 7 Sep Schläft ein Lied in alle Dingen 11 Thu 19 Dec Post-Concert Talk 96 Jonathan Biss Tue 1 Oct Sacha Rattle/Irène Duval/ 34 Sun 8 Sep Graham Johnson Talk: 11 William Hagen/Clare Finnimore/ Britten’s Songs William Coleman/ Tue 10 Sep John Mark Ainsley 11 Zlatomir Fung/Shai Wosner Masterclass Wed 2 Oct Britten Sinfonia/ 34 Tue 10 Sep Maximising Performance 11 Mahan Esfahani & Wellbeing Mon 7 Oct Jess Gillam/Zeynep Özsuca 39 Wed 18 Sep For Crying Out Loud! 20 Mon 14 Oct Elias String Quartet 47 Fri 20 Sep Chamber Tots: Autumn 24 Mon 21 Oct Lawrence Power/ 52 Sat 21 Sep Open House 24 Simon Crawford-Phillips Sat 28 Sep Exploring Beethoven’s Piano 32 TO BOOK £5 TICKETS VISIT: Thu 31 Oct Colin Currie/Huw Watkins 59 Sonatas with Jonathan Biss wigmore-hall.org.uk/u35 Sat 2 Nov Tamsin Waley-Cohen 60 Sun 29 Sep Post-Concert Talk with 31 Sat 2 Nov Albion Quartet 60 Jonathan Biss Sat 2 Nov Pavel Haas Quartet 61 Sat 5 Oct Inside the Score: 37 Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire Sun 3 Nov Lucas Jussen/Arthur Jussen 63 £5 TICKETS UNDER 35s

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September - December 2019

September October Fri 6 Sep 10.00am Song Competition: Come and Sing 11 Tue 1 Oct 7.30pm Sacha Rattle/Irène Duval/William Hagen/ 34 Sat 7 Sep 11.00am Song Competition Preliminary Round – Day 1 11 Clare Finnimore/Zlatomir Fung/Shai Wosner 2.30pm Song Competition Preliminary Round – Day 1 11 Wed 2 Oct 12.15pm Pre-Concert Talk 34 4.30pm Schläft ein Lied in alle Dingen 11 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia/Mahan Esfahani 34 Sun 8 Sep 11.00am Song Competition Preliminary Round – Day 2 11 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 35 2.30pm Song Competition Preliminary Round – Day 2 11 Thu 3 Oct 7.30pm Nia Coleman/Filipe Manu/Joel Williams/ 35 5.00pm Graham Johnson Talk: Britten’s Songs 11 Kyu Choi/Simon Lepper Mon 9 Sep 3.00pm Song Competition Semi-Final Round 11 Fri 4 Oct 7.30pm Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 36 7.30pm Song Competition Semi-Final Round 11 Sat 5 Oct 1.00pm Inside the Score: Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire 37 Tue 10 Sep 10.00am John Mark Ainsley Masterclass 11 7.30pm Christiane Karg/Sabine Meyer/ 37 1.00pm 11 John Mark Ainsley Masterclass Malcolm Martineau 6.30pm Maximising Performance & Wellbeing 11 Sun 6 Oct 11.30am Dudok Quartet 38 Wed 11 Sep 6.00pm Song Competition Final and Prize-Giving 11 12 noon Silver Sunday at The Wallace Collection 38 Fri 13 Sep 7.30pm Louise Alder/Christine Rice/Allan Clayton/ 12 7.30pm Elisabeth Leonskaja/Liza Ferschtman 38 Christopher Maltman/James Baillieu István Várdai/ Sat 14 Sep 11.30am 14 Steven Isserlis/Robert Levin Mon 7 Oct 1.00pm Jess Gillam/Zeynep Özsuca 39 2.00pm Tim Horton/O/Modernt Soloists 14 7.30pm Elizabeth Watts/Julius Drake 40 4.30pm O/Modernt Soloists 14 7.00pm Benjamin Appl/Kristian Bezuidenhout/ 15 Tue 8 Oct 7.30pm Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen// 40 Carolin Widmann/Škampa Quartet/ Stuart Jackson/Konstantin Krimmel O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra Wed 9 Oct 7.30pm Borodin Quartet 42 10.00pm Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien 15 Thu 10 Oct 10.15am Chamber Tots: Under the Sea 40 Sun 15 Sep 11.30am Škampa Quartet/Jakub Fišer 16 11.45am Chamber Tots: Under the Sea 40 2.00pm Soraya Mafi/O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra 16 7.30pm James Ehnes/Andrew Armstrong 43 4.30pm Cédric Tiberghien/Sam West/ 17 Fri 11 Oct 7.30pm Borodin Quartet 42 O/Modernt Soloists Sat 12 Oct 3.00pm Family Concert: Giddy Goat 43 7.00pm Janne Thomsen/Michael Collins/ 17 6.00pm 44 Nicholas Daniel/Amy Harman/Alec Frank-Gemmill/ Pre-Concert Talk: Katy Hamilton Benjamin Baker/Timothy Ridout/Isang Enders/ 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Stéphanie d’Oustrac/ 44 Chi-chi Nwanoku/Aleksandar Madžar Simon Crawford-Philips 10.00pm Elisabeth Leonskaja 17 Sun 13 Oct 11.30am Endymion 46 Mon 16 Sep 1.00pm Benjamin Appl/Kristian Bezuidenhout 20 3.00pm Soraya Mafi/Simon Lepper 46 7.30pm Iestyn Davies/The English Concert 18 7.30pm Vilde Frang/Michail Lifits 46 Tue 17 Sep 7.30pm Stephen Waarts/Gabriele Carcano 20 Mon 14 Oct 1.00pm Borodin Quartet/Barry Douglas 47 Wed 18 Sep 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 20 7.30pm Elias String Quartet 47 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 20 Tue 15 Oct 10.30am Singing with Friends: Come and Sing 48 7.00pm St. Lawrence String Quartet 22 Thu 17 Oct 10.15am Chamber Tots: Into Space 48 Thu 19 Sep 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 22 11.45am Chamber Tots: Into Space 48 7.30pm The Mozartists/Regula Mühlemann 22 7.30pm Miklós Perényi/Dénes Várjon 49 Fri 20 Sep 10.15am Chamber Tots: Autumn 24 Fri 18 Oct 11.00am Schools Concert: Giddy Goat 48 11.45am Chamber Tots: Autumn 24 7.30pm Alexander Gavrylyuk 49 7.30pm Mark Padmore/Kristian Bezuidenhout 21 Sat 19 Oct 7.30pm Miklós Perényi/Dénes Várjon 52 Sat 21 Sep 10.00am Open House 24 Sun 20 Oct 11.30am Castalian String Quartet/Isabel Charisius/ 50 7.30pm Marc-André Hamelin 24 Ursula Smith Sun 22 Sep 11.30am Kuss Quartet 25 Mon 21 Oct 1.00pm Lawrence Power/Simon Crawford-Phillips 52 7.00pm Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn 23 10.00pm Vijay Iyer/Mike Ladd 23 Tue 22 Oct 7.00pm Imogen Cooper 53 Mon 23 Sep 1.00pm Marlis Petersen/Camillo Radicke 27 Wed 23 Oct 7.30pm Catriona Morison/Malcolm Martineau 52 6.00pm Artists in Conversation: Michael Collins 25 Thu 24 Oct 11.00am Relaxed Concert: Laura Jurd Trio 56 7.30pm Michael Collins/Leonard Elschenbroich/ 25 7.30pm Quatuor Danel 54 Michael McHale Fri 25 Oct 7.30pm Angela Hewitt 56 Tue 24 Sep 7.30pm Carolyn Sampson/Kristian Bezuidenhout 27 Sat 26 Oct 11.30am Linus Roth/José Gallardo 55 Wed 25 Sep 1.00pm French Song Exchange Showcase 27 3.00pm Linus Roth/Ilona Domnich/José Gallardo 55 7.30pm Ailish Tynan/Raphael Wallfisch/John York 29 5.30pm Pre-Concert Talk and Book Launch 55 Thu 26 Sep 1.00pm French Song Exchange Showcase 27 7.30pm Linus Roth/Ilona Domnich/Janusz Wawrowski/ 55 7.30pm Roberta Mameli/Sonia Prina/ 28 Danjulo Ishizaka/José Gallardo Luigi De Donato/laBarocca/Ruben Jais Sun 27 Oct 11.30am Esmé Quartet 56 Fri 27 Sep 7.30pm Sasha Cooke/Malcolm Martineau 29 Mon 28 Oct 1.00pm Jean-Guihen Queyras/Alexandre Tharaud 57 Sat 28 Sep 3.00pm Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas 32 7.30pm Alisa Weilerstein/Inon Barnatan 57 with Jonathan Biss Tue 29 Oct 7.30pm The Endellion String Quartet 57 7.30pm Rachel Podger/Brecon Baroque 32 Wed 30 Oct 12.30pm Chamber Tots: In the Forest 59 Sun 29 Sep 11.30am Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch 30 2.00pm Chamber Tots: In the Forest 59 7.30pm Jonathan Biss 31 7.30pm Christoph Prégardien/Julius Drake 58 9.30pm Post-Concert Talk 31 Thu 31 Oct 6.15pm Bechstein Sessions: Sounding Cities 59 Mon 30 Sep 1.00pm Boris Giltburg 33 7.30pm Colin Currie/Huw Watkins 59 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Steven Isserlis/Olli Mustonen 33 wigmore-hall.org.uk • 9

November December Fri 1 Nov 7.30pm Anna Stéphany/Le Concert d’Astrée/ 61 Sun 1 Dec 11.30am Beatrice Rana 82 Emmanuelle Haïm/ 7.30pm Tenebrae 82 Sat 2 Nov 11.00am Tamsin Waley-Cohen 60 Mon 2 Dec 1.00pm Colin Currie/Sam Walton/Pavel Kolesnikov/ 82 1.15pm Talk: Freya Waley-Cohen 60 Samson Tsoy 2.30pm Albion String Quartet 60 7.30pm Bertrand Chamayou 84 7.30pm Pavel Haas Quartet 61 Tue 3 Dec 7.30pm Stephen Hough/Steven Isserlis 83 Sun 3 Nov 11.30am Lucas Jussen/Arthur Jussen 63 7.30pm Francesco Piemontesi 63 Wed 4 Dec 11.00am Schools Concert: 84 Mon 4 Nov 1.00pm The Cardinall’s Musick 64 Beethoven and the Science of Sound 7.30pm Janine Jansen/Sonoko Miriam Welde/ 64 7.30pm Sophie Bevan/Allan Clayton/Nicolas Fleury/ 84 Johan Dalene/Ludvig Gudim/Amihai Grosz/ Aurora Orchestra/Brett Dean Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad/Amalie Stalheim/ Thu 5 Dec 7.30pm Thomas Hampson/Wolfram Rieger 85 Jens Peter Maintz Fri 6 Dec 1.00pm Thomas Hampson Masterclass 85 Tue 5 Nov 7.30pm Takács Quartet 64 7.30pm Stephen Hough/Michael Collins/Andrei Ioniţă 86 Wed 6 Nov 7.30pm Roderick Williams/Iain Burnside 65 Sat 7 Dec 5.30pm Nash Ensemble 86 Thu 7 Nov 7.30pm Takács Quartet 65 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Roderick Williams 86 Fri 8 Nov 10.15am Chamber Tots: Autumn 65 Sun 8 Dec 11.30am Van Kuijk Quartet 87 11.45am Chamber Tots: Autumn 65 3.00pm Claire Booth/Susan Bickley/Nicky Spence/ 87 7.30pm Simona Mihai/Anna Stéphany/Filipe Manu/ 67 Andrew Matthews-Owen Dominic Sedgwick/Joseph Middleton/ 7.30pm Thomas Oliemans/Malcolm Martineau 87 Somi Kim Mon 9 Dec 1.00pm Nelson Freire 88 Sat 9 Nov 10.30am Family Day: Journey to the Moon 67 7.30pm 88 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien 66 Eric Lu Sun 10 Nov 11.30am Isang Enders/Sunwook Kim 67 Tue 10 Dec 1.00pm Mario Häring 88 3.00pm Alessandro Fisher/Ashok Gupta 68 7.30pm Quatuor Danel 89 7.30pm Leslie Howard 68 Wed 11 Dec 1.00pm Xinyuan Wang 89 Mon 11 Nov 1.00pm Joanna MacGregor 68 6.15pm Bechstein Sessions: Improviso 89 7.30pm Lara Melda 69 7.30pm Melvyn Tan/Calefax/Signum Quartet 91 Tue 12 Nov 7.30pm Christian Tetzlaff/Lars Vogt 69 Thu 12 Dec 7.30pm Alice Coote/Julius Drake 91 Wed 13 Nov 7.30pm Wihan Quartet 69 Fri 13 Dec 7.30pm L’Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar/Céline Scheen/ 90 Thu 14 Nov 7.30pm Robin Tritschler/Jonathan Ware 70 Benedetta Mazzucato/Vincenzo Capezzuto Fri 15 Nov 7.30pm Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Joshua Bell 71 Sat 14 Dec 7.30pm Jakub Józef Orliński/Il Pomo d’Oro 92 Sat 16 Nov 5.30pm 70 Nash Ensemble Sun 15 Dec 11.30am Eggner Trio 91 7.30pm Nash Ensemble 70 7.30pm Fretwork/Elin Manahan Thomas 94 Sun 17 Nov 11.30am Young Soloists of the Kronberg Academy 72 7.30pm Young Soloists of the Kronberg Academy/ 72 Mon 16 Dec 1.00pm Elisabeth Kulman/Eduard Kutrowatz 93 Elena Bashkirova 7.30pm Martin Fröst/Roland Pöntinen 93 Mon 18 Nov 1.00pm James Newby/Simon Lepper 74 Tue 17 Dec 7.30pm Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset 93 7.30pm Danny Driver 74 Wed 18 Dec 3.00pm Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas 94 Tue 19 Nov 7.30pm EFG London Jazz Festival: 74 with Jonathan Biss Lars Danielsson Group – Liberetto III 7.30pm Belcea Quartet 95 Wed 20 Nov 10.15am Chamber Tots: In the Forest 75 Thu 19 Dec 7.30pm Jonathan Biss 96 11.45am Chamber Tots: In the Forest 75 9.30pm Post-Concert Talk 96 7.30pm Vienna Piano Trio 75 Fri 20 Dec 7.30pm Belcea Quartet 96 Thu 21 Nov 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 75 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 75 Sat 21 Dec 7.30pm Graham Johnson Songmakers’ Almanac 96 Fri 22 Nov 1.00pm Thomas Quasthoff Masterclass 76 Sun 22 Dec 11.30am Modigliani Quartet 97 7.30pm Doric String Quartet 76 7.30pm Claron McFadden/Alexander Melnikov 97 Sat 23 Nov 11.00am Wagner Society Singing Competition 77 Mon 23 Dec 7.30pm Isabelle Faust/Alois Posch/Lorenzo Coppola/ 98 7.30pm Andrè Schuen/Daniel Heide 77 Javier Zafra/Reinhold Friedrich/ Sun 24 Nov 11.30am Rachel Podger 77 Jörgen van Rijen/Raymond Curfs/ 3.00pm Thomas Quasthoff Talk/Interview 76 Dominique Horwitz 7.30pm Brenda Rae/Malcolm Martineau 78 Fri 27 Dec 7.30pm Schumann Quartet 98 Mon 25 Nov 1.00pm Marian Consort 79 Sat 28 Dec 7.30pm Jonathan Plowright 100 Tue 26 Nov 7.30pm Nelson Goerner 79 Sun 29 Dec 11.30am Sheku Kanneh-Mason and friends 100 Thu 28 Nov 7.30pm The English Concert/Harry Bicket/ 80 7.30pm Tara Erraught/James Baillieu 100 Nadja Zwiener Mon 30 Dec 7.30pm Ensemble Marsyas/Katie Bray/ 99 Fri 29 Nov 3.00pm Music for the Moment 80

7.30pm Fauré Quartet 80 Alec Frank-Gemmill/Joe Walters Sat 30 Nov 10.15am Chamber Tots: Under the Sea 81 Tue 31 Dec 7.00pm Florilegium/Ashley Solomon/Rowan Pierce/ 101 11.45am Chamber Tots: Under the Sea 81 Bojan Čičić/David Blackadder 3.00pm Family Concert: 81 Beethoven and the Science of Sound 7.30pm Jamie Barton/Kathleen Kelly 81 10 • September Box Office: 020 7935 2141

This Competition celebrates the art of the song recital and requires contestants to sing in at least three languages. At the same time it honours the Lied’s place at the heart of the song repertoire and celebrates the Shakespearean stature of Schubert in the genre.

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COMPETITION RELATED EVENTS Saturday 7 September Friday 6 September 10.00am – 3.30pm 11.00am and 2.30pm Come and Sing: English Song Preliminary Round – Day 1 Join choral leader Isabelle Adams for a day exploring Contestants will each perform a 15-minute programme. some of the greatest vocal works by English composers. The day will finish with an informal performance on the All day £16 concs £14 Wigmore Hall stage. Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List £25 concs £20 Subscribers (ticket required) Saturday 7 September 4.30pm – 5.15pm Sunday 8 September 11.00am and 2.30pm Schläft ein Lied in alle Dingen (A song sleeps in everything) Preliminary Round – Day 2 Taking inspiration from this line from Eichendorff’s Contestants will each perform a 15-minute programme. poem Wünschelrute (Magic Wand), and Iain Burnside discuss the art of contemporary song writing. All day £16 concs £14 Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List £5 Subscribers (ticket required) Sunday 8 September 5.00pm – 6.00pm

Monday 9 September Graham Johnson Talk: Britten’s Songs 3.00pm and 7.30pm Graham Johnson was the official pianist at Peter Pears’ first masterclasses at Snape Maltings in 1972, which Semi-Final Round brought him into contact with Benjamin Britten. The Contestants will each perform a 20-minute programme. songs of Britten have been an integral part of Johnson’s repertoire ever since. All day £20 concs £16 Please note that there will be a supper interval from 6.00pm to 7.30pm. £5 Please contact the Wigmore Restaurant on 020 7258 8292 to make your supper reservation; advance reservations only. Tuesday 10 September 10.00am – 12 noon and 1.00pm – 3.00pm Wednesday 11 September 6.00pm John Mark Ainsley Masterclass John Mark Ainsley passes on some of the wisdom Final and Prize-Giving he has acquired throughout his career, and uses his Four singers will each give a 30-minute recital. vast experience as an internationally acclaimed tenor to provide encouragement and inspiration to eight £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Semi-Finalists. Please note that there will be a supper interval from 8.20pm to 9.30pm. Please contact the Wigmore Restaurant on 020 7258 8292 to make your £10 concs £8 for both masterclass sessions supper reservation; advance reservations only. Tuesday 10 September 6.30pm – 9.30pm Maximising Performance & Wellbeing – Mental & Physical Strategies for singers & musicians Independent Opera, the Royal College of Music and Wigmore Hall join forces to host a special event that Book for the first three days at the explores the vital topic of singers’ wellbeing, with same time for £39 concs £33 experts who will offer guidance and support on performance psychology, taking care of your voice, Please note the competition events are already on and managing an unconventional career. general sale, available to purchase now online or at the Box Office £10 students £5 12 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Britten As both a performer and a composer who made vital contributions to the genres of chamber music and song, Benjamin Britten and Wigmore Hall developed a long-lasting relationship early in the composer’s career, with Wigmore Hall being the venue of several important premières of his works. Opening the season and inaugurating Wigmore Hall’s series focussing on Britten and his connections with the venue, Allan Clayton and James Baillieu commemorate the first performance of Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, given by Britten and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, on 23 September 1942, alongside a lineup of additional dazzling singers in further Britten works. Later in the season, we commemorate both Britten’s birthday and the anniversary of his death.

Friday 13 September 7.30pm

Louise Alder soprano Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Allan Clayton tenor Christopher Maltman baritone James Baillieu piano Britten Gala Britten On this Island Op. 11; A Charm of Lullabies Op. 41; Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22; Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Op. 74

Four leading singers explore Britten’s extraordinary range as a song composer in cycles dating between 1937 and 1965, and taking in such poets as Robert Burns and WH Auden, as well as the great Italian visual artist Michelangelo.

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Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Friday 22 November 7.30pm Britten’s Birthday: Doric String Quartet

Wednesday 4 December 7.30pm Britten’s Deathday: Sophie Bevan soprano Allan Clayton tenor Nicolas Fleury horn Aurora Orchestra & Brett Dean conductor

Saturday 4 January 2020 7.30pm Allan Clayton tenor Timothy Ridout viola Sean Shibe guitar & James Baillieu piano

Wednesday 22 April 2020 7.30pm Allan Clayton tenor James Baillieu piano

Thursday 14 May 2020 7.30pm Vox Luminis

Thursday 21 May 2020 7.00pm NB time Iestyn Davies countertenor Allan Clayton tenor James Newby baritone Alec Frank-Gemmill horn Olivia Jageurs harp & James Baillieu piano

Thursday 21 May 2020 10.00pm Allan Clayton tenor James Baillieu piano

Monday 13 July 2020 1.00pm Allan Clayton tenor James Baillieu piano

Allan Clayton © Sim Canetty-Clarke 14 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141 BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL OPENING WEEKEND Leading artists take part in a wide-ranging opening weekend to kick off the season-long Beethoven celebration. These artists offer an intensive experience of Beethoven’s music viewed from varied perspectives – delving into areas from his own health to composers who influenced him and those whom he in turn influenced – with several appearances by an innovative ensemble that regularly underlines connections between the old and the new.

Saturday 14 September

Steven Isserlis © Kevin Davis Tim Horton © Benjamin Ealovega Hugo Ticciati © Marco Borggreve 11.30am 2.00pm 4.30pm

Steven Isserlis cello Tim Horton piano O/Modernt Soloists

Robert Levin fortepiano O/Modernt Soloists Hugo Ticciati violin Priya Mitchell violin Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Hugo Ticciati violin Priya Mitchell violin Fredrik Paulsson viola Op. 5 No. 1; 12 Variations in F Julian Arp cello on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ Gareth Lubbe viola from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Julian Arp cello The Convalescent Soul: Op. 66; Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 Giant Marching Along Behind Heiliger Dankgesang Brahms Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Bach From Goldberg Variations Joining with fortepianist Op. 1; Piano Quintet in F minor BWV988 (arr. for string trio): Robert Levin, Steven Isserlis Op. 34 Aria, Variation I, Variation III, opens the weekend with a Variation XXV, Aria Beethoven programme focussed on major ‘You can have no idea,’ wrote 3rd movement from String cello sonatas dating from 1796 Brahms in 1872, ‘what it’s like to Quartet in A minor Op. 132 and 1807-8 respectively. hear such a giant always marching Cage 4’33’’Schoenberg String along behind you!’; but as the Trio Op. 45 £15 collaborative ensemble directed by Hugo Ticciati will demonstrate, The power of music to heal is Beethoven’s daunting inheritance represented in a programme could also be positive – certainly including works celebrating the case with Brahms’ mighty Op. 1 recovery from illness alongside and his bracing Piano Quintet. music supposedly conceived to cure insomnia. £15 £15

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Our Beethoven Celebration has been made possible thanks to a lead gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, with additional support from the Beethoven Circle

Saturday 14 September

Benjamin Appl © Sony Classical & Uwe Arens Carolin Widmann © Lennard Ruhle Alina Ibragimova © Eva Vermandel 7.00pm 10.00pm

Benjamin Appl baritone Kristian Bezuidenhout piano Alina Ibragimova violin Carolin Widmann violin Škampa Quartet Cédric Tiberghien piano O/Modernt Soloists Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 Hugo Ticciati, Priya Mitchell, Johannes Marmén violin Fredrik Paulsson, in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Gareth Lubbe viola Julian Arp, Claude Frochaux cello Jordi Carrasco Janáček Violin Sonata Hjelm double bass Janne Thomsen flute Nicholas Daniel oboe Christoffer Sundqvist, Sacha Rattle, Oliver Pashley clarinet This outstanding duo, which first Emily Hultmark bassoon Alec Frank-Gemill, Ellen Rydelius horn Torbjörn came together as members of Hultmark trumpet Mikael Oskarsson trombone Magnus Vangsnes Bjørgo the BBC Radio 3 New Generation bass tuba Olivia Jageurs harp Sam Wilson percussion Artists scheme in 2005, has gone on to worldwide acclaim and regular Immortal Beloved appearances at Wigmore Hall – Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98 Janáček String Quartet No. 2 most notably with their cycles of the ‘Intimate Letters’ Berg Violin Concerto (arr. Faradsch Karaew) Beethoven sonatas in 2009-10 and Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 of Mozart’s in 2015-16.

A line-up of exceptional musicians explores the concept of the mysterious £15 ‘immortal’ or ‘distant beloved’ that permeates music in the Romantic period and beyond, from Beethoven’s 1816 song cycle through to Mahler, Janáček and Berg.

£30 £26 £22 £18 £15

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Sunday 15 September

Škampa Quartet © Havlik. Vojtech Soraya Mafi © Raphaelle Photography O/Modernt 11.30am 2.00pm

Škampa Quartet Soraya Mafisoprano Jakub Fišer viola O/Modernt Soloists Beethoven String Quartet in F Hugo Ticciati, Priya Mitchell, Johannes Marmén violin Op. 18 No. 1; String Quintet in C Fredrik Paulsson, Gareth Lubbe viola Op. 29 Julian Arp, Claude Frochaux cello Chi-chi Nwanoku double bass Long a presence on the Olivia Jageurs harp international scene and specifically Janne Thomsen flute at Wigmore Hall, the four gifted Nicholas Daniel, Malin Klingborg oboe players of the Škampa Quartet Emily Hultmark bassoon are joined by their compatriot Alec Frank-Gemmill, Ellen Rydelius horn and experienced chamber Mozart’s Spirit from Haydn’s Hands musician violist Jakub Fišer for Mozart Et incarnatus est from Mass in C minor K427 a programme of Beethoven’s Haydn Symphony No. 45 in F sharp minor ‘Farewell’ masterpieces for strings. It was Beethoven’s patron Count Waldstein who predicted in 1792 that £16 concs £14 inc. coffee/sherry/ his young protégé would ‘receive Mozart’s spirit from Haydn’s hands’. juice Their benign influences as the young Beethoven’s great predecessors are celebrated in a programme in which the increasingly acclaimed Lancashire-born soprano joins Ticciati and his ensemble.

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Sunday 15 September

Cedric Tiberghien © Jean-Baptiste-Millot Michael Collins © Benjamin Ealovega Elisabeth Leonskaja © Marco Borggreve 4.30pm 7.00pm 10.00pm

Cédric Tiberghien piano Janne Thomsen flute Elisabeth Leonskaja Sam West narrator Michael Collins clarinet piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 O/Modernt Soloists Nicholas Daniel oboe in E Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 Hugo Ticciati violin Amy Harman bassoon in A flat Op. 110; Piano Sonata Johannes Marmén violin No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Fredrik Paulsson viola Alec Frank-Gemmill horn Julian Arp cello Benjamin Baker violin An interpreter who has, in the Fallen Heroes Timothy Ridout viola words of French composer André Boucourechliev, ‘scaled the heights Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in Isang Enders cello B flat minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ achieved only by the greatest, double bass Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon Chi-chi Nwanoku not just of today, but of an entire Op. 41 Aleksandar Madžar piano epoch’, presents works in which Beethoven expanded both the form Beethoven Serenade in D Op. 25; Napoleon was a figure of immense itself and the expressive range of Quintet in E flat for piano and significance to Beethoven the instrument. winds Op. 16; Horn Sonata in F personally – as he was to the whole Op. 17; Septet in E flat Op. 20 of Europe – though the composer’s £15 attitude to his erstwhile hero altered A group of much admired musicians radically. Schoenberg’s setting of presents a varied programme of Byron’s withering ode complements works written during the years Chopin’s sonata containing his 1799-1801 and conceived for unusual famous Funeral March, heard at combinations of instruments. the re-interment of Bonaparte’s remains in 1840. £30 £26 £22 £18 £15

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Iestyn Davies Residency The pre-eminent countertenor spends his 40th birthday inaugurating his Residency, an occasion heightened with Davies being awarded the prestigious Wigmore Medal. Few singers cover his range of activities, which include regular appearances in Baroque and contemporary opera, a wealth of repertory performed in concert and recital, and his lead role in Claire van Kampen’s play Farinelli and the King in the West End and on Broadway.

Monday 16 September 7.30pm

Iestyn Davies countertenor The English Concert director, harpsichord Iestyn Davies 40th Birthday Concert Handel Concerti Grossi: in G Op. 6 No. 1, in G minor Op. 6 No. 6, in F Op. 6 No. 9 & in D Op. 6 No. 5; Arias from Agrippina; Arias from L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato With his long-term colleagues The English Concert, Iestyn celebrates his birthday surveying concertos by Handel. Davies includes arias from L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, commonly interspersed with the concerti, and from Handel’s sole Venetian opera.

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Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Sunday 22 March 2020 7.30pm with Thomas Dunford lute

Saturday 13 June 2020 7.30pm with Joseph Middleton piano

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Monday 16 September Tuesday 17 September Wednesday 18 September 1.00pm 7.30pm 11.00am and 12.30pm

Benjamin Appl baritone Stephen Waarts violin For Crying Out Loud! Kristian Bezuidenhout Gabriele Carcano piano Parents or carers and their babies fortepiano Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A under 1 can enjoy an informal Schumann Wer sich der Op. 13 concert featuring musicians from Einsamkeit ergibt; Wer nie sein Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 the Royal Academy of Music. Brot mit Tränen ass; An die Türen Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 BB85; Move and groove to the music or will ich schleichen Rhapsody No. 2 BB96a sit back and unwind. Parents-to- Mendelssohn An die Entfernte; be are also warmly welcomed. Schilflied; Frühlingslied Stephen Waarts performs one Approximately 45 minutes in duration Zelter Harfenspieler I-III of Szymanowski’s three great Loewe Herr Oluf; Hinkende cycles from 1915, Myths, which Adults £8.50 (babies come free) Jamben; Tom der Reimer he described in a post-war letter Schumann 6 Gedichte von as ‘very original timbrally and In partnership with the Royal N Lenau und Requiem Op. 90 technically’, encapsulating the Academy of Music enchanting and expressive nature The Lieder specialist devotes of a mythical story. The cycle is his programme to the early interposed between three popular

Romantic school, with an important violin works.

predecessor – Mendelssohn’s First Time Booker Offer teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter – £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 New to Family events at represented by settings of Zelter’s Wigmore Hall? Buy your friend, Goethe. tickets for half price, either by phone or in person. £16 concs £14

Benjamin Appl Stephen Waarts For Crying Out Loud! © Lars Borges © Benjamin Ealovega © Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 21 Schubert Song Cycles Composed in 1823 and 1827 respectively, Schubert’s narrative cycles offer two of the greatest experiences in the entire Lieder repertoire, their sequences of songs charting stories of the pain of rejection and its impact on a sensitive spirit, with the looser, posthumously compiled collection Schwanengesang providing a moving envoi. All three will be performed in the 2019/20 Season by Mark Padmore, accompanied by Kristian Bezuidenhout on fortepiano.

Friday 20 September 7.30pm

Mark Padmore tenor Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Schubert Die schöne Müllerin D795

Their joint approach widely praised for its detailed insight and concentrated intensity, two of today’s most celebrated performers once again come together to explore the story of a young journeyman whose love for the beautiful miller’s daughter is unreturned; ‘Padmore and Bezuidenhout turned it into the starkest of tragedies’, said Opera News of their New York performance. Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval

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Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Thursday 16 April 2020 7.30pm Schubert Winterreise D911

Tuesday 7 July 2020 7.30pm Schubert Schwanengesang D957

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Wednesday 18 September Thursday 19 September Thursday 19 September 7.00pm NB time 6.00pm 7.30pm

St. Lawrence Pre-Concert Talk The Mozartists String Quartet Ian Page conductor Ian Page, who conducts tonight’s Haydn String Quartets Op. 20 concert, introduces the music that Regula Mühlemann will be performed. soprano ‘They’ve broken out beyond Haydn Symphony No. 6 in D Canada’s borders like no other £5 ‘Le Matin’ Mozart Voi avete un cor artist since Glenn Gould’, the CBC fedele; Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio; has said of one of their country’s Giunse alfin il momento ... Deh greatest musical ambassadors. vieni, non tardar from Le nozze di Its latest project is devoted to Figaro; Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle the complete String Quartets Haydn Symphony No. 80 in D minor Op. 20 by Haydn, of which Donald Tovey wrote that ‘every page is of Rising star Regula Mühlemann, historic and aesthetic importance.’ described by The Guardian as Approximately 3 hours 15 minutes in ‘a soprano with a crystal-clear duration, including two intervals tone you could pour over ice and drink’, makes her eagerly awaited £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Wigmore Hall debut with a ravishing selection of Mozart arias. These are framed by two of the finest and most exhilarating symphonies that Haydn wrote for the Esterházy court, performed by one of the UK’s leading period-instrument orchestras.

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St. Lawrence String Quartet Ian Page Regula Mühlemann © Marco Borggreve © Sheila Rock © Shirley Suarez Padilla wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 23

Vijay Iyer Residency: Musicality A creative figure of exceptional range and reach, as well as a trained physicist, writer and Harvard Professor, the American jazz pianist is Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence for 2019/20. Vijay Iyer has received numerous awards – including a MacArthur Fellowship – for work that has seen him shine not only in a variety of purely musical genres but also in prestigious collaborations with poets, filmmakers and choreographers.

Sunday 22 September Sunday 22 September 7.00pm NB time 10.00pm

Vijay Iyer piano Vijay Iyer piano, Craig Taborn piano Fender Rhodes, electronics Mike Ladd lyrics, electronics The Transitory Poems The Evolution Tapes Forthcoming Events in the Series Two renowned jazz pianists who are close contemporaries and Described by The Guardian as ‘the Friday 10 January 2020 7.30pm equal masters of the keyboard king of the hip-hop concept’, the Vijay Iyer presents the come together for one of their Boston-born, Paris-based artist Ritual Ensemble choice duo sessions, an earlier has collaborated with Vijay Iyer on example of which has been such albums as In What Language? Saturday 11 January 2020 1.00pm described as ‘a challenging (2003), a song cycle concerned with Vijay Iyer keynote talk with dialogue between two innovative airports, fear and surveillance both Professor Georgina Born spirits who are open to jazz history before and after 9/11; the satirical as well as new developments in oratorio Still Life with Commentator Wednesday 10 June 2020 7.30pm the fields of hip-hop, electronica (2007); and Holding It Down: The Vijay Iyer with Aurora Orchestra and the classical spectrum’. Veterans’ Dreams Project (2013).

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Friday 20 September Saturday 21 September Saturday 21 September 10.15am and 11.45am 10.00am – 3.00pm 7.30pm

Chamber Tots: Autumn Open House Marc-André Hamelin piano Join us on an autumnal musical An opportunity to look behind the Skryabin Fantasie Op. 28 adventure in these interactive scenes at Wigmore Hall, with free Prokofiev Sarcasms Op. 17 music sessions for children performances and workshops Feinberg Piano Sonata No. 3 aged 1 to 5 and their parents taking place throughout the day. Op. 3 or carers. Discover exciting Everyone is welcome and there Debussy Préludes Book II instruments, songs, and stories will be special workshops for with experienced music leaders families with music leaders Lucy The Canadian virtuoso has and emerging chamber ensembles. Drever and Georgia Duncan. developed a well-founded March to your own beat as we Please sign up for workshops on reputation for originality of explore, play and move together! the day. programming allied to complete technical command. Here he 10.15am–11.15am (1-2 year-olds) Free (no ticket required) champions the third sonata 11.45am–12.45pm (3-5 year-olds) (1917) by the neglected Russian composer Samuil Feinberg, Children £7 Adults £5 enclosing it with Skryabin’s Fantasie (1900) and Prokofiev’s miniatures (1912-14).

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Michael Collins Residency Sunday 22 September The first ever BBC Young Musician of the Year and recipient of the Royal 11.30am Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist Award enjoys an international reputation as one of the leading exponents of his instrument. Kuss Quartet Monday 23 September Mozart String Quartet in B flat 6.00pm K458 ‘Hunt’ Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 Artists in Conversation: Michael Collins Michael Collins discusses the opening concert in his Residency. Since its foundation in Berlin in 1991, the ensemble has gained a £5 reputation for originality, helping to widen audiences for chamber Monday 23 September music as well as expanding the 7.30pm existing quartet repertoire. It offers two major works, one of clarinet Mozart’s set dedicated to Haydn Michael Collins (1785) and Brahms’ first published Leonard Elschenbroich cello Michael McHale piano work for the medium (1873). Beethoven Clarinet Trio in B flat Op. 11 Frühling Clarinet Trio Op. 40 Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 Brahms Clarinet Trio £16 concs £14 inc. programme in A minor Op. 114 and coffee/sherry/juice Collaborating with the German cellist and the Irish pianist, Michael Collins offers Beethoven’s early trio and a rarity by Carl Frühling (c.1900).

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Forthcoming Events in the Series

Monday 17 February 2020 7.30pm

Tuesday 19 May 2020 1.00pm Masterclass

Tuesday 21 July 2020 7.30pm

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Supporting the next generation of people working in the arts

Wigmore Hall’s Pathways programme provides on and ‘Thank you so much for the off-stage support and development opportunities to the opportunity! All in all the week went emerging workforce. As part of this programme we are delighted to offer week-long work experience placements, really well for me, and I definitely opening the doors to our busy and vibrant concert hall to learned a lot from it. It was a share how we operate behind the scenes. perfect opportunity to get a better Through a combination of event shadowing and understanding of administrative work administrative tasks, we support and encourage and the running of an organisation participants to immerse themselves in the day-to-day running of the Hall. Participants have the chance to join a such as Wigmore Hall, while still a variety of departments such as Learning, Marketing and full-time student.’ Development to gain an overview of key responsibilities, Sophie Dolamore, Concerts and Administration and to see how departments collaborate to promote and Assistant at Wigmore Hall, who completed a work lead events of the highest quality. This experience enables experience placement in March 2017 participants to explore different career options within the arts sector, and has often sparked passions for a particular field and shaped future career choices. If you are interested in work experience, please contact Wallis Leahy at [email protected] or visit wigmore-hall.org.uk © Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 27

Monday 23 September Tuesday 24 September Wednesday 25 September 1.00pm 1.00pm 7.30pm Thursday 26 September 1.00pm

Marlis Petersen soprano Carolyn Sampson soprano French Song Exchange Camillo Radicke piano Kristian Bezuidenhout Showcase The Otherworld fortepiano Join young singers from Wigmore Herbing Montan und Lalage Pfitzner Lockung Reger Hall’s French Song Exchange for Mozart Das Lied der Trennung Maiennacht Walter Elfe Weismann two showcase recitals, as they Wolff An das Clavier Elfe Brahms Sommerabend explore the wonderful traditions CPE Bach Sonata in E minor Sommer Lore im Nachen Grieg of the mélodie and delve into the Wq. 59/1 Med en Vandlilje Loewe Der Nöck music of Fauré. Having been Fleischer Das Clavier Sinding Ich fürcht’ nit Gespenster mentored by two of the great Mozart An Chloe; Als Luise Genzmer Stimmen im Strom Wolf exponents of the genre, die Briefe ihres ungetreuen François Elfenlied Gulda Elfe Loewe Die and , Liebhabers verbrannte; Le Roux Dame Sylphide Schreker Spuk Zumpe the French Song Exchange Abendempfindung Liederseelen Nielsen Ariels Sang singers offer a glimpse of the next Haydn Piano Sonata in G minor Sinding Majnat Stenhammar generation of French art song HXVI:44; Die Verlassene; Antwort Fylgia Kaldalóns Hamraborgin recitalists. auf die Frage eines Mädchens; Das Leben ist ein Traum Her career now increasingly £16 concs £14 for each concert focussed on the song repertoire, Schubert Viola the admired German soprano The French Song Exchange is selects her programme from An intriguing programme in which presented in partnership with the the works of German and one of the finest English sopranos École Normale de Musique de Paris Scandinavian composers. and a premier exponent of the fortepiano collaborate in rare £16 concs £14 repertoire alongside more familiar items by Mozart and Schubert.

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Thursday 26 September 7.30pm Roberta Mameli soprano (as Aci) Sonia Prina contralto (as Galatea) Luigi De Donato bass (as Polifemo) laBarocca Ruben Jais conductor Handel Aci, Galatea e Polifemo HWV72

Founded in Milan in 2008, the Italian Baroque specialist ensemble made its successful Wigmore debut in 2016. Handel’s earliest setting of the story of Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus was composed for Naples in June 1708, during his vitally important Italian period, when the style to which his music would largely adhere for the remainder of his career was essentially formed.

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Schumann Song Series Wednesday 25 September Close to the heart of the Lieder tradition is the output of Robert 7.30pm Schumann, much of it produced within a single miraculous year of intense concentration in 1840. In this ongoing series co-devised by pianist Malcolm Martineau and Lieder expert Susan Youens, Ailish Tynan soprano Schumann’s songs are explored in the context of his predecessors, Raphael Wallfischcello contemporaries and followers. John York piano Clarke Rhapsody for cello and piano Friday 27 September Clarke A Dream; Greeting; Infant 7.30pm Joy; Shy One Clarke From Irish Country Songs: I Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano know where I’m goin’ & As I was piano goin’ to Ballynure Malcolm Martineau Herbert 7 Children’s Songs; The Schumann Herbstlied; Die Blume der Ergebung; Röselein, Röselein!; Lake Isle of Innisfree; I think on thee Ins Freie Brahms Juchhe!; Anklänge; Die Mainacht; Nachtigallen in the night; Jour des Morts schwingen lustig Schumann Das Käuzlein; Der Sandmann; Des Boulanger Attente; Reflets Sennen Abschied; Er ist’s; Herzeleid; Der Gärtner; Die Spinnerin Bloch Suite for cello and piano Brahms Spanisches Lied; Treue Liebe; Die Trauernde; Liebestreu (transcribed by Gabor Rejto and Schumann Erstes Grün; Stille Tränen; Alte Laute Adolph Baller from the Suite for viola and piano) An artist of exceptional range, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke brings together the works of two composers whose personal and artistic Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979), the connections were deep. English-American violist and composer, is the focus of this £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 programme in which three leading artists champion her output Forthcoming Concerts in the Series alongside those of her younger Wednesday 23 October 7.30pm contemporaries Lili Boulanger and Muriel Herbert. Catriona Morison mezzo-soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Sunday 8 December 7.30pm £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 Thomas Oliemans baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Thursday 2 January 2020 7.30pm Sir baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

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Beethoven Wigmore Hall continues its celebration of Beethoven through the 2019/20 Season, with highlights including surveys of the composer’s complete piano sonatas (page 31), violin sonatas (page 43) and cello sonatas (page 49), the complete string quartets (page 95), piano trios (page 30) and string trios, piano variations (page 66) and many red-letter Beethoven dates. Our Beethoven Celebration has been made possible thanks to a lead gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, with additional support from the Beethoven Circle Beethoven Piano Trios Three leading musicians – violinist Hagai Shaham, cellist Raphael Wallfisch and pianist Arnon Erez – came together in 2009 to form a subsequently highly successful trio. Their contribution to Wigmore’s Beethoven season is the entirety of his piano trios, works that continue to provide the bedrock of the modern repertoire.

Sunday 29 September 11.30am

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat Op. 1 No. 1; Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’

This initial instalment comprises the first trio from Beethoven’s official Op. 1, published in 1795, and first performed in front of his teacher Haydn at the home of his patron Prince Lichnowsky that same year. The first of his two trios Op. 70 (1809), whose eerie slow movement led the composer’s pupil Carl Czerny to compare it to the ghost scene in Hamlet, closes the morning programme.

£16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch © Michael Pavia Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Sunday 26 January 2020 11.30am

Sunday 3 May 2020 11.30am

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Beethoven Sonata Cycle Beethoven is a specialism of the American pianist Jonathan Biss, whose recording of the complete series of the composer’s piano sonatas is an ongoing project. In addition, he has collaborated with Coursera to create the free video course Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas, which will eventually cover all 32 examples, and in 2011 released the eBook Beethoven’s Shadow, a meditation on performing the works themselves. Each of Jonathan’s evening concerts will be followed by post-concert talks about the repertoire. He will also be providing more informal talks in the Bechstein Room on his Coursera lectures in collaboration with the Curtis Institute.

Sunday 29 September 7.30pm

Jonathan Biss piano Beethoven Piano Sonatas: No. 1 in F minor Op. 2 No. 1, No. 9 in E Op. 14 No. 1, No. 13 in E flat Op. 27 No. 1 ‘Quasi una fantasia’, No. 12 in A flat Op. 26 ‘Funeral March’ & No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ The authoritative Beethoven interpreter traverses the first decade of his career as a composer of piano sonatas, from his earliest canonical work in the form (composed in 1793-5 and published the following year) to the expansive sonata written in 1803-4 and dedicated to Count Ferdinand von Waldstein.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Sunday 29 September 9.30pm

Post-Concert Talk with Jonathan Biss

Free (with evening concert ticket)

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Thursday 19 December 7.30pm

Sunday 26 January 2020 7.30pm

Friday 28 February 2020 7.30pm

Monday 20 April 2020 7.30pm

Saturday 9 May 2020 7.30pm

Thursday 25 June 2020 7.30pm

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Rachel Podger Residency Saturday 28 September Widely acclaimed as a Baroque violinist and orchestral director, 3.00pm – 4.00pm Rachel Podger has made superlative recordings of Bach’s music – her set of the solo sonatas and partitas was the recommended Exploring Beethoven’s choice in BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library series, while her discs of concertos and accompanied sonatas have been equally highly praised. Piano Sonatas with Jonathan Biss Saturday 28 September 7.30pm Join Jonathan Biss in the Bechstein Room, where the pianist will discuss Rachel Podger violin Brecon Baroque his Coursera lectures on Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas. Bach Concertos coursera.org/learn/beethoven- Bach Concerto in A minor for violin, strings and continuo BWV1041; piano-sonatas Concerto in E for violin, strings and continuo BWV1042; Violin Concerto in G minor BWV1056R reconstructed from Harpsichord Free (ticket required) Concerto No. 5 in F minor; Violin Concerto in D minor BWV1052R reconstructed from Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor

For practical as well as artistic purposes, Bach was a great arranger and transcriber of his own music: the last two of this programme’s concertos, for instance, have come down to us as a work for harpsichord, and are heard here in a reconstruction of a lost original for violin.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Sunday 24 November 11.30am

Sunday 12 January 2020 11.30am

Saturday 18 April 2020 4.00pm & 7.30pm with Kristian Bezuidenhout Sunday 10 May 2020 11.30am

Monday 6 July 2020 7.30pm

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Monday 30 September Monday 30 September 1.00pm 7.30pm

Boris Giltburg piano Ian Bostridge tenor Rachmaninov Preludes: in B flat Steven Isserlis cello Op. 23 No. 2, in D Op. 23 No. 4, Olli Mustonen piano in C minor Op. 23 No. 7, in A flat Op. 23 No. 8, in E flat minor Schubert Auf dem Strom Op. 23 No. 9, in G flat Op. 23 Schumann Belsazar; Die Löwenbraut; Ballade vom Haideknaben No. 10, in C Op. 32 No. 1, in György Kurtág Az hit...; In memoriam Ferenc Wilheim B flat minor Op. 32 No. 2, in Márta Kurtág and György Kurtág For Steven Isserlis 60 E minor Op. 32 No. 4, in G Op. 32 György Kurtág Souvenir de Balatonboglár; György Kroó in No. 5, in F minor Op. 32 No. 6, Memoriam in B minor Op. 32 No. 10, in Bennett Tom O’Bedlam’s Song G sharp minor Op. 32 No. 12 & in Sibelius Malinconia Op. 20 D flat Op. 32 No. 13 Olli Mustonen Taivaanvalot (a symphony for tenor, cello and piano)* (UK première) For the Russian-born Israeli *Co-commissioned by Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Concertgebouw pianist, Rachmaninov gives you Brugge, Premiere Performances of Hong Kong with the support of ‘strong food for your imagination Camilla & John Lindfors, and Wigmore Hall with the support of while also touching your heart André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss with his harmonies and the grant-making foundation endless generosity of his melodic invention’. In his programme, he Three artists of striking individuality and excellence collaborate offers an expansive selection from in a programme celebrating the unusual combination of their the composer’s two major sets of conjoined forces, notably in a major new work by the Finnish pianist, preludes (1901-3, 1910). composer and conductor Olli Mustonen based on the national epic The Kalevala. £16 concs £14 £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

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Tuesday 1 October Wednesday 2 October Wednesday 2 October 7.30pm 12.15pm 1.00pm

Sacha Rattle clarinet Pre-Concert Talk Britten Sinfonia Irène Duval violin Mahan Esfahani Laurence Osborn discusses his harpsichord William Hagen violin new work with Dr Kate Kennedy CPE Bach Quartet in A minor Clare Finnimore viola ahead of its London première in the lunchtime concert. Wq. 93 William Coleman viola Falla Harpsichord Concerto Zlatomir Fung cello Free (ticket required) Laurence Osborn New work for harpsichord and chamber group piano Shai Wosner (London première) IMS Prussia Cove Strauss Suite from Capriccio Schumann Märchenerzählungen Op. 132 Celebrated harpsichordist and Fauré Piano Quintet No. 2 in regular collaborator with Britten C minor Op. 115 Sinfonia, Mahan Esfahani joins György Kurtág Hommage à principal players in the first concert Op. 15d of Britten Sinfonia’s annual At Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Lunch series. The centrepiece of the concert is Manuel de Falla’s IMS Prussia Cove is dedicated seminal but rarely heard Concerto to music making at the highest for Harpsichord accompanied by level, fostering new generations flute, oboe, violin, cello and clarinet; of talented musicians from across and the performance also features the world. Founded 47 years ago a scoring of ’s by the great Hungarian violinist suite from Capriccio for violin, cello Sándor Végh, IMS continues to and harpsichord. A new work by nurture outstanding chamber Laurence Osborn for the same music performers under the artistic instrumentation as the Falla will directorship of cellist Steven Isserlis. also receive its London première.

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Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works Since he gave the first ever solo harpsichord recital at the Proms Thursday 3 October in 2011, the Iranian-American has brought his chosen instrument 7.30pm to a new level of international prominence, his exuberant personality enabling him to engage with audiences throughout a Nia Coleman soprano repertoire he is determined to expand but which retains the works of JS Bach as its focal point. Filipe Manu tenor Joel Williams tenor Wednesday 2 October Kyu Choi baritone 7.30pm Simon Lepper piano Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Independent Opera Scholars’ Recital 2019 Bach 15 Inventions BWV772-786; 15 Sinfonias BWV787-801; French Suite No. 1 in D minor BWV812; Prelude and Fugue in Handel Arias from Jephtha A minor BWV894 Schumann Er und Sie; Der Soldat; Der Spielmann Schubert Nacht A varied programme comprising the two-part inventions and three- und Träume; Punschlied; Klage Mozart Arias from Die Entführung part sinfonias (c.1720), staples of the repertoire of most budding aus dem Serail Elena Langer New keyboard players, followed by one of the delightful French suites work Bizet The Toreador Song; (c.1722-5), and an earlier but still ambitious prelude and fugue. Chanson d’avril Donizetti Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête! Bernstein £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 La Bonne Cuisine; Glitter and Be Gay; The Best of All Possible Worlds Forthcoming Concerts in the Series Independent Opera’s annual Wednesday 18 March 2020 7.30pm showcase celebrates the young Thursday 11 June 2020 7.30pm stars of today. Joined by acclaimed pianist Simon Lepper, together they present an evocative programme of opera and song.

£30 £25 £20 £16 £10 £5 tickets for under 35s Promoted by Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells (Reg. Charity No. 1162432)

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Brahms Series Friday 4 October 7.30pm Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Purcell/Britten If music be the food of love; A Morning Hymn; Job’s Curse Weldon/Britten Alleluia Brahms Sehnsucht Op. 14 No. 8; Soll sich der Mond nicht heller scheinen; Vom verwundeten Knaben; Der Gang zum Liebchen; Vergangen ist mir Glück und Heil Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death Brahms Regenlied; Dein blaues Auge hält so still; Mein wundes Herz verlangt; Nachklang Musorgsky Sunless Brahms Meerfahrt; Anklänge; Über die Heide; Verzagen; Die Kränze; Todessehnen

One of the leading Lieder partnerships of our time explores song traditions from the UK, Russia and Germany.

£60 £50 £45 £40 £25

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Christiane Karg Focus Saturday 5 October Saturday 5 October 1.00pm – 2.30pm 7.30pm

Inside the Score: Christiane Karg soprano Schoenberg’s Pierrot Sabine Meyer clarinet Lunaire Malcolm Martineau piano Schubert 4 Canzonen D688 The Alban Berg Ensemble Lachner From Frauenliebe und –leben: Seit ich ihn gesehen and soprano Wien Magdalena Schumann From Frauenliebe und –leben: Seit ich ihn gesehen & join writer and Anna Hofmann Er der Herrlichste von allen broadcaster to Gavin Plumley Kücken Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint explore ’s Mozart Non temer, amato bene Pierrot Lunaire. This visually and Schumann Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint musically illustrated lecture- Kreutzer Das Mühlrad recital looks in depth at the unique Spaeth Alpenlied fusion of cabaret, song cycle and Spohr Sei still mein Herz; Zwiegesang; Sehnsucht; Wach auf chamber music in the composer’s Meyerbeer Hirtenlied 1912 masterpiece. As well as von Lindpaintner Der Hirt und das Meerweib breadth, Schoenberg achieved Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen marked concision in these 21 settings of Albert Giraud’s poems The first programme of a three-concert focus on the admired about a sad, sadistic clown. With soprano celebrates the clarinet as an obbligato instrument, with the help of projections and musical examples from neglected or forgotten figures as well as more examples from the stage, this mainstream works. event looks beyond the work’s nightmarish atmosphere to reveal £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 its motifs and methods. Forthcoming Concerts in the Series £15 concs £10 U25s free (subject to availability, Wednesday 29 January 2020 7.30pm see page 73) Friday 10 July 2020 7.00pm NB time

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Sunday 6 October Sunday 6 October Sunday 6 October 11.30am 12 noon – 4.30pm 7.30pm

Dudok Quartet Silver Sunday at The Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Haydn String Quartet in F minor Wallace Collection Liza Ferschtman violin Op. 20 No. 5 For families living with dementia István Várdai cello Mendelssohn String Quartet Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 As part of Silver Sunday, we invite B flat D898; Piano Trio No. 2 in people living with dementia and E flat D929 Named after a music-loving Dutch their families, friends and carers to architect, the Dudok Quartet offers join us for an afternoon exploring In conjunction with admired two masterpieces in the sombre art and music together alongside key of F minor: in the words of chamber music specialists Dutch musicians from our Music for Life violinist Liza Ferschtman and Donald Tovey, the Haydn work programme and students from the from his set of 1772 is ‘the most Hungarian cellist István Várdai, Royal Academy of Music. nearly tragic work he ever wrote’, one of the great pianists of our while Mendelssohn’s last major time performs two large-scale Free (booking required) utterance reveals his state of mind works dating from the penultimate Book through the Wigmore Hall following the death of his beloved and final years respectively of Learning department on composer sister Fanny Hensel. Schubert’s life, in which his 020 7258 8246 or ambitions for the form achieved new [email protected] £16 concs £14 inc. programme grandeur and expressive depth. and coffee/sherry/juice In partnership with The Wallace Collection, Resonate Arts and the £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 In Memory of Peter Flatter Royal Academy of Music

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Monday 7 October 1.00pm Jess Gillam saxophone Zeynep Özsuca piano Anna Clyne New work for saxophone and electronics Bartók Romanian Folk Dances Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor Wiedoeft Valse Vanité Britten Temporal Variations Weill Je ne t’aime pas John Harle RANT!

Winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year three years ago, in 2018 the star saxophonist received a Classic BRIT Award and appeared at the BBC Last Night of the Proms, as well as making her international debut.

£16 concs £14

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Monday 7 October Tuesday 8 October Thursday 10 October 7.30pm 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am

Elizabeth Watts soprano Arcangelo Chamber Tots: Julius Drake piano Jonathan Cohen Under the Sea Strauss Einerlei; Meinem Kinde; director, harpsichord Join us on a musical adventure Rote Rosen; Liebeshymnus; Sandrine Piau soprano under the sea in these interactive Winterweihe; Die Nacht; Cäcilie Stuart Jackson tenor music sessions for children Berg 7 frühe Lieder aged 1 to 5 and their parents Chaminade Ronde d’amour; Konstantin Krimmel or carers. Discover exciting L’anneau d’argent; Ma première baritone instruments, songs, and stories lettre; Attente (Au pays de Handel Brockes Passion HWV48 with experienced music leaders Provence); La lune paresseuse; and emerging chamber ensembles. Ecrin; Villanelle Founded in 2010 and thereafter March to your own beat as we Rachmaninov Lilacs; Fragment maintaining a focus on music explore, play and move together! from Musset; Dreams; How from the Baroque and Classical fair this spot; I wait for thee; periods, the ensemble has 10.15am–11.15am (1-2 year-olds) They answered; The Isle; What enjoyed international success 11.45am–12.45pm (3-5 year-olds) happiness! at the highest level, including a Residency at Wigmore Hall Children £7 Adults £5 In her late-Romantic programme during the 2016/17 Season. the leading English soprano First performed in Hamburg highlights songs by the long- in 1719, Handel’s Passion popular French composer Cécile setting influenced those by his Chaminade (1857-1944). contemporary JS Bach. First Time Booker Offer £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 New to Family events at Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either by phone or in person.

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COME AND CREATE

Come and Create is a monthly music club at Wigmore Hall for young people aged 15–19 with Autism Spectrum Conditions. The group explores and creates new music together alongside professional musicians. Each session finishes with an informal sharing for parents and carers, and the chance to spend time together as a group. Everyone is welcome, from experienced instrumentalists to those who have no musical experience and want to try something new.

Forthcoming Workshops Saturday 28 September, 10.30am – 1.00pm Saturday 19 October, 10.30am – 1.00pm Saturday 16 November, 10.30am – 1.00pm ‘I go to a lot of music groups, Saturday 14 December, 10.30am – 1.00pm but what we do here is Booking is essential as places are limited. For more information exploring music. Aside contact Lydia Nickalls on 020 7258 8249 or from music, we have really [email protected]. interesting discussions. That Come and Create is primarily designed for young people with low support needs, but anyone is welcome to get in touch to doesn’t happen in other places.’ find out more. Come and Create participant

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Borodin Quartet Few ensembles can claim the longevity or the distinction of the Borodin, founded in 1945 as the Moscow Philharmonic Quartet. Its distinguished membership over the decades has helped it achieve unique authority, in particular in the works of Shostakovich, Beethoven, and its namesake amidst a constantly expanding repertoire.

Wednesday 9 October Friday 11 October 7.30pm 7.30pm

Borodin Quartet Borodin Quartet Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Arensky String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 35 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor Tchaikovsky Album pour enfants Op. 39 Op. 144

The Quartet’s first programme focusses on two Schubert’s String Quartet D804 gained its name Russian composers who hail from the same time from its second movement, the music having been period, finishing on a string quartet arrangement based on a theme from the incidental music for of Tchaikovsky’s Children’s Songs. Rosamunde. The ensemble pairs this with the longest of Shostakovich’s string quartets. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concert in the Series

Thursday 30 January 2020 7.30pm

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Beethoven Violin Sonatas This season the great Canadian violinist and his Saturday 12 October fellow countryman and pianist partner are exploring 3.00pm – 4.00pm the entire corpus of Beethoven’s sonatas written for their duo, which reveal the composer’s development between the Family Concert: late 1790s and 1812 in works that reflect the two instruments in perfect collaboration as a partnership of true equals. Giddy Goat Our Beethoven Celebration has been made possible thanks to a lead Ensemble 360 gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, with additional support from Recommended for families with the Beethoven Circle children aged 3-7

Thursday 10 October This musical story follows the trials 7.30pm and tribulations of Giddy, a young mountain goat who is scared of heights. Based on the book by violin James Ehnes Jamie Rix and Lynne Chapman*, Andrew Armstrong piano with specially composed music by Beethoven Violin Sonatas: No. 1 in D Op. 12 No. 1, No. 2 in A Op. 12 Paul Rissmann, this tale of facing No. 2, No. 3 in E flat Op. 12 No. 3 & No. 4 in A minor Op. 23 fears and making friends is an ideal way to introduce children to classical In this opening instalment they perform the first four examples music, with plenty of audience participation and projections of (1797-1800), the Op. 12 set dedicated to Beethoven’s teacher images from the story. Antonio Salieri, the single sonata Op. 23 to his patron Count *Published by Orchard Books. Moritz von Fries, dedicatee of several important works including the Seventh Symphony. Arrive early for free arts activities in the Bechstein Room. Drop in between £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 1.45pm and 2.30pm

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series Children £10 Adults £12

Thursday 13 February 2020 7.30pm

Thursday 4 June 2020 7.30pm First Time Booker Offer New to Family events at Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either by phone or in person. James Ehnes © Benjamin Ealovega Giddy Goat 44 • OCTOBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Nash Ensemble: Around Schubert The Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Ensemble in Residence, places the music of at the centre of its annual series. The programmes feature some of the greatest chamber works ever written: the ‘Trout’ Quintet for piano and strings; the String Quintet from the last months of Schubert’s life; the abundantly tuneful Octet for wind and strings; and the two masterly piano trios. There is also music by his contemporaries, including Weber, Spohr, Rossini, Beethoven and Beethoven’s pupil and friend Ferdinand Ries, and by his forerunners and successors, ranging from Haydn to the Mendelssohns, brother and sister, and Schumann. The programmes are enhanced by a strand of songs by Schubert and other significant figures of his time, featuring renowned guest artists Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Roderick Williams, James Gilchrist and Elizabeth Watts.

Saturday 12 October 6.00pm

Pre-Concert Talk An introduction to the Around Schubert series by writer, lecturer and broadcaster Katy Hamilton.

Free (ticket required)

Saturday 12 October 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble Stéphanie d’Oustrac mezzo-soprano Simon Crawford-Phillips piano Weber Folksongs for voice, flute, violin, cello and piano Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Spohr Rose softly blooming from Zemire und Azor Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade; Du bist die Ruh; An die Musik; Nacht und Träume Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ The Nash Ensemble’s series Around Schubert opens with a programme including two of Schubert’s chamber music masterpieces, the single string quartet movement in C minor and the buoyant ‘Trout’ Quintet with double bass. The outstanding French mezzo Stéphanie d’Oustrac sings some of Weber’s arrangements of Scottish folksongs, a Spohr ‘romance’ which was a favourite in the Victorian era, and a group of Schubert songs which are favourites for all time.

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Schubertiade © Julius Schmidmaho

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Saturday 16 November Saturday 18 January 2020 Saturday 7 March 2020 7.30pm 5.30pm and 7.30pm 5.30pm and 7.30pm with Elizabeth Watts soprano 5.30pm 5.30pm Saturday 7 December Saturday 8 February 2020 Sunday 8 March 2020 11.30am Saturday 7 December 7.30pm Saturday 8 February 2020 7.30pm with Roderick Williams baritone with James Gilchrist tenor 46 • OCTOBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Sunday 13 October Sunday 13 October Sunday 13 October 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm

Endymion Soraya Mafisoprano Vilde Frang violin Mozart Horn Quintet in E flat K407 Simon Lepper piano Michail Lifitspiano Dohnányi Sextet in C Op. 37 From Dawn Til Dusk Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Celebrating its 40th anniversary Inspired by the different hours in Schubert Fantasy in C D934 this year, the distinctive chamber a day, the programme will include Bartók Violin Sonata No. 1 in ensemble offers Mozart’s quintet songs by Schumann, Strauss, C sharp minor BB84 completed on the final day of Fauré and Gurney. 1782 – one of a number of A multi-award winner, the widely works composed for the leading A soprano with a steadily rising profile, Lancashire-born Soraya acclaimed Norwegian violinist horn player and part-time brings her special artistry to cheesemonger Joseph Leutgeb Mafi won the Susan Chilcott Award in 2016 and is currently bear on a programme of three – plus the 1935 Sextet by the major works. The demanding Hungarian late-Romantic Ernő a Harewood Artist of English National Opera, who continues first Bartók sonata was written Dohnányi, which has become a for the Hungarian virtuoso Jelly signature piece for the group. to garner critical praise and the attention of discerning audiences in d’Arányi, with whom the composer performed it in London in 1922. £16 concs £14 inc. programme her varied activities on the operatic stage and the concert platform. and coffee/sherry/juice £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 £16

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Monday 14 October Monday 14 October 1.00pm 7.30pm

Borodin Quartet Elias String Quartet Barry Douglas piano Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 33 No. 5 Tchaikovsky A selection from Matthew Hindson String Quartet No. 2 The Seasons Op. 37b; Andante Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Cantabile from String Quartet Admired for its performances of the classical repertoire – its No. 1 in D Op. 11 recordings of the Beethoven quartets on the Wigmore Live label have Shostakovich Piano Quintet in been enthusiastically received – the Elias adds a recent work by the G minor Op. 57 prominent Australian composer Matthew Hindson, which it premièred One of the world’s legendary in 2013. ensembles makes a welcome return with an all-Russian £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 programme, offering a favourite Tchaikovsky slow movement before pianist Barry Douglas joins the quartet for Shostakovich’s powerful quintet – a work the Borodins frequently performed with the composer himself.

£16 concs £14

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Tuesday 15 October Thursday 17 October Friday 18 October 10.30am – 1.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am 11.00am – 12 noon

Singing with Friends: Chamber Tots: Schools Concert: Come and Sing Into Space Giddy Goat For families living with dementia Ensemble 360 Join us on a musical adventure EYFS and Key Stage 1 If you are, or someone you know is, in space in these interactive music sessions for children living with dementia, join us for a This musical story follows the session of group singing, exploring aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers. Discover exciting trials and tribulations of Giddy, a mixture of music old and new, a young mountain goat who followed by tea and coffee. No instruments, songs, and stories with experienced music leaders is scared of heights. Based previous experience needed, just on the book by Jamie Rix and an enthusiasm to sing! and emerging chamber ensembles. March to your own beat as we Lynne Chapman*, with specially explore, play and move together! composed music by Paul Free (ticket required) Rissmann, this is a tale of facing In partnership with Resonate Arts 10.15am–11.15am (1-2 year-olds) fears and making friends for 11.45am–12.45pm (3-5 year-olds) Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 children and Children £7 Adults £5 their teachers. *Published by Orchard Books. Wigmore Hall is committed to playing its part in building a Children £4 Accompanying adults dementia-friendly society, and free (ticket required) is proud to have 2 Dementia Friends Champions and 44 First Time Booker Offer Dementia Friends on its staff New to Family events at team. To find out more visit Wigmore Hall? Buy your dementiafriends.org.uk tickets for half price, either by phone or in person.

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Beethoven Cello Sonatas Though they represent a smaller overall corpus than Friday 18 October his solo works for piano or those for piano and violin, 7.30pm Beethoven’s compositions for cello and piano occupy a position of equivalent importance within the repertoire for that Alexander Gavrylyuk particular duo and cover the majority of his career, from the first piano sonatas of 1796 through the last of 1815. Mozart Piano Sonata in C K545 Our Beethoven Celebration has been made possible thanks to a lead Brahms Rhapsody in G minor gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, with additional support from Op. 79 No. 2; Intermezzo in the Beethoven Circle B flat minor Op. 117 No. 2; Intermezzo in C sharp minor Thursday 17 October Op. 117 No. 3 7.30pm Liszt Grande étude de Paganini No. 6 in A minor S141 Miklós Perényi cello Saint-Saëns/Liszt/Horowitz Danse Macabre Dénes Várjon piano Ravel Pavane pour une infante Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1; Cello Sonata in C défunte; A la manière de … Op. 102 No. 1; 12 Variations in F on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Chabrier; A la manière de … Weibchen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Op. 66; Cello Sonata Borodine in A Op. 69 Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition The great cellist and his Hungarian pianist partner traverse the Beethovenian repertoire for their instruments, including a set of Widely admired for his virtuoso variations and a sonata from the composer’s early period, one from technique, the Ukrainian pianist his middle period, and one from the beginning of his late period. has demonstrated an affinity with a sizable range of repertoire, £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 notably music from the entire Romantic era and a wide range of Forthcoming Concert in the Series Russian composers.

Saturday 19 October 7.30pm £35 £30 £26 £22 £18

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Sunday 20 October Brahms 11.30am Few composers have left such a rich heritage of music for the Castalian String Quartet recital hall as Johannes Brahms, Isabel Charisius viola whose equal mastery in the Ursula Smith cello fields of song, piano music and chamber music has continued to Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111; reward innumerable listeners and String Sextet in B flat Op. 18 interpreters ever since his earliest works in these media appeared in Formed in 2011, the ensemble the early 1850s. has risen steadily to a position of prominence on the international scene, its awards including the 2016 RPS Albert and Eugenie Frost Prize and its Wigmore debut taking place on Easter Sunday of the following year; this programme sees it add two additional players to its regular complement.

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Other Concerts in the Series

Friday 4 October 7.30pm Saturday 28 December 7.30pm Saturday 11 January 2020 7.30pm Christian Gerhaher baritone Jonathan Plowright: Stephen Hough piano Gerold Huber piano Brahms plus Schumann Renaud Capuçon violin

Wednesday 23 October 7.30pm Monday 6 January 2020 7.30pm Sunday 12 January 2020 7.30pm Catriona Morison mezzo-soprano Stephen Hough piano Vienna Piano Trio Malcolm Martineau piano Castalian String Quartet Radovan Vlatković horn Michael Collins clarinet Wednesday 20 November 7.30pm Wednesday 26 February 2020 7.30pm 7.30pm Vienna Piano Trio Tuesday 7 January 2020 Stephen Hough piano Castalian String Quartet Tuesday 3 December 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet Cédric Tiberghien piano Stephen Hough piano 7.30pm Steven Isserlis cello Tuesday 17 March 2020 Jonathan Plowright: Brahms plus Chopin

Friday 3 April 2020 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet Nils Mönkemeyer viola Ursula Smith cello

Monday 11 May 2020 7.30pm Takács Quartet Roger Tapping viola

Monday 18 May 2020 7.30pm Garrick Ohlsson piano

Tuesday 19 May 2020 7.30pm Vienna Piano Trio

Wednesday 20 May 2020 7.30pm Vienna Piano Trio Michael Collins clarinet

Tuesday 30 June 2020 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet

Saturday 4 July 2020 7.30pm Jonathan Plowright: Brahms plus Liszt

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Schumann Song Series Beethoven Cello Sonatas Brahms Series Saturday 19 October Monday 21 October Wednesday 23 October 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Miklós Perényi cello Lawrence Power viola, violin Catriona Morison mezzo- Dénes Várjon piano Simon Crawford- soprano Beethoven 12 Variations on Phillips piano Malcolm Martineau piano ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ A Benjamin Le Tombeau de Ravel Grieg 6 Songs Op. 48 Schumann Frauenliebe und from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus Thomas Adès 3 Berceuses* -leben Op. 42 WoO. 45; Cello Sonata in G minor (UK première) Berg 4 Lieder Op. 2 Op. 5 No. 2; 7 Variations on ‘Bei Short works by Couperin, Ravel & Viardot 3 Lieder auf Texte von Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ Stravinsky from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Eduard Mörike WoO. 46; Horn Sonata in F Op. 17; *Co-commissioned by the Verbier Brahms Da unten im Tale; Die Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Festival, Moritzburg Festival, BBC, Sonne scheint nicht mehr; UKARIA and supported by the Viola Maria ging aus wandern; Dort The Hungarian piano and cello Commissioning Circle in den Weiden steht ein Haus; duo presents the remainder of Feinsliebchen, du sollst mir nicht Beethoven’s output for their In this recital by one of the world’s barfuss gehn; Wie komm ich denn combination, including his leading viola players, Lawrence zur Tür herein; Es steht ein Lind; variations on a popular theme Power introduces to the UK Och Moder, ich well en Ding han! from one of Handel’s oratorios, a recent work by one of the plus his horn sonata in an UK’s outstanding contemporary It was at the 2017 BBC Cardiff authentic transcription. composers, supported by the Singer of the World competition Viola Commissioning Circle and that the Scottish soprano carried £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 launched at the Verbier Festival off the main prize as well as in July. being selected as joint winner of the Song Prize. Her programme £16 concs £14 includes settings by the great 19th-century mezzo Pauline Viardot, whom Liszt thought a composer of genius.

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Tuesday 22 October 7.00pm NB time Imogen Cooper piano

Imogen Cooper 70th Birthday Concert Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958; Piano Sonata in A D959; Piano Sonata in B flat D960

Though her repertoire has been expanding in some unpredictable directions over recent seasons, the renowned pianist has selected for this celebratory event Schubert’s last three sonatas – music that has been central to her highly considered art over many years, and her performances of which have been universally admired. Approximately 2 hours 45 minutes in duration, including two intervals

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Focus on Weinberg Wigmore Hall marks the centenary of Mieczysław Weinberg with one of the largest ever retrospectives of the Polish-Jewish-Russian composer’s chamber music. The focus follows two strands, as Quatuor Danel lead the way with an eleven-concert, two-season survey of his string quartets, while violinist Linus Roth leads Wigmore’s Weinberg Focus Day.

Financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-annual programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-2022 Organised in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polska Music Programme and POLSKA 100, the international cultural programme celebrating the centenary of Poland regaining independence

Weinberg/Shostakovich Cycle The frequently tragic life of the Polish- Jewish-Russian composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) did not prevent him from composing prolifically in many forms; important to both his personal life and career was his friendship with Shostakovich, which began during the Second World War and continued until the latter’s death.

Thursday 24 October 7.30pm

Quatuor Danel Weinberg String Quartet No. 1 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49 Weinberg String Quartet No. 2

Specialists in Russian repertoire, the French quartet has brought particular dedication to its performances of the string quartets Quatuor Danel of tonight’s composers, all of which it has © Marco Borggreve recorded; here it performs three early Forthcoming Concerts in the Series scores by the pair, Weinberg’s dating from Tuesday 10 December 7.30pm 1937 (revised 1985) and 1940 respectively. Wednesday 25 March 2020 7.30pm £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Saturday 16 May 2020 7.30pm

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Weinberg Focus Day Saturday 26 October Saturday 26 October A composer whose reputation has 3.00pm 5.30pm steadily grown over the last few years, Mieczysław Weinberg faced Linus Roth violin Pre-Concert Talk and considerable adversity yet managed Ilona Domnich soprano Book Launch to make significant contributions to many genres, notably the fields José Gallardo piano Daniel Elphick is a musicologist of instrumental music and song: Weinberg Sonata No. 2 for solo and researcher writing on throughout the day, the German violin Op. 95; Jewish Songs east-European music and music violinist Linus Roth, who has Op. 17; Sonata No. 4 for violin analysis. Join us before the become one of the composer’s and piano Op. 39 evening concert as he talks about leading advocates, champions his his book which examines how work. Daniel Elphick, who also Described by the Daily Telegraph Weinberg’s works written in launches his book before the evening as ‘a peaches and cream Soviet-Russia compare with those concert, will introduce each event. soprano with a secure coloratura of his Polish colleagues. technique’, the versatile Ilona Saturday 26 October Domnich sings Weinberg’s Jewish £5 11.30am Songs (1944), settings of the Soviet Yiddish poet Shmuel Halkin, Saturday 26 October Linus Roth violin in between the Second Sonata for 7.30pm solo violin (1967) and the Fourth José Gallardo piano Sonata for violin and piano (1947). Weinberg Sonata No. 1 for violin Linus Roth violin and piano Op. 12 £16 Ilona Domnich soprano Shostakovich Violin Sonata Janusz Wawrowski violin Op. 134 Weinberg Sonata No. 1 for violin Danjulo Ishizaka cello solo Op. 82; Largo for violin José Gallardo piano and piano Weinberg Sonata for two violins Music for violin and piano or Op. 69 violin alone: Weinberg’s 1943 Shostakovich 7 Romances on First Sonata for both instruments, poems by Alexander Blok Op. 127 his 1964 sonata for solo violin Weinberg Piano Trio Op. 24 and his Largo, as well as Shostakovich’s sonata, in whose Dating from 1943, Weinberg’s unofficial première in January Piano Trio is a relatively early work 1969 Weinberg accompanied but already shows a kinship with David Oistrakh. Shostakovich, who was to prove a source of friendship and support for £16 the rest of his life: Weinberg played the piano in the 1967 première of the Alexander Blok Romances.

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Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Thursday 24 October Friday 25 October Sunday 27 October 11.00am – 12 noon 7.30pm 11.30am

Relaxed Concert: Angela Hewitt piano Esmé Quartet Laura Jurd Trio Bach English Suite No. 4 in F Wigmore Hall International Laura Jurd trumpet BWV809; English Suite No. 5 in String Quartet Competition Ruth Goller bass E minor BWV810; Sonata in D Winner’s Concert Corrie Dick drums BWV963; English Suite No. 6 in Mozart String Quartet in G K387 D minor BWV811 ‘Spring’ Join Laura Jurd and her band as Schumann String Quartet in they present music by composers Thought to date from 1715, during A minor Op. 41 No. 1 from John Dowland to Bill Withers his period as court organist at in this exciting jazz trio line-up. Weimar, Bach’s English Suites have Its name deriving from the old This relaxed concert is open nothing particularly English about French word for ‘being loved’, the to everyone and provides an them; the single-movement sonata four female musicians who make opportunity to hear live music in is earlier, dating from around 1704, up the Esmé Quartet hail from an informal environment. There when the composer was organist Korea and are currently based is a relaxed attitude to noise at the New Church in Arnstadt. in Germany. Their international and movement, and house lights renown dates from their multi- remain up. Audience members can £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 prize winning triumph at the move in and out of the auditorium 2018 Wigmore Hall International as they wish, and there is a String Quartet Competition, which designated quiet area. included first prize.

£5 £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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Monday 28 October Monday 28 October Tuesday 29 October 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Jean-Guihen Queyras Alisa Weilerstein cello The Endellion String cello Inon Barnatan piano Quartet Alexandre Tharaud piano Brahms Cello Sonata Op. 78 Haydn String Quartet in E flat Programme to include: (transcribed from Violin Sonata Op. 64 No. 6 Debussy Cello Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78) Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in Brahms 4 Hungarian Dances Shostakovich Cello Sonata in E minor ‘From my Life’ D minor Op. 40 Beethoven String Quartet in Jean-Guihen Queyras is a cellist Songs by Brahms (arr. B flat Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge of versatility, here presenting a Weilerstein/Barnatan for cello Op. 133 programme of works including a and piano) duo written during the Great War Shostakovich Sonata for viola and The much-loved Endellion Quartet and a selection from Brahms’ piano Op. 147 (arr. is in its fortieth anniversary 21 lively Hungarian Dances, for cello and piano) year and has played over a completed in 1869. hundred times at Wigmore Two musicians devoted to the Hall. Its programme ends with £16 concs £14 chamber repertoire come together Beethoven’s phenomenal Op. 130 for a programme focussing on two in its original version culminating contrasting composers, including in the mighty Grosse Fuge, an works originally for voice, violin or explosion of energy and creativity viola heard here in transcriptions in reaction to the heart-breaking for cello – the songs arranged by sorrow of the Cavatina before the performers themselves. it. Smetana’s ‘From my Life’ is overtly autobiographical and one of £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 the greatest and most expressive Romantic quartets. Haydn’s masterly, warm and playful Op. 64 No. 6 opens the concert.

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Wednesday 30 October 7.30pm Christoph Prégardien tenor Julius Drake piano Beethoven Adelaide; An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98 Schubert Selections from Schwanengesang Interspersed with Schubert Im Walde; Dass sie hier gewesen

The great German artist has long been considered one of the outstanding Lieder performers of our day. In his return to Wigmore Hall he and his equally distinguished pianist alternate between two composers central to the German tradition.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Wednesday 30 October Thursday 31 October Thursday 31 October 12.30pm and 2.00pm 6.15pm – 7.05pm 7.30pm

Chamber Tots: Bechstein Sessions: Colin Currie percussion In the Forest Sounding Cities Huw Watkins piano Luke Newby clarinet Dave Maric Predicaments Join us on a musical adventure Naomi Sullivan saxophone Britten Holiday Diary Op. 5 for in the forest in these interactive solo piano music sessions for children Join us for the latest of the Joe Duddell Parallel Lines aged 1 to 5 and their parents Bechstein Sessions, a series of Tansy Davies Dark Ground or carers. Discover exciting informal performances in the Helen Grime Harp of the North instruments, songs, and stories Bechstein Bar. for solo piano with experienced music leaders Huw Watkins New work for piano and emerging chamber ensembles. We welcome Sounding Cities, and percussion* (English première) March to your own beat as we a clarinet and saxophone duo explore, play and move together! which aims to explore urban *Co-commissioned by East Neuk spaces through music and art. Festival, Wigmore Hall and Great 12.30pm–1.30pm (1-2 year-olds) The duo has collaborated with Music in Irish Houses Festival, with 2.00pm–3.00pm (3-5 year-olds) exciting artists and musicians in the support of the PRS Foundation’s Johannesburg and Birmingham, Beyond Borders programme, and the Children £7 Adults £5 commissioning new works that Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival explore the lived experience of urban spaces. ‘The world’s finest and most daring percussionist’ (The £5 Spectator) is joined by pianist and composer Huw Watkins in the First Time Booker Offer première of the latter’s new work, New to Family events at Wigmore Hall? Buy your as well as other recent pieces tickets for half price, either Currie has premièred, by Dave by phone or in person. Maric and Joe Duddell.

£35 £30 £26 £22 £18

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Recollections of Beethoven The winner of a Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Saturday 2 November Prize in 2017 and Wigmore Hall’s Associate Composer 2.30pm – 3.30pm this season, Freya Waley-Cohen has developed a reputation for initiative and originality – as in her musical-work-cum-installation Permutations, co-created Albion Quartet with violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Finbarr O’Dempsey Freya Waley-Cohen New work for string trio* (world and Andrew Skulina; and the conjoined concert series, première); Coffee Beethoven Grosse Fuge in B flat commissioning body and record label Listenpony, run by Op. 133 Freya Waley-Cohen Snap Dragon her with Josephine Stephenson and William Marsey. *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the generous

support of The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Our Beethoven Celebration has been made possible thanks to a lead gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, Members of an acclaimed quartet led by Tamsin with additional support from the Beethoven Circle Waley-Cohen deliver three of the composer’s works, including a new string trio commissioned by Wigmore Hall, and Beethoven’s mighty Grosse Fuge itself – one Saturday 2 November of his most rigorous and challenging statements. 11.00am – 12 noon £16 Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Freya Waley-Cohen Unveil Sir George Benjamin 3 Miniatures for solo violin Knussen Secret Psalm Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 György Kurtág In Nomine – all’ongherese; ...féerie d’automne...; Hommage à J.S.B. Freya Waley-Cohen Likeness

Two concerts including recollections or reflections of Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge begin with a solo violin recital including two pieces by the performer’s sister that derive from the palindromic nature of Beethoven’s fugue subject itself.

£16

Saturday 2 November 1.15pm – 2.15pm

Talk: Freya Waley-Cohen Join us in the Bechstein Room between concerts where Freya Waley-Cohen will discuss her influences and inspiration behind today’s music.

£5

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Emmanuelle Haïm Residency Initially known as a harpsichordist, but now more frequently Saturday 2 November encountered as a conductor, the French Baroque specialist founded 7.30pm her own period ensemble in 2000. She has subsequently toured with it widely and with significant success, as well as appearing Pavel Haas Quartet with leading international opera companies and orchestras. Ľubica Čekovská A Midsummer Friday 1 November Quartet 7.30pm Schulhoff String Quartet No. 1 Smetana String Quartet No. 2 in D minor Anna Stéphany mezzo-soprano Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 Le Concert d’Astrée in E flat minor Op. 30 David Plantier violin Felix Knecht cello The ensemble took the name of a Nicola Dal Maso double bass Czech composer, and continues Lute to be announced its commitment to music from his country in this programme, Emmanuelle Haïm harpsichord, organ, director with a work by Erwin Schulhoff Violoncello Obbligato alongside a quartet by Smetana. The contemporary Slovak composer Caldara Sinfonia for solo cello Marcello Psalm 15 ‘Conserva me, Ľubica Čekovská is also represented. Domine’ Gabrielli Cello Sonata No. 1 Merula Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna Porpora Giusto amor from Gli orti esperidi; £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Sonata for solo cello Vivaldi Di verde ulivo from Tito Manlio In Memory of Peter Flatter The place of the cello in Baroque repertoire – often used as an obbligato instrument as well as a soloist – provides the theme of a programme that blends the sacred and the profane, with the celebrated mezzo taking the vocal line.

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Forthcoming Concert in the Series

Tuesday 14 April 2020 7.30pm

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OUR PARTNER HOSPITAL SCHOOL

Wigmore Hall has been working with Chelsea Community Hospital School (CCHS) since 2008. During this time, musicians from chamber ensemble Ignite have devised and led many inspiring projects across the school’s four sites. Over the last four years, we have developed a thriving Partner Schools Programme, for which we work in partnership with schools and Music Education Hubs to co-create a programme of opportunities that meets their needs, placing music at the heart of their ethos, and empowering them to become culturally engaged, proactive schools. As we continue to develop work with Partner Schools, we are excited to launch a new Partner School Programme with CCHS, co-creating a programme of work that benefits pupils and teachers across the school sites. This will include working with teachers and pupils to design work for a new unit for young people with mental health difficulties aged 13–18.

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Schubert Cycle: Francesco Piemontesi Sunday 3 November In August, the Swiss pianist commenced a cycle at the 11.30am Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and Hohenems in which he will OUR PARTNER explore all the piano works of the beloved composer, a substantial and rewarding musical legacy, over several seasons – an ongoing Lucas Jussen piano project in which Wigmore audiences are able to share. HOSPITAL SCHOOL Arthur Jussen piano Mendelssohn Andante and Allegro Sunday 3 November brillant Op. 92 7.30pm Schubert Fantasie in F minor D940 Ravel Ma mère l’oye Francesco Piemontesi piano Fazıl Say Night Schubert 4 Impromptus D899; Piano Sonata in D D850 ‘Gasteiner’ Comprised of two brothers still in their 20s, the Dutch piano duo has Striking character pieces demonstrating some of the infinite won several international prizes variety of his musical imagination, Schubert’s impromptus were and attracted a wide following. written in 1827, his ‘Gasteiner’ Sonata – which is conceived on The brothers’ programme offers a substantial scale – two years earlier in August 1825 while the three substantial repertoire pieces composer was staying in the spa town of Bad Gastein. plus a recent work written for them by Fazıl Say. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

£16 concs £14 inc. programme Forthcoming Concert in the Series and coffee/sherry/juice Wednesday 27 May 2020 7.30pm

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Associate Artists Monday 4 November Monday 4 November Tuesday 5 November 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

The Cardinall’s Musick Janine Jansen violin Takács Quartet Greaves England receive the Sonoko Miriam Welde Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 33 rightful King violin No. 3 ‘The Bird’ Tomkins O God, the proud are Bartók String Quartet No. 2 BB75 Johan Dalene violin risen against me Mendelssohn String Quartet Hilton As there be three blue beans Ludvig Gudim violin No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 Byrd The Eagle’s Force Amihai Grosz viola East O metaphysical tobacco Resident at the University of Byrd Deus venerunt gentes Eivind Holtsmark Colorado, regular visitor to Allison O Lord bow down Ringstad viola Wigmore Hall as Associate Artists, and in 2014 the first quartet to Tomkins The hills stand about Amalie Stalheim cello Jerusalem be awarded the Hall’s medal, the Weelkes O Lord God Almighty Jens Peter Maintz cello Takács performs highlights from Tomkins Te Deum from The Third Mozart Divertimento in E flat K563 the standard repertoire in its Service Mendelssohn Octet in E flat Op. 20 keenly anticipated return. Concert repeated on 7 November Founded by Andrew Carwood in A distinguished group of string 1989, the ensemble has gone on players come together for one £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 to perform and record much- of the great masterpieces of praised collections of English chamber music: Mendelssohn’s music from the Renaissance, expansive Octet, composed in including a complete edition of 1825 when he was just 16. A William Byrd, who features in this substantial piece dating from 1788, mixed programme alongside his Mozart’s single complete work for contemporaries and successors. string trio provides the first half.

£16 concs £14 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In Memory of Peter Flatter

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Associate Artists Wednesday 6 November Thursday 7 November Friday 8 November 7.30pm 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am

Roderick Williams baritone Takács Quartet Chamber Tots: Autumn Iain Burnside piano Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 33 Join us on an autumnal musical No. 3 ‘The Bird’ A Voyage Around Hardy adventure in these interactive Bartók String Quartet No. 2 BB75 music sessions for children Finzi Childhood among the Ferns Mendelssohn String Quartet aged 1 to 5 and their parents Schubert Im Haine; Der Wanderer No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 D649; Der Einsame or carers. Discover exciting Repeat of concert on 5 November Finzi Amabel instruments, songs, and stories Schubert Liebhaber in allen with experienced music leaders £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Gestalten; An Rosa II; Die Liebe and emerging chamber ensembles. hat gelogen March to your own beat as we Finzi Channel Firing explore, play and move together! Schubert Rückweg; Totengräbers Heimweh; Auf den Tod einer 10.15am–11.15am (1-2 year-olds) Nachtigall; Im Frühling; Herbst 11.45am–12.45pm (3-5 year-olds) Finzi Earth and Air and Rain Op. 15 Children £7 Adults £5 Two masterly exponents of song complement Schubert with Gerald Finzi, whose settings of Thomas Hardy are highlights of his output. First Time Booker Offer £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 New to Family events at Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either by phone or in person.

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Cédric Tiberghien: Beethoven Variations Over the next two seasons the versatile French pianist creates a focus on Beethoven’s extensive contributions to the variation form – something that occupied him intermittently from an early set varying a march by Dressler dating from his 13th year to the significant achievements of his maturity – which include one of the greatest sets of variations ever composed. Our Beethoven Celebration has been made possible thanks to a lead gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, with additional support from the Beethoven Circle

Saturday 9 November 7.30pm

Cédric Tiberghien piano Beethoven 6 Variations on an Original Theme in F Op. 34 Brahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 Schoenberg 3 Klavierstücke Op. 11 Beethoven 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme in E flat ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35

Major works by two of Beethoven’s musical descendants are framed by two of the latter’s sets, both dating from 1802 and the second based on the ‘Eroica’ theme that meant so much to him.

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Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Sunday 23 February 2020 7.30pm

Thursday 2 July 2020 7.30pm

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Friday 8 November Saturday 9 November Sunday 10 November 7.30pm 10.30am – 3.30pm 11.30am

Simona Mihai soprano Family Day: Isang Enders cello Anna Stéphany Journey to the Moon Sunwook Kim piano mezzo-soprano Recommended for families with Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G Filipe Manu tenor children aged 7-12 BWV1007 N Boulanger 3 pièces for cello baritone Dominic Sedgwick Find your space boots and get and piano Joseph Middleton piano ready for a musical adventure Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in Somi Kim piano to the moon! To celebrate 50 G minor Op. 19 years since the first moon Actor to be announced landing, families are invited to Following his solo Bach suite Come into the Garden join professional musicians and (he has recorded all six to great Samling Showcase artists in this interactive day acclaim), the German-Korean Programme to include works by of workshops. You can expect cellist is joined by the Korean Schumann, Wolf, Brahms, Fauré, singing, prop-making, movement pianist for a major duo sonata, Debussy, Chausson, Walton, and drama, so come prepared for written at the beginning of the Ireland, Head and Britten. an energetic day! 20th century, alongside a Bach Suite and three duo works by A leading authority in the training Children £10 Adults £15 20th-century French composer of classical voices and piano Nadia Boulanger. accompanists nationally and £16 concs £14 inc. programme internationally, Samling Institute for Young Artists presents its annual and coffee/sherry/juice Showcase. Inspired by gardens First Time Booker Offer through the seasons and the New to Family events at language of flowers, six Samling Wigmore Hall? Buy your Artists present an evening of song tickets for half price, either and poetry. by phone or in person.

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Sunday 10 November Sunday 10 November Monday 11 November 3.00pm 7.30pm 1.00pm

Alessandro Fisher tenor Leslie Howard piano Joanna MacGregor piano Ashok Gupta piano Mozart Piano Sonata in A K331 Birds, Grounds, Chaconnes Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 11 in Rameau Le rappel des oiseaux Rachmaninov I Remember that B flat Op. 22 Couperin Les fauvétes plaintives Day; Twilight has fallen; Lilacs; I Liszt 3 Odes funèbres: Les Messiaen Le merle noir Rameau beg for mercy; Again I am alone; morts S516, La notte S516a & Le La Poule Janáček The barn owl Night is mournful; The Dream; triomphe funèbre du Tasse S517; has not flown away! from On The pied piper Réminiscences de l’opéra Robert an Overgrown Path Sir Harrison Poulenc Tel jour, telle nuit le Diable de Meyerbeer: Cavatine Birtwistle Oockooing Bird Hossein S412a & Valse infernale S413 Alizâdeh Call of the Birds Purcell Joint winner of the 2016 Kathleen Ground in C minor ZD221 Leslie Howard returns to Wigmore Ferrier Award and now a BBC Philip Glass Prophecies from Hall, opening with two favourite Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Koyaanisqatsi Gibbons Whoop, sonatas composed only about 20 Alessandro Fisher is a young do me no harm, good man Byrd years apart, yet totally different in tenor very definitely making 1st Pavane from My Ladye Nevells style. This Remembrance Sunday, waves; his programme surrounds Booke Philip Glass Knee Play No. 4 he also includes Liszt’s 3 Odes a Rachmaninov selection with two from Einstein on the Beach from funèbres, lamenting the deaths of major cycles. Trilogy Sonata Pachelbel Ciacona his son Daniel and his daughter in F minor Blandine, followed by Le triomphe £16 funèbre du Tasse which celebrates The multifarious musician has the memories that survive our death. created a characteristically inventive programme ranging from £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 Byrd to Glass and the contemporary Iranian Hossein Alizâdeh.

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Monday 11 November Tuesday 12 November Wednesday 13 November 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Lara Melda piano Christian Tetzlaffviolin Wihan Quartet Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp Lars Vogt piano Klein String Trio Op. 60; Nocturne in B flat minor Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 Suk String Quartet No. 1 in B flat Op. 9 No. 1; Nocturne in E flat in A Op. 30 No. 1 Op. 11 Op. 9 No. 2; Nocturne in B Op. 9 Lutosławski Partita for violin Janáček String Quartet No. 2 No. 3 and piano ‘Intimate Letters’ Rachmaninov Etude-tableau in György Kurtág 3 pezzi Op. 14e Currently in residence at Trinity E flat Op. 33 No. 7; Etude-tableau Franck Sonata in A for violin Laban Conservatoire, London, the in G minor Op. 33 No. 8 and piano Prokofiev From 10 pieces from Czech ensemble took its name Romeo and Juliet Op. 75: Masks, Two authoritative musicians from that of a compatriot cellist Montagues and Capulets, Friar and regular duo partners – the who himself founded the historic Laurence & Mercutio violinist also a former Wigmore Czech String Quartet. Here it Lyadov Barcarolle in F sharp Artist in Residence – play music champions works from its country, Op. 44 from the 19th and 20th centuries, including one by Gideon Klein, who Rachmaninov Prelude in D Op. 23 including György Kurtág’s tense 3 died in a Nazi labour camp. No. 4; Prelude in G minor Op. 23 pieces (1979) and Lutosławski’s No. 5 flamboyant Partita (1984). £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in In Memory of Pamela Majaro B minor Op. 58 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2010 and still in her mid-20s, the British-Turkish pianist has won exceptional praise for her Chopin interpretations, and here also explores Russian repertoire.

£35 £30 £26 £22 £18

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Nash Ensemble: Around Schubert Nash Ensemble: Around Schubert Thursday 14 November Saturday 16 November Saturday 16 November 7.30pm 5.30pm 7.30pm

Robin Tritschler tenor Nash Ensemble Nash Ensemble Jonathan Ware piano Richard Hosford clarinet Richard Hosford clarinet Fabled Songs Marie Lloyd basset horn Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 Schubert Fahrt zum Hades; Der Simon Crawford- No. 3 ‘The Emperor’ entsühnte Orest; Der zürnenden Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat Phillips piano Diana; Nachtstück; Memnon; Op. 34 Philoktet; Atys; Orest auf Tauris; Beethoven Quintet in E flat for Schubert String Quintet in C Der Alpenjäger; Abendstern; piano and winds Op. 16 D956 Auflösung Mendelssohn Konzertstück in Haydn’s famous Quartet with G Bush Songs of the Zodiac D minor Op. 114 its variations on the composer’s Caplet Le loup et l’agneau from 3 Beethoven Octet in E flat Op. 103 own Austrian Imperial anthem Fables of Jean de La Fontaine and Weber’s bubbling Quintet Honegger Petit cours de morale The wind players of the Nash for clarinet and strings pave the Chabrier Villanelle des petits Ensemble are featured in an way for what is often deemed canards early-evening concert containing the greatest work in the entire Hageman Praise; At the well; Do Beethoven’s extravert Quintet chamber music repertoire, the not go, my love; Into the Silent with piano, a Mendelssohn Quintet written by Schubert Land; Miranda showpiece for the clarinet family and Beethoven’s Octet, a true shortly before his death. In his varied programme the Irish symphony for wind. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 tenor includes music by the British Approximately 1 hour in duration, Geoffrey Bush (1920-1998) as without an interval well as the Dutch-born American composer and conductor Richard All seats £5 Hageman (1881-1966).

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Robin Tritschler Nash Ensemble Wind Quintet Schubertiade © Benjamin Ealovega © Keith Saunders/ArenaPAL © Julius Schmid wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 71

Friday 15 November 7.30pm Academy of St Martin in the Fields Joshua Bell violin Borodin String Sextet in D minor Mozart Divertimento in F K247 Dvořák String Sextet in A Op. 48

A welcome return for one of the world’s most established and versatile chamber ensembles, together with its music director since 2011 – a long-familiar face at Wigmore Hall as a leading violinist. Dvořák in his delightful Slavonic style complements Mozart in lighter mode.

£60 £50 £45 £40 £25

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Sunday 17 November Sunday 17 November 11.30am 7.30pm

Young Soloists of the Young Soloists of the Kronberg Academy Kronberg Academy Marc Bouchkov violin Maciej Kułakowski cello Jonian Ilias Kadesha violin Jonian Ilias Kadesha violin Sindy Mohamed viola Marc Bouchkov violin Maciej Kułakowski cello Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor Elena Bashkirova piano BWV1011 Beethoven Serenade in D for string trio Op. 8 Helena Winkelman Ciaccona for Dohnányi Serenade in C Op. 10 solo violin Schnittke Piano Quintet Schnittke Fugue for solo violin Bach Chaconne from Partita Joined by the renowned pianist Elena Bashkirova, Academy No. 2 in D minor for solo violin members perform Schnittke’s 1976 Quintet dedicated to the BWV1004 memory of his mother and, in his words, ‘based upon situations of genuine grief’; Dohnányi’s attractive 1902 piece; and its model, A leading institution involved Beethoven’s early trio. in developing string players, the Academy also regularly £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 visits Wigmore Hall, its opening programme on this occasion consisting of solo violin and cello works, including the 2002 Ciaccona by Swiss composer Helena Winkelman and Alfred Schnittke’s 1953 Fugue.

£16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Maciej Kułakowski Elena Bashkirova © Wojciech Grzędziński © Nikolaj Lund wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 73

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Free concert tickets for young people and school groups Wigmore Hall and CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust have been offering free tickets to young people since 1999. This year we are delighted to offer over 2,000 free tickets to young people aged 8–25 and school groups, as well as free pre-concert workshops for schools. Visit wigmore-hall.org.uk/chamberzone or check our Learning brochure for forthcoming concert dates. Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust

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Monday 18 November Monday 18 November Tuesday 19 November 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

James Newby baritone Danny Driver piano Lars Danielsson Group Simon Lepper piano Deirdre McKay Time, Shining – Liberetto III Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35 Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Lars Danielsson bass, cello Warlock Yarmouth Fair Betsy Jolas Pièce Pour Grégory Privat piano Ireland The Three Ravens Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 John Parricelli guitar Vaughan Williams Silent Noon in B flat Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ Magnus Öström drums from The House of Life One of the most greatly respected EFG London Jazz Festival 2019 Howells King David pianists of his generation, Danny Britten Oliver Cromwell Driver has won plaudits for Swedish bassist, cellist, composer and arranger Lars Danielsson Joint winner of the 2016 Kathleen performances and recordings covering a wide range of teams up with an all-star line- Ferrier Award and the recipient up for the London première of of the Wigmore Hall/Independent repertoire. Here he tackles one of the summits of the piano literature Liberetto; with the talented French Opera Voice Fellowship that same pianist Gregory Privat bringing his year, rising baritone James Newby preceded by shorter works by Irish composer Deirdre McKay powerful storytelling and rhythmic became a BBC Radio 3 New sensitivity thanks to his Caribbean Generation Artist in 2018: there and Franco-American Betsy Jolas, both dating from 1997. and Creole influences, the former is a strong British component to e.s.t. drummer Magnus Öström his programme. £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 carrying his broad style and with British guitarist John Parricelli’s £16 concs £14 wonderfully subtle sound. Together, the band discovers new musical spaces and the freedom of music between chamber jazz, classic and European folk music.

£35 £30 £20

James Newby Danny Driver Lars Danielsson Group © Ben Mckee © Kaupo Kikkas © Thomas Schloemann wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 75

Brahms Series Wednesday 20 November Wednesday 20 November Thursday 21 November 10.15am and 11.45am 7.30pm 11.00am and 12.30pm

Chamber Tots: Vienna Piano Trio For Crying Out Loud! In the Forest Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in Parents or carers and their babies E minor Op. 38; Violin Sonata under 1 can enjoy an informal Join us on a musical adventure No. 1 in G Op. 78; Piano Trio concert featuring musicians from in the forest in these interactive No. 1 in B Op. 8 (early version) music sessions for children the Royal Academy of Music. aged 1 to 5 and their parents Appearing here in their new Move and groove to the music or or carers. Discover exciting line-up – pianist Stefan Mendl, sit back and unwind. Parents-to- instruments, songs, and stories violinist David McCarroll and be are also warmly welcomed. with experienced music leaders cellist Clemens Hagen – the trio Approximately 45 minutes in and emerging chamber ensembles. concentrates on works by Brahms: duration March to your own beat as we his dramatic first cello sonata; his explore, play and move together! lyrical first violin sonata; and the Adults £8.50 (babies come free) richly textured first piano trio in its In partnership with the Royal 10.15am–11.15am (1–2 year-olds) rarely heard initial version (1854). Academy of Music 11.45am–12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Children £7 Adults £5

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Thomas Quasthoff 60th Birthday Britten Series Despite experiencing active discouragement in his early years, Friday 22 November the exceptionally gifted baritone would go on to enjoy a top-flight 7.30pm career in the concert and recital hall, together with occasional and equally acclaimed appearances on the operatic stage and jazz Doric String Quartet performances that have been as admired as his prodigious work in Lieder. He celebrates his 60th birthday with two events at the Hall Britten String Quartet No. 1 in D this November. Op. 25; String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36; String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 Friday 22 November 1.00pm – 4.00pm Renowned for their interpretations of 20th-century music, the Doric performs the three numbered Thomas Quasthoff Masterclass quartets by Britten on the composer’s birthday, works dating The celebrated German baritone’s career took off when he won respectively from 1941, 1945 (a the Shostakovich Prize in 1996 in Moscow and an award at the work premièred at Wigmore Hall in Edinburgh International Festival. His concert debut was under the a programme celebrating Purcell) baton of Sir Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and 1975. and he has gone on to achieve an acclaimed international career. He will work with students from London music colleges in this £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 afternoon’s masterclass. Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval

£10 concs £8 U25s free (subject to availability, see page 73)

Sunday 24 November 3.00pm

Thomas Quasthoff Interview Join us in an interview with Thomas Quasthoff as we take a look back at his international music career.

£20

Thomas Quasthoff Doric String Quartet © Gregor Hohenberg Sony Music Entertainment © George Garnier wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 77

Rachel Podger Residency Saturday 23 November Saturday 23 November Sunday 24 November 11.00am 7.30pm 11.30am

The Wagner Society Andrè Schuen baritone Rachel Podger violin Singing Competition Daniel Heide piano Bach Sonata No. 1 in G minor Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden for solo violin BWV1001; Partita The annual singing competition Gesellen No. 1 in B minor for solo violin of The Wagner Society is an Schubert An den Mond D259; BWV1002 opportunity for promising young Im Frühling; Der Schiffer D536a; Wagner voices to compete for These two works date from the Abendstern; Des Fischers prizes of tuition and language period of Bach’s life spent in Liebesglück; Der Musensohn; Sei coaching, as well as for the chance Cöthen, in the employ of the court mir gegrüsst; Du bist die Ruh; to attend the student bursary of Prince Leopold. The sonata Dass sie hier gewesen programme at the Bayreuth ranges from the stately solemnity Mahler Rückert Lieder Festival. Six finalists, chosen of the opening Adagio through a from first round auditions, will Hailing from the southern Tyrol, vigorous Fugue and a graceful compete, singing works by Wagner the Lieder-specialist baritone Siciliana to a moto-perpetuo- and other composers in front of a grew up speaking Ladin, Italian like finale. In the freer form of distinguished panel of judges. and German – something that laid the Partita, each of the main The panel will be chaired by the foundations for his ability to movements – Allemanda, Correnta, Sarabande, and Tempo di Borea (or Nicholas Payne (director of Opera connect creatively with a multitude Bourrée) – is followed by a Double Europa) and will include Hugh of vocal texts. (or variation). Canning, Graham Clark, Isabel Murphy, and Rachel Nicholls. The £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 £16 concs £14 inc. programme prizes will be presented by Dame and coffee/sherry/juice Anne Evans. Approximately 4 hours in duration, including a lunch interval

£30

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Sunday 24 November 7.30pm Brenda Rae soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

Copland 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson Dominick Argento 6 Elizabethan Songs Libby Larsen Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII Songs by Lowell Liebermann

Hailing from Wisconsin, USA, the soprano – here partnered by one of the finest accompanists of the present day – has built up a busy international career in the opera house, concert hall and recital platform, specialising in the coloratura repertoire in which she excels. She presents an all-American programme this evening.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Brenda Rae © Kristin Hoebermann wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 79

Monday 25 November Tuesday 26 November 1.00pm 7.30pm

Marian Consort Nelson Goerner piano Music for the Queen of Heaven Fauré Thème et Variations in Byrd Salve Regina a4 C sharp minor Op. 73 Roxanna Panufnik St Pancras Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5 Magnificat Liszt Funérailles S173 No. 7; Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este Dodgson Dormi Jesu from Années de pèlerinage, troisième année S163; Rhapsodie Tallis Videte miraculum espagnole S254 Cecilia McDowall Alma The former subject of an Artist Portrait series at Wigmore Hall, Redemptoris Mater the Argentine pianist is one of the foremost keyboard performers Ludford Ave cuius conceptio before the public today. His programme covers a wide range of Tallis Euge caeli porta mood as he explores works from the Romantic period, including a Britten A Hymn to the Virgin rarely heard set of variations by Fauré (1895). Parsons Ave Maria Judith Weir Ave Regina Caelorum £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 The internationally renowned early music consort present a programme focussed on their namesake, the Blessed Virgin Mary. The programme includes Marian anthems from the Renaissance right through to those by contemporary composers.

£16 concs £14

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Thursday 28 November Friday 29 November Friday 29 November 7.30pm 3.00pm 7.30pm

The English Concert Music for the Moment Fauré Quartet Harry Bicket director, Rachmaninov From Etudes- If you are, or someone you know harpsichord tableaux Op. 39: No. 6 in A minor is, living with dementia, please & No. 2 in A minor (transcr. Dirk Nadja Zwiener violin join us for this informal afternoon Mommertz) concert with musicians from the Fontana Sonata XIV for 2 violins Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat . You are Marini Sinfonia Terzo Tuono Royal Academy of Music Op. 47 warmly invited to join us for tea Op. 22; Balletto quarto Op. 22 Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2 in A and coffee from 2.30pm in the Castello Sonata No. 10 from Op. 26 Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Bechstein Room. libro secondo Founded in 1995 to celebrate Steffani Suite from Niobe, Regina Free (ticket required) the 150th anniversary of Fauré’s di Tebe In partnership with Resonate Arts birth, the quartet’s members have Locatelli Concerto for 4 violins in F and the Royal Academy of Music gone on to open up new territory Op. 4 No. 12 for chamber groups. Alongside Vivaldi The Four Seasons classics of their medium, here they perform transcriptions by the Through experimental playing ensemble’s pianist of piano pieces techniques, compositional by Rachmaninov. innovation, imitations of nature, and exceedingly virtuosic writing, Wigmore Hall is committed to £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 these composers pushed the playing its part in building a In Memory of Peter Flatter boundaries of Italian music to their dementia-friendly society, and is proud to have 2 Dementia limit. Disseminated across the Friends Champions and 44 great culture capitals through the Dementia Friends on its staff Amsterdam printing houses, these team. To find out more visit Italian trailblazers set the bar for dementiafriends.org.uk the rest of Europe.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Nadja Zwiener Music for the Moment Faure Quartet © Antje Kroeger © James Berry © Tim Klöcker wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 81

Saturday 30 November Saturday 30 November Saturday 30 November 10.15am and 11.45am 3.00pm – 4.00pm 7.30pm

Chamber Tots: Family Concert: Jamie Barton mezzo- Under the Sea Beethoven and the soprano Science of Sound Kathleen Kelly piano Join us on a musical adventure Remick Warren Heather under the sea in these interactive Recommended for families with L Boulanger Attente music sessions for children children aged 7-11 Beach Ah, love, but a day! from aged 1 to 5 and their parents 3 Browning songs or carers. Discover exciting Join presenter Sam Glazer and the N Boulanger S’il arrive jamais instruments, songs, and stories world-renowned Heath Quartet from Les heures claires with experienced music leaders for this interactive concert, and discover Ludwig van Beethoven’s Haydn Arianna a Naxos and emerging chamber ensembles. extraordinary music for string Libby Larsen Love After 1950 March to your own beat as we quartet. We invite families to learn Ravel Chanson à boire from Don explore, play and move together! more about this revolutionary Quichotte à Dulcinée composer while investigating the Duparc Phidylé 10.15am–11.15am (1-2 year-olds) science of sound, as we explore Strauss Cäcilie 11.45am–12.45pm (3-5 year-olds) how Beethoven composed some of his most loved and famous pieces For The Guardian, ‘a great artist, Children £7 Adults £5 even after losing his hearing. no question’, whose ‘nobility of Arrive early for free arts activities utterance invites comparison not in the Bechstein Room. Drop in so much with her contemporaries between 1.45pm and 2.30pm as with mid-20th century greats such as Kirsten Flagstad’, here First Time Booker Offer Children £10 Adults £12 the American mezzo offers a New to Family events at programme rich in the works of Wigmore Hall? Buy your women composers. tickets for half price, either by phone or in person. £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 First Time Booker Offer

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Sunday 1 December Sunday 1 December Monday 2 December 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm

Beatrice Rana piano Tenebrae Colin Currie percussion Ravel Miroirs Nigel Short conductor Sam Walton percussion Chopin 12 Etudes Op. 25 Olivia Jageurs harp Pavel Kolesnikov piano The young Italian pianist came Gregorian chant O come, O come Samson Tsoy piano to widespread attention through Emmanuel Adrian Peacock Veni, Programme to include: a series of triumphs at major Veni Emmanuel Gregorian chant Ravel Rapsodie espagnole competitions and in 2017 received O Radix Jesse Joanna Forbes Bartók Sonata for two pianos and the Critics’ Circle Award for L’Estrange Advent ‘O’ Carol percussion BB115 emerging instrumental talent. Joanna Marsh New work for male In her programme she brings voices Britten A Ceremony of Four leading performers on together Ravel’s colourful and Carols Op. 28 James Burton O piano and percussion assemble demanding suite with Chopin’s Thoma! Maxwell Davies 4 Carols for Bartók’s masterpiece for second set of studies extending from O Magnum Mysterium Holst this unusual medium, a work the technique of the instrument. In the Bleak Midwinter Warlock of uniquely haunting sonorities Benedicamus Domino Bax I sing written in 1937 and in which the £16 concs £14 inc. programme of a maiden Sally Beamish In two percussionists share between and coffee/sherry/juice the stillness Bob Chilcott The them seven instruments. Shepherd’s Carol Jonathan Rathbone The Oxen Gruber/ £16 concs £14 Rathbone Silent night Trad 12 Days of Christmas (arr. Ian Humphris)

In the approach to the festive season, one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles performs a programme of Christmas music both traditional and contemporary.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Beatrice Rana Tenebrae Colin Currie © Nicolas Bets © Chris O’Donovan © Marco Borggreve wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 83

Stephen Hough Residency Brahms – in some instances arranged by Hough himself – is a staple feature of the pianist’s Residency. Few musicians possess Hough’s diverse creativity and intellectual curiosity, his 2001 award of a MacArthur Fellowship demonstrating the international reputation he has continued to enjoy, and which has expanded further through his compositions and burgeoning literary career.

Tuesday 3 December 7.30pm

Stephen Hough piano Steven Isserlis cello

Suk Ballade in D minor Op. 3 No. 1; Serenade in A Op. 3 No. 2 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Stephen Hough Sonata for cello and piano left hand (Les adieux) Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99

Together with long-term friend and collaborator Steven Isserlis, the pianist/composer includes a work which the pair introduced at the Kronberg Festival in October 2013, its ‘non-programmatic title’, he explains, ‘conjuring up ghosts of Beethoven and Dussek’.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Events in the Series

Friday 6 December 7.30pm with Michael Collins clarinet & Andrei Ioniţă cello

Monday 6 January 2020 6.00pm Artists in Conversation: Stephen Hough

Monday 6 January 2020 7.30pm with Michael Collins clarinet & Castalian String Quartet

Tuesday 7 January 2020 7.30pm with Castalian String Quartet

Saturday 11 January 2020 7.30pm with Renaud Capuçon violin

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Britten Series Monday 2 December Wednesday 4 December Wednesday 4 December 7.30pm 11.00am – 12 noon 7.30pm

Bertrand Chamayou piano Schools Concert: Sophie Bevan soprano Saint-Saëns Allegro appassionato Beethoven and the Allan Clayton tenor Op. 70 Science of Sound Nicolas Fleury horn Fauré Barcarolle No. 5 in F sharp minor Op. 66; Nocturne Key Stage 2 Aurora Orchestra No. 6 in D flat Op. 63 Brett Dean conductor Chabrier From 10 pièces Join presenter Sam Glazer Britten Les Illuminations Op. 18 pittoresques: Mélancolie & Idylle and the world-renowned Heath Josephine Stephenson Une Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue Quartet for this interactive Saison en Enfer* Liszt Sarabande und Chaconne concert, and discover Ludwig van Arvo Pärt Cantus in memoriam aus dem Singspiel Almira von Beethoven’s extraordinary music Benjamin Britten Handel S181 for string quartet. We invite Key Britten Serenade for tenor, horn Klavierstück Nr. 5 Stage 2 school groups to learn and strings Op. 31 (Tombeau) more about this revolutionary Liszt Réminiscences de Don Juan composer while investigating the *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall S418 science of sound, as we explore how Beethoven composed some of Britten’s connection to Wigmore French music, contemporary his most loved and famous pieces Hall is celebrated with a music and the music of Liszt even after losing his hearing. performance of the Serenade, are amongst the specialisms of premièred here in 1943, while the French pianist, who includes Children £4 Accompanying adults the Rimbaud settings of Les the dramatic and technically free (ticket required) Illuminations are complemented demanding Réminiscences de Don by a new work by Josephine Juan S418, alongside a work by Stephenson written for Allan Wolfgang Rihm, written in 1975. Clayton.

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Thursday 5 December 7.30pm Thomas Hampson baritone Wolfram Rieger piano

Barber With Rue my Heart is Laden; Night Wanderers; Nocturne; From Despite and Still: In the Wilderness & Solitary Hotel; Now have I fed and eaten up the rose; A Green Lowland of Pianos; O boundless, boundless evening; Rain has fallen; Sleep now; I hear an army Wolf Der Genesene an die Hoffnung; In der Frühe; Fussreise; Auf einer Wanderung; Im Frühling; Begegnung; Der Tambour; Der Feuerreiter

An acknowledged master of Lieder, the American baritone is also renowned as an exponent of American song, including those by Barber, whose complete works for voice he has recorded alongside Cheryl Studer.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Friday 6 December 1.00pm – 4.00pm

Thomas Hampson Masterclass Hailing from America, one of the world’s foremost baritones works with students from London music colleges. Hampson’s award-winning career spans opera, song, research and education. Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval

£10 concs £8 U25s free (subject to availability, see page 73)

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Stephen Hough Residency Brahms Series Nash Ensemble: Around Schubert Nash Ensemble: Around Schubert Friday 6 December Saturday 7 December Saturday 7 December 7.30pm 5.30pm 7.30pm

Stephen Hough piano Nash Ensemble Nash Ensemble Michael Collins clarinet Philippa Davies flute Roderick Williams baritone Richard Hosford clarinet Andrei Ioniţă cello Beethoven British folksongs for Adrian Brendel cello voice and piano trio Rossini Wind Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston Lucy Wakeford harp Op. 102 Quartet No. 3 in C Schubert 6 Hugh Webb harp songs from Schwanengesang Frühling Clarinet Trio Op. 40 Simon Crawford-Phillips piano Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5 (arr. by David Matthews for voice Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94 in F sharp minor (transcr. and ensemble) Schumann Piano (arr. for flute and piano) Stephen Hough for clarinet trio); Quintet in E flat Op. 44 Chopin Variations on a theme of Intermezzo in E flat Op. 117 No. 1 Rossini (arr. for flute and harp) The Nash’s wind players perform (transcr. Stephen Hough for Schubert The Fountain; Gretchen one of Rossini’s youthful quartets, clarinet trio) am Spinnrade; Ständchen; Ellens and strings and piano combine Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor Gesang III (tr. John Thomas arr. for Schumann’s vivacious Quintet. Op. 114 Ann Griffiths for 2 harps) Roderick Williams sings a selection Winner of several competitions Ries Clarinet Trio Op. 28 from Beethoven’s folksong settings – including the cello division of and an arrangement by David A colourful prelude to the evening the International Tchaikovsky Matthews of six songs from includes an early Chopin rarity, Competition in Moscow in 2015 – Schubert’s Swansong. arrangements of well-known the young Romanian cellist joins Schubert songs transcribed for harp with Hough and clarinettist Collins £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 by John Thomas, harpist to Queen for a programme placing Brahms Victoria, and a trio by Ferdinand beside his mentor Schumann and Forthcoming Concerts in the Series Ries, pupil and friend of Beethoven. in between them a work by the Saturday 18 January 2020 neglected Carl Frühling (1868-1937). Approximately 1 hour in duration, 5.30pm and 7.30pm without an interval £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Saturday 8 February 2020 All seats £5 5.30pm and 7.30pm

Saturday 7 March 2020 7.30pm

Sunday 8 March 2020 11.30am

Andrei Ioniţă Schubertiade Roderick Williams © Nikolaj Lund © Julius Schmid © Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 87

Schumann Song Series Sunday 8 December Sunday 8 December Sunday 8 December 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm

Van Kuijk Quartet Claire Booth soprano Thomas Oliemans baritone Mozart String Quartet in D minor Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano Malcolm Martineau piano K421 Nicky Spence tenor Schumann Dichterliebe Op. 48 Brahms String Quartet in A minor Andrew Matthews- Gade 5 Gedichte aus ‘Bilder des Op. 51 No. 2 Orients’ Op. 24 Owen piano Brahms From Die schöne In 2015, the quartet won three Magelone Op. 33: Sind es prizes (including first prize) at Jonathan Dove Birthday Concert Schmerzen, sind es Freuden, the Wigmore Hall International Jonathan Dove Letters from Liebe kam aus fernen Landen, String Quartet Competition; it is Claude; Out of Winter; A selection Wir müssen uns trennen, Ruhe, now a member of the BBC Radio from Ariel; A selection from All Süssliebchen & Wie schnell 3 New Generation Artists, and has You Who Sleep Tonight verschwindet already recorded music by Mozart Earlier this year, the UK’s most and Schubert to considerable Working here with a pianist prolific and successful opera acclaim. ‘These four young with whom he has experienced composer turned 60. As well as Frenchmen’, wrote The Guardian exceptional artistic success, a vast output of works for the after a recent appearance, ‘made the Dutch baritone contrasts stage – the most recent being the music smile’. Schumann’s classic cycle with Marx in London, premièred in Bonn extracts from Brahms’ narrative in December 2018 – Dove’s songs £16 concs £14 inc. programme work and a set by Schumann’s merit equal celebration. and coffee/sherry/juice friend, the Danish Niels Gade. In Memory of Peter Flatter £16 £35 £30 £26 £22 £18

Forthcoming Concert in the Series

Thursday 2 January 2020 7.30pm Sir Simon Keenlyside baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Van Kuijk Quartet Claire Booth Thomas Oliemans © Nikolaj Lund © Sven Arnstein © Marco Borggreve 88 • DECEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Monday 9 December Monday 9 December Tuesday 10 December 1.00pm 7.30pm 1.00pm

Nelson Freire piano Eric Lu piano Mario Häring piano Scarlatti 3 Sonatas Leeds Piano Competition 2018 Leeds Piano Competition 2018 Rameau/Godowsky Elégie from Prizewinner Recital Prizewinner Recital Réminiscences Schumann Variations on an Debussy Estampes; Rêverie Handel Air and Variations ‘The original theme in E flat WoO. 24 Helmut Lachenmann 5 Variations Harmonious Blacksmith’ from ‘Geister Variations’ on a Theme of Schubert Suite No. 5 in E HWV430 Brahms 6 Klavierstücke Op. 118 Schubert Piano Sonata in Brahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 A minor D784 Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp Op. 60 Following the Chinese-American The programme of the German Liszt Isoldes Liebestod from pianist’s win at the 2018 Leeds pianist who took second prize Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde S447 International Piano Competition, at the 2018 Leeds Competition his first UK recital in Bristol was includes the set of variations His progression to the top ranks said by The Guardian to reveal on Schubert’s German Dance of the world’s instrumentalists ‘one of the most exciting keyboard D643 (1819) that comprises slow but steady, the outstanding prospects in a long time’. the experimentalist Helmut Brazilian pianist recently turned Lachenmann’s first published 75, while 2019 also marks £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 piece (1956). the 60th anniversary of his international career. Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust £16 £16 concs £14

Nelson Freire Eric Lu Mario Haring © Fabrice Boissiere © Kaupo Kikkas wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 89

Weinberg/Shostakovich Cycle Tuesday 10 December Wednesday 11 December Wednesday 11 December 7.30pm 1.00pm 6.15pm – 7.05pm

Quatuor Danel Xinyuan Wang piano Bechstein Sessions: Shostakovich String Quartet Leeds Piano Competition 2018 Improviso No. 2 in A Op. 68 Prizewinner Recital Join us for an informal Weinberg String Quartet No. 3 Schubert Piano Sonata in D D850 performance in the Bechstein Shostakovich String Quartet ‘Gasteiner’ Bar, featuring dynamic young No. 3 in F Op. 73 Bartók 3 Hungarian Folksongs ensemble , performing from Csík; Allegro Barbaro BB63; Improviso In this second instalment of their chamber music from the 17th Piano Sonata BB88 series, the Danel players surround and 18th centuries alongside Weinberg’s tense Third Quartet of Still in his early twenties, the improvisations around styles from 1944 with Shostakovich’s widely- Chinese pianist has received the same period. ranging Second Quartet of the same prizes at several leading year, and his heartfelt and dramatic competitions and was a finalist £5 third work in the medium (1946). in Leeds in 2018. His programme brings together two composers, £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Schubert in expansive mode in his 1825 sonata and Bartók at his Forthcoming Concerts in the Series most percussive in his example from 1926. Wednesday 25 March 2020 7.30pm

Saturday 16 May 2020 7.30pm £16

Thursday 9 July 2020 7.30pm

Financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-annual programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022

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Friday 13 December 7.30pm L’Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Céline Scheen soprano Benedetta Mazzucato mezzo-soprano Vincenzo Capezzuto alto Far la ninnananna Anon Ninna nanna al Bambin Giesù Theile Der Sionitin Wiegenlied: Nun ich singe, Gott, ich knie Trad/Italian Ninna nanna sopra la Romanesca; Ninna nanna ri la rosa; Ninna nanna delle donne dei marinai di Trapani; Stu’ criatu Kapsberger Figlio dormi Merula Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla nanna Rossi Dormite, begl’occhi from Orfeo Bennet Venus’ birds Allegri Canario Cazzati Ciaccona Monteverdi Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius

Original and distinctive, the versatile Austrian musician Christina Pluhar returns with the Baroque (and more!) ensemble she founded in 2000, and which she has subsequently led to exceptional international success; the focus of their programme is lullabies and cradle songs from 17th-century Italy. Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

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Wednesday 11 December Thursday 12 December Sunday 15 December 7.30pm 7.30pm 11.30am

Melvyn Tan piano Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Eggner Trio Calefax reed quintet Julius Drake piano Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80 Signum Quartet Take these songs I have sung to Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Kevin Volans’ 70th Birthday you, my love Kevin Volans Leaping Dance:This Programme to include: Their trio founded in 1997, the three is How it Is; piano:string Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte brothers Eggner hail from Vienna quartet:chopin*1; L’Africaine; Op. 98 and on this return visit perform two x:y:k for reed quintet and string Schoenberg A selection from Das regular works from their repertoire. quartet*2 (world première) Buch der hängenden Gärten The companionable second of Songs by Berg and Weill Schumann’s three works for the *1Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall medium dates from 1847, while and the Arts Council of Ireland Universally admired as an operatic Ravel’s example of 1914 incorporates *2Co-commissioned by Calefax Reed artist, the former Wigmore influences from what was then Ensemble, Signum Quartet, String Artist in Residence has won Malaya and the Basque country. Quartet Biennale Amsterdam and equivalent praise for her searching the Eduard von Beinem Foundation interpretations covering a wide £16 concs £14 inc. programme and demanding repertoire of song. and coffee/sherry/juice The South African-born composer Here she reunites with her long- marks his 70th birthday this term pianist partner. year, with pianist Melvyn Tan and two eminent ensembles coming £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 together to celebrate in a programme containing several major works from Volans’ output and a new one created especially for this occasion, x:y:k.

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Saturday 14 December 7.30pm Jakub Józef Orliński countertenor Il Pomo d’Oro Facce d’amore The young Polish countertenor has risen speedily to stardom: earlier this year he made his Glyndebourne debut as Eustazio in Handel’s Rinaldo and recently released his debut album Anima Sacra with the period- instrument ensemble that accompanies him in this programme. ‘Facce d’amore’ is the musical picture of a male lover in the 18th century. The programme focusses on different aspects of love, ranging from joy to madness, anger and even craziness. Starting from works by Cavalli, Boretti, going through Bononcini, Conti, Handel, Predieri and finishing on a virtuosic love aria, sung by Orfeo and composed for the famous castrato Farinelli by Hasse, the repertoire represents a journey through the Baroque era.

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Monday 16 December Monday 16 December Tuesday 17 December 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Elisabeth Kulman Martin Fröst clarinet Les Talens Lyriques mezzo-soprano Roland Pöntinen piano Christophe Rousset Eduard Kutrowatz piano French Beauties and Swedish director Schubert Vor meiner Wiege; Der Beasts Charpentier Litanies de la Vierge Flug der Zeit; Du bist die Ruh; Debussy Première rapsodie H84; Pour la Vierge (‘Felix namque Todesmusik Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and es’) H360; Antiennes O de l’Avent Liszt Mignons Lied (Kennst du piano H36-43; From Noëls sur les das Land); Go not, happy day!; Anders Hillborg Tampere Raw instruments: Joseph est bien marié, Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher Ravel From Miroirs: Une barque Or nous dites Marie & Où s’en Britten From Cabaret Songs: Tell sur l’océan & Alborada del gracioso vont ces gais bergers; Antiphona me the truth about love & Johnny Roland Pöntinen Mercury Dream in honorem beatae virginis a Porter Miss Otis regrets Chausson Andante and Allegro redemptione captivorum (‘Beata es Weill Pirate Jenny from The Maria’); In circumcisione Domini: Threepenny Opera Pianist Roland Pöntinen’s own Dialogus inter angelum et pastores Britten Funeral blues from music features in this programme (‘Xenia, xenia pastores’) H406; Cabaret Songs shared with one of the world’s Noëls pour les instruments H531; leading clarinettists in the shape Magnificat H73 The versatile Austrian artist of a jazzy piece the two first specialises in concert and recital performed in 1994, while Anders One of today’s leading period- work, here reprising songs by Hillborg’s work for the same instrument ensembles returns Liszt she has previously recorded performers was written three to one of the composers it has with her pianist partner before years earlier. championed longest in this moving onto cabaret repertoire. programme for Christmas. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £16 concs £14 £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Elisabeth Kulman Martin Fröst Les Talens Lyriques © Stephan Polzer © Sony Music Entertainment © cargocollective.com-vermeesch 94 • DECEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Sunday 15 December Fretwork: Musick’s 7.30pm Fretwork Monument Elin Manahan Thomas soprano Since its foundation in 1985 the viol consort has helped An Elizabethan Christmas disseminate and renew a tradition of music formerly little known beyond a small band of specialists, its extraordinary Byrd In Nomine No. 3; Out of the orient standard of playing wedded to an approach to repertory crystal skies; In Nomine No. 4; From virgin’s that has seen it seek out forgotten music as well as womb; In Nomine No. 5; An earthly tree commissioning new works from contemporary composers. Holborne The Cradle; Lullabie In Musick’s Monument, the ensemble surveys English consort Byrd Lullaby music from Cornysh to Purcell across three seasons. Holborne As it Fell on a Holie Eve Peerson Upon my lap my soveraigne sits Gibbons In Nomine No. 1 Anon Sweet was the song Peerson Attendite Weelkes To shorten winters sadnesse Gibbons Fantasy a4 for ‘great dooble basse’ Holborne The New-Yeeres Gift Byrd O God that guides the cheerful sun

In this programme, the English consort repertoire is sampled in a varied selection of items that looks forward to Christmas and the New Year.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concert in the Series

Friday 17 July 2020 7.00pm

Fretwork © Nick White wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 95

Belcea Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets Wednesday 18 December Though he contributed with distinction to every 3.00pm – 4.00pm medium open to him, few would dispute the notion that Beethoven’s string quartets form an Exploring Beethoven’s essential genre within his oeuvre, one that reflected his ongoing development both as an artist and an individual and which called Piano Sonatas with forth some of his most profound creations. Jonathan Biss Our Beethoven Celebration has been made possible thanks to a lead gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, with additional support from Join Jonathan Biss in the the Beethoven Circle Bechstein Room, where the pianist will discuss his Coursera lectures Wednesday 18 December on Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas 7.30pm coursera.org/learn/beethoven- piano-sonatas Belcea Quartet Free (ticket required) Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in F Op. 135; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’

Continuing its long and fruitful relationship with Wigmore Hall, where it was Quartet in Residence from 2001 to 2006, one of the world’s most revered ensembles brings together works from all three of Beethoven’s traditional creative periods.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Friday 20 December 7.30pm

Monday 2 March 2020 7.30pm

Tuesday 3 March 2020 7.30pm

Friday 5 June 2020 7.30pm

Sunday 7 June 2020 7.30pm

Jonathan Biss Belcea Quartet © Benjamin Ealovega © Marco Borggreve 96 • DECEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Graham Johnson Beethoven Sonata Cycle Belcea Quartet: Beethoven Cycle Songmakers’ Almanac Thursday 19 December Friday 20 December Saturday 21 December 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Jonathan Biss piano Belcea Quartet Ailish Tynan soprano Beethoven Piano Sonatas: No. 4 Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano in E flat Op. 7, No. 17 in D minor Op. 18 No. 6; String Quartet in Theodore Platt baritone Op. 31 No. 2 ‘Tempest’, No. 5 in A minor Op. 132 C minor Op. 10 No. 1 & No. 23 in Graham Johnson piano F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ The Belcea takes a work from A Winter Birthday Beethoven’s earliest set of In his further selection from the quartets and one of his late group. Graham Johnson continues his piano sonatas – works dubbed Op. 18 No. 6 (1798-1800) ends Songmakers’ Almanac series by Hans von Bülow the ‘New with a movement entitled ‘La by celebrating the most famous Testament’ of pianists, as opposed Malinconia’ (Melancholy), which birthday of all. With a selection of to the ‘Old Testament’ consisting Beethoven requested should be songs by composers from Wolf of Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues played ‘with the greatest possible and Strauss to Vaughan Williams – Jonathan Biss chooses some delicacy’, while Op. 132 (1825) and Britten, the line-up of talented characteristically dramatic examples. includes the famous ‘Holy Song of singers explore the Christmas Thanksgiving of a Convalescent to story from numerous characters’ £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 the Deity’. perspectives through the ages.

Thursday 19 December £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 9.30pm

Post-Concert Talk: Jonathan Biss with Antoine Lederlin and Krzysztof Chorzelski of the Belcea Quartet

Free (with evening concert ticket)

Jonathan Biss Belcea Quartet Graham Johnson © Benjamin Ealovega © Marco Borggreve © Clive Barda wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 97

Sunday 22 December Sunday 22 December 11.30am 7.30pm

Modigliani Quartet Claron McFadden soprano Mozart Divertimento in F K138 Alexander Melnikov piano Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 Prokofiev 5 Melodies Op. 35 in E flat minor Op. 30 Cage Aria Berio Sequenza III The Modigliani Quartet formed in Berberian Stripsody Paris in 2003 from players who Knussen Whitman Settings Op. 25 had met at the Conservatoire. Schnittke Improvisation and Fugue for solo piano Tonight’s programme focusses Schulhoff Sonata Erotica on the last of Tchaikovsky’s George Crumb Apparition: Elegiac Songs and Vocalises three quartets (1876), whose slow movement, marked Andante In partnership with the Russian pianist, the high-flying soprano’s funebre e doloroso, was a memorial creative programme features numerous works designed to push to the Czech Ferdinand Laub, the boundaries of the human voice as an instrument. These whom the composer considered include compositions associated with the extraordinary Cathy the finest violinist of his time. Berberian, whose visual score for Stripsody (1966) consists of comic-book-style sound effects, as well as George Crumb’s take £16 concs £14 inc. programme on the poetry of Walt Whitman for voice and amplified piano. and coffee/sherry/juice £35 £30 £26 £22 £18

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Monday 23 December Friday 27 December 7.30pm 7.30pm

Isabelle Faust violin Schumann Quartet Alois Posch double bass Haydn String Quartet in B flat Op. 1 No. 1 ‘La chasse’ Lorenzo Coppola clarinet Shostakovich String Quartet Javier Zafra bassoon No. 9 in E flat Op. 117 Reinhold Friedrich trumpet Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my Life’ Jörgen van Rijen trombone Raymond Curfs drums Three German brothers named Schumann were joined in 2012 Dominique Horwitz narrator by their Estonian violist colleague The Soldier’s Tale to form a quartet that this month Bartók Sonata for solo violin BB124 completes a three-year residency Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. A starry group of performers come together to enact Stravinsky’s Haydn’s first official string quartet theatrical parable based on a folk tale about a soldier who sells his – The Hunt – opens its programme. fiddle to the devil and first staged in 1918; Isabelle Faust precedes this with the virtuosic Bartók sonata, commissioned by Yehudi £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 Menuhin and premièred by him in New York in 1944.

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Isabelle Faust Schumann Quartet © Felix Broede © Kaupo Kikkas wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 99

Ensemble Marsyas Residency Under the direction of founder Peter Whelan – ‘as exciting a live wire as Ireland has produced in the world of period performance’ (The Irish Times) – the flexible Edinburgh-based ensemble has steadily built a reputation for vital performances and imaginatively researched repertoire, much of it brought to modern attention for the first time.

Monday 30 December 7.30pm

Ensemble Marsyas Peter Whelan director Katie Bray mezzo-soprano Alec Frank-Gemmill horn Joe Walters horn Baroque Hogmanay – Music from the Edinburgh Musical Society Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie Overture in C Op. 1 No. 2 Arne 2 arias from Artaxerxes Handel Trio Sonata in G HWV399 Barsanti Concerto grosso Op. 3 No. 3; Songs from A Collection of Old Scots Tunes Handel Qual leon from Arianna in Creta; Concerto in F for 2 horns HWV331; Pena tiranna from Amadigi di Gaula; Son contenta di morire from Radamisto Barsanti Songs from A Collection of Old Scots Tunes Handel From Alcina: Verdi prati & Sta nell’Ircana Barsanti Concerto grosso Op. 3 No. 5 Forthcoming Concerts in the Series A Baroque Hogmanay programme focusing Monday 30 March 2020 7.30pm on the Lucca-born, Tuesday 26 May 2020 7.30pm sometime Edinburgh resident Francesco with Sophie Gent violin Barsanti (1690-1775). Wednesday 1 July 2020 7.30pm £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 with Louise Alder soprano

Peter Whelan © Roni Sidhu 100 • DECEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Brahms Plus Series The British pianist especially Sunday 29 December Sunday 29 December admired for his authoritative Brahms 11.30am 7.30pm playing has devised a format in which works by the German Sheku Kanneh-Mason Tara Erraught mezzo-soprano late-Romantic master are heard cello James Baillieu piano alongside those of one of his major and friends contemporaries or predecessors, Loewe Meine Ruh ist hin; Ach thereby shedding light on both. Fauré Piano Trio in D minor neige, du Schmerzenreiche; Über Op. 120 allen Gipfeln ist Ruh; Der du von Saturday 28 December Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 in A dem Himmel bist; Irrlichter, die 7.30pm Op. 81 Knaben; Hinkende Jamben; Herr Pfarrer hat zwei Fraeulchen; The cellist has won a wide Süsses Begräbnis; O süsse Jonathan Plowright piano following since his win in the 2016 Mutter; Frauenliebe Brahms plus Schumann BBC Young Musician of the Year, Mahler Rheinlegendchen from Brahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 his participation in the wedding Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Starke Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15 of Prince Harry and Meghan Einbildungskraft; Hans und Brahms Variations on a Theme by Markle, and the 2018 Royal Variety Grethe; Rückert Lieder Robert Schumann in F sharp minor Performance; here he joins with Trad/Irish Róisín Dubh; The Lark Op. 9; 6 Klavierstücke Op. 118 friends for two major late- in the Clear Air Romantic works. Harty Lane o’ the thrushes; Sea The influence of Schumann on Wrack Brahms was central to the launching £16 concs £14 inc. programme of his career. The two first met in and coffee/sherry/juice An artist particularly celebrated 1853, resulting in a famous article in Munich now enjoying a fully in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in international career, the Irish which Schumann hailed Brahms’ mezzo brings a programme talent in glowing terms. combining German Lieder with Irish song. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Tuesday 17 March 2020 7.30pm

Saturday 4 July 2020 7.30pm

Jonathan Plowright Sheku Kanneh-Mason and friends Tara Erraught © Diane Shaw © Daniel Stroud © Kristin Hoebermann wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 101

Tuesday 31 December 7.00pm NB time Florilegium Ashley Solomon director, flute Rowan Pierce soprano Bojan Čičić violin David Blackadder trumpet JS Bach Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen BWV51 CPE Bach Flute Concerto in D minor Wq. 22 Giornovichi Concerto No. 13 in A for violin and orchestra JS Bach Non sa che sia dolore BWV209

This New Year’s Eve, Florilegium tops and tails its programme with two cantatas by Bach. Jauchzet Gott overflows with jubilation and energy, whilst Non sa che sia dolore is radiantly elegant. CPE Bach’s flute concerto is a tour de force for both flute and orchestra, whilst the penultimate work introduces the modern day première of a violin concerto by Giornovichi.

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Rowan Pierce © Gerard Collett 102 • Contemporary music Box Office: 020 7935 2141

‘Wigmore Hall regularly Sunday 22 September 7.00pm commissions new works and Vijay Iyer piano champions living composers, Craig Taborn piano bringing fresh repertoire to the Sunday 22 September 10.00pm stage as part of our artistic Vijay Iyer piano, Fender Rhodes, programming and hosting numerous electronics London, UK and world premières. Mike Ladd lyrics, electronics

We are very pleased to welcome Monday 30 September 7.30pm Vijay Iyer as our Composer in Ian Bostridge tenor Residence for the 2019/20 Season, Steven Isserlis cello Olli Mustonen piano as well as Freya Waley-Cohen as Associate Composer.’ György Kurtág, Márta Kurtág, Bennett, Olli Mustonen2 John Gilhooly, Director Tuesday 1 October 7.30pm Sacha Rattle clarinet Irène Duval violin William Hagen violin Clare Finnimore viola William Coleman viola Zlatomir Fung cello Shai Wosner piano György Kurtág

Wednesday 2 October 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Laurence Osborn

Thursday 3 October 7.30pm Nia Coleman soprano Filipe Manu tenor Joel Williams tenor Music Series Kyu Choi baritone Simon Lepper piano Elena Langer Contemporary Contemporary

Monday 7 October 1.00pm Jess Gillam saxophone Zeynep Özsuca piano Anna Clyne, John Harle

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Monday 14 October 7.30pm Sunday 17 November 11.30am Tuesday 3 December 7.30pm Elias String Quartet Young Soloists of the Kronberg Stephen Hough piano Matthew Hindson Academy Steven Isserlis cello Helena Winkelman Stephen Hough Monday 21 October 1.00pm Lawrence Power viola Monday 18 November 7.30pm Wednesday 4 December 7.30pm Simon Crawford-Phillips piano Danny Driver piano Sophie Bevan soprano Thomas Adès Deirdre McKay, Betsy Jolas Allan Clayton tenor Nicolas Fleury horn Aurora Orchestra Thursday 31 October 7.30pm Tuesday 19 November 7.30pm Brett Dean conductor Colin Currie percussion EFG London Jazz Festival: 1 Huw Watkins piano Lars Danielsson Group Josephine Stephenson , Arvo Pärt Dave Maric, Joe Duddell, Tansy Sunday 8 December 3.00pm Davies, Helen Grime, Huw Watkins2 Sunday 24 November 7.30pm Claire Booth soprano Brenda Rae soprano Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano Saturday 2 November 11.30am Malcolm Martineau piano Nicky Spence tenor Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Dominick Argento, Libby Larsen, Andrew Matthews-Owen piano Lowell Liebermann Freya Waley-Cohen, Jonathan Dove Sir George Benjamin, Knussen, György Kurtág Monday 25 November 1.00pm Tuesday 10 December 1.00pm Marian Consort Mario Häring piano Saturday 2 November 2.00pm Roxanna Panufnik, Dodgson, Helmut Lachenmann Albion Quartet Cecilia McDowall, Judith Weir Freya Waley-Cohen3 Wednesday 11 December 7.30pm Saturday 30 November 7.30pm Melvyn Tan piano Saturday 2 November 7.30pm Jamie Barton mezzo-soprano Calefax reed quintet Kathleen Kelly piano Pavel Haas Quartet Signum Quartet string quartet Libby Larsen Ľubica Čekovská Kevin Volans2 Sunday 1 December 7.30pm Sunday 3 November 11.30am Monday 16 December 7.30pm Tenebrae Lucas Jussen piano Martin Fröst clarinet Arthur Jussen piano Adrian Peacock, Roland Pöntinen piano Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, Fazıl Say Anders Hillborg, Roland Pöntinen Joanna Marsh, James Burton, Monday 11 November 1.00pm Maxwell Davies, Sally Beamish, Bob Chilcott, Jonathan Rathbone Sunday 22 December 7.30pm Joanna MacGregor piano Claron McFadden soprano Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Monday 2 December 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov piano Hossein Alizâdeh, Philip Glass Bertrand Chamayou piano Knussen, George Crumb, Berio

Tuesday 12 November 7.30pm Wolfgang Rihm Christian Tetzlaffviolin 1Commissioned by Wigmore Hall Lars Vogt piano 2Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall 3Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the generous György Kurtág support of the Hargreaves and Ball Trust

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by 104 • Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Spring Preview January – March 2020 Concerts from January to March 2020 open for Priority Booking on 17 September. Requests must be submitted for Major Donors by 8 October, for Friends by 10 October and for Mailing List Subscribers by 17 October. Booking opens to General Public on 5 November. Full details of concerts and Learning events will be published in the Spring 2020 brochure.

January 2020

Thu 2 Jan Sir Simon Keenlyside / Tue 14 Jan Elisabeth Leonskaja 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau 7.30pm Fri 3 Jan Pavel Kolesnikov Wed 15 Jan Christian Gerhaher / 7.30pm 7.30pm Gerold Huber Sir Simon Keenlyside © Robert Workman Sat 4 Jan Allan Clayton / Timothy Ridout / Thu 16 Jan Philippe Jaroussky / 7.30pm James Baillieu / Sean Shibe 7.30pm pianist to be announced Sun 5 Jan Phoenix Piano Trio Fri 17 Jan European Chamber Music 11.30am 3.00pm Academy 2020 Sun 5 Jan Julien Van Mellaerts / Fri 17 Jan Christian Gerhaher / Christian Gerhaher © Sony/Gregor Hohenberg 3.00pm Gamal Khamis 7.30pm Gerold Huber Sun 5 Jan Sat 18 Jan European Chamber Music 7.30pm 3.00pm Academy 2020 Mon 6 Jan Louise Alder / Sat 18 Jan Nash Ensemble 1.00pm Joseph Middleton 5.30pm Jeremy Denk © Michael Wilson Mon 6 Jan Stephen Hough / Sat 18 Jan Nash Ensemble 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet / 7.30pm Michael Collins Sun 19 Jan Edgar Meyer Tue 7 Jan Stephen Hough / 11.30am 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet Sun 19 Jan European Chamber Music Louise Alder © Gerard Collett Wed 8 Jan Marianne Crebassa / 3.00pm Academy 2020 7.30pm pianist to be announced Sun 19 Jan Dover Quartet / Edgar Meyer Thu 9 Jan The Mozartists 7.30pm 7.30pm Mon 20 Jan Fri 10 Jan Vijay Iyer presents the Ritual 1.00pm Vijay Iyer 7.30pm Ensemble © Barbara Rigon Mon 20 Jan Dover Quartet Sat 11 Jan Stephen Hough / 7.30pm 7.30pm Renaud Capuçon Tue 21 Jan Jerusalem Quartet Sun 12 Jan Rachel Podger 7.30pm 11.30am Wed 22 Jan Britten Sinfonia Stephen Hough © Sim Canetty-Clarke Sun 12 Jan Vienna Piano Trio / 1.00pm 7.30pm Radovan Vlatković Wed 22 Jan Graham Johnson Songmakers’ Mon 13 Jan Alexander Melnikov 7.30pm Almanac 1.00pm Thu 23 Jan La Nuova Musica Mon 13 Jan Benjamin Appl / 7.30pm Rachel Podger 7.30pm pianist to be announced © Theresa Pewal Fri 24 Jan Andreas Scholl / 7.30pm Tamar Halperin wigmore-hall.org.uk SPRING PREVIEW • 105

January 2020

Sat 25 Jan Miloš Karadaglić Mon 27 Jan Christian Blackshaw 7.30pm 7.30pm Sun 26 Jan Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Wed 29 Jan Christiane Karg / Louis Lortie 11.30am 7.30pm Sun 26 Jan Royal Academy of Music Song Thu 30 Jan Borodin Quartet © Arno 3.00pm Circle 7.30pm Sun 26 Jan Jonathan Biss Fri 31 Jan Mauro Peter / 7.30pm 7.30pm pianist to be announced

Mon 27 Jan Jennifer Pike / Christian Blackshaw 1.00pm © Herbie Knott

February 2020

Sun 2 Feb Chiaroscuro Quartet Wed 12 Feb The Endellion String Quartet 11.30am 7.30pm Sun 2 Feb Elsa Dreisig / Jonathan Ware Thu 13 Feb James Ehnes / 3.00pm 7.30pm Andrew Armstrong Elsa Dreisig © Simon Fowler/ Mon 3 Feb Katharina Konradi / Eric Fri 14 Feb Kaleidoscope Chamber Erato Warner Classics 1.00pm Schneider 7.30pm Collective Tue 4 Feb Kuss Quartet Sat 15 Feb Kaleidoscope Chamber 7.30pm 7.30pm Collective

Wed 5 Feb Max Raabe / Christoph Israel Sun 16 Feb Andreas Brantelid James Ehnes 7.30pm 11.30am © Benjamin Ealovega Thu 6 Feb Concentus Musicus Wien Mon 17 Feb Daniel Müller-Schott / 7.30pm 1.00pm Annika Treutler Fri 7 Feb Beatrice Rana Mon 17 Feb Michael Collins 7.30pm 7.30pm Michael Collins Sat 8 Feb Nash Ensemble Tue 18 Feb Anna Caterina Antonacci / © Benjamin Ealovega 5.30pm 7.30pm pianist to be announced Sat 8 Feb Nash Ensemble Wed 19 Feb Pavel Haas Quartet / 7.30pm 7.30pm Boris Giltburg Sun 9 Feb Heath Quartet Thu 20 Feb Leif Ove Andsnes / Anna Caterina Antonacci 11.30am 7.30pm Musicians from the © JD Shaw Mahler Chamber Orchestra Sun 9 Feb Richard Goode 7.30pm Fri 21 Feb The Sixteen 7.30pm Mon 10 Feb Lucie Horsch / Thomas Dunford 1.00pm Sat 22 Feb Artemis Quartet 7.30pm Leif Ove Andsnes Tue 11 Feb / © Gregor Hohenberg 7.30pm 106 • SPRING PREVIEW Box Office: 020 7935 2141

February 2020

Sun 23 Feb Meccore Quartet Wed 26 Feb Britten Sinfonia 11.30am 1.00pm Sun 23 Feb Julia Sitkovetsky / Wed 26 Feb Castalian String Quartet / 3.00pm 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien Julia Sitkovetsky © Christina Haldane Sun 23 Feb Cédric Tiberghien Fri 28 Feb Jonathan Biss 7.30pm 7.30pm Mon 24 Feb Meta4 Sat 29 Feb Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin / 1.00pm 7.30pm Isabelle Faust / Xenia Löffler

Jonathan Biss Tue 25 Feb The English Concert © Benjamin Ealovega 7.30pm

March 2020

Sun 1 Mar Caroline Goulding Sun 8 Mar Stéphane Degout / 11.30am 7.30pm pianist to be announced Sun 1 Mar Anna Huntley / Mon 9 Mar Ruby Hughes / Natalie Clein / 3.00pm Graham Johnson 1.00pm Julius Drake Anna Huntley © Kaupo Kikkas Sun 1 Mar Julien Brocal Tue 10 Mar London Handel Orchestra 7.30pm 7.30pm Mon 2 Mar Lise Berthaud / Wed 11 Mar Daniel Sepec / 1.00pm David Saudubray 7.00pm Tabea Zimmermann / Jean-Guihen Queyras Inon Barnatan Mon 2 Mar Belcea Quartet © Marco Borggreve 7.30pm Fri 13 Mar Martin Mitterrutzner / 7.30pm Gerold Huber Tue 3 Mar Belcea Quartet 7.30pm Sat 14 Mar Doric String Quartet 7.30pm Wed 4 Mar Florilegium 7.30pm Sun 15 Mar Armida Quartet Tabea Zimmermann 11.30am © Marco Borggreve Thu 5 Mar Inon Barnatan 7.30pm Sun 15 Mar 7.30pm Fri 6 Mar Nelly Miricioiu / 1.00pm pianist to be announced Mon 16 Mar Alessandro Fisher / 1.00pm Ashok Gupta Martin Mitterrutzner Sat 7 Mar Nash Ensemble © Emanuel Altenburger 7.30pm Mon 16 Mar Škampa Quartet 7.30pm Sun 8 Mar Nash Ensemble 11.30am Tue 17 Mar Jonathan Plowright 7.30pm Sun 8 Mar Bethan Langford / 3.00pm pianist to be announced Alessandro Fisher © Gerard Collett wigmore-hall.org.uk SPRING PREVIEW • 107

March 2020

Wed 18 Mar Mahan Esfahani Wed 25 Mar Quatuor Danel 7.30pm 7.30pm Thu 19 Mar Dame Sarah Connolly / Thu 26 Mar Dianne Reeves 7.30pm pianist to be announced 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani Fri 20 Mar Joseph Moog Fri 27 Mar L’Arpeggiata © Kaja Smith 7.30pm 7.30pm Sat 21 Mar Brentano String Quartet Sat 28 Mar Angela Hewitt 7.30pm 7.30pm

Sun 22 Mar Sun 29 Mar Trio Dali Dianne Reeves 11.30am 11.30am Sun 22 Mar Iestyn Davies / Sun 29 Mar Johannes Kammler / 7.30pm Thomas Dunford 7.30pm Roger Vignoles Mon 23 Mar Brentano String Quartet Mon 30 Mar Anastasia Kobekina / 1.00pm 1.00pm Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula Johannes Kammler Mon 23 Mar Cuarteto Casals Mon 30 Mar Ensemble Marsyas © Besim Mazhiqi 7.30pm 7.30pm Tue 24 Mar Nash Ensemble Tue 31 Mar Wye Valley Chamber Music 5.00pm 7.30pm Festival 20th Anniversary

Tue 24 Mar Nash Ensemble Anastasia Kobekina 7.30pm © Evgeny Evtyukhov

Wigmore Hall Restaurant & Bar Join us for dinner before your evening recital. Enjoy a modern menu balanced with a nod to classic favourites, all in the comfort of Wigmore Hall, and be ready in time for the start of the concert. Table reservations: 020 7935 2141 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant 108 • Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Summer Preview April – July 2020 Concerts from April to July 2020 open for Priority Booking on 10 December. Requests must be submitted for Major Donors by 7 January, for Friends by 9 January and for Mailing List Subscribers by 16 January. Booking opens to General Public on 4 February. Full details of concerts and Learning events will be published in the Summer 2020 brochure.

April 2020

Wed 1 Apr Leif Ove Andsnes Sat 18 Apr Rachel Podger / 7.30pm 4.00pm Kristian Bezuidenhout Thu 2 Apr Leif Ove Andsnes Sat 18 Apr Rachel Podger / 7.30pm 7.30pm Kristian Bezuidenhout Nils Monkemeyer © Irène Zandel-Kopie Fri 3 Apr Castalian String Quartet / Sun 19 Apr Sacconi String Quartet 7.30pm Nils Mönkemeyer / Ursula Smith 11.30am Sat 4 Apr Tim Mead / Sun 19 Apr Sir András Schiff 7.30pm Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien 7.30pm Sun 5 Apr Navarra String Quartet Mon 20 Apr ATOS Trio Tim Mead © Benjamin Ealovega 11.30am 1.00pm Sun 5 Apr Kitty Whately / Mon 20 Apr Jonathan Biss 3.00pm Joseph Middleton 7.30pm Mon 6 Apr Emily Beynon / Andrew West Tue 21 Apr Roberta Invernizzi / 1.00pm 7.30pm Rosella Croce / Claudia Combs / Emily Beynon Adrian Brendel / Alberto Guerrero / © Eduardus Lee Mon 6 Apr Leon McCawley 7.30pm Rodney Prada / Franco Pavan / Craig Marchitelli / Tue 7 Apr / Flora Papadopoulos / 7.30pm pianist to be announced Aleksandar Madžar

Gerald Finley Wed 8 Apr Doric String Quartet / Wed 22 Apr Allan Clayton / James Baillieu © Sim Canetty-Clarke 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien / 7.30pm Alina Ibragimova Thu 23 Apr Joshua Bell / Sat 11 Apr Fretwork / Clare Wilkinson / 7.30pm pianist to be announced 7.30pm Peter Harvey / more singers to Sat 25 Apr Tetzlaff Quartet be announced / Silas Wollston 7.30pm Allan Clayton Sun 12 Apr Zemlinsky Quartet © Sim Canetty-Clarke Sun 26 Apr Elias String Quartet 11.30am 11.30am Mon 13 Apr Escher String Quartet Sun 26 Apr Kathryn Rudge / 1.00pm 3.00pm pianist to be announced Mon 13 Apr Janine Jansen / Denis Kozhukin Sun 26 Apr Aleksandar Madžar Janine Jansen 7.30pm © Harald Hoffmann-Decca 7.30pm Tue 14 Apr Emmanuelle Haïm / Mon 27 Apr Concertgebouw Winds 7.30pm Le Concert d’Astrée 1.00pm Wed 15 Apr The Chamber Music Society Tue 28 Apr Franco Fagioli / Il Pomo d’Oro 7.30pm of Lincoln Center 7.30pm Mark Padmore © Marco Borggreve Thu 16 Apr Mark Padmore / 7.30pm Kristian Bezuidenhout wigmore-hall.org.uk SUMMER PREVIEW • 109

April 2020

Wed 29 Apr The Endellion String Quartet Thu 30 Apr Sir Bryn Terfel / 7.30pm 7.30pm Natalia Katyukova

Sir Bryn Terfel © Mitch Jenkins

May 2020

Fri 1 May Royal Academy of Music Mon 11 May Stuart Skelton / 7.30pm Baroque Soloists / 1.00pm Richard Peirson Rachel Podger Mon 11 May Takács Quartet / Roger Tapping Sat 2 May Artemis Quartet 7.30pm Roger Tapping 7.30pm Tue 12 May La Serenissima Sun 3 May Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch 7.30pm 11.30am Wed 13 May Takács Quartet Sun 3 May Ronan Collett / 7.30pm 3.00pm Nicholas Rimmer Thu 14 May Vox Luminis Milan Siljanov Sun 3 May Milan Siljanov / 7.30pm 7.30pm Nino Chokhonelidze Fri 15 May Collegium Vocale Gent Mon 4 May Christian Lindberg / 7.30pm 1.00pm Roland Pöntinen Sat 16 May Quatuor Danel Mon 4 May Leonidas Kavakos / Enrico Pace 7.30pm 7.30pm Leonidas Kavakos Sun 17 May Samson Tsoy / Pavel Kolesnikov © Marco Borggreve Tue 5 May Pavel Haas Quartet / Pavel Nikl / 11.30am 7.30pm Danjulo Ishizaka Sun 17 May Solomon’s Knot Wed 6 May Barry Douglas 7.30pm 7.30pm Mon 18 May Aris Quartet Samson Tsoy Thu 7 May Graham Johnson 1.00pm 7.30pm Songmakers’ Almanac Mon 18 May Garrick Ohlsson Fri 8 May Les Talens Lyriques / 7.30pm 7.00pm Julian Prégardien Tue 19 May Vienna Piano Trio Sat 9 May Royal Northern College of Music 7.30pm Julian Pregardien Composer in Focus 2020 Wed 20 May Vienna Piano Trio / © Marco Borggreve Sat 9 May Jonathan Biss 7.30pm Michael Collins 7.30pm Thu 21 May Iestyn Davies / Allan Clayton / Sun 10 May Rachel Podger 7.00pm James Newby / 11.30am Alec Frank-Gemmill / Olivia Jageurs / James Baillieu / Vienna Piano Trio Sun 10 May / © Nancy Horowitz 7.30pm actor to be announced 110 • SUMMER PREVIEW Box Office: 020 7935 2141

May 2020

Thu 21 May Allan Clayton / James Baillieu Mon 25 May Paolo Pandolfo 10.00pm 1.00pm Fri 22 May Kirill Gerstein Tue 26 May Ensemble Marsyas 7.30pm 7.30pm Francesco Piemontesi © Marco Borggreve Sat 23 May Doric String Quartet Wed 27 May Francesco Piemontesi 7.30pm 7.30pm Sun 24 May Jupiter String Quartet Thu 28 May L’Arpeggiata 11.30am 7.30pm

Kirill Gerstein Sun 24 May JACK Quartet Sun 31 May Roman Rabinovich Haydn Day © Marco Borggreve 7.30pm

June 2020

Mon 1 Jun Daniel Hope / Wed 10 Jun Vijay Iyer / Aurora Orchestra 1.00pm Simon Crawford-Philips 7.30pm Mon 1 Jun Ray Chen / Thu 11 Jun Mahan Esfahani 7.30pm pianist to be announced 7.30pm Angela Hewitt © Bernd Eberle Tue 2 Jun Angela Hewitt Fri 12 Jun Marc-André Hamelin 7.30pm 7.00pm Wed 3 Jun The English Concert Sat 13 Jun Iestyn Davies / 7.30pm 7.30pm Joseph Middleton

Marc-Andre Hamelin Thu 4 Jun James Ehnes / Sun 14 Jun Andrew Brownell / © Sim Canetty-Clarke 7.30pm Andrew Armstrong 11.30am Benjamin Frith Fri 5 Jun Belcea Quartet Sun 14 Jun Cyrille Dubois / Tristan Raës 7.30pm 3.00pm Sat 6 Jun Leonore Piano Trio Sun 14 Jun Benjamin Grosvenor 7.30pm 7.30pm Iestyn Davies © Chris Sorensen Sun 7 Jun Mon 15 Jun Elisabeth Brauss 11.30am 1.00pm Sun 7 Jun Belcea Quartet Tue 16 Jun Novus String Quartet 7.30pm 7.30pm

Elisabeth Brauss Mon 8 Jun Veronika Eberle / Dénes Várjon Wed 17 Jun / © Monika Lawrenz 1.00pm 7.30pm Cédric Pescia Mon 8 Jun Elisabeth Leonskaja Thu 18 Jun Django Bates / 7.30pm 7.30pm other artists to be announced Tue 9 Jun The Sixteen Fri 19 Jun Sir András Schiff 7.30pm 7.30pm Veronika Eberle wigmore-hall.org.uk SUMMER PREVIEW • 111

June 2020

Sat 20 Jun Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Thu 25 Jun Jonathan Biss 7.30pm 7.30pm Sun 21 Jun Danish String Quartet Fri 26 Jun Tamsin Waley-Cohen / 11.30am 7.00pm Huw Watkins Tamsin Waley-Cohen Sun 21 Jun Sir András Schiff Sun 28 Jun Jack Liebeck © Patrick Allen 7.30pm 11.30am Mon 22 Jun Giuliano Carmignola / Mon 29 Jun Vision String Quartet 1.00pm Riccardo Doni 1.00pm

Tue 23 Jun Jordi Savall / Mon 29 Jun Roderick Williams / Sir András Schiff 7.30pm other artists to be announced 7.30pm © Nadia F Romanini. Wed 24 Jun Britten Sinfonia / Tue 30 Jun Castalian String Quartet 1.00pm Iestyn Davies 7.30pm Wed 24 Jun Birmingham Contemporary 7.30pm Music Group Roderick Williams © Benjamin Ealovega

July 2020

Wed 1 Jul Ensemble Marsyas Wed 8 Jul La Nuova Musica 7.30pm 7.30pm Thu 2 Jul Cédric Tiberghien Thu 9 Jul Quatuor Danel 7.30pm 7.30pm Cedric Tiberghien Fri 3 Jul Wihan Quartet Fri 10 Jul Christiane Karg / © Jean-Baptiste Millot 7.30pm 7.00pm pianist to be announced Sat 4 Jul Jonathan Plowright Sat 11 Jul Arcangelo / 7.30pm 7.30pm Jean-Guihen Queyras

Sun 5 Jul Wihan Quartet Sun 12 Jul Vadim Gluzman / Nicola Benedetti 11.30am 11.30am pianist to be announced © Simon Fowler Sun 5 Jul Nicola Benedetti / Sun 12 Jul Carolin Widmann / Amihai Grosz / 7.30pm pianist to be announced 7.30pm Sheku Kanneh-Mason / Isata Kanneh-Mason Mon 6 Jul Václava Krejčí Housková / 1.00pm Nicky Spence / Julius Drake / Mon 13 Jul Allan Clayton / James Baillieu Kristian Bezuidenhout singers from Guildhall School of 1.00pm © Marco Borggreve Music & Drama to be announced Tue 14 Jul The Mozartists Mon 6 Jul Rachel Podger 7.30pm 7.30pm Wed 15 Jul Ilker Arcayürek / Tue 7 Jul Mark Padmore / 7.30pm pianist to be announced 7.30pm Kristian Bezuidenhout Christiane Karg Thu 16 Jul Steven Osborne © Gisela Schenker 7.30pm 112 • SUMMER PREVIEW Box Office: 020 7935 2141

July 2020

Fri 17 Jul Fretwork 7.00pm Be involved from just £50 a year Fri 17 Jul Oxford Lieder at Wigmore Hall: Become a Friend of 10.00pm Aurora Orchestra Carolin Widmann © Lennard Ruhle Sat 18 Jul Oxford Lieder at Wigmore Hall: Wigmore Hall 11.00am Anna Stéphany / Sholto Kynoch • Priority booking Sat 18 Jul Oxford Lieder at Wigmore Hall: • Advance information 1.00pm artists to be announced • Exclusive events

Sheku Kanneh-Mason Sat 18 Jul Oxford Lieder at Wigmore Hall: © Lars Borges 4.00pm Julius Drake / other artists to be announced Sat 18 Jul Oxford Lieder at Wigmore Hall: 7.30pm Birgid Steinberger / Stephan Loges / Sholto Kynoch Ilker Arcayürek © Janina Laszlo Sun 19 Jul Aquinas Piano Trio 11.30am Sun 19 Jul Zlata Chochieva 7.30pm Mon 20 Jul Ailish Tynan / Iain Burnside Steven Osborne © Benjamin Ealovega 7.30pm Tue 21 Jul Michael Collins 020 7258 8230 7.30pm wigmore-hall.org.uk/friends

Wed 22 Jul Charles Richard-Hamelin Supporting Wigmore Hall 7.30pm Anna Stéphany We would like to thank all Friends of Wigmore © Marco Borggreve Thu 23 Jul Elias String Quartet / Hall, individual donors, corporate supporters 7.30pm Alice Neary and trusts and foundations whose annual gifts Sat 25 Jul Iestyn Davies / are essential in helping us realise our ambitions 7.30pm Dunedin Consort for the Hall and Wigmore Hall Learning. Sun 26 Jul Jean Rondeau It is only with your help and generosity that Zlata Chochieva © Adriano Heitmann 11.30am we are able to bring the highest quality Sun 26 Jul Sheku Kanneh-Mason concerts to Wigmore Hall and can continue to 7.30pm lead our pioneering, year-round learning and participation activity for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities across London and Ailish Tynan further afield. © Benjamin Ealovega Registered Charity No. 1024838

Jean Rondeau © Edouard Bressy- Warner Classics Supporting Wigmore Hall

With nearly £2 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend or making a donation towards our Artistic Series or Learning programme, please call 020 7258 8230 or email [email protected] for more information. The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert and Learning programmes:

Royal Patron Helen Thornton Mr Nicholas J Bez The Estate of Pamela Majaro MBE HRH The Duke of Kent, KG John and Ann Tusa The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust Simon Majaro MBE Marina Vaizey* David and Mary Bowerman* The Marchus Trust‡ Honorary Patrons Gerry Wakelin* Alan Bradley* Selina and David Marks*L Aubrey Adams OBE and an anonymous donor Donald Campbell Mayfield Valley Arts Trust André and Rosalie Hoffmann A bequest from the late Peter Canter Michael and Lynne McGowan* Kohn Foundation Early Music and Baroque Circle Cavatina Chamber Music TrustL Colin Menzies Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Geoffrey Barnett Lord and Lady Chadlington* George MeyerL Sandra Carlisle Charities Advisory TrustL Michael Watson Charitable TrustL Director’s Circle Dr C Endersby and Prof. D Cowan OBE Aubrey Adams OBE* Mary and Robert Childs Daryl and Diane Miller Dr M T A Evans Tony and Marion Allen* Colin Clark Milton Damerel TrustL Felicity Fairbairn* Karl Otto Bonnier* Sheila Clarke* The Monument Trust Deborah Finkler and Alan Bradley* The John S Cohen Foundation Amyas and Louise Morse* Allan Murray-Jones The Harbour FoundationL Sonia and Harvey Cole Valerie O’ConnorL Mervion Kirwood André and Rosalie Hoffmann‡ John Crisp* Paxos Festival Trust Alan Sainer David and Louise Kaye* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Peter Outen Professor Christopher Thompson Simon Majaro MBE Michael and Felicia Crystal* Gifts in Memory of Marina Vaizey* Hamish Parker Celia and Andrew Curran Jean Beresford Rogers Anne and David Weizmann Victoria and Simon RobeyL Anthony Davis* Isabel and Jonathan Popper and several anonymous donors Jackie Rosenfeld OBEL In Memory of Margaret Dewhirst Nick and Claire Prettejohn* William and Alex de Winton TrustL String Quartet Circle James Dooley The Radcliffe Trust and several anonymous donors Geoffrey Barnett The Dorset Foundation – Charles Rose* Gwen and Stanley Burnton in memory of Harry M Weinrebe Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM* Season Patrons 2018/19 Dr Jennifer Jones Aubrey Adams OBE* The du Plessis Family Foundation The Rubinstein Circle C Lillywhite and B Jasper L Tony and Marion Allen* Mrs. David Dugdale S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 Alison and Antony Milford † L American Friends of Wigmore Hall Dunard Fund The Sampimon Trust Marina Vaizey* Karl Otto Bonnier* In memory of Robert Easton Louise Scheuer Douglas and Janette Eden Julia Schottlander*L Henry and Suzanne Davis Piano Circle The Harbour Foundation Aubrey Adams OBE* The Eldering/Goecke Family Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Mrs Arline Blass Annette Ellis* Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Pauline and Ian Howat* Philip and Susan Feakin Vernon and Hazel Ellis* Voluntary Settlement The Elton Family Serena Simmons and Michael Thomas* Valerie O’Connor Charles Green L Hamish Parker Barbara and Michael Gwinnell The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation Rhona Shaw Victoria and Simon Robey The Fidelio Charitable Trust Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma*† Voices at Wigmore Patricia and Jeffrey Fine Jo and Barry Slavin Tony and Marion Allen* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE In Memory of Peter Flatter The Estate of N S L Smart Geoffrey Barnett L Julia Schottlander* John and Amy Ford Sir Martin and Lady Smith* Katie Bradford Jonathan Stone The Foyle Foundation Michael Smith and Nicholas Bartlett* Michael Brind L William and Alex de Winton Trust Neil and Deborah Franks* Spencer Hart Charitable Trust Richard Dorment CBE and several anonymous donors Friends of Wigmore Hall Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* Alan and Joanna Gemes* Michael Freegard In memory of Colin Steele Season Benefactors 2018/19 Benjamin Hargreaves Jonathan Gaisman* Gill and Keith Stella* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Dame Felicity Lott The Garfield Weston Foundation John Stephens OBE, Hon FTCL* Mark Echlin and Victoria Gath Anne and Brian Mace John Gilhooly Lord and Lady Stirrup* Lord and Lady Lloyd Roy and Celia Palmer John and Lauren Goldsmith* Anne and Paul Swain* Edith Randall Gift to honour Rick Rogers Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Coen Teulings The Tertis Foundation Gerry Wakelin* Peter Goodwin The Tertis FoundationL Kathleen Verelst* Susan Ward Spencer and Lucy de Grey The Three Monkies TrustL Philip and Emeline Winston* David Evan Williams Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* Tony & Sheelagh Williams and an anonymous donor The Hargreaves and Ball Trust‡L Charitable FoundationL Beethoven Circle 2018/19 L Aubrey Adams OBE* Corporate Supporters The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Robin Vousden* Tony and Marion Allen* Capital Group Malcolm Herring* Andrew and Hilary Walker* John and Julia Boyd* (corporate matched giving) Nicholas Hodgson David and Margaret Walker* Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair Complete Coffee Ltd Graham and Amanda Hutton* Professor Janet Walker CD and Clive Butler The Howard de Walden Estate Simone Hyman* Professor Doug Jones AO* Nicola Coldstream Martin Randall Travel Ltd Independent Opera at Sadlers Wells Michael and Rosemary Warburg Pauline del Mar Steinway & Sons In memory of Cherry Johnson Dame Fanny Waterman* J L Drewitt Marc Jourdren* Frances and David Waters* Alan and Joanna Gemes* Donors and Sponsors In Memory of Donald Kahn David and Martha Winfield* Mr Eric Abraham* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Su and Neil Kaplan* The Wolfson Foundation Neville and Nicola Abraham Margery Gray Kohn Foundation and several anonymous donors Adam Mickiewicz Institute Gillian and Lennie Hoffmann Mr Julian Korn Ralph and Elizabeth Aldwinckle Pauline and Ian Howat* Maryly La Follette* Lady Alexander of Weedon * Rubinstein Circle members Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Gabor Lacko Ian Allan L ‡ Contemporary Music Series Geoffrey and Joy Lawrence Mark Le Fanu Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation supporters Susan Lund Alan Leibowitz and Barbara Weiss* American Friends of Wigmore Hall L † Early Music and Baroque Series Virginia Lynch* The Linbury Trust The Andor Charitable TrustL Tim Llewellyn supporters Don Moore L David and Jacqueline Ansell* L Learning Programme supporters Ian and Megan Richardson The Loveday Charitable Trust Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne‡ L Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Simon and Sophie Ludlam* Details correct as of February 2019 Mrs Arlene Beare Jo and Barry Slavin Marianne and Andy Lusher* The Wigmore Hall Trust Arts Council England In memory of Robert Streit David Lyons* Registered Charity No. 1024838 Alan Bell-Berry Julia MacRae* Booking information

Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: wigmore-hall.org.uk

Booking Dates Wigmore Hall Box Office Booking Period 1 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Saturday 7 September – Tuesday 31 December 2019 Tel: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: wigmore-hall.org.uk Priority Booking opens on Tuesday 9 April 2019 Email (not for bookings): [email protected] Season Patrons, Season Benefactors and Rubinstein Circle: Tickets Requests to be submitted by Tuesday 30 April 2019 Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into five Patron, Benefactor, Supporter and Member Friends: price ranges: Requests to be submitted by Thursday 2 May 2019 ■ Stalls C – M: Highest price Mailing List: ■ Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price Requests to be submitted by Thursday 9 May 2019 ■ Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price General Public: ■ Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd highest price By phone/online from Thursday 30 May 2019 ■ Stalls AA, T – V: 4th highest price Please note that the Song Competition and Beethoven ■ Stalls W – X: Lowest price Festival Opening Weekend are already on general sale and can be booked now through the Box Office Telephone Bookings or online. 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm. We strongly recommend early booking for Pre-Concert Talks, Artists in Conversation and Study Events Days without an evening concert: 10.00am–5.00pm. There is a non-refundable £4.00 administration charge

AA AA for each transaction. AA STAGE AA AA AA BB BB Online Bookings CC CC Visit wigmore-hall.org.uk to book seats. There is a A A B B non-refundable administration charge of £3.00. C C D D E E Tickets for Concessions F FRONT FRONT F STALLS STALLS Where a concession (concs) ticket price is listed these are G G H H available to students, senior citizens and the unemployed. I I Visit wigmore-hall.org.uk/concessions for full details. J J K K L L Wigmore Hall/Classic FM M M N N Under 35s Ticket Scheme O O Ticket buyers under the age of 35 are entitled to P P Q Q reduced price tickets for selected concerts. Visit R R wigmore-hall.org.uk/u35 for full details. S S REAR REAR T STALLS STALLS T U U Facilities for Families V V W W Wigmore Hall is proud to meet the Family Arts X X Standards reflecting its commitment to offering family-friendly events and spaces. A A B B C BALCONY C D D wigmore-hall.org.uk BOOKING INFORMATION • 115

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Transport Tubes: Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines), Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines). Make a night of it Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford Street. Our restaurant is the perfect place to start your evening. Join us for a quick bite to eat or even Car Parking a three course dinner. There is limited street parking after 6.30pm (Mon–Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square and Harley Street, both 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 when using the Cavendish Square (Q Park Oxford Street) car park. Please contact the Box Office for further details. The Wigmore Hall Restaurant and Bar is open for lunch Disabled Access and Facilities through to dinner every day of the week. Full details from 020 7935 2141 or Whether you are organising a gathering for friends and [email protected] family before enjoying a performance, or simply stopping for lunch away from the hustle and bustle of nearby Oxford Street, our Restaurant offers the perfect setting.

For private entertaining such as personal celebrations, Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze Charter business lunches and events, the Wigmore Hall Restaurant Mark from Attitude is Everything and Bechstein Room are available for hire, with a full range of catering options.

For opening times and more information, This brochure is available in alternative formats. visit wigmore-hall.org.uk If this would be of assistance to you, please email or for table reservations and event enquiries, [email protected] or call 020 7935 2141. email [email protected] Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary. Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonRCM, HonFGS, HonFRIAM 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP wigmore-hall.org.uk Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141

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