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JANUARY – MARCH 2017 Director’s Introduction

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Receptive to life and death, and aware of the spiritual depths of both, Schubert probed the heart of the human condition in his unsurpassed, and almost certainly unsurpassable, output of 600-plus songs. ’s Schubert: The Complete Songs series offers audiences the chance to experience the full range of this extraordinary creative achievement as it continues through 2017.

Grammy-nominated pianist, bandleader and composer Vijay Iyer starts his Jazz Residency at Wigmore Hall. The American musician, born in 1971 in New York, has been described by Weekly as ‘a boundless and deeply important young star’ and by the Guardian as being ‘at a dizzying pinnacle of contemporary jazz multitasking’, verdicts reinforced by a string of awards and five-star reviews.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, our Artist in Residence, launches her Wigmore Hall series with the first of three concerts crafted to show the versatility, curiosity and wide musical passions of a true pioneer among today’s performers. The Moldovan-Austrian violinist is equally at home with period performance styles as she is when bringing contemporary compositions to life or casting fresh interpretative light on the most familiar of chamber works.

Spread over the course of four seasons, : The Bach Odyssey gathers momentum with a concert devoted to Bach’s six French Suites. Angela Hewitt’s affinity for Bach flows naturally from

Peter Dazeley her strong connection with the composer’s dance rhythms and from ’s pianism, eloquent and fully alive, is the result of a harmonious her exquisite feeling for lyrical phrasing, contrapuntal clarity and marriage between deep thinking about music and unrestrained physical sensitive articulation. expression in performance. His all-Beethoven programme at Wigmore Hall last season, repeated twice on the same evening, was hailed by the Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a pianist with ‘unlimited capacity’ Guardian in a five-star review for its ‘display of pianistic depth’. Lewis and widely regarded to be among the finest artists of his generation, turns to Beethoven again, pairing the composer’s bold Op. 7 with the Igor Levit continues his season-long exploration of Beethoven’s 32 lyrical grace of Bach’s Partita No. 1 before exploring a second half of Sonatas at Wigmore Hall. The Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit series is set heart-on-sleeve passions. to reinforce the Russian-born pianist’s credentials as a Beethovenian of supreme perception and boundless imagination. Expect high-octane, inspirational music-making from the partnership of Ekaterina Semenchuk, one of the leading soloists of the , Janine Jansen, recently described by The Telegraph as ‘breathtakingly and Helmut Deutsch, a consummate artist with a profound feeling for the supreme’ and praised for her ‘dazzling dexterity’ by The Australian, is a multiple shades, textures and expressive nuances of the human voice. frequent visitor to London this season. She continues her Perspectives The Minsk-born mezzo’s performances at the Royal House in programme at Wigmore Hall and also gives concerts as part of her Eugene Onegin and most recently as Azucena in have garnered LSO Artist Portrait series, underlining her star status among today’s audience ovations, underlining her status among the foremost artists of her finest musicians. generation. Her arresting vocal richness and gravitas are matched by a compelling stage presence and total mastery of the art of beautiful singing. Jörg Widmann’s passions include the works of Schubert and Schumann, composers with whom he shares an affinity for lyricism, poetic shading American mandolinist, singer and songwriter Chris Thile made his name and dramatic contrasts. The German clarinettist and composer joins forces with Grammy Award-winning progressive acoustic music group Nickel with for a programme rooted in their shared musical Creek before striking out with Punch Brothers and a series of fresh values, spanning everything from the expressive miniatures of Berg’s creative projects in the mid-2000s. Following many years as a guest on Op. 5 to the shifting moods of Schumann’s Fantasiestücke of 1849. the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, Chris succeeds Garrison Keillor as the popular radio show’s host in October 2016. Chris returns Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov have developed an uncanny to Wigmore Hall with an eclectic programme drawing on his considerable mutual understanding and empathy as duo partners, refined over the repertoire of original compositions, as well as contemporary, traditional past decade in the recording studio and in recital. Their latest Wigmore and classical works. Hall programme mines a deep vein of poetry in music, opening with a work written during the First World War’s initial phase. They explore the Recognised by The New York Times as ‘one of the most accomplished Sonata for violin, piano and drums by the self-styled ‘bad boy of music’, and complete musicians of his generation’, Thomas Adès has created an the American avant-gardist . entire universe of new music, spanning everything from large symphonic scores and sparklingly inventive to a great treasure-house of Buxtehude’s , composed in 1680, forms a cycle of chamber works, ensemble pieces, songs and solo scores. Wigmore Hall’s seven cantatas addressed to different parts of the crucified Christ’s body. Thomas Adès Day presents a representative showcase of his work set in and have lived with this unique work for a wider musical context. many years, exploring its meditations on the saviour’s feet, knees, hands, side, breast, heart and face in concert and on disc. They are joined by The legendary makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall for their latest interpretation of music that casts light on the with a series of lectures exploring the last sonatas of Schubert and nature of suffering, devotion and spiritual transcendence. Beethoven, as well as the life and works of Mozart.

Comparisons and contrasts occupy Sir András Schiff in his series of I hope you enjoy reading through the brochure yourself, and I look forward concerts devoted to the music of four great composers. Sir András Schiff: to welcoming you to Wigmore Hall during our Spring Series. Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók unfolds with the second of three recitals and related evening masterclass sessions, connecting audiences with one of the most perceptive and inspirational musical minds of our time. SERIES ATA GLANCE JANUARY – MARCH 2017

See pages 6–72for full details of these concerts and page 75 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for… BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Sun 12 Feb Page 34 Tue 14 Feb Razumovsky Ensemble 34 Vijay Iyer Jazz Residency Page 7 Mon 9 Jan Richard Egarr Page 10 Sat 18 Feb Scottish Ensemble/Alina Ibragimova 37 Alfred Brendel Lectures 8 Mon 16 Jan Beatrice Rana 13 Sun 19 Feb Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov 38 Introduction to Music 11 Mon 23 Jan Roderick Williams/Roger Vignoles 21 Thu 23 Feb /Maria João Pires 41 : Baroque Ensemble in Residence 11 Mon 30 Jan Peter Moore/James Baillieu 25 Sat 25 Feb Xenakis Day: JACK Quartet 45 IMS Prussia Cove Celebration Concert 13 Mon 6 Feb Isabelle Faust/Andreas Staier 30 Sat 25 Feb Xenakis Day: JACK Quartet 45 Les Arts Florissants 14 Mon 13 Feb Kathryn Rudge/James Baillieu 34 Pavel Kolesnikov Schubert: The Complete Songs 16–17, 27, 35, 52 Gary Pomeroy Wed 1 Mar Carducci 46 Julia Fischer: Ysaÿe Sonatas 15 Mon 20 Feb Van Kuijk Quartet 39 Fri 3 Mar Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 46 Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey 18–19 Mon 27 Feb David Greilsammer 43 Huw Watkins/Oliver Knussen Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire 20, 29, 33, 57 Mon 6 Mar /Matthew Wadsworth 48 Tue 7 Mar Alisa Weilerstein/Inon Barnatan 48 European Academy Showcase 23 Mon 13 Mar Kungsbacka 52 Wed 8 Mar The Endellion String Quartet 49 Focus on Nico Muhly 24 Mon 20 Mar 56 Fri 10 Mar Pacifica Quartet 49 Stéphane Degout & Cédric Tiberghien 25 Annelien Van Wauwe/Nino Gvetadze Thu 16 Mar /Robert Levin 54 Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit 26, 43, 54 Mon 27 Mar Gallicantus 62 Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle 28,30 Tue 21 Mar Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins 57 Adrian Brendel/Roderick Williams Takács Quartet Masterclass 29 Chamber Music Season Fri 24 Mar Chris Thile 59 Janine Jansen Perspectives 31 Sat 25 Mar Thomas Adès Day: 61 Jörg Widmann & Mitsuko Uchida 32 Sat 7 Jan 6 Thomas Adès/Nicolas Hodges Matthew Rose & Gary Matthewman 35 Sun 8 Jan Cuarteto Casals 9 Sat 25 Mar Thomas Adès Day: BCMG 61 Mauro Peter & Helmut Deutsch 36 Mon 9 Jan Danish String Quartet 10 Timothy Redmond/Calder Quartet Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov 38 Sat 14 Jan Vienna Piano Trio 12 Thomas Adès 12, 39, 68 The Sixteen Sun 15 Jan IMS Prussia Cove Celebration 13 Mon 27 Mar Patricia Kopatchinskaja 63 Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók 40 Polina Leschenko Thu 19 Jan Julia Fischer 15 Maria João Pires & Artemis Quartet 41 Fri 31 Mar Eggner Trio 64 Sat 21 Jan Nash Ensemble/Lucy Crowe 20 & Markus Hinterhäuser 42 Martyn Brabbins Xenakis Day 44–45 Mon 23 Jan Philip Higham/Alasdair Beatson 21 Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Paul Lewis 47 Wed 25 Jan 22 Helen Grime World Première 46 Sun 8 Jan Novus String Quartet 9 Thu 26 Jan Quatuor Akilone/Quatuor Hanson 23 Alisa Weilerstein & Inon Barnatan 48 Sun 15 Jan Nikita Boriso-Glebsky/Georgy Tchaidze 12 Fri 27 Jan Stratos Quartet/Trio Vitruvi 23 50 Sun 22 Jan Elias String Quartet 15 Sat 28 Jan Pacific Quartet Vienna 23 Disabled Access Day: Relaxed Concert 49,70 Sun 29 Jan Amaryllis Quartet 24 Tue 31 Jan Gould Piano Trio 27 Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Bechstein 51 Sun 5 Feb Nash Ensemble 29 Ekaterina Semenchuk & Helmut Deutsch 53 Fri 3 Feb Takács Quartet 28 Sun 12 Feb Trio con Brio Copenhagen 33 Patricia Petibon & Susan Manoff 55 Sat 4 Feb Takács Quartet 28 Sun 19 Feb Lara Melda 37 Wigmore Study Group: Haydn Piano Trios 58 Mon 6 Feb Takács Quartet 30 Sun 26 Feb Quatuor Voce 41 Chris Thile 59 Wed 8 Feb Britten Sinfonia 31 Sun 5 Mar Arcadia Quartet/Amit Peled 48 Thomas Adès Day 60–61 Wed 8 Feb Janine Jansen and Friends 31 Sun 12 Mar Simone Lamsma/Robert Kulek 51 Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Artist in Residence 63 Thu 9 Feb Jörg Widmann/Mitsuko Uchida 32 Sun 19 Mar Meccore Quartet 56 & Marc-André Hamelin 65 Sat 11 Feb Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth 33 Contemporary Music Series 66–67 Richard Hosford Sun 26 Mar Tamar Beraia 62

2 and Baroque Series Fri 27 Jan /Julius Drake Page 24 Sat 11 Mar Pierre-Laurent Aimard Page 51 Sun 29 Jan /James Baillieu 25 Thu 16 Mar Hilary Hahn/Robert Levin 54 Fri 13 Jan Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen Page 11 Sun 29 Jan Stéphane Degout/Cédric Tiberghien 25 Tue 21 Mar Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins 57 Kristian Bezuidenhout Alexis Descharmes/Matteo Cesari Adrian Brendel/Roderick Williams Mon 16 Jan Soloists of Les Arts Florissants 14 Thu 2 Feb Elizabeth Watts/Malcolm Martineau 27 Sat 25 Mar Thomas Adès Day: Calder Quartet 61 Thomas Adès/Nicolas Hodges Tue 17 Jan Classical Opera/Ian Page 13 Sat 11 Feb Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth 33 Gemma Summerfield/Stuart Jackson Richard Hosford Sat 25 Mar Thomas Adès Day: BCMG 61 Timothy Redmond/Calder Quartet Ashley Riches Wed 15 Feb Matthew Rose/Gary Matthewman 35 Thomas Adès Sat 28 Jan Karina Gauvin/Le Concert de la 22 Fri 17 Feb Mauro Peter/Helmut Deutsch 36 Loge Olympique The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Sun 19 Feb Louise Alder/Gary Matthewman 37 Tue 7 Feb /Rachel Podger 30 Fri 24 Feb Matthias Goerne 42 Mon 20 Feb The Sixteen/Fretwork 39 Markus Hinterhäuser Harry Christophers Sun 26 Feb Nicholas Phan/Myra Huang 43 Wigmore Hall Learning Tue 28 Feb Theatre of the Ayre/Elizabeth Kenny 46 Sun 12 Mar Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper 52 Fri 6 Jan Artists in Conversation 7 Thu 9 Mar The Tallis Scholars 50 Sun 12 Mar Ekaterina Semenchuk 53 Sat 7 Jan Alfred Brendel Lecture 8 Thu 23 Mar The King’s Consort 58 Helmut Deutsch Tue 10 Jan Chamber Tots 68 Wed 29 Mar Early Opera Company 64 Tue 14 Mar Christoph Prégardien/Julius Drake 52 Thu 12 Jan Introduction to Music commences 11 Sat 18 Mar Patricia Petibon/Susan Manoff 55 Sat 14 Jan Family Concert: The Fairy Queen 12, 68 London Pianoforte Series Mon 20 Mar David Daniels/Martin Katz 57 Tue 17 Jan Pre-Concert Talk 13 Wed 11 Jan Anna Tsybuleva 10 Tue 21 Mar Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins 57 Sat 21 Jan Come and Sing: Dido and Aeneas 15, 69 Adrian Brendel/Roderick Williams Fri 20 Jan Angela Hewitt 19 Wed 25 Jan Chamber Tots 68 Sun 26 Mar Manuel Walser/Anano Gokieli 62 Thu 26 Jan Elisabeth Leonskaja 22 Sat 28 Jan ECMA Masterclass 23 Mon 30 Jan Igor Levit 26 We are grateful to The Monument Trust for essential Thu 2 Feb For Crying Out Loud! 27, 69 additional support for our expanded vocal series Fri 10 Feb Nikolai Demidenko 33 Sat 4 Feb Family Day: Handel and Hendrix 29, 69 Thu 16 Feb Llyˆr Williams 35 Sun 5 Feb Takács Quartet Masterclass 29 Tue 21 Feb Sir András Schiff 40 Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Wed 8 Feb Pre-Concert Talk 31

Sun 26 Feb Igor Levit 43 Fri 6 Jan Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith 7 Sat 11 Feb Introductory Talk and Concert 33 Thu 2 Mar Paul Lewis 47 Tue 14 Feb Chamber Tots 68 Sat 4 Mar Paul Lewis 47 Contemporary Music Series Tue 14 Feb Musical Portraits Band commences 70 Sat 11 Mar Pierre-Laurent Aimard 51 Sat 18 Feb Chamber Tots 68 Mon 23 Jan Philip Higham/Alasdair Beatson 21 Wed 15 Mar Christian Blackshaw 54 Wed 22 Feb Sir András Schiff Masterclass 40 Wed 25 Jan Signum Quartet 22 Fri 17 Mar Igor Levit 54 Sat 25 Feb Pre-Concert Talk 45 Fri 27 Jan Alice Coote/Julius Drake 24 Wed 22 Mar Steven Osborne 57 Wed 1 Mar Pre-Concert Performance 46 Thu 30 Mar Leif Ove Andsnes/Marc-André Hamelin 65 Sun 29 Jan Stéphane Degout/Cédric Tiberghien 25 Sat 11 Mar Disabled Access Day: 49, 70 Alexis Descharmes/Matteo Cesari Relaxed Concert

Wed 8 Feb Britten Sinfonia 31 Sat 11 Mar Pre-Concert Talk 51

Song Recital Series Thu 9 Feb Jörg Widmann/Mitsuko Uchida 32 Wed 15 Mar Chamber Tots 68 Sat 18 Mar CAVATINA Family Concert: 56, 71 Tue 3 Jan John Chest/Marcelo Amaral 6 Sat 18 Feb Scottish Ensemble/Alina Ibragimova 37 Piatti Quartet Sun 8 Jan Timothy Fallon/Ammiel Bushakevitz 9 Sun 19 Feb Louise Alder/Gary Matthewman 37 Tue 21 Mar Pre-Concert Talk 57 Wed 18 Jan Georg Nigl/Andreas Staier 16 Sat 25 Feb Xenakis Day: JACK Quartet 45 Fri 24 Mar Schools Concert: Folk Up North 72 Sat 21 Jan Nash Ensemble/Lucy Crowe 20 Sat 25 Feb Xenakis Day: JACK Quartet 45 Fri 24 Mar Wigmore Study Group commences 58 Martyn Brabbins Pavel Kolesnikov Sat 25 Mar Artists in Conversation 61 Sun 22 Jan Royal Academy of Music 21 Fri 3 Mar Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 46 Richard Lewis Song Circle Huw Watkins/Oliver Knussen Tue 28 Mar For Crying Out Loud! 64, 72

3 Wed 25 Jan 12.30 pm Chamber Tots 68 2.00 pm Chamber Tots 68 7.30 pm Signum Quartet 22

Thu 26 Jan 1.00 pm Quatuor Akilone/Quatuor Hanson 23 Calendar 4.45 pm Introduction to Music 11 7.30 pm Elisabeth Leonskaja 22

Fri 27 Jan 1.00 pm Stratos Quartet/Trio Vitruvi 23 7.30 pm Alice Coote/Julius Drake 24

January Sat 28 Jan 11.00 am ECMA Masterclass 23 1.00 pm Pacific Quartet Vienna 23 Date Start Time Event Page 7.30 pm Karina Gauvin/Le Concert de la Loge Olympique 22 Tue 3 Jan 7.30 pm John Chest/Marcelo Amaral 6 Sun 29 Jan 11.30 am Amaryllis Quartet 24 Fri 6 Jan 6.00 pm Artists in Conversation 7 3.00 pm Tim Mead/James Baillieu 25 7.30 pm Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith 7 7.30 pm Stéphane Degout/Cédric Tiberghien/Alexis Descharmes 25 Matteo Cesari Sat 7 Jan 2.30 pm Alfred Brendel Lecture 8 7.30 pm Cuarteto Casals 6 Mon 30 Jan 1.00 pm Peter Moore/James Baillieu 25 7.30 pm Igor Levit 26 Sun 8 Jan 11.30 am Novus String Quartet 9 3.00 pm Timothy Fallon/Ammiel Bushakevitz 9 Tue 31 Jan 7.30 pm Gould Piano Trio 27 7.30 pm Cuarteto Casals 9

Mon 9 Jan 1.00 pm Richard Egarr 10 7.30 pm Danish String Quartet 10 February Tue 10 Jan 10.15 am Chamber Tots 68 11.45 am Chamber Tots 68 Date Start Time Event Page

Wed 11 Jan 7.30 pm Anna Tsybuleva 10 Thu 2 Feb 11.00 am For Crying Out Loud! 27, 69 Thu 12 Jan 4.45 pm Introduction to Music 11 12.30 pm For Crying Out Loud! 27, 69 Fri 13 Jan 7.30 pm Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen/Kristian Bezuidenhout 11 4.45 pm Introduction to Music 11 7.30 pm Elizabeth Watts/Malcolm Martineau 27 Sat 14 Jan 11.00 am Family Concert: The Fairy Queen 12, 68 7.30 pm Vienna Piano Trio 12 Fri 3 Feb 7.30 pm Takács Quartet 28

Sun 15 Jan 11.30 am Nikita Boriso-Glebsky/Georgy Tchaidze 12 Sat 4 Feb 10.30 am Family Day: Handel and Hendrix 29, 69 6.45 pm IMS Prussia Cove Celebration 13 7.30 pm Takács Quartet 28

Mon 16 Jan 1.00 pm Beatrice Rana 13 Sun 5 Feb 11.30 am Nash Ensemble 29 7.30 pm Soloists of Les Arts Florissants/Paul Agnew 14 7.30 pm Takács Quartet Masterclass 29

Tue 17 Jan 6.00 pm Pre-Concert Talk 13 Mon 6 Feb 1.00 pm Isabelle Faust/Andreas Staier 30 7.30 pm Classical Opera/Ian Page/Gemma Summerfield 13 7.30 pm Takács Quartet 30 Stuart Jackson/Ashley Riches Tue 7 Feb 7.30 pm The English Concert/Rachel Podger 30 Wed 18 Jan 7.30 pm Georg Nigl/Andreas Staier 16 Wed 8 Feb 12.15 pm Pre-Concert Talk 31 Thu 19 Jan 4.45 pm Introduction to Music 11 1.00 pm Britten Sinfonia 31 7.30 pm Julia Fischer 15 7.30 pm Janine Jansen and Friends 31 Fri 20 Jan 7.30 pm Angela Hewitt 19 Thu 9 Feb 7.30 pm Jörg Widmann/Mitsuko Uchida 32 Sat 21 Jan 10.00 am Come and Sing: Dido and Aeneas 15, 69 7.30 pm Nash Ensemble/Lucy Crowe/Martyn Brabbins 20 Fri 10 Feb 7.30 pm Nikolai Demidenko 33

Sun 22 Jan 11.30 am Elias String Quartet 15 Sat 11 Feb 5.30 pm Nash Ensemble: Introductory Talk and Concert 33 3.00 pm Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle 21 7.30 pm Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth/Richard Hosford 33

Mon 23 Jan 1.00 pm Roderick Williams/Roger Vignoles 21 Sun 12 Feb 11.30 am Trio con Brio Copenhagen 33 7.30 pm Philip Higham/Alasdair Beatson 21 7.30 pm Belcea Quartet 34

4 Mon 13 Feb 1.00 pm Kathryn Rudge/James Baillieu/Gary Pomeroy 34 Thu 9 Mar 7.30 pm The Tallis Scholars 50

Tue 14 Feb 10.15 am Chamber Tots 68 Fri 10 Mar 7.30 pm Pacifica Quartet 49 11.00 am Musical Portraits Band 70 Sat 11 Mar 3.00 pm Disabled Access Day: Relaxed Concert 49, 70 11.45 am Chamber Tots 68 6.00 pm Pre-Concert Talk 51 6.00 pm Pre-Concert Event 34 7.30 pm Razumovsky Ensemble 34 7.30 pm Pierre-Laurent Aimard 51

Wed 15 Feb 11.00 am Musical Portraits Band 70 Sun 12 Mar 11.30 am Simone Lamsma/Robert Kulek 51 7.30 pm Matthew Rose/Gary Matthewman 35 3.00 pm Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper 52 7.30 pm Ekaterina Semenchuk/Helmut Deutsch 53 Thu 16 Feb 7.30 pm Lly ˆr Williams 35 Mon 13 Mar 1.00 pm Kungsbacka Piano Trio 52 Fri 17 Feb 7.30 pm Mauro Peter/Helmut Deutsch 36 Tue 14 Mar 7.30 pm Christoph Prégardien/Julius Drake 52 Sat 18 Feb 10.15 am Chamber Tots 68 11.45 am Chamber Tots 68 Wed 15 Mar 10.15 am Chamber Tots 68 7.30 pm Scottish Ensemble/Alina Ibragimova 37 11.45 am Chamber Tots 68 Sun 19 Feb 11.30 am Lara Melda 37 7.30 pm Christian Blackshaw 54 3.00 pm Louise Alder/Gary Matthewman 37 Thu 16 Mar 7.30 pm Hilary Hahn/Robert Levin 54 7.30 pm Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov 38 Fri 17 Mar 7.30 pm Igor Levit 54 Mon 20 Feb 1.00 pm Van Kuijk Quartet 39 7.30 pm The Sixteen/Harry Christophers/Fretwork 39 Sat 18 Mar 11.00 am CAVATINA Family Concert: Piatti Quartet 56, 71 7.30 pm Patricia Petibon/Susan Manoff 55 Tue 21 Feb 7.30 pm Sir András Schiff 40 Sun 19 Mar 11.30 am Meccore Quartet 56 Wed 22 Feb 7.30 pm Sir András Schiff Masterclass 40

Thu 23 Feb 7.30 pm Artemis Quartet/Maria João Pires 41 Mon 20 Mar 1.00 pm Annelien Van Wauwe/Nino Gvetadze 56 7.30 pm David Daniels/Martin Katz 57 Fri 24 Feb 7.30 pm Matthias Goerne/Markus Hinterhäuser 42 Tue 21 Mar 6.00 pm Pre-Concert Talk 57 Sat 25 Feb 1.00 pm Xenakis Day: JACK Quartet 45 7.30 pm Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins/Adrian Brendel 57 6.00 pm Xenakis Day: Pre-Concert Talk 45 Roderick Williams 7.30 pm Xenakis Day: JACK Quartet/Pavel Kolesnikov 45 Wed 22 Mar 7.30 pm Steven Osborne 57 Sun 26 Feb 11.30 am Quatuor Voce 41 3.00 pm Nicholas Phan/Myra Huang 43 Thu 23 Mar 7.30 pm The King’s Consort 58 7.30 pm Igor Levit 43 Fri 24 Mar 11.00 am Schools Concert: Folk Up North 72 Mon 27 Feb 1.00 pm David Greilsammer 43 3.00 pm Wigmore Study Group 58 7.30 pm Chris Thile 59 Tue 28 Feb 7.30 pm Theatre of the Ayre/Elizabeth Kenny 46 Sat 25 Mar 1.00 pm Thomas Adès Day: Calder Quartet/Thomas Adès 61 Nicolas Hodges 6.00 pm Thomas Adès Day: Artists in Conversation 61 March 7.30 pm Thomas Adès Day: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 61 Timothy Redmond/Calder Quartet/Thomas Adès Date Start Time Event Page Sun 26 Mar 11.30 am Tamar Beraia 62 Wed 1 Mar 5.45 pm Pre-Concert Performance 46 3.00 pm Manuel Walser/Anano Gokieli 62 7.30 pm Carducci String Quartet 46 Mon 27 Mar 1.00 pm Gallicantus 62 Thu 2 Mar 7.30 pm Paul Lewis 47 7.30 pm Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Polina Leschenko 63

Fri 3 Mar 7.30 pm Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Huw Watkins 46 Tue 28 Mar 11.00 am For Crying Out Loud! 64, 72 Oliver Knussen 12.30 pm For Crying Out Loud! 64, 72 Sat 4 Mar 7.30 pm Paul Lewis 47 Wed 29 Mar 3.00 pm Wigmore Study Group 58 Sun 5 Mar 11.30 am Arcadia Quartet/Amit Peled 48 7.30 pm Early Opera Company 64

Mon 6 Mar 1.00 pm Carolyn Sampson/Matthew Wadsworth 48 Thu 30 Mar 7.30 pm Leif Ove Andsnes/Marc-André Hamelin 65 Tue 7 Mar 7.30 pm 48 Alisa Weilerstein/Inon Barnatan Fri 31 Mar 3.00 pm Wigmore Study Group 58 Wed 8 Mar 7.30 pm The Endellion String Quartet 49 7.30 pm Eggner Trio 64

5 WIGMORESERIES SPRING SEASON JANUARY – MARCH 2017

Priority Booking opens on 27 September 2016. Requests should be submitted by 13 October 2016 (Friends), and 20 October 2016 (Mailing List Subscribers). Booking opens to the General Public on 8 November 2016. January

Tuesday 3 January 7.30pm Friday 6 January 6.00 pm Saturday 7 January 7.30 pm

John Chest baritone Artists in Conversation Cuarteto Casals Marcelo Amaral piano See page opposite for full details Mozart String Quartet in G K387; String Quartet in D minor K421; String Quartet in E K428 WINTER JOURNEY b Mozart’s string quartets, informed by close study of O mistress mine An mein Herz Friday 6 January 7.30 pm Finzi Schubert Haydn’s music, stand among his highest achievements. Verschwiegene Liebe Chanson triste Wolf Duparc Cuarteto Casals performs the first of two programmes Verzagen Le jardin mouillé Brahms Roussel Vijay Iyer piano devoted to the six majestic works that Mozart Der Winterabend Childhood among Schubert Finzi dedicated to ‘my dear friend Haydn’, opening with the Ferns Im Frühling Soupir Wadada Leo Smith trumpet Wolf Duparc the astonishingly inventive String Quartet in G K387 Wehmut Verborgenheit Schumann Wolf A COSMIC RHYTHM WITH EACH STROKE and encompassing the yearning lyricism of K421. Britten Winter Words Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen See page opposite for full details £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Duparc Extase Gurney Sleep Chamber Music Season American baritone John Chest, winner of the Saturday 7 January 2.30 pm prestigious 2010 Stella Maris International Vocal Competition, surveys a wealth of emotions and states Alfred Brendel Lecture of mind across this compelling programme of probing settings of fine poetry. His recital embraces everything See page 8 for full details from the graceful charm of Finzi’s famous Shakespeare setting to one of Mahler’s greatest songs.

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

John Chest Andrey Stoycher Cuarteto Casals Molina Visuals

6 Vijay Iyer Jazz Residency

Grammy-nominated pianist, bandleader and composer Vijay Iyer starts his Jazz Residency at Wigmore Hall. The American musician, born in 1971 in New York, has been described by Los Angeles Weekly as ‘a boundless and deeply important young star’ and by the Guardian as being ‘at a dizzying pinnacle of contemporary jazz multitasking’, verdicts reinforced by a string of awards and five-star reviews.

Friday 6 January 6.00 pm Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Artists in Conversation Thursday 20 July 7.30 pm Vijay Iyer, Wigmore Hall’s Jazz Artist in Residence, discusses his residency and life as a performer The Vijay Iyer Trio with journalist and broadcaster Kevin LeGendre ahead of the evening concert. Friday 6 October 7.30 pm £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event Vijay Iyer piano Guest artists to be announced

Friday 6 January 7.30 pm Photo of Vijay Iyer by Barbara Rigon Vijay Iyer piano Wadada Leo Smith trumpet A COSMIC RHYTHM WITH EACH STROKE

Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer performs with his ‘hero, friend and teacher’, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, who belongs to the first generation of players to come out of Chicago’s hugely influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Wadada Leo Smith Maarit Kytöharju

7 Alfred Brendel Lectures

Saturday 7 January 2.30 pm

SCHUBERT’S LAST SONATAS There are, within the output of some composers, triads of compositions that bring certain classes of works to a conclusion. Schubert’s final three piano sonatas belong to the handful of such peak achievements. It took a long time until players and audiences discovered these pieces. What had kept them away from us until a few decades ago? What are their distinguishing features? What happens when great composers create a number of works next to one another? And are these works, conceived so close to Schubert’s death, documents of a musical farewell?

This event will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval

All seats £20

Saturday 3 June 2.30 pm

BEETHOVEN’S LAST SONATAS Beethoven’s late piano sonatas are the magnificent conclusion of a series of works that covered most of the composer’s lifetime. What happens when a composer creates three major works side by side? How can one define Beethoven’s late style? How do these works relate to Beethoven the man? How were these sonatas received, and what do they mean to us today?

This event will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval

All seats £20

Saturday 8 July 2.30 pm

ON PLAYING MOZART In his final lecture of the season, Alfred Brendel explores the life and works of Mozart. How was the composer perceived by his contemporaries? How literally does one need to take his notation? How do his few works in minor keys compare to the many in major, and his concertos to his sonatas?

This event will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval

All seats £20

Priority Booking for all events on this page opens on 27 September 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 13 October 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 20 October 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 8 November 2016.

Wigmore Hall Learning Events

Photo by Benjamin Ealovega 8 January

Sunday 8 January 11.30 am Sunday 8 January 3.00 pm Sunday 8 January 7.30 pm

Novus String Quartet Timothy Fallon tenor Cuarteto Casals Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Ammiel Bushakevitz piano Mozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’; String Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Quartet in A K464; String Quartet in C K465 Prize winners of the 2013 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Op. 80 ‘Dissonance’ Foundation International Song Competition Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 Cuarteto Casals turns once more to Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ ‘Serioso’ Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Quartets, works described by their composer as ‘the Schubert Nacht und Träume; Die Sternennächte; Profound reflections on life’s transience course fruit of a long and laborious effort’. His magnificent Liebesrausch II; Rastlose Liebe; Wiegenlied; through the works in the Novus String Quartet’s creative investment, mirrored in every phrase and Nachtstück; Willkommen und Abschied programme, projected by Schubert from the outset nuance of expression, surges through the ‘Hunt’ Beach Three Browning Songs Op. 44 in his Quartettsatz in C minor, explored with Quartet and culminates in the exuberant energy and romantic intensity by Beethoven in his aptly named Timothy Fallon offers a thoughtful mix of Schubert contrapuntal ingenuity of the ‘Dissonance’ Quartet. ‘Serioso’ Quartet, and evoked throughout the String songs framed by settings of poetry concerned with £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80, Mendelssohn’s romantic love and renewal. ’s Three last substantial composition. Browning Songs, a massive hit with audiences Chamber Music Season a century ago, stand here as fitting companions £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice to Liszt’s Petrarch sonnets, written following the Sunday Morning Coffee Concert composer’s visit to Italy in 1838–9.

All seats £15 Song Recital Series

Ammiel Bushakevitz Ana Paganini Cuarteto Casals Molina Visuals

Novus String Quartet Jin-ho Park Timothy Fallon

9 January

Monday 9 January 1.00 pm Monday 9 January 7.30 pm Wednesday 11 January 7.30 pm

Leeds International Piano Competition Richard Egarr harpsichord Danish String Quartet Prize Winner’s Recital Byrd Fantasia; Pavan and Galliard; The Bells Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Purcell Suite in G Z660; Ground in C minor ZD221 Schnittke String Quartet No. 3 Anna Tsybuleva piano Blow Chaconne in FaUt Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 CPE Bach Fantasia in F# minor Wq. 67 Purcell Suite in G minor Z661; Suite in D Z667; ‘Razumovsky’ Schumann Études symphoniques Op. 13 Ground in D minor ZD222 Schnittke’s Third String Quartet has become an (with posthumous Études) English keyboard composers in Tudor and Stuart established fixture in the chamber music repertoire Medtner Piano Sonata in G minor Op. 22 times drew inspiration from the past, looking back thanks not least to its bold allusions to works by Debussy Préludes (selection) to venerable contrapuntal forms to provide fecund Beethoven and tense juxtaposition of diverse styles Debussy L’isle joyeuse models for new pieces. Richard Egarr charts the and influences. The Danish String Quartet sets the Born in 1990 and raised in Russia’s Karachay- extraordinary breadth of invention at play in Russian composer’s work in company with two Cherkess Republic, Anna Tsybuleva graduated works by Byrd, Blow and Purcell. He crowns his landmarks of the Viennese Classical tradition. from the Moscow State Conservatory in 2014. Her programme with two of Purcell’s virtuosic suites £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 international breakthrough came the following year and the mellifluous Ground in D minor. when she won first prize at the Leeds International With grateful thanks to the Supporter, Benefactor and £15 concs £13 Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall Piano Competition. She makes her eagerly awaited Wigmore Hall debut with a typically bold and Chamber Music Season imaginative programme.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust In association with Leeds International Piano Competition With grateful thanks to Dame Fanny Waterman

London Pianoforte Series

Richard Egarr Marco Borggreve Danish String Quartet Caroline Bittencourt Anna Tsybuleva Vera Greiner

10 January

INTRODUCTION ARCANGELO & JONATHAN COHEN TO MUSIC BAROQUE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE

Arcangelo Adam Swann Jonathan Cohen Marco Borggreve

Friday 13 January 7.30 pm Arcangelo* Johann Sebastian Bach Elias Gottlob Haussmann Jonathan Cohen director,

Thursday 12 January 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord Thursday 19 January 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm Bach Harpsichord Concerto in G minor BWV1058 Thursday 26 January 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm (from Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041) Thursday 2 February 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm Telemann Burlesque de Quixotte TWV55:G10 THE 48 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D BWV1054 Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Telemann Suite in G TWV55:G4 ‘Les Nations anciens et modernes’ The idea of two books of preludes and fugues, Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1052 Kristian Bezuidenhout Marco Borggreve each moving through all the keys, both major and minor, may sound unpromising at first Bach and Telemann were not only near contemporaries but also close friends. Arcangelo’s carefully but begin to listen or play and you encounter curated programme presents the best of both composers, revealing the freshness, colour and dash a universe of wonders. Bach achieves in of Telemann’s musical celebration of and rich imagination behind his Orchestral Suite this music a wonderful synthesis of highly ‘Les Nations anciens et modernes’. Kristian Bezuidenhout joins Arcangelo in three of Bach’s virtuosic cultivated technique and direct emotional harpsichord concertos. utterance, the variety of styles and expression is simply breathtaking. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Join Roy Stratford to explore the techniques * WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T of Bach’s extraordinary craft, from double Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and triple fugue to invertible counterpoint, and unlock this musical treasure that will Early Music and Baroque Series never cease to delight. Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Series ticket price £30 Friday 5 May 10.00 pm Wigmore Hall Learning Event Friday 21 July 7.00 pm

11 January

Saturday 14 January 11.00 am – 12 noon Saturday 14 January 7.30 pm Sunday 15 January 11.30 am The Fairy Queen Vienna Piano Trio Wigmore Series Debut* Haydn Piano Trio in E HXV:28 (Bartolozzi trio) Nikita Boriso-Glebsky* violin Katy Hill soprano Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Georgy Tchaidze piano Stuart Young bass Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 Grieg No. 1 in F Op. 8 archlute Since its foundation in 1988 the Vienna Piano David Miller Shostakovich 10 Preludes Op. 34 (arr. Tsyganov) Trio has pursued the highest goals in performance, Noel Byrne actor Stravinsky Divertimento cultivating a rare openness of expression and Antonia Christophers actor warmth of sound to support the search for fresh Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, born in Russia in 1985, attracted worldwide attention in 2010 when he won FAMILY CONCERT insights into the compositions in its broad repertoire. The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall programme both the International Violin Competition For ages 6 plus comprises three enduring masterworks for and the International Violin Competition. Deep in the forest, fairies await ... Join puppetry piano trio. His Wigmore Series debut programme includes and physical theatre group, Box Tale Soup, and Stravinsky and Samuel Dushkin’s transcription of £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 The Fairy’s Kiss members of world-renowned choir The Sixteen the heart-melting Divertimento from to discover Shakespeare’s enchanting tale Chamber Music Season and Dmitri Tsyganov’s sparkling arrangements of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Be transported to Shostakovich’s 10 Preludes Op. 34. a world of magic and mishap in which the story £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice is brought to life through puppetry, theatre and Sunday Morning Coffee Concert music from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. Children £8 Adults £10 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Oberon and Puck Box Tale Soup Georgy Tchaidze Chad Johnston

Vienna Piano Trio Nancy Horowitz Nikita Boriso-Glebsky Marco Borggreve

12 January

Monday 16 January 1.00 pm Tuesday 17 January 6.00pm

IMS PRUSSIA COVE Beatrice Rana piano Pre-Concert Talk Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 Leading Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen, Professor at King’s College, London, provides an overview of Beatrice Rana’s perceptive and poetic the year 1767 and introduces some of the music interpretations stand as clear testament to the being performed in the concert. 23-year-old Italian pianist’s artistic maturity. The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist offers her £4 vision of one of the great monuments of western Wigmore Hall Learning Event art in this recital, comprising Bach’s sublime aria and 30 variations named after the harpsichordist Tuesday 17 January 7.30pm and former Bach pupil Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. Jean-Baptiste Millot £15 concs £13 Classical Opera Sunday 15 January 6.45 pm NB starting time Beatrice Rana is a member of BBC Radio 3’s Ian Page conductor New Generation Artists scheme Gemma Summerfield soprano Erich Höbarth violin Stuart Jackson tenor Ashley Riches bass-baritone Gerhard Schulz violin 1767 – A RETROSPECTIVE Thomas Riebl BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Mozart Symphony No. 6 in F K43 Gassmann Aria: Steven Isserlis cello Bella in un vago viso from Amore e Psiche Gluck Aria: No, crudel, non posso vivere from Alceste Ralph Kirshbaum cello Monday 16 January 7.30 pm JC Bach Aria: Sopra quell capo indegno from Carattaco Ferenc Rados piano Abel Aria: Frena le belle lagrime from Sifari Sir András Schiff piano Soloists of Les Arts Florissants Mozart Grabmusik K42 Haydn Vidit suum & Flammis orci from Arne Symphony in C Dénes Várjon piano MONTEVERDI, MASTERS AND POETS – Mozart Duet: Natus cadit from Apollo et Hyacinthus IMITATION AND EMULATION CELEBRATION CONCERT FOR Classical Opera presents this fascinating musical HILARY TUNSTALL-BEHRENS’S See page 14 for full details portrait of the year 1767 as part of its ground-breaking 90TH BIRTHDAY MOZART 250 project. The programme features a thrilling line-up of young soloists and Ian Page’s Benefit concert for IMS Prussia Cove dynamic period-instrument orchestra. Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 2 in D ‘Every aspect of this totally pleasurable evening BWV1028 confirmed that everything Classical Opera puts on Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526 will be worth seeking out.’ The Arts Desk Schubert Hungarian Melody in B minor D817; £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Divertissement à l'hongroise in G minor D818 Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 Early Music and Baroque Series This special concert features International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove Artistic Director Steven Isserlis and other Maestri from the Seminar’s annual Masterclasses. The concert is to celebrate IMS Prussia Cove’s co-founder, Hilary Tunstall-Behrens, who started the seminars with the great Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh over 40 years ago, and who has been closely involved ever since. This concert will be approximately 2 hours 30 minutes in duration, including an interval

£200 £50 £40 £30 £15 £200 tickets include a champagne reception during the interval. All other tickets include a glass of wine. Chamber Music Season Beatrice Rana Marie Staggat Ian Page Sheila Rock

13 Soloists of Les Arts Florissants

Monday 16 January 7.30 pm Soloists of Les Arts Florissants Paul Agnew director, tenor Miriam Allan soprano Hannah Morrison soprano Lucile Richardot contralto Sean Clayton tenor Cyril Costanzo bass MONTEVERDI, MASTERS AND POETS – IMITATION AND EMULATION

Vecchi Ardo sì, ma non t’amo Ingegneri Ardo sì, ma non t’amo Monteverdi Ardo sì, ma non t’amo; Baci soavi e cari; Dolcemente dormiva la mia Clori Marenzio Non vidi mai dopo notturna pioggia Paul Agnew Jean-Baptiste Millot Monteverdi Non si levav’ancor l’alba novella; Se tu mi lasci, perfida, tuo danno Imitation, all too readily confused with plagiarism Wert Vezzosi augelli today, was not only essential to the art of learning Monteverdi Ecco mormorar l’onde; in the 1600s but also often a form of veneration O primavera, gioventù dell’anno toward admired masters. Monteverdi’s debt to Wert Forsennata gridava many of the subtlest composers of his era can Monteverdi Vattene pur crudel; Ch’io t’ami clearly be heard in his music, among them Wert Ah dolente partita renowned masters such as Ingegneri and Wert, Monteverdi Ah dolente partita; Piagne e sospira choir master at Mantua when Monteverdi was Pallavicino Cruda Amarilli a young viola da gamba player in service of Wert Cruda Amarilli the Mantuan court. ‘This programme, which Monteverdi Cruda Amarilli features works to poems by Guarini and Tasso, shows how imitation and emulation were the norm in court musical society, where fierce competition between artists was tempered by this form of admiration and reverence’, comments Paul Agnew.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2016/17 Wigmore Series

Early Music and Baroque Series

Claudio Monteverdi by Bernardo Strozzi, c. 1630

14 January

Wednesday 18 January 7.30 pm Saturday 21 January 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Georg Nigl baritone JULIA Andreas Staier fortepiano Nash Ensemble SCHUBERT: THE COMPLETE SONGS Martyn Brabbins conductor See page 16 for full details Ian Brown piano FISCHER Lucy Crowe soprano Friday 20 January 7.30 pm NASH ENSEMBLE: VIENNA AND ITS EMPIRE See page 20 for full details Angela Hewitt piano ANGELA HEWITT: THE BACH ODYSSEY Sunday 22 January 11.30 am See page 19 for full details Elias String Quartet Saturday 21 January 10.00 am – 3.30 pm Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 Come and Sing: Haydn and Mendelssohn have been constant companions to the Elias String Quartet since its Dido and Aeneas foundation in 1998. Their works have informed Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults the group’s artistic development, offering infinite Julia Fischer Felix Broede exploring Henry Purcell’s well-loved opera possibilities of interpretation and for propagating the Dido and Aeneas. Get to know the music from highest standards in performance. This programme Thursday 19 January 7.30 pm the inside, develop your singing skills and finish unites the contemplative world of Haydn’s late the day with a performance on the Wigmore Op. 76 No. 5 with the teenaged Mendelssohn’s Julia Fischer violin Hall stage. impassioned A minor Quartet.

Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in G minor Op. 27 No. 1 £25 concs £19 £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice (à Joseph Szigeti); Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 27 No. 2 (à Jacques Thibaud); Wigmore Hall Learning Event Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 27 No. 3 (à Georges Enescu); Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 27 No. 4 (à Fritz Kreisler); Violin Sonata in G Op. 27 No. 5 (à Mathieu Crickboom); Violin Sonata in E Op. 27 No. 6 (à Manuel Quiroya). ‘All the Ysaÿes played the fiddle as a matter of course’, wrote Eugène Ysaÿe’s son, ‘and as a matter of course [my father] would naturally follow the family tradition. How could he escape it? His destiny was already cast – straight from the atavistic crucible.’ Ysaÿe’s own father often beat musical sense into his prodigiously talented boy’s fingers and also passed on the gift of what Ysaÿe described as being able ‘to speak through the violin’. Julia Fischer here directs her spellbinding technical prowess and tremendous musicianship to Ysaÿe’s fiendishly difficult, sublimely romantic Violin Sonatas.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season Come and Sing www.benjaminharte.co.uk Elias String Quartet Benjamin Ealovega

15 Schubert: Receptive to life and death, and aware of the spiritual depths of both, Schubert probed the heart of the human condition in his unsurpassed, and almost certainly unsurpassable, output of 600-plus songs. Wigmore Hall’s Schubert: The Complete Songs series offers audiences the chance to experience the full range of this extraordinary creative achievement.

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

Wednesday 18 January 7.30 pm

Georg Nigl baritone Andreas Staier fortepiano Schubert Die Schatten; Andenken; Geisternähe; Der Abend (D108); Lied der Liebe; Der Geistertanz (D116); Die Mainacht; Seufzer; Frühlingslied (D398); Die Knabenzeit; Klage an den Mond; Erntelied; Abschied (D475); Orest auf Tauris; Erlafsee; Beim Winde; Nachtstück; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Das Zügenglöcklein; Am Fenster; Irdisches Glück; Genügsamkeit; Schiffers Scheidelied Georg Nigl’s characterful performances arise from his unshakeable sense of period style allied to a truly poetic soul. The Austrian baritone, named as Singer of the Year 2015 by Opernwelt, is joined by another consummate Schubertian, the fortepianist Andreas Staier, in a programme complete with the folk-like lyricism of ‘Der Wanderer an den Mond’ and beguiling late settings of poetry by Franz von Schober.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

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

16 The Complete Songs

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 19 May 7.30 pm

tenor Thursday 2 February 7.30 pm Julian Prégardien Christoph Schnackertz piano Elizabeth Watts soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Thursday 8 June 7.30 pm

Anna Lucia Richter soprano Wednesday 15 February 7.30 pm Michael Gees piano Matthew Rose bass Gary Matthewman piano Sunday 11 June 7.30 pm

Ben Johnson tenor Tuesday 14 March 7.30 pm Graham Johnson piano Christoph Prégardien tenor Georg Nigl www.nafezrerhuf.com Saturday 17 June 7.30 pm Julius Drake piano

Florian Boesch baritone Tuesday 11 April 7.30 pm Malcolm Martineau piano Henk Neven baritone Sunday 2 July 7.30 pm Imogen Cooper piano Markus Schäfer tenor Wednesday 10 May 7.30 pm Piers Lane piano Ian Bostridge tenor Sunday 9 July 7.30 pm Lars Vogt piano Ian Bostridge tenor Saturday 13 May 7.30 pm Graham Johnson piano Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano Wednesday 19 July 7.30 pm Jan Philip Schulze piano Andreas Staier Josep Molina Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano Eduard Kutrowatz piano

17 18 Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey

Spread over the course of four seasons, Angela Hewitt: The Bach Friday 20 January 7.30 pm Odyssey gathers momentum with a concert devoted to Bach’s Angela Hewitt piano six French Suites. Angela Hewitt’s affinity for Bach flows naturally Bach French Suites: from her strong connection with the composer’s dance rhythms No. 1 in D minor BWV812 and from her exquisite feeling for lyrical phrasing, contrapuntal No. 2 in C minor BWV813 clarity and sensitive articulation. No. 4 in Eb BWV815 No. 6 in E BWV817 No. 3 in B minor BWV814 No. 5 in G BWV816

Bach’s so-called French Suites were largely written between 1722 and 1725. They are in fact ruled by the manners of contemporary Italian music, albeit spiced by allusions to other national dance styles. Angela Hewitt’s recording of the French Suites was named as a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and hailed by The Sunday Times for making ‘Bach’s music live … in a way that even the greatest harpsichordists do not’.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Forthcoming Concert in this Series

Saturday 10 June 7.30 pm

This series will continue over the following three seasons

Portrait of J S Bach by Johann Jakob Ihle, c. 1720. Photo © akg-images Angela Hewitt James Cheadle

19 Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Nash Ensemble Vienna and its Empire

Saturday 21 January 7.30 pm Nash Ensemble Martyn Brabbins conductor Ian Brown piano Lucy Crowe soprano Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘Emperor’ Mozart No. 14 in Eb K449 Mahler Symphony No. 4 (arr. for soprano and chamber ensemble by Erwin Stein) The Nash Ensemble’s renowned string players begin with Haydn’s Op. 76 No. 3 Quartet, with its variations on the composer’s ‘Emperor’s Hymn’. Long-serving Nash pianist Ian Brown is soloist in Mozart’s K449, while Lucy Crowe sings the child’s-eye view of heaven that closes Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, performed in the chamber arrangement made for Schoenberg’s Vienna-based Society for Private Musical Performances.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Sunday 5 February 11.30 am Tuesday 21 March 6.00 pm

with Ian Brown piano Pre-Concert Talk Philippa Davies flute Tuesday 21 March 7.30 pm Dvorˇák & Smetana NASH INVENTIONS Saturday 11 February 5.30 pm with Martyn Brabbins Introductory talk followed by concert conductor with Claire Booth soprano Adrian Brendel cello Berg, Webern & Schoenberg Roderick Williams baritone Saturday 11 February 7.30 pm Huw Watkins, Colin Matthews, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, with Claire Booth soprano Simon Holt & Julian Anderson Richard Hosford clarinet Berg, Mozart & Schubert

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt, Vienna 1907

20 January

Sunday 22 January 3.00 pm Monday 23 January 1.00 pm Monday 23 January 7.30 pm

Royal Academy of Music Roderick Williams baritone Philip Higham cello Richard Lewis Song Circle Roger Vignoles piano Alasdair Beatson piano Nika Goricˇ soprano Fauré Mirages Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero Katie Stevenson mezzo-soprano Caplet Cinq ballades françaises de Paul Fort comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO.45 Nicholas Mogg baritone Honegger Petits cours de morale John Casken Stolen Airs (London première) Michael Mofidian bass-baritone Poulenc Deux poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire; Fauré No. 1 in D minor Op. 109 Yi-Shing Cheng piano Parisiana Lutosławski Metamorphoses (1981) Franck/Delsart Sonata in A for cello and piano Michael Pandya piano Seismic change rocked Paris out of its belle époque Stanford To the soul; The pibroch; La Belle Dame complacency during the First World War, a process Two outstanding British artists offer a programme sans merci; The Clown’s Songs from Shakespeare’s prefigured by the Symbolist imagery present in the of imaginative contrasts and enormous emotional ‘Twelfth Night’ poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire and the long-lived range, moving from Beethoven’s ebullient variations Herbert Renouncement; I think on thee in the night; Paul Fort. Roderick Williams and Roger Vignoles on one of Handel’s best-known tunes to John Six children’s songs; Rose kissed me today; How explore the febrile world of twentieth-century Casken’s Stolen Airs, inspired by a story central to beautiful is night; When Death to either shall come French art-song, from the sublime eroticism of the his opera-in-progress, Sylvie and the Songman. Quilter Autumn Evening; Now sleeps the crimson elderly Fauré’s Mirages to the boulevard style of Philip Higham and Alasdair Beatson conclude with petal; Go, lovely Rose; Music, when soft voices die; Poulenc’s Parisiana. Franck’s evergreen Violin Sonata in A, transcribed for cello and piano by Jules Delsart. Love’s philosophy All seats £15 Charles Villiers Stanford, acclaimed composer and £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 teacher of generations of students in Cambridge Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series and at the , became a pillar of late Victorian and Edwardian society. His songs BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert are performed here in company with works by his pupils Muriel Herbert and the man she loved, Roger Quilter. Herbert’s daughter, the author Claire Tomalin, introduces this recital.

All seats £15 WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Song Recital Series Alasdair Beatson Giorgia Bertazzi

RAM Richard Lewis Song Circle Roderick Williams Benjamin Ealovega Philip Higham Sussie Ahlburg

21 January

Wednesday 25 January 7.30 pm Thursday 26 January 7.30 pm Saturday 28 January 7.30 pm

Signum Quartet Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Le Concert de la Loge Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Olympique Bruno Mantovani String Quartet No. 3* (UK première) Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 director, violin Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 Schubert Piano Sonata in D D850 Julien Chauvin ‘Razumovsky’ soprano Elisabeth Leonskaja’s artistry is nurtured by roots Karina Gauvin *Co-commissioned by Philharmonie Luxembourg, deeply embedded in the famous Russian-Soviet Handel Overture & Da tempeste from Konzerthaus Vienna, and by Wigmore Hall with the support school of pianism and shaped by a personality free in Egitto; Suite No. 1 in F HWV348 ‘Water Music’ of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, from the distractions of ego and self-serving (excerpts); Ombre, piante, urne funeste from a Swiss grant-making foundation mannerisms. She makes a welcome return to ; in Bb HWV290 (excerpts); Bruno Mantovani’s latest string quartet, completed Wigmore Hall to perform a programme of the richest Will the sun forget to streak from ; in 2015, was written for and dedicated to the musical substance, crowned by Schubert’s Piano Scherza in mar la navicella from Lotario; Tornami a Signum Quartet. The French composer’s fascination Sonata in D D850, a work of irresistible momentum vagheggiar & Ah, mio cor from Alcina; Suite No. 3 with narrative structures and the ebb and flow of and constantly shifting emotional contrasts. in G HWV350 ‘Water Music’ (excerpts); Concerto Grosso in G Op. 6 No. 1; Ah crudel! & Furie terribili drama is boldly stated in his new work, presented £40 £30 £25 £20 £15 here in harness with one of Haydn’s ground- from London Pianoforte Series breaking Op. 20 quartets and Beethoven’s thrilling Named after the famous orchestra that brought final ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet. Haydn’s ‘Paris’ Symphonies to life, Le Concert de £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Friday 27 January 7.30 pm la Loge Olympique was founded in January 2015 by the violinist Julien Chauvin. Together with the Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series distinguished Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote a superlative performer of Baroque opera, they Julius Drake piano make their Wigmore Hall debut with a programme ECMA Showcase of Handel showpiece arias and other works. FOCUS ON NICO MUHLY Thursday 26 January 1.00 pm £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 See page 24 for full details Friday 27 January 1.00 pm Early Music and Baroque Series Saturday 28 January 11.00 am – Masterclass Saturday 28 January 1.00 pm

See page opposite for full details

Signum Quartet Irene Zandel Elisabeth Leonskaja Julia Wesely Karina Gauvin Michael Slobodian

22 European Chamber Music Academy Showcase

Wigmore Hall’s annual European Chamber Music Academy Showcase has become a red-letter event for chamber music connoisseurs, the ideal opportunity to hear exceptional ensembles at the start of their careers and experience the intense energy of young artists at work. This year’s Showcase, under the care of ECMA founder and Artistic Director Hatto Beyerle, provides a platform for five groups from across Europe.

Quatuor Hanson Denis Blackghost/Karol Miczka Stratos Quartet Trio Vitruvi Tom McKenzie Pacific Quartet Vienna Julia Wesely

Thursday 26 January 1.00 pm Friday 27 January 1.00 pm Saturday 28 January 1.00 pm Quatuor Akilone Stratos Quartet Pacific Quartet Vienna Quatuor Hanson Trio Vitruvi Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 Bartók String Quartet No. 6 BB119 Walton Piano Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 Chausson Piano Trio in G minor Op. 3 Pacific Quartet Vienna, a multinational ensemble, ‘Razumovsky’ was formed in 2006. It has a string of competition William Walton’s four-movement Piano Quartet, a victories to its name, including first prize from the Towering monuments of the string quartet repertoire strikingly assured product of his mid-teens, offers 6th International Chamber Music mark the opening of the 2017 ECMA Showcase at an ideal vehicle to demonstrate the formidable Competition in Vienna. The group closes Wigmore Wigmore Hall, performed by two fine young French talents of the Stratos Quartet, the first piano Hall’s ECMA Showcase weekend with the second ensembles: Quatuor Hanson, formed at the Paris quartet ever to join ECMA. Trio Vitruvi, established of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets and Schumann’s Conservatoire in 2013, and Quatuor Akilone, another in 2013, explores the dark, intense Piano Trio in exquisite String Quartet in A. outstanding product of the Paris Conservatoire G minor, written in the early phase of Chausson’s and winner of the prestigious 2016 Bordeaux studies with César Franck. International String Quartet Competition. Saturday 28 January 11.00 am – 12 noon ECMA Masterclass All tickets £5 each concert Free admission to masterclass (ticket required) Hatto Beyerle’s influence as performer and teacher has spread worldwide, thanks not least to the work The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift of his ECMA. The violist, born in Germany in 1933, from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton was a founder member of the Quartet in memory of Sigmund Elton and has held professorial posts in Vienna, Hanover, Basel and Florence. He joins Quatuor Hanson for Chamber Music Season/ ECMA Showcase an ECMA Masterclass focusing on Schubert’s vibrant Quartettsatz.

Quatuor Akilone Wigmore Hall Learning Event

23 January

Sunday 29 January 11.30 am Amaryllis Quartet Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 33 No. 3 ‘The Bird’ Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 127 FOCUS ON High-profile engagements at leading festivals and concert halls, award-winning recordings and international competition success have marked the Amaryllis Quartet’s meteoric progress since its foundation in 2004. The German-based ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall to perform one of Haydn’s wittiest works, the ‘Bird’ Quartet, and plumb the NICO MUHLY profoundly spiritual depths of Beethoven’s late Op. 127 quartet.

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

Nico Muhly Ana Cuba Alice Coote Benjamin Ealovega Julius Drake Sim Canetty-Clarke

Friday 27 January 7.30 pm

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano ‘I MYSELF AM THE ENEMY WHO MUST BE LOVED? WHAT THEN?’ Nico Muhly Strange Productions* (world première) Dominick Argento From the Diary of Virginia Woolf Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Firm Wigmore Hall favourites Alice Coote and Julius Drake present a special programme of works, complete with the world première of a new score from Nico Muhly.

Muhly’s piece stands alongside Dominick Argento’s Pulitzer Prize-winning song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, written in 1974 for , and the twelve nostalgic songs of Schumann’s Kerner Lieder. This concert is entitled ‘I myself am the enemy who must be loved? What then?’, quoting Carl Jung, and explores the theme of mental health and the complexities of the human mind.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series/Focus on Nico Muhly Amaryllis Quartet Tobias Wirth

24 January

Sunday 29 January 3.00 pm Monday 30 January 1.00 pm

Tim Mead STÉPHANE DEGOUT& Peter Moore trombone James Baillieu piano CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN James Baillieu piano Howells King David Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Vaughan Williams Linden Lea Jørgensen Romance Op. 21 Purcell/Britten Lord, what is Man? Duparc La vie antérieure Quilter It was a lover and his lass Rachmaninov Vocalise Vaughan Williams Silent Noon Hindemith Sonata for trombone and piano Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci Pryor Annie Laurie Betty Roe To his sweet saviour Peter Moore, winner of the 2008 BBC Young Musician Ireland If there were dreams to sell of the Year competition, made history in 2014 when Joseph Phibbs The Moon’s Funeral he was appointed the youngest-ever member of Vaughan Williams Tired the London Symphony Orchestra at the age of 18. Howells A Madrigal He reveals every facet of his instrument’s character Dankworth Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Stéphane Degout Cédric Tiberghien in this programme, from the enchanting melody Warlock Love for Love of Rachmaninov’s Vocalise to the majestic power Britten O Waly, Waly Sunday 29 January 7.30 pm of Hindemith’s Sonata. Quilter Hey, ho, the wind and the rain Stéphane Degout baritone £15 concs £13 Tim Mead’s soulful expression, tonal warmth and jaw-dropping vocal technique have won a legion Matteo Cesari flute, alto flute Peter Moore is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme of admirers. The English countertenor, whose Alexis Descharmes cello repertoire spans everything from Monteverdi to Birtwistle, explores the songs of his homeland with Cédric Tiberghien piano a programme spiced with such delights as John Poulenc Le bestiaire; Montparnasse; Dankworth’s languid Shakespeare sonnet setting BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Hyde Park; Calligrammes; Quatre poèmes and Betty Roe’s haunting ‘To his sweet saviour’. de Guillaume Apollinaire; Banalités All seats £15 Cendres for alto flute, Song Recital Series cello and piano Ravel Chansons madécasses; Histoires naturelles Stéphane Degout and Cédric Tiberghien, in partnership with two fine instrumentalists, explore the urbanity and sheer playfulness of works by Poulenc in their programme’s first half before turning to the exotic imagery of two of Ravel’s finest artistic achievements, the Chansons madécasses and the Histoires naturelles, a cycle of five songs to poems by Jules Renard. Degout’s lyric baritone, sonorous and supremely flexible, ideally suits the soundworld of Poulenc and Ravel. Best known to British audiences for his acclaimed performances of Mozart and Rossini at House, he has also attracted rave reviews for his recordings of French mélodies.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/ Contemporary Music Series

Photo of Stéphane Degout by Julien Benhamou Photo of Cédric Tiberghien by Jean-Baptiste Millot Tim Mead Andy Staples Peter Moore Kaupo Kikkas

25 Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a pianist with ‘unlimited capacity’ and widely regarded to be among the finest artists of his generation, Igor Levit continues his season-long exploration of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas at Wigmore Hall. The Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit series is set to reinforce the Russian-born pianist’s credentials as a Beethovenian of supreme perception and boundless imagination.

Monday 30 January 7.30 pm Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Igor Levit piano Sunday 26 February 7.30 pm

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Op. 10 No. 3; Friday 17 March 7.30 pm Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 18 in Eb Op. 31 No. 3 Tuesday 13 June 7.30 pm Although Beethoven dedicated his Op. 2 piano sonatas to the venerable Haydn, its music set markers for the future by breaking with formal convention. Igor Levit presents the expansive Piano Sonata No. 2 in A in context with other pioneering works, including two Photo by Felix Broede strikingly contrasting pieces from Beethoven’s Op. 10 set and an experimental composition from his early maturity, the Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton

London Pianoforte Series

26 January/February

Tuesday 31 January 7.30pm Thursday 2 February 11.00 am – 11.45 am Thursday 2 February 7.30 pm (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm) Gould Piano Trio Elizabeth Watts soprano For Crying Out Loud! GOULD PIANO TRIO 25TH ANNIVERSARY Malcolm Martineau piano Hear outstanding performances by musicians from Schubert Notturno in E D897; Piano Trio No. 1 in Schubert Nähe des Geliebten; Vergebliche Liebe; b the Royal Academy of Music, presented in a relaxed B D898; Piano Trio No. 2 in E D929 Liebe schwärmt auf allen Wegen; Das Rosenband; b b environment for parents or carers and their babies Lambertine; Die verfehlte Stunde; Gott im Frühlinge; Among Schubert’s many late masterworks, the two under one to enjoy together. Aus Diego Manzanares (Almerine); Pflicht und Liebe; piano trios rank with the finest. Each bears witness Adults £7.50 (babies come free) Der Sänger am Felsen; Die Blumensprache; to the composer’s unfailing inventive powers and La pastorella al prato; Heiß mich nicht reden (D726); ability to create melodies of sublime beauty, including So laßt mich scheinen (D727); Der Blumen Schmerz; those of the B flat Trio’s opening movement and the Nachtviolen; Du bist die Ruh; Auf dem Wasser zu E flat Trio’s transcendent slow movement. The Gould singen; Im Frühling; Über Wildemann; Heimliches Piano Trio prefaces both works with the introspective Wigmore Hall Learning Event Lieben; Frühlingslied (D919) Notturno of 1827. Aspects of love, nature imagery and the regenerative £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 promise of spring run through Elizabeth Watts’s Chamber Music Season delightful programme. The soprano and her regular duo partner Malcolm Martineau close their recital with ‘Frühlingslied’, a remarkable song written in March 1826 in which springtime warmth and uplifting optimism clash with dark, disturbing mid-winter memories.

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

For Crying Out Loud! Benjamin Ealovega

Gould Piano Trio Jake Morley Elizabeth Watts Marco Borggreve

27 Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle

Beethoven’s string quartets are deeply ingrained in the collective consciousness of Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists. The Takács Quartet continues its season-long Beethoven Cycle with programmes of works from the composer’s early, middle and late years, and also leads a masterclass evening devoted to the fine art of Beethoven interpretation.

Friday 3 February 7.30 pm Saturday 4 February 7.30 pm Forthcoming Events in this Series

Takács Quartet Takács Quartet Sunday 5 February 7.30 pm Masterclass Beethoven String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2; Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’; String Quartet in E Op. 74 ‘Harp’; b Monday 6 February 7.30 pm String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 Beethoven originally created a fugal finale for The Takács Quartet begins with the first Sunday 14 May 7.30 pm the String Quartet in B flat Op. 130 before of Beethoven’s Op. 18 pieces, a mighty developing it separately as his ‘Great Fugue’. four-movement work that contributed to the Monday 15 May 7.30 pm The revised quartet deals in what Vincent composer’s emergence as a master of the d’Indy famously described as ‘open war … string quartet. Beethoven’s determination Wednesday 17 May 7.30 pm between careless merriment and serious to explore and experiment is also present thought’. It is prefaced here by the intense in the ‘Harp’ Quartet, while the meditative concentration of Op. 95 and the graceful stillness and serenity of Op. 131 reflect the Photo by Robert Torres elegance of Op. 18 No. 2. mature artist’s profound sense of wonder about the nature of existence. £40 £30 £25 £20 £15 £40 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season Chamber Music Season

28 February

Saturday 4 February 10.30 am – 3.30 pm Sunday 5 February 11.30 am Handel and Hendrix Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence FAMILY DAY Nash Ensemble TAKÁCS For ages 5 plus Ian Brown piano Explore the musical worlds of Handel and Philippa Davies flute Jimi Hendrix with the help of Handel & Hendrix in Dvorˇák Sonatina in G Op.100 (arr. for flute and piano) QUARTET London Composer in Residence Hunter Coblentz, Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 and guitarist Jack Ross. Visit the former homes of Dvorˇák String Quintet in E Op. 97 these great musicians and discover what inspired b them before creating your own music to perform Two works from Dvorˇák’s fertile American period, MASTERCLASS on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day. the tuneful Sonatina originally written for violin and piano and the String Quintet with two , created Children £10 Adults £15 during the idyllic summer the composer spent in In partnership with Handel & Hendrix in London Spillville, Iowa, surround the heartfelt Piano Trio that Smetana wrote in memory of his musically talented infant daughter following her death from scarlet fever.

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Saturday 4 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Takács Quartet TAKÁCS QUARTET BEETHOVEN CYCLE See page opposite for full details Sunday 5 February 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Takács Quartet MASTERCLASS In his book about Beethoven’s sixteen string quartets, the Takács Quartet’s first violinist Edward Dusinberre describes the exhilaration and spiritual rewards of performing these great works. He and his colleagues pass on their experience and insights into Beethoven’s art to two postgraduate student ensembles in a masterclass certain to enlighten and inspire.

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

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle

Family Day www.benjaminharte.co.uk Nash Ensemble K Leighton

29 February

Monday 6 February 1.00 pm Monday 6 February 7.30 pm Tuesday 7 February 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Isabelle Faust violin The English Concert Andreas Staier piano Takács Quartet Rachel Podger guest director, violin CPE Bach Fantasie in F# minor Wq. 80 Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5; JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066 (arr. of Fantasia for keyboard solo Wq. 67) String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4; Telemann Sonata a 6 in F minor TWV44:32 Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 131 String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 CPE Bach Symphony in G Wq. 182 No. 1 Brahms Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 120 No. 2 While shades of Mozart fleet over the surface of JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 (arr. of Viola Sonata) Beethoven’s Op. 18 No. 5, the work’s deep Telemann Concerto in Bb for 3 oboes, 3 violins and basso continuo TWV44:43 Against the scientific revolution’s backdrop, many originality is never in doubt. Its companion JS Bach Concerto in C minor BWV1060 for oboe eighteenth-century writers, artists and composers piece, Op. 18 No. 4, inhabits emotional territory and violin (reconst.) turned to fantasy as an antidote to the dictates of comparable to another contemporary C minor realism and rationality. CPE Bach’s influential masterwork, the ‘Pathétique’ Sonata. The Takács Distinguished violinist and director Rachel Podger fantasies helped establish a style of rhapsodic Quartet also mines the infinite possibilities of the leads The English Concert in a feast of suites and composition that was extensively developed in the String Quartet in A minor Op. 132, complete concertos by JS Bach and his lifelong friend following century. Isabelle Faust and Andreas Staier with its prayer and thanksgiving for the recovery Telemann. Adding spice to the banquet is Bach’s explore fantasy pieces by Bach and Schumann in ‘by a convalescent’. son (and Telemann’s godson) Carl Philipp Emanuel, company with the genial lyricism of Brahms’s late £40 £30 £25 £20 £15 whose extraordinary symphonies were to subvert Sonata Op. 120 No. 2. the musical conventions of the early 1700s. Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle All seats £15 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/ Takács Quartet Beethoven Cycle Early Music and Baroque Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Andreas Staier Eric Larrayadieu/Harmonia Mundi Takács Quartet Keith Saunders Rachel Podger Jonas Sacks

Isabelle Faust Molina Visuals The English Concert Richard Haughton

30 February

Wednesday 8 February 12.15 pm Pre-Concert Talk Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage discusses the programme for the following lunchtime concert with Dr Kate Kennedy. JANINE JANSEN Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required) Wigmore Hall Learning Event PERSPECTIVES Wednesday 8 February 1.00 pm Wednesday 8 February 7.30 pm Britten Sinfonia Janine Jansen violin Laura Lucas flute Nicholas Daniel oboe Boris Brovtsyn violin Joy Farrall clarinet Lucy Wakeford harp Jacqueline Shave & Miranda Dale violins Torleif Thedéen cello Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Clara Andrada de la Calle flute Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet Olivier Patey clarinet Mark-Anthony Turnage Prayer for a great man Oliver Knussen Cantata (Triptych Part 3) Op. 15 Eldar Nebolsin piano Ravel Introduction and Allegro Berg Adagio from Chamber Concerto Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet Schoenberg/ Webern Chamber Symphony Mark-Anthony Turnage Col* (world première) No. 1 Op. 9 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of Korngold Suite for two violins, cello and piano donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore left hand Op. 23 Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Janine Jansen and friends step into the world of A composer of truly international stature, fin-de-siècle Vienna, evoking the creative milieu Mark-Anthony Turnage is among today’s most direct of compositions conceived under the influence communicators and significant creators. Turnage of Late Romanticism, and Modernist explorations has curated a programme of music by composers of the psyche. Their programme includes he respects and of music he admires, crowned by Webern’s first arrangement of Schoenberg’s the world première of his new work, Col, a tribute Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Korngold’s Suite to composer and friend Colin Matthews. for two violins, cello and piano left hand, first performed in 1930 by Paul Wittgenstein and £13 concs £11 the Rosé Quartet. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Chamber Music Season

Janine Jansen Marco Borggreve Forthcoming Events in this Series

Janine Jansen, recently described by Friday 2 June 7.30 pm The Telegraph as ‘breathtakingly supreme’ Janine Jansen violin and praised for her ‘dazzling dexterity’ Torleif Thedéen cello by The Australian, is a frequent visitor to London this season. She continues her Martin Fröst clarinet Perspectives programme at Wigmore Hall Lucas Debargue piano and also gives concerts as part of her LSO Friday 2 June 9.45 pm Artist Portrait series, underlining her star status among today’s finest musicians. Post-Concert Talk Mark-Anthony Turnage Philip Gatward

31 Jörg Widmann & Mitsuko Uchida

Thursday 9 February 7.30 pm

Jörg Widmann’s passions include the works of clarinet Jörg Widmann Schubert and Schumann, composers with Mitsuko Uchida piano whom he shares an affinity for lyricism, poetic shading and dramatic contrasts. The German Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 clarinettist and composer joins forces with Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Mitsuko Uchida for a programme rooted in their Jörg Widmann Fantasie for solo clarinet shared musical values, spanning everything Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1 for solo piano from the expressive miniatures of Berg’s Op. 5 Jörg Widmann Idyll und Abgrund – Six Schubert Reminiscences for piano to the shifting moods of Schumann’s Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Fantasiestücke of 1849. £60 £50 £40 £30 £15 Photo of Jörg Widmann by Marco Borggreve Supported by the Chamber Music Circle Photo of Mitsuko Uchida by Justin Pumfrey/Decca Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

32 February

Friday 10 February 7.30 pm Saturday 11 February 5.30 pm Sunday 12 February 11.30 am

Nikolai Demidenko piano Introductory Talk and Concert Trio con Brio Copenhagen Scarlatti 12 Sonatas An introductory talk on the Second Viennese School Beethoven Piano Trio in Eb Op. 1 No. 1 Schubert 3 Moments Musicaux D780 by Gillian Moore MBE, Director of Music, Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano Southbank Centre, writer and broadcaster. Op. 66 (transcription for solo piano by Alfred Cortot) Founded in Vienna in 1999 and resident in Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence A regular presence at Wigmore Hall for almost three Denmark, the Trio con Brio Copenhagen has decades, Nikolai Demidenko’s pianism combines Nash Ensemble inspired rave reviews with performances shot power and passion, light and shade, and life’s through with rich tonal warmth, refined textural emotional ebb and flow. His latest programme opens Claire Booth soprano contrasts and wise musicianship. This recital with a selection of Domenico Scarlatti’s quicksilver Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 brings together a key work in Beethoven’s early keyboard sonatas and includes Alfred Cortot’s virtuoso Webern Piano Quintet in C artistic development with Mendelssohn’s transcription of Franck’s A minor Violin Sonata. Schoenberg Die eiserne Brigade; Ein Stelldichein; Beethoven-inspired Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs); Nachtwandler £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice London Pianoforte Series All seats £5 Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Saturday 11 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Nash Ensemble Claire Booth soprano Richard Hosford clarinet Berg Sieben frühe Lieder (arr. by de Leeuw for soprano, piano, harmonium, flute, clarinet, string quartet and bass) Beethoven in Bb Op. 11 Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock) Schubert Octet in F D803 The Nash Ensemble’s Vienna-based series ends Nikolai Demidenko K Miura Trio con Brio Copenhagen Seren Svendsen with an introductory talk and a double bill concert. Berg’s epigrammatic clarinet pieces, Webern’s early Piano Quintet and an engaging selection of little-known miniatures by Schoenberg occupies the first programme. The main concert presents acclaimed soprano Claire Booth in Berg’s ravishing Seven Early Songs and Schubert’s late cantata ‘The Shepherd on the Rock’, together with two Nash favourites, Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio in B flat and Schubert’s monumental Octet.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Claire Booth Sven Arnstein Richard Hosford Keith Saunders

33 February

Sunday 12 February 7.30 pm Monday 13 February 1.00 pm Tuesday 14 February 6.00pm

Belcea Quartet Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano Pre-Concert Event Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in Eb minor James Baillieu piano RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY Op. 144 viola YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL Schubert String Quartet in G D887 Gary Pomeroy Howells Come sing and dance The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment Shostakovich’s final and longest string quartet, Quilter Go, lovely Rose; Now sleeps the crimson in which exceptionally gifted young musicians supremely introspective and fully reconciled to the petal; Music, when soft voices die collaborate closely with some of the world’s finest inevitability of death, offers an intimate portrait of Denis Browne To Gratiana dancing and singing artists and teachers. This concert offers the the Soviet composer during his last years. The Howells Peacock Pie chance to hear potential future stars at an early Belcea Quartet has programmed it together with Gurney Sleep; Most Holy Night; The fields are full; stage of their careers. another fifteenth and final string quartet, Schubert’s By a Bierside profound reflection on impermanence and ever- Free (ticket required) Bridge Three songs with viola changing reality. English song flourished in the last century’s opening £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 decades, touched by the wealth of native poetry and Tuesday 14 February 7.30pm Chamber Music Season the trauma of global warfare. Kathryn Rudge joins James Baillieu and Gary Pomeroy on a journey Razumovsky Ensemble through a programme containing familiar pieces by Ana Chumachenco violin Howells and Quilter and a rarity by Denis Browne. Oleg Kogan cello, artistic director £15 concs £13 Haydn String Trio in G Op. 53 No. 1 Kathryn Rudge is a member of BBC Radio 3’s Mozart String Quintet in G minor K516 New Generation Artists scheme Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111 Oleg Kogan’s acclaimed Razumovsky Ensemble is joined by the distinguished violinist Ana Chumachenco, for many years Professor of Violin BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital at Munich’s University of Music, in a programme complete with late masterworks by Mozart and Brahms. The G minor String Quintet, created in 1787, contains some of Mozart’s most personal, tragic and tender music.

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

Belcea Quartet Ronald Knapp

Kathryn Rudge Sussie Ahlburg James Baillieu Kaupo Kikkas Oleg Kogan Robert Cassen

34 February

Thursday 16 February 7.30 pm

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

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

‘The Shortest Day’ © Victoria Crowe

Wednesday 15 February 7.30 pm Matthew Rose bass Gary Matthewman piano : A PARALLEL WINTER JOURNEY Schubert Winterreise Early audiences, in thrall to the peace and prosperity that preceded the Matthew Rose Lena Kern Gary Matthewman Johan Persson European revolutions of 1848, rejected the melancholy worldview contained within Winterreise. Schubert’s late, great song cycle is now recognised as one of the most extraordinary creative achievements of the nineteenth century. The composer told a friend how his collection of ‘spine-chilling songs … have affected me more than has been the case with any other of my Lieder’, a feeling shared by millions since the work’s publication in 1828. Matthew Rose has collaborated with painter Victoria Crowe on this production in which projected images offer a contemplative, extended response to the words and music. This concert will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval

£40 £30 £25 £20 £15 Visuals sponsored by the Royal Society of Arts Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Llyˆr Williams Benjamin Ealovega

35 Mauro Peter & Helmut Deutsch

Friday 17 February 7.30 pm

Mauro Peter tenor Helmut Deutsch piano Schumann Abends am Strand; Dein Angesicht; Lehn deine Wang; Es leuchtet meine Liebe; Mein Wagen rollet langsam; Belsazar Schumann Fünf Lieder Op. 40 Strauss Schlichte Weisen; Mädchenblumen Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca

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

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

36 February

Saturday 18 February 7.30 pm Sunday 19 February 11.30 am Sunday 19 February 3.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut Scottish Ensemble Louise Alder soprano Jonathan Morton leader, artistic director Lara Melda piano Gary Matthewman piano Alina Ibragimova violin Chopin Nocturne in B Op. 32 No. 1; Nocturne in Sibelius Kyssens hopp (Kiss’s Hope); Vilse (Astray); C# minor Op. 27 No. 1; Nocturne in Db Op. 27 No. 2; Säv, säv, susa (Reed, reed, rustle); Flickan kom ifrån Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 6 in E for strings b Nocturne in C minor Op. 48 No. 1 sin älsklings möte (The girl returned from meeting Arvo Pärt Silouan’s Song ‘My soul yearns after Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D845 her lover) the Lord’ Huw Watkins Five Larkin Songs Hartmann Concerto funebre Lara Melda became BBC Young Musician of the Debussy Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 10 in B minor for strings Year in 2010 at the age of sixteen and currently Puccini A te; Morire? Pe¯teris Vasks Viatore studies with Ian Jones at the Royal College of Music. Verdi Stornello; Lo spazzacamino Bach Concerto in E for violin BWV1042 Her Wigmore Hall debut programme juxtaposes the gentle melancholy and flowing melodies Following studies as the inaugural One of the UK’s leading string orchestras is joined by of four Chopin Nocturnes with the complex Scholar at the Royal College of Music’s International Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova, among the brightest emotional outpourings of Schubert’s Piano Sonata Opera School, Louise Alder has received glowing talents of the younger generation, for a varied in A minor D845. reviews as a member of the Frankfurt Opera programme of string pieces featuring Ibragimova as Ensemble and for her performances at the BBC soloist in Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s lyrical Concerto £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Proms and Glyndebourne Festival. She is joined by funebre for solo violin and strings, composed in Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Gary Matthewman to explore the rich variety of 1939, and Bach’s exuberant E major concerto. European Art Song, from the beauty of Scandinavia £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 via England and France to Italy, in settings by Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Sibelius, Huw Watkins, Debussy, Puccini and Verdi. All seats £15 Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

Alina Ibragimova Eva Vermandel Lara Melda Benjamin Harte

Scottish Ensemble Peter Dibdin Louise Alder William Alder

37 Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov

Sunday 19 February 7.30 pm

Isabelle Faust violin Alexander Melnikov piano

Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Françaix Sonatine (1934) Fauré Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 108 Antheil Sonata for violin, piano and drums

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

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Photo by Marco Borggreve

38 February

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

£15 concs £13

Van Kuijk Quartet is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

The Sixteen Molina Visuals

Monday 20 February 7.30 pm The Sixteen Fretwork Harry Christophers conductor Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri BuxWV75 Scheidt Two dances from Ludi musici Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, composed in 1680, forms a cycle of seven cantatas addressed to different parts of the crucified Christ’s body. Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have lived with this unique work for many years, exploring its meditations on Fretwork the saviour’s feet, knees, hands, side, breast, heart and face in concert and on Other Events in this Series disc. They are joined by Fretwork for their latest interpretation of music that casts Saturday 14 January 11.00 am light on the nature of suffering, devotion and Family Concert: The Fairy Queen spiritual transcendence.

£60 £50 £40 £30 £15 Friday 30 June 7.30 pm Early Music and Baroque Series The Sixteen Van Kuijk Quartet

39 Sir András Schiff Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók

Comparisons and contrasts occupy Sir András Schiff in his series of concerts devoted to the music of four great composers. Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók unfolds with the second of three recitals and related evening masterclass sessions, connecting audiences with one of the most perceptive and inspirational musical minds of our time.

Tuesday 21 February 7.30 pm Wednesday 22 February 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff piano Sir András Schiff Masterclass Bach 5 Sinfonias BWV787–791 Sir András Schiff’s eloquence as a teacher and profound Bartók Suite Op. 14 insights as a thinker about music make his masterclass Bach 5 Sinfonias BWV792–796 sessions irresistible to participants and audiences Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) BB89 alike. Through the course of this event an outstanding Bach 5 Sinfonias BWV797– 801 young musician, chosen by Sir András himself, will Janácˇek Piano Sonata I.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ explore some of the repertoire featured in the previous Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 in F# minor Op. 11 evening’s concert. Bach’s Sinfonias, known to generations of piano students as Three-part Inventions, This event will be approximately 2 hours in duration, provide the powerful platform for a programme of works bristling with rhythmic including an interval energy and songful melody. Janácˇek’s Sonata ‘From the Street’ captures the All seats £20 outrage, defiance and despair provoked by the death in 1905 of a worker Supported by an anonymous donor bayoneted by troops during a protest in favour of a Czech university in Brno. Wigmore Hall Learning Event £50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by an anonymous donor Forthcoming Events in this Series London Pianoforte Series Tuesday 2 May 7.30 pm Concert Wednesday 3 May 7.30 pm Masterclass

Photo by Yutaka Suzuki 40 February

Friday 24 February 7.30 pm Sunday 26 February 11.30 am

ARTEMIS QUARTET Matthias Goerne baritone Quatuor Voce Markus Hinterhäuser piano Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 MARIA JOÃO PIRES Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52 See page 42 for full details Praised by The Strad for its ‘refinement, beautiful tone, excellent ensemble, precise chording, fine Saturday 25 February rhythm and loads of character’, Quatuor Voce regularly appears at the world’s foremost concert XENAKIS DAY halls and festivals. The French ensemble surveys Beethoven’s Op. 18 No. 6, with its visionary 1.00 pm blend of classical poise and romantic contrasts, JACK Quartet together with Bartók’s Beethoven-inspired first string quartet. Artemis Quartet Felix Broede 6.00 pm £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Pre-Concert Talk Sunday Morning Coffee Concert 7.30 pm JACK Quartet Pavel Kolesnikov piano See page 45 for full details

Maria João Pires Felix Broede/DG

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

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Chamber Music Season Quatuor Voce Sophie Pawlak

41 Matthias Goerne Friday 24 February 7.30 pm

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

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Song Recital Series

Photo of Matthias Goerne by Marco Borggreve Markus Hinterhaüser Martina Siebenhandl

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Sunday 26 February 3.00 pm Sunday 26 February 7.30 pm Monday 27 February 1.00 pm

Nicholas Phan tenor Igor Levit piano David Greilsammer piano Myra Huang piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 Scarlatti Sonatas: in D minor Kk213; in D minor ‘Pastoral’; Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1; Kk141; in E Kk381; in B minor Kk87; in F minor MOUNT OLYMPUS Piano Sonata No. 13 in E Op. 27 No. 1 ‘Quasi una Kk466; in E Kk531; in B minor Kk27; in D Kk492 Schubert An die Leier; Ganymed; Atys; b fantasia’; Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor Op. 27 Interspersed with Der Musensohn # No. 2 ‘Moonlight’ Cage Sonatas: No. 14; No. 13; No. 12; No. 1; KNIGHTS AND KINGS No. 16; No. 11; No. 5 Igor Levit inspired international acclaim in 2013 Schubert Der Sänger with his debut recording of Beethoven’s late piano Pianist and conductor David Greilsammer is known Brahms Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein sonatas, setting down enduring markers of artistic not least for his refreshingly imaginative approach Mahler Rheinlegendchen & Wo die schönen maturity and intelligence. He continues his to programming and corresponding breadth of Trompeten blasen from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Beethoven odyssey at Wigmore Hall with four his repertoire. His choice of works by Domenico Beethoven Aus Goethes Faust: Es war einmal essential works from the composer’s middle years, Scarlatti and John Cage highlights the fascination ein König including the fantasy worlds of the Op. 27 sonatas of both composers for tonal and textural contrasts, THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT and the genial warmth of the ‘Pastoral’ Sonata. explored in the former’s keyboard sonatas and the Schumann Der Sandmann latter’s sonatas for prepared piano. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Wolf Der Feuerreiter £15 concs £13 Schubert Der Zwerg Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton Waldesgespräch Schumann London Pianoforte Series/ Hexenlied Mendelssohn Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit FAIRY TALES BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital Brahms Sandmännchen Wolf Der Rattenfänger; Elfenlied; Storchenbotschaft ‘Des Schäfers sein Haus’ Myth, according to the scholar Joseph Campbell, provides a bridge from the physical plane to ‘our own innermost being … so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive’. Nicholas Phan’s recital programme evokes ancient myth, heroic adventures, the awesome power of the supernatural, and the vitality of fairy tales, as imagined and reimagined in the hothouse environment of nineteenth-century German culture.

All seats £15 Song Recital Series

Igor Levit Simon Jay Price

Nicholas Phan Balance Photography Myra Huang Cortesía Cenart David Greilsammer Julien Mignot

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44 Xenakis Day Iconoclast, wartime resistance fighter, avant-garde radical and explorer of sound, Iannis Xenakis (1922– 2001) emerged as one of the most inventive and influential of all twentieth-century Modernists. The French composer of Greek parentage, largely self-taught in music, drew from his early experience as an architect in the studio of Le Corbusier to construct works of extraordinary complexity and dazzling conceptual breadth. Wigmore Hall’s Xenakis Day offers the chance to explore a thick slice of his thrilling chamber music for strings.

Saturday 25 February

1.00 pm 6.00 pm JACK Quartet Pre-Concert Talk Xenakis Ergma for string quartet; Embellie for solo viola; Mikka ‘S’ Join Tom Service in an exploration of the unique sound world of for solo violin; Kottos for solo cello; Hunem-Iduhey for violin and cello; Iannis Xenakis before hearing works for strings and piano in the ST/4 –1, 080262 for string quartet evening concert.

The JACK Quartet launches Xenakis Day with Ergma, a typically All seats £4 uncompromising study in homophony, before its individual members Wigmore Hall Learning Event perform a group of sonorous solo scores and the haunting Hunem-Iduhey, with its opening study in non-vibrato tones. The musical material of ST/4–1, 080262 was generated by a series 7.30 pm of compositional algorithms and shaped by Xenakis into a work of intense drama. JACK Quartet

All seats £15 Pavel Kolesnikov piano Xenakis Mikka for solo violin; Ikhoor for string trio; Tetora for string quartet; Akea for piano and string quartet; Tetras for string quartet

Two of Xenakis’s finest chamber works crown this thrilling programme. The short and concise Akea is followed by Tetras, named after the ancient Greek word ‘four’. With its extreme technical challenges and bold originality, Tetras was hailed as a pioneering addition to the string quartet repertoire following its première in 1983.

All seats £20 Pavel Kolesnikov Colin Way JACK Quartet Shervin Lainez

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

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Tuesday 28 February 7.30pm Wednesday 1 March 5.45 pm – 6.45 pm Theatre of the Ayre Pre-Concert Performance HELEN GRIME soprano Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the William Purefoy countertenor National Young String Quartet Weekend with a WORLD PREMIÈRE Nicholas Mulroy tenor Giles Underwood baritone performance given by quartets that took part this year. Rodolfo Richter violin Emilia Benjamin viol Free (ticket required) Reiko Ichise viol Jacob Heringman lute, cittern Wigmore Hall Learning Event Siobhán Armstrong harp David Miller lute, theorbo Wednesday 1 March 7.30 pm Elizabeth Kenny director, lute, theorbo THE MASQUE OF MOMENTS Carducci String Quartet PART I Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 MASQUE Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122 Anon The Earl of Essex’s Measure Lupo Shows and Webern Langsamer Satz nightly revels Coprario While dancing rests Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Anon Steer Hither Campion Now hath Flora robb’d The Carducci String Quartet responds with quicksilver her bowers Ferrabosco Why stayes the bridegroome speed to musical drama and shifting emotions. Its Helen Grime Amy Barton Anon Masque dance Campion Move now with programme offers the ideal canvas for bold expression, measured sound Ferrabosco Galliarde Faraboscho starting with the boisterous energy of Haydn’s Friday 3 March 7.30 pm Lanier I was not wearier when I lay Op. 20 No. 4 before turning to the sombre world of Anon Les Manches Vertes Shostakovich’s F minor Quartet and culminating in the Birmingham Contempoary ANTIMASQUE striking expressive contrasts of Beethoven’s ‘Serioso’. Music Group Johnson From the famous Peak of Derby £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 piano Anon The Bears’ Dance; Tho’ it may seem rude; Huw Watkins Tom O’Bedlam; What is’t you lack?; To the old, long Chamber Music Season Oliver Knussen conductor life and treasure; The maypole Carter Canon for 4 – Homage to William PART II Boulez Dérive 1 ANTIMASQUE Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Unbroken Circle Anon Robin; Lord Zouche his Masque Helen Grime Piano Concerto* (world Coleman Did not you once, Lucinda, vow? première); A Cold Spring Carter Triple Duo MASQUE Coprario Cuperaree or Grayes inn Masque *Co-commissioned by BCMG’s Sound Investment H Lawes From the Heav’ns now I fly scheme, and by Wigmore Hall with the generous W Lawes Instrumental work H Lawes Sweet Echo support of The Marchus Trust W Lawes Valediction; Hence, ye prophane, far hence Helen Grime’s first commission as Wigmore away; Wherefore do my sisters stay?; Thinke not I Hall Composer in Residence, conceived could absent myself this night; In envye of the night as a vehicle for her husband Huw Watkins, W Lawes Instrumental work Carducci String Quartet Tom Barnes occupies the heart of a programme Locke Mercury and Nature in the Elysian Groves hallmarked by musical interplay and dialogue. Oliver Knussen and BCMG gave the première A company of standout vocalists and consort players of Grime’s A Cold Spring in 2009 and present joins Elizabeth Kenny and Theatre of the Ayre for a its three movements in tandem with Elliott programme inspired by the Stuart courtly masque and Carter’s Triple Duo, written in 1982 for three its high-comic counterpart, the antimasque. Popular pairs of instruments. dances and ditties here rub shoulders with exquisite consort songs by the brothers Lawes, Alfonso £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Ferrabosco and Giovanni Coprario, alias John Cooper. Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence is supported £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 by The Marchus Trust

With grateful thanks to the Supporter, Benefactor and Chamber Music Season/ Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall Contemporary Music Series/ Helen Grime Composer in Residence Early Music and Baroque Series Elizabeth Kenny Richard Haughton

46 Paul Lewis Thursday 2 March 7.30 pm (repeated Saturday 4 March 7.30 pm)

Paul Lewis piano

Bach Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4 in Eb Op. 7 Chopin Waltzes: in A minor Op. 34 No. 2; in F minor Op. 70 No. 2; in Ab Op. 42 Weber Piano Sonata No. 2 in Ab Op. 39 Paul Lewis’s pianism, eloquent and fully alive, is the result of a harmonious marriage between deep thinking about music and unrestrained physical expression in performance. His all-Beethoven programme at Wigmore Hall last season, repeated twice on the same evening, was hailed by the Guardian in a five-star review for its ‘display of pianistic depth’. Lewis turns to Beethoven again, pairing the composer’s bold Op. 7 with the lyrical grace of Bach’s Partita No. 1 before exploring a second half of heart-on-sleeve passions.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

London Pianoforte Series

Photo: Musica Viva

47 March

Sunday 5 March 11.30 am Monday 6 March 1.00 pm

Arcadia Quartet Carolyn Sampson soprano ALISA WEILERSTEIN Amit Peled cello Matthew Wadsworth lute, theorbo INON BARNATAN Mozart String Quartet in G K80 Dowland Shall I strive with words to move; Schubert String Quintet in C D956 Now, O now I needs must part; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; A Dream Anon Galliarda Winners of the 2012 Wigmore Hall London Britten The Shooting of his Dear; I will give my love International String Quartet Competition and a an apple; The Soldier and the Sailor host of other prestigious prizes, the members of Stephen Goss The Miller’s Tale for solo theorbo the Arcadia Quartet play with an intensity that (world première) draws listeners deep into the matters of musical Purcell Retir’d from any Mortal’s sight; O solitude, my argument and thematic byplay. The quartet is sweetest choice; When first Amintas sued for a kiss joined by Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled in Schubert’s final chamber work, the sublime Carolyn Sampson and Matthew Wadsworth appear String Quintet in C. to share a sixth sense, connecting one to the other in performance to reach the deepest recesses of £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice imagination and spiritual insight. Their lunchtime Sunday Morning Coffee Concert programme is fuelled by the vitality of English song, with its close relationship to folk art and poetry, and by the creative genius of Dowland, Purcell and Britten.

All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital Inon Barnatan and Alisa Weilerstein Jamie Jung

Tuesday 7 March 7.30 pm

Alisa Weilerstein cello Inon Barnatan piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1 Barber Cello Sonata Op. 6 Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 Technical perfection offers Alisa Weilerstein the means to reach her ultimate goal of free-flowing, unfettered expression. The Amit Peled Matthew Wadsworth American cellist, born into a family of professional musicians in 1982, continues to develop one of today’s most compelling duo partnerships with Inon Barnatan, a kindred spirit blessed with ceaseless curiosity and passionate commitment as a music maker. Their recital programme opens with Beethoven’s Op. 102 No. 1, a work of great contrapuntal ingenuity, and includes two outstanding twentieth-century cello sonatas.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Chamber Music Season Arcadia Quartet Carolyn Sampson Marco Borggreve

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Wednesday 8 March 7.30 pm Thursday 9 March 7.30 pm The Endellion String Quartet The Tallis Scholars DISABLED Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 64 No. 4 Peter Phillips director Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor See page 50 for full details Op. 80 ACCESS DAY Sibelius String Quartet in D minor Op. 56 ‘Voces Intimae’ Friday 10 March 7.30 pm RELAXED CONCERT Mendelssohn’s compelling Op. 80, written shortly before his death, is arguably his most intense, Pacifica Quartet troubled and impassioned composition. It is Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 prefaced here by Haydn’s marvellously genial Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 String Quartet in G and stands in contrast to Ravel String Quartet in F Sibelius’s ‘Voces Intimae’, a work of symphonic sweep unlike any other in the quartet literature. The wreckage of lives lost to Stalin’s purges of the 1930s conditions the chilling atmosphere of £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Shostakovich’s Third String Quartet, written not long Chamber Music Season after the end of World War Two. The Pacifica Quartet presents this work of warning in company with the emotional restraint and calm lyricism of Ravel’s youthful String Quartet in F.

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

Wigmore Hall auditorium Peter Dazeley

Saturday 11 March 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm DISABLED ACCESS DAY: RELAXED CONCERT The Endellion String Quartet Eric Richmond This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides a unique opportunity to explore music in an informal manner. Join us for performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, find out about our 115 years of history and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee after the concert.

Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Pacifica Quartet Saverio Truglia

49 The Tallis Scholars

Thursday 9 March 7.30 pm The Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips director Isaac Regina caeli laetare; Missa de apostolis; Angeli archangeli Mouton Quis dabit oculis? Isaac Quis dabit capiti meo aquam?; Virgo prudentissima

The Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips have done much to revive interest in two of the greatest of all composers. Their programme reveals the contemplative intensity of sacred works by Heinrich Isaac, who served the Medici court in Florence and also under Emperor Maximilian I, and Jean Mouton, a musician at the French court of Louis XII and Francis I. They open with Isaac’s uplifting Regina caeli laetare before entering the resonant soundworld of the Missa de apostolis, a work of mystic power written for six voices. The concert’s second half celebrates the sophistication and vast inventive range of the motet as cultivated by Isaac and Mouton.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Early Music & Baroque Series

The Tallis Scholars Richard Haughton

Painting of The Virgin Mary by Jan van Eyck 50 March

Sunday 12 March 11.30 am PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD: Wigmore Series Debut* MATTHEW ROSE & Simone Lamsma* violin BECHSTEIN PIANOS Robert Kulek piano Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Arvo Pärt Fratres Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18 Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma, praised by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for her ‘brilliant … polished, expressive and intense’ playing, focuses her captivating artistry on three distinctive and contrasting pieces. Shades of Mozart resound in Schubert’s Sonatina; Strauss, meanwhile, drew inspiration for his magnificent Violin Sonata from his love for his fiery future wife, the singer .

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

Bechstein Hall and showroom (before it was renamed Wigmore Hall), 36– 40 Wigmore Street, c. 1901

Gary Matthewman Johan Persson Saturday 11 March 6.00 pm Pre-Concert Talk Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano technician Peter Salisbury and composer Julian Anderson discuss the ways in which a repertoire, an instrument and an acoustic are inextricably linked, as well as the relationship between Wigmore Hall and an old Bechstein concert grand in terms of history, aesthetics and artistry. £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 11 March 7.30 pm Robert Kulek Pierre-Laurent Aimard Marco Borggreve Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Liszt Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (first version) S154 Skryabin Désir Op. 57 No. 1; Caresse dansée Op. 57 No. 2; Poème-nocturne Op. 61; Cinq préludes Op. 74 Debussy From Études Book I: No. 2 Pour les tierces; No. 3 Pour les quartes; No. 4 Pour les sixtes; No. 7 Pour les degrés chromatiques Julian Anderson Sensation (London première) Obouhow Création d’or; Invocations I & II; La Parabole du Seigneur; Révelation Julian Anderson created Sensation for Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who gave its first performance at the 2016 . The eighteen-minute score, set here in company with impressionistic keyboard pieces past and present, explores sense perceptions and their momentary changes. Aimard performs on a Bechstein instrument from the time of Wigmore Hall’s opening in 1901, recently refurbished by Peter Salisbury. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series‘Cairn in Snow’ Caspar David Friedrich Simone Lamsma Merlijn Doomernik

51 March

Sunday 12 March 3.00 pm Sunday 12 March 7.30 pm Tuesday 14 March 7.30pm

Ilker Arcayürek tenor Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo-soprano Christoph Prégardien tenor Simon Lepper piano Helmut Deutsch piano Julius Drake piano Brahms Auf dem See (Op. 59 No. 2); Die Mainacht; See page opposite for full details Schubert Auf der Brücke; Der liebliche Stern; Erlaube mir, feins Mädchen; Da unten im Tale Im Walde (D834); Um Mitternacht; Lebensmut; Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Im Frühling; An mein Herz; Tiefes Leid (Im Jänner Hahn D’une prison Monday 13 March 1.00 pm 1817); Über Wildemann; Daß sie hier gewesen; Fauré Ici-bas!; Nell Greisengesang; Du bist die Ruh; Im Walde (D708); Debussy Fleur des blés; Beau soir Kungsbacka Piano Trio Nacht und Träume; Fischerweise; Totengräbers Heimweh; Der Winterabend The French composers in this programme matched Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80 eloquent native poetry to exquisite melodies. Fauré, Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Christoph Prégardien invariably gives life to metaphor, for instance, was able to enhance the verse of irony, pathos and the full span of rhetorical invention of Prudhomme and Leconte de Lisle, while Reynaldo Music is clearly a source of constant delight to the poetic texts. The revered German lyric tenor is joined Hahn applied his considerable song-writing gifts Kungsbacka Piano Trio, ever present in the by Julius Drake for a programme of late Schubert to Verlaine’s ‘D’une prison’. Ilker Arcayürek, one of unwavering focus shared by its members. The songs, rich in emotional content and resonant in its BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists for 2015–17, group, named after a small Swedish town, presents depth of psychological reflections on the natural world. also explores Lieder by Brahms and Schumann. two masterworks of the piano trio repertoire, moving from the shrewdly blended tonal warmth of £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 All seats £15 Schumann’s Op. 80 to the élan of Ravel’s Piano Trio. Voices at Wigmore Supporting Schubert: The Complete Songs 2015/16 Song Recital Series £15 concs £13 and 2016/17 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Simon Lepper Josh Bryant Julius Drake Sim Canetty-Clarke

Ilker Arcayürek David Jerusalem Kungsbacka Piano Trio Hanya Chlala Christoph Prégardien Hans Morren

52 Ekaterina Semenchuk

Sunday 12 March 7.30 pm

Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo-soprano Helmut Deutsch piano Rimsky-Korsakov Of what I dream in the quiet night; On the hills of Georgia; Quietly evening falls; The clouds begin to scatter; The Rose and the Nightingale; The lark sings louder Cui I touched the flower; The statue at Tsarskoye Selo; Listening to the horrors of war; Desire Balakirev Embrace, Kiss; When I hear thy voice; Rapture; The Rock; I loved him Borodin My songs are filled with poison; Pride; The Sea Princess; At some folks’ houses Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death Expect high-octane, inspirational music-making from the partnership of Ekaterina Semenchuk, one of the leading soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre, and Helmut Deutsch, a consummate artist with a profound feeling for the multiple shades, textures and expressive nuances of the human voice. The Minsk-born mezzo’s performances at the Royal Opera House in Eugene Onegin and most recently as Azucena in Il trovatore have garnered audience ovations, underlining her status among the foremost artists of her generation. Her arresting vocal richness and gravitas are matched by a compelling stage presence and total mastery of the art of beautiful singing.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Photo of Ekaterina Semenchuk by Sheila Rock

Helmut Deutsch Shirley Suarez

53 March

Wednesday 15 March 7.30 pm Thursday 16 March 7.30 pm Friday 17 March 7.30 pm

Christian Blackshaw piano Hilary Hahn violin Igor Levit piano Mozart Piano Sonata in Bb K333 Robert Levin piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90; Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 12 Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101; Piano Sonata Bach Violin Sonata No. 6 in G BWV1019 Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 No. 29 in B Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ Antón García Abril Solo Partita for violin b Christian Blackshaw has built a dedicated following (UK première) The full expressive, emotional and inventive range at Wigmore Hall with interpretations of striking Mozart Violin Sonata in Eb K481 of the three late sonatas in Igor Levit’s programme, individuality and perceptive wisdom. He moves Hans Peter Türk Träume for solo piano crowned by the monumental complexity and from the stormy virtuosity of Mozart’s so-called (UK première) aesthetic weight of the ‘Hammerklavier’, encapsulate ‘Linz’ Sonata by way of Schumann’s character Schubert Rondo in B minor D895 the composer’s late style. Just the first movement pieces of 1837 to the mighty structure of Liszt’s of Op. 90 alone charts an impassioned course In recent seasons Hilary Hahn, known for her Sonata in B minor, one of the great landmarks in through despair and contrasting feelings of vitality flawless technique and phenomenal musicianship, the history of nineteenth-century music. and sadness. has developed her highly successful duo partnership £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 with the renowned performer and scholar Robert £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Levin. Their Wigmore Hall programme includes London Pianoforte Series Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton Mozart’s Sonata in E flat K481, widely considered to be among the composer’s most mature chamber London Pianoforte Series/ works, and two contrasting new compositions by Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit Antón García Abril and Hans Peter Türk.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Saturday 18 March 11.00 am – 12 noon Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series CAVATINA Family Concert Piatti Quartet See page 56 for full details

Robert Levin Ascherman

Christian Blackshaw Benjamin Ealovega Hilary Hahn Michael Patrick O’Leary Igor Levit Gregor Hohenberg

54 Patricia Petibon & Susan Manoff Saturday 18 March 7.30 pm

Patricia Petibon soprano Patricia Petibon has enchanted audiences worldwide with her winning blend of technical Susan Manoff piano agility, vocal versatility and irrepressible Programme to include: energy. The French soprano and Susan Manoff Songs by Poulenc and Canteloube make a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with Granados From Danzas españolas: No. 2 Orientale & No. 5 a recital comprising mélodies françaises by Andaluza for solo piano Poulenc and Canteloube. They also include Granados El mirar de la maja; La maja dolorosa sultry songs by Obradors, the melancholic Bacri A la mar Obradors Chiquitita la novia; El vito ‘A la mar’ by Bacri and the famous Jazz classic Canteloube La delaïssádo; Pastouro, sé tu m’aymo ‘Someday my prince will come’ arranged by Copland Excerpt from Appalachian Spring for solo piano Didier Lockwood. Didier Lockwood Someday my prince will come Photo by Bernard Martinez £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series

55 March

Saturday 18 March 11.00 am – 12 noon Sunday 19 March 11.30 am Monday 20 March 1.00 pm

CAVATINA Family Concert Meccore Quartet Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet Piatti Quartet Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Nino Gvetadze piano Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27 For ages 5 plus Debussy Première rapsodie Join the award-winning Piatti Quartet, one of the One of Poland’s finest young ensembles, founded Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano UK’s most exciting young string quartets, for an in 2007, returns to Wigmore Hall to perform two Schumann Arabeske in C for solo piano Op. 18 interactive family concert which explores the late nineteenth-century masterworks. Liszt greatly Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 admired the adventurous spirit of Grieg’s String wonderful world of chamber music, featuring works Technical advances in the manufacture of wind Quartet in G minor, a composition recognised as by some of the best-loved composers of all time, instruments in the second half of the nineteenth a bridge connecting the worlds of Beethoven’s late including Haydn, Ravel and Beethoven. century led to a rise in virtuoso performers and quartets and Debussy’s own G minor Quartet. Children £8 Adults £10 works written for them. BBC New Generation Artist £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Annelien Van Wauwe’s lunchtime programme spans the virtuosity and lyricism of three landmarks CAVATINA Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Chamber Music Trust of the clarinet repertoire and is completed by a www.cavatina.net performance of Schumann’s light and tender CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringing Arabeske by pianist Nino Gvetadze. chamber music to young people and young people to £15 concs £13 chamber music, is delighted to present this concert in association with Wigmore Hall. Annelien Van Wauwe is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme Wigmore Hall Learning Event

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Nino Gvetadze Sussie Ahlburg

Piatti Quartet Malcolm Crowthers Meccore Quartet Arkadiusz Berbecki Annelien Van Wauwe Christian Ruvolo

56 March

Monday 20 March 7.30 pm Tuesday 21 March 6.00pm Wednesday 22 March 7.30 pm

David Daniels countertenor Pre-Concert Talk Steven Osborne piano Martin Katz piano Broadcaster and journalist Tom Service in conversation Brahms in C minor Op. 117 No. 3 with composers ahead of the evening concert. Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Beethoven Andenken; Mit einem gemalten Band; Brahms Intermezzo in B minor Op. 117 No. 2 Adelaide Free (ticket required) b Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A Op. 110 Anchieta Con Amores, la mi madre (arr. Dørumsgaard) b Wigmore Hall Learning Event Brahms Intermezzo in E Op. 117 No. 1 Mudarra Triste estaba el Rey David (arr. Dørumsgaard) b Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Torre Pámpano Verde (arr. Dørumsgaard) Brahms referred privately to his Three Intermezzi Gabriel A la caza, sus a caza (arr. Dørumsgaard) Tuesday 21 March 7.30pm Poulenc La grenouillère; Monsieur Sans Souci; Op. 117 as ‘cradle-songs of my sorrows’. Steven La Souris; Fancy; Priez pour paix; La belle jeunesse Osborne, RPS Instrumentalist of the Year in 2013, Handel From Rodelinda: Pompe vane di morte! ... Nash Ensemble presents Brahms’s lachrymose lullabies as reflective Dove sei, amato bene?; Si, l’infida consorte ... Martyn Brabbins conductor interludes between Beethoven’s last three sonatas. Confusa si miri The Scottish pianist’s revelatory programme cello Respighi Notte; Bella porta di rubini; Stornellatrice; Adrian Brendel concludes with the Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Invito alla danza Roderick Williams baritone in which Beethoven pushes forward the limits of Traditional (arr. Steven Mark Kohn) Ten thousand artistic creation. miles away; On the other shore; Wanderin’; NASH INVENTIONS £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 The Farmer’s Curst Wife Huw Watkins String Trio* London Pianoforte Series American countertenor David Daniels, the son of Colin Matthews Fuga for ensemble professional singers, has played a decisive part Sir Peter Maxwell Davies A Sea of Cold Flame in the restoration of Baroque music to the world’s for baritone, solo cello and string quartet (London leading opera houses. He has also helped première) transform perceptions of his voice type, not least Colin Matthews It Rains for baritone and ensemble with carefully programmed recitals drawn from a (world première) repertoire that spans four centuries of musical Simon Holt Bagatelarañas for wind quintet* history and an equally vast range of musical styles. (world première) Julian Anderson Van Gogh Blue for ensemble** £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 *Nash Commission Song Recital Series **Co-commissioned by The Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation The Nash Ensemble is joined by Martyn Brabbins and Roderick Williams for its annual survey of the best in British contemporary music. Their Steven Osborne Benjamin Ealovega programme includes works by Huw Watkins and Julian Anderson recently premièred by the Nash. There’s a London première for Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s A Sea of Cold Flame, the last of his many settings of poems by Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown, two pieces by Colin Matthews, his virtuosic Fuga and a new work specially written for Roderick Williams, and another world première, Simon Holt’s wind quintet. The latter’s title, a hybrid of the Spanish words for ‘bagatelle’ and ‘cobwebs’, reflects its breathtaking lightness of touch.

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

David Daniels Robert Recker/Virgin Classics Roderick Williams Benjamin Ealovega

57 March

Thursday 23 March 7.30 pm The King’s Consort WIGMORE STUDY GROUP conductor Julia Doyle soprano Rebecca Outram soprano countertenor tenor Matthew Brook bass ‘HENRY PURCELL, BY ROYAL COMMAND’ – MUSIC FOR THE Purcell O sing unto the Lord; Thou wakeful shepherd (A Morning Hymn); Why do the heathen so furiously rage together; Close thine eyes and sleep secure (Upon a Quiet Conscience); Behold, now, praise the Lord; My beloved spake; Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest (Adam’s Sleep); Praise the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me; With sick and famish’d eyes; O praise God in his holiness Renowned worldwide for ground-breaking performances and recordings of Henry Purcell, The King’s Consort returns to the composer’s delicious music for the Chapel Royal. An unbeatable line-up of singers and instrumentalists perform some of the composer’s finest sacred jewels. ‘Some of the most stylish and exuberant Purcell performances of modern times’ The Times

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

Joseph Haydn Portrait by Thomas Hardy

Friday 24 March 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Wednesday 29 March 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Friday 31 March 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm HAYDN PIANO TRIOS Explore some of Haydn’s unjustly neglected masterpieces in three afternoons devoted to his piano trios. Reflecting the composer’s mature genius, these works are full of his finest keyboard writing, improvisatory in style, both playful and profound. Haydn’s piano trios were dedicated to several of the most talented female pianists of his day, demanding exceptional artistry and skill.

Composer Julian Philips investigates these unique works with pianist Laura Roberts, guest speakers and students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by the Eggner Trio on 31 March.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event The King’s Consort Keith Saunders

58 Chris Thile

Friday 24 March 7.30 pm

Chris Thile mandolin American mandolinist, singer and songwriter Chris Thile made his name with Grammy Award-winning progressive acoustic music group Nickel Creek before striking out with Punch Brothers and a series of fresh creative projects in the mid-2000s. Following many years as a guest on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, Chris succeeds Garrison Keillor as the popular radio show’s host in October 2016. Chris makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with a programme drawing on his considerable repertoire of original compositions, as well as contemporary, traditional and classical works.

This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Photo by Brantley Gutierrez

59 60 Thomas Adès Day ‘Arcadiana’ Recognised by The New York Times as ‘one of the most accomplished and complete musicians of his generation’, Thomas Adès has created an entire universe of new music, spanning everything from large symphonic scores and sparklingly inventive operas to a great treasure-house of chamber works, ensemble pieces, songs and solo scores. Wigmore Hall’s Thomas Adès Day presents a representative showcase of his work set in a wider musical context.

Saturday 25 March

1.00 pm 6.00 pm Calder Quartet Artists in Conversation Thomas Adès piano As part of this special day, Thomas Adès is joined by Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly to discuss his piano Nicolas Hodges inspiration and life as a composer. Thomas Adès The Four Quarters £4 Lutosławski Variations on a theme of Paganini Thomas Adès Concert Paraphrase on Wigmore Hall Learning Event Powder Her Face BCMG Clive Barda Walton Selections from Façade 7.30 pm Thomas Adès Piano Quintet Birmingham Contemporary Time and the mysterious nature of its passing Music Group occupy Thomas Adès’s string quartet The Four Quarters, just as the related process of change Timothy Redmond conductor and flow occupied Lutosławski in his Variations Calder Quartet on a theme of Paganini. Adès joins the Calder Quartet to perform the fiendishly difficult Thomas Adès piano keyboard part in his Piano Quintet. György Kurtág Officium breve Op. 28 This concert will be approximately 2 hours in Janácˇek Selections from On an overgrown path duration, including an interval. György Kurtág Selections from Játékok Timothy Redmond Gerald Barry Octet All seats £20 Thomas Adès Concerto Conciso Janácˇek In the Mists Thomas Adès Arcadiana György Kurtág’s Officium breve, written in 1989 in memory of fellow composer Endre Szervánszky, passes from one complex state of being to another within the space of fifteen short movements for string quartet. Concision and complexity are also central to Adès’s Concerto Conciso, inspired in part by the form of a medieval French round dance. The programme also features Adès’s Arcadiana, a work for string quartet consisting of seven movements that evokes various vanished or vanishing idylls. Calder Quartet Autumn de Wilde Nicolas Hodges Eric Richmond £40 £30 £25 £20 £15 Photo of Thomas Adès by Brian Voce Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

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Sunday 26 March 11.30 am Sunday 26 March 3.00 pm Monday 27 March 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut Manuel Walser baritone Gallicantus Tamar Beraia piano Anano Gokieli piano BALLAD OF THE MARIGOLD Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition Wolf From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ihr seid die PIETY AND PENITENCE Schumann Carnaval Op. 9 Allerschönste; Daß doch gemalt; Ein Ständchen Mundy Exurge Christe Tamar Beraia’s prize-winning performance in the euch zu bringen; Hoffärtig seid Ihr, schönes Kind, Tye Peccavimus cum patribus 2012 Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano und geht; Laß sie nur gehn, die so die Stolze spielt; Wie viele Zeit verlor ich MARY AT COURT (FROM THE MULLINER BOOK) Competition underlined her status as one of the Anon Ballad of the Marigold (Forrest) Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel finest among young pianists. The Georgian artist, Newman Fansy born into a family of distinguished musicians, has Strauss ; ; Nichts; ; chosen two keyboard masterworks for her Wigmore Die Georgine; Geduld; Die Verschwiegenen; PRAYERS FOR THE QUICKENING – Hall debut, pairing the elemental energy of Die Zeitlose; ; ; NOVEMBER 1554 Musorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition with the Cäcilie Tallis Sarum Litany (abridged); O Sacrum convivium vibrant character pieces of Schumann’s Carnaval. Inspired by Paul Heyse’s imaginative translations of FEAST DAYS IN SPRING 1555 £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Italian folk poetry, Hugo Wolf produced some of his Tallis Videte miraculum most heartfelt songs in the Italienisches Liederbuch. Sheppard Christi virgo dilectissima Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Swiss baritone Manuel Walser, who owns the true LYING-IN AT HAMPTON COURT, APRIL 1555 Lieder artist’s instincts for poetic expression and Tallis Like as the doleful dove musical phrasing, sets six of the collection’s finest Sheppard Vain, vain, all our life we spend in vain songs in company with Vaughan Williams’s Stevenson settings and Strauss’s sublime Op. 10 cycle. With religious strife at home and uncertainty surrounding the succession, Mary Tudor’s marriage All seats £15 to Philip of Spain in 1554 and subsequent pregnancy Song Recital Series prompted a rush of courtly tributes. Vocal ensemble Gallicantus recalls this euphoric moment in Mary’s reign, and her subsequent descent into depression as it became clear that no heir would be born. The programme includes music by Mary’s most important composers, including Tye, Mundy, Tallis and Sheppard, and a special reconstruction of the Sarum Litany by Tallis, originally sung on behalf of the pregnant queen.

£15 concs £13

Tamar Beraia Marco Borggreve BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Anano Gokieli Manuel Walser Thomas Walser Gallicantus

62 Patricia Kopatchinskaja Artist in Residence

Patricia Kopatchinskaja launches her Wigmore Hall residency with the first of three concerts crafted to show the versatility, curiosity and wide musical passions of a true pioneer among today’s performers. The Moldovan-Austrian violinist is equally at home with period performance styles as she is when bringing contemporary compositions to life or casting fresh interpretative light on the most familiar of chamber works.

Monday 27 March 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Polina Leschenko piano Webern Four Pieces Op. 7 Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 BB85 Ravel Tzigane In company with her regular duo partner, Patricia Kopatchinskaja begins her Wigmore Hall residency by travelling through the vast range of styles, Polina Leschenko technical challenges and musical rewards of two pairs of works. The vibrant colours and textures of Webern’s Op. 7 miniatures, which at times sound hauntingly like the human voice, and of Ravel’s Tzigane respectively complement the songful nature of Schumann’s D minor Violin Sonata and Bartók’s contemplative Violin Sonata No. 2.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2016/17 Wigmore Series Chamber Music Season

Forthcoming Events in this Series

Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Sol Gabetta cello

Sunday 7 May 6.00 pm Artists in Conversation

Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano

Photos by Marco Borggreve

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Tuesday 28 March 11.00am – 11.45 am Wednesday 29 March 7.30 pm Thursday 30 March 7.30 pm (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm) Early Opera Company Leif Ove Andsnes piano For Crying Out Loud! Mary Bevan soprano Marc-André Hamelin piano Hear outstanding performances by musicians from tenor See page opposite for full details the Royal Academy of Music, presented in a relaxed Benjamin Hulett environment for parents or carers and their babies James Platt bass under one to enjoy together. Handel Alceste HWV45 Friday 31 March 7.30 pm Adults £7.50 (babies come free) Originally written as incidental music for a lavish play to be performed at , Alceste is a Eggner Trio ravishing score with exquisite choruses and arias. Haydn Piano Trio in D HXV:24; Piano Trio in C HXV:21 Christian Curnyn and Early Opera Company present Dvorˇák Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 this concert performance of their BBC Music Magazine Wigmore Hall Learning Event Award-winning CD, which was described by the panel The Eggner Trio’s ongoing survey of works by Haydn as ‘music by the composer at his most inventive and and Dvorˇák continues with a delightful combination inspired’. The extraordinary ensemble of musicians of works. Haydn’s D major Piano Trio includes a return to Wigmore Hall following the triumphant passage that evokes bagpipes and a fizzing finale, success of Handel La Resurrezione last season. while Dvorˇák’s Op. 65, a work of powerful emotions cast on a grand scale, shows the Czech composer’s £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 complete mastery of the Brahmsian style.

Early Music and Baroque Series £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/ Eggner Trio: Haydn and Dvorˇák

For Crying Out Loud! Benjamin Ealovega

Orchestra of Early Opera Company Charlotte Burke Eggner Trio Nancy Horowitz

64 Leif Ove Andsnes & Marc-André Hamelin

Thursday 30 March 7.30 pm

Leif Ove Andsnes piano Critical superlatives are soon exhausted when talking about the artistry of Leif Ove Andsnes and piano Marc-André Hamelin Marc-André Hamelin. These two master pianists Mozart Larghetto and Allegro in Eb (completed by Paul Badura-Skoda) join forces for an evening of duets, complete with Stravinsky Concerto for two pianos Stravinsky’s own duo arrangement of The Rite of Debussy En blanc et noir Spring and Debussy’s three-movement suite Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (for piano duo) En blanc et noir, dedicated in part to Stravinsky and to a friend killed during World War One. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Photo of Leif Ove Andsnes by Özgür Albayrak London Pianoforte Series Photo of Marc-André Hamelin by Sim Canetty-Clarke

65 Contemporary Music Series

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

Helen Grime, Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, is supported by The Marchus Trust

Full details of these concerts are provided throughout the brochure in chronological order.

Monday 23 January 7.30 pm Sunday 29 January 7.30 pm Saturday 18 February 7.30 pm

Philip Higham cello Stéphane Degout baritone Scottish Ensemble Alasdair Beatson piano Matteo Cesari flute, alto flute Jonathan Morton leader, artistic director John Casken Alexis Descharmes cello Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano Arvo Pärt & Pe¯ teris Vasks Wednesday 25 January 7.30 pm Kaija Saariaho

Signum Quartet Sunday 19 February 3.00 pm Wednesday 8 February 1.00 pm Bruno Mantovani* Britten Sinfonia Louise Alder soprano piano Friday 27 January 7.30 pm Oliver Knussen & Mark-Anthony Gary Matthewman Turnage* Huw Watkins Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano Thursday 9 February 7.30 pm Saturday 25 February 1.00 pm Nico Muhly* & Dominick Argento Jörg Widmann clarinet JACK Quartet Mitsuko Uchida piano Xenakis Jörg Widmann

66 Saturday 25 February 7.30 pm Saturday 25 March 1.00 pm Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm

JACK Quartet Calder Quartet Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Pavel Kolesnikov piano Thomas Adès piano Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano Xenakis Nicolas Hodges piano George Crumb, György Kurtág & Michel van der Aa Thomas Adès Friday 3 March 7.30 pm Thursday 11 May 7.30 pm Birmingham Contemporary Saturday 25 March 7.30 pm Music Group Birmingham Contemporary Elias String Quartet Paul Newland* Huw Watkins piano Music Group Oliver Knussen conductor conductor Timothy Redmond Wednesday 14 June 7.30 pm Carter, Boulez, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Calder Quartet & Helen Grime† Thomas Adès piano Thomas Adès, György Kurtág & Eliot Fisk guitar Saturday 11 March 7.30 pm Gerald Barry Hugues Dufourt* & * Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Friday 7 April 7.30 pm Julian Anderson Friday 16 June 7.30 pm Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Jasper String Quartet Thursday 16 March 7.30 pm Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Aaron Jay Kernis* Hilary Hahn violin Chemirani Brothers zarb Tuesday 20 June 7.30 pm Robert Levin piano Marco Stroppa, Ross Daly, Sokratis Sinopoulos, György Kurtág, Krzysztof Antón García Abril & Hans Peter Türk Penderecki & Franck Leriche Ensemble intercontemporain Philippe Schoeller & Matteo Franceschini Tuesday 21 March 7.30 pm Wednesday 19 April 1.00 pm Monday 26 June 7.30 pm Nash Ensemble Britten Sinfonia conductor Martyn Brabbins Nicholas Daniel oboe Vienna Piano Trio Adrian Brendel cello Brian Elias* tenor Roderick Williams baritone Thomas Larcher* Huw Watkins, Colin Matthews, Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Simon Holt Saturday 1 July 7.30 pm & Julian Anderson* Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Sol Gabetta cello Doric String Quartet Jörg Widmann, Ligeti & Xenakis Alasdair Beatson piano Thomas Adès

*Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation † Co-commissioned by BCMG’s Sound Investment scheme, and by Wigmore Hall with the generous support of The Marchus Trust

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by

67 EVENTS FOR FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS

All events listed on pages 68 – 72 are included in Priority Booking for Friends and Mailing List Subscribers, with the exception of the Handel and Hendrix Family Day on 4 February, the Musical Portraits Band on 14 and 15 February, and the Folk Up North Schools Concert on 24 March, which open for booking on 8 November.

Chamber Tots Saturday 14 January 11.00 am – 12 noon IN SPACE The Fairy Queen Tuesday 10 January soprano 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds) Katy Hill Stuart Young bass Wednesday 15 March 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds) David Miller archlute Noel Byrne actor ON THE FARM Wednesday 25 January Antonia Christophers actor 12.30 pm (1–2 year olds) & 2.00 pm (3–5 year olds) FAMILY CONCERT Tuesday 14 February For ages 6 plus 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds) Deep in the forest, fairies await ... IN THE FOREST Join puppetry and physical theatre group, Saturday 18 February Box Tale Soup, and members of world-renowned 10.15 am (1–2 year olds) & 11.45 am (3–5 year olds) choir The Sixteen to discover Shakespeare’s enchanting tale A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Join us for these one-hour interactive music-making Be transported to a world of magic and mishap in which the story is brought to life through sessions for young children and their parents and The Fairy Queen Eleanor Kelly carers, featuring songs, percussion playing and the puppetry, theatre and music from Purcell’s chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, The Fairy Queen. presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music Children £8 Adults £10 leaders alongside emerging musicians.

Children £5 Adults £3

Chamber Tots also takes place as a long-term project in schools across London.

Benjamin Ealovega The Fairy Queen Box Tale Soup www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

68 Saturday 21 January 10.00 am – 3.30 pm Come and Sing: Dido and Aeneas Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring Henry Purcell’s well-loved opera Dido and Aeneas. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.

£25 concs £19

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

Adults £7.50 (babies come free) www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Saturday 4 February 10.30 am – 3.30 pm Study Handel and Hendrix FAMILY DAY Programme For ages 5 plus Explore the musical worlds of Handel and Jimi We have an extensive programme of Hendrix with the help of Handel & Hendrix in London study events including Masterclasses, Composer in Residence Hunter Coblentz, and Pre-Concert Talks and Study Days. guitarist Jack Ross. Visit the former homes of these great musicians and discover what inspired them For a list of all our events see Wigmore Hall before creating your own music to perform on the Learning section of At a Glance on page 3. Wigmore Hall stage at the end of the day.

Children £10 Adults £15

In partnership with Handel & Hendrix in London

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

Free (application required)

Musical Portraits is supported by Stuart and Bianca Roden, and The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust

In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts Ignite Benjamin Ealovega

Saturday 11 March 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Disabled Access Day: In the Community Relaxed Concert This relaxed concert is open to everyone and Our Learning projects reach out across London and further provides a unique opportunity to explore music afield, including an extensive schools and early years in an informal manner. Join us for performances programme, a community programme working with children, by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, young people and adults in challenging circumstances, find out about our 115 years of history and enjoy and Music for Life, in which we lead creative music a cup of tea or coffee after the concert. workshops with people living with dementia. Free (ticket required)

Benjamin Ealovega Wigmore Hall auditorium Peter Dazeley www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

70 Saturday 18 March 11.00 am – 12 noon CAVATINA Family Concert Piatti Quartet For ages 5 plus Early Years

Join the award-winning Piatti Quartet, one of the For Crying Out Loud!, our concert series for parents/carers and their UK’s most exciting young string quartets, for an babies under 1, and Chamber Tots, interactive workshops for children interactive family concert which explores the wonderful world of chamber music, featuring works aged 1 to 5, take place across the season. by some of the best-loved composers of all time, See pages 68, 69 and including Haydn, Ravel and Beethoven. 72 for details. Children £8 Adults £10

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringing chamber music to young people and young people to chamber music, is delighted to present this concert in association with Wigmore Hall.

Benjamin Ealovega

Piatti Quartet Malcolm Crowthers www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

71 Chamber Zone

FREE CONCERT TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOL GROUPS Over the last nine years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticket scheme Chamber Zone has reached over 7,000 young people aged 8 –25 years.

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity

Simon Jay Price For details on the concerts included in the Chamber Zone scheme and how to book visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk /chamberzone Friday 24 March 11.00 am – 12 noon Folk Up North KEY STAGE 1 SCHOOLS CONCERT Join the Donald Grant Quartet and presenter Lucy Drever for a concert exploring Scottish folk music. This concert will delve into the exciting and notorious stories behind the music and explore how the unique Scottish landscape influences folk music. Designed to support, complement and extend the Key Stage 1 curriculum, bookers also receive a teachers’ resource pack ahead of the concert.

£3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

Tuesday 28 March 11.00am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm) For Crying Out Loud! Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, presented in a relaxed environment for parents or carers and their babies under one to enjoy together.

Adults £7.50 (babies come free)

www.benjaminharte.co.uk www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

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WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TAL E N T

Wigmore Hall has provided a platform to outstanding young musicians since its early years. Today the process of identifying and nurturing talent is central to the Hall’s long-term artistic strategy, with Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent allowing us to create essential performance opportunities for some of these artists as they gain experience and broaden their knowledge of the repertoire. Artists supported by the Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent scheme in 2016/17 are:

Van Kuijk Quartet Royal Academy of Music Founded in 2012 in Paris, the Van Kuijk Quartet won the 2015 Richard Lewis Song Circle Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition (the Harry M Weinrebe Prize), along with the associated Best Beethoven Every year, a small group of the Royal Academy and Best Haydn prizes. An established presence in major of Music’s most accomplished performers of international venues, the Quartet has performed at the Salle song repertoire are selected to form the Song Gaveau in Paris, and at festivals in Heidelberg, Verbier, Circle. Since its inception in 2004, the Song Aix-en-Provence and Stavanger, and is currently supported by Circle has given more than 50 concerts, the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. and its annual Schubertiade, on or around the anniversary of the composer’s birth, has Sunday 2 October 2016 become a much-anticipated feature of the Monday 20 February 2017 Academy’s calendar. Sunday 22 January 2017 Jan Lisiecki piano Jan Lisiecki is a Polish-Canadian pianist who signed an exclusive Support for this scheme over the past three recording agreement with Deutsche Grammophon in 2011, at years has been extraordinary, enabling Wigmore the age of just 15. He has won acclaim for his extraordinary Hall to forge unique relationships with the interpretative maturity, distinctive sound, and poetic sensibility, artists, and as such, offer them the guidance with The New York Times calling him ‘a pianist who makes every and performance opportunities they need to note count’. Since his Wigmore Hall debut, Jan has gone on to build a career. Other artists supported through make his debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall in January 2016, as this scheme since the beginning of the well as performing with the Bamberger Symphoniker in Lucerne 2015/16 Season include: and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, amongst others. Behzod Abduraimov piano Monday 3 October 2016 Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin baritone Arcangelo Paul Appleby tenor Formed in 2010, Arcangelo is one of the world’s leading Viviane Hagner violin ensembles, bringing together exceptional musicians who excel Tim Horton piano on both historical and modern instruments, under the direction of founder, artistic director and conductor Jonathan Cohen. Its players believe that the collaboration required in chamber WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T music, whether working in duos or as a chamber orchestra, Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust is the highest expression of what it means to make music. The ensemble began a Residency at Wigmore Hall in June 2016. Photo by Benjamin Ealovega Wednesday 14 December 2016 Friday 13 January 2017

74 BOOKING INFORMATION

Booking Dates Box Office Hours Car Parking 7 days a week: 10.00am– 8.30pm. There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm (Mon– Sat) Days without an evening concert: and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively Booking Period 2 10.00am–5.00pm. No advance booking there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Tuesday 3 January – Friday 31 March 2016 during the half-hour prior to performance. Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a five-minute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall Priority Booking opens to Friends and Mailing List Telephone Bookings participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which Subscribers on Tuesday 27 September 2016 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm. gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on Friends – Request to be submitted by Days without an evening concert: their parking when using the Cavendish Square (Q Park Thursday 13 October 2016 10.00am–5.00pm. There is a non-refundable Oxford Street) car park. Please contact the Box Office Mailing List – Request to be submitted by £3.00 administration charge for each transaction. for further details or visit our website. Thursday 20 October 2016 This includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits. Facilities for Disabled People General Public – By telephone/online from Tuesday 8 November 2016 Postal Bookings Full details from 020 7935 2141 or [email protected] We strongly recommend early booking for Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Hall Pre-Concert Talks, Artists in Conversation with the amount left open but stating an upper and Study Events. limit, and add an administration charge of £3.00. Tickets will then be sent by post. Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze Charter Mark from Attitude is Everything Wigmore Hall Box Office Online Bookings 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk to book seats. Tel: 020 7935 2141 There is a non-refundable administration charge of £2.00. Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Email (not for bookings): Tickets for Concessions [email protected] Where a concession (concs) ticket price is listed these are available to students, senior Tickets citizens and the unemployed. For full details Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/concessions. into five price ranges: Under 35s Ticket Scheme Stalls C – M: Highest price Ticket buyers under the age of 35 are entitled to Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price reduced price tickets for selected concerts. For Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price full details visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/u35. Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd highest price Stalls AA, T – V: 4th highest price Group Bookings OXFORD Stalls W – X: Lowest price Discounts of 10% are available for groups of CIRCUS 12 or more, subject to availability. BOND STREET A–D Restaurant/Bar BALCONY Full information on pre-concert and interval W–X This brochure is available in alternative formats. refreshments can be found at T–V www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or by calling If this would be of assistance to you, please Q–S 020 7258 8292. Table reservations can be made email [email protected] or call N–P by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141. 020 7935 2141.

STALLS Information in this brochure was correct at the time C–M Transport of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists Tubes: Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines), A–B and to vary programmes if necessary. CC CC Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines). BB BB PLATFORM AAAA AAAA Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Cover designed at Process Studios. www.processstudios.net Oxford Street. Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson

75 SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALL

With £1.7 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend, joining a Circle of Giving, or by supporting a concert or the Learning programme, please call 020 7258 8230 or email [email protected] for more information. The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert and Learning programmes:

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

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